Trump's Cards

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In his first address to Congress, President Trump goaded Democrats into a limp, performative resistance while he rattled off an impressive list of achievements. Previously, at the White House, Trump had met with Ukrainian President Zelensky in a dramatic confrontation that ultimately helped improve Trump’s position in negotiations over rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid. The guys give their takes on the historic political theater of the past week, discuss the ongoing economic and immigration crises, and share more media recommendations!

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.
0:02.9	All this stuff that people are saying about how Trump is a bad guy.
0:06.4	Sure, you can pick around the edges of his rhetoric or when he says this, this and that.
0:10.1	But really, they're just mad because for however long this war has been going on,
0:13.0	the Democrats have been indulging in this insane, like, Marvel movie fantasy that somehow
0:17.7	we're going to, from afar, fund the return of the Avengers and like,
0:24.1	Zelensky's going to get his country back, which to be clear from my own perspective,
0:28.1	like would be great. Like Putin's the aggressor. To me, this is like a bad war. And for all of the
0:35.0	questions about 2014, Victoria Newland and whatever, like, you don't invade Ukraine.
0:40.9	Yes, there's been this like whole historical dispute, whatever, whatever.
0:44.7	All I'm saying is like, I also would like to see the fantasy version that Democrats have been putting forward.
0:51.0	It's never going to happen.
0:52.3	They're not going to win this war.
0:53.8	They're not going to get this stuff back.
0:55.9	And the sooner you admit that, the sooner you can start saying, well, what is the best way,
1:00.2	basically, to sort of like restore stability?
1:03.1	But in order to admit that, you have to be willing to get called an evil Putin stooge
1:07.6	and a Trumpist, fascist, or whatever.
1:11.1	Yeah. Hello and welcome once again to the Roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors' podcast here at The American Mind.
1:53.6	I'm your host, Spencer Claven, associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the non-card holding editor of the American mind.
2:05.9	I am joined this week by Seth Barron and managing editor Mike Saboam.
2:12.0	And, you know, they say that peak TV is over.
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