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Andrew Dickens: Why New Zealanders love and loathe Donald Trump · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: You know what I've been doing that They've been watching
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the late night TV shows from America.
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  Speaker 1: You can see them on YouTube, and that's Fallon and
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel and Colbert, and you know, this week, all of
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  Speaker 1: them have used the exact same joke, all of them.
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  Speaker 1: They've all said the same thing. And the joke is this,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's only been a week. And then
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  Speaker 1: the crowd goes off and I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 1: cheering or laughing or booing or crying, but I've got
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  Speaker 1: a theory that they're probably doing all of that all
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  Speaker 1: at once. Because what a week. The second Golden Era
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  Speaker 1: of Trump kicked off and he started doing things and
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  Speaker 1: it was just news news, news, news news. Mister Trump
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  Speaker 1: is now in your news feed twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 1: He's back, baby, he is so back. He went away
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  Speaker 1: for four years. He is back. He's a dynamo when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to making people talk about stuff, and he
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  Speaker 1: does stuff. Columbia, Columbia won't take deportees, so what does
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  Speaker 1: Trump do? Hits them with a killer tariff and economic
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  Speaker 1: sansions say this is gonna take hold in a week.
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  Speaker 1: Within twelve hours, Columbia folded within twelve hours. It's the
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  Speaker 1: fastest flip in history, stunning crisis over back to work
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  Speaker 1: business as usual. That was just one day of the
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  Speaker 1: Trump management. And a short crisis is so much better
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  Speaker 1: than a long, festering one when nothing happens, wouldn't you agree?
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  Speaker 1: Or the ceasefire in Gaza. So Trump comes out and says,
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  Speaker 1: call a ceasefire, rebuild Gaza. Well, everybody wants to rebuild Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: Jews want to rebuild Gaza, Arabs want to rebuild Garda. Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: American construction tycoons and people like Trump want to rebuild Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: There's money there, so guess what, Netta? Who did it?
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  Speaker 1: And just like that cease fire, Gaza may be rebuilt
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  Speaker 1: as Israeli condos or Palestinian homes, with or without Arab
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  Speaker 1: money or American money. But who cares? There's a ceasefire.
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  Speaker 1: Now this may have long term consequences, but again, who cares?
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  Speaker 1: There's a ceasefire. Thank god, something finally happened. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Trump does. He makes the happen. And some people worry
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  Speaker 1: a lot about, oh, what might happen next, might be banned,
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  Speaker 1: But often you have no idea what's going to happen next.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a week of rapid and effective decisions. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what you can do when you've got the executive
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  Speaker 1: power in every level of government behind you. He's the
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  Speaker 1: closest you've got to an autocrat that you could get democratically.
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  Speaker 1: And I talked earlier about privatization, and I talked about
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  Speaker 1: how MMP causes indecisive leadership in New Zealand. Well, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is the antithesis of MMP, which is probably why
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  Speaker 1: so many Kiwis loathe them, but it's also why so
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  Speaker 1: many New Zealanders love him. He just says yes, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say no. Christopher Luxea must be so jealous. For
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