The Trump Report

Former British Army colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss the best and worst case scenarios for Friday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, how the Russian dictator will actively try and avoid bruising the US President’s ego and what will be the “only” situation Volodymyr Zelenskyy would ever concede land to Russia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Putin will be playing long term to cement Russia’s position as a superpower.”In the build up to the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska this Friday, Times Radio's Jo Crawford is joined by Igor Novikov, former senior advisor to Zelensky on US relations, to discuss how this meeting will go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jimmy Rushton - Kyiv based journalist & foreign policy expert - joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss Russia’s exaggerated claims its broken through frontlines near Pokrovsk, whether Donald Trump will sell out Ukraine by agreeing to give up land to Russia and if secondary sanctions should still be imposed on Russia before Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Donald Trump on Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Scott Lucas joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s upcoming face-to-face meeting, what sort of things the Russian leader will try to convince the US President and how the interests of Ukraine can be prioritised if Volodymyr Zelenskyy isn’t invited to the table. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former MSNBC moderator & podcast host Chuck Todd joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss the likelihood Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet face-to-face next week, whether the US President needs to push for Ukraine to be allowed at the negotiating table and how the Trump administration's newly instated tariffs could disrupt the economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Economist and Professor Justin Wolfers tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee what effect the end of Donald Trump's tariff pause will have on the global economy and why 'the R word' is being talked about again in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sir Bill Browder joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss Donald Trump claiming Russia’s economy “stinks”, how India could end the war in Ukraine tomorrow if it stopped purchasing Russian oil and weapons and the 22-year-old alleged lovechild of Vladimir Putin alludes to criticising her father for taking "millions of lives”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss Donald Trump ordering the repositioning of two US nuclear submarines in response to “foolish” comments made by Russia’s former president, whether the US President will follow through on his economic threats to Russia and India, and if Steve Witkoff’s upcoming visit to Moscow will help broker the end to the war in Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Trump is angry, Trump is frustrated, Trump wants this all to be solved just like that."Times Radio's Jo Crawford is joined by Scott Lucas, professor of US politics at the University College Dublin’s Clinton Institute, and also founder and editor of EA WorldView. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon joins Times Radio’s Maddie Hale to discuss Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on imported Indian goods and an undisclosed penalty for buying Russian oil and weapons, why Vladimir Putin’s ‘summer offensive’ has “failed miserably” and how Ukraine’s drone strikes on St Petersburg prompted Vladimir Putin to cancel his annual naval parade out of fear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.