Ben Myselis

We're like pirates, as though that's a good thing, that the power of the US Navy is now pirates.

Here, play this clip.

And

There was no response.

Iran takes that video and they say, ha, look, you see, he's admitted that they're pirates.

And they show that to their people and say, look, this is what America's bragging about, piracy.

I mean, the words of the United States president matter.

It's one of the things that when King Charles visited, he actually said in the joint session of the House and Senate,

It was a message directed at Trump, which is the words of the United States still matter.

And so words need to be picked very, very carefully.

And Trump is so reckless with his words, his behavior, his conduct.

It is such an utter lack of leadership right now that it is causing this massive global realignment in a very short period of time.

of time.

It's on fast forward.

So then today, Donald Trump crashing out in the White House after all of the updates that I've talked about, the massive escalation taking place, right, from over the weekend, Trump talking about this Project Freedom thing and that we're going to be sending the United States Navy to escort ships.

And, you know, then U.S.

officials always have to like

They go to the press and go, actually, this isn't what this is about.

What this is really about is just helping insurance companies and ships find out the latest updates about when the Strait of Hormuz might be open.

And then there was, again, this escalatory ambiguity because Trump's words are so reckless and careless.