Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

Mehdi Hasan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

The book is called Everything Trump Touches Dies.

And I think that is the phenomenon.

Anything he gets involved in, anything he touches, anything he's around gets ruined.

He ruins it for everyone.

I think that Mary's point, I know Mary and Ben well, I agree with Ben's geopolitical metaphor.

This is a metaphor for the US right now.

Clearly, the president comes along and decides to bring his brand of politics, intimidation, corruption, thuggery, intimidation to the World Cup as well, because it's the only way he knows how to deal with any kind of problem or challenge.

And I think, you know, when Sepp Blatter, a man so associated with corruption, says you're too corrupt,

That is a problem.

I mean, San Blasio is banned from attending any World Cup games till 2028.

When he comes out and says, this is too much even for me, we've got to ask questions about the current FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, who, as you say, is Trump's pet, the man who created a peace prize for him.

But the Mary Trump point is very important about the casting of the shadow and the undermining.

I think it's really, really important about understanding that he doesn't let people live in peace.

This is my biggest... People say to me, why are you obsessed with Trump?

Somebody on Twitter said to me yesterday, why do you have to make everything about Trump?

It's the exact opposite.

I spent my life wishing to get rid of him from my public and personal lives.

When he lost in 2020, some people thought he was gone.

After the insurrection, people had written him off.

His career's over.

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