Trump Crashes Out at WH as Navy Chief Fired
4/23/202621 mincomplete
0:00Donald Trump is crashing out right now in the White House as the Secretary of
0:03the United States Navy, John C.
0:05Phelan, has suddenly resigned from his position.
0:08Let me repeat that. The top official in the United States Navy has resigned, effective
0:14immediately, while the United States is still at war, while the Navy currently has a
0:19blockade in the Persian Gulf, while morale has never been lower of the United States
0:25Navy. As the Navy is committing war crimes, the Secretary of the United States Navy
0:30has suddenly tendered his resignation.
0:32Donald Trump's Defense Department spokesperson, Sean Parnell, just posted the following statement.
0:37Secretary of the Navy John C.
0:39Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately.
0:41On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful
0:45to the Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy.
0:50We wish him and his future.
0:51We wish him well in his future endeavors.
0:53Undersecretary young cow will become the acting Secretary of the United States Navy, Secretary of
0:59Navy, John C. Phelan stepped down, effective immediately.
1:03Now this comes at the same time that Iran said they're refusing to show up
1:07in Islamabad, Pakistan, to have any further negotiations with Donald Trump regarding a ceasefire or
1:12anything until Donald Trump ends the naval blockade in the Persian Gulf.
1:17Unless and until Donald Trump agrees to the 10 -point negotiating framework with Iran that
1:22Donald Trump previously said that he was agreeing to and until Donald Trump stops threatening
1:27Iran with the United States Navy and with the United States military.
1:31So the fact that the top official in the United States Navy is resigning right
1:35now is really catastrophic. This is unprecedented, folks.
1:40And you'll recall our Navy has been stretched very thin, both in terms of their
1:45weapons. We know that it's been exhausted during this catastrophic and unlawful war with Iran.
1:50But if you look at some of the aircraft carriers like the USS Gerald Ford,
1:54it's now been on active duty missions, it's been the longest deployed aircraft basically since
2:01the end of the Cold War, over 300 days.
2:05Morale is very low. We've been hearing stories about the food being served on the
2:10USS Gerald Ford, the USS Tripoli, the USS Abraham Lincoln, barely feeding members of our
2:17incredible Navy. We learned about the USS Gerald Ford before the catastrophic war in Iran
2:22officially broke out. This $13 billion aircraft carrier had toilet bowls that didn't work.
2:30And so you had thousands of sailors swimming through raw sewage before the start of
2:35the catastrophic war in Iran.
2:36And it had to head to a port in order to get that fixed.
2:40We'll also recall that the Navy Secretary, John Phelan, held this weird press conference with
2:47Donald Trump back in December, where he talked about building a new class of battleships
2:54called the Trump class of battleships because Donald Trump didn't like the way aircraft carriers
2:59look and Donald Trump doesn't like the way that stealth ships look and how other
3:02ships are made. So Trump wanted battleships to look the way they did during like
3:07World War I and World War II.
3:10He wanted that as the model, he said.
3:13And so you had John Phelan hold a weird press conference saying that's what he
3:16was going to do and he was going to call them the Trump battleships with
3:19nuclear capabilities. Play this clip.
3:22This ship isn't just to swat the arrows.
3:25It is going to reach out and kill the archers.
3:28And for the first time in generations, we'll have a new leg in America's nuclear
3:32deterrence because the Trump class battleship will carry the nuclear armed sea launched cruise missile.
3:40Striking dominance isn't all that the Trump class battleship brings to the fight at sea.
3:46It has the size and capacity to serve as a flagship for our fleet commanders
3:51so that they can command and control naval forces far out to sea.
3:56Remember how embarrassing it was when then Donald Trump was like, I'm an aesthetic person.
4:00I don't like the way our ships look.
4:02Remember that? Play this clip.
4:03On the Second World War, they were freighters and different types, but we were doing
4:07a ship a day and now we don't do ships.
4:11And I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do.
4:14I'm a very aesthetic person.
4:15I don't like some of the ships you're doing aesthetically.
4:19They say, oh, it's stealth.
4:20I said, that's not so an ugly ship.
4:23It's not necessary in order to say you're stealth.
4:28By the way, the B -2 bombers were incredible.
4:30That is stealth. They went into that.
4:32I was. Let me just remind you all what Donald Trump had previously said back
4:37on November 26, 2024, where he nominated John Phelan.
4:41Just to be clear, John Phelan's never been in the Navy before.
4:44No military experience. He's just a big Republican donor, a rich guy who was appointed
4:50in this position by Donald Trump.
4:52This is what Donald Trump said back in November of 2024.
4:55It is my great honor to announce John Phelan as our next United States Secretary
4:59of Navy. John will be a tremendous force for our Naval service members and a
5:04steadfast leader in advancing my America first vision.
5:07He will put the business of the U .S.
5:09Navy above all else. All else, John has has excelled in every endeavor from founding
5:14and leading Rugger Management LLC to co -founding MSD Capital LP private investment firms for
5:21Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technology.
5:23His record and success speaks for itself, a true champion of American enterprise and ingenuity.
5:29Private equity guy was the Secretary of Navy, but he's gone.
5:32He has suddenly resigned during this war while we're in these very, very tenuous, this
5:40tenuous situation. And Donald Trump continues to crash out in the White House right now,
5:45as Iran is just saying, Donald, you can keep on extending your deadlines, but we're
5:49not going to negotiate with you unless and until you stop threatening us and unless
5:54and until you end the naval blockade in the Persian Gulf and agree to the
5:5810 -point negotiating framework that you previously agreed to.
6:01Then we'll meet and we're happy to go to Islamabad.
6:04And that's what they've been saying.
6:05Donald Trump's like, well, I'm going to give them until Sunday.
6:09I'm going to give them three to five days, right, when the market's closed.
6:11I'm going to extend the deadline.
6:13Iran's like, we're not asking for that.
6:14We're not asking for any extensions, Donald.
6:17And now the fact that you have the U .S.
6:19Navy Secretary resigning, that signals a weakness, chaos.
6:24Iran sees, can you imagine if Iran's chief of the Navy, you know, suddenly resigned?
6:28Isn't it also ironic that you had like Jesse Waters and all the state regime
6:32media people at Fox yesterday being like, oh, and this person in Iran is being
6:37fired and there's a coup here and all these things happen.
6:40It's all projection and confession.
6:41The head of our Navy has just resigned in the middle of this war.
6:45And Donald Trump continues to crash out as a result of all of this.
6:49Donald Trump posted the following morning glory.
6:53Will President Trump go full Sherman in the war on Iran from Sherman's march to
7:00Trump's Iran deadline. A historical argument emerges for why ruthless wartime measures can ultimately deliver
7:08lasting peace. You think that's the productive response to Iran?
7:12And then Donald Trump writes, I guess this is like his therapy and makes him
7:16feel good. Last season of My Apprentice Juggernaut!
7:20exclamation point. And he posts a New York Times article from 2004 that says, The
7:27Apprentice scores ratings top for season.
7:31And then he posts another graphic from the New York Times that says, finale viewers,
7:3828 million. Key demographic, 17 .5 million viewers.
7:42Then he posts, you can't compromise on sanity and common sense.
7:46Like a total crash out right now.
7:48I mean, look, you want to see what Iran's lead negotiator and parliament leader Mbigal
7:54Abaf is saying. Here's what he writes.
7:56A complete ceasefire only makes sense if it is not violated by the maritime blockade
8:01and the hostage taking of the world's economy.
8:04And if the Zionist warmongering across all fronts is halted, reopening the Strait of Hormuz
8:09is impossible with such a flagrant breach of the ceasefire.
8:12They did not achieve their goals through military aggression, nor will they through bullying.
8:17The only way forward is to recognize the rights of the Iranian nation.
8:21Then Iran's president, Pazeshkian, posted, The Islamic Republic of Iran has always welcomed and continues
8:27to welcome dialogue and agreement.
8:29Bad faith, siege, and threats are the main obstacles to genuine negotiation.
8:34The world is witnessing your hypocritical empty talk and the contradiction between your claims and
8:40your actions. And as the Iran negotiating delegation had said, the United States didn't bring
8:45anybody to the last negotiating round that has any knowledge about nuclear issues.
8:50So Iran's like, how could we talk about nuclear issues with Jared Kushner and Steve
8:54Woodcoff? They don't know what they're talking about.
8:56And so Iran's like, we have no plans to attend another meeting.
8:59We're just not going to do it.
9:00So then Donald Trump sends Caroline Levitt to do a press conference and she does
9:06one from the White House lawn.
9:07And she's asked by state regime media, which calls itself Fox.
9:11Does the president view what Iran did earlier this morning as a violation of the
9:16ceasefire? You know, Iran interdicted two ships in the Strait of Hormuz that tried to
9:23breach the Strait of Hormuz.
9:24Yes, Iran has a Navy, despite Donald Trump saying that totally obliterated Iran's Navy, not
9:30obliterated, interdicted these ships and made them stop.
9:36And Iran did it because Donald Trump has a blockade right now in the Persian
9:41Gulf and Iran warned. This is what we're going to do.
9:43And they did it. If you try to get around our control of the Strait
9:47of Hormuz, listen to Caroline Levitt just kind of freak out on the White House
9:50lawn. And she's like, no, we don't really care.
9:54It wasn't American ships and it wasn't Israeli ships.
9:56So we don't care. I mean, they're your ally ships.
9:59What a terrible response here.
10:01Play this clip. I want to ask you about these ships that Iran seized.
10:05We're continuing to get reporting on this.
10:08Does the seizure of two ships, as we said, they were Greek and Mediterranean owned
10:14ships with cargo on them.
10:16And the reports are that Iran basically seized them and then moved them into Iranian
10:21waters. We don't know what's going to happen to these crews.
10:24We're not sure where all of this is going.
10:26Does the president view that as a violation of the ceasefire?
10:31No, because these were not U .S.
10:33ships. These were not Israeli ships.
10:35These were two international vessels.
10:37And for the American media, who is sort of blowing this out of proportion to
10:41discredit the president's facts that he has completely obliterated Iran's conventional navy.
10:47These two ships were taken by speedy gunboats.
10:51Iran has gone from having the most lethal navy in the Middle East to now
10:56acting like a bunch of pirates.
10:58They don't have control over the strait.
10:59This is piracy that we are seeing on display.
11:02And the naval blockade that the United States has imposed continues to be incredibly effective.
11:07And to be clear, the blockade is on ships going to and from Iranian ports.
11:12And the point of this is the economic leverage that we maintain over Iran now.
11:17While there's a ceasefire with respect to the military and kinetic strikes, Operation Economic Fury
11:23continues. And the crux of that is this naval blockade.
11:26We are choking their economy.
11:29We are strangling their main source of revenue.
11:32They can't pay their own people.
11:33They're losing five hundred million dollars every single day.
11:37Card Island is completely full of oil because they can't transport it to and from.
11:42So the president, the cards are in his hands.
11:44The United States maintains control over the situation.
11:48He has all of the leverage.
11:49And again, that's why he's maintained a little bit of flexibility with the extension of
11:53the ceasefire as we await a unified response from the Iranians to the president's very
11:58clear proposal. And so next, you know, Caroline Leavitt and Donald Trump have been pushing
12:03the story, which is just not true, about how there are eight beautiful Iranian women
12:08who are about to be executed by the regime.
12:11And it does seem that there are women who have been arrested, not executed, and
12:17they're going through a process there, which we can say is, you know, a problem,
12:24sure. But like, we have to accurately report what's happening.
12:27It's not saving these women from execution.
12:29That's just that's not what is happening.
12:31Let's just stick with the facts about what's actually happening.
12:34And then we can have a real kind of common sense conversation here.
12:38Play this clip. Well, first of all, Martha, only President Trump could save the lives
12:43of these eight beautiful Iranian women who he has received direct word from the Iranian
12:48regime or what's left of that their lives are going to be spared.
12:52And that comes as a result of President Trump asking them directly not to kill
12:57these young, beautiful women who certainly deserve a chance to continue living their lives freely
13:02and peacefully. And now that will happen thanks to President Trump, because he's a humanitarian
13:06at heart. And remember, Donald Trump told the protesters in January, go out and protest.
13:11I've got your back. And then didn't have their back.
13:14And now what? It's social media posts and Caroline Levin on the White House lawn.
13:19Next, she says that the fact that Iran can send a unified message just shows
13:25how effective Operation Epic Fury truly was.
13:29And again, when you're talking about Caroline, they have sent a unified message back in
13:34early March. If you want to negotiate, here's our 10 -point framework.
13:38And you all agreed to Iran's 10 -point framework.
13:41So it just doesn't seem like you really want to have a real negotiation.
13:44If you want to go to war, there's a war path.
13:47When you'll commit war crimes, there's a path.
13:49You will lose tens of thousands of U .S.
13:51service members. There's a war path.
13:53But if you want to negotiate, you have to live in a reality.
13:56This isn't like what you get to do with your sycophantic regime media where you
14:01just lie. You have to address the fact that there's a counterparty who's made clear
14:06they're non -negotiables and they've stood on those non -negotiables.
14:09This ain't Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela.
14:11It's not what this is.
14:12Here, play this clip of her right here.
14:14The fact that they cannot send a unified message yet, which is why the president
14:18decided to extend the ceasefire, just shows how effective Operation Epic Fury truly was.
14:24Because there's a lot of internal division over there.
14:26The president understands that. And so we await their response.
14:29Yeah, they had one leader, one Ayatollah for 37 years who seemed to be able
14:34to keep a bit of a lid on all of these disparate groups.
14:37But that is sort of an open can of worms after his death in that
14:42operation on February 28th. So we'll see if they can get their act together.
14:47And then she's asked, well, what do you make of Iran just outright mocking you
14:50all? Like, they're mocking Donald Trump and all of those Lego videos and social media
14:55posts. They're mocking Donald Trump for setting deadlines.
14:58Then when the deadline approaches, Donald Trump extends the deadline and then makes up an
15:03excuse why he extends the deadline.
15:05Like as the ceasefire was about to expire, he said, Pakistan told me to do
15:09it because Iran needs to get the message from the Ayatollah.
15:12And I was like, that's not true.
15:14And when you say that, Donald, when you lie and your counterparty knows that you're
15:19not telling the truth and you don't stand on your deadlines, they don't take you
15:23seriously. They take you like a clown and they're making clown videos about you.
15:28You know how you used to say the world is laughing at the world.
15:31The world, everybody's laughing at you.
15:33But unfortunately, it's more horrified.
15:35Iran's laughing at you. But former allies of the United States are horrified because this
15:39is causing real pain and suffering.
15:41Let's play this clip. So in the same day, the president said that he doesn't
15:46want to extend the ceasefire and the bombs would start falling after the end of
15:50the ceasefire. And unilaterally, he declared that the ceasefire would be extended indefinitely.
15:56Iranian state media are openly mocking the president of the United States and say we
16:01didn't even request the extension of the ceasefire.
16:03What's the response from the president of the United States?
16:07The response is you guys all see a lot of different messaging coming out of
16:12Iran, a lot of different rhetoric and language from them.
16:16I would caution you to take anything that they say at face value.
16:19What we've seen is that what they say publicly is much different than what they
16:23concede to the United States and our negotiating team privately.
16:26I've said that repeatedly to all of you in the news media and you should
16:28take our word. So then Caroline Levitt is asked.
16:32So who's in charge with Iran that you're negotiating with?
16:36Who are you talking to?
16:38And her response is, we obviously know who we're negotiating with because we sat down
16:43with those individuals in person.
16:44Okay. So you're confirming that the negotiating team is Galabaf.
16:50I just showed you his post.
16:51It is foreign minister Aragji.
16:54It is that team. It is that team of people.
16:57They also had someone from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard there.
17:01So that's, they had their National Security Council leader who replaced Lara Jani there.
17:06That's who's there. But anyway, play this clip of Caroline Levitt.
17:09Let's play it. Who is in charge in Iran and who the administration is even
17:14negotiating with? Well, we obviously know who we're negotiating with because our negotiating team has
17:19sat down with those individuals in person.
17:21But obviously there's a lot of internal fraction and internal division, which again, just proves
17:26the effectiveness of Operation Epic Fury in the first place.
17:30Their regime and many of its leaders for nearly five decades have been wiped off
17:36for the face of planet Earth.
17:37So again... And then one of the things that happened, I'll probably make a longer
17:40video on this while all of that was taking place, is you had a hearing
17:45with RFK Jr. where RFK Jr.
17:48was asked a pretty basic question by Senator Elizabeth Warren asking, does Donald Trump just
17:56make up percentages? Like, where do you get these percentages from?
17:59And RFK Jr. is Donald Trump does percentages differently.
18:02The direct quote is, Donald, President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages.
18:07So if you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a
18:11600 % reduction based on the way Donald Trump calculates things.
18:15Let's play this clip. President Trump and the Republicans slashed healthcare for millions of families.
18:20The president pitched his TrumpRx website as the answer for Americans who are worried about
18:28healthcare costs. He claims that TrumpRx has reduced prices by as much as 600%.
18:36600%, which I think means companies should be paying you to take their drugs.
18:42But let's do some real math here.
18:45Take one drug, Protonix. A 30 -day supply of this heartburn medication costs $200 on
18:53TrumpRx. But there is an identical, generic version of this pill called Pantoprazole.
19:02Secretary Kennedy, do you know how much it costs for a 30 -day supply of
19:07that drug at Costco? But I would say this, Senator.
19:13President Trump has a different way of calculating.
19:17There's two ways of calculating percentage.
19:19If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to 10, that's a 600
19:23% reduction. I understand that you know I only have five minutes.
19:26Do you know what the drug costs at Costco?
19:31I do not. The drug is $16 at Costco.
19:37TrumpRx charges $200 for Protonix and Costco charges $16.
19:44Let's do another one. And then finally, I should point out as Donald Trump is
19:47screaming and having a meltdown, one of the things we learned is that Donald Trump
19:54will now be bailing out Spirit Airlines.
19:56Apparently, the US is going to take control of Spirit Airlines because that's what the
20:00communist Trump regime does right now, where the US is going to own 90 %
20:05of Spirit Airlines and a $500 million rescue plan.
20:09Okay, I'm sure that's going to work out well.
20:10That's where our taxpayer dollars are going.
20:14And Caroline Levitt blames it all on Biden.
20:16Here's what she says. Let's play it.
20:18There's been some reporting about a possible bailout for Spirit Airlines.
20:22Can you update us on those talks?
20:24And why does the administration think it's a good investment to buy into a bankrupt
20:27airline? Well, I understand the airline is bankrupt because the previous administration blocked the merger,
20:34which was probably not a wise move.
20:37Obviously, this is something the Commerce Department and the President are tracking.
20:40I don't have any updates or announcements, but the aviation industry is very important to
20:45this President and this White House.
20:47Millions of Americans depend on it.
20:48We want to see the best possible outcome, but I don't have any announcements.
20:51Let me know what you all think.
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