Allies Hesitate, Japan Reacts… Trump Doubles Down
The Mary Trump Podcast
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Mary Trump Live Thursday: Donald meets Japan’s prime minister amid rising Iran war tensions, as energy strikes escalate, allies hesitate, and new questions emerge about intelligence, military strategy, and the administration’s handling of the conflict.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald claimed not to know about the Israeli strike on Iran's largest gas fields, the South |
| 0:20.0 | Pars gas fields. |
| 0:22.0 | So once again, the commander-in-chief of the United States military is saying he doesn't know what's going on in the very war he started. |
| 0:36.1 | Let's dive it. Let's dive it. Hello, everybody, and welcome to this evening's episode of Mary Trump Live. |
| 0:58.6 | It is great to be here with you. |
| 1:00.0 | There is a lot going on. |
| 1:03.6 | So let's start with the meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Sanai Takhiichi, |
| 1:13.2 | who met with Donald in the White House today to reaffirm the U.S.-Japan alliance. |
| 1:16.4 | Even his tension surfaced over Japan's not joining his push |
| 1:19.9 | to help secure the strait-formos |
| 1:21.5 | during the Iranian conflict. |
| 1:24.6 | Just for context, |
| 1:27.0 | the Japanese prime minister is very right-wing. |
| 1:31.2 | So she had Donald have a thing or two in common. |
| 1:34.8 | Anyway, Takiichi emphasized Japan's opposition to Iran's nuclear program and appealed directly to Donald's self-image as a peacemaker, |
| 1:43.9 | telling him that she believed he was the one |
| 1:46.6 | who could bring peace globally, despite the ongoing war? Hmm, let me think of an analogy here. |
| 1:55.1 | That's kind of like my saying, I am going to be the emperor of eradicating childhood diseases while making it impossible for people to get access to vaccines. |
| 2:08.6 | Now, again, she's politically aligned with him, so it's very possible that she's just, she believes this, in which case, I apologize, Japan, you're in trouble. |
| 2:21.8 | Or, just like almost everybody else on the planet, she has figured out the best way to manipulate |
| 2:28.5 | this man into getting what she wants. |
| 2:31.4 | There were visible signs of discomfort during the meeting, especially as reporters |
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