The Daily Blast: Angry Trump Storms Out of On-Air Interview For Unnervingly Dark Reason

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The episode discusses Donald Trump's explosive on-air interview with Kristen Welker and the implications of California's vote counting on MAGA candidates.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump exploded during an on-air interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. He called her “crooked” and “stupid” and abruptly ended the interview in a fury. This was ostensibly because she questioned his claims that California’s ongoing vote counting is rigged against GOP candidates. But we think the real reason is darker. As the votes are being counted, those candidates—Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles Mayor and Steve Hilton for Governor—are looking weaker than advertised. In real time, Trump is witnessing the failure of MAGA’s online disinformation apparatus to invent reality whole cloth and inflate the strength of his candidates into something it isn’t. In today’s episode, tech writer Gil Duran, author of the forthcoming The Nerd Reich, a book about techno-authoritarianism, puts this in perspective. He explains the California contests, why it’s so infuriating for Trump to watch real votes coming in, why this saga represents a larger failure of Trump-MAGA online propaganda, and why that has heartening deeper implications. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…

People in this episode

Guest: Gil Duran

Topics covered

• Trump interview
• California vote counting
• MAGA propaganda failure
• techno-authoritarianism
• political analysis

Keywords

• Donald Trump
• Kristen Welker
• California vote counting
• MAGA
• Gil Duran
• political interview
• disinformation
• techno-authoritarianism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBC, MAGA

Books & works: The Nerd Reich

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