Trump's ultimatum for Iran.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In a post on Truth Social Sunday morning, President Donald Trump appeared to set a deadline of 8:00 PM ET on Tuesday, April 7, for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic. In a preceding post, the president suggested that he will authorize strikes on civilian energy and transportation infrastructure if the demand is not met, writing, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” In a Wall Street Journal interview later on Sunday, Trump said Iran would “lose every power plant and every other plant they have in the whole country” if they block the strait beyond Tuesday.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get |
| 0:23.6 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the straight |
| 0:32.7 | of Hormuz, President Donald Trump's new deadline for tonight, some views from the left and the right |
| 0:39.1 | on exactly what has happened, and then, of course, my take. |
| 0:44.0 | Before we jump in a quick reminder that on Friday, I published a, I think, a kind of hot take |
| 0:50.0 | on the return of decency. My view that decency was going to make a comeback in our politics. |
| 0:56.4 | I laid out my argument why I thought so, how exactly we got here, and what the future might |
| 1:02.3 | hold. If you think you might appreciate something like that, you can just scroll back a little |
| 1:06.7 | bit in our episode history on the podcast and go find that post. All right, with that, |
| 1:12.2 | I'm going to hand it over to John for today's main topic, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:24.2 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We've got a lot to get to |
| 1:29.8 | today, so we're going to jump right into it with today's quick hits. First up, the U.S. military |
| 1:34.7 | rescued the second of two crew members of a fighter jet shot down over Iran on Friday. The first was |
| 1:40.9 | rescued hours after the incident. The airmen reportedly hid in the mountains near the crash site for two days, while Iranian |
| 1:47.2 | forces searched for him. |
| 1:49.0 | The operation involved hundreds of U.S. aircraft and personnel, with Israel providing |
| 1:53.0 | intelligence support. |
| 1:54.7 | Separately, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the group's chief of |
| 1:58.9 | intelligence, Majid Khademi, was killed in an Israeli |
| 2:01.8 | airstrike. Number two, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that payrolls rose by 178,000 |
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