Putin’s Puppet Show: Trump Tangled in the Strings

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Donald Trump just welcomed Vladimir Putin to American soil and rolled out the red carpet—literally clapping as the war criminal strutted into Alaska.. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman break down what really went down at the summit, why Trump is parroting Putin’s talking points on mail-in voting, and how this all points to an accelerating authoritarian project. Plus: federal troops occupy D.C., ICE violence escalates, and MSNBC rebrands to… “MS Now.” 👉 This is exactly why we do this work. Support the show and get access to exclusive Weekender episodes, the community Discord, and live events by joining us at patreon.com/muckrakepodcast.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:03.5	Welcome to the McCrigg podcast. I'm here with my friend Nick Houseman. Nick, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm feeling better today. And that's all that matters, day by day. Day by day. Hell of a mantra. Mantra. Mantra. Mantra. Mantra. Mantra. Yeah, really. Listen, it could be cliche, but it, you know, there is a lot of merit to the notion of it. I love it. No, one foot in front of the other. It's the only thing we can do, right, man? Or to even quote one of the great yacht rock songs of all time, minute by minute. Wow. All right. Well, now that that's in everybody's head, we want to welcome you to the show or reminder.
0:38.9	Head over to patreon.com slash punkwreck podcast, support the show and also gain access to the
0:44.5	weekender edition on Friday. Listen, this news doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. It's two full shows
0:50.8	every week on top of that. You get to join the community discord. You get live shows, special events, all of that good stuff.
0:57.9	Nick, I wish we could talk about good stuff.
1:00.3	I wish that that's where we could start this episode.
1:02.8	But unfortunately, last Friday, the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump welcomed war criminal, genocidal maniac dictator Vladimir Putin to American soil in Alaska.
1:16.0	The two of them shared a very romantic lounge in the presidential limo for hours.
1:22.6	There's all kinds of bullshit around this.
1:25.2	Trump was trying to get a deal made.
1:27.2	He left, apparently,
1:28.8	very infatuated Vladimir Putin, not shocked at all by that. As we're recording this on Monday,
1:35.7	Vladimir Zelensky and a whole gaggle of European leaders have come to the White House to,
1:40.9	I don't know, try and repair some of the damage done, try and get some type of a deal made.
1:46.6	It appears from leaks around this and people who are in the know that Trump was ready to hand
1:52.3	over the whole kit and caboodle over to Putin. Nick, here we are. How are you feeling? You feel
1:57.0	I'm proud to being American? Are you waving the flag? Are you outside playing Lee Greenwood?
2:01.0	What's going on?
2:01.7	Yeah, right.
2:02.2	Let's get Greenwood into the honor in the Kennedy Center.
2:05.5	You know, that's a lot.
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