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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We are going deep on foreign policy today with one of our faves, but before we get there, a few housekeeping notes and I gotta rant a little bit about Trump's bleeds. We gotta do a little bit on Trump's bleeds. Okay. I go on vacation, Trump bleeds that he's Jesus. I can't ignore it. I can't ignore it. The first on the notes. We have our live shows coming up. Another round of live shows. I'm going back to Southern California. We are going to be in San Diego on May 20th and Los Angeles on May 21st. Tickets are on presale now for Bulwark plus members. So if you want the good seats, you got to become a Bullork plus member. Go to the Bulwark.com events to get your tickets today. For all the regulars out there who just love my ad reads, tickets go on sale on Friday. We're working on some fun special guests. Sarah is going to be there with me. Sam maybe woke Bill, Crystal. It's going to be good. The bulwark.com events. And speaking of Sarah, also a reminder, Tuesday nights, we got the Next level podcast. Me, Sarah and JVL coming out. We're going to have a whole show on Trump's disintegration. How about disintegration? Let's do that. We're doing a whole show on that. So if you want an hour on that, go check out the next level. But here's two minutes. My buddy Harry Sisson posted an analysis of Trump's bleats on Sunday night. I was watching Carol G. Why this happened, so I didn't get to do it. So I appreciate Harry and I'm going to read this for you. Here's what Trump was posting and the timestamp. 9:49pm he posts the AI Jesus photo, which we're gonna get back to. Trump is Jesus with what appears to be a demon over his head. 9:50 Trump Tower on the moon. 10:10, he posts a meme. 10:32, a news clip. 10:53, a news clip. 12:43am he announces the Hormuz blockade, which we're gonna talk about with Michael Weiss. 2:35am he posts about Joe Biden. 2:36, another article on the naval blockade. 237, he posts about Eric Swalwell. 237, he reposts that article about Biden. Maybe he forgot that he posted earlier. He did a double post. 2:38 he posted an article about his ballroom. 4:10am in the east. He posts an article on Iran. So look, I'm a poster. I like to post a lot. That is insane. From 9:49pm till 4:10am he was posting 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 a dozen bleats. He's up all night. He's announcing blockades. He's announcing military actions near 1am after posting about himself as God. I mean, it's alarming. Like, dude needs sleep. Dude needs rest. He's already extremely old. He's already backed into a corner geopolitically and domestically politically. And I don't know, I'm a little worried, I guess I would say I'm a little bit nervous about whether the President of the United States has the mental faculties to be making life or death decisions when he's not sleeping and he's posting megalomaniacal AI memes about himself in the middle of the night, like simultaneously to posting about updated military strategic decisions. So it's alarming. The good news, though, is it hasn't landed well, even with his people. And I just want to give you two examples really quick because they're the most delicious ones for me personally. Number one, Riley Gaines tied for fifth place in a swimming competition in college and parlayed that into a career as an anti trans activist because a trans person was also competing in the race and had that person not competed, she would have finished fifth on her own instead of tied for fifth. She wasn't happy about the Trump is Jesus meme and posted this. Why? Seriously, I cannot understand why he'd Post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. One, a little humility would serve him well. Two, God shall not be mocked. A little humility would serve him well. Donald Trump, have these people been lobotomized? Do they exist in the world? It's just like, all right, I mean, being for Trump is one thing. At least you can have some respect for the people who are for Trump, who are like, I like that he's a megalomaniac. I like that he's a bigot and an asshole and kind of dumb. And I like that he makes the libs cry. I like that he's all about that cash and he has the gold toilet. Okay, not my cup of tea. But if that's for you, that's one thing. Being for Trump and wishing he had humility, it's like, what? I mean, that's the one thing that he doesn't have any of. It's the one thing he's never going to have. Wishing that Trump had humility. And in case you hadn't learned the lesson, Donald Trump was asked whether he does end up deleting the AI Jesus tweet and whether that deletion was in response to the criticisms from people like Riley Gaines. And Trump replied, no, I didn't listen to Riley Gaines. I'm not a big fan of Riley, actually. Ouch. So things are bad in the MAGA Christian influencer space. Things were already bad in the MAGA nationalist, isolationist, America first influencer space. So he's losing allies by the minute. But just the anecdote, it's just one little anecdote. Okay, it's one anecdote about a person in my life. But you're looking for these, you're trying to hold on to them. I was visiting some folks during vacation and asking them, it seems like things are going well. Seems like Trump's losing steam. Seems like MAGA's losing steam. But has any MAGA person in your life actually said, I'm off, or, you know, you were right about this one, or I'm having second thoughts and everybody's kind of like, no, I can't think about anybody in my actual life. And then I landed home last night and received this text from my friend whose mother in law is a maga and she had sent him the picture of the meme and with Trump has crossed the line, exclamation point, exclamation point. And he posted it on truth social media. He might be the Antichrist. Now, that is what I'm talking about. That is the kind of flip that I'm talking about. Not only are we upset about the meme, not only do we think it was a mistake, but starting to have second thoughts about the whole operation. Maybe it's possible that Trump isn't just somebody that makes some bad calls every once in a while. Maybe this has been the devil's work from the beginning. Maybe the devil tricked us into thinking that Donald Trump would be our savior. And honestly, if people need that justification for jumping off, then I'm with them, baby. I'm with them. The devil did it. Trump is the Antichrist. And we can all move forward to a new future without him. With him in hell. That sounds great. All right, we're going to talk about Iran, Hungary and the rest and foreign affairs with our in house, out of house expert. He's an editor at the Insider, a Russia focused independent media outlet. Author of ISIS Inside the Army of Terror. He writes on substack at Foreign Office. He's a gold jacket guest on the Bulwark Podcast. It's Michael Weiss. What's up, man?
