We’re solely 10 days into President Donald Trump‘s second administration, and the flurry of exercise inside the White Home has set the nation on its ear. Which is strictly why Alex Wagner is able to pay attention. The MSNBC anchor is spending Trump’s first 100 days again within the Oval Workplace criss-crossing the U.S. to uncover how his insurance policies are impacting Individuals on the bottom.
A few of Trump’s actions have been predicted previous to his return, together with a crackdown on immigration and an Elon Musk-assisted try and reshape the federal workforce. Different orders have even caught the administration’s allies off guard, corresponding to stripping previous officers—together with his former nationwide safety advisor John Bolton—of their safety clearances.
However don’t ask Wagner to foretell what Trump may do tomorrow—not to mention the subsequent 90 days. “No journalist of their proper thoughts would predict something about Donald Trump,” she tells TVNewser from the highway. “We’re solely two weeks in, and it’s been not like something in my lifetime.”
Right here’s what you can financial institution on, although: each Thursday, Wagner can be protecting no matter emerges from Trumpland subsequent on her new weekly podcast, Trumpland with Alex Wagner. The primary episode debuted on Jan. 23 and took her to Washington, D.C., the place she coated Trump’s controversial pardons of Jan. 6 rioters from the angle of their kinfolk, the police and the inmates themselves.
For Episode 2, Wagner traveled up the northeast hall to New Jersey, the place she listened in as undocumented migrants mentioned the way forward for their communities beneath a second Trump administration. And whereas she’s on the highway, Rachel Maddow is holding down the primetime fort again at MSNBC HQ. The Rachel Maddow Present is airing 5 nights every week throughout Trump’s first 100 days, with Alex Wagner Tonight anticipated to return to the 9 p.m. hour on Might 1.
TVNewser caught up with Wagner throughout her travels for a firsthand account of what life is like in Trumpland.
