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"What A STUPID Question!" - Trump ROASTS Reporter Over Iran Strike Threat

12 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 18.568 Patrick

Yesterday, the president is on Air Force One, and you know his typical where he stands between the two areas and he's doing his interviews. He's being asked all these different questions, and it's four of them that I want to go through. One of them, Rob, if you want to start off with, you can talk about the talking, do you think Iran's taking your threats seriously?

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18.608 - 29.278 Patrick

Can you imagine talking to a guy that previously took out their number two guy in Iran, Ghassan Soleimani, and the reporter has the audacity to ask you if Iran's taking your threats seriously? Go ahead, Rob.

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32.667 - 56.29 Trump

So don't you think so, CNN? Don't you think so? Wouldn't you say that they probably do at this point? After going through it for years with me, being hit, Soleimani, al-Baghdadi, the Iran nuclear threat wiped out. Don't you think, and then you just had Venezuela, don't you think, she says, CNN, do you think they take your threat seriously?

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56.31 - 59.376 Trump

Wouldn't you say they do after all of the things we've done?

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Chapter 2: What question did Trump find absurd regarding Iran's threats?

59.396 - 62.843 Trump

What a stupid question.

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62.823 - 69.57 Patrick

How do you ask a question like that? Can you do me a favor? Be the other side.

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69.591 - 69.891 Unknown

Okay.

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69.911 - 89.893 Patrick

Like play the other side. Be a liberal. Be a person right now. Do I have to color my hair and put on glasses and be LGBT? Honestly, make the argument for a person that has this reputation to say who just went and took out Maduro, okay, who just went and he told him I'm going to do this to you, who just went and took out, you know, the stuff that he's done.

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89.873 - 92.48 Patrick

Make the argument why that's a good question to ask.

92.641 - 103.771 Tom

I don't know if I can make the argument, but I can make the description. The liberals and the mainstream media, they don't take him seriously. They do not take Trump seriously. They use all sorts of words to describe him.

103.992 - 108.82 Patrick

You think they still don't take him seriously? You think the liberal media still doesn't take him seriously?

109.141 - 132.727 Tom

No. I do not think CNN takes him seriously at all. Because the only way you are able to ask that question is if you are, A, deluded and not paying attention. Not paying attention to all those facts that he put out. All those facts. Or you just believe in your heart that he is incapable, shouldn't have been there, the election should have gone the other way. You just believe that.

133.367 - 135.81 Tom

Denial is an incredibly powerful drug.

Chapter 3: How does the panel analyze media bias in reporting on Trump?

315.13 - 328.506 Patrick

Iranian regime triggered an internet kill switch in an apparent effort to hide alleged abuse by security forces and as protests against it surged nationwide, a cybersecurity expert has claimed a blackout slashed internet access

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328.486 - 354.674 Patrick

to a fraction of normal levels on the 13th day of the protest as rights groups, including Amnesty International, accused the regime of using lethal forces against protesters. This is Iran's war against its own population using digital means, okay, net blocks. CEO Alp Toker told Fox News Digital, this was a piecemeal measure that eventually encompassed the entire country.

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355.335 - 377.546 Patrick

With the government willing to use this kind of measure for an extended period of time, there would be an empty attempt by the regime to cover up the crimes that it may have committed so this blackout could potentially last for days, if not for weeks. This group also reported on more than 2,300 people have been arrested and that demonstrations have spread to at least 180 cities nationwide.

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377.626 - 380.93 Patrick

Most of those killed were protesters, the groups at town. Thoughts?

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381.691 - 409.151 Tom

In the history of dictators that have been overrun people, going back to Pol Pot in Vietnam, after the Pol Pot in Cambodia, the killing fields, turning off the media is the tool of the aggressor. And isolating the people... from communication is the tool of the aggressor. We have seen it in other failed states. We saw it in Uganda, turning off phones under Idi Amin.

409.412 - 432.386 Tom

There were so many things that people do to turn off the communications. And the reason they're turning this off, you were on Fox on Sunday, Pat, Sunday morning, and you talked about it, that there are people out there, credible people that had Starlink and other resources that are saying the number is higher. Look, what does the regime want? The regime wants to put the number lower.

432.446 - 450.714 Tom

They want the world to say, hey, there were some protests. There have been some people here, but it's not a lot. We're letting them protest. They have their say, but that's it. However, the protesters are saying, no, that's not true. In certain areas, they are committing atrocities. They're committing slaughter, and the number is much higher.

451.115 - 471.898 Tom

If the number is high and it gets out to the Western media, guess who responds? DJT 47 already said, you be careful. If you exercise undue force and you start killing these protesters, I will, the US stands ready to help. The USA stands ready to help was the quote.

472.299 - 487.414 Tom

And so they can't have big numbers come out because the big guy is gonna show up because we see this as a protest to the people who are lawfully assembling in the streets and are just tired of the dark side of it.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of internet blackouts in Iran?

919.788 - 938.346 Unknown

It's like a global awakening. With Venezuela, it's happening. With Iran, it's happening. It's starting to spread. And by the way, this only comes, Pat, when you have an actual leader. And the left, I don't listen to all that noise. I love that you said signal versus noise again, Adam. I don't care about the noise. I don't care what the Cenk Uygur, whatever his name is.

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938.666 - 955.389 Unknown

I don't care what the Harry Sisson say. These people are allergic to real leadership. You have a boss that's in there that's not playing games. He's not going to let China... By the way, this weekend, China, Russia, and Iran were playing Navy games, Pat. They're all teaming up, and they want to show their force.

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955.409 - 975.116 Unknown

But you have a boss that's in there right now that's not going to let our enemies... I don't like this word, adversaries. You're not going to get close to us. You're not going to be setting up shop in Venezuela. And with Iran... I'm sorry, it's the people. I don't give a damn what anybody on the left says, Patrick. The people are fighting and they're dying for what they believe in.

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975.356 - 992.981 Unknown

Okay, they're fighting and good for them and God bless them. And I love that the fact that you said that Christianity is on the rise. I know I said it last week where I'm like, maybe they need a Christian leader. Maybe they need something completely different because if they go back to the old school and put another Khomeini in that's Islamist and all this, then all this work is for nothing.

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993.021 - 1013.01 Unknown

And Pat said something this weekend, Pat, that hit me. On Fox and Friends, Pat said, look at how God is lining up everything if you look at the signs. Donald Trump is the 47th president. It's taken them 47 years, and they're doing this. And guess how old this guy is who's from Iran? 47 years old. It's as if everything is lining up to do it, and it gives me hope.

1013.35 - 1024.665 Unknown

It's hope, and maybe, Tom, this spreads to like a North Korea where these people are under a dictator pat. I think it's an amazing thing, and I think what the president is doing is freaking awesome, and I'm with him 100%. Period.

1024.806 - 1048.969 Tom

I'm with you, and I think there's some things there that the American people are starting to understand that the American media is ignoring. Because American media sees Islam as a race. And they say to them, Arabs, Arabic people from the Middle East are Islam, and all Islam is Arabic. They have this weird thing. Because they want to put everything in a race box so that they have a victim box.

1049.31 - 1070.365 Tom

And then in the victim box, they have an advocacy group. Because that's the way that they manage and manipulate voting groups. And that's the way Minnesota, whoops, found out that the little pit bull they adopted and all the Somalis has grown up and, oh, my gosh, it's quite a dog now. But the mainstream media doesn't understand the history of Iran.

1070.345 - 1087.708 Tom

They are Persians, and they are rebelling against what they see as the violent Islamic, the IRC. Pat was trying to talk about it on Fox. I wish this segment had another five minutes because he could have laid it out because Pat's an expert on Iran. And I was listening to this, and I'm like, they don't get it.

Chapter 5: How is the Iranian regime responding to protests?

1154.348 - 1165.27 Patrick

Some would say higher against, but I think that's a reasonable number. There was a research that was done that I think the number I remember is 80%. What is that, Sean, Rob?

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1165.604 - 1168.988 Tom

89% of Iranians support democracy.

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1169.008 - 1172.471 Patrick

89%. Okay, yeah, that's why I said some people would say the number's higher.

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1172.612 - 1175.455 Adam

Can I ask you another follow-up? Okay, so we're in agreement on these numbers.

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1175.515 - 1175.755 Patrick

Yes.

1176.236 - 1202.199 Adam

So you're Christian, proudly Christian. Yes. You know, what a lot of Americans don't understand is there's two major sects of Islam. There's Sunni and Shia, correct? Shia, Shiites, is predominantly based in Iran. And I think the vast majority of the population is Shia Muslim. As a Christian, what was life like for a Christian prior to 1979, before the Islamic Revolution?

1202.88 - 1215.4 Adam

And you know, you're talking about bringing a Christian as a leader. I don't know how that would work. I would assume they would want a Shiite leader. I don't know. Walk me through the religions component in Iran now. What it was before?

1215.42 - 1228.852 Patrick

Oh, nobody cared. Thank you. Nobody cared what you were. Nobody cared what you were. And even, you know, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi himself wasn't the most religious guy himself.

1228.872 - 1230.033 Adam

He was Muslim, though. He was Shiite Muslim.

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