Beyond Today - What happened when Trump removed the experts?
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“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom”. These were Donald Trump’s words at Davos earlier in the week, dismissing those who warn of the dangers of climate change. We know climate change is real, but Trump doesn’t seem to be listening to the experts who tell him this.
It’s a tendency the author Michael Lewis noticed in Trump the day after he was elected. Lewis wrote the Big Short, a book that was turned into an Oscar-winning film about the financial crisis, and now he’s written about how Trump operates. He came into the Beyond Today studio to talk about how Trump is changing the way government works in the US, what that’s doing to America and what parallels we’re seeing here.
Presenter: Matthew Price
Producers: Harriet Noble and Alicia Burrell
Mixed by Emma Crowe
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Published on Friday, 24th January 2020.
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