Podbit · The MeidasTouch Podcast
While Trump has pocketed roughly $2 billion since taking office through crypto schemes and Mar-a-Lago, the investors in those schemes have lost equivalent amounts. It's a zero-sum meme-coin game — one winner, millions of losers.
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At 13:56 · chapter starts 12:22
The conversation shifts from policy to character. Shapiro says he thinks about this 'less as a governor and more as a father.' His children's entire frame of reference for politics has been shaped by Trump — cruelty, personal attacks, social media pile-ons. He worries that negative behavior has been reinforced at the highest level: making fun of people with disabilities is just one example. His wife, a leader in the Special Olympics movement, models the opposite values. Shapiro says it will take real time for the generation that grew up under Trump to overcome this negativity — and that the threat doesn't end with Trump, because Vance or Rubio could carry the same style forward.
Shapiro's kids have grown up watching cruelty, mockery of disabled people, and personal attacks normalized by the president of the United States. He says it will take real time for this generation to recover — and J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio may extend the damage further.
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