Trump’s Iran Blockade Gets More Absurd by the Hour #553 -The Fifth Column
April 15, 2026
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Trump’s Iran policy gets harder to explain by the minute. The guys dig into the “blockade of the blockade,” the endless talks about talks, J.D. Vance’s failed diplomacy, and the very real possibility that no one involved has the faintest idea how any of this ends.
Along the way, they also find time for Chris Matthews, Fang Fang, Kevin Spacey, Barney Frank, anti-gambling screeds, Matt Welch’s center-seat paranoia, Dr. Jesus, Trump versus the Pope, and why parts of the American right remain weirdly obsessed with Viktor Orbán. A perfectly normal episode.
(00:00) Cold Open
(00:53) Eric Swalwell
(05:57) Fang Fang and Kevin Spacey
(09:04) Gambling is for Losers
(13:01) Matt’s Center-Seat Phobia
(14:56) A Blockade of the Blockade
(19:29) Iran
(24:20) Dr. Jesus
(26:02) Trump vs. the Pope
(28:56) Orbán and the American Right
(35:34) CPAC Hungary
(45:42) J.D. Vance’s Orbán Problem
(50:48) Hungary as Ideological Fantasy
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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