Andrew Dickens: Why New Zealanders love and loathe Donald Trump

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jan 28, 2025 · 2m · transcript

I’ve been watching a lot of the late night shows this week from America on YouTube.

Fallon, Kimmel and Colbert, all of them have used the same joke - “oh my god... it’s only been a week”

And then the audience cheers or laughs or boos or cries, or more likely all of that, all at once because what a week it's been.

The second golden era of Trump kicked off and he started doing things, brilliant things.

Colombia won’t take deportees, so hit them with killer tariffs and economic sanctions that take hold in a week.

Within 12 hours Colombia folded. Crisis over, back to work, business as usual.

That…