Michelle Cottle
speaker
2,005 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
Michelle Cottle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 16 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 4.
Appearances
he came back again and again to the destruction, the degrading of Iran's military capabilities.
He started off by going through the Venezuela escapade, as though that has any bearing on this situation and what we're looking at now.
It's clear that his strategy with the speech was, I'm just going to throw all these...
Facts at you that I want you to think mean we've achieved our goal.
Mission accomplished, everybody.
I think we all enjoy a good mission accomplished speech.
Without addressing things like, what is victory?
You know, Iran still has its nuclear stockpiles.
It was not reassuring at all for me.
And so I wanted you, Jamal, to talk about how can he claim victory in,
If he is indeed planning to wind this down while the regime is still intact and unlikely to stop being a threat, what is Trump going to claim as a real victory that is going to look remotely like what's actually happening in the real world?
All right, I want to come back to this issue of agency.
Well, Jamel, you actually wrote a column last week that was focused on Trump's complete inability to recognize that other people have agency and, if you're applying force, are sometimes likely to push back against moves that they oppose.
And, you know, not just with the war, but, you know, with Doge slashing at the federal government, the administration's treatment of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia,
president's crazy gerrymandering scheme, ICE agents rampaging through American cities.
What opportunity does this blind spot with this president provide opponents, do you think?
Yeah, because when I look at this administration, I think telegraphing total competence.
Yeah, right.
Okay, well, what happens next?
Before we move on from this, like, either you guys want to venture a thought?
Showing 1121–1140 of 2,005 · page 57 of 101
← Previous
Next →