Iran Caves to China & US as Shocking Details of Peace Deal Surprise Trump Skeptics

25:48That's the point. He used them as a threat. Do I have to read the freaking quote from Art of the Deal again? Like Abby Phillip, read Art of the Deal tonight. I know you can read off a teleprompter, so I'm guessing you could read a book or just get the audio book. Did Trump read the audio book himself? Can we find out? That would be probably not. Who read the audio book of Art of the Deal? That would just be kind of funny if Trump read it himself. But the point is, lady, it did work. He used rhetoric to scare them. So at around 11 a.m. yesterday, they were saying the deal is off, we're not talking.

26:19And by five, six o 'clock, they were talking. And by seven o 'clock, there was a deal in place. Now we don't know what will happen with the deal. I'll grant you that. But to say, it's so dumb to say they're empty threats. Would your preference be that Trump had just said all these crazy things? Like think about it the other way. So the other version of it would be Trump would say these crazy things and then drop a nuke on Iran. Would you be then crediting him? Well, you know, he said all this crazy shit. Well, damn. He said all this crazy stuff and then he dropped the nuke. So that's Trump. There's Trump for you.

26:53Like, come on lady. Here's one more. The same table that we have tonight is the table that existed yesterday in large part. And fundamentally, the only thing that has been agreed to is that Iran will continue to control the Strait of Hormuz and will allow ships to go through on their control. That is the only thing that has been agreed to. The Strait is going to be reopened, and we're going to negotiate about the rest. Beyond that, we don't really know much of anything. But I will tell you, yesterday, Iran was saying, we're cutting off, you know, talks. We're not going to continue the talks. The president uses some extreme language.

27:30And all of a sudden, voila, tonight, we have a ceasefire for two weeks. Why can't we just say, you know what? Maybe we have achieved military objectives. Maybe we have taken down their military and their ability to export terror. Maybe we have decimated their missiles. Maybe we've buried the nuclear material. And maybe we've got two weeks to make the world a safer place. Did we ever send him, weren't we going to send him a gift? We're gonna send him a box of flowers or a box of chocolates or some flowers. It's like, do you have to put up with these people? Of course he's right. I mean, he's illustrating exactly what I just said right here.

27:59But for Abbey to say the only thing that has happened now is that the Strait of Hormuz has reopened is completely absurd. The political leadership was taken out. The second tier was taken out. The Navy is gone. Their Air Force is gone. Overnight, they lost control of all of their airspace. They have been shown in many ways to be a Piper Tiger. Now, yes, is it true that they launched rockets that are a pain in the ass and they're launching cluster munitions, which are designed, which for people that care about war crimes, every single one of them is a war crime because it's designed to kill as many people and destroy as much civilian infrastructure as possible.

28:34But the idea that nothing happened here, whoever now is in charge of Iran, do you think they are going to be more or less inclined to work with the United States going, boy, you know, I got a promotion real quick here. There was this month long thing. Everybody knows is dead. I'm in charge now. Maybe I'll try it a different way. And maybe they will realize that you don't fund terror everywhere. You don't race to a nuclear bomb, et cetera, et cetera. So it's just the only thing is that the strait is open. Like, Abby, you are just terrible. Speaking of terrible, CNN also is completely butchering how all of this got laid out.

29:14Listen to this from Trump. This is from this morning. The alleged statement put out by CNN World News is a fraud, as CNN well knows. The false statement was linked to a fake news site from Nigeria, and of course, immediately picked up by CNN and blared out as a legitimate headline. The official statement by Iran was just released and posted on Truth Below. Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the fake CNN World statement, or was it a sick rogue player? CNN is being ordered to immediately withdraw the statement with full apologies as their usual terrible reporting results of the investigation will be announced in the near future, President Donald J.

29:48Trump. So apparently CNN put out some sort of statement as it related to the official Iranian government position that Trump is saying is completely false. I suspect that we are going to see that Donald Trump is right about that. We'll have a bit more on the panic-ins in just a second, but first, Tax Network USA. Do you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns? No matter how it started, the problem's only gonna get worse. Penalties grow, interest adds up, and the IRS is already taking action through wage garnishments, bank levies, and more. That's where Tax Network USA can help. With over 15 years of experience, they specialize in resolving back taxes and unfiled returns.

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31:05Abby Phillips, the CNN panels, all obvious to do. One of the bigger issues that's been happening in the online world is that out of the Tucker, sadly, Megyn Kelly space has been this series of people that have been telling you everything Trump does, that Trump's not in charge, he doesn't know what he's doing, he's being manipulated, that it's going to lead to World War III. It's just a series of crazy misadventures. And then every time he does something they like, they say, well, he woke up. And then the next day he does something they don't like and they go, oh, he's being manipulated. Oh, he doesn't know what he's doing.

31:37Oh, he has dementia. It's completely and profoundly, profoundly absurd. Here is Scott Jennings calling out the podcast crew for attacking Trump over Iran. Well, look, they're isolationists, and he's not. He never has been. There's been a lot of people in that wing of our politics that wanted to ascribe or attach their views to him. He just never has been. He wasn't in his first term. He hasn't been in his second term. He's been a hawk on Iran his entire adult life. And I see some of these people now saying, gee whiz, we had no idea Donald Trump hated Iran and thought they shouldn't have a nuclear weapon.

32:11I mean, take the car key out of your ear, for goodness sakes. I don't know, Scott. This has literally been his position since he was like 30 years old when the regime took over. So I don't know what they've been listening to until now. Other than this, they wanted always to try to get him to bend to their will. And what they don't understand about Trump is that people bend to his. He's the head of the party and he runs the country, not the party. Yeah. Like, yeah. It's not much more complex than that. All of these people that were running around telling you, Trump was manipulated, Trump was lied to.

32:48It's just for clicks. Then he does something they like and they love him again. And then the next day he does something they don't like. Look, there are gonna be things that Trump does that I like or don't like and everything else. But if he does something I don't like, it's not because I think he's being manipulated. He has access to, he's the president of the freaking United States. He has access to information I don't like. I may not see the world exactly as he sees it at every given moment, but all of these people that wanted to make it seem, even just in the last 24 hours, there was a huge amount of people that thought that we were going to drop nukes all over Iran.

33:20And it's like, if you just had paid attention to any of the last 40 years, you would know that. But Scott does make the broader point, which again, I've made many times over the last 30 days, which is Trump never was a pure isolationist. He was America, was and is America first, not America alone. And he's always believed in peace through strength. And we've shown you the long track record on Iran. So for Trump to basically be doing what he said he is going to do and then be called a liar or an idiot or a buffoon because of it by people on the right, we expect it from people on the left, but people on the right is a bit much.

33:52Let me show you some versions of this. Now, these are lefties that I'm going to show. Well, it's a mix, actually. So watch this. So first is this guy, Cigar and Jetty. He's on the show, Breaking Points. It's a lefty podcast, but I wanna show you something. Here he says, this is before the ceasefire. It is now a time for choosing. The era of trying to be reasonable voice inside is over. Anyone with an ounce of integrity should follow the lead of Joe Kent and resign with honor or take immediate public steps to forestall disaster. If you do not, we will not forget. Then what happened? The ceasefire gets announced and what did he write?

34:31Taco Tuesday it is, pending Iranian approval. And taco stands for Trump always chickens out. So you must understand this. This is a perfect example of the sort of mnemonic trick that they are doing and one of the conditions of Trump derangement syndrome. When they thought Trump was going to do something crazy, they were demanding that other principled people step away like Joe Kent. Joe Kent, who clearly was a leaker, who just seemingly something is not right in that space, but Joe Kent can do whatever he wants. But be principled like Joe Kent, work for the guy, and then the day you quit, start going on podcasts bashing him.

35:07That's the principled stance, according to Cigar. But then when Trump gets a ceasefire, it's Trump chickens out. So you see, they win no matter what. Nick Fuentes, the little gay leader of the weirdo's incel crew online wrote, and vote taco, Trump chickens out, right? So you see, what do you mean, Nick? You didn't want war, right? You've been screaming America first, no wars, Trump promised us no wars. Now we get a ceasefire and hopefully we'll have a more peaceful world and it's still Trump chickens out because it doesn't matter if you're right or on the left. In this case, you're all doing the same thing.

35:49Here's Megyn Kelly with the sky is falling because of some of Trump's tweets. 3D chess. Shut up. Shut up about that. You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians just casually in a social media post. This is wrong. It's wrong. He should not be doing it. I don't care that it's a negotiate. His negotiation tactic is to kill an entire country full of civilians, men, women and children. An American president so that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened. It's just wrong. It's not hard to say it. It's not hard to recognize it. I wish he would stop doing this like he can't negotiate without doing this.

36:41What does that say about him? What does that say about the the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations? God, it really is sad what's happened to her. So shrill and angry and everything else. He didn't kill any civilians. He threatened to. That was the negotiating point. Connor, could you put up the art of the deal quote again? Could we do this one more time? Because 40 years ago, he wrote this book. I said to the guy, you listen to me. If you do foreclose, I'll personally bring a lawsuit for murder against you and your bank on the grounds that you harassed Mrs. Hill's husband to death.

37:16All of a sudden, the bank officer sounded very nervous. and said he'd get right back to me, sometimes it pays to be a little wild. So is there some alternate universe, if we're in a simulation, we're in this universe here, is there some side universe where we would all like the president to speak exactly how we would like him to speak and do all of the things we would like him to do when we would like him to do them and all of those things? I suppose that universe exists, but it's not this universe. So Trump is the guy who has fought the machine more than anyone else. Megan I think you're still a Trump supporter I suppose although it's a little hard to tell what you are these days it's just wherever the clicks are I suppose but at the end of the day do you just not understand what he is doing here so the anger and the shrillness and everything else it's like stop like actually just stop and here's Tucker Carlson who is very upset that Trump was going after Islam.

38:12Who do you think you are? You're tweeting out the F word on Easter morning? So obviously you're mocking the religion of Iran. Okay. If you seek a religious war, that's a good idea. But by the way, no decent person mocks other people's religions. You may have a problem with the theology, but it's not just mockery of Islam. and no president should mock Islam. That's not your job. This is not a theocracy. We don't go to war with other theocracies to find out which theocracy is more effective. We are not. It's hard to listen to him too. I mean, I love that they seem to be shutting the lights off in the studio as if he's in a bunker at the end.

38:57This is a guy who hates Christian Zionists more than anyone else, who's relentlessly going after Protestants now, who goes after Jews. It's not just Israel. He goes after Jews. He wants Jews to get DNA tests in Israel. so spare me, Tucker, please, please. But again, you were the one back in May, thermonuclear World War III, right? Like it's completely absurd. You guys have all, and it's not a coincidence by the way, that Meghan and Tucker have become the leaders of this thing because they came from the mainstream world and what they know are ratings more than anything else. They came from a place of rating, say whatever you can for ratings.

39:36And the online world, Something different was brewing here for a long time. I'm very proud that I was part of it right at the beginning and it was better, it was better. I still try to do something a little bit better. They've decided to use the same tactics of do anything for ratings in the new space and that's why the online space in some sense is probably just as toxic, if not actually more than the mainstream space at this point. Trump, however, just does what he thinks is right consistently over and over again. And again, whether I agree with it or not, that's what he does. Here from Breaking911, Trump blasts Tucker in a phone call with the New York Post.

40:14Tucker's a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on. The president said, he calls me all the time. I don't respond to his calls. I don't deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools. It is worth noting that Tucker's son works in JD's office. He's a PR, I think he's in PR, public relations, whatever, in JD's office. And it's like, Tucker is now the number one enemy on the right in America to Donald Trump and his son works in the vice president's office. Like, no one's guilty by their father's sins. I'm not even saying he's doing anything nefarious, but conversations are had, people have lunch, they go for coffee, information is heard.

40:49Do you think that's getting to his dad? It's just worth putting a pin in that and knowing it. Allow me, can I quote myself on the show today? Allow me to quote myself. I put this up on Twitter last night and I think it largely explains where we've been and I think where we need to go from here. I wrote, which panic and wants to hand me my I told you so award? Trump has been running the same negotiation playbook forever. Pressure, escalation, chaos, then leverage a deal. We've watched it happen time and again. This wasn't complicated. It was basic pattern recognition. While some people were panicking, others were paying attention.

41:24Now we move to phase two. Iran is largely neutralized. The strait is reopening. The war is deescalating. Markets are already reacting. This is not a small win. It's a global reset. This forces movement everywhere else. Russia and Ukraine get pulled closer to real negotiation. China has to think twice about Taiwan when the US just proved it'll apply overwhelming pressure when it matters. And for the first time in decades, there's a real path to stepping back from endless Middle East entanglements. Look at the region. It's no longer just Israel. You're seeing alignment across countries that historically were nowhere near each other.

41:56The world is safer today than it was yesterday, and it's about to get even safer over the next few months as this locks in. And yes, let's be very clear about this. This happened because of Donald Trump, not the pundits, not the podcasters, not the panic merchants. Trump. Now comes the real opportunity. With global stability improving, we can finally refocus inward at full speed. Immigration, housing, affordability, healthcare, infrastructure, AI, rebuilding American strength where it actually matters. We're entering a new American era, economically, technologically, and yes, even in space exploration.

42:26This is what the start of a new frontier feels like. So here's the assignment. Put your phone down, go build something, start a family, create, get outside, do something real, stop listening to the Panikins onward. So look, I think you can see that's consistent with what my messaging here is all the time, all the time. Again, we don't know what will happen over the next two weeks. We don't know what will happen on day 15, but we are closer to something more peaceful. And the message has been sent to China. And there is an understanding now that America will do things when it needs to. NATO is realizing, boy, we can't rely on the US to endlessly defend us and endlessly foot the bill while we don't help.

43:07So something real has happened here and you didn't have to be a genius to see it, which is why I wrote pattern recognition. You just had to recognize the patterns. And if you see those patterns, then I think you will be less hysterical and panicked all the time. And then by the way, we can start acknowledging that there are good things happening in America. Let me just quickly, because it's, I would say, ancillarily related to all of this, mention one thing that's happening right here in Florida, happened yesterday, this is from Meet the Press. Ron DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters.

43:39So we are moving on the Muslim Brotherhood here in Florida. Texas has done a version of it, we've done a version of it federally, but it exempted a few of the countries that the Muslim Brotherhood's involved in, but we are moving on some things. And you have an opportunity to live in a place that is more congruent with your life. So to wrap up today's show, our final segment, I want to talk a bit about honor and loyalty because it seems to me those are the two things that maybe have been shredded more than anything else at scale in America right now. How many people in the public sphere are acting with honor?

44:16That's an open-ended question for you. And how many people are acting with integrity? Again, open-ended question for you. So now I wanna show you a couple videos here. This one we showed you, this is from about six weeks ago, right when the war started. J.D. Vance, the vice president, was asked about his differences with Trump on Iran. Take a look. Vice President, the President said earlier this week that you had a philosophical difference than him, that you were less enthusiastic on the onset of this war. Is that true and what is your opinion of how it's going? Well, I think you guys, again, I answered this question earlier, I'm sorry about that Taylor.

44:51You know, you asked this question earlier. When you're thinking about a major decision like this, the way the president makes these decisions is he talks to a lot of people. Obviously, we're thinking about various ins and outs, various options, what this looks like, how to accomplish our goals, what our goals should be. And I think it's important for the president of the United States to be able to have that conversation with his team without his team then running their mouth to the American media. So part of what makes our national security team so cohesive is that we all trust each other and we all have a very free exchange of ideas.

45:23I'd like to keep that going. Thank you guys. Okay, so honor and integrity, that's what we're talking about right now. So there's Trump, there's JD saying, hey, we have some differences, we're gonna talk it out. That's how you come to agreement. That's not bending the knee and bowing. And by the way, we all know that's true, right? We all know, everyone has said this. Everyone that has worked with Trump over the years I said he likes listening to people. He likes delegating. He's open. My little exchanges with him, even off camera, have been this is a guy who listens and is curious, et cetera, et cetera.

45:54So now I want to show you a video from a month ago, J.D. Vance. The most successful business owners don't do it all themselves. They delegate. Upwork is where growing businesses find, hire, and pay highly skilled freelance specialists, from software development and AI implementation to marketing, design, and business operations. With Upwork, you can fill critical skill gaps, launch projects faster, and scale support up or down without committing to full-time headcount. Visit Upwork.com right now to post your job for free. That's U-P-W-O-R-K dot com, Upwork dot com. Past skepticism of foreign adventurism, are you completely on board with the current war in Iran?

46:36So, I like frauds are. It's certainly what we're going to do. And look, we have to do it. is the president said this is a problem that has festered in this country for far too long and far too few people have actually wanted to do anything about it. That's what makes this administration different is that we actually tackle the problems the American people have been confronting. So I'm very happy about it. And look, I think that I know what you're trying to do, Phil. You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and the president. What the president said consistently, going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.

47:09We have taken this military action under the president's leadership. I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, should pray for success and pray for the safety of our troops. That's the approach that I've taken. Make it as successful as possible. OK, so that's a month ago. J.D., what he's sort of saying but not saying there is he's kind of saying, maybe I wouldn't have done it this way, but I'm the vice president right now, not the president. Now, maybe he will be president one day, but he's acting with honor and integrity. The boss is sitting right there and he's saying, that's the guy at the desk and I will tell him what I think.

47:43That's been made very, very clear over the last month that everyone has been doing that. And then he's going to make the decision. So now I want to, this is the last clip we'll show you and then we're gonna end with a couple of quotes, but this is from yesterday. JD is in Hungary right now, as I mentioned earlier. And here he is talking about the black pillars. And this is really in reference to the podcasters, some of whom I've mentioned here. It's largely about them who want who want every time Trump does something they don't like for you to go crazy and be depressed and think all hell's breaking loose and America's done and everything else.

48:15And the more that you think that, the more it will break the right. And when the right is broken, congratulations. Democrats win midterms. Trump's impeached Democrat president coming in 2028. And and and the thing is basically over. Listen to this. I think a lot of people this is particularly true in the United States of America. If they see something that the administration does they don't like, they say, oh, that's not what we voted for. We're going to check out a politics. No, no, no. That's the exact wrong response. If we do something you don't like, the response should be to get more involved, to make your voice heard, and to try to push things in the direction that you want them to be pushed.

48:52Our civilization was not built overnight. It's not going to be saved overnight. And so what I'd encourage you to do is stay involved, be patient, and don't let disappointment turn to checking out of the system entirely. There's way too much of that, I would say, in the Anglo system and the American system. There's way too much, you know, I didn't like this thing that the vice president said, or I didn't like this thing that the president did, and I'm going to completely check out. We call that blackpilling in the United States of America. And blackpilling is how you give power to the forces that are trying to destroy what our ancestors built.

49:28And that's completely right. That is completely right. Trump may not be perfect. I don't know how this whole thing will shake out and all of that stuff. Yeah. OK. But the more if every time he does something that you don't like, he's evil, he's compromised. He was conned into it. Or, so I'm gonna try to destroy him, or the other version of it, which is more so what JD's referencing there, I'm just gonna check out of the system altogether. Well, congratulations, you've just given oxygen to the people that are really, really, really the bad guys. So all of us, it's been a wacky month of debate over this thing.

50:06Let's try to come together a little bit. Why is it, why is it, Tucker Carlson, if you're watching today, Why is it that every single one of your shows is anti-Trump and anti-America? Why is it that you haven't done one show on the Save Act? Why haven't you done one show on the positive things that Trump has done with deportations and with trade, et cetera, et cetera? Why are you interested in blackpilling? Might be worth thinking about. I thought we'd end with a, we have two quotes here, right? We have two, yeah. Two quotes here. Let's start with Marcus Aurelius. We haven't done much of him lately.

50:42Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. I think that's really important right now. It's really, really important right now. Like if you have honor and you have integrity and people know that you believe what you believe and it doesn't mean you won't get things wrong. I get things wrong all the time. But then over time, that's how you can build a society that will be functional and sane and on the margin, some weird things are gonna happen, but most of us will be in on it together. And dare I go from Marcus Aurelius to Donald Trump, I value loyalty above almost everything else.

51:22A lot of respectable people talk integrity, but have no loyalty. Results over talk, loyalty over posturing. And that's it. Donald Trump likes results. So you might not like his tactics. You might be shrill Megyn Kelly screaming about his tactics, but the results of what he has done in the face of all of these things is rather remarkable. So if, again, if there's some alternate universe where a better buttoned up, nicer, less orange guy is out there just being nice to everybody and saying nice things and you always know what he's thinking and that's gonna work, if that alternate world exists, then show me that world.

52:09Until then, we live in this world and you can do what you can on the margins to make it a little better, with a little honor and a little integrity. I'm calling a nine nine. I'm calling a nine nine and I'm taking the rest of the day off. Just kidding, post game show 30 seconds, RubenReport.Lobals.com. Thanks guys.