This is How Trump Just Got Triply Humiliated

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Daily Beast’s brilliant columnist David Rothkopf joins Joanna Coles to examine Donald Trump’s disastrous week on the world stage. From being overheard on a hot mic talking about deals with Vladimir Putin, to Modi undercutting his peacemaker myth, to world leaders gathering in China without him, Trump finds himself without a seat on the world stage. They explore how his failed military parade compares to China’s massive display of power, how his fixation on the Rose Garden reveals his petty interests, and how his “Gaza Riviera” plan turns tragedy into a dark and twisted real estate play. The conversation shows how China and others are moving forward while Trump obsesses over himself and the past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Trump may think it's all about him, but it's not. His response, however, is like a little
0:07.8	high school kid, feeling isolated and is coming up with his own true social burn book, like in
0:13.6	Mean Girls. And, you know, he like fires out, you know, I mean, he says some of the most remarkable
0:19.9	things.
0:28.1	I'm Joanna Coles. This is The Daily Beast podcast. And can you imagine what it must be like to be Donald Trump?
0:36.5	Think your new best friend is Vladimir Putin. You've just hosted him in Alaska. You've hung out. You've given him a special ride in the Beast.
0:56.1	And now it turns out, he was best friends all along with Xi Jinping in China and they're hanging out without you. Who better to talk about this with than David Rothkopf, who worked in the Clinton administration and was the editor of foreign policy magazine. David has been talking to his sources and he's here to tell us what's actually going on in China. But before we jump in with David Rothkopf,
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1:29.0	Wolf, Hugh Dockedy, David Rothkopf, and more. We'll be answering your burning questions about
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2:02.1	growing the Daily Beast community on YouTube. Now, remember that party that's going on in China
2:09.1	without Donald Trump? Let's get into it with David Rothkopf.
2:15.1	David Rothkopf could not imagine anybody I more want to speak to about what Earth is going on with this Shanghai conference.
2:24.0	And just to set the stage for a second, and then you can tell me I'm completely wrong about this.
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