The Daily Blast: Donald Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s Truth Social feed can get awfully revealing. He just unleashed numerous posts that open a new window on the man and his presidency: the transactionalism; the amorality; and the utter, buffoonish incompetence. In one, he attacked his MAGA allies in a way that displayed his utter lack of any principles. In several others, he revealed that he simply has no grasp whatsoever of the situation he faces with Iran’s Strait of Hormuz. All of which raises a question: How do we make sense of the fact that this man is president? We talked to political theorist Alan Elrod, who has a good piece arguing that the election of Trump—twice—should prompt deep introspection about what our country has become. We discuss Elrod’s argument that America needs a dose of hard truths about this man and this moment, dissect Trump’s “personalist” presidency, consider whether civic malaise produced our current national crisis, and discuss how to pull out of it. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.7	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:08.0	Donald Trump's truth social feed can get awfully revealing at times.
1:16.9	He just unleashed a number of posts that open a window on a lot of negative things about the man
1:22.7	and his presidency, the transactionalism, the amorality, and the utter buffoonish incompetence. In one, he
1:30.7	attacked his MAGA allies in a way that accidentally revealed that he has no principles.
1:36.4	In several others, he seemed to show that he has no real grasp on the actual nature of the problem
1:41.8	he faces now with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
1:45.1	The clarity of all these missives raises a question,
1:47.8	how do we make sense of the fact that this man is our president?
1:52.4	Political theorist Alan Elrod has a good piece for liberal currents,
1:56.2	arguing that the election of Trump, twice, should prompt introspection about what we've become.
2:02.1	So we've invited him on to work through some of this with us on a theoretical level.
2:06.7	Alan, good to have you on, man.
2:08.4	Good to be back.
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