EPISODE · Sep 8, 2025 · 17 MIN
The Terrible Habit The World Is Picking Up From Trump
from Mallen Baker: Faultlines · host Mallen Baker
The stoics would tell you that you can't control what happens to you in the world, you can only control how you respond to it. Well, it turns out that having a post-truth populist in charge of the most powerful country in the world has ripple effects over the rest of the world. Other world leaders, the mainstream media, and indeed other autocrats - it could be that the majority of Trump's impact on the world will come not from the individual acts he takes, but how the rest of the world changes its own behaviours to cope with Trump. And the first visible sign of that - it's getting harder to identify the truth in the places where we used to most often find it. Let's discuss.
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The stoics would tell you that you can't control what happens to you in the world, you can only control how you respond to it. Well, it turns out that having a post-truth populist in charge of the most powerful country in the world has ripple effects over the rest of the world. Other world leaders, the mainstream media, and indeed other autocrats - it could be that the majority of Trump's impact on the world will come not from the individual acts he takes, but how the rest of the world changes its own behaviours to cope with Trump. And the first visible sign of that - it's getting harder to identify the truth in the places where we used to most often find it. Let's discuss.
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