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The Weekly List
by Amy Siskind
The Weekly List is a podcast hosted by Amy Siskind, author of The List. It supplements the popular Weekly List on our website, www.theweeklylist.org, which tracks the ever changing new normals of American politics. The podcast gives greater context to the "not normal" news items from the previous week, and will highlight a few stories and changing norms from the Trump regime that you may have missed.
Episodes
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Week 101 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
With three weeks until midterms, and Trump’s approval at an all time low amid rising inflation, plunging consumer confidence, and an endless unpopular war with Iran, Trump offered a new giveaway in his effort to buy votes. At a rally in Alaska, Trump started awarding pardons on stage, while...
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Week 100 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
With one month left until midterms, as polls continued to show Trump’s approval falling and Republican candidates behind, Trump deployed a new strategy: attempting to buy votes, by sending checks to millions of Americans and enrolling tens of millions of children in Trump accounts. Trump also…
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Week 99 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” — Animal Farm. That was how I described Trump’s lavish state dinner, thrown for Chinese President Xi Jinping, which included billionaires, chief...
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Week 98 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This week, amid mounting political losses and sagging polls, Trump struck out at a frequent and familiar target, the free press. In an unprecedented act, Trump banned three media outlets from the White House. When the networks banded against his clear violation of the First Amendment, Trump and…
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Week 97 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This was a crazy week of alarming broken norms. There are so many important, concurrent themes that deserve attention as we pass 50 days until the midterm elections mark, it’s breathtaking! Please take the time to read this list in its entirety. Trump’s Iran war has spun out of control, and the...
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Week 96 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This week, as we passed Labor Day and head into the final stretch before midterms, Trump and his regime were frantically trying to find ways to impact voting. The regime filed two emergency applications with the Supreme Court, and ginned up involvement of federal agencies, including continual...
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Week 94 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This week Trump continued his inexplicable targeting of what were formerly some of the strongest U.S. allies, while coddling and cozying up to former adversaries. In what the WSJ Editorial Board dubbed “the dumbest trade war,” Trump escalated tensions with Canada, including threats to rename Lake...
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Week 93 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
In a relatively quiet summer week, with Congress out of session, Trump pushed forward on his personal agenda, while the issues impacting most Americans got left by the wayside. There was nary a focus on the issues impacting Americans like affordability, healthcare, and rising rates. Instead…
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Week 92 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This week, as Trump’s failures mounted and his polling continued to fall, he tried a new tactic ahead of midterms: blame the Republicans. In an interview, he bragged that he had “already won” his race, and said of the American people’s discontent, “They’re angry at Republicans, but they’re not...
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Week 91 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This week Trump finds himself hitting all sorts of unenviable records for lowest approval, least public support for a war, and lowest approval on economic issues, even as midterm elections are now just three months away. Trump dismissed the polls as fake — a tactic he used during his first regime…
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Week 90 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This was a disastrous week for Trump. Little is going his way, and the American people are increasingly turning against him. Trump continued to focus on his personal priorities, not issues that his party wants 100 days away from midterm elections, and not on what the American people want either....
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Week 89 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
While we are in the lazy days of summer, this week had story lines that made the country feel as if in chaos, with a much ballyhooed speech by Trump on the 2020 election, and an escalation of the Iran War. Much to his chagrin, Trump’s prime time speech was not covered by all the networks, causing...
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Week 88 - The Top 10 Things You Need to Know This Week
This week Trump pushed boundaries to new extremes, while the judicial branch pushed him back on others. In the aftermath of NYT reporting that Trump had switched Air Force One planes to return from the NATO summit in Turkey due to security concerns, federal agents showed up at the homes of some...
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Week 87 - Trump Hijacks the Nation’s 250th Anniversary, Resumes War, Insults Allies, Grifts and Leaves His Supporters Holding the Bag
In a week when the country should have been coming together to celebrate our 250th anniversary, Trump instead chose to make the Independence Day celebrations highly partisan, and all about himself. He made speeches attacking his political enemies as “communists,” and made repeated baseless claims...
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Week 86 - Americans Are Despondent at 250 Anniversary, While Trump Grifts, and Obsesses Over His Legacy
This week the theme of inequity continued to be front and center. While Trump refused to sign a housing affordability bill, which had rare bipartisan support, new disclosures revealed he had personally reaped $2.2 billion in 2025! Trump’s windfall primarily came from new businesses in...
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Week 85 - Trump See No Limits To His Powers, and Shows What He Truly Cares About
Trump just doesn’t care. That is a great takeaway from this week’s list. He views his power as absolute, saying in an interview that he has not been humbled by the Iran War, but instead learned that there are “no limits” to his power. He feels unbridled by public opinion or what is good for his...
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Week 84 - Trump’s Bizarre 80th: Capitulation to Iran and an Unprecedented Spectacle on the White House Lawn
This week, after days of strikes on Iran, which included a precision strike on a water plant serving 20,000 Iranians, Trump announced a “deal” with Iran on his 80th birthday. While Trump, and his front man on the deal, Vice President JD Vance, trumpeted the one-and-a-half page long memorandum of...
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Week 83 - Trump Slows His Roll. We Discuss Why.
This was an unusually and notably slow week of broken norms compared to recent months. The news cycle has slowed considerably. Two factors stand out that may contribute. There remain lingering doubts about the state of Trump’s health after his most recent visit to Walter Reed, although our media…
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Week 82 - A Week Full of Setbacks for Trump, at Home and Abroad
This was a week full of setbacks for Trump, at home and abroad. The U.S. continued to be mired in Trump’s war of choice with Iran, which, by all appearances, the U.S. seems to be losing. As we pass the three month mark, Trump and his regime seemed to vacillate, day by day, on whether a ceasefire…
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Week 81 - Trump’s Really Bad Week!
This week the Republican Party at long last stood up to Trump. What did it take? Trump backing primary opponents of two of their own in the Senate, resulting in both losing, and another in the House. Trump’s $1.776 billion (yes, note the patriotic reference in dollar amount) so-called...
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Week 80 - Historic Corruption, a Failed China Summit, and Trump’s Unending Iran War
The biggest stories this week center on the blatant, unprecedented corruption by Trump, his family, and his regime. What is shocking is not only the scope, but also Trump’s willingness, even eagerness, to flaunt his kleptocracy in the light of day, seeming to regale in the fact that no one in his...
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Week 79 - Trump’s Remarkable Statement on Americans' Financial Stress, and His Lies About the Iran War Exposed
Two story lines really stood out this week, in part because of their big implications for the state of things under Trump. First, bowing to pressure from Trump, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned. With that resignation, the Trump regime’s Department of Health and Human Services had no Senate...
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Week 78 - The World Rests on Trump’s Shoulders, While His Behavior is Becoming Increasingly Bizarre
This week we continued down the slippery slope of the U.S. Department of Justice melding into Trump’s personal law firm. As acting Attorney General Todd Blanche seeks Trump’s nomination to run the agency, the DOJ has become unrecognizable. Any pretense of separation is gone as the gutted agency...
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Week 77 - The Country Moves from Crisis to Crisis, While Trump Plows Through Norms
This was another chaotic week, when our country seemed to skip from crisis to crisis, and Trump became increasingly unbound by past norms. As the Iran War entered its ninth week, and gas prices reached a four-year high, it became increasingly apparent that Trump had no plan to end his war. There...
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Week 76 - Trump Backs Himself into a Corner with Iran War, While at Home His Regime is in Disarray
This week, as the country entered the eighth week of Trump’s Iran War, Trump appeared to be backed into a corner. He spent the week spewing false claims about the state of negotiations, the ever-changing objectives of the war, and on what had been achieved; but by the week’s end, amid all his...
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Week 75 - Trump’s Mental Health in Question, While He and the Country Increasingly Stand Alone
This week there were growing concerns about Trump’s erratic behavior and mental health, including from former allies and regime members. While Trump’s unpopular war with Iran entered its seventh week, already extending beyond his four to six week estimate, Trump started a new war of words with…
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Week 74 - There is No Plan: A Shocking Week of Escalation and Capitulation
This week started with Trump addressing the nation in a prime time speech on the Iran War, and escalated to Trump making genocidal threats against Iran as the week came to a close. Experts expressed shock that Trump was essentially threatening what amounted to war crimes, out in the open. Some of...
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Week 73 - An Increasingly Isolated Trump Can't Escape the Fallout of His War
This week Trump and senior regime officials continued to give ever-changing objectives and endgames for his Iran War, which entered its fifth week. Trump continued efforts to game his beloved stock market, which at one point entered correction territory, with rosy statements ahead of markets...
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Week 72 - Trump Lies and Contradicts About His War, as the Country Sours on Him and His Chaos
This week was one of the longest lists of broken norms so far. The country is in chaos, and Americans are increasingly unhappy. The price of gas has risen by nearly a dollar a gallon, 72% said it was a bad time to look for a job, the cost of mortgages hit a five month high, and other measures of...
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Week 71 - As Trump's War With Iran Nears the Three Week Mark, Trouble at Home and Abroad
As Trump’s war with Iran neared the three week mark, he and his regime continued to offer contradicting rationales for entering the war, as well as its goals and objectives. While Trump claimed to be surprised that Iran had blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran had bombed its neighbors,...
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Week 70 - Trump's War of Choice Goes Off Track, and the Impact of HIs Regime's Incompetence Hits Americans
This week started with Trump firing Kristi Noem from her role leading Homeland Security, after a disastrous performance in her Congressional testimony, as well as on the job. Before we get to Trump’s war of choice, it is worth pointing out that this week’s list is full of examples of the gross...
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Week 69 - Trump Enters War of Choice, as a Host of Others Issues Move Against Him
I want to note the stories that were occupying the public’s attention before Trump launched a war of choice on Iran. There was a heavy focus on the Epstein files, after both Clintons testified, more coverage of missing files related to Trump, and more regime members becoming ensnared; reports on...
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Week 68 - After a Supreme Court Loss and Sagging Polls, Trump Struggles Through a Record Long State of the Union
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last week of events leading up the February 24, 2026 State of the Union
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Week 67 - Beware of What We Have Normalized, and What is Holding Trump Back
I wanted to start this week by noting the cruelty we have normalized. During Trump’s first regime, after widespread protests and condemnation over his “zero-tolerance” policy of separating families, he rolled it back. During the second regime, the repugnant acts of cruelty and lawlessness far…
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Week 66 - A Week of Incredible Racism, as the Epstein Files Start to Boil
In a week of chaos, so much happened it was easy to lose sight of the fact that Trump posted an image of former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes on Truth Social. He then deflected that it was posted by a staffer, took down the post, and refused to apologize. In any sort of normal...
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A Week of Remarkable, Extraordinary and Unprecedented Actions, as Trump Struggles to Maintain Control
This week the Justice Department released three million more of the Epstein files, with three million still withheld. The timing of the highly redacted release, which included limited damning material on Trump, seemed like a shiny coin to distract from the rest. Yes, it was that bad! Trump...
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Week 64 - Time Stood Still for a Country Struggling to Make Sense of What We Have Become
What happened to Greenland? What happened to the Epstein files? That’s the story within the story this week: how effective Trump has become in driving the media, and hence the narrative, until he is not. What it took this week was another tragedy: federal immigration agents in Minneapolis…
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Week 63 - Trump Escalates at Home and Abroad, With No Rhyme or Reason
This week marked renewed escalation by Trump and his regime, both internationally and at home. Nothing feels safe or stable. One pollster found that 71% of Americans said the country feels out of control. As we hit the one year mark of Trump’s return, he finds himself increasingly unpopular and...
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Week 62 - Trump's Addiction to Power Takes Him in Dangerous Territory
This is the longest list of broken norms during the second regime, so far. I would encourage you to read through the list in its entirety, because amid the chaos of the week, many stories that would normally garner broad attention received little or no coverage. Some mark escalations, like the...
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Week 61 - What Were the Real Stories that Deserved Our Attention, as Trump Deployed a ‘Wag the Dog’ Strategy to Distract
The main takeaway of this week’s list is what we are NOT discussing: the Epstein files, the five-year anniversary of Jan. 6, the affordability crisis and Trump’s tariffs exacerbating rising prices, rising healthcare premiums, the MAGAverse implosion, and of course, Trump’s health decline. Those...
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Week 60 - As 2025 Comes to an End, Expect Better Times in 2026
As we close out 2025 this week there is a marked shift in sentiment, not only among the American people, but also by Trump himself. A year ago as I restarted this project, the conversation was, will he ever leave? We’re not having that conversation anymore. Not only do polls show that the…
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Week 59 - Why Trump is Frantically Trying to Shore Up His Legacy
This week, Trump is continuing to lose not only broad-based American support as he did during the first regime, but for the first time of either regime, he is also losing support from within the Republican base. At the same time, the Republican Party is in turmoil, amid infighting over the…
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Week 58 - Trump, Johnson and Trump’s Regime Are Losing Their Grip on Power
There continues to be a notable shift this week of Trump losing his grip on power. First and foremost, the American people are unhappy with the economy, the cost of living, and increasingly even with his handling of immigration. They are showing their displeasure at the polls, in the polls, and...
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Week 57 - Trump is Flailing as the Tone Shifts, and Accountability Begins
This week Trump struck back at media outlets and others who continue to raise questions and concerns about his health and age, likening it to sedition and treason. Trump continued to advance his own version of reality, calling affordability a “Democrat hoax” and “con job,” as he at long last held...
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Week 56 - A Week of Signs that Trump is Already Hating the Job, Amid Bombshell Reporting
For what should have been a quiet holiday week, Week 56 was packed with bombshell news, and escalating chaos and rhetoric from the Trump regime. The week started with Trump grasping on to the adage “never let a crisis go to waste,” when he used a Thanksgiving Eve shooting by an Afghan national of...
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Week 55 - Greene Resigns and the GOP Turns on Trump, as His Retribution Campaign Falters
This week started with an enraged Trump signing into law the release of the Epstein files, but that story quickly faded to other headlines. Trump’s longtime ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, became the first MAGA true believer, in either regime, to resign. Reporting indicates other House...
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Week 54- Republicans Finally Stand Up to Trump, While the Corruption and Self Dealing Continues
Two weeks after Democrats decidedly won the election, this week we see a shift: the first instance of Republicans pushing back against Trump during his second regime. The Epstein files started as a drip, drip, with Trump and his senior regime officials trying to intimidate four House Republicans...
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Week 53 - Trump Seeks to Rewrite the Past, While Being Completely Out of Touch with the Present
This week’s list has multiple examples of Trump’s continued efforts to rewrite the history of his first regime, and to seek retribution for lawsuits and other actions against him after. Much of his focus during his second regime has been towards establishing a new version of the historical record...
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Week 52 - Trump Seems to Have Lost Touch with the American People and Reality, as a Blue Wave Hits on Election Day
This week, on Election Day 2025, Democrats swept virtually every competitive election across the country, in a thorough rebuke of Trump and his policies. In two key governor races in New Jersey and Virginia, where candidates won by 13 and 15 points, every single county and demographic shifted...
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Week 51 - Trump’s ‘Let Them Eat Cake!’ Moment
This is the week when Trump’s ‘Let them eat cake’ era truly came to the forefront. Juxtapose Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing to construct a $300 million ostentatious ballroom with cutting off food stamps for 42 million of America’s neediest, who count on government assistance to…
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The Weekly List is a podcast hosted by Amy Siskind, author of The List. It supplements the popular Weekly List on our website, www.theweeklylist.org, which tracks the ever changing new normals of American politics. The podcast gives greater context to the "not normal" news items from the previous week, and will highlight a few stories and changing norms from the Trump regime that you may have missed.
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