Trump Flips on Bibi, Putin, and Xi (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:28 The week's major international stories 3:22 Trump's approach to everything 9:04 The Houthi deal 11:47 Trump's Middle East trip and Gaza 15:50 India-Pakistan conflict 20:22 Media coverage of Trump 2.0 24:10 Trump’s biggest Jan 6 transgression 30:39 Is the Republic at stake? 31:44 Heading into overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded May 13, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:27.6	Well, it's Danny Bessner and Derek Davison, the American Prestige guys, paying their once every two visit, two months visit to the
0:39.1	non-zero podcast unless it's
0:41.2	the other way around.
0:42.6	Yeah, I mean, why couldn't it be the other way around?
0:45.2	I feel like we're guests, actually.
0:47.3	I feel like Bob's the host here.
0:49.1	Bob's the podmaster guru.
0:50.9	Hefei.
0:51.7	Absolute, though, as we say in podcasting.
0:57.6	So yeah, we do this every so often.
1:00.7	It's a collaboration.
1:02.3	And I wanted to start by giving you guys a menu of options as far as things we can talk about.
1:06.6	Because there actually is a lot going on in the realm of foreign affairs.
1:10.7	So Trump has been annoying Israel in several ways.
1:16.5	It's always news when an American president annoys Israel.
1:19.8	Some people think he might do the ultimate and annoying things.
1:23.9	Try to stop Beebe from proceeding with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, although, as we know,
1:29.8	Trump has nothing against ethnic cleansing per se, so long as there's a five-star hotel at the end of it.
1:36.5	I mean, he's the one who broached the idea of the cleanse of Gaza in the first place, but yes.
1:41.6	Yeah, it was his, it was his idea.
1:43.4	Maybe he's jealous.
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