Trump, Year Zero

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With Trump and Putin negotiating with each other in an attempt to force a resolution onto Ukraine, the question arises: How do former American agreements bind (or not bind) Trump or any new president? And what can be said of the traditions of American politics Trump seeks to up-end or destroy? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drink and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best.
0:20.0	Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.5	Oh, for the best.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.5	Today is Wednesday, March 19th, 2025.
0:30.7	I'm John Pudhawd's, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.5	With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:35.8	Hi, Abe.
0:36.4	Hi, John.
0:38.6	Washington Commentary columnist, Matthew Contennetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mendel. Hi, Seth.
0:43.2	Hi, John. Israel is now pounding Gaza in a way that it has not really pounded Gaza since the early
0:52.5	weeks of the war in 2023, because it's not going
0:57.3	on the ground. It is doing everything that it's doing from the air and indicating a severity
1:05.4	in its handling of what is going on in Gaza that is kind of new.
1:17.0	I suppose we're going to hear that they're using knock-knock bombs to get people to leave buildings and that they're trying to be very careful about whom they're hitting when they're not hitting.
1:20.9	But patience in the Netanyahu government is at an end, the 57 days of ceasefire came to an end after literally 57 days of negotiations
1:32.7	with Hamas led to almost nothing. I mean, four or five hostages getting out. And it is the
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -9 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Commentary Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Commentary Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.