Trump Has 12:30 AM Meltdown as Time Finally Runs Out

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3:11Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was up at 12.30 a.m. having a psychotic meltdown. He was making QAnon posts. He was making posts basically saying, James Comey's trying to kill me. James Comey's trying to kill me. Other reporting says he's running around the White House panicking and screaming that he's the most powerful person to ever live in the history of the world. And then earlier in the day, he attacked Germany and said he wants to remove American Air Force bases and American military presence from inside Germany. Let me just show you what went down with receipts. And when I say Donald Trump is making QAnon posts, and QAnon's an actual death cult, which says that Donald Trump is going to engage in public executions on Capitol Hill of his political opponents of the deep state.

4:08Ben Meiselas:That's what they mean when they say the storm is coming. That's a slogan of a literal death cult called QAnon. This is a post that Donald Trump made at 1230 a.m. in the morning, just a little bit earlier. Here was his post. The storm is coming. Nothing can stop what is coming. and you see right there, you zoom in right there, you see the letter Q. It's an actual QAnon post right there from a literal death cult. Then also at 1230 AM, Donald Trump posted a photo that purports to be the Strait of Hormuz and Donald Trump writes, Strait of Trump. He finds that very funny while he has a naval blockade in the Persian Gulf, while the world economy is suffering, while he is refusing to engage in good faith negotiations with Iran, and also has decided, at least for now, that he's not going to do a ground invasion, although that may change.

5:10Ben Meiselas:I'll get to that in a moment, and he's going to keep an indefinite naval blockade, which he said It is brilliant. It's pure brilliant. He finds this funny. He finds these memes to be humorous while gas prices are reaching record highs in the United States. People can't afford their rent. People are in foreclosure. Credit card delinquencies are at all-time highs. Student loan debt delinquencies at an all-time high. People can't afford groceries. He's doing straight of Trump memes. I mean, what a despicable human. And then last night, again, around 1230 a.m. rather in the morning, he goes, 86 is a mob term for kill him.

5:53Ben Meiselas:They say 86 him. 8647 means kill President Trump. James Comey, who was a dirty cop, one of the worst, knows this full well, eight miles out, six feet down. Didn't he also lie to the FBI about this? I think so. DJT. So what Trump is also saying there is that additional criminal charges should be brought against Comey for claiming he did not know what 8647 meant when he was speaking with the FBI when they were investigating him, when he took it down from his Instagram over a year ago and posted she shells that said 8647. One of the reasons that Donald Trump is posting that, in addition to being a psychotic maniac, is he realizes that the answer he gave Caitlin Collins in the Oval Office yesterday when he was asked, well, do you really think he was going to threaten you?

6:51Ben Meiselas:Did you really feel like your life was threatened? And Donald Trump's like, probably, I don't know. That alone will kill Donald Trump's case or will kill the case against James Comey because that already creates a reasonable doubt. I mean, there's so many reasons why this case is frivolous that that one shouldn't even be one we have to get to. But Donald Trump realizes that the case is over unless Donald Trump plays a pure victim. And he goes, they threatened my life. They threatened my life. So at 1230 a.m., he's literally playing the victim running around the White House right now. I mean, think about this pathetic image, but this is really what's happening right now.

7:27Ben Meiselas:You know, in 1230 a.m., he's running around typing. He's killing me. James Comey, the former FBI director, has no power. He was trying to kill me by posting seashells. How utterly pathetic. The whole Trump family, just a bunch of victims. Did you see his granddaughter Kai went on one of these right-wing podcasts with like, I don't know if it's Logan Paul or Jake Paul, whatever one of these people are who prop up the Trumps, right? And Kai Trump was on there and And she's like, you know, when people, they come up to me and they're like, your grandpa's terrible. And I'm like, but can you get to know me?

8:05Ben Meiselas:Can you get to know? We do know you. You're like selling your merch in front of the White House and in front of Air Force One and grifting off that whole MAGA grift machine is what's going on. Did you see this? Here, play that clip of Kai. Let's play it. I mean, hey, some people don't like me. I mean, 50 % of the world doesn't like me because of my last name. but like they don't actually know me so like I'm hoping if people actually give me a shot and like not look at like the last name then I won't have any ops but we'll see does that happen often are people screaming shit at you I've had one time I was out in public and someone literally walked up to me she's telling me that my grandma sucks I'm like well thank you so much for taking the time of your day to say that like great what do you want me to say to that like I was like okay The whole family.

8:52Ben Meiselas:By the way, Don Jr. now apparently is working with Bezos and Amazon to create a new season of The Apprentice. Exactly what we all were looking for, right? I mean, after Don Jr. launched his executive branch club and charged$500 ,000 for access to the executive branch after trying to sell drones during this catastrophic and unlawful war, all of your crypto schemes and all of this stuff. Now we're going back to The Apprentice with Bezos after Bezos paid all of this money to Melania for her horrible documentary. This is where we're going with all this while the American people are suffering. Great, Don Jr., another season of The Apprentice, by the way.

9:37Ben Meiselas:The Iranians are just mocking Donald Trump. Remember, while he was posting this psychotic meltdown 1230 a.m. this morning or night, the day before that at 4 a.m., he posted this image of himself with an AR-15 style rifle with this AI image of, I guess it's supposed to be Iran with, you know, all of this like flames in the background. And Donald Trump's like, no more Mr. Nice Guy. And it's like a weird AI meme of him. Iran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon, DJT. And the Iranian embassy is like, when you post at 4 a.m. in the middle of sleep, it doesn't get any better than this.

10:20Ben Meiselas:And then they write, other narratives arrive. When you eat too much at dinner, drift into a restless sleep, suddenly wake up and start writing, imagining the continuation of your dream. Folks, They are just mocking him over and over and over again. And it is quite embarrassing. Also, you have Iran's parliament leader, MB Galibov, saying, OK, Donald, three days have passed. Didn't you tell everybody that Iran was supposed to blow up? Because apparently your understanding of mechanical engineering is that the pipes were going to be so filled with oil it just blows up Iran. Like, yeah, that didn't happen.

10:59Ben Meiselas:What are you talking about? But as Donald Trump is making these psychotic posts saying, Comey's going to kill me, Comey's going to kill me, while you're posting this QAnon stuff, while you're posting all of these attacks on NATO, he's also calling Barack Ravid over and over again. Barack Ravid is Donald Trump's personal stenographer. He's one of Donald Trump's chief outside propagandists. Caroline Levitt is Trump's in-house propagandist, but Barack Ravid works for Axios. And when Trump wants to manipulate markets or just have somebody write exactly what Donald Trump says and filter it through something that's perceived as a credible news outlet, whether you believe that or not, with Axios, Barack Ravid's Trump's first go-to guy.

11:45Ben Meiselas:He's got a bunch of others, but Barack Ravid's his go-to guy. And so this was the scoop from last night from Barack Ravid. Trump is slated to receive a briefing on new plans for potential military action in Iran today from CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper. Two sources with knowledge told me why this is important. The briefing signals that Trump is seriously considering renewing the fight in Iran, whether to try to break the deadlock in negotiations or to deliver a final blow before the end of the war. Didn't you say, Barack Ravid, that I thought the war ended weeks ago? Weren't you the guy who posted that everything is open and everything is great and Iran agreed to give the nuclear material to Donald Trump and their excavators are going to work with ours to give the nuclear material?

12:39Ben Meiselas:Barack Ravid, I thought this war, I thought we win it, we obliterate. I thought we won it last June. Didn't you say midnight hammer, total obliteration, and all the nuclear stuff was, wait a minute, we're still, Barack Ravid, what do you mean you're telling me that you weren't telling me the truth? I mean, how utterly pathetic is this that with no sense of shame, this guy goes and writes that. Meanwhile, oil prices, as Iranian state media points out,$122 a barrel. That's the futures price. The spot price right now, if you're buying crude in the United States,$240,$250 right now. Why do you think gas prices are above, on a national average, above$430,$440, hitting$5?

13:30Ben Meiselas:I think we're$499 in most places. California, it's$6 a gallon. But the spot price, what people are actually buying oil for right now, Now, currently spot price, that's$240,$250 per barrel. The futures is$122 per barrel. Oh, and the bond market, oh my God, do you see the treasury yields right now? The 10-year, 20-year, 30-year, 2-year treasury yields are reaching numbers that are unsustainable right now. And it should also be noted, did you see this right here? as Derek Grossman points out. The Trump administration, you have a problem. Your good friend Pakistan appears to have just opened six overland links to Iran, helping the regime bypass your counter blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

14:28Ben Meiselas:This will help Iran continue to resist U.S. pressure. Islamabad double deals America again, according to Derek Grossman. But we always knew Pakistan was allied with Iran. I mean, they're very, they always been very close to each other. Pakistan gave Donald Trump crypto money early on. They told Donald Trump he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the war between India and Pakistan. But right now, I mean, it appears that Pakistan is helping Iran. I mean, you know, more so than the United States. And meanwhile, have you seen every night right now in Iran, the people are like partying there every night.

15:14Ben Meiselas:I mean, Donald Trump, remember Donald Trump and Netanyahu, they like hacked into Iranian TV the first night of the unlawful invasion. and they beam their faces as though the Iranian people were going to be like, Donald Netanyahu, thank you. We appreciate you. I mean, we do realize that you're enablers and causing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. You think the people of Iran are going to be like, this is what we want. I mean, the people were the opposite. But you've united people around the Ayatollah and around this regime. I mean, just take a look at the sites from the past night or so. Here, play this clip.

16:08Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, the senior Iranian official, Moshe Nraza, says, we will not tolerate a naval blockade. If the blockade continues, Iran will respond with force. You have other senior Iranian leaders saying, soon we'll reveal a weapon they deeply fear right on their doorstep. Hope it doesn't give them a heart attack. You've got lots of statements like that coming out of Iran also. One of the, you know, where you saw during the Hegsiv testimony that the undersecretary of defense, when he was asked, how expensive is this war? How much has it cost the United States? Remember his answer? I showed it on the video I did yesterday.

16:50Ben Meiselas:$25 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, but that is the lowball estimate. The$25 billion estimate that a top Pentagon official gave to lawmakers on Wednesday for the total cost to date of the Iran war is a lowball figure that does not include the cost of repairing extensive damage suffered by U.S. bases in the region. Probably closer to$100 billion would be my estimate, which is what I always thought it was going to be. But Donald Trump's, I don't want to hear Donald Trump's voice right now. Do you want to hear his voice right now? But he was in the Oval Office yesterday. He was like, the blockade is genius.

17:34Ben Meiselas:The way we open up the straight of Hormuz, we blockade the blockade. And then Iran, you cry uncle. As I said in the video yesterday, what are you like? You're giving Iran noogies? You're doing noogies? Cry uncle, cry uncle. Seriously, you think that's a coherent, Iran to cry uncle? Iran can figure out ways to deal with the storage of their oil. It's not going to blow up. They can utilize large other kind of ghost vessels that they have. They can try to move it as they may be doing right now, outbound through Pakistan. They have other ways of controlling the pressure. So I'm not really sure what the genius is here.

18:23Ben Meiselas:Iran could drag this out and literally do nothing probably for months and months and months and months, perhaps even longer right now, while this is an unsustainable situation. I mean, Americans are suffering for what? For Donald Trump's ego and Donald Trump's inability to make decisions and this two-week death loop. Oh, two weeks, I'll come back for two weeks. I got two weeks for you. Give me two weeks. Give me two weeks. I mean, you have that. And then you had Putin calling Donald Trump yesterday. We talked about this. And Putin and Trump spoke for 90 minutes. How did we learn about Putin and Trump speaking for 90 minutes?

19:05Ben Meiselas:Did Donald Trump and his regime announce, hey, I'm speaking with the mortal enemy of the United States who wants America wiped off the map? Did Donald Trump tell us no? We learned about it from Kirill Dmitriev. We learned about it from TASS, Russian regime media. And Russian media, they had a readout, not the U.S. media. No, Donald Trump didn't give a readout here in the United States. We learned about it from Russia's readout, where they say that Putin warned Donald Trump of catastrophic consequences if there's any further open hostilities like a ground invasion or further bombing of Iran by the United States and Israel.

19:50Ben Meiselas:Putin called Trump, warned him of catastrophic consequences and said, don't you dare do it. We learned about that from TASS, Russian media and Mars and Taznim and Iranian media. I mean, that's where that was learned. A few other data points I want to talk about as well. Number one, the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier, now departing from the region, the Middle East, to head back home. Over 300 days deployed, far surpassing the record, morale at an all-time low. Our courageous members of the Navy not being fed appropriately, literally losing massive amounts of weight because the Trump regime didn't bring enough food and I guess considers are troop suckers and losers.

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20:49Ben Meiselas:playing at Trump's Doral course in Miami today. And Donald Trump installed a gigantic 15 foot golden statue of himself right in the course to greet the golfers. And it's a 15 foot tall statue resembling, you know, like a gross statue, but like, you know, like Kim Jong-un has gold statues of him everywhere. This is what the Trump regime does. This is what Donald Trump does. He wants his face on the new US passports, on dollar bills, on the National Park card, and while this psychotic individual is running around making QAnon posts and posts of himself with AI, AR-15s, a really deranged human being.

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