Trump’s plastic straw push

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00:00So, Jono, it's been memorable. We just had a look at that montage there.

00:05A lot has happened. But which moment stands out for you the most?

00:09I think it's been memorable, but it's also been memeable.

00:12I think it's the most memeable presidency in the first 100 days that we've seen in living history.

00:17There's certainly been a lot of soundbites just from the clips that we've just seen

00:20that really stand out from the Trump administration so far.

00:24I think probably the moment he had the conference where he said,

00:26I'm back and I'm better than ever was probably a classic Trump moment that we witnessed.

00:31Big J.D. Vance and Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office in somewhat of a UFC moment

00:36where that came to blows as well was one of the other moments.

00:39But honestly, for me, it's how quickly he rolled back on the environmental regulations.

00:44It signaled a very sharp change from what we'd seen with the last administration.

00:48And the priorities in his first few days, including one that I really, I have to admit,

00:53it's probably one of my favorite policies that's been revoked, was the change in plastic straws.

00:58And so Trump had said that paper straws are gone.

01:00We're no longer going to do that anymore.

01:02And instead, we're going to go back to paper straws.

01:04That, for me, was one of the most standout, mainly because it was almost unbelievable

01:08to watch him sign that and see that that was his most impressive

01:11first couple of days and weeks in the administration.