Trump Says the US Should 'Take Over the Gaza Strip'

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

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Summary

We’re a little over two weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, and already his foreign policy doctrine could be generously described as “all over the place.” From threatening to levy huge tariffs on our close allies only to delay them at the last minute to dismantling foreign aid efforts alongside the world’s richest man to now volunteering the U.S. to take control of Gaza, it’s all been a bit hard to keep up with. Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to President Obama and co-host of Crooked’s ‘Pod Save the World,’ stopped by the studio to talk about the ripple effects of Trump’s early foreign policy decisions. And in headlines: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard inched closer to Senate confirmation, The Trump administration is preparing an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, and a D.C. Superior Court judge handed over The Proud Boys’ trademark to a Black church that had been vandalized by members of the far-right group.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, February 5th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday. The show that liked
0:06.7	reporting the news better when the world wasn't in total and complete chaos every single day.
0:18.7	On today's show, President Trump drafts an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education
0:23.5	and the Proud Boys are humbled by a D.C. Superior Court judge.
0:27.8	But let's start with Trump 2.0's foreign policy.
0:31.2	And I'll admit, I don't really know what it is.
0:34.6	Let's take those tariffs, for example.
0:36.7	As we discussed in the show earlier this
0:38.3	week, Trump threatened tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China. He delayed tariffs against Canada
0:43.5	and Mexico for at least the next 30 days, but the tariffs against China have gone into effect.
0:48.1	In response, China announced Tuesday that it will place tariffs on American coal, gas, agricultural
0:53.1	machinery, and large engine cars that
0:55.0	will start next Monday. We're in a tariff war with China, in other words. But I keep coming back to one
1:00.5	thing. Trump has been all over the place as to what he thinks tariffs mean. Are they super awesome
1:07.7	in how America got rich in the early 20th century? Or are they terrible?
1:11.9	And thus, great negotiation tactics you don't actually want to use.
1:15.7	Like with Canada and Mexico.
1:17.7	They can't be both.
1:19.1	And that pretty much goes for how all of Trump's foreign policy works.
1:23.0	He wants everything, in all the ways, all the time.
1:25.7	And he really doesn't care who gets hurt in the process.
1:28.3	He's destroying the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, with the help of
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