Transcript of Trump Panics as War Goes Sideways

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Donald Trump is panicking. He's trying to get a ceasefire from Iran. He's trying to essentially surrender while pretending that he accomplished some big victory in Iran. But the war rages on. 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz were struck by Iran this morning after— remember Donald Trump and all his regime were saying, try to go through, it's patriotic if you go through the Strait of Hormuz. 3 ships were hit by Iran. And what Donald Trump told Axios this morning is there's practically nothing left to even target of Iran. They've been so decimated so obliterated that the war is basically over and there are no additional strikes happening from Iran into any of the neighboring Arab nations, which is not only 100% false, but it is deeply, deeply dangerous to be lying like that. Just take a look at what's happening this morning. 3 ships were hit by projectiles from Iran near the Strait of Hormuz within 3 hours, as DropSite explains. The UK Maritime Monitor is saying 3 commercial vessels were struck by suspected projectiles within roughly 3 hours early Wednesday near the Strait of Hormuz, according to alerts from the UK Maritime Trade Operations.

The cargo vessel Express Rome, the bulk carrier Mayori Nari, and the container ship— that name is not yet disclosed. Also, if you look what's going on in Oman right now, their largest oil facility was struck. Unclear. It seems that it was struck by an Iranian drone, but not sure if it was from the Houthis or from elsewhere. But you can see right now the main Oman storage facility right there being hit. The national average price of diesel in the US has reached $4.81 per gallon, its highest level since December 15th, 2022. I mean, take a look at what that port looks like in Salalah right now in Oman after this attack. And look, the British are— well, Donald Trump's like, nothing's going wrong, everything is amazing. The British military confirming that these cargo ships are ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. They're providing accurate updates to their people. And what the Iranian military is saying is that they are switching from what they've been referring to as reciprocal hits. And I think they use that name because Donald Trump calls his tariffs reciprocal tariffs. They go, we're switching from reciprocal hits to now continuous strikes.

And Iran is saying that their goal is to drive oil prices to $200 per barrel. They're saying our goal is to make you suffer economically. This is a war of attrition and we're not going to stop. The details include Iran saying that US will not be able to control oil prices. We won't allow even 1 liter of oil to reach the US. Israel and its partners. An Iranian military spokesperson said any vessel or tanker bound to them will be a legitimate target. Iran says that if you pass the Strait of Hormuz, you need the permission of the Islamic Republic. Iran appears to be shifting their military strategy as oil prices were starting to decline, but now they're back up over $90 a barrel. And you can see right here, I mean, this is the statement from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy chief, who says, after hitting those 3 ships that I mentioned at the beginning of this video, were these ships assured that they could pass through the Strait of Hormuz? Ask the crews aboard the ships, the Maori Nori and the Express Rome, who today trusted empty promises, ignored the warnings, and intended to pass through the strait but were caught.

And who was giving them those empty promises? All of the Trump regime officials, MAGA Republican senators, American business leaders, you know, who were aligned with MAGA were saying, just go through it, it's patriotic. And those 3 ships have now essentially been hit very hard, if not destroyed. And we're learning more about the Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed US service members in the early hours of the war. Remember, it killed 6. There was a 7th soldier who died in Saudi Arabia. 6 died in the drone attack in Kuwait. There was another service member who died of supposedly mysterious illnesses. And then there are 150 wounded right now. But we're learning more about that Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran. It was far more severe than anybody had previously known. With dozens suffering injuries that included brain trauma, shrapnel trauma, and burns, per sources. More than 30 remained in the hospital even as of yesterday with battle injuries. And so real, real serious injuries that were taking place there. Amid all of this, we have the International Energy Agency launching the largest oil stock release ever in its history.

Amid the Strait of Hormuz shutdown and the Middle East war, the international agency said its 32 member countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, South Korea, and Canada, agreed to release more than 400 million barrels of oil from emergency reserves to try to stabilize markets disrupted by the Middle East war. In other words, right now oil would be $200 a barrel.. But the United States and all of its allies are trying to— or former allies or whatever— are trying to flood the market now with these emergency reserves. The problem is, if the war continues to go on and Iran realizes this, and now the emergency reserves have been drained, then what happens next? Then what if the war still goes on? That you could see $250 a barrel. That's why the same way when Donald Trump handled COVID like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Just saying and pretending that the war is over, as Donald Trump is trying to do, is not actually a solution. The move marks only the 6th coordinated emergency stock release in the agency's history after previous actions in 1991, 2005, 2011, and twice in 2022.

But this is by far the largest oil release that we've seen yet. So by them, the largest emergency oil release in history. So what is Senator Rick Scott saying? What is MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott saying? Well, he was on CNN and they said, well, why isn't the US Navy escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz? Isn't this what you said they were going to do? Isn't this what the Secretary of Energy said? Isn't this what Donald Trump said? He made all of these promises about the Strait of Hormuz. So what's going on? Rick Scott here, play this clip.

Senator, if it were possible to, to do so safely at this point, Why isn't the U.S. Navy escorting ships through the strait?

I can't tell you the answer to that, but I think it's— I think right now it's still a dangerous situation. We have— it's going to take a while for us to get control of the Strait of Hormuz. The most important thing we can do right now in our job right now is we'd love to get gas prices back down. But the most important thing is destroy Iran's capability to, you know, produce a nuclear weapon, destroy their military, their ballistic missile capability, and hopefully, right, we end up with a country that wants to work with the world community and not be constantly destroying through all their proxies. So, I mean, we all want gas prices to come down. Nobody wants gas prices higher. This president doesn't want gas prices higher. But we have to be realistic. If you believe that Iran was going to use nuclear weapons against us, we had no choice but to do this. And there are problems short term.

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And then Rick Scott says, yeah, just unfortunately we're just going to have to live with it. Prices are going to be up. This is just what it's going to be like for a while here.

Play this clip right here. It's fascinating to me that Democrats now talk about gas prices. Under Obama and under Biden, they tried to destroy the US oil and gas industry. So we want prices to come down. I think unfortunately prices are going to be up for a while until this ends. But with Venezuela coming on, with American oil and gas coming on, with hopefully a positive resolution to this conflict, then prices will come down even further.

Then we heard from Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior, who for some reason talks about, you know, all of these wars and things. Here's what Doug Burgum's like. People have never been happier in the Middle East. About the United States. Here, play this clip.

When these Gulf states know their refineries being targeted and their, their, uh, and the oil storage being targeted, what do you say to our Gulf state allies at this time? What's your advice to them?

Well, I think our Gulf state allies have never been happier than they have now to have US military presence in their country and to have a strong relationship, uh, both economically, uh, and in terms of energy industry with the United States. They understand you know, who supports them and who supports their growth and prosperity.

And then he was asked, like, were you guys caught by surprise by all of this? Like, were you, were you caught by surprise?

Here, play this clip. There's a lot— I'm reading the New York Times today and they're claiming that you guys were caught by surprise that the price of oil went up.

Is that true? Completely fake news there, obviously. But one thing I would say with President Trump, who's been focused on bringing prices down since the day he took office, affordability has been a central part of this in inheriting these high prices across the board. But whether it's energy prices, prescription drugs, this entire administration has been focused on driving down prices. And the way you do that is with supply up. And of course, under President Trump, U.S. now number one oil producer in the world, number one LNG producer and exporter in the world. American citizens need to know that U.S. energy, we've never been in a more dominant or secure position in the history of the country than we are right now with President Trump.

So we, as— by the way, even on Larry Kudlow, who is a MAGA sycophant, a Trump bootlicker, he said the following on his show with Newt Gingrich. If they can keep the Strait of Hormuz open, this war will in fact be an American defeat before very long. As Carl Keith Denia says, that's a rare downbeat from Kudlow, who's a Trump propagandist. Just the— just the reality of what's going on is what we've been reporting now for a long time, and we've been cutting through the propaganda for you right over here. Also, farmers— the latest Farm Journal explains farmers are facing skyrocketing fertilizer prices because they get a lot of their fertilizer from the Middle East. And so farmers are getting screwed yet again right there. Like it wasn't enough that Donald Trump's tariffs against the world screwed the markets that farmers could export to, or that the input costs were far higher by Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. Now fertilizer prices are going to be much higher. And then the Trump sycophants, these MAGA Republican senators, though they've been making their rounds on TV saying, look, at the end of the day, freedom isn't free and we need to— y'all need to sacrifice everything that we've just been talking about in this video.

Just sacrifice. This is sacrifice for Trump is what they're saying. Watch these MAGA Republican senators, what they say. We need to sacrifice on CNN here.

Play this clip.

Right.

I mean, I just asked because you described it as a hiccup, the gas prices and the change in the oil market that we're seeing. I mean, if they're lifting sanctions on Russia, clearly they're worried it could last longer than just a brief period, don't you think?

I don't, Kaitlan. I think you're really reaching here. I think just as quickly as we took those sanctions away, we can put them back on. So I think, again, it's one day at a time. You live in this little bubble. Ivory tower here. I don't think that you're dealing with the real world that President Trump has. We don't know when the war is going to be over. We don't know when the sanctions should go back on. But, but I think the president on a day-to-day basis— But how is that an ivory tower?

I'm asking you about gas prices that Americans are paying that are extremely high and having wild swings in part because of the war with Iran that the president started.

Right. So, so again, freedom is not free. Americans are going to have to make some sacrifices, but we're operating from a point of strength. Isn't it great that compared to when I was growing up in the '70s, we were so dependent upon Middle East oil, but now we're the largest producer of oil in the world, that we're the second biggest exporter of oil in the world? So we're not going to be shut out economically from this. We at least have the oil here. Yes, it's a worldwide commodity, but this is one of the prices of war. Are we willing to stand here for 47 years and let Iran beat the heck out of Americans and kill thousands of Americans? Or are we willing to stand up and say enough of this?

And finally, there's also reports that China right now is— get this— they are getting very upset at how disorganized the Trump regime is, even for the state visit that is planned to China. And Donald, you know, so Trump's whole thing is he wants to go to Beijing. And normally these state visits require like a lot of planning. You know, they look good and there's a lot of kind of diplomatic things that take place before, right? And so because Trump doesn't plan anything, like in Beijing they're just like, what are you even doing? Like, setting aside all the other horrible things that Trump is doing, China is irked by last-minute scramble to plan the Xi-Trump summit with 3 weeks until Donald Trump is supposed to meet Xi Jinping. Beijing is frustrated by what it sees as insufficient U.S. preparation that may limit the landmark summit to trade agreements and leave key diplomatic and security matters untouched. So the Trump regime doesn't plan anything. Donald Trump doesn't— there's no planning to anything at all, even a state visit that Donald Trump wants for his own propaganda purposes. In any event, let me know what you think about this all.

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