And, This Is How The World Looks At Us Under Trump With Ian Bremmer
This is Gavin Newsom
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Governor Gavin Newsom sits down with Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, founder of GZEROMedia, and one of the most influential geopolitical analysts in the world. Together they assess whether the United States is still seen as a reliable global partner.
Bremmer breaks down how President Trump is reshaping alliances, why U.S. foreign policy feels increasingly improvisational, and how adversaries like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exploit American dysfunction.
They also examine the administration’s Middle East strategy, whether the U.S. is quietly pursuing regime change in Venezuela and whether our fear of Artificial Intelligence can be solved by good political leadership.
00:00 — Is the U.S. Still a Reliable Ally?
06:31 — Does Trump Actually Have a Foreign Policy?
13:11 — MBS, Saudi Arabia, and That White House Meeting
19:22 — Should Trump Get More Credit in the Middle East?
25:38 — China’s Strategy: Xi Believes He Can Manage Trump
32:04 — Why This Administration Seems to Have It Out for Canada
38:48 — Are We Quietly Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela?
41:55 — The Trump – Putin Relationship Isn’t Working
48:53 — JD Vance & the NATO Breakdown
53:36 — How the World Actually Sees the U.S. Right Now
1:00:57 — American Corruption Is Now on Full Display
1:04:38 — Can Capitalism Save or Destroy AI?
1:08:50 — What The Epstein Files Really Tell Us
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| 0:00.0 | The fact that Trump wants to fundamentally change the U.S. political system, so there are no longer |
| 0:06.8 | checks and balances on his presidency. My principal enemies are inside the house. They almost |
| 0:13.3 | tried to kill me. It was this close. Reality has punched him in the face. I think that what |
| 0:18.6 | Epstein represents to Americans are these assholes |
| 0:22.6 | can get away with anything. Coming up next on, this is Gavin Newsom. I just sat down with |
| 0:27.5 | Ian Brenner, the founder and president of the Eurasia group, started GZero Media. It's a fancy way of saying, |
| 0:33.6 | a world leading expert on geopolitical risk, on politics, on business and its intersection. |
| 0:41.3 | And of course this week highlighted by the visit of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, |
| 0:46.3 | there's so much to discuss around the world. We are living in the trend lines that define this moment |
| 0:52.3 | and what to expect in the future. |
| 0:56.7 | This is Gavin Newsom. |
| 0:59.5 | And this is Ian Bremer. |
| 1:03.5 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:05.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 1:08.6 | Ian Brenner, it's good to be with you. |
| 1:09.3 | Good to be with you, Gavin. |
| 1:10.2 | Where were you? |
| 1:11.1 | We're in San Francisco. |
| 1:11.6 | Yes. |
| 1:12.8 | You made it all the way out west. |
| 1:13.3 | I did. Are you a product of East Coast? What are you doing out here in the West? Yeah, I grew up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, just outside Boston. I live in New York now. All right. And I like it. I do like it. Do you like it on? |
| 1:24.4 | You can't move me out. |
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