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Chapter 1: What triggered Donald Trump's panic and retreat regarding Iran?
Donald Trump was panicking all last night in the White House, making social media post after social media post like a deranged maniac. He was in full retreat mode, and Iranian leaders were calling him out for being in full retreat mode.
A well-informed Iranian source told Al Jazeera that negative vibes are already surfacing about the potential for a peace deal between the United States and Iran for the US and Israel's catastrophic war in Iran. These sources are saying that there are signs of a U.S. Donald Trump retreat on two central issues, the mechanism for unfreezing Iranian assets and the scope of ceasefire in Lebanon.
And this retreat followed the MAGA Republican war hawks pushing Donald Trump to go back to war with Iran. and also a phone call that Donald Trump received from Netanyahu.
Chapter 2: How are Iranian leaders responding to Trump's retreat?
We believed 48 hours ago that there was going to be a deal between the United States and Iran. Donald Trump made a social media post suggesting as such, and now he's going back on that. Instead, he's posting AI memes like this.
an AI meme of a missile attached to an airplane that says, thank you for your attention to this matter, to which Iranian leaders immediately responded with a photograph of American airplanes that were destroyed by Iranian drones. and mocking Donald Trump for making such a post. Donald Trump then posted the following as well yesterday.
If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of cash and a clear and open path
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the US-Iran peace deal negotiations?
to a nuclear weapon our deal is the exact opposite but nobody has seen it or knows what it is it isn't even fully negotiated yet so don't listen to the losers who are critical about something they know nothing about unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago i don't make bad deals djta you make the worst deals you've been bankrupt over and over again the jcpoa was actually a good deal multilateral in scope
with lots of nations ensuring that Iran wouldn't get weapons-grade nuclear material, and basically you're doing a weaker version of the JCPOA and Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump then continued to make posts about former President Biden, and he posts this image of Biden, then he posts a photo that says Trump, and it appears to be a stream of water.
I mean, that's how Donald Trump is behaving right now. Look, I think the American people see what's going on right now. You look at the latest generic polling data, the RCP generic ballot. Right now, Democrats in the generic ballot are up plus 7.4. If you look at what it was like in 2018 at this time, it was Democrats plus 4.0 in a big wave then. Democrats in 2014, plus 0.6.
In 2022, Republicans were up plus 2.2. Interesting as well, when you look at young voters, Donald Trump has completely lost young voters right now. In May of 2026, Donald Trump's net approval amongst voters 18 to 29 years old is negative 57. In January of 2026, it was negative 27. And you go and you look at the generic ballot poll right now, as in May of 2026, Democrats plus 33 among young voters
right now, Donald Trump completely losing support. Here's what the Iranian spokesperson for the IRGC had to say about the current status of the deal. We reaffirm that the Strait of Hormuz will remain under full Iranian administration and sovereignty even in the event of reaching any future agreement.
The Islamic Republic emphasized that the authorities to determine transit routes, timing and issuance of maritime licenses are an absolute sovereign right exclusively in the hands of Tehran. And then he goes on to say the spokesperson for the IRGC, if the enemy attacks the Strait of Hormuz, we will break the naval blockade and may withdraw from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
So, I mean, that's how Iran feels what's going on right now. Meanwhile, back on the home front, you have MAGA Mike Johnson going on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. Here's what MAGA Mike is saying, so you can hear what, like, the Republican talking point is. They think that they've been good on kitchen table issues. Play this clip.
Let's just talk politics here. What does this mean for you and the midterms? Because I know this consumes your thoughts a lot. Yeah, it's a big thing. Obviously, we've done a lot of work. The big, beautiful bill, the working families tax cut, all of our legislation has been geared towards the cost of living, affordability, bringing the cost of living down.
We put in all those conditions in the economy to let it take off like a rocket. And we were doing that at the beginning of the first quarter. And then the Iran skirmish began.
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Chapter 4: Why did Trump shift from a potential deal to posting AI memes?
So when this settles out, gas prices come back down to earth. That means your grocery prices come down again because of transport costs and all the rest. It's going to be a big factor. The kitchen table issues are going to decide the midterms. Can those things come down in time to help you out in the midterm? Yes, we got plenty of runway. We have better candidates.
We have a fundraising advantage. We're super excited about the midterms. I'm absolutely convinced that we're going to grow the majority and we'll get this done and make history.
But nobody's buying it. You have a new type of Democrat, I think, emerging in people like Graham Platner. You saw Graham Platner's Fight the Oligarchy speech that he gave yesterday. We covered it here live on the Midas Touch Network with Bernie Sanders. This right here is where the American people are focused on. Well, Donald Trump's talking about golden ballrooms and arches.
And while Trump is stock trading and enriching himself and making people pay crypto tribute to him for quid pro quos, selling out the United States of America, weakening the United States of America for his Epstein class. Let me share with you what Graham Platner is saying. And we've had Graham Platner on from the very, very beginning. And let me just show you what Graham's saying here.
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I believe that in our country the voices of working people are far more important than the voices of those who simply have money. I believe that we should not be settling for scraps that they throw to us from the table where they dine with the Epstein class. I don't think that a CEO should have more power than a union member.
I don't think that private equity deserves more time with a senator than someone who works two jobs just to get by. We are in the straits we are today because that is exactly what has happened. But the world that we live in is not how it has to be.
We can have a healthcare system that is not just another mechanism of extracting wealth out of working Americans, but a guarantee of safety and health for all.
Also, when we talk about this new generation of Democrats, Democratic Senator John Ossoff running for reelection in Georgia, here's what he has to say. Play this clip.
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Chapter 5: How are polling data affecting Trump's political standing?
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