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Bulwark Takes

Trump’s Pay-to-Play World Tour

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Bill Kristol discuss how Trump’s authoritarian playbook depends on public corruption, loyalty tests, and billion-dollar payouts. And why the business class is just fine with it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:07.1

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0:13.4

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0:17.9

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0:20.0

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with the bulwarks, Bill Crystal.

0:25.9

A lot of stuff is happening. All of it's bad.

0:28.9

Before we get started, hit like, hit subscribe, follow the feed.

0:32.8

Because if you're going to be on a rocket sled to hell, you might as well be there with friends.

0:37.7

Bill, our president, our favorite president, who has been doing all the deals, just said that

0:46.2

he was going to do something very tough to the Iranians, but he decided not to because they have

0:53.4

a very strong friend, an advocate,

0:56.5

and a friend that will never abandon them, the Qataris. And, you know, for some reason,

1:04.3

who could say why, he's really listening to what the people from Qatar have to say.

1:09.0

Our relationship now is very strong with Saudi Arabia.

1:12.5

Nobody's coming. Nobody's going to be bothering that relationship.

1:15.6

Nobody would be able to break that relationship because of my relationship with the crown

1:20.1

prince of the family.

1:21.1

Who could say whether he's really made up his mind or changed his mind or whatever on

1:26.2

the topic of Iran. But of course, saying

1:29.0

the quiet part out loud, people often say, it's kind of crazy for him to do that. It doesn't

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