Trump Is Stuck in the '80s

Trump Is Stuck in the '80s

Published on Jan 10
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<p>This week: The Trump administration kidnapped the president of Venezuela. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxqezqfhjwidbrsvk66ded57" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Felix Salmon</a>, <a href="https://www.elizabethspiers.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elizabeth Spiers</a>, <a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/epeck" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emily Peck</a>, and guest <a href="https://slate.com/author/lizzie-oleary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lizzie O'Leary</a>, host of <a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Next: TBD</a>, discuss Trump's rationale for the attack and the complex economics around Venezuelan oil that come with it. Then, Lizzie breaks down the unsettling trend of AI-generated nudes of real people, including many children, being created by X’s chatbot Grok and Elon Musk’s lackadaisical response to it. Finally, Emily fills us in on Trump’s $10 bil...