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1:54Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump has surrendered it all. What little was left of America's integrity thrown in the Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster trash by Donald Trump. Look at what just went down even over the past 24 hours. Oddly, Donald Trump appears to have dyed his hair brown. He's now a brunette. This is what he's spending time doing. These are real photos of him. Very bizarre. He was out golfing yesterday at his course in Bedminster with Brett Baer of State Regime Media, which calls itself Fox, while Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the unappointed, illegitimate so-called special envoys to Russia and Ukraine, were in Moscow bending the knee to Putin and shaming them.

2:47Ben Meiselas:these United States in such a humiliating way. You saw it, right? I don't even want to play the video anymore. I did a video yesterday. You can go and watch the full thing. But Whitcoff looked at Putin, put his hand over his heart, and Whitcoff said, when we retire, Jared and I, Jared Kushner and I, will have these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all, Vlad. Yours will be right at the top of it. I kid you not, that's what Whitcoff told Putin. Like, I don't know, like he was going on some honeymoon or going to Disney World or something. What the hell is going on?

3:31Ben Meiselas:I would never imagine in my life to see someone who claims to be a special envoy of the United States go to Russia and bend the knee like that. But then again, Donald Trump went to Beijing and bowed to Xi Jinping as Xi talked about the Thucydides trap. And what happened after this ridiculous Moscow trip? Well, apparently what went down is Putin told U.S. so-called envoys, Whitcoff and Kushner, that Russia would achieve its goals, saying the root cause of the war in Ukraine needs to be resolved, which means that Russia's not going to stop its invasion of Ukraine. And shortly after Witkoff and Kushner left, Russia launched massive strikes on Ukraine.

4:22Ben Meiselas:I'll do a whole other video on what went down, but that's the status there. So utterly humiliating. Speaking of utterly humiliating and just surrendering, Donald Trump likes to talk about the reflecting pool this through. Y 'all want to see what the reflecting pool looks like in Washington, D.C. as Donald Trump fled D.C. to spend four freaking days in Bedminster in New Jersey with Natalie and apparently Bret Baier and whoever. So there were big storms in D.C. at the end of last week. After the storms hit D.C., the fences and black tarp meant to shield the reflecting pool, toppled over into the water.

5:06Ben Meiselas:It literally looks like a freaking sewer. Look right here for yourself. Hat tip to our friend, Matt Rain, who's there. Watch for yourself. Play this clip.

5:29Ben Meiselas:yeah as one person noted as well that they still haven't managed to fix the reflecting pool and donald trump acted like this was like the biggest thing on his mind or it was i think it tells you a lot how utterly incompetent this regime is and speaking of utter incompetence and the symbolism, the physical manifestations of the rot, just as in the reflecting pool, the algae always comes back. You see the Abraham Lincoln in Thailand, what it looks like the horrible condition of the super carrier that was previously by the Arabian Sea, where our service members were not getting the basic nutrition they needed for sustenance, because Donald Trump calls our service members, suckers and losers, I want you to watch what it looked like yesterday as Thai workers were blasting layers of algae off the USS Abraham Lincoln.

6:29Ben Meiselas:Whether it's the reflecting pool, the Abraham Lincoln, the algae always comes back. Or in the case of all of Donald Trump's fraudulent schemes, the truth always surfaces, which is Donald Trump is a lifelong bankruptor, a loser, a fraud, a sexual predator, a felon, a deviant, someone who's involved in covering up a child sex trafficking ring in the Epstein files. Just take a quick gander at what it looks like in Thailand with the USS Abraham Lincoln as these workers are trying to get rid of the algae. Let's play it.

7:24Ben Meiselas:And as you have Thai workers scraping off the algae from the Abraham Lincoln, as our service members were treated like crap, and Donald Trump says, small potatoes. That's what he calls the catastrophic war in Iran. Remember on Friday, Small potatoes before he left to Bedminster. Small potatoes. In the past 24 hours, CENTCOM announced that it struck three U.S. tankers. CENTCOM announced that it struck three Iranian tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran announced that it struck six ships, including three vessels apparently relating to the United States, and three other tankers were shot by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.

8:11Ben Meiselas:Iran's IRGC spokesperson said that they will be focusing now on striking the aircraft carriers and Navy destroyers and other ships in the region. Pay close attention to that because I think very soon we'll find out that Iran will have struck a U.S. naval ship because the U.S. continues to keep their naval assets in the area. And at some point, you keep striking Iran. You keep killing people in weddings there. You keep slaughtering little children there. They're going to strike the naval carriers. They're going to strike the destroyers and the other ships that are in the region. In any event, with all of this instability, with the American people suffering, with the war being a very serious issue, not small potatoes, as Trump says it, with gas prices soaring, diesel prices soaring, record highs for Labor Day in the history of the United States.

9:08Ben Meiselas:It's good to know, I'm being sarcastic, of course, that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reported more than$250 million in income in 2025, according to an article that was just released from the Wall Street Journal. He and Donald Trump are crushing it, man. Trump made at least$2.2 billion in 2025. I think that number is probably closer to$6 billion in 2025. but they're crushing it while you're suffering. They're building themselves golden ballrooms. They're out there golfing with state regime meteors. They're laughing in your face while they're making billions of dollars. It is absolutely sickening.

9:48Ben Meiselas:I'll show you what Donald Trump's former White House lawyer just said. Did you see this? Donald Trump's former White House lawyer, Ty Cobb, was just on MSNOW. And watch what he said. This is Trump's guy. This was Trump's guy from the first term. Here's what he says. This was Trump's White House lawyer. Here, watch for yourself. Play this clip. People need to recognize that when the founders created the Constitution, they expected that Congress diligently would work to control a president who was either not up to the task or, in this case, evil. They didn't really draft the Constitution with the expectation that an informed electorate would elect somebody like Trump, a malignant narcissist, convicted felon, rapist, and somebody who was really out to feather his own nest and pursue all these vanity projects.

10:44Well, one thing, Ty, I just have to stop you because you just called the president a rapist, and that is a legal thing that he has not been convicted of. So we just got to be clear on that. Continue your answer. No, you're absolutely right. He has not been convicted of it. But the federal judge who oversaw the E.G. Smart trial said on the record that he was guilty of rape. No, no, no. Sexual assault. No, actually, Jonathan, you're wrong.

11:16Ben Meiselas:I'll send you the site. Wow. And then just take a look at this map of the Strait of Hormuz as Donald Trump and Besant are like, we are getting 18 million barrels a day out of the Strait of Hormuz. We've never gotten more oil out. This is amazing. It's like, no, it's not. You're a liar. Okay. There's the reason why the cost of gas and diesels at record highs right now is because There's a supply shock that's getting worse. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Ah, look, I believe that the US is able to get out a few ships a day in the Strait of Hormuz. I mean, we could be talking about four or five, maybe even some days, six million barrels of oil a day.

12:01Ben Meiselas:Fine, fine. Like, let's just be honest. Before the war started, it was 20 million barrels a day that was getting out. So it's a fraction of what it was before this catastrophic war. Now, Kepler, which monitors the Strait of Hormuz, always has. That's what they do for their business operations. They say the Strait of Hormuz traffic declined sharply August 31st, where really all they saw was five confirmed crossings, five confirmed ship crossings in the Strait of Hormuz. Not good. Not good at all. And so have you seen this? Even Donald Trump's former most ardent supporters, MAGA people who now are like, we're not MAGA, we're America first.

12:45Ben Meiselas:They've been doing all of these memes of Donald Trump and these videos of him. And then like the MAGA people are trying to like own it. They're like, yeah, this is our guy. Let me show you the types of videos that they're making of Donald Trump right here. And these are going mega viral. You can see for yourself. Let's play this clip. A lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing. We did Venezuela and we did this. In Venezuela, we lost nobody. In this, we lost 18 people. And in Vietnam, you lost 100 ,000 people. And in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people.

13:22So I would say that it's intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes. So I heard what he said. And it was interesting because I think that there's a lot of truth. We're not fighting right now. There's no fighting.

13:34Ben Meiselas:Yeah. Well, Donald Trump says that this war is not a war. It's small potatoes. Let me just show you this photo of the 18 service members who were killed in this catastrophic war in Iran. Utterly, utterly tragic. So Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, one of the most pathetic liars of them all in this regime, and that's saying a lot. He goes on state regime media. Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, is a host on state regime media Fox. And Lara Trump asks Besant what his message for the midterms is. And Besson says, my message is we're going to get the price of oil down to$40 to$50 a barrel.

14:19Ben Meiselas:Well, right now it's approaching$100 a barrel. How are you going to get it down to$40 to$50 a barrel? You guys just make something up. You think we're so stupid. We're not. We know that you're a bunch of liars. You think you're so smart. You're figured out. we know that you are all vile pieces of scum trash you are con artists you are losers we know it now the whole damn world knows it and sees it right now we see you for what you are besant a pathetic piece of trash here play this clip of besant saying 40 to 50 a barrel let's play it in november Yeah, it's as I said, they are on prices that wages are up.

15:10Prices, they are actually core inflation is very close to the Fed's 2 % target. And we have an energy supply shock and that is going to end. And I actually think on the other side of this, on the other side of this, we're actually going to see oil prices, 40 or 50 dollars because there's so much supply coming on. It's just constricted right now. So my message is underlying economy is very strong. Job growth is strong. Wage growth is strong. I believe as we sit here now, the economy is accelerating. I think we're going through a productivity burst. And I think we are going to get to the other side of this Iran conflict with a safer world, with an Iran that cannot have a nuclear weapon and that we are in the liftoff phase.

16:00Ben Meiselas:Then you have Tim Scott, MAGA Republican senator who goes, let me tell you my midterm message. Let me tell you what I'm going to say. Every single day, if the Democrats take over the House and the Senate, they're going to try to impeach Donald J. Trump. That's why we need to make sure that Republicans win because we can never have investigations into our Fuhrer. Here, play this clip. for President Trump and his agenda. The contrast to that is every single day, Democrats will find a way to impeach President Trump, his cabinet, and frankly, even judges. They want to pack the Supreme Court. So one way to stop that from happening is to make sure that we defend the majority that we currently have.

16:49Every person watching your show can go to defendthemajority.com and chip in to help us keep this majority. It is the only way we finish the legacy agenda of President Trump that has literally saved this nation from socialism. If you believe in keeping America a free market capitalist society, keeping fairness and the American dream alive and well, you've got to vote for President Trump and his agenda, which means supporting Republicans in the House as well as in the Senate. These people are so damn pathetic.

17:24Ben Meiselas:How are these people real? I mean it. I just wonder when they wake up in the morning and they look at themselves in the mirror, how do they do it? Are they like, oh, I'm so freaking pathetic. I don't know. Treasury Secretary Besant with Donald Trump's daughter-in-law on Fox praising China. He's asked a question by Lara Trump basically like, so you threatened economic D-Day, but you're not putting sanctions on China. China's still working with Iran, buying oil from Iran, engage in other economic cooperation with Iran. So Besant, you announced D-Day, but now you do nothing. So that just seems weak.

18:06Ben Meiselas:So why announce D-Day if you're not going to follow through? And Besant's like, he does his weird things with his hands. And he's like, there's probably only 30 million barrels left, and then Iran is going to blow up. Okay. Remember in April, everybody, when Trump and Besson told us that Iran only had three days to exist because the pipes were going to be so congested and filled with oil that it was just going to blow up and Iran would explode. And they just move on from that one remember when they told us that in april these losers here let's just play this clip of besant saying china can only buy 30 million barrels more from iran play this clip situation well one of the things we've done and what the president's done is fantastic sequencing so we we are running opera operation economic outcast right now and this is the greatest economic isolation operation in the history of the world.

19:07We are going to asphyxiate this regime. Now we have the blockade. And because of the blockade, the oil is not getting out. So there's probably only about 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil left that China hasn't bought. So that will run out soon. And there will be no problem with China buying because they have no product. So the blockade is is blockade. The blockade is working. It's working like nothing we've ever seen. And the combination, you know, everyone says, oh, sanctions don't work. I can tell you blockade and sanctions are one of the most powerful one, two punches in the history of economic isolation.

19:52Ben Meiselas:Did you ever imagine as treasuries? What you may want to tell people, Besant as well, is that OPEC has basically now been replaced by China. Listen up. China is now the main importer of crude. It has been in the world. They prepared for an oil shock like this. So in 2025, they imported all of this oil at a very cheap price. And they have about, what, 1.5, maybe slightly less, billion barrels in their strategic reserves and accessible to them. So they haven't been importing at the same level that they did in 2025. And that's the only reason why the price of crude is not over$100 a barrel right away.

20:42Ben Meiselas:It still can get there. If China starts to buy, starts to import, it'll harm the supply even more. But if you take a look right now at the price of diesel, the spot price of diesel is like$255 a barrel. Diesel price is so high. So China controls the rare earths. China controls the oil market right now. Because if it decides that it's going to import the way it did before the catastrophic war, that's going to cause massive issues. So China controls literally the price per barrel of crude right now. And they know they do. They control the rare earths. They control it all. And Donald Trump's out there attacking Canada.

21:30Ben Meiselas:He's out there attacking Canada. Did I show the clip yet at Besson? If not, let's play it. And then if I did, sorry, I want to go and show everybody what then Besson said about Canada. And then, so after having that very weak response about China, the way he describes Canada is that the U.S. is the German Shepherd and Canada is a little dog that yips at the German Shepherd. This is what he says. Here, play this clip. You know, Laura, I had a German Shepherd and there was a dachshund that used to antagonize her at the playground. And it kind of reminds me of that. It kind of reminds me of that.

22:11And this little yippee dog, they used to just like bark away. And for a long time, 110 pound German shepherd was ignoring the dachshund. And then one day she'd had enough. And unfortunately, Prime Minister Carney did walk away. They were given the opportunity for a great trade deal and they didn't want it. And it looks like it's for political reasons. But the US, it is not much of a hit to us.

22:46Ben Meiselas:So I think it's apt before we go and you see Donald Trump surrender to Russia, to China, to Iran, to everybody. I mean, but he's playing golf with Brett Baer with his new brunette hair. But do you think Natalie likes that? Donald, you should go brunette, Donald. You think so? You think I should go burn out? You think? Those are crazy people. They're crazy people. They are crazy humans, these people. Before we go, here's a list of Treasury Secretary Besant predictions over the past 16 months or so. February 5th, 2025, Besant says, long-term interest rates would come down as Trump's economic policies took effect.

23:31Ben Meiselas:Spring 2025, the federal deficit would move towards 3 % of GDP. Spring 2025, Trump's policies would produce roughly 3 % sustained real GDP growth. July 8th, 2025, the U.S. would collect well over$300 billion in tariff revenue in 2025. September 1, 2025, the Supreme Court would uphold Trump's emergency tariffs. September 7th, 2025, the economy would see substantial acceleration in Q4 2025. December 7th through 6th, 2025, would finish with 3 % to 3.5 % real GDP growth. December 16, 2025, inflation would see a substantial drop in the first six months of 2026. February 20, 2026, the economy would grow at least 3.5 % in 2026.

24:17Ben Meiselas:April 14, 2026, GDP growth could easily exceed 3 % or 3.5%. April 14, core inflation was falling and the Federal Reserve would need to cut the interest rates. April 14, core inflation was falling. April 14th, Trump's tariffs could be restored to their previous levels by the beginning of July. June 2026, again maintain the 2026 growth could reach 3.5%. 2025, 2026, lower energy prices, fiscal restraint, and Trump's policies would bring down long-term treasury yields. 2025, 2026, faster growth in tariff revenue would materially improve the federal deficit. And now we get this one,$40 to$50 per barrel.

25:03Ben Meiselas:So utterly humiliating. Oh, but by the way, Donald Trump's last post several hours ago, so sad what is happening in Spain, a country with zero control of its border. Wow. Explanation point. Did you have zero control over yourself. Literally, you're a lunatic. You're a predator. You have no control. Sicko. Frickin' sicko. Let me know what you all think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can pre-order your copy today.

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