Jonathan Guyer on Trump’s Middle East Trip | NewsNation Now Interview
Program Director Jonathan Guyer joins NewsNation Now to discuss President Trump’s trip to the Middle East and share insights from his recent article in The American Prospect, “The Trump Factor in the Middle East” (March 31, 2025).
Jonathan breaks down the Trump administration’s many, often contradictory, Middle East policies — and explains why this chaotic approach just might work, at least for the now.
Originally aired May 15, 2025.
Jonathan is the Program Director of the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group’s Independent America program.
This post is part of Independent America, a research program led out by Jonathan Guyer, which seeks to explore how US foreign policy could better be tailored to new global realities and to the preferences of American voters.
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