Trump Panics as Iran Defies Ultimatum
4/20/202620 mincomplete
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0:30Donald Trump is panicking and looking so desperate as Iran says it has no intention
0:36of showing up in Islamabad for further negotiations with the United States on coming up
0:42with any deal until the Trump regime agrees to the 10 -point negotiating framework that
0:48it previously agreed to and to stop threatening Iran to move away from its non
0:53-negotiable points, which Iran has said it will never move away from.
0:57Now, the Trump regime has already started to send military and civilian aircraft into Pakistan
1:05in advance of potential talks with Iran.
1:08At the same time, Iran says they will not be sending any of their negotiators
1:13to show up unless and until the United States removes the blockade from the Persian
1:20Gulf, and unless and until Donald Trump stops lying about Iran's negotiating position.
1:26Now, Pakistan's field marshal Munir, who is the top official in Pakistan, has told Donald
1:34Trump, Iran really is not going to show up as long as you have this
1:38blockade, and as long as you keep on threatening to destroy their civilization and to
1:43destroy all of their bridges and civilian infrastructure.
1:46There is no way to engage in a negotiation, Donald, while you continue to say
1:51that. Nonetheless, Donald Trump is already sending in his advance team for negotiations.
1:57I mean, it's a fairly desperate move that while Iran is saying they're not showing
2:01up and they're publicly saying they may show up, but they're posturing as though they
2:06won't show up, Donald Trump is rushing his team to show up in Islamabad to
2:11basically wait for Iran. You can see the plane right there flying in to the
2:16Nur Khan airbase near Islamabad a short while ago.
2:20As noted, Pakistan's Army Chief, Asim Munir, told Donald Trump that the U .S.
2:25blockade of Iranian ports is blocking renewed U .S.-Iran talks.
2:31Trump said that he would consider it, but then Donald Trump went on social media
2:35moments ago and posted the following this morning.
2:38Israel never talked me into the war with Iran.
2:41The results of October 7th added to my lifelong opinion that Iran can never have
2:46a nuclear weapon. Did I watch and read the fake news pundits and polls in
2:52total disbelief. Ninety percent of what they say are lies and made up stories.
2:57The polls are rigged much as the 2020 presidential election was rigged, just like the
3:02results in Venezuela, which the media doesn't like talking about.
3:06The results in Iran will be amazing.
3:09And if Iran's new leaders, regime change, exclamation point, are smart, Iran can have a
3:15great and prosperous future, DJT.
3:19So he's already toning down his rhetoric a little bit, but I mean, he still
3:22is ranting and raving like a lunatic.
3:25And what Donald Trump's military generals are saying.
3:27saying, it's Donald. If you want to go in for a ground invasion, if you
3:31want to talk tough, we have the capabilities to do that, but we're going to
3:36incur massive casualties. Thousands, if not tens of thousands of American soldiers are going to
3:43die, but we can complete this mission.
3:46Is that what you want us to do?
3:48And then Donald Trump's like, no, I don't want us to do that.
3:50Okay, well, what do you want us to do?
3:52Watch me go on social media and I'm going to post things in all caps
3:57and that'll show Iran we're going to threaten.
4:00Iran recognizes that Donald Trump isn't just a paper tiger.
4:04He is the most paper tiger that there is.
4:07He talks tough. He has this bluster and bravado, but if you followed him before,
4:12he always backs down when you confront him.
4:16And that's what Iran realizes.
4:17They see Donald Trump as terrified of markets crashing.
4:21They see Donald Trump as always chickening out in that taco meme.
4:25And that's why they continue to mock him over and over again.
4:28I mean, they're posting these, you know, again, these AI memes of him drinking crude
4:33oil. They're posting their Lego videos.
4:37A new one just dropped.
4:38I'll just show you 10 seconds of it.
4:39Here, play this clip. Iran's posting pictures like this today to American.
4:54Your enemies aren't in Iran.
4:56They're in the Epstein files or posts like this from Iranian social media accounts.
5:02Battleships that were supposed to defeat an alien armada are wandering for cargo ships.
5:08Why so serious? Isn't that called piracy?
5:12This says the U .S.
5:13Navy has trained its sights on Iranian or Iranian -aligned cargo ships to interdict.
5:20And Iran's saying, didn't you say you were going to force us to unconditional surrender
5:24and you were going to destroy us?
5:26And now you have the U .S.
5:28Navy, the most powerful Navy in mankind, in humankind, basically functioning as pirates going into
5:34cargo ships that are sending goods and material to China.
5:38And then Iran's social media account writes, with any equation moving from unconditional surrender to
5:44writing about a cargo ship, one of many is a loss, a big loss.
5:49And the main reason is being trapped inside a Zionist war machine.
5:52They're just mocking Donald Trump.
5:54Free oil market for all, they're posting.
5:56And it's social media post after social media posts like this.
5:59We also then heard from Iran's foreign minister spokesperson who said the following, we have
6:06no plans for the next round of negotiations.
6:08At no stage of ongoing or previous negotiations has the issue of transferring Iran's enriched
6:14uranium stockpiles to the United States or any other country been raised.
6:19And fundamentally, this option is not on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
6:24The Islamic Republic of Iran does not recognize any deadlines or ultimatums and securing its
6:30national interest. Safeguarding national interest will continue for as long as necessary.
6:35And in the event of any new adventurism by the United States or the Zionist
6:39regime, the armed forces will respond decisively with full capability.
6:44We see no signs that the U .S.
6:46is serious about advancing diplomacy.
6:48Iran's foreign minister spokesperson says multiple signs point to the exact opposite.
6:53The U .S. side constantly changes its demands, but we remain steadfast.
6:57Some issues are simply unacceptable and no amount of insistence on them will change our
7:02positions. And so you're hearing statements like that.
7:05So then Dom. Trump calls up the various regime medias and propagandist medias and people
7:11who will just generally serve as his stenographer.
7:14So he calls up the New York Post because he's like, oh crap, the markets
7:17are tanking again. They realized that I did another market manipulation on Friday, duh.
7:22So he pulls the same stunt.
7:24He calls up reporters so they can print his words to filter it through their
7:29newspapers or their websites to make it seem, oh, well, they're publishing.
7:34And so maybe they did diligence when they didn't.
7:36So Donald Trump's like, I have no problem going to Islamabad myself.
7:41Maybe I will go to Pakistan and I will do the negotiations.
7:45I assume at this point, nobody's playing games.
7:48We're supposed to have talks.
7:50Then Donald Trump called up a reporter from the Hill, Julia Manchester, and she just
7:56publishes exactly what he says word for word.
7:59Trump told me over the phone that he disagrees with Energy Secretary Chris Wright's assessment
8:04that gas prices may not drop until next year.
8:07No, I think he's wrong on that.
8:09Totally wrong, Trump said. Okay, but don't you see the scheme and the scam and
8:15the fraud that he posted?
8:16Let me show you the words of his Energy Secretary yesterday, the person in charge
8:21of this, who said that they expect to have very high gas prices through 2027.
8:27Here's what he says. Let's play this clip right here.
8:29So when you were on the show March 8th, I asked you when gas prices
8:33would go under $3 a gallon for regular unleaded.
8:37You said, quote, in the worst case, this is a week's, this is not a
8:40month's thing. That was six weeks ago.
8:43So we're still within the week's realm, but we're two weeks away from the month's
8:47thing. When do you think it's realistic for Americans to expect that gas will go
8:52back to under $3 a gallon?
8:54I don't know. That could happen later this year.
8:57That might not happen until next year.
8:59But prices have likely peaked and they'll start going down.
9:03Certainly with a resolution of this conflict, you'll see prices go down.
9:06Prices across the board on energy prices will go down.
9:09But it might not be under $3 a gallon until 2027.
9:12Under $3 a gallon is pretty tremendous in an inflation adjusted terms.
9:17We had that in the in the Trump administration, but we hadn't seen that in
9:21inflation adjusted term for quite a long time.
9:24We'll get we'll get back there for sure.
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11:07Now, Donald Trump had some of his sycophants on state regime media this morning.
11:12MAGA Republican Congress member Buddy Carter, along with Maria Bartiroma, were just spewing Trump propaganda
11:20talking points that bear no reality to what's really happening on the ground.
11:24Play this clip. And yesterday, the president told me that he is expecting the Iranians
11:29to sign this agreement tonight.
11:30And if they don't sign it, he said that the U .S.
11:34will blow up every single power plant and bridge and more in Iran.
11:37Your reaction in terms of where we stand?
11:40Well, certainly you would think the Iranians would have learned a lesson by now, and
11:44that is when this president says something, he means it.
11:47And he has proven that to them.
11:48And yet they still don't understand, which I think is an indication, first of all,
11:52that they just don't get it.
11:54Secondly, of the deep hatred that they have for America.
11:57And this is something that he's trying to address right here.
12:00And I applaud him for doing that.
12:01We've got to end this reign of terror that has existed for 47 years.
12:06And, you know, high gas prices, nobody likes that.
12:10But except for Democrats and John Ossoff, they like it.
12:13And I remind you of June of 2022 when price of gas was five and
12:17six dollars a gallon. But we will see gas prices come down again.
12:21You saw last week when we had a temporary opening of the Strait of Hormuz,
12:26that prices came down. The price of oil per barrel was lower than $80.
12:32They'll come down again as soon as we can get this resolved.
12:35So many things underway and going.
12:37Then you had Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna go on Maria Bartiromo's show.
12:43And fortunately, he was pushing back.
12:45It was good to see Ro Khanna on that show.
12:48Play this clip. Say $1 .7 billion, he told Congress, was frozen Iranian assets.
12:53Now, there was a back channel to Tehran through Valerie Jarrett, active for 2012 to
12:582024. This was after he left office.
13:01So, you know, it was almost like a shadow government.
13:04He also sent pellets of cash in a plane to Iran.
13:08Now, why would you send money to Iran knowing that they are building a nuclear
13:13weapon and they are the leading sponsor of terrorism?
13:18Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer.
13:22I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph.
13:25The reality is when President Obama left, because of the great efforts of people like
13:29Valerie Jarrett, we had 97 percent of the enriched uranium out.
13:34The reality is we didn't have 13 American service members dead.
13:37The reality is we never had gas go up from $2 .30 to $4.
13:41The reality is we did not give China more role in the region.
13:44Let me finish, Maria. I'll let you finish.
13:46We didn't give China more role in the region.
13:50We did not give the IRGC a more hardline regime in there.
13:53Do you know why? Because Obama actually did his homework.
13:55He actually tried to engage in statesmanship.
13:58He had gotten, he got China, Russia, the entire European allies on board with getting
14:04Iran on a path to not having a nuclear weapon.
14:07All Trump did is listen to Netanyahu.
14:10That's his entire foreign policy.
14:13You know what? I resent the fact that Israel is going to tell the United
14:17States what to do. The American president should call the shots in this country.
14:21Well, the American president. You should call the shots in this country, but you...
14:25By the way, while we're on the topic of the media, I just want to
14:28give a hat tip to Jude Legum because he pointed out something that I was
14:32noticing as well. Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mentioned Kushner has
14:39received billions from the Saudi government.
14:42He looked at it from February 28th to April 19th.
14:46The New York Times, five out of 58.
14:49The Washington Post, one of 43.
14:51Wall Street Journal, zero of 40.
14:54Associated Press, zero of 26.
14:56CNN Wire, zero of 18.
14:58New York Post, zero of 17.
15:00Chicago Tribune, zero of four.
15:02LA Times, zero of four.
15:03In other words, in these articles that reference that Kushner is serving as like a
15:08chief negotiator and a diplomat in this area, even though he's not Senate confirmed and
15:13nobody wants him to be doing this, that he has all of these business entanglements
15:17to the tune of billions and billions of dollars.
15:20Glenn Greenwald says, so during Trump's second term, Jared Kushner became a billionaire.
15:25The net worth of Trump's three sons exponentially skyrocketed as they're doing all of these
15:30deals with Middle East nations and throughout the world.
15:33They're doing drone deals and crypto deals and all of these quid pro quos.
15:38And Don Jr. has a club called the Executive Branch Club.
15:41I think you pay him $500 ,000 for great access to the Executive Branch Club.
15:46Baron Trump is apparently worth $120 million.
15:50Much, if not most, of this came from huge cash infusions from Persian Gulf tyrannies,
15:57Glenn Greenwald says. Hunter Biden, on the other hand, got $50 ,000 a month for
16:03Burisma to serve as a board member when he previously had a history after Yale
16:09Law School of being on multiple boards, including George W.
16:13Bush appointed him to be on boards.
16:15He was on Amtrak boards and he was on boards for UN food aid boards.
16:20And he was a lawyer from Yale.
16:22And the reason he was on the Burisma board to begin with is because they
16:26wanted someone with pro -American or pro -Western allegiances on the board so it wouldn't
16:32be fully controlled by Russian interests.
16:34And he was paid $50 ,000 a month.
16:37And that was viewed as the biggest scandal ever.
16:39Meanwhile, the Trumps are like quite literally grifting billions in what are like direct quid
16:45pro quos. Marjorie Taylor Greene this morning mocking Donald Trump and his regime.
16:49She reposted this account, Della Dream.
16:52And Marjorie Taylor Greene says, brilliant, mocking MAGA.
16:56MAGA talking to a normal person who voted for Trump.
16:59Here, play this clip right here.
17:01Aren't you excited? The Strait of Hormuz is open.
17:04Or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or.
17:07No. How could you not be excited?
17:10Or, or, or, or, or, or, or.
17:12Because that was open before the war that Trump started for Netanyahu.
17:16And now a lot of people are dead and gas prices are really high.
17:21That's anti -Semitic. You're an anti -Semite.
17:25Or, or, or, or, or, or.
17:26What the fuck? And then you had Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's national economic advisor.
17:33He went on and spewed a bunch of nonsense on CNBC this morning.
17:36Here's what he had to say.
17:37Play this clip. Right. Well, I think that what's been happening more than anything else
17:42is that President Trump has been communicating with the American people on like what the
17:48current state of things is.
17:50And he's been talking about how negotiations are moving forward well.
17:53He truthed over the weekend that their talks are resuming.
17:56Now there are a lot of people chattering in Iran that aren't necessarily in power.
18:01We're trying to perhaps undermine their own colleagues, but the fact is that the President
18:05Trump's truth, so you go back, look one after another, have given a very clear
18:09guide to the journalists of the country and American people about the progress that we're
18:13making. At the beginning, the president said, in four to six weeks, we expect this
18:17could be resolved, and I think we're getting pretty close to that.
18:20And again, it's lie after lie after lie.
18:22Oh, he's been so truthful.
18:24He's, what are you talking?
18:25These people lie every moment of every day.
18:29And finally, speaking of that, let's remember the post that Donald Trump made on March
18:346, 2026, a very long time ago.
18:37Remember when Donald Trump posted the following March 6, 2026?
18:40There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender.
18:44After that, and the selection of a great and acceptable leaders, we and many of
18:49our wonderful and very brave allies and partners will work tirelessly to bring Iran back
18:53from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
18:58Iran will have a great future.
19:00Make Iran great again. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J.
19:04Trump. And as our editor -in -chief, Ron Filipkowski says, three of Trump's war objectives
19:08six weeks ago, in addition to seizing uranium, unconditional surrender, selection of a new leader
19:15of Iran by U .S.
19:16and allies, U .S. helps build Iran.
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