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Heading into the third week of the war, the President of the United States is threatening allies colluding with Saudi Arabia. A complete nut threat. Threatening the free press because he doesn't like the actual reporting of how incompetent, ill prepared and what an abject moron this man is from start to finish. The Wall Street Journal, I will remind everyone, is owned by Rupert Murdoch is a right leaning conservative. Paper put out this over the weekend, Wall Street Journal. Trump's advisors didn't underestimate the problem. Trump kept the smart ones out of the room and ignored what contrary advice Trump knew the risk of Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuze. He still went to war anyway. And this is the fundamental problem with this guy. He, he operates on so much hubris, surrounded by so many idiots that now we have really serious issues. You have little girls in Iran that went to school one day that a Tomahawk missile bombed. Imagine if somebody bombed a school in the United States of America. Imagine an all girls school. And this just gets, you know, the dehumanization globally right now is at such a peak, led by the United States of America and Israel, that it really shouldn't be this way. We should all be pausing. But this guy is all gas, no brakes, does what he wants to do impulsively. And he has his own Pentagon years, decades of intelligence, of machinations, of war plans. And what if we do this and what if we do that and what would the outcome be? And they all advised him not to do this, but he wanted to do it anyway. And now Iran's like f you, we control the Strait of Hormuz, not our problem. And you're the one who picked this war. We didn't even want nukes, so quit lying about it. But now that you've started it, we're in it. And now he's screaming and throwing feces at all of our allies, who you might remember when he first came into office screaming and throwing feces at them. And now he wants their help. And nobody wants to help the United States and this madman. And so all of these stories are coming out in the media and they're not favorable to him. The affordability crisis, not favorable. The ice murders, not favorable. His approval ratings, not favorable. The economy falling off a Cliff, gas prices way too high. Iran, total quagmire. So he pitches a stage five meltdown on Lysocial, because I want to remind everybody, he got kicked off originally from all of the other social media platforms for inciting an insurrection. And now he's president. And so that's why he had to make his little social media site. But now he has surrounded by just yes men. And he has Brendan Carr, the chairman of the fcc, and he goes full fascist online over the weekend. Pop this up. Brendan Carr says broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions, also known as fake news, have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest and they will lose their licenses if they do not. He goes on. So the assault on free press isn't just starting. This guy started this. Trump back in. Trump 1.0. Fake news, fake news, fake news. I mean, really put a lot of journalists lives in danger. And now we have Brendan Carr, like every beta male that works for Trump, refuses to be a guardrail, refuses to say, my agency is going to be independent. And the free press is a healthy form of democracy. They don't want a democracy. All of these people tweet, go on the news and do all of these things for a party of one. A man that makes everybody match their shoes. A man that won't listen to his own Pentagon, a man that sent a mob full of rubes to hang Mike Pence, A man that is a convicted felon. And we can go on and on and on, but if he won't listen to his Pentagon, who is he listening to regarding this? Pop this up. Just as the war is poised to escalate. This leak could be adding fuel to the fire. According to the New York Times, Mr. Trump is talking regularly to Arab leaders, particularly Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown prince. According to several officials. The advice Mr. Trump is getting from the prince is to keep hitting the Iranians hard, essentially repeating the advice that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who died in 2015, repeatedly gave to Washington. Cut off the head of the snake. And so we know he won't listen to the Pentagon. We know he doesn't listen to his own intelligence officers. And this comes from Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0. We all remember Helsinki face plan where he said he believed Vladimir Putin over the United States intelligence. But Saudi Arabia, this is the guy, this is the country who dismembered Jamal Khashoggi. So this is a. A country that absolutely doesn't allow free press. Absolutely. You know, sees America as a transactional entity. None of these people are like, oh yes, we want America to be great. We're all for American exceptionalism. They all see this guy as a compromised guy whose brain is completely cooked that they can manipulate. And so who's really paying the price for this? Trump is $6 billion richer. Jared Kushner. It's been reported over the weekend he is now, while he is like a diplomat for the United States that has never been voted on for him to have this role, is also making deals with the GCC states where he's enriching himself close to 5 billion. Steve Witkoff enriching himself. So all of these Marines that are about to go on the ground, all of these bombs, who pays for it? Well, we know the oligarchs don't. They get government contracting to subsidies. So the American taxpayer pays this and what do we get in return? High gas prices, inflation, a moronic president, the entire world order completely dismantled. Because this guy is so unhinged and he is so incapable of understanding the value of a human being. And remember all of the pro life people, which is the biggest, if somebody says they're pro life and they're so against abortion, they say the sanctity of life, yet they never vote for it, ever. That whole ruse is a misogynist attack on women and their advancement and to keep the right wing Christians consolidated, the most co opted group in the world, right wing white evangelical Christians to keep them in line. And so here's Donald Trump when asked about troops on the ground in Iran. Here he is on Air Force One. Play the clip. You're a very obnoxious person, says the president to a female reporter. He'll do the same tomorrow, the next day. And the next day. The attacks on the press are escalating as they do in fascist takeovers because they cannot have the public completely against the leader. He's a frail, fragile person, egotistically, you know, his inter soul. But now the physical manifestations of his frailty are on full display. So you have him just doubling and tripling down and he is playing people in his cabinet against each other. JD Vance versus Marco Rubio who is on the inner circle of this war. And then we have reporting that he is now escalating. Kylie put up number four dropsite. News is reporting that President Trump suggests media outlets could face quote, treason charges over Iran war reporting. In an interview with ft, Trump also warned NATO could face a very bad future if European allies refuse to assist U.S. efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump demanded Europe and China deployed forces such as minesweepers and commando units, arguing they rely more heavily on Gulf oil than the U.S. he also said Washington could strike Iran's Carg island again, this time attacking its oil export hub. So as you can see, he's attacking allies, he's attacking US Troops, he's attacking anything. He basically, it's a full on assault on rational thought. This guy gets into this war and because pretty much his whole life, he's a rich white man in the United States of America and not even a successful rich man. This is a trust fund baby who inherited a lot of money. And there is this part of American culture where people are deferential to rich people. We give them the affirmative action of intelligence. We attribute all of these features to them that they haven't earned. And here he is as President of the United States. He knows nothing about foreign policy, he knows nothing about military strategy. And here's the thing, it's like the Dunning Kruger effect. He's so stupid that he doesn't realize his ignorance as it pertains to military provocations and war. He wants to do what he wants to do. And let's remember there is a whole facet of the United States government. J.D. vance in particular and Elon Musk, and in the Epstein Files where they celebrated Brexit. So you have Elon Musk, who's all wound up in the UK right now, all over Twitter. You have JD Vance, who has thumbed his nose at the European Union, and that's who they're asking for help right now. It's the arrogance in the entitlement is every single worst feature that everybody globally thought about Americans on full display. And here we have ABC News, which is making accurate stories about the war. Pop this up, ABC News reports. Even as Iran has been pummeled by Israeli and American airstrikes, with its military capabilities greatly diminished, Tehran continues to demonstrate resolve both in adapting and expanding its military tactics. Observers told ABC News. My friend Crystal Ball pointed out on this post, comments here are filled with people demanding news agencies lie to them and say Trump's glorious war is going spectacularly. She goes on to say, how depressing. And here's the thing about what goes on online. A lot of these are bots, but a lot of these people are real. Like, it's amazing what we've done in American culture to devalue facts and devalue the truth so much that nobody wants to hear it. And all of these things are massive, massive distractions to how much the Republican party in MAGA has failed their very voters, the people, rural voters. He WINS by, you know, 40, 50 points pop up this analysis from Warren Gunnels Netanyahu, I need 19.8 billion. Trump, he says approved. No problem. Hexith, I need 1.5 trillion. Trump approved. You got it, buddy. Argentina, we need 40 billion. Trump approved. No problem. Qatar, we need an Air Force base in Idaho. Trump says, sure, come build an air force base in our country. The average Joe. I lost my job, my wife got cancer. Can we get Medicaid? No tough titties. That's how MAGA treats its followers. Ruth Ben Guyot, historian, told me that autocrats typically have disdain for their supporters. And you see that right here. They have such utter disdain. These oligarchs look down on working class people, but not down enough that they won't take their money via subsidies. Cities. But they have been treated in a unearned manner in the United States because of this worship of capitalism. If somebody's wealthy, we're going to worship them. We think that they're so spectacular. And a lot of these people inherited their money or had layups or easy ways to get there. And then in order to become a billionaire or trillionaire, you're taking a lot of government subsidies, you're not paying hardly any taxes, and you're exploiting labor. And then you're going to vote as though you're oppressed that somehow this system where you have private planes, private islands, wealth that is unimaginable. Elon Musk, if you get on his Twitter page, he is oppressed. Post after post after post. It is unbelievable how emotionally stunted these MAGA men are and how they have all this you money and not one person stands up to Trump. I mean, you see people in Dubai, I've talked to you about, spoken to you guys about that billionaire over there that stands up to him. You see people on the global stage stand up to him. But here, it's utterly disgusting. But as his approval numbers tank, and I think the stock market is really going to go through it this week, let's see, let's see how long these people that worship money over everything else, over their own children, over their own families, that will just go basically decapitate themselves to go vote for a Republican at the ballot box. Let's see what happens once their 401ks tank, as they always do under Republican leadership. But these people are too greedy, selfish, and morally broken to understand history. All right, that's all I have. Like subscribe comment. I'll be back later with more news,
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Episode: Disaster Strikes Trump After Ignoring All Warnings From His Advisors on Iran War
Date: March 16, 2026
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
This fiery and incisive episode centers on President Trump's controversial escalation of war with Iran—despite repeated warnings from his own advisors and military experts. Hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan cut through partisan rhetoric, spotlighting Trump’s impulsivity and disregard for expert counsel, the consequences for US foreign policy, the press, democracy, and ordinary Americans. In their signature comedic but impassioned style, they critique not only the administration but also larger issues in American society that have enabled such leadership.
The episode delivers a scathing, deeply informed, and passionate critique of Trump’s foreign policy, his attacks on democratic norms, and the underlying social and economic structures that allow such leadership to flourish. Backed by sharp political analysis and biting humor, Welch and Sullivan challenge listeners to see beyond curated narratives and recognize the dire stakes—not only for the US, but for the world.