News - Nasser Hospital Bombing, Trump’s Eyes on Venezuela, India Tariffs

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now to skip the ads! Danny and Derek get in one last news update before Danny moves to an undisclosed American Prestige satellite campus. This week: In Israel-Palestine, the IPC formally declares a famine in Gaza (3:21), Israel bombs Nasser Hospital (6:34), and Trump hosts a White House “day after” meeting (13:25); Europe moves to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran (16:16); Trump’s 50% tariff on Indian goods goes into effect (12:04); changes to de minimis rules force postal services to suspend US-bound shipments (27:23); South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung visits DC and avoids the Zelensky treatment (29:45); in Sudan, RSF forces advance around Al-Fashir (33:15) as an Anne Applebaum Atlantic article sparks outrage (35:43); peace talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23 finally resume (38:36); Trump promises Ukraine continued security help, but there is still no end to the war in sight (39:50); the Danish government summons a US diplomat over Greenland (44:23); Trump might be preparing to oust Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro (47:00); and the Pentagon is interested in an AI propaganda tool (50:42). Danny on Hasan Piker’s show Derek and Eleanor Jangea on The Majority Report The AP Discord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at AmericanPrestigepod.com.
0:08.3	Find the link in our show notes.
0:11.0	Hello, everyone. It's Derek. We here at American Prestige. We're very happy to announce that we've been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Signal Awards in the category of news and politics. This is pretty cool.
0:23.4	It puts us up against some pretty big shows like Pod Save America and the weekly show with
0:29.8	John Stewart. So we're pretty excited to be in this group. Now, there are two components to this.
0:36.0	There's a judged award that we'll find out if we
0:39.3	won or came in second or third place. I think they do a gold, silver bronze thing on October 15th.
0:45.6	But in the meantime, there's also a listener's choice element to this or a listener's choice
0:50.6	award that goes along with this. And that's where you guys come in.
0:59.1	We would love for you to vote for the show and help us beat these bigger shows,
1:01.2	the Pod Save Americas of the world.
1:04.0	So all you have to do is go to vote.
1:05.9	Dot Signal Award.com.
1:07.3	Signal award is all one word.
1:10.9	Click on the categories menu, select news and politics, and that's where you'll find us, and please vote for us. Or you can simply click the link that you will find in the show
1:16.8	notes. Again, we would really like to win this. It's not a huge, not going to make or break the show,
1:21.5	but it would be really cool, and especially the listener's choice component, because I think
1:26.5	that really means something.
1:29.6	So please do that.
1:31.2	And as always, thanks for your support for the show,
1:33.5	and please enjoy the episode.
1:38.6	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
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