Trump Panics in AM and Fakes Surrender in War

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1:33Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a meltdown on Saturday morning. He's holding an event in Doral, Florida at his resort there. He invited all of these South American, Central American, and other nations in the Western Hemisphere to join. not that many nations showed up, but Donald Trump wanted to brag about how he has big missiles that go through living rooms. And he's like, pew, pew, we kill people in America. Pew, pew. Let me just show you what he said moments ago. Let's play this clip.

2:05Donald Trump:But we're working with you to do whatever we have to do. We'll use missiles. If you want us to use a missile, they're extremely accurate.

2:14Ben Meiselas:right into the living room. Now, before Donald Trump held this meeting, which he's referring to as the shields of America, I'll talk about that in a moment. Very early in the morning, Donald Trump posted a deranged message saying that Iran surrendered, which Iran did not surrender. And he said, Iran reached out and said, thank you, Donald Trump. Thank you. And they surrendered to all of the nations in the Middle East. Let me just read you what Donald Trump said. None of this is true, but I'll read it for you just so you can see how utterly deranged he is. He says, Iran, which is being beat to hell, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore.

2:59Ben Meiselas:Just pause there. Iran currently is shooting at their Middle East neighbors. In Saudi Arabia, they're trying to shoot down those drones. in Dubai. I'll show you the video right here. Iran struck at the Dubai International Airport, almost hit the tarmac. You can see right there what took place. Bahrain is being shot at by the Iranian Shahid missiles, and the neighboring countries are still being attacked by Iran. All Iran said is that if you have US interests in your country, we will be attacking you so long as you are helping the United States against Iran. If you're not helping, we will no longer attack you.

3:40Ben Meiselas:And their message was essentially directed at Oman and Azerbaijan, not any of the other countries. But, you know, we have a massive liar who is covering up a child sex trafficking ring in the Oval Office, who's now in Doral, Florida, saying, pew, pew, pew, I do missiles, pew, pew, pew. Also, I'll show you in a moment, Donald Trump's like, to all the leaders, I don't want to learn your language. And then Pete Hanks, it's like, I speak American, not your language. I kid you not. That's what went down. I will show it to you. Donald Trump goes on to say, this promise was only made by Iran because of the relentless U.S.

4:18Ben Meiselas:and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost in thousands of years to surrounding Middle Eastern countries. They have said, thank you, President Trump, I have said you're welcome. Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East. They are instead the loser of the Middle East and will be for many decades until they surrender or more likely completely collapse. Today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time.

5:00Ben Meiselas:Thank you for your attention It doesn't matter. I mean, the guy is just completely deranged. In addition to some of those other attacks by Iran this morning that I've been talking about, it should also be noted that Iran says that an oil tanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz was done after this oil tanker ignored naval warnings. As you know, at this point, diesel price through the roof, your gas prices going through the roof right now. And Iran's Revolutionary Guard says they are waiting for U.S. forces. They dare U.S. forces to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway where 90 percent to 95 percent of the ships are not getting through, 20 to 25 percent of the crude and liquefied natural gas that goes out to the world goes through there.

5:53Ben Meiselas:And now in response, Donald Trump and his despicable regime have removed a lot of the sanctions on Russia, allowing Russia to sell its oil on the market to attack Zelensky and Ukraine with the money they make from that, while the United States is asking Zelensky for help and how to shoot down the Iranian Shahid drones. This has been a massive gain for Putin and Russia, this disastrous war here in the United States. Iran is saying, by the way, Russia and China are helping Iran find the U.S. targets, and they're helping Iran get the coordinates to do that. We recommend, says Iran, that before making any decisions, the Americans remember the fire of the American supertaker Bridgeton in 1987.

6:40Ben Meiselas:87. So again, all the president of Iran, Pazeshkian, said is one, we reject surrender. It's the first thing he said. Let me be clear. His address is we reject surrender. If you help the United States, we will continue to attack you. If you don't help the United States, we won't attack you anymore. That's what his statement was. So what else was Donald Trump saying at that Shield of America's meeting? Again, they're calling it the Shield of America. What a bizarre thing to call it. Also, I think it's notable that the Shield of America's soundtrack of like what the what music was playing. It was Sinead O 'Connor's remake of the Prince song.

7:24Ben Meiselas:Nothing compares to you, a Prince original about lingering heartbreak. And O 'Connor, Sinead O 'Connor has been a very big critic of Israel and the Trump regime. So Trump's using her music just goes to tell you a lot about Donald Trump right there. Going through, again, what went down at this Shields of America event that was just held moments ago. Let me show you what else was said. Donald Trump's like, people may say, oh, you're militaristic. I'm not militaristic. I solved eight wars. And maybe another one. Here, play this clip. They'll say, oh, he's very militaristic.

7:59Donald Trump:I'm the one that ended eight wars. I'm the one that, and we have another one coming, I think. the easiest was that and that was uh just and and you know as you would understand this the hatred between putin and his counterpart is so great okay it's so great also donald trump

8:22Ben Meiselas:started shaking the hands of a lot of these world leaders and doing that weird like tug thing that he does where he like grabs the hand um as ron philipkowski says who taught him this stupid thing a war, like a tug of war handshake. He just makes us all look like an utter idiot. Then when Donald Trump was speaking about Mexico, Donald Trump said, I like the president of Mexico. She's beautiful. She's a beautiful woman and she's got a beautiful voice. And she says, no, no, no, Donald. No, no, no. I mean, how sick is he? He's like, and Donald's like, I'm saying yes, yes, yes. And she says, no, no, no.

8:58Ben Meiselas:I don't want that, Donald. Do not come in and invade my country. And I said, I'm going to invade your country. He's a sicko. He is a sicko.

9:07Donald Trump:Just play the clip. Look, it all comes. It's coming through Mexico. And I like the president very much. She's a very good person. She's got a beautiful voice, a beautiful woman, but beautiful voice. President, president, president. I said, let me eradicate the court. He tells us, no, no, no, please, President. We have to eradicate them. We have to knock the hell out of them because they're getting worse. They're taking over their country. The cartels are running Mexico.

9:42Ben Meiselas:Also, Donald Trump, to the Latin American leaders, he says, I'm not learning your damn language. Here, play this clip.

9:48Donald Trump:In the months ahead, and it's so good that we got to know so many of you. I mean, we're so many. And I'd love to get to your countries at some point. Marco loves going to your countries. He's always at one of these countries. He likes your countries the best, okay? You know, where are you? I'm in Chile. Oh, good. How's Chile doing? Good. He likes it. He feels very calm. We all like him, right? It helps. He's got a language advantage over me because I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time. I was okay with languages, but I'm not going to spend time learning your language. That much I want to.

10:26Donald Trump:Just give me a good interpreter.

10:28Ben Meiselas:Interpreter, very important. Then he whines and says that there's a rigged election and everything is rigged. Here, play this clip. So we did eradicate ISIS.

10:38Donald Trump:Now, during the four years we had a rigged election, you probably read about it, probably heard something. So it gave me four years to contemplate and to stage my comeback. I staged a big comeback.

10:49Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump praises Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.

10:52Donald Trump:as well by Secretaries Pete Hegseth, Scott Besant. Scott, thank you very much, Scott. Oh, it has to be a big deal of you here. Well, he controls the purse strings of the country. You know, he goes on television and he just soothes everybody. He did it yesterday. The prices were going. He got on. He's a soothing person. He's actually a killer, but I don't want to say that. No, he's a soothing person. and he goes on television. Right, Pete? I think nobody better. So we could use him for war every once in a while. You know, soothe. Although we don't really want that kind of a personality for war.

11:31Donald Trump:We want your personality for war.

11:33Ben Meiselas:You're just perfect. Then Pete Hegsitt says, I only speak American, Donald. Listen, I'm not speaking your languages. What kind of languages do I speak American? Again, just absolutely humiliating. Here, play this clip.

11:50Donald Trump:Is he better in Spanish or in English? I think he's better in Spanish. It is great. Pete, please. Thank you, sir. Mr. President, I only speak American.

12:07Donald Trump:That's all right. I don't speak Cuban.

12:10Ben Meiselas:And then he keeps on making these hand signals that look like, I think you know what they look like? And he's like, for far too long, our gaze, our gaze has been on other areas of the world. Now our gaze is here. It's the Don Rowe doctrine at the Department of War. Again, so embarrassing. Let's play this clip.

12:30Donald Trump:It's an honor to be here and to establish in this hemisphere, peace through strength. For far too long, our country's gaze was only on borders and far flung places, not our own border, not our own hemisphere, not the Western hemisphere. President Trump has established the Trump corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, the Donro Doctrine. And the War Department is implementing it as fast as we can.

12:56Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump talks about invading Cuba. He's like, four of you said, please, please, Donald, will you invade Cuba? And I said, soon, soon I will invade Cuba.

13:06Donald Trump:Here, play this clip. But for 50 years, I've been hearing, as a little boy, I'd be hearing about Cuba. uh you know cuba's a disaster but i've been hearing so much about cuba but cuba's in its last moments of life as it was it'll have a great new life but it's in its last moments of life the way it is and but our focus right now is on iran and we'll do that i would say what will you do take about two days off marco no he won't maybe an hour he'll take one hour off and then he'll finish up a deal on Cuba that'll be an easy one but it'll be the entire region that we're doing that many of you have come today and they say I hope you can take care of Cuba because you've had problems with Cuba right you mentioned I was surprised but four of you said actually could you do us a favor take care of Cuba I'll take care of it okay

14:09Ben Meiselas:So, and as he said, Patrick DeHaan, who covers gas prices, explains the U.S. national average price of diesel has surged past$4.50 a gallon in a few hours. It's likely to surpass$4.55 a gallon, making it the most expensive tally since February 8th, 2023. Diesel may rise to$4.65 to almost $4.95 before slowing. It may even be higher than that. More news to report as well from uh patrick dehan goes by the the name gas buddy the increase in average u.s gas prices over the last seven days is now in the top 10 largest weekly increases ever recorded a 41.6 cents a gallon gas increase right now and we all knew all the intelligence suggested that Iran would not surrender, that Trump and Israeli decapitation strikes would not oust Iran's regime.

15:11Ben Meiselas:Washington Post reports how there was intelligence reports circulating within the White House and from the intelligence community that was ignored, outlining succession scenarios resulting from either a short or extended U.S. military campaign. In both cases, our intelligence community concluded the clerical and military establishment would respond to Khomeini's killing by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power. The report says that the prospect of Iran's fragmented opposition taking control of the country is unlikely, raising doubts about Trump's declared plan to clean out Iran's leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.

15:51Ben Meiselas:Trump, you know, US spy agencies, doubts about Iran's opposition, seizing power have also been referenced in New York Times and Wall Street Journal. And the intelligence community's involvement and analysis of potential outcomes of small and large scale offensive have not been previously reported. Should also be noted that Poland's prime minister Tusk is saying that Donald Trump, you're just out there with your endless wars and now removing sanctions from Russia essentially to sell their oil. Who's benefiting here? You're basically helping Russia. It should also be noted that our FBI and our intelligence community are refusing to provide reports showing how there's a heightened risk of terrorist attacks here in the United States right now as a result of Donald Trump strikes in the Middle East because Donald Trump and Kash Patel don't want that getting out there and circulating, but it leaked anyway.

16:50Ben Meiselas:And so we know it should be an obvious thing that that's a possible outcome from Donald Trump's war in the Middle East right now. And as you all know, on Friday, there were those horrible job numbers. Front page of The Wall Street Journal talks about how February job losses signal big trouble for the economy. And Labor Report flashes a major warning sign right here as Donald Trump continues to cripple our economy as well while doing all of these wars. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. And thank you all for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com.

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