Trump Has Catastrophic Wednesday as War Gets Worse

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4:17He went on to say, we'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating. So clearly the United States is going to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack. He says U.S. forces had just minutes to shoot down these incoming Iranian ballistic missiles.

4:32Ben Meiselas:Then this state regime media host says, yes, and Donald Trump repeatedly said, we're going to beat them. I'm going to beat them down. They still want to keep on talking, perhaps. So we may keep on talking, but I'm going to beat the F out of them. I'm going to beat the F out of them. Here, play this clip. In the Oval Great, in terms of possible talks with the Iranian regime, the president says we're going to let them keep talking. Remember, the Iranians came to President Trump after 13 straight days of U.S. bombing against Iran, asking to meet about the Strait of Hormuz and their broader nuclear ambitions.

5:07And those talks are taking place as we speak behind the scenes. And then this surprise attack launched against U.S. forces overnight. And again, President Trump telling Fox News we are going to beat the effing S out of them and that U.S. strikes will take place against Iran in response to the surprise attack overnight against U.S. forces in Jordan.

5:27Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says that he had a great conversation with Netanyahu yesterday and that Netanyahu agrees with him on everything. Netanyahu understands the plan. By the way, Netanyahu will be meeting with Hegseth today. More on what Hegseth was posting in just a moment. But here's what Donald Trump said right before Netanyahu is set to meet with Hexit. Let's play this clip. Regime. The president also talked about his meeting yesterday with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. He says it was a great meeting, adding he understands now. It appears that the relationship between President Trump and the Israeli prime minister is strengthening.

6:07And again, the president called that meeting in

6:09Ben Meiselas:the oval great in terms of and then more from the state regime media host who talks about his conversation with Donald Trump. And then he talks about how Iran struck the U.S. base in Jordan last night, which we reported first here on the Midas Touch Network. And should also be noted that the United States and Saudi Arabia struck Iranian militias in Iraq, killing about 25, 30 people. I'll get you the latest count in just a moment, but massive strikes on the Iranian militias in Iraq. Let's play this clip. We'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating. So clearly the United States is going to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack.

6:52He says U.S. forces had just minutes to shoot down these incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. The president says he has reviewed video of the shootdown and it was U.S. forces conducting this operation to defend that area.

7:04Ben Meiselas:He said it. And then this state regime media host says that Donald Trump said the Iran-backed militias in Iraq are a cancer on the world. So Trump says, I am considering powerfully additional warnings against the Iranian proxies after I beat the effing shit out of them. Again, this is how the president of the United States speaks. This is a complete and utter humiliation for us here in the United States. as Donald Trump continues to lie and claim he's doing deals with Iran while we have run out of our patriot interceptors, our THAAD interceptors. Here, let's play this clip. ... militias overnight.

7:43He says those strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government. He called these Iran-backed militias a cancer on the world and says he is considering additional warnings against Iranian proxies and their link to the Iranian regime. The president also talked about his meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Ben.

8:00Ben Meiselas:Now, I want to remind you as well of just what happened again yesterday. Iran launched strikes against a US base in Jordan, the same base that about a week ago, there were three US service members who were killed in action there. Remember, there was a fourth service member killed in action or who got killed in Erbil in Iraq. And then the United States and Saudi Arabia launched tax against Iranian interest in Iraq. This was after Saudi Arabia struck the Sanaa air base in Yemen, which the Houthis controlled. And then the Houthis struck those three refineries in Saudi Arabia, the three main refineries in Saudi Arabia and the pipeline connecting east and west of Saudi Arabia.

8:44Ben Meiselas:Share this with you right now, posted by Pete Hegseth's so-called Department of War, the Defense Department, here's what they posted that this task force embedded with the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Joint Base Pearl Harbor over a four-day period delivered over 20 custom AI agents to sailors, automating heavy cognitive birdings on the watch floor. Key achievements including collapsing a critical three-day operational reporting process into just one hour converting critical data into structured briefing slides i don't know did ai write that social media post too but the basic claim is that look even though things are not going good with this catastrophic war in iran we're building up our ai capabilities but here's the images that they showed that uh our service members were discussing apparently at this ai innovation training that was taking place.

9:44Ben Meiselas:Zoom in right here about what's on the screen. I need help building an agent to create a war I received. That's one of the prompts on the AI behind our service members right there. Motorcycle accident reports, FIFA free kick wall rules. That's the search history right there. Meanwhile, as I note at the outset, oil prices once again are surging up about 7 % to 10 % on the day. Inflation continues to surge, obviously, as America is in a very dire economic situation, a global economic catastrophe unleashed by Donald Trump's disastrous war, Trump's trade war against the world, the Dow Jones, all the major indices in the United States crashing today, doing horrible as a result of Donald Trump.

10:38Ben Meiselas:But most significantly, the American people are suffering right now. No one wants to be involved in these never-ending wars. And Netanyahu is meeting with Hegseth as we speak, talking about, as Donald Trump says, and again, the United States speaks like Nazis at this point. I mean, the language is horrific, is how Donald Trump speaks. We're going to blow the effing S out of them. We're going to blow the shit out of them. We're going to blow their bridges. We're going to blow their power plant. That's not how the United States should ever sound. That's how war criminals sound. And it's absolutely abhorrent to hear the commander in chief and leadership speak like that.

11:11Ben Meiselas:It's so absolutely disgusting in my opinion. The Popular Mobilization Forces, that's the Iranian-backed kind of militia groups that are embedded within the Iraqi army, reported a preliminary total of 20 killed and 32 wounded after the U.S.-Saudi strikes hit multiple PMF headquarters across Baghdad, Wasit, Nineveh, Basra, Kirkirk, Karbala, and Dialla. And of course, they've threatened that they will be retaliating against U.S. interests in the region there. The massive escalation right now is taking place. In other words, let me share with you some of the footage that we have as U.S. and Saudi Arabia launch these strikes against the PMF in Iraq.

12:00Ben Meiselas:And to be clear, the PMF is recognized within the Iraqi army. It's not like some hidden secret thing. And so this was also a kind of an attack on trying to create division between the Iranian army and kind of the Shiite factions within that army as well. Let me just show you this video right here.

12:32Ben Meiselas:we have more footage right here as well from some of these u.s and saudi arabian strikes here let's play it

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14:03Ben Meiselas:Remember to head to zbiotics.com slash Midas and use the code Midas at checkout for 15 % off. Here are some of the photos coming out of some of the PMF members who were killed by Saudi Arabia and the United States. Saudi Arabia came out with a statement shortly after saying, we don't want escalation. PMF made it very clear they're going to escalate. And between Houthis saying they're going to be escalating against Saudi Arabia, PMF escalating against Saudi Arabia, Trump saying, I'm going to blow the effing shit out of Iran. Iran saying, we control the Strait of Hormuz, Houthis today in Yemen, working with Iran now to do a tolling system in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, very similar to what Iran is doing in the Strait of Hormuz to control the Strait of Hormuz.

14:54Ben Meiselas:Iran saying, let's be very clear. We are never going to allow, ever, we will fight to the death before we allow the United States to use the southern route or anybody to use the southern route on the Strait of Hormuz closer to Oman without our permission and consent. It just ain't happening. We're creating a tolling system here, and we're going to work with the Houthis to create a tolling system in the Red Sea to chokehold the Bob El-Mondab Strait. Both the Strait of Hormuz and Bob El-Mondab are going to be locked down in tolling systems. We've been discussing this for a long time here on the Midas Touch Network.

15:28Ben Meiselas:That doesn't come as a shock or a surprise to you, but that's why I I still expect the price of oil to hit 125, 150. We're nowhere close to being out of this. It's Donald Trump back to when he was, you know, remember when COVID, it's going to go away in a day. It's going to get better. Easter, it's going to go away. Bend the curve. Things are amazing. Things are great. More on that in a moment, because apparently things are so bad right now in the United States. Our economy is crashing. There's this never ending war. People are suffering. It's actually never been worse right now for at least the recent modern history in the United States.

16:09Ben Meiselas:So now Trump and MAGA are talking about the pandemic as a way to distract from the catastrophic war and the catastrophic economy. So catastrophic war to cover up the Epstein files. Now we're going back to their conspiracies about the pandemic in order to cover up the catastrophic war, which is covering up the Epstein files. That's what con artists do. That's what scammers do. It is all this Russian nesting doll of lies and cons to try to distract everybody while they loot and pilfer and do things like you're seeing as well with Trump and Gianni Infantino and the Kushners who want to create that hold company to sell off the World Cup and sell off pieces to private equity.

16:55Ben Meiselas:You heard this, right? At a$40 billion valuation, and now they're trying to bribe local football federations. We'll give you access to$40 million in funds if you go along and bless our scheme to sell off the World Cup. They literally want to destroy everything that can bring joy by selling it to private equity and selling it to the right-wing oligarchs. That's what they want to do also while they create this absolute chaos. Now, one thing I'll note as well, and this goes back to our coverage of the Epstein files, right? One of the things that Epstein and Bannon and all these people in Epstein class in Trump's orbit wanted is create chaos, destroy kind of the global order, and then have the oligarchs while people are fumbling around and attacking each other, loot and pick people's pockets, you know, and ostensibly do things.

17:46Ben Meiselas:This wasn't in the files, but like turn FIFA World Cup into a private equity holdco and then sell it off so that they can get their greedy hands on freaking everything. And you know, they're getting their greedy hands on children's sports as well. Iran Fars, that's their state media, citing military sources saying, we're not giving up control over the Strait of Ramus. Meanwhile, Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of US CENTCOM, told the service member stationed in the Middle East, warn them, you're not allowed to take videos or photos of anything that's happening in these bases. The US already shut down satellite footage of the bases in the Middle East because we were able to see that Iran was destroying the US bases and equipment and radar systems and early detection warning systems and all of that.

18:36Ben Meiselas:And now you have Cooper saying, you got to stop posting the videos and stop sending videos home to your family about what's actually happening here because you're emboldening Iran. Really, by actually creating transparency that our service members are sitting targets and are getting killed and that CENTCOM and Hegseth and this despicable Trump regime is out there covering up the casualty numbers, you want to hide that even more? That's completely unacceptable. It is beyond distressing that we have a regime of war criminals right now in charge that's covering up the true casualty amounts right now.

19:15Ben Meiselas:I also reported earlier that China is providing multiple, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of those man-pad shoulder missiles that will be going to Iran as well, as this is becoming a full-fledged, not just regional war, but a war involving basically the entire world. Now, one of the things we talked about on the Midas Touch account this morning, Republicans want us to memory hole everything Trump did in 2020, while dragging us back into the same tire 2020 culture wars, Fauci, Wuhan, vaccines, communism, because now in 2026, they broke the country and they desperately need a distraction to reinvigorate their base.

19:59Ben Meiselas:It's like Vanilla Ice doing Ice Ice Baby on loop over and over and over again, which is an apt comparison because Trump has Vanilla Ice, the only person who's performing now at Mar-a-Lago doing Ice Ice Ice Baby. Things are so bad for Republicans right now that they're like, okay, but we all remember the pandemic, right? When things were good, like when thousands of people were dying every day. So the MAGA Republicans, I'll do a whole other video on this in a moment, bring in Dr. Fauci to testify today before the United States Senate. And their whole idea is to get him for perjury and then to prosecute Fauci.

20:36Ben Meiselas:That's their whole big push right here. And so Fauci just invoked the fifth the whole time, knowing that that's their plan. But let me show you what the MAGA Republicans were doing, what this whole thing was. While the American people are like, can you just make life more affordable for us? Can we stop these never-ending wars? Why are you bringing in Fauci? Why are you doing that? No, no. Who in 2026 seriously is like, we need Fauci. Yes, Fauci, Fauci. I'll tell you like Laura Ingraham, who's right behind him. And she acted like she was a kid. You not Laura Ingraham spent this hearing acting as almost though, like she was a victim of Fauci and that she was there like looking sad.

21:16Ben Meiselas:And she's like, I, this was weaponized against me. These people are the most pathetic losers. Imagine, call out these losers. These are freaking losers. You've got Senator Moreno to Dr. Fauci. He's like, here's what he goes, who the fuck do you think you are? Who the fuck do you think you, I mean, who are these people who talk? This is a MAGA Republican cross-examining Dr. Fauci, like cursing during this hearing so they could get brownie points with the monster creature thing in the Oval Office and get on state regime media. Fox here, play this clip. When that story broke, I said to myself, I cannot stand Ili on the side and watch this happen.

22:02Ben Meiselas:It was about six years ago today that I decided I'm going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run through the United States Senate. it. Here I am sitting in front of you six years later saying, who the fuck do you think you were for doing that? And then part of Moreno's questions is like, stand up right now. If you've been victimized by Dr. Fauci, you know, as though this is like the Trump regime covering up the Epstein files and re-traumatizing survivors. Right. And Laura Ingram stands up and she's like, me, I've been really the person who was complicit in a settlement for close to a billion dollars for defamation of character.

22:43Ben Meiselas:You are the victim, Laura Ingraham. Anyway, here, play this clip.

22:52Ben Meiselas:Dr. Frederick, can you just turn around and look at the people behind you?

22:57You're not willing to do that? Is that a question? It's not a question to your lawyers. It's not a question. It's a request. All you have to do is look up from your lawyers