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Podcast: The DSR Network
Episode: The Daily Blast: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as New Leaks on War Humiliate Him Badly
Description: Officials are leaking to NBC News that Donald Trump gets updates on the Iran war in video compilations of successful strikes. One official describes these sanitized montages as âstuff blowing up,â and Trump allies fear heâs being misled. Thatâs humiliating. By contrast, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is portraying him as a world-historical statesman: She just laughably claimed that heâs brilliant at uniting our allies behind him (the opposite of reality in this war). She asserted that the truth is whatever Trump says it is. And she obsequiously threatened that Trump will unleash âhellâ on Iran, a juvenile and despi...