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Vulture recently checked in with Marritz and producer Matt Collette about the decision to wind down the show, the time capsule, and how they feel about moving on.

It’s a pretty affecting narrative device, marking what was probably one of the last times that crew would’ve gathered together ever again. The entry featured the crew gathering in person (with appropriate precautions) to assemble a time capsule filled with various artifacts from their yearslong investigation. published its final episode the day before President Biden’s inauguration. All throughout, though, the show maintained its hardened commitment to reporting, winning a duPont-Columbia award in 2018 for its efforts. went through several iterations over its three-year run, shifting in emphasis as the country hurtled past the Mueller impeachment, the pandemic, the 2020 elections, and out the other end. Hosted by longtime WNYC staffers Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, and supported by a sizable team spanning across both WNYC and ProPublica, Trump, Inc. The product of a collaboration between WNYC and ProPublica, the podcast, launched in February 2018, originally started out as a New Yorker feature and billed itself as an “open investigation” into the many, many conflicts of interests surrounding President Trump while he sat in the White House. That’ll probably depend on whether the guy actually fades away in the first place, which feels like a coin flip at this point.īut the majority of the subgenre is winding down, including what is perhaps its most accomplished entry: Trump, Inc. And who knows - maybe that approach will work. It’s my understanding there are a few Trump-inspired podcasts that are still going to try to make a go at it well into the new administration (examples include the Washington Post’s Can He Do That? and KCRW’s All The Presidents’ Lawyers). With the end of the Trump presidency, so comes the end of a vibrant cottage industry over the past half-decade: Trump-themed podcasts.