Ben Meiselas

You can't say the only reason we're keeping the negotiators on the other side alive is to cut the deal that we want, because then you won't be able to ever make a deal that way with the other side that's showing up because they wanna be treated like equals.

and if you're like well why would we treat them that way you're showing up to a negotiation if you don't want to treat them that way don't show up to negotiation but it's kind of like the most basic aspect of everything right so while you know and i've seen all of these things right that it's like um the negotiations are still ongoing which i just think is a market manipulation play it's

It's still ongoing, it's still ongoing.

I mean, I watched Donald Trump go on Maria Bartiromo and trust me, so did the Iranians.

They're studying all of these words, they're studying what he's saying.

And so Trump goes on Maria Bartiromo and he's being asked questions about what's gonna happen with the tankers headed to the Gulf of Mexico that Donald Trump calls the Gulf of America.

So what's happening here?

And just watch what Donald Trump says, let's play.

For those listening on audio, Maria Bartiromo is looking at him like he is a very sick patient, like in hospice care, or like she's the nurse and the person saying things that are, you know, kind of very frightening to the nurse.

And the nurse is looking like, okay, Donald, like how do you, I mean this objectively, how are you supposed to negotiate or do anything with that?

with that human being, right?

Like, how do you have any rational conversation with that?

The short answer is you can't, and we can't and shouldn't as a country normalize that.

It's not just the post of him saying he's Jesus or the hospital's on the moon or asking about Bruce Springsteen plastic surgeries or whatever deranged things he's post.

It is, is this individual fit?

to be a leader, no, yet alone the leader of these United States of America.

No, that's not a political position that I hold.

It's just an observation of whatever the hell that is.

We're gonna take our first break of the show.

Of course, we got a lot to discuss when we come back in addition.