Tom Nichols
speaker
2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and parse what he's saying.
So it could be that there have been some low-level contacts or contacts for a third party, or he could just be making it up.
I suspect part of what's going on is that he is
alternately juggling with things that he says like this he's juggling several different things the markets which he clearly is he's clearly trying to affect the markets and and massage them um do you think it was Market manipulation since you went there yesterday morning when he put out that social that truth social post just before the markets opened
I can't prove market manipulation, and I don't know if he's trying to manipulate the markets, but I think he's certainly trying to calm the markets alternately with trying to stumble through this war that I don't think he believed would go on for four weeks at this point.
um i think the other thing he's doing is he's sending troops to the region and trying to kind of play both sides of that issue which is i'm not going to put troops on the ground but i'm sending troops to the region but i'm talking to people but i'm really not talking to people and then of course hegseth gets up there and says we negotiate with bombs um i don't think this administration knows what it's doing i think they're improvising at this point because they again
I shouldn't say day.
I think the president fully expected the regime to collapse in a matter of days.
And other people probably knew that wasn't going to happen or not happen fast.
And now they're all kind of tap dancing around what to do next.
And so is he talking to people with Donald Trump?
You just cannot ascertain the truth simply from anything the president says.
And it's because we have a president of the United States that when he sends his warfighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one.
And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard, as it's necessary to ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.
um that's we negotiate with bombs yeah that's not the way representatives confident um winning representatives of the superpower talk that's how jumped up teenagers talk the other thing about about hegseth that you really notice when the camera pulls back a bit is how much of every hegseth statement is
for Trump, but you really can see all of the media training at work, the hand gestures, the punctuating, the careful cadences.
This isn't somebody who's trying to give information to the American public or establish the position of the United States.
This is somebody who's performing.
He's still a Fox host.
He's still on TV.
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