Trump Dismantles the Department of Education: Student Debt Shakeup and Global Tensions in 2025

This episode cov­ers Trump’s bold move to elim­i­nate the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, lever­ag­ing his Supreme Court-grant­ed immu­ni­ty with a sym­bol­ic exec­u­tive order sign­ing sur­round­ed by kids. The real shock isn’t edu­ca­tion reform—it’s the end of the DOE’s $1.6 tril­lion stu­dent loan empire, a cri­sis root­ed in Obama’s poli­cies and hyped by Biden’s for­give­ness promis­es. Now, the gov­ern­ment won’t be the bank. Mean­while, Putin ques­tions America’s next move as Zelen­sky begs the EU for funds, sell­ing Ukraine’s min­er­als amid war loss­es, while Macron’s dooms­day guide stokes French fears. The pod­cast ties Trump’s domes­tic pow­er play to glob­al uncer­tain­ty, spot­light­ing seis­mic shifts.

• The depart­ment of edu­ca­tion. Remem­ber the supreme court gave Trump immu­ni­ty. Watch the chance he will take to push that immu­ni­ty. Yes­ter­day Trump did­n’t just sign an exec­u­tive order to elim­i­nate the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion. Trump sets it up with kids in the room behind desks with their own exec­u­tive order fold­er to sign. 
• It is not your children’s edu­ca­tion that is freak­ing them out. Now the DOE over­sees $1.6T in stu­dent loan debt, you will no longer be the bank. The stu­dent loan cri­sis is the one Oba­ma cre­at­ed, the stu­dent loan debt is owed to the gov­ern­ment. Last year all you heard from Biden was stu­dent loan for­give­ness. 
• Putin is won­der­ing if Amer­i­ca is going to nego­ti­ate an uncon­di­tion­al sur­ren­der. Zelen­sky is in the EU beg­ging for mon­ey. The EU is send­ing pack­ages over to Ukraine. Macron ter­ri­fies its peo­ple with a dra­mat­ic dooms­day inva­sion guide. Zelen­sky has gone every­where to sell the min­er­als. The ques­tion is if there is enough to fill the agree­ments. There is a com­plete dis­con­nect where the EU and French put peo­ple into the region when Putin has already won the war. 
• Col­lege bas­ket­ball