Trump Has Psychotic Meltdown as Red Sea Is Closed

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1:30Ben Meiselas:The Red Sea is effectively closed as the Houthis, aligned with Iran, have shut down the Bab al-Mandab Strait and they took out two Saudi Arabian tankers. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively shut down as the Iranian IRGC has effectively shut down the United States route in the southern area by Oman. And Iran struck another tanker yesterday. You have crude at now$95 a barrel. There was a dignified transfer in Dover, Delaware yesterday, and Donald Trump used that opportunity to falsely claim that the service members before they died said that they never wanted Iran to get a hold of a nuclear weapon, and Donald Trump refused to so much as even bow his head during the dignified transfer ceremony.

2:26Ben Meiselas:And what is Donald Trump doing at 12 a.m., at 12.30 a.m., while the Red Sea is now shut down as crude approaches$100 a barrel as the American people are suffering? What did this sicko psycho post last night? The following. He reposted an account, Republican Party News. Siren. Alert, everybody. The president of the United States wants to communicate something while the United States is in this catastrophic and unlawful war. And while wars have broken out across the world as a result of Donald Trump's weakness and his corruption and his pathetic behavior and his warmongering, what could he be posting?

3:08Ben Meiselas:Everybody, this is what he posted. Holy crap. Dana White says it best. Trump is the ultimate American badass of all time. I have never known a human being like him in my entire life. Fire emoji, American flag emoji. It's no wonder that even 37 % of his MAGA base is all that supports his catastrophic and unlawful war against Iran at this point. Trump has lost all support right now. And the polls show that he has never been less popular. the least popular in presidential history. So that's what he's posting at 1230 AM, what he's trying to conjure some sympathy for him. He's making that post from July 2024.

3:56Ben Meiselas:This says the New York Times is reporting, a military official told the Times that nearly a dozen troops were also wounded severely enough by Iranian missile and drone attacks in Jordan and other countries this month that they were flown to a US military hospital in Germany for treatment. Now, I'm glad last night the New York Times was finally getting around to report that. But as you know, beginning late last week, we were showing you these medevac planes. Remember the videos we were doing here, casualties being hidden. We were tracing the medevac planes that were taking off from the Middle East, and they were winding up in Germany where there are hospitals to treat our service members.

4:40Ben Meiselas:And we were talking about how there were obviously very serious injuries that were taking place. We've been showing you the satellite footage and a lot of the surveillance footage that shows the containerized barracks where our troops are hoarded by the Trump regime and not protected as the U.S. interceptors are really no longer working. And we've shown you those barracks being destroyed Remember the Trump regime officials, CENTCOM, which has become another clown show. Of course, the Department of Defense, which is even worse than another clown show. No offense to clown shows because some clown shows are actually interesting.

5:17Ben Meiselas:These are fascist loser clown shows, the ones I'm talking about. But to be very clear, they said these were only minor concussions. Minor concussions caused by ballistic missiles and Shahi drones. First off, minor concussions is kind of an internally contradictory statement. And no, these were very serious injuries, traumatic brain injuries and other very serious injuries taking place. I believe that the actual casualty number is in the thousands. I think we'll look back at this and say, obviously, it was somewhere in the multiple of thousands. And I believe the fatality number is higher than what they're saying.

5:58Ben Meiselas:The Trump regime is trying to also be like, well, if you were killed in Erbil, Iraq, that's not necessarily directly related to Epic Fury. And so I want to put a little asterisk right here. We'll come back to this video, of course. Donald Trump was in Dover, Delaware. Again, you can see all of our military leaders putting their head down as a sign of respect for those killed in action. Donald Trump was, again, lying about what they were saying and refused to so much as bow his head. But what he did do in Dover, Delaware, is post Trump orders. This was a post from Donald Trump. Trump orders CENTCOM to open the gates of hell after U.S.

6:43Ben Meiselas:troops killed. Launches strikes on around. Open the gates of hell. Well, after the 12th consecutive escalation night by the Trump regime attacking civilian areas in Iran, including an area in the Iran-Iraq border where there were hundreds of pilgrims right there who were traveling for religious reasons. And the Trump regime struck the pilgrimage at the border. And we had video of that that I showed yesterday. While you have the Trump regime striking more civilian infrastructure in Iran, Iran struck back as it said it was going to do. Iran struck a ship that was trying to go through the southern route in the Strait of Hormuz by Oman.

7:27Ben Meiselas:The Houthis obviously allied with Iran in the Red Sea. Shot two tankers, two Saudi Arabian tankers, and about six to eight other tankers turned around in the Bab el-Mondab. Great work, Donald Trump. Not only is the Strait of Hormuz shut down, but the Red Sea is now shut down. Also, three other tankers turned around in the Strait of Hormuz. But CENTCOM, which I said before, has become this utter clown show, posted that it is false. They wanted to do a fact check over at CENTCOM. Claimed today, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy claimed that it controls the exit and entry to the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that the international mariners can only use routes the IRGC prefers.

8:15Ben Meiselas:This is false fact. Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz, says CENTCOM. We all know it's very safe. These are some sick people at CENTCOM also. I used to have some hope. I mean, obviously not recently, but at least several months ago, OK, CENCOM will be normal, despite how horrible Trump and Hegsiv and this sick regime, this disgusting, vile regime. At least CENCOM will be normal. Nope. CENCOM. Fact. Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. The international waterway remains open for transit, regardless of IRGC threats and attacks. Commercial vessels continue to use the strait with U.S.

8:54Ben Meiselas:military support. Since early May, American forces have helped more than 900 ships transit the strait. In other words, sounds like a fabulous place to take a vacation through the Strait of Hormuz, according to CENTCOM. By the way, most of those ships did not use the southern route that the CENTCOM wants the ships to take by Oman. Most of those ships refer to the IRGC route. But in any event, what the CENTCOM numbers are actually reflecting, even if you accept them as true, even if you accept that all those ships went through the CENTCOM, southern route after the U.S. violated section five of the MOU, which said that Iran administers the straight of it.

9:36Ben Meiselas:Even if you said, you know, OK, it's it's open, everybody. Well, that averages about 11 ships per day, which is less than 10 percent of the pre-war volume. The art of the deal by their own numbers, which are inaccurate. The Trump regime is doing only 10 percent of what was taking place before. In other words, the arsonists want credit for not putting out the fire, but for like putting out a single little tiny flame while the fire rages and says, can I get a freaking participation trophy, right? I mean, this whole MAGA movement that's like, we're so against the woke participation trophies and all this BS.

10:20Ben Meiselas:Literally, Donald Trump wants a new participation trophy every day. I solved eight wars, everybody. I solved 10 wars. No, you've lit the world on fire and there are wars throughout the entire world right now. You take a look at some of the latest polling and people are absolutely livid at this disgusting thing, this disgusting creature in the Oval Office. Late night, Donald Trump may be trying to post polls showing Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister, now leading according to, what are they even citing? Calshi, according to Calshi. Okay. We know that Donald Trump's, the guy who runs Donald Trump's scripts, you know, he's got, he got busted, teleprompter, he got busted with the Calshi betting, by the way.

11:15Ben Meiselas:So Trump's posting Calshi late last night about Darlene Graham. Meanwhile, with the Fox polls, I'll do a whole other video on the Fox poll, but the latest Fox poll says that Democrats can better handle income inequality, 22 points. Healthcare, Democrats lead 21 points. Inflation, Democrats by 10 points. The economy, Democrats by nine points. Foreign policy, the Democrats by seven points. Republicans still hold an advantage of crime while government spending Democrats are up. And actually on immigration, Democrats are up by one point on the issue of immigration right now. Now, you have Democrats leading by a significant margin heading into the midterms.

11:59Ben Meiselas:The biggest lead of any party since Fox has been doing this poll since 1996. Well, why don't we hear from some of those Trump voters, see how happy they are right now. Here are some Trump voters, hat tip to Jen Psaki and the folks over at MSNOW for this one. take a listen to what these three-time Trump voters and others have to be saying. Play this clip.

12:45And now you're starting all over again. Has the war helped your life at all? No. For one thing, it causes me angst. It makes me angry. And as I said, I'm very disillusioned. My entire family is disillusioned. And we are and we're Trump supporters. But this is, to me, he's drawn a line in the sand. and that's how I feel. That's how we all feel.

13:18Ben Meiselas:What about Bill O 'Reilly? What did Bill O 'Reilly, Bill O 'Reilly's like, hey Donald, you need to take some time off, bud. Bud, take some time off. Take like a month and a half off. You are constantly hunching. You're hunching all the time, Donald. You can't speak in sentences and you are very dangerous and deranged. Take some time off, says Bill O 'Reilly. This is what Bill O 'Reilly says. Here, play this clip. right here. Final thought of the day. As you know, I've known the president 35 years and he's 80 years old right now. Okay. So that puts him, if I can do the math quickly, 45, maybe early 40s when I met him in New York City.

14:03Now I've noticed that he is hunching over a little bit and that's normal. You get older, every malady in the world is going to visit you. I can't even bore you with the stuff I got to deal with. And I was actually feeling sorry for myself the other day. I never do that. But I mean, this and that, blood tests, that. But I noticed the president was a little. So my advice to Donald Trump is to take the next month off if you can. Get into an environment where you like golf and relax a little bit. You got to deal with Iran. I understand that. Everybody understands. But you can do that on the phone and you can do that with your people coming.

14:55But need a breather. I need a breather and I'm going to build it into August. But he needs a breather much more than I do. OK, so we wish the best for not only President Trump, but all the presidents, even Bill Biden, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, always respected the office. I did. Always. If you're reconfronting the presidents, you know that.

15:22Ben Meiselas:Utterly deranged regime indeed. Now, we really got to be paying attention to the Bab al-Mandab Strait as well, because it's basically the main way that Saudi Arabia brings out its crude carriers. It's crude through these very large crude carriers, these VLCCs. It's how they get out there. Most of their, you know, their oil exports get out that way. And now the Houthis have shut that down. But, you know, Donald Trump also the art of the deal, the art of the deal. he has only maintained the security umbrella in the middle east for netanyahu they have the iron dome all the other arab nations are just getting absolutely ripped to shreds where the u.s military bases are by iran i guess the arab nations are finding out that they were actually the first line of defense for the real iron dome which was actually israel and that they were basically being thrown in there as the shield to guard Israel, which is something that Iran is pointing out as it knocks out these military bases and these Arab nations.

16:24Ben Meiselas:But when you do all these quid pro quos with Saudi Arabia and UAE, time to pay up there, Donald, time to pay up. So as Saudi Arabia's economy is now absolutely suffering as their tankers are getting hit, Donald Trump says, hey, MBS, you scratched my back. So we're going to allow you to do some nuclear enrichment. How about that. We'll give you the ability to get nuclear weapons. As I saw this account say, MAGA went enriching uranium. Iran, we want to enrich uranium. Donald Trump, no, no, you're a terrorist. You're fired. You're a terrorist. Saudi Arabia, we did 9-11 and we want to enrich uranium.

17:06Ben Meiselas:You want to give me money? Okay. Okay. You can do whatever you want there. Sure. Sure. Sure. I mean, it's just the most ridiculous thing. Oh, and the United Arab Emirates, Guess what they get? They get our classified semiconductor chips, which they'll just turn around and likely give to China. UAE bought a lot of Trump crypto, World Liberty Financial, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, putting lots of money in the Trump family pockets right there. Time to pay up, Donald. Again, with all of this going on, you've got these Trump regime top officials like Dan Scavino posting these videos of what the Oval Office looks like right now.

17:47Ben Meiselas:I mean, literally, the Oval Office literally looks like a dog that pissed on the same white mailbox over and over again. It's literally just like Donald Trump's, you know, freaking piss all over the Oval Office. Excuse the imagery, but it literally looks disgusting. And speaking of disgusting. Here's Donald Trump yesterday saying that, uh, he's calls it. We don't need no Hormuz street. Donald Trump says we don't need no Hormuz street. Here, let's play this clip of what he said. We don't need anything. We don't need the Hormuz street, but we do it because we have to do it because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

18:30It's very.

18:33Ben Meiselas:Also, Donald Trump referred to the catastrophic and unlawful war as a skirmish. He said that Iran, they're begging, they're begging me to make a deal. They want me, they want to do a deal. Deal, deal, deal, deal. I'm Donald Trump. I just say deal, deal, deal, deal. I do a deal, deal, deal, deal. Dude, shut the hell up with saying the freaking word deal, you loser. Deal makers don't go around. Deal. I did a deal. No, you're a loser. You've escalated this catastrophic war. Iran is picking off U.S. bases one by one right now. And then they upped the ante and now through the Houthis controlled the Red Sea, you idiot.

19:11Ben Meiselas:Crude's going up. America is suffering. And this is the stupid crap that you say in Georgia at some small gymnasium there. Anybody clapping for this, man. So utterly repulsive to me also. Here, play this clip. And the stock market has set. And that's with this skirmish we have going on i call it a skirmish this is with this skirmish we have with the islamic republic of iran and i call it that because let me tell you they're getting hit so hard and they want to make a deal but i say they're not ready to make a deal because every time they make a deal they want to change it and everything they're not ready They'll be ready very soon.

19:56And this is despite this, it's going on. The stock market has hit 73 all time highs since the election. Think of that.

20:04Ben Meiselas:Now, the Wall Street Journal also reporting the U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry in the Middle East right now. 150 medics have arrived in the regional medical center in Germany in recent days. I wonder why that is. Also, according to Politico, the White House is at maximum level of frustration right now. The only way to victory that he wants is completely and politically impossible. Politics of it? How about you stop killing our young men and women that you're putting in harm's way and having them be basically targets right there in your catastrophic and unlawful war? Let me leave us with this right here.

20:50Ben Meiselas:Here's what AOC said. You know, with all of this as background, you've got AOC saying, and now the Trump regime wants to like what, like label everybody communists? Like what, Bolsheviks and communists? What are you doing? And I think AOC has a pretty good perspective on all of this. Let's play this clip. Trump, Republicans continue. They will use the word communism over and over again. They'll say that don't call it democratic socialism. How do you see it? Do you think that the use of the word communism over and over again has been effective in terms of going up against the DSA? I mean, I think that so the administration has rather openly admitted that they are seeking to usher in a new McCarthyism for this era.

21:33Their only way in a time of deep unpopularity is to try to stoke fear and new conspiracies. And so they're trying to inject conversations about communism in order to scare people. But at the end of the day, the thing that's most important are the policies that we believe in. I believe in guaranteeing health care to every American. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in strong unions. And so, yeah, if a Republican wants to call a stronger union communist, they're more than welcome to do that. I'm not going to be deterred.

22:11Ben Meiselas:And as I listened to that clip of AOC, I also reflect on this headline. Don Jr.'s investment firm post a staggering 200 % return. The fledgling firm run by the president's oldest son and his partner, Omid Malik, has made investments in AI and defense technology that have tripled in value in just months. What a wizard. How did he do it? How did know? How did they possibly know how to make these investments? Had they know that the federal government was then going to fund a lot of these things and give them the content? Oh, geniuses, genius. Look, folks, in all seriousness though, WTF, eh? Pre-order WTF though right now.

22:58Ben Meiselas:I mean, we talk about all this at WTF. Pre-order it right now. Hit the QR code. It's helpful to pre-order right now before October. So it comes out in October, but do the pre-order now if you can. I want to, it is everything we've talked about together as a community, but you look at this in all seriousness, the American people are suffering right now, struggling, psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to have a paycheck. Gas is going to be$5 a gallon soon,$6 a gallon soon. He's really, he's destroying people's lives, This catastrophic war is disgusting. No one wants to be involved in this.

23:38Ben Meiselas:He's taken away health care to give trillions of dollars for missiles to blow up elementary schools and to kill little girls in Iran and to aid and abet genocide with Netanyahu in Israel and in Lebanon. It's disgusting. They're war criminals. They need to be tried in the Hague. Trump, Netanyahu, Hegseth, all of these war criminal genocidal maniacs. It's that simple. Don't mince words. call it out, be clear, moral clarity, and to see this freaking sicko, this disgusting piece of trash last night, 12.30 a.m., posting, holy crap, I've never known a human being like him in my entire life. Well, I've never met a human being so freaking disgusting, such a piece of trash, so harmful, such a cancer to the world, such a shit stain in the world, excuse my, just the worst scumbag imaginable.

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