The Keith Edwards Show - They Just Called Trump's Bluff...

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

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Donald Trump is getting actively humiliated by Iran as he's trying to wiggle his way out of this war that he created, that didn't need to happen, and that is causing us to be less safe and poorer. And Iran is literally mocking him in multiple different ways. Here's one way here where an Iranian official said this. You are fired. You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Thank you for this, thank you for your attention to this matter, which is something that our peto president loves to say. Now Iran is using it to mock the president. The reason why they're mocking him is because Donald Trump earlier this week lifted sanctions. U.S. Treasury eases

oil sanctions on Iran, including permitting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States. As Adam Kingsinger notes here, you've got to be joking. We are lifting sanctions on Iran. Tell me how this is going as planned again as Maga says. And more on this, the U.S. to allow Iran to get around $14 billion in oil revenue. $14 billion. How are we winning if we go to war with someone and then while we're still at war with them, we create a deal where they get money to help fund their war. In what world is that making sense? Goes on to say this is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S.

It's the first time. The U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996. It's all happening in the middle of a war against Iran. And here is Scott Bassett saying Iran is ahead of the snake for global terrorism. And through President Trump's Operation Epic Fury, we are winning this critical fight at an even faster pace than anticipated in response to Iran's terrorist attacks against global energy infrastructure, the Trump goes on to say here, the Trump administration will continue to deploy America's economic and military might to maximize the flow of energy to the world

and strengthen global supply and seek to ensure market stability. And then it goes on to say the Treasury is issuing narrowly tailored short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded in sea. It's insane. It's insane. We're winning. We're winning the war, but by the way, we're buying their oil. This has made, nothing has made the U.S. look weaker than this war. Another commentator noted here, noted here, Iran has worked for years to get sanctions relief through diplomacy. It has failed. Three weeks of war, the U.S. has offered sanctions. relief to Iran without Tehran even asking for it.

Now, this is where we become humiliated because Iran said this. Iran says it has no surplus crude oil to offer to international markets after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said Washington could lift sanctions on Iranian oil at sea. Do you know, like how that is just so embarrassing? for Trump, that one, he admits that they need Iran, even though they're at war with them. He admits through this action that he is not only, not only is Iran hurting America. They're hurting the world through their withholding of energy. We're making the prices go higher.

And two, Iran's like, fuck you. By the way, I don't want to. make me it's absolutely embarrassing and as i said before it makes us look so weak how like how are we the most powerful country in the world and a small much smaller country of iran is able to bully us around in what in what world is that a good strategy how does that make us look at oh yeah Let's leave that here. Let's leave that there. All right.

CNN did a town hall on Friday with a member of the Trump administration. And here is what I thought was very interesting. Politics. Santiago. Hi, good evening. I'm a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full-time college student who sleeps an average of four hours at night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country, half the world away, funded by the Texas pulled from. my check helping me in any way. Yeah, it's,

look, it's a ballot and it's not. And it's a tough question. I know for certain. And if we just look at the things the president has put in place in terms of housing and big corporations that are buying up whole

neighborhoods, the tax cuts that he extended with the big, beautiful bill, the energy policies that we're putting in place. So keep in mind, The question was, how is this war helping everyday Americans? That was the question. To not only make us self-sufficient, but to lessen these dependencies and lower prices,

even lowering prescription drug prices, the president's absolutely focused on what you're seeing day in and day out that's affecting your pocketbook. At the same time as Commander-in-in-Chief, he has to weigh the risks and make the tough decisions facing some hard truths. We cannot have a world with a genocidal terroristic regime that holds not only your generation but the next generation hostage with... Could he not be talking about Israel?

...with a genocidal terroristic regime that holds not only your generation but the next generation hostage with nuclear weapons. And, you know, those are the tough calls that the American people elected him to make. And I can tell you, having worked very closely with him, he doesn't back off his red lines, and he doesn't interest into bad deals. Okay. That's good to know. That isn't back us into red lines because I have here, I'm sure you saw the tweet,

but I do want to reference it. Sorry, I'm just trying to find it. If I can't find the next five seconds, I'm just going to say, Okay. What the president, oh, here it is. The president, Donald Trump, said if Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the straight of Hermoose,

within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hate and obliterate their various power plans, starting with the biggest one first. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald Trump. He said that a couple days ago. So I believe that. Oh, yeah. and about,

a little or 22 hours, we'll see if the president follows through on that threat slash promise. How is this showing might? How is this showing strength? By saying, we're just going to blow you up. By the way, Iran was like, okay, good luck.

Do it. They're not scared. Now, Maga is pissed off about this. I get no joy out of this. this. I voted for this guy. I hoped he would close the border. He did. Good. And N-D-E-I nonsense, focus on inflation and domestic problems stand for his pre-s speech. But the last few months have been a train wreck and he now seems utterly out of control. Well, Alex Borensen, with your half a million followers. Yeah, we told you this was going to happen a long time ago.

Someone else said, I have supported Trump since day one. Trump has literally threatened massive war crimes against a country that he started a war with, and then he says that we should invoke the 25th Amendment. Okay, well, why not? We're also just much less safe now. The U.S. Department of State issued an alert on Sunday advising Americans across the world to exercise increased caution. The advisor comes as the U.S. has entered its fourth week of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, the illegal war, and it also says here, quote, and especially in the Middle East, to be wary of attacks by groups linked to Iran and to stay tuned to the guidance issued by the nearest U.S. embassy and consulate. Quote, periodic airspace closures may cause travel disruptions U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or locations associated with the United States.

Okay. So I'm going to end it how it started it. We're less safe. Things are more expensive. There's no strategy. And by the way, we look weaker than ever before. How is this helping? How is this America first? How does this make anything better? How does it make us great again? It doesn't.