LIVE: Trump FREAKS OUT over WORLD WAR 3!!! 7/30/2026

Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben. Mycellis and this is our breaking news. here and I say our because this is all. about the community right here and I. just want to say at the outset of this. show how grateful I am for this. community. And you know, as we are. kind of putting the finishing touches up. on the book promotional tour the WTF. America, I just want to say like. everything we're trying to do is to. honor you um the audience and to.

dedicate it to you and I you know, I I. always am making sure that you're front. and center of my mind and so even though. it's authored by me Brett and Jordy, I. make sure in the book that one of the. central lessons is this community. And. as we break down the breaking news. today, I mean we're talking about stuff. that corporate news is completely. ignoring. That's the real story about. what's actually happening right now and.

there. are wars throughout the world right now. All of the kind of fear mongering of. Trump and Maga during the Biden years. oh there's going to be war everywhere. and Biden's being weak and all of these. things. actually with Biden there was no new. never-ending wars initiated by the. United States and under Trump. the wars continued to spread. And so we.

were very early in reporting this. morning on Russia's strikes in Western. Ukraine in Lviv. Um massive strikes in Lviv. Lots of. casualties but that the Russian. ballistics went into Eastern Poland. And there were sirens going on there in. Lublin. And in this Lublin area, that's where. Zelensky was meeting yesterday with.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. And. one of the things that I flagged. actually. and what's concerning to me, and I know. we we show lots of videos of Zelensky. striking these Wildberries logistical. facilities in Russia. That's like the Amazon that they have in. Russia, and Zelensky's destroyed a lot. of these. A lot of cargo ships, tanker. ships in the Black Sea, in the Sea of.

Azov, right by the Black Sea. I know they have. you know, Russia's striking a lot in. Ukraine as well. I I don't want to paint. this picture sometimes of like oh, it's. just a one-sided victory. You know, Ukraine's taking a lot of. casualties as well, and a lot of. residential civilian areas are under. constant attack by Russia, and a lot of. Ukrainian tankers and cargo ships are. also being hit. But one of the things.

that actually. concerned me before is when. Trump has been, I believe, pretending. that he's more sympathetic to Zelensky. getting interceptors. and giving Zelensky a license. First. off, we don't have the capability really. to give interceptors right now. Our. interceptor stock pile have dwindled. where the US is running out of. interceptors. So, when Iran strikes our.

bases, like the Muwaffaq base in Jordan. or. uh the base in Kuwait or Bahrain or. wherever. the US sometimes is not even shooting. its interceptors because every THAAD. interceptor costs like 12 and a half. million dollars. Every PAC-3 Patriot. costs around uh four four and a half. million dollars. And so, we are running. very low on on our interceptors, but.

what certainly concerns me is I don't. trust Trump with anything. And so, when he tells Zelenskyy, you. know, let's meet. We may give you these. things. You know, tell me about what's. going on in the war. My own red flags is is Trump just going. to reach out to Putin. right away and say, "Look at what. Zelenskyy's been telling me.". Um or can you believe that I said this. to him? And And then, you know, yesterday when Donald Trump was asked a.

question about Zelenskyy, "Are you going to help Zelenskyy?" What. was Trump's answer? "Well, I just want. him to end the war." I just It'll just. be easy. Just Zelenskyy, you got to end. the war. What does that mean? Just to. give up all of Eastern Ukraine? And when. you start to see the Laura Loomers and. the Tim Pools and all of them kind of. start to act like, well, they're no. longer pro-Russia and they're. pro-Ukraine. And then, our corporate. news kind of gives them these glowing. profiles, like profiles in courage. I'm.

like, okay, first off, all of these. people all of a sudden are saying this. That does not raise kind of red flags to. you before just glorifying these people. as, "Oh, now they've now they've. changed." I don't know, that's a red. flag. And then, for me, it's like. one of Trump's tactics. in order to try to get people to submit. is he'll use all these manipulation. tactics, including like love bombing. And then, he'll pretend that he likes. you and then that you're part of the.

crew and he's got your back, but he. doesn't. He doesn't. This is Donald. Trump the Putin bootlicker. That's who. he is. That's who he's always been. And I view what Trump is doing as. actually I just another strategy of. figuring out how to ultimately deliver. Eastern Ukraine to Putin. That's, you. know, you can call me uh conspiracy, but. that's kind of what I what I what I. believe is actually going on. And I. think Trump will drag on these.

discussions. Okay, well, the license is. coming. The license is coming. Don't. worry, we'll get you the interceptors. And then I think that never actually. arrive. You know, when Zelensky was. forced to be independent. of the United States and Trump, that's where they developed all of these. innovative weapons, the FP1s, the FP2. drones, long-range drones, the FP5s. called the Flamingos. Right? They were. forced to do that because the US was not.

only not giving Ukraine the weapons, but. promised that they would be giving. Europe the weapons to give to Ukraine. for sale. And then. uh because of the catastrophic war in. Iran, I think that is partially one of. the reasons we run out of interceptors, but also Trump has slow-rolled that. process. So, I want to flag that because. Trump promised on day one he would end. the catastrophic. uh this catastrophic war, uh Russia's. war on Ukraine. And here we are.

recording this live July 30th, and. things are escalating. Russia had to impose export controls. on its uh crude. because Ukraine is successfully striking. its major refineries. Especially those. FP5 Flamingos. have been able to reach very long. distance, and the FP1s and FP2 drones. have been able to hit deep within. Russia.

Um and so, Russia's reeling when it. comes to um. its ability of its refineries uh to to. work and operate. Uh but also, Ukraine. is being hit, too. So, things are worse. there. Then you look at the Middle East. and before we went live you had Saudi. Arabia striking in Sana, the capital of. Yemen. The Houthis control that area. That's Western Yemen. The Houthis had.

previously retaliated on another Saudi. Arabian strike on Sana. And the Houthis blew up three major. refineries in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia. signaled via Axios and Trump's. stenographer that it wanted. de-escalation, which I believe was kind of a form of. deception because they didn't want. de-escalation. I think Saudi Arabia is. actually preparing for a potential.

ground invasion of Western Yemen. And. so, they leaked this, I believe, to. Axios and they sent MBS's brother to to. go to the United States. I think as part. of a decoy before these strikes took. place. Because Barak Ravid and others at Axios. published. Saudi Arabia wants de-escalation. Well, it actually seems like escalation has. taken place. So, what I expect to happen. shortly. is the Houthis, obviously, part of the.

axis of resistance with Iran will now. strike more refineries in Saudi Arabia. So, I expect that to happen. You had the. United States launching more strikes in. Iran. We'll see ultimately if the. escalation is what Donald Trump. threatened, but one of the things that. occurred yesterday, and I reported on. this, on the on the various shows we were. doing, Donald Trump goes to state regime media.

Fox, we're going to blow the effing S. out of them is what Trump said. Blow. that he I mean just think about the. president of the United States speaking. like that. We're going to blow the. effing S out of them. I mean the day. before we're working towards a deal, they want to do a deal, everything's. going We're going to blow the effing S. out of them. They want to do a deal, but. I'm we're going to blow the effing S out. of them. So Trump says to uh training stover in. state regime media Fox, we're going to.

blow the effing S out of them to which. Iran then responds. um by sending a drone to strike the. Damietta port. in Egypt. Why did they do that? Well, they then sent a warning. to Pakistan and Qatar and the other and. the other mediating bodies and Egypt. also. has attempted at times to be a mediating. body. that. we can expand this thing, Trump beyond.

Hormuz. beyond Bab el- Mandab, right? Strait of. Hormuz, Persian Gulf. right? Bab el- Mandab, Red Sea. and then the port of Damietta. Mediterranean. Egyptian port. We can go there. And that was the message that Iran. wanted to send. We can escalate this in. other locations if we want to also. And then working with the Houthis.

saying. if Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates, if. you all think. that you're going to avoid the control. by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and the. Houthis and Bab el- Mandab by trying to. build pipelines, whether it's from. Fujairah with UAE, whether it's. pipelines that go from the east to the. west in Saudi Arabia. we're going to strike those pipelines. We're going to hit them. We're going to. destroy those pipelines.

And. the Houthis in Iran, they're not. bluffing. I mean, they're doing these. things. And so, the United States did strike. areas of Iran. They hit Qeshm. Looks. like they killed a family in Qeshm, like. a civilian family in Qeshm during the US. strikes last night. The US hit some. other areas. It wasn't yet the we're. going to blow the effing s out of them. That's not the but it was still a strike. of significance. But then Iran. responded.

And I'm going to do a video on this in a. little bit as well by hitting, once. again, the salty Muwaffaq airbase. in Jordan. That's where those three. service members were previously. killed. There were there's another. service member killed in Erbil in Iraq. But if you looked at the imagery. and the satellite footage that, you. know, we have access to here, um it does appear Go back to the other.

one there, Jeremy, because we'll show. Kuwait in a moment. But in this Muwaffaq. salty base in Jordan, it looks like one, maybe two F-35s were destroyed by Iran. And I mean, we we we can see where those. F-35s were positioned. And the intelligence Iran has is is kind. of scary scary good, whether it's being. provided by China, Russia, or whoever, cuz it seemed that those F-35s were just.

moved in. And boom. From the footage Now, is it possible. those are not F-35s, but they look like. F-35s. from the satellite footage? Possible. Possible. But. those look like the F-35s. And it looks like multiple after at. least one, but probably multiple. Um but. clearly something I mean, the the base. was hit. Muwaffaq was hit again, hard.

And that's in Jordan. Then in Kuwait, we're seeing the satellite footage as. well. We can show the other one now, Jeremy. And this is Ali Al Salem airbase. in Kuwait. Two drone hangars. look like they were fully destroyed. And. this is an area the satellite imagery. confirms the impact. by Iran's drones at the hangar where. Iran claimed that they hit. Now, CENTCOM has banned US private companies.

from publishing this type of. satellite imagery. So, we get this from Sentinel 2, European-based, Russia satellite imagery, Chinese. satellite imagery. Now, is it possible that. that this is AI and it's manipulated and. it's not real? Sure, possible. But, what we've seen, sad, this is a sad thing to admit.

as a someone who considers themselves a. patriotic American, and I think the ultimate form of. patriotism is criticizing when you have. a fascist war criminal regime like we do. right now in the United States. That's. Dave, if you want to call yourself. patriotic, I think that's your duty to. call out what's what's happening. But, you have CENTCOM. posting absurd lies, and it seems that when I see the. satellite imagery on Tasnim or Mayars or.

Fars or whatever, that it tended to. prove to be accurate. Right? The US. would deny that there were these. casualties or these deaths, and then we. would learn, no, that those deaths. happened and the casualties happened. They just reported it later once they. were basically forced to. And so, you. take a look right here about what. CENTCOM's putting out. This is what they say. Over the past few. hours, Iranian state media continued to. report false claims by the IRGC, three. in particular. First claim, the IRGC.

claims free and open routes through the. Strait of Hormuz are dangerous for. commercial vessels. Like let's just take. that one. Okay. First claim by the IRGC, IRGC claims free and open routes through. the Strait of Hormuz are dangerous for. commercial vessels. And the US is saying that's false. Okay, how you lose all credibility after that? What do you mean that's false? Of course that's a true statement by.

Iran. I mean, objectively, you're saying it's not dangerous to. cross the Strait of Hormuz? You're. saying false? You make us all look. stupid. Stop. Of course it By the way, saying it. is dangerous, that's just a an objective damn fact. That's not a Oh my god. So, if you're. lying about that, if you're saying that the IRGC is. falsely claiming that it's not safe to. go through the Strait of Hormuz. If. you're saying that that Iran claim is.

false, then you've lost me on. everything. You have zero credibility when you then. say over here, "No US aircraft were. destroyed or damaged in recent attempted. Iranian attacks. All missiles and drones. were intercepted or failed to reach. targeted areas.". This is not It's just false. We know it. hit targeted areas. Now, if you want to make the argument. that those weren't F-35s, but they were. F-15s, or that they were some other aircraft.

that I'm unaware of, or that it was a. decoy plane that we you know, I mean, maybe they were decoy planes. to draw Iranian strikes. The US put. inflatable deep That happens in war. But when you say nothing hit the base, we we know it hits the base. And so now on X, formerly Twitter, they've banned Tasneem. They've banned the Iranian They're so.

afraid of it, they've banned it. We. could be able to to discern. what's propaganda and what's not. propaganda, but they've now banned it. And then you have CENTCOM publishing. statements like that, which again is is. deeply, deeply concerning to me. So. let's take a look at the facts, Jack. Let's see the reality over here. So you have Donald Trump going to state. regime media Fox saying, "We're going to. beat the effing S out of Iran." Let's.

listen to how Again, this is a Fox. reporter who's like, "I just got off the. phone with the president who tells me. that the United States is going to beat. the effing S out of Iran." Here, let's. play this clip. >> President Trump tells Fox News about. Iran, "We are going to beat the effing S. out of them." He went on to say, "We'll. be hitting them hard. They're going to. get a beating." So clearly the United. States is going to respond to what the. president described as a surprise. attack. He says US forces.

>> Okay. And and also the framing that Iran. did a surprise attack. 2 days ago is also false framing. It's incorrect. And maybe I should have been more. nuanced in my reporting also. Um. In a sense, I suppose. it was surprising. that Iran didn't wait this time for the. United States to strike. Perhaps that. was surprising because the pattern.

usually is US strikes, then Iran. responds. So this was a different. pattern. Where the US said, "We're The US said, "We're done." Iran did its thing, and. then usually we wait for the US to do. its thing, and then Iran responds. Like a tennis match. But Iran struck. in Jordan because for Iran, they're like, "We're in a war with you. Like, we're.

not doing negotiation. We're not going. to just sit around while you talk about. fake ceasefires and fake deals. Like, you We know you're going to attack us. again. You're out there saying you're. going to attack So, we're going to we're. going to If we see targets of. opportunity, we're going to hit it. because. you pulled out of the MOU. You violated. the MOU. So, what are we going to What. do you expect us to do right there? So, you have Donald Trump say, "We're. going to blow the effing s out of them.". And just think about it. Like,

I know there were these, you know, regime change book, right? That's like, well-sourced, and it's got all of these, you know, people saying behind the. scenes Trump Let's talk though about. what's happening in front of the scene, right? What's happening in plain view? I. mean, that's an absurd thing. And if. like, imagine, okay, well, behind the. scenes, three sources said that Donald. Trump said, "Let's blow the effing s out. of them." It could be a big deal. What. Why isn't it as equal big of a deal or. more that he's saying it publicly? That's a horrible temperament, putting.

it lightly, to have as the United States. president as war is spreading. everywhere. Again, what's it called. where you have a war involving almost. every nation in the world, from Egypt to. Poland to Ukraine to Russia to Yemen to. Saudi Arabia to Jordan to Kuwait, uh where you have China and Russia. helping Iran, where you have ostensibly.

the United States and NATO pretending or. NATO's helping Ukraine, but Trump. pretending he's close with Zelenskyy now. when he's not and he's just saying that. to lure Zelensky in while then saying. you know, I they're both good guys. Putin and and and Zelensky it's going to. be great. Let me show you the footage. that we're getting of the drone attack. that occurred in Egypt yesterday. Let me. show you again the scary precision of. these Iranian drones. This in Damietta.

in Egypt. Let's play it. Now let me show you and I believe Jeremy.

we've got this from Ukraine strike in. Penza. at one of these Wildberries facilities. There the update from Penza. Let's play. that clip if we've got it. And then I believe we've got.

insane footage from Lviv, Ukraine as. Russia. then strikes Lviv, Ukraine. Western Ukraine. Let's play it. Now I've got footage from the burning. Wildberries logistical. hub in Ryazan. So first I I you Penza.

then I showed you Russia striking Lviv, and now I'll show you what one of these. Wildberries logistical facilities in. Ryazan looks like. Here, let's play. this. So, you know, don't say.

these titles. are hyperbolic. Okay? Don't say. "Oh, my goodness, touch a hyperbolic world.". Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We are capturing what the hell is. happening. right now. accurately. I think that it is deeply distressing.

when media wants to normalize this as. oh, like you just. oh, you know, it's come to expected. That's just the way the world I think it. Well, what what are we talking about. here? We've got refineries being blown up in. Saudi Arabia by the Houthis. We got the. Houthi capital of Sanaa being blown up. by Saudi Arabia. We've got Saudi Arabia. and the United States killing dozens of. people in Iraq. You have the United.

States launching strikes in Iran. You. have Iran striking Dammam Yacht Port in. Egypt. You've got Iran striking Muwaffaq. Salti base with freaking impunity. Like, what do we want? We want to hit. that F-35. We want to hit this one. We. want to hit this one. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Hit them all. We got hitting. in Kuwait, in Bahrain. So, oh, and then it's like, you know, you'll say, "He's not panicking. He's.

not pan- That's what I always get. Stop. saying he's panic." What? The guy is out there saying, "I'm going. to blow the effing s out of them." What. do you call it? I mean, you give me a. better, you know, give me The guy's The. guy's He's coming unglued, you know? What are you talking about? He's He's. out there like a crazy person, you know, "I'm going to do this. I'm making a. deal. I'm making a deal." Well, you you. tell me, you give me better words in the. lexicon, for real. And tell me and I'll. and I'll use them, but the reality is is.

that he's flailing. >> [clears throat]. >> The world is in a war Oh, and I I could. kept on going, you know, Russia striking. in Lviv and then it's ballistic missiles. going into Poland. And by the way, the. response by prime the prime minister of. Poland sounded an awfully lot like the. response that we. hear from the Arab nations. Oh, it was. just the ballistic debris. Right? It was always the debris of. It's never the drones. We We knocked. down all the drones, but the debris, you.

know, hit us. It's just like, "No, what. Poland knows is that the US isn't going. to support an Article 5 or even an. Article 4. invocation of NATO. So, they don't want. to say that it actually happened in. Poland cuz it would trigger Article 5, which they know the US is not going to. abide by. So, they cover it up. It's all. these people just covering up stuff. again that's happening in plain view. And so, s-.

sorry, not sorry that we're out here. calling out what's happening accurately, but I think we've been spot-on in the. things that we've said, calling the. casualties before they've happened, calling out this, calling out the base, call you know, you know, saying these. things in real time. By the way, it's why with WTF America. the one of the main points we make is. okay, you you have all these super. secret sources and these things and that.

things great. I like I like when you. there there were lots of reporters on. the Mightas Touch who do great source. work, do great great source work, great. investigative journalism. But also what. we can't ignore. is the stuff happening in plain view. It's ironic, you know, if someone were. to. craft a Truman Show version of of all of. this, they maybe have me born in a place. called Plainview, which is actually the. town I grew up and I grew up in. Plainview, New York. Go figure I grew up.

in Plainview, New York. That's the. That's the place. Plainview. And you know, maybe a future book title. is Plainview. This stuff is happening in. plain view. I see it. We see it and we need to call. it out. We need to stop ignoring it. And so when we come back from this very. quick break, well, by the way, scan the. QR code. It really helps if you do the. pre-orders. It's what our publisher says. because it helps us decide, you know, which local bookstores should we be. doing our tour with? Where should we be.

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Um new background here. I know you know someone said Carrot Top. Carrot Top been here. I what I Carrot Top been over here. Remember when I started with this new. background? I I was like that. Um all right, I'll stop um I'll stop. wasting everybody's time. Donald Trump's. polling right now record lows. Um according to all the polling data. right now, I mean, it's not just one. Um. and the group that he's getting crushed.

on right now. Non-college. voter white people. That's his base. White non-college voters. Um net negative eight. He was plus 24 February 2025. That's. what he said. He loved the uneducated. Um but I think that lots of everybody's. feeling it in their pocket right now. Like on the issue of gas prices, he's. net negative 58, inflation net negative. 50, on Iran net negative 42, economy net. negative 40, immigration That was his.

thing. Immigration net negative 22. They want to really focus right now on. Dr. Fauci. That's their big one right. now. Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fau- They want to. They want to bring more attention. to Trump's mishandling of the COVID. pandemic. and attack Fauci. to distract from the catastrophic war. to distract from. the Epstein files.

It's like the most perverse game of 7°. of Bacon. Right? Which. is the game 7° of Kevin Bacon? 7° of. distracting from Donald Trump and his. regime covering up child sex trafficking. rings. First the cover-up of the child sex. trafficking ring. Then they go to war. with Netanyahu against Iran. Then they. start bringing in Dr. Fauci. And then. they start attacking Mom Donny and.

saying, "You know what would be the. worst? Could you imagine if government. takes equity stakes in private companies. and controls the methods of operation? That would be. communism. and the Bolsheviks.". The Bolsheviks. are coming to get you. They're all over. You You don't even know. They're just.

You look You look to the person. That. could be a freaking Bolshevik. And he or she. or they. a Bolshevik they. could be coming to get you. Could you imagine? Don't actually think about the people. who are actually getting you right now. Who are ripping away your health care. Who are taking over the methods of.

production. Who are taking over. countries like Venezuela and stealing. their money. No one knows where it went. $13 billion. Who are. you doing social welfare for the. oligarchs who make it so you can't. afford. anything. Rent. Can't buy a home right now. We're. talking about. uh certainly can't afford rent. Um. people jobs recession right now. That's the That's This was the.

announcement. Commerce Department quietly announces. seven new equity stakes in private. companies. So, here's the Trump gimmick. They're doing this now like they did. with Intel. They're just going to. different companies that are supposed to. get incentive money from the CHIPS Act, the semiconductor. companies that were supposed to get. money based on Biden's CHIPS Act, which. was done on a bipartisan basis. And it was incentives if they do. certain things and hit benchmarks, then.

they can get funding. Now, you may like that or not like that. We needed to spur the semiconductor. industry here given that. when Donald Trump handled COVID in such. a disastrous way and the supply chains. were crushed, what did we find? We have. no semiconductor industry here. And so, with supply chains crushed, that became. a problem. And that was one of the. reasons that inflation surged so much. because we weren't able to make the.

things that go in the things, the. semiconductors. And that was caused by Trump's. mishandling of COVID. So Biden had to. fix it. So Biden gave an incentive program. And. what's Trump doing? You want that Biden. incentive money? I'll make you a deal. Have you ever heard about the. Bolsheviks? Have you ever heard about. the Bolsheviks? And he goes, "Have you ever heard about. Lenin? Let me tell you, I've got a solution for.

you right now. We're going to give you that Biden. money, not for the incentives, but if. you give us an opaque 10% stake in your. company. And who knows what the hell. we're going to do with it? I don't know. We'll probably give it to the The. Kushners will end up getting everything. at some point anyway, like FIFA. I'll. give it away to the Kushners. I'm going. to give it away to the Kushners. But. we're going to take over the methods of. your production. I don't know. It's like. it's like. you know, Donald Trump says, "I would. make the best communist like Lenin cuz I.

would just promise everybody everything. And then I wouldn't deliver. Okay. Meet. the mirror. Meet the mirror. Okay. So. you look at the various polling. CNN. Trump 34%, AP North Trump 33%, Quinnipiac Trump 32%. Well done, Donald. That's That's not what the graphic is, but it's it's the it's the very There it. is. Um well done. Well done. Encore. Bravo. Bravo, Donald.

Fantastic. You deserve uh more money. Jeremy, can you do me clapping? Just so the people see me. Well done. Well done. And I'm more interactive with. Jeremy now on the like we have a thing. going. You know what you don't see? More. than interactive with him. Um so, with all of this happening, what was. what was GDP growth this morning? State. regime media Fox, take it away. >> in line with estimates. Let's get to. GDP. This is the first look we're.

getting at second quarter GDP, Bria. The. first read is 1.5%. 1 and 1/2%. The estimate was a gain of. 2.1%. So, we're coming in a little bit. light on this first look at second. quarter GDP. >> The market loved it, though. [laughter]. I mean, the funniest part but that's a. horrible numbers. If you looked If you looked at the right. I mean, you want to talk about the. market manipulation. I mean, could you imagine if Biden did. um. you know, like horrific I mean, Biden's. numbers Biden's first year granted it.

was after COVID. It was like 6% GDP. That was right after COVID. And then he. was somewhere in that 2.8% kind of range. 2.2.8% range. He never said I'm going to. do like 5%, you know, or 6% like Trump. said. But like could you imagine if you. get a readout of like 1.5% GDP or less. and it's in the market Yeah. Donald like you you again, it's like you. know, the market manipulation. participation trophy is crazy. While the. American people are the ones who are.

suffering. We mean, there's a reason why. in America consumer confidence is the. lowest in the history of the University. of Michigan polling. All right. But it wasn't like the Trump regime told. us. They It wasn't like they promised like. like like like like. It would be one thing. if they actually promised us 4% to 6%. growth. But fortunately, they tempered our expectations, right? They they were very.

honest about we're going to go through. difficult times, tariffs not the. greatest. So, just buckle up. They told. us that, right? Well, let's see. Treasury Secretary Bessant, what did he. have to say, Jeremy? Let's play Bessant. Jeremy, that was such a good lead-up. Do. we I mean we don't have the Bessant. clip? I did the whole lead-up. >> So, I I think we could be at 4%. inflation, excuse me, 4% real growth, and then inflation trending back towards.

target at two, so 6% nominal growth. >> That's question and. >> He was right about inflation. He was. right about the inflation. He was wrong. about the GDP growth. Okay. But okay, that's Bessant. Boot-licking Bessant. What about Kevin Hassett? Come on. National Economic Advisor. What are we doing? We're in the What how. are we doing? We're Where are we going. to hit, Hassett? Let's play Hassett. >> So, you know, we're cruising at about. three, and again, I expect the second.

half will cruise about four. >> 4% growth in the second half. >> That's right, yeah. >> We were cruising. What What the hell. happened there, Hassett? I thought we. were I thought we were cruising. We'll. pause there. Reminder. Order WTF America right now. If you. watch these clips and you go WTF, order it. Okay, look, there are some. people who are like, "Ben, you promote.

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I don't know I'm trying to get like. okay, Ben, I'm sorry, but like I want it. to be out there. about how we can. harness the power of movements like this. to make generational change cuz we need. generational change right now. And. that's one of the main thesis of the. book that we can't be trapped in a cycle. where all of a sudden it's like you get. Obama and then you get Trump and then we. get a new Obama and then we you know, and then we get a new Trump. That's. broken. That's not going to work. So how.

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>> I I I saw somebody ask during the break, so how the hell do we get out of this. loop? What I hate about when people. promote books is sometimes that well, now you got to buy the book. So, I'm going to tell you how we get out. of the loop just very briefly. I'm not. going to get read the whole book, but. um. I'll I'll give you one of the main. thesis, you know, that I write just so. I'm not I don't want to I don't like. when people promote things and they. withhold, well, you have to buy the book. if you want to get out of the loop. All. right? It's like it's it's a little bit. cruel and unusual, especially given the. moment that we're in. One of the things. I posit is the following.

The right-wing fascists have had a plan. that they've been executing since the. 1970s. And the Roger Ailes manifesto. with Nixon, how to create a right-wing. propaganda network that was built out. into right-wing radio, which was built. out into state regime media Fox, which. its tentacles then expanded with. uh the internet, with innovation, with. AI, and suddenly you had this.

paradoxical situation with more. information and access to information, but that it created a feudal dynamic of. lord v. serf. where you had a. educational disparity. because there was polluted information. despite there being more information. And I argue we have to recognize that. there are broader forces at play than. just the day-to-day gamified elections,

which are important. But there are enduring principles that. we have to deal with and contend with. And so. it is important that we focus Look, there's 100 days to the midterms. Yes. But what we have to make sure we focus. on is not the cult of personalities. because we're always going to be let. down by personalities. What we have to understand are the. values and principles and qualities that. we want in leadership beyond political.

tribal identity. And what we need to do as. um people who want to build a. generational change is we have to. approach it from different areas. The. area that we approach it in is from. media. And the way Fox built its thing. from 1970s, they're 60 years ahead of. us. So, we need to start now. We're 6. years in. Imagine where we could be in. 60 years, okay, with fighting the.

tainted, polluted information. environment with accurate information. And whether people are associated with. the Midas Touch Network like a Katie. Phang or a Scott McFarland or a Legal AF. or a Justin Wolfers and all of these. people or if they're not affiliated with. Midas Touch Network, but they're inspired by independent. media. That provides a way to counter the. disinformation that's out there and it. is important that we recognize that this. isn't going to be solved next election.

cycle. It just isn't. It's going to be. solved though if we keep at this for the. next 50 and 60 years. Parallel to what we do, there was the right-wing Federalist. Society. They got. all these law students to speak in a. fascist way. And they used the unitary executive as. cover for dictatorship. And really what. they wanted was dictatorship. So, they.

used all of these frameworks. Uh you know, states' rights, this, that, you know, you know, you know, big government, small government, this. I'm a hawk, I'm a this, I'm a that. But that was. a. way heads I win, [snorts] tails you lose. um for them to ultimately get what they. wanted was they wanted a monarch with. absolute immunity.

That's they thought the way to deal with. complex times, empower the oligarchs, crush everybody. And so, what we and so, we have to. recognize that. And also that the issues here are. international in scope, global in scope. And so we need to address it global in. scope as well. Because if you're trying. to fight international forces of. fascism, you're like bringing a toothpick if you.

think that, you know, one election cycle. is going to deal with these forces. internationally. Now, I get into lots of. specifics, I get into the background, we. get into all of this. But I saw people. saying, "Okay, Ben, you can't just leave. me hanging." So. I think that there it is a mindset. It. is a broader philosophical approach and. pursuit. And when I show you this Howard. Lutnick clip right now, and Jeremy, I. want to show the one on the All-In. podcast, not the other one, because it. just I even more absurd. But it's Howard.

Lutnick talking about 6% GDP. Jeremy, watch my signal cuz I don't want to play. the whole thing here. But let me show. you again like what we're contending. with. You know, you have Lutnick, Epstein class oligarch, you know, you. know, who is there. Again, like if you. told me this was Bernie Madoff saying. this, I would tell you I mean, this is Bernie. This is watching like Bernie Madoff on.

steroids to see Lutnick. And it's the. same creepy voice that he does that when. he was like, "I wasn't on Epstein. Island. I wasn't there. Never. He's disgusting. He's He's a blackmailing disgusting. I would never be Why would I be in his. presence? And it's like, "Well, you were. there.". "Yeah, but I was with my kids.". "Yeah, but that makes it worse.". "Well, I said I wasn't there. I never. mentioned I wasn't there with my little.

kids.". "Yeah, but that's that's worse. That's. even worse than being there with your. kids is worse than you. Okay. And so he And so he's out on this. podcast and they're asking him. They're. like, "Yo, yo, what do you think the. GDP's going to be, you know, and and you. know, what what's your plan? What's your. growth plan? Pod Bros, all in. We're. finance. We tech We tech We're finance. dudes. We know our We know our. stuff, okay?". You know, I do I do SPACs, you know, as.

as a guy does the. SPACs, the special purpose acquisition. companies, whatever. And then Lutnick in that same voice, "Six. Six percent growth. And then when they. cut the interest rates, oh, it's going to be special." Here, watch what he says. Let's play it. >> Fives. You're going to see fives. in the greatest economy in the world. You're going to see. fives.

And people think you can't you can't. like. >> percent GDP on a base this big is just. it's enormous. >> have a $30 trillion so five percent is. $1.5 trillion in growth. And. if we cut rates, you'll see sixes. And people do not would never before. Donald Trump walked into that office, they would don't think that's possible. And what six mean? >> Let's just put six in context. Six was. China at its peak under central planning.

with. >> I [snorts] was saying go back to me. That's why I'm making the hand signals. Um yeah, I'll put six in context. You're. a fraud. Okay, I'll put it in context. for you. You are a liar. That's the context, okay? There's no six, okay? You're making it. up. And this stuff has real world impact. on people who are suffering. While you. promise six, you last uh year basically did negative.

many ways, and you know, we we we we see. a shrinking GDP right now. Few other things I want to point out. Blanche, Epstein. time together. We'll keep you posted on what the latest. developments are with Blanche's. nomination. Confirmation hearing was canceled and it. was moved to sometime in the future. Cornyn and Tillis, both who Donald Trump. destroyed their careers, Republican. senators They've told Blanche, "Look,

just put it in writing that you're not. going to. have this January 6th. settlement that Trump did with the own. with his federal government. And um that Trump wants to waive all tax. evasion liability and criminal. investigations for not paying taxes and. all of this. And. Blanche isn't signing a written. document. So, it seems pretty clear. that Trump's plan is to. not pay his taxes. That's what my.

opinion is in my opinion. Let me be. clear, you could have different. opinions. To not pay those taxes and then claim. well, the settlement agreement can only. be undone in a in writing. It needs a. writing to be undone. There's no. writing, so I don't have to pay my. taxes. Just sign the freaking document then. What are we wor-. Sign a written document. By the way. Blanche is so unqualified, he's so. unethical, he's so heinous. He should. not even be anywhere near the DOJ. He. should not have a law license in my.

opinion, but I'm again giving you my. opinion. But. why are you so afraid to sign the. document that says it doesn't exist. that just it's a crazy concept. We're. not giving Why would we give billions of. dollars to the January 6th. insurrectionists and waive Trump's tax. liability? That's that's psycho. That's crazy. So, just put it in a written document. Nope, we're not going to put that in Okay, well, then you're then then then you're. a bunch of frauds. The hell are you. doing? You think we're stupid? You think.

we're stupid? By the way, even the. non-college educated know it. I don't By the way, let me be very. clear, too. Just because you're. non-college educated does not mean that. you are less smart than college educated. or law educated. Todd Blanche went to. law school, okay? I'll put non-college. educated. over Blanche any day. at this point. So, I'll make that point. clear, also. Um. but that's Trump's base.

And non-college educated white, that is. Non-college educated white people. And. even they're like, come on, man. Come on, man. What are you doing? What you doing here? We're not We're not. doing this anymore. But by the way, that's what the people in Atlantic City. saw. That's what the people in New York. That's Trump's life, man. That's Trump's life. Why do you think. the guy went bankrupt so many times? You know, tariffs against the world, you. know, he did. Okay, I'm just going to do. three casinos right next to each other. and run up all the debt. It'll be easy.

It'll be great. I'll just just have. Michael Jackson show up. at the opening and things will be great. So, anyway, that's Todd Blanche. On the Epstein case, hat tip to Katie. Fang. Everybody subscribe to Katie. Fang's YouTube channel. If not, make. sure you subscribe to Katie Fang's. YouTube channel. Midas Touch host. her lawsuit against Todd Blanche. and the DOJ, the judge ordered Blanche. to turn over a bunch of files for in.

camera review. Apparently, the files were turned over. We don't know, I mean. the DOJ did a notice of compliance in. camera review. means the judge has it. We can't see it. yet. In camera review, that's what it's. called. I N space camera, C A M E R A. It's. italicized in law. That just means the. judge Katie Fang doesn't even get to see. it. The judge will get to look at it and. determine if the judge wants to take. further action. Katie said she's good. with that because let's have a federal.

judge see if these representations are. true or not. Or wait, or so we're. waiting on that. A notice of compliance was filed. by Trump's DOJ saying they did it. We'll. keep you posted as we as we learn more. there. And Donald Trump is now saying. that he may withdraw Todd Blanche's. nomination. until after the midterms. hoping the Republicans keep control of. the Senate. And believing that with Tillis.

and with Cornyn gone then he could push. Blanche through without a writing. that voids the settlement agreement. That's how important the settlement. agreement is to Donald Trump. The. written agreement that he refuses to. have Blanche sign a written instrument. Now, to me it's ridiculous after everything. like. it's not like Tillis and Cornyn are no.

heroes in this story, okay? I mean the fact that that's their bright. line and not all the other stuff that. Blanche has done. But, you know, that is their bright line. apparently. Um and you know, we'll we'll. I I I don't have the greatest degree of. confidence that they will do the right. thing. Um but uh. at least that's where we are for now as. of this recording. So, over the next few hours, maybe even. right now, I haven't seen it, the US I'm.

sure will strike Iran, Iran will strike. back, CENTCOM will pretend it didn't. happen, Donald Trump will say I'm going. to blow the F'ing out of them, he'll say. they want to do a deal, they'll say they. don't want to do a deal, we'll have more. strikes in Yemen, we'll deplete our. strategic reserves, we'll have a. terrible day in the market followed by a. better day in the market followed by a. worse day in the market, but meanwhile. the American people are the pawns in all. of this who are just getting screwed in. whatever the hell this market. manipulation dystopian nightmare is.

WTF, I can't think of a better title that. describes this moment. WTF. Get your pre-order the copy of the book. Um if if if if you can. it helps us decide where we're going to. tour, what we're going to do, how we you. know all the stuff that you have to. think about with books. Uh but we've dedicated it to you. The. first the dedication page says to the.

Midas mighty. So if you ever wanted to write a book, you want to tell your kids or grandkids, you know, I kind of helped write this. book. You more than kind of helped write this. book. You were the inspiration. for this book. All of you are the. inspiration behind this. All right. Got a lot got a lot to report on. I did. a video that we dropped at 2:00 p.m. Watch the other video on our feed right. now. I get into more detail about these.

Iranian F-35 strikes. It's going on there. I got the brother. show. Watch the show with me, Brett, and Jordy. tonight. 8:00 Eastern 5:00 Pacific. and uh I appreciate you. Really really appreciate you. Thanks. thanks so much for everything. These are these are not easy times. If we could laugh a little bit, if we. can. cry a little bit, if we can smile a. little bit, more laughing and smiling.

than crying. But it's okay. These are difficult. times. There are difficult things that. are happening. It's real. This isn't a game. This is. this is real life and we're and we're in. this together. We're in this journey together that you. know, we didn't really ask to be in this. loop. But this is the loop that we're. in. And um. you know, there's. there there there's a a lot that I you. know, one of the points that I make too. in the book. Uh WTF America, pre-order it now.

Is there are two paths to go down, an A. and a B. A, a strong a fake strong man fascist. authoritarian I alone can fix it. who brings us into the abyss and. disaster. Path B, people powered. Um advancing civil rights, advancing. uh better climate, better environment, no war. That's a path. The bad news is that we took. path A. Not you and uh me, but we took.

we took the wrong path. That's undeniable and sad. We literally had this path. Did you want to go in this direction or. this direct? We chose as a country. the bad direction. The the we we. shouldn't sugarcoat it and act like. things are great. We took the wrong the very wrong choice. But I argue and I'll get into more. detail about it in the book, so. pre-order it, that we still have the. ability to make a U-turn and get out of.

it right now. Not. we're we're we're almost past that a. point where we can't make the U-turn. But making the U-turn still means it's. going to be very bumpy. out of it. But we can get out of it. But that's not a window that's open for. that much longer. I you know, a few more of these um one more of these. election cycles um potentially we're not. out of it. That's just the reality. But.

I think the good news is that the. country sees this. in its rawest purest form of fascism. And I think. this fascist experiment not just failed, but miserably failed. And so I think that opens up. a window for. progress in a generational way. But we have to think about it in terms. of generational and not election cycles. And we can't be so fixated on cults of.

personalities that we're blinded and are. let down by personalities. And we have. to understand the stakes. And that's why, you know, if you've been. watching. I you know, I think I've been covering the. day-to-day politics of things, but without being. preachy. and without being, you know, this person said and then that. person and then and then you know, what. do you think about this person? For me, it's like,

yo, we're. we're under attack from fascism and. international fascism, okay? And unless we can recognize that there. are different ways to fight it, but. ultimately there's a team that wants to. fight it. Yeah, either fight it or. or or or or it takes over. That's how I see see it as existential. stakes. All right. Appreciate you all so much. We covered a. lot. Pre-order the book. If you can, wherever the wherever it is,

pre-order it now. Uh put Can you do me a. Do me a favor? We got 9.5 thousand. people here. Just so I can see it right now. I'm. watching the chat. Can you all put WTF. if you've done the pre-order or if you. plan on pre-ordering it? So I can So I can see. I like that. Someone goes, "Look at the. look on Ben's face. when it comes back from the weed. gummies." Yeah, Ben's face was like,

"WF" Are you saying Do Are you saying. that I'm doing what I don't do weed. gummies. I don't do the weed gummies. That's. Brett and it's Brett and Jordy. Brett. and Jordy are weed gummies. >> [laughter]. >> That's why I don't do that's why I don't. I don't I don't I don't do the weed. gummies. You think I could do I'm like. permanently on weed gummies. But they swear by it. They like that. stuff. But I don't do that. I mean I'm I'm I'm. perpetually my natural state. That's why I don't you know I I don't I. don't like I don't smoke or or.

or or do any of that. Like I'm I'm. people think that I'm always high cuz I. naturally. I naturally look that way. So. if I've done it in the past like dude it. makes me. like it because I feel like my state of. mind is maybe how people feel sometimes. when they get high. When I do it it's like the word it's. like ultra paranoia. I'm I'm unable to I'm I'm truly not.

equipped. for it like at all. And it's like it's a. it's a slippery slope personally for me. anyway. I don't know maybe maybe I'm. maybe I'm trying I'm not high ever. Someone says I think you're I'm never. never I'm never I don't I don't smoke I. don't drink. I go for long walks. That's what I do. I I do hot takes all. day. That's my drug. I do hot takes all day.

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