Dave Smith
👤 SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, Donald Trump is...
Look, you got to kind of give him, I guess, a little bit of a pass on this.
But Donald Trump's trying to thread a needle of how to get this deal done, how to get through.
It is, let's just say, Rob, we have a memorandum of understanding, right?
This is not technically a peace deal of any sort.
It lays the barest kind of structure, right?
In which negotiations can take place and it gave a very brief period of time of 60 days to negotiate some very complex things as we've talked about on the show took two years to negotiate the JCPOA this two months very challenging, although I suppose you could copy paste a lot.
that being said you have two months of negotiations it's already off to let's just call it an incredibly rocky start the thing almost the signing ceremony almost fell apart according to a bunch of reporting things off to a very rocky start donald trump is coming underneath uh enormous um pressure
from one very specific lobby obviously but also just in general that look i mean this is the the position we find ourselves in here rob which is a little bit tough is that we want to get this get through these 60 days we want to come out with some type of agreement here we want to just result this to result in no more war and america getting out of this
At the same time, obviously, Donald Trump has a lot of vulnerabilities here because he has talked mad shit for 100 plus days and now is backing off of every last one of the things that he said.
But so he's got to try to, you know, look tough.
He's got to try to sell this as victory.
We always said this is going to be very tough.
Here is from Donald Trump this morning, Rob.
despite the, sorry, one second, protestations and false statements to the contrary,
Coupled with the drumbeat of the fake news, which is doing everything possible to make the U.S.
victory as small and insignificant as possible, Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest-level nuclear inspections long into the future, parentheses, infinity, exclamation point.