Iran Will Drag This War Out Longer Than Trump

0:00Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big fat mistake. Irreverent news talk, opinion, satire. It's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Top headline at Newsweek. Huge security lines at U.S. airports as warning issued. And it's hard news that might actually get me to reconsider flying anywhere for family vacation this summer. Travelers faced long lines at security checkpoints at airports in Houston and New Orleans on Sunday. As TSA struggled to keep them adequately staffed amid the government shutdown affecting DHS. Wow, I'm sure the Iranians love to hear that TSA is having major staffing issues right now.

0:34Not just the Iranians, but much of the Islamic world in general. Which, you know, sees our attack on Iran as an attack on Islam itself. I do believe that boots on the ground has been Trump and Lindsey Graham's nation-building private contract deep state goal all along. It's also entirely possible that after a month or two of relentless bombing of Iran, that Trump will simply pull out and leave the country in complete ruins to rebuild itself. Trump does whatever Trump wants to do. Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. All right. Now, you can take it any way you want. And it took Jeb Bush, if you remember, at the beginning of his announcement, when he announced the president, took him five days.

1:15He went back. It was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake. Took him five days before his people told him what to say. And he ultimately said it was a mistake. This, of course, was then candidate Trump debating Jeb Bush back in 2016. Notice how much faster he was able to communicate 10 years ago. The war in Iraq, we spent$2 trillion, thousands of lives. We don't even have it. Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world. Obviously, it was a mistake. So George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.

1:52But so you still think he should be impeached? I think it's my turn, isn't it? You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell you, they lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none, and they knew there were none. But regardless of how it ends from Trump's point of view, they're going to make sure one way or another that the United States and our allies are in this for the long run by pulling us in closer to an inevitable and bloody ground war as we have no choice but to defend our allies. Look, the United States has intercepted communications from Iran that says they've already triggered sleeper cells.

2:25Can you imagine what we're going to do to them in response if, God forbid, Iran starts killing people on American soil? And how is the time to remain vigilant? Not just in your situational awareness in large crowds and public transportation because of the growing risk for terrorism here at home, but in those places where the most corrupt and powerful people on the planet want your attention taken away from the most. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? And yes, I'm still talking about the Epstein files. This guy's been talked about for years. Because we should never forget the convenience of the timing in this international disaster that's unfolding now as Iran burns on Trump's watch.

3:03He was asked about the Epstein files again recently, but he thinks it's time to move on. On the Epstein files, you talk about Democrats who were in there. Elon Musk was also in there, and so was your Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, and correspondence that he had with him. Did you read those new files that were published by the Department of Justice? I have a lot of things I'm doing, a lot of things. And, you know, you mentioned two names. I'm sure they're fine. I'm sure they're fine. Otherwise, it would have been major headlines. A lot of women who are survivors of Epstein's are unhappy with those redactions that came out.

3:36Some of them, entire witness interviews are totally blacked out. Do you think that they should be more transparent? Well, they're also unhappy with the fact that they thought they released too much. You know, I heard that. And you're telling me something else. I think it's really time for the country to get onto something else, really. And now that nothing came out about me, other than it was a conspiracy against me, literally, by Epstein and other people. But I think it's time now for the country to maybe get onto something else. But what would you say to people who feel like they haven't gotten justice, Mr.

4:06President? Something that people care about. What did you say? Go ahead, CNN. What would you say to the survivors who feel like they haven't gotten justice? You are the worst reporter. CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile. I'm asking you about surviving. You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not telling the truth. And you're a very dishonest organization. And they should be ashamed of you. That was CNN correspondent Caitlin Collins.

4:37And good for her. Look, we all know that Trump is a clown. But it still takes a lot of guts to get up there in front of the world and confront an American president over a topic that he would do anything to bury. That's no small feat. And I think she deserves credit for making him uncomfortable as he deserves to be. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. And don't tell women to smile like that. It's just a creepy as hell throwback way to insult women's appearances. But I would expect nothing less from this low life in the highest office of our land. Look, sometimes the bad guys win, folks, clearly, but we don't need to let it keep happening.

5:10I won't even get into the latest accusations against Trump involving a minor from the Epstein files that were just released. It's too gross, and I don't want to talk about those kinds of details on this show. But the minute we do start getting some of these uncomfortable details, Trump does regime change in Venezuela, starts a hot war with Iran, and now is openly talking about plans to invade Cuba. As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba. Cuba's at the end of the line. They're very much at the end of the line.

5:46They have no money. They have no oil. They have a bad philosophy. They have a bad regime that's been bad for a long time. Cuba's in its last moments of life as it was. It'll have a great new life, but it's in its last moments of life the way it is. So Venezuela, Iran, Cuba's next. Hell, he might as well go after North Korea next. We're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba. This is not the hope and change the people voted for with Trump, and I realize that hope and change was Obama, but... Talk to this brother, will you? What happened to make America great again?

6:25We get a lot of bullshit. Trump's followers are largely still asleep, but they are waking up to the bullshit in droves, and when they do, they wake up pretty angry because this has always been personal. Everything is taken personally these days. From politics to business, if it's not personal, it's not authentic. Now that we've handed our lives over to artificial intelligence, all we truly have left to offer is our authentic selves, and the only currency left is vulnerability. The left, too, is largely asleep. If the progressives hadn't gone completely off the deep end with this woke obsession with gender and race and scaring away all of the moderates, Trump would have never been a contender to begin with.

7:06That was 2016. Fast forward 10 years later and we are right back where we started because apparently we didn't learn our lesson collectively about what happens when we put superficial traits above all else. What we got in return was a superficial president. Because the universe has a funny little way of teaching us lessons over and over again until we get them right. It's really easy too. There's a guy who got it right back in the 90s, too, so much that a single bumper sticker-sized slogan of his coined the entirety of the Clinton administration when James Carville said it's the economy stupid.

7:43Because the economy is an even bigger problem for Americans today than it was when James Carville originally said that. And anyone with a pulse and a plan to cut the cost of living in half for the average American could easily lock up the House and the Senate and the White House for the next eight years without a fight. We should check in with old James Carville and see how he's doing. Last I heard, he was finally embracing his Trump derangement syndrome like I did over a year ago. Take a listen. You're right. I got Trump derangement syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it.

8:17I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. Wow. I want to hate him more. I pray to God in heaven, God reign, the righteous reign of Trump derangement syndrome. Pray for me, Lord. I'm your vessel on this earth. Pray for the people that listen to this. We want more. We want to hate the son of a bitch so much that we can't see straight. No, I mean, he's right. We have no choice but to kind of sit back and hope that however bad this does end up becoming becomes impossible for us to repeat a mistake like Trump ever again. Sometimes it's important to feel the pain after doing something stupid that you never do it again.

8:55The problem then, of course, becomes the second the Democrats get in there, they can't stop talking about race and gender and gender and race and everything in between. Like, these are the top-tier issues when we are fighting for our survival as human beings first. Gavin Newsom is spending$19 million of California taxpayer money to make himself look good before a presidential campaign. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. The state is running a$3 billion deficit. One in five Californians live in poverty. Businesses are leaving in droves. and the governor's response is a marketing campaign to polish California's image after his 16 years in statewide office.

9:31California's the fourth largest economy in the world. Yeah, sure sounds like presidential material to me. But it's also the most diverse state. We are doomed. I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. And that's it for today. And until we can do it again, it's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Catch you next time. Bye. And we say bye-bye. I got Trump derangement syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I'm like you. I'm no better than you.