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5 min readThe Thin Line Between War and Murder
When President Trump's plane departed Turkey, reporters were told to close their window shades—an instruction they had never received before. The request wasn't procedural. It was a map problem. The old blue-and-white jet, the one reporters had spent months mocking for its outdated appearance, is armored with missile warning sensors, electronic countermeasures, and shielding hardened against nuclear blasts. The new gold-trimmed plane Trump had been showing off like a new truck? It doesn't have any of that. The retrofit was rushed from years into months, and one former CIA official said it's not ready for prime time overseas. Meanwhile, Turkey shares a border with Iran, whose drones and ballistic missiles can reach eight hundred miles. The airport sat inside that ring. The palace was sent ahead to England, twenty-five hundred miles away, safely out of range. The armor, it turns out, was a map problem.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:40) **Trump's Mortality & Iran Strategy** - Glenn explains Trump's recent comments about threats and death, interpreting them as a psychological coping mechanism to compartmentalize danger and continue public life.
- 2 (06:30) **The Window Shades Incident** - Reporters on Trump's new plane were ordered to close window shades before takeoff from Turkey, a rare security measure.
- 3 (10:30) **Soldier vs. Assassin: The Rules of War** - Glenn distinguishes between a military strike (war) and a hired assassination (murder), arguing that the U.S. must uphold this distinction to protect its own leaders.
- 4 (14:50) **Trump's Likely Plan: Finding an Albert Speer** - Glenn speculates Trump is trying to find an Iranian leader willing to survive by abandoning the regime's apocalyptic ideology.
- 5 (16:00) **The Press on the Plane** - Glenn notes the irony that the press, which fixated on the plane's gold trim and cost, ignored the security vulnerabilities until the shades came down.
- 6 (18:07) **Listener Question: America's Story** - A mother writes in, distressed that her 14-year-old daughter believes America is not great, citing "no one's illegal on stolen land."
- 7 (21:18) **Smithsonian's Rewritten History** - Glenn describes his disappointing visit to the National Museum of American History, finding the exhibits boring and skewed.
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Glenn tells the story of how President Trump traveled to Turkey in a fancy new plane, but due to the Iranian threat near the border, Trump had to fly back in an old armored jet with the shades lowered. Glenn discusses the downfall of the once-informative Smithsonian Museum, which he claims has now been captured by self-loathing revisionism that turns American heroes into villains and core values into racial flaws. Glenn Beck producer and co-author of "Chasing Embers" Mikayla Hedrick joins to discuss the release of the audiobook and the production behind it.
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