Are world leaders treating Trump like a useful idiot?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has told reporters (several times) that he is “ not thrilled “ by Benjamin Netanyahu's bombing of Hamas targets in Qatar. He’s told Netanyahu it’s “an unfortunate incident “. Just like he’s asked Putin nicely “not to bomb Ukraine“. When is Trump going to realise his words have little effect on either man? He’s failed to stop either war despite coming into office promising to stop them - is he proving once again he’s the TACO president? Is he actually scared of other strong men leaders?
Later, we revisit the story Trump calls a “Democrat hoax “ - his relationship with Epstein now revealed in print form. We talk to the Republican strategist Doug Heye.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm just, I'm not thrilled about the whole situation. It's not a good situation. |
| 0:18.0 | But I will say this, we want the hostages back, but we are not thrilled about |
| 0:24.0 | the way that went down today. In case you missed it, Trump is not thrilled after those Israeli |
| 0:30.1 | strikes on Hamas in Qatar. He's also not thrilled with Putin, who keeps on bombing Ukraine. |
| 0:38.1 | But apart from not being thrilled, what is he actually going to do about it? |
| 0:43.6 | Trump talks the talk on foreign policy and nothing changes. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 0:51.7 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. |
| 0:56.6 | It's John in the New South Wales Bureau. |
| 0:59.7 | As ever. |
| 1:01.2 | And it's Emily in good old Newsagents USA HQ. |
| 1:05.6 | And no one could criticise Donald Trump for a lack of activity in the field of foreign affairs. |
| 1:13.8 | He has met Putin in Alaska and rolled out a red carpet for him. |
| 1:18.2 | He has had his envoy going off to the Middle East. |
| 1:21.9 | He has been involved in what's happening on the India-Pakistan border. |
| 1:27.0 | He's had lots to say about China. |
| 1:29.2 | But what does it all add up to? |
| 1:31.8 | And in the past 24 hours, I think you'd have to say, not very much. |
| 1:36.9 | What has he achieved? |
| 1:38.3 | Probably zero. |
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