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Plus, our guest tonight is the woman many credit for, Dikembe Mutombo, Mitch McConnell, Stacey Abrams. She's going to be joining us on the show. So let's do this, people.

Welcome to the daily social distancing show from Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the daily social justice show with driven over years of. Today, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and McDonald's share price in Florida just went way up because America just got a brand new dad.

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., do solemnly swear. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute and I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, office of President of the United States. And will, to the best of my ability, well, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the United States.

So help you God. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr. President. I don't know about you, but this moment will stay in my memory forever. Joe Biden's middle name is Robinett. What but that's right. As of noon Eastern Time today, America welcomed the fresh young face of Joseph R. Biden as its forty sixth president. And despite the pandemic, this inauguration had it all former presidents, the youngest inaugural poet, an amazing singer wearing her own Etsy store, an old man on his way to the post office, and even a lady whose outfit just called me a broken bitch.

Biden was so committed to unity that he even invited enemies of the state. No, I'm joking. I'm joking, guys. I'm joking. Ted Cruz didn't try and overthrow the government. He just supported the people who did. Even Mike Pence attended the inauguration to honor the democratic transition of power. Kudos to Mike Pence. You can see him there with his mosque featuring the vice presidential seal. And as tradition dictates, once Comilla was sworn in, he gave that very same mosque for her to put on.

But before the new president could walk in, the old one had to be kicked out.

There you see Marine One on the lawn of the White House. President Trump still there, but as expected, depart any minute for Andrews Air Force Base and give a final speech before heading tomorrow.

I can tell you that from the bottom of my heart, this has been an incredible four years. We rebuilt the United States military. We created a new force called Space Force, and now the stock market is actually substantially higher than it was at its highest point prior to the pandemic. So it's really you could say we built it twice. I hope they don't raise your taxes. But if they do, I told you so. So just a goodbye.

We love you. We will be back in some form. Have a good life. We will see you soon.

Have a good life. That's not what a departing president is supposed to say. That's what you tell your best friend in high school when she starts dating your ex. I hope you two are very happy together. Have a good life, obviously, before prom. I don't you know, although I do like how he said he'll be back in some form because my man knows you got to leave on a cliffhanger. I'll be back in some form. Maybe I'll come back as a politician, maybe as a mutant fish monster, or maybe I'll come back as one of those old guys with a ponytail.

Stay tuned for Trump's last day in office. Wasn't all just whining and stealing silverware. No, my friends, he also made sure to hand out some very nice parting gifts to all his friends.

President Trump announces more than one hundred and forty pardons and commutations.

The list ranges from the president's political allies to nonviolent drug offenders. Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising campaign for President Trump's border wall. But before the trial could even get underway, the president gave him a preemptive pardon. Three former Republican congressmen and commuted the sentence of Detroit's former Democratic mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who was serving time on corruption charges. The president also pardoned rappers Lil Wayne and Chodak Black on their separate federal weapons related offenses.

That's right, people. Donald Trump pardoned a ton of shady people in the last hours of his presidency, which means those fraudsters can get back to defrauding and Steve Bannon can get back to selling music. The weird part, though, was how he kept trying to give prison time to Eric. I'm sorry, Eric. The rule in prison is one in, one out. It's just like the nightclubs.

I'm going to miss you, Eric. Jokes have a good life now. What was really crazy is that Trump pardoned Chodak Black and Lil Wayne, which sounds like a good thing. I mean, it's cool to pardon anyone, I guess, but it's a terrible thing to do to a rapper because you're taking away their street cred. Now, what are they going to rap about?

Yeah, young wizzy babe, I can get enough of that again to get them to legally buy a gun in all states. Now you see me on the street on my way to jury duty where their booty. That is good.

Honestly, if you ask me, I think it's incredible that Trump didn't pardon himself because it means that even President Trump looked at Donald Trump's record and decided, man, I can't let this go off that easy. Then again, some people actually speculating that Trump secretly wrote himself a pardon that he can use later. And honestly, I hope that he did. Because he's Donald Trump, so, you know, he's just going to end up wasting that party on some bullshit.

Mr. Trump, your car is illegally parked in a handicapped spot. You're getting a ticket. Well, now's the perfect time to use my one and only burden.

I'll see you when I come back from a game of golf. Now, Trump is not the first president to issue shady pardons on his way out the door. I mean, Bill Clinton famously pardoned his brother and a really dodgy businessman whose ex-wife donated to Clinton's library. And yes, don't get me wrong. Trump took it to a whole new level, but he's not unique.

If anything, I think he should have gone further. I'm not going to lie. I'm really pissed off that all the people Trump chose to pardon, he didn't pardon Joe Exotic because I don't know about you, but I know I need a second season of that show. I need more Tiger King. Not the only thing I can watch on Netflix is that Bridget Jones show every day. Bridget, Bridget. I'm falling in love with that Duke. I'm sitting there wondering what all babies would look like if we were a couple, probably like us.

And it wasn't just last minute pardons last night at literally one o'clock in the morning. Donald Trump also did this.

Breaking overnight, President Donald Trump signing an executive order releasing current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge. That pledge, one of Trump's first executive orders back in twenty seventeen when he pledged to drain the swamp. It required Trump's political appointees to agree to the lobbying ban, as well as pledge not to undertake work that would require them to register as a foreign agent after leaving government.

So after all that time talking about how he's going to drain the swamp, the one rule he actually made to reduce corruption he got rid of right before he left office. But let's be real, though. People electing Trump to reduce corruption is like hiring Hilaria Baldwin to handle your PR crisis. The results are going to be no bueno. But on the other hand, I do get why he's doing this. Trump stuff is have to become lobbyists. I mean, where else are they going to go with their resumes?

So why do you think you'd be a good employee for a pet? Well, you guys keep pets in cages and we used to keep kids in cages.

OK, we'll be in touch.

And so with Trump finally gone, it was time for President Biden to get the key from under the mat and settle into the house that they'd spent all day getting ready for him.

Right now, the White House residence staff are going around the White House and boxing up anything that the Trump family may have left behind. Trump officials insist that the place is going to be sanitized with particular care and covid-19 in mind. Part of what is going to be moved in and different in the White House residence is that the Bidens will I here share a bedroom? The Trumps, of course, at separate bedrooms. So this will be switched. All the mattresses will be refreshed.

We're so used to seeing the new president walk up the steps under the North Portico into the White House to be greeted by the outgoing president of the United States. And there you saw Joe Biden and the first lady not greeted by anybody outside the front door of the White House. In fact, the previous president had skipped town before the inauguration. So Biden left there to sort of be a self greeter in many ways and let himself into the White House, into the front door.

Yeah. Trump wasn't there to greet Biden at the White House, which is a snub. But on the other hand, I'm not sure that Trump needs to be there now because how would that conversation even go? You know what actually used to work here? So you don't need to show me where The Situation Room is, the Situation Room now. I know it's Inauguration Day and everyone wants to throw a party, but remember, it's also Wednesday, which means it's still a workday.

And so after he got back to the White House, President Joseph Robinette Biden went straight to work. And let's just say the White House bathrooms aren't the only place Biden is looking to wipe out any trace of Donald Trump.

Just hours after being sworn in, President Joe Biden is already putting the pen to a number of executive orders. This is common practice. As presidents enter office.

Biden expected to sign roughly a dozen executive orders undoing some of Donald Trump's most controversial move. He will immediately rejoin the Paris climate accord, reportedly cancelled the Keystone pipeline and will reverse the so-called Muslim travel ban and take the first step in his fight against covid mandating masks on federal lands and extending the powers of student loan payments.

Wow. That is a huge reversal of Trump's legacy, rejoining the Paris Accords, canceling the Keystone pipeline and even repealing the infamous Muslim ban. Although with America's covid rates right now, I don't actually think that last one is going to make much of a difference. Come on over. Muslim countries. Come on to America. Actually, we have Zoome now. So you guys kind of keep your coffee. Now, this is really good news and I'm glad that America is rejoining the Paris accord.

But you've got to admit this back and forth. This must be so weird for other countries because under Obama. America celebrated the Paris Accords, but then under Trump, it was like the Paris Accords, let the planet and the to Biden it's like, all right, guys, I'm I'm back in the Paris accord. Sorry. And I'm also back on my meds. Sorry about that. So, my friends.

Donald, Jesus Christ, that was crazy. Trump has officially departed the White House for the last time.

And I know I know that many people are angry right now at the state that he left this country in. But I implore you to try and look at the few silver linings. One, America survived Trump and in doing so displayed its resilience and to Trump's term, has truly exposed so many of the flaws in America's system. And I know for some day one of Joe Biden's presidency may be too soon to think about fixing America's problems. But you need to start fixing them now because before, you know, it's twenty, twenty four will be here and Donald Trump might be back in some form.

All right. When we come back, we'll see how today stacked up to other inaugurations. Spoiler alert, it had a lot less dead birds. And Stacey Abrams is still joining us on the show.

So stick around.

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But what does a typical Inauguration Day look like? Well, actually, there really isn't one to find out why, it's time for another episode of If You Don't Know Now you know.

The first thing to understand about Inauguration Day is that there's no reason it has to be a full day. There's only one thing that really has to happen, and it takes about two minutes as long as nothing goes wrong.

There are speeches. Parades and ball is gone, but according to the U.S. Constitution, the only requirement is for the president to take the oath for an entire government hands over a baton to the next government.

It does not happen until the words of the oath are uttered and the words matter. You have to say the words correctly. Barack Obama had to take the oath of office twice in 2009.

That's because Chief Justice John Roberts misspoke and one word was out of sequence that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully, that I will execute. The off faithfully the president office of president of the United States, people immediately people called it a botched oath. Some people even question, is President Obama a real president? Oh, man.

Did you see Obama's face. He was so pissed. And I would be to imagine spending two years campaigning all over the country. And then the guy giving you the oath is like, do you swear to uphold the Constitution? I mean, the Constitution. Oh, man. Well, sorry. Let's try again. In four years, you can see Obama's eyes. You can see in his eyes he's thinking, really ASOL. I move all the way from Kenya to have you screwed us up now.

And honestly, I kind of agree. I mean, damn, I know it's an oath, but you're not allowed to say one word wrong. You're becoming a president. I'm summoning a dragon. I mean, Trump didn't know about this one because if he had, he definitely would have gone to Biden's inauguration just so he could mess things up. I, Joseph R. Biden, do solemnly swear. Come on, man. Now, because the oath is required, it's the same for every president.

But the inaugural speech is where each individual president gets to tell you who they are.

Presidents use their inaugural addresses to try and set the tone and lay out the theme for the next four years.

It's a great opportunity to make a great speech and encapsulate his vision in a few telling lines.

The only thing we have to do is to ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country.

The shortest inaugural speech, a mere one hundred thirty five words, was delivered by George Washington at his second swearing in the longest William Henry Harrison, which ran on for two hours on a cold March day.

Harrison died of pneumonia thirty one days later.

Now, Harrison didn't get pneumonia because he gave a speech in the cold three weeks earlier. But it was still a huge mistake because he was only president for thirty one days and he wasted the first two hours. I mean, he could have been like, no speech. I'm going to enjoy this while it lasts. And then went and spent the whole day just running around the White House in his underwear, because when the two hour speech, you know, he had a ton of plans.

And then in year two, we're going to fix the railways and add some more states. And then year three, oh, boy, year three has going to be my favorite year yet. But you know what surprises me is George Washington. One hundred and thirty five words is not the length of a presidential speech. That's more like a college student that forgot that he had an essay due that day. I mean, on the other hand, one hundred thirty five words is a lot when you have wooden teeth.

Ladies and gentlemen, I at a splinter. All right, I'm out. I'm out. I'm out, I'm out. Now, once the speech is out of the way, the fun parts of Inauguration Day begin the balls, the concerts, the parades. It's basically my super sweet 16 for men in their 70s. But like any big party, there's always the chance that something will go horribly wrong.

Inaugurations follow a very prescribed order. And while most inaugurations have been conducted with decorum, some have had their mishaps. Vice President Andrew Johnson had too much to drink. The night before Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration. Johnson delivered a speech the next day, still drunk, embarrassing the president. An electrical short caused John F. Kennedy's podium to catch fire as Cardinal Richard Cushing gave the invocation at his inauguration in 1873.

Ulysses S. Grant was being inaugurated and it was very cold. So what happened is that the champagne turned into slushies and all these canary's brought in to sing as background noise and they all froze to death.

Andrew Jackson's 1829 bash was the rowdiest 20000 Jackson supporters stormed the White House, pulling down the curtains, working on the furniture, causing massive damage.

The new president reportedly escaped the crush through a window. God damn people think Trump caused chaos. Imagine if his presidency started with the riots. But hey, man, say what you want about Andrew Jackson. That dude could throw a party. I mean, you know, a party is hard core. When the host is like, if I don't get out of here, I'm going to die. It's funny because we think of all these historical figures as being so proper and respectable.

But damn, those parties were ballah. I mean, I've been to some crazy parties, but I've never been to a party that got frozen canary crazy, although I think frozen canaries on the floor can really kill the mood at any party. I was sub girl. I couldn't help but notice you standing here by yourself and I just thought, oh shit, I just stepped up the wall.

Oh man. Oh, no. Oh. Pelton's moans Oh.

Oh, so you got to man what now?

A lot of the talk this year is about how President Trump broke tradition by refusing to show up for Joe Biden's big day, which clearly was a sign of respect. I mean, if there's one thing Donald Trump. Would never want to do is draw attention to himself at somebody else's party, but the truth is that twenty, twenty one isn't the first inauguration day to feature tension between the new president and the outgoing one since Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson traveled by carriage in 1837.

It's become tradition for the president to escort the president elect from the White House to the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony.

Historically, some transitions have been, well, ugly. Ulysses S. Grant declined to give Andrew Johnson the ride to the Capitol, and so Johnson declined to attend the inauguration. Nineteen fifty three. Dwight Eisenhower rolled up at the White House to pick up Harry Truman. Truman's were inside with coffee ready. Someone came in and said to Truman, Eisenhower won't get out of his car. He won't come in and have coffee with you.

At the nineteen thirty three inauguration of FDR, Hoover wouldn't look at or even speak to Roosevelt on the car ride over to the swearing in.

Oh, that looks so awkward. Hoover was acting like he was in an Uber pool. Look man, I'm just trying to save three bucks. I'm not here to make a friend. And to be honest, I actually understand where they're coming from because, look, I get that it's important to concede when you lose, but it does feel a little bit like it's rubbing it in to make you give the guy who beat you a ride to the inauguration.

That never happens in any other situation. When you get divorced, you don't expect it to drive your ex to the next wedding. So I can see why some presidents get a little petty. And honestly, I think they could have done worse. I mean, if Trump wanted to be really petty, he wouldn't have skipped town. He would have offered to drive Biden and then show up on a motorcycle. Sorry, Biden, you got to ride, bitch, bitch.

So that's the big public events of Inauguration Day. But there is one final tradition that takes place in private when the new president sits down in the Oval Office for the first time and finds a special note on their desk.

There is a tradition where the president leaves a letter for the incoming president and he leaves it in the desk. And it is that private connection between the two of them. We're now both officially in what is known as the president's club. That's another very new tradition. Goes back to Ronald Reagan, who left a letter for his vice president, George H.W. Bush, that said at the top, don't let the turkeys get you down.

After George H.W. Bush lost his re-election fight to Bill Clinton, the sitting president penned a letter to his opponent saying in part, Your success now is our country's success. I'm rooting hard for you.

That letter former President Obama left for President Trump and part President Obama wrote, We are just temporary occupants of this office that makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties that our forbearers fought and bled for.

While guys, Trump really changed the game on everything, because before him, all the presidents would leave little encouraging notes.

You know, you've got this champ. All of America is rooting for you. But Obama's letter to Trump was trying to teach Trump about America. OK, real quick, there's a thing called democracy. You've got the rule of law. But this is actually one tradition that Donald Trump did continue. And in fact, we actually got our hands on Trump's actual outgoing letter to Joe Biden from our White House insiders. Oh, man, I'm going to miss that guy.

So there you have. It's the American presidential inauguration. Sometimes it's messy, sometimes it's awkward. But even after a month like this one, it always happens. And if you don't know now you know. All right. When we come back, I'll be talking to the woman who many credit with being the person who helped turn Georgia Blue. That's right. Stacey Abrams is joining me on the show.

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Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier today, I spoke with political leader and activist Stacey Abrams. She's the founder of Fair Fights, the voting rights organization in Georgia that helped Joe Biden win Georgia and Democrats gained control of the US Senate. We talked about that and so much more.

Stacey Abrams, welcome back to The Daily Social Distancing Show.

Thank you for having me again. The last time you were on the show, for many Americans, it seemed like everything was lost. We were at the height of the George Floyd protests. Donald Trump was I mean, just Donald Trump and coronavirus was going up in a way that we couldn't have even imagined could get worse.

Speaking to you today, Joe Biden is now officially in the White House. Donald Trump is back playing golf where he was when he was president, but not as president. And coronavirus is still going up. So I guess one out of three right now. Are you happy with how things are going? How are you doing today?

I'm incredibly grateful for where we are in two ways. One, we now have a president who can actually address the death toll that coronavirus is wreaking across the country, can make certain that communities that have been left out of just simply getting basics will suddenly, and I think for the first time, have access to the support and resources they need. I am deeply, deeply grateful that Donald Trump is out of the White House. I'm a little annoyed that he's just south of where I live.

But we're America. He gets to live where he wants. But I think more than anything, we have an opportunity for hope that we haven't had in a very long time. And I'm just pleased that Georgia got to be a part of making it.

So many people have credits to the work that you've done in Georgia. What I've appreciated, though, is how when Georgia flipped, the first thing you did was thank all the other people who made it possible. Walk me through that. Is it very strange for you to be almost like the Iron Man of this thing and then you have to keep telling people, yes, but Spider-Man also helped and so did Black Panther and so did every single other person in the Marvel Universe.

I I'm grateful for the support and the accolades, and I understand just how relieved people feel. And it's important often to identify a focal point. I've been privileged to be a part of building this apparatus over a decade. I've been, you know, pretty good at publicly begging for money for our state and being the hype man for Georgia. And so I appreciate the attention and the recognition, but I do think it's always essential that you recognize all of the component pieces because, you know, grassroots organizing and political organizing are two facets of how you put together the Infinity Stone that actually delivers us from Thanos into justice.

So this I know. And for all the Marvel athletes I know, I completely butchered that a little bit. But you've got what I meant. So, you know, I'm I'm so pleased to be a part of this pantheon that good done. And it is my responsibility to always lift up those who have been doing this work, because the minute we start to believe our own hype, we believe the accolades that they belong solely to us. That's the beginning of someone like a Donald Trump.

That's the beginning of something like the modern day Republican Party where you lose the sense of who you are trying to be, what people say they think you should be.

What do you think it is about black women that are that people see as magic, but black women see is almost a necessity? Because, you know, I look at South Africa's history and obviously you have the likes of Nelson Mandela that everybody knows about. But then you had all of the women like Winnie Mandela, et cetera, who fought for the struggle and didn't get as many accolades. The same thing happened in America. You look at the civil rights movement and how many women have either been erased or overlooked when talking about the story of America achieving democracy.

When you look at the fight that is happening right now, there's no denying that everywhere around the country, black women are at the forefront of trying to get America to be as progressive as possible. What do you think that comes from? That black women tend to bear the brunt of every evil and bear the responsibility for every failure. And so our response, our only response has to be that we're going to push harder, fight longer and recognize that we will go unrecognized.

But that said, I want to expand the conversation a bit because for communities, Latino communities that are languishing in spaces where they are not respected, I think it's something that women do. I think that we have communities, Asian-American, Pacific Islander communities, Native American communities, where women are often the leaders, the loss leaders. We are the ones who do the work. We rarely get the credit, but we understand the consequences. And that's really what drives us.

And certainly black women in this moment deserve every accolade and every plowed it. But I also want to make sure that we think about all the other women of color and white women who have entered the space where they are from places of marginalization and disadvantage, because men seem to be men no matter which race they're in. And so women, I think it's just critical for us to not only lift up black women, to lift up women of color, to lift up women when we do right.

But to recognize that we're also always in coalition trying to get this done.

So then the big question is, where do we go from here? What is the job? Everyone has a job for you. I mean, some people want you to run for president. Some people want you to take up the mantle in Georgia. Some people say, Stacey Abrams, you've got to keep going for Georgia. Georgia is the future. So you should be the governor. I know that you've publicly said that you won't be running, but my question to you is, why wouldn't you run for governor of Georgia?

Well, so my first jobs, I need to get people to buy my last book. Our Time is now that tells the story of how we build these things. But my job is to say I am going to continue to focus on Georgia, focus on redistricting, focus on the fact that already Brad Ratzenberger is agitating and advocating for rolling back voting rights. Focus on the work we have to still do to make certain that covid recovery actually recognizes the disproportionate effect that it has had on a state like Georgia, where you have such high populations of communities of color and no public health infrastructure to speak of, I may run for office again.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do politically, but I know that my work is here, my focus is now, and my mission is to help lift the South.

Starting here in Georgia, Donald Trump was a common cause that people were fighting against. Joe Biden is now going to be the president who has to answer and address many of the issues that many Americans are facing. You don't agree with everything that Joe Biden says or does. And I mean, that's that's part of politics. What are some of the issues that you want to see him addressing? What are some of the things that you feel Joe Biden and his administration need to push for immediately?

I think he's made the right first steps by focusing on covid and covid relief. We have to recognize that the disproportionate infection rate, the disproportionate death rate, the disproportionate loss of income has affected communities of color and women in ways that will continue to reverberate through our economy.

They are starting early on that issue, and I think that's the right start. Number two, we've got to restore our democracy. Defeating Donald Trump was simply attacking one of the symptoms. We've got to fix the disease, which is this Republican insistence that the way to win elections is to keep citizens from voting. And that's a solvable problem. And they know we have the bills ready to go. And the number three, climate action, the fact that he has tapped John Kerry to be an emissary on this issue, the fact that he is really populated his cabinet with people like Jennifer Granholm who understand how we can take climate action and turn it into job creation, turn it into a community opportunity, turn it into environmental justice.

Those are the first three things that we focus on. And I think overarching, all of that is making certain that we embed racial justice in every one of these conversations because racial justice cuts across every one of these issues. And if we do it right, we can start to finally reckon with who we are and what we can become after every victory.

There's a moment of celebration after hard work. There's a moment where you reap the rewards. Stacey Abrams going on on a vacation. I know it's hard in a pandemic. There's not many places you can go, but Georgia has, like, beautiful lakes and you've got beautiful areas you can. Are you going to take some time off? I am so excited.

My younger sister Leslie likes to. But bother the dickens out of me because I don't vacation, but I am going on vacation and I am so excited and I need the rest.

What do you do on vacation? What is Stacey Abrams doing vacation? Are you are you that like, sit down, read a book, do nothing type like on a beach type thing, or are you the kayak on like on like a river type person.

Who are you kayaking on. A river is what you do when you're on an active vacation with people who know how to do the balance. But I'm going on vacation by myself and I will be reading. I will occasionally roll over and maybe watch something on TV and then roll back over and start the next book. And I'm going to take really, really long naps. I'm so excited about sleeping.

Well, enjoy the naps, enjoy the reading. And I'm excited to see what the future of Stacey Abrams holds. Thank you so much for joining us again on the show, Trevor.

Thank you for having me again. You're fantastic.

Don't forget Stacy Abrams latest book, Our Time is Now is currently available. So if you want to change your world, go out and get it. All right. We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.

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