Fact Check: US Middle East Policy and Presidential Actions Overview

Hi. In the year 2000, Americans had to elect a new president. Their options were between the Democrat vice president

who wanted to address climate change. July wasn't just the hottest July on record, it was the hottest month,

period. And a former Republican president's son who Americans thought would be more [music] fun to have a beer

with. It was one of the closest elections in US history and the Supreme Court stopped an ongoing recount.

>> George Bush was as popular as presidents typically are at the start. >> Eight months later, some people flew

some planes into some buildings killing almost 3,000 people. Americans broadly blamed Muslims and George Bush's

popularity skyrocketed as he strongly condemned the attack. >> 9/11 was bad. Many foreign nationals

were also killed. With domestic and foreign support, Bush got authorization from Congress and declared war on

terror. >> I call upon all nations to do everything they can

to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

He actually got authorization for Afghanistan where the leader of the attack was believed to be, but he did

follow through on the more vague war on terror promise a couple years later when encouraged by his neoconservative

advisers, George Bush lied and claimed that >> There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein

[music] now has weapons of mass destruction. >> So again, he got approval from Congress

to invade. Except this time it was a preemptive strike based on a lie. >> Story was broken by the London Times the

official transcript of an official meeting at a time when we were being told no decision had been made, the

Congress had not given any authorization at all. They were already planning to go to war, the British knew it. It also has

some very nasty phrases like that the intelligence was being fixed to suit the facts to get ready for war. Raises the

whole question that's been a little controversy in this country about whether intelligence was [music] being

done properly. And with found no weapons of mass destruction. >> So indeed, that seems to indicate the

memo was accurate. Sandwiched between Afghanistan and Iraq is Iran. With all this war going on, they looked around

and thought, "Huh, I would rather not get invaded by America like those guys. [music] Iraq didn't even do anything.

And the only country in my neighborhood that has nukes is America's friend Israel." [music] Iran had already begun

developing nuclear technology thanks to America. In the '50s, we had a program where we helped countries start making

[music] nuclear power plants. Uranium for nukes needs to be enriched much more so than for power plants, but it's the

same principle. With the knowledge given to them by the US and the fear instilled by the US invading their neighbors, Iran

started working more quickly on having a nuke. Back in America, support for wars in the Middle East was souring by the

end of George Bush's second term. It might have had to do with the fact that there was a new law saying the

government could listen to all your phone calls and you had to take your shoes off at the airport now. There was

also a recession. When a bad thing like a recession happens, people tend to blame the party in power. So the

Republicans lost in favor of the Democrats. Surprisingly, the president to replace Bush was a young black

senator. Despite being a Christian American, Obama had a Muslim middle name inherited from his Kenyan father.

Republicans would often accentuate this name when referring to him to associate him with Muslims who many still didn't

trust after 9/11. >> Peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama. >> TV star

>> That would be me, Donald Trump. made his first big splash in politics when he falsely claimed Obama wasn't a citizen

and demanded he release his birth certificate. Somehow this is actually going to be incredibly relevant in just

a bit. Since Saddam Hussein, the guy who Bush lied about having weapons of mass destruction, was already killed during

Bush's term, Obama ended the war in Iraq. [music] But he increased our presence in Afghanistan to try to end

that war quickly. Osama bin Laden, a man who enjoyed watching Naruto and playing the Nintendo DS, was believed to be

behind 9/11 and was hiding in Pakistan. So the military raided and killed him. I should note that the CIA accidentally

killed an American teenager in Yemen with a drone strike around this time. But killing Osama had much more impact

on Obama's approval than the dead kid did. Or maybe they didn't do it by accident since he was the son of an

Al-Qaeda member they killed 2 weeks prior. I don't know, man. It would be cool if we could just only do stuff in

an actual emergency and with congressional approval. Anyway, with bin Laden dead, Obama began withdrawing

troops from Afghanistan. While this was going on, the Syrian Civil War started and Obama promised that he [music] would

have to get involved if the Syrian government used chemical weapons. Then they used chemical weapons. But people

were getting more and more fed up with Americans fighting in the Middle East and Congress [music] did not approve, so

we did not go to war with Syria. The terrorist group ISIS had captured some parts of Iraq and Syria, so we did bomb

inside Syria. However, this was not an attack on the [music] government of Syria, it was in territory temporarily

not under Syria's control. [music] Although the attacks were not authorized by Congress, it was done as part of an

international coalition to fight ISIS. But the CIA was actually providing some support [music] to Syrian rebels who

were trying to overthrow Assad, the guy using chemical weapons, and that part was without congressional approval or

[music] an international coalition. Hey, remember Iran trying to develop nuclear weapons? Well, the US bombing inside

Syria and Pakistan may have helped keep their cortisol levels high. The US and Israeli intelligence both reported that

Iran was enriching uranium [music] past levels necessary for nuclear energy indicating they wanted to be able to

make [music] a nuke. Israeli intelligence was more alarmist about the uranium enrichment levels, which is to

be expected from them and also really good foreshadowing on my part. Israel's [music] right-wing Prime Minister,

Benjamin Netanyahu, repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran to keep them from having a nuclear weapon. Obama did

not want this to happen and he stepped in to deal with Iran diplomatically. The US had more leverage than any other

nation in the world and for decades we had been putting sanctions on Iran. Basically, we were discouraging other

countries from trading with them which hurt their economy and global relations. Obama made a deal along with other

allied nations. There would be international oversight in Iran to ensure that they did not develop a

nuclear weapon and in exchange we dropped some sanctions we had on them. All our western allies supported the

agreement as a way to prevent nuclear proliferation without having to start yet another war in the Middle East. Even

Russia and China were on board. However, some allies in the region did oppose it, most notably Israel.

>> Iran could get to the bomb by violating the deal. [music] Iran could get to the bomb by keeping the deal because

virtually all the restrictions on Iran's nuclear program will automatically expire [music] in about a decade. It

doesn't block Iran's path to the bomb, it paves Iran's path to the bomb. >> The alternative that the Prime Minister

offers is no deal, in which case Iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear program.

>> Neither the president nor any of his top aides met with Netanyahu during his Washington visit [music] and more than

50 Democrats boycotted an event they said was politically motivated. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did attend,

saddened by the insult [music] to the intelligence of the United States and saddened by the condescension [music]

toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in offering praise for the

speech >> We were all extraordinarily impressed with the address of the Prime Minister

of Israel. No country understands better the threat that a nuclear-armed Iran presents than the Israelis. In 2016, the

reality TV star who popularized the lie that Obama wasn't American was elected president by the party who sided with

Israel in not wanting to make a deal with Iran. One focus of his campaign was a criticism of the US's wars in the

Middle East claiming that he was always against them, but that was a lie. He supported the invasions at the time just

like most Americans did. Are you for invading Iraq? Yeah, I guess. He proceeded to back out

of the nuclear deal. Since Trump is the author of The Art of the Deal, he opted to not negotiate at all, increase

sanctions on Iran to even higher than they were before the nuclear deal, and kill Iran's top general without

congressional approval and against the wishes of our western allies. Israel's Netanyahu was very pleased, but Iran

launched its first direct strikes on our military bases in decades. They also designated our military as a terrorist

organization and vowed to get revenge. If it wasn't already clear, Trump is an exceptionally strong ally to Israel. He

moved the US embassy [music] to Jerusalem, a move which had no benefit for Americans, but did agitate [music]

Palestinians because parts of Jerusalem are contested territory. Palestinians are group of [music] Arabs who after a

botched British effort to divide territory they captured in World War I, have lived in two separate densely

populated areas in the corners [music] of Israel. America and Israel do not recognize them as having a nation and

[music] the people have been tormented by decades of alternating devastating war and oppressive military occupation.

Obama and Trump both oversaw times of relative [music] peace between Israel and Palestine. Relative is doing a lot

of heavy lifting [music] here because large portions of both groups want to see the other group dead and Israel

constantly steals Palestinian [music] land. That being said, Obama organized talks with Israel and Palestine in hopes

to establish a lasting just [music] peace. It failed because Benjamin Netanyahu thought that putting a pause

on building settlements on stolen land was such a big sacrifice [music] that the Palestinians should have to give

something in return. But at least Obama tried to do something sensible. On the other hand, Trump not only moved the

embassy increasing [music] tensions, but he made zero effort to do anything about the Israel-Palestine [music] conflict.

Okay, that's not fair. I need to give credit to Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He put forward a 2020 proposal

called [music] The Deal of the Century. The specifics of the deal were that Israel would compromise on nothing and

then somehow there would be peace. Trump also oversaw the Abraham Accords. [music] In a vacuum, the Abraham Accords

are great as they formally establish a positive [music] working relationship between Israel and some other Middle

Eastern countries, but they also sent a clear [music] message to Palestinians that they were not a priority of Israel

or the US. [music] Palestinians don't like their oppression being ignored, and historically they get

radicalized and commit violence in response. So, we'll get back to that when it inevitably happens. With the

help of our Western allies, Trump continued the attacks on ISIS started under Obama, and he oversaw their leader

being killed and the last piece of territory that they captured returning to Syria. He also started to reduce our

unauthorized involvement in Syria, but I don't think we really care about that right now.

>> We have won against ISIS. We've beaten them, and we've beaten them badly. We've taken back [music] the land, and now

it's time for our troops to come back home. If you're curious, the Syrian Civil War is over. The rebels won.

Whether it was good the CIA helped the rebels or that Trump started reducing our involvement is not the point of this

video. Trump took an unusually adversarial stance with our allies. He threatened to not honor our defensive

alliance, NATO, because many nations in the alliance were not paying into it as much as they had agreed to, relying on

the defense of the US. His approach may have been rash, but he was addressing a real problem. He also put a tax on

certain goods imported [music] from China. This made some things more expensive for Americans, but the overall

effort was arguably reasonable. Not much relevant happened in terms of foreign affairs for the last year of Trump's

first term because there was a global pandemic. Although he did condemn China for the virus since that's where it

originated. As I said about the recession, people tend to blame the party in power when a bad thing happens,

and Trump certainly didn't do himself any favors considering he repeatedly told everyone that the virus would

disappear very soon. For 9 months. >> What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? I

say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. When he lost the election, the Department of Justice said

to Mr. Trump, "The DOJ can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election."

>> Every court which ruled on the matter, calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific

allegations and then proof. We have neither here, and all the state governments which run their elections

independently found no evidence of significant voter fraud. >> two dead people. And we'll investigate

and see if we can find out who those people were that fraudulently voted for those two dead people. Regardless, Trump

spread disinformation, which the largest right-wing news outlet repeated. Private communications inside Fox revealed that

they knew that there was no evidence for the claims being made on air. The second largest defamation payout ever. He asked

states to find him votes. 11,780 Had fraudulent documents sent to Congress and gathered tens of thousands

of his supporters to protest the peaceful transfer of power. The protest was meant to pressure his vice president

into breaking the Electoral Count Act and accepting the fake documents that would allow him to stay president. When

the protest turned to a riot, he waited hours to tell the rioters to leave, and even when he told them to leave, he

still insisted >> We had an election that was stolen. >> The first few years of Biden's term were

actually pretty uneventful in regards to the Middle East until the terrorist group Hamas in Palestine did an attack

on Israel that was proportionally larger than 9/11 was to the US. [music] They committed sexual violence and took

hostages. Israel immediately launched an incredibly one-sided war on Gaza. In the beginning of the war, Americans

generally supported Israel, but as time went on, the civilian death toll rose, Israel's list of war crimes accumulated,

and international courts began hearing cases accusing Israel of genocide. Support amongst Americans for continuing

to support Israel shifted dramatically into the negative, especially among those on the left. Towards the end of

his term, Biden did express great frustration with Israel's leadership behind the scenes. After Israel bombed a

convoy of aid workers that were on a route Israel approved, Biden is quoted as saying over the phone,

>> Bibi, what the [ __ ] >> However, when speaking to the public, Biden consistently defended Israel's

right to defend themselves, and aside from temporarily pausing shipments of comically large bombs and delaying a

ground invasion into the city of Rafa, he did not do much in terms of restraining Israel. By the end of his

term though, hostages were actively being released, and there was a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.

Since Osama bin Laden was killed under Obama, Trump negotiated a pullout of Afghanistan. It was a very bad plan, and

the negotiation did not include any of our allies in the region. Biden was stuck between a rock and a hard [music]

place. Either do the bad plan that Trump left him or prolong our now very unpopular involvement in Afghanistan to

work out a new plan. He chose to do Trump's plan. 13 Americans died, and the bulk of the blame fell squarely on Biden

since he is ultimately the one who carried it out. Biden also tried to re-enter Obama's Iran nuclear deal, but

Iran wasn't really in the mood after Trump had broken the agreement, killed their general, and applied maximum

pressure. He provided some support for Israel to intercept Iranian missile strikes, but Biden avoided direct

military conflict with Iran. Remember the whole thing about punishing the party in power when a bad thing happens?

Well, there were two big bad things that happened under Biden. There was a big spike in undocumented immigrants and

asylum seekers. If you want to learn more about that, you can go to 25 minutes into my Dare Too Old video. The

other issue was a big spike in inflation caused by external forces and bipartisan economic policies enacted in response to

the global pandemic from before. [music] This made prices noticeably higher. Americans broadly blamed Biden for both

bad things, and the blame was transferred to his vice president who became the candidate.

>> to win so much, you may even get tired of winning, and you'll say, "Please, please, it's too much winning. We can't

take it anymore." Since Trump's administration in his first term almost unanimously rejected his lie about a

large election conspiracy and refused to cooperate in his actual efforts to subvert the election. President turned

to me and said, "Steve, you you wouldn't leave, would you?" I said, "Mr. President, I've been with you through

four attorneys general, including two acting attorneys general, but I couldn't be part of this." He staffed his new

admin by prioritizing loyalty above all else. >> Find it interesting that she keeps going

after President Trump, the greatest president in American history. >> No one in his new administration is

allowed to give a straight answer on if Trump lost the 2020 election. Mr. Walsh, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

We try to keep politics, if I'm confirmed, out of the federal Who won the 2020 election? Under our

Constitution, the Electoral College votes for the president, and then that is certified by Congress. And in 2020,

President Biden was certified by the Electoral Yeah, that's not my question. Who won?

>> And again, Senator, under our Constitution, and it's actually >> who was certified, and I know what you

think of certification cuz you tweeted on January 6th, "A certified lie is still a lie." Let me make it more

specific. Who won the popular vote? >> Again, Senator, under our Constitution, what matters is

I'm not asking you for what the Constitution says. Frankly, we've received this kind of canned, ridiculous

answer before, as you know, because you were instructed to give this answer, right?

>> Senator, I am speaking to what the Constitution Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

>> That goes back again to the methodology Let's Let's try another question, Ms. Westercamp. Was the United

States Capitol attacked on January 6th? Senator, again, I condemn all of the violence that

occurred on January 6th. >> Okay, we're not going to get an answer from you. Ms. Clark, who won the 2020

election? Senator, the mechanism for electing a president I

am amazed. I am just amazed by the insult to this committee. Ms.

Levine, who won the 2020 election? Again, Senator, the Constitution outlines the process, and as a judicial

nominee Mr. Ricky, who won the 2020 election? Um, Senator, as my colleagues have stated, the process we have in our

With this loyalty, Trump has been able to do far more in his second term than his [music] first, especially since he

acts based on unitary executive theory, an idea which says the president has absolute control over all members of all

executive branches at all times. The president has plenary authority. Has

Steven? Steven? The Supreme Court also granted him criminal immunity for official acts

taken [music] as president while not making it clear what exactly counts as an official act. He also immediately

pardoned or commuted the sentences of everyone who broke into the Capitol Building to protest his election loss,

including those convicted of seditious conspiracy, which is planning to overthrow the government. This sent a

clear message to those around him that they could break laws since [music] Trump will pardon them. And if the

message weren't clear then, he has since said he will pardon anyone who has come within 200 ft of the Oval Office. A few

of Trump's prominent campaign promises were America First and No New [music] Wars. These very simple messages are

powerful and sounded good to Americans broadly who want to focus on materially improving their lives and want to

minimize the international conflict I've been talking about. Trump has done a complete 180 on both of these campaign

promises and has renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War. This [music] name change is not just

about renaming. Words matter. It's restoring, as you've guided us to, Mr. President, restoring the warrior ethos.

Going to go on offense, not just on defense. [music] Maximum lethality,

not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. >> Trump has done more damage to the US's

global relations than any president in modern American history. Great powers have begun using economic integration as

weapons. Tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply

chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. A couple months in, Trump placed a significant import tax on every

country in the world, including uninhabited islands. This violated several trade agreements, including one

that he negotiated and signed in his first term. The USMCA is the largest, most significant modern and balanced

trade agreement in history. All of our countries will benefit greatly. [music] I look at some of the deals made, I say,

"Who the hell made these deals that's so bad?" Many of them have also since been ruled [music] illegal by the Supreme

Court, including some justices he appointed. Trump also labeled the taxes as reciprocal. They're based on an

equation that is written in a deliberately obtuse way, because when simplified, it's just half the trade

deficit divided by total imports. This economically illiterate approach assumes that Americans choosing to buy more

products from one country [music] than that country's citizens choose to buy from American companies is inherently

bad, and that Americans should have to pay more for those products to discourage that behavior. They use the

word affordability. It's a Democrat hoax. >> [music]

>> They're the ones that drove the prices up. Import taxes were also placed on countries that have a trade surplus with

us, meaning their people were already helping American companies by buying their products. This approach [music]

was partially thanks to Trump's chief trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a man who has multiple books where he cites a fake

person named Ron Vera, which is actually just a pseudonym for him. Trump's foreign aggression extends well past

economic policy, though. It will probably, unfortunately, get worse. The Israel-Gaza ceasefire was likely to fail

regardless, but Trump made sure of it when he proposed not only helping Israel, but America directly occupying

and displacing the citizens of Gaza to nearby countries. I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it

bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East. Is this serious?

>> This was not >> [music] >> a decision made lightly. Everybody I've

spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing, and creating thousands of

jobs with something that will be magnificent. >> if you say your plan is to do something

great, I can't really argue with that. Trump's also been threatening to annex territory from our allies, most notably

Greenland, a country where we already have a military presence and could have more if we just asked. Considering your

country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having [music] stopped eight wars plus, I'm no longer feeling

an obligation to think purely of peace. >> But can you say that military action against Greenland is off the table?

So you can't take it off the table that the US would use military force to seize Greenland. You you can't take it off the

table. >> I understand you're trying very hard to get exactly the headline, right? That

catchy headline >> to get an answer to the question. >> says Miller refuses to rule out a

territory owned by Denmark. Denmark, a country which suffered more casualties per capita helping us fight our war in

Afghanistan than any other nation. After months [music] of foreign and domestic backlash, Trump finally backed off.

What, next am I going to bring up him talking with El Salvador's dictator about wanting to send American-born

citizens to a foreign prison labor camp? That's so irrelevant. I don't want to make people think I have Trump

Derangement Syndrome. >> Why don't you just say, "Isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals

out of our country?" We got to get back to the Middle East. Since there was no deal to prevent it, Iran had been

enriching uranium to near weapons grade. >> However, the IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,

and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. Regardless,

Israel still determined this to be an imminent threat. We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We

struck at the heart [music] of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment facility

in Natanz. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientist working on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart of

Iran's ballistic missile program. So the president of No New Wars, at the request of Israel, struck Iran directly, hitting

nuclear facilities along with other military targets. Trump said >> Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities

have been completely and totally obliterated. >> But the Pentagon said that their nuclear

capabilities were set back about two [music] years. Trump now calls this the 12-day war, as if it's an event to be

considered in isolation and not the start of an ongoing conflict with Iran. Trump is pretty clear about the fact

that this war is illegal, saying that he can't call it a war because that would require approval from Congress. Military

operation, I won't use the word war cuz I said if you use the word war, that's maybe not [music] a good thing to do.

They don't like the word war cuz you're supposed to get approval. So I'll use the word military operation.

>> The White House stated on March 1st of this year that this war was launched and was, quote, a military campaign to

eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, end quote. Was it the assessment of the

intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?

Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by

the Iranian regime, yes or no? Senator, the only person who can determine [music] in what is and is not an

imminent threat is the president. >> False. This is the worldwide This is the worldwide threats hearing where you

present to Congress national intelligence timely, objective, and independent of political considerations.

You've stated today that the intelligence community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program

was obliterated, and that, quote, there had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The

only country that disagreed was Israel. Our defense secretary, I mean, our war secretary, although it's still legally

called the Department of Defense, they just call it the War Department, but also this isn't a war, wrote in his

book, "You Can Love America Without Loving Israel." But that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western

civilization is woefully incomplete. And so, on behalf of Israel, Trump has us at war with Iran. Last year, the military

signed a contract with the AI company Anthropic, and the only safeguards were that it couldn't be used for

surveillance of American citizens or to carry out unmanned strikes. Then the military demanded those safeguards be

removed, and when Anthropic refused, they banned its use by the government. Despite banning it, they continued to

use it until another company, OpenAI, signed a contract that didn't include the safeguards about American mass

surveillance or AI-powered weapons with no human oversight. In late February 2026, Trump killed Iran's Supreme Leader

and many of his family members, and we also hit a girls' school with a Tomahawk missile. Trump denied that it was us.

You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day

of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that

when he was asked, standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday. [music]

Why are you the only person saying this? >> Cuz I just don't know enough about it. >> The Iranian people, government, and even

the former leader's written will did not want his son to take his place. But after Trump said that his son becoming

the leader would be unacceptable, Iran made him the leader as an act of defiance [music] eight days later. War

Secretary Hegseth said This is only just the beginning. But the next day, Trump said that the war was very complete,

pretty [music] much. >> On Iran, you called it an excursion, you said it would be over soon. Are you

thinking this week it will be over? You're talking about days. I think so. Two days later. You just said it is a

little excursion, and you said it is a war. So which one is it? Well, it's both. I mean, for them it's a war, for

us it's, uh, turned out to be easier than we thought. For the record, an excursion is a little trip you make for

fun. He means an incursion. Four days later, Trump asked the NATO countries, who he didn't communicate with before

starting the war and had been alienating for the entire first year of his presidency, to help him with his war.

They declined. Without the US, NATO [music] is a paper tiger, while also complaining about high oil prices. He

even called them cowards. By the end of March, the war was still going. Iran is next to an important naval passage

called the Strait of Hormuz. So Iran set up a toll that only allowed ships through if they paid. No American ships

allowed. Trump's war is why gas prices are higher right now. For decades, the US dollar has been considered [music]

the most stable and trustworthy form of currency, so nearly all oil trade has been done in USD. But the value of the

dollar has been falling since Trump came into office, largely due to his import taxes and aggression towards our allies.

Iran is trying to contribute to a long-term decline of the US dollar by only accepting their illegal toll be

paid in Chinese currency or cryptocurrency. It has since come out that Trump was warned this sort of thing

was likely to happen before he started the war, but he went through with it anyway. On Easter Sunday, Trump called

for Iran to open the [ __ ] strait. >> Would anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala?

Low IQ. She's a low IQ person. He ended his message by praising Allah, something the president has never done, let alone

on the anniversary of Christ's resurrection. Very progressive of him. Two days later, Trump had set a deadline

for Iran to reopen the trade route, and it was soon approaching. So he threatened that a whole civilization

will die tonight. Liberals will tell you this is a threat of genocide, but he was clearly just trolling because he's a

really funny guy and good president. An hour and a half before the deadline, he announced a two-week ceasefire. By

mid-April, Trump had announced, "Well, if you're going to block the Strait of Hormuz, then we're going to do it, too."

So Trump set up a blockade to block the passage of any ships that left the Iranian port with the threat of military

force. This would include Chinese and Russian ships. You know, the global superpowers that have nukes right now

and we never want to attack directly because it could escalate into mutually [music] assured destruction. Luckily,

there has been no World War III yet. We can all feel safe because clearly every member of this administration is

incredibly rational and competent. Also, the Pope has Trump Derangement Syndrome and condemned Trump for threatening to

end civilization in Iran. Trump called the Pope weak on crime and posted an AI image of him as Jesus Christ healing a

man who kind of looks like a mix between Jeffrey Epstein and Hunter Biden. I've never read the Bible, but I do know that

one of the main things it says is that comparing yourself to Jesus is really good because it means you think you're

doing the right thing and doing the right thing is good and what Jesus would want. But the woke Pope disagreed for

some reason and it doesn't really matter because Trump said that it was actually an image of him as a doctor while he was

getting McDonald's DoorDash [music] to the White House. Do you think that men should play in women's sports?

I really don't have an opinion on that. >> You don't? I'll bet you do. No, I I'm here about the tax on tips. Then Pete

Hegseth quoted the Bible, but it was actually just dialogue from Pulp Fiction because the Trump administration has

better movie taste than any presidential cabinet in US history. So far, Trump's son-in-law, who famously came up with

the deal of the century for Israel and Palestine, has also been unable to make a deal with Iran and neither has J.D.

Vance, who said that Trump should never be president before becoming his vice president. As of April 25th, the Strait

of Hormuz is not open and has an Iranian and American blockade. Hopefully, we don't accidentally bomb a Chinese ship

going through with oil after stopping at an Iranian port like we did to the girls' school. Trump has said that we're

going to stop going to Islamabad to negotiate with Iran because the flight is too long and his main concern right

now seems to be renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He talked about it at his boring event about

health care affordability or something. You see, right now the pool is just a boring granite, but he wanted it to be

Bahamas blue. But the contractor he hired talked him into American flag blue. So, it's going to look pretty

great. But it's also going to be done really soon because Trump is a businessman and he knows what he's

doing. Let me pick you up for the camera. All right, Trey doesn't want to get picked

up. Okay, so apparently there was a White House dinner or something and there were

shots fired, but no, I don't think anybody got hurt. Trump is spinning it as another reason why we need to have

the White House ballroom that he really wants. So, that just happened. So, I guess

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