Welcome to bombshell from War on the Rocks. This is our first episode of the Trump administration. I'm Aaron Simpson. I'm Rada Aingar. I'm Lauren D. Young-Shulman. And I would say that we have lots to talk about.

I think that's great.

I haven't slept in like nine years, I think, from all the things we have to talk about.

I'm so excited.

This is supposed to be an every other week podcast, where this could be an every other day podcast at this point in the news cycle. I could call you guys at 2 a.m. every night and say, can we do a new podcast literally right now?

Because my tweets are smoking.

It's true.

You're getting some serious retweet action out of that.

Rata has some institutional...

I'm learning about the Twitters.

Perrogatives, which reminds me, we should say that none of us here speak for our employers.

I guess technically

I speak for my employer because I am my employer but neither Rada nor Lauren are speaking on behalf

of any institutional prerogatives broader than their awesome selves for which they thank God

every day so don't get us in trouble as we walk through the last two weeks worth of news from our nation's capital.

The first segment we're going to do is we want to talk a little bit about things happening not in the United States as best we can.

I'll be honest, it took us a little bit of effort to come up with some useful topics for this segment, which we're calling Keeping Up Foreign Relations,

you know, communicating. We've had one foreign visit in the last few days from Theresa May,

where we discovered potentially President Trump is afraid of walking downstairs in slopes.

We've had a canceled visit from the Mexican president who sort of in protest of this discussion of the wall and

the Mexican government paying for the wall. But I want to go into the way, way back machine to two

weeks ago to this build interview that they did. It was with the German newspaper Dust Build

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