Why Does Trump Want the Biggest Defense Budget Ever?
The Reason Roundtable
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump wants a $1.5 trillion defense budget. That would be the largest ever. |
| 0:06.6 | Meanwhile, he is threatening to escalate in Iran. And gas prices around the country are hitting $4 a gallon. |
| 0:13.8 | Welcome to the Reason Roundtable. This is your weekly libertarian review of News and Culture from the editors of reason magazine i'm your host |
| 0:22.1 | peter suitorman and today i am joined by my colleagues katherine manu ward matt welch and nick |
| 0:28.2 | catherine i want to start with you and i want to read you something that don't trump posted |
| 0:33.8 | on easter weekend open the fucking straight crazy bastards, or you will be living in |
| 0:40.9 | hell. Too late. Yeah. Happy Easter, right? Yeah. What do you make of all this? Is this |
| 0:48.2 | reason style guide appropriate? It is, we do always reprint the profanity when it is used in a historically relevant way. |
| 0:56.6 | So, you know, even if he'd gone even harder and put the G on the end there, it would have still been fine. |
| 1:04.0 | The thing that is crazy about the Donald Trump of it all in this particular moment is he keeps pushing back the deadline. |
| 1:11.2 | So actually right now we're just in the headlong rush toward deadline 87 in this war, which is, I believe, Tuesday at 8 p.m. |
| 1:20.0 | So maybe some of you are listening to this after that deadline and the nuclear apocalypse has occurred. |
| 1:24.3 | But I hope if the nuclear apocalypse has occurred, you're not listening to the |
| 1:28.3 | reason roundtable. |
| 1:29.0 | Well, the threat isn't to use nukes. |
| 1:31.6 | The threat is to bomb the... |
| 1:34.2 | Oh, Matt Welch, is the threat to use nukes? |
| 1:36.8 | Did I miss something? |
| 1:38.1 | No, no, no. |
| 1:39.4 | Not at all. |
| 1:41.2 | I mean, the threat is to obliterate power plants, desalcants, and the usual |
| 1:45.9 | parcel of war crimes that he began threatening on March 21st. We are in our 375 of the 48-hour |
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