It's Monday, May 19th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show that is celebrating our first truly anti-corporate president, Donald Trump.
After learning that Walmart is going to have to raise prices due to the tariffs he loves so much,
Trump posted on Truth Social, quote,
Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than expected.
Between Walmart and China, they should, as is said,
eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything.
First, I thought other countries paid for tariffs.
And second, I look forward to Trump's buy-nothing Facebook group drama.
On today's show, former President Joe Biden is diagnosed with prostate cancer.
And the Supreme Court blocked the White House from reviving deportations using a rarely used wartime law.
But let's start with a conversation some of you might be pretty familiar with right now.
In Trump's America 2.0, should I stay or should I go?
Last week, the New York Times published a video op-ed by three Yale professors,
Marcy Shore, her husband, Timothy Snyder, and their colleague, Jason Stanley,
all of whom study authoritarianism and all of whom have decided to leave the United States for positions at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Pointing to their own research on how authoritarianism has taken shape throughout history,
the professors discuss how they feel like America is falling into the same traps they've seen in other countries.
And Schor worries about whether our democratic systems can hold up against the onslaught of executive actions coming out of the White House.