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Trump Crashes Out as Iran Threatens him with War

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump crashing out all morning as Iran threatens him during the war and Trump tries to distract from the disastrous war by threatening to invade airports with ICE. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/meidastouch/meidasnews?utm_campaign=4490308-affiliate2025&utm_content=customerpartner Support the MeidasTouch Network: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meidastouch-podcast/id1510240831 Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: https://facebook.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: https://instagram.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@meidastouch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Trump Crashes Out as Iran Threatens him with War

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called the Tasman News, and Iranian officials said that safe passage through the Bob L. Mandeeb Strait in the Red Sea would be quickly shut down if these marine expeditionary units that Donald Trump is sending to the Middle East, go to the carg island or try to enter the Strait of Hormuz. It should be noted that in the Red Sea, that's where the Houthis previously were able to shut down a lot of the traffic of cargo ships and fuel ships. Previously, the Houthis have not yet been activated in this war. And Iran is saying we are prepared to escalate right now and activate the Houthis. So what's Donald Trump doing this morning as he's crashing out? Donald Trump is now threatening to have ICE do airport security. That's right, this is Donald Trump's focus this morning. Donald Trump posted the following, if the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement

to let our country in particular our airports be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports where they will do security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our country with a heavy emphasis on those from Somalia who have totally destroyed with the approval of a corrupt governor, attorney general, and congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the once great state of Minnesota. I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our airports make America great again folks. We have a demented lunatic right now in the Oval Office, although he's actually vacationing in Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayer dime as war rages in the Middle East caused by Donald Trump's unlawful invasion of Iran. As Donald Trump has destroyed the United States economy, has destroyed generationally the economies of many Arab nations.

And as Iran and Russia are the main beneficiaries of this, as well as China, Donald Trump is talking about invading airports with ICE right now and putting out this completely deranged and incoherent statement about Democrats not letting airports be free and safe again. Do you all remember what Donald Trump repost posted this all of the time? But like when he posted on August 5th, 2024, stock markets are crashing, job numbers are terrible. We are heading to World War III and we have two of the most incompetent leaders in history. This is not good. It was always projection and confession with these magas. It's precisely what is actually happening right now in the United States. You all know that this past week the markets were absolutely crashing. You know that gold, which is usually a safe haven during these times. Gold was crashing. You have Donald Trump's brilliant decision and I'm being sarcastic of courses.

Let's remove oil sanctions on Iran. Let's remove oil sanctions on Russia as Danny Citronix, who does a good job reporting on this region as he explained to tell NBC News and others. So now Donald Trump, the US, is funding a war against itself. What we are seeing is a really flawed campaign. Not in terms of just operational size, but from the strategic preparation for the campaign itself. The oil price is becoming much more important than eliminating this regime in Iran. Everybody knows that as long as Iran is controlling the straits, nothing will change in terms of the ability to take out the oil. You cannot beat geography. And also, though, Iran realizes it can beat weakness. And it sees in Donald Trump someone who doesn't plan things, someone who doesn't think things through, somebody who reacts very emotionally, someone who potentially has dementia.

So my opinion, I'm giving my first amendment speech opinion, someone who is completely deranged and just, you know, look what's happening in the straight of her moves. You literally have Iran establishing a lucrative business right now. Not just in terms of Trump removing the oil sanctions there, but a business in the straight of her moves. Iran is planning to enshrine a new status, Max Boot writes, for the straight of her moves to require every passing ship to pay fees to Tehran for the privilege. Experiency council member Muhammad Mukbar, an advisor to the Supreme Leader in Economic Affairs, told the mayor news agency, we're setting up a business now. We have such control over the straight of her moves. We're going to make people pay the money. And we're going to basically create the biggest toll in the world. And countries are negotiating now on a bilateral basis to do just that. The Iranian Navy, for example, guiding an Indian tanker

through the straight of her moves. The Iranian Navy guided an Indian liquefied petroleum gas tanker through the straight of her moves after a diplomatic engagement with New Delhi, allowing the ship to pass on a pre-approved route. And look, you have Prime Minister Modi of India, saying, I spoke with President Dr. Masood Pzeštian. That's the Iranian President. I wished him greetings. We condemned the attacks on critical infrastructure in the region, which threatened regional stability and disrupt global supply chain. We reiterated the importance of safeguarding freedom of navigation and ensuring that shipping lanes remain open and scarce. So if there was some desire to alienate and isolate Iran, quite the contrary is happening. Trump is alienating and isolating the United States even more than when Donald Trump did tariffs against the world. And Donald Trump is promoting Iran right now. Take a look at this update as well. This from the Japan wire, the Kyoto news,

Iran ready to help passage of Japan ships in the straight of her moves. Foreign Minister Iraq, she says. So Iran's foreign ministers says, hey, Iran, Iran's foreign ministers says, hey, Japan, we saw that really embarrassing Prime Minister Takaishi, Oval Office, state visit, where she shamed the Japanese people, where she wouldn't stand up to Donald Trump when he was making Pearl Harbor jokes, where she was laughing at the auto pen photos that Donald Trump did, because Donald Trump behaves worse than some of the worst behaved five-year-olds out there and no offense to badly behaving five-year-olds. Seriously, the Japanese people right now are livid. I'm going to do a whole video on this. They are livid at Prime Minister Takaishi bringing such shame to the people after that disastrous visit with Donald Trump. But what did they get out of it? What happened out of it other than Donald Trump mucking the Japanese people? So Iran saw that and Iran says, look, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arakchi has said

Tehran is ready to facilitate the passage of Japanese vessels through the strait of her moves and that negotiations with Japan on the issues are ongoing, just saying it right there. And just think about it this way. This is how Fedwatch describes it. If India's tanker passage program is successful, other countries may follow India's example. India, then Japan, then who else? The only way crude price volatility cools off is if there is a decisive winner in this war, which is increasingly looking like Iran will be the winner of this war. And that's what we're seeing now. By the way, I mentioned Japan for a moment. So the Trump regime has been posting these photos of Prime Minister Takaishi and like making her look like, well, let's just say not the most flattering photos. This is the White House photo of it. Takaishi delivers remarks in the state dining room. This is the photo they chose to use. And here are the other photos. As this one account says,

the White House photographer has got to be doing it on purpose. They wanted to put the Japanese through a humiliation ritual. That's what was going on there. Oh, and folks, while all of this is going on, guess what the Maga Republicans are doing. They're actually seeing that there's an emergency today. Wow, right? They're actually working over the weekend. Folks, can you believe this? So the Maga Republican Senators have declared that there are emergencies taking place that need to be dealt with right now. Okay, what's the emergency that you are all at the Senate now? Is it to make sure that Donald Trump gets authorization if he wants to have an unlawful war and that you will block him from doing this unlawful war? Is that your plan right here? Are you there to block Donald Trump's tariffs against the world or Donald Trump's other authoritarian tactics to stop this unlawful and disgusting water? Is that why emergency, emergency on Capitol Hill, right? Oh, no, that's not why you're there. You're there to talk about trans sports issues.

That's what they're doing today. Because Donald Trump thinks that the American people are so dumb that he wants to create a culture war issue and talk about, oh, men and women's sports, men and women's sports, so he can mock the trans community, so he can mock marginalized communities to try to divide us while he covers up a child's sex trafficking ring, the Epstein files, and while he's engaged in this unlawful, I kid you not. This happened moments ago when the MAGA Republican Senators declared that there was an emergency. They had to discuss this. They had to discuss this here, play this clip. The issue, through respect to biological males competing in women's sports and transgender surgeries for minors. Those are also issues that are overwhelmingly supported by the American people. And the issue is on which there is legislation up here, broad support among certainly our caucus on both of those issues. Then you had Sean Duffy from the Real World Road Rules Challenge whose Donald Trump's Transportation Secretary,

he went on Fox this morning and here's what he had to say, play this clip. At what point, what makes you think that the masks is where the negotiation ends? And so the point is, do they really want to deal? That's what we're asking. And I think the point is the base is so angry that Trump, they have Trump derangement syndrome. That no matter what the proposal is, they want to make sure that the people, the 15 million people that were let in, even the bad homestays, they want to leave them here. Don't deport them. They want them part of their communities. If they commit crimes, they want to let them out onto the streets to commit more crimes against the American people. I mean, that's their radical position. Or at least the base has that position. And Democrats in Congress are forced to hold that line, which again, is anti-American and anti-commons. And folks, Saudi Arabia is saying over the past 24 hours, there have been 80 drone strikes in Saudi Arabia or attempted drone strikes in Saudi Arabia. So Iran doesn't show any time or any sense of slowing down soon, should also be noted as well. Qatar's CEO interview in the past 24 or 48 hours with Reuters

was basically described as what's just taken place over the past 20 plus days has set us back about 20 years. He warned that he said we've been trying to warn the US Energy Secretary and everybody daily that what's happening now with Qatari energy, with the other facilities across the Middle East was going to happen, that everybody ignored him, that nobody in the US gave warnings about any of this. And now Qatar and all these Arab nations that thought they were doing pay for play with Donald Trump. Well, you did do pay for play. You all got played, because Donald Trump is a con artist who has con people his entire life. And then when his backs against the rope, he shows what a sociopath he is. He does the threats. Oh, I'm going to invade your airports with ice or I'm going to come after you. Or please don't hurt me, please don't hurt me. He's been a pathetic freaking loser, his entire life who's bankrupted everything he's touched because he's a loser. And he surrounds himself with losers.

That's why he bankrupted things. Not even about politics. This guy is a freaking loser. Get it through your heads. And you want to know one of the big loser qualities that's happening right now that's not getting enough attention at all. And this is why it's a loser quality. You know, there's a massive disaster taking place in Hawaii right now. And where's FEMA? Where's Donald Trump talking about that? Where are the Republicans talking about that? Hawaii is experiencing its worst flooding in 20 years right now, okay? And do you even know that's happening? Okay, it's devastating there. This would be a normally rather than engaging in these ridiculous wars against the world that Donald Trump wants to do trade wars all of them. We'd be helping America right now. Not Donald Trump, not this despicable regime. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. But let's get to 7 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed, but you may actually be subscribed. So hit subscribe right now. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. You might as much drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs. Teach shirts, pads, sweatshirts, and more.

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