Trump finds himself isolated on the world stage and begging for help.

And I have three interviews, Potta of America's Dan Pfeiffer, Congressman Jamie Raskin,

and legal journalist Adam Klausfeld.

I'm Brian Taylor Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

It did not take long for Trump's chickens to come home to roost because after spending

the entirety of his second term in office

denigrating every single one of our allies, now that he's found himself embroiled in an unpopular

war, he has realized that it would probably be helpful to have some allies. Unfortunately, he's

engaged in a bit of an internal tug of war between his need for some obvious help and his own ego.

Now, I'm going to play audio from Trump

in the same press conference just a couple days back, separated by 30 minutes.

We want them to come and help us with the straight. My attitude is we don't need anybody.

We're the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don't need them.

That is a half hour apart. And look, of course, the U.S. needs help because it entered into a war with no plan, no objective, and no allies.

And it's not like this hasn't been tried before. Donald Trump isn't the first American president.

This isn't the first U.S. administration to try and take down the Islamic Republic. Meaning, had he consulted with anyone

not named Donald Trump, he probably could have avoided some of the more predictable problems,

like, for example, Iran closing or mining the Strait of Hormuz, which can have major

implications on the price of oil, a lesson that Trump is apparently

learning in real time. But here's the problem. Trump has spent the last year alienating all

of our allies, basically tried to declare war on Greenland. He's threatened to invade or annexed

Canada and Panama. God knows how many threats he's lobbed at Mexico. He shit-talked most of

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