The Shawn Ryan Show Review

The Shawn Ryan Show was my third podcast listening to but it has since passed Crime Junkie and moved to the number two spot. He interviewed Mike Waltz, current U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. They talked of a lot of Waltz and his military history. Of course, Waltz was praising Trump throughout the show. He liked to spend a lot of time blaming Biden and praise Trump. When he was giving his military background, he was talking about an interpreter he worked with in Afghanistan. He said the interpreter was left behind by the Biden administration but they are still working on it. I could find no information specifically about this interpreter. But blaming Biden for this while praising Trump about everything during the episode is laughable considering Trump's public opposition to helping Afghans who helped us in the war. Here is an example of Trump cancelling refugee flights from Afghanistan including of those who helped in the war. The below picture of an Afghan interpreter arrested by ICE in 2025 comes from this article. He spent years helping the U.S. for years fight the Taliban, but the American electorate unfortunately voted for bigotry so he's got to go. Absolute betrayal.

Waltz also referenced Biden's disasterous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Criticizing Biden on this is fair game but someone who criticizes Biden while praising Trump on Afghanistan is just a partisan. Under Trump, the agreement was made that released thousands of Taliban prisoners who predictably returned to their jihad. Releasing thousands of prisoners who it took years and many U.S. lives to capture obviously made Biden's withdrawal more difficult and dangerous. But the partisans just ignore this obvious fact. A lot of the Trump worship by Waltz was sickening. The episode was Shawn Ryan leaving Trump sycophancy to be unchallenged no matter how absurd the claim is. I don't know whether Ryan knew how ridiculous the claim about the interpreter was. Any listeners who get their information from this show will be misinformed. I give it 0/5.