In short
The episode is a political commentary claiming Donald Trump’s “mental and physical health” is deteriorating into paranoia during a war involving Iran. The host argues Iran is exploiting this by releasing mocking AI/propaganda videos portraying Trump as sweaty, panicked, and fearful. Key claims include that Trump is building a bunker under his “ballroom” to avoid drone attacks, that he fears being hit by drones and wants an underground bunker, and that he is in denial about the war while focusing on the ballroom’s design (e.g., “Corinthian” columns, bulletproof windows). Notable examples cited: Trump’s Air Force One remarks about the ballroom/bunker; his repeated bragging about taking cognitive tests; and Iranian state-media-style AI animations showing Trump “sweating” and eating Middle Eastern food.
Guests
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump’s Deteriorating Health and Paranoia
3:16 to 4:50
Examine how Trump's mental and physical health is perceived amidst war.
“His mental and physical health and complete paranoia has taken over during the war.”
The Bunker and Ballroom Controversy
4:50 to 6:57
Discuss the implications of Trump's alleged bunker construction plans.
“and we can go underneath and this way nobody can get me.”
Trump's Cognitive Test Claims
6:57 to 9:20
Analyze Trump's assertions about his cognitive abilities and test results.
“Wait, I don't do this now because it's easier.”
Iran and Trump's Regime Change Claims
9:20 to 10:46
Investigate Trump's narrative surrounding regime change in Iran.
“And one doctor said, I've never seen anybody get them all right.”
Trump's Conversations with Iran
13:18 to 14:00
Critique Trump's claims of dialogues with the new Iranian leadership.
“That's D-O-S-E-D-A-I-L-Y dot C-O slash Midas, M-E-I-D-A-S for 35 % off your first month subscription.”
Analysis of Iranian Leadership and Regime Change
14:00 to 15:20
Discussion on the current state of Iranian leadership and the implications of recent changes.
“Every word out of your mouth is like, you are not having conversations with the new Iranian leadership.”
Trump's Declining Hispanic Support and Paranoia
15:20 to 17:45
Examination of Donald Trump's approval ratings among Hispanic voters and his paranoid claims.
“What the hell is this guy talking about?”
Iran's Non-Negotiables and Trump's Misconceptions
17:45 to 19:39
Insight into Iran's stance on negotiations and Trump's misconceptions about their agreements.
“They will not talk about anything that reduces their ballistic missile capability.”
Iranian Propaganda and Trump's Public Image
19:39 to 21:50
Discussion on how Iranian media portrays Trump and the implications for his image.
“And then here they have him trying to like eat like the Middle Eastern food.”
Transcript
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3:14Ben Meiselas:Included with Prime. Donald Trump's health is collapsing. I mean, just look at him right here. His mental and physical health and complete paranoia has taken over during the war. And Iran knows it. Iran is making videos playing on Donald Trump's paranoia to try to taunt and haunt and mock him. I want to give you some examples of Donald Trump physically and mentally deteriorating before our eyes and specifically talking about how he fears he's going to get hit by a drone and how he needs an underground bunker immediately. Do you remember about, what, nine months or so ago, I was saying the real reason that he was building this ballroom.
4:04Ben Meiselas:Remember what I said? I said, the ballroom is but a shed. And what the real thing that he's doing is he's building a bunker underneath because he is terrified of the people and he is terrified of everything. That was back then. Donald Trump used those exact words that it was a shed, the ballroom in order to cover up what was really taking place, a massive military installation and bunker. Now, aboard Air Force One, as Donald Trump was heading back from his taxpayer-funded vacation yet again in his safe space in Florida, he talked about what the real reason is that he's building a ballroom. He's like, it's going to have widows that are going to prevent drones, and we can go underneath and this way nobody can get me.
4:54Ben Meiselas:So as America right now has been hoisted into this unlawful war by Donald Trump, this is what he's talking about, the ballroom, but the bunker underneath as well to protect him from getting hit by drones. Here's what he says, the military building underneath is massive. He goes, and this stupid lawsuit exposed what I was really doing, The ballroom is a shed. Here's what he said aboard Air Force One. Let's play this clip.
5:49The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what's being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing. The glass on the windows, you see the big windows. The glass is extremely thick. It's high-grade, bulletproof glass. So all of the windows are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote, gee, some of the windows are fake. We have no fake windows. They said they talked about a stairway in the South. We don't have a stairway in the South. That was replaced a long time ago.
6:22Ben Meiselas:Now, there were some additional clips of Air Force One where he then tried to be like, well, can we just talk about the ballroom right now? I just think it's easier if we just talk a lot about this and we don't talk about the war. Because for Donald Trump, talking about the ballroom is like a safe space for him, right? He knows this war is catastrophic and he's in denial about just how bad it is. So he's like, could we talk about like the Corinthian columns, everybody? And again, this is someone with deep paranoia who's in a deep state, in my opinion, of cognitive and physical deterioration. Let's play this clip as he go.
7:00Ben Meiselas:I just want to do this now. I thought it would be easier. Here, play this clip. Here's another one. Excuse me. Wait, I don't do this now because it's easier. I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this. But I'm fighting wars and other things. But this is very important because this is going to be with us for a long time. And it's going to be, I think it'll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. It's its highest level. Same height, exact height, if it's not higher, same height as the White House, exactly the same height. And if you look, you have the White House over here, you have this, and that's a duplicate of the wall.
7:40So it pays total homage to the White House, which is, I think, very important.
7:45Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump says that about this war, he goes, everybody's saying thank you to me. Everybody is so grateful for me. Here, let's play this clip. The weapon, they'd use it immediately. I think she's probably a little bit softer on that issue, but that's OK. Some people are. Most people are. Most people are saying thank you very much for doing what you did. They are decimated right now. I just want to remind you as well that before Donald Trump left to go to Florida, when he held his last cabinet meeting, he kept on bragging about cognitive exams again. And pass another cognitive exam, everybody.
8:23Ben Meiselas:Another cognitive exam, everybody. Here, play this clip. I'll say it right now. I say it because no person ever reports it. I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it three times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me, but it's a cognitive test. It starts off with an easy question. And by the time you get to the middle, it gets tougher. By the time you get to the end, very few people can answer those questions. They get very tough mathematical equations and things. I took it three times. I aced it all three times in front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are.
9:02And I was told when I went in, they said, Doc Ronnie told me this. My current doctors are fantastic doctors. They said, well, if you take it, you know, it's Walter Reed. It's essentially a public hospital. And if you do badly, it's probably going to get out. But I aced it. I got them all right. And one doctor said, I've never seen anybody get them all right. I've been doing the test for 20 years. I want people I would love to see anybody that's a president or a vice president or anybody that has any chance of being a president, I would like to see them take a cognitive test.
9:39Ben Meiselas:And by the way, as I mentioned, you know, the Iranians are seeing Donald Trump physically deteriorate in the videos that they've been making of him. They've been doing like the Iranian propaganda. People are like doing videos to taunt and mock him. And they always have his hand like bandaged up or they have his hand being discolored. More on that in a moment. I'll share with you just what they're doing to taunt and mock him as he physically and mentally deteriorates before our eyes. But a reporter asks him, hey, Donald, are you still considering putting boots on the ground? And would you do that without even going to Congress?
10:17Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump compares his catastrophic war in Iran to the ballroom. He goes, we're ahead of schedule in Iran, like the ballroom. Here, play this clip.
10:55ships, their entire Navy, which we did. We knocked out their entire air force. We knocked out most of their missiles. That's why you see missile attacks, but they're down to, they're sputtering. And we have a group, it's really a new regime. It's a new group of people, people that we've never dealt with before that are acting very reasonable. It is truly regime change.
11:19Ben Meiselas:And then he's like, everybody's talking about how beautiful the ballroom is. It's so beautiful. Here, let's play this clip.
11:55We have very small rooms and not big enough to handle the kind of capacity that you need.
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13:51Ben Meiselas:And yes, you're probably doing this to manipulate the market as well, but you're not manipulating the market. Everybody recognizes that you just lie about everything. Every word out of your mouth is like, you are not having conversations with the new Iranian leadership. What do you mean you think they're reasonable people. Like, are you out of your damn mind? The answer is yes, he is out of his damn mind, quite literally. Here, play this clip. But we've had regime change. You look already because the one regime was decimated, destroyed. They're all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we're dealing with different people than anybody's dealt with before.
14:32It's a different group of people. So I would consider that regime change. And frankly, they've been very reasonable. So I think we've had regime change. You can't do much better than that. The regime that was really bad, really evil was the first one that was done. The second was appointed and they're gone. They're all dead. Other than one who may have a little alive. And then they're really in the third group and the third group of people that seem to be much more reasonable. It truly is regime change. And regime change is an imperative, but I think we have it automatically. I did something today.
15:15Ben Meiselas:And then he goes again, he talks about the Corinthian columns and this is so Corinthian. What the hell is this guy talking about? Play this clip. And that porch will be magnificent looking in between the columns. They no longer, we took the stairs out that were on the south side and really replaced them with these stairs. So you have an open porch and you have the closed porch under the columns overlooking the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial slash monument. So that's great. This is a view of the columns as they are going to be made. They're going to be hand carved and they're beautiful.
16:02Top of the line, there'll be Corinthian, which is considered the best, most beautiful by far.
16:07Ben Meiselas:Now, as Donald Trump's support has completely crashed with the Hispanic population, all time lows, his approval is like 27%, 25%. It's dropped like like 60 points or something like record breaking. He's like, the Hispanics love me more than, no, they don't. They absolutely don't play this clip. Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. And now I'm doing even better with the Hispanic population. And that's bad for them. They always had it. Now they don't have it anymore. These are people. And then in his paranoia, he says, the Democrats are sick. He says, the Democrats are the terrorists.
16:47Ben Meiselas:They're sick. and the Democrats are like terrorists. Here, play this clip.
17:17wall that let millions of people pour into our country again. And we've all been through that.
17:21Ben Meiselas:Then finally, Donald Trump says the Iranians have agreed they're going to give up their nuclear weapons. They're going to give up their nuclear dust. They're going to give up everything. You're not even talking to them. They're not talking to you. You're making this all up. You know, again, I don't know if these are just delusions in your mind, if this is manipulating the market, which I think is the main reason why you're doing this. But I also think you're delusional. They're not speaking. They've already talked about their non-negotiables. They will not talk about anything that reduces their ballistic missile capability.
17:51Ben Meiselas:They will not talk about anything unless the United States agrees to full reparations for the war. They will not agree to anything unless they get to keep control of the Strait of Hormuz and charge a toll. They will not talk at all unless the U.S. gives firm security guarantees that they, Hezbollah, the Shiite militias in Iraq and others will never be targeted by the U.S. and Israel again, and the U.S. and Israel need to get off all the military bases in the Middle East. Those are non-negotiable, but you can keep on pretending that you're having a conversation with them. Here, play this clip. Thank you very much for doing what you did.
18:25They are decimated right now. They're going to give up nuclear weapons. They're going to give us the nuclear dust. They're going to do everything that we want to do. And you know what? They're going to go on and maybe have a great country again. But if they don't do that, they're not going to have a country. They're not even going to have a country.
18:44Ben Meiselas:And then just so you can all see Iranian state media and Iranian propagandists are seeing Donald Trump's fear and they're making videos about his fear. And they're, you know, basically, you know, saying, look how scared he is in order to mock him. Here's one such video that they're doing these AI generated videos. And here's one of them where they portray him as sweaty and panicking playing this clip. say I'm not a pedophile. I'm not a pedophile. Liar! Say I wasn't on Epstein's Island. I wasn't on Epstein's Island. Liar! Say I don't worship Baal. I don't worship Baal. Liar! And here it is where they don't seem intimidated at all, but they always portray him as sweating and scared, Play this clip.
20:25Ben Meiselas:And then here they have him trying to like eat like the Middle Eastern food. Here, play this clip.
20:47Ben Meiselas:And then here was their latest animation where they try to portray Donald Trump as being scared. Here, play this clip.
21:15Ben Meiselas:And so tactically, they see in him someone who is cognitively, physically deteriorating. And they're directing these videos in order to, you know, in order to try to share and expose what they view as kind of his weakness and his failings. They're talking about. I just want to show you what they're doing generally there. What's going viral on the Internet so you can also see what they're sharing. I mean, and and how he looks, how he's perceived outside of his cult here in the United States. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. And thanks everybody for watching.
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