{"id":334967,"date":"2026-04-15T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pope-china-blockade-has-trump-lost-the-plot\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:00:03","slug":"pope-china-blockade-has-trump-lost-the-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pope-china-blockade-has-trump-lost-the-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope, China, blockade: has Trump lost the plot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sLU6EZlEOWA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Pope, China, blockade: has Trump lost the plot?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLU6EZlEOWA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump says his war with Iran is \u201cclose to over\u201d and there\u2019s reports of more peace talks coming soon, but this isn\u2019t the first time the US president has said an end to the war is imminent &#8211; so what\u2019s actually going on? <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>This comes off the back of a week where the president has picked a fight with the Pope, he then went on the attack against Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for cancelling a defence agreement with Israel and to top it off his other European ally, Viktor Orban of Hungary, was ousted after 16 years of power. <\/p>\n<p>So, is this the week it all went wrong from Trump? Matt Frei and Anushka Asthana discuss. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump says his war with Iran is \u201cclose to over\u201d and there\u2019s reports of more peace talks coming soon, but this isn\u2019t the first time the US president has said an end to the war is imminent &#8211; so what\u2019s actually going on? 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