Trump has Disaster Sunday as All Plans Collapse

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1:14Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is in full panic mode as his escalation of the catastrophic war in Iran has backfired. Iran has demonstrated it is capable of hitting U.S. air bases hard in the Middle East. So now Donald Trump has finally surfaced. I mean, he made a post this morning praising the U.K. for potentially drilling off of its coast. But then Donald Trump sent out his proxies, like Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to claim that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz. and that if Iran begs for a deal, maybe the U.S. may come back to the table. But as of right now, the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump regime is saying, and the U.S.

2:01Ben Meiselas:is directing traffic. I mean, all of this cosplay deranged stuff from the Trump regime is so utterly humiliating. But here's what Trump's energy secretary says. Here, let's play this clip right here. President Trump wants to end it with a peaceful agreement with Iran, but it takes two parties to do that. If they're ready to do that, that's the way it'll end. If not, we will continue to assure flow of traffic through the strait without Iran's cooperation. Now, in the real world, the U.S. embassy in Jordan has just warned that due to credible threats, the Akaba International Airport and seaport in Jordan has now been fully evacuated as the U.S.

2:46Ben Meiselas:has turned that international airport into a military base as Iran has successfully hit other bases in Jordan, which also resulted in numerous casualties, including at least two deaths of U.S. service members, although we believe that number is much higher. Then on state regime media this morning, Maria Bartiroma had on MAGA Republican Congress members and MAGA Republican advisors. I mean, here you have Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security advisor on Bartiroma. And Maria Bartiroma is like, I'm getting a little confused right here. We've obliterated the Iranian army, but they're hitting all of these bases really hard in Jordan.

3:31Ben Meiselas:They're even hitting Saudi Arabia. They're hitting Bahrain. They're hitting all the Kuwait. What's going on here? What's going on? Have you maybe thought that Donald Trump's a liar and that we didn't obliterate Iran's military and that Trump has lied about everything his entire life? Like we don't control the Strait of Hormuz and we've hit strategic petroleum reserve tank bottom. Here's what Maria Bartiroma and her MAGA guest has to say. Play this clip. You know, CENTCOM says that there will be outsized action in retaliation, but I don't understand how it's possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and U.S.

4:18military bases because the U.S. has obliterated Iran's military and the president continues to reiterate that. Yes. And if you look at the numbers of missiles that they've been able to fire off from the beginning of this war, you know, late February, early March, and what they're able to do now, it is very seriously degraded. They've gone from over a hundred.

4:41Ben Meiselas:You know, when you have all of these MAGA commentators this morning and MAGA social media influencers like Matt Von Swal saying, I'm confused. The USA has the most powerful military on earth. We've bombed the hell out of Iran for four months. Trump says their Air Force, Navy, and nearly all of their missile capabilities are destroyed. So how is Iran capable of hitting U.S. bases right now? Because Trump lies about everything. Speaking of, Energy Secretary Wright on ABC this week said, you know, we did actually win the war in the first four to six weeks. Then we did negotiations. Then we did a pivot.

5:27Ben Meiselas:And so that's what's really going on right now. But when I said that we were going to end this in a few days or we needed four to six weeks, we did. Then we did negotiations. We wanted to give peace a chance in the United States. That's what we wanted to do. And then we did a pivot. Here, let's play this clip. You were on the show back in March and I want to play something of what you said about how long this war would last. I think that this conflict will certainly come to the end in the next few weeks, could be sooner than that. So you said it would certainly come to an end within a few weeks.

6:03We are now nearly five months into this war. How does it end? When does it end? Well, the plan, we needed four to six weeks for military actions. They went for five and a half weeks. We did a pause to try to get an agreement with the Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it.

6:26Ben Meiselas:They've proven unwilling to do that. But Energy Secretary Wright wants everybody to know that gasoline prices today are actually much cheaper than former President Biden. And everybody's thriving right now. That's what he wants everybody to know. Here play this clip. As well supplied as we can. Gasoline prices today are more than a dollar a gallon cheaper than they were four years ago under the Biden administration. And we'll do everything. Also, Donald Trump called into News Nation. And Donald Trump said that any, he said, I couldn't care less. Thank you very much when it comes to whether or not the MOU exists.

7:08Ben Meiselas:Trump says, I don't really care if the MOU exists. the thing you cared about so much, you held it up in Versailles. He goes, I don't care about that memorandum of understanding anymore. And he goes, the good thing about those service members dying in Jordan, they did it for the love of the country. And they did it sacrificing to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon. Okay. You said you obliterated their nuclear arsenal in June of 2025. You've done nothing. What in the world are you talking about here? Play this clip. Xavier, that's right. We called him to get his reaction on these troops who were killed in action.

7:51The president telling me over the phone that it's very sad. He said it's a very sad thing. We hate to see it happen. He says they were in service of our country and they, every one of them will never allow, they'll fight to the death, never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And that last part, of course, is something we've repeatedly heard President Trump cite as the driving force for this war with Iran. So I thought that was notable. And I also had a quick second to ask the president about Iranian leaders who said today they are no longer following the memorandum of understanding. I asked him his reaction to that and he said, I couldn't care less.

8:32And it was really just a brief phone call, but certainly some noteworthy reactions from President Trump.

8:37Ben Meiselas:Now, with all of this as background this morning as well, Israeli forces entered not just, we've talked about Lebanon before, we obviously talked about Gaza and the West Bank, but you do know that Israel's in Syria as well, in areas of Syria. Israeli forces enter the village of Al-Samandaya, Al-Sharaqia, in Syria's Quinitrio province with five military vehicles. They set up a temporary checkpoint there, searching civilians in Syria. Also filed a mortar round in a smokeshell nearby. No reported casualties. Syria condemned the operations as part of ongoing Israeli incursions into southern Syria and called for a full Israeli withdrawal.

9:21Ben Meiselas:And while you have the Trump regime proxies, again, pretending that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz and is controlling the traffic, we have senior Iranian officials like senior Iranian member of parliament, Azizi, saying the following. if u.s troops truly understood what our wise supreme leader meant by unforgettable lessons they wouldn't waste a single second fleeing also the irgc navy reporting that this morning four ships four tankers in the strait of hormuz ignored warnings from the irgc trying to leave the strait of hormuz via the unauthorized u.s designated route according to the irgc two of them were struck and disabled, while two others turned back.

10:09Ben Meiselas:The IRGC announced that their air defense system also shot down yet another MQ-9 Reaper drone a few moments ago over Avaz. Now, if you're saying that seems like deja vu, don't you report like another MQ-9 Reaper being shot down every day? Yeah. Iran's been shooting down multiple MQ-9 Reapers every day. The low estimate, they've destroyed 30 of these MQ-9 Reaper drones. Maybe it's more like 50 billions of dollars in drones that were destroyed. Iran also destroyed helicopters at these bases in Jordan and the other bases as well. They've destroyed drones at some of these other bases. Just probably within the past eight days of this massive U.S.

10:51Ben Meiselas:escalation, Iran has done tens of billions of more dollars in damages. And so the U.S. has had to move like all of its like a lot of its aircraft now into Israel, into Ben Gurion Airport there and others, because that's just the one area as of now that Iran has really not struck. And Iran strategically not hitting it yet because Iran sees that they have the Golden Dome there and that they're more heavily protected and Iran's by the U.S. And so while the U.S. is more heavily protecting Israel and its Israel interests, you know, all those countries that did the quid pro quo deals with Donald Trump and thought that they were getting this security umbrella, the Arab nations, Iran sees the vulnerabilities there.

11:32Ben Meiselas:So Iran's strategy is also, I think, showing these Arab nations, look, you believe you paid all this money for the U.S. security umbrella. Look what they're doing. They're protecting Israel right now. And so you're left vulnerable, but you still have bases there. And as long as you have U.S. bases there, we're going to strike your countries. And the interceptors are not really working that effectively in these Arab nations that are now being hit by Iran, like Jordan and Kuwait and others in response to the U.S. strikes. Or the munitions have just run out at this point. And by the way, if you're like, well, Ben, you know, why do you just do you know that Iran?

12:11Ben Meiselas:Are they giving accurate information? I know that they put out a lot of propaganda. I'm not just spitting out what they say. But when their satellite image, and you can confirm it and geolocate it in other areas, we've been right about a lot of this stuff by looking at the geolocations. Can they make a statement? Let's geotarget it. Let's see what's going on. So Iran released the video of another MQ-9 Reaper. Then they show the Reaper that was destroyed. Here, let me just show you this clip. Let's play it.

12:51Ben Meiselas:But on state regime media, one of their big issues while all of this is going on is Mayor Mamdani. Will he babysit your kids? And Mayor Mamdani wants to do a parents' night out. And now they want to have your kids go with strangers. This is how state regime media is trying to kind of fear monger and distract from the fact that Donald Trump is literally looting and pillaging and destroying. this country every single day. Here play this clip. Let's start off in New York City where Mayor Zoran Mamdani wants to babysit your kids. Next month, the city's parks department is set to host a parents' night out where New Yorkers can drop off their kids at a city rec center for free babysitting.

13:36What could possibly go wrong? Joining us now with reaction, Fox News contributor Joe Concha. I'm assuming from that look on your face, you're not going to be dropping your kids off with Zoran Mamdani. No, Charlie, you've met my kids. I mean, would you trust your child or children with a total stranger? I mean, what the fresh hell is this? Hey, honey, let's go bowling tonight and leave the kids with commie kindergarten. I mean...

14:04Ben Meiselas:By the way, it's why it's important that we have a good media diet that we understand that we need to get objective damn facts in our reporting. It's why I use Ground News because I want to study what the right is reporting on, what the left is reporting on, what the so-called center is reporting on, that I want to go to the original sources. And I do an exhaustive analysis every morning before I record these videos. So you take a look at this story right here. U.S. forces redirect five commercial vessels, disable one after resumption of naval blockade on Iran. So this is a big story that was covered by right-wing media, and it's intended to be like, look, the U.S.

14:51Ben Meiselas:is controlling the Strait of Hormuz when we know that that's not actually what's happening. It's getting no coverage on the left. The center's only covering it just a little bit, but this is getting massive right-wing coverage right here. And so you can see how right-wing media is flooding the zone with this idea that the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz, that the U.S. is winning this war, that Iran is begging for a deal, which is totally false and fraudulent. And then you hear Maria Bartiromo say, what's going on? We obliterate them. We didn't obliterate them. The U.S. lost the war to Iran originally and lost the war badly.

15:27Ben Meiselas:Iran did not have its weapons obliterated. Iran has probably increased its ballistic capabilities and increased, definitely increased its drone capabilities and adapted its tactics since the, since winning the last war against the United States. And that's why Iran is in this position where Trump has escalated. And not only has Iran not submitted or surrendered, but Iran has hit back much stronger than before and much more tactically. And if we just assess the objective In fact, we would have known that that would be the case and that bombing Iran more is not going to make them want to do a deal at all.

16:06Ben Meiselas:It's going to make them totally have no desire to ever do the MOU ever again, and it'll cause global catastrophe. And that's what's happening right now. By the way, it's why I partner with Ground News on these videos. They're the best tool for me to stay objective with my reporting. It's an app and a website, Ground News, that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them by story and shows you how's the left, how's the center, how's the right framing stories differently. For every story, it has a color-coded layout. It makes it easy for me to see political bias so you can compare reporting from the same issue in one place and come to your own conclusion.

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17:20Ben Meiselas:Now, going back to this video, I mean, you have James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, just admitting that they're not doing any oversight at all. And he said, look, we're going on vacation in a few days anyway. We're going to take our vacation and we're about to leave. So we've got a few more days to do things, but then we're heading out. Really? Just going to head out. No investigation, no anything. This just shows you further their cover-up of the Epstein files. Play this clip. I agree with Tillis. This is the last week. This is the last week for a number of reasons. Because we're heading into the August work period where Congress is not in session.

18:00And we're heading into the November elections. So this has to happen this week. I want to remind everyone, we have passed this bill in the House. It's now up to the Senate. I've spoken with Speaker Johnson. He is communicating with leader Thune on trying to get this. This is a priority. We keep passing bills and attaching the SAVE Act in the House. So hopefully it'll get done this week. And I've got my.

18:23Ben Meiselas:And what do they want to do? Not any work in the House of Representatives. Instead, they want to go out there in the country and do what Mag and Mike was doing today. Fear monger say, you know, the Marxist and the communist and the socialist. They promise you all of this free stuff. They promise you all of this and then they kill you. Yeah, you're describing Donald Trump. And you know the biggest tell, you know, when Donald Trump says that he would be the best communist, he'd go, I'd make the best communist because I just promise everybody free things. Then I wouldn't deliver and I would destroy their lives.

18:59Ben Meiselas:I'd be like Lenin. Yeah, you're describing Donald Trump. That's Donald Trump. and Donald Trump has a communism for the oligarchs. And that's often how it does kind of spiral. And that's what we're seeing happen. Here's what Maggie Mike's saying, though. Play this clip. You see, Marxism, communism, socialism begin with the premise that there is no God. And there's a whole different set of implications that follow that. Because if there is no God, it means all that thing about everybody having an estimate of the dignity and value doesn't apply anymore, right? In fact, you don't have any individual dignity or liberty or value that's inherent.

19:37You're just another social animal. You're just part of the herd. By the way, that is the basis of socialism. OK, you know what happens to the to the social animals in the herd? They got to be directed, controlled, corralled. They may provide for them a little bit, give them some free stuff, but they're certainly going to take away their freedom. And ultimately, it leads to death.

19:57Ben Meiselas:More from MAGA Mike here. And this is the message right now heading into the midterms from the MAGA Republicans. They don't deliver on affordability. Everybody's life is worse off except the right wing oligarchs. Things are far less affordable right now. People can't afford homes. Health care has been ripped away. Data centers in their neighborhood while Trump and his oligarch script. And this is their message played. And this idea of socialism, it's a Marxist idea. Marxism has led to the murder of tens of millions of innocent people in the 20th century alone It is a trail to death and I'm here to tell you it's wrong because it begins with the wrong premise You cannot reject the founding ideal the creed of America and be able to defend your freedom Those are those are mutually exclusive pursuits, you know, and it's fascinating though to see some former MAGA podcasters or or libertarians, or people who seem to be more sympathetic to Trump and MAGA, I'll say.

20:57Ben Meiselas:Like Tim Dillon. Here's what Tim Dillon had to recently say on his latest podcast. Let's play it. They're in the White House. They have the Congress. They have the Senate. They have the Supreme Court. It is them. It is now them. I don't want to hear about the deep state anymore. And notably, you had former President Obama just making a podcast appearance, and here's what he had to say recently. Let's play it. One of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that we the people means a certain kind of people. That when you have the current vice president making a speech that is basically a blood and soil version of we the people.

21:51that, you know, it matters who your parents were and how long they've been here, despite him being married to an immigrant, a daughter of an immigrant himself. You know, that echoes then ideas about who can be a citizen, who belongs, who gets to make decisions. The example you gave is actually a lovely illustration of this. 100 years ago, a vice president could not stand up and make a nativist argument if he was married to the daughter of an Indian immigrant. But today he can. So we move from malice to hypocrisy. That's progress. It is progress. That is progress. Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

22:37us because because it means that you you feel guilty enough to either lie to yourself or others yeah and yeah that is better than not even being able to even thinking about the idea that maybe

23:00Ben Meiselas:you're doing something wrong yeah and then finally hunter biden's been uh making his rounds and here's what Hunter says. Although I will say the right wing oligarchy is certainly the, I think, one of the biggest dangers out there. But here's a point that Hunter makes. Here, play it. I believe that the biggest problem in America is in Washington, D.C., with the federal government, is not the oligarchy. Closet cases. It's the closetocracy, as I call it. It is. And I'm being totally serious. Everybody knows There is like this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C., and everybody knows every single one of them who's gay.

23:49And what I believe, the only reason that that is relevant is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world. And they do. And so what they do is their whole lives, they've been closeted. And so you have this like black ball inside yourself, this like blackened heart by the fact that you can't be who you want to be. And so you take it out on everybody else. And these men, largely men, have done exactly that. And everybody knows who they are. Everybody. Yeah.

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