173. What Trump's Unhinged War Speech Means for Iran
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Welcome to The Rest Is Politics U.S. with me, Katty Kay, and the very normal Anthony Scaramucci.
Okay, Katty, let's just face it, Katty. I see you laughing.
I'm sorry. We have to get it out in the first minute, and then we're done. Katty.
Some of these, Lindsey Graham, he's down in Disney World. Kristi Noem's husband. I'm just letting you know, every day I'm feeling more and more normal, okay? This is a serious podcast and I'm a serious person, but I just want everybody to know I'm feeling very good about myself. The day after April Fool's, feeling very normal, Katty, compared to MAGA men, Katty.
Okay, if you know, you know, guys, that's all I'm going to say. Is Donald Trump getting desperate? Yesterday, he delivered that 20 minute address from the White House claiming that the war is near completion. Also saying he's going to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age, possibly over the next few weeks. He claimed that Iran is asking for a ceasefire, something Tehran denies. We'll get into this speech that have been built up over the course of about a day in Washington to be a big deal, and I think turned out to be a nothing burger. We'll discuss all of that. And then in the second half of the program, we're going to talk about Donald Trump turning up and terrifying the Supreme Court justices as they heard the case in the 14th Amendment ending birthright citizenship as we know it.
So we'll talk about whether the justices are snowflakes and are going to be intimidated by the first president ever to show up in the Supreme Court while they were hearing a case. So, Anthony, last night, the president gave a primetime address to the nation, 9 p.m. I rushed back from the theater thinking we were either going to have the end of NATO or an immediate withdrawal or the announcement that they were escalating because the White House had been leaking all through the day to reporters here in Washington that either the president was thinking of pulling out of NATO because he's on a rant about NATO or that he was going to pull out and leave the Straits of Hormuz completely. shut and they were done and dusted and getting out of there.
In the end, he spoke for about 20 minutes and I felt didn't really make any news at all. He did say, we're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong, which some people in Washington this morning that I've spoken to have said is a sign that actually we are still possibly going to escalate. And you've got the president saying one thing, which is a kind of jumble of, we went in to end the nuclear program. We've had regime change. We've won. It's all up to the allies. They've been very disappointing. We're going to have a ceasefire. They're begging for a ceasefire while the Iranians are saying, no, they're not actually negotiating. And when pushed, it's not clear who the White House is negotiating with.
So listening to the president last night, I think you would be fine if you're feeling confused about where the White House is going. And at the same time, we still have, as we said on the program earlier this week, tens of thousands of American troops and forces massing in the region. So if you want signal and noise at this stage, guys, I would suggest looking at the signal rather than listening to the noise of the speech last night, which was kind of low energy. He was on prompter, autocue, whatever you call it, which he really doesn't like. But what did you make of the speech? Why have the buildup? I mean, Anthony, if you're going to give a speech to the nation and tell everybody this is going to be a big deal speech and I have to run back from the theater to listen to the speech, why then say nothing?
Power, attention. He really wants your attention. And CBS, now owned by the Ellison family, CBS interrupted Survivor. And so they broke the show into two halves.
If you're interrupting Survivor, that's a big deal.
So Trump's a reality television person. And so when he heard that they were willing to do that for him, he said, hey, we're going to have this speech tonight.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:08–3:58
2
How did Trump's primetime 'war' speech frame possible escalation with Iran?
3:58–10:11
3
Why did hosts call the speech more noise than actionable policy?
10:11–26:53
4
How could the US-Iran conflict benefit Russia and China geopolitically?
26:53–41:44
Speakers
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