Trump Blindsided as Top Aides Plan to Quit

0:00Ben Meiselas:Uh-oh, Donald, the rats are fleeing the ship. Yesterday, it was Karoline Leavitt, your chief propagandist. Who is it going to be today? Impeachment is coming. Investigations are coming. Democrats look poised to take control over the House and also are now leading to take over the Senate. so you can say bye-bye Caroline Levitt, but Donald, let me tell you what's happened. It is the rats fleeing the sinking ship right now. And you know where those rats are, Donald? You know what those rats see? They see you abandoning the old Air Force One, sneaking in a food truck with Natalie Harp, who I guess was more important to you than Marco Rubio and Caroline Levitt.

0:46Ben Meiselas:They went in old Air Force One and you went in the military plane. By the way, now there's all these major leaks that are just clowning on Donald Trump here from our CIA and the intelligence community saying, Donald, you fell for it again. This was another Netanyahu scheme to try to scare you. But our own intelligence here did not believe that Iran was going to use a shoulder-placed missile in order to shoot the old Air Force one. That was just junk intelligence. And you fell for Netanyahu yet again, just like when you brought the United States into this catastrophic war. But Donald just wants to post, I have a lot of threats that you don't know about.

1:29Ben Meiselas:Any consequential president has a lot of threats. Non-consequential presidents don't get threatened. And I think that I may be the most consequential president. It's like what he's trying to like compete for the most death threats. No, you know, every other president had certain threats. It comes with the job. They didn't whine about it. They weren't like, oh my God, can you believe it? No, they acted like the commander in chief of what was supposed to be the strongest military in humankind. But you as the commander in chief, five-time draft dodger. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm going to have to sneak in with a food truck with Natalie Harp.

2:07Ben Meiselas:Oh, and the reporting is just so utterly embarrassing as well. You saw from the Daily Mail, inside the catering truck sat Trump's most trusted inner circle, 35-year-old Natalie Harp. Picking Natalie Harp to go with him on this plane was a no-brainer, sources told the Daily Mail. She was Donald Trump's first pick, the glamorous 35-year-old human printer of Donald Trump. By the way, Caroline Levitt, when she resigned, when she quit yesterday, I'm not sure it's all that coincidental, but Caroline Levitt was on the old Air Force one. She didn't get to go on in the other jet with Natalie Harp. But what she posted, this photo doesn't even look like her.

2:55Ben Meiselas:Her farewell photo, made with artificial intelligence, made with AI. I think that just about sums up this phony, fraudulent regime. But the House Oversight Dems were taunting Caroline Levitt before she left. Two days ago, they said, we look forward to investigations. Todd Blanche, you, the entire regime, you have judiciary ranking member Jamie Raskin. He's like, let's go. Let's do this. House Oversight, Congress Member Garcia, he's ready to go. He's like, let's do this. and areas they want to probe, in addition to all of Donald Trump's criming, and there's just so much of it, folks, this is horrific.

3:39Ben Meiselas:And Aaron Parnas has been leading the way. Aaron Parnas has his own YouTube channel. He's also affiliated with the Midas Touch Network, of course. He's been reporting, getting all these text messages from military families, from our Navy sailors and from the Marines aboard the major supercarriers in the Persian Gulf about how bad the conditions are. There was reporting back in April, of course, the images of the food being served to sailors on the Abraham Lincoln and the Tripoli. And multiple family members told the Military Times incidents of sailors attempting to jump off the U.S. Abraham Lincoln and take their lives because the conditions are just so awful right there.

4:25Ben Meiselas:And I think about, they're not getting food. They're losing 40 to 50 pounds. The showers don't work. The toilets don't work. We recovered the Gerald Ford where there were massive fires in the laundry room, which almost killed a thousand of our service members. And it burned down all of the beds. People had to sleep on the floor. I mean, these are ships that are serving their longest terms of deployment ever. I mean, the Gerald Ford was there for what, almost 400 days. The USS Abraham Lincoln, you know, was there for nearly nine months and they're out of food. I mean, they're running low on food.

5:06Ben Meiselas:The family members are telling us they're not getting anything really. I mean, the milk gets rotten. They're not getting fruits and vegetables. It's like a little bit of frozen meat that they get. But you all know the story, right? That last year, Pete Hegseth went on a shopping spree and spent$6.9 million on lobster tails and$15 million on ribeye steaks in a single month. Yet he can't afford milk or fruits or vegetables for our sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS George H.W. Bush. You remember that reporting? I know with all of the Trump crimes and fraud and ridiculousness that's out there.

5:50Ben Meiselas:This story may have been forgotten, but in one month, Hegsett spent$6.9 million on lobsters,$15.1 million on ribeye steaks, $2 million on Alaskan king crabs,$140 ,000 on donuts,$124 ,000 on ice cream machines, $5.3 million on Apple devices,$12 ,000 for a fruit basket stand,$225 million in new furniture, including chairs costing nearly$1 ,900 each,$98 ,329 for a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force residents. While our service members aboard the supercarriers, and by the way, also on basis, are suffering. They don't get the right nutrition. They're being screwed over and tormented by our lying fascist regime over here.

6:47Ben Meiselas:That's what they were spending their money on, $15.1 million in rebuy stakes. And by the way, where the hell is the media talking about this? They should be talking about this every damn day. But I'll tell you, yesterday, state regime media, which calls itself Fox, they were calling Donald Trump, at least Brett Baer was calling. Let me be clear. It was just this one segment on Brett Baer. But he was saying, despite Trump's claim that the U.S. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz, here's what they said. Here's what Brett Baer said. Play this clip. How much total oil flow averages nearly 21 million barrels per day in the first half of last year, equivalent to about 20 percent of global petroleum liquids consumption, usually about one fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas trade moves through there as well.

7:35Now, despite President Trump claiming total control over the strait, traffic has slowed really to a trickle. If you look at this, before the conflict, more than 100 vessels a day were crossing. Monday, eight vessels crossed. Yesterday, 14. Now, those are constraints, and that's changing the government's energy outlook. The Energy Information Administration raised its forecast for the average price of a gallon of gasoline over the full year by 14 cents. You can see right here, it also raised its 2026 forecast for Brent crude from$82 a barrel to$87 a barrel. And there's another problem building as well.

8:17The International Energy Agency says global crude oil inventories fell by 2.2 million barrels a day in July. It expects a global supply deficit of 1.8 million barrels a day in the third quarter. That's more than double its previous estimate.

8:36Ben Meiselas:Aaron Parnas, who's been getting scoop after scoop, also interviewed Governor Pritzker. And here's what he had to say. Here's what Governor Pritzker had to say about Donald Trump's mental decline. Play this clip. Do you believe, based on that, that the president is fit to command America's troops right now? When you say, is he fit to command? I mean, this is a person who clearly is having mental health challenges. I mean, you can see it every day when he, you know, he sits there at that desk with, you know, 20 people, 30 people around him talking to the press because he can't apparently stand at a podium for a long period of time.

9:14This is somebody who says inane things and, you know, you can't figure out why he's doing it from one moment to the next. He's and then he likes to talk about the dementia tests that he's taken, like like he passed a dementia test. You know, we should all celebrate he passed a dementia test. He thinks it's some sort of IQ test. It isn't an IQ test. And all I can say is he's not passing the dementia test that all of us have for a president. he's not speaking rationally or acting rationally so i mean i i didn't want him to be president because i never thought that he was capable of being commander in chief and i think he's proving

9:54Ben Meiselas:it but on state regime media fox they want to distract with everything here's what laura ingraham was focused on ridiculous here play this clip well sophie cunningham was basically she came out and said you know it's making too much of this you know we're all good and she she she kind of pooh-poohed that idea that there was this great tension on the team over this and she's she's trying to get back to the main thing which is basketball and how great the team played that night and so she was frustrated but she she's trying to walk a line here and she is an athlete she's trying to peak performance on the court and then all this is happening and it's all because of the left the left is responsible for this this is not something that was created by anyone except the hard left that wanted to twist the meaning of what it is to be a woman.

10:45And now they're all going to have to play against Inez Cantor freedom. So that's how it's going to work.

10:50Ben Meiselas:Well, we'll see. Mrs. Freedom and Senator Ossoff, I think, put this all in perspective. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip on record and a record breaking deployment, as everybody knows. But there are no reports that on the Lincoln, there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses, a lack of food, a lack of clean clothing, a lack of materials they need, it reaches a breaking point. I find this incredibly infuriating, heartbreaking. I mean, these service members have been at sea for nearly nine months at this point, but what's your reaction to the conditions they're facing?

11:28These reports are deeply disturbing, and I want to express on behalf of everybody in Georgia our deep gratitude and appreciation for the sailors and the naval aviators and the marines who are deployed and who are putting their lives on the line in service to the United States. I think we have to step back and recognize that this entire war is based on lies. They told us last year that the Iranian nuclear threat was obliterated. Then they told us earlier this year that there was an imminent nuclear threat. Both times lies. On day four of this war, President Trump declared victory. Months ago, Secretary Hegssef said that all of our objectives had been achieved.

12:15The war continues. Iran still has its uranium. Hormuz remains closed. This is a complete fiasco. It is a catastrophic failure by the commander-in-chief personally and his entire national security team.

12:58Ben Meiselas:administrative Hormuz looked like back in 2025. You can compare it to what it looks like now in 2026. That doesn't look like full control to me. He posted this as well. Tariffs went up and companies raised their prices. Tariffs are now being refunded and companies are keeping the price increases while they're getting the refunds, not we the people who had to pay the extra prices. Funny how that works, right? The first time where we've had negative months of tariff income and the prices remain elevated. There's not like the companies that raise their prices because the tariffs are decreasing it.

13:34Ben Meiselas:And we, the consumers, are getting screwed. They got refunds that go right to their bottom line while we get screwed. It's a massive scam for corporations and for Trump's oligarchs. How about this? The federal government took in$334 billion and spent$760 billion. That's a$432 billion deficit in just one month. In July, the deficit was$432 billion for one month. Yeah, don't try this at home, folks. That, as the interest expense on U.S. public debt, hit$1.37 trillion over the last 12 months, another record high. If it continues to increase at the current pace, it will soon be the largest line item in the federal budget, surpassing social security, as Megan Casella writes, some brutal figures from Treasury's latest monthly statement for the fiscal year to date.

14:31Ben Meiselas:The U.S. deficit is at$1.8 trillion, larger than the deficit for all of last year. Think about that. The U.S. deficit at$1.8 trillion, larger than the deficit for all last year. $1.2 trillion was spent on interest on the debt. Corporate tax receipts down 18%. That's brutal, folks. And then you have stuff like this. General Dynamics received a no-bid contract of$530 million from the Pentagon and opened a state-of-the-art facility, a state-of-the-art artillery factory near Dallas to make shells for the Ukraine war. Robots regularly caught fire, conveyors broke, autonomous carts got lost, and there was a dumpster fire.

15:13Ben Meiselas:It never made a single shell before it was mothballed. A literal dumpster fire. And meanwhile, while all of our money, our taxpayer money is being burned by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, like literally they're burning it. That could have gone to free healthcare. That could have gone to housing. That could have gone to education. That could have gone to so many things that could have helped the American people. We know that we're out of munitions now. We're out of weapons. We're out of weapons. Okay. Our morale is at an all time level. We're not giving food to our sailors and our service members and our Marines on these supercarriers.

15:54Ben Meiselas:Okay, our strategic petroleum reserves have hit below tank bottom now. And Donald Trump wants to spend the other money, hundreds of billions of dollars, on Trump-class battleships. Nuclear battleships, because he liked the way they looked in the 1920s. And he doesn't like stealth. He doesn't like modern technology. And you take a look at this Wall Street Journal scoop. US and Ukrainian forces went head to head in an exercise. Ukraine drones won. Ukrainian drone units decisively beat a US armored brigade in a major exercise in Germany, exposing gaps in America's adaption to modern drone warfare.

16:33Ben Meiselas:Ukrainian operators quickly detected US vehicles, then simulated, destroying them with explosive and FPV drones so effectively that the US units had to repeatedly respawn. Well, in the real world, you don't get to respawn like a video game. This is the third or fourth military exercise like this, where Ukraine has just obliterated the US Armed Forces in these simulations. That's Trump, that's Hegseth. That's what these idiots do. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching everybody and we appreciate you. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book.

17:16Ben Meiselas:It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can pre-order your copy today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below.

17:31Let's go.