The Growing Costs of Defying International Law
The Mary Trump Podcast
Mary Trump Media
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s Iran war spirals into chaos as courts are defied, NATO fractures, and Cuba faces catastrophe under escalating sanctions.
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| 0:00.0 | Again, people don't want to write about it with Iran. |
| 0:10.0 | Iran is very much intent. |
| 0:13.0 | They want very much to make a deal. |
| 0:15.0 | So far, they haven't gotten there. |
| 0:16.0 | We're not satisfied with it. |
| 0:18.0 | But we will be. |
| 0:19.0 | We will be either that or we'll have to just finish the job. |
| 0:23.4 | But the Navy has gone, as I've said a thousand times, and Navy is gone. Their Air Force is gone. |
| 0:29.4 | Everything's gone, and they're negotiating on fumes. But we'll see what happens. Maybe we have to go back and finish it. |
| 0:36.5 | Maybe we don't. |
| 0:51.4 | Thank you. but we'll see what happens. Maybe we have to go back and finish it. Maybe we don't. Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast. |
| 0:55.1 | Let's dive it. |
| 1:08.2 | On February 28, 26, Donald announced a full-scale military campaign against Iran on a video he posted to his failing social media site in the middle of the night. |
| 1:12.2 | Congress learned about it at the same time the American public did. |
| 1:18.0 | Since then, at least seven U.S. service members have been killed. Independent monitoring groups documented at least 1,701 Iranian civilians have been killed between February 28th and April 7th, |
| 1:24.7 | and that includes at least 254 children. |
| 1:28.3 | The war is now estimated to be costing the American tax payer approximately $1 billion per day. |
| 1:36.0 | The 60-day deadline required by the war powers resolution has expired, |
| 1:41.5 | meaning that a war that was likely already illegal is now also unconstitutional. |
| 1:50.0 | Congress voted on whether Donald needed authorization to continue the war, and that vote failed. |
| 1:56.5 | Donald then sent Congress a letter arguing that because he had ordered a two-week ceasefire on April 7th, |
| 2:03.0 | the clock should be reset, meaning he no longer required authorization. |
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