Trump Arrives at Dover as His Middle East Strategy Unravels

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2:41Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just had a disastrous arrival to Dover, Delaware for the dignified transfer ceremony of the four U.S. service members who were killed in Donald Trump's unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran. Donald Trump was there with his so-called human printer, Natalie Harp. You can see them together on the tarmac right there. Now, this follows Donald Trump evacuating U.S. air bases even further in the Middle East. If you take a look at the latest satellite footage from the El Udeed air base and military base in Qatar that the United States has there, It is completely devoid of all U.S. aircraft because Iran has been successfully targeting that base and all of the U.S.

3:30Ben Meiselas:bases in the neighboring Arab nations other than Israel, which has the Iron Dome. And so the U.S. is moving all of its equipment to Israel. Meanwhile, our service members remain in these containerized barracks in these Arab nation neighbors that don't have adequate protection or any protection at all, while Donald Trump is attending this so-called dignified transfer. And it is a dignified transfer, but Donald Trump is making it very not dignified with Natalie Harp and what he's saying. I'll get to in just a moment the horrific things that he's saying, like he's saying, our service members all said before they died, we don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

4:12Ben Meiselas:We want this to happen. We don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. We're okay. Why are you lying about what our service members say? That's so utterly sick. I'll get to that in a moment. But here's what Donald Trump posted this morning. From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Whether it be by missile, rocket, drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy one bridge or power plant, including those located next to or in the capital city of Tehran. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And then he posted that he was going to head it over to the Dover Air Force Base to honor our heroes.

4:55Ben Meiselas:He makes a statement like that that puts our troops further in harm's way. We've seen Iran striking all of these U.S. bases in the neighboring Arab nations, and then Donald Trump goes and makes the dignified transfer about himself. It's so utterly disgusting and removes the military equipment but leaves our service members there. Now, military sources then told Tasnim, Iran's state-run media, Iran will not abandon its firm resolve to control the strait, and it considers the control essential for the long-term safety of the strait. If the Americans target a bridge or a power plant in Iran, Iran will in turn strike infrastructure and bridges in the region, including energy facilities where the United States has interests.

5:44Ben Meiselas:The Americans should have become fully aware in the past 10 days that Iran will target whatever it chooses. Therefore, any potential gamble by Trump will once again lead to disgrace. And the disgrace continues. We've talked earlier this week about all of the military bases that Iran has been targeting, and they've been specifically focused on the early radar detection systems and early detection systems and other defense capabilities at these bases. One by one, Iran's been destroying these systems which protect the bases. And the U.S. has run out of munitions, I might add. But you take a look right here, for example, this was just in the past night in the Ahmed Al-Jabbar air base in Kuwait.

6:27Ben Meiselas:You see one of these long-range 3D air surveillance radars, the before and after you see over here. That's destroyed. And that allows Iran, if they want to, to more easily strike the containerized barracks or other areas in the region. You take a look right here. This is King Faisal Air Base in Jordan. Again, that was hit by the latest Iranian strike, and it hit a F-15 maintenance hangar and destroyed multiple MQ-9 Reaper drones. That's why the U.S. is abandoning these bases as Donald Trump is going to this dignified transfer right now and making it undignified by his disgusting presence there.

7:06Ben Meiselas:and what he is saying. In addition, Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen have completed their preparations to attack ships transiting the Red Sea through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a maritime security group led by the U.S. Navy has warned. This is coming from the U.S. Navy's security-related groups. This is from them. Sources close to the group stated that the The Houthis have completed preparations to attack shipping, including the deployment of missiles and drones positioned near Bab al-Mandab, the Joint Maritime Information Center, or JMIC, told the mariners in a notice Tuesday. The center headquartered in Bahrain provides security updates to commercial ships in the Middle East.

7:53Ben Meiselas:And yesterday, we saw at least six, perhaps as many as eight tankers in the Red Sea linked with Saudi Arabia that turned around as a result of the Houthis. So you have the Bab el-Mandaab blockade, and then you have the Strait of Hormuz being closed and Iran saying, we're going to keep shooting at any ship that tries to leave the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to be shooting right now, and we're going to be hitting you. And meanwhile, as Donald Trump, of course, was heading to Dover, he was continuing to boast about how many Americans have been killed in his Iran war compared to the Vietnam War.

8:32Ben Meiselas:He's doing graphs and charts now and bragging about the 18 deaths in four months. A complete sicko. Donald Trump says, all of these heroes that are arriving today in Dover, all of them that are here, they all said, all of them said, we can't let Iran have nuclear weapons. He's just lying about what our service member said who died because of his and Netanyahu's catastrophic war. Let's play this clip. To honor our heroes, and they are indeed great heroes, actually. They said, and all of them said very strongly, we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. They won't have a nuclear weapon. Then Donald Trump uses his appearance to do political messages and lie and says, Americans aren't against the war.

9:24Ben Meiselas:Americans want this war right now. No one wants this catastrophic war. What the hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip. Well, Americans aren't against the war. A poll just came out. Americans don't want to have gasoline prices, but they're not against the war. Then Donald Trump says, but Iran is going to pay big. And again, Donald Trump saying these messages, while, dude, just let the dignified transfer happen. What are you even doing? And what you're saying is going to result in more service members being killed. Here, play this clip. Investigation as to how they were killed in Jordan.

9:58Ben Meiselas:No, they're doing that. That'll be released. You know what? It was Iran targeting barracks. I don't know. Well, they're going to pay a big price. They're getting, they're getting, they're being decimated. Is that report inaccurate, sir? And then Donald Trump attacks the reporter and says, what, you want Iran to have nuclear weapons? You want them? Dude, you're the one back last June in 2025? You're the one who said that Iran no longer has nuclear weapons. You said they were totally obliterated. Here, play this clip. Nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. You want Iran to have a nuclear weapon?

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12:03Ben Meiselas:I shared three photos with you yesterday. Here is Battalion Sergeant Angel Rampersad, 28, who was previously identified as missing as a result of these strikes by Iran in Jordan. Every one of these individuals who Trump is lying about and who Trump got killed, has a name, has a family, and our hearts go out to them and their families. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, he's at the ASEAN conference, the South Asian conference the US is attending. He's the representative there. He's asked, so are China and Russia giving targeting information to Iran? Rubio basically acknowledges that they are, but says it's not actually making a difference.

12:49Ben Meiselas:So we're okay with that. That's what the Secretary of State says. Here play this clip. Topic. Mr. Secretary of China and Russia giving targeting information to Iran. These last few attacks have been very devastating to U.S. troops. Look, all I would say is that, you know, anytime you're in a combat zone like that, there's danger associated with it. I mean, at the end, this actually proves the point that this is what Iran has been investing its money in for the last 20 years. I'm not going to discuss that other than to say that nothing that's happened, Nothing that China has done has in any way changed the trajectory of what you're seeing in terms of the conflicts we're having with Iran.

13:23And in fact, in some cases, they've actually been quite cooperative with regards to what they potentially could have done but didn't do. I think the Chinese, and I'll let them tell you, but I don't think they're big fans of what Iran is trying to do in the Straits.

13:37Ben Meiselas:In fact, they've said so publicly that they oppose. Then a reporter asks Rubio, you realize that Section 5 of the Memorandum of Understanding that Donald Trump signed acknowledges that Iran is the administrator of the Strait of Hormuz. It says Iran will administer the Strait of Hormuz in consultation with Oman and with the other Arab nations. That's what it says. So don't you think that you sending your tankers in and you trying to create an alternative route when you acknowledge in the MOU that Iran is the administrator is at the very least bad faith and more likely a breach of the MOU? And then Rubio lies like, that's not what it says.

14:17Ben Meiselas:It is. It is what it says. That's why we should read the documents like we do here at the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip. It's violated the MOU. Isn't the MOU inherently flawed because in paragraph five, it explicitly acknowledges Iran has power in the strait of her moves, where there's no other formal agreement before having acknowledged or recognized? No, I don't think that's what the MOU says. So that's not the way we interpreted it from the very beginning. We understood that to mean. No, we understood that to mean that they would ensure that no ships were being blown up and they chose to violate that.

14:45The MOU does not give them the right to launch drones and missiles against commercial shipping vessels that the MOU doesn't give them the right to do that.

14:51Ben Meiselas:More from Rubio right here. I'll just tell you what he says here. Rubio had to, at the ASEAN conference, he had to basically assure former allies of the United States or allies that the United States is not putting AI kill switches into the military equipment that we sell because Donald Trump has previously said that if he doesn't like you, he'll put kill switches in it. Meanwhile, while all of this is going on. Donald Trump has agreed to allow Saudi Arabia to develop a nuclear program that the U.S. will support. And of course, Saudi Arabia has given Donald Trump's businesses lots of money. And as the United States security umbrella has failed in the Middle East, this is Donald Trump's art of the deal.

15:36Ben Meiselas:Now he's got to give something more to Saudi Arabia, who did quid pro quo, was thinking they were getting a security umbrella. So now they, in my opinion, are getting paid off and getting nuclear weapons now or the capability to build nuclear enrichment, which they can make weapons great, I think, fairly easily if they want. So that's how Trump is dealing with the failures in the Middle East after getting lots of stuff from Saudi Arabia, allowing them to develop nuclear capabilities. Then United Arab Emirates, unrestricted access to United States AI and the United States semiconductor chips. UAE has all the access to that.

16:11Ben Meiselas:Think about they invested in Trump's Bitcoin and crypto. And as the security umbrella has failed in the Middle East and has hurt UAE and Dubai and Abu Dhabi, they get all of our secret technology now. Saudi Arabia gets nuclear capabilities. And Donald Trump continues on with this catastrophic war in Iran, where our service members are getting killed. Iran has been striking in Saudi Arabia earlier this morning as well. Gas is now at$94 a barrel. Brent crude rose to$94 a barrel right now. That'll be a hundred dollars probably by the end of this week. And I thought, Donald, you were getting all this oil from Venezuela.

16:53Ben Meiselas:Didn't you say that you conquering Venezuela was going to be such a big help to the United States? Well, we learning this morning that the Trump regime collected more than$13 billion in revenue from Venezuelan oil sales this year, but nobody knows where it is. Nobody has any inkling where that$13 billion went. And it certainly hasn't reduced gas prices here in the United States. And one of the things that I've been saying is a massive red flag. We know fracking and lots of drilling that just takes place suddenly can actually cause geological events, can cause seismic events to happen. And I've been raising the red flag that more needs to be looked into about the unprecedented earthquake that took place, the back-to-back earthquake that had the foreshock and the aftershock, which is one of the most rare things ever.

17:41Ben Meiselas:And if that's connected to taking$13 billion of oil immediately out of the ground in Venezuela, I don't know, it seems kind of a duh to me, but you all may be better experts on that than me, so I'm not going to go there. And then finally, with all of this happening, Israel announces it plans to do a crocodile infested moat to guard Hamas prisoners. That's what their national security minister, Ben Gavir, is saying. And also the Israeli diaspora affairs minister said this morning that there could be a war with Turkey happening very soon between Israel. It's not an impossible scenario. It could happen as early as tomorrow morning.

18:22Ben Meiselas:It's coming out of the Netanyahu regime. That's what we got for you now. Now hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Check out a copy of WTF America. Pre-order it right now. The pre-orders are really helpful versus waiting until October. So hit the QR code and pre-order it now. Thanks for watching.

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