Trump has Catastrophic AM and Freezes Up at Worst Time
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What triggered Donald Trump's morning meltdown?
Donald Trump is having a major meltdown this morning. Starting at 4 a.m., he posted this photo of himself where he's holding an AR-15-style rifle with AI images of explosions in the background in Iran. And Donald Trump writes, no more Mr. Nice Guy of this AI photo of himself with this AR-15-style rifle. And then he writes, Iran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon, exclamation point. Oh, Donald, are you going to try to win this war based on memes? Are you going to win this war based on social media posts? I'm sure it's making Iran very, very scared. here's what iran is warning this morning iran has warned of unprecedented military action against continued u.s seizures of iran-linked vessels state-run press tv says citing senior iranian security sources as i reported earlier this morning
Donald Trump's plan, as he has told his aides, is let's just prepare for an extended blockade indefinitely. Let's just extend it however long until, you know, something happens. Donald Trump doesn't want to escalate with ground forces, nor does Donald Trump have the capability or willingness to negotiate with Iran and actually make concessions. So Donald Trump's plan, extend the naval blockade forever, gas prices continue to rise in the United States, something catastrophic happens, and then Donald Trump will blame whoever, as he always does.
How does Trump's social media behavior reflect his political strategy?
Now, I think it's important to also note that on Sunday, Donald Trump went on state regime media, which calls itself Fox, and Trump said, by Wednesday morning, the oil pipelines in Iran and the oil storage was gonna get so congested and so full that there was going to be a over pressurization and that was gonna lead to an explosion and Iran would be destroyed this morning. that didn't happen. We know that Donald Trump lies about everything. We know that was a ridiculous lie. I just find it interesting that he can say something like that on Sunday and say it on a widely viewed cable news program, and then it doesn't happen. It's like, yeah, that's Donald Trump. He just lies about things. It's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
When you actually dig into analysis about Iran's oil production, Take a look at this. This analysis by Robin Energy suggests that the U.S. blockade of Iran's oil exports will not cause catastrophic or even very serious damage to its upstream oil industry. If and when the blockade is relaxed, Iran will probably be able to resume production promptly at about 70% and regain most of its pre-war capacity within a few months. Other Iranian commentary that's out there, as seen at Tonsi, Artosi explains points to several ways to mitigate storage pressure from this U.S. blockade without even shutting the wells in the first place. You could use these VLC sees these very large container ships and you can use some existing large tankers to kind of put
excess storage you can scale down production you could rely more on fixed roof storage you can increase refinery runs to convert crude into other products um and uh you know keep some of the exports moving um you know albeit constrained by the naval blockade but uh you know we've been seeing iran be able to you know get around that naval blockade one of the things that we're learning as well is that over the past 24 hours, Donald Trump's been coordinating this plan that I just mentioned with oil executives. Oil and gas executives are now basically Donald Trump's cabinet. I mean, we knew that before when it came to the invasion of Venezuela. It was Donald Trump and oil and gas executives mapping it out together before Donald Trump ever went to office.
Donald Trump never went to Congress before he even informed Congress. As Julia Manchester says, this is what the White House is telling people. This is not some like super secret meeting. Like they're saying, this is what we're doing. She writes, a White House official tells me that Trump met with oil and gas executives on Tuesday, along with chief of staff, Susie Wiles, treasury secretary, Scott Besant and Vance.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What triggered Donald Trump's morning meltdown?
0:00–1:40
2
How does Trump's social media behavior reflect his political strategy?
1:40–6:23
3
What are the implications of Trump's indefinite blockade plan?
6:23–9:09
4
Why did Trump's predictions about Iran's oil infrastructure fail?
9:09–12:23
5
How is the U.S. blockade affecting Iran's oil production capabilities?
12:23–17:52