The Chris Cuomo Project - Trump Just Caved To Iran And Called It A Deal

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Chris Cuomo breaks down all 14 points in the Trump administration’s Iran Memorandum of Understanding and explains why he believes the fine print tells a very different story than the public messaging. Cuomo walks point by point through what the memo says about sanctions relief, frozen assets, reconstruction funding, the Strait of Hormuz, military de-escalation, Iran’s nuclear program, and the unresolved questions being pushed into later negotiations.   Cuomo argues that the memo is not a final deal, not a stronger version of the Obama-era Iran agreement, and not the nuclear breakthrough Trump claims it to be. He compares the 14 points to the JCPOA, explains why he sees the current framework as more about ending Trump’s war and reopening the Strait than stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and lays out why he believes the agreement gives Iran major concessions before requiring meaningful action in return.  Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Get 15% off OneSkin with the code CUOMO at https://www.oneskin.co/CUOMO  #oneskinpod  Unlock your best hair & skin with @iRestorelaser and HUGE savings on iRESTORE with code CUOMO at https://irestore.com/CUOMO! #irestorepod Find LUCY near you at https://lucy.co/stores, or save 20% on your first online order at https://lucy.co/CUOMO with promo code CUOMO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We'll go back to shooting at him, dropping bombs on their head. Nobody could have made this deal. I mean, the JCPOA done by Obama, he handed him a billion, seven in cash, gave him hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of, gave him billions and billions of dollars, but he gave him $1.7 billion in cash, green cash, from banks, into a Boeing 757 and flew it into Iran. And they stood at the plane.

I have pictures of it. Like, oh, my, look at this. Money's giving us. He tried to bribe his way out. I didn't do that. Nobody mentions that. 1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars. They tried to bribe their way out of it.

And you know what? The Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch. Well, you've been waiting for it. And now you got it. This is the biggest. The easiest to show the most impactful bullshit lie from President Donald Trump, not just merely his description of the JCPOA, which he is nowhere near to replicating.

Not only is this memorandum of understanding, and this is just what they want us to see, right, is giving way more access to funds to the regime than anything that JCPOA ever contemplated including an adjustment for inflation. Okay, because that was done in 2010. This is 15, 16 years later. Let's see if it even gets done. But now we know why there's been all this double speak.

It's a deal. It's the best deal. It's not a deal. It's a memorandum of understanding. and there's only one group that's um-nom-nom-nom- yum-nam-n-nam-that tastes good make america gullible again the gullible mouth-breathing morons that just can't be wrong they cannot assess any choice they make has to be right you have to be wrong that group which is less than what less than 30% of the population his baked-in support move them to the side

don't go crazy about that they are the very few everybody else sees this for what it is which is suspicious but now if you watch this entire podcast you will know point for point what this is how it is not what we had with the jCPOA which is why france the ukkoy the u k the eu are all concerned. Why J.D. Vance wants to lie about this and say the Arabs love it, the Arabs aren't even party to it. The Arabs aren't even putting up the money according to this. I'll read you through it right now. Who gives a shit what the Muslim world has to think about this? They're not even signatories. They're not even stepping up and doing anything. Why would they capitulate? Ah, oh, I forgot. That's where JD's buddy raised capital. Oh, that's where Trump raises.

Oh, that's where his son and, oh, that's where his sons are all doing business with Qatar. They're going to commit a trillion dollars. Their GDP is in that every year. They're going to commit to invest more money in the United States than they make every year. This is a bad lie even for Trump. And now I'm going to take you through all 14 points that they are circulating. Okay. I have talked to people who are appointees of the Trump administration, not deep state, unless you want to now say he's deep state.

And they are very disappointed with this. This is not what they wanted. Okay? So they're talking. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo project. Thank you for subscribing and following. Now let's get after it.

Here's the good news for the administration. We just want out. People just want out. Just get out. You fucked it up. You shouldn't have gone in. The regime is still in place. This deal is going to suck. It doesn't matter what the deal is because they're going to break it. And you're not going to really be able to do anything except what you were doing already. Bombing them, dropping him on his head. You sound like a tough guy at a bar in Queens. Okay. You're the only thing you're going to drop bombs on is innocent Iranian people. All right? What you just accused Israel of. Hey, we know they're bad guys in there, but you don't blow up a whole apartment building when not everybody in there is Hezbollah. You're now saying you're going to do the same thing in Iran. You're. You're a fucking hypocrite. It's pathetic. Everybody sees it for what it is. And now I'm going to take you through with notes from the people working the deal about what every one of them actually means. Here's the

first thing they want you to know. Okay? Yes, this is a memorandum of understanding, meaning what? Meaning it's, okay? How they describe this is it's not a treaty, it's not a deal, it's not a plan. what this is is just a pause. It's just a ceasefire. It's just a, let's just stop with the war mode and let's get back to what normal will be. That's all this is. And by the way, that's enough for us. Let's be honest.

Let's be honest. I just want them out. I just want my troops out of harm's way. I want to focus back on what's happening in this country. Okay. So the bar couldn't be any lower for Trump. We know we fucked it up. And we know that doesn't move the needle.

You expected him to fuck it up. The only people I blame for the fuck up is Congress, because they knew he was going to fuck it up. And they should have taken back their constitutional duty, their duty as a check, their duty to declare war, their duty under the War Powers Act, and they should have cut him off at 60 days,

and he should have asked them to do it so he could have had an escape hatch that is less embarrassing than this. But this, first of all, being called a deal is bullshit, it's not a deal. And it is completely lopsided. This is why they've been cagey. This is why they didn't want to put it out because they're embarrassed by this. And that comes from the people working the deal. Okay. So point one, permanent end to hostilities. Immediate and permanent end to the war, non-aggression commitment, supplies on all fronts,

including Lebanon. Now, that's a little tricky. We're going to see now if Trump has control over Bibi Netanyahu the way he says. I've said this from the beginning. You know where I am. If you listen to my podcast, if you listen to anything I put out, you know I believe in the existence of Israel, in its right to defend itself, and that it is under existential threat from these crazy ass Islamists. Okay. Now, do they go too far? Do they do too much? That's all arguable. All right? I'm not insulating them from criticism. I don't do that. I've criticized them myself. I'm not going after the people who committed October 7 because I'd be a hypocrite because I had no problem going after the people that did us dirty after 9-11. We went into the wrong country and after

the wrong people and killed 10, 15, 20 times as many. Okay? In the same amount of time, by the way. So let's put that all to the side. Will Trump be able to control BB? He says he can. We'll see. Okay. Now, here's the big problem. The non-aggression commitment doesn't really, according to this, and again, this isn't the final deal, right? This doesn't the regime to make sure Hezbollah and Hamas don't do stupid shit. This has no language expressly to this point where they're going to own that they are fucking with us through their proxies and it has to stop. And now you're definitely giving them the financial means to do more of it.

Absolutely. You want to criticize the JCPOA for that for giving them back their own money? This one does the same damn thing. Okay. Now, the JCPOA had no ceasefire provisions. Trump's pointing that out like it's a weakness. We weren't at war. He started a war of choice.

So that's stupid. It's not apples to apples. Okay? So there is a new dimension here. It's a political security settlement. All right? It's really not a nuclear agreement. Why?

Because there's almost nothing in here about the nukes. Oh, we promise not to have one. You know how many times the regime has said that? Do you know how many times they've kept their word? Okay. Look, I'm not going to criticize it because it's vague. That's one of their notes. Because, you know, it's a memo of understanding.

It's going to be vague until you make the final deal. I'm not going to be unfair in the analysis. I don't have to be. The truth is enough. Okay? But I'm telling you that there's nothing in here about reforms for the people of Iran whose back we were supposed to have. And clearly this deal, whatever you want to call it, shows that we're ready to turn our back on them.

Know that. And there's nothing in there within any. kind of, hey, you better own your bullshit if you want us to tell Israel to stop. It's not in there. Point two, mutual respect for sovereignty. Again, sovereignty, this is a terroristic insurgent organization that has co-opted and oppressed the Iranian people. How do you give them respect as a sovereign? Ask Mr. Trump, he's the first American president to do it. That is not what the JCPOA did. The JCPOA never attempted with any language, command. commitment or action to normalize the broader political relationship. It was just about

nukes, sanctions, and that process. And the actions and the reactions required and allowed. Okay? Not anyone who says differently is bullshit. I've read the JCPOA. I covered it. Okay? It's not even 159 pages, by the way. It's a lot more with all the appendices. But that's not the point. apples to apples this is an appeasement document you just want to get out here's the good news we just want you out so you know the president's going to win for losing here okay so this recognizing them as a sovereign non-interference respect for territorial integrity and so they're they're terror i mean i can't i can't believe you'd even have this language in an m o you this is why they wouldn't read it to you for days Now you know, okay?

Point three, the 60-day negotiation framework. Look, that's what it is, okay? It took months and months for Russia, China, France, the UK, America, and the EU leaders with all their different contracts and commitments and relationships that they have with the regime. It took them months to get it done. You think Trump's real estate buddy and his son-in-law can get it done? with J.D. Vance in under 60 days. J.D., I don't know why we're appeasing the Muslims.

You think they're going to get it done in 60 days? Here's what the 60 days is. It buys them a break, which is, again, good, and it gives Trump a chance to distract you from what's happening in Iran. I guarantee you he will not talk about this again after the weekend. Unless we force him to, unless something happens

that forces his hand, he will never fucking mention it again. Now, why am I being, why am I upset? Why am I cursing? Because this is, this is insulting. And I'm tired of allowing you guys to figure out or not that you're getting played. You're getting played. Okay. The G and MAGA stands for gullible. Don't be gullible. Don't be so tied to your belief in what was wrong that led you to vote for Trump, which I'm not saying you were wrong about what's wrong. I'm saying he's not going to get it done. And what, was wrong is still wrong. Even immigration, by the way, we still haven't changed the rules on asylum. We still haven't really changed the resourcing on adjudication of who can make the

determinations and when and how and what is due process and in what situation. That's what matters the most. And not just to the flow of illegal entry, but to what this country's policy is. The dreamers, they're still hung out to dry. So even that isn't fixed. Okay. Now, the JCPOA, I'm going to going to give you a point, you know, on point three now, the 60-day negotiation framework, you can't really compare that to the JCPOA because the JCPOA was a final document, okay? Support for the Chris Cuomo project comes from one skin. You like my skin? It is one of the few kinds of peptides that I believe in and that I'm using. Why? Because of my own lived experience, and part of my lived experience is living with a real-life integrative nutrition, as

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End of maritime blockade and restoration of shipping, okay? Here's the give. The blockade's gone. You can go wherever you want. Within 30 days, we'll be out because, you know, it takes time. And you can start selling oil immediately and do everything just like you could the day before the war started. Okay? Again, the JCPOA had nothing like that because there was no ongoing conflict or leverage.

There was no the regime had shut down this straight and now we had to deal with it. That's all this does is terminate what Trump gave the regime an opportunity to do. Know that. That's the truth. And remember this. What's the biggest problem with the JCPOA? The biggest problem was what? It didn't stop them from enriching uranium.

Since when? from 2010, 2012, 2015? No, when? The Israelis and the regime and the IAEA all agree on one thing. What is it? The regime never started enriching uranium to way above fuel-grade percentages until after Trump left the JCPOA. That is a fucking fact.

You tell me how you get out of that. You don't get out of it. Own it. Okay? Own it. Stop lying about everything and blaming someone else for everything. Enough. Enough. Now you know. Okay, don't let anybody say differently to you. That's what all three entities agree on. Now, so we're going to give up the blockade. We're going to let them go back to business as usual. For what? Point five. Straight of Hormuz reopening. Iran reopens, guarantees access, commercial traffic restored. What about tolls? What about tariffs?

vague, not specifically disallowed. Why? Because we don't have the leverage. And because the regime now has leverage and they don't want to give it all up. This is economically enormous, though. Why? Because one-fifth of global trade at oil and other commodities go through that straight. Now, look, people are going to find alternate and develop alternate supply lines now. That's probably a good thing because this won't be the last time the regime is a pain in the ass, and now they know they can do that. So hopefully we will cover our asses better on this. Takes us to 0.6. Reconstruction and development fund.

Now, I'm going to tell you right now, my opinion is that this is a lie what I'm about to read to you. I cannot prove that, but I do not believe it. I do not believe it. Why? Because the people of the State Department I talked to didn't want to own this. They didn't want to own this as their idea, as their concept, and they didn't want to own it as something that they believe will exist going forward.

Why? Because they don't think the Arabs are going to step up. They never have. Gaza is a shithole, not just because Israel is in control of it, or overseeing it or administering it or whatever word you want to use. It's because the Arabs won't step up and do it themselves. They won't help. They don't even want any more Palestinians in their countries. You see the wall between Egypt and Gaza? What does that tell you, brother, brother, brother, my ass. So here's what's reported. Roughly 300 billion development and reconstruction framework,

largely private sector financed according to reporting. Now here's my problem with this. It would be bad enough if it was the Arabs and what we were going to have to owe them for them doing this. I am worried that this is the next big construction scam. That's what I'm worried, is that this is the next way that people are going to get Trump to help them on the private side with illegal deals.

So we're going to watch this. And it's going to be hard to watch. It's going to be hard because you're not going to care because we're going to move on and there's going to be a new scandal. But I believe that this is where Trump is going to wind up making a lot of people rich. Okay? And again, you can't compare this with the JCPOA because there was no ongoing war. There was nothing to reconstruct. So there was no need to make any commitment.

All right? But this is the single largest economic difference between the two frameworks. All right? It would represent a much broader economic reintegration strategy than the JCPOA, ever even contemplated. Okay. So the idea of who gave him more money, it's not even going to be a close call. Point seven, broad sanctions relief. Now, this goes to what I was listening to that bullshit off the top. Trump's saying, they gave him this, they gave him that. He's doing the same thing. And it doesn't matter whether you give me cash or whether you give me crypto.

What's the difference? Well, it's so easy to hide. No, it isn't. You know how hard it's gotten to move cash? Do you know how hard it is to use large amounts of cash? Oh, well, that's what the terrorists do. Do they? Do they? Do a little Googling of blockchain platforms and what their problem has been? Those guys trade in crypto more than anything else. So, look, there was no crypto back then when they did it. They gave them cash. You can say that it was a bad thing to do. Fine. It was a bad thing to do. You're doing the same thing. And you're doing worse. And you're doing more. Okay? Why? Point eventual removal of primary and secondary U.S. sanctions, possible removal of U.N. related sanctions as part of a final agreement. This is where the comparison becomes very interesting to the JCPOA.

There were a lot of nuclear-related sanctions that were suspended or lifted under the JCPOA on the basis of performance by the regime, meaning if you do what you're supposed to do, then we'll relieve the sanctions, okay? numerous non-nuclear sanctions remained. So sanctions were largely left in place except surrounding the nukes in exchange for doing things where the nukes were concerned. Trump's deal does more in terms of forgiveness and appeasement of the regime, period. Okay? The reported 2026 framework appears more ambitious, potentially. envisioning a removal of a much wider sanctions structure.

Who gave them more? JCPOA or Trump? Trump. Okay? Know that. Now you know, all right? Point eight, Iran reaffirms it will not build nuclear weapons. Now, tell me this. If this is a nuclear deal, why is that point eight? Why is it more than halfway down the list?

Tell me. You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? Why? Because that's not how the regime sees it. And my reporting is, and let's see, let's see if I wind up being wrong. Sometimes the reporting is wrong. They have made it clear to U.S. intelligence and diplomatic channels. They do not believe that what they agreed to in the JCPOA was fair to them and they will not repeat it. Remember I told you that. The regime is saying what we agreed to, in the JCPOA was too lopsided, you walked away from it, we were left with the burden, we're not doing that again. That's why it's 0.8. You think this is all about nukes because Trump tells you it is.

You think it's a coincidence that he just said the other day, oh, you know, the enriched uranium, it's just dust. We don't even really need it. It's not a big thing. You know, we collapsed the whole mountain of where it is. Nobody knows what they have exactly. Nobody knows where it is. They told us they obliterated it a year ago, and now there's all this stuff that warranted a war,

because they were only weeks away from a weapon, which was a lie to create an imminency to do this, and now what they have doesn't matter anymore, as long as they promise not to get anything else. Does that make any sense to you, unless you're MAGA? Because the G stands for gullible. Because that is all bullshit, what I told you. That is all false information. It is all miss and disinformation. Everything I just said, it was imminent.

They were about to get a weapon. Lie. Okay? Because you're not weeks away from getting a weapon, and now everything you have is meaningless. Oh, no, it's only meaningless because they destroyed all of it. Really? Who says that? Not Israel.

Not Israel. Not the IAEA. Who says it? Trump. That's who says it. They're international ballistic missiles. through the first eight points. No mention.

Take seven points just to get to nukes. This is an appeasement deal. This is that I got to get the fuck out of here. I fucked up. I shouldn't have been in here in the first place. That's what this is. And once again, I keep calling Trump, the luckiest guy in the history of the game,

the Teflon Don. Why? Because that'll be enough for us. We just want to get the fuck out. And anybody who's going to hold him to account for this, they were going to hold him to account anyway for what's happening with affordability. Okay. So, point eight, this is a biggie, even though it's late in, in terms of you want to compare it to the JCPOA, great.

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The nuclear details are deferred to final negotiations. Okay. The JCPOA had specific enrichment caps, stockpile limits, centrifuge limits, detailed verification, defined breakout timelines, okay? We are told the regime will agree to none of that kind of strutelyt, structure. Again, we will see, but none of it is in here. This is not a nuclear anything. They are selling you on the idea that the regime is promised. They'll never do it again. They are lying terrorists who hate you. It is insulting that you would even bring that up as a basis of any kind of convincing information about this. This is a major downgrade where we are right now from the JCPOA.

The idea that this is a better deal than the JCPOA, there is no deal. There are absolutely no restrictions put on them in this about nukes. None. We'll see in the final deal. But right now, to call this a better deal than Obama's deal, there is no deal. He's lying to you, okay? Point nine. Nuclear status quo during negotiations.

Iran freezes further expansion. U.S. imposes no new sanctions. U.S. avoids additional military buildup. So, again, this is just the bare minimum. Okay, just stop. That's this stop. You stop, we'll stop. Okay.

The JCPOA was a final agreement, of course, you know, and it required substantial rollback of nuclear capabilities before sanctions relief. See, it's a big difference here. That's why I'm calling it appeasement. It's calling appeasement because you're doing it before they do anything for you in terms of what matters to you, which you said was nukes. But you also said it was about having the back of the Iranian people, and clearly that wasn't it. There's not even anything in here about that, let alone about the people they have wrongfully detained in Iran.

Nothing in here about that. Great. So appeasement, why? Because you're giving them a break before they do anything for you, and that is not what the JCPOA did. Nothing was removed until they started showing course of performance in good faith. Okay? Now, so why? Because we're in a different situation.

The JCPOA was about busting their nuts over their nuclear. ambitions. This is about getting out of a war that Trump started. That's what this document is, is getting out of this and getting the straight back, undoing the damage that Trump's war caused, period. That's what it is. And let me tell you, you switch the R to a D and every Republican would be saying it. All of MAGA would be against this. I'm telling you, it's complete hypocrisy. Maga is dead. It is make America gullible again, and you made a certain percentage of him gullible. You took advantage of these people who in good faith believed that things could be better, and now you've made them worse. That's how I see it. I'm telling you, look, this may stabilize this situation,

which will be enough for us because we never wanted to be in it, but it provides fewer immediate nuclear concessions, and by fewer, I mean none. Okay. Point 10, oil export waivers. The Treasury gives waivers for Iranian oil exports, okay? Meaning what? Gives them free reign to sell. Related banking, insurance, and transportation relief. Oil sanctions were obviously important and central to the JCPOA. The difference is this draft, again, restores exports immediately without any action by the regime. That's not what the JCPOA did, okay? Now, let's get into the funny money, okay? Okay? Okay? That's point 11. Release of frozen assets. Tens of billions. Remember, the 2010 deal gave them $1.7 or $2 billion of what was said to be their own money. Okay?

This is tens of billions in frozen Iranian assets, potentially released based on performance. So it wasn't even a possibility under the JCPOA. It is under the Trump deal. The JCPOA did unlock significant Iranian assets. I'm not saying that they weren't. And there were sanctions lifted. The current network, though, appears to front load a lot of that in a way the JCPOA did not. How much money do they get? Where does it come from?

We do not know. But the idea that they're going to beat up on how all of those countries did it in the JCPOA and they're not doing anything like it is a lie. Okay. Point 12. Point 13. point 14. Now this is a really interesting one to me. UN Security Council endorsement. The final agreement would be codified through a binding UN Security Council resolution. Now, the JCPOA was endorsed also, but remember, the JCPOA would now with this, you're going to have to seek international legitimacy and durability. You're going to have to get people to sign on. You went into that. JCPOA with that. They were your co-sendip.

signs. They were your allies on this. They were the coalition. Russia, China, America, all on the same side of signing against the regime. You don't have that now. You don't have that now. Okay? So, let me take you through some of the points, all right? One, this is a, let me get out of here, give me this straight back. I'll give you things to do that. Okay? Right there, this is not. This is not the JCPOA. It is not anywhere near as strong. It's not anywhere near as final. So stop calling what this is a deal because it's all deferred to later and you're giving them things now that they did not get under that deal until they did what we needed them to do. Here, you fucked up by going in so you need to get the straight back. So that's really all they have to do. And you're going to pay them

for it. Know that. You're going to give, they're going to have more money after they open the straight. than they would have without doing it. Period. It's the end of analysis. The idea that this was all about nukes and stopping them, you have no deal on any of that. Zero. You don't even have an memorandum of understanding on that. Yeah, we promise. We'll never try to get a nuke. Oh, but you wouldn't discuss what you have and how you're doing it right now. We'll save that for later. And you've made this commitment many times before in light about it. Come on. It's not even close. Now you know, those are the 14 points. That is a clear-eyed assessment on them.

You want to say that the JCPOA sucked because you gave them all this money? You're giving them just as much, if not more, and you're giving it to them up front. Oh, but that deal was weak because they never did anything and they laughed at Obama. Oh, really? And what is the regime saying about you, Chooch? What is the region saying about us? Oh, the Muslims love this deal. Of course they do.

We've completely emboldened an Islamist regime. I'm sure all the bad guys in the region see this as cause for hope. Let's see if these Arab-rim countries put up the $300 billion. Private sector. What does that mean? Who's going to put up the $300 billion? I thought it was the Arabs. That's not private sector.

Those are sovereigns. Cutter is not private sector. Why does it say private sector? You tell me. I think it speaks to Trump taking care of his buddies and having them bid contracts and who knows where our money is going to come into play on this. Oh, Trump says it, you lost me.

No, no, but Trump said, you lost me. He's a liar. Okay, I'm not you. I'm not gullible. I'm not going to believe somebody who lies to me all the time. You show me the proof. Let's flip it. You trust because you're gullible, MAGA.

I'm not. Okay? So you show me proof, and then I'll decide whether or not there's anything that's worth trusting. So you just trust, and then you hope there's some kind of proof where you can play gotcha on something else. Well, the JCPOA, you know, they made all this enrichment. Yeah, after you left the deal. After you left the deal. Yeah, but they never did it seriously.

And they got all that cash and they used it to pay proxies. Yeah, and you're giving them money right now to do that. And you're not making them do anything real to commit and to show that they won't do it. There's not even any language about it in the MOU that's anything strong. Look, you can listen to the president if you want, okay? You will not win an argument on the basis of anything he's said because it is all demonstrably, not just false, absurd. You want to compare a memo of understanding that has no specificity

and requires no real action on behalf of the regime where nukes, are involved on any level and say it's already better than a final agreement that did exactly those things involving the most important countries in the world. Really? How fucked up and toxicly partisan do you have to be to accept that? How? Tell me. Well, he finally stepped up and did something. He did what? He gave the regime an opportunity. Yeah, he killed a bunch of bad guys and a lot of good guys. that they are hiding from us. Okay? Remember, you killed over 150 school kids.

In your name, that was done. Oh, we don't know that. They're still investigating. Bullshit. Bullshit. Okay? Bullshit. You're being gullible.

Don't do that. Be a critical thinker. Because remember, you don't have to own Trump. You just have to own your feelings about what's wrong in this society and realize that this ain't. the answer. That's where you'll see consensus. That's where you'll see the majority. And that's when things start taking steps in the better direction. This is not going to get us there. This MOU is bullshit. It's just a way to stop this war, which everybody wants stopped anyway. And the people who want it stopped

and know that Trump screwed it all up, they were going to vote against them anyway. And the people who voted for them probably won't hold it against them. Why? Because they care about something else more, which is their own fate, their own fortunes, and their own concerns about this country. And that is where consensus will be built, because they're not wrong to be worried about what they're worried about. Angry can work as a momentum and energy for change. It doesn't have to mean, it can mean passionate, it can mean purposeful, it doesn't have to mean animus.

It doesn't have to mean violent. Okay? That makes us like the regime. And by the way, we're becoming more and more like them. You saw this attack, right? In Washington on UFC 250, that they only spoiled Cash Patel saying, we're built to stop this.

Yeah, because his mom called you. His mom called you. You're built for bullshit. That's what you're built for. The guy's mom called the police. That's how they stopped him. Thank God that that mother and father decided to do the right thing. Otherwise, who knows what would have happened.

But when you look, at these people. Are they Christian nationalists? Maybe. But a lot of the things on the agenda are very left wing also. Why? Because that's where our politics is going. It's just getting angrier and angry and the fringes are getting more and more magnified and more impact because we keep using social media as a proxy for consensus and Vox populi in this country. And there's going to be more violence. There will be more violence. Why? Because we're asking for it. What do you mean? Everybody's angry. I'm angry. We're all hot.

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contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical. In summary. This is not a deal, okay? It is a suggestion for a potential deal. It is not better than the JCPOA in any way because it is not a final deal, and it does not require anything of the regime specific on any of the points that matter. There's no requirement on uranium enrichment, on the centrifuges, on the international ballistic missiles. There's nothing on the funding of their proxswainment. there's almost nothing. And on taking care of the people who we said this was about and having

their backs, there is nothing. Think about that. What was this about? They can never have a nuclear weapon. Okay, we have no idea whether this is going to do that. It's nowhere close to what the JCPOA put in place. It's not even close. Okay? Second, I thought it was also because there a bunch of fucking terrorists that keep shooting missiles all over the place and trying to hurt people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have to destroy that. We destroyed that. No, you didn't destroy it. And they're rebuilding it. And it is rebuildable as an infrastructure very quickly. How come it's not even in the MOU? Appeasement. That's why. How come there's nothing in here about them holding us, holding hostages, holding Americans? How come there's nothing in that? Appeasement. That's why.

How come there's nothing in there about making reforms and human rights changes to stop oppressing their own people. I thought we had their back. There's nothing in the MOU about that. Why? Because our president is an M-O-U-S-E. M-I-C-K-Y-M-O-U-S-E. That's why. Because he's acting like a mouse. He just wants to get out of this because he fucked it up and he knows it's killing him in the polls and he's right because it's exacerbated all the problems we had at home already on top of it. is tariffs, which had already exacerbated all the problems we had at home already. This is not a deal. It is not as good as anything else because it is nothing. And it is missing a lot of the things that it

needed. And what it's supposed to be all about, it is very light on. And now you know why, point for point. Can it change? Of course. Will it change? It must. Will 60 days of negotiations make all this go away? highly improbable, but it buys him 60 days. It buys them a chance to get you more interested in who some fucked up illegal immigrant kills or, you know, what someone else does that's scandalous. That's what this does. I'm telling you, after the weekend, just a few days, he will not mention that situation again unless he has to.

that's what he's hoping this gets him. That's why he's overselling it. That's why his people are engaging in missing disinformation. That's why my State Department sources and other sources that you're seeing reports from are not happy about this or worried about what happens next. That's why. And the Israel piece is something also. President Trump said shit about Israel that we have never heard a president's say before.

It's an interesting commentary on our state of play. The lefties should be loving what Trump just said. Loving it. But they're not. Why? Because Hitler can't have a good haircut. Hitler can't have a good day. When you hate somebody, when you've decided that they are evil and an existential threat, there's no room for any kind of anything but complete animosity. So even though he just said exactly what you wanted him to say when they were fighting in Gaza, which is why. But too much, too long, too many people dead that aren't in the terror organization. You don't have to blow up a whole building because you think a couple of the people in there, there are there too many people in there who aren't. He's going to have to be more responsible, BB Netanyahu, about how he does this,

and he's going to have to stop because it's been enough. It's exactly what you wanted to hear him say. And now he's saying it, and you're not giving him his due. Why? Because you're not fair. You hate him. You hate him. I'm not driven by that.

I'm driven by anger. I'm angry. I'm passionate. I'm upset by what's going on. I want to see it be different. I'm motivated to make it that way. But I don't hate. Why? Infects me. It hurts me. Why would I be that way? So that is the reality. That is where things stand right now. And now if you've listened to all of this, you know more and better than the overwhelming majority of people who have a hot take about this, who have any. even taking the time to do what we just did. Be a critical thinker, be a free agent, not some mouth-breathing partisan that believes everything is about good and evil.

It's about right and wrong and how things get better and where we can have consensus. And we can have consensus on what needs to change. What is wrong? That's where the biggest group of Americans are on the same page. Seize that.

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