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Jeffrey Goldberg Has Entered the Chat
Season 2025 · Episode 27

Jeffrey Goldberg Has Entered the Chat

The David McWilliams Podcast · David McWilliams

April 3, 202550m 43s

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Show Notes

On Wednesday, we watched in real time as America’s trade policy devolved into a parody of itself. Trump’s Liberation Day was part Caesar, part Mattress Mick, all empty bluster. A dodgy chalkboard of made-up numbers, a crowd in high-vis, and a president who thinks tariffs are just theatre. You may also have heard that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic and friend of the pod, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat planning actual U.S. airstrikes. He joins us to talk about what it revealed: a deeply unserious administration where war, trade, and global diplomacy are being handled like a lad’s WhatsApp group. We break down the chaos, the consequences for Ireland and Europe, and why standing up to this kind of performative thuggery might be the only option left.

And by the way you can get $20 off a digital sub to The Atlantic at theatlantic.com/dmwpod.


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