105. How Putin is Playing Trump

The Rest Is Politics: US

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What does Trump really want from Putin? Will the Alaska summit end the war in Ukraine? Why has Trump sent the National Guard into Washington DC? Join Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci as they answer all these questions and more. Become a Founding Member: Go deeper into US politics every week with ad-free listening, members-only miniseries, early access to live show tickets and a bonus members-only Q&A podcast every week. Sign up at therestispoliticsus.com For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to ⁠⁠www.goalhanger.com⁠⁠ Instagram: @RestPoliticsUS Twitter: @RestPoliticsUS Email: therestispoliticsus@goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley Producer: Fiona Douglas Video Editor: Kieron Leslie Social Producer: Charlie Johnson Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Head of Digital: Sam Oakley Exec Producers: Tony Pastor, Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's fake news out there, ladies and gentlemen.
0:10.0	Let me set the record straight.
0:12.0	There are tremendous amounts of crime, chaos and dysfunction in DC.
0:16.0	The Smithsonian Museum is pushing divisive on American ideas and the job numbers.
0:22.9	Everybody knows this, especially people on Wall Street.
0:25.6	They're coming out of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, totally rigged.
0:30.0	Anthony, Anthony, Anthony, wake up.
0:31.8	Wake up. What's going on?
0:33.3	Wait a minute. That must have been a fever dream, Caddy.
0:35.8	I'm sorry. I thought I was Trump's
0:38.0	2025 comms director. Just kidding. Today, we're going to be diving head first into the ever-expanding
0:44.4	universe of Trump's fake news rhetoric, but first. We're going to talk about what we might expect
0:50.1	from this upcoming summit that is going to happen in Alaska with President Putin on Friday.
0:56.4	I'm going to give you a second to recover from that nightmare that you just lived through, Anthony.
1:00.5	I can see you getting anxious.
1:03.3	I'm sweating, Katie. I'm sweating. I'm sweating. I have my fine. We have forehead sweat.
1:06.4	I'm glistening here. I need cover up. Makeup. Make up. But let's talk about Russia and Putin,
1:12.2	because this is interesting. A lot has happened since you and I last spoke in terms of what's
1:16.6	come out of the White House and the news that we're getting about what they're going to talk about.
1:21.1	We're recording this on Thursday morning. They will be meeting in just over 24 hours time in Anchorage, Alaska at an Air Force base.
1:30.2	The White House has spent the last couple of days quite obviously and dramatically
1:36.1	revising down expectations. A week ago, there was Donald Trump saying he thought he could
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