David Ignatius: Trump is stuck somewhere between war and peace
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. State Department is introducing a special edition passport that features an image of Donald Trump. |
| 0:05.5 | So you'll always carry your reminder of why you fled the country. |
| 0:11.0 | Also, I love that the picture of Trump is apparently burning a hole in the declaration of independent. |
| 0:19.7 | The timing, right? Anyway, good morning and welcome to a morning show. It's Monday, May the |
| 0:26.4 | Fourth. Star Wars Day, may the Fourth be with you, of course, yesterday. A celebration all |
| 0:33.3 | over the world for Willie Geist's Day. It was Willie's birthday on Sunday and Mika's on Saturday. |
| 0:41.7 | We went to see some horses race somewhere in the South. With us today we have on May the 4th. |
| 0:51.3 | Co-hosts of our 9 a.m. hour staff writer at the Atlantic John Lamere columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post, David Ignatius. |
| 0:58.3 | We had senior writer at the dispatch and columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, David Drucker, |
| 1:02.4 | and co-host of The Rest is Politics podcast on the BBC or the BBC's Katty Kay. |
| 1:10.7 | Everybody thanks so much for being with this. |
| 1:12.9 | John Lemire, the Force, definitely not with our Red Sox. |
| 1:19.8 | And, oh, my, I didn't. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:24.7 | I forgot. |
| 1:25.8 | I forgot about the Celtics. |
| 1:27.3 | I should not have even brought up sports. |
| 1:29.4 | We should have gone straight to horses. I did not do that on purpose, but once the door was opened and I saw you crumble, let's just go there. |
| 1:40.4 | First of all, really the worst Red Sox team I can remember. They fired the wrong |
| 1:49.0 | person and the people in the organization. Then, of course, last night, heartbreak for the Celtics. |
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