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News Update: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th President of the United States
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1/22/2025
In the context of the first day of this new mandate for U.S. president Donald Trump, we contact our special envoy to Washington D.C. Carlos Montero.
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And in the context of the first day of this news mandate of U.S. President Donald Trump,
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we contact a special envy to Washington, D.C., Carlos Montero.
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Hi, Carlos.
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What new updates do you have for us?
00:12
Oh, I have a lot of update after what you were showing us.
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You know, you can see Trump hasn't changed much since his first presidency.
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He has the same energy, the same aggressiveness and insulting people.
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But I want to tell you something really interesting that have happened this morning before we
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go to our guest, who is going to help us to understand all those executive orders you
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were mentioning.
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Today, this morning, President Trump, his wife, the vice president, Shadi Benz, they
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went to a religious service at the National Cathedral, and he got a big surprise.
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You know, those executive orders that are against the gay community, that are against
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the illegal immigrants, and the pastor, the lady who was preceding the service, she was
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in the sermon.
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She was really strong.
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She was very clear.
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And on Trump's face, she told her, President, I beg you to have misericordy with gay people.
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There are a lot of young kids who are gay, transsexual, and they are very scared.
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A lot of them, they are scared of their life because they don't know what's going to happen.
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He also, she also, the priest, the pastor, she said about immigrant, President Trump,
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you know, in this country, we were all immigrants.
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And the people, you will listen to Trump when he was saying that they came from Venezuela
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here, they were killed.
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I mean, that's all a lie, big, big lie.
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She told on his face, President Trump, those people are workers.
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They work in hospital at night.
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They clean our hotel rooms.
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They serve our food.
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They clean our dishes in the restaurant.
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Those people are not criminals.
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You cannot believe what Trump faced.
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He was really upset.
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They asked him about, after the service, what do you think?
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And he said, I think it was OK.
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I didn't like it much.
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But I mean, somebody told on Trump's face what many people think in this, in this country.
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Before going to our guest, I want to tell you a couple of things more than happened
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today.
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He was in a meeting tonight with the majority leader of the lower and higher chambers of
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the Congress.
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For all those executive orders, he's going to need a lot of help from the Congress.
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And one more thing, he has the first approval of his cabinet, Marco Rubio.
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He's been approved by the Congress, 99 votes he got, Democrats and Republicans approved
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the nomination.
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And he's here this morning with the vice president.
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But let's talk about to see how Americans are reacting to that situation.
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The first day completely of Donald Trump in office, he's with us, Neta Freeman.
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Neta Freeman, how can I describe you, a community helper?
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I know you are on the radio, and you are a celebrity here in Washington.
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I'm not a celebrity, but I'm an organizer, so I'm an organ, community organizer.
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But not just community, but international organizer with Pan-African Community Action
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and also the Black Alliance for Peace.
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What do you think of this first day that Donald Trump in office, the first day completely?
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Well, I think it shouldn't be a surprise.
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This is the type of disposition that this particular president and the people, the type
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of people he puts around himself, these are the things that they have been promising and
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they've been wanting.
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They represent the more Western white supremacist ethos that characterizes U.S. settler colonialism.
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That was their, that's who they appealed to.
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That's their base.
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So what we're going to see is maybe more aggressive policies, but still really not different policies
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than what have been implemented, but more aggressively.
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For example, when it comes to immigration, the numbers and all that, you could say that
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Democrats party deport just as many, but they'll be more, they'll be militarizing the border,
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they'll be sending in police, and these kind of, this is what the Trump administration
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will be doing.
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So there's aggressiveness there, but they all believe in the supremacy of, in the exceptionalism
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of, you know, what they call America.
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And what the community can do in this situation?
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What do you advise?
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I mean, people who you talk to them, what can they do?
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Well, this is very, this is an extremely important question.
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Can they do anything?
04:52
Well, we can.
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It's not going to be easy.
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There's no easy road.
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I mean, I think we need to take our lessons from the radical traditions, and particularly
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even you could say the black radical tradition, and realize that the only way to avoid these
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types of, you know, emergence of megalomaniacs and all these types, is to actually to address
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the system.
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There has to be a radical change in the capitalist system.
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And that's the only way.
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And we also can, we don't want to do too much exceptionalizing the personality of Trump,
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because then we'll lose sight of the overall goal of dealing with the system as a whole
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that's represented by both parties, a duopoly of whites, U.S., E.U., NATO, axis of domination.
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Mr. Freeman, I mean, I tell you, we are in, the White House is behind us, and this Avenue
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Boulevard, it's called Black Lives Matter.
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Here it was a lot of people protesting a few years ago.
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How is that movement right now, and what can we expect of Donald Trump being president
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with the movement Black Lives Matter?
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That's a very interesting question.
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I think the movement for black, like that type of ethos, is really, was essentially
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a reformist movement that was focused on, and this was one of the dangers that we just
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spoke or talked about, but focused on personality, Donald Trump, and that now, and so when you
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have a Democrat coming into office, a Democratic administration, people tend to subside, and
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they don't talk, they don't deal with the fundamental and essential issues that sustain
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all the oppressive forms of oppression that we face regularly.
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And so right now there's nothing about that that's even emerged, and it might intensify
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now that Donald Trump is in power.
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We saw that with a lot of the demonstrations yesterday, and throughout.
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I mean, in a strange sort of turn of events, it may be something, that type of energizing
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of and activating of that base is needed.
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And so, you know, we're not to say things are better, but we need a strong radical response
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to the system.
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Mr. Neftan Freeman, thank you very much.
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Thank you for being with us in this cold evening, the weather is really cold.
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This is the situation we are living here in the capital, Donald Trump is going to sign
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more executive orders between today and tomorrow, and we are waiting to see what he has to tell
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us about this meeting he's having with the leader of the Congress.
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You know that the Congress, the Republican Party, is in power, they have the majority,
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and also the Supreme Court, who has most of the members of the Supreme Court are from
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the right wing, they are conservative.
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That's all for right now, I'm going back to you, to the studio.
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