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Trump’s Budget Cuts the Well Being of American People While Boosting Exclusion, Retribution and Destruction

We begin with Trump’s budget proposal for 2026 which slashes science, education, research, foreign aid, environment, health and public assistance while boosting defense spending to $1.01 trillion. Joining us is Lindsay Koshgarian, the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, where she oversees NationalPriorities.org. Her work on the federal budget includes analysis of the federal budget process and politics, military spending, and specifically how federal spending priorities and taxation interact.

Trump Defunds PBS and NPR in His War Against the Truth and Facts

Then we look into Trump’s war on the media as he follows the example of dictators he admires like Putin, Erdogan and Orban who have taken over their media and turned their press into a propaganda organ and instrument of praise and flattery which our sick “dear leader” and insecure strongman craves and demands.  Joining us to discuss Trump’s Executive Order to defund PBS and NPR is Craig Aaron, president and co-CEO of Free Press Action. He is the editor of two books, Appeal to Reason: 25 Years of In These Times and Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age.

The World Turns Against Us as First Canadians and Now Australians Vote Against Pro-Trump Candidates 

Then finally we assess how the worst president in US history stacks up against Teddy Roosevelt, Jack Kennedy and Jimmy Carter when it comes to negotiating the end of wars and the prevention of conflict as Trump, who craves a Nobel Peace Prize, confuses real estate dealing with global diplomacy. Joining us is Timothy Naftali, a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Currently a presidential historian at CNN, he was the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and served as director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. His books include One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 and Khrushchev’s Cold War. We will discuss his article at Foreign Affairs, “Trump, Ukraine, and the Limits of Presidential Peacemaking: Ignoring Decades of American Practice, His Approach Faces Long Odds.”