Trump: Israel and Iran "don't know what the f*** they're doing"
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We’re at the Nato summit in The Hague where Europe’s leaders were hoping to put defence spending and Ukraine top of the agenda.
That's before Donald Trump derailed things by swearing on the White House lawn. He’s very cross that Israel and Iran aren't listening to him, and his insistence that a ceasefire is underway.
Can he will a war to end just by saying it? Or are we learning how little control Trump really has over world events?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard |
| 0:17.9 | that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? |
| 0:22.4 | Donald Trump is not happy. We think that might be the first ever on-camera fuck by a sitting |
| 0:29.6 | president to the White House press corps on the White House lawn. Postcards with your corrections, |
| 0:35.0 | please, if we are wrong. Donald Trump can put on a show. |
| 0:38.6 | We know that. |
| 0:39.5 | But it didn't seem this time like Donald Trump was acting. |
| 0:43.7 | He seemed genuinely livid. |
| 0:46.3 | And he should be. |
| 0:47.6 | Because last night, he said there would be a ceasefire |
| 0:51.4 | between Iran and Israel to end the 12-day war. In the end, it looks like |
| 0:57.4 | it didn't even last 12 hours. Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's Emily. It's Lewis, |
| 1:09.3 | and we're in the Hague, not the international or criminal court. |
| 1:12.6 | We are about time. About time. Many of our Twitter critics we play. No, we are at the NATO summit in the Hague, |
| 1:19.4 | the sort of big annual gathering of NATO leaders. It's day one, although most of the big players, |
| 1:26.4 | principally Donald Trump, have not arrived yet. |
| 1:28.7 | So it's a bit of a holding pattern, but it has been built as a crucial summit in terms of |
| 1:34.3 | ensuring or trying to ensure that Donald Trump remains on board with NATO as an organisation, |
| 1:40.5 | but is also trying these different NATO, trying to ensure that they get |
| 1:44.7 | some buy-in from Trump on America's continued commitment to European security. So important to be |
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