Michael Weiss: Iran Is Not Likely to Forget about the War
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Iranian regime may be wounded, but it’s likely to seek revenge for the war at some point, maybe even through sleeper cells in the United States. And with a second round of peace negotiations potentially in the works, Iran could rake in billions in return for pausing its nuclear program. On the more uplifting side, the election news out of Hungary has feel-good shades of 1989, and is a reminder that reality and facts can get in the way of a stubborn authoritarian. Plus, Tim on Trump's Jesus post and how he's losing political allies by the minute.
Michael Weiss once again joins Tim Miller.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bollard podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We are going deep on foreign policy today with one of our faves. But before we get there, a few housekeeping notes. |
| 0:22.6 | And I got to rant a little bit about Trump's bleats. We've got to do a little bit on Trump's |
| 0:27.0 | bleats. Okay. I go on vacation. Trump bleats that he's Jesus. I can't ignore it. I can't ignore it. |
| 0:33.9 | The first on the notes. We have our live shows coming up another round of live shows |
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| 1:01.8 | We're working on some fun special guests. Sarah is going to be there with me. Sam, |
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| 1:12.5 | And speaking of Sarah, also reminder, tuesday nights we get the next level podcast me sarah and jvl coming out uh we're gonna have |
| 1:17.8 | a whole show on trump's disintegration how about disintegration let's do that we're gonna we're gonna do |
| 1:25.0 | a whole show on that so if you want an hour on that, |
| 1:28.5 | go check out the next level. But here's two minutes. My buddy Harry Sisson posted an analysis of Trump's |
| 1:34.4 | bleats on Sunday night. I was watching Carol G. Why this happened. So I didn't get to do it. So I appreciate |
| 1:40.1 | Harry. And I'm going to read this for you. Here's what Trump was posting and the timestamp. |
| 1:46.2 | 9.49 p.m. He posts the AI Jesus photo, which we're going to get back to. Trump is Jesus with what |
| 1:53.1 | appears to be a demon over his head. 950, a Trump Tower on the moon. 10.10, he posts a meme. 1032, a news clip, 1053 a news clip. |
| 2:05.0 | 1243 a.m. He announces the Hormuz blockade, which we're going to talk about with Michael |
| 2:10.9 | Weiss. 2.35 a.m. he posts about Joe Biden. 236, another article on the naval blockade. |
| 2:19.2 | 237, he posts about Eric Swalwell. |
| 2:21.8 | 237, he reposts that article about Biden. |
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