Chapter 1: Why did Donald Trump back down on Iran threats?
So let's just put this, Mike Nellis, into, I don't know, this is a technical term.
Donald Trump caved. Yeah. Like, totally caved. You would say a lot of people want to say taco. That Trump always chickens out. But we got a new term for it that somebody introduced on my show, which is tofu. Trump only fucks up. And that's what he's done here. He has fucked up.
I heard last night people saying, oh, well, there's a ceasefire. First of all, there's still rockets being fired. You know that, right? Yes. Yes. And secondly, he's trying to pretend that they have negotiated the Strait of Hormuz being opened already. They agreed to negotiate to open the Strait of Hormuz, which is the big thing.
Now, I want everybody to keep in mind that the Strait was opened on February 27th or whenever this started, and it has now since been closed. So what did we accomplish? There's no regime change as a... Lying to people.
So what has been accomplished? Nothing.
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Chapter 2: What does the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran mean?
Nothing. Not a goddamn thing. And I saw a MAGA influencer this morning who said, Iran has had the Strait of Hormuz closed for 47 years and Donald Trump finally got it open. And I'm like, these people... are so thoroughly full of shit. Let's walk through it though, because I wrote it down. I told you I did this before the show.
We were going to get rid of Iran's uranium so that they couldn't build a nuclear weapon. That's off the table now in this new thing. We were going to get them to stop funding terrorist organizations. No concessions for this ceasefire. We were going to decimate their missiles They continue to strike into Israel right now, while Israel, by the way, continues to strike Lebanon today.
So they are not adhering to the ceasefire. They're trying to argue that's an entirely different conflict when the truth is it's exactly the same. The Strait of Hormuz is still controlled by Iran. Now they're going to charge extra fees, which the American people are going to pay.
And Iran knows that they have complete and total leverage over the global economy and the United States thanks to this conflict. The region is a mess. Our allies are pissed. We are more isolated. We got 13 American military service men and women who are dead. I believe that's the floor, by the way, because I think they're lying about that still. And the global economy is an absolute mess.
What the hell did we accomplish? I don't know. And they can't define it either.
We accomplished a couple of things. We made Iran stronger, I believe. We are, we're definitely, we made them richer because they can sell their oil now for a lot more than they could before this conflict. And they're going to make money, as you said, off of the tolls or off of people, you know, paying whatever toll it is, if they do it to enter, you know, the, the Strait of Hormuz.
So we made them, basically we paid for the rebuilding of whatever, uh, the U.S. and Israel destroyed.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the ceasefire for the global economy?
Or I should say Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu destroyed.
Yeah, they were so mad about the money that Obama gave Iran as part of the deal to bring Iran into the international community for them to stop the enrichment of uranium. And Iran's going to make so much more money now under this deal that Donald Trump seemingly has agreed to, which is absurd. I don't know if you saw, there's breaking news right now from CNN.
Iran says it is halting traffic again in the Strait of Hormuz after Israel attacked Lebanon. So they're not even letting people through. So the Strait of Hormuz isn't even open. After last night. And it's not a ceasefire. Right. That means it's not a ceasefire. Nope. Nope. And it's not the first time that they've done this.
They claim that Israel has a ceasefire with Hamas right now, and both sides have been fighting ever since then. So it's just going to be another bullshit peace deal from Donald Trump, and he's going to be asking for another FIFA peace prize later this year.
Okay, let me read this because last night after this came out, I was like, okay, what is the real deal here? And as soon as I was trying to figure it out, this alert popped up. Iran's first official announcement of a ceasefire. A statement by Iran's that Iran has achieved a great victory and forced the criminal United States to accept its 10-point plan.
So basically, what they're doing, Mike, is they're spiking the football, they're having a victory lap, and according to the statement, which I believe to be true because Donald Trump knows and he admitted, well... His folks admitted that these were the points that they had agreed to, at least agreed to negotiate on. And Donald Trump said, OK, that was OK with him.
According to the statement, it includes a principal U.S. commitment to non-aggression. OK. The continuation of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz. Acceptance of uranium enrichment. The lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions. I mean, so Iran is going to get more out of this than us.
The termination of all UN Security Council and Board of Governors resolutions, compensation to Iran, the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the region, and the cessation of war across all fronts, including against heroic Islamic resistance in Lebanon. So...
Why are people on television like Pete Hegseth saying that this was some great victory and Iran knew what was best for them and so they begged to come to the negotiating table? What kind of lie, what kind of bullshit is that?
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Chapter 4: How has the conflict in Iran affected U.S. negotiating power?
And then you hear the president of the United States claim that we've made this great deal with Iran and we're getting nothing out of it. Or you hear Pete Hegseth say that we haven't put any U.S. service members in harm's way, which is what he said today during his press conference. Like, I would be really upset. And I think every single American should be
really, really upset and offended and just pissed off that the government has spent so much money, gotten people killed, wasted our time and our resources for nothing, for nothing. There's nothing that we got here. At least in Iraq, we have a permanent base there. We got access to oil fields. Like I didn't agree with that conflict either.
I thought that was a disaster, but there is no upside for the United States here. We are dramatically weaker and less safe because of this. It's awful.
We're less secure and less safe. And I think we have lost a couple of steps, a couple of notches in our credibility and the confidence that we should have with working with our allies. Basically, we have no friends because Donald Trump has insulted all of our friends. He has been the bully. And now, as you can tell, they all said, we're not doing this.
You're on your own, dude, as they say. Well, let me ask you this question, okay? If you've got a neighbor that lives across the street from you and they're acting irrationally and violently and attacking you all the time and screaming horrible, terrible things at you, are you going to invite them to the cookout? Are you going to call that neighbor when you need help? The answer to that is no.
And so we've acted like the shittiest possible neighbor here. And you go back to the tariffs for a second, forget the myriad of international crisis that Donald Trump's created. Let's talk about the tariffs. Who were the first two countries that the United States government tariffed under Donald Trump?
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of the U.S. actions in Iran?
It was Canada and it was Mexico. Our closest physical allies that we have in the world, we attacked our friends. And we sent Canada into the welcoming arms of China, and now China is ascendant on the world stage. Then we tried to seize Greenland from Denmark. We claim we're gonna take Cuba. We go take out the government in Venezuela. We claim there's a regime change, but we install the number two.
We make Marco Rubio the viceroy of Venezuela. We continue to just isolate and piss off everybody. And America is weak on the international front. They know that Donald Trump is a joke. They know that he's vain. They know how to manipulate him.
That's why foreign heads of state show up with like medals and trophies and they like talk about how great he is so that they can get whatever the hell they want from him. He is the smallest man alive, not to quote Taylor Swift or is it the tiniest man alive? I forget. But he's just a small, petty man and he has made America into a small, petty country that isn't leading the world.
And China's sitting over there like happily watching us fuck this all up because they're ascendant. And I don't think anybody's safer if China is ascendant on the world stage. I really don't. I think we're in trouble in the long haul here.
Yeah, I do too. But I think this backfired. I was talking about it to people today, and this backfired. And you know what was, I think, sort of the death nail to all of this was that Obama was going to basically annihilate Iran, which was to... Basically, he was admitting to war crimes of genocide. if you were going to kill entire civilization, as he put it, that would mean genocide.
And then before that, saying that he was going to attack their infrastructure, their power plants and bridges, War crimes. And so none of it worked. And I kept saying on my show, I was like, if someone tweeted out this stuff or put out a statement or told me what he said in his last two posts, I would say, great. We have their backs. Their backs are against the wall. They're on their back feet.
Just shut up. Keep going. We're not opening the Strait of Hormuz. You know what I'm saying?
Yes. Yes. I mean, I mean, it's completely exposed to him. And I think it's exposed him as a shitty negotiator, too. I saw a tweet earlier today that was like Donald Trump trying to buy a car. And the salesman was like, the car is $28,000. And Donald Trump's like, $20,000 or I'll blow up your house. The guy's like, sorry, it's still $28,000. He goes, you know what? I'll pay $35,000 for it. Thanks.
That's basically what happened here. He's like, I'm going to destroy you. And it is not, I hate when Democrats do the it's not normal thing, because we say that about everything. But it's not normal for the president of the United States to threaten war crimes the way that he did.
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Chapter 6: What are the criticisms of Trump's handling of the Iran situation?
And it's not okay. And I think it just further erodes American leadership on the international stage. The fact that half of the internet over the course of the day yesterday, including a lot of conservatives, were terrified that Donald Trump was going to use a nuke on Iran overnight and kill 90 million people Tells you a lot about what we think about the president of the United States.
And it's not just like libs like me. Fine. But like Alex Jones is calling for Trump to be removed. Candace Owens is calling for Trump to be removed. Sean Harris is calling for him to be removed. Dan Smith, the comedian, the libertarian, is calling for it. J.B. Pritzker, I had him on my show today. He's saying it.
So like you have Democrats, Republicans, libertarians, everybody saying get this guy out. Except for the hacks, the absolute hacks like Ben Shapiro and Benny Johnson who are on the payroll. This guy's got to go. He's got to go. I don't know how, but we got to get rid of him.
Well, by the way, let's finish. Let's discuss that. But make sure you hit the hearts, hit the thumbs up, and follow us on all of our platforms. It's really important. Okay, so since you said what you said, do you see what I just shared with you? I do, yeah. This is by Michael Tomasky of The New Republic. Michael Tomasky is saying...
total freefall, a loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time, but eventually reality catches up. I love that headline, and it is 100% true. The presidency of Donald Trump is now officially in collapse.
His war is not exactly a disaster, but it sure isn't the cakewalk he envisioned when he sprang it on the American people. and the world with no notice on February 28th. His firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi because she wasn't sycophantic enough indicates a man who is utterly incapable of understanding anything about how democracy is supposed to work.
His economy is a wreck and may well get worse. His proposed budget, especially a half trillion dollar increase to the Pentagon, is wildly out of whack with the priorities of the public. How much longer? I think he's still going to have the MAGA faithful, I guess the 30-some percent. But my question is, Mike, when do lawmakers say, this guy's a loser? This guy's going to lose us the midterms.
He's going to lose us our constituency because they are all paying an astronomical price for gas and goods.
When are they going to wake up? I mean, they're awake right now. They know like every single one of them knows behind closed doors, but they're too chicken shit to say it because they're afraid that they're going to lose their primaries. Like that's what it is.
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Chapter 7: How do Trump's actions compare to previous administrations?
But this war in Iran is Donald Trump's Katrina. And I say that because I don't know if you've seen the video of, I think it was Steve Schmidt talking about how after Bush did Katrina and there was that photo and it was an absolute disaster in the way that FEMA handled that. Bush couldn't do anything. He couldn't get anything done. He couldn't get taken seriously.
Washington basically moved on from him and we immediately moved into the midterms. We immediately moved into the presidential election and Obama and Hillary Clinton and John McCain started sucking up all the oxygen. That's what's happening here. We are mid the collapse of Donald Trump's presidency and he's going to keep that MAGA base together. He's going to keep that 28, 32% of Americans.
That's basically what George W. Bush left office with. Like we ran that fucker out of Washington, in my opinion. I think people forget now because he was much more pleasant than this asshole. But we ran him out of this country and nobody wanted to see him again. And that's what's happening here. And Trump loves to, he did this at the Easter egg hunt,
On Monday, he kept saying like, oh, my approval rating with MAGA is 100%. 100% of people in MAGA love me. But it's a smaller slice of the pie. Fewer and fewer people are identifying as MAGA right now. And so I think it's just a bad situation. And the reason it isn't full yet is like we're mid-swing. Like in a couple of months, maybe by the midterms, we're going to see this.
And I don't think they're going to remove him. I don't think they're going to do anything like dramatic like that. But we're going to get to the point where he's just a lame duck. And he's just an embarrassment. And hopefully, you know, he's just the man behind the curtain at that point. Not even behind the car.
OK, let's go because you said that they're not going to remove him. But after Robert Tomasky said all of that, Michael Tomasky said all of that and wrote all of that in the first paragraph, he said, I could go on and on. But on top of all that, Trump's purchase on reality tenuous at best at the best of times is slipping fast.
Think about what it takes for the leader of the free world, a phrase we are now obligated to tuck inside irony quotes, to wake up on Easter morning, the day of the resurrection of the same Jesus Christ in whose name War Secretary Pete Hegseth says we are killing Iranians. And post... This unhinged and inflammatory comment on social media, and it goes on to do that.
So you said no 25th Amendment, but I got to tell you, I had been saying this for a while, and I think I said it to you and on our show together. Donald Trump is loony. He's not all there. And we're living in whatever is happening in his head, which is not good. And it's making us crazy.
No, I said this all the time. It's like, that boy ain't right. And I wrote about this in my sub-stack yesterday. It's like, we as a people, as American people, have been through an unbelievable amount of trauma in the last 10 years. And I think we need to talk about that for a second, which is the pandemic, the economic turmoil, the first Trump term, the second Trump term.
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for U.S.-Iran relations?
But even then, you need two thirds of Republicans to agree to that. And I don't know how you get to the math on that. Maybe you do it just to expose these people for who and what they are. But I don't know. I wish America this would be a reform that like if I was in Congress, I would propose.
I wish there was a referendum style way where if you could get like a certain number of signatures, you could actually call a national referendum to remove the president of the United States. The way that you have that for governors, like you like a lot of states have like recalls for governors, like what happened in California that led to Arnold Schwarzenegger getting elected.
I would like that nationally. I think it'd be a mess, but he would be recalled right now by the American people. You want to recall Trump? Yes. I think we should have a recall. I think that would be a better way to do it because it takes the power out of Washington and puts the power back in the hands of the American people. I think that's a reform that would be really good.
I would like a recall on some of the media, especially in corporate media. I want a recall on that because look at this.
Name the names, Don. Name the names. Let's go.
But this is where we're living. Look at this. This is what media posted. A tale of two ceasefires. MS Now declares Trump caved and CNN says he backed down while Fox News insists Iran blinked.
Good Lord. What blinking did Iran do? I mean, I want these MAGA influencers, these right-wing journalists, whatever they want to call themselves, tell me what we won here. What did we get? What did Iran not get? They can't articulate it. It's embarrassing to me. I just, I don't get it. I don't get it.
Yeah. Well, you said there was someone on Fox News, did you, that said that the president achieved none of his goals, but then a backhand glaze.
Yeah, I don't know his name, but one of these Fox & Friends morning hosts said something that was like, here were the president's objectives for winning the war in Iran. Now, he has not achieved any of those objectives, but I am confident that he will in the negotiation process. Like, that's what he said. But just to admit that they haven't achieved any of them, is so embarrassing.
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