How Trump's Chaos Is Becoming Normal

特朗普的混乱正在变成常态

What A Day

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2025-06-02

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Can you believe it’s already June? So much has happened since President Donald Trump returned to the White House four and a half months ago, it’s hard to process. In that short amount of time, Trump has unilaterally thrown the global trading system into chaos and tried to end the constitutional right of birthright citizenship. His administration has stripped billions in federal grants from universities, arrested international students, and put tens of thousands of federal workers out of jobs. The constant din of chaos is exhausting, and it’s easy to grow numb to it, to normalize it. New York Times opinion columnist M. Gessen explains the parallels they see with early 2000s Russia, when President Vladimir Putin consolidated power, and what we can — and can’t — learn from that period. And in headlines: Ukraine said it destroyed dozens of Russian military bombers in a massive drone attack deep inside Russian territory, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to temporarily lift deportation protections for around half a million migrants, and Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst told constituents worried about proposed Medicaid cuts that ‘we all are going to die.’   Show Notes: Check out M's column – https://tinyurl.com/mwjux5znSubscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/3kk4nyz8What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcastFollow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday
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  • It's Monday, June 2nd.

  • I'm Jane Koston.

  • This is What A Day,

  • the show that says Happy Pride Month and says it really, really, really loudly.

  • On today's show,

  • the Supreme Court says the Trump administration can temporarily lift deportation protections for around half a million migrants.

  • And Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst downplays worries that her party's proposed cuts to Medicaid could kill people

  • because we're all going to die.

  • But first, can you believe it's already June?

  • And I don't mean that in the, like,

  • very lame way people over the age of 30 try to make small talk at parties or with their co-workers.

  • I mean genuinely.

  • So much has happened since President Donald Trump took office again in January.

  • It somehow feels like that was both a lifetime ago and just yesterday.

  • In that time, Trump has unilaterally thrown the global trading system into chaos.

  • He's tried to end the constitutional right of birthright citizenship.

  • His administration has attacked universities by stripping away billions in federal grants and also going after international students.

  • It's put tens of thousands of federal workers out of jobs,

  • defied court orders on immigration, eviscerated global humanitarian aid distribution.

  • I could keep going, but I won't because I'm honestly exhausted just thinking about it.