Donald Trump and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Reuters/File)
EA-Political WorldView Podcast: Elections and the Battle to Save the US
In our latest 50-minute That Was The Week That Was (in TrumpLand), The Trump Report’s Maddie Hale and I take apart the latest failures of the Trump Administration from the War on Iran to the assault on the US military.
I begin by pushing aside Trump’s bluster — and falling asleep in press appearances — to set out the latest in the “limbo” over Iran, as Tehran tables a proposal for a return to negotiations but the Trump camp balks at accepting it.
I look at the consequences on the homefront, with mounting economic problems and opposition to the war imperilling the Trumpists in November’s mid-term elections.
I take apart the Trumpist stunt of a commission of the Future of Warfare with no military specialists — but with former Rep. Newt Gingrich, Elon Musk, and Parker Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR.
And I have a go at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s blustering attempt, purging the US military, to create an armed force in his image.
