A Fiasco Wrapped In A Disaster Inside a Catastrophe

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Trump cannot avert a national embarrassment even if he tried. From alienating our closest European allies, to destabilizing the global economy with his attack on Iran, and now to joking about Pearl Harbor to the face of Japan’s Prime Minister - things are only getting worse. Tune in as Norm Ornstein and David Rothkopf reflect on our current state of global affairs and Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:17.2	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third
0:24.2	sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations
0:31.0	across America and around the world.
0:34.8	Hello, and welcome to DSR's Words Matter. I'm David Rothkoff, joined this week as every week
0:40.8	by the man you want to hear from, Norm Ornstein, Savant, Oracle, man who can tell the future.
0:48.8	Norm Ornstein, he said, don't vote for Trump. Look what happened, okay? You see what I'm saying?
0:54.4	Put two and two together.
0:56.0	Norm, the president today greeted the prime minister of Japan in the Oval Office.
1:01.8	Somebody said to the president, hey, Mr. President, why didn't you tell the prime minister
1:07.1	about this?
1:07.8	And the president said, well, you know about surprise. Why didn't you
1:13.6	guys tell me about Pearl Harbor? What a perfect analogy. So there's a big debate on the
1:23.5	internet. Is this worse than when George H.W. Bush threw up in the lap of a Japanese prime
1:29.8	minister, which is more embarrassing? So this is your opportunity. You were there, you were at
1:37.0	Pearl Harbor. What do you think? Yeah, this is more embarrassing. But I do have to tell you one heroic
1:43.0	and related story, which is many years ago when my son Danny was six years old, we went to an AEI World Forum in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
1:58.9	And very high altitude. What a dad.
2:01.7	Yeah.
2:02.6	Very high altitude.
2:04.5	We spent the day hiking around and I clearly was not a good enough dad to give him
2:10.6	enough hydration.
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