Trump Haunted by His Own Past Warning as War Explodes!!!

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1:03Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's words and the words of people in his regime are back to haunt him and tear down and destroy his entire MAGA movement as he's now gone into this war with Iran, this potentially never-ending disastrous war. But Donald Trump's words from the past, the words of J.D. Vance from the past, the words of Tulsi Gabbard from the past, and others in this despicable regime, these despicable hypocrites, these words are coming back to haunt them. And I want to show you specifically what they were saying in the past and how it contradicts everything that they are saying right now. And so the first thing I want to show you right here is why don't we do this one?

1:54Ben Meiselas:Just a montage of clips of Donald Trump campaigning about how he's not going to start a war ever. He's the candidate of peace, he claimed. Here, play this clip.

2:05Donald Trump:I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. No more wars. No more disruptions, we will have prosperity and we will have peace. Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.

2:23Ben Meiselas:But then I could rewind even more and show you this clip from November 16th of 2011. Let's play it.

2:31Donald Trump:Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective.

2:39Ben Meiselas:Or how about I show you this clip from April 3rd, 2012. Play this clip.

3:09Donald Trump:unbeatable for about two months and then all of a sudden the world set in when he did when he attacked iraq and he went from very popular to not popular at all but i think that obama will start in some form of war with iran and i think that'll make him very popular for a short period of time so that'll make him hard to beat also what about i show you all of donald trump's social

3:31Ben Meiselas:media posts just a handful here but i could probably show you dozens more from 2011 2012 2013 and onward where Donald Trump says the following. Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly, not skilled. Another post. I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face. Another post. Barack Obama will attack Iran in order to get reelected. Another post. In order to get elected, Barack Obama will start a war with Iran. Another post, now that Obama's poll numbers are in a tailspin, watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran.

4:15Ben Meiselas:He is desperate. Another post, remember what I previously said? Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is. By the way, I could show you dozens more posts like this from Donald Trump, dozens more clips, but let's move on, shall we? How about J.D. Vance? We'll start more recent. How about June 22nd, 2025, when the Trump regime told everybody that the attacks on Iran then obliterated all of the uranium enrichment and that Iran can never get a nuclear weapon again? Mission accomplished. Total obliteration. Remember, they said this. J.D. Vance said, our view is that we don't want regime change.

5:01Ben Meiselas:That's not what we want. we're obliterating it. We don't want regime change. Here's what he said on June 22nd, 2025. Let's play this clip.

5:10Donald Trump:Our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change. We do not want to protract this or build this out any more than it's already been built out. We want to end their nuclear program. And then we want to talk to the Iranians about a long-term settlement here. We believe very strongly that there are two pathways. There's a pathway where Iran continues to fund terrorism, continues to try to build a nuclear program, attacks American troops. That's the bad pathway for Iran, and it will be met with overwhelming force. There's another pathway on the table here. There's a pathway where Iran integrates itself into the international community, stops funding terrorism, and stops trying to pursue a nuclear weapon.

5:50Donald Trump:This is a reset.

5:51Ben Meiselas:This is an opportunity for the Iranians to take the smart path. We certainly hope that they will. But let's rewind a little bit more. in order to get elected. What were some of the lies that J.D. Vance, what were some of the lies that he was telling? October 27th, 2024, he goes, our interests are not going to war with Iran. Let's play this clip. But America's interest is sometimes going to be distinct. Like sometimes we're going to have overlapping interests and sometimes we're going to have distinct interests. And our interest, I think very much is in not going to war with Iran, right? It would be huge distraction of resources.

6:28Ben Meiselas:It would be massively expensive to our country. How about Pete Hegseth, December 6, 2025? Fairly recent. He said the War Department will not be distracted by feckless nation building and regime change. Play this clip. The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism,

6:50Donald Trump:undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing and feckless nation building.

6:58Ben Meiselas:all right well what about tulsi gabbard the director of national intelligence her platform was like literally no war in iran she made videos when she was running for the presidency no war in iran that was like our main her main issue is that any full-fledged war in iran would be absolutely devastating it would destroy the united states that was but look all these maga people they're frauds. They're con artists. It's like what RFK Jr. He's like, I care about stopping all these pesticides in our food supply. Then Donald Trump's like, but what we're going to do is we're going to not just put the pesticide in our food supply.

7:37Ben Meiselas:We're going to promote pesticides more than anyone has promoted pesticides before. What do you think about that RFK Jr.? Oh, Donald, that's Maha. Ah, pesticides, let me snort it like I snorted cocaine when I was young. Let that off the toilet bowls. Let me snort that pesticide. That's what RFK Jr. said. That's not what I'm saying. That's what RFK Jr. said. Okay, back, sorry on that. Sorry about that. Tulsi Gabbard, Tulsi Gabbard. Back on May 17th, 2019, she says, a war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk. Here's what she said in 2019. Let's play it.

8:13Donald Trump:The high human cost of war. You know, these wars across the Middle East and Iraq, thousands of my brothers and sisters in uniform lost their lives, many more injured. And I also know the cost on the American people, you know, the trillions of dollars that we've spent since 9-11 alone on waging these wasteful regime change wars, how those wars have undermined our national security and how they have strengthened terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. So when we talk about a potential war with Iran, which is looking like we are walking very dangerously down that path, what I think is important for the American people to know is that a war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk.

8:57Donald Trump:The devastation and the cost would be far greater than anything we've ever experienced before.

9:02Ben Meiselas:How about what she said in 2020 on Fox? This was like her main issue. This is why she's such a fraud. All of these people are frauds and phonies, and they claim these, they care about these things so they can get into power. And then they do literally the exact thing they claim that they're against. Here, play this clip.

9:20Donald Trump:We've got to be clear eyed about the situation that we are in that inching closer, actually more than inching, speeding towards an all out war with Iran would make the wars that we've seen in Iraq and in Afghanistan look like a picnic. It will be far more costly in lives, American lives and American taxpayer dollars and all towards accomplishing what goal, what objective? I think that's really at the crux of this decision that President Trump made.

9:49Ben Meiselas:All right, now, just to show you how outrageous this is, this was Tulsi Gabbard's 2019 fundraising video and the title of her video, it's actually a good video. Like it is a boom, boom, boom, boom. Like, as someone who is the founder and who runs a news network, this is actually a pretty good video just in terms of the pacing and the clips. But here she is right here, and the video is called Trump's Path to War with Iran. And it starts off by her saying, we've got to stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran. She's Donald Trump's director of national intelligence. Watch this video, play this clip.

10:32Donald Trump:Here are the steps that Donald Trump has taken to create a war with Iran. First, he tore up the Iran nuclear agreement. I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Second, he has escalated crippling sanctions against Iran. The sanctions kicking in at midnight Sunday target Iran's oil exports, banking, and chipping, even though UN inspectors say Iran is still complying with the nuclear deal. The United States will pursue additional sanctions tougher than ever before. Third, he designated Iran's military as a terrorist organization. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the U.S.

11:10Donald Trump:is designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terror group.

11:14Ben Meiselas:Today, the United States is continuing to build its maximum pressure campaign against the Iranian regime. I'm announcing our intent to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its goods force, as a foreign terrorist organization.

11:25Donald Trump:With this terror designation, the U.S. can sanction pretty much anybody who talks to or deals with or has any business whatsoever with the IRGC. And fourth, he continues to deploy more and more U.S. troops to the region. Just moments ago, the Pentagon authorized an additional 1 ,000 American troops to the Middle East in response to growing concerns over Iran. The Trump administration announced yesterday that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a bomber task force are being sent to areas closer to Iran. Yes, there will indeed be hell to pay. Let my message today be very clear. We are watching and we will come after you.

11:59Donald Trump:We've got to stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran. I'm asking you to join me and support my legislation, the No More Presidential Wars Act. To qualify for the third presidential debate and make sure that our voices will be heard, I need at least 130 ,000 people to contribute to our campaign. So I'm humbly asking you for your support. please ask your family and your friends if they can send even just a dollar. They can click on the link or donate at Tulsi2020.com.

12:40Ben Meiselas:And by the way, it's not just that video. She then made another video in 2020 and the title of the video was called the US must not go to war with Iran. This was her main campaign video. US never Iran. The US must never go to war with Iran. Now she's behind the war with Iran. She's one of the main people supporting the war with Iran. What? And the video starts off, join me in sending a strong message to Donald Trump. The US must never go to war with Iran. Here, play this clip.

13:41Donald Trump:But he's on the brink of launching a very stupid and costly war with Iran. We have to stop President Trump from starting a war with Iran. The president is listening to his national security advisor, John Bolton, and other war hawks in his administration who have championed the war with Iraq in the past and who've been pushing for war with Iran for years. Our goal should be regime change in Iran. There is a viable opposition to the rule of the Ayatollahs. The only solution is to change the regime itself. Bolton and others lied to us about the war in Iraq. They said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that he was going to give them to Al Qaeda.

14:19Donald Trump:Now that war was devastating. Over 4 ,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniform were killed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed. Trillions of our taxpayer dollars wasted. And Al Qaeda and ISIS were strengthened. But to this day, John Bolton says that that disastrous war in Iraq was the right decision. I don't think there's any question that the decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein was the correct decision. So now we're being lied to again as Bolton and Trump push us closer and closer to a war with Iran that would prove far more costly and devastating than anything we experienced in Iraq.

14:52Donald Trump:It would result in far more American troops being killed and injured, cause great suffering for the Iranian people and others in the region. It would exacerbate the refugee crisis in Europe and risk direct U.S. conflict with Russia, conflict that could easily lead to nuclear war. So join me in sending a strong message to Donald Trump. The U.S. must not go to war with Iran.

15:18Ben Meiselas:By the way, this is the Midas Touch Network. We've got receipts everywhere. And hat tip, by the way, to Home of the Brave. They do a great job aggregating as well. So here's what Donald Trump said in 2012 on Iran. Play this clip.

15:29Donald Trump:And at some point, there's no question, as sure as you're sitting here, unless something else happens first, like somebody wanting to get elected. And the only way he's going to do it is to start a war with Iran, because I tell you what, if Iran isn't negotiating now, they got to be crazy because they are sitting. And I said this the other day, they are sitting on hot timber. They are really crazy if they're not negotiating. And by the way, they do, in my opinion, want to negotiate. But we may have somebody that wants to have war because he doesn't want to accept a negotiation, which could turn out to be much stronger than war, and you could make a much better deal than war.

16:09Donald Trump:But it may be good politics. So I actually blogged the other day. I love this Twittering and tweeting. I love it because, you know, I'm bigger than the New York Times. I got millions of people. I like it's like I own the New York Times. It's crazy. It's crazy.

16:27Donald Trump:That's called the new age. You know, I always want to own a newspaper. Now I own a newspaper and it didn't cost me anything. It's unbelievable.

16:35Donald Trump:So I did say, though, that I predict there's a very good chance that we'll end up in a war with Iran because I think it's politically possibly a positive for Obama, even though it's not a good thing for our country.

16:49Ben Meiselas:Here's what Donald Trump said in 2011 on Iran. Here, play this clip.

16:53Donald Trump:I can tell you that right now. But you know, you can use that military. They are in big trouble. You know, Saddam Hussein totally outplayed his hand. He overplayed his hand. Gaddafi overplayed his hand. They see that in Iran. And you know what? It's going to happen to them unless they come to the table. And if you had the right leader, they would you would have them at the table right now without having to waste lives and billions and billions of dollars. All right. So assume that we we did have them at the table. What in the world do you think it is that we could offer them to persuade them, to convince them, to scare them or whatever it is for Iran to step down on a nuclear weapon development?