Trump's Sunday Just Got Even Uglier...

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2:05Ben Meiselas:Underwritten by Farmers Truck or Fire Insurance Exchanges or Affiliate. Products not available in every state. After getting booed at a Tennessee college football game yesterday, Donald Trump is off to another sporting event where he's now made himself the honorary chairman of the President's Cup in Chicago. He's heading to Medina Country Club while the American people are suffering while gas and diesel prices hit record highs. And the American people are feeling the pain right now. He's off to another sporting event on the taxpayer dime. He spoke with the press briefly before taking off to Chicago.

2:41Ben Meiselas:And he said, we have the best poverty in the United States right now. Here's what he said. Play this clip. We have the best, I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country. In other words, there's less poverty now than at any time in the history of our country. And then he said, but don't worry. Yes, gas and diesel prices are high, but the price of oil will come down. It will be dropping very soon. Once Iran gives up, he says. Here, play this clip. With all of that, oil will come dropping down as soon as Iran gives up, As soon as the war is over, which will be soon, oil is going to come plummeting down, and oil prices are coming down.

3:24But prices for groceries have come way down from Biden. Almost every price has come way down. And remember one thing. Oil is less expensive now than it was under the Biden administration. But with all of that being said, we're taking tremendous amounts of oil out. Last night, we took a record amount of oil out from the Harmo Strait. more than we took out before the war. Thank you very much.

3:52Ben Meiselas:And then he said, did you know that last night we took in a record amount of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, more than when the war started? How about that? More than the war, more than when the war started. Here, play this clip. Last night, we took a record amount of oil out from the Hormuz Strait, more than we took out before the war. Thank you very much. So I'm trying to get this straight, Donald. So you're saying that the oil prices are going to drop as soon as the war ends and Iran gives up, but we're taking in more oil than before the war. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Then ranting and raving like a lunatic as he was heading to Chicago.

4:32Ben Meiselas:He's posting things like this. More people are working in the United States right now than at any point in history. Things are amazing. Everybody is rich. This is the golden age right now. Come on. He then sent Treasury Secretary Besson to make his rounds on state regime media. And Besson says, yeah, so Iran's claiming they want to open up the Strait of Hormuz if we do a deal. We don't even care anymore because we control the Strait of Hormuz. The straits are open, everybody. Here, play this clip. They are feeling the pressure here, and that's why they want a deal. And you saw when President Trump was leaving the White House this morning, that the Iranians say they'll open the straits within seven days.

5:14Larry, the straits are open. If you take out the Iranian oil, which we're not letting out, we are not letting it out, that we're averaging now.

5:24Ben Meiselas:Really, because if the straits are open, Besant, then why don't you put the Navy destroyers and the aircraft carriers through them if they're really open? And if they're really open, then why is the price of gas and diesel continuing to surge. We know it's not open. Also, it should be noted that Iran was able to capture yet another drone belonging to the United States, a submersive drone in the Strait of Hormuz. It sure sounds like it's open. Also, as we reported yesterday, Iran seemed to launch more mines in that southern route in the Strait of Hormuz. And then like almost every other day, I've been reporting about another tanker being hit in the Strait of Hormuz.

6:01Ben Meiselas:But OK, Besson, sure, whatever. I mean, the best in propaganda is like the worst propaganda also. Like we all know this guy's lying. Then he says, also, China has substantially reduced its assistance to Iran. Hear a play of this clip. Again, I have great respect for General King, but he is mistaken here. China has substantially reduced any assistance to Iran. And I am confident, given that there's only 15 million more barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran will have nothing left to trade for anything. Really, they reduced their assistance to Iran? I mean, I showed you the China's foreign ministry spokesperson and China's vice president in the past 48 hours criticizing the U.S.

6:52Ben Meiselas:for its strikes on Iran and its war on Iran. I showed you the vice president of China and the foreign ministry spokesperson saying it will not respond to any unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States. And they also spoke out against the embargo in Cuba. This is the IRGC statement about capturing the submersive drone in the Strait of Hormuz belonging to the U.S., the Remus 600 conducting surveillance as Iran was putting more mines in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. Also this morning, we heard from Iran's foreign minister, Aragchi, who spoke with Meet the Press. And foreign minister Aragchi said, look, Iran is trying to pursue a diplomatic strategy here.

7:36Ben Meiselas:They said they want to go back to the memorandum of understanding, which Trump previously agreed to. But those terms in the memorandum of understanding, which the U.S. previously agreed to, are non-negotiables. Those need to be agreed to. And then the Strait of Hormuz will be open. But Foreign Minister Araqchi also says we're fully prepared to go to war if we have to. Here play this clip. Are you preparing for this war to resume? We are fully prepared for the time for the war to be resumed. And I repeat, we stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war. But at the same time, we are ready.

8:18We stand ready for diplomacy. It is up to President Trump to choose. He wanted unconditional surrender in the previous war in two days. And now it's eight months that they are fighting with no result. A new aggression would be certainly the same. We are fully prepared for that.

8:37Ben Meiselas:And then Foreign Minister Aragchi says, look, every time we've negotiated with the U.S. in the past, they've engaged in war during the middle of the negotiation as we were close to doing a deal. Like in 2025, we offered negotiations. And as we were close to making a deal, that's when Trump and Netanyahu struck. Then eight months later, in February of 2026, Oman's foreign minister brokered a deal with a agreement that was actually stronger than the JCPOA. And that night after a deal was made, that's when the U.S. and Netanyahu, that's when Trump and Netanyahu struck Iran in late February. Here play this clip.

9:16We engage with this administration once again because of their behavior in the past two years. You know, in 2025, they offered negotiation. We accepted and we engaged into negotiation. And then in the middle of negotiations, they attacked us. Eight months later, in 2026, February, again, they offered negotiation. Again, we accepted. And again, they attacked us right in the middle of negotiations. Then they offered after the war, they offered negotiation for a deal. We accepted. We had three months of negotiations and it took only two weeks for them to violate a deal which they had signed themselves.

9:52So if you ask us, there is no reason why we should go back to diplomacy. But I'm still trying diplomacy because I think we shouldn't miss any chance for peace.

10:02Ben Meiselas:And then Iran's foreign ministry, foreign minister Aragji said, look, if they're serious about wanting to do a deal, there's a possibility. But, you know, like, let's actually have grown up conversations and not lie about the situation of what's taking place. Here's what he says. Have offered the plan. If they want, if they are serious, that they want a deal to reopen the Estrade of Hormones, now there is the possibility. We have offered this seven day plan. We want them to do certain things which we think they can do it in four or five days. And then on day six, the Estrade will be open. on day seven, we resume talks with them for the final.

10:43Ben Meiselas:Mr. Foreign Minister, I want to get. And also, so while Donald Trump is saying, you know, oh, Iran's going to give up, we control the Strait of Hormuz, he's also leaking to his personal stenographer and propagandist at Axios, Barack Ravid. He tells Axios he expects more U.S.-Iran talks this week, despite rejecting Iran's proposal. He goes, they want to make a deal. It's not the deal I want. They overplayed their hand, asked about resuming strikes. I'm always thinking about it. And what he's thinking about is that the market's going to open soon. He needs to do more market manipulation. You'll recall on Friday, Donald Trump and his regime put out statements that there were high-level technical talks progressing and things were looking really good in the negotiations with Iran.

11:30Ben Meiselas:Then when the markets closed on Friday, Donald Trump started leaking out. We're going to definitely strike again after the midterms. We're going to obliterate the civilization off the map. We're also hearing from Iran's Army Chief General Hatami right now, who says, if Iran cannot trade, if you're going to shut off our trade, if Iran cannot live, no one will be able to trade or live. The Strait of Hormuz is the strait of our dignity and honor, and the country's enemies will not be allowed to use this major logistical choke point while the Iranian nation is deprived of it. By the way, checking in on MAGA Mike Johnson this morning and seeing what he and the MAGA Republicans are trying to sell to the American people as prices are surging, inflation surging, gas and diesel have hit record highs as Americans can't afford anything, as this never-ending war is never-ending, as Donald Trump's threatening war in Cuba, as Americans have had their health care ripped away.

12:28Ben Meiselas:Tell us, Maga Mike Johnson, what's the message right now? Here, play this clip. And part of that challenge is that we don't know our history. We don't know world history. And the story with communism always ends the same way. Always does. And we track that in the 20th century and the current century. It never ends well. And when people are out on the campaign and they're promising free things to you, you must ask what the real price is. It is your freedom. It will drive costs up. It will ruin the economy. It will make people more dependent upon government. And ultimately, that's the communist ultimate goal is to have the government in charge of everything, which means you have zero freedom at all.

13:06Ben Meiselas:It never, ever works. By the way, with so much disinformation out there, it's so important that we have a healthy media diet. It's why I've partnered with Ground News for this video. Ground News is an app and a website that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them by story to show you how is the left, center and right framing the story differently. It's got a great color-coded layout that makes it easy to see the political bias of each source. It also tells you, is the story coming from a large media conglomerate with corporate interests, or is it coming from an independently owned media network?

13:41Ben Meiselas:And so I use Ground News' dedicated blind spot feed a lot, which is a personal favorite of mine. It highlights stories being disproportionately covered by either side of the political aisle. You take a look right here, for example. Trump says indirect U.S.-Iran talks expected to continue this week. And if you notice, it has very little coverage on the left and not all that much coverage in the center, but a lot of coverage on the right because they're still buying the fact that he's saying, all right, we're very close to a deal. We're very close to negotiations and everybody else is kind of discounting it.

14:16Ben Meiselas:And so it helps situate my reporting to see who's reporting on what right now. And when I approach a story, I want to try to get as many sources as I can to see how are other people reporting it. Look, I believe in Ground News so much. We're going to offer you 40 % off the same Vantage plan that I use for my research. So just go click the link in the description or go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code up here. It's one of the biggest discounts they ever offered. If you want to support this channel and get a clearer understanding of our world, try Ground News. Go to ground.news.com and check it out.

14:53Ben Meiselas:By the way, have you seen this story right here? There's video showing Kimberly Guilfoyle, remember Don Jr.'s girlfriend or fiance, Kimberly Guilfoyle, before Don Jr. ended up marrying, was it what, Epstein's banker's daughter? And then they did the wedding in the Caribbean, the Bahamas that was paid for by the Russian oligarch. Yeah, well, what's Kimberly Guilfoyle up to? Just checking in. Well, she's the U.S. ambassador to Greece, as you may recall, and she met privately with the leaders of Romania's Social Democratic Party on March 31st in a Bucharest hotel. Just six days later, the Social Democrats allied with the pro-Russian extremists from AUR and filed a motion that collapsed the Romanian government led by a prime minister at the time who strongly opposed purchasing U.S.

15:45Ben Meiselas:gas at above market prices. And so one of the things that we now have learned is that Kimberly Guilfoyle apparently stated that the U.S. was involved in the dismissal of the prior Romanian government, according to the Wall Street Journal, quote, we can do this to any country we want. We can do this in Greece, too. The former prime minister opposed the vertical gas corridor, which she promoted as on behalf of the Trump regime. Just a fascinating nugget right there and tidbit about what she's doing and how the U.S. is destroying the post-World War II architecture it created and continuing to help Russia abroad.

16:26Ben Meiselas:Not a story that's being highly reported elsewhere. Let's talk about what's trade representative Jameson Greer saying for himself. He was asked on state regime media, do you think our farmers, with all of the destruction Donald Trump has done in the global order, destroying the export markets of farmers, making input costs more expensive, do you think our farmers are better off today? Do you really think that, Jameson Greer? Listen to what Greer has to say. Play this clip. On the farmers, the Wall Street Journal editorial board says that the tariffs have raised the cost for American farmers through both their access to foreign markets and retaliation.

17:05They say, quote, Mr. Trump's border tax is filtered through supply chains to kill all kinds of parts and equipment, making it harder for farmers when they buy tractors, combines, harvesters and planters. Can you say that American farmers are better off today than before the tariffs? I can because they're the when when we came into office, when President Trump came into office, The US trade deficit in agricultural goods was enormous and he has cut that in half in the past year and a half. How has he done that? He has opened up new markets. We have countries like Cambodia that have lowered all of their tariffs.

17:43Ben Meiselas:Or what about MAGA Republican Congress member Van Orden? When he was asked on CNN this morning about gas prices surging and diesel prices surging, he was like, it's all Biden's fault and it all has to deal with Ukraine and has very little or nothing to do with the war in Iran. These people will lie about everything. Here, play this clip. Yeah, your constituents, as we talked about, there are a lot of them are farmers and a lot of them are paying the price for the Iran war. I mean, diesel prices in Wisconsin are up more than a dollar compared to just last month, Congressman, and more than$3 compared to this time last year.

18:19Are you okay with your constituents eating the cost from this war?

18:25Ben Meiselas:well mona it's much more nuanced than that you got to remember there's a massive spike in diesel prices as soon as uh russia invaded ukraine due to joe biden's strategic weakness we have in the last month it's gone about a dollar refineries across the country we have multiple blue states have shut refineries down across the country that's leading to an increase in this also and there's just thank god the uh diesel plant refinery just reopened in illinois we've had Two of our refineries in the Midwest shut down recently. One just opened again. That's leading to a spike in these prices. Also breaking news this morning.

19:00Ben Meiselas:The UK is investigating right now a suspected bomb plot. Five people were arrested at the Royal Air Force Base in Fairford. That's the US air base in England used for strikes on Iran and other strikes. Sources close to the investigation are now trying to say that this could be linked to Iran. I would pay close attention to this, though. If you take a look right here, you can see some B-roll of where the van was that apparently had these explosives relative to the Royal Air Force Base itself. And that has that B-1 Lancer is over there. I want to pay close attention to this as well as information is developing.

19:45Ben Meiselas:According to authorities there, they're saying that they have believed that this could be connected to potential terroristic activity. We do know the Trump regime is always engaged in chicanery. So I want to make sure, and they lie about everything. I want to make sure that I give balanced coverage, but I want to report that there was an arrest, five individual suspects, potentially terroristic activity. They were somewhat near that Royal Air Force base in the UK. They're heading towards the base around 12.45 a.m. on Sunday. We're going with explosives potentially. So we're going to keep you posted.

20:23Ben Meiselas:We're going to be keeping an eye on what's going there. By the way, with all of this taking place, Donald Trump is also using our taxpayer dollars not just to take these trips to sporting events and making himself the honorary chairman here and there. But the U.S. government, as you know, is now running ads, these fascist authoritarian propaganda ads for Donald Trump. And so this is an ad that they're running nationally on Fox during the Ohio State game. We're talking about millions of our dollars are being run with ads like this. although I do think they're probably backfiring because this fascist authoritarian ad with Donald Trump like in a very creepy way it's like right out of a horror movie walking down this hall it looks like all of the attacks that Donald Trump is like leveling at others and that like it's all of the things that he's done I mean this is a guy who's covering up child sex trafficking rings he is the deep state I mean he literally has a network of fake influencer feds who are out there pretending to be like reporters He bans the media.

21:26Ben Meiselas:He hates the First Amendment. He gets into catastrophic wars. He is the ultimate person who wants to tread on you. He's a sexual predator. Remember the don't tread on me crowd, right? That flag has been changed to tread on me, daddy, because, I mean, there's no government that treads on people more than this despicable Trump regime right here. Going back, by the way, to that Maga Mike Johnson clip you saw, right? I mean, they're literally describing themselves. The projection is unreal. So I showed you that clip. Did I play that clip? This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state.

22:05We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media. and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.

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