{"id":12125,"date":"2017-04-28T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12125"},"modified":"2017-04-28T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T01:01:49","slug":"100-daze-bradcast-4282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12125","title":{"rendered":"100 Daze: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Trump_TalkToHand_042817.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, at the 100 days milestone for his Presidency &#8212; which Donald Trump recently dismissed as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-100-days.html?_r=0\">&#8220;artificial barrier&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; <b>Heather Digby Parton<\/b> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/heather_digby_parton\/\">Salon<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/\">Hullabaloo<\/a> blog, joins us to try to make sense of (wish us luck) the extraordinary chaos, few successes and many failures, to date, of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/208778\/trump-job-approval-first-quarter-lowest-points.aspx\">historically<\/a> unpopular Administration. [<em>Audio link to show follows below.<\/em>]\n<p>We do so on a day that Trump watches his hopes for a health care bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/27\/us\/politics\/republicans-propose-short-term-funding-plan-to-avert-shutdown.html\">fall apart<\/a> once again in the U.S. House, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/28\/politics\/trump-nra-speech\/\">addresses<\/a> the NRA in Atlanta, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/331013-trump-major-major-conflict-with-north-korea-possible\">suggests<\/a> a &#8220;major, major confrontation&#8221; may be ahead with North Korea, and as he seems to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-interview-highlights-idUSKBN17U0D4\">threaten<\/a> trade wars with everyone from South Korea to Canada to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>All of that, as North Korea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/north-korea-test-fires-ballistic-missile-u-s-official-says-n752736\">fires off<\/a> another ballistic missile test today and Trump tells Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-100days-idUSKBN17U0CA?\">he thought<\/a> being President of the United States &#8220;would be easier&#8221; than his old job as a real estate hustler and reality TV personality.<\/p>\n<p>Digby &#8212; who also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/04\/21\/president-trumps-glorious-first-100-days-more-frightening-or-more-pathetic\/\">wrote recently<\/a> about the 100-day mark &#8212; offers her always-enlightening insight on all of the above, explains what has, so far, surprised her most about Trump&#8217;s Presidency, and speaks to how the corporate media, Congressional Democrats and we, the people, are holding up in The Resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Just another day of havoc and confusion for a stressed out nation (and world) fighting to survive the Trump Era.<\/p>\n<p>Then, speaking of, Desi Doyen joins us with the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> as Florida burns and the melting Arctic now appears to be accelerating the rate of sea level rise beyond previous scientific predictions&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; 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