Bulwark Takes - Trump Freaking Out, Cusses at Reporters Over Failed Ceasefire

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

Tim Miller and Sam Stein deep dive into Trump’s explicit comments at reports as frustration gets the best of him due to the unraveling ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Bring on the good vibes and treat yourself to Soul today! Go to https://GetSoul.com and use the code BULWARKTAKES for 30% off your order.

Hey guys, Tim Miller from the Bulwark here with managing editor Sam Stein, uh, wanted to run through, uh, just the wild timeline of the ceasefire, no ceasefire dance, uh, we're seeing, I guess, our, our great president, uh, in his judiciousness, uh, last night tweeted or bled that we were six hours away from a ceasefire people. He was naming his own war. We're going to call it the 12 day war. We're going to go to a moment of great peace.

We love everyone. We love Iran. We love Israel. That was him last night on social media. It was followed by Iran bombing Israel right up to, and I think a little after the ceasefire was supposed to happen, resulting the deaths of several Israelis. Uh, and some real damage followed by Israel then bombing.

And then Iran sent another weak missile and Israel bombed again. And then Trump got a little upset about it this morning before we play Mr. Trump cussing about how his great ceasefire is, is maybe finicky at the moment. Sam, any big any takes on what we've seen overnight? No, it's dizzying. Okay. Here's Trump after all of that He was heading out to looks like Marine one there and yes marine one on the way to the NATO summit Where he's supposed to be talking about all this stuff. So he's obviously, you know got a lot in his mind I'm sure our NATO allies very excited to see him.. Let's watch a very frustrated President of the United States.

Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either.

But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not happy about that. You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? So there it is. The F-bomb, dropping the F-bomb no longer is our... We love Israel.

We love Iran. Great peace. Now it's fuck Israel. Fuck Iran. What the fuck is wrong with you guys? Now, you know, we like cussing around here in the board. So nothing wrong with it, but I would never cuss shit. Fucking fuck this shit.

Fucking bullshit. You know, he fucked it all up. The tone with which he dropped it, like reveals the, like, I think he really might've thought he had something there. He thought he had his Nobel prize and it was running into the reality of a, a centuries old conflict between the Persians and the Jewish homeland. Yeah, that might be a little harder to resolve than a bleak.

Look, Andrew Weigert at Morning Chats cataloged this in this morning's edition, like six stages. There was a relief when this was first announced and then triumph. We didn't have this because it wasn't on video, but he told NBC after the ceasefire, this is the quote, the ceasefire is unlimited. It's going to go forever. I don't believe they will ever be shooting at each other again. That's a pretty high bar. And they were shooting each other like eight minutes after that didn't take long. Then he was a little bit worried and then obviously frustrated and then down right pissed as he got on the plane for the NATO summit. And then he followed that up

by saying, well, you know, I talked to them and they're just going to do what he called the plane wave, I believe. So we're going through the stages here. This stuff is pretty complicated. I mean, honestly, I'm hopeful that he can get this resolved. I was, in fact, you know, happy to see the resolution that was announced last night could have spun off in a really horrible direction that I don't think anyone wants. And so, you know, I'm willing to give the guy credit if he can get a resolution. But history and certainly anyone who's worked in this area knows it's not going to, you know, it's not going to just end.

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the IAEA, the IAEA, the IAEA, the IAEA, the IAEA, the IAEA, the IAEA, the IAEA, the ayatollah right so like with a wide range of views from kind of more moderate to more more interested in working with uh the other gulf countries to more radical so you know i mean like there are a lot of other players at the table here um you know and he thinks he can just will his way he being trump thinks he can just will his way through this and he'll shoot his way through it and just say i look i mean he made that you know i do think he believes his own powers to make his own reality you know, I do think he believes his own powers to make his own reality. You know, he saw that with the 2020 election and he's live.

Like literally last night is as Zeran has a rare missile getting through the iron dome, crushing, you know, a building in Southern Israel, Trump simultaneously. I was like watching this live on social media is bleeding. We couldn't have made today's deal happen without the talent and the courage like he's just out there doing like we did it. We're the best at the same time as like people are dying. So, you know, like, I don't who knows Brock Rovita is reporting that Trump

did have some impact in getting BB to dial back the counter attack that was happening this morning. So on that for a second, because that's kind of interesting in the very sort of narrow sense here we have a president who is putting the pressure of the US government on Israel to not take an offensive measure of war. Right. Yeah. And JVL was rightfully noting in our slacks like when Biden did this, when he encouraged the Israelis to not use massive bombs on Gaza, it was considered an act of utter betrayal. Now, no one's ever like said, ah, we have, you know, there's going to be, there's got to be consistency here because everyone knows that that's never going to be the case. But it is notable that

Trump gets away with, you know, telling this morning saying the Israelis fucked up, that they were more in the wrong than the Iranians and then demanding that Netanyahu hold back. Uh, no one, no other president could get away with that stuff. Yeah, it is notable. Two thoughts on this one. One of my, uh, one of my Zionist friends, I was just monitoring his social media today, um, and was like, what in the fuck is this? Like, why is it fuck Israel and fuck Iran?

Why is it Iran is great and Israel is great. Why is he telling us what not to do when it's us at risk? So, you know, I do think that sometimes the perception from Israel is a little different than the perception from, you know, the American politics of it all. Sure. My other observation is, Bibi, like, some of this might be just working Trump, like that, nothing is Brock Revit has been an amazing reporter on all this. And like, you know, you can report what you're told in the situation.

If you're Israel and you just dropped some missiles on Iran and you see Trump is cussing, it's easy to be like, well, we're going to do more, but we kind of, we dialed it back a little bit, you know, like there's, there's, there's multiple things happening here. There's public facing PR and KFAV. And then there's working Trump and trying to manage Trump, which is, you know, something that Israel's done to quite a great effect. Right.

No, and I get that. And I understand. I understand the desire to do that. Do you think that BB's worried that he might offend Trump too much to the point where Trump actually breaks the US Israel alliance in a meaningful way? No, no, I didn't think so. I think the big question mark for me is what happens because look, we again, we're like, we're all waiting to see how serious

the ceasefire is. And I think if history is a guide, it's more likely than not that there's going to be more skirmishes, right? And I think we need to figure out what happens if for instance, the Iranians do launch another missile. Like, is baby going to hold back because Trump wants his 12 day war not to become a 15 day war? At what point does that break? And I guess I'm also surprised again to go back to it that Trump was so adamantly angry

at the Israeli side of the equation, which is not usually how domestic political consumption happens here. Usually it is, you know, you're more likely to get angry at the Iranian side of the equation here. All right. I've got to run. And so we'll have more chances to do other videos on this. But as we're saying, it's speaking of kind of a Persian Jew style deep seated war.

Here's Mark Levin, who has been pro Trump's actions in Israel going after Steve Bannon has been criticizing him. Steve Bannon, a disgusting fraud. Nobody gives a shit about what you, a confessed and convicted fraudster has to say. You're a liar. You're a certified disgusting fraud. So I think the internal battle in MAGA will continue as the external events unfold. Sam Stein, thank you so much.