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What Am Politics?

When it comes to understanding political issues, Richie is a self confessed toddler. That’s why he’s enlisted the help of Steve, his politically savvy drinking buddy, to help him understand how government effects our everyday lives and our interactions with each other. Join them, as they break down big political issues into comedic bite size bits and try to figure out, What Am Politics?

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140 - What Am Politics? (The Finale)

Jan 11, 2022
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139 - What Am The Internet? (with Dr Dónal Mulligan)

Nov 30, 2021
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138 - What Am Local Government? (with Mayor Peter Kavanagh)

Nov 16, 2021
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137 - What Am Populism?

Nov 2, 2021
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136 - What Am Development Aid? (with Caoimhe de Barra, CEO of Trocaire)

Oct 19, 2021
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135 - What Am Northern Ireland?

Sep 28, 2021
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134 - Who Am The Best Fictional Characters as Political Leaders?

Jul 13, 2021
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133 - What Am The NHS? (with Dr Ellen Welch)

Jun 29, 2021
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132 - Who Am AOC? (with David Freedlander)

Jun 15, 2021
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131 - What Am The UK?

Jun 1, 2021
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130 - What Am Eurovision 2021 (with Dónal Mulligan)

May 18, 2021
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129 - What Am Political Jargon?

May 4, 2021
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128 - What Am The Politics of Food? (with Spice Bags Pod)

Apr 20, 2021
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127 - What Am Protests?

Apr 6, 2021
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126 - What Am Machine Learning? (with Ger Carney)

Mar 23, 2021
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125 - What Am Political Advisors? (with Bea Jonite)

Mar 9, 2021
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124 - What Am QAnon?

Feb 23, 2021
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123 - What Am Vaccines? (with Professor Luke O'Neill)

Feb 9, 2021
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122 - What Am the 90s? (with Julie Jay)

Jan 26, 2021
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Super Sexy Podcast Update (Definitely Not Clickbait)

Jan 19, 2021
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121 - What Am Brexit? Part II: Endgame

Jan 12, 2021
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120 - Who Am Our People of the Year? (The Naughty and the Nice)

Dec 22, 2020
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119 - What Am Political Video Games?

Dec 15, 2020
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118 - What Am Corruption?

Dec 1, 2020
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117 - What Am The President of the USA?

Nov 3, 2020
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116 - What Am The UN?

Oct 20, 2020
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115 - What Am Our Mental Health Stories?

Oct 10, 2020
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114 - What Am Mental Health? (with Bressie)

Oct 6, 2020
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113- What Am The State of 2020?

Oct 1, 2020
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112 - What Am GDP?

Sep 22, 2020
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111 - What Am Work?

Sep 8, 2020
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110 - What Am Drugs?

Aug 18, 2020
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109 - What Am UFOs?

Aug 4, 2020
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108 - What Am The Politics of Capital?

Jul 21, 2020
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107 - What Am Hamilton?

Jul 7, 2020
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106 - What Am Trans Rights?

Jun 23, 2020
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105 - What Am Islam?

Jun 9, 2020
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104 - What Am Happening? (George Floyd Murder, US Protests, Cummings Scandal)

Jun 1, 2020
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103 - What Am Oil?

May 19, 2020
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102 - What Am Universal Basic Income?

May 5, 2020
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101 - What Am WHO?

Apr 21, 2020
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100 - What Am Whatamtopia?

Apr 7, 2020
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99 - What Am Keeping Us Sane? COVID-19 Edition

Mar 24, 2020
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Rebroadcast - What Am the People vs Tech?

Mar 10, 2020
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98 - What Am Veganism?

Feb 25, 2020
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97 - What Am Sustainable Fashion?

Feb 11, 2020
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Brexit Day Relaxation Special

Jan 31, 2020
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96 - What Am The Irish General Election?

Jan 28, 2020
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95- What Am Australia Fires & Iran Conflict?

Jan 14, 2020
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94 - What Am Political Reflections, Meat Smoking and Chrono-Bees?

Dec 31, 2019
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93 - What Am 2019? | Christmas Special

Dec 23, 2019
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92 - What Am UK General Election Results?

Dec 13, 2019
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91 - What Am Satire?

Dec 10, 2019
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90 - What Am Millennials? (Live at Dublin Podcast Festival 2019)

Nov 27, 2019
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89 - What Am UK General Election 2019?

Nov 12, 2019
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88 - What Am Lobbying?

Oct 29, 2019
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87 - What Am Space?

Oct 15, 2019
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86 - What Am Prorogation & Impeachment?

Sep 29, 2019
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85 - What Am The 2020 Elections?

Sep 24, 2019
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84 - What Am Campaigning?

Sep 10, 2019
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83 - What Am The Hong Kong Protests?

Aug 27, 2019
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82 - What Am Socialism?

Aug 13, 2019
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81 - What Am Syria?

Jul 30, 2019
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80 - What Am 1984?

Jul 16, 2019
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79 - What Am Tory Leadership Race, Democratic Party Debates, Iran-US Tensions? (and more news)

Jul 1, 2019
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78 - What Am Passports?

Jun 25, 2019
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77 - What Am Constitutions?

Jun 11, 2019
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76 - What Am GoT? Again

May 28, 2019
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75 - What Am Eurovision 2019?

May 14, 2019
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74 - What Am Election Hodgepodge?

May 7, 2019
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73 - What Am Operation National Sword?

Apr 30, 2019
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72 - What Am WikiLeaks?

Apr 22, 2019
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71 - What Am Germany?

Apr 8, 2019
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70 - What Am The Mueller Report & Brexit?

Mar 24, 2019
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69 - What Am The Politics of Sex?

Mar 12, 2019
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68 - What Am Youth Politics?

Feb 26, 2019
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67 - What Am The House of Lords | Minisode

Feb 12, 2019
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66 - What Am Globalisation?

Feb 5, 2019
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65 - What Am Wrong With Politics?

Jan 22, 2019
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64 - What Am Air Force One? | Minisode

Jan 15, 2019
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63 - What Am Political NY Resolutions? (and we get tattoos)

Jan 1, 2019
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62 - What Am 2018? | Christmas Special

Dec 19, 2018
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Brexit: What Am Happening?

Dec 13, 2018
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Podhibition

Dec 10, 2018
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61 - What Am Central Banks?

Dec 3, 2018
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60 - What Am Good News? (Live from Dublin Podcast Festival)

Nov 20, 2018
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59 - What Am Lawyers?

Nov 6, 2018
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58 - What Am Midterms?

Oct 23, 2018
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57 - What Am The Irish Presidential Election?

Oct 9, 2018
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56 - What Am Brazil?

Sep 25, 2018
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55 - What Am Fake News? (Live from Electric Picnic)

Sep 11, 2018
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Live Show Announcement | Dublin Podcast Festival

Sep 6, 2018
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54 - What Am LGBT+ Politics?

Aug 29, 2018
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53 - What Am DACA?

Aug 14, 2018
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52 - What Am Refugees?

Jul 31, 2018
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51 - What Am Direct Democracy?

Jul 17, 2018
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50 - What Am Canada?

Jul 4, 2018
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49 - What Am Pirates?

Jun 26, 2018
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48 - What Am Pride?

Jun 19, 2018
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47 - What Am "The People Vs Tech: How The Internet Is Killing Democracy"?

Jun 5, 2018
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46 - Repeal the 8th Special

May 22, 2018
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45 - What Am The Free Market?

May 15, 2018
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44 - What Am Eurovision 2018?

May 8, 2018
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43 - What Am Trade Unions?

May 1, 2018
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42 - What Am Gun Control? (w/ Jessica Jin)

Apr 17, 2018
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41 - What Am Diversity? (w/ AlexReads and Raifa Rafiq of Mostly Lit)

Apr 3, 2018
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40 - What Am Brexit? (Part Deux) | w/ The Right Dishonourable

Mar 20, 2018
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39 - What Am A TD? (w/ Kate O'Connell)

Mar 6, 2018
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38 - What Am Watergate?

Feb 20, 2018
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1: 37 - What Am Love? (w/ Erin McGathy)

Feb 14, 2018
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36 - What Am Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Feb 6, 2018
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INTRODUCING: Newsie- a brand new news review podcast. NEW!

Jan 31, 2018
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35 - What Am One Year of Trump?

Jan 23, 2018
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34 - What Am Happening in 2018?

Jan 9, 2018
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33 - What Am Christmas? (and 2017 Year In Review)

Dec 23, 2017
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A Wild Podcast Appeared

Dec 16, 2017
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32 - What Am Cyber Security? (w/ Dr Jessica Barker)

Dec 12, 2017
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31 - What Am China? (w/ Mei Fong)

Nov 28, 2017
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30 - What Am The Eighth Amendment? (w/ Tara Flynn)

Nov 14, 2017
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29 - What Am the Alt-Right? (w/ Dr Joe Mulhall)

Oct 31, 2017
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28 - Who Am Teddy Roosevelt Part II

Oct 17, 2017
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27 - Who Am Teddy Roosevelt?

Oct 10, 2017
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26 - What Am Nobel Peace Prize?

Sep 26, 2017
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25 - What Am Austerity?

Sep 12, 2017
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24 - What Am Game of Thrones?

Aug 29, 2017
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23 - A Song of Fire and Fury (What Am Happening?)

Aug 15, 2017
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22 - What Am The Politics of Language? (w/ Peter Kavanagh)

Aug 8, 2017
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21 - What Am North Korea?

Jul 25, 2017
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20 - What Am Environmentalism? (w/ Ed Davitt)

Jul 11, 2017
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19 - What am Russia?

Jul 4, 2017
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18 - What am America?

Jun 19, 2017
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17.5 - UK General Election Results Breakdown

Jun 9, 2017
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17 - The U.K. election (What am happening?)

Jun 6, 2017
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16 - What am monarchies?

May 23, 2017
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15 - What am history? (With special guest Bruce Carlson)

May 16, 2017
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14 - What am Eurovision? (With special guest Dónal Mulligan)

May 9, 2017
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13 - Trump's first 100 days (What am happening?)

Apr 29, 2017
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12 - What am feminism? (With special guest Leena Norms)

Apr 25, 2017
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11 - The UK snap election (What am happening?)

Apr 19, 2017
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10 - What am EU? (With special guest Ger Carney)

Apr 11, 2017
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09 - What am social media? (With special guest Dónal Mulligan)

Mar 28, 2017
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08 - Paddy's Day Special: What am Irish politics?

Mar 14, 2017
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07 - What am voting?

Mar 7, 2017
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06 - What am congress?

Feb 28, 2017
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05 - What am law?

Feb 21, 2017
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04 - What am political ideology (left vs right)

Feb 14, 2017
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03 - What am US Supreme Court (and Trump follow-up)

Feb 7, 2017
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02 - What am Brexit?

Feb 2, 2017
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01 - What am Trump?

Jan 30, 2017