Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with Donald Trump at the NATO Summit, Ankara, July 7, 2026 (CNN)
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I joined Times Radio’s Maddie Hale on Thursday for our hour-long “That Was The Week That Was (in TrumpLand)”.
In a busy week on multiple fronts, the theme that holds them together is the irreversible mental and physical decline of Donald Trump.
Along the way, we consider whether Trump’s vague commitment of support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion has any significance.
We dive into how NATO members handled the erratic and tempermental Trump at this week’s summit in Ankara, with flattery from Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — and keeping Trump away from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after his failed attempt to bully her.
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We drop by the limbo of Trump’s failing war in Iran. I offer the background from 2021 to his $1.4 billion cryptocurrency grift in 2026. And I look at divisions within the Republican Party as everyone asks what is happening with former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Millions block streets for Khamenei burial: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/09/iran-us-war-latest-news-strikes-strait-of-hormuz-nato/
“Millions of mourners flooded the streets of Mashhad for the burial of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Crowds packed the routes so tightly that his coffin had to be airlifted by helicopter to reach the Imam Reza shrine, the holiest site in Iran, four months after his assassination.”