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David Waldman

News, politics and commentary from Daily Kos Contributing Editor David Waldman

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01:56:45

Kagro in the Morning - August 29, 2025

Kagro in the Morning ·

2025/08/29

David Waldman pines for the Virginia fjords around this time of year and can only deny his wanderlust two more hours before this three-day weekend. Generalissimo Donald K. Trump will keep hosting military parades until everyone salutes. The Navy version should have better floats of course and will feature dancing Sea Cadets, escorting the beautiful new giant Ashli Babbitt balloon, along with musical guest Gloria Gaynor riding on the Robert E. Lee memorial float, brought to you by that “King of

01:56:47

Kagro in the Morning - August 15, 2025

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2025/08/15

David Waldman delivers us to another end of another week before Donald sells Vladimir Friday. Folks with oceanfront properties around Odessa and Juneau better start packing. Donald K. Trump is up north and in an Art of the Deal mood with some picky customers today, including Co-President Vlad Putin, and is itching to swap some land and lives for a Nobel prize. Donald loves free gold flattery, and he’s not too proud to beg for it. Hey, who does Trump have to blow up for a peace prize around here

01:56:24

Kagro in the Morning - August 14, 2025

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2025/08/14

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are together again, one more time until we’re all seeing Russia from our house. Donald K. Trump always wants a crisis, which is the only manufacturing job booming in the US, thanks to pansies like Tim Burchett, hiding in his DC office because his Tennessee office would be too dadgum dangerous, brother. Spirit Halloween costume come to life, Markwayne Mullin, needs to really hydrate to pee his pants so constantly. (Speaking of shitty neighborhoods, get out of

01:56:55

Kagro in the Morning - August 13, 2025

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2025/08/13

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin take us over the wacko Wednesday hump. Winning! That will be the only conclusion you’ll ever be able to draw about the US, from any US source from now on. Everything that the government says henceforth will be consistently useless for every citizen. Stats, science, history, and art will first pass through Donald K. Trump, and those who don’t come back for seconds will regret it. (Speaking of crap, don’t go to that site. Ron Brownstein, Bruce Bartlett, and of

01:57:10

Kagro in the Morning - July 25, 2025

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2025/07/25

David Waldman is out of here! Almost! Whacha wanna talk about? How about Jeffery Epstein? Other than ”Trump’s tiny peen”, the “Epstein files” are the country’s most talked about topic. Ghislaine Maxwell is conversant in either subject, of course, but would rather be moving on at this stage. Donald P.P. Trump says he hasn’t “thought about” pardoning Ghislaine and therefore has decided to. That wouldn’t quiet much down, as Gops have arranged to keep talking on the subject through the Fall, the DOJ

01:56:20

Kagro in the Morning - July 24, 2025

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2025/07/24

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin wish you all a joyous and/or contemplative Pioneer Day this year, along with the other 364. (Coincidentally, Jeffery Epstein’s motto was “Bring ‘em young!”) Many questions remain unanswered following Epstein’s untimely demise, but one thing is certain: Donald FN Trump’s name is all over the Epstein files, and he knows it. Gops sneak out the back door and hope no one notices. Democrats follow them out and hope everyone notices. Thus, we are only about a week away

01:56:40

Kagro in the Morning - July 11, 2025

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2025/07/11

David Waldman stares into the abyss of our next Trump weekend, but first, screams into the void of Trump Friday. Distinguished Professor and author Ian Reifowitz returns to KITM discuss his BRAND-NEW BOOK, “Riling Up the Base: Examining Trump’s Use of Stereotypes through an Interdisciplinary Lens.” Buy this book, and not only will you be the hippest person on your beach, but you will also gain a thorough understanding of how Trump’s use of stereotypes relating to immigration, race/ethnicity, and

01:56:18

Kagro in the Morning - July 10, 2025

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2025/07/10

Greg Dworkin heard from a friend that they have a friend whose other friend says that Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to go out with Donald Trump anymore. Or maybe vice versa. Anyway, somebody is gonna be upset over the resumption of arms shipments to Ukraine. Could be Trump. Certainly will be Putin. Might also be Hegseth! The eyes of Texas (and everywhere else) are still upon “Flash Flood Alley,” so they’ll have to get their story straight (and tell it to the judge) about whether they do or don’t have

01:55:45

Kagro in the Morning "Encore Performance" - July 5,...

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2025/07/04

It’s July 4th! And we’re celebrating by pretending it’s July 5th. Hey, anything to get another day closer to the end of the Trump regime! But to be more precise about it, we’re pretending it’s July 5, 2019. Why? Well, July 5, 2024 wasn’t a particularly uplifting moment in time for us. But the day after Trump’s first attempt at a Washington, DC “military parade?” That’s entertainment! So we’re re-running the July 5, 2019 episode, which Scott Anderson originally summarized this way: But… Did. They

01:56:12

Kagro in the Morning - May 30, 2025

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2025/05/30

It’s Elon Musk is Going to Hell™ Day on KITM! It’s true! I mean, it really is that day, anyway. Though perhaps every day is that day. But what we’re really interested in is his ETA. The New York Times connects with a one-two combination today. First, Elon is a huge druggie. And second, that his legacy is starving 300,000 kids to death. His “boss,” meanwhile, shows us what happens when you apply White Panic Central Park Five thinking to immigration. For all the claims that they would target

01:56:29

Kagro in the Morning - May 29, 2025

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2025/05/29

David Waldman, Greg Dworkin and Thursday, together again. Nothing else seems to be right in the world, but that makes sense. Sorry Hispanics! Trump Tower Grill has permanently removed the delicious taco bowl off its menu. Trump doesn’t want to hear the words “TACO”, nor “chicken”, ever again. He’d prefer you say that he was traitorously devaluing stocks to enrich insiders than to hurt him so. Trump’s tariffs have been halted by the “Court of International Trade”, which turns out to be an actual

01:56:50

Kagro in the Morning - May 23, 2025

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2025/05/23

Trump was back in town, by which I mean my town, for his Big Crypto-Bribery Dinner. It’s like an invasion! These people are terrorists! And they probably have the tattoos to prove it! And if they don’t, we can make them have them, in totally undoctored photos! Anyway, the good news is, Trump took their money and screwed them. So that’s nice. The only problem with that is, he’s also gonna take your money and screw you. And if you take him to court and win, no you didn’t. Constitushimal scholar Kristi

01:56:30

Kagro in the Morning - May 22, 2025

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2025/05/22

His bluebirds bouncing off the KITM World Headquarters transom windows might now be replaced by bluegills, yet David Waldman was able to arrive in freshly washed sweatpants to greet our birthday boy Greg Dworkin 🥳🤩🎂! Today, Greg received his absolute favorite gift: fresh polls! The polls sure are looking good for a presidential election today! (Narrator: “There was no presidential election on that day.”) Inflation and the cost of living are more important than destroying federal government for

01:56:47

Kagro in the Morning - May 16, 2025

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2025/05/16

David Waldman returns, only to depart again. But that does not mean he can’t sit down and talk awhile! Vendors are filing out of the 2025 Middle East Global Scam Expo today. This year’s ScamSpo headliners were an impressive list of world-class scum suckers, though some might assert that they lack the gravitas of past douche nuggets. If you are collecting plutocrat trading cards, now is the time to pick up a Dina Powell. It will take Donald K. Trump the weekend to pack all of his gift bags, but he

01:56:28

Kagro in the Morning - May 2, 2025

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2025/05/02

David Waldman gets us to the weekend, normally the time the crazy really cranks up. Anymore, it’s normally crazy, crazy is the new normal, and you don’t want to be caught acting normal, or people will think you’re crazy. Donald K. Trump wants the US to start celebrating our victories, including our imaginary ones. It beats fighting imaginary wars with our imaginary enemies. We are now in a forever war with Venezuela but aren’t starting to bomb them yet. At least, no bombing runs have been announced

01:56:51

Kagro in the Morning - April 18, 2025

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2025/04/18

On today’s KITM, David Waldman delivers us to the weekend and parks us right under the cloud of another mass shooting. Well, you can’t say this shooter was the quiet type who always kept to themselves that you’d never guess… Senator Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador and met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, yet neither one of their heads have appeared on pikes behind Donald K. Trump in a press briefing, so I guess things are better than I thought, and less what Sebastian Gorka wishes they were. A judge has

01:56:35

Kagro in the Morning - April 17, 2025

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2025/04/17

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are here today, with a 50% reduction in staffing projected for tomorrow. You don’t even want to know what is planned for Saturday. Hey, any human system will produce simple clerical errors, amirite? And afterwords, lie about it, lie again, and again, then stonewall any investigation, then smear and threaten the investigators, then really threaten the investigators, I mean we’ve all been there… Oh lord, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is already dead, isn’t he? The thing that

01:57:04

Kagro in the Morning - April 16, 2025

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2025/04/16

David Waldman brings us to today’s KITM, which is certainly a day. Greg Dworkin joins us with a slew packed into his Raft O’ Stories™! What happens if a president and the federal government fail to follow a judge's orders? This administration couldn’t just Google the answer to that, could they? If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. But, if you only lie, you also don’t need to remember anything, yet you have nothing to be responsible for. Of course, judges have to come along and

01:56:59

Kagro in the Morning - April 15, 2025

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2025/04/15

Shortly after yesterday’s show, David Waldman thought of some more stuff he wanted to tell you. If anything else comes up, we will be sure to let you know tomorrow. If you’re one of KITM’s many hardcore MAGA followers, you’re probably reading this in your local rural diner, sipping a cup o’ joe, digging into your confit pork belly and rye pain with extra cheese, contemplating how you’ve become objectively superior in all ways to all people, and frankly just hotter than everyone around you... That’s

01:56:48

Kagro in the Morning - April 14, 2025

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2025/04/14

The weekend provided no respite from tariff whiplash. And the tariff whiplash (and attendant cheerleading) just drove the rest of the economy that much further down. Greg Dworkin even titled the APR with a warning. And of course, when you’ve lost Ross Douthat, you’ve temporarily lost Ross Douthat. Trump spent the weekend snubbing VIPs and watching the wrong people win sporting events. In other weekend excitement—or incitement, as the case may be—there was a little extracurricular activity at

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