Unreliable Boyfriend

Trumpism Is Backfiring

The Ezra Klein Show, 20 October 2026. The book comes up at 2 min 46 sec in.

Ezra Klein introduces Chrystia Freeland as the author of "Unreliable Boyfriend," her insider account of navigating America's volatile approach to Canada and its allies. The book is referenced during the interview when Klein notes that Trump's first-term trade talks, as Freeland recounts them, felt genuinely about trade, and that her Moscow experience informs her current analysis of oligarchic capture of American business.

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