Trump has 1 AM Meltdown as War Explodes Again!!!

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1:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was having a 1 a.m. meltdown as Iran responded with force after the United States struck a tanker that was trying to get past the U.S. blockade in the Persian Gulf. In addition, we saw massive escalation in Russia's war against Ukraine, Russia bombarding Kiev with ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, and drones. And then we saw Ukraine responding with strikes on St. Petersburg and critical oil depots throughout Russia. Donald Trump throughout all of this was making social media posts like this. Trump 007, and it's some weird photo of him as like James Bond. That's what he was posting at 1am.

2:16Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump posted photos of himself with Whitney Houston from like the late eighties, Whitney Houston and future president, Donald J. Trump. He then posted this image, the greatest attraction. And it's him giving a speech to his cult. He posted a weird image of Alfred E. Newman next to James Tallarico. And then they were also posting photos in the Oval Office. Not sure when the photos were taken of Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, governor abbott the lieutenant governor of texas all holding up photos of james tallarico like their little toddlers no offense to little toddlers but there's real real serious things taking place around the world and this is how donald trump is behaving this spiraling out of control at 1 a.m here's what we know took place so the u.s struck a ship attempting to run the blockade.

3:09Ben Meiselas:The IRGC responded by attacking a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. then bombed Kashem Island, and then the IRGC attacked Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq. Abraham Razay, an Iranian parliament leader, posted, Americans have shown that they understand the language of missiles better than the language of diplomats. Damn, the Navy and Aerospace Force kids of the IRGC are fired up. Here's more of what we learned. Iran launched massive ballistic and drone attacks striking the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, along with U.S. bases in Kuwait, Ali Al-Sam, Arifajan, and an oil tanker near Dubai in response to new U.S.

3:56Ben Meiselas:strikes on Kashem Island, and an Iranian oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, per Tasneem, which is Iran's state media. Iran says it has officially abandoned its tit-for-tat retaliation, now striking back at least 1.5 times as hard for every U.S. attack, with IRGC warning that, quote, disrupting the security of the Strait of Hormuz will have a heavy price for the invading U.S. military. So previously, during this fake ceasefire, the U.S. would strike an Iranian target, The Iranians would strike a similar target, and then they would kind of go back and forth. Now Iran's saying, we're not going to play these games anymore.

4:38Ben Meiselas:If you keep on violating the ceasefire, we are going to unleash a force that is multiples of what you are expecting, and we're going to show that we're fine going back to war. That's what you want to do, Donald. If you want to go back to war, you know, Marco Rubio said, we're not at war anymore. Just think about Rubio telegraphing the weakness there by saying, the war's over, it's all done. And Iran's like, you are doing this fake ceasefire where you have Israel invading Lebanon, where you're out there striking our targets. And we're just not going to play this game anymore. So we're going to strike air bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.

5:18Ben Meiselas:We're going to go after tankers that we know have a high degree of sensitivity to the United States. One of the tankers that they just struck in the latest salvo of these open hostilities was a tanker belonging to an oil magnate who's very close to Donald Trump. And they targeted that specific tanker on purpose, knowing that the owner had a close relationship with Donald Trump. And then the United States CENTCOM claims, oh, we were able to strike down all of the drones and ballistic missiles, and none of them reached their targets. but we actually have video footage again and we see what was actually going down.

5:57Ben Meiselas:We see footage of a Patriot interceptor that was also failing just after launching during the Iranian attack. And the Patriot interceptor, you'll see it's like going for the target, then it actually goes and it strikes an area over here in Kuwait. I'll just show you what this video looks like. Let's play it.

6:23Ben Meiselas:Iran released video of its drone and ballistic missile strikes to show what it looked like. I'll show you a quick video that they released. Let's play it.

6:37Ben Meiselas:And then I want to talk about what's going on in Kiev right now. 23 civilians killed, at least that number, sadly is likely going to rise. Remember, Donald Trump promised he was going to end the war, end Russia's war in Ukraine in less than 24 hours. Of course, that didn't happen. Hundreds of civilians in Kiev have been injured. This has been one of the most devastating attacks on Kiev since the war began, if not the most devastating attacks. I'll show you this new video over here from last night's large-scale Russian drone and missile attack against Ukraine, which killed all of these people. Russia was using some of its hypersonic cruise missiles as well to strike civilian targets in Kiev.

7:19Ben Meiselas:And while all of this very serious, serious stuff is happening, Donald Trump's out there posting reflecting pools and pictures of 007 and pictures with him and Whitney Houston. I mean, this is some deranged and demented stuff right here. I'll just, let me just show you some video footage so you can see firsthand what Kiev looked like last night. Here, play this clip.

7:54Ben Meiselas:more photos and more videos coming in from Kiev I'll show you another portion of that so you can see for yourself. Let's play it.

8:30Ben Meiselas:now i also want to show you what's going on in russia over here where you can seest petersburg which is over 500 miles from ukraine and you can see over here we'll just throw the b-roll up ukrainian one-way attack drones flying nearly unimpeded overst petersburg and they're striking these targets these oil depots and other critical infrastructure that's inst petersburg and russia show you another footage right here thest petersburg international economic forum in russia started as well and here's show you what it looks like over here let's just play this video footage so our viewers can see what's going on so you can see what's going on let's play it

9:32Ben Meiselas:Now I'll remind you that Marco Rubio said that there are no wars and everything's solved and everything's great and this is what he said uh during his testimony let's play it it's billions of dollars of reconstruction costs just to get to where they were Mr. Rubo, you keep telling us how we're winning this war. The president keeps saying, Well, the war is over now. Completely annihilated. The war is not over. And yet the American people see how we're losing at the pump and with their costs. And yet this thing still hasn't been resolved. Every day he tweets out, Oh, we've obliterated them. We've annihilated them.

10:03They're going to surrender. But yet we still find ourselves spending billions of dollars a week. Yeah, Senator Booker. You've gone way over it. It would be nice if we had hearings where people... Thank you, Senator Booker. Senator Scott.

10:14Ben Meiselas:Now, with all this, again, very, very serious developments happening, we obviously need to have the top people, right, working in homeland security, working at the CIA, working at the DNI, working at critical intelligence apparatus within the government. Well, here's something that we learned yesterday. The Trump administration has appointed Elias Irizarry, a convicted January 6 participant to a Pentagon counterterrorism role at the Defense Department requiring access to highly sensitive military information. Irizarry, who was 19 during the Capitol riot, pled guilty to a misdemeanor and served 14 days in jail before receiving a pardon for Donald Trump in 2025.

11:05Ben Meiselas:So this guy now gets access to our highly classified information. You also have Bill Pulte, you know, from yesterday I reported on this, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. He's a trust fund guy. He was put into this obscure agency position to be the director of Federal Housing Finance Agency and the chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie so he can go into people's mortgages and then help launch prosecutions against Donald Trump's political enemies by saying, oh, you're not paying your, you know, you misrepresented things on your mortgage statements.

11:41Ben Meiselas:Well, now he's going to get access to all of our most top secret and highly classified information. He has no experience in the intelligence community, no experience at all in the defense industry. And he's the type of guy who donald trump appointed and here's uh what senator thune uh had to say about that when he was asked about pulte let's play it do you think that bill pulte has the experience to be the active uh dni and same with you senator tom center cotton that the chairman of the intelligence committee is he the kind of person you want leading the intelligence community i'll defer to the chairman on that um we was made aware of made aware of that appointment this morning Obviously, it's something that if the administration decides to pursue a permanent appointment to that position, have to come through the Congress and have confirmation hearings and ultimately a vote here in the Senate.

12:36But Senator Cotton, you want to speak to that? We have four more weeks with Director Gabbard as the DNI, and I look forward to implementing last year's Intelligence Authorization Act with her to implement wide-ranging reforms that will shrink the DNI and take it back to its original intent to provide a mere coordinator or process role for the intelligence community. I have no observations on the matter.

13:01Ben Meiselas:And then also yesterday, the White House released this video. Again, while all of this was going on, they posted this video on TikTok implying that the UFC arena might be a permanent staple now, that they're going to keep this UFC arena in front of the White House. Why are they building this UFC arena? Come on here, play this clip. Never took it down. And, you know, we're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people. It's going to have the big UFC fight on June 14th. And I'm looking at it and maybe we'll never, ever take it down. and then finally um as reuters reported yesterday the cia i think smartly does not want to give any information to the dni they don't want to give anything to the office of director of national intelligence and they didn't trust tulsi gabbard they sure as hell don't trust bill poldy so you have the cia not giving its intelligence over to the director of national intelligence and the office of the director of national intelligence because they believe it's basically compromised at this point so that's what's going on in our in our government right now we'll keep you posted every step of the way of course as there are more developments happening but that's what trump's doing at 1am while all this is going on we'll keep you posted this morning hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers thanks for watching everybody love this video support independent media and unlock exclusive content, ad-free videos, and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today.

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