Trump gives Catastrophic Speech on Iran War...in Kentucky

12 Mar 2026 · 21 min · 8 chapters

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Episode Title

Trump gives Catastrophic Speech on Iran War...in Kentucky

Hosts

  • Ben Meiselas - Top lawyer, business partner of Colin Kaepernick
  • Brett Meiselas - Two-time Emmy Award-winning video editor
  • Jordy Meiselas - Award-winning advertising executive

Episode Overview In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses Donald Trump's recent speech delivered in Kentucky, which Ben characterizes as a catastrophic moment in U.S. history. The speech focused on Trump's approach to the ongoing war against Iran and included several alarming and fabricated claims.

Key Themes and Discussion Points

Trump's Speech Analysis

  • Cognitive Decline: Ben describes Trump’s performance as a "cognitive glitch," mentioning signs of distress such as sweating and a person fainting during the speech.
  • Descriptive Language: Trump referred to the war against Iran as an "excursion," trivializing the conflict and the associated dangers.
  • Quote: “We had to take this little trip... just a little trip.”
  • Alarming Statements: Trump made exaggerated and misleading claims about military victories, including:
  • "Knocked out 54 ships in two days."
  • A desire to make the Iranian navy part of the U.S. Navy.
  • Mention of an operation named "Midnight Hammer" that supposedly obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities.

Miscommunication and Falsehoods

  • Oil Prices: Trump claimed that oil prices were coming down while current reports contradict this, indicating rising prices.
  • International Relations: He boasted about the release of emergency oil reserves while downplaying the severity of the global oil crisis.

Audience Reaction

  • Rally Dynamics: The audience's approval of Trump's statements raised questions about public perception and support for prolonged military engagement.
  • Inappropriate Comments: Trump's remarks about political opponents, including Gavin Newsom and Barack Obama, were described as unpresidential and not relevant to the current political climate.

Comparisons to Previous Presidents

  • Ben discusses Trump’s comparison of himself to Obama and Biden, focusing on their respective physical abilities and public perceptions.

Conclusion of the Speech

  • Trump expressed doubts about future leadership, suggesting that future presidents might be "weak" or "pathetic," reinforcing his self-image as a strong leader.

Closing Remarks

  • Ben encourages listeners to reflect on the implications of Trump's speech and the current state of U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding Iran.

Key Takeaways

  • The episode highlights the dangerous rhetoric and misinformation spread by Trump regarding the war in Iran.
  • It reflects on the cognitive and communicative challenges faced by Trump, questioning his grasp on the realities of international relations.
  • The Meiselas brothers use humor and sibling banter while addressing serious political issues, engaging their audience in a unique way.

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This summary encapsulates the significant points and discussions from the episode, emphasizing the importance of critically evaluating political speeches and the narratives surrounding them.

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Chapters

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Analyzing Trump's Kentucky Speech

3:38 to 4:47

A breakdown of Donald Trump's controversial speech regarding the Iran war.

“Donald Trump just gave a calamitous speech in Kentucky, marking a low point in the entire history of the United States of America.”

Trump's Claims About Military Actions

4:49 to 6:15

Discussion on Trump's assertions about military actions against Iran.

“Donald Trump's like they're obliterated.”

Trump's Views on Energy and War

6:17 to 9:20

Exploration of Trump's comments on energy costs and ongoing conflicts.

“Then Donald Trump talked about how his regime knocked out 54 ships in two days.”

Current Events in Iran Conflict

12:46 to 14:09

Updates on recent attacks and conflicts involving Iran.

“According to an Iraqi port official, two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi fuel were attacked within the territorial waters of Iraq within the last hour, causing both to catch fire in the Persian Gulf.”

Analyzing Trump's Speech on Oil Crisis

14:09 to 15:16

Discussing Trump's claims regarding the oil crisis and the release of reserves.

“Just take a look at this image from the bridge of a container ship arising at the port of Salal in Oman earlier today.”

Trump's Comments on Obama and Biden

15:16 to 18:12

Exploring Trump's disparaging remarks about Obama and Biden's presidential conduct.

“And Donald Trump talks about Obama bobbing.”

Trump's Remarks on Gavin Newsom

18:12 to 19:52

Examining Trump's critique of Gavin Newsom's mental fitness and reading abilities.

“To bring that here to us, I know God is with us.”

Trump's Support for Thomas Massey

19:52 to 20:34

Detailing Trump's speech in support of Thomas Massey and his criticisms of others.

“And Thomas Massey was one of the people who forced the release of the Epstein files.”
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4:02Ben Meiselas:He was sweating. Somebody passed out during the speech as well. And then he continued on after that talking about California Governor Gavin Newsom. And he's like, Newsom this. And then he He was talking about how former President Obama would bob down stairs and that Donald Trump didn't like how he would bob down the stairs. And it's very hard to walk downstairs. And while the Middle East right now is engulfed in war as Iran shows no sign of relenting, sending their Shahid drones to target oil tankers now off of Iraq as they are targeting oil depots in Oman as the UAE is being struck as there's strikes taking place in northern Israel and Iran is ramping things up.

4:49Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's like they're obliterated. We've won. They've surrendered. So let me show you what went down so you can just see it for yourself right here. Donald Trump refers to the war as an excursion, and he does these hand gestures, which make it look like he's drawing the photo that he made for Jeffrey Epstein in that birthday book. He goes, this is an excursion. We had to take this little trip. That's all this is, just a little trip, everybody. Here, play this clip. At the end of the year, we did an excursion.

5:20Donald Trump:You know what an excursion is? We had to take a little trip to get rid of some evil, very evil people. It should have been done for 47 years. They've been killing our people. 47 years.

5:38Donald Trump:47 years. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! And I can only say this. they were all prepared they're very strong you know they're going to try and take over the whole middle east they were going to knock out israel they don't know what the hell hit them right they don't know they got hit by the american military they don't know they say what the hell is happening they didn't expect anything like this to bring down energy costs for american in workers and families and businesses like this one, we ended the Green News scam. You know the scam?

6:22Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump talked about how his regime knocked out 54 ships in two days. And Trump says, the idea that I had is I wanted to take over the navies of Iran and they should just work for us. But my general said, it's so much more fun killing the Iranians than helping them become part of the U.S. Navy? I mean, what's this guy talking about? Here, play this clip.

6:48Donald Trump:They knocked out 54 ships in two days. And they're real ships. In fact, I got angry at my people. I said, are they good? Yeah, they're warships. I said, why the hell did we kill them? Why didn't we just capture them and use them in our Navy? They said they wouldn't have qualified for that. But I got a little upset with my people. I said, why do we have to knock them? And actually, one of my generals said, sir, it's a lot more fun doing it this way. but we knocked out 58 naval ships.

7:19Ben Meiselas:We knocked out. And Donald Trump says that his military gave him a lot of different names to call this war. And Trump says, I like epic fury. Here, play this clip. Is that a great name?

7:31Donald Trump:Well, it's only good if you win. You know, you can only do. And we've won. Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet in the first hour it was over. but they gave me a list of names sir you can pick the name you'd like sir I said the name of what the name of the attack on Iran sir and they gave me like 20 names and I'm like falling asleep I didn't like any of them then I see epic fury I said I like that name I like that name

8:06Ben Meiselas:then Donald Trump says that if he didn't terminate the Iran nuclear deal we'd be in a much different place right now. Yeah, that's right. We'd be in a much safer place. You malignant, narcissistic, demented traitor. Play this clip. Stupid was that. But that deal, the Iran nuclear deal,

8:27Donald Trump:gave them the right to have a nuclear weapon as of three years ago. If that deal, if I didn't terminate that deal, I terminated it very quickly. If I didn't terminate that deal, they would have had nuclear weapons and this world would right now be a different place much different place

8:44Ben Meiselas:believe me then Donald Trump says you remember when we did Midnight Hammer back last summer we obliterated the nuclear facilities of Iran but we had to go back to obliterate the nuclear facilities again so if you obliterated it then you have to obliterate it what are you talking about what the heck is going on here play this clip

9:04Donald Trump:Killers in the world that I did, as well as Operation Midnight Hammer, where we totally obliterated Iran's nuclear potential. We obliterated it. They don't have nuclear potential. And then during after Midnight Hammer, and then we left, we figured that'll be the end of them for a while. But they started again. That's why we got to finish it. Right. We don't want to go back every two years.

9:34Ben Meiselas:And that's because, you know, there'll be some. Then Donald Trump in this rally with this audience in Kentucky is like, we don't want to leave early. We want to stay in Iran. Right. We want to finish the job. Right. We've destroyed them. Right. And there's a crowd out there of people in Kentucky. We're like, yeah, we don't want to leave the war. What are you all doing? What the heck is going on with this country? Play this clip.

10:29Donald Trump:They no longer have radar. They don't have anti-aircraft equipment. They don't have anything. Their missiles are down 90%. Their drones are down 85%. We're blowing up the factories where they're made, left and right.

10:50Donald Trump:And frankly, nobody has ever seen anything like it.

10:55Ben Meiselas:Nobody's ever seen anything like what you're witnessing now. Donald Trump then talks about how oil prices are already coming back down, but we're not leaving until the job is finished. Oil prices are not coming back down. Oil prices are going up. Here's what he said. Here, play this clip.

11:16Donald Trump:But oil prices are already coming back down and it's going to come down, but we're not leaving until that job is finished. And it's going to be very fast. It's going to be very fast.

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13:16Ben Meiselas:Earlier in the day, three major cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz that we're trying to cross were hit by Iran, including this Thai flag bulk cargo ship. And the Iranians warned these ships, if you go, we're going to destroy you. And Donald Trump's like, cross, you can do it. And then they did and they got hit and the three ships got destroyed. Troy, the Kuwaiti army saying they're currently trying to intercept drones and rockets being fired by Iran right now. You have massive fires continuing to burn in the night at the port of Salal in Oman with the blaze caused by Wednesday's drone attack against the port by Iran.

13:54Ben Meiselas:It's now spreading over the entire facility. You remember the video we showed you earlier on the deck of the Chinese cargo ship showing the moment the Iranian one way attack drone, a Shahid 136 struck the oil tank earlier. Just take a look at this image from the bridge of a container ship arising at the port of Salal in Oman earlier today. Look at the flames engulfing multiple port facilities. It is apocalyptic. And then also you have northern Israel under fire from Hezbollah. So when Donald Trump's like, we won this, are we, can we just observe objectively what is happening in the world right now?

14:33Ben Meiselas:So then Donald Trump says, I'm also pleased to report that the International Energy Agency is agreeing to coordinate the release of a record 400 million barrels of oil from various national petroleum reserves. This is not a record setting thing. The biggest, the biggest use of the emergency reserves imaginable. That's not a W, Donald. And by the way, the United States Energy Commission is saying that they expect$90 plus a barrel for the foreseeable future. I think, by the way, it's going to be more than that. Why are you bragging that the International Energy Agency had to release this because there is the biggest crisis of an oil shock in the history of the world?

15:15Ben Meiselas:But play what Donald Trump said.

15:16Donald Trump:I'm pleased to report that earlier today, the International Energy Agency agreed to coordinate the release of a record 400 million barrels of oil from various national petroleum reserves around the world, which will substantially reduce the oil prices as we end this threat to America and this threat to the world. We don't want to leave early, do we? We got to finish the job, right?

15:45Donald Trump:over the past.

15:46Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump talks about Obama bobbing. Play this clip.

15:50Donald Trump:The only thing I admired about Barack Hussein Obama, which was nothing, actually, but the only thing is the way he bobbed down. Remember, he'd bob. Hey, you talk about unpresidential. He's bobbing. And I couldn't believe that he made it without at least a noticeable major fall. but Biden was the opposite. Biden couldn't even walk up the stairs. He fell three times walking up the stairs.

16:19Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump talks about how he's not able to watch TV with the first lady because of the wind. Let's play it.

16:26Donald Trump:The wind, you know, you're watching television and you want to watch your beautiful wife. Our first lady says, I'm sorry, darling, you can't watch tonight. The wind has gone down and we have, but I want to watch myself on television. I want to watch myself debate. He says, I'm sorry, darling. We have absolutely no energy. There's no wind tonight. What a scam. That's a pretty big scam. That's one of the top. I say that's a top five. It's about five that are real beauties.

16:59Ben Meiselas:Trump worries that when he walks, he slips. Play this clip.

17:03Donald Trump:Problem with this, it can happen. You could slip. I could slip. I came downstairs today that was soaking wet. You know, it's a little rainy today. And I have steel stairs. And I'm saying, hey, yeah, yeah. But I do it very slowly. I grab that thing because nobody cares if you set a speed record.

17:20Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump's talking about Gavin Newsom and then somebody passes out. You can see for yourself. In an interview, in an interview.

17:36Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump tells the crowd, one day there's going to be someone other than me who's the president. and it's going to make you sad and they're going to be stupid. So what he's saying while America's at war, play this clip.

17:47Donald Trump:Because, you know, there'll be some day when you don't have me as president, you'll have perhaps, perhaps, perhaps you'll have a weak, pathetic person like we've had in the past, mostly all. Like Barack Hussein Obama, who signed one of the worst deals ever with Iran, where they were going to give up everything.

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18:14Ben Meiselas:And if this couldn't get any dumber, if this couldn't get any more idiotic, this couldn't get any more dangerous and literally right out of the movie Idiocracy, Donald Trump brings up Jake Paul on the stage and Jake Paul's like, yo, man, God says, keep it up, man. God says, do it. God, yeah, God and the flag, man. Here, play this clip. To bring that here to us, I know God is with us. I know he wants us on the right side of history. And everyone here has to do their part. And God's got us. Trump's got us. So that's what was going on in Kentucky. Then Donald Trump says that Gavin Newsom can't read.

18:54Ben Meiselas:And you don't want a president who's cognitively deficient. Maybe look in a mirror, Donald. Here, play this clip. Well, thank you very much.

19:03Donald Trump:We're talking about Gavin Newsom. doesn't seem like a very good subject right now it made that young lady not feel so good anyway he admitted he has mental problems that he's not a smart person that he is mental a mental lack of ability he's unable to read a speech he can't read and all of the other things he said, he said he has a lot of mental problems. And I was attacked by a reporter that said, well, what's wrong with that? I said, nothing's wrong with it. But I don't want the president of the United States to have a cognitive deficiency.

19:47Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump finishes this speech by saying why he's in Kentucky. And one of the main reasons is because Thomas Massey is running for Congress there. And Thomas Massey was one of the people who forced the release of the Epstein files. We're also learning about secret hush money payments from Trump accusers. Those payments being made by Epstein, by the way, to Epstein's estate, to someone who accused both Trump and Epstein hush money payments. So Donald Trump's there in Kentucky attacking Thomas Massey for exposing the Epstein files and saying that he's not loyal to the Republican Party because he exposed the Epstein files.

20:22Ben Meiselas:Here you go. The Wharton School of Finance. That means I'm real smart.

20:25Donald Trump:We've got to get rid of this loser. This guy is bad. He's disloyal to the Republican Party. He's disloyal to the people of Kentucky. And most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America. And he's got to be voted out of office as soon as possible.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous speech in Kentucky where had made some of the most dangerous and fabricated statements about his unlawful war against Iran.

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