The Young Turks - Trump Betrays Lebanon - April 10, 2026

Episode Date: April 11, 2026

Donald Trump reportedly changes course on Lebanon after a call with Benjamin Netanyahu as the economic fallout hits home—consumer prices rise 3.3% in March, driven by energy spikes tied to the Iran conflict. Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to testify on Epstein despite new pressure, while the oil industry pushes the White House to ensure Iran cannot control the Strait of Hormuz. Thanks to today's sponsors: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt Go to cookunity.com/tyt or enter code TYT before checkout to get 50% off your first order. Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. I need it. I need it. Let's go. Thank you, John Ida rolling with you guys. Big show ahead. So Donald Trump versus Tucker Carlson, how's that going? We have some polls for you, but I'm going to tell you ahead of time, I don't believe them at all. So that's going to be an interesting conversation. And then my God has Tucker Carlson unloaded on Donald Trump.

If you thought what he said before was a lot, wait until you get a load of what he said today. Two different things. Then the Democrats decide that they're going to back A-PAC. Not only will be covered for you guys on today's show, but on the Revolution at 8 o'clock, I'm going to ask you guys to participate in asking, which will the... two potential presidential candidates on a Democratic side betrayed us because Politico says that two of them put pressure on. I think you guys can help solve that mystery. We'll save that for 8 o'clock. But right now we have a ton of news for you guys. So John, take it away.

Oh my god, I hadn't seen that poll. That is fascinating. Interesting, everybody's going to have to stick around to see that. Okay, but yeah, why don't we talk about something that I have a feeling Jake is going to have many thoughts on. A new report is indicating that once again, Donald Trump allowed himself to be led along by the nose, by Benjamin and Yahoo, based on his demands in Iran. In this case, making Donald Trump side with Israel to allow them to continue their bombardment and invasion of Lebanon, even if that might imperil the ceasefire that Donald Trump just got with Iran. Now, we have all of the details and how this was discovered. But first, Jenk, what are your two cents? So look, here's what I think is interesting about this story, that we're finally talking about it.

Like, has Israel been controlling our presidents and our politicians for our entire lifetime? Of course! But we were never allowed to have a conversation about it, otherwise the whole country's anti-Semites. But finally, we are allowed to speak about it. And as you're going to see here, it's super obvious that Israel is at a bare minimum. manipulating Donald Trump. But if it isn't manipulation, what is it? I think that's also an interesting conversation. So John, give us the facts, and then we'll talk about what it might be. Yeah, I mean, the alternatives of manipulation is theoretically blackmail, which I know is a term

is now being thrown around quite regularly. But let's start with what we have right here. So multiple diplomatic sources spoke with CBS and said that President Trump had been told the ceasefire would apply to the Middle East region and he agreed that that included Lebanon, which Pakistan believed, that's what Iran believed. Mediators believe the ceasefire to include Lebanon and the prime minister of Pakistan also announced when the ceasefire was announced that it did. Iran's foreign minister also said that it was included. On the day of the ceasefire, a White House official told CBS news that Israel had also agreed with the terms of the deal that Pakistan had helped a broker. So everybody agreed that it included Lebanon. However, the U.S. position shifted following.

a phone call between Netanyahu and Mr. Trump. Two sources familiar told CBS News that the changing U.S. positions and the disjointed regime in Iran are making the diplomacy highly complex. So it is possible, I suppose, that there were other things that happened that maybe caused us to go from a situation where everybody agreed that Lebanon was a part, and obviously would be a part of the ceasefire, to Donald Trump. Not only, remember, not only like now implying that it wouldn't be, But I also want everyone to remember that the first couple of days of this week with the ceasefire, Donald Trump was threatening to have CNN and New York Times investigated for lying about the terms of the deal because they were accurately reporting what everyone had agreed on that Lebanon was a part of the plan.

He was implying that they were fake news. You had the head of the FCC attacking them on social media. And they were not wrong, but evidently they were now reporting something that would anger Benjamin Nanyahu. And Donald Trump, I guess, had to reassure him by saying that, yeah, I don't know, will not only go along with you in terms of a foreign policy and our military strategy, but we're also willing to totally shred the First Amendment if that is what Benjamin Nanyahu requires at this point. And, Jank, this is obviously a super important part of the overall ceasefire because Iran is presumably not going to continue with this, if Lebanon, if the assault against Lebanon, if the assault against Lebanon doesn't happen. We've barely even had a ceasefire this entire time. And one explanation

for why could be Israel's continued attacks against Lebanon, where they've not only killed, as I know you've reported, many, many civilians in a very short period of time, but also multiple journalists as well. So I guess, look, Jake, you're probably the person who's going to be least surprised by this news from CBS News, but what do you make of it? Yeah. So first of all, We had the reporting from the New York Times about how Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into the war in the first place in the situation room. And now there's a lot of right wingers who are outraged by that. We're going to show you that in a second. And now we have a report that Benjamin Netanyahu has talked Trump into excluding Lebanon from the deal, even though it was obviously in the deal, which then endangers the deal.

And by the way, the deal is actually off the table. Right now, Iran is charging $2 million a ship for any ship that crossed the Strait of Hormuz. So there is no deal. All we did was we stopped bombing. Iran didn't change anything. And then Iran was very clear as to why. They had opened up the Strait of Hormuz for like a second. And then Israel started bombing Lebanon.

And they said, no, Lebanon was part of the deal. So we're back to charging money for ships going through the Strait of Hormuz. Like our national media is abysmal. Like, now I'm going to tell you about someone that is a partner of ours that our audience loves. If you know me, I'm always out of time. When I need a fresh meal, that's delicious and nutritious. My go-to is Cook Unity. Cook Unity is a chef-crafted meals straight to your door.

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And so why is that the case? Well, we just told you. It's because Netanyahu ordered Trump to take Lebanon, out of the deal and that's why the Iranians started closing the straight of hormones again, unless you're paying that gigantic toll. So okay, is Donald Trump the most gullible man in the world? Maybe, maybe, I mean, he's super low IQ. So like maybe Daniel who just comes in and goes, oh my God, you're so beautiful Donald Trump. I bet so many young girls who are attracted to you. Okay, can you just exclude that from the deal? He's like, okay, okay, like it's not. It's not

Like, it's not impossible. He is that low. Like, I never believe that his IQ is in the double digits. Okay. Now, having said that, yeah, no, I'm like, he's the dumbest man. We've ever had an office by a lot. Okay, but anyways. So, and look, I said this about Kanye West for like a decade while everyone was

claiming he was a genius. What happened now? Okay, anyways. So, so, but the other more like. or in addition to, answers, of course, blackmail. Of course. Why does Trump do everything Netanyahu does, no matter how much damage it costs, America himself, his polling, his party, his previous positions.

Golly gee, oh, I wonder why. And look, John, one of the things that pisses me off is that mainstream media is in the business of covering up news, right? So when you ask a legitimate question, hey, could Israel be black, blackmailing Trump, they're like, you're conspiracy theorist. You're a monster. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. But we already know that Netanyahu blackmail Clinton. And why was that not spectacular news? Why was that not the most gigantic news of the country? Netanyahu knew about, and this is reported by the Israeli press,

Nanjahou knew about Monica Lewinsky and used that to blackmail Bill Clinton to get a pardon for Jonathan. And Pollard, the traitor that stole our secrets and gave him to Israel. And so the country and the specific guy who did it earlier to a U.S. president, the gigantic liars in mainstream media say could never do it to another U.S. president. And it's an outrageous assumption to say the guy who did exactly that before would do it again. No, it's actually kind of an outrageous assumption to say he wouldn't do it. So yes, I think the most likely answer is blackmail. And I think there's even a chance that the Melania announcement yesterday was connected

to that, maybe a warning shot. I don't know that now we're getting into speculation. But as you're going to see, John's going to tell you, the right wing's getting into the same exact speculation because you have to be brain dead not to at least ask the question. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. And the medium media just totally doesn't seem to care. Like Donald Trump was accused of raping a 13 year old girl and, you know, hasn't been totally confirmed, although a number of parts of her story have been confirmed.

And currently something like 30 pages of notes from the FBI still are being withheld from the DOJ. They do not want you to see that. And I don't believe I've seen a single member of the media even try to ask Donald Trump about that. I know that he wouldn't answer it. I know that he would just insult them or whatever, but I don't even think I've seen them try. We live in a strange world. And I will also just say, I know everybody's like very reasonably, they're like, well, you know, Israel's very worried about Hezbollah. And, you know, Iran with a nuke would be really dangerous.

And I get all of that. But like, I sometimes think that we would be better off if we could think of those who run other countries, including ones that we disagree with, as human beings who will react to things as we might in similar situations. So a lot of people, I think, understand that one of the reasons that Iran started investigating in developing these proxy. forces in countries around the region is because of the experience of the 80s, all the support that was going to Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi war against Iran. And they came to realize that it's unlikely that they're going to be just able to win a big regional like conventional war or whatever. And especially they need to have the ability to project force that's not concentrated inside of their own borders. So over the course of the next couple decades, they invest in

these alternate strategies based on the experience they had. So now we're bombing the hell out of them. We're telling them they can't have a nuke. We're destroying their proxies. Why would we believe that, oh, well, that's the last time they'll ever prepare for their own defense going forward. They won't strategize. They won't invest in things. They won't find new ally. Why would we think that way? We would never act that way.

But we act as if we can just bitch slap them hard enough that they'll never again try to secure their future. And so what we're doing right now is guaranteeing decades likely of assassination attempts, of terrorist attacks and alternative defensive mechanisms. developed by Iran. And when it happens, we're gonna be shocked and chagrined by it. We're gonna be so amazed that a country would act in exactly the way we would if we were in charge of that country. Anyway, moving on to the other aspect of this, the reporting that outed Donald Trump as having been convinced by Benjamin Nanyahu to try to remove Lebanon from the points of consideration in the Iran ceasefire deal was hardly well received by some of Donald Trump's at least at one point allies in the media on the

Right, now many of them are harsh critics of his and him of them. Let's start with Megan Kelly, who he recently called a low IQ failure. I don't know how we got here, Pears. I'd like to know just as much as anybody else, but all I can think in my head, based on what I've read in the paper, is we got here thanks to BB Netanyahu, Lindsay Graham, and Mark Levin. And ultimately, President Trump, that's not to take agency away from the president who was bamboozled.

I don't know why. He was too weak to say no. He was too gullible to see through the lies. One way or another, he allowed himself to be pushed into this insane conflict that caused forget. Forget, you know, the blood and treasure we spilled, as you point out, at least 15 service personnel. I believe we're being lied to about the total number of dead and wounded. So she doesn't necessarily go as far as you might in terms of describing the relationship, although clearly she believes it's possibly being manipulated or whatever. And she's feeling a little bit more open to insult him talking about his weakness and that sort of thing.

Bear in mind, she also said earlier this week that if you were to nuke a country, she'd still vote for him. So it's not like she's a totally Trump derangement syndrome critic of his. She's okay with quite a bit that he might do. But she can also identify that it doesn't seem like these are two equals, let alone us being like a superior in the alliance that we have. So that's Megan Kelly. We also have Benny Johnson. We don't want some other nation to walk into our White House and to lie about an operation to our president. And that's what that's what happened. That's what Israel did here. It's unforgivable as far as I'm concerned. So it shouldn't happen anyway. I think that Bibi Netanyahu should be banned from the White House as far as I'm concerned.

along with any other world leader like that behaves in a duplicitous fashion. And Zelensky should be on that list, obviously. Did you know that the average employer has to sift through about 250 resumes just to find a single job? It's an insane amount of work and honestly a huge waste of time. Well, if you're hiring, here's good news. You can now review all those resumes and applications faster thanks to ZipRecruiter. We use them. ZipRecruiter has a new feature.

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I mean, I have eyes and ears. You have eyes and ears. Benny Johnson, Megan Kelly, Tucker, later Tim Poole, Alex Jones, etc. I'm going to show that throughout the show today. they don't have millions of viewers. No one follows them. Of course. Look, and then let's say that it's not blackmail for a second. Then okay, Trump is the most gullible idiot we've ever had. Then you have to agree with me. He's the dumbest guy at the ever old office. Because Netanyahu says to him, oh, why don't you ruin the peace deal you just made? And he goes, oh, okay. And he doesn't understand that that's going to cost us $2 million a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. He said that he got convinced by the Israelis that the Strait of Hormuz wouldn't get closed. Everyone knew that if you started a war with Iran, that they would close the Strait of Hormuz. But apparently Trump says he's so dumb that the Israelis

talked him into not realizing that. And the Israelis told him that the Iranians would not attack our bases in the Gulf. And Donald Trump said after the war started, well, nobody expected them to attack our bases in the Gulf. I did. I did literally every expert on the war did. So the best possible explanation for Donald Trump is that he is a moron of epic proportions. Because the only other explanation is when Netanyahu calls and says jump, he says, how high, master, because Netanyahu has something on him. By the way, as the most profits, a member of ours on t.com, and he made an excellent point that I hadn't thought of before. He just wrote in, not releasing the Epstein files at this point is a national security thread because

of the blackmail against Trump. Now, we don't know that there's blackmail against Trump, but any rational person realizes that that's a possibility. So because of that possibility, you're absolutely right. If we don't know what's in the Epstein files, we don't know what might be being held against our president or other politicians in this country. So we have to know it. Otherwise, it's a national security threat. But of course, they're not going to be released either. You're going to be shocked to find out Israel is against releasing the Epstein files. Yeah, I wonder why, right?

And if you don't know, Epstein in every deal was trying to help Israel, procuring cyber weapons for them. He even taped, he had video cameras all across his house, including in the tissue boxes, which leads us to Tucker Carlson and his theory on blackmail. Exactly. Yeah, we don't have like that in detail. ready to go, but he has been talking sort of in response to a story that's going to be on the show later on where Donald Trump just broadsided like everyone in Maga Media. Tucker Cross has run it in a couple different ways, and one of those is going to be

the belief that this is possibly the result of blackmail coming from from Israel. Yeah, and guys, look, how did Netanyahu know about Monica Lewinsky before anyone else? I mean, there's only two possible answers. One is she was working with them and it was a honey trap operation. I know mainstream media reporters are so stupid that they don't understand that a honey trap operation is the number one go-to move for any intelligence agency. They think that it's the thing that doesn't even exist and couldn't possibly be done to Americans. because American politicians are so holy and moral, they'd never fall for a young girl, except for the fact that we know Bill Clinton did.

Okay, now I'm not saying Monica was, I have no idea, okay? But the other possibility is that Israel has us, has a White House, has other things bug to no end. And they know everything that we're saying. And given that they've stolen our top secrets to the Johnson Pollard, given that they've stolen our nuclear secrets, that's also a high likelihood. But every time you say these things that are demonstrable facts, mainstream media says, shut up, never ask the government any questions that challenges them, never ask Israel any questions, never wonder if our president is being black.

You're not even allowed to ask that question? Isn't that super weird? Why is our president acting so strange in regards to one particular country? Why is he doing things that are demonstrably against his own interests and against his own policies? And if you say it's the illegitimate to ask those questions, that's your problem, man. We're going to keep asking them and asking them. And I think that even the phrase conspiracy theory was concocted as a brilliant piece of propaganda for if anyone ever questioned any official government statement. You call them a conspiracy theorist so that no one ever questions the official government statements.

So I think our media has been in the business of covering up the news for decades. I think that they cover for Israel at every turn. You should never believe them. They're gigantic liars. And yes, there's something deeply wrong with how President Trump always, always listens to Netanyah. Yeah. Yeah, sort of shocking, actually, my final point that CBS was the ones that actually came out with this. I don't know if they'll be allowed to do like a 60 minutes in-depth report on it, but apparently there are still a couple of journalists that are allowed to do their work for now at CBS.

Okay, well, why don't we take our first break? When we come back, we can talk a little bit about the current state of the straight-of-form moves, some of the economic consequences coming out of what Iran is doing over there and all of that. Let's go to more of our genius members on t.com as most proper. Nice job, man. That's a really great point earlier. Bloated ego says Donnie will burn down the world to save his ass. 100%. If anybody thinks like, oh, but that'll get Americans killed, I probably shouldn't do that. I'll just let people know that I'm a vicious, like, whatever he is, right? No, there's a 0% chance that Donald Trump would prioritize thousands, maybe even millions of lives over his own career. and reputation. Gemily says Trump is not the gullible one here. Wall Street traders believing that Israel or the US are honest actors towards peace.

And for it, Wall Street deserves to lose every cent that Trump insiders are stealing from them. Oh, I couldn't agree more. Like those Wall Street idiots are like, oh, Donald Trump said that there's a ceasefire, so there's a ceasefire. Yeah, but they're charging $2 million a ship. Okay, I believe Donald Trump and Israel over facts. Okay, go lose your money, idiots.

Dudo Dragon said, damn, Benny's the most transparent grifter out there. If even he's turned the base, if even he's turned, the base is definitely gone. Yeah, no, if you watch CNN, they're like, no, not one Republican voter has left Trump. Harry Inton keeps saying it. I look, I used to like Harry Inton. Now I think he's kind of a, like, I guess he's another propagandist. He pulled out a poll from three weeks ago to say like, no, no, no, no. Republicans love Trump's war. Okay, whatever dude. Ian Golbus says, not a coincidence,

BB used the two dumbest presidents to take out Israel's perceived enemies. Bush and Trump. Back on TYT, Jank and John with you guys. Also William Stevens, thank you for joining brother. Really appreciate you. They hit the join button below. Melody loves music. Thank you for sending a membership in through a gift on YouTube. We appreciate that. And I'll just do one quick YouTube member comment here. Silver XD1 Edge says, Trump, is a 1D chess genius. If ever there was a one dimensional chess player, it is Donald Trump. All right, John.

Trying to imagine what that would even look like. And I'm not sure, but let's jump into it. Panicked oil executives are apparently pressuring Donald Trump right now that he has to go back in and snatch control over the straight of Hormuz away from Iran, which if he were to try to do that would obviously be an incredibly complicated and costly and likely very dense. operation. Jank, what do you think? Yeah. So right now, both the oil companies and Israel are saying, hey, Schmuck, we're your donors. You're going to do as we tell you, and we want that Strait of Hormuz open. So now on the other

hand, if we go to try to open up the Strait of Hormuz, the whole planet's going to blow up. So we're stuck. But let's tell you about the consequences of what the oil is. companies are saying. Exactly. And this really gets into one of the, the essentially most worrying long-term consequence, not only of the ceasefire, but what might become the new permanent status quo, which is the new tolls, that it seems like Iran is getting real comfortable with the idea of charging going forward. So to remind everyone that the straight of war moves before this war was just totally open. People seem to forget that. I don't want them to forget that we didn't go in to like fix this problem, we created the problem and are now desperately scrambling to fix it.

And they weren't charging tolls for transport before. You did not have to ask the Iranians for permission to go through before. All of that is new. All of that was given to you by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Pete Hegesith. So now they're saying in these negotiations to potentially turn the two-week ceasefire into a permanent end of the war that they expect that they will be be able to continue to do those tolls. And the fossil fuel industry doesn't like that. They don't want to have to factor in massive new costs. And I would also just point out before we jump into their quotes, we hear $1 million, $2 million per ship. And that is what Iran is asking for right now. But once you get used to the idea that they are charging tolls, it does not need

to stay at $2 million. They can modify it if they want to put pressure on the United States or China or the Gulf or other countries. So just bear that in mind. Here is an anonymous oil executive or oil industry consultant talking to Politico saying, hell yes, when asked if executives were contacting the White House to protest a toll on Hormuz. We didn't have to do that before and I thought we won the war. Any place you have access to the administration, you ask, what are you guys thinking? And so we know that there is concern among regular people, but especially amongst executives in the oil industry, that if they had to do this new toll, whether it's one or two or two and a half million dollars, that would then have to be passed down

to consumers. If Iran gets used to doing this sort of toll, that other countries could start to institute that. You could have Turkey, you could have Singapore. The Strait of Hormuz is not the only potentially contestable area that a lot of maritime trade flows through. And bear in mind, Donald Trump himself has been hinting that he would like to start doing this. So we're working to normalize the idea of countries exerting this sort of economic influence. They're apparently also worried that if they were to begin paying this toll, that could put them or their companies in legal jeopardy in light of continuing sanctions on the Iranian regime and some of the officials. They would effectively be transferring money in a way that might violate the law. And so they have brought these sorts of things up.

They say the president is extremely sensitive to the legacy and judgment on the success of this war. So pushing the president right now is seen as a risky proposition. But the White House is hearing from the industry, despite the gingerness, of the conversations. And so Trump said earlier this week the U.S. was working, you know, to work through the potential points of agreement or disagreement on the 10 point plan, the 15 point plan, and the tolls are obviously a big part of that. But I do just want to remind everyone, we've previously shown this, this quote from Jonathan Carl, asked President Trump if he's okay with the Iranians charging a toll. He said, we're thinking of doing it as a joint venture.

It's a way of securing it. Also securing it from lots of other people. It's a beautiful thing. I don't know if he's saying that today necessarily, and I don't know how charging the toll would secure it from China or whatever, Jank, but this is a big and perhaps growing concern. Yeah, so. Okay, when I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice.

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Pakistanis have never said anything about a joint venture. Iranians are like joint venture. We're still waiting for your ground troops. They keep saying, we are waiting for you. Okay. Like no one on planet Earth has talked about a joint venture. Trump totally made it up. Okay. The Iranians aren't like, oh yeah, we're charging two million per ship as a toll. But you know what? We'll give some of it to America. The country that had just attacked us and killed 3,500 people at a minimum, right? Including tons of school children. No, that's not a conversation that's happening.

So someone else wrote in with a really good question in this case. Make it make sense, 1988, wrote in on Super Chat. I got challenged on the metrics by which I stated I believed Iran to be winning. Their rebuttal was to compare losses of military personnel slash equipment and leadership. How would you counter this because I was stumped, TYT for life? So I appreciate you and I appreciate your question. So it's directly related to this story. Why?

So guys, how do you know who's winning? Have we killed more of them? Of course we have. Have we destroyed more of their ships and planes and equipment? Of course we have. Our firepower is so vastly superior to theirs, right? So why do the Iranians feel like they're winning? I mean, they're almost overconfident. What you're never seeing it in mainstream media. We should show you more of it here because we see it. But like Iranian generals, Iranian leaders are constantly putting out videos, rubbing it in our face. What happened now, America? Okay, you thought you were so tough. So why did they think that?

What are the metrics that make them believe that? Well, easy way to tell. So going into the war, we said, oh, we're going to do this because we want to end their nuclear program and get their enriched uranium out of the country and make sure they can't enrich any more uranium. So that was our theoretically our top goal. And then we wanted a regime change. Well, the regime is entirely unchanged and giving us.

us deuses as we speak. And yeah, we killed a whole bunch of their leadership, but they just replaced them and the regime is identical. In fact, it's a little bit more hardline than it used to be. So we've lost some ground on that. And then when it comes to the enriched uranium, we didn't get it at all. And Iran has never promised to give us their enrich uranium or stop that program. So our goals are 100% unmet. Iran didn't have any goals. They got attacked, right? But after they got attacked, they had a new goal. Why don't we close a straight of Hormuz and then make a killing on how won't we charge people going through the straight? And while we're at it, why don't we damage the dollar tremendously by demanding that the payments be made in Chinese yuan or in cryptocurrency,

so we're no longer using the dollar to buy oil or to pay fines or tolls, right? And on top of that, gas prices are going up in America and the rest of the world. And your stock market, you're markets crashing. So Iran's like, I see nothing but wins for us. So please keep going. So given that, our objectives are entirely unmet and they have come out as stronger and richer after this war. By the way, we're letting them sell their oil. We've kind of de facto removed the sanctions on Iranian oil so that they didn't even expect that because we're so worried about oil prices and its effect on our economy. So so far, yes, they have been greatly damaged by the bombs we've dropped. But in terms of their negotiating stance, their financial stance, and every other way, the Iranians are in fact winning.

And that's why the oil companies are in a panic. And as one of our viewers and members wrote in earlier, I'm also perplexed by Wall Street. And why they just can't seem to understand, we just got our asses handed to us economically. And I don't know how we're going to get out of this mess. Now imagine if one of those two-minute bomb-a-thon videos that they make for Donald Trump, as his only intelligence update on what's going on in Iran, have been replaced by you explaining that. He might come away with a different conclusion about how the war is actually going.

But no, Donald Trump and Pete Hegesith appear to believe that if they just blow up some more hospitals in schools that will win. And that's just not how it works in any way. Well, there we were talking about some of the economic consequences that'll come first to the oil companies. Why don't we talk about what's going on here in America in no small part thanks to this stupid war of choice. Take a look. Look, we knew the war hit this economy like an earthquake. This is the first damage assessment and it's not looking good, the fingerprints of the conflict all over this inflation report.

So consumer prices up by 0.9% month over month. That is triple the prior monthly inflation rate, and that is the highest in any month in almost four years. You got to go back to June 2020, back when gas was at $5 a gallon. The annual inflation rate bumped up to 3.3%. That's almost a full percentage point increase. So these are the latest numbers from the Consumer Price Index, giving us just our first look at how the war in Iran is affecting our economy with inflation going up. higher than it has in multiple years. And Donald Trump, of course, has been telling us there's no inflation whatsoever.

So I'm sure he'll take this news very seriously. But, Jank, what are your two cents? So we've got inflation going back up highest in a couple of years. We've got almost every economic metric heading down. Is Donald Trump doing anything to help the economy? Anything to help the country internally at all, at all. And why would anyone get us into this decision? disastrous dumbass war and ruin their own economy.

And there is no answer to that. There is no answer to that other than obviously Israel wants it. So whatever Israel wants, Israel gets. So when you're paying more at the pump and when you see all these terrible metrics and all the higher prices, every time you should think, thanks Israel, really appreciate it. And in fact, I'm going to add one more devastating fact after John is done. Yeah, the overall picture with inflation is just getting so bad that I'm now reading that for Jank, for you to maintain your level of influence, you're going to have to start giving three or

four cents, actually, just to keep pace. Anyway, so there is some evidence in some specific sectors of the economy that there was containment regarding inflation, which by the way might lead you to think that had Donald Trump not started this stupid war, maybe he would have had some actual good economic numbers for the first time in his in his administration, but not so because of his stupid choices. So let's jump into what CNBC is reporting. The Iran conflict was a story for the monthly inflation reading. Gas soared 21.2 percent accounting for nearly three quarters of the headline price increase according to the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Take a look at this chart. You can see the overall change in the CPI month to month. And of course, Donald Trump takes

takes over like two thirds of the way through that chart. And yet he is now producing inflation gains months a month that look way more like the darkest days of the pandemic. That is what he has given to us. March 2026 is the highest monthly inflation rate since 2022. And it takes a lot to produce that, either a significant act of God or a significant act of stupidity. And I think it's the latter in this particular case, but why don't we turn to CNN for more insight? As far as why this happened, as you might imagine, a lot of this big increase in month over month was driven by the fact that gasoline went up at a historic pace, right? The BLS says that about three quarters of this monthly inflation rate increase is directly linked to gasoline. Gas prices up by 21% between February

and March. That's the most in any month since they started tracking this back in 1967. This episode is brought to you by Tellus Online Security. Oh, tax season is the worst. You mean hack season? Sorry, what? Yeah, cybercriminals love tax forms. But I've got Tellus Online Security. It helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud

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Yeah, so one of the things I want to let you know about is what John kind of alluded to there, which is so you immediately see the price of gas go up when oil prices go up. But there's something that has not hit us yet. Oil also goes further down the economic pipeline because it's in so many of the products that we use. So those price shocks haven't come yet. They're a trailing indicator, right? So we're only getting the initial shock. We're not getting the follow up waves yet.

And of course, all of this is already bad enough if the war were to end right now. But even if the war were to end right now, there's only two scenarios and they're both terrible. Right now, Iran is charging a giant toll in the Strait of Hormuz, 2 million per ship, which means that oil is by definition going to be higher. And almost all goods prices are going to be higher across the world. On top of that, again, as we mentioned earlier in the show, Turkey, China, and other places might also start charging tolls in the Bosphorus and the South China Sea, in which case, again, prices continue to rise.

So that's in the better scenario where we leave right now. On the other hand, if we go to scenario number two, and Trump goes back to threats about bombing the Iranian oil and gas facilities, and Iran bombs the oil and gas facilities. and Iran bombs the oil and gas facilities in the Gulf, those take about five years to rebuild. Prices will skyrocket. That is one of the reasons why Donald Trump panicked and stopped the bombing, because if you went any further, it would almost certainly lead to an economic collapse. Plus, we're running out of interceptor missiles. So there are no good scenarios here, and I'm worried that we're still at only the tip of the iceberg.

Yeah, a great point. And I think it's good to remember that one of the positive things I think we have going on for us right now is that Donald Trump is terrified. I think for a lot of different reasons about continuing this stupid war. Now, all of his terror about the economic effects, angering his donors, his falling approval rating might not matter if Benjamin Netanyahu just tells him what to do and he decides to go with that instead. But that is the one positive thing may be pushing towards an end to this conflict. But as I said, there are a lot of other things that are being affected. you know, gasoline is not the only vehicle that's going to be more expensive to fuel. Jet fuel is also more expensive. So you taking flights, taking trips already way more expensive than it used to be might become even more so. In fact, even prosecuting the war could soon be more expensive as the price of jet fuel goes up. So bear that in mind too.

But then you also have things like the cans you use, beer and soda cans could start to cost more because aluminum is starting to become. more expensive. Iran struck two large smelters of aluminum in the Middle East. Both of them were major suppliers to the U.S. The Iran aluminum company, the country's largest producer, that was struck back in April by US and Israel, so that led to severe disruptions for aluminum as well. But also things like helium. These are the sorts of commodities that you've never needed to really think about, but thanks to stupid wars you do. Because helium is used in things like MRI scanners, semiconductor chips, which obviously affect lots of consumer electronics like

cell phones, phones, tablets, things like that. Even rockets, for instance, use it. So those things will all become more expensive too. We're going to do a little bit better in that particular area than some other parts of the world because that's one thing that we do actually produce. We're not as reliant on the rest of the world. But a third of the global supply comes from cutter and so that production apparently just hasn't been happening since the Strait of Hormuz has been shut down and the shortage is apparently already being felt in Taiwan and South Korea. And again, like theoretically we're better off because we produce it, but when shortages are felt in other parts of the world, then they start to bid on other parts of the world's

supplies of it. And so the price inevitably does go up regardless. And as we have said for a while now, fertilizer is one of the big consequences of this. One third of the world's fertilizer comes from the Middle East, so that is going to be more expensive. That affects food, which already people were very frustrated about the rising costs of. The Fertilizer Institute and Agricultural Association predicts that American farmers are going to be short some 2 million tons of fertilizer this spring, so they will plant fewer crops, and this will likely happen all around the world. With less supply, you can expect that you will have to pay more. As an example for just one farmer in Pennsylvania, Rick Tellez said the cost of his nitrogen fertilizer has gone from 500 to $850 a tonne since the war

started, nearly doubling. So he's planting less. He says he'll probably have to cut his fertilizer tonnage by at least 30%. I'll be lucky to recover my costs, he says. And then there's other things, the price of plastics, petrochemical, sulfur. I mean, the list very much does go on and on and on. But I just want to give one more example, Jank, that I think is the most amazing because you might think there's no reason that this particular area would be affected by the war. But we had actually had a point earlier this year, less than a week before the war began, where finally mortgage interest rates were beginning to go down. Donald Trump has been like begging and pleading and threatening to make that happen. It's finally going down and fallen below 6%, the first time that it

had in nearly two years. And then within days of attacking Iran, that number jumped back up to 6.5%. going up by nearly 10% in a matter of days because of what Donald Trump chose to do. And that is basically because with the chaos, not only the military chaos, but the economic chaos that it has produced, the cost of borrowing has gone up basically in every area. And mortgages are not unaffected by that jink. So it really is basically just everything and everywhere is more expensive. And I just want to remind everyone, we were already talking about an affordability crisis before he decided to launch this war. And he only made it worse in every conceivable way.

Yeah, our members and viewers are killing it today. Let me go to another member on tyt.com here. And by the way, if you want your comments as part of the show, tyt.com slash join or hit the join button below on YouTube. Teddy Lucy, Linda wrote in, the American government thinks Iranians are nothing more than a bunch of desert rats. Wrong, far from it. And now we will pay the price for their racism and their arrogance.

So why I think that's a good point is, yeah, I'm positive that Donald Trump thought, like, Ah, Iranians, we're America. They're like stupid Muslims or something, right? Yeah, they've been preparing for this war the entire time because their lives are on the line. This is existential for them, right? So have they made a ton of mistakes, of course, like the getting old, the I totally getting wiped out in the beginning? What a huge mistake. So it's not like they're like nailed it perfectly or anything like that.

But did they think ahead, hey, it's super easy for America and Israel to bomb our stationary missile launchers. So why don't we make them mobile? And they did. It's really easy for them to destroy our Navy. But what if we could plant the mines and the Strait of Hormuz in a different way? And they figured that out. So like our, unfortunately our leaders racism or arrogance or both led them to believe like they won't figure anything out. I mean, Trump was so stupid.

He thought they weren't even going to close a straight-of-hor moves. But that was obviously their go-to move. So yes, our overconfidence and the fact that our leaders are much dumber than the average leader of a country, certainly the ones we're attacking is a giant problem. Hexeth couldn't figure out, oh, they're gonna move the missile launchers. Oh, they have thousands of drones and the drones cost less than our interceptors. Our dumbass leaders couldn't figure out that we only have a certain number of interceptor missiles. And once we run out of defensive missiles, our ships are sitting ducks. And yes, it was partly because they're there, ridiculous racism and arrogance that they thought,

oh, Iran won't be able to figure anything out. They'll just surrender to us. Well, how's that working for us? As you saw in all the numbers John just gave you, it's turning into an epic disaster for us. Not only for everyone who has to pay those higher prices, and by the way, the average income, when adjusted for inflation,

went down this month. Now your incomes are going down, down, down. So we're all hurt by it. But let alone the guys who were killed there and let alone all the treasure were wasting there for no reason at all. So this war is nothing but losses for us. Yeah. Isn't it amazing that he just released his big like victory arch like renderings today? Like what exactly are you going to commemorate with this damn thing? This history of failure, economically and militarily.

Well, I think that we should take our second break. When we come back, we got to talk about Melania Trump and the Epstein files and what the hell is going on with all that. So we call it a squirder. Yeah, who just threatened Spain. Visit BetMGM casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMDM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. 19 plus to wager.

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Okay, we're not going to attack Spain. But Nanyahu is like a monster beyond description. Turkish Taffy said, what would you expect from a moron that bankrupted a casino? He bankrupted three casinos. I mean, I've been saying this for over a decade. Like now the house always wins has an asterisk, unless the house is run by the moron Donald Trump. Solidarity Works says, hello comrades, don't want to see here slash here news, but figure being a good citizen of the USA means I should hear the latest on Lebanon and how our allies

continuing its 78 year long monstrous, racist, terrorist, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine and stealing all of their land, just saw another documentary on the Nakpa and read more on it. So seething inside. Yeah, look, part of the reason why I'm so mad about it is because I got brainwashed. I mean, we all should have known. Well, it's a settler colony. A settler colony cannot expand without ethnic cleansing. It can't even exist without ethnic cleansing.

People are transported in, and then they have to murder and move out the people who were already in that land. So Israel was a disastrous idea from day one. I understand why. I understand why people were concerned, obviously, but they chose a this terrible, terrible idea to execute that built-in genocide. All right, back on T.I.T. Jang and John with you guys also, Hussein Sharifi. Thank you for joining, brother. We appreciate a hit join button below. I'll read one quick one here. Joseph Frost, who's a YouTube member, said, bro, Jenks a real one. Gotta love crazy dudes like him. I'll take it. I'll take it. Thank you, brother. Speaking of which, let me give you a real deal. Noble mobile, you're crazy, you got to switch now. So nothing on your phone changes. That's what I was worried about. Your phone number, your contacts, the phone itself. This service is basically a T-Mobile service. Mine is golden. I've never had an issue with it.

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Okay, let's talk about one of the most fascinating stories to develop this week. Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes. And then her testimony should be permanently entered into the congressional record. Then, and only then, we will have the truth. She became the champion for these women, for the victims. There really isn't someone out there as high profile as the first lady that, that is out supporting the victims, supporting these women. And Melania Trump certainly did that yesterday.

So certainly the first lady, Melania Trump, coming out and giving a speech where she did a few things, it was surprising. She said that she had basically no relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Giela and Gilein Maxwell, which if you've been following this story, you know that that is simply not true. But she also called on Congress to act, to speak to the women, to recognize their experiences, to continue the investigation. And she said that she believed that Jeffrey Epstein did not act alone and that there are other perpetrators out there. This is, of course, directly contradicting what Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have spent, you know, a year plus telling us. And it goes directly opposed to what we know are Donald Trump's interests when it comes to this story.

But is Melania Trump a hero? Is she the highest profile and most important person to stand with the survivors? Where to get into all of this, Bajank first? What are your two cents? Yeah, this is super strange. So Donald Trump says he had no idea that she was going to do this already. What? Imagine Michelle Obama surprises Barack Obama by giving like a five minute speech at the White House that he didn't expect and then brings a lot more Trumpal on him.

People would have been like, whoa, or Laura Bush or any of the first ladies. So this is super weird. Second of all, no one asked you. So this is like a great moment for like, ma'am, this is a Wendy's, right? Like she comes out and she's like, I was not handed to Donald Trump by Jeffrey Epstein. Like I said yesterday, it's like somebody coming out and saying, I'm not gay. Bro, nobody asked you, right? So what I'm going to speculate on after John gives you the facts are, why did she say this now?

And there's a couple of possibilities. One is she was given to Donald Trump by Epstein. The other ones might be worse. So save that for a second, John, give us the facts. I'm confused because she just said she wasn't given. So I don't, what part of Lehman do not understand, Jake? I don't know. But anyway, so let's turn to this.

It's fascinating in so many ways, especially considering everything the Trump administration has done to kill this story at the point where it was seemingly was seemingly the most killed, the least talk was going on about it. That's when Melania Trump jumps in and decides to say this. So let's turn to where she called for continuing investigation and hearing out the survivors. Now is the time for Congress to act. Epstein was not alone. Several prominent male executives resign from their powerful

positions after this matter became widely politicized. Of course, this doesn't amount to guilt, but we still must work openly and transparently to uncover the truth. I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes. And then her testimony should be permanently entered into the congressional record. Then and only then we will have the truth. Thank you.

So again, that is pretty fascinating, considering that Pam Bondi refused to even turn and face the survivors when she was testifying. And of course that Donald Trump has now had 400 plus days in which to bring them into the Oval Office if this is something that he truly cared about as he used to pretend to back when he was campaigning for office. He has chosen not to speak to those survivors. But the thing is, there have been lawmakers that have really been pushing for this. I believe that they have much better claim to be champions for the survivors. I'll leave it to the survivors to decide. But they didn't just pop out of the shadows, you know, in April of 2026. People like Rokane, people like Thomas Massey, and others, including those I disagree with even more like Nancy Mace have been pushing for the survivors to be heard.

Thomas Massey tweeted this saying First Lady asks Congress to bring Epstein survivors in for her testimony. With all due respect, that's Todd Blanche's job. Rokana and I already gave brave survivors a chance to tell their horrific stories on Capitol Hill. Pam Bondi wouldn't even acknowledge them, prosecute. Rokana then said, we agree Flotus, Thomas Massey, Nancy Grace, Marjorie Green, and I have been calling for this for months. It should be for all victimized by the Epstein class and there must be investigations and prosecutions. What say you Speaker Johnson? And I think I can probably guess. Even GOP representative Anna Polina Luna, she chimed in calling on the DOJ to prosecute individuals

who took plea deals. But I think that this speech by the first lady has led to a lot of people thinking that maybe it's good that she's involved in this, but maybe there's a particular way that she could be even more involved in it, but I'll leave Rokane to describe that. She's saying that Epstein did not act alone. We need to ask her, who were the other men that she believes may have been involved in raping or abusing these young girls? What did she know? Did she know about any young girls being abused? Did she know of other men talking about the rape and abuse of these young girls? She has relevant information. If she didn't have relevant information, how could she say that Epstein was not acting alone? So it is relevant to the

investigation. Hillary Clinton was a total witch hunt in my view. I mean, I thought President Clinton should have been asked questions, but Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with it. But Melania Trump actually does. And she should come and testify in front of our committee. And I'm glad to see him saying that. I, this morning on the damage, which I called on her to be brought in to testify, which she should do willingly, right? I mean, she is a champion for the victims. But if not willingly, then that's what subpoenas are for and she should be brought in. As Rokana pointed out, they brought in Hillary Clinton, who's not even really in the files.

Melani Trump and her husband are all up in those files. And Malani Trump, you know, she made a very strong statement saying that she basically had no relationship, even though we can see the files. And we know her talks with Gieland Maxwell and all that. But she didn't address that Donald Trump has been accused of raping a 13 year old. She didn't talk about the fact that the files have proven that, Donald Trump's cover story for the end of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been a lie the entire time. There's a lot of, I think, topics that we need a lot more information on. And I think that she is perhaps better positioned than many individuals in these files to help shed some light on it.

Chank. What do you think? Yeah. So first of all, I guess Rokana is the only Democrat left in the country. It's like a one-man party. We're not skewing reality, guys. he's like the only Democrat that ever says anything. Like every clip is Rocana because he's the only one out there doing anything. What? Like, why isn't anybody fill in the blank out there also fighting?

Imagine if there was like 200 rocanas, although sometimes it does feel like there are 200 rocanas. Anyways, at least there's one guy fighting for us. Okay. Now back to Melania. Look, guys, everything John said are facts. And now we're going to get into speculation. So we'd like to be very clear about the distinction there, okay? So as we talked about a little bit yesterday, there's a thing called semi-pros, okay? And what that is is a lot of the modeling agencies, especially for models that are getting a little older and are not runaway models, which is what Melania was in the category of.

They introduced them to wealthy men at high society parties, okay? And they don't work for the night. They're not that type of women, okay. But if you are good to them, they become your girlfriend. And that is how rich folks roll. If you don't know that, I just told you that's a fact, okay? Whether Melania was in that group is not a fact. That's speculation.

And I don't know. But there's one possibility, which is that somebody was going to write a story about how Epsine introduced Melania to Trump and high society. and that she was one of these women who were known to be available, right? And she's getting ahead of that story. We don't know, that story hasn't come out, and maybe it won't ever come out. And maybe it's not true. And so the other speculation is wilder, okay?

So, look, Epstein's all over everything. And remember, Epstein recorded everything. And Epstein, you don't put video cameras inside tissue boxes unless you're going to use it as, blackmail. But that's the most obvious thing in the world. Like you'd have to be as dumb as a mainstream media reporter to think, no, I bet he did it just for fun. I bet he wasn't going to use it for blackmail at all. I mean, why would you try to videotape the most powerful men on earth having illicit sex? Do you think that that could give your leverage? Duh. Like since we're not all as stupid as every single mainstream media reporter, we know that that is an obvious,

overwhelming possibility. Now, whether they have blackmail on Trump or Melania, we don't know, right? But here comes to the speculation. What Israel sometimes does is they do a warning shot, in my opinion, okay? This felt like a warning shot from Melania to Trump, to Donald Trump. Like, remember Donald what's in the files. We'll even send your wife out to remind the country what's in the files. We told you that it's okay for us to attack Lebanon. We told you to stay in the war. Do you want everybody to find out what's in the files, Donald? Because we could have your wife do a press conference inside the White House without you even knowing about it.

And reintroduce this incredibly damaging scandal back into the news cycle. Would you like us to do more, Donald? Okay, I granted a speculation. But I have it as a possibility. Yeah. And look, I think that reasonable people are forced to speculate when the officially provided reason for a thing is laughable. They are saying her statement, Melania, first of all said it was going to be a press conference, but she didn't answer any questions.

So then her people put out a statement saying the lies about Melania need to stop. people need to move on from this story. Like to the extent that they were going to, they'd already moved on. And the talk was about Trump, not about Melania. This feels like her being able to pretend that people are talking about her being unfair to her, to, as you say, reintroduce Trump and the allegations against him, which are far more devastating than anything Melania has faced, let alone is facing now. It doesn't make any sense that she would talk about it now because people,

insulted her last year, it would only, like the Streisand effect, it would only draw more attacks against Melania if that was actually what she was avoiding doing. And how would, let's say that that was the explanation. And Malania just, it had been stewing inside of her and she couldn't take the lies, so she needs to come out and talk about it. Why would that be a surprise to Trump that he only finds out about after the fact? None of this makes any sense based on what they said. And maybe Jenks, speculation is 100% wrong and it's something else, but we are forced to speculate because they're obviously lying to us. Those are all great points, John.

Yeah, why would it be a surprise to Trump? Why did she have to do it as a surprise? And if a story never comes out that was going to challenge her on that, then it becomes stranger, right? If there was nobody writing a story about how you might have been a hooker, let's keep it real. That's what she's saying she's not, right? Introduced by, you know, a high-end escort, introduced by Epstein, the Trump.

then why did you randomly say it now? And if it turns out Trump goes back into the war after this warning shot, well, that's another dot for you to connect. So look, these are for the moment being, these are just questions. And if the dumbest people in the country named mainstream media reporters say we're not allowed to ask questions, that gives you a sense of what they do. They're not journalists. Journalists ask questions, journalists challenge the government.

They don't go, no, no, no, no, don't ask the questions of the government. Don't ask them. Don't speculate on anything. Just bow down to the government. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're sick of your crap. So super strange. And it, there is no logical explanation. So hence, we've offered the most logical things we can think of for why she might have done this. Yeah. Well, I think that's all the time we have for time we have. All right. Everybody check out damage report Monday through. Friday, 1 o'clock Eastern, right here on YouTube and everywhere the young turks. And by the way, we're now on Amazon Prime as well. Just checked it out on my TV yesterday. It's badass, caught a little damage report. We got a 24-hour channel and it's got all of our shows. So check us out on Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Samsung, LG, and all the rest. We'll be right back. We have even more devastating stories in the second hour, including the fight between the MAGA broadcasters and Trump has gone thermonuclear, like even way beyond just yesterday.

So we'll tell you all about that when we come back. What contributions to the progressive cause are you most proud of? I mean, I don't have super high aspirations for a singular role that I can play in the movement or anything. I just, I try to present myself as what I think that I am, which is a progressive man who is driven by a, I think, well interrogated and organized system of values that I try to stay consistent on and I demonstrate that that's the sort of life that a person can lead and be successful and be happy and all of that. And that should not need to be done, but there are so many people on the right that are trying to push men in the opposite direction that I want to be able to do that along the way. If I can

get people to care about some topics that not that they wouldn't necessarily care about, or that for some men might they might think that's not a topic that they should be focused on, That's definitely something that I relish doing. And along the way, I mean, we've been able to introduce people to a lot of candidates. That's been a big part of what we've done. You know, not all of them necessarily got in office. Probably most of them did not. And a lot of them, you might not even remember their names.

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of stories. And if I do say so myself, it's going great at least so far. So thanks to everybody. For having me, Jank, how are you doing? I'm hanging in there, brother. Good, good. Let's dive in. All right, so yesterday, a Democratic National Committee panel took a resolution condemning APEC and promptly lit it on fire. Why pay attention to your voters when there's these lobbying groups with bottomless pockets acting on behalf, sometimes just of foreign nations? So before we get into the details, Jenk, this is like a trifecta on one corner. You have APEC representing a different nation. On another corner, you have the Democratic establishment. And on the last corner, you have these Democratic voters and they're all bumping heads. So before we get into the

details, what are your two cents? Yeah, so we're going to prove to you here that this is indisputably corruption. This means democratic leadership is definitely 100% corrupt. And then I'm going to tell you something you could do about it. So Ellie's going to give you the facts and then we'll talk about those two issues. Go ahead. Yeah, so let's go ahead and just dive into some of what this resolution actually said that the DNC has already killed RIP. We've barely had any time to mourn. So the resolution read in part, the use of massive outside spending to support or oppose candidates based on their positions regarding international conflicts or foreign governments raises concerns about undue influence over democratic debate and policymaking, potentially constraining

elected officials' ability to represent the views of their constituents. I would say that sounds fairly reasonable. I think if you live in a Democratic Republic and you vote for people to represent you whose job is ostensibly to act in your own interests, and then someone comes along with a bunch of money and decides who they think should be elected based on their interests, then it's just kind of inherently undemocratic. Now the resolution was submitted by Florida DNC member Alison Minerly, which was a shock to me. I didn't know there were any Democrats still left in Florida. So Godspeed to Allison and blink twice if you're in danger.

But she submitted the resolution and she included in it how APEC spent $14 million in last month's Illinois primary. The resolution was killed despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of Democrat voters do not look kindly on Israel and by extension APEC, probably as a result of, I don't know, know, constantly bombing Lebanon or helping us start an illegal war with Iran or that whole, you know, genocide thing. But even if the Democratic base isn't happy about it, APAC sure is. The DNC, they said the DNC made clear today that all Democrats, including millions who are APAC members, have the right to participate fully in the democratic process. And we plan to do just that. So they're sticking to their guns and one anonymous DNC member. also told Politico that at least two presidential hopefuls were part of killing this resolution,

which is in itself non-binding. So you can get out your polymarket or your calcee or whatever and take bets on who you think it was. Now this is juxtaposed with DNC member and critic of Israel James Zogby, who said the party needs to wake up to these changing views about Israel of their democratic base. And so how are these voters exactly changing their minds? Well, Well, it's not exactly subtle. Eight and ten Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents currently have an unfavorable view of Israel up from 69% last year and 53% in 2022. Democrats under 50 are slightly more likely than older Democrats to say they have a very unfavorable view of Israel. That's 47% versus 39%. I would have expected that to be a slightly smaller margin. Now, 60% of Americans in

general now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, which is a dramatic increase since 2022. Gee, I do wonder what happens. But fear not, folks, because if there is one Democrat politician who has his finger on the pulse of America, likely because it might be the only pulse he can feel, it's this guy. But I think more Democrats should listen to me and say it'd be on the right side of history and holding Iran accountable. And if you have, have to pick a side, pick our side, pick civilization, pick Israel. There was just a poll, I think it was today. Pew pointed out 80% of Democrats view Israel negative. Like that's insane. You know, that's our special ally. That's the only place in the region that has the kind of values and the

kinds of way that we live and what we want here as a Democrat. How is that possible that eight out of 10 view Israel in a negative thing as Democrats. You know, and I know it's even more or more unpopular about standing and agreeing about Epic Fury. But I will be the only Democrat, you know, in my caucus that says, proud to stand with Israel. And I also think Epic Fury was necessary. Yeah. So there you have it. There's a lot to unpack there. Why would voters be upset with Israel when they're our, quote special ally. It reminds me of that meme of Fred Armisen when he's like, I'm just a little baby. I'm just a little special ally. You can't actually get mad at me. And I do think, however, Federman is right about one thing, which is that the U.S. and Israel do share a fair amount of their

values. So, Jank, what do you make of all of this? Do you get frustrated? Does it not surprise you? Yeah. Well, look, I don't know that they do share values. So, like, I hope America's anti-genocide. Israel's pro-genocide. I hope America's in favor of democracy. Israel hates democracy and has denied five and a half million Palestinians democracy, self-determination, and freedom for 58 years. Americans were very clear that we didn't want more war. Israel wants endless wars. But Federman just can't figure it out. Why, why, oh, why would they be against his beloved Israel? And I love that. He's like, I already threw out the talking point of special allies. Why are you guys still objecting?

Because your dumbass propaganda isn't working. Okay, that's why. So now, I told you this is definitely corruption. Well, how can I prove that? Well, if 80% of your voters are, have a negative view of Israel, then you say, hey, no one should criticize Israel or that, or we can't even condemn the dark money going in to help Israel start these wars and, fund this genocide, well, then you're obviously going against your voters. I mean, with it,

in a democracy, that makes no sense at all. What is the only reason why you would go against the overwhelming majority of your voters? Because your donors told you to. And they gave you millions of dollars to defy your voters. That is the definition of corruption. So the Democratic Party works for their donors who pay them. Now, by the way, guys, I have. I've been saying this for 20 years. And a lot of you think, like, that's the most obvious thing in the world. But the reason why I keep repeating it is because every national media reporter goes, no, that's not true.

The politicians do not work for their donors. That's an outrageous conspiracy theory. And the idea that Israel might control the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is outrageous. Well, what just happened? Look at what just happened. They controlled the Democratic Party. Now, if you think they got a negative view on Israel, Wait till you get a little their view on APEC, which is a deeply right wing organization.

And then wait till you get a load of Democratic voters' views on dark money. My guess is that that is about 98% of Democratic voters who are against dark money. And the other 2% are the ones that give the dark money. So when you're defying 98% of your own voters, 80% at a bare minimum, there's only one reason you would do that because you were bribed to do that. That is super obvious to anyone who's not brain dead or a mainstream media reporter. It's pretty much the same thing, right? Yeah, go ahead, Elliot.

Yeah, it is pretty odd. I do feel like confusion for Federman just at this point should be a pretty comfortable feeling for the guy. I don't know what he hasn't been confused about. I don't know how feigned it is. Like, I don't know if he's getting out there. I just don't know. It's like this sort of like innocent demeanor he tries to put on. But it's like, why are you ignoring?

ignoring the elephant in the room of all of the things that Israel has done just in recent history and pretending as though everyone should just shut up about it. I do believe him when he says, though, that he's going to stand by him. I mean, he seems to have definitely drawn the line in the sand to say the least. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. And now there's, you know, rumors that he's going to flip over to a Republican in the next election. And that makes sense. I mean, he'll get routed in a Democratic primary. So, but now this, what can you do about it? Right? I mean, this is basically Democratic Party giving a middle finger to its voters, going, we don't give a damn what you think at all. We don't care of eight out of ten of you,

nine out of ten of you, ten of you. We don't care. We're corrupt. We work for rich people. We work for APEC, shut up, right? So okay, but then what do we do? Well, number one, eventually in 2028, do not listen to Democratic leaders. They're the ones betraying you. They're the ones who screw you every single time. They're the ones willing to lose elections. The DNC also buried their autopsy of the 2024 election. When they found out it was Kamala Harris's support for Israel that caused us the election. And they would rather lose again and again and again and again so they can keep taking bribes from APEC.

Because guys, if you think like, well, what's the point of the bribes if they just lose the elections anyway? Because their careers continue unabated and all the consultants and all the politicians stuff the money into their pockets. They don't care about you. They've never cared about you. So for God's sake, pick an honest Democrat. You could find one, he's all over television. He seems like he's the only Democrat right now.

I'm talking about Rokana, but look, we'll see, we'll see, maybe a second Democrat emerges that is not completely bought. Wouldn't that be amazing if there were two honest Democrats in the country? Of course, there's Bernie Sanders and a couple other good guys like Jamie Raskin and stuff, but those guys aren't going to run for president. So, but what can you do today? Well, at 8 o'clock Eastern today on the Revolution, that is a show that I do on the TYT network following the Young Turks every day, Monday through Friday, at 8 o'clock tonight,

we're going to take action together, me and the audience together, and we're going to ask every presidential contender in the Democratic Party, or almost all of them, hey, was it you? As Politico reports, there was two presidential candidate contenders who called in and said, Don't you dare, you must follow A-PAC, okay? I'm going to take money from A-PAC, and I'm going to use it to defeat honest Democrats. So you could vote that down. You understand me? So who was it?

Now, look, they're not likely to confess, but the people who didn't do it will say it wasn't me. and then for the folks who didn't say it wasn't me, it'll start to get weird. So let's do some accountability here and figure out which Democratic presidential candidate contenders betrayed eight out of ten Democrats. Amen. I like that. Or you make a bet on Polly Market, do whatever you want to do there. I mean, I'm just, actually, my bet is online gambling will destroy the fabric of this nation. But if I were a betting man, I have my contensions or my contenders for sure on who it's going to be.

Yeah. By the way, I don't know who it is. I know some people are speculating, but there's so many people who take money from APEC. Like honestly, almost all the contenders outside of AOC and Rokana and Van Hollen take money from APEC. So it could be any of them. Throw it hard. Yeah. All right. We'll be right back, guys. All right. Let's go to super chat real quick. William and Gabe's World wrote it a couple times. What if Donald Trump knows, in fact, what he's doing? And he's trying to fulfill that savior role for the the Jews by which coincidence is the Christians antichrist and in the book of Revelation. I wouldn't go there, guys. I'm not into religion. Christ, anti-gris, whatever. Now, it's way simpler

than that. Okay, it's called cash and blackmail. Anyway, then he wrote in, I went from being formed and raised by traditional Christians during the whole 9-11 Muslim bad era, serving 15 years in the army, only to wake up by questioning why we were in so many countries. I hope Iran wins. Is that bad? Well, everyone's a lot of their opinion. But I don't want Iran to hurt a single American. I don't want our country getting hurt in one inch by Iran or anyone else. But I'm the angriest at Israel because they drove us into this needless war.

And if we leave and Iran and Israel are in a war, that ain't my business. Okay. If Israel wants to start wars, that's their goddamn problem. Constantine Kavira says, I found a one-dimensional chess variant on board game Greek. I tried playing it. My wife beat me by playing a better game. I think it's a little too complex for Trump. Okay, damn it. I'm out of time. All right, we'll be right back. Back on TYT, Jank and Elliott with you guys. More news. So Donald, my wife did not have sexual relations with that man, Trump, and Tucker Carlson have been trading blows throughout Trump's second term. Don't you hate when dad and dad start fighting. But things got really heated on Monday.

when Carlson exposed Trump for you're not going to believe it, rejecting the Bible. Net favorable is among Republicans. Again, this is Republicans plus Republican-leaning independence. You see Carlson on the right side of your screen at plus seven points. Look at where Donald Trump is at plus 61 points. And this is actually a little bit low for Donald Trump and other polls around the same time. He was even higher than this. Again, he is crushing, crushing Tucker Carlson. What is this? This is a 54 point advantage for Donald Trump over Tucker Carlson when it comes

So who is more popular among Republican voters? Yeah, don't believe it at all. Okay, so they need to make sure on cable news that you're for this war. So Tucker is against the war, Trump's for the war. Look at this, I found a three week old poll that shows what I want you to believe. I've got a lot more on that coming up a little bit later. But wait till you see how ugly this war has gotten between Tucker and Trump. Tucker has, among other things, intimated that Trump might be the antichrist.

He just called him a slave, okay? And he has suggested that perhaps he's being blackmailed by Israel. So whoa, buckle up and wait for all the quotes and facts here. Elliot, tell us. Yeah, I think at this point, everyone knows that if you don't kiss the ring, then Trump will just promptly punch you in the face, we did not take this laying down. Yesterday, Trump tore into Tucker Carlson writing, MAGA agrees with me and just gave CNN a 100% approval rating of, quote, Trump, not hand flailing fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't even finish proper now in college. He was a broken man when you got fired from Fox,

and he's never been the same. Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist. Got them. Now, I have to say that in a few weeks, I should be getting a PhD in what's called Dep Psychology. And it moves my heart to see the president of the United States finally concerned about mental health. And if he is really concerned about mental health, he should check out stuff like Medicare for All or maybe look up a term like projection. But all of this raises the question, who actually best represents the Republican base? Is it Tucker Carlson or is it Donald Trump? Well, this morning, CNN's Harry Enten stated that when it comes to Republicans and Republican leaning independence, President Donald Trump's approval ratings are much higher than Tucker Carlson's.

Here is more from Enton. Look at this trend line. Tucker Carlson's net favorable. Back in March of 2024, when he and Donald Trump were very close friends, look at this, he was at plus 54 points. Look at where he is today at only plus seven points among Republicans, and that includes GOP leaning independence. I mean, that is a drop of what, 47 percentage points. My goodness gracious, when you go up against Donald Trump and you want to appeal to the Republican base, to quote the movie Goodberger, you go on the grinder. And that is exactly what has happened to Tucker

Carlson. So here's the deal. We looked into Harry N's data on Tucker Carlson. He's basically drawing from two polls. Now, the first poll was from March 24. Okay. And I know time is a little Feels a little different these days, but that is over two years ago, and that's from Grisham College, and it found that among Republicans, Tucker Carlson's favorability ratings were as follows. Yeah, favorable, 64%, unfavorable, 10%, and then 26% were like, I don't know. And that's how Grisham College felt. I appreciate the I don't know. Now, the second poll came from UMass Lowell.

That is from April of this year, far more recent. Here's how the numbers break down. Tucker Carlson's favorability among Republicans and independently in Republicans. Favorable, 31% unfavorable, 24%. No opinion, 35% and then 10%. Just never heard of Tucker Carlson. So good for them.

I guess it's best to stay off cable news or wherever he is now. Okay, so, Jenk, before we get your thoughts on all of this, I do think there is one more thing the audience should be aware of, which is that the New York Times just went through and analyzed the truth, social comments on Trump's threats to Iran, and here's what they found. More than half of those responding to Trump's warning on Tuesday morning that Iran's whole civilization will die were deeply critical of his comments. And there's more. One user who indicated on their profile page that they supported President Trump 100%

wrote that Trump had demonstrated a lust for blood. A quote, Trump loving conservative wrote that such threats would destroy the president's legacy. honestly heartbroken, the user added. You can almost hear the tears. Trump's announcement that he had reached a deal on a two-week ceasefire did little to assuage critics, the analysis showed. Thousands of comments criticized Trump for backing down on his threat while receiving little in return.

So it seems like the MAGA response is kind of like a microcosm for the war in Iran in general, and that is kind of a lose-lose situation, at least specifically for Donald Trump. Because on one hand, he has people going, hey, what you said was absolutely. out of pocket and you're going to ruin your legacy and we're in shambles over that. And then another group was in shambles because they didn't actually destroy an entire civilization. So, Jack, what do you make of all of this? So this was a hard one, guys. So I'll tell you why I don't believe the polling. But maybe I'm wrong. And so it's not a thing I say often, right? But but there's a reason why I say that. So first off, the reason I might be wrong is because we all

live in our own bubble. And so I'm super cognizant of that. And I don't want to make the mistake that everybody else does of thinking, oh, well, everyone around me thinks Joe Biden is young and dynamic. So he must be young and dynamic, right? Or whatever bubble you happen to be it, right? So on the other hand, this is super hard to believe. So, like, CNN ran the poll that Trump was alluding to in that statement a couple of weeks ago. I don't even remember if it was CNN's poll, but CNN aired it in a Harry Enton segment where they said that 100% of MAGA supporters were with Trump and that none of them, not one, not one in the country had broken with Trump, despite the war, despite everything else that's going on, right? And that's literally

impossible. So, I mean, it is possible if you ask it in a kind of tautological way where you go, Okay, are you a MAGA supporter who likes Trump? Yes. So now my first question to you is do you like Trump? Yes. Well, that kind of proves itself, right? So that's kind of a useless poll. So maybe they didn't framed it that way.

But what is not possible is that Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and as you're going to see later in the show, Alex Jones and Tim Poole and you saw earlier in the show, Benny Johnson, Candice Owens, all of these MAGA guys with all their millions and millions of followers are heavy. criticizing Donald Trump, but it hasn't moved a single vote. And everything that we're seeing online with independent voters who voted for Trump and then portions of MAGA and America first, who are enraged, right, and writing all over social media and attacking the Laura Loomers and the Mark Levins and the Ben Shapiro's, their audience is totally dwindling. Tucker and Megan's audiences skyrocketing.

All of those things, that none of it is true. It's all a mirage and it hasn't moved a single voter. No, no, that's just not true. That's crazy talk, right? So between it hasn't moved a single voter and now they hate Tucker and they still love Donald Trump, I don't know where the truth is anymore. And so I've never seen a national poll by UMass Lowell. What are they going to do? Rig it? That sounds crazy to me.

So that doesn't seem likely. A lot of times the rigging is in the framing of the questions, right? So did that happen? I don't know. But online, Elliot, there is a massive rebellion against Trump, led by the top former mega broadcasters in the country. Now, on television, totally different worlds. And in television, if you watch Fox News, you have no idea about the rebellion. You think that Trump is is killing it. We're winning the Iran war. Israel is the greatest ally we've ever had. And Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Green and Massio, all of them lost their minds overnight for no reason at all. And you should hate them now, right? And so maybe this, maybe the answer is these polls are still

being doing on are still being conducted on landlines, phones that have connected to the wall. And only 80 year olds still have landlines. So and they watch Fox News and they watch Fox News and And that's why they're on a different planet. But otherwise, these results make no sense at all. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about the, I mean, obviously the questions, that's part of it. There's so many ways like these polls can go wrong, obviously, and I'm not an expert at it, but like the questions can be leading and then there's the sample size and where you're getting the actual sample from.

I think that is a big part of it, like you're saying, they're doing landlines and they're only seeing, they're only talking to people who watch Fox News. But I also, I do wonder, like, if you zoom out and you look at how horrible the economy is doing and you look at how high gas prices are right now, I do wonder if a lot of people, in terms of their media diet, are basically like fast-ac. Like maybe when it comes to something like the war in Iran where they have all of this massive support for it, that's coming from maybe like a subset or cohort of people that are just completely unplugged, you know, almost entirely from the media zeitgeist. And I don't know how much that would even,

it still wouldn't make up for, it still wouldn't support that big of a number like they're saying. And 100% is like a mythical number at this point. But I don't know, it is very curious. And it does make me feel a little bit crazy when I see people online that are like jumping ship. And then you're like, oh no, apparently they're not. That's all, what are they bought? I mean, it's all very, very strange. Yeah. No, the one thing you could take away from this for sure is that the online world and the TV world, are completely different, two different planets, right? So if you're watching TV, you still think Israel is doing self-defense and they're angelic

and they're beautiful. And it's not just Fox News. CNN yesterday did a segment saying, well, obviously everyone who opposes Israel on the left and the right are anti-Semites, right? And the guy on the panel is like, obviously, obviously, obviously. The anchors, like, obviously, obviously, they're all anti-Semites, right? And so, like, they're on, yeah, it's just, it's planet propaganda. So, and for older Americans, unfortunately, not all of them because a lot of you guys are in that category, but, but the majority of older Americans, they're hooked into the matrix in the back of their neck and they're getting fed propaganda 24-7. So that's why they live in a different existence. The real question is the elections, because you can give me all sorts of cutesy polls, but there's only one poll that matters at the end. And that's the vote, right? So right now, the one.

One poll that is the most important, and we'll see if it's right or not for 2026, is Tom Massey's election in Kentucky. Why is that the most important? Because Massey is very obviously against what Trump is doing. Trump is super obviously against what Massey's doing. Trump has gone down to Kentucky in his district and rallied for Tom Massey against Tom Massey, and he's doing as big a frontal assault on Massey as you can possibly get. latest poll was that Massey's up by 10. If Massey crushes in that election, then all of these

garbage polls on cable news were all mythical, totally and utterly mythical. On the other hand, if Massey gets crushed, then we're living in the alternative world, and we're living in a bubble, and we should snap out of it. So we're going to find out soon enough. I agree. I think Thomas Massey and John Federman, who were talking about a second ago, are like mirror images of each other, where on the Republican side, you have the people on the left going, okay, at least there's like one saying one, and they're saying the same thing about John Federman while there's all this infighting going on. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. And I agree, whatever happens with Massey will be probably the most valuable litmus test

for where we're actually at as a nation. Yep. All right guys, a quick break. We'll be right back. Let's go to members on t.yot.com. Sudo dragon says, Jane, how much is Hosk loading at family dinners now that he is mainstream media and the DNC's public enemy number one instead of you? You know, funny enough, we never ever talk about it. So, no, he's not gloating and it's insanity, total insanity, right? Like cable news has criticized Hassan Piker more than they've criticized Israel.

What kind of ludicrous world do we live in? Okay, so eclectic miscellaneous asked, Inquiring My want to know who is that a bust of on your bookshelf, Elliot? Oh, thank you for asking. That is a phrenology bust. It's kind of a joke. I don't know if you guys are familiar phrenology. It's back in the day when they thought they could feel your skull to figure out how smart you are. So it's kind of a gag. No one in particular. But you can imagine it's you if you want. It's very generic. It's such an intellectual thing. I love it. It's so dorky.

No, I can't get enough of it. That's great. That's such a, that's as good an answer as that we could have gotten. All right. Back on T.Y.T. Jenkins Elliott with you guys. Elliot's got more news. Well, it turns out Tucker Carlson has also responded back to President Donald Trump in this little volleyball game they got going on.

He responded to Trump's insults by asserting that Trump is currently getting blackmailed. by Israel. So, Jank, what are your two cents there? Well, first of all, I think that that's certainly possible. So we'll talk about how possible that is in a second. But wait till you hear the even worse things Tucker Carlson said about him to the point where even I was shocked. So Elliot tells us about it. All right. Well, yesterday Trump called Carlson a broken man in need of a psychiatrist. Trist, really great. Today's edition of the Tucker Carlson Morning Note reads,

rather than engaging in petty name-calling, we want to give the president some grace. He is facing a lobbying campaign that is dark enough to make him abandon his campaign promises and morph into the precise kind of politician he once vowed to destroy. I think Tucker was almost trying to make a Star Wars reference, but decided not to at the very end. So what sort of lobbying campaign you might ask? Establishment and media never reports this, but the Israeli government has a storied history of blackmailing U.S. presidents. Perhaps the most jarring example occurred in the 90s when Israel used recordings of a Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, phone sex session, as leveraged pressure Clinton into releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from prison. The phone sex story is worth remembering as President Trump attempts to end the Iran war.

Like many other things Israel has done, it shows that America's quote, special ally is. willing to play very dirty to achieve its goals. Dark money campaign contributions, extortion, physical threats, and even assassination. Israel's current top priority is making sure Operation Epic Fury does not stop. Based on the country's past, its leaders are doubtlessly willing to push us hard as necessary to ensure the bloodshed continues. That could mean Clinton-style blackmail against Trump or something far more morbid. Very dramatic. We do not know for sure whether that is happening. But the mere possibility is haunting enough to keep the president up at night. He is under a level of pressure that most people cannot fathom. Just maybe a tiny bit of passive aggressiveness there.

If you pay really close attention later today, Carlson doubled down on his defense or attacks on Trump. Breaking responding to Thursday's brutal true social posts by POTUS, Carlson said, I've always liked Trump and still feel sorry for him, as I do for all. All slaves asked to elaborate. Carlson added he's hemmed in by other forces. He can't make his own decisions. It's awful to watch. Yeah. So that's I would say definitely passive. Actually, that might just be considered aggressive. So one of the forces that's pushing Trump towards Israel does seem to be none other than everyone's favorite, Laura Lumer. It's either he's mentally ill. He's either relapsed as an alcoholic or he's taking money from a Muslim country or taking money from somebody, okay? But the president has had enough of Tucker. And yeah, I'm just going to admit it. I send the president Tucker Carlson's clip so he can see the that he says about him. I do. And I want that motherfucker Tucker Carlson to know that I'm the one who knifed him from the front.

I want him to know. I'm not talking about physical violence, physical knifing. But yeah, I'm the one that sent the president all your talk to because he deserves to see the fact that you are lying about him and you are smearing him and you are saying the most vile things about our country and our president and you are creating so much chaos you're going to cause the Democrats to take the House and the Senate and you are endangering our national security by whitewashing this barbaric death cult ideology known as Islam. Just want to give everybody a few moments to pick up the brain cells that probably just fell out of your head and jam them back in there because Lumer isn't about to stop there. So today, Benny Johnson said that Benjamin Netanyahu should

be banned from the White House for pushing Trump into the Iran war. Well, Lumer wasn't going to take that sitting down. So in response, Lumer is now attacking X accounts that are sharing his comments. Have you noticed how Daily Caller, which is founded by Tucker Carlson, has become a propaganda armed for the Catholic Church and anti-Israel propaganda? Looks like Tucker is still very much involved with Daily Caller. Daily Caller or Daily Stormer, hard to tell these days. Burn. Got him. All right. Jank, what do you think about this? Are you enjoying? the fight or are you hoping they all just kind of get along? No, I don't want them to get along.

So, no, I have a very clear side and I don't hide it. So first, let's talk about Laura Luma real quick. Notice she said that Islam is a death cult. Imagine if anyone had said Judaism is a death cult and the Jews are in a death cult. Obviously, CNN would have 200 segments on that. That person would be canceled forever and ever. no one would ever be allowed to talk to them. Meanwhile, Laura Lumer's firing people at the White House.

And no one objects. Everybody's cool with it. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That deeply racist, bigoted person has enormous power over the White House. So, and I'm not even talking about the clips she's sending about Tucker Carlson to Donald Trump. That's like good Israeli propaganda 101. Hey, smear your enemies. Make sure that, you know, you brainwash the president.

And said, by the way, why is the president listening to Laura effing Lumer? Who the hell is she? Who the hell is Laura Lumer? Like that's insane in and of itself, right? So I don't like, and I'm so sorry that I'm going to do this. And I don't mean to draw the comparison in terms of content or anything along those lines or radicalism. But Harry Sisson, super popular on the left, right? And he's online like a thousand times more popular than Laura Lumer.

If Joe Biden was constantly like, hey, Harry, who should I fire at the White House? People would be like, whoa, what the hell's going on, right? And so where is Laura Lumer like a pipsqueak, a pimple on anyone's ass, coming around and going, oh, you're fire. Hey, Tucker Carlson, fire this person. Israel says no. Israel says fire that person. And Trump's like, oh, okay, hold on, I'm writing down the names.

Yes, sir, yes, ma'am, whatever you are. Okay, so what is this? And no one in media is canceling her, even though she's like an avoward bigot. She says the most disgusting things about Muslims nonstop and she doesn't hide it, right? But just giant double standard. Okay, so that's baked in. And so now let's move to the main fight, right? Tucker versus Trump.

So let's now note for the record to what Tucker started with there. Yeah, Bill Clinton was threatened by Benjamin Netanyahu. and he had two requests. He said, I want Jonathan Pollard released, pardoned. He's the traitor that gave our secrets to Israel, top secrets. And by the way, they were in the middle of the Oslo Accords. And, you know, Netanyahu wanted more favorable treatment. Like Bill Clinton's saying nonstop about how old Israelis made a great offer.

The Israel said, oh, the goddamn Palestinians wouldn't take that brilliant offer by the Israelis. It's all their fault for being enslaved. They should be occupied for longer because they didn't take the offer, okay? So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How the hell did Nanyahu have tapes of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton before anyone else? And why was that not the largest news story in the country? Why did no one in mainstream media cover it? That's insane.

You know who covered it, the Israeli press? almost like a ha ha we got you by the balls what are you going to do about it now mainstream media goes oh no that same Netanyahu from that same country would never blackmail a US president that's an outrageous conspiracy theory he already did it like it's like saying OJ harming anyone that's an outrageous conspiracy theory okay so now that part is totally true if you're not wondering if Trump is blackmailed by Israel, you're not paying attention. It doesn't mean that they're definitely doing it. And we don't yet have any direct evidence. I want to be super clear about that. But is it a legitimate question? Of course, it's a legitimate question given the

circumstances. And every time Netanyahu calls, Trump changes his position to Netanyahu's position. That is super strange. Imagine if the Bolivian president called Reagan like 12 times. And every time the Bolivian president called, Reagan changed America's position to a pro-Bolivian position. And one that hurt America. You'd be like, on the first one, you'd be like, oh, that's strange. Second one, super strange. On the 12th one, you'd be like, what is Bolivia about Reagan? Right.

Like, these are obvious questions, right? So then when you get to the slave part, okay, now we're in a, now we're in World War III, right? Now he's like, Tucker's like, you want to call me low IQ? You want to call me nuts? All right. Now we're going to go all the way in. Okay. And this is a death match.

This is an, they've entered the octagon and only one's going to come out. Okay, politically. And you guys can all lay your bets wherever you like. And I am a gambling man. I will guarantee you this. By the year 2028, Tucker Carlson will be infinitely more popular. in the Republican Party than Donald Trump, infinitely. Okay, so let's see.

Now, everyone on cable news is, including Harry Antinacian, we showed it here earlier today. They're like, Tucker's not at all popular among Republicans. He has no support at all. Republicans love Donald Trump. Republicans love the war. They love the war. Keep the war going. Okay, all right, let's see how it goes.

Let's see how it goes. Elections tend to be clarifying. And I don't even know that Trump's even going to make it to 2028. I mean, he is a house of cards. So let's see how it goes. And Elliot, am I on one side or the other? Of course, I'm on the side that's against the war. I'm on the side that says another country shouldn't control us.

That doesn't mean I agree with everything Tucker says. But on this issue, not close. Tucker's 100% right. And Trump's a 0% right. Yeah, I also think that, I mean, when you're having these conversations, like how Laura Luma is bringing up Islam and calling it a death cold. I think that's a great example of why having ethno states is just generally speaking, not a good idea, because it immediately muddies the water. And you can't talk about foreign policy

without bringing in all of these religious connotations. And I think that just gets very complicated. And it's not accurate. So also, I will say Tucker Carlson calling Trump, I can't, the idea of calling someone a slave blows my mind anyway. But that's neither here nor there, I guess. So I hope they keep fighting and I hope the war stops. By the way, real quick, because you're just such a good point. Like, to me, it's obvious that Saudi Arabia calling itself a Muslim state and Iran calling itself a Muslim state is a terrible idea. But if you say the idea of Israel calling it a Jewish state is a terrible idea, you'll be canceled to no end. So like, can we have a normal principle stand irrespective of religion and mainstream media that claims to be objective says, no,

you have to say Israel is good. And the Muslim. are bad. No, shut up. You guys are biased. You're disgusting. And you're almost always wrong. Okay, let's go to the next story. Let's dive into it. I will not let you down. You will be very, very impressed, I hope. President Trump, you promised to never let me down. But now you've let yourself and America down. Thank you so much for delineating that I'm not with you, a sinking, burning ship. The left attached me and says, oh, you admit he was bad the whole time. He made a mistake. No, we got a lot of good done with him. I'm proud. the fact that went through hell to support Trump.

But I have integrity and I will now stand against this new Trump who by the day becomes more demonic, more twisted, and more sick. Heartbreaking. Yesterday, Donald Trump, alas, signed the divorce papers between himself and conservative media figures. You know, the ones that helped get him elected, folks like Alex Jones and Megan Kelly and Tucker Carlson. And as much as Trump wanted this to hurt him, apparently, they're doing just fine. And they have no problem with what he's doing. They're going, And eight, we'll actually see you later. So, Jank, what is your reaction to this out of the gate?

Yeah, this has gone thermonuclear. I mean, Ellis is going to show you Candice Owens, Marjorie Taylor Green, Tim Poole, showed you Benny Johnson earlier. I mean, Trump is taking on the entire right-wing broadcasting industry that's online, at least. And so let's hear the facts of the death match, and then we'll talk about who's going to win. Yeah, pop your popcorn. in a very long-winded rant yesterday, Trump took aim specifically at Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Megan Kelly. So we already gave you Tucker Carlson's reaction, but the others

on that list and other prominent mega figures, some of whom wear beanie's have also responded and not positively at all. So Candace Owens posted on X, it may be time to put grandpa up in a home. Uh-oh. Now, Alex Jones seemed to be a bit more heartbroken, but was more so sad at the nosedive Trump has taken. It seems to be a common theme in MAGA right now, especially since the start of his second term.

Well, President Trump came out on true social and attacked myself and all the original motto supporters today. And I'm just so sad that whatever's happened to him has totally changed the man he once was, because he did so much good. I supported the old Trump. They got so many good things done. But at the end of the day, I just feel sorry for him and pray that God touches his heart and soul and free him from the demonic influences that he's under. Was I somewhat naive?

Did I defend Trump too long? He did so much good? Yeah, I did. Are people that, you know, said I'd defend him too long? Are they right? Yeah, it looks like they are. Find out to a victory lap. But I did it from a place.

I believe he was the lesser two evils. And I guess the end of the day, justice to be done, may the habits fall. There's no such thing as less of evil. So I took the establishment attacking him as the sign I should support him. I took myself being attacked for supporting. It was just not as she's supporting him. And now it's certainly clear that this new Donald Trump is somebody we shouldn't support, and I'm not.

So I'm energetically opposing him. I'm calling for the 25th Amendment if it continues to call for nuclear war and genocide. I think there's a lesser of two evils. I do think that still exists. Now, Megan Kelly, who is also named in Trump's Truth Social Post, hasn't responded publicly yet, but this post didn't just affect those who were named. A lot of folks didn't like it. The headquarters ex account posted multiple screenshots from Trump's followers on truth social,

and they were not having it. What your way out of line here? Most of these people, especially Alex Jones, have been your day ones. You need to step back and take a good hard look at who's whispering in your ear. Get back to America first. Personally put up years of abuse. And then you have Trump just going against everyone that fought for him to win. Sleepy says clearly you're insane.

Time to resign Donald or face the 25th. You're mentally and emotionally unfit to be policed. could have told you that. Quirkham says, ah, Trump is mad that the people who believed in spread his campaign lies. Don't believe him anymore. What a deranged lunatic. And the gray area says, so we can only listen to Mark Levin for news. These people helped get you elected. You are actively alienating your base every day. This is sad. And finally, the pot calling the kettle black, hilarious. Sounds like a fifth grader. Donald Trump is a loser. Everybody knows it. Total psychopath, low IQ, the lowest. Everyone knows it. I actually do agree with all that. You so insecure.

battle, belittal his critics, what an embarrassment to the United States, someone get this man on meds immediately. So while she wasn't named in the post, former representative Marjorie Taylor Green, who has become another recent enemy of Trump, wrote, President Trump has gone mad as he wages war against Iran, a broken campaign promise. I fought alongside Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones to help get Trump elected. And now he goes off on a rambling rant attacking all of us in one post. We never changed. Trump did America first. Gee, I do wonder why he changed. But probably one of the more shocking reactions was from none other than Tim Pool. That does it. I am done. That was the last straw. I'm so angry. I don't really know if he read it exactly like that,

but I like to think he did. So Tim Pool is upset. And when Tim Pool is upset, everybody listens. So, Jake, what do you make of all of this? Yeah, so if you've lost Tim Poole, you've probably lost your whole base. So, but on TV, I hear he hasn't lost a single voter. I mean, look at all those guys. Those are Maga of Maga, right? And it's ranging from like leaning right to like off the cliff right, right? So now Alex Jones is calling him demonic. Tucker Carlson saying he's a slave. So I mean, this is as over the top as it gets. And so immediate, in my opinion, determines everything. And so I think Donald Trump is in a gigantic trouble. I know that, again, there's people who believe that he hasn't lost anybody. And I just, it's mental. It's totally mental.

So this is going to pulverize his ratings because Elliot, what kept his popularity at, from cratering past like now he waivers between 33% and 40%, but I thought 33% was kind of almost an unbreakable barrier. But I think it's going to be broken and I think he's going to get into the 20s because Democrats, he'd lost from day one and he's lost all the independence already with his maniacal actions, including the ones that voted for him. But now he's going to eat into his own base, which it seemed was impenetrable. But there, you just saw it with your own eyes. It has been penetrated. And he's the one who did it. He's the one who screwed them. And now, you know

these guys. You think that all these guys on the right are just going to lay down and go, oh, okay. Look, to be fair, sometimes they have. A lot of times they have, right? But this is a bridge too far with them. I mean, they're talking about the 25th Amendment. I don't know if they're going to go to shop tyt.com and start buying this, but that's our latest shirt. Maybe we'll get Republicans going to shop ty.t.com more than Democrats now. But my God, his top broadcasters are saying Trump should get the 25th Amendment. This is as big a civil war within a party as I have ever seen. And so I think the podcasters are going to win and Trump is going to lose. What do you think, Elliot?

I really hope you're right about at least the base and that 33% mark. I do wonder if there's like a sunk cost fallacy where they're just going to absolutely, like some people are just too far in. And I know we've been throwing around a lot of gambling metaphors, but that's one where I think that they've just like invested too much at this point and there's too much social capital in their support of Trump. But I do think that there is room for it to go down at least a little bit. As for the podcasters, yeah, I think they're going to come out on top.

These are media savvy people, and Trump used to be a media savvy person. And I don't think he is anymore. I think he's lost a little bit of his magic touch. But is that wishful thinking? I guess we'll see. Yeah. And so, by the way, part of the reason why they're reacting this way to Trump is not because they're angels, but because their own audience is telling them if you don't come out

against Iran war. If you seem like you're kissing Israel's ass, then we're gonna hate you and we're gonna leave you. And the idea of losing their audience is the one thing that they're more afraid of than Donald Trump. So all right, battle royale. We're all gonna see with our own eyes who's gonna win soon enough. Okay, Elliot, you're awesome. Everybody check him out on Rebel HQ. Great to see you here, brother. A terrific job. And when I come back, we're gonna do the Revolution, I've already started. I'm putting out tweets and I'm hoping that you guys participate. We're gonna try to find out the moles in the Democratic Party. So come back and let's do that now.