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The LOOPcast

Trump's High-Stakes Middle East Tour Explained, South African Refugee's Trigger Meltdown, And Pope Leo's First Tweet

The LOOPcast

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s Arabian Nights tour kicks off with a shocking speech about the future of American foreign policy and a huge bag of money coming to the US. The Afrikaner farmers fleeing South Africa was a bridge too far for the Episcopal Church, and Jake Tapper is flummoxed by Biden’s mental decline… until it was time to write a book about it. All this and more on the LOOPcast! 00:00 What is Trump Doing in The Middle East? 34:23 White Farmers Flee South Africa 54:30 Pope Leo Tweets 58:28 Twili...

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0:00.0

And we're back. Welcome back to the, oh my gosh, and we're live. Sorry, we had an issue with the chat.

0:06.1

Ugh. Anyway, it's going to be a great show. Josh is back from Rome. Welcome back. It's Tom Erica and

0:11.8

Josh back stateside. We have a fantastic show for you. I'm fascinated with this Middle Eastern trip.

0:16.1

I'm calling in Arabian nights. I'm seeing mobile McDonald's. I'm seeing camels. I'm seeing a lot of dollar

0:21.5

signs. So I just thought we could offer today the opportunity to explain the rationale for this

0:27.6

trip, how it kind of breaks from traditional a little bit. And there's some very interesting speeches

0:31.3

and how Trump plans to approach diplomacy. So we're covering all that. What else do we have going on

0:35.7

today, Erica? Yeah, not only that, but we have an update for everybody on the palace in the sky, the big jumbo jet offered to the United States. So we're going to talk about that. We also have found refugees that the Episcopalians will not welcome. You didn't think it was possible. And yet we did. So we're going to talk about the Afrikaners. And Pope Leo is on Twitter,

0:55.5

Pontefax. Go follow him. And he's got some bangers already. So we're going to get into those.

0:59.9

It'll be a great show. He'd be tweeting. Before we get into that, Charity Mobile, thanks for making

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Josh, while I get that in the chat, how was your travels home from Rome?

2:02.6

I mean, anytime you do international travel and when it's uneventful, that's a good thing.

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