The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Raging Moderates: Trump’s First Moves, Biden’s Final Words
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov unpack the dramatic start of Donald Trump’s second presidency, including sweeping executive actions and controversial pardons. They also reflect on Joe Biden’s final days in office. Plus, the TikTok ban reversal: what it means for U.S.-China relations and the future of tech regulation. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov. Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How did Biden's inauguration compare to Trump's?
And the majority of our employees who work for the government work for state and local. So the notion that all of a sudden the government state or the social welfare state has just ballooned, that's not really true. You could argue that government spending has ballooned, But it's not, you know, anyways, I like that. I think that I think that made sense.
And that's declaring a national energy emergency. That's just bullshit. It's just not true. We just don't. Yeah, we don't need creating a policy recognizing only two genders. I'm sort of of the mind like give it to him so we can stop talking about this because it's been such an effective cudgel and weapon against Democrats. Yeah. And that is, I don't—you know, OK, fine. Have at it.
Let them decide that there's only male and female. That's fine. I do think the Democrats served up the mother of all fastballs by deciding that, oh, a six-foot-four swimmer can show up in a unitard and win everything at the Women's Nationals or that—
A transgender woman can cross the finish line in a bike race five minutes early and everybody, all the Democrats gather around and say it's inspiring. So I'm always sort of like, give them that, let them move on, stop demonizing. this group of people of which there are less than the number of people probably paying PEDEL in California.
But some of this just felt, yeah, I don't agree with his economic policies. The tariffs thing, I actually think is being, I don't think tariffs are a good idea, but I think he's more pragmatic. And if you look at his first term, he was seen more, he proved to be more of a pragmatist than an ideologue. I think he's trying to, he sees himself as a dealmaker here.
And I think he's trying to send a shot across the bow of these nations saying, you need to come to the table and give me something or I'll implement. Because he could have implemented those tariffs today, but he decided not to. So I do think he's being pragmatic around that.
I mean, I hope so. And maybe it goes down to 10 percent. I just I think in his race to always do the most like I'm going to sign the most executive orders of anyone on their first day in history. You have a lot of bullshit in there. And it creates these outrage headlines, and then you can slip a Trump coin in, right? Because we're all hair on fire.
Yeah, 100%.
Right, totally. But one thing that I cannot look over here about is the nearly 1,660 Afghans that had their resettlement in America canceled because he got rid of these refugee programs. These are people, a lot of them who have American service members, family, people who worked with us during the Afghan war. And... They're up a creek.
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