Trump’s Iran Threats Get Wilder; But That’s What Failure Sounds Like

Trump’s Iran Threats Get Wilder; But That’s What Failure Sounds Like

From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

April 20, 2026 · 18 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Trump's escalating threats towards Iran and the implications of US foreign policy failures in the region.

Hormuz has shown Trump that punishment is not the same thing as control - he has plenty of the first but a rapidly shrinking amount of the second. Right, so to say Donald Trump has been repeatedly and mercilessly punching himself between the legs with regards to Iran these last few days would be an understatement, I would imagine Little Donnie’s Little Donnie must resemble something akin to orange pate by this point such has been the degree of failure and if I’ve left you feeling somewhat nauseous over that mental image, it’s pretty much justified, because whether you’ve seen the reporting on all of this or not, the breadth of failure on the part of the US currently is truly astounding. Let’s start with a return to negotiations after JD Vance went on a 16 hour jolly to Pakistan, achieved nothing and then went home. Trump has just told the world that his representatives will be heading back to Islamabad for negotiations with Iran, except he’s done that after the United States went ahead and blockaded Iranian ports, after the US Navy has fired into the engine room of the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska, after Marines boarded it, after he has gone on Truth Social threatening to…

Topics covered

  • Trump
  • Iran
  • US foreign policy
  • negotiations
  • Strait of Hormuz

Keywords

  • negotiations
  • blockade
  • oil prices
  • military actions

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Touska

Places: Iran, US, Pakistan, Islamabad, the United States, the Strait of Hormuz

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