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Libsyn Donald Trump is panicking and he is begging like a dog for countries to help the United States secure the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier in the day, Donald Trump claim that there were many countries that had agreed to help secure the Strait of Hormuz with the United States Navy. That was an utter lie. And then later in the day recently, Donald Trump posted that the nations that need passage through the Strait of Hormuz, they should join the United States and come on, we need your help. Let's make it a team effort as it should have been from the outset, folks. This is what utter weakness looks like. This is what utter desperation looks like. Let me show you what Donald Trump posted. He goes the the United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran both militarily and economically and in every other way. But the countries of the world that receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of the passage and we will help a lot. The US Will also coordinate with those countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly and well. There should have always been a team effort and now it will be. It will bring the world together toward harmony, security and everlasting peace. President Donald J. Trump I want wonder why Donald, it was not a team effort from the outset. Maybe it was because you and Netanyahu went it alone, rushed into war, were not prepared, embroiled the entire Middle east now into this disastrous war. And you've spent the entire year and a half essentially attacking America's allies or former allies, whether it was tariffs against the world, threatening to invade a NATO nation, leaving Asian nations vulnerable to China, and now embroiling all of the Arab nations that were once allies of the United States in this war. And now you're begging like a dog for help because earlier in the day, here's what Donald Trump posted. He said many countries, especially those who are affected by Iran's attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending warships in conjunction with the United States of America to keep the strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran's military capability, but it's easy for them to send a drone or to drop a mine or deliver a close range missile somewhere along or in the waterway. So we went earlier in the day from Donald Trump saying all of these nations have joined the United States to Donald Trump saying, we've won the war, but countries of the world that receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of the passage. I wouldn't even say that's mixed messages. I would say it is just demented fraud. And the entire world knows that Iran has not been completely obliterated or decimated. Sure, the United States and Israel have hit Iran strong, but they've had a transfer of power and had a continuity within the Islamic Republic regime. There's a new ayatollah. It has a lot of its top generals that remain the same. In many ways, they're even more extreme and deadly and dangerous than they were before. And the United States has accomplished absolutely zero. And there are no nations that have agreed, agreed offensively, to send their navy, either alone or with the United States into the Strait of Hormuz. They realized that that would be a suicide mission as well. And why would they trust Donald Trump with anything? Maybe these are the kind of details, man, that you should have planned before invading Iran with Netanyahu. Or remember, what was it a few weeks ago when Donald Trump said the United Kingdom, our once great ally, maybe the greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to send two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's okay, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer. But we will remember we don't need people that join wars after we've already won. Donald J. Trump. You see, it's messages like that and then your conduct again for the past year and a half, attacking our allies, tariffing the world, you basically have no friends anymore. Donald and the Arab nations that were doing pay for play for protection, you ain't doing the play part. You ain't protecting. And so now they're trying to figure out if they can negotiate bilaterally with Iran in order to have safety because they don't trust the United States anymore. You know, there have been reports like France is going to be sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz based on Donald Trump statements. And France responds right away with its rapid response account. And we're seeing a lot of countries have these rapid response accounts. You know, the way like Gavin Newsom kind of dealt the press secretary rapid response. It's a really smart strategy. And the French response count goes, nope, not happening. No aircraft carrier and its group staying in the middle, in Eastern Mediterranean posture has not changed. Defensive it is, in other words, nope. We ain't going into the Strait of Hormuz, our aircraft carrier, it's staying in the Eastern Mediterranean. We have a defensive posture only now, Donald Trump's been whining the entire day about media coverage. And he goes, the media is intentionally misleading. And they're putting all of these headlines and they're causing a lot of damage. It's the exact opposite of the facts. The media, they are sick and demented people. Trump's describing himself when he says that. And he accuses the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times of reaching new lows. Then recently, Donald Trump posted this graphic. Trump is reshaping the media. Then it says, gone. PBS defunded. PBS is still doing some great reporting. NPR defunded. And they're still doing some great reporting despite you defunding him. Terry Moore ran out at abc, Washington Post, massive layoffs. Lester Holt out at NBC. Joy Reid out at msnbc. Colbert leaving msnbc, then he goes, reforms CNN under new ownership. And like, they're overtly bragging that they have their Trump MAGA oligarchs taking over these media companies. But notably missing from this graphic right here, you know, is the fact that there's been the rise of independent media with the Midas Touch network leading the way. Those viewers are going somewhere, and they're going right here to the Midas Touch. That's why, by the way, make sure you hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. So then Brendan Carr, Donald Trump's FCC chair, responds to Donald Trump's post. And here's what Brendan Carr says. Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions also known as the fake news, have a chance now to course correct before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest and they will lose their license if they do not. This is in response to Donald Trump saying he doesn't like the way some corporate news is covering the war. And so he wants it to be just Trump propaganda war coverage, even though Trump is now losing this war. And not only that, but he's been utterly humiliated in the Middle East. And then Brendan Carr's like, we'll pull your licenses if you don't do pro Trump propaganda on your networks. I mean, how overtly authoritarian and also weak. And it just draws more attention to how bad this war in Iran is going. Worse than the worst expectations. But that's what happens when you have Trump. He's been a loser his entire life. Why do you think he's bankrupted all these casinos? Why do you think he's bankrupted so many companies? A lifelong loser who takes bad decisions, makes them into worse, takes catastrophic decisions into bankruptcies. And that's what he's doing right here. That's what he's doing. It's happening in real time. And Iran knows this. Iran knows how weak he is. And they're like, what a gift. At the end of the day, they've actually never had more power in the region, while America's never looked weaker because of what a loser Donald Trump is. Brendan Carr goes on to say, the American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars. It's very important to bring back trust in the media. Trump has a landslide victory. Let's make change. The hell are you talking about? As we wrote on the Midas Touch account, Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It's one of the most anti American messages ever posted. The truth is, is that this war has been a failure of epic proportions. They don't want Americans to know that. But we will never stop covering it. Honestly. Here at the Midas Touch network, we see people like Mark Sedan over at the center of UN Studies in the University of Buckingham in the uk in response the article saying that Donald Trump is now calling for a global flotilla to head to the Gulf and force open the Strait of Hormuz. And this is what the people in UK are saying, his mess, not ours. He knows how to end it. Having insulted British servicemen and told Starmer he didn't need UK aircraft carrier. This is frankly taking the you know what. And by the way. Doesn't it seem like Donald Trump's vision for what a win will be right now is securing the straight of Hormuz, which of course is circular in the sense that these administrative Hormuz would not be closed if Donald Trump didn't launch this unlawful invasion of Iran in the first place. And Iran ain't going to open it up. Iran knows that they've got Donald Trump cornered like a rat right now and they ain't going to let the rat out. I assure you of that. Here's what the leader of their parliament is saying. Target status, radars, batteries, refueling tankers, military bases, drones. So what do you think Telly? General Hegseth Obviously the best strategy strategy now is to throw infantry into the meat grinder. They're sending poor boys to fix what generals broke. Go die for Israel. They are emboldened in Iran right now. Last night Iranian backed militias struck the US embassy in Baghdad destroying the facilities rooftop giraffe 1x multi mission radar system. That was the kind of anti drone massively expensive equipment right there destroyed by Iran. Today drones have been striking radars at the Kuwait International Airport. Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation talking about these several drones striking the airport radar systems in Kuwait. Take a look at what's going on in Lebanon right now. Israel says it will target more ambulances and medical facilities in Lebanon. The Israeli military issued what it called a serious warning. Dropsight writes that ambulances and medical facilities authorities in Lebanon could be targeted, saying that Hezbollah is using them for military purposes. And what happened in the past 24 hours or so is that after killing 19 medical workers on Friday at one of these facilities at the Borj Clogee Primary Health Care center was being struck overnight. They said we're doing it because Hezbollah is in the area. And if Hezbollah is in the area, Israel says it will strike the hospital, it will strike the doctors, it will strike the people who are working at the hospital. Israel says that that is fair game. And Spain's Foreign Ministry and others are condemning that in the strongest terms. The Spanish government condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli attack on the medical facility in Binjil in southern Lebanon, which has resulted in the deaths of 12 members of the facility's medical and healthcare staff staff. That number is more like 19 right now. And here's what the senior Iranian official is saying as well, saying this on Iranian state Regime TV the end of the war is in our hands. We will consider ending the war only when first we receive full compensation for all of our damages from the United States. And second, when we obtain 100% guarantee for the future, which is not possible without the withdrawal of the US from the Persian Gulf Gulf. Therefore, the second condition is the US withdrawal from the Persian Gulf. So the opening demand from Iran is that the US Needs to get out from Iran is that the US needs to get out of the entire Middle east region otherwise Iran is not going to stop. And that means that I think we should expect to see very, very, very serious economic consequences in addition to what we have seen already. Also, a former Qatari Prime Minister is now on the Gulf cooperation nations in the region, the Gulf Cooperation Council to form their own NATO style military alliance because the United States is incapable of protecting them anymore. And these countries are getting crushed right now. I mean Qatar, Saudi Arabia, but United Arab Emirates with Abu Dhabi and Dubai, no one's going there anymore. All of the decades of building these cities with the reputation as safe financial centers, a place for people to raise families, that's thrown out the window right now. And they all thought they were getting more protection by putting Trump, by allowing Trump to grift and do the quid pro quos and build the Trump buildings. And Qatar gave Donald Trump the jet and they thought that this was a pay for play. But just like Donald Trump did with his casinos, just as Donald Trump has treated his creditors, just as he's treated his contractors, just as he's treated everybody his entire life, this is what Trump does. He screws everybody over. He takes your money, leaves you empty and then he's incapable of helping. He's an idiot and he's a loser. And he's been a loser his whole life, never a winner. And the whole thing was he's a con artist and he's able to convince people of the I don't know how, but we're seeing in real time what the biggest loser in the history, not just of the Oval Office, but one of the biggest losers in the history period is doing. It's sad cuz he's breaking the United States of America. But he's a loser. He represents the Epstein class, He's covering up a child sex trafficking ring. He's destroying the United States of America as Iran is just completely outmaneuvering him right now along with Russia and China. It is a sad thing to admit that as an American. 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Date: March 15, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, & Jordy Meiselas
This episode centers on Donald Trump’s unraveling political and military position as U.S. allies balk at supporting his administration in the escalating Middle East conflict, most notably around the Strait of Hormuz. The Meiselas brothers expose Trump’s isolation, his misleading public statements about international cooperation, and the widespread skepticism (and even scorn) he now faces from former allies. The conversation is marked by the trio’s signature blend of biting commentary, frustration over authoritarian overreach, and defense of independent media.
“You and Netanyahu went it alone, rushed into war, were not prepared, embroiled the entire Middle East into this disastrous war.” (04:35, Ben)
“No, not happening. No aircraft carrier... Defensive it is.” (06:55, Paraphrased French Response)
“Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions also known as fake news, have a chance now to course correct before their license renewals come up...” (09:40, Brendan Carr via Ben)
“Iran knows how weak he is... At the end of the day, they’ve actually never had more power in the region, while America’s never looked weaker.” (11:45, Ben)
“The end of the war is in our hands… when we obtain 100% guarantee for the future, which is not possible without withdrawal of the US from the Persian Gulf.” (14:45, Senior Iranian official via state TV)
"That's why, by the way, make sure you hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed..." (10:55, Ben)
| Time (MM:SS) | Segment | |------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:43 | Trump’s public meltdown and false claims about international support | | 05:20 | Analysis of deteriorating U.S. alliances | | 06:50 | France & other nations issue denials to Trump’s coalition claims | | 07:45 | Trump’s attacks on media and efforts to shape coverage | | 09:40 | FCC Chair Carr’s licensing threats to broadcasters | | 11:00 | Discussion on Iran’s growing strength and U.S. weakness | | 12:30 | Recent Iranian-backed attacks and rising Middle East instability | | 14:45 | Iran’s demands: U.S. withdrawal as prerequisite for peace | | 16:25 | Contextualizing Trump’s pattern of failure | | 17:45 | Call to support independent media and closing remarks |
The episode paints a detailed picture of Trump’s strategic failures and international humiliation, driven home through the brothers’ incisive, impassioned commentary. In the face of growing instability and authoritarian creep, the Meiselas brothers position themselves —and their audience— as defenders of truth, democracy, and independent journalism.