The Two Faces of Trump

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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his weekend we saw Bad Trump—the one saying he could serve a third term because of, you know, reasons—and Good Trump—the one saying Putin and Iran are angering him and that he's not going to stand for much more of their shenanigans. Now come the tariffs. Are they the work of Good Trump or Bad Trump? And here's an idea: Barack Obama for president of Columbia! Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink champagne, some die of thirst, the way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.4	Oh, for the best.
0:24.6	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.4	Today is Monday, March 31st, 2025.
0:30.1	I am John Pod Horst, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:32.7	With me, as always.
0:33.8	Executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:35.3	Hi, Abe.
0:36.0	Hi, John.
0:36.9	And Washington Commentary columnist and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Matthew Cottonetti.
0:45.3	Hi, Matt.
0:45.8	Hi, John.
0:47.5	So it's a good Trump, bad Trump weekend, and God knows who's which one of the two sides, the Janus head figure of Trump, we should credit.
1:01.4	On the one head he comes out and says he's really mad at Putin and there could be more sanctions on Russia
1:07.3	because Putin is dragging his feet on the ceasefire that he wants. He's very angry
1:12.1	and there are going to be consequences. And then, you know, 24 hours later, he says,
1:16.7	Vladimir Zelensky is pulling out of the rare earth steel and he's very angry and better
1:21.1	not pull out and he's never getting into NATO and he should know he's never getting into NATO,
1:25.3	which anyway. So one Saturday, one Sunday.
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