Trump Panics as Midterms Near and Iran Attacks Escalate

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1:49Ben Meiselas:Queen Carvania stood haloed by the morning sun. An army hung on her every word. My champions, I have sold my chariot on Carvana. T 'was a lovely SUV, an inexplicably queenly offer. They're even coming to the castle to collect it. Tonight, we feast. An offer you can feast on. Sell your car today on Carvana. Pick up fees, may I lie. This is getting ugly real quickly for Donald Trump. His night took a very dark turn as he continues to collapse before the midterms. He was posting deranged fake AI videos of the United States military attacking Karg Island. And Trump wrote, Karg Island being blown to smithereens.

2:42Ben Meiselas:DJT with a fake AI video of war crimes taking place at Karg Island. Watch what he posted.

3:02Ben Meiselas:Late last night, Donald Trump also gave an interview with state regime media, which calls itself Fox. Donald Trump predicted doom for himself and the MAGA Republicans at the midterms. Play this clip. When you're a president, whether you're a Republican or Democrat, or whether you're a good president or a bad president, you lose the midterms. Nobody knows why. And then he proceeded to post more deranged AI videos blowing up Karg Island when this did not take place. Let's play it.

3:45Ben Meiselas:It should be noted that the United States did strike Larik Island in Iran yesterday. Iran responded by striking U.S. military bases in Jordan, like the Muwafik Salty Base, as well as other bases there, and the Al-Udid Base in Qatar. Also, we learned 48 hours ago, Iran struck a tanker that was trying to use the southern route in the Strait of Hormuz by Oman. Iran continues to control the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump, though, on his interview last night on state regime media, with prices continuing to surge as a result of the catastrophic war in Iran and his disastrous trade war against the world, including his acceleration of that trade war against Canada lately, Trump said, I've largely taken care of inflation where good mission accomplished on inflation.

4:45Ben Meiselas:play this clip. That was big trouble. And frankly, you know, with the inflation, I've largely taken care of inflation. By the way, the gas. Then Donald Trump brags and boasts that oil prices are going down like a rocket. And he goes, they will go down like a rocket even more as soon as we win that war. We have control over the Hormuz Strait. No, we don't. But you could keep on lying. Here, play this clip. By the way, the gasoline is going to go down. The oil is going to go down like a rocket going in the opposite direction as soon as we win that war, complete the war. Already, you know, we've got total control.

5:26I would say almost total. It could be a nuisance, but we have control of the Hormuz Trate. We've swept it of all the mines. You know, we don't have mines there now. We have all of the international. We got rid of them with very little help from other countries. And we help other countries. We spend billions and -

5:44Ben Meiselas:It should also be noted that Donald Trump's fraudulent deal with Venezuela has backfired in his face. We know in Venezuela, the people there are absolutely livid. Even people who support the Rodriguez regime, the Dulce Rodriguez regime are livid. The opposition party is livid. And here in the United States, this has been utterly exposed as just a market manipulation scheme by Donald Trump, claiming we're going to be getting 64 billion barrels of oil and it's going to fill up the strategic petroleum reserves as we've exposed over and over again. the type of oil that exists in Venezuela can't even be used right away in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

6:27Ben Meiselas:It would take years to build that infrastructure. Also, the 65 billion barrels is essentially a made-up number. Also, there's no written agreement, and it just seems like one of these fake and phony Trump deals where he announces a big number and says, this is going to solve the oil price, the oil crisis, when it absolutely isn't. But Donald Trump does want you to see that he's playing golf on the taxpayer dime. And also last night, he was posting videos of himself playing golf. And this is a video that he actually posted as the American people are suffering and can't afford groceries and can't afford gas and the price of gas and diesels at record highs.

7:07Ben Meiselas:And the price of everything's pretty much at record highs and people can't afford rent and can't buy a home. This is what he's posting, himself golfing like this. Play this clip.

7:20Ben Meiselas:And then on that deranged interview with state regime media Fox, he continued to attack Canada, play this clip. And so maybe people allow me to be strong to help save our nation. As an example, Canada, we're putting very substantial tears. We lose 60 billion a year for many years with Canada, more than that. They used to lose, but we lose all of this tremendous money. they think they're a state, but they're not a state. Why should we be subsidizing Canada? And I've said it for a long time, and I would have done it in the first term, but we were doing other things. And we did have the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

7:58It was a hoax created by Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, and all of these people.

8:02Ben Meiselas:His interview was with Trey Gowdy, a former MAGA Republican Congress member, who also was making very weird faces throughout this interview. These MAGAs are just a bunch of very weird people. What kind of weird face is that? Very strange behavior. Then Donald Trump says, you know, before I took office, people were laughing at us. And they said, what a weak and pathetic nation. Now they appreciate how strong we are and we've never been hotter. Actually, quite the opposite. Although I'll say that lots of people aren't laughing at us. They are looking at us like disgusted. Like how could the United States become such a loser country so quickly?

8:41Ben Meiselas:under this Trump regime. That's what most countries, our former allies are horrified. Probably Xi and Putin are laughing right now. And Kim Jong-un is laughing, but it's pretty sickening to most of the world, just how weak we've become. Play this clip. And that was a year ago. And now we're much harder than we were then. So we're respected again. People were laughing at us. We were a joke. We were an embarrassment to our founders. We were We're an embarrassment to our country. We're an embarrassment to everything we stand for. You know, you talk about free enterprise and all. We were like an embarrassment.

9:18We had no idea. We had no leader.

9:20Ben Meiselas:And speaking of weak, CENTCOM under Admiral Brad Cooper, what the hell has happened to CENTCOM? I mean, such an utter disappointment. CENTCOM has become a propaganda arm of the Trump regime. And here's their latest post. claim Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed in a recent statement that strikes by U.S. forces to prevent the IRGC from placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz were an act of aggression. This claim is absolutely false. What the hell are you talking about, CENTCOM? Last night, the U.S. struck Larik Island in Iran. You attacked it. You blew things up there. You killed multiple people on Larik Island.

10:09Ben Meiselas:Iran responded by striking U.S. bases in Jordan and striking a base in Qatar, the Al-Udide base. What are you fact-checking? What you're saying, it's not an act of aggression when the U.S. blows things up and attacks Iran that's not an act of aggression? I mean, this is like utterly deranged behavior by CENCOM. I mean, we know Trump is a deranged, psychotic lunatic. This is coming from Admiral Brad Cooper. He should be ashamed of himself. Then Senkham goes, fact, U.S. forces took limited precise action against IRGC mine laying forces, posing an imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz. In essence, Iran created the threat and the U.S.

10:51Ben Meiselas:military eliminated it to protect civilian mariners, commercial shipping, and the free flow of global commerce. And so you're saying that therefore it's not an act of aggression? The hell is even going on here? By the way, did you see that Washington Post report? I'll do a longer report on this this morning, so check back in 90 minutes. I'm going to be doing a lot more reports on this. But our top military commanders in other theaters of war, like in the Pacific, in Europe, in South America, some of our top Navy leaders, and in the Secretary of Defense's order books. They basically had a non-concurrence that they don't agree with the way the war is being carried out by Hegseth and Trump.

11:41Ben Meiselas:And then the Trump regime's Pentagon spokesperson was like, the Washington Post, it's criminal for them to publish this classified material from our top military leaders. The only person, by the way, who the only military leader who's like really going along with this is Brad Cooper, who's been the biggest disappointment and top military leaders I speak with tell me that they just think Cooper is just a complete and utter clown. But everybody else has been warning that these plans are absolutely disastrous. This war is disastrous. We're out of weapons. There's no logistical planning taking place, and it's really, really bad.

12:19Ben Meiselas:Also, there was that other great report from the Washington Post. Did you see this? How Donald Trump and Hegseth are using MAGA influencers who are pretending to be journalists, but who actually work for the Pentagon as special government employees, but they don't disclose it, and they just spew Trump and Hegseth propaganda, that was exposed as well. Donald Trump, as part of this deranged interview with state regime media, which calls itself Fox, Donald Trump's like, you know, at the end of the day, I'm going to campaign like I'm on the ballot and people like me more than the Republican Party.

12:58Ben Meiselas:So that's why the Republican Party may not win because I'm not necessarily going to be on the ballot here. Play this clip. But some people like me more than they like the party. I mean, you know, you can't be insulted by it. There's nothing you can do about it. But if they go out and vote, we're going to win. And if we don't, our country's going to be in sad shape because we're going to go through a lot of things. Trump also says that if Republicans lose in the midterms, transgender and men and women's sports will never end, whatever the hell that means. Play this clip. We're going to go through a lot of things.

13:32You're going to have the taxes raised you're going to have crazy things happening like the men and women's sports will never end none of the stuff transgender will never end open borders they'll open the borders immediately

13:44Ben Meiselas:i mean they'll open the books i heard somebody on television he says the economy is doing amazing way better than his first term even that this is the greatest economy ever which of course we all know to be false let's play it we had the most successful first term financially that anybody's ever had up until now. I think we're going to blow it away now because we have factories being built all over the country. It's amazing. But I think we're going to have something that, I think when we're finished, we're going to have a term that's been unbelievable. It's also a very bizarre interview by Trey Gowdy.

14:15Ben Meiselas:And he was like, the ballroom, the helipad. How are you so diligent, Donald? How are you so diligent with everything you do? Hear a play of clip. I watched you out there with the helipad, the ballroom, the whole world will see that. I've also seen you get out of a golf cart and move stakes that no one else in the world will see. I think it was a tee box and you were out of the cart in the heat moving stakes. Where does that come from? I'm a perfectionist. And if I see a crooked line, if I see a corner that's not square, if I see something going on that isn't good, if I see dirt, that's one of the things I hate about the radical left.

15:04I mean, you don't get hotter than that.

15:06Ben Meiselas:I'll just give you an example of what some of these MAGA influencers, I guess, were being paid to do. So Thomas Anderson, who goes by the X account name, Cynical Publius. Here he is defending Pete Hegseth in American greatness without disclosing that he's a Fed. And all these people, right, who were like, the deep state, the deep state, the deep state. Like, they're the deep state. They're like secret Feds. All these MAGA influencers are like secret Feds. So who would have thought, right? The people, I'm gonna make a separate point here. The people who warned about the Epstein class and the Epstein, some of those MAGAs, like all of those people in Trump's orbit.

15:49Ben Meiselas:They warned about it, and then it turned out that many of them have been involved in the coverup. And then separately, you got all these people, the deep state, the feds, the feds, this, da, da, da. They're feds, they're actually working, they're MAGA influencers, but they're actually work for the government, and they're being paid by taxpayers to spew pro-hexit and regime propaganda for Trump, and then to attack Trump's enemies on social media. And then you have CENTCOM saying that wasn't an act of aggression when we attacked Larik Island in Iran last night. That was us just being nice and friendly.

16:27Ben Meiselas:You can't make this stuff up, folks. Well, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching, everybody.

16:44Thank you.