Sleepy Trump Claims Iran War Could Last Years Then Passes Out In Embarassing Presser

24 Apr 2026 · 23 min · 11 chapters

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The episode discusses Trump’s comments about the Israel-Iran conflict and a reported three-week Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, arguing Trump is incoherent and mentally unfit. It claims Trump said the Iran war could last “years,” then fell asleep during a press appearance, while giving nonsensical war comparisons (Vietnam, Iraq, World War II, Korean War). It also alleges Trump lies about crowd size, tying it to Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama, and frames this as racist “dog whistles.” The guests criticize press coverage for normalizing these claims and not pressing follow-ups. They also condemn Israel’s “surgical” tactics as war crimes, citing snipers targeting Palestinian children and “double tapping” hospitals/schools.

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Josh and Pumps (no further identifying backgrounds provided in transcript).

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Trump's Claims on Iran War Duration

0:45 to 2:34

Discussion on Trump's comments regarding the Iran war and historical conflict durations.

“They're outside of the little Wiseguy ships.”

Contradictory Statements in Trump's Strategy

2:34 to 4:12

Exploration of Trump's conflicting statements about the Iran war and military strategy.

“Wakes up just a little bit and he's right back to sleep again.”

Analyzing Trump's Oval Office Behavior

4:12 to 6:32

Analysis of Trump's demeanor during a press conference and implications for leadership.

“So that tells me they know how bad it is.”

Trump's Historical References and Draft Dodging

6:32 to 8:02

Discussion on Trump's references to war history and his draft-dodging background.

“Called John McCain a loser because he got captured.”

Media's Role in Normalizing Trump's Behavior

8:02 to 11:10

Examination of how the media frames Trump's statements and the impact on public perception.

“About a foot and a half to two feet deep.”

Critique of Trump's Military Comments

11:10 to 12:55

Criticism of Trump's remarks on Israel's military actions and associated moral implications.

“of press conference while blatantly lying about crowd sizes.”

Trump on Israel's Military Actions

14:01 to 14:40

Discussing Trump's commentary on Israel's military response and defense.

“The other government is doing whatever it wants.”

Critique of Israeli Military Operations

14:41 to 15:34

Exploring the implications of Israel's military actions on civilians.

“Because when they have snipers that want to kill Palestinian children waiting in line for food, the snipers are very surgical.”

The U.S.-Israel Relationship and Its Consequences

15:35 to 18:01

Analyzing the historical alliance between the U.S. and Israel and its repercussions.

“starts to get really recorded and we get some distance from it and some objectivity.”

Money and Politics: The Influence of AIPAC

18:02 to 20:58

Discussing the financial motivations behind political support for Israel.

“but also bought democratic politicians, it was because they know, okay, this guy is demented, rotten, and crazy enough that we're going to get to do what we want.”
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Facing the Truth About War Crimes

20:59 to 22:31

The importance of honesty and transparency in reporting on U.S. and Israeli actions.

“I mean, it's just These politicians take this money and then they see what Israel does with it and it breaks them and they break more and then they break more.”
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0:04All right, just yesterday, Trump announced a brand new three week ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and signals he's made no progress with his war in Iran. Play the clip. On the war with Iran, how long are you willing to wait until you get a unified response? Don't rush me, Jeff. You know, guys like you, you want to say, oh, so we were in Vietnam like for 18 years. We were in Iraq for many, many years. We were in for all the, I don't like to say World War II because that was a biggie, but we were four and a half, almost five years in World War II. We were in the Korean War for seven years. I've been doing this for six weeks.

0:46And their military is totally defeated. They're outside of the little Wiseguy ships. I call them the Wiseguy ships, the little boats that they have running around with guns in them. We'll take them out too when we see them. There you have it, one of America's greatest military strategists and minds there. stating out how long other wars have been. This is just stunning. And here's a montage of him. First in this first video, don't rush me, Jeff. We have wise guys with boats and guns running around and he's got this strategy. It sounds like an 18-year strategy, a four-year strategy, a World War II strategy, who knows?

1:31But here's a montage of Trump saying the war will be over soon. Play the clip. We are going to finish the job and we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close. I think it's close to over. I mean, I view it as very close to over. I will say the war in Iran is going along swimmingly. We can do whatever we want. And it should be it should be ending pretty soon. Mm-hmm. Okay. And so there we have conflicting issues, but let's look at also yesterday in the Oval. If you think about a president of the United States making major decisions about bombs, about military provocations, about ceasefires, let's just do a little check-in on this Oval Office appearance in its entirety.

2:22Play the clip. ...work on negotiating international trade agreements. He's pretty much hitting REM here. I mean, we're pretty much hitting REM sleep here. Wakes up just a little bit and he's right back to sleep again. And this is a man who was nonstop sleepy Joe Biden. And then Fox News, look, he wakes up. Look at him. He looks drunk. And then he wakes up and then he just nods right back off again. So if he's doing this in front of the cameras, in front of the White House press corps, in the Oval Office, one of the biggest stages in the world, what's going on in the situation room with sleepy Trump?

3:11And here's the thing. Like, I'm not one of these Democrats. Joe Biden was old. It was painful. Watch name the last 18 months of his presidency. I felt like he couldn't run. I saw it and I was not going to allow myself to be gaslit that it was something that it wasn't. This is worse. We're at war and dementia boy is falling asleep, drooling REM in the oval pumps. When I saw this, I honestly was like somewhat, I mean, we see it all the time, but my head went exactly where you are. How is this person that cannot stay awake able to comprehend and make good choices? Well, we know he doesn't. The only time he lights up is when he talks about his ballroom and his art projects and all that.

3:59But here's the thing about it. This man sits there and tells us all the time, so do his aides. He has so much transparency. He's got the body of a 70-year-old. He's got the stamina of an 80-year-old. So that tells me they know how bad it is. And they allow this to continue by jerking him off that he's got this great stamina. And the reality is this man should be in an old folks home. He's talking about the Vietnam War. So that's what we're doing now, 19, 18 years. He's incompetent, not to mention, not connected to reality. It's just, it's so stunning that this doesn't lead every newscast. It's also pretty amazing the context he provides when they interview him and how he just gets a pass on sort of his verbiage when he's talking.

4:55Like he says, I made a note, little boats with guns will take them out too. I mean, what the fuck does that mean? Like, where do you throw that in? And then he talks about, yeah, World War II, that was a biggie. Well, you know, It's a little bit more than a biggie. I think he just gets a free pass because if you listen to him, you can't walk away from hearing the context of what he says and think that man is competent. He's a leader. You can't. It's an impossibility. I just want to point out that he brings up the Vietnam War. So many people were drafted and served in the Vietnam War, or like my dad, to avoid the draft, just signed up and went.

5:36They went over there and fought. They come back. They don't talk about it. They don't talk about being veterans or any of these things because it was horrific. This guy's a draft dodger. He dodged the Vietnam War. Everyone in his generation had to go, but because his dad was rich and he could go to a doctor to make up some illness that he doesn't have in his feet, he was able to not go. So this is a draft dodger who's sitting here with the keys to the United States military, talking about extending this war that nobody in the United States wants, except for a few neocons and Israel, his friend Benjamin Netanyahu.

6:18Those are the only people that want this. When he himself has been to, if you want to talk about World War II, he has been to World War II cemeteries. And he said to people in Trump 1.0, I don't understand it. I don't get why people would serve. I mean, they're suckers and losers. Called John McCain a loser because he got captured. And Trump likes winners. This guy is the biggest coward on the planet. And now he sees like, oh, this is so fun. And Trump 2.0, I get to play war with the military. It's incredibly dangerous. But this doesn't really get as much cover as it needs to. The mental decline and the mental disorders, the psychology of this man, the way that the press has not only normalized his stupidity and ignorance, but also they've normalized his malignant narcissism and his desire to brag and lie.

7:20And they just normalized it. Here he is, he is really upset still about Trump 1.0 when he had his inauguration and nobody hardly showed up for it. I mean, like the mall, you could just see swaths of empty, empty, empty space. Barack Obama's was full. And this is why in Trump 2.0, he tucked and rolled and had his inauguration inside because he couldn't face the humiliation again. Here he is just lying and gaslighting because he doesn't really care about people dying in Iran. He doesn't care if they're Americans or Iranian. He thinks nothing about human life. Here he is talking about lying, not talking, lying about having a large crowd size, larger than Martin Luther King Jr.'s, one of the greatest speeches in American history.

8:08I have a dream. Play the clip. About a foot and a half to two feet deep. You all know it well. That's where Martin Luther King gave his great speech. And he had a million people. And I had the same exact crowd, maybe a little bit more, but they said I had 25 ,000 people in July 4th. I have pictures of Martin Luther King's crowd, my crowd, the exact same, everything, but it was 70 years difference. The exact same crowd, but I actually had more people, but that's okay. They gave him a million people. They said a million people and I had 25 ,000 people. But these are the things that we had on July 4th.

8:48So he just sits here and lies because this is such a small man. He is such a small man. He is so threatened by any success of any black person. And both of these crowd sizes things are dog whistles. It is Barack Obama's crowd size and his inauguration was gigantic. Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream because these people believed in something. Both of those speeches represented progress and people coming together and reconciling this racism. And here's this draft dodging malignant narcissist, con man and thief thief and dirty cop sitting here trying to piggyback on to the success of black men who risked it all in the face of headwinds of racism.

9:37And he just can't let anybody have anything. He's just such a petty little queen. And I think that the media has a huge part in this too, the way that they frame. We talked about this yesterday, the way they frame his stories, the way they cover that, because they give him a pass. They try to report this as if the president said this, the president said that. And that's not what he's doing. He's exhibiting or saying things that are blatantly racist, oftentimes, and a lot of things that just simply don't make sense. His narcissism is evident every time he speaks. And so you start to lose faith in a lot of these news outlets when you read their stories and they don't frame it the proper way.

10:21They frame it like the president gave a news conference and the president said this and the president said that. And it's really become part of the problem, too, because then people want to tune that information out. Because and I know I do. I run into that where I start to read an article and I think it's a serious article. And then I think, wait a minute, you're describing this as being somewhat normal. You're describing what he's saying is being somewhat normal. And it's not. And it's not okay that they do that. So I think we also need to hold these news outlets accountable for the way that they present this information, just like this story right here.

10:56Yeah, I think the headline coming out, Pumps, from yesterday should be on every major news outlet, draft dodging, pathological liar with dementia, an advanced age, falling asleep in the middle of press conference while blatantly lying about crowd sizes. that's that's the story right that is the story he's sitting here talking about extending a war possibly into decades something he knows nothing about because his privilege and his dad's money has protected him his whole life from all of these things but instead we have the press you know this is why i don't really go on cnn that much anymore because i have to sit at that round table and it's like the president is making major decisions about iran what do you think and i'm just like i think he has dementia.

11:45I think he has psychological problems. I think he is a raving fascist maniac. That's what I think. But it's hard for me to arrive at a conversation and have a conversation with people that are defenders of his, that are normalizing it. Like this guy is all there making decisions for the benefit of the American public pumps. Well, that's kind of what I thought, what Josh was talking about the press is why didn't a reporter follow up with, how does the crowd size open the Strait of Hormuz? How does the crowd size that you're lying about help the military members that have boots on the ground in Iran waiting to go in?

12:29Where are you making the connection between crowd size and the economy and inflation and the war, like make that connection for me. But then, you know, if I ask that as a female, you can only imagine what he'd call me. Go ahead, Josh. And like a proper headline could be, when asked about the war, Trump goes on a nonsensical rant about crowd sizes relating to Martin Luther King. I mean, it's like that would be the framing of what just happened here instead of just this sort of normal presentation. And then the last thing I would say is the three or four guys that sort of chuckled when Trump spoke, who the fuck are you?

13:14You know, I mean, just brown nosers. And here's the thing. All those guys are rich AF, all of them, like Howard He sits there and he has all the money in the world and he kissed Jeffrey Epstein's ass, Howard Lutnick. Now he kisses Donald Trump's ass. He is surrounded by morally depraved bottom feeders that have the ability to say fuck you because of their bank accounts and they don't. I was going to say, if you have fuck you money like that and you're still signing up for this dick sucking contest, I mean, what the fuck? These are the weakest. Do a gut check. It is weakness on display all day, every day with the Trump regime.

13:56Okay, here comes more lies. This is unbelievable. Here is Trump talking about Israel and their military. Play the clip. The other government is doing whatever it wants. What do you say for it? Well, look, Israel has to, I mean, we're just talking about it. Israel is going to have to defend itself if they're shot at, and they will. I would never say that they can't. It would be nice if they wouldn't have to bother with that. But if something happens, they're going to have to defend themselves, as you know. But they're going to do it carefully, and they're going to be surgical as opposed to beyond surgical.

14:35And, you know, there's a lot they can do. But Israel is going to have to defend itself. I've heard enough. They can be surgical. Israel can be surgical. Yes, they can. Because when they have snipers that want to kill Palestinian children waiting in line for food, the snipers are very surgical. The snipers shoot them here in the head, execute little kids or here. But then these journalists get killed and they're like, oh, we didn't mean to do that. Or they're double tapping hospitals or double tapping schools or double tapping medics. It's unbelievable, grotesque and disgusting. the alliance between the United States of America and Israel.

15:18And I just want to say this, as we move on, history is not going to be kind to the war crimes that Israel and the United States are committing on innocent civilians nonstop and the gaslighting and propaganda that goes along with it. The people who are defending it now are not going to be loud and defending it when this starts to get really recorded and we get some distance from it and some objectivity. And there is a desire in the Democratic Party, a burning desire right now by over 80 % of its voters to have complete, crisp, moral clarity on this issue and stand for universal human rights. But Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats, he's for war crimes.

16:06He's for the child killers. He votes for it. He believes in it. He takes money for it. It's so grotesque. It seems like in this war that Israel has been anything but surgical. And it would have been nice to get a follow-up question. And I'm sure Trump limits the content of the questions that are asked to him. And this reporter was put on the spot. But it seems like with all the fatalities in this war at the hands of the Israeli army, that there could have been some further questioning about because they've been nothing but that. They've intentionally gone out to murder civilians that have nothing to do with what's happening.

16:48I was just thinking, you know how Trump has a humiliation ritual with people and he brings them in and he humiliates them? I believe, based on my observations of Trump and Netanyahu and the ceasefires and then Netanyahu bombs. I kind of feel like that Netanyahu is doing this humiliation exercise with Trump because Trump boasts about all this stuff and then Israel does the exact opposite. Am I the only one that thinks that? Well, Israel has been doing this for a long time. This isn't new. Israel has been doing this with every US president. It's widely reported that every US president has had moments with their team like, God damn it, they, because there's a ceasefire and they are incredibly, incredibly horrific ally for US interests.

17:45Incredibly. So it's not just that, just that maybe it's a humiliation exercise, but also like Benjamin Netanyahu has this laser focus about this greater Israel project. And he has tried to get every other US president to do it prior to Trump. The reason they invested AIPAC and others as much as Elon Musk did in the last election, but also bought democratic politicians, it was because they know, okay, this guy is demented, rotten, and crazy enough that we're going to get to do what we want. And maybe they have compromise on him too. Maybe they have stuff from the Jeffrey Epstein files. I think anything's possible, right?

18:23And so he is all gas, no brakes right now on this thing. And it is, they are so laser focused on genociding Southern Lebanon, genociding Gaza, which they've been successful at, balkanizing Iran. And next up will be Turkey. He has signaled he wants to go into Turkey. And people in the IDF wear a map patch on their shoulder that shows this, you know, this expansion of Israel. And they do not see Arabs as human beings because Israel is an ethnostate. It is an ethnostate where they believe that their citizens are better entitled to more rights. And it's just incredibly inhumane. And the United States and this partnership is for us to go on the world stage and boast that, oh, we're for democracy and freedom in Israel.

19:17Oh, we're the biggest democracy in the Middle East. It is a lie. It is propaganda. The dam has broken. And if you criticize it, they want to call you a bigot when none of this has anything to do with bigotry. And it has everything to do with universal human rights, the Geneva Conventions, and the rule of law. But let me just leave you all with this. The United States is spending up to$2 billion a day,$2 billion a day on the war in Iran, when everybody in Congress says we can't afford infrastructure, air traffic controllers, Medicare, Medicaid, all of that stuff. The Pentagon is granting a$24 million defense contract to Eric Trump.

20:01That doesn't seem corrupt at all, to dumber. He gets$24 million. Trump is increasing our military budget. He's requested to$1.5 trillion next year. So Republican presidencies always lead to neocon policies. This is beyond what the other neocons, I mean, this makes Dick Cheney look like child's play. Everything that this administration, you can connect the dots with each part of this administration and money, whether it's Israel, it's money, whether it's Eric getting a defense contract, everything is for sale. And I think that's the takeaway here that's been different with other regimes. And you mentioned Israel's effectiveness and getting us to ally with them in certain respects.

20:56It's all about money. Every bit of it. Exactly. I mean, it's just These politicians take this money and then they see what Israel does with it and it breaks them and they break more and then they break more. And then we have these broken members of Congress that think that they can lecture us and say they care about, you know, human rights in the United States. But we've all seen via our phones. This is why they, you know, the forces that support the Greater Israel Project want the TikTok images to subside. They don't have the truth. And here's what's interesting. All of these AIPAC funding that they put into races, they don't fund these political candidates and make the case for Israel.

21:43They don't. They make the case about some other bullshit, like, oh, this candidate believes in this, or this candidate doesn't believe in this. Very few people like Ben Shapiro will get online and he'll try to make the case for Israel. He's lost half of his followers since he's been doing that. This is, people don't like indiscriminate, genocidal, homicidal killing. It's just, that is just where we are right now. And so as we head into how do we defeat fascism, it is rigorous honesty. It is the rigorous honesty of reporting the truth. Israel and the United States commit war crimes. Donald Trump is a draft dodger, homicidal dipshit with dementia, falling asleep nonstop.

22:27And he has the keys to the nukes. This is insanity. All right. That's just really shitty news story today, but we all have to stay engaged and like, and subscribe our channel. And we'll be back later with more news.

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