Mallen Baker: Faultlines
Episodes
Joe Rogan Compares ICE To The Gestapo - Is He Right?
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
He was a highly influential Trump endorser in the election - but he has been critical several times since the Trump administration took office. And th...
Trump Rejects Europe’s Best Face-Saving Offer On Greenland
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Staring directly in the face of the End Of NATO, the European NATO countries, along with Denmark and Greenland, have come up with their best version o...
Will Europe Fight For Greenland If Trump Invades?
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the weekend, we heard that Trump had instructed options to be drawn up for taking Greenland through military action. Also, the European NATO memb...
Q&A: Will The Iranian Regime Collapse?
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the start of 2026, and also the milestone of 150k subscribers for this channel, a Q&A, where we cover Trump, Venezuela, Europe, Greenland, eco...
Oil Companies Say NO to Trump's Venezuela Plan
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Trump enjoyed his most dramatic "success" at the start of the year, with his military's flawless operation to grab Nicolas Maduro, and to extort Venez...
How Minneapolis ICE Shooting Normalises US Political Violence | News Round-Up
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday January 9th, 2025. The US takes another step towards normalising political violence with the shooting of ...
Will Europe Fight For Greenland If Trump Invades?
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since the operation against Nicolas Maduro, the Trump Administration has been in bullish mood about its ability to use military power to get anything ...
Why Venezuela Could Explode Into Civil War
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two things we've learned in the last couple of days. One - the Trump administration officially could not care less about international law, at least -...
Will Venezuela Be The Mistake That Defines Trump’s Presidency?
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
So the plan to oust Nicolas Madura resulted in an attack, during which the dictator and his wife were seized and transported to the United States. Thi...
Trump Warns Iran 'LOCKED AND LOADED' | News Round-Up
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for January 2nd 2026, President Trump threatens military action against Iran, as the regime there tries to cope with...
Democracy Is Collapsing. Here's How To Get It Back
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What are the three basic values and processes of democratic systems that we are most in danger of losing - both in Trump's United States and much of E...
Why Trump Will Have A Terrible New Year
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Year is upon us - a time for new beginnings! But for President Trump, the early days of 2026 could see the Supreme Court ruling on the legalit...
Trump Faces Huge MAGA Revolt Against AI Data Centres
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first half of 2025, the massive investment in Artificial Intelligence data centres was by far the largest part of the economic growth that the ...
Trump's Christmas Bombs In Nigeria | News Round-Up
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday December 26th 2025. Trump's America launches a bombing strike against ISIS targets in Nigeria - but with ...
Does the US Navy Need ‘Trump Class’ Ships?
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has launched a new battleship concept for the US Navy, bigger, more advanced, faster - what else could it be called other than 'Trump ...
Trump Escalates Moves Against Greenland With 'special envoy'
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump had already told us that he wanted to take over Greenland. Then we got the sense that it was a live project when it was revealed that ...
Trump's Nightmare: China's Growing Power In South America
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In its recent National Security Strategy, the Trump Administration lay claim to Central and South America as being 'its neighbourhood', where it would...
Trump’s Panic On Full View To The Nation | News Round-Up
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday December 19th, 2025. President Trump addresses the nation, and it's fascinating for what it says about th...
Trump Team Panics When Susie Wiles Tells The Truth
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump's trusted and loyal chief of staff, Susie Wiles, always known as the quiet person who got everything done, has hit the news big time w...
The MAGA Base Is Turning on Trump
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By all accounts, the MAGA faithful are starting to despair at the disconnect between what candidate Donald Trump promised during his election campaign...
Elon Musk Admits DOGE Was A Dud - Wouldn’t Do It Again
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an interview a few days ago, Elon Musk - normally the purveyor of hubris and inflated promises - said that DOGE had been "a little bit" successful....
The Real Reason Trump Wants Maduro Out Of Venezuela | News Round-Up
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday December 12th 2025: President Trump's Navy seizes an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan crude which highlight...
Trump To Force Tourists To Give Social Media History At The Border
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the big stories of 2025 has been the plummeting rates of foreign tourists entering the United States. Whether because President Trump has insul...
Why Is Europe Still Pretending Trump Is Their Ally?
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
European leaders and Ukraine's President Zelensky have been meeting yet again to agree a way forward in the face of Trump's pressure for Ukraine to si...
Japan Trusts Trump On China - Then Instantly Regrets It
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi, established a great rapport with President Trump right from the start - or so it seemed. But when she...
Trump’s World Strategy Shocks Europe And The World | News Round-Up
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday December 5th 2025 - The US launches its new security strategy, and it doesn't mince words in laying out t...
Trump Suddenly Realises He's Caught In A Trap
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump assumed that waving a big stick in front of Venzuela's Nicolas Maduro would result in him agreeing to step down, since the US has all ...
NATO Wants a More Aggressive Face to Putin – Will Trump Block It?
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NATO is realising that the hybrid warfare being waged against it by Russia, via sabotage, airspace incursions, disinformation and hacking attacks, are...
Leaked Illegal Order On Venezuela Boats Could Be War Crime
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Washington Post, President Trump's defence secretary Pete Hegseth ordered specifically that there should be no survivors from the fir...
Massive Judicial Revolt Over Trump’s Illegal Orders | News Round-Up
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday, November 28th 2025. President Trump faces a major legal backlash as analysis shows hundreds of judges ha...
The World Is Starting To Push Back On Trump
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we saw the Trump Administration trying to blackmail the EU with steel and aluminium tariffs to get it to dismantle its regulations on big t...
Why Michelle Obama Is Wrong About America
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of weeks ago, Michelle Obama said that America wasn't ready to vote for a woman as President. Today, in the UK - which has had three women Pr...
Why Trump’s MAGA Movement Is Falling Apart
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've talked before about the two sides of MAGA - the personality cult / ideological part, which is noisy and enthusiastic at times, and perpetually c...
Trump Demands Thanks For His Ukraine Surrender Plan
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As expected, European and Ukrainian leaders have been locked in urgent talks with the US as they try to negotiate down the Trump Ukraine Surrender Pla...
Trump Aims To FORCE Ukraine Surrender | News Round-Up
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday, November 21st, 2025, we examine the text of Trump's Ukraine surrender plan and the attempt to force Ukra...
Trump And Putin's Secret Plan To Stitch Ukraine Up
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's just been revealed that Putin's Russia has been working in secret with the Trump administration to agree what is described as a 28-point plan, ba...
Humiliating Epstein U-Turn Has Ended Trump’s Power Over His Own Party
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With one abrupt and astonishing U-turn, President Trump has removed all doubt that he's prematurely entering the lame duck phase of his presidency. Fa...
Q&A: Will America Return To Democracy After 2029?
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of questions for this video to celebrate my long-delayed YouTube silver button! Lots on the United States and democracy, what the Trump administr...
Why Trump Just Put All of Latin America on Notice | News Round-Up
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday November 14th 2025 - An announcement by Trump's War Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to signal a completely n...
Why Canadians’ Boycott Of Trump’s America Is Turning Into Habit
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Boycotts rarely work, and even the ones that do, rarely stick. But Canadians are making themselves the exception. Ten months in, they are still avoidi...
Even Trump's Best Allies Are Turning Against Him
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gone to great lengths to stay on the right side of President Trump since he was re-elected. All the usual fla...
How The BBC Is Losing The War For Reality
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On one level, the BBC made some pretty evident mistakes on impartiality - and most damagingly on a documentary on Trump, the echoes of which quickly r...
Trump’s Panic Offer To Give Everyone Free Money - On One Condition
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump just unleashed a barrage on social media where he railed against the Supreme Court, against anyone and everyone who is against tariffs...
Russia Threatens Trump's America Over Venezuela | News Round-Up
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, Russia considers giving Maduro its latest hypersonic missiles to use to defend himself against Trump's America, eve...
Was THIS The Week Trump Became A Lame Duck President?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political fortunes can turn on a dime. One second, a major figure can seem immovable, all powerful - then suddenly something shifts and they're left t...
Is Trump's Power About To Be DESTROYED By The Supreme Court?
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The lower courts have both ruled that the bulk of Trump's tariffs are plainly unconstitutional. Now it has come to the Supreme Court, and it's arguabl...
The 'New Elites' Looking To Win The MAGA Civil War
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump MAGA base - with its mix of personality cultists, conspiracy theorists and uneasy traditional Republicans - is in uproar right now as Tucker...
How The ‘Peace President’ Is Bullying The World
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories came out today. One - it's becoming clear just how aggressively the Trump administration threatened delegates to the International Maritim...
Why Trump’s Nuclear Test Order Is A Massive Own-Goal | News Round-Up
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, Trump orders a resumption to nuclear testing - a move that would have major global consequences, and apparently he ...
Trump Just Lost The Trade War With China
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump's much-anticipated summit with China's Xi Jinping has confirmed what was already obvious to all but the most MAGA-faithful - Trump los...
Did Bill Gates Just Make A Shocking Admission On Climate Change?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Headlines are on all the major news sites - Bill Gates just did a major u-turn on climate change. He now says it's NOT the end of the world. He says t...
Trump Wants A Third Term - Why That Could Go Badly Wrong For Him
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We know that Trump would LOVE to run for a third term - not least because he keeps telling us so. And now some of his people, such as Steve Bannon, ar...
Trump Dances In Malaysia - But China Is Not Impressed
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has arrived in Malaysia for his tour of Southeast Asia. Pausing in Malaysia only to do some embarrassing dancing and signing supposed ...
The Real Reason Trump Pulled Canada Trade Deal | News Round-Up
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week - Trump declares sanctions against the two biggest Russian oil companies - will it finally push China and India away...
Top Generals Are Turning On Trump And Hegseth
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, in service of President Trump, is on a mission to de-wokify the US armed forces. Well, okay. But what else? The top...
How America’s Fake Free Speech Is Poisoning The West
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump's America is making a thing out of lecturing its allies about the importance of free speech. And yet while doing this, they spread tox...
The Summit Is OFF And America's Allies Make Clear They Don’t Trust Trump
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The planned second summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin is suddenly off - following the realisation that Russia has no intention of negot...
Revealed: Trump Demanded Ukraine SURRENDER In Zelensky Meeting
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We knew that Trump had been somewhat swayed by Russia's Vladimir Putin in their phone call last Thursday, but it has just been revealed today just how...
Trump FURIOUS As World Ignores His Threats Over UN Climate Move
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is used to getting his way - with just about anyone (except possibly Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping). In particular, he's used to bein...
Trump vs China - The Rest Of The World Is Caught In The Crossfire
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Trump was being treated as an all-conquering hero in the Middle East, he had hanging over him the one fight he just realised he can't win - his ...
What Happens To US Democracy If MAGA Loses In 2028?
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's say that the 2028 Presidential Election goes ahead, and Trump has imploded over the course of his term, so that regardless of their various atte...
China’s Stark Warning To Trump And The West | News Round-Up
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, China stuns the West and infuriates Trump by expanding its tight control over more of its rare earth minerals - wit...
Trump’s Gaza Peace Deal Is Made Ridiculous By Hubris
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It may only be the first part that will be implemented, but even so the Trump peace deal for Gaza represents - against all the odds - a real breakthro...
Trump Shows EU That His Trade Deals Are Worthless
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US / EU trade deal was always tricky - within hours of it being signed the two sides were giving radically different interpretations of what it co...
Macron’s France Is Collapsing - And This Is Just The Start
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
French President Emmanuel Macron's fifth prime minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned after just a couple of weeks in post, as it became obvious that the...
What A Judge’s Burning House Says About Political Violence in America
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump administration recently, and got numerous death threats for her pains. Two days ago, her house burned do...
The World Plays ‘Fantasy Trump Peace Deal’ In Gaza
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump 20-point peace deal for Gaza has been welcomed by all the people worldwide who routinely flatter Trump at every opportunity - but also by ot...
Putin SIDELINES Trump On Ukraine | News Round-Up
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, while testing Europe with drones, Russia's President Putin gives a major speech where he makes a substantial pivot ...
Leaked Email Has Farmers FURIOUS On Trump’s Argentina Bailout
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had his email read by a cameraman with a zoom lens, and it exposed the fury going on behind the scenes over President...
US Military Discovers It Is Led BY IDIOTS
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Hegseth insisted on bringing together the very top brass of all the US military into one room so he could ... lecture them on grooming. And the W...
Is MAGA Cruelty Becoming America's Face To The World?
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ryder Cup made headlines this weekend - because the MAGA crowd barracked the opposing team, hurled abuse at the players, offensive insults at thei...
Why MAGA Gets Away With Blatant Lying And Hypocrisy
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When President Trump and Stephen Miller argue that heated rhetoric encourages political violence, you might think it is a fair comment point of view. ...
Trump's Shock Indictment of Former FBI Boss Comey | News Round-Up
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, we cover the Trump DOJ move at last to put into practice the boss's public instructions to get an indictment. Even ...
Why Trump’s Huge Pivot On Ukraine Is Not What It Seems
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After his big moment berating the United Nations, President Trump met with President Zelensky and had things to say on the Ukraine war that nobody was...
Kimmel Returns - But This Is Just The Start
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just when it looked like the Trump Administration could just demand whatever it wanted and all the institutions, all the corporations, all the politic...
The Terrifying Future Of AI-Powered Digital Surveillance
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know about China's surveillance state - it's pretty terrifying, but it was built more or less from the ground up to suit the authoritarians. Ev...
Did Trump Just Make The Misstep That Will Bring Him Down?
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Charlie Kirk memorial today marked the inflection point that MAGA believes the event of his assassination represented. As a result, the administra...
How Trump Is Going Full Out To Stay In Power | News Round-Up
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week - In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Trump team has been acting quickly on its intended crackdown...
Why The Jimmy Kimmel Firing Crosses A HUGE Red Line
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we already anticipated, the aftermath of the shooting of Charlie Kirk is seeing a wave of increasingly audacious action by the Trump Administration...
Has The World Really Given Up On Climate Change?
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the COP30 climate conference approaches, it's hard to ignore that a backlash against climate policy - and a scepticism in some quarters about clima...
How Dark Is The Trump Crackdown Going To Get?
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump Administration is full of talk about the crackdown they will be bringing in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. President Tr...
How China Is Making Trump Squirm On Tariffs
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US and Xi Jinping's China have been conducting more trade talks - and today it was announcement that maybe they'd reached a deal ... on TikTok. Me...
Q&A: Is It Time For Europe To Give Up On Trump?
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Q&A video I cover Europe giving up on expecting Trump to play a part in Ukraine peace process, predictions for our polarised societies - is th...
Will Trump Get His Far-Reaching Retribution? | News Round-Up
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week for Friday September 12th 2025 - The fall-out from the assassination of Charlie Kirk continues, and the Trump team a...
America's Downward Spiral With Political Violence
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk has jolted America, but seems unlikely to provide the crisis moment that shocks the country awake to its cata...
Putin Tests NATO With A Dangerous Escalation
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia sent a number of drones into Poland - the first major incursion into NATO territory that Russia has made in recent times. This provoked NATO fo...
JD Vance's Shocking Take On Venezuela Boat Attack
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concerns about the Trump Administration's summary execution of eleven people in a boat in international waters off Venezuela - alleged to be gang ...
The Terrible Habit The World Is Picking Up From Trump
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The stoics would tell you that you can't control what happens to you in the world, you can only control how you respond to it. Well, it turns out that...
What Should Brits Do About Trump's State Visit?
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is coming to the UK in ten days time. And not just for any old visit, but for a 'very special' and 'unprecedented' second state visit. All the p...
Huge Trump Pivot On China Flagged By Leaked Document
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We'd already picked up that Trump's America wanted to pull resources from Europe and the Middle East with a view to concentrating its full focus on it...
Trump Sides With Putin Against Europe | News Round-Up
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, Trump sides with Putin in blaming European leaders for his frustrations about the lack of progress in ending the Uk...
Why MAGA Thinks The UK Has A Free Speech Problem
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The leader of Reform UK and best bud of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, testified to Congress yesterday and told Americans that the UK has a free speech c...
Trump’s Impotent Fury As China Exploits His Mistakes
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China has been hosting an economic summit that brought together Russia, Indian and numerous other countries from the global south. And then it topped ...
International Tourists Avoiding Trump’s America
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in May, we saw the numbers of visitors to the United States plummeting in the wake of President Trump's attacks on most countries in the world wi...
If Trump Went Early, America Faces a Techno-MAGA Dictatorship
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of people have been speculating this weekend that maybe Trump has been out of sight because his health isn't good. That all seems overblown, but ...
Trump’s Presidency Is In Chaos After Tariffs Struck Down
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If anything has defined Donald Trump's second term as president, it is his use of tariffs to bully the world into giving the US highly unequal trade d...
The World Is Turning On Trump's America | News Round-Up
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this news round-up of the week, countries are forming common-interest groups across the world to find ways to reduce their exposure to Trump's Amer...
How Trump Is Making Billions From Being President
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You're not supposed to be able to use the Presidency of the United States in order to enrich yourself. Indeed, previous presidents provoked controvers...
Trump’s Spies Caught Out In Greenland Takeover Plot
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We knew that Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had directed spies to go into Greenland as part of a covert influence operation. ...
How Trump Is Fixing America's Elections So MAGA Never Loses
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We know all about some of the very public moves - gerrymandering in Texas, for instance. But across multiple measures - many of which are hidden in pl...