Susan Glasser

There's a classic quote from Donald Trump because he used to call crypto a quote scam. And then when he made this announcement in September of 2024, he said, well, you know, I don't really know what it is, but everybody's got to get into it. So we got to get in it.

There's a classic quote from Donald Trump because he used to call crypto a quote scam. And then when he made this announcement in September of 2024, he said, well, you know, I don't really know what it is, but everybody's got to get into it. So we got to get in it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, John, right now, the United States of America is the single largest source of global instability.

You know, John, right now, the United States of America is the single largest source of global instability.

Yeah. I mean, there's no question about that. When a superpower goes rogue, you have an enormous crisis for the world.

Yeah. I mean, there's no question about that. When a superpower goes rogue, you have an enormous crisis for the world.

And the one element that we should add to Eric's already very daunting and distressing list of ways in which the co-mingling of Trump's personal business and America's foreign policy interests create a crisis is, of course, Donald Trump's single-handed upending of the world economy.

And the one element that we should add to Eric's already very daunting and distressing list of ways in which the co-mingling of Trump's personal business and America's foreign policy interests create a crisis is, of course, Donald Trump's single-handed upending of the world economy.

by imposing quote-unquote reciprocal tariffs that aren't reciprocal on essentially all of the world's major economies. And in particular, targeting America's allies as much, if not more so, than most of her adversaries.

by imposing quote-unquote reciprocal tariffs that aren't reciprocal on essentially all of the world's major economies. And in particular, targeting America's allies as much, if not more so, than most of her adversaries.

And the reason this matters is because this is the ultimate vehicle for conflicts of interest, for ways in which the President of the United States personally is the decider on what happens to the fate of countries and companies. And that opens up corruption.

And the reason this matters is because this is the ultimate vehicle for conflicts of interest, for ways in which the President of the United States personally is the decider on what happens to the fate of countries and companies. And that opens up corruption.

Every lobbyist in the world is busy investing and getting other companies to invest in lobbyists who have direct connections to the Trump family here in Washington right now. The reason for that is that Donald Trump has fundamentally shifted the balance of power in our society to essentially instead of a rule of law society, to essentially a personalist regime. So he has become- Transaction.

Every lobbyist in the world is busy investing and getting other companies to invest in lobbyists who have direct connections to the Trump family here in Washington right now. The reason for that is that Donald Trump has fundamentally shifted the balance of power in our society to essentially instead of a rule of law society, to essentially a personalist regime. So he has become- Transaction.

He's become the kind of instability that you're talking about.

He's become the kind of instability that you're talking about.

That was America's theory of the case in what we saw in the 1990s as kind of the democratizing world. It's like democracies don't go to war against each other, that this notion, call it the quaint Washington consensus of the late Clinton era, which was the notion that integrating

That was America's theory of the case in what we saw in the 1990s as kind of the democratizing world. It's like democracies don't go to war against each other, that this notion, call it the quaint Washington consensus of the late Clinton era, which was the notion that integrating