Donald Trump is panicking as he sets his own death trap, and tragically, he is dragging the United States right into it. COVID comes to mind when Trump would say, like, a miracle, it's gonna go away, it'll never reach our shores, we're gonna have zero cases, we're gonna bend the curve. Then he would say, actually, inject yourself with bleach, and actually, when the summer comes, it's gonna get so hot that kills the COVID It was lie after lie. That's what we're seeing. Right now as Donald Trump says, well, look, the pressure in the Iranian oil pipelines is such that the entire country is going to explode. Look, the naval blockade is working so effectively that Iran is about to combust from within. It's lie after lie after lie, and Iran is currently right now preparing for everything and anything, including an escalation. When you study what's going on behind the scenes there, as we are here in the Midas Touch network, to the extent the United States tries to engage in a ground invasion, Iran is prepared to unleash something that it has not even done yet before in the war with respect to all of its Arab nations neighbors that will intentionally plunge the entire world into a massive global depression.
And Donald Trump knows this. So while he tries to act like, oh, we've won the war, I'm just trying to run up the margins. When you actually look at the document that Donald Trump submitted to Congress, where he said, well, we're no longer in open hostilities anymore, such that I don't need war power authorization from Congress because we're technically no longer even in a war, we're in the ceasefire and things are fine. If you look at what he says, this is the letter that he sent to Congress on Friday. Despite the success of United States operations against the Iranian regime and continued efforts to secure a lasting peace, the threat posed by Iran to the United States and our armed forces remains significant. Accordingly, the Department of War continues to update its force posture, um, and, uh, continues the blockade, basically. And so that's what he's sending to Congress, okay? Now, do you think this is scaring Iran in any material way? It is not. Iran, through their various social media accounts, They were posting the following last night. Everyone knows— this is what they were writing to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant— everyone knows that you and your pedophile boss lost the war, and those pathetic noises you make come from pain, not victory.
You lost both on the battlefield and in cyberspace, you idiot. And that's what they're saying to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant when Bessant posted yesterday, it's very difficult for rats in a sewer pipe to know what's going on in the outside world, some color for the Iranian leadership as they literally sit in the dark. The United States has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz. There is hard currency, i.e., US dollar shortage. Food and gasoline rationing are in place. The entire international community has turned against you. The blockade will continue until there is pre-February 27th freedom of navigation. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessin, I wonder what happened on February 27th that led to the Strait of Hormuz being closed. Maybe it was because you and Netanyahu, the Trump regime and Netanyahu, went in alone and invaded Iran. Maybe that's one of the things that could happen. Okay, if the United States has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz, Bessin, then why don't you bring in the USS Abraham Lincoln or the George H.W. Bush, or I know now the Gerald Ford is headed back to the United States after over 300 days deployed, the longest in naval history.
But why won't you bring in the minesweepers and any of our aircraft carriers and our ships? And why don't you escort all the ships in the Strait of Hormuz, all the cargo ships and tankers, if you're so confident we control the Strait of Hormuz? Oh, wait a minute, because we don't. Iran does. And everything out of this despicable Trump regime is an utter lie. Other Iranian social media accounts are posting, as a smart Treasury Secretary, make sure to visit a gas station to get the prices before tweeting. Now it is less than $0.01 US per liter in Iran. In the United States, the average gas price about $4.60, and it's continuing to rise. Meanwhile, the oil companies in the United States are warning Donald Trump, we are about to face a massive, massive crisis of epic proportions, not just with the price being elevated as it is right now, but this situation in the Strait of Hormuz, you know, we're tapping into reserves. We're getting into, you know, other ways to try to cycle through other crude, uh, uh, production, but we're about to have a serious catastrophe that's taking place. So what's Donald Trump do?
Well, Donald Trump held a deranged series of speeches in Florida, one at the Villages where he was making weird noises like, uh, The whole thing was very weird. I'm not exaggerating. Like, what the hell are we watching there? Then he held another event nearby at a Palm Beach club that was even stranger, where he was like, the United States Navy, we've become pirates. We make all this money being the pirates of the sea, where we take over Iranian cargo ships, and we steal their cargo like pirates. Look, The United States Navy is the most powerful navy in the history of the world. We shouldn't be bragging about being pirates. The pirates were not the good guys, you idiot. Our Navy and the projection of strength was something that was the envy of the world. Now you idiot and your despicable, tyrannical, dumbass regime is bragging about being Pirates? I mean, when I heard this, you know, it plays also right into what Iran has been calling you out as. It's not a good thing to be pirates, and Iran is using it to mock you. No, yeah, I guess we're pirates. I guess we're Jack Sparrow.
It's the dumbest thing I've ever read. Just, I mean, ever saw. You saw Donald Trump yesterday in Florida saying it. Just so you know, I'm not making this up. Here's Donald Trump saying we're pirates. Here, play this clip.
And There was no response. Turn your ship around. Evacuate your engine room immediately. And you see all these guys running out of there. Now, they're 5 miles away. And one shot into the engine room blew up the engine room. The ship stopped. They used tugboats. And then we landed on top of it. On top of everything else, we then land on top of it. And we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We're like pirates. We're sort of like pirates, but we're not playing games because, you know, for 47 years, Iran has been pushing everybody around. They're the bully.
And it gets dumber than that. I mean, last night, Donald Trump making post after post after post. He's posting himself with Uno cards, not the flex you think it is. And he goes, I have all the cards. Yes, Donald. You have the Uno cards in the sense that Uno, you're going at Uno alone right now with nobody else. Then Donald Trump posts, I guess, with Netanyahu, dos. Then you have Donald Trump posting this awful photoshopped image of his face on Mount Rushmore. He keeps on posting these weird AI bizarre images of the Washington, D.C. reflecting pool. And he shows what he claims to be reflecting pools when Obama was in office that looked dirty. He's like, look at this reflecting pool. Photo taken September 29, 2012. Coming soon. This is what our country was before and after Trump! Exclamation point. Then he posts this bizarre photo of himself. This is what he actually thinks he looks like, um, with his shirt off and J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio, uh, and Doug Burgum. And I don't— I truly don't know who this lady is supposed to be, uh, who's in a bikini. With, with these. I mean, this is some deranged stuff.
For those on audio, I'm describing an AI image of Donald Trump, Vance, Rubio, and Bergam with their shirts off in the reflecting pool, with a woman with wearing a bikini. And that's what Donald Trump is posting in addition to QAnon posts after QAnon post. I mean, the entire world is looking at this and saying what German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is saying, which is the United States is has utterly humiliated itself. And anybody who supports this crap, I mean, this is a humiliation ritual of epic proportions that the President of the United States is behaving like a deranged lunatic on 4chan. But I guess that's what Donald Trump is, a deranged lunatic of 4chan bringing his cult followers through this deranged 4chan dystopian world. And the rest of us who actually are the silent majority, you just want to get on with our life, you know, are seeing this, uh, we're consensual participants in Donald Trump's sicko reality show. Meanwhile, the United States is removing 5,000 of its troops from the German— the US-German Air Force base in Germany because Donald Trump doesn't like that Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz is calling out Donald Trump. It's so bizarre.
And then throughout the— dangerous. And then also yesterday, Donald Trump, during this, uh, speech that he gave at the Forum Club at night in Palm Beach. He's like, look, you know, I'm just so busy every day. I'd love to go and see the zero people showing up at the PGA tournament at Doral. Did you see that? I'm going to do another video of that for you today. There are no fans. Zero. Zip. Okay, like 12 fans at the Doral Miami Golf Club. Utter humiliation ritual for Donald Trump. He's destroyed the PGA. He's destroyed the LIV Golf tournament, I might add, because Saudi Arabia is no longer funding it because Donald Trump gave up these security umbrella in the Middle East in Saudi Arabia's attack, and they've pulled back all of their non-essential investments, including LIV, also as a way to retaliate against Donald Trump for screwing the security umbrella there. But then Donald Trump gave this speech in Palm Beach, and he's like, I don't know what's even going on with this PGA tournament, by the way, where no one's showing up. I've been too busy. The Iranians, they just, they keep on calling me every day.
Just Iranians are calling me nonstop, and I'm like, yo, I don't want to make a deal. I'm too busy to make a deal. Here's what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
You know, so you'll be all very happy. And you know, it's right now I own Doral, and right now we have a tournament. I'm so busy. And we have the big Cadillac Championship going on, all the great players, the PGA Tour, and they're there. And yesterday somebody came up, said, sir, the tournament is great. I said, what tournament are you talking about? I'm so busy with the Iranians calling Trying to make a good deal. We're not going to let that happen, but got to make a bet. They've got to make a bad deal. But if they make a deal at all, because frankly, maybe we're better off not making a deal at all. Do you want to know the truth? Because we can't let this thing go on. Been going on too long. But under the leadership of—
So he's saying that we're pirates. He's saying he's too busy to make a deal. Again, utterly deranged and delusional. He's making weird noises. Here's the video of himself making weird noises.
A little bit. Uh, uh, come on, darling. The mother's screaming like, darling, I love you, darling. Oh, mom, I can't do it.
And then the fan fiction, his stenographer, Barak Ravid of Axios, who just spews out whatever the hell Donald Trump wants as part of this ridiculous and completely, uh, non-believable, uh, propaganda campaign in the United States. Barak Ravid goes, what's next? There are options. Do we want to go and just bomb them completely and finish them off for good? Or do we want to try to make a deal? Those are the options. We want to finish them off for good. Yeah, you realize that you tried to finish them off for good. Regime change, you're gonna bomb them to hell. You bombed bridges, you killed the little elementary school girls, you genocidal war criminal, you, you disgusting, vile, this disgusting, vile regime of and you didn't achieve your objectives. You didn't get what you wanted in war. And now you're just there frozen with this so-called naval blockade as Iran is mocking you each and every day. As you think that you're gonna, what, make social media posts and that's gonna, oh my God, oh, did Donald Trump do a social media post of him in the reflecting pool? Oh my gosh, I think I'm gonna have to give up right now.
I think we're gonna have to surrender. Donald Trump was confronted by members of the press yesterday before he flew to Florida and said, you, you're, you're aware, right, that your buddies in Pakistan opened up several land routes for Iran to bring their crude and other supplies to get around your blockade? Like, are you okay with that? Trump's like, yeah, I love Pakistan. Of course, of course, that's amazing. I mean, this guy is an idiot. Okay, but here's what Donald Trump said here. Play this clip.
Pakistan has opened the land route with Iran. Did they consult you before opening it up to Iran? And are you aware of it? That was a vicious beat. I know everything about it. Yeah, I have great respect. Are you from Pakistan? I have great respect for Pakistan and for the Field Marshal and for the Prime Minister. Yeah, I know.
And then Donald Trump says, actually, the good news is, since the war began, guess what? The United States, we have double our munitions now. We've gained munitions since the war. You know, it's one of those things that, again, Donald Trump will say things like last Sunday, We are going to blow up Iran by doing the naval blockade because the oil pipe pressure, then that doesn't happen. It's like, yeah, that's just Donald Trump being Donald. He just says a lot of words. None of them matters. That's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. And here Donald Trump saying we've doubled our munitions. We all know America has half as much munitions and perhaps in some cases less when it comes to some of our critical munitions. And by the way, the air bases in the Middle East were significantly damaged by Iran. A new CNN, uh, report shows that most of our bases there utterly destroyed and others barely fixable, but mostly obliterated, all covered up by Donald Trump and CENTCOM. And now the real damage is being discussed. But oh, and then the Trump regime claims, uh, what it was, uh, only $25 billion expended in war.
And Foreign Minister Araghchi of Iran— and I mean, you're not fooling anybody with this crap. Foreign Minister Araghchi posted after Donald Trump claimed that this war— Donald Trump's Undersecretary of Defense who testified in Congress said, yeah, this war cost us $25 billion. Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi goes, the Pentagon's lying. Netanyahu's gamble has directly cost America $100 billion so far, 4 times what is claimed. Indirect costs for US taxpayers are far higher. Monthly bill for each American household is $500 and rising fast. And that doesn't even include Donald Trump's tariffs against, uh, the world. Oh, but here was— here's Donald Trump, President of the United States, pains me to say that, saying that we've— we have double our munitions now. Double our munitions?
What are you talking—
we didn't double our munitions since the war. These lies are not just obvious, they're just the dumbest lies ever, and they're just utterly humiliating to the United States. Here, play this clip.
There was a report this week that because of all the firepower required for Epic Fury, that there are people in the White House who are starting to worry about our inventory of bombs and missiles. Are you worried? No, no, we have more than we've ever had, actually, because all over the world we have inventory and we can take that if we need it. But all over the world, we have tremendous amounts of inventory, the best. For instance, we're stocked and locked and loaded. Right now we have more than double what we had when this started. But, you know, we're all over the world. We're in many, many different countries, many different places, all backed up. Now, what happened is Biden came in like a stupid fool and he did— he gave a lot of what we had to Ukraine. Right. And it's a $300 $350 billion they spent. We don't do that. Everybody has to pay. The European Union pays us, but Biden didn't get money. He got nothing. He got nothing. But he gave a lot of the inventory away. Now, relatively speaking, it's not that, but, but it was a lot of inventory.
He gave it to Ukraine. We built it up, but we have inventory from all over the world.
And so that's the statement coming out of Donald Trump. Here are the types of statements coming out of Iran with President Pahlavi. And they also— the Iranian social media accounts are also posting videos like this of President Pahlavi. And, dear Americans, you can find the name of Dr. Pahlavi, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the list of online doctor directories. Yes, we are different. Dr. Pahlavi is a highly experienced medical specialist with over 30 years of expertise in cardiovascular surgery. He's a heart surgeon, particularly in heart valve repair and pediatric cardiac procedures, and has worked as a professor of surgery surgery at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. That's the president of Iran, who then posted the following on International Workers' Day: In my teenage years, I have worked as a laborer. I have partaken of the blessed bread of this noble profession and take pride in it. I know that being a worker means nobility, patience, dignity, standing firm against hardships, and building a better future for those we love. As I had promised, I issued the order to shut down the contracting companies. So you have him posting that while Donald Trump's posting weird AI images of himself with women in bikinis with his male cabinet members.
Very, very bizarre. And finally, as I mentioned at the outset, Donald Trump walking into this death trap. Here is Professor Mirandi. Professor Mirandi is a well-known professor in Iran. He speaks very good English, by the way, and he talks about the trap ready to go that Trump will be walking right into if Trump chooses escalation. Here, play this clip.
If the United States starts targeting Iranian leaders and the Israeli regime as well, this Epstein coalition, as I like calling it, I like to call it, um, and then alongside that they start targeting Iran's critical infrastructure like power stations and so on, then these Arab leaders and their elites around them, they'll be targeted too. And then their critical infrastructure will be targeted. And that will be at a time, and this is, I think, very important, that we are nearing the hot season in the Persian Gulf region and in the Arabian Peninsula. So the month of May is a transition month. By the end of May, it gets very hot. And in middle May, in the middle of May, it is getting hot. And then the sandstorms and the humidity and all that, you combine that, becomes very difficult for anyone to work in these countries. Unless there is, you know, electricity, unless, uh, uh, unless they, uh, have the ability to, to stay cold. If they lose their electrical power plants, it is going to be very difficult for the, I don't know, 50, 60, I don't know how many American troops are there now because they brought in a lot of, um, uh, equipment for ground attack.
So there may also be extra troops with the tens of thousands of American troops stationed there. It's going to be much more difficult for them.
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