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Today on the Playbook podcast, how's Trump's coalition building going in Iran? We'll get the latest

when Japan's prime minister arrives at the White House. Mark Wayne Mullen faces his first confirmation vote in the Senate.

We'll unpick that and which senior Trump official won't use email. We shall reveal all.

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. I'm Dr. Blandshard. I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, March 19th.

What a tease, Jack. What a tease.

We will get to the email thing, subject very close to my heart, obviously.

But let's talk about Iran first.

Dasha, how mad is Donald Trump that America's allies don't want to get involved in the Iran war?

He's not happy, and he's making that pretty clear to folks.

He really feels betrayed, like they haven't stepped up.

However, the relationships that he has built have also been pretty rocky because of the various

pressures that he's been putting on our allies, whether it's via trade or Greenland or what have

you. So it's not shocking that when he comes

a calling, they're not like sprinting to assist. But boy, it's going to be really interesting

today when we have the Japanese prime minister in the Oval. Right. The first one of those allies,

though it was last Saturday, Trump announced he wanted this sort of coalition to come and help in the Strait of Homoos, which of course Iran is blocking most of the shipping coming through. And Japan was one of the countries that he named in his initial statement that should be coming to help. And today is the first time he's actually going to sit down in public with one of the leaders of one of those countries. So it's going to be quite a moment. I mean, it was five days ago he made that announcement. I think he's ranted angrily about this every single day since then. He ranted about it in the Oval Office on Tuesday when he had the Irish T-T-Eshuck there. He's ranted about it in various press events and on truth social. It kind of feels likely that he's going to rant about it again today

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