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Speaker 1: Well, he's back. And I never thought I'd see Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump dancing with the village people, but my eyes. Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Kurzley is joining us now from the US Channel nine's

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Speaker 1: US correspondent.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Jonathan, welcome most.

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Speaker 3: Clay LESSA good morning to your and to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now Donald Trump is officially president of the United States. Again.

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Speaker 1: Did not think i'd also hear the words he's the

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Speaker 1: first convicted felon to sit as.

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Speaker 3: President from two point zero it's here. Yeah, history has

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Speaker 3: been made on so many fronts, the first convicted felon

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Speaker 3: to go into the oval office and also for the

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Speaker 3: second president to have serviton loss and come back to win.

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Speaker 3: Another teen is sworn in inside the Capitol rotunder a

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Speaker 3: much smaller, much more reduced crowds than what is normal

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Speaker 3: for these inauguration ceremonies. Normally there's hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 3: people packing the National Mall. Yeah, with the ceremony taking

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Speaker 3: to the Capitol this time very different inside, but still

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Speaker 3: doesn't change any of the facts that Donald Trump is

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Speaker 3: now a Commander in check of the United States of

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Speaker 3: America and he's very quickly got to work.

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Speaker 2: My here in Perth, we have a straight near the

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Speaker 2: river called billionaires Row these days, but there was a

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Speaker 2: billionaires row at the inauguration as well. There's a few

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Speaker 2: big names there, yeah, a few.

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Speaker 3: F few billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon, Mark, Jeff Bezos. It

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Speaker 3: was essentially the rich of the rich in amongst the

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Speaker 3: most powerful man in the world. And that's what Donald

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Speaker 3: trumpet surrounded himself with. Essentially since he won't the election

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Speaker 3: back in November that he has had the tech giants

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Speaker 3: and America's billionaires essentially front and center wanting his attention,

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Speaker 3: and they were front and center at the inauguration today.

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Speaker 3: Apple CEO Tim Cook also in amongst it as well. So, look,

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Speaker 3: this is the crowd that Donald Trump has now surrounded

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Speaker 3: himself with. Normally those seats would be reserved for party loyalists,

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Speaker 3: those close to the president and family members alike. But

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump has not only chosen to surround himself with family,

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Speaker 3: but he's chosen to surround himself by well well.

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Speaker 1: Has that a sign of how much input these people

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Speaker 1: are likely to have on his presidency.

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Speaker 3: It's a sign of how much input they're wanting to

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Speaker 3: have and certainly how much they believe a man who

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Speaker 3: they think can reform the economy, could very well help

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Speaker 3: their own businesses. They see him as one of their own,

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Speaker 3: a businessman at heart, are worried about increasing personal wealth

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Speaker 3: as well as business wealth. And that's exactly what we've seen.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Elon Musk was the first to flock towards

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Speaker 3: him and give him such an overwhelming show of support,

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Speaker 3: and we've seen him Elon must speak today in front

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Speaker 3: of crowds here in Washington, DC, dancing around the stage

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Speaker 3: and something is chest and declaring that America is back.

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Speaker 3: I think what you're seeing too with all of this

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Speaker 3: is this is a very clear sign. This is the

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Speaker 3: direction that the wealth of America wants to take America in.

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden had warned of an oligarchy running this country,

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Speaker 3: and I think what you saw was image representing those

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Speaker 3: words on show today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've live in a very different world there, don't we? Mate?

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Speaker 2: Was everything moved inside? Was it about the cold? Really?

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Speaker 2: Was it about security? What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Look, I think initially, obviously Donald Trump has said

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Speaker 3: publicly it was about cold. I mean you have to

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Speaker 3: factor into was there a possibility that he may well

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Speaker 3: have been concerned about would use crowd sizes. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 3: we've been in Washington, DC for a few days now

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Speaker 3: and there's plenty of Donald Trump's supporters. But Cauncy, mind

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Speaker 3: back to two thousand and nine inauguration of Barack Obama,

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Speaker 3: when there were some one million people estimated to be

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Speaker 3: packing the National Mall. And Donald Trump had the issues

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Speaker 3: back in twenty seventeen when he said it was the

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Speaker 3: largest crowd ever and quite simply was. Look he has

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Speaker 3: said publicly, He has said publicly, this is about the cold.

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Speaker 3: As I speak to you now, we're sitting at probably

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Speaker 3: about minus six minor seven degrees selsius here in Washington, DC,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of a breathe in the air, keeping

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Speaker 3: things fairly nippy. I'm pretty sure my face fell off

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Speaker 3: half an hour later. That's not important right now, exactly, Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: He said he's got straight to work. What are the

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Speaker 1: first things on his agenda.

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Speaker 3: He's going to make it all about immigration. Essentially, he

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Speaker 3: has we're seeing law enforcement already down at the US

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Speaker 3: Mexico border at El Paso in Texas, essentially saying that

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Speaker 3: anybody crosses illegally will be prosecuted. This is part of

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Speaker 3: what he calls his remaining Mexico policy. He's essentially said

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Speaker 3: he's going to shut that border. He's made gender a

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Speaker 3: big issue, declaring around trans rites that America will only

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Speaker 3: identify male and female. He's declared that essentially he's going

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Speaker 3: to deal with a whole range of quality issues that

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Speaker 3: he's going to sign in a raft of presidential orders

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Speaker 3: that could be as many as two hundred and the

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Speaker 3: first twenty four hours or so. He's setting himself a

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Speaker 3: monstrous task. But with Donald Trump, everything is visual, everything

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Speaker 3: is about perception. So make no mistake, he's going to

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Speaker 3: make sure that the next couple of weeks it's about

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Speaker 3: television pictures for him. He's essentially already said that there's

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Speaker 3: going to be major immigration cracked outs, and that's what

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Speaker 3: we're seeing already through very quickly. So he's going to

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Speaker 3: want to show the American public and the world that

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Speaker 3: he's back. That's what essentially he was declaring. As we

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Speaker 3: hear some music, a little bit of dance with somebody

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Speaker 3: waving past me at the moment, Donald Trump declaring that

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Speaker 3: he's back, that America is back, and that this is

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Speaker 3: a golden age. The question remains, though, isn't going to

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Speaker 3: be as shiny as he says it will the gloss were.

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Speaker 2: Off, Will it be as shiny as his cryptocurrency? How

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Speaker 2: with all of that going on, does he get time

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Speaker 2: to launch that?

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Speaker 3: Well? Exactly, I mean. And that's another aspect he's embraced

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Speaker 3: in this heck world, is the idea of cryptocurrency. Again,

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Speaker 3: so much of what Donald Trump does is about wealth,

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Speaker 3: it is about finances, and he has embraced the crypto

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Speaker 3: industry in a massive way, launching that sort of mean

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Speaker 3: coin a couple of days ago. But now he has

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Speaker 3: to get to work. He promised the American people he

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Speaker 3: would do a lot. He didn't promise them mean coins.

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Speaker 3: He promised them actions on the economy. And that doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean making his personal wealth bigger. It means making the

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Speaker 3: lives of the Americans better. So now will be on

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Speaker 3: does he do that? And can he achieve that? And how?

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Speaker 1: Speaking of changing his mind on things like he did

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Speaker 1: on cryptocurrency, I've been a little intrigued about his involvement

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Speaker 1: with TikTok. Wasn't he the one pushing to have it removed?

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Speaker 3: He wanted it banned, And now he says, we've got

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Speaker 3: to say TikTok So look, essentially he's gone and had

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Speaker 3: conversations with China's president Shi Jingping, where he says they

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Speaker 3: discussed TikTok TikTok ceo in amongst the proceedings and invited

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Speaker 3: to the events. And what you're saying is Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: embraced TikTok, he wanted it back up and running for

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Speaker 3: his inauguration. But what TikTok did was essentially play the

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Speaker 3: American public, It's one hundred and seventy million users in

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Speaker 3: a giant political game to save its own skin. And

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Speaker 3: what happened was Donald Trump blinked. So whether we see

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Speaker 3: an executive order from him in relation to that, well

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Speaker 3: that remains to be seen specifically yet. But he made

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Speaker 3: it clear yesterday. TikTok must be so remarkable for somebody

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Speaker 3: who said it shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can't wait to see his TikTok dancing videos

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Speaker 1: with the Village people.

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Speaker 2: With the village So he's done the tiktop flip flop

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. That's so bizarre, and we did

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Speaker 2: mention the village people. That's bizarre it itself.

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Speaker 1: God, even.

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Speaker 3: Get your dance moves out, guys, going viral.

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Speaker 1: Extra village person all right, every village has an idiot.

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Speaker 1: As I say, Jonathan, thank you so much for chatting

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Speaker 1: to us this morning. Interesting to talk to you and

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Speaker 1: the listeners.

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Speaker 2: Yes by