The Daily Blast: Trump Blurts Out Damning Admission of War Blunders as GOP Angst Grows

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Donald Trump has declared the war “terminated,” but he’s still rejecting Iran’s peace proposals while again threatening it with massive war crimes. And in an interview, Trump declared that he would never have approved an offer that was made to Iran by his negotiator, Steve Witkoff. This is a damning admission: He seemed to blurt out that he has no idea what his own representatives are offering—showing deep disengagement from the details of the talks—while demonstrating that anything his negotiators offer should not be believed. Meanwhile, Republicans are beginning to break with Trump: Politico reports that he “could soon face far more resistance.” We talked to MS NOW’s Steve Benen. He explains why Trump’s admission was so self-incriminating, why it reveals something much bigger about our crisis, why we may see more GOP defections soon, and what to look for next. 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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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.7	As of this recording, Donald Trump has declared the war with Iran terminated.
0:34.8	But it's unclear what's supposed to happen next.
0:38.7	He's left the military in place there, yet he says he's unsatisfied with Iran's latest offer. Now what? We don't know. During a Newsmax interview,
0:46.5	Trump made an accidentally revealing admission, one that seemed to indicate that he has
0:51.0	no idea what's going on between his own negotiators and Iran.
0:55.9	This comes as new polling shows the public really souring on the war and specifically on Trump's
1:02.1	lack of clarity around it.
1:05.0	MS now's Steve Benin has a good piece arguing that Trump's inadvertent Newsmax moment
1:10.2	captures a good deal about this
1:12.0	situation, so we're talking to him about all this today. Steve, good to have you back on.
1:17.3	Thank you, Greg. It's great to be here. All right, so Trump sent a letter to the Hill,
1:21.7	declaring the war terminated. He did this to circumvent the law that requires a congressional vote
1:27.1	on hostilities after 60 days have passed,
1:30.6	yet Trump is now saying he's dissatisfied with Iran's latest offer, but won't say exactly why,
1:37.0	though it appears to be partly that Iran won't renounce its nuclear program entirely.
1:41.9	Steve, can you try to sum up where we are right now?
1:45.2	I could try. I mean, I think what you just said was an accurate and concise summary.
1:50.2	I mean, we're in a situation in which Congress is supposed to step up. We're now in the
1:54.3	third month of the war is now getting underway. Donald Trump and his team has decided that
1:59.8	they have, quote, unquote, terminated the conflict.
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