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The Bulwark Podcast

Mike Murphy: We’re Living in a Nightmare

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Trump is taking billion dollar bribes for his ‘Board of Peace,’ where he can pretend he’ll be the head of a new world order in partnership with Putin. He’s also looking for his next foreign policy adventure since he didn’t get any mileage with Greenland or Iran. And he’s acting like socialist-fascist Juan Perón—taking stakes in U.S. companies while continuing to sic the American gestapo on the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, a handful of House Dems took a bad vote to fund DHS. Plus, the latest in the annals of unlikeable JD, Gavin’s trolling of MAGA has served him well, Trump is no friend to the domestic auto industry, CEOs are so short-sighted, and Kash Patel is a total clown.

Mike Murphy joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

0:14.8

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

0:15.9

Delighted to welcome back a veteran political strategist of McCain-Schwartzenegger, Romney Jeb, and many others.

0:20.7

He's a co-host

0:21.4

of Hacks on Tap, co-director of the Center for Political Future at USC. He runs the American

0:26.5

EV Jobs Alliance, and he's coming to us, from E. Quality Inn in Fresno or Bakersfield.

0:34.2

It's Mike Murphy. Well, don't tell him, Tim. I'm on the run from the Trump Peace Committee. It looked like a war crimes RICO case when I saw who he's lined up for that damn thing. But yeah, I'm moving quick here. I got in the blinds drawn there in that motel. I am so far off the grid. There's no grid. But anyway, it's great to be on a fantastic podcast. I'm good to see you, pal.

0:55.4

Man, good to have you back. I just noticed this is by accident. We do this every five months. I went to look at our old Murphy interviews. It's like five months ago, 10 months ago. So we have a little every, you know, almost half year. We have a little date. I guess I just kind of want to hear you cook in general in Trump's Davos

1:10.9

performance. The whole thing.

1:13.0

I mean, we menaced Greenland and then back little date. I guess I just kind of want to hear you cook in general on Trump's Davos performance.

1:11.9

The whole thing, I mean, we menaced Greenland and then back down and got nothing. He's,

1:17.0

I think, creating an alternate UN of only countries that are in the Russian sphere of influence.

1:24.6

It's unbelievable. It just, it's, we're right in, it's strange lovey and, you know, no fighting in the war room. Now the board of peace. All right, you guys wash the blood off your hands and report to the photo up. I was doing some research on some of the countries. I didn't know a whole lot. I was like, what's happening in who's Becky, Becky, Becky Stan lately? And it seems like human rights violations is what's happening there.

1:45.2

And in most of the countries that are on the board of peace.

1:48.3

This is a very old poll for your senior citizen tunes. But there used to be a fantastic political

1:54.7

cartoonist named Jeff McNally for the Chicago trip. And in the Carter era, he did all these great UN cartoons.

2:02.3

And he was kind of a conservative.

2:03.8

And he'd draw the UN and says,

2:05.5

rogues gallery of guys with a frying pan on their head.

2:09.5

And that came to mind when I saw these jokers.

2:13.8

You know, the whole thing.

2:14.7

Did you see the Turkish minister that kind of looked like Hitler that was behind?

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