Trump Rattled as Iran Threatens Retaliation

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0:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is panicking as he fears Iran is going to kill him. Everywhere he looks, he fears another assassination attempt. When Donald Trump was golfing at Benminster yesterday, this has become the new norm. He has an E-3 Sentry overhead to ensure that there aren't any drones that are going to hit him or that there aren't any other fighter jets that are coming after him. He literally has an E3 Century fly over where he is golfing. But Donald, you want to know what's happening in the real world while you're out there making your deranged posts about how you desperately need drone ports because you're afraid that Iran's going to send drones to kill you?

1:20Ben Meiselas:Drone port, drone port, drone port. He posted drone port with weird AI images of the White House being turned into a military installation all throughout the night. Yeah, I mean, he is panicking and terrified that he thinks Iran is going to kill him and he needs his golden ballroom also. Let's talk about what's happening in the real world though. Explosions were seen and heard throughout Jubal and Saudi Arabia, Eastern Saudi Arabia, where Aramco has its refineries. It seems that the Iranian allied group, the Houthis, struck again in Saudi Arabia. You saw yesterday, Saudi Arabia entered into the Mecca defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan.

2:08Ben Meiselas:And Iran was saying, all right, I guess we're moving in the right direction, at least with Arab nations forming alliances, but the wrong one. You should probably join with us is like what Iran said. And then the Houthis showed, If you think that we're afraid of the Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan alliance, we're just going to hit your refineries in eastern Saudi Arabia. And that's exactly what the Houthis did. Massive fires underway. You can see that right there. Now, it's also being learned as Donald Trump is, again, terrified that Iran's going to kill him. You have U.S. Central Command Chief Brad Cooper, who has demonstrated what a bootlicking stooge he has had, that the CENCOM commander has become such a, again, bootlicker.

2:58Ben Meiselas:But he traveled to Israel to get his marching orders from Netanyahu. I kid you not, that's actually what happened yesterday. And Netanyahu told Cooper, we really don't care what you do. We think Donald Trump is weak and pathetic and we're going to invade Iran. Do what you want, but Israel is going to invade Iran. That's what Netanyahu conveyed and Israel's state media channel 13 broadcast that Israel defense forces are preparing for resuming strikes against Iran without the United States. You see Netanyahu also sees Donald Trump as weak and pathetic and says, I'm just going to do what I did back in February.

3:38Ben Meiselas:I'm going to say we're attacking. Join us or don't join us. But we're going to strike. Now, Israel under Netanyahu sees itself being more and more isolated. And Netanyahu needs this war for his own criminality. He's a war. He's a genocidal war criminal. And so he wants to escalate so that there's more war to bring the U.S. back into it. And then he knows he's got Dopey Donald. Yep, dopey Donald, who Iran is just mocking mercilessly. I showed you the Lego video, right, that Iran keeps on replaying about Donald. This is what, remember when Donald Trump's like, we are no longer being laughed out in the world.

4:21Ben Meiselas:I don't believe under Biden, there were Lego videos made of the United States like this. Here, play this clip.

4:52Ben Meiselas:And then just look at what a fool this guy is. These are real posts from Donald Trump last night. Drone port. Drone port. Yeah, you guessed it. Drone port. And it's all these gigantic drones with military on the roof of the White House. Great idea, turning the White House into a military target. So what's the idea? You're afraid they're going to kill you. So now you want to turn it into a military target. So they got to bring everybody down. Then this deranged lunatic posts images like this. This is what he's been posting all of yesterday. 40 club championships, Donald J. Trump. So he keeps going now to Bedminster and he throws himself golf tournaments.

5:33Ben Meiselas:because he's a loser. And then he gives himself not only the senior trophy, but then the regular club trophy. And he like cheats and just says that he wins these tournaments. I won this tournament. I won that tournament. You know, fun fact, the only real tournament that he actually played in where it wasn't one of his own clubs, he lost massively. And that was when he cheated on Melania with Stormy Daniels right after Melania had Barron. I digress. Donald Trump posting this image of what the bronze statues looked like in DC before he gilded them gold. Obama Trump. I don't know. I think it looks much better under Obama.

6:15Ben Meiselas:I don't even know what's, is this a real image? It looks like a golden blob, like a golden melted blob. then Donald Trump posts great poll numbers. Thank you, DJT. Donald Trump has worse poll numbers now than Nixon at the time Nixon resigned. Donald Trump has the lowest polling in modern presidential history right now, but he just goes great poll numbers. Yeah. Goebbels, just repeat the big lie over and over and over again. And Goebbels, racist. Donald Trump then posts an image of him and Melania next to an image of Abdul El-Sayed and Abdul's wife. Abdul and his wife met the University of Michigan.

6:58Ben Meiselas:They fell in love. They got married and they've been in a committed marriage with each other. But Donald Trump says two very different Americas. Explain that to me, Donald. Your wife was brought into the United States by Paulo Zampoli and introduced to you at the Kit Kat club. And then you cheated on her when she had barren. And you talk about grabbing women by their vaginas because you're rich and you get away with it. And then you talk about how your wife knows that you don't like being peed on by golden showers. And you talk about that when you speak at high schools. And you all know that, right?

7:40Ben Meiselas:Right. You're like, Ben, what the hell are you talking about? We know what, when, when Donald Trump speaks in high schools, he talks about how Melania knows that he doesn't like to get urinated on his face because I kid you not, he says it in high schools because he doesn't like germs. So she doesn't believe that he would be pissed on his face. It's called the golden shower. He says, in addition to him saying that he goes and I'll show you the clip. No, not of the piss happen. I will show you the clip of him saying that. Don't worry. I wouldn't dare. I wouldn't dare do the other thing. But he's also on audio bragging about going into the beauty pageant locker rooms, looking at the girls naked.

8:23Ben Meiselas:He said non-consensually because when you own the pageants, he says you get to do it. So, so, so yeah, two very different Americas. On one hand, Epstein class, covering up child sex trafficking rings, best friends with Epstein, best friend with pedos, part of a massive pedo cabal. On the other hand, I see Abdul El-Sayed and his wife who met in college, University of Michigan, and fell in love. Okay. Here was Donald Trump at the University of Iowa. No, no, no. Sorry, not University of Iowa. At a high school in Iowa talking about how Melania knows he doesn't like to get peed on. Here, play this clip.

9:01He was with four hookers. You think that was good that night to go up and tell my wife, It's not true, darling. I love you very much. It's not true. Actually, that one she didn't believe because she said he's a germaphobe. He's not into that, you know.

9:17He's not into golden showers, as they say they call that. I don't like that idea. No, I didn't. I thought that would be a big problem. I was going to have a rough night, but that one she was very good on. She said, No.

9:32Ben Meiselas:Yeah, that's the president of the United States, folks. He then brags about jobless claims remaining. We had the worst jobs report in a very long time. The U.S. lost 23 ,000 jobs when we were supposed to gain last month, 90 ,000 jobs. And he's bragging about that. We have the lowest consumer confidence ever. Then Donald Trump posts, the U.S. has massive amounts of munitions. I guess in the world where you believe we have massive amounts of munitions, where you believe that your marriage to Melania is the right type of America in a world where you believe the jobless claims were good. Yeah. I suppose that we are, we also have a massive amount of munitions, Donald.

10:19Ben Meiselas:Sure. He posts weird photos of his Aberdeen golf course, you know, so when Donald Trump is fearful like this when he knows he's a trapped rat. I won't do the whole reporting in, but you remember yesterday I reported how in Iran, their Supreme National Council said that they're not opening up the Strait of Hormuz until the US makes good on all of the memorandum of understanding requirements. Reparations, leave Lebanon with Israel, leave it. Get your troops out of the Middle East, unfreeze the sanctioned funds, recognize Palestine as a country. All of the things,$300 billion, right? So people were like, oh, Iran's making maximalist demands.

11:08Ben Meiselas:It's like, no, Iran's been saying the same thing consistently since the beginning of the war. They haven't changed. Donald Trump's the person posting drone port, drone port, drone port, drone port. Okay. Like we have a psycho in the Oval Office. Like we have like literally a psychotic human who's destroyed the U S credibility abroad. But yeah, and I mentioned, I mentioned the strike on Saudi Arabia, but remember 48 hours ago, Iran struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz belonging to Adnok, the Abu Dhabi national oil company. And I've been covering all the strikes of tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, which Trump Trump and UKMTO just like ignore.

11:50Ben Meiselas:And I cover them all because I want you to know Iran struck these tankers that the U.S. was trying to get out of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. doesn't control it. Look at the Red Sea. The Houthi struck these tankers. With all of that going on, right, with Donald Trump as the trapped rat that he is, this is where he wants to pick on other countries now. So they ramp up the trying to terrorize the Cuban people. I think it's important to make that point. It's the Cuban people that they're trying to terrorize by saying they want to go after the leadership. The Trump administration increasing pressure on Cuba while exploring possible alternatives to the current leadership.

12:31Ben Meiselas:According to the New York Times, Washington wants Havana to liberalize its economy, open more to U.S. business, buy American oil, and reduce Russian and Chinese intelligence ties. The hell are you talking about? Donald Trump's FBI, Kash Patel's going to visit Russia. We have close Russian and Chinese ties now, or at least we think we do under Kash Patel. They're laughing at us, just like Iran's laughing on us by making those Lego videos, but Russia and China laughing at us in a different way because Kash Patel thinks, oh, look how tough I am. I'm going to Russia. And they're like, okay, we're going to find out intel on you, but thanks, Cash.

13:11Ben Meiselas:Thanks, Cash. So U.S. going after Cuba, wants regime change there, but good luck. Picking on Greenland again. Greenland issued a strong warning yesterday to U.S.-based Greenland Energy after the Trump-linked oil company brought drilling equipment to shore without approval. The company hopes to drill for oil in Jameson land, claiming the area could hold$1 trillion worth of crude. Greenland Energy still needs government permission and the proposed drilling area may overlap with protected wetlands. Greenland's government says the application remains under review. So you get it. The Trump regime sent a company to Greenland to start just drilling and Greenland's like, this isn't your land.

13:57Ben Meiselas:You can't do it. And the Trump regime's like, eh, I think we're just going to do it anyway. I think we'll just do it anyway. Now, with all of this deranged stuff going on, we sent Aaron Parnas, the Midas Touch Network, or he sent himself. But he arrived at the reflecting pool, and here's what he saw yesterday play this clip. I'm here at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where Donald Trump put up signs blaming Biden and Obama and past administrations for the fact that his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had to be drained and has issues on issue this is now the new sign people see tourists see when they come quote the lincoln memorial reflecting pool has been partially refilled to allow contractors to flush the piping system for the first time in more than a decade quote after years of neglect by prior administrations more than half of the 58 water supply ports were so clogged they were deemed non-functioning let me show you what the reflecting pool looks like right now it is indeed half-filled.

14:55And in a dystopian way we have now cameras all over the National Mall looking to make sure people don't go in the reflecting. So if you want to know where your taxpayer dollars are going, it's to create signs like this one blaming other administrations for the failures of this administration. As always I'll have more updates for you soon. Spread the word and follow along stay up to date on all the news you need to know about.

15:19Ben Meiselas:And while Aaron Parnas over at Parnas' media company. And he's also with the Midas Touch was reporting on that. The big story on state regime media Fox. They were very mad about a foul on Sophie Cunningham. And Joe Concha calls for Carrington to be suspended for the entire season. I don't even know those words. What am I even saying here? Play this clip. Targeting Sophie Cunningham. And I don't care if the player is white or black. It does not matter. When you do this to somebody, This is horrible for the league. Obviously, this was done because Sophie Cunningham stood up for women, saying that men shouldn't play against women in sports because there is a, obviously, a chromosome advantage, just like you see with steroids, a chemical advantage.

16:06And I'll leave it here. Serena Williams, I saw this clip.

16:09Ben Meiselas:And then finally, I do want to give credit where credit is due, because this was actually a good report by CBS. Yes, I've been very critical of a lot of the behavior by Barry Weiss, rightfully so. But when they do a good report, I think I should acknowledge it. This reporter, that is, did a good report about the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rico residents who now face a 48-hour water shutoff as the U.S. territory battles its worst drought in 120 years, with some potentially going up to 72 hours without running water. In the wealthiest country in the world, they don't have running water. And Trump doesn't talk about it.

16:50Ben Meiselas:The regime doesn't talk about it. But I give credit. I mean, we were going to, I wanted to show this because I want to highlight, this is good reporting. Good reporting deserves to be acknowledged. Let's play it. It is devastating to see what's happening here in a U.S. territory where more than 3 million U.S. citizens live. And it's about to get worse. There are about 180 ,000 customers. Customers means households or businesses that are beginning this morning to experience water rationing for 48 hours at a time. That means no water coming out of the faucet for 48 hours. The government has said that that could go up to 72 hours.

17:31Low-income Puerto Ricans having to spend money in bottled water. We're talking about the elderly and the vulnerable and people who are ill having to count on others or they themselves having to carry jugs up flights of stairs, businesses that are impacted that can't offer their services. On top of this severe drought, the worst in 120 years of recorded history, there is a history of mismanagement, of underfunding, and yes, of corruption as well. The infrastructure for the water distributed across the island has been devastated. According to experts, more than 60 % of the water supply is lost through leaks.

18:17What that has meant is that this is not the first time that Puerto Ricans are experiencing this unreliable access to water. Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans have been experiencing it for months. People are desperate. Yesterday, the chair of the Water Authority's board resigned. The governor is facing backlash and protest. People are saying that the government is not and has not been doing enough.

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