I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. Donald Trump continues to bleed at a

furious pace on social media, but not always about the war in Iran. And he's suddenly realizing that,

hey, you know, maybe we do need some allies at the same time. His war on descent escalates,

as he calls for reporters who are writing things that he doesn't like to be

charged with treason. What a way to start the week. And joining us to start this week, the New Yorker,

Susan Glasser, Susan, it is always good to have you back.

I hope you're surviving the weather, the apocalypse hitting all of us.

Yeah, it feels like the weather is approximating our news cycle at this point.

But it does feel like it's all coming together.

It does feel like it's coming out.

I want to read something you wrote.

You had a brilliant, brilliant column last week.

The war Trump does not want to talk about noting how frequently he continues to post to his

base on truth social.

But the message to his followers has strongly suggested that he is anything but consumed

by the burden of commending a conflict

that has in not even two weeks killed Iran's supreme leader unleashed the largest supply

disruption in the history of the global oil market spread to at least 10 additional countries

across the region and cost American taxpayers more than $11 billion and counting. So it is an interesting phenomenon that the wartime

president who is always on social media is, but 80% of his bleats, have nothing to do with the war.

So talk to me about that. What does that tell you? Yeah, I mean, it feels like this is a very important moment, especially

because, you know, ready or not, America now seems to have a president who has claimed

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