Trump Iran Tirade Visibly Rattles GOPers as Leaks Expose New Blunders

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The fallout continues from Donald Trump’s startling rant admitting that he isn’t concerned with how the Iran war is impacting Americans’ finances. On Wednesday, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and numerous other Republicans struggled to spin away the damage, but they appeared visibly flummoxed. Indeed, the GOP cracks are worsening: Three GOP Senators just voted to end the war. And shocking leaks to The New York Times reveal that Iran still retains substantial military capabilities, directly undercutting Trump’s boasts of success. We talked to international relations expert Nicholas Grossman, who has a good piece on this whole fiasco. We discuss why those leaks are so damning, why the economic and political fallout from the war is only just beginning, and why Trump’s megalomaniacal understanding of the situation has left him fundamentally cornered. 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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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.5	Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Donald Trump's war with Iran.
0:36.1	Three GOP senators just voted with Democrats to stop the war, and numerous news accounts report that
0:38.7	GOP cracks are growing. This comes as an extraordinary New York Times expassee shows that Trump's
0:45.8	war has been substantially less successful than he and Pete Hegeseth have claimed. Meanwhile,
0:52.3	Republicans are running away from Trump's bizarre tirade yesterday, in which
0:56.8	he admitted he isn't concerned with how inflation from the war is impacting ordinary Americans.
1:02.6	Here's the bottom line. All signs are that this will get substantially worse politically for
1:08.8	Trump and the Republicans. So we're checking in with Nicholas Grossman, a professor of international relations,
1:14.7	who has a new piece for MS now, arguing that the economic fallout from the war is only
1:19.4	just beginning.
1:20.5	Thanks for coming on, Nick.
1:22.4	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:23.6	Great to be here.
1:24.9	So let's start with the news from the U.S. Senate.
1:27.0	Three Republicans joined with Democrats to support start with the news from the U.S. Senate. Three Republicans
1:28.0	joined with Democrats to support a resolution that would end the war in keeping with the War Powers
1:33.4	Act, which requires a congressional vote after 60 days have passed. The three senators are Susan
1:39.5	Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul. As Politico reports, there's new frustration and deepening divisions
1:46.7	among Republicans over this. Nick, what's your reaction to all that? I'm not surprised that some
1:52.7	of them are starting to move away from it because the economic liabilities and associate
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