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a traitor, a felon, a loser, a predator, an abuser, someone who spent the weekend. and earlier today praising Kim Jong-un. while attacking our allies, while not. giving our troops, our courageous Navy. sailors and marines aboard aircraft. carriers and on ships and stationed in. military bases across the world the. basic supplies they need to survive. the. nutrition that they need to sustain.

their own health while at the same time. focusing on changing the aesthetic of. our super carriers and ships because he. likes the way battleships look because. he loves steam catapults just because. and doesn't like electromagnetic. launchers. somebody who cozies up to Xi. Jinping and Vladimir Putin while again. attacking NATO and destroying America's.

standing in the world all while covering. up a child sex trafficking ring in the. Epstein files while running around. saying deal I did a deal deal. we'll talk about that and more on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. I'm. Ben Meelis joined by Brett and Jordy. New depths of depravity right now, brothers. And Iran is watching this. Earlier today, they announced, "Okay,

we're not just going to sit around while. you do a blockade and act like a. lunatic. Okay, we're going to give you a. deadline now, Donald. And if in the next. few weeks you don't comply with theou. terms that you agreed with, we'll go on. the offense. We're not just going to sit. around and do nothing while you're out. there behaving this way. Let's talk. about it all. Good to be here, Ben. Good. to be here, Jordy. Good to be here, Midas Mighty. I always love doing the. the shows with the brothers. Always.

always a good time. You know, I think a. lot about I keep seeing Fox say this and. this is their line that they have said. for decades and decades and decades, right? We need to speak in their. language. We need to show strength and. that is what Donald Trump is doing. And. I just look at everything that's going. on and I see the weakest, most most. pathetic individual on the planet. How. is it showing strength every day saying, "Oh yeah, they're begging me for a deal. A deal's right around the corner.". Making up fake conversations about back. channels and all this other garbage. Like Iran knows exactly what is going on.

behind the scenes. And when Donald Trump. does stuff like that, it only reveals. his desperation. Really only just shows. how he does not have any sort of. strategy in this war. And we know that. there are people in his own party who. are privately behind the scenes. They. know that Donald Trump has no strategy. in this war. We know our soldiers, our. brave men and women overseas right now. They are wondering why the hell are we. here? What are we even fighting over? And as we get more and more and more.

stories from our service members uh. aboard the USS Lincoln and by the way, above numerous other ships, we've been. getting messages uh from family members. Um it's just honestly just devastating. uh to read what is going on. Uh they do. not want them speaking to the media. Uh. they are are really trying to keep this. on the lockdown. They don't want anybody. knowing about the true extent of the. crisis that is happening overseas right. now. They just want to spread their fake. news through their scentcom accounts and. through Donald Trump and Pete Hexith's.

Twitter accounts. But we're here to try. to get the truth out as best we can. Get. around those barriers that the White. House, the Trump regime has set up, and. we're going to do that here today. Jordy, what's the latest on your end? >> Brothers, mighty, it is great to be. here. I know we have a lot to get into, and I'm excited to talk about all of it. Uh, look, Brett, Ben mighty, when Donald. Trump is more concerned over the uh. treatment of how Gain Maxwell and and. her living conditions are going than the. United States armed services. Well,

doesn't that just say it all? Doesn't. that just say it all about Donald Trump. and his willingness to protect our US. troops, the people in the United States, this country? And look, it is just so. disappointing every single day. like I. more and more, not that I was expecting. anything at all from Donald Trump in. this second Trump regime as we're living. through it, but like even my. expectations are just so bottomed out. from uh what I was at least I guess. hopeful for. This guy is not a leader.

Every day that he sits as president of. the United States, we are less safe. Our. military is less safe. Domestically, we. are less safe. And it's continuing to. play out before our eyes. I am grateful. that we have this incredible, you know, community here, the mightest mighty, this pro-democracy community that just. continues to fight and push forward and. demand the truth and demand to know the. facts and data and receipts. Excited to. bring that to today's show. Benji, where. are we starting off? Look, a felon is. behaving like a felon. A sexual predator. is behaving like a sexual predator. A.

bankruptor is behaving like a. bankruptor. Yes, the guy who banks. casinos, bankrupts our military, right? He puts all this money that he raised. into casinos. Bankrupt trillions of. dollars in our military down the drain. We're out of weapons. We're out of. interceptors. We're out of food for our. service members. We are retreating from.

American military bases relegated to a. base in Diego Garcia which doesn't have. the logistic capabilities to service the. aircraft carriers and ships the way our. bases in the Middle East did. This is a. predictable. and foreseeable consequence when you put. a felon, predator, bankruptor, lifelong. loser and liar in charge. It's actually. quite simple. What distorts is when.

people try to have debates that act like. this is normal and on one side of debate. is this side, on the other side of the. debate is that side. No, there really. isn't a debate to be had. What we have. to do is call out the fact that this is. a horrible evil loser of a human being. doing horrible and evil things and. destroying the United States each and. every day. If there was a playbook on.

how you would very quickly tear apart. the strength of the United States, this. is what you would do. Then you layer on. top of it stuff like JD Vance. this. deserves more attention saying you know. what we don't want the dollar being the. reserve currency of the world it makes. us too powerful and it makes us too. dependent on money and so we should be. focused on I don't know not having our.

dollar be the reserve currency now as. the Trump regime's behavior weakens our. standing causes our Treasury yields to. skyrocket the third year at its highest. highest level since the Great Recession. level and even getting higher. What was. it? 5.2 5.3%. super high which means our borrowing. costs are super high over $1.3 trillion. a year to service our debt. This creates.

a weaker financial position for the. United States. And it feels like JD. Vance is out there foreshadowing or it's. not even foreshadowing anymore letting. us know the decline that they're. bringing in and they're trying to frame. it as a plus with everything they do. It's dismantling the United States of. America from within. They are the snake. that this country let in. And that. snake's venom has infected this country.

and we need to call it out. Predictably. this morning, state regime media Fox. went on air with Trey Yinst. Donald. Trump either leaks now to Trey Yinst or. to Barack Ravid. Notably, both report. from Tel Aviv, which is also just a. strange thing that the two main people. he leaked to are in Tel Aviv. So, I. understand that there is a war in the. Middle East, but it's fascinating that.

this Trey Inks guy is always in Tel. Aviv. And then you have Barack Ravid. Obviously, he is in Israel as well. But. that's Donald Trump's two main sources. At the same time, we've also learned. that Kushner met with Netanyahu earlier. today, and Netanyahu said, "No, we are. not ever going to agree to a peace deal. regarding Gaza, regarding a Palestine. state. never going to do it after Donald. Trump three weeks ago announced a fake. peace deal from his border of peace.

regarding Gaza and then made that same. claim last year in October. Yes, he is a. liar. So this morning, Iran knew it was. coming, right? Monday morning, market. manipulation. Who was it going to be? Was it going to be Trey or was it going. to be Barack? Well, today it was Trey. But Iran spoke with Reuters and Wall. Street Journal before that took place. So last night, Wall Street Journal had. their exclusive talking about Iran.

preparing to go on the offense and the. Ayatollah promoting from within more. generals who feel strongly not just. about a defensive posture, but an. offensive posture. And then this morning. on Tasnim, Iran state media and then to. Reuters here in the states, Iran made it. very clear that if the United States did. not comply with theou in the next few. weeks, Iran would go on the offense.

What does that mean? Iran will be. cutting the fiber optic cables and. internet connectivity cables below the. straight of Hormuz, which are fully. exposed, easy to cut. and Iran will. consider going on the offense and. occupying military bases in places like. Kuwait. Iran realizes that the United. States is out of weapons and isn't able. to fight. And the United States has now. moved its only aircraft carrier in the.

Pacific while praising Kim Jong-un, the. USS George Washington, which we also. hear has very bad conditions aboard. They're moving that to the Middle East. because of the reporting on what was. going down in the USS Abraham Lincoln, which was true. And the fact that family. members of our brave sailors and marines. were being more and more vocal and. calling them out. And so the Trump. regime had little choice even though. they continue to defame our sailors and.

marines but to return those ships. And. so Iran realizes that the US is out of. weapons. China realizes it. Russia. realizes it. North Korea realizes it. Our former allies, I suppose, realize it. as well. I say former, are they our. allies anymore? I mean, the way Trump. talks about NATO, the way he talks about. um our alliances in Southeast Asia, the. way he talks about our alliances around. the world, is it just an alliance in. name only at this point? But Iran.

pre-ran Donald Trump's market. manipulation and so they came out with. that. But then like clockwork, Donald. Trump goes to Trey, picks Trey in this. morning, and Donald Trump's like, "We've. got back channel communication with the. IRGC. We're speaking directly with top. IRGC officials." To which the IRGC. immediately responded and said, "Yeah, that ain't happening. That's yet another. lie." And in very strong terms, they.

said, "This speaks to the utter and. complete desperation of the failing. Trump regime." But here's Trey Yinks. talking about how this back channel is. existing and Donald Trump is talking to. the IRGC. Your play. >> the president about the communication. with the Iranians. And interestingly, President Trump confirmed to Fox News. that there is a back channel with the. IRGC. These are the hardline officials. inside of Iran and that the United. States and officials in Washington are. speaking directly with IRGC officials in.

Iran. This is another indication that. the Trump administration is not just. dealing with the political echelon in. Thran, but also some of these hardliners. that have launched attacks against US. forces. It's an indication that Trump is. lying. There's nothing that is true in. what he said. Absolutely. 100% a complete fabrication. And Brett, I'll toss it to you, but an embarrassing. fabrication. We all know. Our sailors. and marines and troops know. The.

families know. The world knows that's. not a true freaking statement. We look. like crazy people here in the United. States. Brett George. >> Yeah, we look nuts. And as I said in the. beginning, like we we look so incredibly. weak. And you know, this is a war that. has played out uh on social media more. than any other war in the history of. mankind. I mean, this and and the. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Uh this is. a new landscape for war right now where. we are seeing information be distributed.

in real time. In the case of the Iran. war, we are seeing statements from the. IRGC. Uh we are seeing uh officials uh. with uh in Tran uh speaking publicly. about all of these issues in real time. And so they haven't exactly been shy. about what's going on behind the scenes. So I think any time in this scenario. where you hear Trump and this is a. strategy that he has deployed for. decades and decades and decades, right? Saying that other people are saying this. thing. They may not have said it.

publicly, but they're having these. secret conversations with him. Guess. what? All these conversations turn out. to be just what's going on in his head. He's hearing voices. He's making it up. As Ben said, the guy is just lying to. everybody. And the fact that this gets. laundered as if it is truth. And then. you have also Trey Yinx there uh. continuing to push this narrative that. kind of the IRGC and the politicians in. Thran are so far apart on all these. things and Donald Trump has to manage. both those things. I feel like what. we've seen is that the leadership in. Thrron has blessed so to speak all the.

actions of the IRGC. They are working. here at one unit. They may have. disagreements about things the same way. anybody's disagreements about things, but they try to act like there is this. huge divide right now in Iran with how. to proceed when Donald Trump's actions. have actually unified all the various. factions across uh across Iran. And when. I look at the situation of Donald Trump. taking our troops uh away from Korea, for example, and I see that lining up. exactly when he is removing our ships.

from Asia to bring them to the Middle. East, I kind of and I I'm not sure I've. heard people speak about it in in this. way, but you know, Trump tries to put on. that, oh, they didn't help us with Iran. I mean, why would they help us with. Iran? They want to get into your failed, ridiculous, illegal war. They didn't. help us with Iran, so I'm pulling the. troops. When I look at it, I actually. see it uh and this is my opinion as a. bit more of desperation of we know that. uh we're running low on munitions here. Uh our soldiers, our our our men and.

women in service are right now uh really. kind of hanging by a thread because of. the treatment that they've gotten and. the long deployments that have lasted. way longer than they were promised. That. I think we need more people. I think. Donald Trump is bringing more people out. of the air because he's getting. desperate in the Iran war. the same way. we needed those ships from Asia to come. because we were running out of supplies. and running out of uh basic uh. humanitarian conditions on ships like. the USS Abraham Lincoln despite Donald. Trump's denials. So, I think this is a, you know, it's it's almost like going to.

the well. Um, you know, the strategic. reserve, which Donald Trump is also. emptying right now, right? Uh, when. you're running low on your supply, you. got to find the supply somewhere else. So, in the case of our soldiers, Donald. Trump is now looking where else do we. have soldiers? Where could I pull them. from? We need more bodies. That is just. my interpretation and I'm sure there are. many interpretations of what's going on. But everywhere you look, you see a very. kind of shrinking power of the United. States in the region and the countries. in the region know it. You know, that's.

why you're seeing these new security. packs form uh in the region because. they're saying we can't trust the United. States security umbrella anymore. Uh. this kind of deal that we've had with. the United States over years and years. and years and years, we can't trust. that. The United States is not a global. leader. So, we're going to form amongst. our Arab nations here. We're going to. form our own security umbrella. And hey, if China wants to help us out with that, great. You know, the United States. certainly isn't helping us out. And so, Trump is also driving anybody who'd be.

willing to help us in the region away. from us to people who are considered our. adversaries. And it's really kind of the. worst case scenario. And it shows you. why this leadership is not only. ineffective, but it's completely. dangerous. And it's why uh you know. Donald Trump is being criticized by. military experts who aren't partisan. hacks on Fox. >> It's exactly that Brett too. It's um you. know obviously first and foremost like. my main concern now is getting out of. this war of choice by Donald Trump and. you know trying to live under some sort.

of of normaly however that might take. shape. But as you talk about our our. allies or or former allies forming their. own packs, forming their their their own. groups here without us leaving us, you. know, just to kind of be on this like. isolated island over here as Donald. Trump wanted it, right? America first. just means America all alone. I worry. about the longstanding issues of how. America could get back in the good. graces of our allies, right? We are. stronger together. We are stronger with.

our allies standing alone. Mm-m. That's. not a good place to be. And I just. wonder how they could ever trust us. again as we move forward here. But. again, first and foremost, got to get us. out of this war of choice that Donald. Trump has has brought us in and has made. people in this country less safe, has. made our troops less safe, and has just. made econom our economy less stable and. less safe. So, as we move forward here, you know, I think it's just important to. remember that Donald Trump is the. world's worst businessman. and he is. running his presidency as if the United.

States is one of his many failed. businesses. This guy has bankrupted. casinos as Ben was talking about. You. know, the number one rule of casinos is. the house always wins. Well, I I guess. not if Donald Trump is is is running it. And that's where we see ourselves right. now as a country just just just. bankrupted by this commanderin-chief. that that doesn't know how to lead. that's just leaving its its its troops. and its citizens out to dry here as he. continues to to fail forward. And it's.

confusing and it's frustrating. And I. know many people kind of, you know, in. my community here and in my, you know, familial circles out here are just genu. like genuinely concerned and frustrated. because they don't see a way out of. this. especially as Donald Trump. continues to sort of leverage America's. um I guess cache if you will um with. these negotiation tactics that he has. the like his negotiating tactics that. that he does. It might have worked when. the cards were rigged in his favor when.

everything was rigged for him. You know, when his daddy was help bankrolling, you. know, lawsuits and things like that and. staffing up legal things so Trump could. stiff the contractors. That might have. worked back then. Now, the issue is he's. dealing with human beings and he's. dealing with lives. He's dealing with. life and death. And he's still trying to. use people like they're pawns in this. war of choice that he's gotten us in. with like realworld implications. Not. just that this business is going to go. under, but that this country is going to.

go under and that we'll never get back. in the good standings of our allies. And. it's just, you know, incredibly, again, frustrating. I don't mean to sound so. doom and gloom here, but it's something. that I've, you know, been saying on this. show and this and this pod is like the. longer Donald Trump remains president, like we are not going to get out of this. war under his presidency because he. cannot effectively lead us out and he. does not have the people around him to. acutely push back on things that are. just non-negotiables for the other side. >> But look, I think there's a way out of.

this hell. By the way, that's part of. the title of our book, WTF America. Um, let's get out of this hell and back to. democracy. Um, and when you see Senator. Oaf's speech in Atlanta, you say to. yourself, there actually is a way out. And Donald Trump's response, Pee-Wee Herman. And Senator Osaf has touched upon a. unifying feeling that I think a lot of. people haven't really even seen since.

they saw some of Obama's speeches uh. when Obama was in the Senate and gearing. up to run for president. But there's a. lot of people out there as well. But one. of the main points we make in the book. and that I reiterate here over and over. again is that we have to build a new. framework for thinking about government. And it's the framework that we always. should have had. And we have to start. asking more basic questions which is. what is even the purpose of government. It is not to have a dystopian reality TV.

show where people who hunger for. attention engage in outrageous behavior. and whoever can suck up most of the. media airtime is someone who's viewed as. more electable. It is who is the best. public servant who serves we the people. It is to root our reporting in the. people. It's why Katie Fang roots her. reporting in the survivors and fights.

for the survivors and she does it. however she can and is doing a very. successful job in it. It's why people. who are affiliated with the Midas touch. network like Aaron Parnes and our. reporting here roots our reporting and. what are the military families saying. even as the Pentagon and Sentcom attack. us and attack Aaron and say our. reporting is false. We know it's true. and we know it's breaking through.

because we're telling the truth from the. perspective of the people who are. actually being impacted. And that's how. we have to ground our stories. When. Scott McFarland reports, he's talking. about the people who are impacted by an. abuse of the Trump regime on legal af. We're hearing from the lawyers who are. in the courtrooms on the front lines who. are fighting for the people. We've done. partnerships with the ACLU, Democracy.

Forward, and other organizations who are. fighting these cases who now have a. platform to tell the truth. That is a. way forward. It is not just talking the. talk and it is reshaping our thinking. about governance. And we need to stop. the split screen media back and forth. This person yells at this person. And we. need to tell the facts and we need to. tell the truth. And we need to bring out. the charts. And we need to look at what. are the gas prices right now. Oh wait,

the highest ever in the history of the. United States at this time in August on. a national average basis. Good or bad? Very bad. Treasury yields 5.2% the. highest since a great recession. Good or. bad? Very bad. What does that mean? It. means we're paying lots of money to. service the interest on our debt, on our. bonds. We're having the worst bond sales. imaginable because foreign countries. don't want to buy our paper anymore.

What's Donald Trump's approval right. now? 3% according to the latest yuggov, the worst in history for Donald Trump. Just as bad, if not worse, than Nixon at. the time that Nixon resigned. Okay, we. got to root it in a facts in the facts. All right, let's take our first quick. break of the show. When we come back, we. still have a lot a lot to cover. We'll. also talk about Donald Trump getting. rebuked in the United States Supreme.

Court rejecting again his appeal and. request for reharing in the E Gene Carol. case. Now, she shows when you stand up. to Donald Trump, you win. He threw. everything out her and Eugene persevered. and Donald Trump has nowhere to go. He's. been found civily liable for sexual. assault and defamation. He's already had. it pay up and the Supreme Court said get. the hell out of here. Essentially, they. didn't even want to hear it or rehear. All right, let's take a break. Reminder, WTF America, that's the title of our.

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Links in description of the YouTube and. the audio. Use the links. Use the codes. If there is an exit survey, let them. know we sent you. Helps us out. Benji, where's your next big bro? >> Got new glasses. I took the Midas. >> And they're not smudged. >> What' you say? >> Sorry. >> No. sometimes. >> You said they're not smudged. G give it. a week. >> No, these are new glasses. I was reading. your comments. You all said I should get. new glasses. And to be fair, I seem much. better. This is a revelation to me. I. should have taken I'm very stubborn. I I.

got to say the emails we get on the. Midas Touch uh inbox, you know, that. people when people submit comments or. questions and and all that stuff is. always very fascinating to to read. You. certainly have a lot of positive. comments, you know, thanks, you know, thanks Ben, watch every day. Thanks, brothers. Really appreciate what you do. Excited to order the book. Just brea. out. A lot of really nice comments, right? Uh, also a lot of comments about. Ben's appearance. [laughter] And Ben's. glass. Ben's glasses. You know, if you. were to do one of those word clouds of.

the things that were submitted to our. email account, Ben's glasses were. probably high up there. I didn't have. the heart to tell him because when he's. in a flow, right, he's got I don't want. I don't have to be thinking about his. glasses, right? >> It's like when a pitcher is pitching a. perfect game, you don't go, "Hey, man, get the next batter out." just also one. of the reasons why I didn't want to. switch because I was getting. superstitious and the GL it was all. working. >> Did the com and we'll get to the news in. a second. Did the comments like. specifically say he needs new glasses or. he just needs to clean them? >> It was it was the comments were fairly. brutal about the glasses they were. But.

they fell they fell into two categories. One the cleaning. Big issue for the. Midas Mighty. Ben's dirty glasses. A lot. of anger about that. A lot of anger. Number two though was the fact that the. glasses weren't properly fitting Ben's. face. Therefore, Ben throughout his. takes needed to constantly be pushing. his glasses up his nose, up the bridge. of his nose. That too was irritating a. lot of people. >> I could see that. Here's the thing. I. took action. I fixed it. I'll tell you. who's not taking action and who's not. fixing it. Smooth transition. Donald.

Trump. >> Wow. [laughter]. Let's talk let's talk very seriously. because while Donald Trump's out there. wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars. running out of expensive interceptors. and attackums and wanting to do a Trump. class of nuclear battleships because. Trump likes the aesthetic of battleships. from circa 1920 to 1940. Donald Trump. says he doesn't like electromagnetic.

launchers for our very sophisticated. aircrafts aboard these aircraft. carriers. Instead, he likes steam. catapults because he likes steam. So, he. wants a complete redo of what's already. been built on our newer aircraft. carriers. Well, he's wasting our money. on that and ripping away our health care. and giving Netanyahu money while the. American people are like, "Wait a. minute. You're bailing out Japan. You're. giving Netanyahu. You're doing all these.

crazy things. You're helping out. Argentina. This was America first. But. this is what But when Trump says. something, just know it's the opposite, right? When it's America first, it's. America last. When Donald Trump says, "I've rebuilt the military," that's an. indication he's destroyed our military. He's literally destroyed our military. I. mean, in addition to just morale being. at an all-time low, just think about it. from the perspective of if our soldiers. are not getting the nutrition they need.

in order to sustain their weight to be. able to live, if the toilets don't work. and the showers are rotten. If you just. think about all the other issues that. exist and then our weapons have been. depleted, our bases were sitting ducks. and Iran was able to strike at will and. they did very tactically while the Trump. regime and sentcom and those Middle East.

former Arab nation allies would go along. and they'd say, "We shot down the. drones. We shot down the drone." So. while that's happening, while our. healthc care has been ripped away, while. Trump has helped Netanyahu build a iron. dome there, uh in Israel, which is the. only remaining area in the Middle East. that seems to have protection from Iran, if you will, um. but not the Arab dome, that failed right. away. Pretty clear that the Arab dome. was literally just a shield for.

Netanyahu at this point. What's going on. in our homeland? Well, the Midas Touch. Network dug up some uh statements by. Northcom Deputy Commander, Lieutenant. General Joseph Gerard. I saw this on. YouTube and uh I I was I went through. this conference and it had like 22 views. when I was watching it on YouTube and. there's a great military blog. I think. it's called TWWZ. They they really go. into detail on a lot of the military.

maneuvering, but I was but I they kind. of queued me into this conference. So I. watched it and I said, "Holy crap, this. is a big deal. This is our Northcom. Deputy Commander, Lieutenant General. Joseph Gerard, giving some major. warnings. First, a warning that the US. despite all this money that been spent. We don't have the capability to defend. against any attack by drone swarms at. all here in the United States. Here's.

what he says. Let's play it. >> The next threat to the homeland can be a. swarm of inexpensive uh drones launched. from inside our own borders rather than. a missile approaching from thousands of. miles away. Does NORAD have the sensor. coverage, authorities and decision speed. necessary to respond? No. And and. >> and could you comment on that on that. and on the gap today? The biggest gap. you see? >> Well, I mean, we we don't we don't have. the sensors um and and we're not uh you.

know, depending on where the that swarm. is going to um attack uh depends on. whether we have any sensors at all. And. so and also whether we've got any. factors to um to get after that problem. So um so I you know we are ill equipped. right now to to handle something like. that and and uh and obviously that is um. we've seen it used uh we're seeing it. used on a daily basis around the world. and we have um we've got to figure.

figure out how to mitigate that threat. and um but we're not there yet. So, our. focus is. Trump class battleships, interceptors that we've depleted, funding iron domes for Netanyahu, and also offensive capabilities used in. the slaughter of people in Lebanon. But. here at home, while our healthc care has. been ripped away, we don't have the most. basic protection for people here in the.

United like pretty damn big deal. Like. that should pretty much be a front page. three siren story there. Brett, >> when when I saw it, my my jaw like. actually dropped. Like they say things. are jaw-dropping. My jaw literally. dropped when I saw that. And honestly, I. I found the way he answered the question. even very chilling after he was asked if. we have those capabilities. How he said. no and kind of chuckled a little bit. Like to me that that really chilled me. to my core. And you think we have this. what $1 trillion dollar military budget.

right now that Donald Trump wants to. make $1.5 trillion dollars, but we don't. have the most kind of basic of defenses. right now to defend in this modern. warfare. It's absolutely outrageous. And. I think, you know, everybody thinks, oh, United States military, right, most. advanced military in the world. They. have tech that, you know, you could. never even dream is real. Well, the fact. that we don't have this technology feels. incredibly dangerous. And then I can't. help but think about kind of all the. other things that Donald Trump has been.

pushing and saying. I can't help but. think first of all uh what kind of Marco. Rubio and and and Trump has been doing. with Cuba. Um because if anyone is going. to launch drones, Cuba is probably a. place and if they're kind of preparing. for some sort of a new kind of Cuban. missile crisis and that's why Cuba's. been on their mind so much right now was. one of the thoughts that came across my. mind. Another thought is Donald Trump. incessantly every single day talking. about the stupid ballroom and the need. for national security with the ballroom.

and posting on his truth social drone. ports on top of the White House. We're. going to have drone ports and drone. defenses and drone drone drone. like. what kind of intel is he seeing where he. thinks that he needs to turn the White. House, the people's house into a. military target, into a military. installation in the United States that. has weapons and drone ports and defenses. and and all these other I get defenses, but the drone ports on the roof of the. White House and this is what he's. pushing in order to get his his gilded. ballroom uh through even though the.

judge who has currently stayed the case. is allowing him to continue all the. national security features. that are. apparently being built underground. The. whole thing, it really kind of opened my. eyes to everything else that was going. on and made me think, you know, and that. that there is a kind of deeper threat. out there uh that they are unprepared. for and that Donald Trump is. increasingly paranoid over. >> Yeah, I agree with you. That chuckle. sent chills down my spine because. usually, you know, when you answer a. question, you you chuckle like that. before saying no. It means not only do.

we not have it, we're not even close to. having the technology that's needed. And. when Donald Trump also is so selfish as. an individual and you see photos of him. with interceptors behind him as he's. golfing in his back swing if we had the. proper technology brothers mightest. mighty I mean my simple question to you. is do you think it would be deployed. correctly anyway or would it look out. for the elite of the elite the top 0.1%. who buddies up with Trump and Mara Lago. sort of pay to keep you safe type of.

scheme if you will and Ben to go on and. continue to use your analogy that you. were using before, right? When he talks. about this, it's really that when he. talks about how good of a negotiator he. is, and he writes a book called The Art. of the Deal about that, you could just. know and bet a thousand bajillion dollar. all your money that he's the world's. worst negotiator. And we're seeing it. play out live in front of our eyes every. single second that this war continues to. rage on. Because let's be clear, though, Trump creates the threat against the. United States by invading places Brett.

and Jordy. So Brett, you mentioned Cuba. Well, the US has an embargo on Cuba and. it has barricaded around Cuba with ships. and is starving the people of Cuba to. death. You could say what you want about. the Cuban government or regime. We're. starving the people to death and then. we're threatening war. Cuba is not on. its own going to launch drones against. the United States. Just launch an.

offensive attack. They're not going to. do that in my humble opinion. Okay. But. if the United States invades it, it's. going to utilize. It's going to be at a. war. Donald Trump believes that. everyone's going to respond like Deli. Rodriguez and allow Trump to steal their. money and put it into bank accounts that. we don't even know where the hell 13 or. 20 billion dollars went. But if you look. at what the CIA and intelligence reports. are of Cuba, there are some of the same.

warnings that existed about Iran that. the Cuban government, despite Trump. speaking with Raul Castro's grandkid and. thinking that that's someone he could. work with, that'll be the Deli Rodriguez. for him, that is not a realistic. solution. Most analysts will tell you. And so we create the threats and invade. places. And Trump says he's doing peace. They go, "What? You you you struck. back." I mean, if you think about even.

the response to Canada, the Trump regime. is saying, "We're angry that Canada. retaliated against our trade war against. Canada." They're supposed to do nothing. They did retaliatory tariffs. Yeah, retaliatory. You attacked them. They retaliated and. they responded. You invaded Iran. You. slaughtered school girls in Manab. By.

the way, that's the most high-profile. war crime. But let's not forget early on. in the war, the Trump regime tried out a. new exploding pellet missile that it was. testing and decided it would test it on. a gym where young girls, this is a. constant theme with the Trump regime, young girls, right? Where young girls. were in volleyball practice in Lener and. we slaughtered 17 little girls playing.

volleyball practice together. Okay, so. Trump attacks and invades and then a. country responds and then it's like, "Oh. my god, how could they be responding?". And D because that's a frequent response. when you attack. If you think about. Trump's litigation posture as well, and. when you talk about the response by the. BBC to Donald Trump's attack on them, it's like he's shocked that they would. notice depositions of the Trump kids.

when they're essential to the claims. being asserted against the BBC regarding. January 6th and Trump claims I was. defamed by 10 billion dollars because. the way you edited the Panorama. documentary. And it made it seem like I. was involved in the J6th insurrection. That defamed me really at the same time. that we heard what you said on J6. You've pardoned the insurrectionists or. commuted them. You tried to create a. fund which frankly still exists in other. forms right now. And you're saying that.

defamed you $10 billion. And then the. BBC tries to serve subpoenas on Trump's. kid and Jared Kushner. And what do they. do? They use the Secret Service to. shield them from being subpoenaed as. though they should not have to. participate in the lawsuit. And Trump. doesn't want to turn over his records. Can I do a doover? Can I change? And. Trump when he is not when he's when the. person he's suing or corporation he's.

suing defends itself, Donald Trump then. pulls a two-week death loop like the. straight of Hormuse. And Trump says, "I. want to amend my complaint. I want to. change it." And then he tries to drag it. out over and over and over again until. he eventually loses. and he does. eventually lose. That's his whole. mindset. You can study how he behaves in. lawsuits like a loser. You can study how.

he behaves in war like a loser. You can. study how he behaves in business like a. loser. That's one of the things here. too. I never want us to have an. authoritarian. I'll be very clear. But. it is also clear that the authoritarian. that spawned here in the United States. is a loser who one of the main images of. him is hiding in a catering container. with his human printer Natalie Harp.

trying to escape from a threat that. Netanyahu told him about which probably. didn't really even exist that Iran was. going to shoot down the old Air Force. One while he was too scared to also fly. on Qatari Air Force One. And here he is. this morning posting stuff like this. It's why the title of our book is WTF. America because it ain't normal what is. happening. And by the way, I think. Senator Oaf, and we talk about this in.

the book, does a great job at calling. out the stuff that's not normal, but. linking it with how people's lives when. people want to live normal lives, how. that is being impacted and harmed by. Donald Trump's abnormal, loser, traitorous, treasonous behavior. in my opinion. So, Donald Trump posts. this this morning. It won't really get a.

headline. If it's reported on, maybe. it'll be like, "Look how crazy Donald. Trump is." You're missing the bigger. piece of it here. Donald Trump posts. this image of Kim Jong-un. Hey, Donald, we cool, right? And it's a photo of Kim. Jong-un and that follows Donald Trump. saying. Kim Jong-un and North Korea are friends. This is what he posted yesterday that. our own military exercises with South.

Korea are hostile. He attacked South. Korea for not joining the United States. in its catastrophic war against Iran and. how the United States, he says, pays for. all of South Korea's defense, which is. false. South Korea pays a lot of money. to have the US there, and there's joint. spending obligations. But what we have to connect this all to.

is the broader situation in the world of. how this behavior has destroyed the. United States standing in the world. And. going back to the point that Jordy made. that is likely irreversible because even. when Trump is gone, countries are going. to remember you brought that guy back. again. Okay, you did it the first time, but you brought the guy back again and. we remember what he did. So, I spend a. lot of time every episode in the morning.

focused on international affairs to. provide education that perhaps our. corporate news is completely ignoring. For example, the formation of the Mecca. Pact, a Sunni alliance, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey. Saudi Arabia and. Turkey were rivals for a long period of. time. the fact that they created their. own version of a NATO and that's how. they refer to it with article five like. defense obligations amongst those. nations. Egypt may be joining soon. Who.

else may be joining soon? Maybe Qar, maybe somebody else. Because Donald. Trump is so weak and pathetic and. thirsty for a deal, he praises the. Meccaact as though that's something that. he did and he's like, "Finally, they did. it." I mean, you you showed the post. This is the post he made. Finally, these. countries did it. very happy to see that. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have. recently and finally signed the Mecca. joint defense agreement. It shows how. the Middle East is coming together and. how countries will finally be able to. defend themselves in a more meaningful.

way. Congratulations, idiot. It's. because you promised to protect them and. you failed at doing that. And now you're. praising Kim Jong-un while our military. leaders and we'll go back to what the. NORAD commander said is saying North. this isn't a game that North Korea poses. currently an existential threat to our. country right now is what the NORAD guy. is saying and that's who you're.

praising. North Korea has launched. multiple ballistic missile tests. recently, bragging about its nuclear. capabilities. And when Trump says. there's nothing that they've done that. was aggressive, they've been quote. unthreatening and respectful. When you. say that, the rest of the world who look. to the United States for leadership have. a collective gasp of what the hell is. going on while Kim Jong-un and Putin are. out there just laughing and saying, "We.

couldn't have designed this better." So. Brett and Jordy, let's go to the last. break right now. I want to cut to you to. talk and get your response about all of. that. Um, we playing less clips of. Trump, which I think the audience. probably appreciates, but more detail as. well. So, let's take our last break. A. reminder, order WTF America right now. Pre-order if you can. Our publisher says. the pre-order is probably the most. important thing to sales and keeping the. momentum. So, if you were thinking,

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>> That's why I got to wreck the. headphones. I. >> think we were I think we were going to. kick it to you after break. >> Were we I don't remember. >> All right. Let me let me show you this. here, Brett, because I wanted to go back. to Trey Yinst reporting out of Tel Aviv. for the Trump regime and state regime. media. Here's Trey Yinst over here uh. talking about how Donald Trump told him. that uh if Oman gets in the way, we're. gonna bomb the out of Oman, Donald.

Trump says. Now, I want to say this. before we play the clip. Oman was the. last port call for the USS Abraham. Lincoln. And so that's a place that we. rely on for our troops to be fed. Okay. And the other place was Bahrain, which. the fifth fleet over there, which Iran. destroyed. So, one of the only remaining. areas where you can refuel or get your.

supplies would be Oman. Oman was the. mediator originally who did the deal. Oman's foreign minister did a deal. between the US and Iran that was. actually better than the JCPOA. And then. Oman's foreign minister went on CBS and. said, "We did the deal." And that was. the night that Trump and Netanyahu. invaded Iran. that very and so Oman is a. neutral party in this. They've been.

working with Iran on uh having a system. of control over the strait of Hormuz. since both Oman and Iran are on the. opposite sides of the Strait of Hormuz. So when Donald Trump does this, it's. like, dude, are you're just an idiot. Why are you threatening to blow up Oman? What what what in the hell are you doing. here? And all this will do is tell Arab. nations, hey, you see what's going on. over there with the Mecca pact? By the.

way, I saw in UAE. deep regrets amongst their wealthy. people. Why the hell did we join the. Abraham Accords that Kushner made us. enter into with Israel? This is now. given a liability to us. This isn't. working for us right now. And then they. say, and look, you have all these. statements coming out of Netanyahu and. Ben Gave and Smutric from Israel saying. the I mean they've always said this, but. they've like been ramping it up. You if. you could even ramp it up from where you.

go before I How do you ramp up more than. saying genocidal sick things, but. they're just out there saying it every. day? I try to cover it in the morning. and say, "Look what they're saying. This. is what they're saying out loud. What do. you think they're saying behind the. scenes?" So anyway, here's what he says. about Oman. And that's why I wanted to. give you the background though and not. just say, "Oh, here's Donald Trump. saying this." Dude, this was the place. that helped get supplies to our freaking. sailors, you idiot. Here, play this. clip. Now, I asked the president about. these parallel talks that are taking. place between Iran and Oman about.

control of the Strait of Hormuz. And the. president told Fox News, "If Oman gets. in the way, we'll bomb the S out of. them." We went on to talk about a and. again this is someone who doesn't have. the emotional intelligence. That's the. nicest thing I can say about him to be. in this position. And by the way, Hillary Clinton warned about this during. the debate in 2015. If he can be baited. by a social media post, what do you. think that world leaders can do with.

this guy? And he's out there saying. this. Think about the stuff he said. I'm. going to blow the effing s out of them. Now it's Oman. You're gonna blow the. If Oman gets in the way of what? What if they get in the way of what what. do they they're negotiating with Iran? You're you have no involvement in this. right now. And you're out there taking. credit for the Mecca pact, which is. which is a reaction to your weakness. And then going back to what our NORAD. commander is saying, as I've said before. that I was going to show you when we. come back, the Northcom deputy commander.

is saying, "Look, North Korea has. successfully tested ICBMs. that could attack us and that North. Korea is a current present threat. against us." Listen to what he says. here. Play this clip. Since 2022, China. has launched eight Shang 3 class. nuclearpowered guided missile submarines. and likely will have all eight. operational by 2027, providing the. Chinese with a clandestine land attack. option against critical infrastructure.

in Alaska and along the West Coast. Meanwhile, adversaries are developing. and fielding advanced nuclear and. conventional delivery capabilities, crews, hypersonic and ballistic. missiles, as well as fractional orbital. bombardment systems, or FOBs to threaten. not only Alaska and Hawaii, but the. entire continental United States. The Chinese are developing ICBMs. equipped with hypersonic glide vehicles. as well as FOBS weapons that can.

approach North America from the south. rather than the traditional northernly. vector for which our legacy early. warning radars were designed. Such. systems would um would involve strategic. stability would erode strategic. stability by degrading our ability to. provide granular and actionable warning. of our inbound of an inbound attack. So you get the point. And one thing I. wanted to mention too, Brett, as you. were talking about the defensive. capabilities that Trump wants on the.

White House, I think that was the most. significant part is that while the. United States homeland is not protected, Donald Trump wants to only protect. himself. That's one of the main issues. He wants the White House to be a. military facility that has anti- drone. and anti-bballistic capabilities while. the rest of the United States remains. unprotected while he diverts trillions. of dollars to the military-industrial. complex. >> Yeah. And it goes to what Jordy was.

saying before, right? Like he's going to. make sure he's safe. He's going to make. sure all of his rich buddies are safe. They're going to be in their bunkers. that they've been building, right? Um. but uh but the rest of us, who cares, right? He doesn't care about he doesn't. care about the rest of us. And you know. and what I was going to say before about. about all this is when you look at just. the geopolitical landscape overseas. right now and you see what we've been. doing to Iran and uh you know just. invading like bombing them relentlessly. blowing up schools all this stuff. And. you see the way Donald Trump is speaking. about North Korea and the way he's just. abandoning our allies the way he's just.

screwing over South Korea. you can't. help but think, you know, strategically. if you're uh Iran or if you're, you. know, any other kind of non-nuclear uh. country, country that doesn't have. nuclear weapons, you're probably. thinking right now, I better get me some. nuclear weapons. Like a uh you know, it's clear that the United States isn't. going to screw with any country that has. nuclear weapons. Look at look at how. nice Donald Trump is being to Kim. Jong-un. Look at how nice he's being to. North Korea since they got nukes, right? Donald Trump doesn't say anything nice. He just says love letters and he's great.

and what a good guy and all this stuff. But Iran, you know, maybe he would have. thought twice about bombing Iran if they. had nukes. Maybe he think twice about. bombing whatever the next Iran would be. if they had nukes. I think that has to. be the calculus that a lot of these. countries are going to have. And I think. a lot of the countries in the region. also who we basically promised like, you. know, don't get nuclear weapons because. we will protect you in case anything. happens. They also have to be rethinking. right now all of this. Especially, I. mean, even, you know, in light of uh how. Donald Trump has barely just abandoned. Ukraine, right? That was like kind of.

the whole deal with Ukraine that we'd. have your back throughout all the you. know throughout all this. Um you know no. need to uh you know get you know all. these those sorts of weapons. But uh. Donald Trump just has continued to screw. over these countries, screw over our. allies, but he's also kind of shown his. cards as to okay well what is it going. to take for the United States for the. next Donald Trump or whoever whatever. wararmongering president that is? What's. it going to take for them not to screw. with me? And maybe it's nukes. And to me. that creates a much more dangerous world.

when for a period of time uh the world. was leaning towards uh nuclear. denuclearization. across the world not proliferation and. so I think we're just in a incredibly. dangerous place globally. >> I'm going to bet I'll toss it back to. you. I just want to add this really. quickly. I mean Donald Trump is the. single most emotional president that the. United States has ever had. Right. What. what do these misogynists and MAGA. always say like when a when a when a. woman is running for president? Oh, she. can't leave. She's too emotional. I. mean, that's the dumbest faking. ever. Especially after watching Donald.

Trump and how he is quote unquote. leading Yeah. leading us right into a. loss. That's what's happening right now. because he can't take a breath and. actually make a decision that's going to. better impact the American people and. our troops. He is way too emotional to. lead. Sorry, Ben. Go ahead. No, I was I. stepped on you because I just wanted to. make one point when Brett's talking. about nuclear proliferation that doesn't. get nearly enough attention and we've. been covering it a ton on this network. that a little less than a year ago, Donald Trump authorized nuclear weapon.

testing within the United States, actually using nuclear weapons in a. testing format inside the continental. United States in places like Nevada or. New Mexico. To which the senators there. said, "What the hell are you doing?" And. Donald Trump claimed that he had super. secret intelligence that nobody else. knew about. Our allies didn't know. about. Nobody knew where he said that. Russia and China were actively doing.

nuclear testing like right now, which no. one's done nuclear testing since like. the early 1990s. What they are doing is. they're testing the delivery systems, the ballistics for example that can. carry nuclear weapons and they've run. simulations as part of the testing. What. the nuclear weapons would do in terms of. the fallout, but they did not actually. do nuclear weapons testing. It would.

register like an earthquake if they did. we'd be able to have objective criteria. to see if it actually happened. And we. know that's not true. But on that basis, Donald Trump, Maggami Johnson, JD Vance, and the entire Trump regime said, "We. will be testing nuclear weapons." To. which Russia responded through Pescov. and Lavrov and their people over there, well, if you're going to test, then. we're going to have to test. And then. you have uh the same statements coming.

out of China which is well if you're. going to do it then we may have to think. very differently about all of this. And. again that's a story that kind of in the. Trump news cycle disappears. But it's our duty as members of. independent media to say let's remember. that's an objective fact. That's what. Trump said and that's incredibly. dangerous. And that fact alone to say. we're going to be doing nuclear weapons. testing and premising it on false.

information should itself not just be. impeachable. It should be criminal in my. opinion. We're going to do nuclear. testing in the United what what the hell. is even going on here? But I want to. bring us some hope as we approach the. end of this episode and the way Senator. Osaf there's a reason. I mean he he has. the it factor. There's some things that. are just so intangible, but there are. some things that you can observe and. say, "Here's what he's doing very well.". We can all obviously. mock or call out this bizarre.

relationship, whatever it is, between. Donald Trump and Natalie Harp, his human. printer. Right? This is bizarre. This is. odd. You can speculate what's really. happening there. the note that she's. leaving for him. We could all probably. get a sense and form opinions on it. But. the broader issue is again while he's. out there with Natalie hiding in. catering containers, stock trading,

throwing golf tournaments for himself. where he wins the senior level. tournament and the regular tournament. even though we know he's not shooting. like below 70 or whatever he claims. When he's doing that, it's not we can't. just be like, "Ah, look, he's crazy. We. know he's crazy. Ah, look at he's a. horrible human being." We know that. But. the issue is an issue of good. governance, of leadership, of empathy, of public service. And so what Assaf.

does brilliant here is connecting these. themes. And others would be wise to. watch how he does it. He's not a fast. talker. I like slow talkers sometimes. And he makes his words count. and they're delivered with emphasis. and the whole package is delivered. And. you can see that it's really gotten to.

the Trump regime's kind of core. sensitivities. Stephen Chung. says John Jackoff has to be the biggest. cuck loser in politics. Now Stephven. Chung is the White House communications. director. I can say a lot about this. guy's appearance. I could say a lot. about. it. Okay. the fact that this guy. is making these types of comments.

There's a saying obviously, he who lives. in a glass house, I'll just resist some of the references. I'm going to be making and I'll I'll be. the better man here and I won't go. >> won't go won't go what hypothetically. >> Hypothetically, I was going to go Star. Wars Jab. Okay, stop stop [laughter]. it. mature. Rise. No need to go there. >> Rise above it. >> We'll cut We'll cut this out of the pot. >> Cut that out. Instead of denigrating.

hardworking people serving their. country, John should look deep into his. soul and ask himself why he's a. miserable person who hates this country. It's because he's a radical extremist. Democrat. Scott Jennings says this is. quite a message for the Democratic Party. to send to young women working in. politics. Party of Women. Pretty ugly. stuff. And the way they sherk into. victimhood right away. It's like, dude, the guy in the Oval Office is literally.

someone found civily liable for sexual. assault. Like, y'all are covering up the. Epstein files. Okay. You managed to take. a meeting with the survivors and have. your new AG further traumatize. the survivors. and and and and. you're you're hiding behind as though. you're the champion of of of women. Brent, I know you were going to say. something. I was going to say the ner. the nerve of these people to play the.

victim and go, "How dare do you ever. think about the feelings of women?". Okay, that's what you're going to make. this about right now. Really? Really? when like the same day today, you have. Donald Trump screaming, berating a. female reporter in the Oval Office yet. again after asking a very simple. question. These people are the biggest. cowards imaginable. the fact that they. go, >> okay, I just I just while it's on my. head, this is something that they're. doing also and I just want everyone to. see the propaganda tactic that they use.

and it's like super creepy and they do. it every year when there is like the. back to college sarity rush. The MAGAS. will show these videos of Rush taking. place where the young college girls are. joining a sarity and they do their. dances and they do their kind of group. activities and MAGA will show their. videos and they'll be like the libs will. never let will never like this or the.

libs hate this or the libs don't want to. see this and it's like number one why. are you all out there finding these. clips of like young ladies in sarity. rush like ages 18 to 19 like why why are. you can't you just let them. >> why why are y'all creeping like the ASR. Instagram. >> why are you creeping on sarity Instagram. stuff and two there's no lib who wakes. up and goes this is making me angry and.

so they try to create this artificial. culture war and then they fight within. their own culture war like this is how. woke they are They're angry at these. sarity girls and it's like no we just. want no never-ending wars and we want. people to have health care and we want. people to be able to afford homes. There's not a lot of people who are. thinking oh man. that sarity makes me angry. The only. thing who I think uh the people who it.

makes angry about are the right-wing. people who are posting it and they feel. I don't know a certain way. I don't know. what makes them post it to begin with, but I just want to call that out because. it's happening again and I keep seeing. it and then on the right-wing algorithms. they push it. It's like three million. views, five million views, and then like. all the comments are like, "Yeah, man. Libs are getting angry at this." And I'm. like, "No one's angry at this. There's. no one other than you all weirdos who. keep posting who who are, you know, it's. like everything's stolen valor with.

them, too, right? Like they can't just. leave people alone. Like Trump's got to. meme himself as a four-star general and. steal the Just let them have their. enjoyment in college without making it a. weird political thing. Okay. No one's. angry about it. Just you're being weird. and creepy and stop posting these damn. things. Sorry, Jordy. >> Oh, sorry. You're right. I was on mute. I was so stunned by the fact that their. algorithms are just flooded with this. that they're creepy. There's nothing. like that's why they do it. They're all.

faking creeps. like all these MAGA. operatives, man. All these like. right-wing redpilled folks. Sorry, I'm. staying in my in-laws. They're the only. people left with the house line. You. have a lot of noise. I have a lot of. noise. Noisy podcast in the three. minutes that I get to speak during the. but but they're creeps, man. These. right-wing folks are creepy. >> Let's toss it over to Jordan. Ruff ring. ring ring ring ring ring. >> What if you guys you guys hear the. ringing? I I could make it louder. >> Yeah, we hear it. >> Brett.

>> All right. Why don't Why don't we Why. don't we go to. Jord's That's Jord's business. during the episodes. Like I just some. commotion in the back. >> It's a good bit. It's a good bit. It's a. good bit. It's a good bit. It's like. >> episode at least. >> What' you say? Well, I I was I was going. to say I'll just leave it at that. Let's. just uh [laughter]. let's just let's just pull pull it back. Um let's uh show you Senator Oaf.

We could play the clip of. >> And there's something. uniquely despicable. >> about lying a nation into war, >> treating citizens as fools and those who. serve as pawns. >> Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, they've. now been at sea for 240 plus days. without a port call. It's a Navy record. And still And still.

>> And still they serve with excellence. >> And still they serve with excellence. [cheering]. >> God bless the sailors, Marines, aviators, and all aboard the United. States ship Abraham Lincoln. [cheering]. [applause]. See, they don't expect luxury. They'll endure hardship,

but they deserve competent leaders who. send them into combat only when. necessary. and with decisive clarity of purpose, not fools who lie about the purpose and. progress of war. That's right. >> And while the sailors on the Lincoln. fight his war, >> while he fruitlessly drains our. munitions and oil reserves, the. president sleeps through his meetings. >> He golfs and trades stocks.

>> See, he doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and. travel with Natalie on their apparently. defenseless flying palace gifted by the. Amir of Qatar. [cheering]. >> That is how it's done. Brett, >> he's really he's really really good. And. also, you know, Osaf's background is he.

was a documentary filmmaker. And so one. thing I noticed is that at his rallies, he has some very cinematic angles that I. haven't seen at other rallies. It feels. like you're watching a movie when you. watch him. And I think he understands. kind of that this is a a big aspect of. of running for office in 2026 is looking. the part and having these good visuals. And he's definitely kind of mastered. that. And that's exactly how you need to. tie Donald Trump's erratic nature, his. corruption, all the chaos that everybody.

in the kind of corporate media likes to. be like, do voters really care about. democracy? They don't really care about. democracy. Uh, yeah, they do actually, I'm going to say, and they especially. care about it when you connect it to the. important aspects of their lives and why. Donald Trump's erosion of democracy is. actually hurting you uh on your day in. your day-to-day lives. And Assaf is. incredibly effective at doing just that. I also heard, you know, that whole kind. of chatter in class going, should he. have invoked the name Natalie? Who is.

that even for? Is that just for the. internet? Sometimes you have to set the. narrative, right? You don't just run. with what's trending. You don't just run. with what the people on cable news are. talking about. Sometimes you need to. force those people to speak about the. issues that you want them to be talking. about. And by doing that, Assaf has. sparked a conversation about this topic. that has people debating it. And now. people will watch that full clip and see. his entire message. And they will see.

exactly what he was saying in the whole. buildup and how targeted his not I'm not. even going to call it an attack, but how. targeted his criticisms of Donald Trump. and his disastrous war and everything. he's doing to the American people, how. targeted it truly was and how effective. it is. Now, more people are going to see. that. It's one of the reasons why that. clip went viral, why it's reaching more. people, and I'm sure it's also one of. the reasons the Google searches right. now are probably spiking for who is. Natalie. >> And really quickly, going on the back,

>> really quickly, I just wanted to say I. really do appreciate his communication. style. It's clear, it's effective, and. it really just gets the job done. Ben, sorry. >> Oh, no. No, Jordy. Jordy, it's okay. I. just wasn't sure if it was going to be, you know, I don't know, some sirens in. the background or some hunks. >> And now we cut to Jord. some meows. The dogs. >> for the audio listeners, that's Ben. That is Ben's. heard you making. >> All right. All right. So, I I'll take.

over because we got two noisy brothers. here. All these noises. Yeah. Ben, I know what. you want to play. I'm gonna play. So, here here's a clip. >> A lot of people haven't heard her. >> I know. I'm gonna show you Natalie Harp. and you could uh You're going to see. I'll let you form your own judgment. This is Natalie Harp, uh the woman who. has been rumored and and uh reported on. to be having a very I'll say peculiar. relationship, >> human printer boss relationship. >> with Donald Trump. A very peculiar uh. relationship between the two of them. She writes him love letters and notes.

and there's a whole thing going on. I'll. let she be the judge of that. This is. who also brought up. But let's actually. look at who she is when she speaks. Let's play this clip. We can't talk. about winning back the House and Senate. in 2022 and the White House in 2024 if. we don't act on the fact that we. actually did win the White House and the. Senate in 2020. We shouldn't be afraid. to say that because it's true. We the. people know America as we know it could. be ending in the next two or four years,

which is exactly what President Trump is. warning of. They think if they can get. President Trump, they can get the 75. million people to shut up and stand. down. And they. >> She's nuts. [laughter]. She's nuts. >> We Well, I think we covered a lot. I. think we've covered I think we've. covered a lot on today's uh episode. Should I show the one clip of when. Donald Trump was asked about Natalie and. what his response was? Just or or should. I show the clip of Donald Trump just. yelling at the press and just screaming.

at the press? Well, let's show his. response because I thought it was. actually an incredibly weak response. when he was asked about Natalie Harp. It's a question he had to assume was was. coming. But I think, you know, the. interesting thing is when then we were. talking about Steve Chung and we were. talking about Scott Jennings, the White. House official White House rapid. response account. I've not seen them be. this defensive about a story um you. know, in a while. And I think it's very. odd that they've taken this story as the. one to try to push back against and try.

to name call and all those things. But. so here was Donald Trump being asked. about Natalie. >> Mr. President, yesterday said you'd. rather travel with your aid Natalie Harp. and build the ballroom and do your job. as president. What is your response. also? >> You mean Peewee Herman Peewee Herman. lookalike? Uh, no. I would much rather. do other things. It's a We're building a. great facility here. We're fixing a. White House that hasn't been taken care. of. You can look at this. This room was. a disgraceful situation, the Oval.

Office, and it was it was uh let go. The. whole building, the White House was let. go. The exteriors were falling apart. >> And then I want to show this because the. White House is now attacking the CNN. reporter who asked Donald Trump, I. think, a very basic question about Kim. Jong-un. And you know, it was it was. about Donald Trump's behavior. And the. White House told the CNN reporter, "Someday your children will come across.

your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to. have a parent be so callous and. vindictive. It's quite troubling.". And. I mean, they're attacking. I mean, just. think about the language that they're. using. CNN responded and said that we. stand behind our uh reporter. We stand. firmly behind Kristen Holmes, one of the. most respected and accomplished. journalists covering the White House. She did her job and ask the president.

thoughtful no newsworthy questions on. behalf of the American officials. Public. officials are free to challenge the. reporting they disagree with. The. personal attacks on journalists for. asking questions are beneath the office. and inconsistent with the principles of. a free press. Um I'll just show you. Donald Trump screaming. He was screaming. at all the reporters today. Let's watch. one example. >> Obama. He didn't like anybody, but I get. along with him very well. No, what I'm. doing is making things safer. Just the. opposite. >> Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. You're very.

disrespectful in front of this young. man. Okay. Don't you find her. disrespectful? He understands. Quiet. Who are you with? >> I'm with CNN. >> Fake news. You're fake news. You're a. loud. You're a loud, boisterous person. You're fake news. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be. quiet. >> Asked you. >> You're a fake reporter and you report. fake news. Go ahead. >> Mr. President, is there enough is there. enough food on the USS Lincoln? >> Yeah, it is. It was a It was a CNN fake.

report. >> And I want to say this, too, and I'll. I'll leave with this too because. character leadership is very important. And there, Trump turned to a 16-year-old. lifeguard who made a heroic rescue in. Santa Cruz. That's who Ryder Williams. is. Trump didn't know who he was. He had. to look at a card and realize the name. of who the person even was. But Trump. turned to the 16-year-old and said, "Don't you think that she's. disrespectful?". as though he needed the 16-year-old's.

cosign while he attacked the reporter. Think about what a weak and pathetic. human being does that. And think about. that's the exact type of weak and. pathetic human being who disgraces our. troops every day, who harms our country. every day. Who the hell does that? And. as I started with this episode saying, a. felon, a traitor, a loser, a predator, an abuser. That's who it is. Jordy,

we out of here. Unless it's gonna be. like. meow meow. [laughter]. >> J lives on a farm. >> Listen. brother J lives in between a farm and a. data center apparently. >> I have a lot going on. >> I love you guys. Great episode. Subscribe to the audio podcast if you. aren't already. Shout out to the. mightest mighty.

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