Trump's Health Faces New Scrutiny as Iran Talks Intensify

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1:26Ben Meiselas:regime at the highest level, brought together a group of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, the top mental health professionals in Iran. And over the past 60 or so days, they've been working with the Iran negotiators, helping guide them after diagnosing Donald Trump as clinically insane and as fully mentally ill and compromised. And so they believe they're not negotiating with anyone of sound mind. I'll tell you what the reporting suggests. Iran negotiators enlist a team of psychologists and psychiatrists to tailor diplomatic communications to a mentally incapacitated and legitimately ill individual.

2:11Ben Meiselas:That's how the Iranian regime at the highest level is describing it. So Iranian negotiators who have been involved in these discussions brought in a group of senior psychologists and psychiatrists into the diplomatic team based on their assessment of Donald Trump, according to this investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill, over at DropSite. He cites numerous Iranian sources who state that they believe that Donald Trump was someone who was, again, physically, cognitively impaired, that they would have to cater messages to somebody in his mental state and mental condition. They had to treat him essentially as a patient during the negotiations and engage in what they refer to as, quote, clinical diplomacy because it was as if they were dealing with somebody in a mental ward.

3:07Ben Meiselas:And again, this comes at a time where it's his 80th birthday tonight. He seems to be exhibiting a lot of these signs that people noticed of his dad, Fred, who had rapidly deteriorating Alzheimer's, which eventually killed him and he died from it. But Fred was known to just wither away super quickly. And people are seeing in Donald Trump very similar behaviors. Raw Story also picked this up. Iran takes eyebrow raising step, believing that Donald Trump is legitimately mentally ill. It should also be noted that about 45 days ago or so, an Iranian psychology body also sent an open letter in Tehran regarding their view that Donald Trump's malignant narcissism was a threat to the Middle East and a threat to the world.

3:58Ben Meiselas:Now, when you see Donald Trump's behavior recently, just even over the past 24 hours, including threatening to bomb Iran with nuclear weapons, even as we believe we're about to have a deal, even as we believe that was about to happen, I think proves the thesis correct of Iran about Donald Trump's behavior. You just think about the last 24 hours, right? Donald Trump was so panicked and embarrassed and malignant narcissist, that his name was getting removed from the Kennedy Center, that there's gigantic tarp over the John F. Kennedy Center right now because Trump's name vandalizing it was removed.

4:40Ben Meiselas:I mean, that's some real sick behavior right there. But go to the post that he did yesterday morning. Again, he makes this post while there's the Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan. We're hearing positive messages coming out of Qatar. We're hearing positive messages out of the United Arab Emirates, positive messages out of Saudi Arabia. The first time we're seeing collective positive messages that we may actually be getting a deal, which would be great. Foreign Minister Aragchi of Iran is suggesting we're moving closer to a deal. And the Iran hardliners are really going after Aragchi and trying to throw him and MB Galiboff, the parliament leader, under the bus for doing this deal.

5:23Ben Meiselas:So this stuff, this is very tenuous stuff, right? Like, this is something that needs to be held together. And what does Donald Trump do? Donald Trump posts the following. Barack Hussein Obama's deal with Iran, the JCPOA was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a nuclear weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago and would have used long before now. My agreement with Iran's the exact opposite, a wall to no nuclear weapon. In fact, they no longer want a nuclear weapon, nor will they have one, either through the purchase development or any other form of procurement. The deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is open to all.

6:01Ben Meiselas:Just pause there for a second, though. I'll get back to that, but that's not what Iran said at all. In fact, Iran says that Donald Trump's behavior is incredibly odd, that he needs this thing to be signed on his birthday. As the Fars News Agency, which is one of Iran's state news agencies, reports, Trump's strange insistence on signing a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday is a test for a negotiation team. An hour ago, Trump once again emphasized the memorandum of understanding with Iran will be signed on Sunday. This comes even as Iranian officials have explicitly stated that the agreement has not been finalized and will definitely not take place on Sunday.

6:42Ben Meiselas:And again, they describe it as unusual assistance so that he can celebrate it on his birthday. Like, what are You like a little baby Donald? Like you need to celebrate it on your birthday? What are you talking about? And stop with this. Stop. You've made such a fool out of the United States with your behavior. The 38, 39, it's going to be a deal, deal, deal. No one takes us seriously. The United States is viewed as like a clownish Trump organization entity that's a freaking failure. It's just sad to see this from our country. I digress. Donald Trump then posts after the deal is scheduled to be signed tomorrow.

7:17Ben Meiselas:Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than the previous administrations have had. Unlike Obama's hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to them, including$1.7 billion in green cold cash, no money will exchange hands. At the appropriate time when all is calm, we will go in and get the nuclear dust buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran or in the United States. Pause. That's definitely not part of any deal. Also, from what we know already, Iran's received billions of dollars funneled through the United Arab Emirates.

7:55Ben Meiselas:That Qatar is going to be giving Iran billions of dollars being funneled so that Trump pretends that he's not making the payments. That there may be$300 billion given to Iran, but it's going to be framed as loans to the Middle East or a Middle East development fund, which is reparations to Iran. Iran's going to control the Strait of Hormuz. There's nothing about any negotiations involving Iran's nuclear weapons, which is referred to as the nuclear file, until 60 days. And so what are you talking about, Donald? I mean, none of the, like, you're again making up terms that aren't in the deal. At a time when this deal could easily fall apart and send the world into a global depression.

8:39Ben Meiselas:Just like, stop posting, dude. Just chill out. Just go away. Seriously, man. Just go away and stay far away. Hopefully, Donald Trump then goes on to say, we look forward to working with Iran and the entire Middle East long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn't, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. It's clearly a veiled threat at nuclear weapons, but it's like, you think that's a helpful negotiating strategy? You think that's a helpful way to close the deal?

9:17Ben Meiselas:I mean, is your ego so fragile that you have to type that in a social media post to the world? There are so many Americans who are suffering right now who frankly need there to be a deal. Like regardless of your incompetence, we're rooting for a deal because we need things to get more affordable. Just we need some relief because Americans are going bankrupt. People can't survive. People are psychologically tortured. You're psychologically torturing them. They can't afford rent. They can't afford anything right now. So I'm hoping and praying for a deal. Despite I despise Donald Trump, it makes me sad to know how much my fellow Americans and people of the world are suffering right now.

9:58Ben Meiselas:And so you have Ron diagnosing this guy as clinically ill. And look at his last Oval Office thing before, whatever you want to call it, before this weekend, where he talks about, I turned off the lights. We took out nights, 25 ships. He's making stuff up. Here, play this clip. We've been taking out ships, big ships, quietly at night. You guys didn't know that. Pretty cool, right? As a captain. He knows more about ships than I do, but it's pretty cool. They turned off the lights. We bombed their radar and everything so they couldn't see what was going on. We took out some nights, 25 ships, some nights, 15.

10:37The last four or five nights we did 25, 22, 21, 26, 18, and 14. Who else would remember those numbers? Nobody.

10:52Ben Meiselas:And then he's claiming that the reason that a Republican in California, Steve Hilton, he was able to get to the next round with Javier Becerra and beat Tom Steyer, is because Trump said, It was rigged. I caught them rigging it. And so they saved Steve Hilton because I caught the rigging taking place. Dude, just like, we can't have folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks. Iran is right. And I've been saying this over and over again. The guy is a psychopath. I'm not, not in a hyperbolic way. Oh, he's a psycho. No, he's actually psychotic. He's mentally ill and it's getting worse. And he's exhibiting those same signs, in my opinion, that Fred did, which I believe to be, again, I'm giving you my opinion, it looks like what Fred had.

11:43Ben Meiselas:Go Google it, go look it up yourself. And here's what he says about Hilton, let's play it. I did it a little while ago and opened it up to them. Twice I've done it now, Peter, right? Peter Navarro, the great Peter Navarro. And I did it twice. I did it, and then they had a rigged election and i wasn't here totally rigged election just like what was happening in california you see what they got the kid out and then they were doing the same thing to steve hilton and i started i started bringing it they said look they said it's going to take two more weeks it was a week and it was heading south and i started saying it's a rigged election and then they said it was going to take two weeks one week two weeks and all of a sudden he was approved you know why because the heat was on.

12:30He couldn't get away with it. If I didn't do it, I guarantee he wouldn't be the nominee. It's a rigged election.

12:37Ben Meiselas:Then he talks about his electric boats. I don't even know what's... I have no clue what he's even trying to articulate. Let's play it. They didn't want you to disturb the fish that you weren't allowed to fish for. But think of it. These people are crazy. And the new thing they had was you had to have an electric boat. Even though they didn't work. And even though once you got out there, He had a problem because he couldn't get back because it didn't charge long enough. These are problems that were mentioned to them. And they said, we don't care. You have to have an electric boat. And the other problem was the electric battery is much heavier, as you know.

13:15So the boat has a tendency to sink. And they were forced, you know, by 2030 or so, you were forced to have an electric boat. I don't think you were too happy with that, right? Not at all.

13:26Ben Meiselas:Anyway, but well, this is going to support millions and millions. And then he has to attack former President Biden for, you know, a Biden signature. I can really sign these documents. Biden can't. By the way, from what all the accounts are, this deal with Iran that's going to be signed is going to be a DocuSign. Folks, they're doing it via DocuSign electronic signatures. You're doing an auto pen to sign this deal. Anyway, here's what he says. Let's play it.

14:27She's a real beauty, that one. Okay.

14:31Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.