Trump makes fatal mistake on global stage - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

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BTC: After thinking not that much about it, Donald Trump takes America to war. This is just another day.

While the war with Iran rages on, today we finally got some concrete answers on what precipitated Donald Trump's ultimate decision to take us into battle.

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Trump: You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. And we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first

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BTC: So between all our top-ranked intelligence analysts, world-renowned policy officials, and envoys from Department of State, the launch of this war came down to

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Trump: It was my opinion.

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BTC: Perfect. I guess Donald Trump looked back at Colin Powell's vile of anthrax speech that got us into Iraq and thought, "Hey, if I don't make my case for war, they can never say I was wrong."

But asking why we're doing this is now a seemingly pointless exercise because we're doing it. It's being done. It's like asking Lauren Boebert why she's filing her seatmates genitals at a Broadway show. You know what? Because she wants to. Okay. No, the more appropriate question is, what happens now?

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Reporter: So president, what's the worst case scenario now that you have planned for in Iran?

Trump: Well, I don't know if there's a worst case. We have them very much uh beaten militarily from the military standpoint.

I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen. Uh we don't want that to happen. That would probably be the worst. You go through this and then uh in five years you realize you put somebody in who was no better.

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BTC: Right? That would be a disaster which is why the Trump administration has spent the last 12 months vetting and grooming the perfect individual to lend the Iranian people on this new path toward freedom. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for the next leader of Iran.

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Trump: Well, most of the people we had in mind are dead.

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BTC: Oh. Um, well, that is unfortunate. I can only assume there was someone that your administration had secretly dubbed option B in the very likely scenario that this would happen. You know, not your dream scenario, but more of a 2 a.m. at an Applebee's. They just said last call and this person is here, so what the hell kind of thing. So, uh, let's hear it.

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Trump: And now, uh, we have another group. They may be dead also.

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BTC: Shit. No matter. That's what the backup backup plan is for. When your ideal person is gone, you've been shot down by the last Applebee's patron, not to mention the cook, bartender, dishwasher, janitor, and person who just loiters outside asking to bum a smoke. You know that you could always turn to what intelligence officials have dubbed the booty call of Iran's next leadership. So, uh, let's hear that third option.

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Trump: So, I guess you have a third wave coming and pretty soon we're not going to know anybody, but we have, uh, I mean, Venezuela was so incredible.

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BTC: Or you can change the subject and just pretend like it doesn't matter. Holy shit, there is absolutely no plan. No plan for going in, no plan for leadership. We don't even have a clear timeline. Yesterday, Trump said this war would take four to 5 weeks and today, he tweeted, "Wars can be fought forever."

So somewhere between forever and a month and a half. Yes, Americans can expect the same general timeline as Trump's marriages. They didn't even have a plan when it came to getting Americans overseas out of harm's way.

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Reporter: Air travel right now is severely restricted in the Middle East and thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan? And will you send planes to get people out?

Trump: Well, because it it happened all very quickly.

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BTC: Oh, we know it happened quickly. That's why you have a plan in place. It's the same reason people have a plan not to hug trees during a thunderstorm, because lightning also happens very quickly.

But at least on the evacuation front, Marco Rubio was also able to pick up Trump's slack.

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Marco Rubio: Here's the message I want to deliver Americans who are in the Middle East and in need of assistance. It is very important and I ask this of the networks as well. It is important for you to please put both the website and the phone numbers on your screens because we need people. We need to know where you are. We need to know we need to have contact information for Americans that need assistance. They have to register with us because as these options begin to open up and as they open up, we have to be able to call you. We have to be able to reach you. We have to be able to know where you're staying so we can get this information to you and coordinate appropriately.

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BTC: That's right. Just throw some numbers on the screen and hope for the best. Because when it comes to this administration's evacuation of American citizens, they looked at American Idol's voting strategy and said, "Yeah, that should work."

The reality is no one should be shocked when it comes to an action that affects not just the men and women of our military, but every single taxpayer in this country. Donald Trump has no plan. I mean, when it was healthcare, I have concepts of a plan. We can't even get that.

As of last week, Americans were practically unaware that their nation was on the cusp of war with Iran. A war that will cost not just tens of billions of dollars, but will result in numerous casualties as well. And there was no congressional vote for authorization, no evacuation plan in place for Americans in harm's way, no long-term strategy for the future of what this toppled regime may look like. Now, contrast that with this, Donald Trump's ballroom.

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Karoline Leavitt: I do have one other announcement from the White House and from the president. We are proud to announce that the construction of the new White House ballroom will begin. In recent weeks, President Trump has held several meetings with members of the White House staff, the National Park Service, the White House Military Office, and the United States Secret Service to discuss design features and planning.

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BTC: Just a reminder that this was in the summer of 2025, the same time Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, was dealing with the devastating floods in Texas, and was strong-arming every Republican member of Congress to pass his Big Beautiful Bill. And yet still, still he had time to have all those meetings about the design of the ballroom. But an evacuation plan…

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Trump: It happened all very quickly.

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BTC: I'm sure it did. Not once did Donald Trump make his case to Congress, the American people, or news organizations on why we needed to go to war with Iran. But his ballroom..

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Trump: (speaking to Laura Ingraham) The new ballroom will go from here to there and it'll seat a proper number of people and the White House will finally have after 150 years the ballroom that they wanted.

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Trump: (speaking to Kristen Welker) You're going to see the most beautiful ballroom in the world right now.

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Trump: These these uh pictures have been in newspapers. They've been all over the place. And you know, we're very proud of it. It's gotten great reviews.

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BTC: Now, that is true. The reviews were actually in Time magazine. Well, not the real one, but the same fake one that Donald Trump hung up at his golf courses where he miraculously made the cover. Trump talked about it. His press secretary talked about it. They even had to submit, get a load of this, plans.

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Reporter: The administration is going to submit its plans for that new ballroom project to a formal review process, which is expected to be live-streamed in a public meeting today. The ballroom is expected to be completed by the summer of 2028.

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BTC: Wow. How about that? Even the ballroom gets a fucking end date. We saw ballroom photos. The administration took ballroom questions. There was a ballroom price tag. I mean, it was total bullshit and doubled, but they at least floated a number. Donald Trump has put so much thought into his ballroom, he's still talking about it while we're at war with Iran.

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Trump: In about a year and a half from now, you're going to see a very, very beautiful building. And there's your entrance to it right there. In fact, it looks so nice, I don't think I'll even I think I'll save money on the doors because it can't get more beautiful than that. I picked those drapes in my first term.

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BTC: Yes. While Barack Obama spent his first term working to provide Americans with affordable healthcare, Donald Trump chose to focus his first term on drapes. Because, as we all know, Donald J. Trump is a drapist. We've seen the photos. We've heard the stories. Trump doesn't care how old the building is. He will not take no for an answer because drapists never do.

Donald Trump has had more meetings, done more planning, and has lost more sleep over his ballroom than he ever has over his war with Iran. And that's because he is not fit to be president. He is a builder. Governance is about having a strategy for things to go right and a plan for when things go wrong. But incompetence is Oh, how do I put this?

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Trump: It happened all very quickly.

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BTC: Exactly.