Podcasts about gwenda blair

Even for his supporters the choices made by Donald Trump are hard to understand.  For non-supporters he is even more confusing and confounding.  There is at least one journalist who has followed Donald Trump for decades and who understands what he is actually doing better than most.  Steve welcomes back Gwenda Blair, author of [...]

Even for his supporters the choices made by Donald Trump are hard to understand.  For non-supporters he is even more confusing and confounding.  There is at least one journalist who has followed Donald Trump for decades and who understands what he is actually doing better than most.  Steve welcomes back Gwenda Blair, author of [...]

Show Notes It's obvious that to have a podcast about Donald Trump, I needed to interview someone who has written extensively about Donald Trump. I was drawn to Gwenda Blair because she has not only written about Trump, but about both his father and his grandfather. The deep knowledge of what formed him made her a very appealing source to interview. Because of the way the podcast came to be, much of our conversation was left on the cutting room floor. I'm excited to finally get a chance to share our full conversation. Be sure to follow along with the Substack. Our theme song is "Apophenia" courtesy of Ross Christopher. If you aren't yet, follow me on Twitter.

A look into the criminal probe into the Trump organisation's finances, the former president's political intentions and an uncovering of what he has been doing since leaving the White House.Martha Kelner speaks to Trump biographer Gwenda Blair, law professor at the University of Baltimore Kimberly Wehle and Matt Braynard, director of strategy and data for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Episode Three: The Reckoning There are three major factors that drove White Evangelical voters to support and endorse Donald Trump in the 2016 election. In this episode, we address racism. Full transcript available at our website. Robert P. Jones is the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Angie Maxwell is a professor of Southern studies at the University of Arkansas and the author of The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics. Randall Balmer is a professor of religion at Dartmouth College and the author of Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter. Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University and the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Gwenda Blair is the author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President. Daniel Williams is a professor of history at West Georgia University and the author of The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. In His Name is produced by Matthew Moore, with help from Rick Stockdell. Music throughout this episode is courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. Theme song is "In Your Name" by Tyson Motsenbocker.

Hoy en #DiaADia, comenzamos conversando con el director de encuestas de Univisión Noticias, Sergio García-Ríos, quien nos comentó que “La encuesta refleja una contienda bastante cerrada en estados clave como Pensilvania, Florida, Arizona y Texas”, resaltando que “Los resultados podrían irse hacia cualquier lado, aunque pareciera que a nivel nacional llevara una ventaja Biden”. García-Ríos recalcó que “Los sondeos son fotografías que se toman en un momento, pero después de esa fotografía, siguen moviéndose las cosas”, por lo que “La encuesta final, es el conteo de los votos”. Desde Washington nos atendió el jefe de Defensa e Investigación de Crisis Group, Daniel Schneiderman, quien expresó que “La violencia no es inevitable”, explicando que “En Crisis Group, analizamos una serie de condiciones que pueden llevar a la violencia en el mundo. Son 6 condiciones, y las 6 se están dando en este momento en Estados Unidos”. Schneiderman destacó que, “Los miembros de los partidos tienen un rol fundamental en evitar la violencia”, así como también los medios, “Ya que deben llamar a la calma y dar información veraz”. El director de investigación del Centro de información e investigación sobre aprendizaje y participación cívica de Tufts University, Rey Junco, nos aseguró que “Esta generación de jóvenes es políticamente más activa”, destacando que “Muchos creen que todos los jóvenes van a votar por los demócratas, pero esa no es la verdad. Quizás hay una cantidad mayor que va a votar por los demócratas”, añadiendo que “En jóvenes de entre 18 y 29 años, entre mayo y junio, 58% nos dijeron que iban a votar por Biden, 24% dijeron Trump, y 18% dijeron que votarían por otro”. También nos atendió Amy Gardner, reportera del Washington Post, quien nos contó que “El presidente Trump irá a Virginia, donde no tiene ninguna posibilidad de ganar, ya que es un estado demócrata”, debido a que “Está apuntando al entusiasmo de sus más fervientes seguidores, porque las matemáticas no le están ayudando”. Por su parte, comentó que “Joe Biden va a estar buena parte del día en Pensilvania”, resaltando que “El hecho de que Biden haya pasado tanto tiempo en Pensilvania, nos da una idea de lo difícil que está este estado”. Gwenda Blair, periodista y biógrafo de Trump, describió al presidente como “Un hombre que hizo su camino a la Casa Blanca construyendo una ruta distinta a la de cualquiera de sus predecesores” y como “Una persona que está hecha para ganar”. Blair destacó que “Trump practica el bullying de manera natural”, puesto que “Cree en el dicho: ‘Los simpáticos o buenos, terminan de últimos’. Y él quiere ganar, por lo que debe ser el duro”. Además, “Trump también cree en el dicho ‘Si quieres una multitud, empieza una pelea’, por lo que para llamar la atención, va a crear peleas”. El escritor y biógrafo de Biden, Branko Marcetic, aseguró que “Biden definitivamente no es un izquierdista”, pero resaltando que “Es un hombre de derecha, pero no un hombre de derecha como los republicanos, sino un hombre de derecha dentro del Partido Demócrata”. Marcetic añadió que “Biden también es de derecha en los criterios de política internacional o criterios sociales”, y destacó que “Su discurso ha sido un poco contradictorio, por lo que no estoy seguro de que vaya a poder llevar adelante todas las medidas para superar todos estos problemas”.

Welcome Morons or rather followers of a moron.  I do have a real guest for this episode but I want to get to a couple of things first. First of all… this is the first episode since the passing of supreme supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  Relative to what there is to know about her, I don’t know much, but I do want to share with you two things about her and her passing that I found to be extraordinary, the first being President Trump’s initial reaction and response to her passing.  I’ve tried to share this with a couple of non Trump supporters and they immediately told me that not only did they not hear it, but that they had no desire to hear anything about Trump’s comments on someone with the integrity of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  And I’ll bet all of you Libby McLiberson’s out there are all up in arms over Trump’s replacement being confirmed before the election and blah, blah blah… by the way Fox News, Yes Fox News has a story as of this recording and I’ll read you the headline:  “Majority of Americans think winner of presidential election should select Supreme Court nominee, poll finds” But now I’m already digressing… If you’re liberal or a democrat or any kind of a non-Trump supporter and have not heard his informal response, you should… and will because you’re about to hear it.  It was as he was leaving a rally and it might be a little difficult to hear because in the background and in all of it’s irony, you can mainly hear Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” being played to the crowd that had assembled…. Did you hear that?  He almost sounded human!  There was a statement of reverence for the work of what has to be one of the greatest Americans and greatest supreme court justices in history.  You don’t have to like Trump and you can go on hating him, but if you are not willing to acknowledge that moment of even slight humility, then you are part of the problem.  I’ll say this many times from now on, but if you are not willing to sit and listen to someone who disagrees with you… and not tell them they’re wrong or convince them you’re right… if you can’t just sit, set your bullshit and your agenda down for a few minutes and listen… then how can you expect someone else to listen to you?  In that regard, you are part of the problem. Which leads me to the second profound and extraordinary aspect of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s life was that her best pal on the supreme court, was someone on the opposite end of the spectrum politically and opposed to views of the law.  A person I found arrogant and pompous and that was Justice Antonin Scolea.  But there they were good friends.  Ginsberg spoke at his funeral… Why can’t we see some of that… any of that in the legislative branch of our government?  And if it does exist, why don’t we see it?  If it does exist, for the sake of argument, we don’t see or hear about it because negative news SELLS.  It attracts eyeballs and ears and that means more advertising dollars for the bogus news sources from CNN to Fox and that takes us to our guest and more on the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”... God DAMMIT what a brilliant segue! My guest is a professional computer geek and I would go so far as to say he is like a supreme court justice of computers.  His name is Paul Congdon… actually Dr. Paul Congdon because he has his doctorate in some form of computerology from one of the esteemed Universities of California where he was also a professor.  He worked for Hewlette Packard for many, many years both in the united states and abroad.  How do I know someone so intelligent?  I went to high school with him of course.   I get his take on The Social Dilemma along with a few short clips from the documentary and some other stuff… it’s Commentary from computer nerds about other Computer Nerds on Netflix on… The Modern Moron... CLOSE - Dr. Congdon had a great point that I want to reiterate and that was “The tools Social Media and News Media companies are using to target you can also be used to vet out the story lines of the news you read.”  Do you want that?  You should.  Do you want to know that CNN is tainting their headlines with inflammatory jargon?  Do  you want to know that Fox is doing the same thing.  Or are you fine strapping on the news feedbag and living in the “Willful Ignorance” that we are stuck in? Also, from a regular segment we’re starting called “Trumperceptions”, which is a way to learn to accept this person by understanding a little about this Magnificent Moron and what makes him tick, or have ticks if you wish. This is from Gwenda Blair, Author of the book “The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President”.  She is also a lecturer at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  In her book she draws an extremely interesting connection between Donald Trump and author-slash-minister Norman Vincent Peale.  Does that name sound familiar?  If you’re over 55 it should as he wrote one of the most famous self-help books of all time, before there was even the term self-help books.  Remember “The Power of Positive Thinking”?  Yeah, he wrote that book in 1952 and he was also a minister for 52 years at The Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, one of the oldest protestant churches in America dating back to 1628.  Guess where the Trump family attended church?  That’s right... at the home of the Power of Positive thinking.  Trump was married there on his first wedding and both of his parent’s funerals were at that church.  Here is  Author Gwenda Blair on this subject courtesy of Business Insider magazine… (clip) Knowing this isn’t supposed to make you like Trump, but it should help you understand why he behaves the way he behaves and that should hopefully calm you down a bit over this whole nonsense.  If it doesn’t, maybe YOU have some work to do as opposed to everyone else? Finally, the first presidential debate was this week and I had the incredible good fortune to NOT watch it.  I will say this, the debate and every presidential debate for the last 20 years could have easily been reigned in by using the correct types of microphones and simply turning them off when either idiot reaches their time limit.  There is a clock counting down the seconds they have left and if they go over American can watch them move their mouth and say nothing, which is probably what they were doing for the first two minutes they were trying to speak. So why don’t we do that?  So simple, such common sense.  So why don’t we do that?  Because the news industry wants you to hear Trump tell Grandpa Joe he’s a senile old man.  The News Corporations want you to hear Biden tell Trump to shut up.  That makes for more eyes and ears for longer periods of time on their Network, their Newspaper, their website or their app… and that means you’re looking at their advertisements just like Dr. Congdon was saying as well as the other industry experts on The Social Dilemma Documentary.  It is a dilemma and we really need to educate ourselves.  Thank you again to my guest, watch that goddamn documentary, click subscribe, and like and all that b.s. so I can get an advertiser and sell out like everyone else.  Majority of Americans think winner of presidential election should select Supreme Court nominee, poll finds - Fox News The Trumps' family church explains everything you need to know about Donald - Business Insider | YouTube  The power of Trump's positive thinking – POLITICO    

Even for his supporters the daily choices made by Donald Trump are hard to understand.  For non-supporters he is even more confusing and confounding.  There is at least one journalist who has followed Donald Trump for decades and who understands what he is actually doing better than most.  Steve welcomes back Gwenda Blair, author [...]

How has US foreign policy changed in the age of Donald Trump? We'll cut through the hype and get to the facts in an interview with Gwenda Blair, journalist and author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President. Then we will turn to local matters and discuss the race for Virginia's second congressional district seat with the incumbent, Rep. Scott Taylor.

Vi blir bedre kjent med Donald Trump og hans forfedre gjennom dette intervjuet med Gwenda Blair, som brukte 12 år på å studere Trumps familiehistorie.

Friedrich Trump left Germany at age 16 and arrived in New York but soon migrated out west in search of riches. The gold fever carried him to Bennet, British Columbia-Canada, where, along w/business partner, Ernest Levin, they constructed The Arctic Hotel + Restaurant in 1898 on Front Street. Within a couple of years they made a small fortune selling booze and offering "sporting ladies" to the tired + thirsty gold miners of that area. With an estimated 100,000 prospectors setting out for the Klondike Gold Country Of Northern Canada there was plenty of money to be made providing "services" to these men. It was open around the clock w/“private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of Trump family’s wealth. Of course, in rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common.   When a train route came through the area, it drastically diminished influx of miners into Bennett, Friedrich + partner literally took the hotel apart, plank by plank & relocated it further north in town of Whitehorse to carry on business as usual. Friedrich left Whitehorse in 1901 and after unsuccessfully trying to relocate to his native Kallstadt, Germany, ended up moving to Queens, NYC and used his Gold Rush money to invest in vacant lots around the New York area. By this time, Friedrich was a wealthy man. He had accumulated enough wealth, equivalent to a half a million euros in 2014 terms, to end up funding the Trump family's first residential real estate investments in the New York area. Thus, the origin of the Trump family wealth

She is a quiet but devoted Methodist. He subscribes to a theology of positive thinking. The two leading presidential candidates have been molded by religion — even if they don't often talk about it. We hear from Gwenda Blair, the author of “The Trumps”; Burns Strider, Mrs. Clinton's religious adviser during her first presidential campaign; and Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent at The Times.

She is a quiet but devoted Methodist. He subscribes to a theology of positive thinking. The two leading presidential candidates have been molded by religion — even if they don’t often talk about it. We hear from Gwenda Blair, the author of “The Trumps”; Burns Strider, Mrs. Clinton’s religious adviser during her first presidential campaign; and Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent at The Times.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Gwenda Blair about three generations of the Drumpf family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg talks to Gwenda Blair about three generations of the Drumpf family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump with biographer Gwenda Blair