Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben 8/4/2026
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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your breaking news. Earlier today, Donald Trump essentially surrendered to Iran yet again. This time, Donald Trump is not saying that if you don't make a deal with us, we're going to decapitate you, Iran. Now he's saying, Iran, you better make the deal. You're already negotiating with Oman.
How did Ben describe Trump's new stance toward Iran and Oman?
or else we are going to decapitate you. So you still have the war crimes, the disgusting language, the threats that he's been doing now, it seems, every week, I'm going to blow up your bridges, I'm going to kill your civilization, you're going to be whatever he says. No, but this time he's saying, you better do a deal with Oman or else. Now, you've been following the Midas Touch Network, you know that Iran has always been okay. to do the deal with Oman. That's what Iran said it was doing. Because if you look on a map of the Strait of Hormuz, on one side is Iran, on the other side is Oman. Iran has taken the position that both countries have territorial claims to the waters, that it's not international waters.
is what Iran argues based on its distance from Iranian territory. And so Iran's always been working across the foreign ministry level to do this deal. They even set up an organization for the purpose of collecting tolls or environmental fees. So because Donald Trump is completely incapable of doing any deal, except just fraudulent deals, in my opinion, or just saying the word deal, deal, deal, deal, deal, The new approach, after throwing away the memorandum of understanding, escalating the war, killing more innocent Iranians, having our service members killed, is to basically say, all right, Iran, you go do that deal with Oman right now, okay, or else. And then this is what Trump's actually good at, stealing credit for things, right?
Blaming and stealing credit. So that's what Donald Trump's going to do. He's going to let Iran and Oman do the deal they were always going to do, no MOU. And Trump's going to say, mission accomplished. We did it. Notice. There's no discussion about denuclearization. There's no discussion about the type of diligent international oversight that Iran agreed to regarding nuclear weapons grade capabilities in the JCPOA. No. Instead, what this is about is Iran make a deal with Oman. Now, this comes at the same time. where Reuters has reported that the United States is pretty much completely out of precision munitions, right? So you know how virtually all, not like 20%, 30%, not like, all right, we're going to start to dig into our stockpiles right here.
No, no, no, no. It actually is far worse than what the warnings were from our military generals, at least publicly. Reuters reported this morning the U.S. has used virtually all of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, sources say. We've been reporting on this for weeks now. We've been doing the count. I said, all right, looks like they've used 12 FADs over here. It looks like they've used 35 new PAK-3s over here. What about the SM3s from those Navy destroyers? Trump has quite literally destroyed our military, Trump and Hegseth and this whole gang of war criminals, right? And I mean, it makes sense because one, he's a bankruptor and two, whenever he says he's built something, just do the opposite of it.
He destroyed it. I mean, he's reflecting pool boy. I mean, just to remember when we talk about, right, doesn't it feel like months ago, the reflecting pool story? Trump is reflecting pool boy. Right. He lies and says vandals destroyed the reflecting pool. He makes his entire presidencies like big mission. We're going to paint an American flag blue. Don't focus on the 21,000 stock trades that I've done in the billions of dollars that I've made. and the settlements I do with the IRS to give myself tax immunity. No, no, no. Paint it blue. Obama and Biden, they destroyed the reflecting pool in 1922. I'm just going to start to say numbers because 1922, 58 million, 63 million, Obama, Biden, Autopen, Fauci, right?
That's They made the reflecting pool the cause of the regime.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:26
2
How did Ben describe Trump's new stance toward Iran and Oman?
0:26–11:06
3
What evidence did Ben cite that the U.S. is running low on precision munitions?
11:06–39:59
4
How did Ben connect market moves to White House comments about a Strait of Hormuz deal?
39:59–1:05:55
5
What did on-the-ground White House correspondent Luke Riddell report about activity and construction at the White House?
1:05:55–1:07:33
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