In short
The episode argues that Donald Trump is “panicking” and being ignored internationally over Iran policy. It claims China instructed refineries to ignore U.S. sanctions to buy Iranian oil, citing China’s commerce ministry and Reuters. It also alleges an Iranian tanker (UJ) evaded a U.S. naval blockade, went AIS-dark, loaded Iranian crew, and reached the Far East via Indonesia/Sri Lanka. The show claims Zelensky is preparing for less/no U.S. involvement. It says Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius and chancellor Friedrich Merz won’t care about U.S. troop withdrawals and are building a European army. It highlights Trump’s “friendly blockade” and “deal” claims, plus alleged contradictions about War Powers Act.
Notable examples
Trump flying to Doral on Air Force One, Spirit Airlines bankruptcy blamed on Iran-driven jet fuel spikes, and MAGA influencer Craig Long’s arrest in a Florida human-trafficking/prostitution sting.
Guests
none named as interview guests; the episode references editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski and Axios reporter Barak Ravid, plus public figures (Zelensky, Pistorius, Merz, Sununu, Fernando Mendoza, Craig Long).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Global Isolation
2:20 to 3:22
Discussion on Donald Trump's current standing in the world and reactions from various countries.
“Welcome to Reality TV with Hulu on Disney +, featuring the hottest reality TV every day.”
China's Defiance of US Sanctions
3:22 to 4:30
Analysis of China's actions regarding Iranian oil sanctions and U.S. responses.
“Take a look at what China is doing, what Ukraine is doing, what Germany is doing, what Iran is doing.”
Iran's Oil and U.S. Navy Blockade
4:30 to 5:49
A look into Iran's evasion of U.S. naval blockades and Trump's ineffective policies.
“blockade and reached the Far East per tanker trackers with China as its final destination.”
Trump's Negotiation Failures
5:49 to 7:08
Critique of Trump's negotiation strategies and his recent statements regarding Iran.
“taxpayer dime to watch nobody show up at your Doral golf tournament, the PGA tournament at Doral, for real.”
Military Strategy and Reports
7:08 to 9:29
Discussion about Trump's military strategy and his communication with NATO and Russia.
“I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.”
Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy Context
9:29 to 10:32
Examination of the factors leading to Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy and Trump's role.
“cooperation between the United States and Russia.”
Cultural Shift and Trump's Public Image
10:32 to 12:40
Analysis of Trump's declining public image and cultural relevance in America.
“And then like everybody in the Trump regime is like blaming Biden from 2024.”
Iran's Proposal and Trump's Response
12:40 to 14:01
Discussion on Iran's proposals to the U.S. and Trump's dismissive reactions.
“Just look at what it physically looks like.”
Iran Negotiations and Trump's Contradictions
14:01 to 16:28
Explore Donald Trump's conflicting statements regarding Iran negotiations and his involvement.
“But Donald Trump says to Barack Ravid, his stenographer, his propagandist, we may strike Iran if they misbehave.”
MAGA Influencer's Arrest and Trump's Associations
16:28 to 17:48
Discuss the arrest of MAGA influencer Craig Long and its implications for Trump and his circle.
“Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Don Jr.”
Transcript
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3:21Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is panicking as the entire world has decided let's just ignore him. He's a clown. We have zero respect for him. Take a look at what China is doing, what Ukraine is doing, what Germany is doing, what Iran is doing. No one respects this guy. The world is laughing at him, as he would always say about others. So what we've learned is the following. China has instructed five Chinese refineries, ignore U.S. sanctions on buying Iranian oil, with China's Ministry of Commerce saying the United States cannot recognize, implement, or comply with the sanctions. Per Reuters, Trump has no clue what he's doing.
4:03Ben Meiselas:Just pretend these sanctions don't exist. Similarly, with respect to this impenetrable, impregnable naval blockade that the U.S. has, well, an Iranian national Iranian tanker company, VLCC, one of these very large cargo ships, one of these massive super tankers carrying 1.9 million barrels of crude oil worth nearly$220 million, just easily evaded the U.S. Navy blockade. blockade and reached the Far East per tanker trackers with China as its final destination. The tanker UJ, they're mocking Donald Trump by calling it UJ, went AIS dark on March 20th en route to Iran, loaded Iranian crew during the U.S.
4:51Ben Meiselas:blockade. It was sighted off Sri Lanka last week and is now traveling and traversing Indonesia's strait. And this was one of the ships that the Trump regime said, we got more lies from the Trump regime. You have Zelensky saying there's no even need to work with Donald Trump or even try to get on his good side. It doesn't matter. Zelensky preparing for a future with less or no United States. And in response to Donald Trump saying that the US is now withdrawing 5 ,000 troops from our Air Force base in Germany, Germany's defense minister, Boris Pistorius, and Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz are like, We don't care.
5:29Ben Meiselas:To remove the troops, we don't care. We are building up a European army right now, and we really don't care what the hell you do. In fact, even trying to work with you at this point in any way is really just a liability. So watch your failing golf tournament at Doral, Donald Trump. Use Air Force One to travel from Palm Beach to head over, what, an hour and 20-minute drive, but go by Air Force One on the U.S. taxpayer dime to watch nobody show up at your Doral golf tournament, the PGA tournament at Doral, for real. He took Air Force One from Palm Beach to Doral. It's like a 10-minute flight, like a five-minute flight.
6:11Ben Meiselas:It's like an hour drive, hour and 10 minute drive. Absolutely ridiculous. He hears Donald Trump on the tarmac as he was taking Air Force One from Palm Beach to Doral. Again, at most an hour and 10 hour, 20 minute drive. He's taking a plane and he's like, look, Iran, they're giving me some concepts of deals. I've got some, I got some deal concepts. And as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, posted in order to mock all these like reporter stenographers for Donald Trump, these propagandists like Barack Ravid and others at Axios who use those like sirens, like breaking news, Donald Trump told me another lie today.
6:51Ben Meiselas:Major breaking. Donald Trump announces a concept of a deal with Iran. Here play this clip. Again, they want to make a deal. They're decimated. They're having a hard time figuring out who their leader is. They don't know who their leader is because their leader is gone. Their leader that their former leader come in. But we'll see. Any questions real fast? The which? No, I haven't. I haven't. I'm looking at it up here. I'll let you know about it later. not making a bill? Well, I wouldn't have to. I didn't say that. I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. But we're not leaving right now.
7:37We're going to do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.
7:43They told me about the concept of the deal. They're going to give me the exact wording now. Yeah.
7:49Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked by reporters. So in In your letter to Congress saying that you don't have to follow the War Powers Act, you're claiming that hostilities with Iran are over? There's still a blockade. How are they over? And Donald Trump goes, oh, it's a very friendly blockade. A very friendly blockade? We all realize that this guy's a psychopath. And why he's being ignored by everybody in the world. Here, play this clip. It's a possibility that could happen, certainly. Mr. President, in your letter to Congress, you said the hostilities in Iran that started having germinated. How can you say that, given that the naval blockade is still being politically influenced?
8:29Well, it's a very friendly blockade. Nobody's even challenging it. Nobody at all is challenging. Just so you understand, many presidents have been involved in things that are very big. They never had to go through anything with respect to Congress. They considered it to be totally unconstitutional. and the Democrats in Congress that pushed this and probably a couple of Republicans, they're hurting our negotiating ability, which is infinite right now. And they shouldn't be doing it. It's never happened before. No other president's done it. And I'm not going to be the first. Thank you very much.
9:05Ben Meiselas:And then a reporter goes, so why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany, Donald? What are we doing? And Donald Trump's like, I've got more than 5 ,000 that we're removing. 5 ,000 is just the start. We get it, Donald. You spoke with Putin at the end of last week for 90 minutes. You didn't share that with the American people. TASS, T-A-S-S, Putin's propaganda media shared the call where Putin and you were chatting it up, attacking NATO, talking about economic cooperation between the United States and Russia. We get it, Donald. You're a traitor, in my opinion. We get it, okay? You're someone who covers up the Epstein files.
9:42Ben Meiselas:You're disgusting. Here, play this clip right here. A lot of oil. A lot of oil.
9:52Why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany? We're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5 ,000. Thank you very much.
10:06Ben Meiselas:And by the way, so utterly pathetic. I mean, my heart goes out to all of these Spirit Airlines employees who are now out of a job. 17 ,000 Spirit Airline employees lost their jobs. 7 ,500 lost their jobs just basically overnight. Donald Trump said that he was putting together a bailout package, but the same way Trump bankrupted all of his businesses in the past, Donald Trump was unable to stop this bankruptcy as well. And then like everybody in the Trump regime is like blaming Biden from 2024. Dude, you're in charge. You said we're in a golden age and everything is great and everyone's so rich.
10:42Ben Meiselas:You're the low cost guy that you're bringing down prices on day one. Spirit Airlines went bankrupt because of the fact that this catastrophic war in Iran has caused jet fuel prices to double. It's like$4.90 a gallon, right? More$5 a gallon. for jet fuel. That's why. That's what they said in their release when they talked about their bankruptcy. But now you have these Trump sycophants like former Governor Sununu, this MAGA Republican loser guy, and he's going on all this media. He's like, Donald Trump deserves to be applauded for the bankruptcy. He tried really hard. He tried really hard. We're congratulating Donald Trump for failing now.
11:22Ben Meiselas:That's MAGA, a bunch of damn grifters and damn losers. Here, play this clip. Hats off to the president. I mean, President Trump really tried a hundred different ways to make this work because he cared about those customers. He cared about those employees. At the end of the day, Spirit was a financial disaster. I mean, they effectively were massively over leveraged. They didn't even own their own planes. Like there was really very little collateral behind anything they had. So unfortunately, I think a lot of us saw that this was just not going to work financially at all. By the way, not only China, Ukraine, Iran, and no one takes Trump seriously, even Raiders rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza.
12:05Ben Meiselas:I ain't visiting the White House. I'm a rookie. I'm going to practice with my team because the Indiana Hoosiers, because they won the national championship, they're going to the White House. And Mendoza's like, yeah, I ain't going there because Trump has totally lost the culture. I mean, look at this loser. Look what he's posting all night. It's post after post. I'm not even going to read some of these. His post is like, so ironic that crying Chuck Schumer and Democrats are hiring sleazeballs like Barack Hussein Obama's crooked former Attorney General Eric Holder. What are you talking about, you loser?
12:40Ben Meiselas:Or Donald Trump posting. Just even look at this message. Just look at what it physically looks like. If anybody sent you a text message, you'd be like, yo, this person is clinical. Donald Trump goes, I hate seeing Fox and other conservative outlets constantly making low-rated Bill Maher relevant as it pertains to the Republican Party and beyond. Bill Maher is weak and ineffective, who I got to know very well during my dinner with him at the White House. He was nervous, scared, and the first words he uttered as he entered the Oval Office, can I have a drink? And then Donald Trump posts the following, I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can't imagine that it would be acceptable and that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to humanity in the world over the last 47 years.
13:26Ben Meiselas:Thank you for your attention to this matter. By the way, the new proposal Trump said he received from Iran in that social media post, which he would soon be reviewing, yep, it's the same exact proposal his administration already rejected on Friday, yet he treats it like a new one and says, can't imagine that it would be acceptable, the Hormuz letter explains. Foreign Minister Aragchi, Iran's foreign minister explains that Iran's proposal from Friday demands withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iran's surroundings, lifting the naval blockade with a new Hormuz mechanism, lifting sanctions, releasing Iran's frozen assets, and paying compensation.
14:06Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump says to Barack Ravid, his stenographer, his propagandist, we may strike Iran if they misbehave. According to two sources, Barack Ravid says, two sources briefed on Iran's proposal. It sets a one-month deadline for negotiations on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, end the U.S. blockade, and permanently end the war in Iran. This Barack Ravid guy's too much. Can't wait to see what he posts today right before the markets open on Monday. You can be sure it involves market manipulation, in my opinion. Then you had Donald Trump on the tarmac also saying that Trump claims He never said that he might be better off not making a deal with Iran.
14:48Ben Meiselas:I never said that. I didn't say that. You said it on Friday. Here, play this clip. We'll see. Any questions real fast? The which? Have you worked in a proposal that Iran was? No, I haven't. I haven't. I'm looking at it up here. You're looking at it? Yeah. I'll let you know about it later. But last night you said he might be better off not making a deal with Iran. Well, I wouldn't have to. I didn't say that. I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. But we're not leaving right now. We're going to do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.
15:26Ben Meiselas:And here's Donald Trump saying it on Friday so you can hear for yourself. Let's play. So you'll be all very happy. And, you know, it's right now. I own Doral. And right now we have a tournament. I'm so busy. And we have the big Cadillac championship going on all the great players, the PGA Tour. and they're there and yesterday somebody came up said sir the tournament is great i said what tournament are you talking about i'm so busy with the iranians calling trying to make a good deal we're not going to let that happen but got to make a bad they've got to make a bad deal but if they make a deal at all because frankly maybe we're better off not making a deal at all do you want to know the truth because we can't let this thing go on you know going on too long but under of the leadership of...
16:10Ben Meiselas:And then finally, one of Donald Trump's buddies, a top MAGA influencer, Craig Long, arrested yesterday in human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pled guilty in February 2024 for his involvement in January 6th. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Don Jr. just a few weeks ago at a UFC fight. Look at this crew, the Epstein crew, the Epstein class. Play this clip. Then there's Craig Long, we arrested. He's 41. Some of you may recognize him. He's an influencer. Well, I'm going to give him some content for his social media today. He was a previous felon who straightened up really what we want to see in life.
16:56Now he's an influencer. You know, he moves in big circles. Even with the president. This is a photograph with the president and his son not long ago. Now, we like to see people who make mistakes early in life, and he had a long history straightened up. We like the fact that he likes the cops. Heck, he liked them so much, he got caught up in a sting and got to be up and real close with the cops. We asked what his attitude was. He said, oh, he had a great attitude. he appreciates law enforcement. Well, there you go. Got arrested in the human trafficking scene. Influence that for a while.
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