Trump's Mile-Hide Club

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**Jon Favreau** (1:33)
Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (1:35)
I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

**Jon Favreau** (1:36)
On today's show, Donald Trump catches a ride on a catering truck to escape the cronians who are trying to kill him and or cause him to lose the midterms, whichever comes first. We'll also talk about how your tax dollars are being used to buy brand new gloves for ice agents that can deliver an electric shock to anyone they touch. That is true. Also a wild story about DHS spying on everyone from labor unions and climate groups to random citizens, just because they can. Then with the last of the major contested primaries behind us in Wisconsin and Minnesota, we'll talk about why the polling was so far off and why that won't stop us from speculating about November. Finally, we'll bid a fond farewell to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and compare our rankings of who we think is most likely to get the job next.
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**Dan Pfeiffer** (2:28)
It's really outside the box.

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**Dan Pfeiffer** (3:34)
There are all kinds of jokes I was going to make, but none of them seem to work. So I'm just going to go with the right answer. Is it Quagmire?

**Jon Favreau** (3:40)
It is Quagmire. That's the headline and one of the most read Politico stories of the week. The Iran war is a whole new level of Quagmire for the US.
Both Trump and the Iranians are claiming that they're in control of the Strait of Hormuz, which can't be true. And the Strait remains functionally closed. I think only 14 vessels went through yesterday. Gas prices are higher than they have ever been at this time of year in the United States ever in history. The war also continues to deplete our military. The Washington Post reports that we've lost about a quarter of our supply of Reaper drones. We're using up our limited supplies of both Patriot and Tomahawk missiles. And some of our service members have been deployed so long that on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is an aircraft carrier that's been in the Middle East since November, several of the 5,000 sailors and Marines on board have tried to jump overboard due to the stress and horrible conditions. That's according to both the Military Times and Stars and Stripes.