Trump Has Psychotic Meltdown as Iran Refuses Demands

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5:05Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is panicking as the full consequences of his failed negotiations with Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan are setting in. As you are now aware, the Trump regime negotiators, J.D. Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, at Donald Trump's orders, tried to change the pre-approved negotiating framework that was based on a 10-point plan that Iran made Donald Trump agreed to before a ceasefire was announced. Donald Trump agreed to the 10-point plan, but then the Trump regime tried to bully and dictate the settlement terms at the Islamabad talks. Iran refused to accept those terms because Iran said, we agreed on the 10-point plan.

5:49Ben Meiselas:The negotiations fell apart after about 20 hours of purported negotiations. And now Donald Trump is posting that he will be doing a full United States naval blockade of the Persian Gulf, which he says he will block all tankers from every country from going into the Persian Gulf in order to bring back crude oil to their country. So Donald Trump's plan to open up the Strait of Hormuz is to further block the Strait of Hormuz right now by doing a blockade. Because as you may be aware, Iran is conducting bilateral discussions with countries across the world to allow allies or even neutral countries to use the Strait of Hormuz at a cost of about$2 million per tanker.

6:41Ben Meiselas:And some countries that are allied with Iran don't have to pay that fee. So, for example, China and Russia, they have access to the Strait of Hormuz. India, France, numerous other countries, Pakistan, other countries have been able to utilize the Strait of Hormuz by negotiating specific deals with Iran. And now Donald Trump saying any of those ships, we will interdict or we will what? We're going to attack those ships because the United States will be doing a full naval blockade of the Persian Gulf. Donald Trump posted the following message. So there you have it. The meeting went well. Most points were agreed to.

7:24Ben Meiselas:But the only point that really mattered, nuclear was not effective immediately. the united states navy the finest in the world will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter or leave the strait of hormuz at some point we will reach an all being allowed to go in all being allowed to go out basis but iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying there may be a mine out there somewhere that nobody knows about but them this is world extortion and leaders of countries, especially the United States, will never be extorted. The Trump regime says that as they were imposing extortionate terms on Iran after agreeing to Iran's 10-point negotiating framework and the bad faith that was exhibited in Islamabad by the United States.

8:13Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump is similar to what has happened before in late February and then back in June in negotiations with Iran. Donald Trump then posted another message that Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz. They knowingly failed to do so. This is causing anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and countries throughout the world. They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their navy and most of their mine droppers have been completely blown up. They may have done so, but what ship owner would want to take the chance? There is great dishonor and permanent harm to the reputation of Iran.

8:49Ben Meiselas:And then he goes on and just kind of rants and raves like a lunatic. And it's all projection. There's great dishonor right now to the reputation of the United States and other countries are now having bilateral discussions with Iran and what Donald Trump is, in essence, threatening a World War III, if you will, if you don't believe we're in one already. I mean, there was clearly a war involving the entire world. I don't want to get hyperbolic here, right? But there was a war involving pretty much all countries in the world And now Donald Trump is saying the United States is going to impose a full naval blockade of the Persian Gulf to not allow Iran to do any types of deals with other countries, whether that country is France or the European Union or India or China.

9:32Ben Meiselas:I mean, what's going to happen if a Chinese vessel shows up to enter the Strait of Hormuz? The naval blockade is going to attack the Chinese ships or the Russian ships or the Indian ships. Is that what the plan is? you have Iranian social media mocking this blockade concept. This is what they said. The new move from Trump against our country is so comical that we don't even have a meme for it, or we can't even find a meme for it. There's mocking Donald Trump and how pathetic he looks. Donald Trump then called into state regime media, which calls itself Fox. Maria Bartiroma, who was the host of the show that he called into, I mean, she was looking at him, frankly, like he was somebody who was like really suffering almost in like like hospice care and she was looking at him like oh my god this guy is really like just totally lost it and she says uh is this going to be enough the blockade is this going to be enough listen to what donald trump says here play this clip i got it ended because of paris which the supreme court was not nice to me about is this all going to be enough the blockade in the strait the opening up capacity in the united at stage four.

10:39Is this going to be enough to lower the price of oil and gas, sir? Well, it's going to be eventually it's going to be lower. No, it might not happen initially, but it's going to it's going to go down when this is all over. Look, the stock market, the Dow had 50 ,000. It was supposed to be in four or five years. They said it won't happen during his term, but it'll be maybe four or five years. It hit 50 ,000 in my first year. You know it better than anybody. You cover it better than anybody. The S &P,

11:08Ben Meiselas:It then she asks him, so do you believe that the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterms? Listen to what he says here. Play this clip. So do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections? I hope so. I mean, I think so. It could be. It could be the same or maybe a little bit higher, but it should be around the same. I think this won't be that much longer. They're wiped out. They're wiped out. And you don't get the, you don't get a fair shake. You don't get, you know, we need, we need a free and fair press in this country. And I don't even know why people would do that.

11:43Why would they say how wonderful they're doing militarily? They're doing so well. They're totally, the country is wiped out.

11:50Ben Meiselas:And then he said that I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump. My new plan, maybe I'll call the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Trump. I mean, this is what he's saying right now as he's threatened a Naval blockade. And by the way, senior officials say the blockade, they claim that the blockade is going to be taking place and that Navy is sending its assets and the United, CENTCOM will be sending assets to blockade it. But Trump's talking about also changing the name to the Gulf of Trump. Let's play this clip. I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump and I decided not to do it. I think maybe it was a wise, I think that one maybe wouldn't have worked out.

12:28I'm not so sure you'll have to tell me. But I was thinking about it's going to be called the Gulf of Trump. And then I said, you know, that's not going to play too well. I think you're you're you know, I'm kidding. You're being facetious. I know that you have a headline. But what about oil exporters?

12:45Ben Meiselas:So while Donald Trump has these kind of grandiose, you know, views of like, you know, and unlawful views, let's be very clear, war criminal views, let's be even clearer of changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Trump, we're now actually seeing video of what went down when Iran stopped two United States Navy destroyers yesterday while the negotiations were taking place in Islamabad, Pakistan with Iran. Remember, the Trump regime sent two Navy destroyers into the Persian Gulf, and they were going to try to send it through the Strait of Hormuz, and then CENTCOM posted, We just did a successful mission.

13:27Ben Meiselas:Our Navy destroyers went east and west through the Strait of Hormuz, and we were clearing all of the mines. And remember how we reported on the Midas Touch Network and Bloomberg reported and the Wall Street Journal reported? That didn't happen. What actually happened was quite embarrassing for the United States. I mean, yet another humiliation ritual. We sent our Navy destroyers to the Strait of Hormuz. The Iran Navy stopped it and said, we will fire upon you if you don't turn around. and the once very powerful United States Navy just turned itself around and did not go through the Strait of Hormuz, did not run any missions, yet CENTCOM, which once was CENTCOM, I mean, it had a ton of credibility, just lied and said that it's a successful mission.

14:10Ben Meiselas:Well, now there's video of what went down. Iranian television released footage from yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz where the naval forces, which yes, they still exist despite Donald Trump claiming they don't. The naval forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard warned a U.S. warship, stay away from the strait or we will be shooting and blowing you up. And then the U.S. ship turns around and goes the other way. And yes, Donald Trump and CENTCOM lied about what happened as we told you they were. Play this clip. Navy warship 121. This is Sephanavi Station. You must alter course and go back to the Indian Ocean immediately.

14:48If you don't obey my order, you will be targeted. Out. This is Coalition Warship 121. Engage in transit passage in accordance with international law. No challenge is attended to you. US Navy Warship transiting in the vicinity of Fujayi Airport and Oman Sea. This is Sepah Navy. This is Sepah Navy. Last warning, last warning, last warning. It was close to High Island 4. Attention all vessels, attention all vessels, attention all vessels in Omansee. This is Iranian Sephan Navy. If you see any warship in your vicinity, keep a distance more than 10 miles from them because I'm ready to open fire on them without any warning.

15:41Ben Meiselas:You also have Iranian social media continuing to mock the Trump regime. Their social media accounts are posting things like this. Every Gulf has a name, like the Gulf of Mexico and, of course, the Persian Gulf. Before Islamabad, we made clear, zero trust. We are ready for whatever comes next. And they show this photo, and it's Donald Trump with the shadow of Netanyahu in the Oval Office. True peace requires confronting the shadows governing the White House. And by the way, while the critical negotiations were taking place regarding the ceasefire in Islamabad, Pakistan, when Trump sent Whitcoff and J.D.

16:20Ben Meiselas:Vance and J.D. Vance, Whitcoff and Kushner to negotiate with the Iranians, what was Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump was at the UFC fight. I did a video this morning which showed that Dana White had to hold Donald Trump's hand because Trump's physically and mentally deteriorating so quickly. But then Donald Trump went up to one of the UFC fighters during the fight and said how handsome he was. Trump was hitting on the UFC fighter. I just want you to try to wrap your head around this. While the United States was in this critical negotiation and Trump sent these negotiators to act in bad faith in Islamabad, Pakistan.

16:59Ben Meiselas:Trump was at a UFC fight, like hitting on, like, does he want to like date the fighters? Like, you're so handsome. You're so good looking. Oh, you're so strong and muscular. Here, play this clip. Thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

17:24Ben Meiselas:I just had to show that to you because what is happening with our country? What has happened to him? This is absolute madness. And again, I don't care what political party you're with. This is madness. Okay, going back to Donald Trump's call to Maria Bartiroma, more talk about bombing Iran to the Stone Age. Let's play this clip. Well, but in one half of a day, they wouldn't have one bridge standing. They wouldn't have one electric generating plant standing and they're back in the stone ages i'd rather not do that but i do believe they're going to come to the table on this because nobody can be so stupid as to say that we want to have nuclear weapons and they have no cards they have no cards whatsoever so so if they do not give up that effort is that the plan will you further destruct iran Yeah, I will.

18:15If they don't give that plan up, yeah. I'm not in the future. What we want to do is we'll open up the strait. But the ships are coming up to the United States. Let's talk about that. I've been inviting everybody. It's pretty good. Let's talk about that, Mr. President.

18:28Ben Meiselas:By the way, I just find the coverage right now of what's taking place in Islamabad, Pakistan, the war coverage in general, I mean, by corporate media is just so bad. And it's been such an honor here at the Midas Touch Network to be able to report the truth of what's really happening and keeping you multiple steps ahead of everything so you knew about the 10-point negotiating framework weeks ago. Right? That wasn't a shock to you. That's how we have to follow the truth every single day by bringing the receipts. I just found this so interesting right here. You know, you have – this is the headline.

19:04Ben Meiselas:You ready? Trump says empty tankers heading to the U.S. to load up with oil and gas. Right. And Trump is saying that to one. He is clearly unfamiliar with the way oil markets work. And also he's trying to tell whatever remaining base he has that it's all good. Everyone's going to get their oil from the U.S. So we don't need the Strait of Hormuz is basically the point that Donald Trump is making. And so if you just look at the distribution of coverage here, like right wing media was all over this and they were reporting everybody, it's all good. Trump says the empty tankers are heading to the U.S.

19:42Ben Meiselas:to load up with oil and gas. Okay, but the way oil works, there's an international market. There's WTI and Brent crude. And what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz impacts prices across the world. And so this is just, you know, more propaganda being fed to kind of the right wing base to distract them from what's really happening and the dire consequences that are unfolding. And I just think sorting through a lot of this coverage that's out there, it can just be a nightmare sometime because depending on the outlets you're getting your information from, it's just an utter mess. You get different versions of events.

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21:36Ben Meiselas:It's one of the biggest discounts they've ever offered. If you want to support the channel and get a clearer understanding of the world, try out Ground News. Now, back to my reporting right here, Iran's parliament leader, MB Galabaf, recently posted the following message. Before the negotiations with the United States, I emphasized that we have the necessary good faith and will, but due to the experiences of two previous wars, we have no trust in the opposing side. My colleagues on the Iranian delegation, which was called the Manab 168, it was named after the elementary school that the Trump regime bombed and killed over 165 little girls, raised forward-looking initiatives.

22:18Ben Meiselas:But the opposing side, the United States, ultimately failed to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of negotiations. America has understood our logic and principles, and now it's time for it to decide whether it can earn our trust or not. We consider every mirror to be another method of authority, diplomacy alongside military struggle for upholding the rights of the Iranian nation, and we will not for a moment cease our efforts to consolidate the achievements of the 40 days of Iran's national defense. I'm also grateful for the efforts of our friendly, brotherly country, Pakistan, in facilitating the process of these negotiations, and I send my regards to the people of Pakistan.

23:03Ben Meiselas:Iran is a body with 90 million souls. From all the heroic people of Iran who, following the advice of the Supreme Leader and by taking to the streets, supported their children and sent us on our way with their blessings. For this, I am grateful. And to my colleagues in these intense 21-hour negotiations, I say, well done. God strengthen you. Long live and enduring be our dear Iran. So that's the message coming out of Iran right now. Contrast that to what Donald Trump continues to say. We're putting on a complete blockade, a complete blockade. Here, play this clip. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish with this blockade, sir.

23:42It's called all in and all out. There'll be a time when we'll have them all come in and all come out, but it won't be a percentage. It won't be a friend of yours, like a country that's your ally or a country that's your friend. It's all or nothing. And that won't be in too long a distance. No, we're just bringing the ships up. We got a lot of ships, so we're bringing them up. We think that numerous countries are going to be helping us with this also, but we're putting on a complete blockade. We're not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like and not people that they don't like or whatever it is.

24:16It's going to be all or none. And that's the way it is. And it'll be you. So you saw what we did with Venezuela. It'll be something very similar to that, but at a at a higher level. And Mr. President,

24:27Ben Meiselas:you say that there may be a Donald Trump saying, I'm going to wipe out Iran in one day. Let's play it.