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David Pakman (0:00)
On today's show, we are going to look at the administration abruptly canceling the entire military shipping operation, Project Freedom. After just a few days of escalation with Iran, Fox News immediately goes full cult mode to defend it. And then hours later, Donald Trump puts out a Truth Social post saying, hey, the Iran war is over, assuming Iran agrees to everything we want. And markets reacted as if it really was the end of the war. We're also going to look at Trump officials completely falling apart the second they get asked real questions, including EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin freezing up on tv. And the glitching is trickling down as JD Vance now visibly struggling, brain firing randomly. Is this contagious in the Trump administration? And later, Megyn Kelly admits she would still support Donald Trump no matter what. No matter what. What a phrase. All of that and more today. It was Taco Tuesday yesterday, and Donald Trump did it again. Taco Trump always chickens out. Donald Trump decided to cancel the entire thing, the entire Project Freedom to open up the Strait of Hormuz. Chickening out, relegating Fox News hosts to try to explain why what Trump did is really strong, even though it looks like pathetic, cowardly weakness. Here is the announcement from Truth Social media where Donald Trump said, quote, based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, the tremendous military success that we have had during the campaign against the country of Iran, and additionally the fact that great progress has been made toward a complete and final agreement with representatives of Iran. We have mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom, the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the agreement can be finalized and signed. Look at the equivocation based on the request. Because of the success and progress has been made, we have mutually agreed while it will remain in force for a short period of time to see whether or not. What a pathetic post. Now, Project Freedom was this effort, I guess you could call it, to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. And the idea was, let's get the traffic moving. Let's try to see if that will put some downward pressure, relieving oil and eventually gas prices. Let's see if we can do it. And this started Monday morning. Okay. We were 30 hours into this thing. And what happened in those intervening 30 hours is that Iranian armed forces fired drones and missiles at US Military assets in the region. And the US Military retaliated by sinking six small Iranian boats. In other words, it created a mini war. It was a concatenated war. Wow. A war within a war. Not really Schrodinger's war, but almost like a Russian doll's system of wars. And even though we all realize, oh, Trump just made a mistake, Trump's idea that they were going to do this and it was going to succeed, it was just another miscalculation by Trump. That's all it is. It was a mistake. Well, that's not the way it works on Fox News. That's not the way it works for the biggest suck up sycophants to this neon orange president. So Jesse Watters went, you know, I'm sure Trump has some master plan here. He must know what he's doing. When Trump does something that seems demented and pathetic, the same suspects come to his rescue and go, it's some kind of 6D chess. He is so much smarter than us. Don't question him.
