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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is your breaking news. The fake ceasefire between the United States and Iran once again exposed the United States military hit the Bandar Abbas port city, striking various targets there at the airport there.
in violation of the ceasefire iran responds a few hours later striking the united states air base in kuwait while all of this is going on where is donald trump we're showing people right here on the video screen iran showing what its missiles looked like as the missiles were en route to kuwait where is donald trump today his official schedule says his entire day
Chapter 2: What breaking news is reported about the U.S. and Iran?
will be filled with executive time he has nothing scheduled his last post was like 15 hours ago he may have made one post recently which was just a repost but it was of the an ai image of this reflecting pool that he's obsessed about and he keeps talking about over and over again meanwhile axios barack ravid who's basically donald trump's chief stenographer at this point in my opinion
posted this morning that the U.S. and Iran reached an agreement on a memorandum of understanding for a 60-day ceasefire extension and the launch of negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. But Trump has not yet given his final approval, says two senior U.S. officials and a regional source involved in the mediation.
told me what the hell does that statement even make i mean we are literally seeing the war still raging on in the middle east and when you have that data when you have pce inflation today rose to 3.8 it was obviously going to be a disastrous day on the market because It's a disastrous day for American consumers, but the market bears no relationship to what consumers are experiencing.
Consumers experiencing the worst sentiment in the history of the consumer sentiment, sir, because the American people are suffering right now. The market got manipulated today. The Nasdaq soared, the S&P up, even the Dow was up today on this news that there was a peace deal in the works. But when you actually read the statement of Barack Ravid,
And I'll show you Scott Jennings as well, who's a Trump sycophant puppet who was destroyed by Adam Mochler of the Midas Touch Network on CNN after Ravid goes, U.S. and Iran reached deal but need Trump's final approval to U.S. officials today. and a regional source involved in the mediation efforts told me. And then Scott Jennings.
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Chapter 3: How does Donald Trump's absence affect the current crisis?
I mean, doesn't this just expose this guy as a clown? This is why I love when Mockler debates this guy. I really do, and Mockler's incredible, an incredible debater. But, like, I personally, for me...
i don't see the utility of even having conversations with these psychopaths because here's what jennings said here pull that back up jeremy scott jennings looks like a huge win for president trump and the us hearing from a senior administration official this report is true and the us appears to be getting everything we want What's everything we want?
The ability to commence negotiations about nuclear material in Iran in a 60-day period. And perhaps the Strait of Hormuz is open, but it's under Iranian and Oman control. That's everything we want. That's everything that you sold us. Everything we want, as y'all stated it, not what we wanted. We, the people, didn't want to be in a war in Iran.
We, the people, do not support Donald Trump and the United States aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza, demolishing city blocks in Beirut and in Lebanon. We don't want the killing of innocent schoolgirls in Manab. We don't want any of it. We don't want this. the vast majority of americans but what you all said what you wanted which we didn't want regime change.
You pick your puppet like you're Delcy Rodriguez of Venezuela, but you get that in Iran. You control the Iranian oil. Iran's ballistic missile capabilities are fully destroyed. That's your objectives. And zero was achieved. And Iran took control over the Strait of Hormuz. I don't know. What do you mean this is what you wanted? And
I know that with all of the chaos that's taking place, you know, whether it's the cover up of child sex trafficking rings by this Trump regime or the demolishing of the White House and turning it into like this grotesque, circusy looking thing, you know, with the Trump story today about he wants to put his face on a $250 bill and Don Jr. helping this
small defense company in North Carolina get a $650 million government loan, which increased the value of this company by $2 billion that Don Jr. invested in. And Don Jr. now has this private equity firm that's making billions of dollars. And That $67 million from park fees has gone to these grotesque things that Donald Trump is doing around Washington, D.C.
and the arch that's going to be blocking the The arch that's going to be blocking Arlington Cemetery. I know all of these things can get overwhelming and there's just so much to cover. But we have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, cover all of this stuff, be able to call it out, and then connect it ultimately with the suffering of the American people.
And they rely on us to just be so overwhelmed by all of this. that we just kind of go, ah, whatever. We don't want to deal with this. Politics is annoying. This isn't like a political thing. This is like a particularly fascist thing that they're doing. Politics, I understand why people don't like politics. I don't like politics. I like people.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement?
And it was fascinating because they were the mediators back in February between the United States and Iran. They entered into... an agreement in principle they negotiated between the United States and Iran that the US and Netanyahu violated when they invaded Iran. And so now Oman has moved closer to Iran. I think we're seeing a lot of other Arab nations move closer to Iran.
I think the real thing holding Donald Trump back from further invading Iran more than just the attacks that we're seeing is I think a lot of the Arab nations are not letting him use the airspace, not letting them use their air bases behind the scenes. I think that's what's going on. You see Trump's desperation, right, when it comes to these Arab nations.
And I don't believe we're being told the full picture. And I believe the full picture. is that these Arab nations have basically drawn a red line and said, absolutely not. And I think Donald Trump's lashing out and feels desperate. And that's why, I mean, we know what a sicko he is, but also the idea that he continues to say over and over again that Arab nations need to join the Abraham Accords.
They need to become allies with Israel. In other words, if the United States is going to make peace with Iran, that Arab nations, you owe it to us, the United States, to become allies with Israel. To me, it just reeks of this utter desperation.
And as we see more leaking to the press that a deal has been done with Iran that we know isn't to manipulate the markets, as we see, where is Donald Trump today? This also suspiciously comes after that visit to Walter Reed where he said he was getting dental work and he said he had a perfect visit, a perfect checkup. And of course, they don't release the... They don't release any of the tests.
They don't release any of the exams. They don't release anything.
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Chapter 5: How is the U.S. stock market reacting to the geopolitical situation?
I think that there's real desperation taking place and there's a real sense of being trapped. And for Trump and for Treasury Secretary Besant, who oddly filled in and did the press conference today at the White House. And Besant also said he didn't know where Trump was, which I found odd. I mean, the tool that they have, I guess, is to keep on sanctioning Iran.
But when you remove sanctions from Russia and allow Russia to sell its oil,
russia is also supporting iran and when you uh show that kind of weakness to china china is also helping iran and china is becoming kind of the organizing principle right now in the middle east and so i want our audience to pay attention to the broader trends of what's happening which may not show up in 24 hours or 48 hours but it will show up in five ten years or
perhaps even sooner than that which is a new security architecture in the middle east is actually being created i mean while donald trump is posting ai images of reflecting pools and and and arches and uh and and golden ballrooms and east wing stuff and club rose garden and what's the new one today He wants to coat the horses in Washington, D.C. with another coat of gold.
This is what Notice does. Notice does a great job reporting. Shout out to Notice. Trump administration is paying millions of dollars to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra thick 23.75-carat gold leaf. It's like the American people are like, what? What? Can we just get health care? Can we just get housing affordable? We don't want UFC stadiums in front of the White House.
I mean, just look at that. Look at that. It's a grotesque thing that we see. But as Donald Trump's doing all of that stuff, you realize that a whole new security architecture in the Middle East and the world is being built. And it's why corporate news doesn't cover it. or if they do, maybe it's like a quick headline.
But every morning I talk about what's going on in the world and I have the series, whether it's Furious World Leaders, I call it. And so you all see, I usually do that 5.30 Pacific time where I talk about these major developments and I focus on it from all angles. Like this morning I talked about North Korea,
announcing that it's never going to denuclearize that it continues to launch these ballistic missile tests and it continues to show these photos of kim jong-un and nuclear weapons and we're a nuclear power we're never going to denuclearize we're going to keep building our nuclear arsenal and i just reflect back when former president obama was in office and
All of the news stories would try to focus on like, oh, Obama's weak because he's allowing Kim Jong-un to do these nuclear tests or do these ballistic missile tests, not nuclear tests, do these ballistic missile tests. And that was like a narrative, like that it's Obama's fault that Kim Jong-un was doing ballistic missile or cruise missile tests.
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Chapter 6: What are the consequences of Trump's foreign policy decisions?
I ain't leaving my nuclear weapons. That used to be a normal political, normal human, normal America times. That would be a big story other than on the Midas Touch network.
um have you heard about it on any tv that he just keeps doing these tests and saying we're not denuclearizing yesterday he talked about autonomous nuclear weapons kim jong-un did ai nuclear weapons and no response from our defense department no response from from the state department no no response at all and it gets very little coverage remember under former president biden the big story was wow these weather balloons and
were over these white weather balloons. And look how weak Biden is because of the weather balloons. That was like the biggest story. Remember Marjorie Taylor Greene, when she was still like ultra MAGA, she dressed up to Biden's State of the Union as a weather balloon. And she like, I remember that photo of her, you know, where they... look how weak he is, weather balloons.
And then it turned out that under Trump's first term, there was all these weather balloons. They just covered it all up. They covered up everything. And I think more attention needed to be paid back then. Midas Touch really wasn't around, but we were just starting back then. But all of the coverups in the Trump regime, number one,
many of them remain covered up, you know, and I'm just I reflect on them a lot as well. Like, remember when Trump killed Soleimani, the Iranian IRGC general back in January of 2020. Remember that? That was like the first instance of that new year. And then we started to learn about COVID, which we should have learned about months before, but that was being covered up by the Trump regime as well.
But we started hearing about it, you know, finally right after Soleimani. Remember Iran retaliated in 2020 by striking a U.S. base in Iraq? And then there were dozens of U.S. soldiers who suffered traumatic injuries, traumatic brain injuries. But the Trump regime claimed that it was just headaches. And then they refused to acknowledge that anybody was injured.
They literally covered up the whole thing and said, yeah, there was never serious. These were real serious injuries that took place back then. And to me, I just reflect on Trump's behavior right now when Trump says, ah, we control the Strait of Hormuz. Everything's fine.
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Chapter 7: How does Trump's behavior impact American troops and allies?
know and and you know they claim there's only 400 and not only but they claim 469 of our troops have been injured or so, 470 of our troops were injured in Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran. But my general rule of thumb with Donald Trump is you either kind of multiply by 20 to 50 or you divide by 20 to 50, depending on if he wants to downplay something or if he wants to increase something.
So if Donald Trump says that he brought in $18 trillion, I think that's 18 times more than what he really brought in. And maybe the US brought in a trillion dollars in investment consistent with past years, a trillion five. It's still good. We're not, you know, not quite as good as what Biden did, but 18 trillion. So you always have to add a fraud multiple of everything Trump did, right?
Just like those New York, the fraud case where Trump was found civilly liable for fraud and There was a criminal case against Trump. The guy cooks his books. That's what he's known for doing. So to me personally, I'm giving you my opinion. If I hear 469 people were injured, I believe the number. And I'm not trying to get conspiratorial. I don't know the number. I'll be very
clear, but knowing my rule of thumb, when it comes to Trump fraud, I think that number is probably closer to three to 5,000 because he lies about everything. He picks a hot number, four, six, nine, four, seven, two, or whatever it is. And then it's like, Oh, maybe that number is accurate. Now he, he, he lies about everything, but I was notable because there was the reporting, uh,
past 24 hours, that when Donald Trump was at Walter Reed for that very suspicious medical checkup that he claimed he got where he said it was perfect, there were 14 U.S. troops who were injured in the Iran war who were there who said that Donald Trump snubbed them, that specifically Donald Trump didn't want to be near them. because it would bring attention to the consequences of the war.
It's what CBS reported and others were reporting as well. So he refused to meet with the troops who were injured in this catastrophic war in Iran. And to me, again, there's just so many things that this guy does that's absolutely disqualifying. And that's right at the top of it, which I apologize.
I went on a tangent there, but it brings me back to, as I was saying, this security architecture because other countries are observing. How does Donald Trump even treat his own troops, yet alone how does he treat allies? Donald Trump has done everything he can to alienate allies. He's attacked Canada, 51st state. He constantly attacks NATO.
He says he's withdrawing resources, massive amounts of resources for NATO. He says that the Article 5 guarantees aren't something that he thinks that America really needs to follow, or he's not sure if he would follow Article 5. The moment the president of the United States waivers on Article 5, Article 5 is rendered meaningless, right? Because what's the point of Article 5?
It's supposed to create a certainty of mutual defense. And where the entity, the United States, that's supposed to be the leader of NATO, equivocates even a little bit on Article 5. There is no Article 5. It doesn't have the meaning because it doesn't have a deterrent effect anymore. You say, of course. If you look at Xi Jinping's statements, he draws, there are red lines that they draw.
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Chapter 8: What are the economic conditions affecting American consumers?
That's what you're seeing. And then the way he so cavalierly talks about bombing Oman, here's what he says about Oman. Let's play this clip. Interesting reading from people.
Mr. President, Iran wants control of the Strait of Hormuz. Would you accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the Strait, and would they have to open it immediately, or would you be open to that happening over a period of time?
No, the Strait's going to be open to everybody.
And who would control it?
It's international orders. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it. But nobody's going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control it. It's international waters. And Oman will behave just like everybody else. So we'll have to blow them up. They understand that. They'll be fine.
Or else we'll have to blow them up. And again, those two clips are devastating for the United States. Absolutely devastating. It won't be talked about like that in corporate news and maybe it's just Donald Trump saying Donald Trump stuff, but no.
he did to the arab nations there and what he said and what he's demanding that they do with israel when if you know about the histories of these nations they they're not doing that it's not like is it a chance no it's a zero percent chance it's a negative percent chance of this happening it will not happen period full stop if it does happen these arab nations will have their monarchies toppled the very next day it ain't it ain't happening
And then to basically say to a country that largely plays the role of mediator and neutral, we're going to blow you up? And Amman, their foreign minister, has a lot of strong relations in the region. Everybody sees what's going on. And they see that and they go, uh-uh. So that brings us to where the episode started. So what does Donald Trump do? He does kind of the weak move.
know which rather than do the deal which he should do he should do a deal with iran and you're gonna have to make concessions to iran because you lost the war you're gonna have to do you lost the war you didn't win the war you shouldn't have been in the war in the first place make your concessions get out and try to say face as best possible that's what you do when you when you lose sometimes yeah you know but but he doesn't do that he
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