Trump FLIPS OUT at Fox News Host in DISASTER Interview

All right, John, we're nearing the two week mark of this disastrous war in Iran, which Trump keeps calling it an excursion. Have you seen the theory that he was told to say it's an incursion? I sure have. For legal reasons. I'm buying into that theory. I 100% buy. So an incursion is like a more limited use of military power that would maybe not require congressional authorization, but he keeps calling it an excursion like it's Pelicans Island or something. Like they're dumping out the insane asylums he confuses with applying for asylum. Exactly.

Trump has also not formally addressed the nation about a plan or a strategy or how long we're gonna be there, probably because there isn't one. Instead, we get toppers on remarks before the Inter Milan MLS Soccer Team Championship Award,

where he tells all the guys they're hot. So when he starts talking about how he saved money on gold curtains in the ballroom. Look at these.

After talking about fallen soldiers.

Hey Lionel Messi, what would it take to put you in one of these curtains? So instead we are left, as we are doing today, trying to parse his interviews to figure out how long we're gonna be at war with Iran and how deeply we're gonna get sucked into this quagmire. So, brings us to today's interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade. That's the Fox and Friends host who recently said we should kill all homeless people with

mental illnesses. He did apologize for that one. He did, the next day. We're going to listen to some clips from Trump's interview, then we're going to look at some comments by JD Vance that are fueling speculation that he is running screaming from this policy. And then we're going to watch a clip from Pete Hegseth that's fueling speculation that he never did quit drinking.

So by the way, John, a lot of news coverage of this war has been terrible. Brian Kilmeade in Fox News, as we're about to see, has been the absolute worst. It's just like totally a rock era, like talkie points and war propaganda.

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Okay, so the first clip is Brian Kilmeade asking Trump, you know, like a basic question like, hey man, when's this war gonna be over?

How do you know? and I had to take an excursion. We had the greatest economy in history. We do, we still do. Oh, this will bounce right back. When it's over, and I don't think it's gonna be long, when it's over, this is gonna bounce right back so fast. When are you gonna know when it's over? When I feel it.

Okay. I feel it in my bones. Will you ask anybody in particular? decision? I deal with people, I have great people. How do you not follow up which bone?

Is it what we're talking about, femur? Femur. Is he like a fucking animal that knows when it's gonna rain? Yeah, he's just like what? It's just like Trump's gonna like get up and just be like oh a little achy. Yeah all the birds fly away before the volcano erupts. Time to bring the carriers home. It's so crazy to say when I feel it in my bones. Earlier in the interview, Trump has asked whether the new Iranian Supreme Leader is alive. There's a lot of speculation that he's dead or mortally wounded.

And Trump says he probably is. Then he says, quote, but I think he's probably alive in some form.

What does that mean?

Like an AI? I've been following this and then Hegsad said that he's like disfigured maybe. You know, this guy has a fucking paper cut. He's like a broken foot. Yeah, this guy has like a normal injury and they've all decided that they need to make him seem as decrepit as possible.

This is my theory on this.

Yeah, they're just denigrating the guy and it's like, hey guys, whether it's like Mushtaba, you know, Khamenei or some other person like the IRGC is calling the shots. Like none of these options are good. I mean, it reminded me of when the asshole who shot Rene Good, the ICE agent, and then they were like, oh, he went to the hospital for a series.

And someone was like, oh, he had hemorrhoids. Trump was also asked about whether the US Navy is gonna escort ships through the state of Hormuz, or if he's concerned that tankers aren't getting through. And he says, like, we'll have to see what happens. So again, they don't have a plan there. OK, John, so also a lot of Iran nerds, they're kind of looking for cracks between the US and Israel to see if we're on the same page in terms of strategy.

Right at the war's outset, you remember Trump was calling on the Iranian people to rise up and to take their government. You don't really hear that rhetoric anymore from Trump or out of the White House. However, Netanyahu gave a press conference earlier this week where he once again called on the Iranian people to rise up and basically said, like, look, it's on you to topple your government, almost seeming to blame them for not yet toppling their government. So here's Brian Kilmeade's question about Netanyahu's remarks.

Let's watch. So yesterday, the prime minister or the other day said, it's soon to the Iranian people. It's time for you to soon come back and take back your country when the time is right and that time is soon. There's also a report that Israeli officials do not think the regime is ready to fall yet. What do you say to the Iranian people? Do you echo what the prime minister said?

Their time is soon to take back their own country. Well, you just mentioned to me a group of people that go around with machine guns and shoot them down and they say, if anybody protests, we're going to kill you in the streets. So I really think that's a big hurdle to climb for people that don't have weapons. I think it's a very big hurdle. So that it'll happen, but it probably will be maybe not immediately. Who's going to do that?

They literally have people in the in the streets with machine guns, machine gunning people down if they want to protest. Okay, so, you know, that's a pretty big. That's a pretty high standard to say I want to go and protest. And so I would understand that. And I would think BB would understand that too.

Can I read you a tweet or sorry, truth social post that he did in January? Yes. Iranian patriots keep protesting, take over your institutions, save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I've canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stop. Help is on its way. I mean, what changed? Wasn't this though, the most obvious He does not give a shit about the Iranian people never did What about remember the the Venezuelan people were gonna be free and also that the oil that we're stealing from Venezuela

We're gonna we're gonna sell it and then give the money back to Venezuela You think they got they think the checks in the mail for them yet? No, I don't think so He doesn't give a shit about Americans, let alone Iranians. It was always a joke that he cared about the Iranian people. Yeah, that like he's just every single strategy he has embraced has been naive. Initially, he was calling on the Iranian people to rise up and take control of their government. Well, that's very difficult when the government is heavily armed and you are not. And it's not just the IRGC, it's the Basij militia or these paramilitary forces.

Then he was saying, you know, there are all these talks that they were looking for a Delsey Rodriguez of Iran, who was sort of like the vice president, you could install and be the puppet of the U.S. administration. But like that was just never going to fly in Iran because you find me a Delcy Rodriguez puppet for America in Iran, and I'll find you the next person who's going to get shot in the back of the head. Well, it's also because the way his mind works, he thinks there's no person, no matter how

powerful, no matter what you believe, who can't be bought off. Exactly. And he doesn't realize that it's a theocracy in Iran. And so these people are like, they don't give a shit that Trump's gonna pay them a bunch of money or do whatever Fucking corrupt deal. He's gonna do they they want they when they say death to America. They mean it Yeah, he fundamentally can't imagine having a belief system. That's exactly right. It's just like bigger than yourself

That's why he's like, what is this? I thought I could pay off the IRGC guy What's going on doesn't pay off the mullahs the other thing people are really wondering about is, are the US and Israel going to launch some sort of ground invasion? And the number one priority is the highly enriched uranium that we think maybe is buried under one or two sites, these nuclear sites that we bombed, but it could be spread all

over the country. We don't really know. So that's like groundulated about a lot that is like we know CENTCOM has thought about and planned is an operation to capture Karg Island, which is the little island like 25 kilometers off the coast, where 90% of Iran's oil goes through and then is exported. So Brian Kilmeade asks about Karg Island.

He tries to do it in a really kiss-assy way. You tell me how you think this went for Mr. Kilmeade. Let's watch.

The year was 1988. This future president, Donald Trump, was selling a book called The Art of the Deal. He gave an interview to a British newspaper at which time you talked about Iran. You said, we have to win back respect for America

on the world stage. And you had stern words for the Islamic Republic. You said, they've been beating us up psychologically, making us look like a bunch of fools. One bullet shot of one of our men or ships, I do a number on Karg Island. I go in and I take it. Now here in 2026, you are president.

Are you thinking about taking Karg Island where 90% of the Iranian oil goes through? And what do you think about, do remember that interview and that that school of thought

they have a run? I can't answer a question like that. You should and you should ask. You should be even asking it. It's one of so many different things. It's not high on the list, but it's one of so many different things.

And I can change my mind in seconds. But, you know, for you to ask a question, who would answer a question like that? I mean, you're asking me a question, Carg Island, okay, everything. Who would ask a question like that, and what fool would answer it, okay?

Let's say I was gonna do it, or let's say I wasn't gonna do it. Why would I tell you, oh, yes, Brian, I'm thinking about doing it. Let me let me let you know what time and when it'll take place. It's not, you know, it's sort of a foolish question. A little surprising for you because you're a smart man.

I am, but you were just pretty amazing that you thought about it in 1988.

So. Well, I did.

Sir, sir, it's pretty amazing. I was just trying to suck your dick, sir. He is like five seconds away from crying. Honestly. He looks so sad, he shrinks. Maybe my favorite answer from Donald Trump in like a year. Yeah, he's like, good for him. Brian, you ignorant slut. Like what's so funny is the number of times he repeats it.

You can tell he's getting madder and madder and madder. What the, and then he's like mocking him. Then he's like, oh yes Brian, I'm gonna do it at this hour. It's like, there's definitely been times when like Sean Hannity is even too obsequious and you can tell it pisses Trump off. Well, it's also it's like,

because Brian Kilmeade was doing an impression of a clever person and it was a bad impression because he's like, oh, like I'm gonna get to it this way with the book and look at the quote I found and Trump's like, I'm I think, is worried that like the Iranians are gonna see this and suddenly realize that they might take Kargah Island. Like it's been widely speculated.

The element of surprise is gone, gentlemen, from all your ground operations.

I think the new Ayatollah has the dial tuned

to Brian Kilmeade's radio show. I think, yeah, I think they don't miss an episode over there. Final clip from this Trump interview. So Trump was asked about a scary news report from ABC News with the headline, FBI warns Iran aspire to attack California with drones in retaliation for war. Alert.

Here's that exchange.

On the drone attack in California, is that real or is that verified?

Did that cross your desk that that is a legitimate concern?

Well, the first we heard about it was from Gavin Newsom, the incompetent governor of California. He told you, as he said, no, he announced it came out from him or his office. That's what we heard at first. He was talking about it. But he is learning disability.

So I don't know, maybe as an alien maybe he admitted he had learning disability. Somebody said, well, what's wrong with that? I said, that's okay, but not for the president.

Okay, I feel safer. Do you?

Look, he wouldn't be the first president with learning disability.

Yeah, no. Like, just for folks, like this, I look, I saw that headline and I thought, that seems unlikely. But I heard about it from dozens of people, lots of friends in LA and California, like people are genuinely scared.

Well, I don't know what the fuck he was talking about.

The FBI, they asked Newsom about it in an interview.

Yes.

The FBI did issue the warning to California law enforcement. So he did get it from the federal government. And then when Trump was asked about it, I think he was on a tarmac somewhere getting on a plane, he said, yeah, we're aware of that. And then someone asked him about the sleeper cells,

the terrorist sleeper cells and Trump said, yeah, no, we know where most of them are, I think.

Yeah. Yeah.

And then Time Magazine asked him if Americans should be scared of attacks in the homeland. And he said, I guess.

Right.

Right, so there's a body of evidence that would make one concerned about these kinds of news reports. And I, and I like, Hannah asked me about it. I'm sure your wife asked me about this report too. And his fucking, like, yeah, it was in my PDB. My briefers are on it. Like it's a thing we're focused on.

He just has to deflect attention and be like, I wasn't aware of it. Gavin Newscombe is the reason this is out there. It's like- Isn't there like the easy normal answer is like, look, it's unverified intelligence.

We get tips's the answer. That would be wonderful. I would take that in a heartbeat. Like, which is it's part of a pattern where anything bad, he's not aware of it. Like, they still refuse to take responsibility for this airstrike that killed 165 girls at a school in Tehran or not Tehran in Minjab. But every like there are all these news reports that clearly this is a US strike, like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs put up a map that showed an airstrike on that facility by the United States. Like we are the only ones to Tomahawk missiles and Trump lies and lies and lies and our headset today wouldn't take responsibility.

It's just it's so frustrating to me that these guys will not own anything that goes badly. They think that they can just use it's still under investigation and they're just going to keep pushing this off. And then by the time they feel forced into an answer, everyone's gonna have moved on to a million other things. And they're gonna be like, this is old news.

Why are you asking about this?

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Let's start with a rat named J.D. Vance. There was a report in Politico Friday with the headline Vance was skeptical voice in White House on Iran strikes. The subhead was, quote, White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the lead up. Very subtle positioning there, J.D. Way to get it arm's length on this thing. Yeah. Was the White House official in question an absolute pussy from Ohio?

Ray D. Hance. So J.D. was asked about his views on the Iran war during a press conference on Friday. Here's his response.

Hi, Mr. Vice President. Bill Barrow with the Associated Press. What did you advise the president initially as he considered his actions in Iran? And what are you urging him to do now, especially with Americans seeing higher prices at the pump

and some of the fallout from that across the economy? Do you express any concerns like those you've expressed in the past on the possibility of these extended wars? Well Bill I appreciate the question

I know you guys have to ask it but but but imagine the situation we're we're in the situation room where you can't even take your you know iPod in there or your your AirPods I guess what they're called you can't take your iPhone in there you can't take anything in there because it is the most classified space anywhere in the world. And I sit there with Pete Hegsteth and General Kane

and Marco Rubio and the entire White House team. And the president and I and the entire senior team are talking about the options and about what we need to do and about how we must best protect the American people. I hate to disappoint you, but I'm not going to show up here and in front of God and everybody else tell you exactly what I said in that classified room, partially because I don't want to go to prison and partially because I think it's important for the President of the United States to be able to talk to his advisors without those advisors running

their mouth to the American media. Not exactly a ringing endorsements of the policy. But also, Mr. Trump, this is, I know this is not the worst problem here, but like, he's such a fucking, like he has to, he can't just say, like he could have easily just said, I'm the vice president, the advice I give to the president,

it stays private, period. But here's where I think we are in Iran and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He has to make, I'm gonna scold you and I'm gonna tell you how fucking stupid you are because we would never divulge anything in classified settings unless we invite Jeff Goldberg

to the Signal Chat. He has never met a question that didn't turn him into a pissy, whiny little bitch. Unbelievable. Saying to the reporter, no, I actually think that taking out their ballistic missiles program

and knocking the nuclear sites is a good thing. That's not classified.

Really?

Give me a break, you idiot. And like, he knows better. I'm not gonna stand up here before God and country. Listen, God's not paying attention to you, dickhead. You're an afterthought in his world. I will say, little media criticism, that reporter should have asked the question in a different way.

How would you, what do you think would get a better answer? I think you want to ask him about strategy now and perspective, like what do you think is, what would you be, what's considered a success in terms of degrading the ballistic missiles, in terms of the Navy, in terms of the nuclear thing,

like how long does this go? When does this go to? Like get him, just ask him a general question that might lead him to an answer that opens daylight with him and the president without him realizing that he's opening the daylight.

He doesn't make it.

I think that's good. I'd love to hear that question. I do think that answer opened daylight between him and the president. Because he didn't see what Donald Trump wants from you. There's be like, I am for whatever Donald Trump is for. Like, by the way, Trump, Trump was asked in the Fox interview about deliberations between JD and Rubio on the cabinet

and what's it like. And Trump goes, we have some differences, but they never end up being much. I convinced them all, let's do it my way. It's like, well, you are the president, so they don't really have a choice, but I don't know if you convince them. But yeah, I mean, what's interesting about all of this is

there was this political report today that Vance is clearly trying to distance himself from the war, but previously, someone was backgrounding on his behalf that J.D. Vance, he told Trump that if he's gonna do it, go bigger. So like he owns this either way. Yeah, I don't know what they think they're doing there. Do you think he's gonna say after this is a fucking disaster? Like it wouldn't have

been a disaster if he had just gone even bigger. I know. Like you say that there is a version of this where it's going to be like a rock war. We can already tell where it's like, well, this it was right to go to right to go. But they executed it. They bungled the mission. It's incompetence that's the real problem with the Trump administration and not the fucking bloodlust and insanity that they were all showing in the lead up to this war. It's like, yes, on some level, I agree with you. You guys are idiots.

Yeah, I don't want to take that away from you. You are bungling the most obvious things like these guys not being prepared to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Iran closed it is insane. Because like literally every war game ever about a conflict with Iran ends with them mining the Strait of Hormuz or closing it somehow. And they just like are unprepared to deal with it. That said.

Straits aren't looking great. The Straits are not looking good. That said, I think the problem is regime change wars in the Middle East. Yeah. That's probably it.

Finally, John, I bet a lot of viewers have been asking themselves, what would it be like if General Westmoreland's Vietnam era war updates were written in the style of the cat in the hat, but after both had polished off a fifth of gin?

Let's watch. Between our air force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck. That's well over 1000 a day. No other combination of countries in the world can do that. So today, as we speak, we fly over the top of Iran and Tehran, fighters and bombers all day picking targets as they choose, as our intelligence gets better and better and more refined. Looking up, the IRGC and Iranian regime

sees only two things on the side of aircraft. The Stars and Stripes and the Star of David. The evil regime's worst nightmare.

What the fuck, dude?

These...

What? He's just like...

Like, what is with the-

Why do you talk like that? Like the daily Hegseth fucking war haikus.

It's a war haiku.

I read-

We're up, we're over the top.

They look, they die.

Arrgh!

Israel!

Starved. I've read Lizzie this book, 10 App on top by Dr. Seuss severe or this one terrible book absolutely terrible it's like 10 apples up on top you can't stop like some fucking weird character talking to a dog turns out the dog is wearing a skin tight suit and he's our Secretary of Defense he also said John the only thing prohibiting transit in the Straits right

now is Iran shooting and shipping That was my open for transit should Iran not do that. Yeah, man Congrats on figuring out the problem look if you don't mind You don't mind sailing through a body of water Where you might your boat might blow up? Because of some someone might be shooting at you or a mine below. Your boat full of oil.

Other than that, go through the fucking strait, pussy, as Brian Kilmeade said that the other

day, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Hegseth also said, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Offering no quarter to an adversary in war is a war crime, de facto. He also spent a bunch of time whining about CNN. He said something about, like called on David Ellison to take over the network.

He said, I can't wait till he takes over.

Yeah, they kept out a really good season's journalist named Nancy Yusuf. I think they once again kept out the photographers who like, I don't even, did you, I tried to look for the pictures that upset him. Was it like from a bad angle or something? Yeah, I don't know. I have not seen the pictures either because I think maybe they successfully got, I don't know.

These guys are the whiniest fucking babies. And so by now the Pentagon Press Corps, it's like there's a couple real reporters like Michael Gordon, I think from the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, whatever, asked some good questions, some smart people in there.

But then it'll the like, I can fall in gong propaganda outlet. And I was like, Hey, Lindell TV over here. But even they're starting to sound skeptical. Like, yeah, that's why he was getting mad. Lashing out at CNN, saying the quiet part out loud that he's just like, I can't wait till the president's

friend who swooped in and bought this mega fucking media outlet just so he could make CNN more conservative or just destroy it altogether. Just admitting that is crazy. Absolutely baffling. Probably will show up in a court of law at some point when there's a lawsuit to block this merger. I don't know, man, I don't think it's going too good. It's

not great that these guys are in charge. It's a real clown show. It's depressing. They think of it, they see this as like a show like they see this as another episode of uh of the trump show and uh, it's interesting now and it was cool when we were bombing people and we blew some shit up And we're so powerful dominating in the skies blah blah blah and when we decide everyone's getting bored of it or angry new show new episode and they're gonna cut and run and they're going to leave the poor Iranian people to just live in this battered regime. And meanwhile, Lebanon's getting crushed, like hundreds of people are dead.

800,000 people have been displaced. Basically, like put the Israelis have like an evacuation order for I think like a quarter of the country at this point of people just getting pushed out. Let alone like, the idea that we can continue to like, fucking bomb places in the Middle East into submission and kill people's families and raise their cities and there's going to be no repercussions for Americans either here in America or like overseas somewhere?

I mean what?

Yeah, that's that is my big fear like that. Look, I think Trump's response to the story about like a drone strike in California was dickish and stupid. But like, my fear is that in 10 years, there's a bus full of American tourists in Greece somewhere, and it gets blown up, and it's an IRGC-linked.

How many people have we pissed off? How many terrorists have we created from this? And by the way, the US reportedly has spent $11 billion in the first week of the war in Iran. That number is probably a lot higher when you do all-in costs and there's honest accounting. But we've had this conversation on the show about whether Democrats should vote for a supplemental funding bill.

And at this point, I think this has gone from a debate about whether this could be a political liability to a massive opportunity for Democrats to say, hell no, we're not giving you $50 billion to spend on this disastrous war. We'll spend it on literally anything else. massive opportunity for Democrats to say, hell no, we're not giving you 50 billion to spend on this disastrous war, we'll spend it on literally anything else. It's the easiest possible message

that combines every single political issue and position that is popular. Like I just, I mean, it's the morally right thing to do for sure, it's like a no brainer, but politically it's a fucking, it's like a slam dunk of all slam dunks.

I saw Pelosi today, not ruling out supporting funding for the troops. That's crazy.

Because all these people have Iraq war brain

and they're still in 2003.

They have Iraq war brain. I'm trying to give leadership, I know she's not in leadership anymore. I'm trying to give Hakeem Jeffries a little space to kind of bring his caucus along because he's probably thinking minds might be in a different place in a week or two or whenever this funding request comes. And there's some reporting today that Republicans aren't actually eager to have this vote because

they know Rand Paul's going to be opposed. I'm sure Thomas Massey will be opposed. Right. So it's not an easy vote for them. But I've also talked to Democrats who say they're worried. who are worried we could lose as many as half the Congress, or half the Democratic caucus on this vote. So I hope that changes over time.

Yeah, me too. Anyway, well, glad these guys are in charge. Really, really fun having to watch them steer the ship here. Really, really fun having to watch them steer the ship here. Thanks for watching.