LIVE: TRUMP’S WAR EXPLODES… 9/1/2026

This has been on breaking news. I'm Ben. Marcelis and this is the breaking news. Donald Trump just massively escalated. this already catastrophic and unlawful. war in Iran. Donald Trump launching. major strikes along the coast of Iran. Iran is responding. Moments ago, we have. seen uh an impact observed uh in Akaba, Jordan uh with Iranians response uh.

retaliatory strikes right here. You're. observing right here a direct hit in. Jordan. This looks to be targeting the. King Hussein International Air Base used. by US forces right there. Again, you can. see the direct hit. We're showing you. this footage also because Jordan, the. United States, United Arab Emirates, and. some of these other Arab nations always. say they intercept these ballistic. missiles. Um, and we then find out.

that's a lie. And so it does appear a. direct hit there. Also, it seems that. the United States uh was targeting a. wedding um because a uh wedding ceremony. in Sirk in southern Iran's Hargon. province uh was targeted uh by the. United States. Four people are killed. including a child uh the provincial Red. Crescent managing director said and uh.

according to Tesnim we have the footage. there that you're watching right now. Uh. the province's deputy governor for. security reported at least 50 wounded. many more but after the early stages of. this war where the Trump regime targeted. a little girl school in Manab. slaughtering uh little girls there uh. then mer volleyball uh hall where little. girls were killed. Uh the Trump regime. targeting a wedding right now uh killing.

four people including at least one. child. We sadly believe that number is. going to be increasing as well. But this. is a savage, barbaric Trump regime, a. regime of criminals like Pete Hegsith, a. regime that has gotten rid of uh the. safeguards that used to be in place, which were by no means perfect, but. these safeguards to try to stop attacks. on civilians. And it does appear the. Trump regime intentionally trying to.

slaughter little girls and little. children. But what else would you. expect? They're a regime of predators. Donald Trump himself a sexual predator. Um, and this regime covering up child. sex trafficking rings. And so their. behavior is that of a predator, right? Uh, their behavior when it comes to. Canada, if we torture Canada more, then. they'll want to do a deal with us with. Iran. If we torture them more, then. they'll stop saying no. And then they'll. finally say yes. They'll do what. Venezuela did. They'll finally submit.

They'll go through a humiliation ritual. We can exploit them. We can dominate. them. We can put them through. humiliation rituals. That's what we're. seeing in Venezuela. Of course, Donald. Trump announcing fake deals there. 65. billion barrels. We're going to create a. United Statesowned, governmentowned oil company, and we're. going to extract 65 billion barrels of. oil. We're going to do deals directly. with the Deli Rodriguez regime. And. that's going to show uh that's what's.

going to lower the price of crude. We're. going to we're going to refill our salt. caverns, the strategic petroleum. reserves in Texas and Louisiana with. this incredible uh oil from Venezuela. Okay, the oil from Venezuela doesn't go. into our strategic petroleum reserve. Literally, our salt caverns aren't made. to store the tarry, sour, viscous, dense. Venezuelan oil. Uh, you want to see. what's actually happening with the oil. Trump regime idiots? Look, right now you.

have the price of crude up significantly. approaching approaching $100 a barrel. Oil is up to record highs. Uh, right now. the uh Brent is past 95, approaching. $100 a barrel. WTI is at 90 uh dollar50. a barrel. Both are heading to $100 a. barrel. You take a look at the bond. market, a absolute freaking disaster. right now. Donald Trump destroying the.

US economy every day. The American. people are livid. The American people. hate this. The American people are. suffering. And more war crimes are being. committed in our name. Now, the. Netanyahu genocidal regime is out there. saying uh it was actually the Iranians. who attacked themselves. That's what. they're going with again. The Iranians. attacked themselves. That's what did it. It was a misfire. Really? I mean, that's. that's we're we're doing that. That's. what we're doing right now. Donald Trump.

launches catastrophic unlawful war. Slaughtered little girls in Manab. Slaughtered little girls in Lamar. We. see what's happening in Gaza. We see. what's happening in Lebanon. We see. what's happening in Syria. This is what. you're going with. Really? That's we. we're supposed to Okay, I guess they. shot their own children again. Or maybe. it's the predatorial regime that's been. doing this is doing it again right now. Uh utterly utterly horrific. Now we've. been seeing this escalation um uh this. Trump regime further attacks now take.

place. Um you know earlier this week. remember the Trump regime uh attacked uh. an area on the coast of Iran and then. Iran responded and then the Trump regime. was like we intercepted it all. We. stopped the strikes in Jordan. We. stopped the strikes in the UAE and I. told you that's just a lie. We Iran was. able to target and strike the US bases. there. Um and then last night Iran was. able to strike two more tankers in the. straight of Hormuz uh laden with Saudi.

Arabian oil. Um two VLCC's uh disabled. attacked by Iran and the Trump regime's. like we are getting so much oil out of. the straight of her moves. We control it. everybody. We control it. It's so good. Well, all of this is going on, too. I'm. not sure if you caught this. And Jeremy, I think we have it, which is the. interview that JD Vance gave also um on. some bizarre podcast. JD Vance was like, I'm trying to focus on doing as much of.

God's work as possible, and if that. leads to the end of times, I'm okay if. it leads to the end of times. Do we have. that clip, Jeremy? If we do, uh let's. play that one. What I'm trying to focus. on is doing as much of God's work as. possible right now. And if that leads to. the end times, okay, if that leads to. the end times, okay, what the hell are. you talking about? Why are all these. people such sick human beings? What the.

If that leads to the end times, you're. going on podcasts and you're saying. that. I mean, look, and and doing that, by the way, I I I've been reporting for. a while on these uh bigger, broader. international geopolitical moves taking. place as the Trump regime shreds to. pieces the US credibility throughout the. world. What has just taken place in the. past uh 24 to 48 hours? Are you. following these developments? The. Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

meeting in Kyrgystan in Bashesk. Did you. catch this meeting? If you watch the. Midas Touch Network, I'm sure you did. Iran's president poses there meeting. with Vladimir Putin, the leader of. Russia, meeting with Xi Jinping. You see. him standing right next to Prime. Minister Modi. You have Luca Shenko. right there. You have other nations who. are uh part of the Shanghai Cooperation. Organization. You have Putin talking. about the economic cooperation between.

Iran and Russia. You have China talking. about the economic cooperation uh. between China and Iran. Putin talking. about the economic cooperation between. Russia and Iran. Um India talking about. working with Iran. And what does. Treasury Secretary Besson do after. threatening economic D-Day? You all know. what he does, right? I mean, you have. Russia at the meeting saying, "We are. doing everything we can to help Iran's.

nuclear program." They literally said. it. I mean, is that being covered on. corporate news here? Is that No, they. literally said, "We're helping Iran with. their nuclear program." And and it's. happening. The Bushir plant is a Russian. Iran joint venture and Russia says it's. going to be injecting billions of. dollars and it wants to do so on an econ. on a expedited basis to help Iran. further build its nuclear capabilities. and nuclear facilities um in the region. And so what does Treasury Secretary.

Bessant do? He invites. the Russian Finance Minister to the G20. finance summit in Asheville, North. Carolina. Did you all see this? You have Anton. Sulionov, the Russian finance minister. None of the European countries would. take a photo with this guy or pose with. him or meet with him, but Treasury. Secretary Bessant. Uh, you would like to. meet with me, Mr. Antonionov?

We're going to talk about our. cooperation between our nations. That's. what we're going to doing. I was doing. my best in depression. Jeremy, we're. going to talk about how can we bring our. nations closer together. That's what I. meant by economic de That's what I meant. by economic D-Day. How could we be more. closer with Russia? Meanwhile, Russia. was striking the hell out of Keev while. that meeting was taking place. Did you. see some of those strikes on Keev?

Russia's preparing for a massive winter. offensive. You have Donald Trump tapping. Zalinsky along, saying we would get. Patriot interceptors to Ukraine, and of. course we didn't. Saying we'd give. Zalinski interceptor licenses, of course. we didn't. And I did a video this week. about spheres of influence. Donald. Trump's view that the United States. should have the Western Hemisphere and. dominate it. That China should have all. of Asia and dominate it. And that Russia.

should have all of Europe and Ukraine. and Europe and dominate it. That's. Trump's view. And Trump's out there like. it's pretty clear that that's what. Trump's doing. Meanwhile, you have Xi. Jinping talking about multilateralism, multi-polar world, bringing countries. together, a new era, the Thusidities. trap. And Donald Trump's out there like, "Oh, Iran's stupid. crazy. You're stupid crazy. I'm gonna. bomb you, Iran. You stupid crazy. country." Seriously, I mean, I'd like to.

be I'd like for you to say, "Ben, cut it. out. This is matters of war and peace. You're being immature. Why are you. saying stupid and crazy and all of. these?" That's what Donald Trump said. called up regime propaganda media in the. United States to announce these strikes. against Iran earlier today and he said. Iran is a stupid and crazy country and. if they do anything um and if they do. anything then we're going to strike then. we're going to even hit him harder. Um.

Trump threatens to wipe out Iran as a. country during the call with Fox. Let's. play it. >> is. But again, the latest information. that we have, John, US strikes are. ongoing against Iran, hitting the. southwestern part of the country. And. the president once again in a call with. Fox News warning the Iranian regime if. they respond to these strikes against. the southwestern part of Iran that they. will be hit much harder. And again, he. goes on to say, "If this goes for a. third time, they will be wiped out as a.

country." He described the Iranians as. crazy and stupid. And again, the region. is waiting to see if there will be an. Iranian response. Already in Iranian. state media, they are threatening. retaliation against US forces in the. region. >> Of course, there's going to be an. Iranian response and there is an Iranian. response. But do you notice the theme. here by Donald Trump? You have to. recognize and you have to just call it. out that the Trump regime is a uh nation.

of predators. That's what Trump is. Trump is a predator. So the way his. regime operates is the way a predator. would operate. It frankly it is the way. a sexual predator would operate. And you. have to under if we make Canada suffer. more. This is their idea. If you try to. destroy them, that will finally make. them stop saying no. And that's what.

will make them say yes. When you're rich, they let you do it. It's what Donald Trump has done in his. life. If you're rich, you get away with. it. They let you do it. If you're. America, you should be able to do it. If. you're Trump, they let you do it. And. Canada says, "No, the hell are you. talking?" No. What? What the hell are. you even doing? No. What's the What's. the whole plan? It's not even a plan. when it comes to Iran. If we bomb. harder, if we economically devastate.

him, that's going to make him say, "Please, can we do a please, let's do a. deal? We want to do what Deli did in. Venezuela and we want you to be able to. say that you are exploiting our. resources for the next 100 years like. this is the 18th century. By the way, how'd that work out in the 18th century? And then what the other day Trump regime. was like, uh, we're going to do a mowing. operation of Iran. We're going to mow.

them. You're going to mo you're going to. do a mowing operation. I mean, in. addition to the fact that a mowing. operation is a genocidal war criminal. thing to say, but it is a genocidal war. criminal regime. You know what happens. when you mow? I know maybe Donald Trump. doesn't know this because he's probably. never mowed grass in his life. And also, if you look at his properties, they're. pieces of But if you actually mow, guess what happens? The grass comes. back. Did you know that? The grass comes. back in a week. And then you have to mow.

it again. Then you have to mow it again. and then it comes back sometimes even. thicker. So that is is that's that's the. game plan. And the American people don't. want anything. We don't want his trade. wars against the world. We don't want. the stupid trade wars against Canada. We. don't we definitely don't want the. catastrophic war in Iran. Waking up and. seeing we're bombing weddings. We're. bombing little girls schools. We're. slaughtering little freaking girls in. Manab. We're slaughtering girls playing. volleyball. The hell is going on? And that's where.

our taxpayer dollars are going to while. we see a mass exodus out of our military. because we have another freaking lowlife. piece of trash lunatic and Pete Exith. couldn't even run a nonprofit for. veterans. Ran that into a ground. Despicable war criminal vile human being. who's like we need to in inject. ourselves with testosterone and we need. the warrior ethos. Well, we don't need.

modern warfare. It's the war. We're. being led by the dumbest people and. we're being led off the freaking cliff. by these people. You had Army Secretary. Driscoll formally resigned. He can't He. gave a massive warning to Donald Trump. about Hegsith, but hey Driscoll, hate to. break it to you, but Donald Trump wants. people like Hexith. That fits the. profile of exactly who Donald Trump. wants. He doesn't want people like you. By the way, Driscoll had this whole, you.

know, he's he's a JD Vance guy. Yale. guy, veteran, you know, he came with all of his. right-wing Pierre Poland talking point. He's He's that kind of guy, right? You know, but kind of knows how. to find his way to the nexus of power. Dude lived in Pasadena, California. Okay, let's be clear about Driscoll, okay? He worked for a private equity. firm in Pasadena, California. Okay. But. once he once but what Driscoll proved to. be actually was competent uh recogni he.

formed bonds with top military generals. like Randy George who was pushed out um. the fourstar chief of staff of the army. Uh Christopher Donnu. uh other fourstar general out of Europe. and Driscoll wanted to modernize the. army. uh he got into these fights with. Hegith when Hegsith refused to promote. black people and women and when Hegsith. would do like the Apache helicop Hegsith. would do the Apache helicopter flights.

by Kid Rock and you know Driscoll was. with the Randy George Donnu traditional. crew conservative you might say. conservative you might say crew you know. who was against all of this Hegsith crap. and Hegsith and Trump you know purged. the army of these people. Um, so. Driscoll's gone, Driscoll's deputies. about to be gone, the Navy secretary is. gone, and you just have a, you know, you. have this regime of just the most. incompetent, dumbest, you know, most. idiotic peoples, most idiotic people.

Here's what uh Trump posted. The United. States is, as we speak, striking Iranian. targets near the straight of Hormuz. The. strikes are large and powerful, and in. retaliation for the Iranians attempts at. adding sea mines to the strait, which. currently has no mines, they have been. completely removed or detonated. And the. Iranians shooting eight missiles, all. successfully knocked down at our. military bases in Jordan. If the failed. nation of Iran retaliates for the very.

justified attack, they will be hit again. at a much harder and higher level. But. it will not be the biggest attack of. them all. That is waiting in the wings. And when it is over, there will be very. little left of the Islamic Republic of. Iran. Donald J. Trump. You know, the. thing about Trump is that he's a. lifelong bankrup or piece of human. being. And he's going to bankrupt. everything. He's going to wait until he. loses all of the chips and then goes. bankrupt and then steals your chips. That's who he is. That's his. personality, a pathological loser. And.

he always finds the bullseye of losing. And so my own view about where this. thing ends is he will always fall into. the escalation trap. Iran is never going. to submit and Iran knows we've run out. of weapons. The US is out of weapons. Okay? You know the uh strikes the other. day that Iran actually did hit Muafik. Salty Air Base in Jordan and uh and the. other base in Jordan, the Hussein base.

in Jordan as well. Um, the US probably. used at least 50 to 60 Pac 3 Patriot. interceptors. So, every time Iran launches its. ballistic missile strikes and its drone. strikes, and I'm sure Iran's also. launching some dummy ballistic missiles. as well that don't actually even have. explosive capabilities. Just draw out. the PAC 3 interceptors. Just draw them. out. I'm sure that's part of their.

strategy, too. like come on like let's. be let's be let's be real here. But the. every time that happens the US is now. depleting 10 to 20% of their remaining. interceptors and it diminishes and it. diminishes and it diminishes. Why do you. think that all of our top generals and. admirals in the Secretary of Defense. order book put a do not concur with the. war plans which is unprecedented. Not a. do not concur. That's happened before.

But on smaller issues, not the actual. war plan generally. You usually have the. buyin of your war plan from your. generals and your admirals. The only. people going along with this right now. is you have Hegsith. You have that. stoogge, that humili that embarrassing. Admiral uh Cooper who's turned Sencom. into the laughingstock of the world. Oh. my god, what he's done to Sencom. He's. turned it into a Trump MAGA account.

They they post the most ridiculous. things. We control the straight of. Hormuz. True or false? It is false that. the United States launched aggressive. action against Iran because this was. targeted strikes. What are you even. talking about, Cooper? What are you even. talking about? Remember Cooper's. testimony back in May before the House. and the Senate? It was like the you had. veterans who were on who were members of. Congress and in the Senate who had a.

grill Cooper cuz he came in there as. like a hostile witness, which is so rare. for somebody in the military. um you know for for someone of Sentcom. to come in as like a hostile witness. paring MAGA talking points. The hell's. wrong with that guy? And again, for. those just joining us right now, the the. recent updates are the Trump regime. launched massive strikes against Iran. Iran's launched massive retaliation. against the United States. The United. States targeted a wedding, struck a.

wedding, killed four people, killed. children. This is the wedding we're. showing you right now that was targeted. by the United States. 50 people injured. at least over here in the Sir area. The. United States launched massive strikes. throughout Iran. Iran striking back uh. hitting the US bases uh in Jordan right. there. You're seeing right here King. Hussein International Airport used by US. forces over there. Um Donald Trump. posting earlier today uh as noted that.

uh this much harder, bigger attack is. going to be coming referring to and. Trump says we're going to totally. annihilate him. We're going to wipe. we're going to wipe Iran off the face of. the earth. And Trump's like, there's no. mines. The straight of Hormuz is. perfect. Two tankers, two Saudi tankers. laden with oil um fully laden. Um were. hit uh in the straight of Hormuz. uh last night as well by Iran. Iran is. launching its retaliation right now.

Should be noted as well uh and hatip to. the USA for USA today for this report. Iran has also been able to develop this. uh new weapon which referred to as the. castle breaker. Josh Mayer from USA uh. today reporting uh a defense expert. telling USA Today that Iranian missiles. have significantly damaged US bases and. these are some of the new missiles uh. that they are using over here. Um, some.

of those analysts believe Iran used. what's being referred to as a castle. breaker uh missile and unlike. conventional ballistic missiles that. travel a fixed path, uh, defenders can. track and try to intercept. This is. called the KBAR Shaon can quickly change. course in the final phase of its. descent, potentially slipping past air. defenses and hitting targets with. devastating precision. um US military. bases in the region are essentially. abandoned um because Iran's been able to.

strike them. The reason we've had so. much issues with um logistics and. getting food and supplies aboard those. aircraft carriers, they would normally. be supplied from Bahrain. Um and the. Bahrain base was destroyed in the early. days of the war. are now lots of the. supplies are coming from Diego Garcia. which is very far away and so that takes. a long time for the supplies to reach. the aircraft carriers and you know who.

would have thought Donald Trump a. lifelong bankrupter bankrupts casinos. bankrupts Trump state and Trump this and. Trump that and Trump this and Trump that. who would have thought that yet you you. put bankruptors and lifelong losers in. positions of power and they behave like. bankruptors and so you have that going. on you have the Shanghai Cooperation. Organiz ization going on with uh this uh. multilateral meeting between Russia and. China and Iran and India and all these. world leaders who were there and meeting.

in Kyrgyzstan and Bisheshkin over there. You see them all over there. Um look. who's in the middle right there. Xi. Jinping basically uh with China now. becoming the main global hegeimon right. there circled is President Peskian of. Iran. He held many major meetings with. world leaders and the response from the. Trump regimes is let's invite the. Russian finance minister to North. Carolina in Asheville and welcome Russia. back into the G20 uh summit for the. financial ministers. And that's what.

went down yesterday at the same time. Russia was striking hard in Kev. Remember when Donald Trump would say uh. if you don't elect me there's going to. be a world war. There'll be world wars. Let's be clear right now. Okay. The only thing that's I mean I believe. that there is a world war going on, right? I mean there is a war involving. the world right now. Okay. And NATO is. not invoking article four or five simply. because they know that Donald Trump. won't honor it. Okay. There's multiple.

grounds why article four or article 5. should already be invoked. Did you know. that off the coast of Romania in. Romanian waters, Russia struck a tanker? That would be grounds for article four, article 5. What about Russia's drone. mayhem in Germany? What what about that? Which is traced back to Russia? Is. Germany invoking article 4, Article 5? No. Why not? Because they know that.

article four and article five is dead. and Donald Trump won't honor article. four and article five. So what's Russia. doing? Poking along the lines showing. that article 4 and article 5 is dead. preparing for the winter strikes on. Ukraine. Um and you know I think that. Lucenko is going to play a major part in. that as a northern front is going to be. open. Russia's been building up its. ballistics. Russia's been building up.

its shahi drones with even a more. ferocious capability. these new Shahi. drones that they create 300 miles per. hour, 350 miles per hour, which the. Ukrainian drone interceptors struggle to. at that speed. You need to sometimes. shoot them down with other things other. than the those interceptors which were. used to the like the propeller drones. And so those shaheds also could be used. by Iran as this war escalates in the. Middle East. And you take a look at all.

of this and to me it all goes back to. the weak pathetic loser, the sexual. predator, the guy covering up the. Epstein files in the Oval Office right. now. It is sickening. It is sickening to. me as an American that yet again the. United States struck a wedding today. That the United States killed a child. and killed people at a wedding. It it pains me. It pains me that this is. what the United States is doing. And. then Donald Trump soothes his ego by. coming up with fake deals with an.

authoritarian from Venezuela, Deli. Rodriguez. By the way, like we all. realize that what this means is that. there's never a chance of democratic. elections in Venezuela. Obviously, there. isn't because the fake fraudulent deal. with Deli falls apart if you do another. reg if you have other people in power. both in the United States and. in Venezuela, right? If they're once a. new administration comes into uh control.

in the United States, we going to be. like, "Yeah, we're going to do this 18th. century imperialistic deal." Of course. not. Of course not. And the companies. that if there are truly there really. aren't many, but if there are companies. who are doing business in all of this, okay, they're going to be subject to. massive shareholder lawsuits for being a. part of this sham. Okay, so that's why a. lot of people view it as Venezuela as. uninvestable. Both because the oil. underneath is tarry and not the type of.

oil that is easily refined, but also you. can't do business with the Deli. Rodriguez regime. And then on the. Venezuela side, you think Delulse is. going to give up power now? You you you. think the bully chicos, the rich young. people who are part of these shavistas. who are making all the money on this, you think they're going to give up power. to who? Machado, Maria Karina Machado, you think that's. you think that's what's going to happen? You think there's, you know, you think. that's going to happen? Absolutely not. Let's wake up people about what's.

happening here. And that's also, you. know, we've seen the whistleblower. letter, right, that was sent to the. United States Senate warning that the. Trump regime is ignoring court orders, blocking their. uh attempt to federalize the elections. with ch with requiring that a federal. barcode be used um for people who Donald. Trump claims are eligible to vote, not.

um what the eight voter roles, say Trump. has his voter roles, right? And so if. you have to be on Trump's voter roles. and if there's a discrepancy between. someone on the Trump voter role based on. this barcode system that Trump wants to. roll out, the Trump regime will destroy. the entire batch of of um of ballots. So, if there's 5,000 or 10,000 in a. batch of ballots and there's one person.

who doesn't meet the uh Trump voter role. list, as Trump defines that, under the. Trump view, that gives him um you know, that that that gives him the ability to. um to destroy the entire batch of uh of. of of ballots. And so, that's a pretty. big freaking deal. The whistleblower. called this out. There is a federal. injunction blocking this from happening,

but the Trump regime is going to want to. do as much havoc as possible on male. ballots and they're going to want to try. to create confusion so male ballots. don't arrive. That's Trump's plan. Okay? He's a dictator. He's a sexual predator. He's a piece of trash. We have to. understand what the plan is here. It is. dictatorship. It is destroying America. it is forging alliances with Putin and I. mean in my opinion that seems to be. what's clearly happening right here. Um. but you know you you you know you you. tell me. We're going to take our first.

break of the show. Um want you to check. out Scott McFarland Reports which. launched to which launched today. anywhere you find podcasts. So check. that out. Scott McFarland Reports. I'm. so honored to have Scott McFarland as. part of this uh network. Great to have. him of course. All right let's take a. quick break. We'll be right back. Make. sure you subscribe on audio to Scott. McFarland Reports. Uh pre-order WTF. America as well. It's the book I wrote. with my brothers. It comes out October. Um but pre-order it now. The pre-orders.

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a attack helicopter was destroyed. We. need to get confirmation on that. But we. did see we have the footage I believe of. a strike in Jordan at least by a Cababa. right there where you can see a missile. getting through. Um and uh I think yeah, there it is right there. You can see um. clearly the a at least one apparent. ballistic missile was able to hit its. target. Um, one of the issues, of. course, is uh Trump lies about.

everything and. uh Jordan and these Arab nations often. claim everything's intercepted. Um, SenCom lies about everything and you. can't always get accurate information. from Iran. Sadly, for me to have to. admit this as an American is something. that I never thought I would ever do. Um. Iran's T has on occasions on occasions. has been more accurate more than. occasions I'll just say has often.

provided information that I go oh wait. that actually happened and Sencom saying. it didn't happen and then I'm like damn. it I mean I'm still you know I'm still. an American you know I I I want to see. compet I don't want to be in this. catastrophic and unlawful war at all. Um. it just it pains me to see what's. happened to our country. It's a failed. state. We're a failed Trump organization. right now. Um and uh every day getting. weaker and weaker and weaker. It's that. that's why I also highlight I'm like.

focus on what's happening with these. international meetings. It's not a. coincidence right here that you have the. Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Iran, China, Russia standing side by side. BRICS is going to be taking place in the. next week and a half, two weeks in New. Delhi. You have the Mecca defense. alliance meeting that just took place uh. in the past 48 hours with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia uh and Turkey. And this. Mecca alliance is going to be opening up.

to more countries. I suspect Egypt. I. suspect Bangladesh. I suspect um other. nations are going to be joining the. Mecca Alliance. Who's in Egypt right. now? Oh, Xi Jinping's in Egypt. They. just launched a series of of uh military. drills together. China, Egypt, joint. military drills uh taking place there. with the new J16s. Um which also means. that other Arab nations allow China.

access over their airspace for the. purpose of doing uh these training. exercises in Egypt. So yeah, Xi Jinping. will be there. Um then he'll be going to. BRICS to meet in New Delhi. A new order. is forming and you got Donald Trump. attacking Canada. You got Donald Trump. attacking NATO. You got Donald Trump. attacking Greenland. You got Donald. Trump behaving in this sickening. sickening way. And Trump's statement as. I talked as I said earlier was this is a. direct statement from him that Iran is a.

crazy and stupid nation. He said, "And. if they retaliate, we will basically. wipe them off the map. We're saving for. them the bigger option is what he's. saying that is going to happen next.". And again, you have that. You have JD. Vance saying, "I'm trying to focus on. doing God's work. If that leads to end. times, okay, that leads to end times.". Just play the JD Vance clip one more. time, Jeremy. Okay.

saying end times. >> What I'm trying to focus on is doing as. much of God's work as possible right. now. And if that leads to the end times, okay, okay, okay. If it leads to the end. times, okay, we're a regime that covers. up child sex trafficking. When we're. talking about the end times while. engaging in a catastrophic war while. Donald Trump threatens to blow a. civilization off the map. Okay. Okay. We. have gas prices surging right now. the. price of Brent, the price of WTI crude, both approaching $100 a barrel as we.

predicted would take place. You have the. salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana at. tank bottom right now, which we said was. going to happen. Take a look at what's. happening in Cushing, Oklahoma there, where you see how big of a supply shock. actually exists as they're trying to run. this oil through Cushing at such a pace. which shows the overall crisis uh that. that is in on a on an international uh. basis. I'm sure you know what you're.

paying for gas. I sure you sure know. what you're paying if you have to use uh. diesel. Um we know the price of gas and. diesel is at record highs right now. Everything's at record highs and you've. got JD Vance talking about um this is an. interview that the vice president of the. United States gave. There was a video. circulating on X where a woman jumps off. a diving board and she's a very large. person and she has weight problems. I'm. cool, right? Do you like me? Uh Gen.

Alpha, do you like me Gen Z millennials? I'm JD Vance. What a freaking phony. loser. Here, play this clip of JD. There. was a video that was circulating on X a. couple of years ago where it's like this. woman jumps off a diving board and it's. a very large person who clearly has some. weight problems to put it diplomatically. and goes into the pool and then like the. whole like building collapses. >> and like my initial reaction was like oh. my god that must have been a very poorly. constructed building.

J you're so funny. I mean who's the idiot interviewing the. guy too? with me. That That's Oh my god, JD. That's so funny. I'm going to. launder your cover up of child sex. trafficking rings to my audience. JD, oh. so funny. This is matter of these are. matters of war and peace, folks. These. are, you know, this this is this is some. freaking weird ass behavior that's going. on. This is these are matters of war and. peace, national security. Can we please.

have freaking grown-ups in the room? Can. we please just have adults in the room? What is this behavior? JD Vance goes on. to say, you know, with Donald Trump. doing these AI photos of Jesus, he's. like, we all get it. Trump's like a ball. buster. So, he likes to have a He likes. to have a good time. This is like This. is We just want to party, man. Okay. We. just want to party and chill like and. have a good time doing Jesus memes and. doing memes of blowing up Car Island.

Right. That's what we do, right? That's. you. This is what the kids like, right? No, you you've destroyed the future of. the person who you're speaking to, his. generation, you know, when he sits there. laundering your Shame on him. And. people like, "What the hell is this. bunch of freaking losers?" Again, not. not this isn't like, "Oh, Democrat, Republican, loser behavior from these. war mongers, covering up child sex. trafficking rings with the Epstein. files." Here, play this clip. The media.

tends to exacerbate the division by. treating things that the president does. as humorous and saying this is him being. serious or this is him pretending to be. Jesus or whatever the case might may be. I think in reality the president is just. he's he's one of these guys who he's a. backs slapper. He's a bit of a ball. buster for those of us who work with him. and he just likes to have a good time. And I think that if people appreciated. his humor they would recognize he's not. trying to offend people. He's trying to. keep things light.

>> Backstabber. He's a ball cuppper. A ball. buster. The first one was not Freudian. That's. mean. Donald Trump is a well, we'll just. say he's a bootlicker of Putin and uh. and Xi Jinping. We'll leave it at that. Well, what does Prime Minister Carney. have to say about all of this uh. memeing? how Donald Trump and his regime. are uh memeing attacks on Canada, memeing uh. ducks being launching military strikes.

against Canada and this behavior. Is is. this as JD says, is this something that. uh we shouldn't take all that ser? I. mean the the media the media just. exacerbates all of these issues. They. take it they take it ser Why would you. take the president of the United States. seriously? I mean, it's not like he's. blowing up weddings in Iran and causing. millions of Americans to be hungry and. not be able to afford things and causing.

inflation to search. Is it This is all. funny. This is all one big It's like a. game. This is like uh why why would you. take anything we say seriously? Here's. what Prime Minister Carney had to say. When the Americans stop doing memes, maybe we'll like we we'll have adult. conversations. But but okay, it's it's. your democracy, America. If this is how. you want to behave, wish you the best, bud. Here, play this clip.

Stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough, uh, and start. being serious about having those. discussions. Uh, we can have those. discussions, but it's look, it's not. constructive, but that's that's their. democracy. >> I mean, this is I. the it pains me. It's humil this is like. this is humiliating. It's humiliating. It's like um I don't.

know how I could give so many different. examples, but like I don't know if if. you if you've been involved in sports. and imagine you're playing baseball and. you're down, you know, 20 nothing and. you know it's the still the fourth. inning and the other team keeps running. up the score and you're on the losing. team. Like you're you're you're the. losers. you're you're you're you're the. nothing and you're struggling and you're.

like, maybe we should put in like our. best players and not have people who. don't know how to play the game continue. to. have us lose even more. And then the. captain of your team is just like, uh, no, we're winning. We're winning. this game. We're up. We're we're. destroying them. We're destroying them. And then you keep watching the score get. 20 nothing, 30 nothing, 40, and you're. like, "Okay, we're not just losing, but. we're losing in like record fashion.

There's never been a worse loss." No, no, we're winning. We're winning. And. every day I wake up, I'm just like, I. don't view it again, even through a. political lens. I'm just like this we we. are losing. so badly. our alliances, our strength, our econ. It's we're losing. We're getting our. asses kicked everywhere the way Donald. Trump has gotten his ass kicked. everywhere. We're getting our. objectively, we're getting our asses. kicked by Iran, by Russia, by China, by.

former allies who are making not them, the former allies like Europe and Canada. who are making midpower alliances now. and forging ahead without us. And we're. we're and we're up there freaking with. these losers, memeing, talking about end. times, talking about weird diving board. AI videos that he saw on X. It's it's while these are the people. leading the catastrophic war as they've.

fired all of our top generals and. admirals or most of them have been. purged. You got Driscoll, the army. secretary, just resigned, who I'm not. suggesting I'm a fan of Driscoll, but he. was at least an adult in the room, but. you get purged with that. You've got. Hegsith, who literally looks like a. freaking rabid. beaver,

please. A freaking psycho human. and you. know and and and just getting the. beat out of him, you know, in this. country and it's like we going to run. for president. I heard that rumor and. it's just it's just loserville. It's. loserville in the United States. I'm not. you know I'm I'm I think that's the. piece of I was I was speaking with my. speaking with my pops about it today. Um. we're trying to get out of the house for. a little bit with all with all this.

stuff. That's my the new background. And. so we we took our daughter somewhere. Um, and you know, I'm just like the the. part for me pops that's just so, you. know, I never was a political person. before all of this. I was a litigator. I. was a lawyer. I probably represented. more Republicans than I represented. Democrat. I don't know. I didn't look at. people's political identities, but I. represented a lot of people in. Bakersfield and Fresno where I spend a. lot of my time. So I assumed in. retrospect they were probably. Republican. I didn't know what freaking. party they were from. I just represent.

to them again, you know, fought for my. clients at the end of the day. But I. just I just see the country of the. United States as a country of losers. right now under Donald Trump. We keep on. losing every day. And I don't want to be. a loser, but that's just what they. that's what it is. It's what it comes. down to. and all of these qualities of. him being a predator, being, you know, the coverups of this and that, you know, it's it's it's loser, it's war.

criminals, it's rogue, and it's it's. sad. It's sad. I love this country. I. do. I still love the country. I just I. just observe this behavior and I go, "The hell is going on here?" Prime. Minister Carney was asked by a reporter, "What do you make of a US cabinet. secretary?" Multiple plural secretaries. insulting the Canadian military. Treasury Secretary Besson said, "What's. Canada going to what's Canada going to. do with us with their two submarines?

No, they don't pose any threat to us.". Dude, you couldn't manage your own $5. billion fund. You have a loser MAGA. arcessant. You couldn't handle it. You. had 90% redemptions. You don't know what. you're doing. You try to bail out the. end. That fails. Your bond buyback. scheme fails. Your former mentor is out. there saying that you don't know what. the hell you're doing right now. Okay. And this guy, dude, shut up. Here, play this clip of.

Carney. >> Free trade deal. >> Prime Minister, Prime Minister, what do. you make of US cabinet secretaries. insulting the Canadian military? It's beneath their office. >> Sir, you go meet your. >> Yeah, that's a grown-up right there. That's a grown-up leader in Prime. Minister Carney. That's an adult. It's an adult. We used to have leaders. like that. I think I don't know. I think we used to have leaders like. that. Treasury Secretary Bessant on CNBC on.

Iran. We're telling people either you're. with us or you're against us. Everyone. says to me, "What about China?" This is. what he said earlier today. Play this. clip. >> It is over, >> right? And we are telling people either. you are with us or against us. And you. know, everyone says to me, "Well, what. about China?" I said, "We have more in. common with the Chinese on Iran than we. disagree with them." The Chinese agree.

Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The. Chinese agree that there should be free. via freedom of navigation in the. straight of remotes. So we have had. private discussions with them in terms. of achieving those goals. >> He's just so dumb. He's just so dumb. Yeah. China was part of the JCPOA. before Donald Trump destroyed the deal. It's not a shock that China would be for. the deal that they were before. You know.

who was also for the for the deal? Iran. They signed the deal with Obama. They. signed the deal with Obama. And guess. what? They weren't making nuclear. weapons. That was clear from all of the. countries that involved. Russia, China, the United States, Europe, all of the uh. stakeholders that were that were. involved. But guess what, Bessant? You. know where China is right now? You know. where Xi Jinping is right now or where. he he's in Egypt right now. But he was.

at the Shanghai Cooperation. Organization. There he is right there. Right in the middle. Right in the. middle. And guess who's right next to. him. Two people away from him. Guess. who's the Guess who's right there. Yes. Peskian is right is is is right there. There he is. The president of Iran. Guess what they were talking about? Economic cooperation. Guess what Russia. was talking about? Economic cooperation. They're very clear about it. And you.

said that you would sanction China. That. was your threat. Don't talk if you're not going to. back it up, bud. I mean, you know, that's your We should never have done. it, but you said you were going to do. it, and yet again, you don't do it. And. it just puts us through a humiliation. loop. Don't threaten it. Don't you don't don't. do the war. Don't threaten it. Stop stop. saying these things that we shouldn't be. doing and don't do them. But then but.

but but why stop lying about everything. Just stop everything's a lie. Like. literally every damn freaking utterance. is a lie. Here's what Besson says about. Iran, too. Oh, the reason uh uh that. theou didn't work is Iran wasn't ready. So my job is to force them to be ready. Make a deal with us. around. Please, I'm. going to force you to do a deal. You. know, that's the deals don't work like.

that. You can't force someone to do a. deal with you that doesn't want to do a. bad deal with you. Again, this is a. predator mindset here. Let's play with. Let's play the predator mindset. >> This regime and as President Trump said, the reason theou did not work, they were. not ready for a deal. My job is to make. sure that they want to have a deal. >> and they will want to have one. You will want this. I mean, think about. what he's saying. It's a pred. That's.

what predators. My job is to make sure. that you will want a deal. You will you. that's like what crazy people say. We. you we will bomb you into making deals. with us. We will bomb you. We will bomb you into. submission deal and then we will do a. deal with you and then we will break the. deal. the the deal fell apart because Donald. Trump as soon as the deal was signed by. him uh in France in Versailles.

then started saying well aha I'm going. to open up my own route in the straight. of Hormuz I wasn't able to achieve that. during war yes theou says Iran is. responsible for administering the. straight of hormuz which most people. would take to mean that Iran is respons. responsible for coordinating with Oman. and the travel. But Trump's like, I will. interpret that as saying the US controls. the straight of moves. And Iran says.

that's not don't you think it would say. that in the agreement if that's what it. was? And then the US didn't do sanction. relief that was promised to Iran. Mocked. what was in the agreement, promising. Iran $300 billion. The US then made a deal basically. between Israel and Lebanon which would. give Israel de facto permanent control. of major swaths of Lebanon which. undercuts the very first article of the. Iranianou which says Israel get out of.

Lebanon. It's not your country but. Israel's like under Netany it's our. security zone. That's we're just calling. it the security zone. It's not your. land. It's Lebanon's land. It's not it's. not yours. You can't just call it a. security zone. And and and the. destabilizing. impact of all of this of Trump and that. it it is it is sickening. And then the. human impact. I don't want to I don't. want to ever lose sight of the fact that. there is a genocide in Gaza and there.

are kids being killed to this day. There. are children being killed. And what does. Trump do? There's a ceasefire going on. in Gaza. No, there isn't. No, there. isn't. all of Donald Trump's this that. that it's just a framework for his own. predatorial interests. That's all this. is about. That's all this is about. And. then you've got these other weirdos in. this regime. You have Shawn Duffy on Fox. this morning with all of this going on. with all of the chaos in the world right. now going on, right? What is the. transportation secretary focused on this.

morning? He's with his wife and his wife. is a host of Fox also. And so he and his. wife do the following on Fox this. morning. Here, play this clip. >> Just I'm gonna come back and give you my. take on Sydney Sweeny's breast right. after this break. >> All right, welcome back to uh from the. kitchen table. Um Rachel uh decided to. bring up a question about um. >> Sydney Sweeny's boobs. >> Yes. Um and the end of wokeness. Listen,

I I if if we're honest, we go men. appreciate women. >> and men that appreciate women are not. toxic. God made us a certain way to. >> Okay. And then what about Kelly Ller, small business administrator? She hates. small business. I mean, she married a. billionaire. They hate small businesses. in my opinion. Um but what did uh what. is Kelly Leler? What what's their. initiative? Because small businesses are. struggling right now with Trump's. tariffs against the world. Here, let's. play this clip.

>> later. You got something else pretty. exciting coming down. Small business. administrator saluting small business in. a major contest with some high-profile. judges. Tell me about it. >> The million-dollar pitch competition is. really amplifying the importance of. small businesses across America. You. think about 36 million small businesses. 98% of our manufacturers are small. businesses. And so, we're really excited. to highlight their contribution to Main. Street. This is what the Trump administr. want. I don't want a competition. I don't want a reality show competition.

of small business. I just help small. businesses. Your job is in reality. shows. What? We don't want any of this. We don't want these wars. We don't want. you aiding and abetting genocide. We. don't want our money being wasted away. on a militaryindustrial complex that. engages in war crimes. Look, we should. have a robust military, but you wasted. $1 trillion on account or in the. aggregate $9 trillion or so if you go. back from even just the past several.

years in military spending to only run. out of weapons. You can't fight the war. with those massive military budgets or. just enriching your oligarchs. That. money can go to health care. That money. can go to housing. That money can go to. help feed people and lift people out of. poverty. That money can go to actually. support infrastructure. That money can. do a lot of things for the American. people. But instead, it's being flushed. down the toilet.

for a military-industrial complex that. is not even able to. that that can't go head-to-head with. Iran. And now because we lost a war we. shouldn't have been involved in. to Iran. Now Trump just goes into the we won. We. control the straight of we did it. Moving on. Venezuela. Did you hear about the 65 billion barrel.

deal I did with Deli Rodriguez? Did you. all hear about that deal? The biggest. oil deal in history. We're going to. create these Trump state-owned oil. company inside the Pentagon with all of. our MAGA influencers who are secretly. feds inside the Pentagon. Now, apparently every right-wing MAGA. influencers like a secret Fed, you know, the deep state, they warned about they. are the deep state, actually, and. they're not going to tell you that they. actually are getting our taxpayer. dollars. Maybe that's where some of that. military-industrial complex money is.

going to their feds. Yeah, they're feds. And uh this is what we're going to this. is what we're going to be focused on. the hell is going on here? We're gonna we're gonna be the because. private business is not going in there. because it's uninvestable. We're going. to have the Pentagon launch a Trump oil. company, but we're going to call. everybody else communists despite having. a Trump oil company that's going to work. with Deli Rodriguez. and that's how we're going to do it. 100. years. And Deli Rodriguez like it's 25.

years. And Trump's like, it's a hundred. years. And we're like, okay, where's. this agreement? Where's it written down? Doesn't this require congressional. authorization? Isn't this against every. law here in the United States? And in. law laws, don't be woke. Sydney Sweeny's. breasts. That's what Duffy wants to talk. about. Sydney Sweeney, you are you are. you a wokester. You are focused on things like this war. in Iran where the US just killed people. in a wedding today and killed more.

innocent people. Are you you are you. woke? You don't It's like, dude, we're. not woke. We just think you're weird for. talking about Sydney Sweeny's breasts, man. Y'all are bringing up these issues. We're calling you freaking weirdos for. bringing up these issues. Oh, you you're. woke. You're woke for I don't care. I. really don't care about any of this. stuff. All right? You you're your. behavior is loser behavior. And I think. we all not out of being Democrats or. this or that. If we're self-respecting.

people, if we care about our. communities, if we care about this. country, if we care about the world, we. got to freaking get tough, people. We. got to get freaking tough and we got to. just call this out. And we just we can't normalize these. weirdos. And it may it may make our. lives difficult. It may intrude on our. solitude or our peaceful and our. tranquility. that we have to call out these people.

But there are sickos. There are demons. amongst us. Seriously, these are demon, demented, vile creatures right now. controlling the United States. government. I don't view it even as a. Republican. The These people are. inflicting pain on us because they're. predators and they hate America and they. hate you. They hate our military. They. hate our service members. They hate our. farmers. They hate our ranchers. They. hate our lobstermen. They hate America.

They hate it. How do you know? They. think this is good. They think this is. They think right I'll give you the proof. of it. They think this is the golden age. right now. Right here. They think this. is their golden age. That this is the. culmination of what we've all wanted. right now. And they'll say things like, "Could you imagine what would have. happened if Trump lost? It would have. been so much worse." which how truly how. how truly how how we're essentially in a.

world war right now. Everything is. worse. Everything's more expensive. Everything this is your. mission accomplished moment. That's what. they say. Mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Yeah. Deep down they hate themselves. Deep down they hate everything. They're. they're they're haters. They're haters.

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