Trump Fires Nuclear Commander as Iran War Escalates

0:00Ben Meiselas:The commander of a nuclear submarine was just relieved of duty by Donald Trump and Hegseth. And this follows a lot of turnover within the Navy in some of our most important and powerful ships. Donald Trump and Hegseth tried to fire this commander of a nuclear submarine quietly. They cited, quote, maintenance issues. But we need to really drill down what is happening here on this nuclear submarine. What happened to the top U.S. Navy commander who was mysteriously killed in the Arabian Sea? We also know that the former Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, was fired in the past several months during this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran.

0:51Ben Meiselas:Hunkal is now the Secretary of the Navy. We also know that the commander of the USS Mason was recently fired before the ship went into the Arabian Sea. We also learned that another nuclear submarine made a surprise stopover in the Strait of Gibraltar, which is interesting as well because rarely do these nuclear submarines announce their presence. And this USS Alaska submarine did that. And what happened recently in that area? Well, we know Donald Trump is threatening the sovereignty of Spain. We now believe it's pretty clear that it was Trump, Netanyahu, and the King of Morocco working together to put the tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants in Siata, in Northern Africa, in order to attack Spain.

1:45Ben Meiselas:And Spain did actually a very good job, I think, with the humanitarian crisis created by King Mohammed of Morocco there. But you had that nuclear submarine announce its presence. And these nuclear submarines form the sea leg of the nuclear triad. These nuclear submarines, the Ohio classes, they are called, they are divided into two teams usually. For example, the nuclear submarine that we're going to be talking about right now, where Commander Joseph Samer was fired and relieved of duty, had a blue team and a gold team. He was the blue team commander. Usually the teams go out for 70 to 90 days while the other team is involved in training.

2:30Ben Meiselas:This is a really big deal, especially as we're seeing a lot of other top commanders get fired. The Secretary of Navy has been fired. And it's part of this pattern of Trump and Hegseth firing these top people. Now, maybe there was grounds for it, but for all of these people, especially during a catastrophic war, raises many red flags. And or are they hiring people who are qualified in the first place? For example, we know that the Trump regime has not promoted any female to become a one-star general. Hegseth has pursued racist, misogynistic policies to not promote minorities, not promote women.

3:17Ben Meiselas:We know that the United States has pushed out some of its top military talent, right? The former chief of staff of the army was well-respected, former top commanders in Europe, well-respected. The former chairman of the joint chief, C.Q. Brown Jr., the four-star, replaced him with a three-star, and they fired CQ Brown Jr. because he's black. They brought in a white guy who they liked his nickname, Raisin Cain, who needed a waiver because he wasn't qualified. And again, this is the chaos that the Trump regime is engaged in while engaging in this catastrophic war. No wonder Trump surrenders over and over again.

3:56Ben Meiselas:And also the amount of times that Donald Trump says, we've destroyed Iran's Navy. It's at the bottom of the sea. We know with Trump, it's always projection. When I'm sharing with you right now, seems that there is a massive crisis going on in the United States Navy right now at the leadership level of promotions, of who is in charge, why are commanders constantly being fired? You had, by the way, the former Secretary of the Navy, Phelan, he was in the Epstein files. He was on the flight manifest. No shocker there. Hung Cao has said some of the most deranged and lunatic things as well. Let's go through this, shall we?

4:42Ben Meiselas:The Navy relieves the commander of the USS West Virginia, Commander Joseph Samor. You see him right here. He was relieved of the Blue Crew duty. You see this photo of him taking over command August 14, 2025. So he didn't even make it one year. And this guy was rising through the ranks. So the fact that he didn't make it one year raises lots of red flags. There was apparently an investigation into, quote, maintenance issues. And that's kind of the broad term that they use because they don't want to say misconduct or inappropriate conduct. They say maintenance issues. And so he's been relieved of his command right there.

5:24Ben Meiselas:And this follows numerous other people who have been relieved of their command. For example, in June, the Navy fired three top officials at an overseas maintenance center after losing, quote, confidence in their ability to command, loss of confidence. In February, the Navy relieved the commanding officer of the destroyer, the USS Mason, for the same reason. The USS Mason was recently in the Strait of Hormuz along with the USS Truxton. And you saw these destroyers right there. They were sent to that area a few months back as Trump was escalating over there. Another U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine.

6:08Ben Meiselas:The USS West Virginia is also this Ohio-class nuclear-armed ballistic submarine, the sea leg of the triad. Um, so this one, the USS Alaska docked publicly in Gibraltar with the Royal Marine security in a 200 meter exclusion zone following Trump's rejection of Iran's, uh, risk. You know, it was one of the times where, you know, Trump was saying, oh, we're going to do a deal. We're not going to do a deal. We're going to do a deal, not do a deal. The Ohio class submarines carry up to 20 Trident nuclear missiles. They almost never make public port calls. Let's just say they rarely ever make public port calls.

6:50Ben Meiselas:They stay under. They're stealthy. They're a nuclear triad. They don't pop up. And they popped up in Gibraltar, which is just fascinating. Strait of Gibraltar, Mediterranean Sea, right? That was that area right by Sita where Morocco sent 50 ,000 migrants who were returned. Well, there were some tragic incidents where there was a lot of death actually as well from that as well, right? You got the Gibraltar Strait, Strait of Gibraltar. Then we're looking over here. You got the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandab Strait, Red Sea, Persian Gulf. What do you've got? You've got the Hormuz Strait right there. So projecting the nuclear submarine there, you know, and it making a port call, again, very odd.

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9:48Ben Meiselas:This also happens at the same time that China's Navy successfully test fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile carrying a training simulation warhead from a strategic submarine into the Pacific high seas. The launch triggered swift condemnation from New Zealand, Japan, Papua New Guinea, and they all called this a threat to regional stability. And as I've done another video about in the past, uh, in the past, this, this past morning, um, you have all of these admirals and generals leaking to the press that the United States does not have the forces to escalate in Iran and certainly doesn't have the forces to protect the United States anymore.

10:31Ben Meiselas:That the U S I mean, this is essentially what the U S uh, allied commander from NATO in Europe, Grinkowicz, who's very well respected. General Grinkowicz is like, look, the United States is now protecting Israel and we don't protect the United States anymore. We don't have our capabilities to protect the United States. And if there were to be any conflicts in the rest of the world that the United States would need to project strength and we don't have the capabilities. And of course, Grinkowicz and a lot of these generals, what they're not saying out loud or even on background, China. China's building its ballistic missile nuclear class of submarines, as we just talked about there.

11:13Ben Meiselas:And then, of course, you also got Russia and Ukraine and the escalation taking place there. This also comes at a time where we learned that Navy SEALs in the past year used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a VIP snorkel trip next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the USS Arizona. And as I note before, over the last year, the Navy has not promoted a single female officer from captain to one star admiral because Hegseth and Trump hate women and hate black people and hate minorities. And as it's my opinion, you can have a different opinion.

11:59Ben Meiselas:I'm sharing with you in my opinion, protected by the First Amendment, as evidenced by their actions. Let me be very clear. It's opinion speech. You can disagree with the opinions. And then that brings us to U.S. Secretary of Navy John Fellin, who was terminated by the Trump regime. He was named on a flight manifest found in the Epstein files showing that he flew in 2006 from London to New York on a Boeing 727 owned by convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein aboard an aircraft known more commonly as the Lolita Express. 12 other passengers listed on that manifest beside Fallon include Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, his trafficker, a French modeling agent who trafficked, and others.

12:46Ben Meiselas:And this to remind you what Fallon was saying before he was fired was that for the first time in generations, we will have a new leg in America's nuclear deterrence because they wanted to build Trump-class battleships, they were gonna call it. Donald Trump doesn't like stealth. He didn't like the submarines. He wanted his own battleships that look like World War I battleships. So look what the former Navy secretary had to say about building Trump battleships that look like World War I or like, yeah, like World War I ships that are nuclear powered, which is probably the worst idea given drone warfare, unmanned submersives.

13:23Ben Meiselas:I mean, these people are the dumbest people. I know we've got a lot of military people who watch this. I mean, I hope you appreciate that we do the diligence. Like y 'all must be, if I'm thinking like, yo, these people, this Trump regime is like the biggest group of idiots. They're like the worst of the military. I could only imagine what the people in the Navy who watch this and our other armed force members who watch. And we know we have top people in the military who watch this. I just wonder what you think. Anyway, play this clip of Phelan. Let's play it. This ship isn't just to swat the arrows.

13:52It is going to reach out and kill the archers. And for the first time in generations, we'll have a new leg in America's nuclear deterrence because the Trump-class battleship will carry the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile. Striking dominance isn't all that the Trump-class battleship brings to the fight at sea. It has the size and capacity to serve as a flagship for our fleet commanders so that they can command and control naval forces far out to sea. And it doesn't get much better.

14:24Ben Meiselas:The guy who took over from Phelan is Hung Kao. Here's Hung Kao saying that he believes witches have taken over California. Let's play it. There's a place in Monterey, California called Lover's Point. Yeah. The original name was Lover's of Christ Point. But now it's become, they took out the Christ, it's Lover's Point. And it's really, Monterey is a very dark place now. A lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over there. And we can't let that happen in Virginia. Virginia is, I mean, especially down in Roanoke, they're God-loving people. Richmond, too, and Virginia Beach. And we just need to mobilize Christians across the nation.

15:02Ben Meiselas:And he claims he's African-American because he lived in Africa for a little bit. Okay, these people are crazy. Let's play this clip right here. And you're conservative, and you love God. And you love America. Like all the things that - And I'm African-American because I grew up in Africa too. So, oh, really? And African-American Vietnamese. Here we go. No, but significantly, Hong Cao, again, current Navy secretary, said at a recent appropriations hearing that we're doing a pause on giving interceptors or any arm shipments to Taiwan because we've run out of our weapons. And he said that a few months back.

15:40Ben Meiselas:Remember I showed you that, which was a monster red flag to me. I'll show you what he said here. Let's play it. To buy arms from us, and all of a sudden there's a pause. What are you hearing from the Taiwanese about the pause?

16:01Chairman, I have not heard, I have not spoken to the Taiwanese. However, we are, we have done some military, foreign military sales to them. And it's just right now we're doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for Epic Fury, which we have plenty. But we're just making making sure we have everything. But then the foreign military sales will continue when the administration deems necessary, sir.

16:26Ben Meiselas:And that brings me to the top U.S. Navy commander killed in the Arabian Sea. commander Gabe Edwards was killed after his helicopter mysteriously crashed into the sea July 1st. The U.S. hid all details. He went missing after an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea on July 1st, 2026, during an operation tied to the carrier USS George H. W. Bush right there. And so I think that the totality of what I've just said raises some massive red flags. I'd love to hear what you're thinking as well about all of this in any event. Hit subscribe. You tell me, come on. What's your theory about what happened?

17:17Ben Meiselas:Is it connected to Trump's surrendering? Is it connected to Iran? Is it connected to Gibraltar? Is it connected to just Hegseth not being able to, being a horrible manager? They're firing everybody. Hit subscribe, let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.

17:51Thank you.