Ben Wittes

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The Bulwark Daily · Ben Wittes: Talk About America in Decline · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And he has been nothing but honest about this plane, which is.

They gave me a really cool plane, and I want to use it, and I'm going to keep it.

And there's been nothing but transparency about that.

And as a result, everybody kind of looks and says, well, there's not that much to see here.

And the point that you just made, which is that Air Force One is not usable to get the president to and from safely a NATO summit, somehow gets lost in it.

But, you know, that is the reality of modern America.

And by the way, a kind of metaphor.

For Trump's larger presence at the NATO summit, which, you know, the New York Times ran a long story about, which I think is basically pretty accurate about there being two summits.

One is, you know, Trump.

as you would say, bleeding, only their bleats are in speeches, right?

And just this kind of Trump show and attacking our allies.

And the other is the actual NATO summit where, you know, European NATO allies are kind of getting down to business, doing a lot of work, planning for a post-America security environment, right?

And, you know, what is a better symbol of this than the president flying in on a cuttery bling jet that he can't safely fly out on?

Right.

I mean, he's and talking about Greenland, like acquiring Greenland on the way.

Yeah.

So there's three things going on here and they're related.

And it is largely a good news picture, but it is a good news picture that produces a lot of collateral bad news.

So the underlying good news is that the Ukrainians are making significant progress at the military front.

And that is not currently being seen in the lines moving, but it is being seen in the degree of degradation of the Russian economy and the degree of degradation of the Russian military presence, particularly in Crimea.

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