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The Playbook Podcast

Trump’s Middle East mission

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has found his next big foreign policy project: Peace in the Middle East. And where that’s a goal hat has vexed generations of presidential administrations, Trump believes he can force a breakthrough with a bit of help from his friends in the region. On Tuesday, Trump met with eight leaders of Arab or Muslim-majority nations in New York. Today, he welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the White House to talk about a nascent 21-point plan for peace in Gaza. Could Trump succeed where so many others have failed? Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns unpack it all. Plus, Trump’s efforts at lawfare drastically escalate.

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0:27.4

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0:35.4

Today on the Playbook podcast, President Erdogan of Turkey's in town and we're going to be talking peace in the Middle East.

0:42.3

We've got the latest fallout from the shooting at a Texas ice facility yesterday, and Donald Trump pursuing lawfare, who could believe it?

0:51.5

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

0:53.4

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, September 25th. And this is the

0:57.8

Playbook podcast. Great to have you back on, Dasha. How are you doing? Hey, Jack. Good morning. I've been

1:02.0

running around various conferences this week between Unga and some cool stuff going on in Virginia.

1:08.9

Just yesterday I moderated some panels at the Miller Center talking all about presidential power,

1:14.8

which of course is incredibly relevant to many of the things we'll talk about today.

1:18.9

Excellent. Let's talk about presidential power today, then shall we?

1:22.0

We've got two presidents in the White House today.

1:24.3

President Erdogan of Turkey's is going to be arriving at the Oval Office shortly,

1:28.8

and we'll have that classic scene that we now all know whether two of them sit there with a few select members of the press and answer questions.

1:34.5

We know they're going to talk about trade and they're going to talk about some military fighter jet deal,

1:39.2

which is all fine and important news, but a much bigger thing is happening right now.

1:44.1

Donald Trump is making another

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