Gutfeld! Monologues - Clearing The Board

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld!, Pete Hegseth recaps the success of "Operation Epic Fury". Meanwhile, Donald Trump didn't hesitate to bash Obama for making the worst deal he's ever seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would cheer me to. Good evening, everyone. So on Tuesday, President Trump said most of the people he had in mind to lead Iran are now dead. The Democratic Party responded by saying, that didn't stop us. The Iranian Supreme Council has decided the successor to the Ayatollah will be his eldest son. Here he is accepting the position. Too late. In other news, NASA is planning a mission to the moon with a crew of four astronauts.

Is there room for more? asked these men. True, it seems that Iran's potential successors keep getting killed. But everyone here at Fox still believes we have the perfect guy for the job. Meanwhile, the U.S. is getting international help for the war. Canada is offering political support. Germany is offering logistical support and India is offering tech support. We love you, India.

Yesterday on The View, while discussing Iran, Joy Behar said there's something fishy going on. SeaWorld said the same thing which he hopped in the tank with Shamu. You don't have to clap. They were expecting something much worse from you guys. I know, I know. go to that direction. California taxpayers have been footing the bill for Kamala Harris's security for

her nationwide book tour. Yes, we've been told that she needs 10 guys to guard the keg. Finally, Hillary Clinton demanded beauty lighting for her testimony concerning Jeffrey Epstein. House Republicans rejected her request saying we can't have an interview in the dark. Should end there. And as for her husband in his deposition, when a witness claimed he likes them young, Bill denied that saying he doesn't care how old they are as long as they're fat. We'll be back with more Gutfeld. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.

A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. All right. So Operation Epic Fury. You know, I got to ask my palpete, what have we done in under a week? In under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace. Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and is, Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over. Seems like a heck of a start. And while we control the skies, the U.S. has sent over 20 Iranian warships straight to the bottom

of the ocean. Yeah, they went down faster than Don Lemon at a highway rest stop. And the leadership, well, the supreme leader is supremely dead. And the meeting to elect a new leader, we bombed that too. Their line of succession is down to three goats and a chicken. Or as the Iranians call it, their council of elders. And remember Iran's plot to assassinate Trump, the leader of that operation, hunted down and killed. Everyone's gone.

Their war room is as empty as a Kilmead book signing. What is going? That's two. I didn't say anything yet. Because most of the people we had in mind are dead. Most of the people we had in mind are dead. So, you know, we had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now we have another group.

They may be dead also. Just leave some alive maybe. I don't know. But it's true. Iran is like a giant home depot. Everyone's wandering around asking, do you work here? So we've seen what we did with Iran. But to understand how Iran forced our hand by stockpiling missiles, uranium, and cash,

you have to go back to the hand that fed them. to the guy who made the worst deal Trump has ever seen. Barack Hussein Obama made maybe the worst deal I've ever seen because he gave all power in the Middle East to Iran. And I terminated that. If I didn't terminate that deal, they would be sitting with a massive nuclear weapon. Last time we take foreign policy direction from a canyon.

So one president made terrible deals, another terminated them, freeing a persecuted population. And so many people are saying, thank you. So many people are saying, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. You see it in the streets of Los Angeles. They have thousands of people. I saw it the other day pictures of Donald Trump.

The fact is that people are happy what we did. You can understand why Iranians have lived under one of the most repressive regimes on earth, one that massacred thousands of protesters just this year. And Trump incapacitated that threat. True, Iran was. like Joe Biden and Trump was a flight of stairs. Hell, even the lone sane Democrat gets it. This is great.

The top 55 of them were killed. And I think they just blew up 80 of the randoms mullahs too. I mean, that was pretty great, actually. It's amazing. The more his brain heals, the less he sounds like a Democrat. So now it seems Trump is clearly. the board of unresolved and escalating threats that grew from previous administration's failures. It's what he did in Venezuela. Maduro refused to take the deal and now he's in a jail cell

that Hillary Clinton didn't kill Jeffrey Epstein in. But unlike previous administrations, Trump didn't invade. He took the head, left the body. It's the same thing RFK Jr. does when he finds a nice piece of roadkill. You know, for years, administrations tried to manage the threat, sanctions here, waivers there. pallets full of cast that were diverted away from the Clinton Foundation. The nuclear clock kept ticking. Clearing the board, though, means you confront the capability before it becomes leverage. It's the exclamation point that puts an end to endless escalation.

You want a stable Middle East? The Abraham Accords didn't happen because everyone held hands and sang, imagine. We applied pressure. Alliances started to shift. Same thing with NATO. Trump turned up the heat until other countries increased spending. Don't forget the border. The administration redefined empathy as deterrence.

And now the border is tighter than Nancy Pelosi's face. In the past, red lines weren't red. Withdrawals were announced in advance. Adversaries tested limits because they sense hesitation. Trump's different. So if you're trying to figure this out using the old leadership model, good luck. It's like pulling into a gas station with an electric car. Good luck finding the gas cap.

So what's next? Who knows? but based on what Trump has done before, I'm betting he does. Let's welcome tonight's guest. Listen ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon Music app.