Trump and the Art of the Surrender with Ben Rhodes

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.9 • 56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on hell breaking loose as Trump faces massive backlash from his top GOP Senator supporters after losing in Iran war. Meiselas then interviews Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, on Trump's catastrophic foreign policy. Get “All We Say The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches” by Ben Rhodes: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717294/all-we-say-by-ben-rhodes/ Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.8	dot UK slash podcast to learn more. All hell has broken loose as Donald Trump's top Republican allies
0:28.9	in the United States and elsewhere are turning against him after his unequivocal, unconditional
0:36.9	surrender to Iran. as one account notes.
0:40.9	It takes truly keen political instincts to alienate your party's senatorial class just before
0:48.1	selling out the U.S. to Iran and needing them to run cover for you.
0:52.9	Top-notch stuff that was reposted by right-wing guy named Eric Erickson.
0:57.9	Now, we've heard from Maga Republican senators like Roger Wicker after Donald Trump announced
1:03.8	his surrender to Iran after Trump promising that Iran would be the one that did an unconditional
1:09.9	surrender.
1:10.6	But Trump did an unconditional surrender. But Trump did an
1:11.5	unconditional surrender and gave Iran everything they wanted, including $25 billion control over the
1:19.4	Strait of Hormuz and that Trump has agreed he won't even talk about nuclear issues with Iran
1:25.1	for another 30, 60 days. Here's what Maga Republican Senator Roger
1:30.0	Wicker says. The rumored 60-day ceasefire with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good
1:36.1	faith would be a disaster. Everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught.
1:42.9	Let me just fact check him right there. In fact check a lot of this.
1:46.5	We should never have been in this unlawful and catastrophic war at all period, full stop.
1:52.2	Donald Trump and Netanyahu are war criminals. They're genocidal maniacs. I'm just simply pointing out that Donald Trump promised a set of criteria that he said would show success, and he's failed in each and every one of them.
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