Susan Glasser: The President Is Crazy and Delusional
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trump fired Pam Bondi, maybe the most destructive AG in the history of the United States, because she wasn't able to magically and lawlessly jail his political enemies. On Wednesday night, he told Americans that gas prices would naturally go down when he was finished with his war—much like the way he told the country in March 2020 that COVID would just go away. In reality, China may end up in control of the Strait of Hormuz and with freight passage paid with the Chinese Yuan. America and the world are paying for the incompetent (and petrified) advisers Trump has surrounded himself with. Plus, POTUS threatened war crimes on national television, the Iranian diaspora bet on the wrong horse, and who will be the next Barbie to get the ax?
Susan Glasser joins Tim Miller.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. I will be stream again tonight. |
| 0:18.3 | 8 o'clock in the East on sub--second YouTube, come hang out, just me, |
| 0:22.8 | ranting, taking your questions, et cetera. I did hop on to the post-speech live stream |
| 0:30.5 | last night because I was screaming on my TV and that felt like a waste of my breath. And so I |
| 0:34.9 | appreciate Sam and JVL and most importantly General Hurtling for accommodating |
| 0:39.0 | my spleen venting last night. And we've got more of that to come today. |
| 0:43.3 | I'd welcome back to the show, staff writer at the New Yorker and co-host of its political |
| 0:47.5 | scene podcast for most recent book is The Divider, co-authored with her husband, Peter Baker, |
| 0:52.0 | at Susan Glasser. thank God you're here |
| 0:54.8 | this morning, Susan, because I don't know. I'm at my wits end, honestly. Tim, if you're relying on |
| 1:01.8 | me for the upbeat, cheery assessment of things, you know, maybe we both need that vacation. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm not relying on me for upbeat and che cherry, but just for coherence, maybe. |
| 1:11.9 | You at least had to put your thoughts into words for your piece for The New Yorker this morning, |
| 1:16.7 | titled Trump's Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It. |
| 1:19.8 | Among other things, it failed to mention. |
| 1:22.1 | Like, you know, what exactly it is we're doing there, what the plans are for after. |
| 1:27.3 | I mean, it was, there's so many |
| 1:30.3 | WTF moments of this second presidency. You know, it's kind of hard to rank them, but this last night |
| 1:36.1 | was towards the top for me. Yeah, for me too, exactly. I mean, there are so many almost existential |
| 1:41.6 | questions that Trump at this point raises. For example, |
| 1:46.0 | you know, can everything be going according to the plan if there is no plan? |
| 1:52.8 | Although I will, I will say, I will say that Donald Trump, he lied about literally almost everything |
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