And now, it is time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. President trump is meeting his fellow leaders of the 620 summit in hamburg this week when big issues Like International trade and Climate Change will be on the agenda. My guest is the progressive canadian American Writer and activist naomi klein. She says Donald Trumps rise to power is a product of our time and that his becoming president amounts to a corporate takeover of the United States by brand trump. Shes calling for mass protests against him. But are her radical policies a panacea for the current ills in the United States . Naomi klein, welcome to hardtalk. Happy to be here. You have just written a new book, no is not enough. Is it anything more than just another liberal critique of donald trump . What i am trying to do with the book is really focus less on donald trump the personality, the extremist, the Shock Machine who has everybody gasping with his tweets and put him into the context really off th
A new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kissandtell. Its a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prizewinning columnist. Or maybe its more than that. Are you decoding my book . I am decoding it right now. Like its entirely about me. [ laughs ] but its all written in hieroglyphics. Well, its not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. Lets start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. And in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. Marcel krauthammer died of cancer. He was 59. Charles writes this about his older brother. He taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. He taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. And how we played. It was paradise. Tell me about that. It was a paradisiacal childhood. My brother and i were inseparable. He was four years older, which is
let s just turn the conversation. let s talk tech. apparently twitter s get ago new ceo according to elon musk, and cnbc is reporting nbc universal global advertising chief linda yaccarino is in advanced talks for that role. nbc uconn nbcu confirmed she is leaving the company, effective immediately. will this change anything for twitter? to work under elon musk under this bubble he overpaid for, you have to have a streak of masochism to you. i can t imagine this ending beautifully, unless they have a grand master plan to bring back advertisers, they ve alienated so many people with the blue check mark scandal, with the return of trolls and right wingers, that i don t see how you put humpty dumpty back together, and even though he
would believe that they re not crazy something i really do, but i don t know. i m scared, i ll be honest with. you i don t actually think there being strategic at all. i don t think that there s some grand plan that all the smart people in the republican party, which he would have a difficult time finding out ready at this point, are sitting in a room coming up with some grand master plan. i think it s a visceral thing, they ve become a party that just react to everything, they want to punish joe biden, they think this punishes joe biden, if the collateral damage affects the country, so be it. they ve been shown to do that all along. i think related to this point, one of the things i was fascinated by, the only point i saw your interview that i thought was really good, but i thought there was an underlying frustration on his part, was that he s done all these things and the economy is doing well,
deaths have never been investigated. so he is head ofjudiciary with a long history of violating human rights. 0k, and what about the succession planning, if you can call it that, with, well, all the major roles? where does this fit in to a grand master plan, if there is one? there s definitely a master plan, and what was fascinating is that many people believe the reason the establishment made sure they weren t any reformists in the run is because the supreme leader is thinking about the next supreme leader. the current supreme leader is in his 80s, we have had reports that he s been ill, and he will possibly die in the first term of the next president. and it seems that the hardcore establishment was trying to make sure that there isn t a serious challenge