Inside Trump’s war on the cartels
Americano
The Spectator
4 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has launched a new ‘war on drugs’ – this time targeting Mexico’s cartels. Ben Domenech joins Freddy Gray to explain why MAGA has embraced the fight, what it means for US–Mexico relations, and how it could shape Trump’s foreign policy in his second term.
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| 0:52.8 | Hello and welcome back to the Americano show, where we talk about power, politics and prejudices in American life. |
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| 1:13.7 | Please keep listening and watching. Today we are going to be talking about Trump's drug war because the latest edition of The Spectator in America is Trump's drug war. |
| 1:22.9 | Maga has found the military conflict at once, says Ben Dominic. And I was very amused. |
| 1:28.8 | I think Ben was amused too to see the reaction to this on Twitter when we posted on Twitter. |
| 1:33.8 | It went semi-viral, I think we could say. |
| 1:38.0 | A lot of people, a lot of MAGA supporters, Trump supporters, |
| 1:42.1 | thought that we had sort of self-owned in some spectacular way. |
| 1:45.5 | They seemed to think that the spectator was some very anti-Trump magazine that had accidentally |
| 1:50.3 | done a beautiful bit of Trump propaganda. |
| 1:53.6 | When the truth is, actually, we don't do Trump propaganda and we don't do anti-Trump |
| 1:58.5 | propaganda. |
| 1:59.5 | We just try and make interesting editions of our |
| 2:03.5 | great magazine. Ben, first of all, did you see some of this reaction? I think you did. We discussed |
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