The Daily Blast: Trump Humiliated as Viral Exchange with Journo on Iran Backfires Badly

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump claims Iran is responsible for the bombing of an elementary school that killed scores of children, even though the evidence continues to mount that the United States is responsible. In a striking exchange with a reporter, Trump was asked point blank why no other government official will confirm what he’s saying. He said straight out: “Because I don’t know enough about it.” But in saying this, Trump admitted that he'd made an incendiary factual claim about an extraordinarily serious matter without having the foggiest idea what the facts actually are. Trump’s assertions about the school bombing also forced White House Karoline Leavitt to undertake a clumsy clean-up effort. We talked to Paul Waldman, author of a piece at his Substack, The Cross Section, discussing a new analysis showing that Trump’s war is the most unpopular U.S. war in modern history. We discuss why that exchange was so humiliating to Trump, what it revealed about the White House’s indefensible war and his inability to sell it, and the deeper reasons why Americans are not reflexively rallying behind the “commander in chief.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.5	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.5	From rags to riches.
0:05.8	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.1	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.7	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:12.4	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.3	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.5	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
0:19.2	Stream now.
0:35.8	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:38.1	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:52.1	Donald Trump's attack on Iran is the most unpopular U.S. war in the history of modern polling.
0:56.0	The New York Times looked at polls on U.S. wars going back to World War II and found Trump's war at the very bottom of the heap. This comes as new
1:02.4	exchanges between reporters in the White House show that Trump's positions on the war are falling
1:07.6	apart. In particular, one exchange with a reporter over the bombing of an Iranian
1:12.8	school blew up in Trump's face rather spectacularly. We think it's significant that the public
1:19.2	is not reflexively rallying to Trump's war. It says something fundamental about the American public
1:25.0	during the Trump era. Paul Waldman has a good piece on his
1:28.8	substack, the cross section, digging into why Trump's war is so unpopular. So we're talking to him
1:34.5	about all this today. Paul, good to see you. Thanks for coming on. My pleasure. Thanks a lot.
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