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Donald Trump is ranting and raving like a lunatic this morning. Let me show you what he just posted. He says his real poll numbers, not those made up by the fake news media, are actually the best they have ever been. And why wouldn't they be, with the biggest tax cuts and employment numbers ever? In fact, Donald Trump has historic low approvals for modern presidents. Right now. He is at historic lows in the low 30s, and he's losing massive amounts of MAGA support. He claims that his accomplishments include denuclearization of Iran. He says unparalleled respect and success throughout the world when we all know that the United States has fully lost its credibility everywhere. And all Donald Trump cares about now is giving himself IRS immunity from future tax audits and criminal investigations, which is what he really worked to preserve and protect in that collusive settlement agreement between himself and the government. And also Trump grifting and engaging in crimes to steal from the American people. The American people see what is happening this morning. Donald Trump attacking the CEO of Chevron. He says, Mike Wirth, the chairman and CEO of Chevron, just gave an interview to the fabulous Maria Bartiroma. But he conveniently forgot to mention that without the genius, foresight, strength and stability of the Trump administration, the oil industry and our country itself would be dead. And then he says, you, you need to lower the price of your consumer retail oil. Now, of course, they need to lower the prices, but a lot of the increase is being caused by you and your catastrophic policies. But that's Donald Trump social media posting away, shouting at CEOs, saying, you better lower your price or else. When Trump is the reason their prices are up and why people are paying more money for gas. Then after saying yesterday that there is very, very, very strong negotiations taking place with Iran, Donald Trump, which we all know is false. And that after threatening to destroy Iran and blow the effing s out of them yet again, Donald Trump had to acknowledge that the US Is out of military equipment, out of interceptors, out of thaads, out of. Out of Navy destroyers. And so Donald Trump lied and said, oh, we're having these productive negotiations with Iran. They begged us right before I was gonna strike worse than World War II, which obviously he's implying nuclear weapons. I'm going to strike worse than World War II. But they begged me. This is what Donald Trump just posted. Iranian leadership is unbelievably duplicitous. They ask for a meeting, some would say beg. Talks begin with more scheduled in the immediate future. And they say openly and proudly that they're not having discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they're only dealing with Oman. They then go on to give their usual blather and saying the Strait of Hormuz will be operated powerfully by them when it's already completely controlled by the United States Navy. I mean, how embarrassing for the United States. I mean, how could you get more humiliating? And he doesn't care if he humiliates the United States because all of this right here is part of his market manipulation just to enrich himself. That's all he cares about. He doesn't give a crap about America. He doesn't give a crap about future generations. This is a market manipulation play. And you know what he's doing, right? His social media platform, Truth Social, is now selling early access to these posts to Wall street for $100,000. I mean, quite literally, you know, you have an open and obvious insider trading racket right before our eyes. So what's really happening in the world? Well, despite Trump's claim that US And Iran talks would begin, Pakistani officials say no meeting has been scheduled. Iran denies negotiations are underway. And obviously we see what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. The US doesn't control it. Why are you saying all these? Just because he's a liar and he's a fraud and he's a criminal and he's a sexual predator. And this is how people like that behave.
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Right?
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That's why people like that deserve to be in prison. Sometimes rehabilitation and restorative justice doesn't work. And people like that need to be in prison for the rest of their lives. Lives because they're menaces. And we're seeing the biggest menace out there destroy our country. What else is happening in the real world? Well, the IRGC says that they shot down another MQ9 Reaper over the Strait of Hormuz. So far, every time they've said this, they've been accurate. And we've seen the photos of the MQ9 reapers. But, folks, it's all good. The US has a plan. They're actually crowdsourcing about what they should do to punish Iran. Yep. CNN exclusively reporting this morning that the U.S. military, through CENTCOM, put out an open email throughout the military ranks asking for, quote, creative and unconventional ideas to punish Iran. The request from a senior officer at the U.S. military Command.
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Great work.
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Brad Cooper. Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of centcom, is the biggest clown ever. He's always been the biggest clown. And top military people who speak to say, this guy's the least qualified biggest clownish guy and they are embarrassed by him as well. Carrying out Donald Trump's war with Iran came in an email. We need ideas. Quote, we're looking for new and creative unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran, an officer and US centcomms Intelligence brands wrote in a message sent this past week to a broad group of military analysts. According to a source, this crowdsourcing style query, which military officials said was unusual over email, is one side of the limit. Limited and potentially unpalatable options available to Trump to Force Iran to make a deal Let me just be very clear. You're not going to force Iran to make a deal by bombing them. You're not going to force Iran to make a deal, period. What you can either do is two options. You can respect the sovereignty of Iran, whether you like that or not, and do a deal which requires mutual respect and each side gives and Iran's made clear they need to control the Strait of Hormuz and that they're going to do a toll system. That's option number one. Option number two, you escalate the war. You send ground troops who get slaughtered and then you end up back at option one a year, two years from now with mass casualties and even more global economic catastrophe. That's the options. That's it. A or B Stop with the we need to see if we can punish them more then maybe they will want to do a deal with us. Dude, shut up. That's not the way it works. WTF by the way. By the way, get your copy pre order it right now. Wtf? America comes out in October but we talk about all this stuff in there as well.
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So what are they doing on state regime media? Fox, right, they're regime media. So they got to say, Donald Trump says we're really close to a deal, but Iran says we don't know what's going on. Donald Trump is so close. So folks, we think that there may be meetings today happening in Pakistan. No, there's not.
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This is not.
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Stop. Just fricking stop. We're six months into this thing. He does it every Friday, Sunday, Monday, market manipulation. He stock trades off of this. He gives himself IRS immunity. Do you see what is. It's just the most basic thing. The American people get it. And by the way, I'm going to show you state regime media. But shame on all corporate media, they're the worst. And I know I say this, but the way they just report out, oh, it looks like Todd Blanche is going to rescind the anti weaponization fund, paving the way for his confirmation. They just print that out. He didn't do anything. The thing that he did was an order that was not signed by all of the parties, which is what the settlement requires. It was not a settlement rescission. It doesn't say settlement rescission. It says settlement update. It's not a rescission. It's not signed by the parties. It doesn't even address Trump's IRS immunity. In fact, if anything, it makes it stronger. And you could always just do another order to bring back the anti weaponization fund. And the media's gonna just print that. Oh, it looks like Todd Blanche did what he was supposed to do and pathetic Thom Tillis and Cornyn go along with it and go, oh, he did it. These people are the biggest fascist enablers and in many ways they're even worse than Trump because these bootlickers, these people who do the kabuki theater and act like this is going to be. Oh, we're Stan. No, you're not. You, a bunch are the most pathetic people in history. I digress. Here's what they're saying on state regime media. Let's play it.
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President Trump calling off planned strikes against Iran as he says a deal is closed. According to the president, talks will resume today aimed at finalizing an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz. Trump says he was asked by Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia to hold off as diplomatic efforts play out.
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We had an attack that would be the biggest attack since World War II, and it would have been disasters, and they didn't want us to do it. And frankly, Saudi Arabia didn't want it either. They thought that the deal was eminent.
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Overnight, Iran's President, Massoud Possesskian posted to X about the memorandum of understanding that was reached earlier this year, saying in part, I believe this memorandum will be the center of gravity for our foreign relations in the future. We must strive to compel the enemy to remain committed to what it has signed. The security of the country, the region and our allies will be enhanced by this memorandum. Now, international focus remains on the Strait of Hormuz, where an explosion was heard this morning by a tanker. According to maritime tracking groups, reports indicate that a new deal could see the strait open for 60 days without fees, with the possibility of another agreement in sight. The region remains on alert since the Iranians are denying any direct.
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Now here is NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker and he says, well, obviously Trump has his finger on the pulse. He's got his finger on the pulse, says NATO Ambassador Whitaker. So we're moving close to a deal. No, we're not. And when you say stuff like this, too, in Iran, they're like, look at what they. Look at what they've become. Look at how weak and pathetic these losers are. That's what they're saying about us in Iran. And if you're in the United States and you think shit like this makes us look strong, then you're pathetic. Also, this makes us look so damn weak. Here, play this clip.
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Ultimately, we'll agree to a deal, and so we can go either direction. And really Iran gets to decide the direction. But we come from a position of strength in the United States. President Trump obviously has his finger on the pulse of this situation. And right now we're choosing diplomacy, negotiation, and to get a deal done. I think we're closer than we've ever been to a deal on this situation. But at the same time, we continue to be in a position of strength as it relates to Iran.
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Then we have Kevin Hassett. I'm Kevin Hassett, I'm the national economic advisor. Actually, even though I said we were going to have 4 to 6% GDP growth, we actually did help the 4% to G6% GDP growth. Because if you take the curve and you do supply and you do demand and you look at curves and you look at yields and then you reverse it, then I mean the guy just says words. It's a words. The guy just vomits out lies. And he's pathetic. He's been wrong about everything his whole life. This guy too. He's like buy, buy buy.com crash bye bye bye. You had the financial crisis in 2008, 2009. This guy's wrong about absolutely the mortgage backed security rights. They're wrong about everything. So he says, well and he does it in like such like a pathetic way. I mean like well actually inflation is decreasing because so many people are leaving their homes in California and they're leaving the state of California. So that actually brings down inflation quite naturally. That's not even true. There are more people in California now than over the past years. You're just saying lies. It's just the stupidest, dumbest narratives. But these are the people who brought you the prosecution of the Reflecting pool. These are the people who tell you it's vandals. These are the people covering up the Epstein files. At the top, it's run by a sex predator, it's run by an abuser, it's run by a felon. So this is what it is. This is what it is. Here's what he says. Play this clip.
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And our dereg efforts are also putting a lot of downward pressure on prices. And so I think the question is, is it going to continue? And I think that you're right to highlight shelter costs. And one of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're to going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody's leaving. And so when we look at the aggregate numbers, the fact that it's actually even though they're high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because shelter costs are such a big share of inflation and everybody's leaving the state.
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And then more statements from Iran. We're not having negotiations with the United States. By the way, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson today says our Chinese friends are using their efforts to prevent the escalation of the situation. Adding a new mediator is not correct. Remember I've been telling you about China's involvement. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson in response to a claim that Saudi Arabia is preventing the US from attacking Iran. It's a positive thing that all the countries in the region, in the Middle east recognize that they will be affected by the future situation in the region as well. This morning, Netanyahu said, I think Trump's calculation is that he doesn't want to see the collapse of the global economy. But the overwhelming majority of Iranians, Netanyahu said, they support Israel. That's what you really think. You think the overwhelming majority of Iranians in Iran support Israel? They just make stuff up. They just say the most ridiculous lies. Finally, I may do a full video on this as well. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is seeking support from the Trump regime to stay in office as the president of FIFA after his FIFA forward plan to sell off FIFA to private equity was rejected and protested and exposed by all of the kind of soccer federations throughout the country, including UEFA. The European Federation really led the way right here and they want Gianni Infantino out. They've threatened litigation against Gianni Infantino and he should be sued as well. And they're preparing to get rid of him. So now Gianni Infantino is desperately trying to get a meeting with Rubio and Trump. Trump in order to save his job right now. Why? Why Trump and Rubio and Infantino? You are a pathetic. You are a pathetic, corrupt fool as well. And you're going to now experience what happens in Trump's role. He's done using you. You gave him the peace prize. The fake the peace Prize. He's done using you. You're out. You're out. And like everything Trump touches, everything Trump touches dies. And now you'll be just viewed as just the biggest clown, the biggest disgrace imaginable in the history of FIFA. That's your legacy. Thanks for watching. Get your copy of WTF America? Pre order it right now. The publisher says it's really important to do the pre orders versus waiting until October. So if you can pre order it, pre order it now. Thank you so much for watching. We appreciate you. Hey, if you want the full story, help democracy got here and how we take it back, pre order our new book WTF America Today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.
Date: August 3, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this high-energy episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect another chaotic Monday in the Trump era, reacting in real time to Donald Trump’s unhinged social media posts, dubious claims about foreign policy and the economy, and a flurry of questionable maneuvers both domestically and internationally. The focus is on how Trump's continued misinformation, personal enrichment, and erratic actions are damaging both America's standing in the world and its internal democratic processes. The brothers combine sharp political analysis with signature banter, frustration, and humor as they call out what they see as media failures, regime propaganda, and the broader state of American democracy.
“In fact, Donald Trump has historic low approvals for modern presidents. Right now. He is at historic lows in the low 30s, and he's losing massive amounts of MAGA support.” (A, 00:59)
"You know what he's doing, right? His social media platform, Truth Social, is now selling early access to these posts to Wall street for $100,000. I mean, quite literally, you know, you have an open and obvious insider trading racket right before our eyes." (A, 03:54)
False Claims About Iran Negotiations
“Donald Trump lied and said, oh, we're having these productive negotiations with Iran. They begged us right before I was gonna strike worse than World War II, which obviously he's implying nuclear weapons. I'm going to strike worse than World War II. But they begged me.” (A, 02:25)
IRGC Downs US Drone and US Military’s Desperation
"CNN exclusively reporting this morning that the U.S. military, through CENTCOM, put out an open email throughout the military ranks asking for, quote, creative and unconventional ideas to punish Iran." (A, 04:48)
Two Realistic Options for US Policy
“You can respect the sovereignty of Iran, whether you like that or not...Or, you escalate the war. You send ground troops who get slaughtered...That's the options. That's it. A or B.” (A, 06:12)
“Shame on all corporate media, they're the worst...They just print that out. He didn't do anything.” (A, 09:32)
“These people are the biggest fascist enablers and in many ways they're even worse than Trump because these bootlickers...act like this is going to be. Oh, we're Stan. No, you're not. You, a bunch are the most pathetic people in history.” (A, 09:54)
"President Trump obviously has his finger on the pulse of this situation. And right now we're choosing diplomacy, negotiation, and to get a deal done. I think we're closer than we've ever been..." (D, 12:38)
"This guy just says words. It's a words. The guy just vomits out lies. And he's pathetic." (A, 13:13) "'Inflation is decreasing...so many people are leaving their homes in California and they're leaving the state of California. So that actually brings down inflation.' That's not even true." (A, 13:44)
"FIFA President Gianni Infantino is seeking support from the Trump regime to stay in office as the president of FIFA after his FIFA forward plan to sell off FIFA to private equity was rejected..." (A, 16:06) "Like everything Trump touches, everything Trump touches dies. And now you'll be just viewed as just the biggest clown, the biggest disgrace imaginable in the history of FIFA." (A, 17:00)
On Trump’s Priorities:
"And all Donald Trump cares about now is giving himself IRS immunity from future tax audits and criminal investigations, which is what he really worked to preserve and protect in that collusive settlement agreement between himself and the government." (A, 01:33)
On Regime Media:
"So what are they doing on state regime media? Fox, right, they're regime media." (A, 08:53)
On Military Officials:
"Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of centcom, is the biggest clown ever. He's always been the biggest clown. And top military people...say, this guy's the least qualified biggest clownish guy and they are embarrassed by him as well." (A, 05:24)
Summary Judgment on Trump's Impact:
“Everything Trump touches dies. And now you’ll be just viewed as just the biggest clown, the biggest disgrace imaginable in the history of FIFA. That’s your legacy.” (A, 17:00)
| Time | Segment | |------------|---------------------------------------------------| | 00:00-04:22| Breakdown of Trump’s erratic morning posts, false claims, and attacks on CEOs and Iran | | 04:23-07:20| Discussion on Iran, US military’s "crowdsourcing", critique of CENTCOM and war options | | 08:53-11:07| Media criticism—Fox coverage, procedural tricks in Congress, and “regime media” narrative | | 11:08-13:44| Iranian, US, and Israeli leaders’ responses; soundbites from officials, economic spin | | 16:06-17:00| FIFA scandal – Infantino seeks Trump’s aid, analysis of corruption in global sports bodies |
Tone and Takeaways:
The episode is a fast-paced, acerbic critique of Trump-era politics and media, with humor and cutting asides. The Meiselas brothers passionately articulate their doubts about Trump’s motives, call out propaganda across the media and government, and warn that these ongoing antics threaten America’s credibility and democracy.
Listeners walk away with a sense of both the absurdity and seriousness of current events, paired with the brothers' resilient advocacy for accountability and democratic values.
“If you want the full story, help democracy got here and how we take it back, pre order our new book WTF America Today.” (A, 17:18)