Need to Know: Does Trump Have a Special Talent for the Middle East?

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Original Air Date for Members: May 22, 2025 Trump’s grand tour of the Middle East is over. So how did it go? Trump seems to have a knack for diplomacy in the region, but there’s more to the story. Steven Cook from the Council on Foreign Relations joins David Rothkopf to break down the President’s trip and why the Trump brand of diplomacy is so unique in its successes and failures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.8	Hello and welcome to one of DSR's weekly deep dives that we call Need to Know. I am David Roscoff, I'm your host,
1:32.1	and I am joined today by someone who is uniquely equipped to talk about one of the issues we
1:38.5	really want to do a deep dive on this week, and that's the Middle East in the wake of the trip
1:43.5	the president just took and given
1:45.4	a lot of the developments that are taking place there right now.
1:49.6	Stephen Cook is the Enrico Machai Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and
1:57.1	director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
2:03.4	at the Council on Foreign Relations.
2:06.1	He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S. Middle East diplomacy.
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