Transcript of Afternoon Breaking Updates on Iran War with Ben 9/8/2026

Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myselis, and this is your breaking news, our breaking news. Moments ago, senior U.S. officials told state regime media Fars the following. The United States military has struck targets near Kharg Island and Jask. The targets include Iranian oil tankers. This is part of a larger effort to squeeze Iran economically. The strategy includes sinking and disabling Iranian crude oil tankers, aka the proud United States Navy has just become a bunch of pirates, not even striking military targets, striking oil tankers near Kharg Island. And this follows last week's massive escalation by Donald Trump, where he struck a wedding in Sirik County, killing at least 4, including women and children, and injuring about 90 others at that wedding. This is yet another act of escalation by an increasingly desperate Trump regime as the price per barrel of oil for both Brent and WTI are about to hit $100, folks. And you know that because if you go to the pump, you know the price of gas right now, nationwide average approaching $5 a gallon. And the price of diesel approaching $6 a gallon. And all of the things we were warning about before regarding the Strategic Petroleum Reserves hitting effective tank bottom, the salt caverns in Texas under the worst conditions in history right now.

And Donald Trump, the blubbering buffoon, goes on and further escalates this catastrophic war striking 3 oil tankers, as Iran specifically warned, if you keep shooting our damn oil tankers, we're going to keep shooting your military bases and we're going to keep raising the stakes. Now, moments ago, in response to the Trump regime's escalation, Iran's Navy responded as follows. We warn all oil tanker crews at ports and anchorages in Kuwait and Bahrain, immediately abandon your vessels. We are going to be targeting you now. Iran appears to be ready to just blow up any and all ships that are currently at the Kuwait and Bahrain anchorages right now. And I've been covering this— Mohsen Razi, one of Iran's top military leaders who's the main military advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini, Has promised that Iran is rolling out a new special weapon that we've seen before. Some have called it a Castle Breaker, but there's another variation of it, an anti-ship ballistic missile as well, the Qasem, which is different than the Castle Breakers. But both of these are advanced ballistic missiles that can change course after they're fired. They go incredibly fast. And really, the United States, since it's out of interceptors, doesn't really have the capability to stop it.

Now, Mohsen Razai, Iran's top military adviser to the Ayatollah, I mean, he described his predicament and Iran's predicament as, look, we can destroy these aircraft carriers that are now in the Arabian Sea pretty freaking easily. The problem is we're going to kill hundreds of US Navy sailors and Marines. And if we do that, then that may actually rally support for the war where the United States doesn't support this catastrophic war to begin with. So Iran has to basically deal with the fact that Donald Trump is using our service members as bait. And that's what I've said before, and that's what I truly believe, in my opinion, what Trump is trying to do. He's having our aircraft carriers essentially serve as bait. Trump wants Iran to hit the carriers So then Trump can step up and act like he's this wartime guy and it could help with his approval ratings. I sincerely believe, in my opinion, that Donald Trump, this demonic sicko, that his plan is actually wanting our service members to get killed. My opinion. Feel free to disagree. But if you look at his behavior, his behavior is that exactly. You're shooting 3 Iranian oil tankers after Iran has warned that if you keep on doing that, they are going to have no choice but to go after those 2 aircraft carriers that are forming the blockade.

And I think because I've been speaking to a lot of families of service members, I think they know that. I think the people aboard these ships Know that. I think the family members— and there's quite a few who speak to us here at the Midas Touch Network who had family members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is now leaving Thailand after all of those horrific conditions were exposed. The George Washington replaced it. We no longer have aircraft carriers in the Pacific. But I think those family members knew Trump regime, Pete Hegseth, Demonic sickos. You are making our service member family members bait to Iran, and Iran realizes that. So that's the dynamic. That's the dynamic at play right now. And if you just look at the ability of what the Houthis are doing right now, the quality and quantity of their ballistic missile cruise FPV Shahed drone strikes. Right. The axis of resistance, the top of that axis is Iran. And then you've got Hezbollah, you've got the Houthis, you've got Hamas, you've got certain groups in Somalia and elsewhere. They use the Iranian technologies, first-rate technology, top-of-the-line engineering, the Iranian technology. Why do you think that Russia is using the Iranian— it's the best.

It's the best. You can say what you want to say. It is top of the line. So when Donald Trump tries to act like, oh, we've destroyed their navy, look at me meme, I'm going to meme this, I'm going to meme that, I'm going to post a meme of this. No, Iran has developed quantity-wise, quantitative, more ballistics, more Shaheds. They've also helped Russia assemble more ballistics, more Shaheds. North Korea has also been helping Russia. On that front as well. And also the Axis of Resistance getting their hands on this as well. The ballistics, the Shaheds, the cruise missiles, and not just the quantity, the quality. These new ballistics, they change direction midair. Normally, or in the past, the ballistic point A, point B, that's it. Now it goes point A, point B, and then if it sees an interceptor— and by the way, the Trump regime idiots ran out of most interceptors. It goes around the interceptor. It can maneuver around the interceptor. And that's why we've seen— and a lot of this is being covered up. A lot of this is being covered up. But multiple, mostly all military bases that the US once had in the Middle East destroyed, demolished, rubble on the ground, destroyed.

And it's being covered up. It doesn't get reported that much here in the United States, but our bases in the Middle East demolished. So what does Trump do? Puts our 2 aircraft carriers right there, bait, as Iran is faced with this predicament. Do we shoot the aircraft carriers and then kill US service members? And then Donald Trump gets probably what he wants to be. Aha, I'm the wartime guy now. And, you know, or do you just kind of— and people are saying we're surprised that Iran Hasn't even escalated more than they have. That shows weakness. Not really. I think it shows weakness. The US is the superpower. Okay. You think that shows weakness? Iran is playing the long game right here in this catastrophic war that Trump and Netanyahu unleashed. Gas prices are going to continue to rise. The strategic petroleum reserves are continuing to dwindle and dwindle and dwindle more. We know it's rock bottom, tank bottom. But it's so low that it's a position where it could literally collapse within because there has to be just basic science, a certain amount of, of the actual petroleum mixed with the oil in it. Otherwise, the way this was formed, it could literally implode from within.

That's a big, big problem right there. Then another question, what happens when China starts to import? What happens when China, who has held off being a big buyer of a lot of crude during these past several months because they were prepared for this moment— aha, planning, preparation— they bought all of this crude when it was very low price. They have their own strategic reserve system, their own tin pot system that they have Um, and they decided, you know what, if we start buying at the pace we did before, the price per barrel is going to shoot up so high because China is the top importer of crude. So they held off being a big buyer and they relied on their domestic storage. But now as they start to be more and more of a buyer, what's going to start to happen? The price is going to go up and up and up even more. That was a variable that hadn't taken place before. And Donald Trump, you see why this guy You see why this guy bankrupted every damn casino he touched, every entity. This isn't a Democrat, Republican, independent thing. This is a— this guy's a loser bankruptor thing.

And he's showing you in real time that he'll just make a bad situation worse, a worse situation, a catastrophe, a catastrophic situation into a bankruptcy. We're seeing that right now play out in real time. So the IRGC made that warning. But earlier, before the idiotic Trump regime and the out-of-control CENTCOM. It pains me to say this. It pains me to say this as an American, but that's the behavior. It's lunatic behavior. It's sheer lunacy. Iran warned, don't strike our freaking oil tankers. Don't strike them. Don't do it. If you do it, we're going to respond. So just don't do it. And I have an idea. You want the Strait of Hormuz to be open? Just do what you said you were going to do under the MOU. Don't do the blockade. We'll open it up. Unfreeze our funds that Qatar has in their bank accounts. Tell Israel to stop freaking slaughtering everybody in southern Lebanon and stop killing little children in Gaza. And then we'll open it up. We'll open up the Strait of Hormuz. By the way, if those things happened and Iran didn't open up the Strait of Hormuz, you know what you can do?

You can then rally an international coalition against Iran if Iran doesn't do it after they said, and then you can actually, I don't know, build alliances. But no, that's not what Donald Trump does. Instead, he goes and gives deranged speeches this morning about how making it sound like he was in the rubble on 9/11 and that hundreds of people were with him, his workers, his men. saving people on 9/11. The guy lied. Who lies about 9/11? Him. And by the way, what this reminded us all about is that, yes, he lies about everything, but all of his 9/11 lies, all while he was miles away from Ground Zero. He was calling up media bragging about that he now has the tallest building in Manhattan. And then he said he was going to do all of these things for 9/11 survivors and victims, which he didn't do. And then he told this crazy fake story about being there with all of these men from the Trump— or hundreds of men from the Trump Organization saving people, which didn't take place. Okay, these— I, I, I, I did this post yesterday because, um, Ivanka did this, uh, video of herself, or it could have been her daughter, I don't effing know, on a horse.

to the Coldplay song, which is a song actually about an empty king who falls off the throne, Viva la Vida. And, and, and she's playing the Coldplay song while they're doing the Titanic thing. And, and, and I'm like thinking to myself, are you aware of what's happening in the world right now? Do you know that your family has aided and abetted Genocide, that you're out there engaged in catastrophic wars. Your family has created horrors around the world. Little kids' brains are being blown up because of your sicko demonic family. People here in the United States are suffering, can't afford things. You've ripped away healthcare. You've said that children are engaged in waste, fraud, and abuse and ripped away their damn lunch money. You deported hardworking people here to countries where they're surely gonna die when they get back there. And you've done these videos mocking people. You've thrown people into concentration camps here in the United States. You had ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo invade our freaking cities. You invaded Minnesota. You invaded Los Angeles. You invaded Chicago. You invaded Charlotte. You invaded all of these cities across the United States of America. And you want us to believe the, the other side is the crazy one.

That's your pitch, that you're the ones who are going to fix it. Fix it? You're the ones who created the weakest, most deranged, demonic United States ever right now. And the whole world looks at us like we're a bunch of freaking crazy people. And here he is.

Here he—

you know, the difference between COVID and the catastrophic war is, in this case, Like, Trump is the COVID Like, he, he was responsible, in my view, for the catastrophic no response to COVID with the same flawed, the same fatal, malignant narcissistic bullshit, lying that he's not a leader. This isn't a Democrat-Republican. The guy can't do shit and he just lies about everything. And all these people lie. And that's what he did with COVID At least you can say COVID was a pandemic. He's the pandemic now. He's the one doing this. He's like releasing more of this shit into the world. But we want to do more strikes against Iran. And here's what we're going to do. We're going to strike 3 Iranian oil tankers. Why? Why are we going to strike 3 Iranian oil tankers? Well, look, let me be very, very blunt. We should not be in this catastrophic and unlawful war at all. We should never have been involved in it. ever. And I mourn the deaths of the little girls in Manab and the little children in Le Maire and the families that were at the wedding and the family that was in Kesham and even the Navy sailors who were there in India.

And they were there for a parade. They were unarmed. Part of the stipulation of them marching in this Indian parade that lots of other countries marched in, and the U.S. was invited, That their boats, their ships had to be inspected for no weapons. So they were defenseless. And then we took a submarine and blew them up and watched them drown. The frickin Sri Lankan Navy had to save some people from drowning and most drowned and died. This was done in the name of the red, white, and blue. It's a— to me, true patriotism is calling out these demonic monsters right now. But they just make it worse and worse and worse. And now they strike the 3 oil tankers. I don't know. I just— if you think about it, pull back for a second. If they're not using our aircraft carriers as bait to try to trigger Iran to strike the carriers so Trump can kind of steal the valor of this wartime victimhood that he wants to do. In my opinion, that's what he's trying to go for right now. So again, why would you be—

what is—

there's no military objective in striking 3 Iranian oil tankers. That's also a war crime. You're going to— what does that have to do— you're not striking, you know, like, again, I don't think they should strike anywhere, but it's like, what'd you strike, the oil tankers? What are you going to strike next, the The farms? What are you going to strike next? You're going to strike— you're going to strike the toy factories? What are you going to strike? More universities? What are you striking? And Iran warned— Iran said the aggressive US military has issued a warning to Iranian tankers, evacuate, because the US military is going to attack them. Therefore, the Iran Navy says, I announce that any attack on Iranian tankers will result in the targeting of US bases in the region by the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And that's what's going to happen. That's what's going to happen right now. And I'm sure we're going to be covering that. And then the US bases, then they're going to escalate. Just get the hell out of there. We don't want to be— get the hell out of there. Just get your ships and go.

Why?

What do you— what are you doing? What the hell are we doing there? It is sick, predatory behavior of the exact same type of people who are out there. I mean, do you hear the stuff they're saying about Canada? That Besant, that Trump— I mean, the language that Besant uses about Canada, it's serial killer. It's worse. I don't even know. You know, it's like my dog that bit the neck of the yipping Dachshund and slaughtered. What do you— what did— what? You know, that wasn't even the question. Like, were you practicing that line? Were you practicing? I mean, like, literally, was Bessent there, like, killing little kittens when he was growing up? I mean, is that who these people are? I go back to— I go back to the word. I go back to the word demonic because that's the behavior of these people. Speaking of Donald Trump earlier today, Speaking at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. about 9/11. Now, remember, Trump's not speaking. Think about it. So why is he speaking here now? Well, he's going to the stupid Trumpapalooza Dallas event in the next 48, 24 hours that 90% of Republicans are not going to be going to, or 90% of Republican senators.

And at the Manhattan 9/11, they wouldn't let him speak because it's not a speaking engagement. It's a, it's a mourning engagement. It's a remembrance day. We don't want Donald Trump saying stuff like this. And Donald Trump claims he's basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11. Listen for yourself what he said here. Play this clip.

If you get 2 firemen, we thought it was coming down on top of us, and 2 firemen, big strong guys, and I'm not the smallest guy in the world, they grabbed me under the arms, said, got to get out of here, and they literally Lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I'm big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, fellas, I can run myself. But they were amazing. But they thought it was coming down. It didn't come down. U.S. Steel.

Okay, so how old was he then? 50s? He was in his 50s then, right? Late 50s. Um, what, what the hell are you talking about? Why do you have to lie about 9/11? That, that didn't— what you said didn't happen. That's not a— that's not a thing. That's not a thing that happened. And also, part of the 9/11 thing that he was talking about is also with the handsome men and pulling him out. He, he creates this with these muscular guys, and he's like, you know, I'm, I'm a big man, and they, and they grabbed me and their muscles were bulging. They were bulging muscles. And I looked at them and he had this— his skin was olive and it was— and he had such great dark hair. And he said, what do you talk— what are you doing? What are these people? I go back, I try to search every word. I'm a word person. That's what I do for a living. And these demonic— these are demonic people. Here's what Trump also said about 9/11. I thank my people. I was building a big building. I took the whole crew down there.

No, you didn't.

You didn't take the whole crew down there. We have video. We know this didn't happen. Not true. This didn't happen. Here, play this clip.

Just thank my people. I took a lot of my— I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened. And they were— they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me. We went down as a big group of people. Wasn't too much we could do. I'll be honest, it was, it was raw. Nobody's seen anything like it ever. We had other buildings. United States Steel Building was creaking, really creaking. And we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is, it creaked a lot. It creaked. It still creaks. But it never came down.

You know, do the people behind him think that this is like a simulation? I just wonder, like, like, have we just been so untethered from existence of life that just everything feels like a movie or like a set? Like, that he's saying, like, the cra— I, I feel, I feel like everybody's zombies. Like, what do you do? He's lying about 9/11. You're law enforcement, you're military. I understand that he's has this title, but dude is lying about 9/11 stories. How the— how is this not the biggest thing? How is that the biggest thing ever? How is this not disqualifying? You know what, what's going on? And then he ties 9/11 to Iran. 9/11 to Iran. Here, watch what he says. Play this clip.

We just thank Boston. We will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th. 2001. And I will tell you, we're right now fighting because we have a certain nation that wanted a nuclear weapon. They were very close to getting it. And now they have no chance of getting it. They will never have a nuclear weapon. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.

So I guess if there's any utility to this, he's like, the stupid neocon, right? Like, like, like the, like the neocons, like they would have the— they would have a tactical plan and they would finesse it, right? They would, they would, they would, they would, they would smooth over it, you know, and, and make the connections and then try to trick you. He's just like, somehow says 9/11 and then in the same— non sequitur doesn't do it justice— then just talks about Iran. 9/11 and Iran. Like, you're doing that? Like, you're literally going there with that playbook that somehow 9/11 relates to Iran? You know who you should talk about? Your buddies. Your buddies in Saudi Arabia, because most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. That's where most of the hijackers were from, not from Iran. Like, what are you talking— what do you— what is this? What is this? And here he is also, like, as though it— like, Ben, can it get worse? Yeah, it actually can. He then talks about this guy, the man in the red bandana, who was a heroic voluntary firefighter who was working in the tower, was wearing a red bandana, who is credited for saving a lot of people wearing the red bandana and helping people leave using his voluntary firefighting training.

And Trump says the man in the red bandana who died on 9/11, died on 9/11 saving people. He's become more famous than me and I don't like it. Here, play this clip.

Then suddenly a rescue appeared. They call him the man in the red bandana. Have you heard that term? The man in the red bandana has become more famous than me. I don't like it. Very unhappy about it. He's become much more famous than me.

You're clapping for that? You clap at that? What is this, Shamu? Is it like you've seen a walrus? Oh, I mean, the guy's saying that it upset him that a 9/11 hero became more famous than him. And you, you clap at that story? Like, you know, we see you. You know, your kids and your grandkids and people in the community, we see you. You're like, you're ostensibly human. You, you clap for that? What, really? That, that story's— yeah, that story. By the way, a new reporting right now, another 26 wounded U.S. troops were reported via the Pentagon's Defense Casualty Analysis System, raising the total number of US military casualties since the war's start to 838, with 18 killed and 820 wounded. And you'll all recall our reporting here on the Midas Touch Network months ago where I said I believe the true number of injured— I'm guessing, I can see where the containerized barracks are. I can see what's being hit. I know about traumatic brain injury. I can count the troops. So can Iran in the location where these strikes are taking place. I believe the number is closer to 3,500 to 5,000 severely, seriously injured.

I consider a traumatic brain injury traumatic. So I would believe that's severely injured. I believe there's about 3,500 to 5,000 TBIs. in the region that will eventually be revealed. And I'm kind of just using common sense. I look at the amount of troops in the area, I look where the ballistic missiles strike, I go, that probably caused a TBI that's probably worse than like a fender bender. Okay, um, and then Pete Hegseth goes, nope, that's just a headache. Testosterone. Crazy humans. Crazy freaking humans. Loser humans who are running the United States. Into the damn ground right now, and it is shameful to see. But the rest of the world moves on. We know Canada, European Union forging closer alliances there. Basically Canada joining the European Union except not formally. They're gonna work on a system where Canada doesn't have to deal with all the EU bureaucracy, but they can have defense alliances, economic alliances, but not formal EU. I'm not sure Canada would want that per se, to be honest with you, or the EU would want that, or the— but you could basically have the same type of alliance effectively without actually being a voting member.

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Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myselis. This is your Breaking news, earlier today, the United States launched further escalatory strikes against Iran, striking 3 Iranian oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran then responded, saying that it intends to strike all ships that are at the anchorages of Bahrain and other ports nearby. And so we're waiting on the Iranian response, and we think it's going to be swift and perhaps the most vicious response yet in terms of these other remaining ships on the area. Iran's warned, leave the ships now, we're going to blow them all up. So we will keep you posted over there. Um, we've been talking about, uh, Donald Trump's press conference from the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. earlier today, where he made up fake stories about 9/11 and him being pulled from either the rubble or from a building, and these big strong men with bulging muscles and beautiful skin. They helped him and they grabbed him, and Trump's a big guy, but these other men were so big and strong, uh, that they managed to, uh, grab him.

And if—

and, you know, it's just the most ridiculous, uh, story imaginable. Um, I do want to remind you though of the types of things that Donald Trump would say about Saudi Arabia. While Donald Trump is trying to now connect 9/11 to his catastrophic war in Iran because he's a deranged lunatic, I want to remind you that back on July 28th, 2022, when Donald Trump was asked about why he was continuing to host the Saudi golf tournaments at his clubs— or his clubs were used for that LIV Golf tournament, as you know, LIV is basically going bankrupt right now. LIV, it, uh, the Saudi Arabian, uh, Sovereign Wealth Fund is no longer funding it the way it did before. And so because of the catastrophic wars that are taking place in Iran and in the region, and of course now the Houthis are striking, uh, Saudi Arabian refineries after Saudi Arabian-backed forces in Yemen were attacking the Houthis area. And the Houthis responded with huge amounts of ballistic missiles and drones, and at least 73 people were wounded in Saudi Arabia in different areas from Abha to Qamis to Jizan to Najran, other areas right there. The Jazan refinery on fire.

I mean, some real crazy images about these strikes. Do we have any of the video of just Any of these strikes in Saudi Arabia in the past.

Yeah.

Anyway, 2022, Donald Trump said nobody's gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately, and they should have as to the maniacs that did the horrible thing. And he was saying this to give cover to Saudi Arabia, to MBS and others. He's like, nobody got to the bottom of 9/11. I just want you to think about again, what does that mean? Nobody's ever gotten to the bottom of 9/11. This is what he says. Here, play this clip.

You're so closely associated with the city of New York.

You of all people understand the passion surrounding 9/11. What do you say to those family members who Protested earlier this week and will be doing so again on Friday.

Well, nobody's gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately, and they should have, as to the maniacs that did that horrible thing to our city, to our country, to the world. So nobody's really been there. But I can tell you that there are a lot of really great people that are out here today, and we're gonna have a lot of fun, and we're gonna celebrate, and money's going to charity. A lot of money's going to charity. And yeah, really The best players in the world, many of the best players in the world, and soon you'll probably have all of them.

Soon you'll probably— LIV is going to be so big, it's going to be great, it's going to be amazing. LIV is going to be the greatest thing ever. All this money to charity— how much money do you think really went to charity? Do you see how this guy just weaponizes that stuff? It's sick. It's demonic. I, I search for words, but I've come back to that one all of the time. As the title of our book is WTF, I come back to those 3 letters, and then I come back to demonic to describe these people. Like, what are you saying? What? We don't know who that is. We knew who— we know who the hijackers are. We know where they're from. And then at that same event on July 28th, 2022, Donald Trump says, I've known these people for a long time in Saudi Arabia. They've been friends of mine for a long time. And what they've done for golf is great. This is great. Here, play this clip.

I've known these people for a long time in Saudi Arabia, and they've been friends of mine for a long time. They've invested in many American companies. They own big percentages of many, many American companies. And frankly, what they're doing for golf is so great. What they're doing for the players is so great. The salaries are going to go way up. The PGA PGA was not loved by a lot of the players, as you know, for a long time.

Like, do you realize that the guy is literally wrong about everything? Like, have you ever met somebody or known someone who's more wrong about everything? There he is in 2022, he's saying that LIV Golf is so great, it's going to make the salaries go up, it's going to be amazing for all of the players, it's great for the game. Did that happen? And what happened to it? Bankrupt. Everything this guy— do you think that all of, all of this is just a one massive coincidence? Is it just that he's the biggest victim? Or maybe he's the biggest loser. Is that possible? Just everything fails around him. Everything he touches fails, and it's always somebody else's fault while he picks your pocket and gets rich while everybody else around him gets screwed. And this entity gets destroyed, and that casino gets destroyed, and this company gets destroyed, and that league gets destroyed. Like, literally everything. You look at what the, the football league that he was associated with—

Eh.

Failure. Dude, everything the guy touches is a failure. And also, he's one of the main reasons— why did LIV ultimately fail? Fast forward 4 years after that video, Trump invades Iran with Netanyahu. Iran responds with strikes in the region, and Saudi Arabia's economy contracts. The Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund is strained, and it can no longer meet its commitments. And so it's no longer investing in or putting money in these, these loss losers, or I want to call them loss leaders, these projects. And the whole point of doing the— like, you also get, like, the reason they did this was not because they loved Donald Trump, right? They're thinking about their own countries, and they got what they wanted. Saudi Arabia wants nuclear capability. Trump's giving him that and giving him all of these weapons. The United Arab Emirates wants semiconductor chips that were highly classified, these Blackwell chips that we never gave out. They got there. So what's their even incentive? They got what they've got, those things, and then Trump destroys their economy. So then they want more and more from him. You see what's happening here? Do you see what's happening here? So then pivoting to Canada for a moment.

Charlie Angus, the head of Midas Canada. And Charlie's been warning and been spot on about everything Trump-related and this regime's behavior for quite some time. Charlie, as you may know, is, uh, in addition to being a former member of parliament, NDP Party, in addition to being someone who would give mine tours in the area with the mining community that he represented. He's a historian on a lot of topics, but especially fascism. And he knows the fascist predator's type, that they keep on going and going and going and going and going ultimately until they have to be stopped. They have to be stopped. And their malignant narcissism also drives them to destructive decisions as well. And Charlie predicted all of this. So here's what Charlie posted this morning as Canada's retaliatory tariffs, 50% or more, um, or 50% dollar-for-dollar tariffs are in effect. And if Canada wants to, I mean, there's so many things that Canada could do that would just destroy the U.S. economy right now, whether it comes with energy and electricity, whether it comes with crude, rare earths. There are numerous areas that Canada could just say, yeah, we're not, we're not doing that anymore, and that would cause cataclysmic impact.

But the calculus also is one of national interest. Yeah, there's a balance though, right? It's kind of the discussion we had earlier. Donald Trump doesn't give a shit about the United States of America. In fact, Donald Trump hates the United States of America. He hates the people here. He hates our military. He calls them suckers and losers. What do you think he says about his supporters? What do you think he says about the American people? Trump hates America. He hates the United States. Okay, Trump just likes Trump. That's it. Trump doesn't even like the billionaire guys. He just likes them if they give him their money and give him their stuff and tell him he's great. That's the only reason. Otherwise, they're disposable too. So Trump doesn't care if the United States suffers or if people suffer. He doesn't. Truly, the question for him is him. So he looks at his stock portfolio, his companies, his buying. It's just the equation is just him and his gluttonous, ghastly, grotesque, goblin-like behavior. That's his only focus. It's him, him, him. But Canada is like, okay, we're, we're a nation, we're sovereign. Prime Minister Carney's like, I have to protect the Canadian people.

That's my job. That's the oath I took. That's what we do here, Canada. That's how nations generally operate. Donald Trump doesn't operate from the perspective of national interest. He operates from the perspective of Trump interest. And that is weak. That is weak sauce, as a federal judge described one of the other Trump regime schemes earlier today. But listen to what Charlie Inga said earlier today about Besant saying that, you know, Canada is like the dachshund that's yipping and Angus is like, do you hear us yipping? Like, y'all, y'all, y'all in the US are doing the yipping. Y'all are the whiners. Like, we're good. Just get the— get the hell away, losers. Got it. Understood. You're losers. Okay, stay away. Stay there. Cease and desist. Restraining order. Predators, get the hell away. That's what they feel. Listen to what Angus says.

Play this clip.

But it's part of this broader pattern. I mean, Scott Bessant saying that Canada is like a yipping little dog. I don't know, folks. Have you been hearing any yipping from us? We've been getting trolled by Pete Hegseth, been trolling our teenage, teenage girls who volunteer to become cadets to serve their countries, trolling them. We have Pete Hoekstra, the disgraceful ambassador actively undermining our country, trolling us about them trying to rename the lakes. We have Scott Bessant calling us yipping dogs. Trump doing these pitiful posts. It's really, it's hard, it's hard to watch the decline of an empire go in such a manner that it is, it is, it's, it's like this bizarre clown show. And nobody, nobody is saying, hey, wait a minute, stop this. You are, you're picking a needless fight here and a fight you can't afford right now, given all the economic crisis that the American Americans are facing. They continue to think that they can somehow— if they humiliate us or embarrass us or get under our skin with a meme, we're going to come back and ask to be their friends. Ain't ever going to happen.

That's the thing. I mean, the Trump regime's view, because they're sicko predators, is if we just bomb you more, Iran, that's going to make you want to do a deal with us. Canada, if we threaten you more and try to inflict more pain and mock you more and meme you more, or whatever the hell Trump does, then you're gonna say, ah, please stop, please stop, can we do a deal, sir? Sir, this is too much for me to handle, all of your memes. No, national interest, national sovereignty. You know, and, and it brings you into the equation about just how weak these Trump scumbags are, these MAGA psychos are, right? These demons, that they think that that will make people break. There are things that are more important in life than just some fake deal.

Deal!

Deal, deal, deal, deal, deal, everybody! I'm Donald, I do deals!

Idiot.

He's an idiot. He is an idiot. And no, I'll go do a deal with Donald Trump. Everyone knows you're an idiot. You're stupid. You're dumb dumb. You got Dumb and Dumber, Witkoff and Kushner, behaving like buffoons. And I wish they would behave— that would be an upgrade. Vladimir, this is going to be what we talk about when we retire, Vladimir. Oh, I think we've made great progress on setting up future talks about frameworks for trilateral talk frameworks in the future. We're moving it. Losers. Y'all are loser human beings. And let's stop clapping for these people like they're some walruses that just ate a sardine, okay? Oh no, he ate a sardine! Look at him, he's making up stories about 9/11! Call it out! Grow a spine! The hell are you doing? The hell are you doing? Let's take our last break of the show. I don't know about you, but I'm not a particularly disciplined person.

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Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myselis. This is your breaking news. I was just watching a Bloomberg anchor who says, if you were to design a psyop to help China become the global hegemon and replace the United States and destroy the dollar and remove the post-World War II architecture, if you were to design the psyop, You wouldn't be able to design it disfavorable to China right now. And that's why I also do extensive coverage every morning. I try to do one video on what's going on throughout the world to show you the global architecture shifting with the United States rapidly becoming weaker and more isolated and alienated, and you see the ascendancy of these other blocs. And, you know, it's, it's fascinating because, you know, when— fascinating may not be the right word because it's so dystopian— but when the Trump regime came into power, you heard Marco Rubio talk about we want to move away from a U.S.-led global order to a multipolar world. And the way he described it was the U.S. dominates the Western Hemisphere, China dominates Asia, and Russia dominates Ukraine and Europe. They kind of leave out Africa from the equation because it's Trump.

Um, but that's the kind of worldview that they have, except it's— it is a— because everything they execute is incompetent and pathetic. I mean, with all of the resources they threw and all of the pronouncements about the reflecting pool I'm going to show you the video, but it's like an absolute wreck. The reflecting pool is an absolute disaster right now. It's a shithole. And I guess it's worth— like, literally, look, like, it looks bankrupt. Like, you know, but, but imagine the people who brought you that. The people who brought you the fireworks show on July 4th where you couldn't even see the fireworks because they all blew up at once and you just saw a bunch of smoke, right? The people who continue to engage in such awful conduct before grand juries that cases get dismissed because they just violate the grand jury rules, right? I mean, the, uh, people who didn't think through the most basic logistics of like, we have troops, troops must eat, troops need food, food has to come somewhere. That would be Bahrain. Might want to protect it, bud. When you go into a stupid war, an unlawful war, you may want to protect the logistic routes.

Oh, you didn't realize that that's what happens in war? I don't know, dummies. Maybe you shouldn't have fired Army Chief of Staff Randy George, or General Donahue, or, uh, CQ Brown Jr., the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or any of the other top officials in our military and top service members and replace them with Hegseth, who couldn't run a small veterans nonprofit. He was let go or pushed out for mismanagement with all these heinous allegations against him. I don't know. I mean, like, we have the dumbest people running this country, so we expect them to be proficient in global world order architecture? Dude, Xi Jinping And Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China, and Putin and Lavrov and Kirill Dmitriev and Yuri Ushakov. And, um, who else do you got? Foreign Minister Araghchi of Iran. And, you know, these, these people, you know, they're, they're looking at— they're looking at dummies. And Um, not, uh, yeah, Bessent's a dummy, but they're looking at Whitkoff and Kushner. And part of the whole plan with these guys, with Whitkoff and Kushner, is, is like, it's, it's part of the humiliation ritual for Russia to inflict the pain on the United States by having like literally the 2 dumbest people.

You realize that is part of Russia's plan, that the 2 dumbest people out there are going around like some goofy Hollywood movie, except it's real and painful. What are they gonna negotiate today? Like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in real life, right? Like, uh, I don't know, those are stupid movies, but you know, with, with Ren and Stimpy over here, right? They go out there. Oh, hello, boy.

Really?

Stupid people. And they know that in terms of America, the world sees this and the world's like, oh, oh, really? Freaking really? These people? These people? And so, you know, you have a— the way Trump has been able to destroy the U.S. power The way he's been able is actually why the Bloomberg reporter says, if you were to design a psyop to do it, you couldn't have executed it this flawlessly because it is ripping apart every damn day. And there are people who, Republicans, these MAGAs are like such sycophants. They're like, okay, okay, okay, I see what you're doing. All right, all right, I see what you're doing there. Okay, it's 3-dimensional chess, everybody.

Okay.

No, it's not. It's not. You, you promised back in March this war would be over, and April it would be over, and Iran would blow up in May and June and July and August. And you know what, folks? It's never gonna end. It's only gonna escalate more. I mean, just think about even this morning what Iran was able to do. They shot down another MQ drone. Seems like every day they just shoot down an MQ drone.

They were—

then they released the video. of shooting the MQ-1 drone. We then have an, uh, AUV, one of these, um, unarmed or unmanned, uh, submersibles that are in the ground. These like unmanned submersible submarines. Iran was able to capture one of those in the Strait of Hormuz. You see it right here. Um, one of the U.S. military's most advanced unmanned underwater vehicles Was seized by the Iranian Armed Forces at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz during a complex intelligence and field operation and brought into Iran. And then our lying CENTCOM, which just had to announce another 26 service members were injured today, then they, then they go, oh, that was an outdated model of it. That wasn't the, that wasn't the new one. That was the old one, everybody. Hahaha. And It's like, no, that's the Navy Dive LD. Okay, that's, that's the new one. And Iran— then Iran releases the movie of it, and it's, of course, it's the new one, the highly classified one. But CENTCOM still goes with their lie, like we're all stupid. And they're like, old, not real, not the real one. I'll show you the video. Yes, they come— US underwater drone that malfunctioned more than a day before Iran's announcement was an older model with no classified sensors or sensitive data.

Washington has not confirmed Iran recovered the vehicle or that it was a dive LD. They're so stupid. It's just so stupid. Do we have the video, Jeremy, of, of the 22-second video of the US official admitting? Yeah, let's play this. We're truly the dumbest right now. You know, CENTCOM puts out that statement, then Iran's like, here it is. Here's the Navy. Here's the video of it, folks. I mean, you know, um, you all remember like the Perry Mason moments from the, um, all of the various Trump trials because he always loses when he goes to trial. In the E. Jean Carroll case, and, and, you know, they would show— he would say the most sick and disgusting things because he's a predator, he's a sicko. And he would be like, well, One of the reasons I couldn't have sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll— she's not my type. She's not my type that I sexually— I mean, really, that's what he's— you're a sick, sick, sick sicko for saying that. The type of person who would cover up a child sex trafficking ring like the Epstein Files. Kind of consistent, uh, low lack of character right there.

But right, but, but then Roberta Kaplan, E. Jean Carroll's lawyer, shows a photo Of Donald Trump, who's like, I never met her, never met her before, never met her before, and she's not my type. Okay, I want you to look at this photo right here. That's my wife. Trump goes, Trump goes, that's my wife, that's Marla Maples. Oh, you think that's Marla? So that would be your— that's Marla. So that's your type? Yeah, that's Marla. Okay, that's E. Jean Carroll. Oh, oh, okay. When you saw that behavior and the guy found civilly liable for being a sex predator, for sexually assaulting, okay, um, and, and, and does that, don't you see that CENTCOM is just doing that as CENTCOM? Oh, they never showed the video of it. They never showed the video of it. Oh, really? They never showed the video of it? Here, Jeremy, show the video of it. Here, play the clip one more time. Show the video of it. Bro, they're putting the dramatic music on it. Like, they're like— do you see what they're doing? Like, I can never imagine. I can never have imagined that, that the country I lived in would be run by such losers.

I can't—

I, I, look, let me again be very, very clear. We should never, ever have been involved in this catastrophic war. So I ain't endorsing a modicum of this at all. You would think that the United States would have a plan. Nope. You would think that they would be like, yeah, our sailors need to eat. Nope. Never thought about that one. Never thought about that one. By the way, it's the same thing. It's like when they ripped down the East Wing of the White House. Did you want to do asbestos mitigation? No. You didn't think to do asbestos mitigation?

No.

You just had to rip it down. Watch what happens in 15, 20 years. People are going to develop mesothelioma around that. A lot of people are, from all the particles that they have of, of it, because there was asbestos everywhere in that East Wing. Oh my God, you know, Biden's fault. Biden should have done the asbestos mitigation. Everything they do is stupid, is blaming. They're losers, they're predators, and the whole world's— the whole world's caught on.

Yeah.

Like, you remember these great movies we grew up with— Saving Private Ryan. And I don't mean to paint just some perfectly unicorn utopian view of the United States, far from it. And frankly, the more you learn about a lot of the history directed towards the Middle East and others that you were blind, you know, that, that a lot of us here in the United States are just regurgitating a certain propaganda set that we get. By the way, not just Trump, okay? That this level of imperialism and this behavior and domination and exploitation goes back. But maybe there shouldn't be a but, but no one denied the status as a superpower or that the U.S. would back up the threat with real muscle and that the U.S. had a plan.

Right.

Whether you thought the plan was a plan that was, um, globally in the interest of some countries. Understatement, understand. But you would be like, okay, well, there's a, there's a plan, and these are smart people, and there's thought going into this, right? I mean, Henry Kissinger, evil human being in a lot of ways, in most ways. But his planning of making US Treasuries indispensable and the petrodollar indispensable was at least part of a plan that had— I don't know, they weren't waking up and going, oh, Look at me draw, you know, I'm gonna meme. Let me meme this. Look at me meme. I'm gonna meme you. I'm gonna, I'm gonna meme you so badly. And I don't know, to see— this is— these are, these are the guys' posts. They're like, where is it? Where, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're crazy people here. This is what we've become.

And then we have—

then we have people who clap at the walrus when he eats his sardine. And then we have some, like, ridiculous regime media. Did you see this? Did you see this on CBS? State regime media CBS. Remember how, like, we don't know who the pilots were of this purported F-15 that crashed in Iran? See this? And this is how they're— this is Barry Weiss, CBS.

Right?

They're thinking about bringing on Maria Bartiromo. This is, this is the segment that they're airing.

They—

this is a real post that they— this isn't an— this isn't an SNL skit. This is real about how they're gonna roll out this F-15 pilot. Watch for yourself. Here, play this clip. An American officer, call sign Dude 44 Bravo, somewhere over the mountains Of Iran, shot down with a broken parachute. Hit the ground going somewhere between 70 and 100 miles an hour. Wounded, alone, the enemy closing in. 50 hours to get him out. Did you ever have any doubt that the U.S. military was coming for you? Dude 44 Bravo, for the first time. 60 Minutes, new season, CBS Sunday.

Uh, what the—

uh, 60 Minutes, new season. Dude Bravo 4.0. Did you have any doubt? We can't show you his face. We can't show— we can't show you who he is. It looks like the stupidest propaganda in the world. We're supposed to buy— like, you just think we're the dumbest people. Dude Bravo 4.0. Dude Bravo, everybody. Okay, wait, this is— this is a secret. He gets—

he—

the big reveal happens on the 8th episode of The Bachelor. We put Dude Bravo Is he gonna bring, uh, a rose? Uh, dude, bravo. He's gonna bring a rose to Maria Bartiromo and invite her on a date? I mean, what, what, what is this? What is this? If this is a real thing, take it serious. Dude, bravo. For the first time ever, you're gonna see him be a dude and bravo. We're not gonna talk about how the hell our F-15s keep getting shot out of the sky, but did you ever doubt they were gonna come for you? Right by the Isfahan nuclear facility with hundreds of servicemen, with hundreds of Marines randomly by the nuclear facility. Not suspicious at all. I mean, we think we're— they just think we're all dumb. They think we're the stupidest people. And I guess that's what they rely on. I guess they rely on us not like, like us. Oh, I guess you're gonna— oh, I guess you're gonna trick us with all of that. You know, and with everything that's going on right now too, I also always want to mention that, you know, the group that's constantly getting crushed in a lot of this, everybody in America, but farmers also.

I just want to show you this as well. Farmers are going broke amid rising gas prices while the Agriculture Secretary literally profits off of them. A new report finds that Trump is making millions off his oil and gas stocks. His administration officials are likely as well. So as farmers are grappling with soaring diesel and fertilizer prices and the Department of Agriculture yanks support of cheaper renewable forms of energy, the agency's chief, Brooke Rollins, is carrying millions. They can't control themselves, these people.

Brooke.

Brooke Rollins is carrying millions in highly profitable oil and gas investments. In disclosure reports filed in July, Rollins indicated that she and her husband, Mark Rollins, an oil and gas industry executive— they're demons. These are evil demon people— together hold as much as $2.5 million in fossil fuel investments. At least $1 million of that is in HKN2, a limited partnership with oil and gas interests in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Another $1 million at least is in Hillwood Energy New Ventures, which has interest in oil and gas operations in Texas, Rollins' home state. Rollins also disclosed that she holds between $250,000 and $550,000 in investments in operating companies that own oil and gas assets in Texas. And then Donald Trump's got all of these gas and oil stocks as well. It is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And here's my perspective on it. I want to hear— I want to hear your perspective on it also. I'd love to hear from you, which is you can't ever do a deal with Donald Trump, ever. You can't do a deal with this guy. You can't. If you're the Democrats coming in, you're not— what are you going to do?

You're going to talk to Donald Trump about affordability?

Come on.

The focus, I think we all agree, needs to be ruthless and relentless accountability, oversight, and that needs to be communicated clearly. To the American people what the oversight accountability plan is. You can't do a deal with Trump and you don't want to attach yourself to anything Trump-related policy-wise. It's not— he's a disaster. So to me, every day, every damn day, there should be at least 3 hearings a day on these topics. and, and Navy SEAL style it, Navy SEAL style it, Delta Force style it, you know, but before we fired Donahue and actually the top Navy SEAL and Delta Force, you know, uh, alums, right? And just hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing every day, hearing, hearing, hearing every day, hearing, hearing, hearing, right? Independent news will carry it. Millions of people will watch it. Call them every damn day. Call them up, cross-examine them. Next, next, next. And then at the end of the day, hold the press conference. Here's what we learned today. Here's what we uncovered today. Every damn day. That should be the plan. Every damn day. That's my view. We're not going to do a deal with these people. You can't do a deal with awful humans at all.

You can't do a deal with terrible people. That's it. That's my plan. That's how I think it should be. And don't get— you know, don't— there's nothing to work with Trump about. You can't work with this guy. You can't work with this guy. Anyway, that's what I think. What do you think, everybody? I've enjoyed spending this hour and 10 minutes with you all. I appreciate you. To the farmers, we're thinking about you. To all the workers out there, The day after Labor Day, we're thinking about you. To all the people here and abroad, we're thinking about you. To our Maple Midas and our Canadian viewers, we're thinking about you. We're grateful for you. We appreciate you. We stand in solidarity with you. To our other international viewers, whether you're watching this in Europe or Australia or the Middle East or Africa, or Asia or Mexico or Central America or South America or the Caribbean or wherever you're watching this from. We stand with all of those who support freedom, who stand against this authoritarianism, who stand for human rights and civil rights and dignity and peace and love and empathy. And that's what we want our mission and legacy to be here at the Midas Touch Network is to talk about those things, about what life is really all about— family, empathy, community, leaving this world a better place.

And maybe I sound corny, maybe I sound corny, but you know, I still believe hope springs eternal, and I still believe that this is the way for a better future. And I still think we'll have a better future together. I definitely think we will. All right, thanks everybody. That's all I got. That's all I got. Appreciate you. I'll be doing more coverage throughout the day. Watch all the videos that I'm going to be posting. I'll try to keep us informed and updated. All right, I'll see you. Bye. Shout out Midas Made.

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