The Adam Mockler Show - Karoline Stutters on TV as Trump’s Deal Dies

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

Adam Mockler breaks down a chaotic press briefing where the administration declares victory in Iran even as the ceasefire unravels and fighting continues across the region. As contradictions pile up in real time, the situation is raising serious questions about what’s actually happening on the ground. Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com/subscribe JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adammockler Contact: [e-mail] Business inquiries: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, folks, this may be one of the most brutal pressers that Caroline Levitt has ever been forced to give. She just went in front of the press and began to explain how we have achieved total victory in Iran. As she was doing that, the ceasefire was falling apart at the seams. Iran was striking Israel. Israel was striking Lebanon, and Lebanon was striking back. Tensions in the Middle East are still escalating, and as Caroline Levitt is giving this presser, the deal has, essentially fallen apart. Moments ago, Donald Trump said that the 10-point plan he agreed to is not the same one that's being posted in the media by the Iranian regime. So there is a fundamental misunderstanding between both sides. It makes you wonder, was there even a peace deal or a ceasefire

in the first place? According to CNN, there wasn't. There was never even a piece of paper with a 10-point plan. There was no signature and there was no final agreement. Trump just came out, made the statement, and blindsided even some of our allies as he did when this war started. So without further ado, let's break down Caroline Levitt's really tough presser that she gave. Make sure you drop a like and subscribe to the Ademakler feed to help us get to 2 million. We're so incredibly close because of you all. So Caroline Levitt comes out, and at first she's bragging that this was a clear victory for the United States. Take a listen here.

The world has just witnessed a historically swift and successful military triumph. President Trump started Operation Epic Fury with strategic military objectives and the United States has clearly achieved them. Have we clearly achieved them? Because 20 minutes before Caroline Levitt came onto this presser, Fox News, was reporting this. As Iran claims Israel is violating the agreement by bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon. And as you mentioned a moment ago, breaking right now, Iranian state media says Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz again in response. How is the war possibly over if even Fox News is reporting that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz? That was like the one request that the United States had, that Iran opens the Strait of Formuz.

As Caroline Levitt is walking out, we get this reporting. Ships in the Gulf told the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Quote, attention all vessels, attention all vessels, attention all vessels in Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. This is the IRGC Navy, transiting the Strait of Hormuzzi. remains closed and you need permission from the IRGC before sailing through the strait. This is simply because Israel continued to bomb Lebanon overnight. In response, Iran was striking Israel, and the reality is Iran has so many disagreeing factions right now between the parliament, between the IRGC, between other factions, that there is no central

authority saying that there is a ceasefire at just a bunch of factions fighting for power. Right here, we see Caroline Levitt talking about the inaccurate coverage coming from the media, then she gets quite combative with the press. Let's start off with this clip right here. I've seen a lot of inaccurate coverage today from the media about these negotiations and these plans already. So let me be clear and correct the record. The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unsurious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.

It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team. Many outlets in this room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable to the United States, and that is false. With the president's deadline fast approaching and the United States military completely decimating Iran with each passing hour, the regime acknowledged reality to the negotiating team. They put forward a more reasonable and entirely different and condensed plan to the president and his team. President Trump and the team determined the new modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate and to align it with our own 15-point proposal. The president's red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed.

And the idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd. The president will only make a deal that serves in the best interests of the United States of America. Here's the problem. He literally reposted the leader of Iran saying that Donald Trump had agreed to their 10,000. point framework. And the leader of Iran then clarified what his 10 point framework was. So everybody rightfully reported that Trump had agreed to their framework. Everybody was reporting the truth. Trump knew that he accidentally agreed to their framework. And it seems like Trump either got tricked by one faction in Iran into accepting this ceasefire when there really wasn't a unanimous agreement in Iran to cease firing. Or Donald Trump is so desperate to get out of this war that he just

decided to say, eff it, I'm going to lie through my teeth and try to pretend the war is over. It is all falling apart so quickly. And if Caroline Levitt weren't such a cruel, terrible human being, I would almost feel compassion that she has to stand out there while she's pregnant, making up lies for a war that is falling apart that the press has more information about than her. Because they can check their phone and be like, ma'am, right now, Iranian state media is saying this. Just take a listen to what happens here.

Carolina, Iranian state media is saying that Iran has now closed off the straight-of-form moves today and response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. What's the White House response to that? And just listed many military successes. I understand that. But strategically, how is the administration arguing that Iran does not have more economic leverage than now than it did before the start? Sure. Well, with respect to the first reporting out of Iranian state media, the president was made aware of those reports.

before I came to the podium. That is completely unacceptable. And again, this is a case of what they're saying publicly is different privately. We have seen an uptick of traffic in the straight today. And I will reiterate the president's expectation and demand that the strait of Hermuse is reopened immediately, quickly and safely. That is his expectation. It has been relayed to him privately that that is what's taking place in these reports public.

Wait a minute. This is all so incredibly absurd. She quite literally just glosses over the fact that the ceasefire has been broken by saying this is completely unacceptable and the president will be thinking about it. Dude, what do you mean? The entire basis of the ceasefire was that Iran had to open the Strait of Hormuz and that we could start from there. Now, Trump's art of the deal ceasefire has collapsed so fast that the Strait of Hormuz is still closed and the U.S. is still declaring victory. Just remember, in practice, Iran having this much control over the strait gives them. so much more money, gives them millions to play around with and reinvest in the same terrorist proxies that Donald Trump claimed to want to take care of. Here's Caroline Levitt being asked,

why is it appropriate for the president to threaten to, you know, genocide an entire country? I think this is a great question. Caroline, the president yesterday threatened that a whole civilization would die if a ceasefire deal wasn't reached, understanding that Iranian leaders have previously said death to America. But why is it appropriate for the president of the United States? to use that kind of language when talking about civilian targets. And was the president mocking Islam by signing off his true social post over the weekend, praise be to Allah?

Wouldn't that antagonize Muslim allies across the world? Well, I understand the questions about the president's rhetoric, but what the president cares most about is results. And in fact, his very tough rhetoric and his tough negotiating style is what has led to the result that you are all witnessing today. today. Iran publicly acknowledging last night that they have agreed or that they wanted this ceasefire with the United States because they no longer could tolerate being bombed by our very powerful and lethal military. Yeah, Caroline Leavitt is right about one thing. Donald Trump's rhetoric

has led to this result and the result is awful. Donald Trump's repeated willingness to set deadlines then back off of those deadlines with no consequences. Donald Trump's repeated constant willingness to posture and bully the enemy without getting any substantial ground gained on negotiations is leading us in this scenario. Now we're in a situation where Iran feels like they can re-control the Strait of Formuz and grab it whenever they want because Donald Trump has set that pretext to continue with Caroline Lovett. And that they have committed to the reopening of the Strait of Hermus, which the president will hold them accountable for and it's something the

administration is closely monitoring in real-time. Danny. Should the world not take his word seriously? The world should take his word very seriously in understanding that the president is always most interested in results. And it was the Iranians who backed down, not President Trump. He said that they would face very grave consequences as you just laid out by the 8 p.m. deadline if they did not agree to reopening the street of Hermus.

And what did they do last night? They agreed to reopen the strait of Hermose. Danny. Wait, no, they didn't. The strait of Hormuz is quite literally closed again. Trump did back down off of his demands. And the only reason Iran actually agreed to the ceasefire is because Donald Trump said he was okay with them

tolling ships through the strait. He then asked, Caroline Levitt has then asked, about how the president can ever claim moral high ground after threatening to destroy a civilization, which is a good question. So regarding the president's rhetoric, when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush said in a message to the Iraqi people,

that the military campaign was directed, quote, against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. Yesterday, the president threatened to destroy Iran's civilization, the entire civilization, not the Iranian government, but the Iranian civilization, the Iranian people. The U.S. has been a moral leader for most of its history by fighting wars against other governments, not against civilization. organizations. How can the president claim that America can ever have the moral high ground

if he's threatening to destroy civilizations and not casting wars as fights against other governments? Andrew, I think you should take a look at the actions of this president over the course of the past six weeks and the actions of our brave men and women in our United States military who have taken out the military of a rogue Islamic regime that has chanted death to America. for 47 years that has killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers over the course of the last five decades. The president absolutely has the moral high ground over the Iranian terrorist regime, and for you to even suggest otherwise is frankly insulting. Go ahead.

Do you respect, Caroline? No shot. She's going to give a dog shit answer, a BS answer, and then act like she's morally offended at the suggestion that the United States is losing moral high ground by threatening genocide against other countries. We quite literally threatened to end an entire civilization. And yes, this reporter is right. Feinberg, the reporter, is absolutely right. When we're making threats like that, we have no moral high ground against other countries. Other countries can he continue to threaten us?

And basically what he's saying is, how are we going to say that a very religious fanatical regime can't have nukes when we are turning into a religious fanatical regime that is threatening nukes? Caroline Levitt has then asked some very simple questions about, you know, like, who is bombing Iran right now? How come the war is still ongoing? Why is it Israel? Is it the United States? Who the hell is bombing them if we're in a ceasefire deal? Take a listen. The hero? Yes. Trevor. The latest news out of Iran is that the air defenses have been activated in several cities including Isfahan and that explosions have been heard in Islam. Who is bombing Iran right now?

Were those reports just as of a few minutes ago? Yeah. Okay, so obviously I'll have to go back and check with the national security team. I'm standing out here with all of you. But I will do that and we will get you an answer. Okay. Just on the civilization question that we've been talking about. And I would just add to that point. Again, I haven't seen these reports. I'm not verifying them. Not that I don't trust you, Trevor, but I want to go back and check with the experts here at the White House. I would just say, and I would echo what the vice president said this morning, this is a fragile truce. Seasfires are fragile by nature. We've seen this

with respect to the 12-day war with Iran and Israel last year. It takes time sometimes for these ceasefires to be fully effectuated. And one of the results of Operation Epic Fury was we completely dismantled Iran's command and control center, which makes it difficult for them to pass messages up and down the chain. And so we understand that. I would caution a little bit of patience, but of course we want to see the ceasefire. That's even worse. So they're admitting that the United States ceased firing on a country that did not cease firing on us,

that Iran continued to strike, that Israel continued to hit Lebanon, and that tensions in the region continued to escalate, but the United States ceased firing because Donald Trump agreed to some ceasefire that apparently he didn't even look at. This is all such a mess, and Caroline Levitt then gets asked, okay, does the president believe

that the U.S. should earn revenue from the straight of four moves? This is some crazy, crazy shit. I can't even believe this. The president suggested in the interview this morning that he was supported joint U.S. Iran and venture to charge tolls for ships going through the street. Does the president believe

that the U.S. should earn revenue from the Strait of Rememews going forward? It's something, it's an idea the president has floated, as you know, and it's something that will continue to be discussed over the course of the next two weeks, but the immediate priority of the president is the reopening of the strait without any limitations, whether in the form of tolls or otherwise. You know what a good way to have kept the Strait of Formu's Open had been? You know what, like, a really clever, great way to have avoided this would have been? Not even start the war in the first place.

They're acting like we're on some really insane desperate mission to reopen the straight when this was just the status quo about 45 days ago or less before this war started. Okay, so then Caroline Levitt has asked one more time, what was your understanding of what the president meant when he said he was going to eliminate the civilization? Because Caroline Levitt's kind of dancing around the fact that her president threatened genocide while she has a cross on her neck and she's pregnant. It's got to be like bad luck or something. It's got to be like a bad omen to lie this much about death while you're producing life or creating life inside your body. And at the same time, I think that one reporter who invoked Bush really did break through to Caroline Levitt.

I saw it in her eyes for a second. The reporter who invoked the idea that Bush even said, even Bush, the war criminal, said, we're only going to go to war with the government. Now, he did something different, of course. He displaced millions of people, but killed hundreds of thousands of people. Trumpist outright said he wants to commit genocide. I'm just given the gravity of what he said yesterday. What was your understanding of what he meant when he said,

this civilization is going to be eliminated? I think it was a very, very strong threat from the President of the United States that led the Iranian regime to cave to their knees and ask for a ceasefire and agree to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. So it was a very strong threat that led to results. And as the Secretary of War stated at the Pentagon this morning, it was not an empty threat by any means. The Pentagon had a target list that they were ready to hit go on at 8 p.m. last night if the Iranian regime had not agreed to open the straight, which they did. And I think that's something we should all be grateful for.

The United States is a moral leader in the world given that he was asked this exact same question by your colleague, Andrew, in the back. And I think, again, the insinuation by anyone in this room that Iran somehow has the moral high ground over the United States. States of America is insulting, considering the atrocities that they have, considering the atrocities that they have committed. Iran does not have the moral high ground. That needs to be clear. My policy advisor, Micah Irfan, has detailed how his family has been abused by the regime. The reality is the United States loses moral high ground every single second our president threatens to genocide other countries, and that is the reality. I'm going to leave it there. If you appreciate these videos, drop a like. Subscribe to the Adam McClure Feed. I love you all.

and peace out.