About this episode

The episode discusses the controversies and challenges faced during the first three months of Trump's second administration, focusing on immigration and trade issues.

The first three months of Trump's second administration have been rife with controversy and unprecedented challenges to the limits of executive authority. Reports of detentions and deportations of protected immigrants and the trafficking of migrants to El Salvador's megaprison, CECOT, raise fears as Trump openly flirts with ideas of deporting American citizens. Global markets are thrown into uncertainty as tariffs upset trade relations, which serves as an implicit extortion tactic for the US to pressure trade partners to step away from China as they grow to overtake global markets. For early ad-free access support the program on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon

People in this episode

Host: Gabriel Marrero

Topics covered

• Trump administration
• executive authority
• immigration
• global markets
• trade relations
• tariffs

Keywords

• Trump
• immigration
• tariffs
• global markets
• executive authority
• trade relations
• El Salvador

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CECOT

Places: El Salvador, China

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