The Manosphere Report

0:00This has been Unbreaking News.

0:02I'm Ben Micellis, and this is your breaking news.

0:06The war in Iran that Donald Trump instigated, it is spiraling out of control right

0:14now. Gulf states are absolutely furious at Donald Trump and his regime in the United

0:21States. They feel utterly betrayed right now, and they're thinking about should they be engaging

0:28in a regional security arrangement with Iran at this point?

0:34Because the U .S., for all of its bravado and promises and Donald Trump demanding

0:42quid pro quo tributes to Trump companies, which these Middle East nations thought they were

0:48buying security for themselves, that air of security has been completely shattered.

0:58Even with the most powerful military force in the world, and nobody disputes the United

1:05States had that. And again, I think I'm speaking in past tense because I'm not

1:12sure we have that right now.

1:15But even if we had that, not being prepared and rushing into a war because

1:23Donald Trump was told that Netanyahu is going to invade first.

1:28So the U .S. rushes into war and doesn't heed the warnings of the Arab

1:34nations that clearly stated what will unfold if you do that is Iran will attack

1:41all of the neighboring Arab nations.

1:43They will shut down the Strait of Hermoz.

1:46Iran has developed these very advanced drones that they are giving to the Russians in

1:52Ukraine. The Shahid drones that are very difficult to shoot down now based on some

2:00of the advancements. Ballistic missile developments by Iran.

2:04Cluster munitions by Iran that have been developed that makes it harder for the billion

2:10-dollar U .S. systems to work.

2:12The THAAD and the Patriot systems, which are billion -dollar systems with million -dollar missiles

2:20trying to shoot at $20 ,000 drones.

2:23You can see how very quickly that is a recipe that is unworkable.

2:29The markets right now in the U .S.

2:31are crashing. The oil market right now continues to surge.

2:36Iran has made it clear that their goal is $200 per barrel oil, which would

2:44mean at a minimum people paying $5 to $6 a gallon here in the United

2:49States. The Iranian foreign minister and National Security Council leader are out there saying things

2:57like, yeah, it's very easy to start a war, but if you think we're going

3:01to end this anytime soon, you are mistaken.

3:05And they understand that this is now a war of attrition.

3:09They have made good on their threats regarding the Strait of Hermoz.

3:13They've shot down or they've shot at five major tankers just over the past 48

3:24hours, 14 tankers since the war had begun and Donald Trump invaded Iran.

3:31Off of the coast of Iraq, we saw during a ship -to -ship transfer of

3:38these major massive fuel ships, there was a Marshall Island flagship, which is actually owned

3:44by the United States, and a Malta flagship that belonged to Greece doing a ship

3:50-to -ship fuel transfer that was hit by Iran, that American ship burning.

3:57You had the three ships in the Strait of Hermoz, kind of in the Anchorage

4:02area, shot at by Iran, and the Strait of Hermoz is essentially closed.

4:10Our Navy is unable to help or assist any of these ships getting through, despite

4:16Donald Trump saying the Strait of Hermoz is safe.

4:19Everybody passed through. Everything is going great here.

4:23That's actually not what's going on in the ground.

4:25Iran is using its unmanned vessels that are being used.

4:32They have these drones, these Shahids in the air, but then they have the unmanned

4:36vessels in the sea that they've been developing, that they are deploying, making it too

4:42dangerous to get out of the Strait of Hermoz.

4:45So then you look to the Red Sea, which is closer to Yemen, and the

4:49Houthis now are thinking about working with Iran, other kind of Iranian proxies to potentially,

4:55that's going to be the next big story, what's happening in the Red Sea as

5:00well, because ships are now trying to get to the Red Sea because the Strait

5:03of Hermoz is shut down.

5:05So they go to the Red Sea, watch what's going to happen there.

5:08Meanwhile, while we know that Russia...

5:11... ... ... is out there clearly helping Iran and China is helping Iran.

5:17The Russians, their main leadership was in Miami.

5:22They were in Miami 24 hours ago.

5:24You had Kirill Dmitriev, you had Ushakov meeting with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and

5:33they're out there bragging about it.

5:35Kirill Dmitriev, the main Russian guy, is out there, their main envoy.

5:39Thank you, Steve, Jared, and Josh for a productive meeting.

5:43And Steve Witkoff, who butchered the negotiations with Iran, didn't even understand the technical details

5:51of what Iran was saying or what the mediator from Oman that the United States

5:55had selected was even saying because there was actually a deal that was offered as

6:02the foreign minister of Oman made clear when he went on TV back on February

6:0627th to tell the world, we've got a deal.

6:09And the deal is just need some technical fixes on Monday, but we basically got

6:15a deal. So you had Witkoff and Kushner.

6:18And why is Kushner there?

6:19Who appointed this guy? Kushner and Witkoff, who are these people for real?

6:24I mean, like who the hell are they?

6:25Trump's real estate and son -in -law are out there doing these negotiations.

6:30And that's one of the contributing factors to us being in this unlawful war against

6:37Iran. I mean, how utterly despicable is that?

6:39But the Russians are there and the Russians are in Miami and they're talking about

6:45economic cooperation deals with Trump.

6:47At the same time, they're helping Iran kill Americans, hit American interests.

6:52They're loading Iran with coordinates and supplies, right?

6:58America's removing sanctions from Russia.

7:00Moving sanctions from Russia right now.

7:04And America's talking about economic cooperation with Russia and helping them.

7:11And Russia's been benefiting immensely from all of this.

7:15America's bailed out Russia, which had its economy failing as a result of this.

7:20And you know who's also moving water through the Strait of Hormuz?

7:24You know who's doing it?

7:25Iran. Never have they got more oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

7:31They're exporting about 13 .7 million barrels of crude oil since the war began.

7:36You know who else is getting it through?

7:38China. So Iran is allowing its allies to utilize its oil.

7:45It's enriching itself, which in turn allows it to build more drones and strike the

7:51US. And now we have this war of attrition that Donald Trump never planned for.

7:55If you just look around in the region, Kuwait residential buildings are being shot.

8:00More Bahrainian oil facilities being shot.

8:03More Kuwaiti oil depots and residential areas being shot.

8:07More ships in the Strait of Hormuz being attacked.

8:10And yes, the United States and Israel are attacking Tehran.

8:14Yes, they're attacking Iran. We know that also there have been these devastating strikes on

8:20elementary schools, which our military has now confirmed.

8:24150 little girls have been killed as a result of this, which the Trump regime

8:30tried to cover up. I mean, how despicable is that?

8:34And Donald Trump's like, I don't know.

8:35I don't know. I want to show this clip though here very quickly.

8:38This is Donald Trump speaking to Local 12 in Cincinnati right here, where Donald Trump's

8:44bragging about how good things are.

8:46Let's play this clip of Trump on Local 12 Cincinnati yesterday bragging about everything's amazing.

8:52He says, let's play it.

8:53We're doing a great job.

8:55There's never been a better year for a president.

8:57I mean, I've been rated.

8:59There has never been a better year for a president first year than what we

9:03had. That includes the stoppage of eight wars with a ninth to come.

9:09And what we've done, the economy is roaring.

9:11It's phenomenal. That's why I'm here.

9:13This is an excursion, a little excursion.

9:16And I think it's only that.

9:17And in that little time, that short period of time, we've taken care of business.

9:22We took care of a country that was very dangerous, very bad, would have had

9:27a nuclear weapon if it weren't for me and the B -2 bombers and what

9:30we did not very long ago.

9:33They would have had a nuclear weapon and we would have had levels of problem

9:37that nobody has ever seen before.

9:39Got a crowd in Northern Kentucky.

9:40I want to bring in Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries with us here on this live.

9:46Leader Jeffries, it's great to see you here live with everybody.

9:51I showed a clip there of Donald Trump in Cincinnati.

9:54We also saw Donald Trump's speech in Kentucky.

9:59And in that speech, he was barely coherent.

10:03He claimed that the war was won.

10:05He said the Strait of Hermose is excellent and that everything's going according to plan.

10:11He looked and behaved demented and we know everything's a lie.

10:15I want to get your reaction to that, Leader Jeffries.

10:18Well, Donald Trump is a disaster.

10:20This guy has been completely and totally unqualified since the moment he first burst onto

10:25the national stage, unfortunately, about 10 years ago.

10:29And it's only gotten worse.

10:30And certainly the context of what the country and the world are now dealing with

10:36is toxic and extreme. This war is a failure.

10:39It's a war of choice.

10:41We've already lost seven service members, heroes and patriots.

10:47Billions of dollars are being spent to drop bombs in the Middle East.

10:52The president is unwilling to spend a dime to actually make health care more affordable

10:58or reduce the grocery bills of everyday Americans.

11:02School children have been killed because of erroneous information.

11:07We also know gas prices are through the roof and war has exploded all across

11:14the Middle East from a person, Donald Trump, who as a candidate said he was

11:18not going to get us into another endless war of choice in the Middle East.

11:22And so he's been a failure.

11:25Republicans have been a failure.

11:26And to the extent that we need regime change at this moment in time, it

11:31is going to come in November.

11:33I think that's what a lot of people are saying and are happy to hear

11:37you say that the real regime change that is needed is the Trump regime and

11:41frankly, the GOP regime as well.

11:44They're on a retreat right now or they've been on a retreat in Doral in

11:49Miami at Donald Trump's resort where they've been partying right now during this disastrous war.

11:57They've been living it up in the Trump ballroom out there, which is just so

12:03utterly offensive. And I think, though, a lot of people have been paying attention, though,

12:08to this retreat and what's been going on there and saying, you know, it's not

12:13only tone deaf, it's consistent with their behavior in the past.

12:16But I just think even some MAGA people or Republican people are looking at this

12:21like, what the hell is going on?

12:22What do you make of this GOP retreat, Leader Jeffries?

12:25That's incredible to me. They're down at Donald Trump's luxury golf club partying with each

12:31other and denying reality. Donald Trump continues to pretend as if the affordability crisis is

12:37a hoax. And now they're trying to pull the wall over the eyes of the

12:41American people by suggesting that they should no longer talk about mass deportation.

12:46Republicans are the party of mass mass deportation.

12:49They're the ones who've actually decided that they're going to spend taxpayer dollars not to

12:54make life more affordable for the American people, but to brutalize and kill them, as

12:59was the case with Renee Nicole and Alex Preddy, and to violently target law -abiding

13:04immigrant families. It's one of the reasons why their immigration policies are now perceived to

13:09be a failure, along with, of course, the failure on the economy, the failure on

13:13health care, the failure on nutritional assistance, the failure to uphold the rule of law.

13:18As you've consistently pointed out, Ben, this is a Trump cartel.

13:22This is the largest pay -to -play scheme that any presidential administration has ever run.

13:28And so that's why we're determined to make sure we do something meaningful to lower

13:33the high cost of living on affordability, but at the same time, continue to bring

13:38about accountability, as was recently done with the termination of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi

13:47Noem. Although that's not over, because we're going to continue to pursue the corruption that

13:53she clearly engaged in as well.

13:55You mentioned that this entire Trump regime, by the way, which, as you mentioned, there

13:59needs to be a regime change right there, but this entire regime is a pay

14:04-to -play scheme. But even the people who paid to play in the Middle East

14:10are saying, when do we get to play?

14:13We paid. Where the hell is the defense?

14:17You wanted us to do World Liberty Financial, so we gave you hundreds of millions.

14:22You wanted us to do this.

14:23You wanted us to do that.

14:24You want the Trump hotels.

14:25We gave you all of that.

14:27And now you rushed into this war without listening to us, without consulting us, and

14:34now we've heard that these Middle East nations are talking about security arrangements with Iran

14:41and with China. So we have a reordering of a world order post -World War

14:47II, except right now America's being cut out because despite having the most powerful military

14:54in the world, undisputed that we had that or that exists, but the fact that

14:58it was done in such an unprepared Trumpian way has turned the whole world against

15:03us right now. That's absolutely correct.

15:06And as we've seen in prior conflicts, including, of course, Iraq and Afghanistan, military might

15:11is not enough if the people who are actually directing the war don't know what

15:16the hell they're doing in terms of the civilians in suits in Washington, D .C.

15:22And that's what we see as it relates to Donald Trump and Pete Hexeth and

15:26all of the people who have gotten us into this war of choice without any

15:31justification. They've got no plans, no objective, and no idea how to get us out

15:37of this situation that they themselves got us into.

15:40And as you've pointed out, you now have a dozen countries in the Middle East

15:45who are under attack from Iran and are trying to figure out, OK, if the

15:52United States doesn't really know how to de -escalate a conflict that they raced into,

16:00they're considering other options. So Donald Trump, as the American people know, hasn't made this

16:06country something out the way they might be Somtcius has to go in and say,

16:06oh... As an ally, Dan, give me this company.

16:07So wait, that's... safer. The American people correctly have come to the conclusion he's actually

16:12making us more vulnerable. And this guy, by the way, doesn't even know the difference

16:16between friend or foe. It seems like he had a friendly conversation with Vladimir Putin,

16:21of all people, who apparently is providing intelligence to Iranians to be able to target

16:28U .S. military service men and women.

16:30And rather than admonish, punish, make sure there are consequences for what Vladimir Putin in

16:37Russia appear to be doing.

16:39This guy, Donald Trump, continues to go after Ukraine, who's our ally, partnering with Western

16:46Europe, trying to push back against Russian aggression.

16:49The whole thing is extraordinary and out of control.

16:53It's one of the reasons why, though, the American people have been rising up and

16:56Republicans have been losing elections, literally, for 15 consecutive months, because the American people are

17:04done with the extreme extremism.

17:06And we, as Democrats, are going to continue to lean into focusing on the issues

17:10that matter, driving down the high cost of living, fixing our broken health care system,

17:14and yes, cleaning up corruption, wherever it may be found.

17:18You know, Leader Jeffries, when, look, I obviously am no fan of Donald Trump's, but

17:25when America is in a war, even if it's a war that I believe is

17:30unlawful and I believe is disastrous, I still want to see, I still root for

17:36leadership qualities and clarity. Like, let me say that.

17:39Like, so that American people know what's going on.

17:43And so when Donald Trump was giving the speech in Kentucky and people are looking

17:48for just some level of clarity, a fraction of a fraction of moral clarity, this

17:54is what we hear. Salty, let's play this clip.

17:57Good. The only thing I admired about Barack Hussein Obama, which was nothing, actually, but,

18:04but the only thing is the way he bobbed down.

18:08Remember, he'd bob, hey, it, you talk about unpresidential.

18:13He's bobbing. And I couldn't believe that he made it without at least a noticeable

18:18major fall. But Biden was the opposite.

18:22Biden couldn't even walk up the stairs.

18:24He fell. So Leader Jeffries, when I watch this speech, in my opinion, there's something

18:31seriously wrong with this person, cognitively, physically, this person's not right.

18:37You know, and I say this in the utmost seriousness, there's truly something and it's

18:42staring us in the face.

18:43Before we go, I just want, you know, you to maybe just address like what

18:47we're observing right now, because I feel like we're just being gaslit by a lot

18:51of media to believe that this is like normal and it isn't.

18:55Absolutely abnormal. You know, from the perspective of someone who's a New Yorker, we've known

19:00there's something seriously wrong with this individual for decades.

19:04He's been in our face, but the deterioration has certainly accelerated.

19:08And now it's frightening for the American people, understandably, because this guy is the commander

19:13in chief at this moment.

19:15And it's just going to be incumbent to make sure that we can erect as

19:19many ironclad guardrails around this guy.

19:22And as you know, you've pointed out, look, when we're at war, we are going

19:26to continue to pray for the safety and security of our troops, our brave servicemen

19:31and women, all who are in harm's way.

19:34But at the same period of time, we have a responsibility to make sure we're

19:38defending the best interests of the American people, the country, the rule of law, the

19:45Constitution, all of which Donald Trump continues to run over.

19:49And he's not offering a single coherent reason for the policies, the extremism that he's

19:56jamming down the throats of the American people, causing folks to reasonably question what's wrong

20:01with this guy. Leader Jeffries, I know you got to go in 90 seconds.

20:05Address the midterms, though. A lot of people want to hear your perspective of it.

20:10You know, it's so critical, I think, that Article One behaved like Article One and

20:15be a check against this regime.

20:17Talk to us about it.

20:18Absolutely. You know, James Madison once made the observation when they were contemplating the creation

20:24of the House of Representatives, that it should be an intimate sympathy with the American

20:29people and to function Congress as a rival to the executive branch.

20:34And that's not what's happening right now.

20:36House Republicans continue to bury their heads in the sand and they act like reckless

20:41rumor stamps to Donald Trump's extreme agenda enough.

20:44In order for us to have a check and balance, for us to block and

20:49tackle on behalf of the American people, push back against this extremism and actually spend

20:54taxpayer dollars in ways that are designed to make the lives of the American people

20:58more affordable, Democrats are going to need to rout Republicans and take back control of

21:03the House. And the good news is we're only three seats short, narrowest majority that

21:08Republicans have since any party since 1930.

21:13We're going to take back the House with the support of the American people and

21:17then put the American people first, not the Trump cartel.

21:22Democratic Leader Jeffries, appreciate you joining us on this live.

21:26Thank you very much. And a lot of people are paying attention right now to

21:30these midterms, especially. And I think you mentioning regime change of Trump.

21:34something that I saw in the chat that people are saying.

21:37I mean, for real, like this is something that I think in our worst nightmare,

21:41you know, people would say it's this bad.

21:43It's worse than people. It's Leader Jeffries.

21:45Thank you so much. So much, man.

21:49Leader Hakeem Jeffries, everybody. All right, let's get back into it.

21:51Let me show you moments ago what Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said when he was

21:56in it. By the way, you know that like I feel strongly about the Trump

22:02regime cabinet in general. And I think they're all like loathsome creatures.

22:07Like I don't know whether it is, you know, I don't know whether it is

22:12Howard Lutnick on Epstein Island.

22:15I've never been nor would I ever be on such a despicable person's island.

22:22Well, you went to the island.

22:24We've got photographs. But I brought my kids.

22:28You brought your kids and my friends' kids.

22:32So you were on the island with your kids and you brought your friends' kids

22:3716, 13, 12, 11. I'm not sure Lutnick, you're making up strong case for yourself.

22:45My nanny. Okay, Lutnick. Thank you, Lutnick.

22:49All right. I don't know.

22:51You got Pam Bondi. The Dow is 50 ,000.

22:55The Dow is 50 ,000.

22:56We're doing so good. Why don't you look at the Dow right now?

23:02Pam Bondi, number one. And number two, you were getting questions about child sex trafficking

23:08cover -ups. And you're going, the Dow is 50 ,000.

23:13So you've got Pete Hegseth.

23:16We're going to do lethality.

23:19Death and destruction from the air rains down.

23:24And that's what we do here in this administration.

23:27Lethality. Before it was woke policies.

23:31Now it is lethality. That's what we do.

23:34That's my Pete Hegseth impression right there.

23:38I mean, this whole group.

23:40But then you've got Scott Besant.

23:43Of course, we plan for it.

23:46We plan for everything. Americans are doing, everyone's rich.

23:51Everybody has a pink mansion that is a replica of the Barbie Malibu mansion in

23:58the United States. We all have that.

24:01Don't we? We are all that rich.

24:04Aren't we? The American people can deal with it?

24:08Huh? I mean, dude, Besant's like the worst of them all right there.

24:12So let me show you what he said moments ago.

24:14Here's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.

24:16Let's play it. You're starting to think, if this does keep persisting as it is,

24:21that the Navy has to go into the Strait of Hormuz to help ships get

24:26through, which would have a big effect.

24:28Look, that was always in our planning, that there's the chance that U .S.

24:36Navy or perhaps an international coalition will be escorting oil tankers through.

24:41There are, in fact, tankers coming through now.

24:44Iranian tankers, I believe some Chinese flag tankers have come through.

24:49So we know that they have not mined the Straits.

24:52And was that what you were just discussing in the Situation Room?

24:55We were discussing a plethora of things.

24:58And is it your belief that the volume of ships going through the Strait of

25:04Hormuz will be improving immediately from now?

25:07It is my belief that as soon as it is militarily possible, the U .S.

25:14Navy, perhaps with an international coalition, will be escorting vessels through.

25:21We've always planned for this.

25:24We knew from the outset when we would do this, that the Strait of Hormuz

25:30would be closed, that all of the supply of crude and liquefied natural gas shut

25:38down. And we planned for this, all part of our plan.

25:44And that we would then have to use the International Energy Agency, would have to

25:50release 400 million barrels. We knew that.

25:53That was all part of emergency.

25:55We knew there would be the emergency.

25:57Then the U .S. would release 174 million or 172 million barrels from our strategic

26:03reserves, depleting it by half.

26:05We knew that. That's exactly why we didn't fill it up when gas was cheap.

26:10That was all. Trust the plan.

26:12Trust the plan. Part of our plan was to tariff the world, get everybody pissed

26:16off at us as well.

26:18It was also to not consult with the Middle East nations before the war.

26:22This was all part of an elaborate plan right here that we all wanted to

26:27do. We actually wanted to further piss off people who were on our side in

26:32Iran. All part of the plan.

26:35So what we did was when there were democracy protests in January, our plan was

26:42to tell them we've got their back.

26:44Because that's what you do when you want to help people.

26:47You say you got your back, but you lie to them.

26:51You make them go out there and protest.

26:53And guess what? Your ships aren't even in the area to help them because your

26:59ships are off the coast of Venezuela, where you and invaded a month before that.

27:04So you told the people to protest.

27:06They get massacred. You don't help them at all.

27:10You brag about saving 700 people from being hung.

27:15You brag about that. And then you go and do an invasion a month and

27:20a half later because Netanyahu says that he's going to attack first.

27:25So you got to get Bibi's back right there.

27:28Why would America say no to Bibi?

27:32Why would we do that?

27:33They're more powerful than us.

27:35Why would the United States say if Bibi says he's going to do it, that

27:39was all part of the plan, all part of the plan.

27:41And then what we're going to do when we launch it is we're going to

27:45bomb all of the civilian infrastructure, just piss off the Iranian people, target an elementary

27:52school, kill 165 children, 150 little girls, then deny it and say Iran used tomahawks

27:59against themselves, shoot out their desalination plans to try to screw with their water supply,

28:06shoot out their oil depots, blow it up so that there are nuclear clouds that

28:10go over Iran. And part of the plan was to then get Mount Jabba, the

28:15son of the Ayatollah in power, who was more extreme than the original Ayatollah and

28:20more deadly than his father.

28:22Get a younger Ayatollah in there.

28:24All part of the plan.

28:25This is an elaborate plan that we had.

28:28Get Mount Jabba in there.

28:30Get the Iranian people to rally behind Mount Jabba because as between the U .S.

28:36and Israel or Mount Jabba and Donald Trump saying we're going to carve up the

28:41map of Iran, Iranian people are menacing and bad, nasty people.

28:45Iranians like, I don't know.

28:47I mean, we've got Trump on the one hand, we've got that regime.

28:49On the other hand, we've got the Islamic Republic regime.

28:53Which one are we going?

28:54You've got people to rally around Mount Jabba.

28:57You've solidified the regime's power right now in Iran.

29:01Part of the plan is to get the Gulf nations to want security arrangements with

29:05Iran. Part of the elaborate plan also is to remove the THAAD missiles from South

29:12Korea to not give the missiles, the Patriots and the THAADs and other military aid

29:17to Taiwan. Trust the plan.

29:20This is all part of the plan, everybody.

29:22Then Kim Jong -un is out there mocking the United States, talking about the missile

29:27tests that he's been doing as soon as the U .S.

29:30removed its missiles from South Korea.

29:32So let's just piss off all of the Asian countries, piss off all the Middle

29:36East countries. Before that, part of the plan is also threatened to invade NATO nations

29:42like Denmark and say you're going to take over Greenland.

29:46But do that. Say that Canada's the 51st state, piss them off.

29:51Try to pull out of the AUKLIS nuclear submarine agreements with Australia.

29:57This is what we're doing.

30:00So we're seeing, in other words, what we're seeing in real time, if you're wondering,

30:05how did Donald Trump bankrupt all of these casinos like this?

30:10Except now we're the casinos.

30:12This is how he does it.

30:14He makes bad decisions, worse.

30:18Worse decisions, devastating. Devastating situations, catastrophic.

30:24Catastrophic situations, nuclear catastrophic. And nuclear catastrophic situations, bankrupt.

30:32That's how he does it.

30:34And then he finds his scapegoat.

30:36He blames it on this or that.

30:38Or you did it. This person did it.

30:40That person did it. Blame it on that.

30:42Come up with a conspiracy theory.

30:44He tries to skirt away with his little kind of group, MAGA group.

30:49He makes the money and everybody else holds the bag.

30:52And that used to be the contractors, the note holders, all these people.

30:57Donald Trump is a lifelong loser.

31:00He's a loser in life.

31:01His whole life has been a loser.

31:04And this is the thing I've always tried to say.

31:06He never was a deal maker.

31:08He was never some smart guy who made good business moves.

31:11He got daddy's money and he lost and he lost and he lost and he

31:16screwed people and he screwed people and he sexually assaulted.

31:20He was found civilly liable for it.

31:22So let me be clear, found civilly liable.

31:24He was a sexual predator in his entirety.

31:27He was friends with Epstein.

31:28He's a sicko. He lived a life of perversion.

31:31He lived a life of devastation.

31:35He hurt people. He's a predator.

31:37He's a sicko. And he surrounds himself with sickos.

31:41That's who he is. Okay.

31:43These are all bad, demented people, demons.

31:47He's a demon person. And these are demons.

31:50He surrounds himself with their behavior is as such the Epstein class, these predators.

31:55And they're not even smart.

31:57They're dumb also. They're dumb people.

32:00And they're doing dumb, dangerous, despicable things.

32:04And what we're seeing happen, and I'm not being hyperbolic, all of my predictions have

32:09been correct. Why are you saying that's going to happen?

32:12There's no hyperbole here. This is what's happening.

32:16There is currently underway a massive, in fast forward, restructuring of the global world order

32:24right now. America has been exposed as utterly weak and un...

32:30able to protect all of the countries that it claimed it could.

32:33That's how we built the ability for America's economy to be the envy of the

32:39world. The economy in America, with all of the debt that we have, what is

32:43it, 37, 38, by the time Trump's done, it'll be $60 trillion in debt.

32:48America could always go and print more money.

32:51People would buy American treasuries because ultimately America's promise was that its power was unmatched.

32:59You burst that bubble. You make America a Trump casino and unreliable.

33:05And guess what you can't do anymore?

33:07You can't just print the paper.

33:08You can't keep this debt cycle going as you rake up the debt.

33:13It's impossible. The debt cycle was cancerous to begin with.

33:16And as everybody talked about the debt crisis and Trump being responsible for 25 to

33:2030 percent of it. And people go, well, how does it even function if at

33:24the end of the day, if at the end of the day you have so

33:27much debt? Like how does it exist if you're paying a trillion dollars of interest

33:32on your debt to people who hold your treasury notes?

33:35Well, because it was based on the idea that America can never run out of

33:39the money. You can always go and print more money.

33:40That's a Ponzi scheme. At some point when people go, hey, isn't this just like

33:45Bernie Madoff? Isn't all of this BS, right?

33:48And people say, pay up.

33:50I don't trust you anymore.

33:52That's when it leads to a global collapse.

33:55Post -World War II, there was a global world reordering.

33:59And right now, what we're seeing here in real time in fast forward is that

34:05China, Russia, the biggest beneficiaries of that.

34:09Right now, these Middle East Arab nations, they're going to make security deals with Iran.

34:15They're going to become allied even there.

34:18Iran is going to become more powerful than ever right now, along with China and

34:22Russia. They're the ones benefiting, right?

34:25Europe has to figure out what the hell are we going to do right now?

34:28Because America under Donald Trump is behaving weak and pathetic, despite what our generals do,

34:34despite having the most powerful military, putting these tools in the hand of this demented,

34:40vile piece of trash in the Oval Office.

34:43He doesn't know how to use these tools.

34:45In fact, the tools are too big for him, which he views as toys, which

34:50are, it's imploding the United States right now.

34:53And he's got this sycophantic cult, right?

34:56That looks right out of Jonestown or whatever it is, just drinking the Kool -Aid

35:00in Mar -a -Lago, as you heard from Leader Jeffries out there, partying in Doral,

35:05Miami right now, as Donald Trump claims we won the war.

35:10I mean, just think about that.

35:11Think about past presidents, the statements they made, the severity of how they viewed war.

35:18And Donald Trump's out there saying, we won, we've obliterated them, they don't have any

35:23capabilities. They do. They do.

35:25I see their capabilities. Do we have the video last night, Jeremy, of them striking

35:30that ship? I think it's a five -second video that we have of the moment,

35:35the Marshall Island flagship. Marshall, I won't get into the whole way shipping.

35:40They're flagged in different countries that own it, okay?

35:43So a Marshall Island flag, that means owned by the U .S.

35:47U .S. ship, doing a ship -to -strip, an STS, ship -to -ship transfer right

35:52now of fuel with a Greek ship.

35:54It's always a dangerous maneuver, doing ship -to -ship transfers.

35:58Iran has unmanned vessels. Boom.

36:02Watch what happens. Let's play it.

36:10Yeah, that's what's going on right there.

36:12That's what's going on right there.

36:13All right. We have to, my producers are saying we have to do a quick

36:17ad break. Let's do a quick ad break right now.

36:18Reminder, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers right now.

36:22We got a lot more to discuss when we get back.

36:23Show you some Senate hearings.

36:25We'll talk about what's going on here domestically as well.

36:28Quick break. We'll be right back.

36:30Thanks. Big audience today. Big audience today.

36:32We'll see you shortly. All right.

36:33Let me tell you about something I've actually been using lately, OneSkin.

36:36I'm someone who's tried a lot of skincare over the years.

36:39And what first caught my attention about this brand is that it was founded by

36:42a team of PhD longevity scientists.

36:44This isn't just another moisturizer.

36:46It's skincare built on real research.

36:49I've been using their products with the OS1 peptide.

36:51And what I like about it is how simple it is to add into a

36:53routine. The texture is great, it absorbs quickly, and it doesn't feel heavy or greasy.

36:58After a few weeks, I noticed my skin just looked healthier and smoother overall.

37:02That OS1 eye topical and OS1 face have become my daily go -tos.

37:07What makes OneSkin different is that their patented OS1 peptide target senescent cells, which are

37:12a major driver of wrinkles, fine lines, and loss of elasticity.

37:15That's actually been validated in multiple peer -reviewed clinical studies.

37:19The products are dermatologist -tested, safer -sensitive skin, and free from over 1 ,500 harsh

37:25ingredients. Born from over a decade of longevity research, OneSkin's OS1 peptide is proven to

37:31target the visible signs of aging, helping you unlock your healthiest skin now and as

37:36you age. And for a limited time, try OneSkin with 15 % off using code

37:40MIDAS at oneskin .co slash MIDAS.

37:44That's 15 % off, oneskin .co with code MIDAS.

37:48After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them.

37:50Please support our show and tell them we sent you.

37:53Again, that's 15 % off at oneskin .co slash MIDAS.

37:57Code Midas, M -E -I -D -A -S.

38:00You ever walk out of a doctor's appointment feeling like you learned absolutely nothing?

38:04Like they just say you're fine, maybe tell you to drink some water and that's

38:07it. No real data, no real plan.

38:09That's honestly why I'm fascinated by what Superpower is doing.

38:13Instead of guessing about your health, they actually give you information that you need to

38:17understand your body. Superpower sends a licensed professional to your home or you could visit

38:21a nearby lab and it's one simple test that measures over 100 biomarkers.

38:26That's way more than you normally get.

38:28Then everything shows up in their app, breaking down things like your heart health, liver,

38:33thyroid, hormones, metabolism, vitamin and mineral levels, and even environmental toxins.

38:38And for me, the biggest thing is finally having a real plan, not guessing about

38:42supplements, diet or sleep or what you should actually be doing for your health.

38:46Superpower gives personalized recommendations, lifestyle guidance, and even tracks your true biological age so you

38:53can see how your health changes over time.

38:55It's not just a one -time snapshot either.

38:57Every test builds on the last one so you could actually track progress year after

39:02year. Plus, they have an on -demand clinician team to answer questions, which is huge.

39:07And here's the wild part.

39:08Superpower used to cost $499, but right now it's just $199 for the full experience.

39:15Make this the year you stop guessing about your health with Superpower.

39:19Not only did Superpower reduce their price to just $199, but for a limited time,

39:24our listeners get an additional $20 off with code MIDAS.

39:28Head to superpower .com and use code MIDAS at checkout for $20 off your membership.

39:33That's M -E -I -D -A -S.

39:36After you sign up, they'll ask how you heard about them.

39:38So make sure to mention this podcast to support the show.

39:42Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News.

39:47You guys like the new show, Ben on Breaking News?

39:50We break down all the latest and the greatest of everything that's happening.

39:55And sadly, it's not the greatest right now.

39:57It's pretty dire times caused by the Trump regime where more than ever, we just

40:03need factual analysis about what's going on in this country right now.

40:06Because where this Trump regime is leading us to or not leading us to is

40:12deeply problematic. I mean, I just want you to take a look at what went

40:15down on the USS Gerald Ford today.

40:19It was the fire in the laundry room.

40:22And that's what they're telling us.

40:24There was a fire in the laundry room.

40:25Pretty serious fire. Also, there were two individuals who were injured.

40:30Non -combat related injuries. Apparently, they're in stable condition.

40:35But U .S. Navy's Fifth Fleet and CENTCOM confirmed that the USS Gerald Ford had

40:41this fire. It originated in laundry spaces, was non -combat related.

40:47And this is one of the main ships, by the way, that's out there.

40:54I think it was in the Red Sea most recently.

40:56It's a $13 .3 billion ship.

41:00I think, you know, we've been covering both the Lincoln and the Ford.

41:06They've been having a lot of issues.

41:09But it's actually expected that they'd have a lot of issues because, I mean, if

41:14you look at the Gerald Ford, it's been basically on active duty now since, you

41:21know, 2025. I mean, we're almost going on a year of it engaging in a

41:27lot of different missions. And you have these members of the Navy who have been

41:33away from family members for a very long period of time.

41:37They've missed births. They've missed funerals.

41:39They've missed birthday parties. And if you remember the reports that we were doing here

41:44back in early February, it's why we pay attention to things here well in advance

41:52of when they become issues.

41:53Remember, we were doing reports on the sewage issues within these ships and how there

42:00was very low morale and how there was like even, you know, the ships, the

42:07plumbing was all screwed up.

42:08And so there was like feces and urine all over the place.

42:12I showed you those photos of what it looked like in February.

42:14And so the ship had to, you know, go and take a stop in the

42:19Mediterranean to deal with plumbing issues.

42:22There's a lot of issues like that going on.

42:25There's no sign of, especially if this war continues, when these ships are going to

42:32be back. They're not meant to be out there this long, other than like Vietnam

42:36era stuff. These level of deployments are unsustainable.

42:42And these things start to go wrong on ships of this size, even the most

42:47advanced $13 .3 billion, you know, ships like this, right?

42:52Iran knows this. Iran knows this.

42:56And they're very much aware that if there's a war of attrition and they've amassed

43:02this huge inventory of Shahid drones, they can turn out new ones every day, cheap

43:11to make, 20 ,000. And their entire economy is built with the ability to churn

43:18out these drones with private -public cooperation, ballistic missiles that they're able to do.

43:25And they're not going to do it.

43:25And they're going to do it.

43:25these unmanned vessels, the drones in the water basically, this is how warfare has been

43:34developing. We could have looked to see how Ukraine was protecting itself from Russia's invasion.

43:43Russia had big military tanks, lots of weapon systems, outdated sure, but lots of big

43:51weapon systems, right? And Ukraine was able to use a form of asymmetrical warfare with

43:57the drones, with the unmanned vessels, that it had to develop its own anti -drone

44:02technologies, right? And yes, Ukraine did rely on a lot of the javelins and systems

44:10provided by the Americans, although under Trump, America started removing a lot of those systems.

44:17But even with taking away those systems, Ukraine on its own was able to develop

44:22anti -drone technologies and things like that.

44:25Last August, Zelensky tried to help Donald Trump.

44:31That was the same time Donald Trump was holding the summit in Alaska with Putin,

44:35right? Where Trump rolled out the red carpet, made our troops go on their knees

44:38and quite literally kiss Putin's shoes.

44:41Remember the photo of our troops on their knees for Putin?

44:44One of the most despicable photos, if not the most despicable photo, most embarrassing photos

44:49I've ever seen in United States history.

44:52By the way, that will be in the history books of Russia forever, right?

44:56The same way we have Mr.

44:57Gorbachev take down that wall, they're going to show the moment Putin strolled into Alaska

45:02and Trump made our troops bend down on their knees.

45:05It's quite like the humiliation that Trump has put our nation through is second to

45:10none, unprecedented in the history of our nation.

45:13And the fact that there are people out there who support this stuff still, who

45:17pretend to be hawks or this, it's like the level of humiliation is just next

45:24level. But Zelensky tried to help.

45:27Zelensky provided options, anti -drone technology, a whole presentation to Donald Trump and Trump said,

45:34I don't care. I don't want to see this.

45:35I don't want to see it.

45:36Apparently, now Eric Trump is an investor in an anti -drone or drone company.

45:44And so now they want some of the Ukrainian technology and some of their intellectual

45:48property for Trump's kids' business.

45:51So Zelensky, I think, is providing some support because Zelensky rightfully sees it.

45:57Put it this way. In Ukraine, they view what's taking place as World War III.

46:02And again, I don't mean to scare you.

46:04I don't mean to sound hyperbolic or the world is on fire.

46:09The world is on fire.

46:11Zelensky views what's taking place now as a two -front war.

46:15So Zelensky also wants to help the US and Europe in the Middle East, even

46:23out of just self -interest as well, because Russia helping Iran and China helping Iran

46:31in the war against the United States helps strengthen Russia in its war against Ukraine

46:38by empowering Iran to force weapon systems to be moved out of Ukraine to be

46:46focused in the Middle East region, allow Putin to engage in more strikes on Ukraine

46:52to try to remove some of the defensive structure from Ukraine, move that to the

46:57Middle East. And Zelensky recognizes, of course, that that's part of the two -front war

47:04that's taking place. So Zelensky has tried to help Trump.

47:09Trump rejected it. And instead, what is the Trump regime doing?

47:13They met in Miami, as I mentioned before, with Ushakov and Dmitriyev, Kirill Dmitriyev, who

47:22you see right there, the special envoy from Russia to the United States, meeting with

47:27Steve Whitcoff, and they're discussing economic cooperation between the United States and Russia.

47:33And it's like our regime here in the United States is just so utterly stupid.

47:39I mean, it's demented. It is, you know, or alternatively, they're just literally working with

47:44Putin, which is another viable option, because Putin and Russia are outwardly supporting Ayatollah and

47:52Manjabi. I mean, they're saying they're supporting them.

47:54They've made statements. We support the new Ayatollah.

47:56We stand in solidarity with them.

47:58It's obvious also China is helping Iran find coordinates for the United States and American

48:04interests throughout the Middle East, right?

48:06They're being supported in their efforts there.

48:09Zelensky is like trying to even help.

48:12Hey, we need, because also Zelensky knows helping in the Middle East helps Ukraine because

48:16this war turning in Iran's favor is ultimately immensely helpful to Russia because Russia is

48:25able to then sell its oil at higher prices, right?

48:29Especially as the Trump regime is removing sanctions against Russia.

48:32And, you know, it's satisfying a lot of geopolitical interests of Russia right now, targeting

48:39their enemies in the Middle East.

48:42But Trump's out there like meeting.

48:44And this is why Russia sent its people to Miami, because they realize how stupid

48:50the Trump regime is. And then they talk about economic.

48:53operation and doing deals together.

48:55It's like doing deals together.

48:56The Russians are helping Iran kill American soldiers right now.

48:59What are we talking about?

49:00They're instrumental in Iran's mosaic defense structure right now.

49:06That's what's going on. And Trump shunning Zelensky and then meeting with Putin is like

49:12the biggest FU to Zelensky who's trying to help.

49:14What are we doing? We removed the missile systems from South Korea, the THAAD system.

49:18We took them. We promised them.

49:20We took them. We're not giving the aid promise to Taiwan.

49:24China couldn't be more thrilled.

49:26China's also mocking the United States right now in the press.

49:29I don't know if you caught it.

49:30And I'll show you what the videos China and the videos Iran have been making

49:34as well. But China's been saying, well, Donald Trump claims he's coming here in April,

49:39but like they're not even making any organized plans for Trump's arrival.

49:43And so it's very disorganized and kind of mocking the fact that Trump is so

49:48thirsty to be in Beijing and Trump can't even plan a state visit to Beijing.

49:54But just think about it.

49:55Trump wants to do a state visit to Beijing when we know China is helping

49:59Iran. Right. And Donald Trump has abandoned even before the war in Iran.

50:04Donald Trump has abandoned giving congressionally appropriated aid to Taiwan.

50:08Remember when all the MAGAs used to act like they were China hawks and they

50:12were for Taiwan. Remember, nine months ago, Trump wouldn't allow the Taiwanese president to travel

50:19over U .S. airspace on his way to Central America.

50:22So I said then, I said, okay, it's obvious that Trump's not going to give

50:25this guy military aid. What are we talking about?

50:27I'm letting him fly over the United States.

50:30He's going to give him military aid.

50:31And Xi Jinping knows that all Trump wants is a state visit to China.

50:36So Trump can get a photo of himself standing in front of the Chinese soldiers

50:40who march in lockstep. So Trump feels tough.

50:43And Trump can say, Xi Jinping's the king.

50:45Xi Jinping's the king. So, you know, that's what's going on there right now.

50:49But let me show you, too.

50:50I want to show you what Iran's doing right now and what China's doing to

50:55mock the United States right now.

50:57So there's an Iranian embassy in The Hague.

51:01And they posted this message in memory of the 168 innocent schoolchildren of Manab, whose

51:08lives were cruelly taken by the most evil people on earth.

51:11Their names may fade from the headlines, but they must never fade from our conscience.

51:15So Iran is now trolling Trump, who's a troll, on social media while they also

51:24engage in their asymmetrical warfare in the Middle East, bogging the United States down.

51:29Here's the video that they released.

51:30Let's play it. We have no issue with civilian.

51:34Why did you attack the Manab school?

51:39Go on. Lie. Lie. Lie.

51:45Lie. Lie. Lie. These are making me out.

51:51We didn't hit the Manab school.

51:54America doesn't have tomahawk missiles at all.

51:56We care deeply about the arrangement.

52:05And it says, inside out, Epstein's client right there.

52:09By the way, Jeremy, do we have that clip where Trump was asked in front

52:14of the White House if he takes responsibility for the U .S.

52:18strikes on the Iranian school?

52:20Like, just so you know, the video that they made, right?

52:23Like, and you go, okay, Ben, Ben, what the hell, man?

52:27What the hell? You know what, Ben?

52:29You know, you're still an American.

52:33You're playing Iranian propaganda videos from the Hague on your YouTube channel.

52:38What the hell are you doing right here?

52:40Well, first, let me just show you what Donald Trump actually said.

52:43So that was their video.

52:45Here's what really went down when Donald Trump was asked about it.

52:48Let's play this clip. The report shows a new report says that the military investigation

52:53has found that the United States dropped the school in Iran.

52:57As commander -in -chief, do you take responsibility for that?

53:00That is what? As commander -in -chief, do you - For what?

53:03For the strike on the school in Iran.

53:05A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that

53:09struck the school. I don't know about it.

53:13Are you supposed to help you respond today?

53:17I don't know about that.

53:19Well, I'll tell you who does know about it.

53:22I mean, the military generals know about it.

53:25We saw testimony today from General Grenkiewicz right there.

53:30And again, what I, why I want to show you that is I will flag

53:36it as, okay, that's an Iranian propaganda video in The Hague.

53:40The idea that Iran has an embassy in The Hague while it engaged in a

53:44massacre of the protesters. And yes, the Ayatollah is a brutal terroristic regime.

53:49All valid points, right? The Trump regime is engaged in also mass propaganda.

53:56They're killing girls in elementary schools right now.

53:59They're covering up a child sex trafficking ring.

54:02And America, I'm reflecting and showing you that to say, when Donald Trump used to

54:08say the whole world is laughing at us, when they weren't, could you imagine another

54:13country even making a video like that to try to poke the bear of the

54:17United? You would never even see that.

54:19They're mocking - Trump as the Epstein client because they see how weak he is.

54:24They see how weak his regime is.

54:27It's weakness. And Governor Newsom used to say it's weakness masquerading as strength, but actually

54:33it ain't even masquerading. It's weakness masquerading as like a demented weakness.

54:40I don't even know how to describe it right now.

54:42So here's General Grinkiewicz on the Iranian school that was bombed.

54:48And Senator Gillibrand from New York is asking the question.

54:51And this general, who's the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the top general in Europe, responds

54:58that it was a tragic incident that was the United States.

55:04I mean, here's what he says.

55:05Let's play it. Any person who can get satellite access to Google Maps today can

55:16see that this was a school.

55:20New York Times had no problem getting that data and information for a report today.

55:27What do you intend to do at UConn to make sure your targeting is consistent

55:32with American values? Senator, thanks.

55:36You know, over the course of my career, I've, as a fighter pilot, I've always

55:41done everything I can to avoid civilian harm and civilian casualties.

55:46And I would tell you, I'm absolutely committed to that.

55:48I know the department is committed to that.

55:50And that when tragedies like this happen, it causes us all to reflect and try

55:54to improve our processes. I've been involved in the targeting process, both of the tactical

55:59and the operational levels throughout my career.

56:01And I would tell you, we do have a number of safeguards in the system.

56:04You know, every single time that at the tactical level, I was going to release

56:08a weapon on a target, I was personally making an assessment as to whether there

56:13was any chance of civilian harm.

56:15And if there was, was that proportional to the military necessity of striking the target.

56:19At the operational level, both from my time in U .S.

56:23Central Command previously, and then now at U .S.

56:26European Command, I can assure you that we have robust standards that we go through

56:29and look to see and update the imagery and update our understanding of the target

56:35and refresh the intelligence on a recurring basis to determine the chances of civilian harm

56:40and to address any collateral concerns that might be there.

56:43So you just know I'm absolutely committed to trying to mitigate that risk.

56:47I appreciate your testimony. I'm highly concerned, however, that Secretary Hegseth does not agree with

56:52you. Secretary Hegseth has criticized rules of engagement designed to adhere to the laws of

56:59armed conflict and support civilian harm mitigation.

57:03Secretary Hegseth has also cut the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence by about 90 percent.

57:11Whether it turns out that the elementary school was picked as a target by AI,

57:19whether that was exactly what Anthropic was warning about, we will have to see whether

57:27that was done by the sloppy Trump regime people who we see engage in all

57:34this other behavior. They picked that elementary school because it was near a military facility

57:43and it had the daughters and children of military officials who went there.

57:52The same way we have in the United States tons of schools that are near

57:56military facilities here. That's a fairly normal thing, but that was not a military target.

58:02That was not a military facility.

58:04That had been a school for decades.

58:06We knew what that was, but that was picked as part of Hegseth's lethality.

58:12Kill everything around the area.

58:14And on the first day, they did that.

58:16I mean, I'll show you the type of people who are working in this regime.

58:19Have you seen, and 404 Media did a great job putting this compilation together, but

58:25these Doge goons, you saw their deposition.

58:28These muskrats, these musk people who were out there making these cuts and saying, this

58:36is DEI, these are the people who are the real DEI, didn't earn it.

58:43The real DEI is in the Trump regime, didn't earn it.

58:48And this is who's running all this stuff.

58:51And this guy I'm going to show you right now, he wasn't involved in this

58:55strike. Let me be very clear.

58:57But it is people like this.

58:59This is the personality type of Pete Hegseth.

59:03Hegseth's like this. This is what they think is strong.

59:06This is what they think is smart.

59:08This is what they think that when they use terms like DEI, diversity, equity, and

59:14inclusion, they're saying the problem with DEI is that it allows minority candidates to get

59:21jobs over, over white men like this.

59:25Here, play this clip. How do you interpret DEI?

59:36There was the EO explicitly laid out.

59:39The details, I don't remember it off the top of my head.

59:42It's okay. I'm asking for your understanding of it.

59:43Yeah, my understanding was exactly what was written in the EO.

59:45Okay. So can you... I don't remember what was in the EO.

59:47So right now, do you have...

59:48understanding of what DEI is?

59:50Yeah. Okay. So what's your understanding as you sit here today in this deposition?

59:56Well, it was exactly what was written in the EO.

59:58And so anytime that we would look at a grant through the lens of complying

1:00:02with an executive order, we would just refer back to the EO and assess if

1:00:05this grant had relation to it.

1:00:08Okay. But I guess stepping back from your methodology strictly in terminating the grants, do

1:00:13you have an understanding as you sit here today of what DEI means?

1:00:16Yeah. Okay. So what's your understanding of what it means?

1:00:18Well, it is exactly what was written in the EO.

1:00:23Okay. So why is a documentary about Holocaust survivors DEI?

1:00:28It's actually... It's the gender -based story that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific

1:00:40group. It's inherently discriminatory to focus on what specific group?

1:00:47The gender -based. So females...

1:00:53During the Holocaust. And you believe that that's inherently discriminatory?

1:00:58I'm just saying that's what it's focused on.

1:01:00Sure. But this is related to DEI.

1:01:03Right. But you just used the term inherently discriminatory.

1:01:06What did you mean by that?

1:01:09It's focusing on DEI principles, gender being one of them.

1:01:16So a documentary that's about women.

1:01:18Yeah. It's people like that didn't earn it who have, you know, replaced actually competent

1:01:30people. There have been a lot of women military leaders who have been pushed out.

1:01:36A lot of people from minority groups who were leaders in the military who were

1:01:41pushed out. A lot of people who the Trump regime claimed were woke were pushed

1:01:46out of the military. You know, we push out some of our best minds in

1:01:53the military as well. That was, you know, if you almost think about the perfect

1:01:58storm. Right. Think about it like this.

1:02:03And Putin couldn't have designed it any better.

1:02:06Right. China couldn't have designed this any better.

1:02:10Year one, you spend gutting everything piece by piece with Doge.

1:02:18Right. This cancer that metastasizes within the, you know, within our government.

1:02:26And then even when Doge is gone, just the aftermath and all of the firing.

1:02:31So all of our agencies, all of our resources, gutted, gutted, gutted, gutted, gutted.

1:02:35Right. You start picking the least qualified person for every position.

1:02:40So who do you pick at the health department?

1:02:43The guy who hates health.

1:02:44Who do you pick at the military department?

1:02:47You call it war instead of defense.

1:02:49And then you pick the guy who couldn't even run a military nonprofit and was

1:02:53pushed out for horrific behavior and who has all these accusations against them.

1:02:58Right. You know, who do you put as your commerce secretary?

1:03:00The Epstein Island guy. You know, who do you put as your D, you know,

1:03:06your head of DOJ? You know, Pam Bondi, who, you know, couldn't do an oral

1:03:12argument for, you know, at all.

1:03:14Like who, who are you putting in these different positions?

1:03:17Like quite who you put at the EPA, the guy who hates the environment.

1:03:21Who do you put at the Department of Education?

1:03:23Someone who wants to, you know, kill the Department of Education.

1:03:26Right. You, you rip apart everything.

1:03:28Then within the entities, you purge all of the competent people.

1:03:31You push them out. Right.

1:03:33So that's the first year you do that.

1:03:35Then you invade your own country.

1:03:36Right. So you have ICE and Border Patrol, like Gestapo, terrorize people.

1:03:40Then you do tariffs against the world.

1:03:42Like you couldn't, if you asked AI, you know, design the perfect scenario for our

1:03:47enemies of what you would do.

1:03:48Then you tariff the world.

1:03:50You create trade wars against everyone.

1:03:52Turn all of your allies into enemies.

1:03:55Right. Then threaten your NATO allies, weaken NATO and, and chip it away.

1:04:00But still, it, you know, it was all hanging on a thread, but everything was

1:04:05kind of broken. Year one, breaking.

1:04:08Like that's how I would, I would write a book on this, right?

1:04:10Year one, break everything. And that's how they broke everything.

1:04:14Year two, you start off right away and then you try to break everything.

1:04:19So you start, sorry, after everything's broken, now you leave the U .S.

1:04:24kind of exposed. And so you start off, right?

1:04:26We started off the year of Venezuela.

1:04:28And I think Venezuela went, you know, I still think it was terrible.

1:04:32Trump never cared about democracy, right?

1:04:34He propped up just the Maduro regime again.

1:04:37So Trump can take oil for himself.

1:04:40But he does Venezuela first, go to war right away, right?

1:04:44Then you rush into war against Iran, where you know that that right there could

1:04:52be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back with all of the things you've

1:04:56done. So now you're left exposed.

1:05:00Your state department's gutted. You don't have ambassadors in the region.

1:05:04You know, you haven't thought through how you're going to help your Middle East allies.

1:05:07You don't have any allies who want to help you.

1:05:10You know, you're all, you already have an economy that's suffering.

1:05:13Even if this war didn't exist, we'd be talking.

1:05:16You're right back. about how bad the economy is right now.

1:05:18So now you have all of these issues that were created during the breaking year,

1:05:22and now you have your war year where you have a, which I guess here's

1:05:27how I would call chapter two, kind of a, or I was doing a three

1:05:31-part documentary on the fall of America, because that's what this is, the fall of

1:05:37the United States, destruction of the US from within.

1:05:41That's my first chapter. My second chapter is now, you know, a global reordering through

1:05:49a disastrous, unprepared war, because that's what's happening.

1:05:53I talked about that in the first half of this podcast.

1:05:55And then, you know, episode three, I think, or however you're going to do it,

1:06:00you'll see what that looks like.

1:06:02You're going to see what that looks like.

1:06:04And it is going to make America look incredibly, incredibly weak.

1:06:10The worst is still yet to come.

1:06:12And I'm not, again, trying to be hyperbolic or scare you.

1:06:15But again, this Ponzi scheme of America's economy, being $37 trillion in debt, racking up

1:06:22these massive deficits, racking up these massive deficits every year, it depended on the full

1:06:30faith and credit in the United States as a stable actor, and that no matter

1:06:35what the US was in charge of this global world order, that's what made the

1:06:40economic Ponzi scheme with all of this debt work.

1:06:44Because America could just print more money, or people will still put their money into

1:06:49treasury bonds, and no matter what, that's always safe, right?

1:06:53It's always safe. Well, when the America as the leader in the global world order,

1:06:59and as a stable thing, you know, is gone, well, now people say, okay, well,

1:07:06we don't trust you for that.

1:07:07And if they don't trust the US for that, okay, pay up.

1:07:13What if China right now called, made a call on all their debt?

1:07:17What if the European Union made a call on all of their debt right now,

1:07:21right? What if the Middle East did that?

1:07:22What if Canada, who holds trillions of American debt, American, what if they call, what

1:07:26if Japan did that right now?

1:07:28What if all of that, what if, what if they did that?

1:07:30You know, they're, they're not because they viewed, if we do that, it's mutually assured

1:07:37destruction. There'll be a worldwide economic depression, the likes of which would make what took

1:07:42place in the 1930s look like peanuts.

1:07:45But now they're at a point where it's happening anyway.

1:07:49And again, I'm not, again, I'm not, I'm not saying this to be inflammatory or

1:07:54to scare you. I just think we have to be clear eyed and prepared for

1:07:59what is happening. And so much is based on this view, whether it was Trump's

1:08:04tariffs against the world after the Supreme Court ruled against them, he put new tariffs,

1:08:09you know, you're like, well, why isn't, why aren't things crashing?

1:08:12Because a lot of the markets are based on forward looking views and forward looking

1:08:18views. When you would speak to bankers or all these people said, yeah, he's a

1:08:22crazy guy, but ultimately he's economically rational when confronted with devastation in the markets.

1:08:29And so we expect him to basically taco, he'll chicken out, he'll adjust, he'll grant

1:08:34enough exceptions where America's economy, because it's so resilient, will still be able to function

1:08:40and he can't break it.

1:08:41And I would always say to people who would tell that to me, I don't

1:08:44know about that because if you watch what he's doing, he's really dismantling every layer

1:08:50of it and every level of it.

1:08:52And, you know, I think that so far my predictions, I didn't want them to

1:08:56be right, but I think they are right right now.

1:08:59And so the question is, is kind of, you know, what happens next?

1:09:05And look, I'll just, I'll leave us with this because as much as I despise

1:09:13Donald Trump, as much as I despise his entire regime, I still love the United

1:09:22States of America. And I would still want as an American, as much as I

1:09:29despise Donald Trump, you know, just someone in a leadership position who could be clear

1:09:36eyed and who can stop what's happening right now before it gets worse.

1:09:42And I don't know if the languages I hope and pray or what I could

1:09:46even say. I don't know how to formulate the thought of what I even want

1:09:50here, but I truly wish that even if it was someone I disagreed with so

1:09:55much, there was at least someone who had a scintilla of rationality so that there

1:10:01could at least be a way to address the situation.

1:10:04I mean, look, George W.

1:10:06Bush, you know, horrible, although he makes, you know, he looks like a great president

1:10:10compared to Donald Trump. But when we had the great recession, as the baton was

1:10:16also handed to Obama, they still brought in really smart people who dealt with these

1:10:23systemic issues, you know, with these, you know, with these subprime mortgages and everything that

1:10:29triggered it. And they figured out ways to very quickly move us away from the

1:10:35brink, even though it was a horrific economic outcome.

1:10:39But I remember those days, I was in law school, that 2007 period.

1:10:44I remember being in my constitutional law class when the markets were crashing.

1:10:47I remember the professor talking to us about very vivid memories of it, how Congress

1:10:52would come together in a bipartisan way, you know, and do these bailouts and do

1:10:57these things that were put together a brain trust of smart people and solve the

1:11:04problem that was, you know, and it wasn't, you know, it was really Obama who

1:11:09then kind of really was able to solve it, frankly, the same way Biden was

1:11:13able to get us out of what Trump did in the devastation caused by COVID,

1:11:17which is a very similar decision -making tree to what we see here with Donald

1:11:23Trump and this disastrous war in Iran.

1:11:25And the Iranians know it, like what they know in their psychological assessment of Donald

1:11:30Trump is what we all know in our psychological assessment.

1:11:33They know that Donald Trump makes a bad decision into a worse decision, as I

1:11:38said earlier, a worse decision into a catastrophic, a catastrophic decision into one of nuclear

1:11:43proportions. Then he goes bankrupt and he runs away and he blames people.

1:11:47His decision -making is to cover up and to make it worse versus address the

1:11:52problem head on. Because if you wanted to address this head on, you would literally

1:11:57admit right now that this was a massive mistake.

1:12:00You would try to come up with terms.

1:12:01You would try to deal with this, try to settle and calm the markets right

1:12:04now. You know, maybe take the L, deal with it responsibly, which will have a

1:12:09long -term effect. But you got to fix this.

1:12:12And fixing it requires an admission of the error to begin with, or of the

1:12:18recklessness, I shouldn't call it an error, of the maliciousness that backfired.

1:12:22You have to recognize that that's what this is, because otherwise, this is not something

1:12:26that's going to end anytime soon.

1:12:29Iran and Russia and China know that they have Donald Trump by, you know, the

1:12:33imaginary marbles, you know, whatever you want to call it at this point.

1:12:37They've got him by it.

1:12:38And every time Trump's out there and says, it's great, the Strait of Hermos is

1:12:42open. We're doing amazing. That is the wrong thing.

1:12:48It is fatally wrong to do that.

1:12:50You have to confront it.

1:12:51You have to recognize what's happening every night and every day.

1:12:54Hey, what's happening with the price of oil right now?

1:12:56What's happening with the markets right now?

1:12:59And I'll take a look at what the latest is on the, you know, on

1:13:02the markets. Let me just take a look right now.

1:13:04Markets today. Get a sense of where things closed.

1:13:09Let me take a look.

1:13:10You had, yeah, the Dow was down 739, 1 .5 per 6, now at 46

1:13:16,000. Remember when she was saying it was 50 ,000.

1:13:19If you invested when she was saying it was 50 ,000, you lost a lot

1:13:23of money right now. NASDAQ was down nearly 2%.

1:13:26S &P was down, you know, about 1 .5 % today.

1:13:30I'll take a look right now at the oil markets right now.

1:13:34What's the crude price right now?

1:13:36Yeah, crude right now, $95 per barrel.

1:13:39And remember on Monday when Donald Trump said the war is going to end soon.

1:13:44Remember you pulled that? The war is going to end soon.

1:13:47We're putting our ships in the Strait of Hermose.

1:13:50Things are going to be great.

1:13:52Remember oil went down to like, what, $80 a barrel or $79.

1:13:56I was like, wow, things are going.

1:13:58I remember that Monday. I was thinking on Sunday as I was looking at the

1:14:02futures, oh, we're screwed. This Monday could be a black Monday.

1:14:06This could be devastating. And then I went, I was, I taught at USC.

1:14:10I came out and I looked at the market.

1:14:12I'm like, wait, the market's up.

1:14:14And oil's down. That's good news.

1:14:16But how? Oh, Trump lied.

1:14:19He did what he, he lied.

1:14:21Oh, and then the energy secretary posted on Twitter that we were escorting ships with

1:14:26our Navy, which was false.

1:14:27And then also made the oil and people like lost billions of dollars.

1:14:31Like the hell is going on?

1:14:32Like the hell is going on?

1:14:33And now the market is saying, oh my God, this is not going to end.

1:14:38This is not going to end anytime soon.

1:14:40And, and, and there, and there really isn't.

1:14:42And Trump's decision -making is just like COVID.

1:14:45It's going to go away.

1:14:46It's going to go away.

1:14:47It's going to go away.

1:14:48Don't worry. It's going to go away by Easter, by Easter.

1:14:51We're bending the curve. It's fine.

1:14:52It's great. And then when it's debit, remember what he said at the end of

1:14:55his term, what do you give yourself on a scale of one to 10?

1:14:58What do you say at 11 or an eight plus, right?

1:15:00It's like what he's saying now, he says he got a 15, he said, he

1:15:03said the war is one and he gives himself a 15 right now.

1:15:06Come on, let's be real.

1:15:08Let's be honest, right? This is what's happening right now.

1:15:11I'll say this. We are close to 7 million subscribers here on the Midas Touch

1:15:16YouTube channel. We're very close to 7 million subscribers already.

1:15:20We shot right past 6 million subscribers.

1:15:23Take a look. Subscribe. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be

1:15:27subscribed. So double check. Become a member right now.

1:15:32If you like what we're doing here, join.

1:15:34Become a member. Go to store .midastouch .com.

1:15:38That's where we've got all of our Midas gear.

1:15:41So check out the store .midastouch .com.

1:15:44What else do I want to say?

1:15:48Substack, MidasPlus .com. Check out our Substack at MidasPlus .com.

1:15:53Tell people about this network.

1:15:55Word of mouth is great.

1:15:57So, you know, subscribing to the YouTube channel is free.

1:16:02Some of the other stuff are paid memberships.

1:16:04No worries if you can't do that.

1:16:06I know economic times are hard.

1:16:07We'd love for you to do it, but, you know, do what you got to

1:16:09do. But spread the word.

1:16:11word about this network. After this ends, send this live to five people that you

1:16:17know who may not know about the Midas Touch Network.

1:16:20We've had about 25 ,000 to 30 ,000 people watching this live the entire time.

1:16:24So just send it to people you know and tell them, hey, you should watch

1:16:28this. Give it a try.

1:16:30You may not be political, but give Ben on Breaking News a try and you'll

1:16:35learn a lot. So just do that for me.

1:16:38Let's see the blue heart emojis if you're going to do that.

1:16:43Blue heart emojis if you're able to do that when the show ends.

1:16:45Reach out to five people who you think may not know about the network and

1:16:49you'll send them a text.

1:16:51The blue heart emoji means we have a binding contract with each other.

1:16:57Anyway, it doesn't have to be a binding contract.

1:16:59It could be a non -binding one.

1:17:02It's fine. Thank you, everybody.

1:17:05We appreciate you and we'll see you next time.

1:17:07And if you want to have some levity throughout all this craziness, you can go

1:17:10back and watch my impressions of Trump's cabinet.

1:17:13Thanks, everybody. And we'll see you next time on Ben on Breaking News.

1:17:16Shout out to the Midas Mighty.

1:17:18Want to stay plugged in?

1:17:19Become a subscriber to our sub stack at midasplus .com.

1:17:22You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad -free episodes of our podcast, and more

1:17:27exclusive content only available at midasplus .com.

1:17:36We'll see you next time on Ben.

Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/12/26