Trump's Imperial Presidency / Mohamad Bazzi

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Twenty-two years after last joining us, we welcome back Mohamad Bazzi. He discusses his latest at the Guardian, "Trump promised no wars. Now he’s a Bush-style regime change president," and "Trump’s war in Iran marks the culmination of his imperial presidency." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview in which he, "fights to wake up from a DARVOnian nightmare." Check out Mohamad's latest writing at the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mohamad-bazzi Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The water is Thank you very much. This is hell.
1:08.8	Will, what was the early haunting music that you were playing beforehand?
1:14.0	There was some Yucco Pistorius portrait of Tracy.
1:18.1	That was really fantastic.
1:19.8	We need to be playing more and more different music in the background because there's one
1:23.5	song that keeps driving me nuts.
1:25.9	Which one is it?
1:26.7	I can't remember now.
1:27.8	It's from a musical, and it pops up every so often in the background, and it drives me crazy.
1:34.0	I'll try to figure out what it is.
1:36.1	Live from the United States, which resembles 1930s Germany more than ever.
1:40.4	This is hell.
2:00.2	It's possible, possible that your memory may go all the way back to the ancient past long ago when former president Donald Trump was on the campaign trail.
2:03.7	This was way back in 2024, and up to his reelection in November of that year.
2:07.6	And the month's following, when he was demanding
2:10.9	he be given a Nobel Peace Prize because he was a peacemaker president.
2:15.9	You might remember that. Yet before his first year in office
2:20.8	ended, he had already launched military strikes against Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria,
2:30.3	Somalia, and Venezuela, while continuing to arm the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza.
2:39.5	And now we can add Ecuador to that list. He claims to have been the mastermind behind the
2:46.2	ceasefire between India and Pakistan, but officials from both nations say that's simply not true.
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