Will Trump's record unpopularity make him end the war in Iran?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Things just aren’t going well for Donald Trump right now. Forget the Iran war, his spectacular NATO fallout, rising gas prices, Trump’s just heard that the construction of his 90,000ft ballroom will have to be paused after a judge told him he was the White House steward and not its owner. The affordability crisis in America is spiking as his poll numbers are tanking. Is he looking for a speedy way out? A diversion?
We speak to Congressman Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | What is happening in the Iran War? |
| 0:15.8 | We're hitting them very hard. Last night, we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile making facilities, as you probably |
| 0:22.1 | read. And when things aren't going quite as well as he would like, what does he do? What is his go-to? |
| 0:28.8 | Bad press, fake press, or fake. What is Donald Trump talking about there? It sounds like he's learning to |
| 0:33.5 | read. I would say that within two weeks, maybe, two weeks, maybe three. We're hitting them very |
| 0:40.2 | hard last night. We knocked out tremendous amounts of missile making facilities. We, as you probably |
| 0:45.8 | read or wrote, we knocked out, excuse me. Pardon me, pardon me, we're up. The U.S. |
| 0:51.7 | will be gone or done with the war? I think we're two or three weeks. |
| 0:54.4 | I think we're two or three weeks. We'll leave. |
| 0:56.5 | It's interesting that Donald Trump says two or three weeks. |
| 1:00.2 | It's always two or three weeks. Two or three weeks. |
| 1:03.0 | To get a trade deal, two or three weeks. To get peace in Ukraine, two or three weeks. |
| 1:07.4 | To replace affordable health care. Two or three weeks, to do any number of things. |
| 1:12.8 | When Donald Trump doesn't know an answer, it's always two or three weeks. |
| 1:18.4 | So to read between the lines, I guess the question we're trying to ask is, has he got bored of Iran and is he now about to give up? |
| 1:29.3 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:37.5 | The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. It's John. It's Maitlis. And Donald Trump has been talking, it seems, nonstop about anything, everything. And when things aren't |
| 1:43.8 | going quite as well as he would like, |
| 1:46.3 | what does he do? What is his go-to? It's to attack the media. It's to say, you're all against me, |
| 1:53.1 | but the people love me. And last night, in the Oval Office, absolutely true to form, |
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