Nothing to see here, folks. Just the decrepit and rotting Donald Trump holding an emergency meeting at the White House with American oil refinery companies that was closed to the press as Donald Trump desperately tries to manipulate the price of oil because gas and diesel are hitting record highs and he is collapsing the economy. That's what's taken place over the past 24 hours. We didn't see Donald Trump yesterday, which is usually a good thing because I hope he can just rot somewhere else, not in our presence. But he was holding an emergency meeting with American oil refinery companies to try to manipulate the oil price. This as the price of crude is now about to hit $100 a barrel. This as the Treasury yields, the 10-year, the 20-year, the 30-year, heck, the 2-year are hitting record highs right now. further putting a massive strain on the US economy. And what does Donald Trump do? Well, Trump launches more strikes against Iran. And what does Donald Trump target? Like the sick, disgusting predator that he is, he targets a wedding at a private residential building or complex in Sirak County in Iran. It was next to a telecommunications tower that was also hit during these strikes, but the wedding party was hit.
You had at least 5 people killed. killed, including at least one child. 68 people were injured. We were seeing a massive amount of people being brought to the hospital in the area. Sickening indeed. And what are Trump regime officials saying? Well, you have J.D. Vance talking about the end times. J.D. Vance said, I'd be not shocked if the Antichrist walked amongst us. And then he also said, I'd also believe that we may be in the end times. That's what J.D. Vance, the vice president, was saying. First, let show you J.D. Vance talking about the Antichrist walking among us. I don't know, maybe the guy with you in the Oval Office, J.D. Here, play this clip.
Bad.
I think that there are like things about the world that make me feel like not shocked if the Antichrist was, was walking among us. But again, I try not to focus too much on it. I think that, you know, I made— More from J.D. Vance over here talking about the end times as Donald Trump starts, continues these never-ending ending wars, and he's engaged in these heinous war crimes. Always comforting to have the vice president talk about the end times. Play this clip. What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now. And if that leads to the end times, okay. And then you had Treasury Secretary Bessent on Donald Trump's behalf, blaming the horrible economy yet again on Biden and Elizabeth Warren. The Warren-Biden economy is what they're going with. Oh no, no one's buying this crap. Okay. Y'all have been in power for like 2 years. You've ruled like dictators, incompetent ones. You've destroyed the economy. You made all of these promises. You all made these promises on day one. Things are gonna be better. You were gonna bring down inflation. You were going to, uh, make sure that the US would not get into these never-ending wars.
You were going to, uh, make housing affordable. You were going to bring back and make manufacturing great. You didn't do any of those things. You made it far worse than before. Here's Besant. You can see for yourself, just blaming everything on Elizabeth Warren and Biden. Here, play this clip.
Warren— so this is the Biden-Warren economy. Senator Warren placed a lot of the, the people in the Biden administration, she would say, her sock puppets. And the, uh, if you look, study from MIT shows that almost 50% of the great inflation came from the out-of-control spending that went on then. So we had a price level problem. We are bringing prices down. And again, if you look, core inflation is very tame. And this has to do with the energy.
Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic throughout the day with posts like this. I'm not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC fake news reported. I couldn't care less if they sign a worthless to them agreement. I like our position now much better with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? We're doing that again? Are you gonna beam your face and Netanyahu's face into Tehran and think that's gonna make the Iranian people rise up like your plan was at the beginning of this catastrophic war, when you engaged in war crimes then as well against the Lomerd Volleyball Hall, against the Manab Elementary School, and other areas in Iran. Sicko Donald Trump was also posting more AI videos of himself changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. He's still doing that. He was making bizarre posts about a woman who was indicted over the World War II Memorial vandalism. You all know this story. I've reported on it before. Melissa Farris, 41 years old, clearly suffering from mental health issues.
She videotaped herself like urinating on the floor and on the wall and saying incoherent things. And she also vandalized the World War II Memorial. And Donald Trump's like, look, we found Antifa. And it's really someone with mental health issues who needs to be treated. But that's the target of the Trump regime because of Apparently, if you go after a 2-time Olympic canoeist in David Hearn, who fights back and you lose the reflecting pool case, you now need to frame or go after a mentally ill woman who is urinating on a livestream, saying incoherent things, and that this is who you're going after. This is— the federal government is posting about that. I mean, so utterly sickening. And the person who's responsible for that prosecution, Jeanine Pirro, the federal prosecutor out of Washington, DC, posting deranged workout videos of herself. Nobody wants to see any of this. I mean, in the past 24 hours alone, you had Kelly Loeffler, the Small Business Association, uh, head— she's a billionaire, married a billionaire, and hates small businesses. And she's like, I'm launching a reality show where we're gonna highlight— to stop reality shows. I don't want you to launch reality shows.
Just do your damn job. This is government. Just behave like people are supposed to behave as public servants, right? You had that. I don't wanna play that clip. It annoys me. Then there was Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary. He's like, we're gonna talk about Sydney Sweeney's boobs on his reality show with his wife. No one's— he's like, and all of the woke people don't like when I talk about that. But that's what— you gotta talk about women. It's creepy. It's weird. I don't know why you're talking about that. You're the Transportation Secretary. It's not a woke thing to be like, hey, can you focus freaking transportation and stop making reality shows. Then you have Jeanine Pirro doing that. And then you have Treasury Secretary Bessent. I, I don't want to see the Treasury Secretary out there in general all that much. You know, when Janet Yellen was the Treasury Secretary, we had other Treasury Secretaries. I didn't see the Treasury Secretary saying weird, deranged things, especially about like wars. Like, why is Bessent even out there? You know, this, this guy. And so Bessent went on state regime media last night and he says the Iranian regime is over and they know it.
They know it. You better negotiate with us, Iran, or we're going to keep on grinding you into the ground. Grinding you into the ground. You have to understand that this Trump regime is a group of predators. And they speak— if we just hurt you and inflict pain and torture you, then will you do a deal with us? No, quite the contrary. Listen to what Bessin says over here. Play this clip.
And they are either going to have to come to the table and be ready to negotiate that they cannot have a nuclear weapon, that they have to give up their highly enriched uranium, that they have to stop with their terrorist proxies, that they have to stop terrorizing their neighbors, or this will continue. And I believe that between the kinetic action that our great military did for 6 weeks The blockade and the greatest effort at financial isolation in the history of the world. History of the world. We are going to grind them into the—
Then Bessens, like, in my life, I've killed so many poisonous snakes. You grow up and you slash the throat of the poisonous snakes. And that's what we're doing in Iran. We're slashing their throats. What are you talking about? You're the Treasury Secretary, dude. What the hell is this routine? You live in a pink house. You live in a replica of Barbie's Malibu mansion, except your pink mansion was in Charleston, South Carolina. You literally— I'm not making this up. You lived in the pink Malibu— stop with the snakes and the this and the that. You know, he also pretends to be a farmer. Do you know his shtick where he goes, and I'm a farmer, so I can relate to the high prices? No, you're a private equity billionaire who, by the way, ran your fund into the ground, but made your money off of basically taking people's fees undeservedly when you destroyed your fund. And now you're running the United States government after having a very unsuccessful fund of your own. Your MAGA arc is the same MAGA loser arc we see over and over again. But here he is acting all tough. Whoa, we're gonna, we're gonna take off the neck of the snake.
Dude, shut the hell up with these people. What's wrong? What is wrong with these actual sickos here?
Play this Sean, look, in my life I have killed lots of poisonous snakes. As I said in that interview with the great Larry Kudlow, that where I grew up near a swamp, we had a lot of poisonous snakes come in our yard and we cut their heads off, whether it was with a machete, with a boat paddle, with a rake. And once the head is severed, the tail can keep— or the remainder of the body can keep squirming, but it eventually stops squirming. But for a while it doesn't know it's dead. The head, still poisonous. You bury the head, and that's what we are doing to this regime. We are going to isolate them economically, and, you know, they will have no choice.
And meanwhile, in Venezuela, you actually have the opposition party as well as the Delcy Rodriguez ruling party supporters— not Delcy, but the supporters— are all coming out against this Donald Trump imperialistic exploitation of Venezuela, along with Alejandro Bécquer. in court, one of these bully chicos, as they're called, these rich Chavez chavistas who made all of their money, you know, basically exploiting the people of Venezuela. And, uh, you know, look, I've, I've gone over this deal so many times that it's a fraudulent deal, that there's not really 65 million barrels that the US is going to have access to, that the Venezuelan oil doesn't go to our strategic reserves. It's the material and the consistency. It's sour, it's dense, it's viscous. It's not going to work. You're going to have to have hundreds of billions of, like, Tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure and investment, and US oil companies don't want to really get involved in that. They haven't gotten involved in that. That's why the Trump regime created a Trump state-owned Pentagon-controlled oil company. That's called communism, and it's illegal because our Congress needs to approve it. With Hegseth, that's taking a stake with this Alejandro Bentoncourt in the Venezuela reserves.
Again, patently illegal. And the people of Venezuela are just absolutely livid. Um, Germania Rodriguez Paleo says, LOL, the White House really thought that we Venezuelans were going to stay silent about this. Sorry, not sorry for ruining your plans to quietly align with this thug. America, meet Alejandro, uh, Betancourt right there. Um, and this is, uh, what Ricardo Hausmann, former Venezuelan planning minister, had to say on CNN. Play this clip.
This smells horribly. This is really a kleptocracy in Caracas dealing with a kleptocracy in the US. This is not in the interest of the Venezuelan people. It's an illegitimate deal that is done by an interim president that pretends to allocate, you know, 65 billion barrels of reserves. She should be there just to elect to organize an election and have a permanent president and a permanent national assembly make these decisions. She should be indicted.
What are they talking about on state regime media Fox with all of this taking place? In addition to having the transportation secretary talk about Sydney Sweeney's breasts, what else are they talking about? Well, I'm glad you asked. The Fox hosts are complaining about low teen pregnancy rates. That's what they're very— they're like, why aren't these girls between 15 and 19 having babies anymore? The hell are the— what the hell are you— as I said, all these people are like freaking predators. Here, play this clip.
Absolutely. We still have 3.6 million births a year, but the problem is teens and young adults from ages 15 to 19. The fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70%, uh, over the last 2 decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait till they're in a more stable life situation, till they're more financially secure. Maybe they haven't found the right partner.
And then you have right-wing provocateur, former ultra-MAGA Milo Yiannopoulos, who was basically reported to ICE by Laura Loomer after an internal MAGA spat. He got deported to the UK. And here's what he had to say now that he renounces his MAGA ship. I'm no longer MAGA. I don't support Trump anymore because now he came after me. Here's what happened here. Play this clip.
A collapse into this ugly warmongering, you know, taken as a whole mentally ill heap of crazy with some of the most, you know, unstable and lunatic people seemingly directing the president's actions. If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place, and I'm very ashamed that I did.
Should also be noted, and I've done a lot of videos on this as well, after the US struck Iran, Iran responded. Iran struck US bases in Jordan. Muwaffiq Salty, Prince Hussein, um, and numerous bases there. Uh, in Bahrain they struck, uh, as well. Um, let's just pull up this list right here. Uh, in Iraq, maintenance center, equipment warehouses, surveillance system, and fuel tanks. In Jordan, marine facilities, attack helicopters, uh, and drone hangars. The Captain Titan, uh, the Captain Titan, Prince Hassan, and also I believe Muwaffiq Salty. The US hit Iran hit US bases in Bahrain, radar systems, fuel infrastructure, US troop positions there. In Kuwait, Iran struck a military pier, weapons hangars, aircraft facilities, and an MQ-9 infrastructure drone there. And we believe multiple drones were hit as well. And the Trump regime's continuing just to leak out lies to Barak Ravid over at Axios, claiming things are going great. They're going according to plan. We got out all of the oil that we wanted from the Strait of Hormuz. Things are going exactly the way they wanted. And we know it's just more lies from the Trump regime right here. In any event, this is what Brock Rabid's posting.
A US official told me on Tuesday that the new strikes against Iran degraded attack capabilities in the strait and bought us at least a month or lowered the threat levels of commercial ships. A US official said around 40 ships transiting and in and out of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, carrying millions of barrels, millions of barrels. Stop with the lies. There's about 3 to 4 million barrels of oil getting out of the Strait of Hormuz.
Okay.
Before the war was 20 million barrels.
Okay.
You want to talk millions, about 3 or 4 million barrels. If all this supply is getting out there, then why is the price of crude now hitting $100 a barrel? Why? If there's all this supply, perhaps it's because you're lying about everything. And now all of the fabrications, all of the fraud, it's all catching up. Everything we've been warning about, about tank bottom in the salt caverns, uh, in the strategic petroleum reserves, all of the lies that Trump's been saying with the fake deals, the this, the that, it's all caught up. Nobody's believing the deal in Venezuela is going to actually replenish the strategic reserves. We know it's a Trump fraud. We know it's all a lie. And it's— and time's run out. Time's run out. And so now you're doing emergency meetings. Meetings with— going back to where I started— with the refiners, bringing them into the White House, throwing out the press while you talk about manipulating the market like the authoritarian communists that you all are in the Trump regime. That's who they are. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump holding a closed-door White House meeting with oil refiners as oil prices surge, the war with Iran escalates, and the Trump administration scrambles to contain the growing fallout from the crisis.
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