# “There’s No National Interest With Trump, Just Personal” Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal.md Podcast: [To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870) Published: 2026-03-26T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/to-the-contrary/episodes/69c47789a3dddd45e9ad6268 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad/e/69c47789a3dddd45e9ad6268/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/episodes/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal Duration seconds: 2742 ## Resource Phillips O'Brien is a historian and Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In this episode, he joins Charlie to discuss the different ways Trump could operate in Iran right now and the biggest obstacle to it all — the fact that Trump is only motivated by personal gain and that many people have given up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/episodes/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.