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Donald Trump is panicking that the escalation of this catastrophic war in Iran could end his life. I believe that Donald Trump's close advisors and the neocons are telling him Iran is trying to kill you, that Iran is trying to kill Ivanka, that Iran is trying to kill your family, and that you need to act immediately. I believe this is part of the neocon strategy to get Donald Trump to further invade Iran. When Donald Trump, I think, is scared to do so, and rightfully so. And I think you have a lot of vested interests trying to blow up any chance at all of a peace deal being reached. I found it quite notable that during Marco Rubio's testimony on Capitol Hill. Tell me if you noticed this. But he testified that in the past 24 hours, the United States government arrested Iranian agents, some of whom he said were already convicted and others who were just arrested recently, like in the past 24 hours of trying to assassinate Donald Trump. Rubio said this just happened. So then I wanted to review the headlines and a bunch of the latest breaking news. And I said, did I miss something? Because it seems like a pretty big story. If the IRGC sent an assassin to kill the President of the United States and somebody was arrested, seems like a high profile situation. And there's no reports of that happening. There's no arrest of that happening or some DOJ press release or press conference of that happening. About two weeks ago, I believe the same neocon group tried to convince Donald Trump to get back into open hostilities in Iran and further invade. Further invade the Strait of Hormuz area by saying Ivanka was having her life threatened. And I think that there was this effort. Do you remember? I reported on that. This is all connected someone in Turkey who the DOJ now claims is working for the irgc. They said he was vacationing in Turkey, and he's an Iraqi national, but he was working for the IRGC and vacationing in Turkey. He has a big social media presence, and they were saying that this guy was threatening to kill Ivanka, so they extradited him to the United States. And the New York Post, Murdoch's paper. And I think Murdoch wants the United States to get back into this war in Iran with a bunch of other neocons as well. You know, they said Ivanka's life is threatened. And this IRGC cell that was vacationing in Turkey and had a big social media presence that he had Ivanka's address in Florida, her mansion with Jared Kushner. Do you remember that? Anyway, that person was extradited to the United States. He's pleading not guilty to all charges against him. We'll be following up there and telling you what's happening. But let me just share with you Marco Rubio's testimony, and then I want to kind of connect all of this together. So, by the way, here's how the Iranian social media accounts were calling this out. Why so shaky, Marco? This is just sad. Social anxiety disorder. Attention, please. Stuttering is a language processing issue and has nothing to do with lying. And they had, like, an embodiment, an emoji. Let me just show you what Marco Rubio said. And again, this piece of Rubio's testimony is not getting, like, any attention at all. But, like, are you hearing what I'm hearing? I mean, isn't he saying that somebody was arrested in the past 24 to 48 hours from the IRGC who was in the United States threatening to kill Donald Trump? So let me play the clip, and then let's talk about it here. Play this clip consistently. It's now we have people convicted, convicted
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And one was arrested yesterday. Iranian agents plotting the assassination of American political leaders, including the President of the United. Yeah, So I believe that's what they're telling Donald Trump. Hey, they're trying to kill you. They're trying to kill Ivanka. You need to invade immediately because they're coming directly for you. The Ivanka trick didn't work last week. That's why. I mean, I think their attempt to bring in Ivanka, that didn't work, and convince Donald Trump to do it. And then I think the third thing they're doing to try to get Donald Trump to invade is to say, look, if, let's, let's all agree, Donald, right. If Iran kills one more US Troop, right, just one more United States soldier, can we all agree that that's the bright line that we use to then invade Iran? And they're trying to push that. I believe Netanyahu's trying to push that. The Mossad's trying to push. I believe the neocons here are trying to, I think people close to Trump are trying to say that Trump said that yesterday, where he said, look, he told this to the Wall Street Journal. I'll get to this in a moment. He goes, if Iran kills one more soldier, then we're going to go back to war. And it's like, well, there's already been 13 or 14 of our service members who were killed. So you have like a magic number 15 that's kind of, that's like an odd red line to draw. But then I believe we know that there was a US Service member and a UK Service member who were killed in northern Iraq in response to an Iranian retaliatory strike after the US Was hitting some Iranian targets. And the US Claims that these were unrelated. They claim that the US Soldier and the UK Soldier who died had died in a training exercise. It was nothing to do with Iran striking the same area in northern Iraq. That's what they were. That's what they were pushing and going with. But Donald Trump then told the Wall Street Journal or sources close to Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal and they reported, Donald Trump doesn't want open hostilities. He doesn't want to go back to war. But if Iran kills a soldier, then that's going to be it. Then we're going to go back to war. So I think that what the neocons are trying to do, push back on me if you disagree. I think they're trying to create a circumstance where a US Soldier gets killed. I think that they're engaging in these strikes in these Strait of Hormuz, knowing Iran's going to respond. And I think that if you look at how bad the defense system seemed to be in Kuwait and Bahrain and Iran was very easily. I mean, you could just say the American patriots are horrible and the Thaads are horrible and the Iranian shahed drones and ballistic missiles are so advanced that they're able to get around America's systems. Or is America's systems late not working effectively. Is there any effort in trying to escalate this thing to create the circumstances to say, look, Donald, here's the final straw. They tried to go after Ivanka, they tried to go after you. Now they killed one more soldier and so now we have to invade. Is that what's going on behind the scenes? And then to me, you compound that by the fact that you had a few developments yesterday. You had Netanyahu on CNBC in the morning, like, why is Netanyahu going on an American financial network? And did you notice right as Netanyahu's on the financial network also, with all of this happening, our markets just absolutely tanked yesterday. I mean, The Dow, the NASDAQ, the S& P, Donald Trump's barometer for success absolutely crashed. You know, and you had Netanyahu saying, well, you know, the regime, regime is going to change. It's just a matter of time before the regime actually changes. And then Netanyahu has asked questions like, so do you and Donald Trump see things eye to eye? Well, you know, we like each other. We see things. I think that there was a message being sent like, you're not going to get rid of me. I'm always going to be here and I could pick up the phone call at any time and I could go on cnbc. I can write, you know, you're worried. To me, this is what the message was being sent in a very Mossad like way, in my view, what the message was. You could again feel free to disagree with me. I think the message being sent is, Donald, you're worried about the Iranians hurting your stock market, hurting the United States stock market. Right. You want to see me do it? I can be a bigger nightmare for you than the Iranians can be. And I think when you take all of the totality of circumstances that I'm talking to you about, I think that it paints a picture of people seeing Donald Trump as weak, as cognitively diminished, as being easily manipulated. And different interests and factions are playing upon his fears. He's a five time draft dodger. He's someone who we know pathologically wants to be a strongman, authoritarian, but ultimately he's not built for that. He's weak. He's a weak, scared, pathetic loser. And he worships the authoritarian who he shouldn't, because I think they're pathetic losers as well, but they execute their authoritarian machinations. Trump hates civilized society and he hates democracy and rules based order. And I just think you have different people and I don't want to be like he's without agency. Of course he has the, you know, he's the President of the United States. But I think that there are these factors at play and I think it's, I think you can see it when you put the pieces together that I just shared with you. I mean, look, just even think about the post that he made yesterday, which may not have made a lot of sense to people, but Trump 007, he posted a photo of himself as James Bond. And I think what he's reflecting is in his own fictitious narrative of who he is. You know, he is this spy who people are trying to get at and he's trying to kill them and he's James Bond. Like he thinks, he thinks he's that. And you have neo cons putting in his ear narratives that he is under a, that he is someone in his own James Bond movie. He needs to get the villains. And then he posts 007 like that. I mean look, you have this article two weeks ago, Ivanka Trump targeted for assassination by IRGC terrorists in twisted plot to avenge President taking out his mentor. Right? They're like writing scri for Trump who like sees things as movie plots. Like do you see they're creating movie plots for this guy? First daughter Ivanka was targeted for assassination by Islamic Revolutionary Guard trade terrorists in a twisted plot to avenge the president taking out his mentor, recently captured Mohammed Bakr said. Dawood Al Saidi, 32, made a pledge to kill Ivanka and even had a blueprint of her Florida home, sources claim. And they've got the guy, he's got like a Facebook account, he's got like social media accounts like on vacation, posting photos about himself and he's pled not guilty. The Wall Street Journal headline, as I mentioned earlier, Trump tells aides he won't resume all out war with Iran unless U.S. troops killed. Okay? 13 to 14 U.S. troops have been killed. So it's one more that becomes it. Repeated strikes by Tehran have ratcheted up pressure on Trump and cast out over long term viability of ceasefire. Okay, is what, is what they were reporting. As I noted, US Army Central Command admitted that a US army soldier died, but they said in Northern Iraq on May 31. But they said that was a training exercise. Okay. UK Defense Ministry said training exercise as well. And we know CENTCOM is lying about everything, right? Centcom insisted 48 hours ago that all incoming missiles and drones in Kuwait were defeated and shot down. Then we saw the Kuwaiti airport destroyed. We saw bunch of other military assets nearby. That were destroyed. We know Bahrain was attacked. And so it's just a lot more lies right there. And then it's like, you know, they announced ceasefire. Right? Because I think you have these different forces. You have forces who are trying to steady the markets right now and say okay, there was a scene of Barack Ravid of Axios. Who else? Right, Barack Ravid of Axios. Yesterday, US, Israel and Lebanon and joint state. As a result of the U S led negotiations, Israel and Lebanon agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire. The ceasefire is contingent on a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of Hezbollah operatives from the South Latani sector. Okay, well Israel crossed the Litany sector and destroyed Tyre or sir and threatened to destroy much of Beirut which they've already obliterated and destroyed a lot of. So okay, yesterday's announcement a ceasefire again they announced April 15th ceasefire and then a May ceasefire and then a mid May ceasefire and now what? Yesterday, June 3rd another ceasefire. But as Ali Hashem of Al Jazeera writes and he's got photos of what was going on in Lebanon. Interestingly, a third ceasefire announced. And just as the previous two Israeli warplanes are still attacking towns and villages on southern Lebanon. One more ceasefire and we can get the fifth for free. I mean that's what this regime has become, the Trump regime. Okay, this ceasefire, everybody knows they're lying about everything. I mean this is Baghdad Bob on steroids. Hadi Hotet explains. Okay, now we're June 4th Israel start the new day when there's supposed to be a ceasefire with new attacks. At midnight, one airstrike bombed at Adjit Two airstrikes bombed outside of the Sheikh Ragab Herib hospital between Tul and Dewyr. A drone strike attacked a tent in a public garden in Tyre. Casualties taken to hospital. An airstrike targeted Arab Al Jaw between Sayed and Jazz in area. An airstrike targeted Kafr Dean Bennett Jabal area as well. And so you have all of this and now they're trying to pretend like there's a, like there's an actual cease fire taking place. Hadi Hotel also says after a calmer than usual morning in southern Lebanon with drones are still hovering on very high altitude and Israeli drone strike on Zefta a few moments ago just broke the cease fire lasted for about three hours and 40 minutes. And folks, this is impacting the world. The world is a far less safe place. The rules based order has been torn down. Your life watching this wherever you. I know we have a big international audience whether you're watching this in the United States, Canada, Australia, Africa, Europe, South America, Central America, Asia. I know we have, we have people who watch us everywhere what's going on here. We the people want peace. We don't want to be living in this world where these authoritarians are out there committing genocide and war crimes and destroying the world. Well, we just want to get along with each other and live in love and peace. And these are just psychotic humans. I mean, I mean, you saw Trump's behavior in the Oval Office yesterday. Speaking to reporters earlier in the Oval Office, he was asked about Iran's drone attacks. And Donald Trump's like, yeah, it's okay. It is what it is. Here, play this clip. Given Iran's attacks on Kuwait, this latest attack on Kuwait, is the ceasefire with Iran still on? Well, you know, there's a reason for everything. And we hit them pretty hard the night before and actually last night. And when it was explained to me, I said, all right, so we'll do that. But we've been hitting him pretty hard a little bit. So there is a reason for. Also, why do you think that he continues to talk about turning the White House into a drone port and that he's going to have a drone swarm and drone army around the White House. And he keeps on saying how the White House, the new ballroom will serve as a shield that will stop ballistic missiles and drones that are attacking him. And he talks about a golden dome around the White House. I mean, the people in the White House are continuing to feed him this information that there's a clear and present threat from Iran and from the rest of the world to try to get him and him and his state of malignant narcissism, paranoia, what I believe in my opinion to be dementia, giving you my opinion. So, you know, feel free to disagree with my opinion. You know, he responds. 007 memes and golden dome memes and drone port memes because he's panicking about the fears that he has right now. You know, and I think that one of the ways that they try to distract Trump from certain things also is, look, hey, Donald, we can kill more people on fishing boats. And I think, you know, they get off on that. Like, so every day now there's more war crimes, with the US Striking these fishing boats in the Pacific and in the Caribbean and then the US Just posts these ISIS style videos. You have Southcom. You know, everybody in this chain of command, in my view, is a war criminal who needs to be tried. I think you're just blowing up little like look how little this fishing is. A little fishing boat. And we learned 48 hours ago that there's no criteria that says if there are drugs on the boat, that's when you shoot. So drugs being on a boat is not something that the military is looking for. Even if they just believe that you're a narco terrorist based on their assessment of narco terrorism. Right. Donald Trump, who's out there ranting and raving like a lunatic, saying that Obama needs to be indicted. And James Comer is. Or James Comey, rather not Comer. James Comey is a criminal. And these are the people setting the criteria for narco. You know, Trump, who says January 6th insurrectionists are heroes and that the FBI and CIA were the bad. We're in on J6. Right? These are the people who set the criteria for who gets killed based on their own criteria. And, you know, that's, that's, that's where we're at right now in this world. So, anyway, I mean, I think what. We'll follow this. I don't think I'm going out on a stretch there. I'm giving you my opinion here, but I'm giving you the data points. And I just think. I mean, like, you have. I've said this yesterday, but you had a Foreign Minister, Aragchi, M.B. golubov, the Parliament leader of Iran. You know, they're out there giving these warnings to Donald Trump, you know, threatening him, knowing that he's scared. You have Kim Jong Un daily posting videos of himself with nuclear warheads right now. Won't even get a blip of attention here in the United States. So there you have it. Let me know what you think about all of this. Okay, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.
Date: June 4, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode dives into escalating US-Iran tensions and the personal panic swirling around Donald Trump amid threats against him and his family. The Meiselas brothers scrutinize the neoconservative push for renewed war with Iran, the manipulation and paranoia within Trump’s circle, contradictory media narratives, and broader consequences for democracy and global security. The hosts blend sharp political analysis with unfiltered, sometimes biting commentary, unraveling how war messaging and Trump’s own fears shape real-world events and policy choices.
[00:59–08:05]
“Rubio testified that in the past 24 hours, the US government arrested Iranian agents... for trying to assassinate Donald Trump… There’s no reports of that happening.”
— Ben, [01:55]
[05:19–10:00]
“If Iran kills a soldier, then that’s going to be it. Then we’re going to go back to war.”
— Wall Street Journal reference, [07:30]
“People seeing Donald Trump as weak, as cognitively diminished, as being easily manipulated… he’s someone who wants to be a strongman authoritarian, but ultimately, he’s not built for that.”
— Ben, [10:45]
[12:10–16:00]
“He posted a photo of himself as James Bond... in his own fictitious narrative… neo cons putting in his ear narratives that he is in his own James Bond movie.”
— Ben, [13:10]
[16:00–23:00]
“One more ceasefire and we can get the fifth for free. I mean, that’s what this regime has become, the Trump regime. Okay, this ceasefire, everybody knows they’re lying about everything.”
— Ben reading/quoting Al Jazeera journalist, [20:49]
[23:10–26:00]
“He’s panicking about the fears that he has right now… he responds [with] 007 memes and golden dome memes and drone port memes because he’s panicking…”
— Ben, [25:30]
[26:01–28:30]
“Everybody in this chain of command, in my view, is a war criminal who needs to be tried… you’re just blowing up little… fishing boats.”
— Ben, [27:00]
[28:31–End]
On Neocon Manipulation:
“They’re creating movie plots for this guy… He sees things as movie plots.”
— Ben, [13:45]
On the Reality of Ceasefires:
“One more ceasefire and we can get the fifth for free.”
— Ben quoting Ali Hashem of Al Jazeera, [20:49]
On Trump’s Paranoia:
“He keeps on saying how the White House—the new ballroom will serve as a shield that will stop ballistic missiles and drones…”
— Ben, [24:30]
This episode is a scathing, detail-rich analysis of the latest war scares, casting a skeptical eye on both the substance and motives behind headlines of Iranian plots and looming chaos. It offers an alternative, often pointedly unsubtle lens on US foreign policy, internal political manipulation, and the risk that paranoid, manipulated leaders pose to both America and the world.