Trump Panics and Kicks Out Press as Iran Retaliates

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What happened during Trump's bizarre press conference with Joe Rogan?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
Donald Trump just kicked out the press from the Oval Office during a bizarre press conference he held on Saturday with Joe Rogan in the Oval Office. And this came at the same time that the press was asking him questions about Iran. You see, earlier on Saturday morning, Iran announced that it was once again fully closing the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said that the Trump regime's bad faith negotiation tactics, the continued misrepresentations by Donald Trump of Iran's negotiation positions, the continued blockade over the Persian Gulf, and the continued escalation and threats by Donald Trump made negotiations untenable. And Iran said while it was previously permitting some ships to cross through the Strait of
Ben Meiselas 0:50
provided it was coordinated with Iran. They are shutting that down. And so some of the ships that we saw leaving the Strait of Hormuz using the ship tracker satellite, they suddenly turned back. And we also learned that Iran was actually shooting at some of those ships

Why did Iran close the Strait of Hormuz again?

Ben Meiselas 1:07
that at first were refusing to listen to Iran's orders to head back. Iran ultimately got all of the ships that were leaving to go back to where they started, and the Strait of Hormuz is once again fully closed. Also, Iran's leadership is saying it has no current intentions to meet up with the United States before the ceasefire deadline expires. on Wednesday, and Iran says it is fully prepared to go back to war with the United States if that's what Donald Trump wants to do by not agreeing to negotiate within Iran's 10-point negotiating framework that Donald Trump previously agreed to. I want to share with you the moment first where Donald Trump kicked out members of the press from the Oval Office as they were asking him questions about Iran.
Ben Meiselas 1:57
They were asking him questions about his claim that Iran was agreeing to all of these things and that the American military was gonna join forces with the Iranian military to go and get the nuclear material and bring it back to the United States, and that Iran was no longer gonna fund proxy groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis and the Shiite militias in Iraq, which Iran said 100% false are Donald Trump's representations. that the Strait of Hormuz would be fully open without the control of Iran, which Iran denied. So the press wanted to ask him those types of questions, right, after they regurgitated and spewed like stenographers what he was feeding to them on Friday. And then Donald Trump just said, out, get out.
Ben Meiselas 2:41
Let me show you the moment that went down. Let's play it.
Unknown 2:48
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you guys.
Ben Meiselas 3:01
And just so you can see what this bizarre press conference was all about on Saturday, you had Joe Rogan in the Oval Office. And I think this entire move by having Joe Rogan there on Saturday, he was saying he was signing some executive order inspired by Joe Rogan. I think it was all part of a broader distraction plan from what's happening in Iran and the escalation that is taking place. But here's what he said about Rogan so you can see for yourself how bizarre this is. He talks about going on Rogan's podcast and Kamala Harris didn't go on Rogan's podcast. Watch this clip right here. Let's play it.
Joe Rogan 3:39
Let me tell everybody how this happened. I sent President Trump some information. We have a gigantic opiate problem in this country, obviously. In 2024, more than 80,000 people died of overdoses. It's a horrible number. And there's more than 5 million people that are addicted to opiates right now in this country. With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent him that information. The text message came back, sounds great, do you want FDA approval? Let's do it. It was literally that quick. These drugs are illegal not because they're harmful, they're illegal because of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act that was passed by the Richard Nixon administration.
Joe Rogan 4:28
They did it to target the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. It's not because these drugs harm people. For 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions.

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