{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/641338125bde790011089c5b/68a3b1a0411aa254d3fe54f3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Vladimir Putin & the antidote to Donald Trump (TINY HANDS, SO TINY) and terrible hair (NOT HIS OWN).","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/641338125bde790011089c5b/1755558170423-c627a4df-bc2b-47d4-a05d-7a9bb05e9da1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Volodymyr Zelensky put on suit for his meeting with Donald Trump in the White House. During his row with Trump and JD Vance last February, a reporter asked him why he wasn’t wearing a suit.</p><p>Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov turned up wearing a CCCP sweatshirt, an obvious challenge to Trump. A challenge he failed. Easy to bully Zelensky. Not Russia.</p><p>This time Zelensky didn’t take any chances. But is there another way of handling Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism?</p><p>On <strong><em>Free State</em></strong> today Joe and Dion look at the attacks on Trump by California governor Gavin Newsom and why they offer a template for opposition.</p><p>While the media has tried to report on Trump as if he is a serious person who just could do with the occasional fact check, Newsom is mocking him.&nbsp;</p><p>This may the only way to defeat a narcissist. And it may be a lesson for all those like Keir Starmer, Micheal Martin and Ursula von der Leyen who have bent the knee.</p>","author_name":"Gold Hat Productions"}