The Trump Report

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• ‘It’s absurd’ | Justin Wolfers analyses Trump’s ‘dumbest’ trade wars yet

  October 6, 2026 · 29 min

  Economist Justin Wolfers joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s emergency action on soaring diesel prices, rising inflation and business costs, the decline in US manufacturing jobs despite tariff promises, stalled trade negotiations with…

• Trump’s failures are of ‘epic proportions’ — and won’t change until he’s out | Lt Gen. Ben Hodges

  October 5, 2026 · 33 min

  Lt General Ben Hodges joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s Iran war, the growing strain on US military resources, Zelenskyy defying Trump to intensify strikes on Russia’s oil industry, controversial US-Russia business talks and the threat…

• Trump heading for a 'meltdown' as Nobel Peace Prize hopes take major blow

  October 2, 2026 · 21 min

  Olivia Troye, former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s Iran war contradictions, collapsing polling, depleted US weapons stockpiles, tariffs and his pursuit of…

• Trump just brought Elon Musk back — and it’s a ‘terrible idea’ | Scott Lucas

  October 1, 2026 · 52 min

  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…

• Trump risks ‘incompetence of the highest order’ with ‘extremely dangerous’ move | John Bolton

  September 30, 2026 · 24 min

  Ambassador John Bolton joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s Iran war, his relationships with Xi and Kim Jong Un, the extraordinary China weapons claim, potential Russian sanctions relief, Trump's “utter lunacy” Canada war, Carney’s rise…

• One of Trump's ‘big lies’ is about to come crashing down | Charlie Sykes

  September 29, 2026 · 32 min

  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. Hosted on…

• Trump’s bizarre move is ‘more evidence he’s losing it’ | Sean Bell analyses Xi weapons offer

  September 28, 2026 · 25 min

  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…

• Trump's tariff war fiasco has officially ‘failed’ — Canada was the last straw | Rick Wilson

  September 25, 2026 · 30 min

  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…