Donald Trump has gone mute on Saturday. No social media posts, no statements as disastrous news once again strikes. We learned this morning that Spirit Airlines is now officially bankrupt as a result of Donald Trump's policies causing the price of jet fuel to spike as a result of Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran that still continues today. The Trump regime now blaming former President Biden for the bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines. In May of 2026. Donald Trump has also been humiliated at his golf course in Doral where the PGA is currently playing the Cadillac Championship. As we've been reporting on the Midas Touch Network, very low attendance at this tournament, perhaps the worst attendance of any tournament in PGA history. You have Iran continuing to call out Donald Trump for all of his lies when Donald Trump is pretending that he's having negotiations with them. Iran is calling them out and saying, we are never giving up the Strait of Hormuz. Also, Donald Trump removing 5,000 American soldiers from an Air Force base in Germany, and Germany and the European Union responding and essentially saying, that doesn't scare us, we don't care. We've essentially have already wrote off the United States as an ally.
And you have the Polish foreign minister, for example, you know, another foreign minister saying, you know, We expect this. The German foreign minister also— I mean, they're all saying we expect this from the United States. We're now focused on building a stronger Europe and working with Ukraine. Donald Trump, of course, is not a reliable ally. The US is no longer a reliable ally. We knew that for a long time, but we're just not putting up with this crap anymore. So last night, before Donald Trump went silent and mute, he was posting things like this: American flag blue. He keeps on making these weird posts of the reflecting pool. That's his new priority. In addition to Golden Ballrooms, triumphal arches, uh, now it's reflecting pools that he wants to paint blue. And then he, you know, posts these bizarre photos of himself with his, you know, like these weird AI images, uh, of like a skinny version of himself with Marco Rubio and JD Vance and Burgum and a random lady in a bikini. And, uh, I mean, truly a psychopath. These were all of his posts last night. And then he gave those two really awful speeches.
One of the speeches was in the Villages at a high school there. Another speech that Donald Trump gave was, uh, in a Palm Beach club that was supposed to be nonpartisan. And that's where Donald Trump was bragging, we're pirates in the United States, we're pirates. And he was making all of these weird noises like, mm, uh, uh, and then, you know, Iran sees this stuff. The rest of the world sees this stuff. I mean, they're, they're commenting on all of these posts, uh, today. You know, the Iranian South African social media account and other social media accounts tied to Iran says, like, if you think he needs therapy. And here's the post that they made here. Play this clip. Ah, come on, darling. The mother's screaming like, darling, I love you, darling.
Mom, I can't do it.
Meanwhile, in Russia, on their Russian state TV, you had their former President Medvedev was giving a speech, and you can just see how he was responding to people in the audience who were asking him about how the US and Europe are essentially no longer allies, and what you think about— what do you think about the development between the United States and Europe? So as Donald Trump has destroyed our alliances, now going mute, here's what's going on in Russia. Here, play this clip. If European countries are at loggerheads with the US and the US is on bad terms with the rest of the world, where might this lead. In short, Russia's victory. It's actually quite amusing to watch how relations between the United States and Europe are developing. This isn't about which side we're on. We have our own interests. And then this morning you had Sean Duffy, Donald Trump's transportation secretary, holding a press conference following the official bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines, where now I think they had about 7,500 employees left, but they in total, they had about 17,000 employees. So 17,000 1,000 employees lost their job. The remaining 7,500 are now out of jobs.
And Sean Duffy's response is, it's Biden's fault. It's Pete Buttigieg's fault. No one is buying this, Duffy. No one is buying this, Trump. We know that you guys are in charge right now. I mean, this is just so utterly ridiculous. Play this clip. Uh, I'll take your, uh, your questions in a second, but I think it's important to talk about, uh, why are we here today? There was a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit, and Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, along with the Biden DOJ, decided that they did not want that merger to take place. And also this morning, while Donald Trump has gone silent and mute from his social media platforms after those deranged appearances yesterday, the White House posted a— I'm only going to show a very— I'm going to show 4 seconds of this. They posted a 60-minute clip of Donald Trump saying, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning for an hour. And they loop it. I'm winning, I'm winning, winning, winning, winning, winning. And they play that over for an hour. I mean, this is truly a regime that's not just a regime of fascists, not just a regime of the Epstein class, but this is a regime of pure, unadulterated psychopaths.
Here, play this clip. Winning, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning, winning. Meanwhile, in Iran, Mohsen Razi, a prominent Iranian, uh, politician who was a prior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for 16 years, the longest tenure in the organization's history, who currently serves as the military advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khomeini, posted the following, and DropSite covered this as well: An inexperienced and ignorant US War Secretary. If he had studied properly, understood geography, and had sufficient knowledge of Iran and the complexities of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf would not have trapped the US military today in a quagmire with no way forward and no way back. They will learn many lessons in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. So you have that going on in Iran. Then in Venezuela, acting president dictator Delcy Rodriguez, who Donald Trump propped up because he said, if we take over Venezuela, all of our oil prices are going to be So cheap, we're going to take their oil. I mean, one, a ridiculous imperialistic, horrible thing to say. And do, um, but separately, has Venezuela resulted in your oil prices being cheaper?
Is that the way it works? Acting President Delcy Rodriguez was asked about a timeline for elections in Venezuela. And she says, I don't know, sometime, very cavalierly, because Donald Trump just props up dictators. Here, play this clip.
President Rodriguez, a few questions from the press. Just when do you expect to hold elections in Venezuela?
I don't know. Sometime. Now, the latest Washington ABC/Ipsos poll is showing that Americans view Donald Trump's war with Iran negatively, with 61% calling it a mistake and only a small share seeing it as successful. Overall, the war's unpopularity has now reached levels similar to the Iraq War at its peak and the Vietnam War in the 1970s. And also, Donald Trump's claim that this naval blockade is going to somehow just destroy Iran's economy. And it's going to, uh, force the oil pipes to be so overpressurized that Iran's not going to know what to do with, with, uh, all of its oil production. I'll just share this with you. This is from a Bloomberg report and DropSite covered it, the Bloomberg report. So 2 weeks into this blockade, Iran is still loading crude from its Cargill and terminal onto tankers already in the Persian Gulf. Dropsite reported today that in recent weeks Iran has begun deploying improvised storage containers, including mothballed storage tankers in the Persian Gulf brought back into service to help deal with the blockade as a means of continuing production in the face of the dilemma posed by the blockade and avoiding production stoppages.
Kpler reported Monday that Iran likely still has 12 to 22 days of storage capacity left. Before the war, Iran had emptied a portion of its storage capacity. That's why Iran had tens of millions of barrels floating on the sea. It already foresaw the situation, uh, a security analyst in Tehran close to the Iranian government told DropSite. Secondly, 70% of Iran's oil production is used at home and 30% is exported abroad. Iran could rechannel its oil exports through land, through swapping, and through many other means. And as we've reported and others have as well, Pakistan has opened up many lanes to basically just reroute this, not through the Strait of Hormuz and through the Persian Gulf, but just reroute it through the land. And that's what Iran appears to be, uh, doing right now. A few other things I want to, uh, point out as well and, and share with you. Uh, you have, uh, remember when Donald Trump said this yesterday about Robert E. Lee? Why couldn't that— this is what Donald Trump's view of the Civil War was, and that Robert E. Lee was the hero of the Civil War and, and great and an incredible general.
Trump goes, Why couldn't that have been settled? The Civil War, maybe it could have been. Robert E. Lee was an amazing general. He took something that was supposed to end in a day and made it last 4 years. If Gettysburg didn't happen, he would have won. And as our editor-in-chief, Ron Philipkowski, and anyone who knows anything basic about the Civil War would tell you, this entire thing is ridiculous. But Lee also demonstrated extremely poor generalship at Gettysburg that resulted in a third of his army becoming casualties. He also didn't take over command of the Army of North Virginia Virginia until 14 months after the war started. And he didn't say, you know, Donald Trump's line is that he goes, come up me hill, come up me hill, my little mates. Me hill, no, you can't get up me hill. Like Donald Trump, like makes up an entire Civil War lore where the Confederates win in his own mind. And Robert E. Lee's the big hero of it. And it just, isn't it also just very telling with Donald Trump that for him, Robert E. Lee should be applauded when the Confederates should have lost in one day.
He thinks it's amazing that they drew it out for 4 years. That gives you a lot of his insight. Finally, let me just tell you what they're talking about in Iran right now. If the US escalates, Professor Mehrandi over there who travels with the Iranian negotiating team, um, here's how he describes what Iran is planning in the event there's escalation. He says this time there will be counter-assassinations and attacks on the leaders in the Arab nation neighbors that are allied with the United States here. Play it.
Well, the only thing I can think of is that they will continue to do the same as they did before— assassinate, bomb infrastructure, terrorize the population. and also probably go more after critical infrastructure as he had threatened to do so before. But the problem would be that, uh, the Iranians will strike back. And we've heard just today from a very senior Iranian MP who is a part of the delegation in Islamabad that if any assassinations take place this time around, that Iran will take out the leaders of the Arab regimes in, in the Persian Gulf, meaning Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. That's what he said. And because he said that they are complicit, they, without them, this war can't take place. So if they start murdering our leaders, then they will destroy their palaces And I would assume that would also mean destroying their, not just their critical infrastructure, but their intelligence agencies and their defense ministries and that sort of thing. So, Iran will take its retaliatory violence to a very different level. So Iran has already said that critical infrastructure will be responded by striking critical infrastructure in in this—
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump going mute as his plans backfire and a major American company just filed bankruptcy.
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