100 Days of the Iran War and Trump Is Spiraling

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2:21Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is spiraling out of control as he has trapped himself on day 100 of this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. Donald Trump's making post after post like this. It's an AI image of drone port, some drone army on top of the White House. Again, totally AI. And Trump writes, this will someday save Washington. Judge Leon has to get out of the way and fast. He is putting our country in danger. Paranoia is setting in for Donald Trump as Iran is now demonstrating how it's exercising full operational control over the Strait of Hormuz. Today, there were 100 IRGC Navy speedboats visible in a major formation along their designated route, 55 kilometers northwest of Keshem Island per Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.

3:24Ben Meiselas:So Iran sent out 100 Navy speedboats on the 100th day of the catastrophic war to show that they have full control over the Strait of Hormuz, while Donald Trump is posting AI images of some made-up drone port where he wants to turn the White House into a military base with drones swarming around it. What the hell are we even talking about here? Then Donald Trump was posting AI images of Rosie O'Donnell saying, she, question mark, is obsessed, exclamation point. I don't know. It seems that you're obsessed late at night posting weird AI images of Rosie O'Donnell. No offense to Rosie O'Donnell because I think she's funny.

4:11Ben Meiselas:I think she's talented, but not a lot of people right now, while they're unable to afford groceries, gas, necessities, rent, anything at this point, are thinking about Rosie O'Donnell. And it's weird that that's what you're posting while Iran is demonstrating that they control the Strait of Hormuz and that their Navy, despite your social media posts from earlier today with AI images of their Navy under the water, yeah, that AI, that's not actually what's happening. They control the Strait of Hormuz stronger than they ever have before. and they're showing that right now. But Donald Trump posted the following last night.

4:51Ben Meiselas:Just sit back and relax, he says. It will all work out well in the end. It always does with some weird image of himself with his knuckles on a table, probably an AI image as well. Just sit back and relax, everyone. Yeah, that's what you should tell the American family that is likely unable to pay their rent and may be evicted or has their house being foreclosed on or the farmer going through the bankruptcy right now or the mother who has to tell their child that we're not going to be able to eat dinner tonight. So yeah, just relax and everything's going to go well while Donald Trump and his Epstein class idiots are out there doing 3 ,800 stock trades from the White House, a new stock trade every nine minutes, while Donald Trump says after crashing the markets on Friday that now on Monday or Tuesday, he's going to announce that the United States government will be taking major ownership interest stakes in a lot of AI companies.

5:57Ben Meiselas:Hmm, that sounds like market manipulation to me, but what do I know? Just following the facts, I guess, the way you are. Donald Trump posts this weird image of himself observing helicopters. Then he posts this weird image of himself hugging an American flag over an AI image of the reflecting pool. And the White House kept on posting AI images of the reflecting pool all day yesterday. And all the right-wing influencers were making all of these posts about the reflecting pool. and they're like, what are the libs going to say, man? The libs are so angry that the reflecting pool looks this good. First off, you're posting AI images, number one.

6:42Ben Meiselas:The reflecting pool actually doesn't look all that good. Regardless, even if it looks fantastic, I'll stipulate, even though I don't think it'll happen for the sake of argument, let's say the reflecting pool will eventually look great. That's not the focus right now, okay? Your obsession with a freaking reflecting pool while there's catastrophic wars going on, while there's genocide going on, while there is starvation here and abroad, while there's Ebola spreading, measles spreading, hantavirus screwworm, while the Trump regime has gutted the CDC, while you have all of these the fact that you're obsessed with reflecting pools is so weird, so odd, so weak.

7:30Ben Meiselas:And by the way, while you are all out there threatening and harassing that, what, you're going to invade Cuba next because Donald Trump's getting bored with Iran. So now he's going to go and invade Cuba. Maybe they'll be easier to invade next by the predator, by the Epstein class predators. Well, Cuba has now begun distributing weapons to civilians and urging citizens to prepare for possible foreign invasion. The government has reportedly activated contingency plans across the country. So it seems like Donald Trump's just going to go from one war to the next, or who knows, maybe he'll do multiple wars at the same time and get the United States into multiple quagmires that he can't get out of.

8:13Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, on day 100 of Trump's catastrophic war, Iran's deputy parliament speaker says the following. The Strait of Hormuz is more important to us than the atomic bomb. Ali goes, first deputy speaker of Iran's parliament and senior conservative hardliner said the Strait of Hormuz will not return to its previous status under a law passed by parliament. and described Iranian control of the waterway as a strategic asset surpassing even nuclear capability. This is what Ali said. The Strait of Hormuz is more important to us than the atomic bomb. He warned that the U.S. must either accept the new regional order or agree to Iran's condition.

8:59Ben Meiselas:Otherwise, the domino of humiliation for the enemies will persist. So what does the United States do as him now? in their so-called negotiations with Iran, right? How are we going to break this impasse where Iran says, we want you to unfreeze$12 billion now, another$12 billion later. We control the Strait of Hormuz. We can agree to some nuclear deal in the future. Those are our terms. Or invade us, and we'll go to war again. We're prepared for war. What are you going to do? What's Donald Trump's move? Well, announcing that the Treasury Department will now utilize all tools available to allow Iranian assets, the frozen assets that Iran wants back in order to do a deal, will now be made available to our Gulf allies, the Treasury Department is saying, to support the rebuilding and repairs for any future damage caused by Iran.

10:06Ben Meiselas:Well played. I'm being sarcastic, of course. So rather than just unfreeze the funds for Iran, which is Iran funds, end the war, open up the Strait of Hormuz, get the hell out of there. You're going to now take those funds like a pirate and give it to other Middle East nations, which Iran is just going to further target them. So you're not going to do the deal with Iran. You're going to just stay with this so-called blockade you have forever and take Iranian money and then move it to the other Middle East countries. Why? So Jared Kushner and Whitcoff can do deals with them for their private equity funds.

10:45Ben Meiselas:Is that what this is actually all about? Then you have Hezbollah's. Hezbollah denies any direct contact with Donald Trump. Ali Mogadad, a member of Lebanon's parliament representing Hezbollah's resistance block, rejected Donald Trump's suggestion of direct communications with Hezbollah. Hezbollah's guy says, there is no direct communications or connection with the American side, whether with Trump or others, he said. He said, any and all communications run exclusively through intermediaries, naming Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt as the countries responsible for conveying messages, whether to the Lebanese government or through Parliament Speaker Nabi Barry.

11:30Ben Meiselas:So Donald Trump just making that, just think about how weak that is. He's making up fake conversations that he's having with Hezbollah and Hezbollah has to respond. We don't want to talk to you. We're not having conversations with you. Stop lying about fake conversations, right? Remember on the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump's like, I spoke with Hezbollah. Very, very good conversation. They're like, we're not talking to you. Why are you making this up? And here's the thing. What audience is this intended for? Is it intended to just manipulate our markets here? Well, that ain't working anymore after everybody saw what went down on Friday.

12:05Ben Meiselas:Is it just for a subset of people on Fox? Is it the remaining people on Truth Social who read your deranged posts? Is that your audience? Because obviously Hezbollah, Iran, they view you as utterly weak and pathetic that you're making up fake conversations. What do you think China and Russia and North Korea think about you? What do you think our former allies or allies think about you? What do you think the NATO members think about you? What do you think all these countries think about you where they know you're lying about the weirdest stuff to lie about? It just makes you look so weak and pathetic.

12:39Ben Meiselas:I mean, the way you claim what last was a last Thursday, there is a ceasefire that I negotiated, a historic ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. So I went back and looked. I was like, okay, well, you announced this on April 10th and then May 1st, then May 15th, and then you did another announcement the week of June 2nd or 3rd. So you've made the same exact ceasefire fake announcement now four or five times. And what happens? Well, right after you announced this, this was in the past 24 hours, Israel ordered the forced displacement of five more Lebanese towns north of the Latani River. They gave evacuation orders.

13:17Ben Meiselas:And then what happened thereafter? Well, Lebanon's army confirmed Israel killed three army personnel on Saturday, two officers with the ranks of brigadier general, captain, and a soldier. What happened in Gaza over this weekend? The death toll in an Israeli attack on a Gaza 10 camp rises to eight. A source at Al-Shifa Hospital says the death toll in Israel's attack on Gaza City tent camp earlier has risen to hate. As we've been reporting this from Al Jazeera, more than a dozen people were wounded in the Israeli air attack on the crowded encampment housing of displaced Palestinians. And I've seen some of the most horrific images and videos coming out of that of young children who were killed and parents who were killed.

14:04Ben Meiselas:It was a massacre that took place while the Trump regime says, oh, there's a cease fire there. That's what was going on. There was a cease fire there. And with all of this taking place, we now know through leaks that have just been occurring that the Pentagon has raised Israel's espionage threat level to critical, the highest level above some adversaries. The New York Times is reporting that the Defense Intelligence Agency has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to critical. And it is believed that Israel spying on people like Steve Whitcoff and eavesdropping on all of his discussions, Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top policy official, Michael D 'Amino, Pentagon senior Middle East official, and then the Trump regime, people inside the government are referring to Israel's spying efforts on Americans as, quote, unhinged right now.

15:00Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump and Netanyahu deny that this spying is taking place. Lastly, as we're on day 100 of this catastrophic war and Iran sending 100 ships in the Strait of Hormuz, symbolically, this past weekend, or starting on Friday, Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner, both who are not appointed to have these roles, they took a trip out to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee for consultation with a team of technical experts and nuclear scientists that could play a role in future atomic negotiations with Iran. They needed to consult experts on nuclear material because they didn't know anything about nuclear material while discussing nuclear negotiations.

15:52Ben Meiselas:You realize when Obama did the JCPOA, the non-nuclear deal with Iran, They had the top experts who knew every detail about nuclear capabilities were handling that. The top experts. Donald Trump sent his son-in-law and some crooked real estate guy from Manhattan, Whitcoff and Kushner. Kushner couldn't even run a single building in Manhattan. He ran it into the ground and had to get bailed out by the Qataris during the first Trump term. So utterly pathetic. That's day 100 for you. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Covered a lot there. Let's help us get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching and have a good one.

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