The Weekly List Podcast
1) Week 54- Republicans Finally Stand Up to Trump, While the Corruption and Self Dealing Continues
Two weeks after Democrats decidedly won the election, this week we see a shift: the first instance of Republicans pushing back against Trump during his second regime. The Epstein files started as a dr...Show More
2) Week 53 - Trump Seeks to Rewrite the Past, While Being Completely Out of Touch with the Present
This week’s list has multiple examples of Trump’s continued efforts to rewrite the history of his first regime, and to seek retribution for lawsuits and other actions against him after. Much of his fo...Show More
3) Week 52 - Trump Seems to Have Lost Touch with the American People and Reality, as a Blue Wave Hits on Election Day
This week, on Election Day 2025, Democrats swept virtually every competitive election across the country, in a thorough rebuke of Trump and his policies. In two key governor races in New Jersey and Vi...Show More
4) Week 51 - Trump’s ‘Let Them Eat Cake!’ Moment
This is the week when Trump’s ‘Let them eat cake’ era truly came to the forefront. Juxtapose Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing to construct a $300 million ostentatious ballroom with cutt...Show More
5) Week 50 - A Week of Dangerous, Outrageous, Unprecedented Acts of Vengeance and Power Grabs
This week Trump ordered the demolition of the White House East Wing, which seems an apt metaphor for the state of our democracy. He has assumed unbridled and unprecedented power, and is acting on his ...Show More
6) Week 49 - Trump Goes to War on Free Speech, Invents Crises at Home, and Drains Federal Agencies in Dangerous Ways
This week had the sharp scent of authoritarianism, as Trump and members of his regime continued to put forth actions to block free speech. Ironically, this comes after a centerpiece of the right’s com...Show More
7) Week 48 - Trump Ramps Up Threats Amid Government Shutdown, but Democrats Refuse to Back Down
This week Trump and his White House budget director made dramatic threats of mass firings of federal workers if the shutdown continued, in an effort to get Democrats to capitulate. As the shutdown nea...Show More
8) Week 47 - Trump Goes on His Revenge Tour, Addresses the Military, Loses in Court, and Shuts Down the Government
This week we see an increasingly unbridled Trump, taking previously unthinkable actions in the light of day, and facing little or no pushback, nor consequence. Trump finally got his wish for retributi...Show More
9) Week 46 - A Week Summarized by a Brazen Trump Extolling, “I Hate My Opponents” and “Your Countries Are Going to Hell"
This was quite a week! What strikes me the most in summarizing one of the longest lists of broken norms so far is the lack of pushback that persists. Trump is by all accounts unilaterally making decis...Show More
10) Week 45 - Trump Creates a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy in His Continued Attempt to Silence Dissent and Seize Power
The main story this week was continued political violence in the nation, as conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered while giving a speech on a college campus. While the killing was one in a lo...Show More