Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
For nearly 50 years, since the Ayatollah seized power in Iran and took Americans hostage, the U.S. has known that the regime could single-handedly shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Trump was reportedly warned of this threat, but the failed casino owner blew it off. And now Iran unilaterally controls 20% of the world’s oil supply and an even higher percentage of the fertilizer inventory. But the former vice president tells Tim that Trump’s judgment has been even worse on climate change. On the 20th anniversary of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore discusses how the rest of the global economy has ‘miraculously’ responded to the climate threat. He also gives high marks to Mamdani, explains Trump’s use of fear, shares details about his relationship with Clinton—and how his actions after the 2000 election inspired Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
Former Vice President Al Gore joins Tim Miller.
show notes
- Gore’s climate change training in Nashville in May
- More on Gore’s “Climate Reality Project”
- Tim’s ‘Bulwark Take’ with Ezra Levin on Saturday’s “No Kings” protests
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| 0:30.7 | I'm your host, Tim Miller. |
| 0:31.8 | Could not be more excited about today's guest. |
| 0:34.1 | He is marking the 20th anniversary of his Oscar-winning documentary, an inconvenient truth, |
| 0:39.6 | which raised awareness about climate change and led to the founding of the Climate Reality Project, |
| 0:44.6 | which will be holding leadership trainings to mark the anniversary coming up soon, including in Nashville, |
| 0:50.8 | where he will be. It's, of course, the former vice president of these United States, Al Gore. A strange world that led us here, sir, but I really appreciate it. Can I call you Al? |
| 0:59.1 | What are you going? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that works. Yeah, and Tim, thank you for having me |
| 1:03.8 | on with you. I've followed your work with great interest and growing enthusiasm. Thank you for what you're doing. And it's an honor for me to be with you today. I appreciate that. I don't know. My former boss, Jeb, has got to be looking at this going. I don't know what happened. I don't know. I don't know what. But I love that we come to this place. I appreciate the reminder and the work. I want to start with get to climate then we're obviously going to get to the news before we do that like just in |
| 1:30.3 | case I lost you I feel absolutely compelled though to start with one personal item of personal |
| 1:35.6 | privilege there was some rumors that you are the heroic tank man recently when Howard |
| 1:41.2 | not like was speaking at a recent conference and you were you are booing him. |
| 1:45.0 | You were a solo booer. And I want to play for you his rendition of what happened on Fox News. |
| 1:51.0 | Basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the |
| 2:02.5 | end. Then I gave a three-minute talk. And I just talked about my op-ed. And at the end of my talk, |
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