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In our latest 53-minute That Was The Week That Was (in TrumpLand), The Trump Report’s Maddie Hale and I discuss the Trump camp’s failures from their War on Iran to their missions to Russia and Ukraine to their wannabe bullying of Canada.
I set out the latest effort of the Trumpists to force the Iranian regime surrender, “Operation Economic Outcast”, and why it is likely to fail. Will the Trump camp then reluctantly return to talks, accepting Iran’s management of the Strait of Hormuz?
I lay out the effects of the ongoing “limbo”, notably on the US economy and inflation before November’s mid-term vote: “Unless they can manipulate the elections, they are in for a beating.”
I take apart the folly of the visits of Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Kyiv and Moscow, contrasting it with officials within the Administration who want to support Ukrainian and European security.
And as Canada introduces its retaliatory tariffs, I aim at the Trump camp’s trolling and lies — including a social media claim of all of North America, Greenland, and Iceland.
