News - Lebanon Ceasefire, Orbán Loses Hungarian Election, Trump Prepares Cuba Incursion

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Subscribe now to get lots of bonus content (and no ads). Danny and Derek are considering attending the Met Gala. In this week’s news: Iran talks amble along despite U.S. forces building up in the region (1:55); the U.S. blockade restricts oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz (9:49); Lebanon and Israel declare a 10-day ceasefire (12:23); Hamas meets U.S. officials in Cairo to advance the talks over Gaza (19:37); Iraq’s parliament elects Nizar Ahmed as president (21:52); Sudan’s war enters its fourth year as Berlin pledges aid (25:21); Libya’s rival governments approve a joint national budget (27:20); Hungary’s opposition defeats Viktor Orbán in parliamentary elections (30:28); Britain suspends the Chagos handover after Trump objects (33:39); Peru’s election continues into a second day and heads to a runoff (36:39); Trump and J.D. Vance feud with Pope Leo over the Iran war (39:39), leading Italian PM Giorgia Meloni to distance herself from Trump (43:49); and the Trump administration prepares military plans for an operation in Cuba (46:17). Check out our Marx Prestige miniseries— new episodes drop on Tuesdays! And join our Discord. Subscribers get access to all channels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige.
0:02.7	To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com.
0:08.3	Find the link in our show notes.
0:13.0	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
0:18.7	That's conversation between your soul. And then now. Hello, Hello, Prestige Head
0:22.6	and
0:23.6	Nick
0:24.6	David
0:26.6	and we are
0:27.6	excited to bring you the news. Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always,
0:37.7	my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson, and we are excited to bring you the news. But before we do
0:42.3	some quick housekeeping, wanted to call out our Discord yet again. It is heating up. We've got a lot
0:48.0	of people join in the last month. I don't know why something must have happened. But go to
0:52.5	AmericanPrestigepod.com, and on our
0:54.9	webpage, there should be a link to the Discord. Also, don't forget to check out Mark's
0:59.7	prestige, our new series with the historian Andrew Hartman at Mark's Prestigepod.com. And once again,
1:06.5	I am imploring you. I am getting down on my hands and knees, not literally, but figuratively,
1:11.9	to ask you to review us on Apple. It really does help the show. And when we got a bunch of
1:16.7	reviews, when I asked everyone about a year ago, I guess, it really did help us. So if you could take
1:21.8	a moment to do that, that would be great. And of course, don't forget to subscribe at either the
1:26.3	monthly or annual tiers at our website.
1:30.3	All right, Derek, let's jump in and let's of course start with Iran.
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