The Daily Blast: Trump Rages over Iran Setbacks as Leaks Reveal His Seething Obama Envy

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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After the House voted to direct Donald Trump to end the Iran war, he exploded at the four Republicans who turned against him, terming them “grandstanders” who “should be ashamed of themselves.” This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored. And incredibly, officials just leaked to The Atlantic that Trump is privately “irritated” by commentary casting his emerging framework as weaker than Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Trump also wants a way to argue that Iran “accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract.” We talked to former National Security Council veteran Emily Horne, author of the Spin Class Substack. We discuss how all those leaks themselves signal Trump’s growing weakness, why his demand for a “better” deal than Obama’s may be hopeless, and whether that leaves us any way out of this fiasco. 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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1:20.1	After the House voted this week to end Donald Trump's war in Iran,
1:25.0	Trump exploded in fury at the four Republicans who sided with Democrats
1:29.2	against him. He called them grandstanders while simultaneously mocking the boat as meaningless.
1:36.4	It's not meaningless, of course. It shows that Republicans are now taking new steps to break with
1:41.8	Trump. And importantly, it comes as the leaks are getting worse for him.
1:47.0	We're learning more about his blundering incompetence from insiders, which is itself another sign of
1:52.6	his ongoing weakening. So is there a path to forcing Trump to end this conflict? And what's likely to
1:59.5	happen now in the war itself? We're talking about it all
2:03.0	with Emily Horn, a former veteran of the State Department and National Security Council. Emily,
2:08.0	good to have you back on. Thanks, Greg, for having me. So the House passed a bill Wednesday,
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