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1:00Donald Trump's unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran continues to escalate.

1:05Over the weekend, Donald Trump posted an expletive -laced social media post where he says,

1:13Open the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

1:19Just watch. Praise be to Allah.

1:22And then Donald Trump said that he was involved in negotiations with Iran and he

1:27thought a deal was going to happen.

1:29And yet again, he leaked this fake information, this fraudulent information to manipulate the markets

1:35to Barack Ravid over at Axios, who then published it.

1:39Then we woke up this morning to find out, surprise, surprise, yet again, there's no

1:44negotiations taking place. In fact, Iran sent back its framework if the United States even

1:50wants to be involved in negotiations, which include all the non -negotiables that they've been

1:56saying for weeks, which is what we've been talking about here on the Midas Touch

2:00Network, that they keep their ballistic missiles and Shahid drones, that they get full reparations,

2:06no ceasefire. They want full -time security guarantees forever for themselves, for Hezbollah, for the

2:14Houthis, and for Shiite militia groups in Iraq.

2:19And they said they basically want the U .S.

2:22off of military bases in the region, and they want full control of the Strait

2:26of Hormuz to set up their toll system, which they are doing right now.

2:32Donald Trump then said, ah, actually, I'm just going to blow up all of Iran

2:37now, all of it. I'm going to destroy the entire country.

2:40He called Iran in general like a bunch of animals.

2:44He gave one of the most deranged, if not the most deranged press conference I'd

2:49ever seen today, where he said that he was the one who killed Osama bin

2:52Laden. He said he wants to run and become the president of Venezuela.

2:57He went on to, you know, provide likely classified information about the number of special

3:03forces in this purported operation near the Isfahan nuclear facility involving the F -15E pilots,

3:10which I did a video about, which let me be very clear.

3:13It's great news that that F -15E pilot and both of them were crew members

3:17were found and safe and secure.

3:19Although there's a lot of questions about this operation involving hundreds of special forces officers

3:25right by the Isfahan facility went off.

3:27Also, the CIA leaked that it was involved in a deception campaign in the area.

3:33And then we saw, what, multiple C -130s, multiple helicopters, multiple Reaper drones were destroyed

3:41by Iran in connection with this, about half a billion dollars of military equipment destroyed.

3:48And we'll talk about that.

3:49And now Donald Trump has basically set another deadline.

3:53And his other deadline is that by 8 p .m.

3:57Eastern time on Tuesday, if Iran doesn't make a deal with him or doesn't negotiate

4:02with him, he goes, we're going to blow up all of their bridges, every one

4:07of them, every one of their power plants, every one of them, all of their

4:11civilian infrastructure. And already today, things have escalated a lot.

4:15I mean, U .S. and Israel hit the petrochemical plants in Iran.

4:19There's kind of that southern PARS, FARS facility right by the Qatari northern oil field.

4:27You had the LNG facilities hit petrochemicals facilities that you had universities, the Sharif University,

4:36the MIT essentially of Iran was destroyed by U .S.

4:40and Israeli strikes. And throughout all of this, Iran's out there on their various social

4:45media accounts. And they're saying, you know, basically, bring it on.

4:49We're ready to fight. They're out there mocking Donald Trump for negotiating with himself.

4:54They're out there calling out Donald Trump's behavior.

4:57They're out there saying the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked.

5:00There's this post right here for audio listeners where they go, where Donald Trump goes

5:03Tuesday, 8 p .m. Eastern time.

5:05And the Iranian social media accounts respond by saying, 8 p .m., not that good.

5:10Could you change it to between 1 and 2 p .m.?

5:12Or if possible, 1 and 2 a .m.?

5:14Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

5:17I mean, they're mocking him.

5:18They're mocking him. Never before has the United States looked so weak and pathetic on

5:23the world stage. It is a humiliation ritual that the entire country is being put

5:28through. And then Donald Trump continues to attack NATO.

5:33NATO probably just exists in name only at this point because Trump says that he

5:37and Putin talk all about how NATO is a paper tiger and that NATO is

5:41not a real powerful group anymore.

5:44So you've got Trump doing that.

5:46Real pathetic stuff. We'll cover it all.

5:49We'll break it all down here on the Midas Touch Network.

5:52And Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty were used to Donald Trump on Easter Sunday

5:57and other holidays posting deranged stuff.

6:00But with the United States and this unlawful war that Donald Trump has brought us

6:04in, I mean, this was something that, you know, when I read even in the

6:07morning, you know, I'm like, is this real?

6:10And I had to look at it again and again.

6:11I'm like, this is just a whole new level of weak and pathetic.

6:16Threatening to destroy entire countries on Easter Sunday.

6:21How pious of Donald Trump.

6:23It's good to be here.

6:24Our brother's good to be here.

6:25Ben, good to be here.

6:26Jordy, good to be here.

6:27Midas Mighty, everybody out there listening on the audio podcast or watching us live on

6:31YouTube. Always great to be here with you to break down the news.

6:34I will say before we get into everything that I have figured out a new

6:38way to know what day it is without checking the calendar.

6:41Because even yesterday, I kind of forgot it was a Sunday, to be honest.

6:45I was like, I kind of thought it was a Saturday.

6:46And then I was so disappointed because I saw the tweet from Barack Reveed of

6:50Axios that said, a deal is imminent.

6:53There's a ceasefire imminent, a 45 -day ceasefire imminent, and the talks are real.

6:58And it's coming, folks. It's about to be here.

7:00And I said, oh, it's Market Manipulation Sunday.

7:03The futures markets are about to open.

7:06I see now. I was like, shit, I thought it was Saturday.

7:09I thought another day of this weekend, but no, Barack Ravid posted his market manipulation

7:14story, and now I know it's Sunday.

7:16I jest, but that's like the way this thing is going right now.

7:19It's a predictable pattern of every single week, this fire hose of BS coming from

7:24the Trump administration, coming from reporters who just act as stenographers for the Trump administration,

7:30pushing false information out there to try, in my opinion, to pump the markets before

7:36they open on Monday morning.

7:37The whole thing is just grotesque.

7:39We'll get into all of it.

7:41First, I got to check in with Jordy.

7:44Jordy, what's the latest? What's up, brothers?

7:46What's up, Midas Mighty? Ben, going to just piggyback on what you were talking about

7:49earlier. Donald Trump, he sounds like a comic book villain at this point.

7:53He sounds like the Joker.

7:54If you don't agree by 8 p .m.

7:56ET on Tuesday night, I'm going to blow up your bridges.

7:59And then Tuesday inevitably comes, well, nothing happens.

8:04Not that I'm rooting for him to blow up these bridges and stuff, but it's

8:07just like he is cartoonishly evil and just so stupid.

8:12And to your point exactly, Ben, this is a humiliation ritual.

8:16He's putting our entire country, every citizen in this country is being put through this

8:20humiliation ritual because Donald Trump doesn't know how to actually negotiate.

8:25He's treating this entire war with Iran like it's some episode of The Apprentice, right?

8:31And they know that he's doing that.

8:33And so he's just, he's singularly the most ill -equipped person to be handling this

8:40matter right now. And he's just so unserious.

8:43But the things he says, like they have consequences worldwide.

8:48Benji, excites again tonight's show, brothers, Midas Mighty, where we start off.

8:52Yeah. And obviously the market manipulation, Sunday night, it's a weekly ritual.

8:58This is so reminiscent. And the timeframe is so reminiscent of COVID in 2020, right?

9:05Remember Donald Trump said COVID was going to go away by Easter.

9:08The curve would be bent.

9:10He goes, it's going to align so perfectly and invoke God and that it's godly

9:15and miracles and it's going to go away because of Easter.

9:18And then it didn't. And then it got worse and worse and worse and worse

9:21and worse and worse. Here we are after Easter, all of Donald Trump's lies, caught

9:28up with him. It's just at this point, nobody believes a word of what he's

9:32saying. Nobody should have believed a word of what he's saying.

9:35But it still seems that he and a crew of his right wing oligarch buds

9:41do the Ponzi scheme thing where they still try to really trade on the information

9:46as soon as, and it's shorter bursts at this point.

9:49But as soon as Barack Ravid from Axios publishes the story, they come up with

9:53new creative framings. I think this time it was like, you know, there were like

9:57multiple countries involved in this and there's a slim chance, but people still hold hope.

10:03And, you know, they like add new details that are just completely big.

10:06U .S. officials are telling me this, that, you know, and the other.

10:10I mean, yeah. And the last ditch push, a 45 day ceasefire.

10:13And they like a very specific amount of days, right?

10:16Iran's never agreeing to a ceasefire, nor is Iran ever going to speak with Jared

10:21Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The last times they spoke with Kushner and Witkoff, they were

10:27invaded right after there was believed to be a deal in principle based on what

10:32the independent neutral mediators said.

10:36And they believe, this is why we study what they're saying, what they're reporting.

10:41They believe, one, anything that Witkoff and Kushner said, they're not even going to believe

10:45and they're never going to talk to them at all.

10:47And then they also believe that any type of ceasefire just provides the U .S.

10:53and Israel time to build up their munitions.

10:57Iran, despite the Trump regime and Netanyahu, like portraying them as like cavemen who scream

11:04like Allah Akbar and aren't like sophisticated actors and they don't know what they're doing

11:10and they're savages and animals.

11:12Right. That's the language that comes out from the Trump regime.

11:16You know, Iran has a framework of negotiation that they've always said.

11:21If you don't agree with our framework, we're not negotiating with you in the first

11:24place. Iran has a clear plan here where they've utilized this war to gain more

11:30power each and every day, fully controlling the Strait of Hormuz, having countries bilaterally negotiated

11:37with it, countries that do want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz that are

11:41not allied with the U .S.

11:43and Israel have to utilize yuan, Chinese currency, in order to devalue the dollar.

11:49They're very much aware of the missile stockpiles and the amount of munitions the United

11:54States and Israel have. They're very much aware that the penetration rate of the Iranian

12:00ballistics and Shahids is up significantly since the beginning of the war, Iran shoots less

12:06missiles with more precision right now.

12:09And I think the last analysis that was actually done by JP Morgan, I think

12:13says that Iran now has like a 27 % success rate of utilizing its weapons

12:19to hit targets. Whereas at the beginning of the war, it was 3%.

12:23And so this idea by the Trump regime portraying Iran as like a barbaric group

12:29of savage animals, that's basically the language word for word that Donald Trump uses belies

12:35the on the ground reality that it's filled with very smart engineers that know what

12:40they're doing and have built these drones, these Shahids and FPVs.

12:45They are utilizing systems to shoot down American planes, American helicopters.

12:51In this one mission alone, if you believe the official narrative, the U .S.

12:56on its own had to destroy two C -130s, two helicopters, MQ -9, Reaper drones,

13:04the U .S. destroyed it all.

13:05Whether you believe the U .S.

13:07narrative that they destroyed the eight aircrafts or the Iranians that they shot it down.

13:12We know the F -15E and the A -10 were shot down over, were shot

13:18down by Iran. But all these, it's undisputed the fact that all of this aircraft

13:22was shot down. We see Iran shooting the BAPCO facility in Bahrain and the Kuwaiti

13:29facilities. We learned right before we went live that there was a recent strike on

13:33Kuwait where multiple American soldiers were injured that, you know, that CENTCOM and nobody's talking

13:39about an Iranian drone strike at the Ali al -Salam air base in Kuwait overnight

13:44injured 15 Americans. This is what officials are telling CBS.

13:48They got to leak it because the Trump regime is not putting forward any accurate

13:52data. We truly have no count, no accurate count right now.

13:55What's the real casualty rate?

13:57Everything the Trump regime is selling us is a lie.

14:00You have to ask, like, you know, on the big aircraft carrier when the U

14:04.S. claimed, oh, there was a fire that was started in the laundry room.

14:08Like, you know, is that really what happened?

14:11You know, when they say, oh, we brought in hundreds of special forces right off

14:16of the Isfahan nuclear facility to save this F -15E fighter pilot.

14:23You have to question, are you giving us, like normally we would be like, okay,

14:26that's accurate information. And I don't want to veer into the land of conspiracy or

14:31how people go, but Ben, clearly this, that, and the other.

14:33I simply have to now say that most of the info we're getting out of

14:39the Trump regime, if not all of it, is a complete and utter lie.

14:42And that is deeply problematic.

14:45But Iran is increasing its capabilities, not decreasing its capabilities.

14:49And now we're at a point where Donald Trump is saying, again, by 8 p

14:54.m. Eastern time, and I'll show you what he said on this press conference in

14:57a little bit, by 8 p .m.

14:59Eastern time Tuesday, we are going to basically destroy the entire country.

15:05We're going to bomb it back to the Stone Age.

15:08We're going to crush it.

15:10We're going to destroy these savages.

15:12And he says these things, which are war crimes.

15:15Let's not mince words what he's saying.

15:18War crimes. And then the Iranian regime has used this to boost morale amongst its

15:23people. They use it to motivate their people.

15:27And if anything, you know, Iran now feels that this is a war of civilizations.

15:33It's a clash of civilizations.

15:35Because Trump has framed it, not as the United States going after the Islamic Republic

15:40and this Ayatollah regime. Donald Trump has framed it as an extension, essentially, of the

15:47Crusades. That this is the West or America, the American Empire.

15:53I, Donald Trump, am going to obliterate and send you to the Stone Age and

15:58destroy these savage animals. That framing of things, that discussion from the perspective of these

16:05are war crimes. If you're not humiliated by that as an American, again, I don't

16:10care what political party you're from.

16:13If you're okay with this, you got to look in the mirror, because this is

16:16some weak and pathetic stuff.

16:18Wasn't it last week where Donald Trump gave an address to the nation and said,

16:22we don't need the Strait of Hormuz at all?

16:26Why would we need it?

16:27We have all of the oil.

16:28So we're going to just leave it to the Europeans and France and the UK

16:32and Arab nations. You all figure it out.

16:35We're leaving in two days because we don't need the Strait of Hormuz.

16:40You've got this. He gave a national address.

16:43Think about past presidents giving national addresses and the impact and import that that has.

16:49He gives that national address.

16:51And then within a few days later on Easter Sunday, he says, praise be Allah.

16:59Praise be to Allah. Open the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living

17:05in hell. I'll throw it over to Brett and Jordy.

17:09I mean, again, you have Dr.

17:14Vin Gupta here who basically says there are major red flags on Donald Trump's health.

17:19We've been talking about the 25th Amendment repeatedly here.

17:21I just don't – I just – at a basic level, I don't even know

17:25how you look at that and go, okay, I look beyond that.

17:29That is some of the most disgusting and vile stuff.

17:33It also shows like he's kind of the world's worst poker player, right?

17:37Like it's so obvious that he's bluffing when he's like, oh, we don't need anyone

17:41else's help. You know, we don't even need the Strait of Hormuz.

17:44It's all good. It'll open itself, everybody.

17:46Just don't even worry about it.

17:47Like a miracle, it's going to go away, you know?

17:49And then like two days later to say, open the fucking Strait.

17:52Like it just shows you where you are.

17:54It shows that this guy's back is against the wall.

17:58And the thing that I've really just been afraid about is when – his back

18:02is against the wall, that's when he's most erratic and most dangerous as cornered rats

18:06often are. That's why I am worried about him doing some sort of major strikes

18:11or something outrageous at this moment because he's running out of options, quite frankly.

18:18Donald Trump is not winning this war right now.

18:22He's putting our troops at risk.

18:24They keep making things up like that we have total air superiority and they're unable

18:29to get us. Next thing we know, they're shooting down our planes.

18:32They're shooting down our helicopters.

18:33The fact that we even had to do that rescue mission to begin with shows

18:37the precarious situation that we are in.

18:40Meanwhile, yes, that was a heroic rescue that we witnessed.

18:44I got to say, the United States military, the best military there is, our troops

18:48are incredibly impressive at doing operational duties.

18:52However, our leadership is absolutely awful right now because our leadership is Donald Trump and

18:58Pete Hegseth, just utter buffoons who are sending these troops into really dangerous situations and

19:06unnecessary situations. With their rhetoric, the rhetoric of Hegseth and the rhetoric of Donald Trump,

19:12they are invoking all of that religious imagery that Ben was saying.

19:27I was called what they're doing right now.

19:29It's almost as if their messaging is designed to turn everybody in that region against

19:35the United States and turn all the Iranian people against the United States.

19:40Frankly, I'm sickened to see my tax dollars right now be spent on this stuff,

19:46be spent on Donald Trump right now to be threatening war crimes, committing war crimes

19:52in the Middle East, saying, I'm going to blow up this power plant and I'm

19:54going to blow up this bridge and we're blowing up this university and blowing up

19:58a girl's school. This is all really twisted, demented stuff that we are watching right

20:04now that is way beyond the pale.

20:06But these people in our government right now are just letting Donald Trump do it.

20:11And it is absolutely sickening.

20:13And now we have all of these people, these sympathetic Iranians to the United States

20:18cause, people who would have welcomed us actually early on if Donald Trump actually did

20:22something when he told them to protest in mass and get out into the streets.

20:26But now these people view it as existential, like Ben was saying, right?

20:30This has been an existential battle right now.

20:33And I brought this up a few episodes ago.

20:34It's a war of choice from the United States.

20:37This is an existential war for Iran.

20:41They are quite literally fighting for their existence.

20:44And now it's not just the Islamic Republic fighting for their existence, but it's the

20:48people in Iran fighting for their existence, the everyday people there.

20:54And when you hear Donald Trump talk today, quite frankly, he could have gone out

20:58during this press conference and he could have talked about the heroism of our troops

21:03and talked about the rescue mission and spoke about the pilots and spoke about what

21:08they were going through. Instead, he went out there and said, yes, the Iranian people,

21:13they actually love when we bomb them and we're going to bomb them even harder.

21:16And they celebrate when we bomb them.

21:18And they actually get upset when they stop hearing the bombs dropping on their schools

21:22and their universities. They get sad.

21:24They say, please, sir, more bombs, more bombs.

21:26This is the behavior of a sick, delusional madman.

21:30And every piece of intelligence that has come out throughout the last few weeks has

21:35completely contradicted everything that he has said in public.

21:39So right. Now, it's really tough to honestly even infer what we – well, you

21:44have to infer what's going on because it's actually kind of impossible to understand the

21:48facts, what actually happened during that rescue mission, how many troops are actually injured, how

21:54many casualties do we actually have, how much military equipment is actually damaged.

21:58We simply don't know a lot of this information, and we have to get it

22:02from secondhand sources because the United States government right now cannot be trusted to tell

22:07the truth at all. Exactly.

22:09You cannot take – you can't take the Trump's regime word for anything.

22:13Our leadership, our quote -unquote leadership in this country is absolutely failing our citizens and

22:19our soldiers, and especially our soldiers.

22:22I just want to continue to emphasize that.

22:24Remember when Hegseth said during the presser not too long ago?

22:27I have the quote right here.

22:28I'm just going to read it.

22:29We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing.

22:31Keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

22:35When you say stuff like that, right, like when you want to use these like

22:39really tough guy phrases to make yourself look, I don't know, look like a man

22:44Hegseth saying we're going to show our enemies no quarters, inevitably when missions go wrong

22:49in wars because it's a thing that sadly happens.

22:54Now you're putting our troops at so much more of a higher risk here to

22:59trying to get them home safe because you're telling what you're telling everyone is like

23:04we're not going to abide by those types of rules.

23:06No, no, we see we're out for blood and for blood only.

23:10And so what Donald Trump and the Trump regime continue to do every single day

23:15here is one make us look wholly incompetent.

23:18Like truly just there was no plan for the war to begin with, because remember,

23:23now the plan and how we win the war is to open the straight.

23:27Well, the straight was open before we got there.

23:29So why are we even there anymore?

23:31And then if we damaged all of their equipment and all of their plants and

23:35things like that, if we totally obliterated them in the first strikes, well, then why

23:40are we still there? Why does Trump need so much more money, endless amounts of

23:46money to fund this illegal war in the first place?

23:48It is mind boggling to me that mainstream and legacy media let him skate by

23:54Donald Trump and the Trump regime.

23:55Let him skate by on all of these things.

23:57I'm so grateful for this community to always call that stuff out.

24:01But the constant moving of the goalposts for the sake of market manipulation, I mean,

24:06that to me is like so evil, like at its core, it is so evil

24:12in its essence. And people just need to like stand up and call it out

24:16for what it is. It's criminal, Ben.

24:18Yeah, well, a few things that we've been reporting on that I don't think you've

24:21seen many other places. We shared with you the protests over the weekend in Baghdad

24:28where there was about a million members of the Shiite community there with some of

24:34the influential Shiite clerics. They were all protesting the U .S.

24:38invasion of Iran, and they were calling for Iraq to officially join the side of

24:43Iran against the United States.

24:45I mean, there were people as far as the eye could see.

24:49We've been seeing huge crowds in Iran.

24:51We've been sharing that with you just to see the ability to mass mobilize.

24:55Then you can say, well, all of those people are out there.

24:58That's part of a coordinated propaganda campaign.

25:00You can make that argument.

25:01But there's a lot of damn people who are out there.

25:04Then, you know, we shared with you the protests that are taking place in Yemen.

25:09Hundreds of thousands of people at those protests.

25:12In Syria, hundreds of thousands of people in those protests.

25:15We also shared with you in Tel Aviv.

25:17In India. Israel, where there's a lot of anti -war protests taking place now.

25:22I think we'd like to see that bigger, but there's a lot of people out

25:26there. And what Donald Trump's been able to do is rally a lot of people

25:31against him in ways that heretofore would likely not have happened with every one of

25:37Donald Trump's, not just mistakes, but his cultural maliciousness and this barbarism that is not

25:47being exhibited by the other side in their negotiations, at least publicly, but is being

25:54exhibited by Donald Trump and Hegseth who keep on saying, glory to God.

25:58God's telling us to kill you.

25:59God wants us to blow you all up to the Stone Age.

26:02God is telling me to do this.

26:04I mean, that's the messaging coming from Donald Trump and his regime.

26:07And I've been studying, and I have before Iranian culture, the foundation of the Islamic

26:14Republic, their prior involvement in the only two times they've ever made a deal.

26:21The Islamic Republic was to end the Iran -Iraq war, where they learned a lot

26:28from that when they were willing to commit lots of lives in that fight that

26:32lasted years and years and years.

26:34And the Obama deal were the only two times they really did a negotiation and

26:39made a deal. When you study their negotiating tactics or the kind of cultural aspects

26:47of how they perceive their role in the world, they view it through what's called

26:53a principalist framework, and that ultimately they're not transactional.

26:59It's one of the things that are frustrating, Donald, because he's used to, you know,

27:03MBS of Saudi Arabia or the UAE or Qatar, being transactional.

27:10You know, you'd scratch my back, I scratch your back, you know, you get, although

27:14pay for play, although Donald Trump doesn't ultimately play after the pay, but at least

27:19Trump saw in them transactional people.

27:22And he doesn't understand why the Islamic Republic is not accepting, you know, the threats,

27:29the inducements of money. Why wouldn't you want to just do what Delcy Rodriguez did

27:34of Venezuela and join me?

27:36And we could be, we could lead a cartel together.

27:39We could be shoulder to shoulder and we'll both make money on the Strait of

27:43Hormuz, but that's just not how Iranians negotiate.

27:46And they've always put forward the same 10 point framework.

27:50And I know it's being reported today by the New York times and elsewhere is

27:53this maximalist approach. They call it maximalist where Iran submits 10 point proposal via Pakistan

28:00to end the war, including to end all attacks, full sanctions, relief, halt to Israeli

28:05strikes, reconstruction support, and guarantees against future attacks.

28:09No ceasefire because they want full guarantees and they want to keep their weapons.

28:14I didn't need this report.

28:16They've been very clear and very consistent about this framework.

28:21And every time Trump has escalated, they've returned in kind and escalated.

28:26You strike their petrochemical facility, they strike a petrochemical facility.

28:30They hit Haifa, they hit Qatar, they hit Bahrain, you hit their area, they hit

28:35your area. That's what they said they're going to do.

28:38They've done that. And so, you know, there was a brief window this weekend where

28:44you had the foreign minister of Iran, Aragchi, seem to extend an olive branch, which

28:50was not understood by the Trump regime, where he was like, we never said that

28:55we don't want. any communications with Pakistan.

28:59We just don't want it enforced on us or imposed upon us.

29:03And the response to that was Trump's effing straight, you effing bastards and bomb you

29:11to the Stone Age. And all that does is have the opposite impact as the

29:16opposite effect. And so the way with COVID, Trump's like a miracle, it's all going

29:20to go away. It's not real.

29:22It's not a real thing.

29:23That doesn't work, right? The strategy over here with Iran is never going to work.

29:28And the only way to deal with it is either to demonstrate a respect culturally

29:35for Iran, which is you may or may not want to do that.

29:40You pull out and you recognize the defeat and you give up the Strait of

29:44Hormuz and allow Iran to do that.

29:49Or you escalate and you cause mass catastrophic evidence events in the Middle East, but

29:56you're huffing and throughout the world, but you're huffing and you're puffing and I'll blow

30:01your house. That doesn't work.

30:02That's not going to work.

30:04It never will work in Iran.

30:05They're not afraid of that.

30:07They're mocking you for doing that.

30:08So you have to at least start with a cultural understanding of who is the

30:14counterparty. And that's one of the things we try to deliver to you here.

30:19You may not like it.

30:20You may go, why are you giving their perspective?

30:22I just want everybody to see the dynamics that are at play.

30:27So we truly understand what's happening, not just the frantic headlines.

30:31We'll leave there for now.

30:33We've got a lot. I'll just say, let me just say this quickly.

30:35Like Iran has been hitting back at the US quite frequently now because they're saying,

30:40how are we supposed to trust that they're even serious about diplomacy?

30:44And I think you could see why they would come to that conclusion when you

30:48see Donald Trump saying, open the effing straight, you crazy bastards.

30:52F you, F you, we're going to blow it up.

30:54We're going to blow up your power plants.

30:55It's not exactly an opening to discussions here.

30:58And let's remember the people who are the people in the room right now, so

31:03to speak, the metaphorical room, because there aren't actually any sort of direct negotiations underway

31:07at all. But we got Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner right now have the fate

31:11of this whole thing in their hands.

31:12And you could argue very strongly, I would say that they're the reason we're in

31:16this war to begin with.

31:17And, and by the way, there was a deal, right?

31:19We used to spoke about this.

31:20There was a deal. There was a mediator from Oman who was picked by the

31:24United States in the room that said the Iranians were willing to give up a

31:27whole lot of stuff more than even during the Iranian nuclear deal that Trump tore

31:31up, which led to this moment.

31:33You could draw a direct line from that moment to this moment, but they apparently

31:37did not understand what was going on, or they relayed bad information to Donald Trump,

31:42or Trump didn't understand them, or Trump didn't care.

31:45I don't know what it is, but now we are relying on Jared Kushner and

31:49Steve Whitcoff and Donald Trump right now to try to negotiate something.

31:54The whole thing is just unserious, but it is incredibly dangerous.

31:58America killed Ali Larajani, who was one of the people that was negotiating a few

32:03weeks back. Remember, we killed that.

32:05The United States killed him.

32:06Then there was another former foreign minister of Iran, who, as soon as he was

32:13asked by Pakistan to get involved, his home was bombed by the United States and

32:18Israel. His wife was killed and he was severely injured.

32:21And so every time also Donald Trump says, Hey, you know, let's negotiate.

32:26There's always an escalation as well in the war, which seems to demonstrate, at least

32:31to Iran, that you just use negotiations as a pretext.

32:35for escalation and not de -escalation.

32:38And so I gave you the framework.

32:40One of these things either have to happen, either you're going to escalate and cause

32:43a catastrophic event for the world of proportions we haven't ever, aren't even able to

32:50fathom. You just totally withdraw and you concede just an absolute defeat.

33:00Or you try to make some deal where Iran is able to keep certain things.

33:06You negotiate within their framework and you try to maybe get in a point here

33:12or there, but you negotiate within a mutual framework.

33:15One of those three things happens or nothing happens.

33:19And Trump's like, no, I'm just going to threaten you.

33:21And as you look at Trump, it's not a superpower, but there is a, and

33:27I don't mean this in a positive way, there's a relentlessness, the way he still

33:32talks about the 2020 elections and spread lies about it, right?

33:36When he gets fixated on a thing, whatever it is, it's the, the fountain hose

33:41of lies is so incredibly overwhelming nonstop that for a lot of people, it exhausts

33:49them, then it breaks them.

33:50And the moment you break and you live within his framework of his alternative reality,

33:57right? Like a Rubio or any of these types of people you've now debased yourself

34:02where you can't really get out of it because you've now accepted this alternative reality.

34:09And to get out means complete and utter humiliation for you.

34:13And while you're still facing humiliation rituals, being in this alternative reality, your only hope

34:20becomes the zombification of others, bringing them into your alternate reality and trying to shape

34:27other people and force them into your thinking.

34:30Cause if you admit you're wrong, it's a total humiliation ritual.

34:33That's the kind of psychological brainwashing jujitsu that's taking place.

34:40And he's trying to do that with the rod.

34:42I mean, just think of it's nonstop, nonstop.

34:44And they just mock it and brush it off.

34:47Pathetic. Okay. 8 PM. How about 6 PM.

34:50We're actually, we're better at 1 PM or 2 PM, or you want to do

34:53it at 3 AM. That's, you know, that's ultimately what someone like a governor Newsom,

34:58what clicks and he realizes, you know, or people who oppose Trump, what you realize

35:03is you have to mock it and ignore it, and then just treat it like

35:07crazy and not, not normalize it.

35:10And so there's that adaptive learning taking place.

35:13And so anyway, I don't think you've heard this level of analysis anywhere else.

35:17It's been a long, this is a long segment.

35:20We're going to take a quick break.

35:22We're going to come back.

35:22I'm going to show you some of the clips of what went down.

35:24I don't think I need to show you all of them because you've seen the

35:27deranged stuff that he said.

35:28And then let's talk about other developments.

35:31Howard Lutnick is going to be meeting with the house oversight committee, apparently voluntarily regarding

35:35their Epstein investigation. Let's not forget about that.

35:39We've got a lot more to discuss.

35:40Let's take our quick break.

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39:21Use the code MIDAS. Benji, before I toss it back over to you, I just

39:25wanted to say this. And I know I said this on the podcast before, but

39:27I just think it's worth repeating, is that Donald Trump is not a great businessman.

39:32I just think it needs to be said plainly just like that.

39:36Because there are far too many people, especially in the right -wing and corporate media

39:40ecosystem, that truly believe he is.

39:43He's the world's worst negotiator.

39:46Let me say it like that again.

39:47He is the world's worst negotiator and is singularly.

39:51singularly. the worst person to be in charge of this moment right now.

39:56He has no reason to why we actually got put into this war that he

39:59got us into. And he has no plan for us to exit other than seemingly,

40:04it seems like killing a whole lot of people and having our troops get killed

40:07too in the likes of it.

40:09Donald Trump is the world's worst businessman.

40:12He was put into business by his father.

40:14He was bankrolled by his father, daddy's money, and he failed at every single business

40:20he had. It's amazing to me that there are so many people in the right

40:25wing ecosystem and just in the ecosystems in general that like to say, you know

40:29what? That Donald Trump, I don't like how he goes crazy and says the weird

40:32stuff, but he's a good businessman.

40:34No, he is not. He bankrupted casinos.

40:38Do you know how bad you have to be at business to bankrupt a casino?

40:45It makes me want to rip out my hair sometimes when I hear that from

40:48people. Benji, what do you think about that?

40:50Where to next? You know, I teach negotiations at a law school.

40:55I am a professor. And one of the topics that we spend a lot of

41:00weeks on in my class is negotiation.

41:03And Donald Trump violates every rule of good faith negotiation.

41:08He sets fake deadlines. Oftentimes in negotiations, each side leaves a little bit on the

41:15table, right? When you're trying to negotiate with the counterparty, it's not a war usually.

41:21You know, if you go to war, you go to war or you litigate, right?

41:24You fight in the court or you fight whatever.

41:27And the negotiation part is trying to figure out solutions where both sides leave leave

41:33a little bit kind of left.

41:35Donald Trump views negotiations as the act of war itself when a negotiation often involves

41:43a level of de -escalation.

41:45So he sets arbitrary and fake deadlines.

41:48He is not a trustworthy conveyor of information, which is an understatement, right?

41:55He provides contradictory data within moments of each other.

42:01So you on the other side don't even know what to trust or what to

42:05not trust. He undermines other people on his team who you think you're negotiating with.

42:12And then he'll throw them under the bus or so you don't have a point

42:15of contact for the negotiation itself.

42:20As noted, you know, he views it as a effort to crush the other side.

42:25When he misses a deadline, he then just switches it and then acts like he

42:31doesn't make good off and on the threat from the arbitrary deadline.

42:36And oftentimes a good negotiator, all the stuff I teach in my class, you are

42:42not just like throwing out numbers to try to meet in the middle.

42:46A lot of negotiation is a data gathering exercise where the best negotiators are very

42:56detailed oriented people who are extracting oftentimes what's referred to as the unknown unknowns by

43:07asking questions to try to determine how do you have the best data set in

43:12order to find solutions. And oftentimes that involves a real curiosity.

43:18So what often I tell students in my negotiation classes is not to, you know,

43:24just go out and throw out numbers and say, oh, this is the number.

43:27Even if your client wants X dollars or X.

43:30whatever that's not the best negotiating strategy the best is to reach out to the

43:35other side or a mediator ask a lot of questions be very curious keep asking

43:42questions listen being a good listener is the best type of negotiator and then once

43:48you have as much data as you can then you try to reach common sense

43:54solutions that bring people together so he's the opposite of all it like the literally

43:59the the worst of the worst forms of negotiation and then to your point exactly

44:05there this this negotiation to escalate like as trump is doing that isn't that just

44:11such typical like rich kid bad at business daddy's money type of like businessman mentality

44:17because donald trump is used to doing that he's used to using his negotiation tactics

44:21along with escalation because he's always had something in his back pocket right just think

44:27you know in the context of litigation right imagine you're at a mediation to try

44:33to resolve the case plaintiff is there defendant is there let's say both sides are

44:39suing each other there's a mediator trying to bring the parties together and then one

44:44side learns while you're in this mediation process that the other side just took some

44:50action that was you know you know that tried to humiliate you or make you

44:55look stupid or that really escalated the case that will always result in the party

45:01leaving the mediation and saying why would i deal with you we were here to

45:04try to come up with a solution extrapolated writ large is kind of what you're

45:10seeing here and iran's like why would i negotiate with one these people i don't

45:14want to speak with whitkoff and kushner to you're killing our negotiators once they actually

45:20get involved and we need to at least establish a negotiating framework and we don't

45:27like being threatened every single time that's not a way to get us to the

45:30negotiating uh it's not a way to get us to the negotiating table so what

45:35trump has done though in his view of negotiations generally and this is what i

45:41said before it is a relentless attack on the other relentless bring the family in

45:49attack this person give them nicknames mock them flood the zone get others to start

45:55you know ganging up with you to pick on the person really attack the weak

46:00side over and over and over again and try to pound them down and exhaust

46:05them and tire them out with just a relentlessness that most human beings don't want

46:11to deal with this crap right most human beings want to go and spend easter

46:16sunday with their family right or they want to go you know to you know

46:21to do something with their children or grandkids or go out with a significant other

46:25or friend or have a dinner or have a meal or take a walk or

46:28do these things right but this kind of maga crew this trump group they just

46:34live in a stew in this kind of you know in this world you think

46:39about the kind of cartoonish bad guys or you know that you know lord of

46:43the rings bad guys right and they live in like this area with the volcanoes

46:48and it's dark and it's you know evil and it's like honestly those characters which

46:53seem so cartoonishly silly right is kind of the world where it's just relentless and

47:00so the only way to fight back is relentlessness to fight back with it and

47:04you really can't negotiate with it because it's all done in bad faith anyway you

47:08you No, I took us on a journey there, but I wanted to give you

47:11my insight into the way I teach negotiation, you know, in a law class for

47:16law students and undergrads to, you know, and, you know, you could say, well, this

47:21is different. This is war.

47:22The same principles to me kind of generally apply right here.

47:26But let's just take a look at what went down.

47:28I want to show you this just disastrous press conference and some of the lowlights

47:32of it very quickly. So here's where Donald Trump says that he wants to be

47:36the president of Venezuela. And again, he keeps on mentioning Venezuela.

47:40And I have such high popularity.

47:43He's not like joking. He's he genuinely wants to be the president of Venezuela.

47:47Here's what he says. Let's play this clip.

47:49And we just so you understand the people of Venezuela, they say, if I ran

47:53for president of Venezuela, I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela.

47:58So after I'm finished with this, I can go to Venezuela.

48:01I will quickly learn Spanish.

48:03It won't take too long.

48:04I'm good at language and I will go to Venezuela.

48:06I'm going to run for president.

48:08But we're very happy with the president elect.

48:11So to me, he's not joking there like that's not him.

48:14He's not being funny. He genuinely wants to be the president of Venezuela.

48:18The fact that he keeps comparing it to Venezuela, too, has to just be like

48:21that to me, that's a disturbing sign for all the Iranian people, because, you know,

48:25I get if there's one comparison that he It seems from all like the kind

48:30of leaks and stuff that we've heard is that Trump really believed that this Iran

48:34mission might be like Venezuela in terms of the speed that he'd be able to

48:38get in and get out.

48:40And everything would just be done.

48:41Boom, out, done. Good. That's clearly not the case.

48:45The Iranian regime views this as existential.

48:47The Iranian people view this as existential and they're going to fight this out till

48:50the end, you know, so it seems.

48:52But the thing that concerns me is you have to listen to Trump's rhetoric.

48:56And we're obviously about to play some more clips.

48:58But Trump keeps saying we've already had regime change.

49:02He's now said it like every single day.

49:03We've already had regime change in Iran.

49:05And he oscillates back and forth between yesterday saying these are some you all are

49:10crazy bastards, he said, and then saying the people in this new regime are actually

49:15far more easy to deal with.

49:16They're actually way easier and way chiller to deal with.

49:18These people are reasonable. And so you can't have both.

49:21But just like in Venezuela, what did he do?

49:24He left the Maduro regime in charge with Maduro second in command now leading the

49:29country with the same restrictions on freedoms that those people had beforehand.

49:34And now he's claiming victory in terms of regime change in Iran when all he

49:38did was elevate the younger guy, the younger son of the Ayatollah to be Ayatollah.

49:45And he is a more hardline guy.

49:47And with every individual that they kill in this regime, whether it be the military

49:52commanders or the political leaders, the more hardline people come in.

49:56And then they come in with a vengeance because their sister is killed, their dad

50:02is killed, their mom is killed, their kids are killed.

50:04And so the situation is just getting worse and worse and worse for the Iranian

50:09people themselves. You know, I had a debate with a former top FBI negotiator who

50:15wrote a book called How to Split the Difference.

50:17And his name is Chris Voss.

50:18And Chris Voss seemed to say that Donald Trump's transactional negotiations in Venezuela, he seemed

50:25to be supportive of it.

50:26And I said to him, I said, well, you were an FBI hostage negotiator.

50:30So you were negotiating with hostage takers, with kidnappers.

50:34Right. I said, well, if you were the FBI, wouldn't it be an easy outcome

50:39if you and the hostage taker and the kidnapper came together and said, you know

50:44how we can make a lot of money?

50:45I got all this power of the FBI.

50:47What if the FBI became the kidnappers?

50:50We'll help you do the kidnapping and we'll both make a lot of money, but

50:54you got to give us a lot of money and then we'll give you a

50:57percentage kidnapper. Would you like that?

50:59And then the U .S.

51:00became the kidnapper. That's what I said to Chris Voss.

51:02I said, what kind of outcome is that?

51:05You want to free the hostages, not join the hostage taker.

51:09And what Trump wants to do is go around the world and join the hostage

51:14takers. He wants to join the authoritarians and be the repressive regime because he sees

51:20himself, in my opinion, as a Putin, as a Kim Jong -un, frankly, as a

51:25Maduro. The ultimate irony to me on the Maduro thing is Trump just didn't like

51:30Maduro dancing. Trump was kind of like jealous of it.

51:33Trump was like, I'm the guy who dances.

51:35You don't want to dance.

51:36And based on his views of women, I think that he viewed that he controls

51:41Delce in his own mind.

51:42We don't know what's even going on behind the scenes because you don't think Delce

51:45is still talking to China and has channels behind the scenes with Putin.

51:49That's a naive thought to believe that that isn't what's happening.

51:52But then Donald Trump wants someone in the Maduro regime who he feels he can

51:57control. He views Delce as his Pam Bondi or as Kristi Noem, someone who's dispensable

52:03when he needs them to be dispensable, who will just do what he does.

52:07And that's his kind of worldview that shapes all of these things.

52:10So from the very outset, when Donald Trump started talking, this was what, three weeks

52:15ago at this point, four weeks ago, when Trump was saying that he and the

52:18Ayatollah were going to work together and control the Strait of Hormuz together.

52:24The moment he signaled that about three weeks ago or four weeks ago or so,

52:28that signaled the ultimate weakness.

52:30And Iran's like, okay, we got it.

52:32There was other signs too, but that's what you're looking for to be shoulder to

52:35shoulder with the Ayatollah to control the Strait of Hormuz.

52:40So what message does that also send to people in Iran who may otherwise be

52:45sympathetic to you to stand up to the regime if they know the best case

52:50scenario is Donald Trump and the Ayatollah forming a joint venture LLC together and going

52:56into business together? I mean, that very framing of things is destructive and already undermines

53:03any ability to lift up a popular support to the extent it existed and certainly

53:10doesn't exist right now anymore.

53:12The idea that beaming Trump and Netanyahu's image and name, image, and likeness into the

53:19homes of people in Iran would be a net plus and that that's the way

53:23to go about it. I mean, they did things like that.

53:25I mean, regardless of all the intelligence the United States has and the military and

53:30the sophistication and all the weapons in the world, in the hands of someone who

53:35is weak, who is insecure, who's a malignant narcissist, who thinks they know everything when

53:41they know nothing, who tries to cast the other side in terms that are just

53:47completely inaccurate. Someone who's out there saying, oh, what are they going to shoot us

53:52with? Their BB guns? What do they got?

53:54BB guns? No, they have Shahid drones by the thousands.

53:58They have ballistic missiles probably still by the thousands.

54:01They have FPV drones that they've now given to other country, to their militia groups

54:08in other countries, along with sophisticated ways to evade the drone jammers.

54:14So that's what we've got going on there.

54:18You know, and then he gives this deranged press conference where he's like, I killed

54:21Soleimani. And if I didn't kill him, things would be much worse to day.

54:26And you know who else I killed?

54:28Bin Laden. I'm the reason that Bin Laden got killed.

54:30What are you talking about?

54:31Are you the reason that Bin Laden got killed?

54:33Again, this is demented stuff.

54:35Here, play this clip. It was so easy.

54:37I terminated that and then the B -2 bombers.

54:40And I did one other thing.

54:42I had killed Qasem Soleimani, who was an evil genius.

54:49And the reason I did it, I heard he was going to knock out five

54:52of our military bases. And had he lived, I believe we would be fighting, perhaps,

55:01a different Iran right now.

55:03Because he's never been replaced, you know?

55:08And I also, I did one other, but this one was not picked up.

55:11Osama Bin Laden. If you read my book, I said you got to take him

55:16out one year before the World Trade Center came down.

55:19So I wish you'd read the book.

55:20I'll pass it to you, Jordy.

55:22But basically, three times the amount of military bases that he just referenced have already

55:29been destroyed in the war.

55:31Thirteen American military bases right now in the region have been fully evacuated and have

55:38been pounded and pummeled by Iran right now.

55:41And so, again, there's those realities of what's happened on the ground.

55:45And Jordy, he's saying that he's the reason.

55:47I just say before Jordy goes, I feel like that's like saying, you know, after

55:54PlayStation One came out, I was like, they got to make a PlayStation Two.

55:58They should have taken my advice.

56:00And then they took my advice.

56:01So I am the creator of the PlayStation.

56:05Isn't that like the same logic?

56:07Like, okay, dude. That is quite the comparison, B.

56:11But I think you're on to something there.

56:14Look, I'm not saying this for clicks.

56:16I'm not saying this for clout or whatever.

56:18And I'm certainly not saying this to get Donald Trump out of any future potential

56:23prosecution that we all would like to see around here.

56:27But this is not a stable man.

56:30This is not a quote unquote stable genius.

56:32This person is really not in their right mind when they're when he's up there

56:36speaking the way he is.

56:38It is so deeply embarrassing to me as an American that I have to say

56:41that's that's my president. Right.

56:43That's that's not the position of how it was taught to me growing up of

56:48how someone behaves themselves and acts.

56:51It really is like it hurts me to a level that I can't even truly

56:56like define when I see him up there.

56:58And quite frankly, like I think all Americans, I think everyone that's watching that they

57:03feel a certain shame to them that we have to say that's our president.

57:08That's the person who's supposed to get us out of the situation.

57:11He said, we won and no, now we're going to bomb them.

57:14And now we need more money to bomb them.

57:16And we've actually destroyed all their facilities.

57:18And and we've already we've done all these great things.

57:20This guy's a maniac. Right.

57:22This this guy is truly out of his damn mind.

57:25There is nobody steering this ship.

57:27And he's surrounded himself by a bunch of yes men, by a bunch of people

57:31that just want to talk about him and how great he is.

57:34It is quite literally the most dangerous position that we could be in as a

57:38country that this person like has the nuclear codes.

57:42And I'm not ruling it out that he wouldn't use those like I'm not going

57:45to dive into conspiracies or whatever.

57:47But we're charting into some really uncharted waters.

57:51Right. This this is some really scary stuff that we're witnessing play out.

57:54Because again, he's got no one next to him that's going to check him.

57:57That's going to be like, hey, maybe if we did it this way or this

57:59way. No. And this guy is so far gone mentally, in my opinion, that he.

58:04will do whatever just to leave his mark on this country and on the world.

58:09And it terrifies me. It genuinely terrifies me, Brett.

58:13You know, one data point I want to bring up as well.

58:16This is, you know, we've been seeing this trend happen, but the United Kingdom will

58:22refuse to allow the United States to use its air bases, particularly the Royal Air

58:27Force Base, Fairford and Diego Garcia, which long range strategic bombers with the U .S.

58:33Air Force had previously utilized on a case by case basis to carry out strikes

58:38in Iran for missions that target Iranian bridges, power plants and other civilian infrastructure, citing

58:44concerns that such strikes could harm civilians and constitute war crimes.

58:49Civilian senior officials are telling IPAPER.

58:52So we already know, you know, Spain and France and Italy and Austria and Switzerland.

59:01And now we're seeing the people are saying, all right, UK, he keeps on attacking

59:06you. When are you going to step up in the UK saying right now, whatever

59:10your mission is here, we will be held responsible for war.

59:14Keir Starmer and all the UK, they will sit on war tribunals.

59:21In the future. That's where this is heading.

59:23In my opinion, this is heading to war tribunals in the future.

59:27These are war undisputed war crimes that he's leaving a trail of publicly, you know,

59:33and it is, and other countries are now like, we, we, we, we ain't do

59:36it. We're not doing this.

59:38And that's a big development, by the way, that the UK is out.

59:41We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.

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1:02:55puts together the incredible newsletters on the Midas Touch substack every day.

1:03:02And the level of detail that Ron utilizes and is such a student of meticulous,

1:03:11all the nuances are in this.

1:03:13Whenever I read it, I'm like, I'm like, damn, you're good, Ron.

1:03:16And so Ron compiled the following.

1:03:19Trump's quotes since the war began.

1:03:21Brett and Geordie, shall I share it?

1:03:23March 3rd, we won the war.

1:03:25March 7th, we defeated Iran.

1:03:27March 9th, we must attack Iran.

1:03:28March 9th, the war is ending almost completely and very beautifully.

1:03:32March 11th, you never like to say too early you won, but we won.

1:03:36In the first hour, it was over.

1:03:38March 12th, we did win, but we haven't won completely yet.

1:03:40March 13th, we won the war.

1:03:42March 14th, please help us.

1:03:44March 15th, if you don't help us, I will certainly remember it.

1:03:47March 16th, actually, we don't need any help at all.

1:03:50March 16th, I was just testing to see who's listening to me.

1:03:53Also March 16th, if NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad.

1:03:57March 17th, we neither need nor want NATO's help.

1:04:00March 17th, I don't need congressional approval to withdraw from NATO.

1:04:04March 18th, our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

1:04:08March 19th, U .S. allies need to get a grip.

1:04:11Step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz.

1:04:13March 20th, NATO are cowards.

1:04:16March 21st, the Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it.

1:04:20We don't use it. We don't need to open it.

1:04:22March 22nd, this is the last time I will give Iran 48 hours.

1:04:26Open the Strait. March 22nd, Iran is dead.

1:04:29March 23rd, we had a very good and productive talk with Iran.

1:04:32March 24th, we're making progress.

1:04:34March 25th, they gave us a present, and the present arrived today, and it was

1:04:38a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.

1:04:41I'm not going to tell you what the present is, but it was a very

1:04:44significant prize. Also March 26th, make a deal, or we'll just keep blowing them away.

1:04:49March 27th, we don't have to be there for NATO.

1:04:52March 28th, nothing really major, he said on that day.

1:04:55March 29th, claim talks were progressing.

1:04:58March 30th, open the Strait of Hormuz immediately or face devastating consequences.

1:05:03March 31st, claimed a deal was very close, and then Iran would do the right

1:05:07thing. April 1st, we'll see what happens very soon.

1:05:10April 2nd, a deal was very likely, but we'll continue strikes if not.

1:05:14April 3rd, something big is going to happen.

1:05:17April 4th, Iran must comply immediately or face further consequences.

1:05:21consequences april 5th open the fucking straight you crazy bastards or you'll be living in

1:05:26hell just watch praise be to allah are you getting a covid ptsd with that

1:05:32list right there i mean like you're still right you are so right it's it's

1:05:37it's the correlation between how he's handling this and covid i mean he said it

1:05:40day one right when you see that list and it's read the way i just

1:05:48presented it and drafted the way that ron drafted it you don't think in iran

1:05:55they're reviewing it that way like you know i know donald trump doesn't think they

1:06:00have intelligence services and there's all running around with bb guns in caves that's not

1:06:04what's happening what do you think the french intelligence service the uk intelligence services australia

1:06:12canada european union more broadly germany japan south korea south america central america africa mexico

1:06:21you know other asian countries how do you think they're reviewing it at the highest

1:06:28level like they're all probably saying that donald trump is a is just a demented

1:06:36human being who's basically like possessed and there's no reliability there you know their strategy

1:06:45seems to be kind of manage it you know you know manage it like a

1:06:50patient in in a hospice like manage it yes donald okay you want to send

1:06:55mark rudd over the secretary general mark rudd will show up who else do you

1:06:59want to send over you know send over this person you know and they kind

1:07:02of embarrass themselves but like you know it's like they're showing up at the you

1:07:06know i'm not trying to be rude here you know but it's like they're showing

1:07:09up at the facility and they're saying okay donald yeah we hear you we'll hear

1:07:15you because i think their plan if they think they can do it but i

1:07:19think it's naive is to run out the clock keep nato functioning at some level

1:07:26that at least doesn't just totally destroy the existence of the the organization hope that

1:07:32the individuals the generals who work in nato can kind of keep it going as

1:07:40much as possible by the way while donald trump fires them i mean let's not

1:07:43forget that donald trump fired the army chief of staff at the end of last

1:07:48week that's the top position in the army four -star general got fired in the

1:07:52middle of a war who had massive amounts of spirit experience in drone warfare um

1:07:59the guy's name is randy george like one of the most beloved people in the

1:08:03united states army right was fired by pete hex of the donald trump at the

1:08:07end of last week and he joins 22 or so top admirals generals military leaders

1:08:15over the past 12 to 14 months and a number of them have been fired

1:08:19in the past few weeks by the way iran posted an image we did regime

1:08:23change and it shows all of the admirals generals and military officials who the trump

1:08:27regime has fired but with those people comes huge amounts of experience so this idea

1:08:33that you can try to hope that the randy georges of the world and the

1:08:37cq brown the former chairman of the joint chiefs that they can exist in this

1:08:42the moment they exercise competence exit gets rid of you right away like you get

1:08:48fired so to me the only thing donald trump responds to is force to force

1:08:53so the only way you can deal with it is not to appease it like

1:08:57it's sad to say but if you're native You have to call his bluff and

1:09:02you got to be like, all right, it's done.

1:09:03Why would we want to be a part of an organization where you keep lifting

1:09:06the sanctions against Russia and helping Russia attack your own troops, where you're going out

1:09:12of your way to help Russia and praise China and say you're more focused on

1:09:17your meeting with Xi Jinping coming up and you think they're your friends, I think

1:09:23you just have to say, fine, we don't want you, and then that's the only

1:09:26way you can teach him or deal with him is just to say no, and

1:09:31then he'll do his temper tantrum, but that's why to your point, Jordy, he's a

1:09:34bad business person who's bankrupted so many things.

1:09:39Eventually, after dragging things on, turning a bad decision into a worse, a worse into

1:09:44a catastrophe, a catastrophe into a bankruptcy, when having some layers of accountability may have

1:09:51been able to fix some of the problems, the malicious problems he may have created

1:09:55in these organizations, eventually someone has said no, and then it blows it up when

1:10:00the bluff gets called. And so there's really no other way to treat it because

1:10:06appeasing it, remember what I said earlier in this episode, the moment you exist within

1:10:12his framework, you're now residing in an area that's already made you compromised, right?

1:10:20That's why Iran, at a sophisticated level of negotiation, says we're not even negotiating within

1:10:26your framework. You could come into our framework or there's no negotiation that exists at

1:10:33all, period. Now, we saw what happened right when Greenland stood up to Donald Trump.

1:10:39And by the way, that was one of the things that Donald Trump said at

1:10:41the press conference today, you know, I was done with NATO the moment, we don't

1:10:45have to play the clip, but I'm done with NATO, the moment Greenland, the moment

1:10:49they wouldn't give me Greenland, I was done with NATO.

1:10:52That was the moment. That's so freaking, it's so telling also, right?

1:10:54That because they wouldn't, they wouldn't give him Greenland, they wouldn't appease him on that.

1:11:01They wouldn't let him take over a sovereign nation.

1:11:04I mean, that's really like a effed up thing to say.

1:11:07I'm like, what are we even talking about at a certain point, right?

1:11:10It's like in no other facet of our lives would anyone accept this mentally unhinged

1:11:15individual running whatever, you name it, running their company, being the principal of a school,

1:11:21being the owner or GM of a sports team, right?

1:11:25So why does corporate media hold his hand, the president of the United States hand,

1:11:31as he further goes down this just insane devolvement of a brain?

1:11:37It's crazy to me. The fact that NATO should allow one of its members to

1:11:42conquer a country is just like, I mean, the delusions are just wild.

1:11:48Like this is somebody who like, frankly, needs to be institutionalized.

1:11:53This is like absolute insanity.

1:11:55Let me show you a few things that he said, though, because I think even

1:11:59though I'm saying he said those things, I think it's important to bring the receipt,

1:12:05though, and share with you.

1:12:08So here a reporter says, so you said Iranians would be mad if you stopped

1:12:12these attacks, but why would they want you to blow up their infrastructure to cut

1:12:16off their power? Like you're saying they want you to blow them up?

1:12:20Here, play this clip. Success of this operation.

1:12:22Yes, please. Thank you, Mr.

1:12:23President. You've said Iranians would be mad if you stopped these attacks.

1:12:27But why would they want you to blow up their infrastructure, to cut off their

1:12:31power? Wouldn't that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime?

1:12:35They would be willing to, they would be willing, and it's suffering.

1:12:38They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom.

1:12:42The Iranians have, and we've had numerous intercepts.

1:12:46Please keep bombing. Bombs that are dropping near their homes.

1:12:50Please keep bombing. Do it.

1:12:53And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding.

1:12:57And when we leave and we're not hitting those areas, they're saying, please come back,

1:13:02come back, come back. These are the people.

1:13:05I don't know what they do.

1:13:06All I can tell you is they want freedom.

1:13:09They want freedom. Please, please, please bomb us.

1:13:12And then he, this is the longer clip right here that I'll show where he

1:13:15goes, we have a plan to basically blow up all of Iran.

1:13:19We're going to blow up this facility and that.

1:13:20Here he goes and talks about the war crimes he wants to commit.

1:13:23Let's play it. We have a plan because of the power of our military, where

1:13:28every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o 'clock tomorrow night, where every

1:13:35power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be

1:13:42used again. I mean, complete demolition by 12 o 'clock.

1:13:46And it'll happen over a period of four hours if we want it to.

1:13:50We don't want that to happen.

1:13:52We may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation.

1:13:56And you know what? If that's the case, the last thing we want to do

1:13:59is start with power plants, which are among the most expensive thing, and bridges.

1:14:03You saw the bridge. As the bridge went, we were very close to a deal.

1:14:08And then I got a call from Mr.

1:14:11Whitcoff, Mr. Kushner, and J .D.

1:14:16saying, I think they're breaking the deal.

1:14:18I said, tell them that's okay.

1:14:20Don't worry about it. But tell them to look out their window and watch.

1:14:24And within 45 minutes, I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge.

1:14:30I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge in, I believe, the Middle

1:14:34East, but the biggest bridge in Iran.

1:14:36And within 10 minutes after I gave that order, that bridge was over.

1:14:42So do I want to do that?

1:14:45No. Do I want to destroy their infrastructure?

1:14:47No. It will take them 100 years to rebuild.

1:14:51Right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their

1:14:57country, and it would never be as good as it was.

1:14:59And the only way they're going to be able to rebuild their country is to

1:15:03utilize the genius of the United States of America.

1:15:05Sick language right there. And then here's what he says about NATO being a paper

1:15:10tiger. And I have to show you him saying the Greenland thing, just so there's

1:15:14no dispute that I'm being hyperbolic or making it up or exaggerating.

1:15:18Like, it's so damaging and deranged that you have to hear him say it.

1:15:22Let's play it. You know, NATO is a paper tiger.

1:15:25Now, he's coming to see me on Wednesday, as you know.

1:15:27He's a wonderful guy. Secretary General is great.

1:15:32And Mark Ruta. He's a great person, but he's got...

1:15:36And you know, it all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland.

1:15:40We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us.

1:15:43And I said, bye -bye.

1:15:45Okay, thank you very much, everybody.

1:15:47Thank you. Absolutely, absolutely deranged, Brett and Jordy.

1:15:52Real quick, Brett, before you go.

1:15:54So, I was watching CNBC's coverage of this.

1:15:56I don't know why. That's where I decided to watch this one.

1:15:59After that comment... That's your rage, mate.

1:16:02That's my rage. It keeps me fired up, CNBC, man.

1:16:06I hate watch that program.

1:16:08And so, you know, after that one, he's like, all right, everyone, see you later.

1:16:12After all of the crazy shit he just said.

1:16:14And by the way, slightly before that moment...

1:16:16and I'm going to say a bad word here because he said it and it's

1:16:20going to be jarring because it's fucked up is that he said that he had

1:16:23a conversation with Kim Jong -un and Kim Jong -un called Joe Biden mentally retarded

1:16:28and he said it twice and he kept saying it and he said it loud

1:16:31and it caught my attention because I was half watching this and I was like

1:16:34holy shit did he really just say that not one reporter blinked no one you

1:16:39know was like like caught off guard by it that's just what's come that's what

1:16:43we've come to expect from Donald Trump it is absolutely disgusting his behavior on a

1:16:49day in and day out basis we're not going to play that clip here but

1:16:52when CNBC got the coverage back after all of that went down you know you

1:16:57know what their response was to all that they go so that was Donald Trump

1:17:02addressing the media today about the war in Iran and and they just like business

1:17:06as usual man business as usual and it just made me think to myself it's

1:17:10like when you know the people out there not anyone watching here of course but

1:17:14when the people out there get upset with like Midas titling for videos like Donald

1:17:17Trump loses it what what do you want me to say when he is up

1:17:22there saying shit like that he's like in no way shape or form is any

1:17:29of this normal and I'm not going to gaslight our audience into thinking any of

1:17:34this is normal and we're not going to do that here as a network this

1:17:36is unprecedented shit this stuff is bonker land and you can't treat it like CNBC

1:17:42treated it when they got the coverage back when they go so that was Donald

1:17:45Trump addressing the media today about the war in Iran I'm like what are you

1:17:48talking about I was losing hate watch that program Brett I feel like uh have

1:17:53you heard about like people go to rage rooms have you ever heard of rage

1:17:56rooms yeah I've heard I've heard of these things I've had friends go to rage

1:17:59rooms they like love it it's like for those who don't know like rage rooms

1:18:02are places you could go to like you pay money to do this and to

1:18:05get your anger out you go to this like room where you're like protected and

1:18:09you're wearing proper equipment and stuff and you break shit and you destroy stuff and

1:18:14you throw TVs on the ground that you smash things I've never done it I've

1:18:18actually had friends who have done this um if you've done it you can let

1:18:22us know uh in the comments I feel like you watching CNBC is your rage

1:18:26room you go in there you get out all your aggression on on the TV

1:18:30thankfully the TV I think is still standing and uh you know it just it

1:18:34just allows you to you know spikes my cortisol levels breaks your cortisol levels to

1:18:39dangerous levels that's so cool okay Brett I'll toss it to you but I think

1:18:44this was a good comprehensive update of everything that's going on um obviously stay tuned

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1:19:07the impact on our economy that this is all having but I also want to

1:19:10you know remember that we should not forget about how this all started which was

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1:20:13I've got nothing to add.

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