Do Dems have to sound like Trump to beat him?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We start with the fallout from the unorthodox, perhaps undignifying diplomatic spectacle at the White House earlier this week. We are a million miles away from any peace deal in Ukraine, let alone any concrete shape of the 'security guarantees' Donald Trump has suggested may hypothetically be offered by the US in the event that Europe puts boots on the ground in Ukraine. And yet, already, prominent MAGA voices are coming forward to sound the alarm about American involvement in another foreign war. What do those warnings mean for how Donald Trump confronts the most pressing global crisis?
Later, Gavin Newsom has clearly irritated the President - and Fox News - with his social media imitation of Donald Trump. He's started TWEETING IN ALL CAPS!! and thanking followers for their attention to this matter. It's a novel approach, and does appear to have boosted his personal ratings as speculation heightens that he's eyeing up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Is it effective? Or is it just a bit cringey? And is he mocking Trump? Or imitating him?
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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 just want to end it. I want to end it. You know, we're not losing American lives. We're not losing American soldiers. We're losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers, some people as |
| 0:23.0 | missiles hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev in towns. But, you know, if I can |
| 0:30.3 | save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty, I want to try and get to |
| 0:36.0 | heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing |
| 0:38.1 | well. I hear really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of |
| 0:44.3 | the reasons. There we were, thinking that Trump was trying to solve the Ukraine war for a Nobel |
| 0:49.8 | Peace Prize. In fact, he had something more existential on his mind, those pearly gates, the one bit of |
| 0:57.4 | real estate he'd really like to get his hands on. But the problem he's got is that as he moves a bit |
| 1:04.8 | towards Europe and start saying things like security guarantees and helping the peace. |
| 1:11.7 | So the MAGA movement hits back and says, |
| 1:15.1 | No, we want to stay out of the forever wars. |
| 1:19.2 | How does Donald Trump square this circle? |
| 1:23.1 | Heaven and hell. |
| 1:24.5 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:32.8 | Music and hell. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:34.7 | And you always think that the division that Donald Trump has is that on the one side he's got Putin wanting one thing. |
| 1:41.2 | And on the other side, you've got Zelensky and Europe wanting something else. |
| 1:45.8 | You've also got Maga, the Maga base, the base of people, the core of support for Donald Trump |
| 1:53.1 | who voted for him to end the forever wars. And any time that Donald Trump says anything, |
| 2:04.6 | which looks like the merest scintilla of a movement towards American involvement, there is a shuddering reaction from those people saying, |
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