Trump Rages over Iran Setbacks as Leaks Reveal His Seething Obama Envy

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored. And incredibly, officials just leaked to The Atlantic that Trump is privately “irritated” by commentary casting his emerging framework as weaker than Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Trump also wants a way to argue that Iran “accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract.” We talked to former National Security Council veteran Emily Horne, author of the Spin Class Substack. We discuss how all those leaks themselves signal Trump’s growing weakness, why his demand for a “better” deal than Obama’s may be hopeless, and whether that leaves us any way out of this fiasco. 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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1:27.3	After the House voted this week to end Donald Trump's war in Iran, Trump exploded in fury
1:33.8	at the four Republicans who sided with Democrats against him. He called them grandstanders
1:39.6	while simultaneously mocking the boat as meaningless. It's not meaningless, of course.
1:45.4	It shows that Republicans are now taking new steps to break with Trump.
1:49.9	And importantly, it comes as the leaks are getting worse for him.
1:54.1	We're learning more about his blundering incompetence from insiders,
1:57.8	which is itself another sign of his ongoing weakening. So is there a path to forcing
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