The Trump Report

Professor Scott Lucas joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s Iran war, soaring diesel prices and depleted US weapons stockpiles, as well as Russia and Ukraine, growing tensions within NATO, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon overhaul and the “terrible idea” of bringing Elon Musk into planning the future of US warfare.

Political podcaster and author Charlie Sykes joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s escalating war with Canada, his media crackdown, mixed signals on Russia and Iran, growing cracks in MAGA and Republican fears over the midterms.

Retired Air Vice Marshal and military analyst Sean Bell joined the show to discuss Trump’s Iran war and peace talks, depleted US weapons stockpiles, the suspected RAF Fairford terror plot, his bizarre Xi weapons offer, China and Russia’s growing leverage, and his latest pressure on Ukraine.

Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s Xi Jinping meeting and why he says the tariff war has failed, fears over Taiwan, Putin’s G20 invite, Don Jr.’s Russian oligarch controversy, Trump’s media ban and growing Republican panic that he could cost them the midterms.

Professor Scott Lucas joins Maddie to discuss Trump inviting Putin to the G20, his red-carpet welcome for Xi Jinping, growing cracks between America and its traditional allies, how Denmark and Greenland “played an absolute blinder” over the Greenland deal, and Trump’s media ban backfiring as the White House scrambles to defend it.

Professor Justin Wolfers joins The Trump Report to break down Trump’s “bonkers” economic plans, from a possible diesel export ban and new tariff threats against China and India to his claims about the US economy, as Trump pushes allies away and Mark Carney builds new partnerships towards a potential post-Trump world order.

Professor David Cay Johnston joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s escalating media war, Ukraine and Russia, why he believes Denmark and Greenland “brilliantly played” Trump and a psychiatrist labels his behaviour “abnormal and pathological.

Professor Scott Lucas joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump being rattled by Canada, Carney’s pivot to Europe, his mounting economic problems, tensions with Saudi Arabia over the Houthis, Trump Jr.’s Russian oligarch controversy, Hegseth’s Pentagon troubles and Tucker Carlson’s Epstein cover-up claim.