Trump Faces Growing Isolation as His Threats and Desperate Posts Spiral on the World Stage

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is facing a brutal reality as he wakes up this morning as his life and his presidency are collapsing. Donald Trump rushed to state regime media, which calls itself Fox, to spread the usual propaganda and make the usual threats. Now he's saying we are going to strike Iran so hard. Here's what he said to state regime media. Let's play it. Yeah, Lawrence, good morning. I just spoke with President Trump, who told Fox News the United States will respond to the Iranian attack on US forces overnight in Jordan. The president said, we're going to hit them hard. There will be a response. As I'm sure you now know from our reporting this morning, the US attacked Iran last night.

0:46Ben Meiselas:They hit Larik Island. They said they were hitting rocket launchers, which were being used to hit tankers. I thought you destroyed all of the Iranian military capabilities. Iran responded by striking military bases belonging to the United States in Jordan, in the UAE, and also the Al-Yudid base in Qatar. Jordan and the UAE say they intercepted everything, which is false. We do know that some of those strikes connected with the U.S. bases. And then you had Treasury Secretary Scott Besant being rolled out to the G20 summit that's taking place right now in North Carolina where they banned reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg.

1:35Ben Meiselas:And you have Besant just being treated like an utter clown right there. He's like a punchline to a bad joke. A reporter says, so is there a time frame when your economic D-Day is going to cause Iran to collapse? When's that going to happen, Besant? Here, play this clip. Is there a time frame on when their economy could collapse? No, it's that we have the blockade and we are going to continue exerting pressure. And we've had very good discussions here already. And, you know, I think it could be within weeks or months. And the economy doesn't have to collapse. It just, we just have to have the regime come to their senses.

2:23Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump facing this brutal reality this morning. Here is what he's posting on his social media so deranged. Iran is officially a failed nation. It is dead, he says. They have no Navy. They have no Air Force. They have no currency. They are not paying their soldiers or police. Inflation is at 300 percent, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country. The only thing they have is fake news from the USA, say, a willingness to kill their protesters. Now over 100 ,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity. And a good line of bullshit.

3:08Ben Meiselas:Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. So now the number went up from 30 ,000 to 50 ,000. Now they killed 100 ,000 protesters. In other words, what we knew already, you can't trust a single word that Donald Trump says. We should have always known that when they were saying 30 ,000 protesters and who was the source, Trump, that it was BS. Yes, there were protesters who were killed. We know that, but we need to understand what's really going on, what the right numbers are. And now Trump's lies cast doubt on everything. It's not 100 ,000. You can't just make up numbers with death like that.

3:51Ben Meiselas:Oh, and by the way, when it comes to war criminals, you're the war criminal, Donald. Pete Hegseth is the war criminal, Donald. And you should, and I hope will, be tried in The Hague one day for all of your crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, Iran's General Mohammad Reza Naqti says, We expected victory because we were certain and confident in God's promise and his support when the U.S. and Netanyahu attacked us. But we did not expect victory to come this easily, he says. And then he goes on to say, you know, when it comes to something like, you know, football here in the United States, soccer. He's like, you know, sometimes the other side has a better team.

4:37Ben Meiselas:but if they don't have a coach and if they don't have the ability to play they could still lose the match and he goes yes u.s clearly has more weapons than us and they have a far more powerful army but they've got a captain and a team that doesn't know what the hell they're doing and so that's how we're able to beat them what say you treasury secretary scott besant does he just he's just mumbling like he's reduced to just mumbling at this point play this clip September 9th. But the signal should have been clear. Yeah. And then he says, I guarantee you, if we keep this pressure up, if we keep on torturing Iran, they're going to want to make a deal.

5:17Ben Meiselas:That's how we do deals, everybody. If we can just try to obliterate people and declare D-Day on them, then they go, please, sir, can we make a deal with you, sir? Here, play this clip. A few times now that we're going to get to the other side on the Iran conflict, Like what sort of time frame do you have in your mind for that? Again, it's going to be the when is this regime willing to come to the table? As President Trump has been saying over the past few weeks, he doesn't think they're ready to make a deal. And I think that Operation Economic Outcast is going to make them want to want to make a deal.

5:52Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, Iran's Revolutionary Guard says that another super tanker that was in the Strait of Hormuz struck two naval mines in the southern Strait of Hormuz, caught fire, and was forced to stop. We haven't gotten a report from the UK MTO yet about this, but we do know the UK MTO has not been filing timely reports. They've been kind of captured by this whole CENTCOM US to scam cover-up machine. They used to do a good job reporting on these strikes in the Strait of Hormuz. Like there was another major strike 72 hours ago, which we reported on on the Midas Touch Network, as you could see it. You could look at the satellite footage, but that was being covered up by the Trump regime and by the UKMTO.

6:40Ben Meiselas:They did admit it yesterday, and now there appears to be this other super tanker that was hit in the Strait of Hormuz by the mines that are there. Donald Trump continuing to post videos of himself playing golf, I guess, when the American people are suffering and can't afford groceries or gas and diesels at record high and people can't afford rent and healthcare is being ripped away and data centers are being built in people's backyard. Donald Trump wants everybody to know how rich he is, that he's been making billions of dollars while in the White House doing quid pro quo deals, selling pieces of the United States America away, frankly, the whole thing to the highest bidder while he gets rich and while we all suffer.

7:21Ben Meiselas:That's what he wants to tell us by showing him golfing while he and his sicko Epstein class continue to cover up child sex trafficking rings. Yeah, a bunch of freaking sick, sick, vile predators right there in the Trump regime. Awful, scumbag, trash humans. Always remember that. Then Donald Trump says this morning, The only reason that communities throughout the U.S. should not want data centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let data reign. The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them.

8:02Ben Meiselas:If we kill the golden goose, you will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be happier with this anti-data center movement. Actually, they can't believe it's happening, DJT. China can't be happier that you are destroying the United States. their plan of being the global hegemon, they thought that that would maybe be 20, 30 years from now, 40 years from now. You put that on fast forward and you've destroyed the US strength. You've destroyed Obama's pivot to Asia. You've destroyed Biden's diplomacy in the region. You've destroyed it all. Look what's happening internationally right now. You want to talk about China being happy.

8:46Ben Meiselas:The Shanghai Cooperation Organization right now in Kyrgyzstan, in Bishak, it's taking place. It is a smash hit where you have all of these countries right now forming alliances outside of the United States. And guess who's front and center? Iran. Iran's right there with all these countries at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. There's President Pazeskian shaking hands with India's Prime Minister Modi. Continued war benefits neither Iran, the region, nor humanity, Pazeskian says. Some groups in the U.S. see their interest in prolonging conflict, but peace, stability, and security must prevail.

9:25Ben Meiselas:You also had Prime Minister Modi of India meeting with Putin, talking about cultural exchanges between the countries, right? So as Donald Trump has attacked cultural exchanges with India and mocked Indian students and treated India like crap, and as Donald Trump mocks the idea of cultural exchanges and soft power and treats our closest ally, Canada, as a nation that Trump wants to invade and take over as we see Trump's behavior towards NATO, look at what's happening. This is what Putin's saying to Modi. Now, you're probably saying, Ben, this is so disingenuous. Putin's just saying this to Modi in order to curry favor.

10:07Ben Meiselas:That's what he think international diplomacy is. You know, I hope it's imbued with genuine spirit of love and compassion the way I love Canada. And I feel a great deal of camaraderie and collegiality and a great deal of tradition. So I hope it's based on authenticity. When you make alliances, that's my view. It's my view of international diplomacy. And you try to find people who share your values and principles. But there is a real politic aspect of it also, right? And Trump's screwing up every aspect of it. This is what Putin told Modi. India is among the leading countries in terms of the number of students studying in Russia.

10:51Ben Meiselas:In recent years, this has increased sevenfold. We now have 40 ,000 students. We regularly hold cultural festivals, Indian festivals in Russia, Russia festivals in India, and mutual tourist flows are developing actively. That's also a major troll directed at the United States and the U.S. attacks on Canada. And what they're doing over there at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting, before, by the way, they're all going to meet at BRICS in New Delhi in India, is talk about bringing each other there together while the U.S. is isolated. Do you see what's happening right there? And then in Istanbul, you had defense and foreign ministers and chiefs of staff from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan posing for a group photo ahead of their first defense committee meeting for the Mecca Pact as the US security umbrella has been destroyed in the Middle East as Trump has weakened the United States standing in the world.

11:49Ben Meiselas:You have these Arab nations that form the Sunni alliance for now and form this Mecca pact. We expect Egypt to join. Bangladesh is saying that it may want to join. There may be a bunch of other countries joining the Mecca pact as well. And I'll just give you some headlines this morning. You know how Donald Trump would always allow live the golf tournament from Saudi Arabia to play in all of the Trump clubs. And Donald Trump would even say, no one's really got to the bottom of 9-11. Right, Trump? Literally a direct quote from Donald Trump. As you had families of people who were killed in 9-11 say, well, how are you doing this tournament at all of your golf clubs, Donald?

12:29Ben Meiselas:Well, everything Trump touches dies. Well, live golf, preparing for an imminent bankruptcy filing because Saudi Arabia has stopped all of its funding there. Also, Saudi Arabia is in early talks to raise at least$8 billion in new loans as the Iran war strains its finances and disrupts its trade. State oil giant Aramco is also exploring a separate loan while Riyadh faces a$9.1 billion quarter two deficit despite oil prices. And meanwhile, you have Treasury Secretary Besant attacking Canada in the most horrific and these people are just evil humans. You see how this MAGA cabinet found each other.

13:16Ben Meiselas:They were losers in life. They all have a MAGA loser arc, a villain arc. You know, Besant, when he went on his own, failed with a$5 billion fund. And he was viewed as a loser, an absolute loser in the finance community. And he found his MAGA loser club. And this is how he behaves. Oh, yeah, shut up, up, Besant. Besant is a, this is how losers talk. Listen to him over here at TAC Canada. Play this clip. I guess Mark is wondering if we're now in a tit-for-tat trade war with Canada. Well, I don't think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who's 13 times larger than you are. They say they're doing okay.

13:57What else are they going to say? Look, I think this is very unfortunate that Prime Minister Carney has turned this into a political shouting match. I mean, we're not at war with Canada. How are we going to be at war with Canada? They're going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sick them on us? He came to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump agenda. He was 20 points behind in the poll. And then he started this. And it's unfortunate that he's not doing what's best for the Canadian.

14:28Ben Meiselas:Talking about the MAGA loser arc, Mark Wayne Mullen, the new homelands, not new for that. He's been there for a little bit now. But he replaced Kristi Noem, another freaking loser. And Mark Wayne Mullen's like, you've got the Biden administration. He's found the Biden administration's failing the people. Hey, bud, Biden hasn't been in office for two years. And by the way, you've made things way worse than they were when Biden handed this over Donald Trump play this clip.

14:59Speaking of

15:16Ben Meiselas:the loser arc, you've got Doug Burgum on state regime Media Fox this morning whining about the fake vandalism to the reflecting pool. Let's play it. The supply valves that were coming in were clogged. Getting those cleaned up is going to help make sure that we can do algae maintenance going forward with the nano bubblers that have been installed. The blue liner, 99.7 % of the liner was done perfectly. There was vandalism in spite of what everybody says, the clear evidence of that, that there was vandalism. And also some touch up coming after the 4th of July fireworks. So when we had the record fireworks, which are set off adjacent right to that reflecting pool.

15:54So we're on track to have that reflecting pool looking better than ever. But again, kudos to President Trump, everything that he's done around.

16:01Ben Meiselas:Then you had NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman claiming that Trump gave NASA a shot in the arm during his speech last week, where he got zero reaction and the astronauts thought it was the craziest thing because it was. The Space Academy, how close is it? Oh, what an exciting, again, President Trump comes to Johnson Space Center in Texas and he gives NASA a shot in the arm of adrenaline. I'm telling you, I mean, we were. Then you have Netanyahu continuing to strike inside Gaza and the genocide continues. At least three people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in Gaza's cities, Tel Alhawa neighborhood this morning.

16:44Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip.

16:50Ben Meiselas:i do want to highlight this as well uh former united states ambassador to russia uh professor mcfowl and i think he describes the u.s venezuela unlawful oil deal in in terms that i think are perfect i want to play it for you i've been covering this in detail donald trump saying we're getting 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela, and it's immediately going to fill the strategic petroleum reserves. I've explained to you over and over that the oil in Venezuela is sour, it's viscous, it's dense. It doesn't go into the US strategic petroleum reserves, into the salt caverns. It will require billions of dollars and five, 10 years of infrastructure to try to convert that very tarry crude to even get into our strategic petroleum reserves.

17:44Ben Meiselas:It also makes it very difficult to refine. And then there's a reason that the Trump regime is doing their version of communism, state control that we're creating illegally a Trump oil company in the Defense Department in order to work with Venezuela's, this Venezuela state owned basically company. because U.S. private businesses weren't investing in it. So Trump created like a Putin-style U.S. oil company, illegal. And there's not 65 billion barrels. That's a made-up number. It's not refinable. You can't put them in refineries right away. It's all BS. It's all market manipulation. But it soothes Donald Trump's ego of dominating the Western Hemisphere and making people subservient here's what professor mcfowell says play this clip uh i'm embarrassed as an american to be associated with a government that is doing this the whole world will react the same way and the venezuelan people are reacting that way because the second thing that is so outrageous about this deal is he's done it with a dictator delcy rodriguez has no legitimacy inside venezuela she's never been elected to anything else she was the vice president to maduro and yet that is the person that we're doing this deal with leaving out the preferences of the citizens of venezuela i think it's a really bad deal and i don't think it's going to work if you're on a board of any serious company you're going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars when your property rights are guaranteed by donald trump and the illegitimate dictator venezuela to me that is a very imprudent decision and my prediction is this will fall apart and then you've got the mega republican congress members like andy harris saying that alberta should secede and we're pushing to make canada the 51st state this is what the mega republican congress members are saying play this clip do you see this helping the canadians obviously they're very progressive they're using it as a talking point to really move forward with their agenda, just saying they're pushing back against President Trump and they're doing everything they can to fight for Canada?

19:59Well, look, the fact of the matter is Alberta is talking about seceding from Canada. We should make it the 51st state. Tremendous oil reserves there. The socialism doesn't work in Western Canada. A lot of those provinces don't want to be associated with Ottawa. And the president's taking advantage of it. Yeah, well, Ford was sending out this -

20:18Ben Meiselas:And then finally this morning, you had Doug Burgum, Donald Trump's interior secretary, also talking about how Donald Trump's been on the phone with Apple, like he was with Google, making them change their maps so that they erase Lake Ontario. And then they put Lake America, even though Lake Ontario, Ontario is an indigenous word. It's from the people who were here before the US and Canada existed by far. And there's Ontario's in the United States. It literally just translates to big lake, great lake. But the Trump regime is a bunch of vile, despicable piece of trash human beings. And so this is how they behave.

20:59Ben Meiselas:Let's play it. For two Google Maps with you, because they're now showing Lake America for US users. Folks in Canada reportedly are still seeing Lake Ontario, but this follows President Trump's executive order. He directed your department and the U.S. board on geographic names to formally adopt this new name. Mr. Secretary, Apple Maps still has Lake Ontario. But how far does this change go, and will that happen soon? Well, it's a little bit of inside baseball, but it's interesting when the president signs an executive order, you know, reflecting a name change like the Gulf of America or Lake America, it does direct the Department of Interior.

21:36That board that you described, the Board of Geographic Names as part of the U.S. Geologic Survey, that great mapping institution and science institution, which is part of the Department of Interior. They plug that into the software, and then that software cascades down, so all the map providers would do that. And I know that the president reached out to Apple directly, so I'm sure that we may be seeing that change coming up soon to Lake America. There we go. And we're looking at that image right now on our screens.

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