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Wrapping up 2017

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This is it. folks -- our very last show of 2017. To help us take a look back, we've enlisted NewsMax CEO (and Trump confidant) Chris Ruddy who give us the inside Mar-A-Lago POV. Also, we tackle the following questions in this show (h/t: The Commentary Podcast):

  • The best thing Trump did in 2017
  • The worst thing Trump did in 2017
  • What you thought would happen in 2017 that didn’t happen?
  • What did happen in 2017 that you didn’t think would happen?
  • What will be the big story of 2018?

Agree? Disagree? Leave your answers in the comments.

Thanks for all the support and feedback this year. We've got some great shows planned for 2018 (including some cool live ones) so enjoy the Christmas season and we'll see you in January.

Music from this week's show: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
CRChris Ruddy

Discussion (17)

  • JuliaBlaschke@JuliaBlaschke
    I am also amazed that Trump can be 71 years old, gain lots of weight, eat junk food and drink copious amounts of Diet Coke and keep on going. I can only imagine that he is on a boatload of prescription drugs!
  • JimGoneWild@JimGoneWild
    Chris, not every kid in Germany can go to college. First, students must be in a college (university) curriculum through high school -- which is 13 years -- not 12. Then they take competitive tests. Only a fraction of German high school graduates go to a university.
  • Aaron Miller@AaronMiller

    Best Christmas album: the Nutcracker Suite, of course.

    Rob, if Democrats and the Left were in danger of making themselves irrelevant by extreme positions, Obama would not have been twice elected to the highest office in the land.

    But you are correct that the biggest story of 2018 might be the continued divergence of Left and Right. Then again, remember what they said about George W Bush? Are the lies about Trump really worse?

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