You’ve seen in the past what happens when our two hosts, Mehdi and Owen Jones, are outspoken in front of a camera, but what happens when they’re let loose in front of a live audience of hundreds? Zeteo kicked off our one-year anniversary multi-city tour by taping this episode of ‘Two Outspoken’ with a fantastic crowd of our subscribers in London!
“It's our first event of our five-city tour… It's amazing to be starting the tour in London with you. And I would say this: in the UK, we have built up a presence, slowly but surely, challenging a lot of what's going on,” Mehdi tells the lively audience in Notting Hill, in the video above.
Owen kicks things off by addressing the elephant in the room: Will Mehdi be allowed back into the US under deporter-in-chief, Donald Trump? “I'm one of these people who thinks if it can happen to green card holders, it can certainly happen to naturalized citizens,” Mehdi replies.
From deportations to tariffs, Owen and Mehdi go through Trump’s most alarming and destructive actions and talk about how the UK has been dealing with the US president. According to Owen, the UK’s strategy is to “disappear up Donald Trump's ass.”
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