Furious World Leaders Freeze Out Trump as War Collapses
3/22/202625 mincomplete
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1:57Let the madness begin. Furious world leaders are abandoning Donald Trump.
2:18They are putting him in his place.
2:20They are calling him out in public.
2:22For example, retired France General Nicolas Rochot said the following about Donald Trump.
2:28Trump shot himself in the foot regarding his disastrous war in Iran.
2:34He wanted to invade a European country, Greenland, not too long ago before invading Iran.
2:42And now his old friends, who he didn't consult, who he scorned, especially the British,
2:48are telling him, guess what, Donald?
2:50We're not with you anymore.
2:52And this retired French general says, hey, Donald, go F yourself.
2:57Let me just play you this video so you can hear it for yourself.
3:02Let's play it. So listen, I'm going to respond a bit prematurely.
3:06He really shot himself in the foot with that.
3:08He wanted to invade a country of the European Union, Greenland, some time ago.
3:12And now his old friends, whom he didn't consult, whom he openly despised, especially the
3:17British, you know, he said, Jean -Marie Foubert, he is much too kind.
3:21So if you push me, then here we are.
3:23Well, now he needs us.
3:24Well, he can just go fuck himself, frankly.
3:26Just a moment. Just a moment.
3:27Moment. You're really overdoing it now.
3:30So you brought this all upon yourself.
3:31Now we have world leaders across the globe speaking out against Donald Trump.
3:37You have the president of Taiwan calling out Donald Trump for not defending Taiwan or
3:44for looking very weak. Taiwan increasingly concerned that this ongoing Iran war is rapidly depleting
3:52key U .S. missile stockpiles, which would be critical in a potential conflict with China.
3:59The Financial Times reports the heavy use of Tomahawk cruise missiles, air defense interceptors as
4:07well in the Middle East are depleting what Taiwan believed that it needed if China
4:12makes a move on Taiwan.
4:15But let's just face it, folks, at this point, you'll hear from the United States
4:19military things like, oh, we're still going to provide the financial support to Taiwan or,
4:24oh, we've got their back.
4:26They're going to say those things.
4:27But when it comes to Donald Trump, Donald Trump seems to be focused on helping
4:31Putin, helping Xi Jinping, and helping Iran, frankly, right?
4:35Donald Trump just gave Iran a $14 billion gift by removing oil sanctions on Iran.
4:43And Iran was mocking Donald Trump the whole way for doing it.
4:46They're like, thanks, Donald. We really appreciate the gift.
4:49Thank you for all that you're doing.
4:50Remember when Donald Trump and MAGA would mock former President Obama for entering into the
4:55nuclear deal that made Iran stop its uranium enrichment program?
5:00And they were like, oh, Obama put these plane full of cash.
5:05At most, Obama's deal had like $1 .4 billion to Iran, which was kind of
5:12couched as kind of reparation -style payments, whatever.
5:16You could be critical of it, whatever you want to be.
5:18It stopped Iran from enriching uranium.
5:20And there was a stable deal in place that the nations, that Arab nations supported,
5:26that the world supported, and that there was a very serious inspection regime.
5:30Donald Trump got rid of that deal in Donald Trump's first term.
5:35And now Donald Trump just gave Iran $14 billion as a gift.
5:41I mean, just go figure, right?
5:42And now Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and they control it so powerfully and
5:48strongly that they created a toll.
5:51So if countries like India and others want to utilize it, they have to now
5:57pay Iran millions of dollars.
6:00And Iran now is also saying, if you want to use the Strait of Hormuz,
6:04you have to do it in the Chinese currency, the yuan.
6:07And this can also weaken the dollar even more by forcing the Chinese currency to
6:14be used through the Strait of Hormuz.
6:17Just an interesting thing to note, the people of Japan were furious at Prime Minister
6:23Takeishi's appearance in the United States last week.
6:26Remember when Donald Trump was doing jokes about Pearl Harbor and Prime Minister Takeishi didn't
6:33stand up for the people of Japan and let Donald Trump say, oh, well, I
6:36didn't tell Japan about what was going on before we attacked Iran because Japan is
6:43full of surprises. Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, Takeishi?
6:48You should have told me about that.
6:50Also, the White House posted these photos of Takeishi where she was like, just say
6:57they were not flattering photos of her as the official photos.
7:01And the people of Japan were like, you just made a fool love yourself, Takeishi.
7:05And also like. When Donald Trump walked her through that like ridiculous wall of fame
7:10or whatever Donald Trump calls it, where it's photos of different American presidents and Donald
7:15Trump like writes the text as though he's like, uh, like their truth social posts
7:20and like he mocks Obama and he mocks Clinton and he mocks the presidency doesn't
7:25like. And then for former president Biden, who was great to the people of Japan,
7:30great to the people of Asia.
7:31I mean, Biden was strong when it came to Asia.
7:34Donald Trump replaced the photo of Biden or put a photo there was, he created
7:39this wall of fame in the first place, but used an auto pen instead of
7:43former president Biden's actual portrait.
7:46And then prime minister Takaishi would like a laugh at it.
7:49And then the, I'll just tell you what, uh, the founder of channel two in
7:53Japan says about Takaishi laughing at Trump's auto pen picture of Biden.
7:58It was a sycophantic move joining in the bullying just to be liked by the
8:03bully. Such a vulgar behavior is being reported even internationally here.
8:08And I'll just share this with you.
8:10These are, uh, this is a protest Japanese people out and about in front of
8:15Japan's diet, their parliament. Um, 82 % of the people oppose the war in Japan
8:21right now. And, uh, take a look at these protesters, uh, outside protesting, uh, the
8:28prime minister's appearance and, and war right now, uh, and basically protesting the United States
8:34here. Play this clip right here.
8:42Now, just thinking about the arbitrary and capriciousness nature of Donald Trump, his recklessness, his
8:48maliciousness, just look at this timeline.
8:50This is a timeline from yesterday over the last 36 hours.
8:55So Friday at 3 40 PM Eastern time, Donald Trump says, I don't want to
8:59do a ceasefire with Iran Friday, 5 15 PM Eastern time.
9:04The U S is considering winding down the war with Iran Saturday, 2 PM Eastern
9:09time. Axios reports Donald Trump is planning peace talks.
9:14Then a few hours later, Donald Trump writes, if Iran doesn't open the Strait of
9:19Hormuz within 48 hours, the U S will obliterate Iran's power plants as the Kobayashi
9:25letter says. So what the hell's happening behind the scenes here, it's what's happening in
9:29front of the scenes. Donald Trump is a demented maniac.
9:33He's a crazy human being.
9:34Okay. He's an actual lunatic.
9:37And I, I don't want to use words that are maybe callous and are reflective
9:42of mental health issues or, or degrading.
9:45So I want to be careful with the words that I use, but Donald Trump
9:48is a, is a sick human being, I mean, malignant narcissistic sociopath and his decision
9:55-making tree makes bad decisions into terrible decisions, into catastrophic decisions, into bankruptcies, right?
10:02This is why Donald Trump has bankrupted so many of his businesses throughout his life
10:06over and over again, he continues to bankrupt businesses.
10:10I want to pivot for a second though, because we can continue talking about all
10:14these countries that are just kind of isolating and mocking Donald Trump.
10:17We can talk, of course, about how the UK and France and all of NATO
10:21said, no way, Donald, we're not doing any offensive missions in the Strait of Hormuz.
10:26Go away, Donald. We can talk about how the head of Qatar Energy and lots
10:31of other business leaders in the Middle East are saying what a betrayal that Donald
10:36Trump did. I mean, Donald Trump has set the Middle East back 20, 30 years.
10:40I mean, that's coming from the CEO of Qatar Energy.
10:43They all thought they were buying.
10:44protection from Donald Trump, pay -for -play schemes.
10:47If the war were to end today, it will probably take 20 years to build
10:54back what has been destroyed.
10:57Generationally, this has destroyed the military.
10:59We could talk about all these countries living and just think also how a lot
11:03of these Middle Eastern investors would put their money into American startups and American IPOs
11:11and American companies as well.
11:13They ain't going to do that anymore.
11:14So this is going to have a longstanding effect.
11:16Oh, in addition to the price of oil, which continues to surge right now, and
11:22the markets that continue to crash and Bitcoin is crashing.
11:25Just think about as well, helium, fertilizer.
11:29Think about fertilizer next year.
11:31A lot of the fertilizer has already technically been purchased.
11:34Will it even arrive? What happens next year?
11:37These are issues that are systemic, that even if the war stopped, this cascading effect
11:43will likely cause economic catastrophes across the globe.
11:48But this war is obviously going to continue on.
11:51So we could talk about that.
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13:35What else is Donald Trump and his despicable regime doing?
13:38As I said, they're helping Iran make billions of dollars.
13:41They're also helping Russia a lot.
13:44This is not really getting reported that much, but we need to report on it
13:47here, of course, that right now there is CPAC Hungary taking place.
13:53The Conservative Political Action Committee, the big right -wing MAGA group, they throw these conventions
13:59where they try to hoist up their Russian sycophants and their MAGA -Russia anti -European
14:08Union crew in the different European countries in order to help Putin.
14:12So they're doing right now a CPAC Hungary where Netanyahu's son is a speaker.
14:21In the past week, Marco.
14:23Rubio was there. A video address played yesterday of Donald Trump and J .D.
14:32Vance. They did these video messages supporting Viktor Orban, the Putin puppet that's in Hungary
14:39who basically is put there to destroy the European Union.
14:43By the way, it's the professed foreign policy of the United States Trump regime to
14:48destroy the European Union and to destroy pro -democracy groups in the European Union.
14:53Also, it was reported yesterday in the Washington Post that Russia was working with Viktor
15:01Orban to stage an assassination attempt in order to boost him before the April elections.
15:08No attack happened, but a European intelligence service obtained the report that Russia was working
15:15to stage a fake assassination attempt of Orban to help his poll numbers.
15:21There's a big election that's about to take place in a few weeks.
15:25It's coming up pretty quickly in Hungary where the pro -democracy leader is expected to
15:31beat Orban. The pro -democracy party is in the lead right now, and getting rid
15:36of Orban would be a huge victory and a huge blow to Vladimir Putin.
15:42Trump is putting out all the stops to try to help Orban.
15:46Lots of people are worried that with the kind of current war taking place in
15:51the Middle East with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the war raging on there, that
15:59Orban may try to provoke a war with Zelensky in Ukraine in order to stop
16:05the elections. Pay very close attention to the things that Hungary is saying, because Hungary
16:09is accusing Ukraine of trying to go to war with it.
16:13Not the people of Hungary, Orban, who's basically being advised right now by Putin on
16:18every step of the way.
16:20Dan Shapiro also writes in this Washington Post story on the Russian intelligence plot to
16:25stage an assassination attempt of Viktor Orban to boost his chances in Hungary's upcoming elections.
16:32Think about this paragraph. Russia is not the only outside power or potentially looking to
16:37prop up Orban in one of the toughest campaigns of his career.
16:41Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Budapest last month, telling Orban that your success is
16:47our success. And Orban has made no secret that he hopes Trump will do the
16:52same. But with Trump consumed by the war in Iran and Orban behind in the
16:56polls, Hungarian's foreign minister said that Vice President J .D.
17:01Vance will be visiting instead.
17:03And Netanyahu's kid is visiting as well.
17:06Yair is in Hungary attending CPAC.
17:09Here's the message, by the way, that Donald Trump sent to the Hungary CPAC yesterday.
17:14I'll show you this clip right here so you can see for yourself.
17:17Let's play it. A very big hello to CPAC Hungary.
17:20Congratulations to CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp, as well as the Chairman of CPAC Hungary, Miklos
17:27Szentho, on this historic fifth gathering in the magnificent city of Budapest.
17:33It's a great place and a great country.
17:35I also want to send my best wishes to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who I
17:40am endorsing, as you know.
17:41I am endorsing his election, which is coming up pretty soon.
17:45He has my complete and total endorsement, as a matter of fact.
17:49The Prime Minister has been a strong leader who's shown the entire world what's possible
17:54when you defend your borders.
17:55Also, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin puppet, says that Donald Trump Trump just invited him
18:02to Mar -a -Lago to discuss a, quote, big deal with the U .S.
18:07As Max Sedan explains, this would presumably bring his country in from the cold after
18:13years of sanctions. And we know that the Trump regime has removed a lot of
18:17sanctions on Belarus businesses recently as well.
18:21As Garry Kasparov explains, lifting sanctions on Lukashenko's Kremlin puppet regime is effectively lifting sanctions
18:29on Russia. And of course, this is exactly the point.
18:32In my year of tweeting, only Trump can save Russia.
18:35This is what I meant right here.
18:39We should also talk about how yesterday, Zelensky's still showing up, even though we know
18:47that Witkoff and Kushner are Putin's sycophants, in my opinion.
18:51So there were discussions yesterday between Kushner and Witkoff and Zelensky.
19:00Zelensky wrote the following. Today, our team met with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in
19:04the United States. This is important for the whole world.
19:07Diplomacy continues, and we are working to end Russia's war against Ukraine.
19:11No one wants this war.
19:13The teams will continue discussions tomorrow.
19:15The key issue to understand is how ready Russia is to move towards a real
19:20end to the war, honestly, and with dignity, especially now when geopolitical tensions have increased
19:26due to the situation around Iran.
19:28A more detailed report from our team will follow.
19:31And here is Witkoff's remark, Donald Trump's lackey real estate guy who was never a
19:37diplomat, who's now screwing up all of our international negotiations.
19:41But, you know, he's a Trump sycophant.
19:43So, I mean, this is what he and Trump do.
19:45They're destroyers. Witkoff writes, today in Florida, U .S.
19:48and Ukrainian delegations held constructive meetings as part of ongoing mediation efforts, with discussions focused
19:54on narrowing and resolving remaining items to move closer to a comprehensive peace agreement.
20:00The American delegation included Envoy Witkoff, Kushner, Senior Advisor Josh Grunbaum, and State Department Senior
20:07Policy Advisor Chris Curran. We welcome the continued engagement toward resolving the outstanding issues, recognizing
20:14its importance to broader global stability.
20:17And thank Trump for his continued leadership in advancing these efforts.
20:23I should also be noted that Abu Abeda, the military spokesperson for the Qasem Brigades,
20:29says the following, We look with great pride at the powerful missile strikes carried out
20:35by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard this evening, targeting areas deep within the criminal entity, using
20:42new tactics which left dozens of dead and wounded.
20:45There wasn't dozens of dead.
20:46But there were over 100 injured in these Iranian strikes that were able to hit
20:56these two cities in Southern Israel.
20:59And, you know, as Donald Trump and everyone's like, oh, we've degraded Iran's capabilities.
21:06That really isn't the case.
21:08Demona, which is the area, southern Israel, where there's like the Israeli nuclear facilities, that
21:14area was hit. Arad was hit.
21:17A -R -A -D, 150, 200 injuries took place.
21:21And Iran is feeling confident right now that they have the ability to strike Israel
21:27and its neighbors with impunity.
21:29Donald Trump claims, oh, we've decimated them, but we know they're not decimated.
21:33And you're starting to now see a lot of these Iranian proxies, like I just
21:38shared with you there. the leader of the Houthis as well, saying, we're ready to
21:43shut down the strait in the Red Sea.
21:45So the Strait of Hormuz is Persian Gulf.
21:48There's a separate strait in the Red Sea.
21:50You shut down the Red Sea with the Persian Gulf already effectively being shut down.
21:55It's a game, set, match.
21:56We're talking $200 per barrel of oil right there.
22:00And meanwhile, you have Iranian leaders just basically mocking Donald Trump and his regime, the
22:07parliament leader of Iran, MB Galibov, responds to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lifting sanctions against
22:14Iran. And Galibov from Iran goes, lifting sanctions on Iranian oil currently stranded at sea.
22:21Sorry, we're sold out. In addition, he was mocking the Trump regime and mocking Israel
22:29and saying, if the Israeli regime fails to intercept the missiles in the highly protected
22:34Damona area, it is operationally a sign of entering a new phase of battle.
22:39Israeli skies are defenseless. As a result, it seems the time has come to implement
22:43the next pre -designed plans.
22:46And while they're saying that, Donald Trump is like, I'm giving you a 48 -hour
22:50ultimatum right here, that if you don't, if Iran doesn't fully open without the threat,
22:56the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, from this exact point in time, the United
23:00States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plans, starting with the biggest
23:06one first, right? To which Iran says, okay, well, you do that.
23:10Then we're going to go after all of the nearby power plans as well.
23:15So Donald Trump makes that threat.
23:17Iran's head of their military responds and says, following previous warnings, if Iran's fuel and
23:23energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy information technology, all desalination infrastructure belonging
23:30to the US and the regime in the region will be targeted, meaning all the
23:34Arab nations that have American bases will be hit.
23:38And so things are escalating.
23:39They're getting out of control.
23:41You're seeing how world leaders are responding.
23:42Let me know what you think about all of this.
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