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Podcast: The Common Good Podcast
Episode: Troll in Chief — How Donald Trump Turns Cruelty into a Political Strategy
Description: Donald Trump isn’t just the president — he’s trolling the American people. In this episode, the Common Good Podcast team unpacks how Trump uses mockery, memes, and AI-generated videos to dehumanize and divide. From calling fellow citizens “enemies” to posting disturbing digital fantasies of violence, Trump turns cruelty into spectacle — and spectacle into power.
We explore what this means for our national character, for people of faith, and for those who still believe democracy requires decency. How should good-hearted Americans respond when a president treats his neighbors as targets and his followers as props? What does it mean to resi...