174. Trump’s Iran Deadline: Will They Call His Bluff?
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Is Trump’s profanity-laden deadline for Iran a genuine threat or political theater?
Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the f***ing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. Happy Easter, Anthony.
Okay, happy Easter. So you're in Virginia. You're going to Easter mass. You're in a MAGA area.
MAGA-ish. There's definitely some Trump supporters.
They're not upset with the tweet. They're just upset with the timing, right?
With the language on Easter Sunday. So yeah, I spent the weekend out in Virginia. I sat in church listening to a sermon all about love and sacrifice and resurrection on this holiest of Christian days. And in the back of my mind was Donald Trump with a profanity-laden tweet that he put out on Sunday morning with this new deadline. And it's interesting because the reaction that I've heard has been less about the actual tweet because I think people realize that Donald Trump sends out posts like this now and changes his mind and now they have to open the straight again. But The timing of it, putting it out on Easter Sunday as people are getting ready to go to church, I think has been shocking even to Trump supporters around the country.
Can I say one little story quickly before we get to your reaction?
Yeah, go ahead.
Way back in 2017, in the very beginning of the Trump administration, I was talking to my mom on the phone one day, I'd say about 10 days into the Trump administration, and a certain director of communication has used a profanity to a journalist. And I remember saying to my mom, can you believe what this director of communications has said? And this journalist has reported it. And it was a... And my mum being very shocked, and that was you. And that was mild by comparison with what we're in now. A different planet of expletives.
I still think it was like one of the funniest things that's ever been said from the White House.
Well, you shocked Shirley Kay, I can tell you.
And I know your mom is now past, Katty, which I'm sorry about, but I will say to you, okay, that I was right about Steve Bannon. I will maintain that for the rest of my life. Okay, that asshole.
This is The Rest Is Politics US. I'm Katty Kay with Anthony Scaramucci.
How did Trump’s Easter Sunday post land with supporters and the public?
Today we are going to be talking all about Iran, the president's options now that he's put this Truth Social out. and the rescue of the airmen and what that means, but really looking at, I think, what we can see in the next few days and what might be coming up.
Let's talk about this, because our buddies at Fox News, like Sean Hannity, this is 19-D chess, and this is all about peace, and you people set your hair on fire, and Trump is the man.
He's been on the- And he's done it deliberately. It's all part of the negotiation.
Yes, he's been on the world stage for 11 years, and all of you are predictably running around with your hair on fire. But you did ask me my reaction. And my reaction is that he should be removed from office. That's my reaction. My reaction is that any normal group of people, the British government, if Keir Starmer was talking like that, his own party would seek removal from office. If Macron talked like that, they'd look around and say, okay, there's mental illness afoot. You have to remove the person from office. And so... In the United States, because the way the thing is set up, there were a lot of customs as opposed to delineated rules, and so now he's broken most of the norms and broken most of the customs, but generally what he's doing and what he's saying
I think it's just ridiculous. And for those people out there that have said that he's playing 4D or 19G chess, I would just tell those people that confusing, unpredictable nonsense coming out of the Trump mouth, which is basically the entire strategy for the American world, war plans because our adversaries are looking around saying, oh wow, the Americans have got themselves down to a committee of one where one person is now making these decisions. I'll just point out if he's playing 14 D chess, why are the golf allies running around
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Is Trump’s profanity-laden deadline for Iran a genuine threat or political theater?
0:08–2:41
2
How did Trump’s Easter Sunday post land with supporters and the public?
2:41–13:41
3
Could targeting Iranian infrastructure be considered a war crime and what would the consequences be?
13:41–38:42
4
What realistic military escalation options does the President have in the next 48 hours?
38:42–41:39
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