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Trump Has Disaster Sunday as Iran Won't Let Him Leave!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disaster Sunday as he wants to desperately get out of Iran and have the Strait of Hormuz opened but Iran won’t let him surrender without agreein...

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Donald Trump is having a catastrophic Sunday morning.

He's in bed minister right now, and according to the Wall Street Journal, he is telling his closest AIDS and advisors that he knows the United States lost this catastrophic war to Iran. He wants to try to declare victory by just having Iran open up the straight of Hormuz, according to the Wall Street Journal article.

Donald Trump does not even care about talking about denuclearization anymore. But Iran has remained firm on all of the conditions that it put in the memorandum of understanding in order to open the straight of Hormuz, Israel leaving Lebanon, Iran getting sanctions, relief, and Iran keeping its ballistic missiles program, Iran getting

a massive amount of aid, another kind of critical conditions U.S. leaving the region.

So Iran saying it's no longer just good enough for you to say we're leaving.

You need to give us what we expected under the memorandum of understanding.

Now, you see from Donald Trump's schedule right here that it's all closed off to the press today. We've got some photos of Donald Trump kind of roaming around and lurking at the bed minister golf course in New Jersey. He's been posting again these weird images of James Toleriko, very strange behavior by

Donald Trump right there. We also know that Israel is now threatening that if you're not going to escalate Donald and attack Iran, we're going to do it without you. And we're going to drag you into it also Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials are saying they are not agreeing to the so-called board of peace plan in Gaza.

That Donald Trump was talking about two weeks ago or a week and a half ago. Trump's like, we did it again.

I'm declaring another deal in Gaza and Hamas has agreed and Israel has agreed and Netanyahu

said, "Let me be very clear. We don't agree to any of this. We don't want any deal at all," Netanyahu said, "Well, I remain the prime minister.

There will never be a Palestine that comes at the same time where Brad Cooper who leads

the US sent com and he's really made a fool of himself over the past several months this guy. He was in Israel with Netanyahu when Netanyahu was saying that we reported earlier this morning, but let me reiterate as well. The Iranian backed Houthis and Yemen have been launching multiple attacks against Saudi interests in Yemen as well as in Saudi Arabia, show you the b-roll right here, the Houthis

launched ballistic missiles and drones at Yemen's al-Muk'a port causing fires and heavy smoke. This comes within less than 24 hours of Saudi Arabia announcing its defense pact with Turkey in addition to the one that already had with Pakistan. They're calling that the Mecca pact. As I've been saying, the Houthis were going to test the Mecca pact right from the outset and they were in a freight of it. Notably last night, you also had a

aromco facility in Saudi Arabia that was struck hard as well and that was the Jebel refinery over there in eastern Saudi Arabia still on fire right now. The Houthis issued a statement saying they succeeded in targeting the aromco refinery in that jazan jibbal area, the industrial city area in eastern Saudi Arabia. So with all of this taking place, Donald Trump sends his bootlekkers, his magas, sick offence to do the morning shows and they just spew

lie after lie. For example, you have maga Republican Senator Jim Banks this morning

saying, I think that Donald Trump is the biggest peacemaker ever. All of this is exactly

what peacemakers do. This is maga Republican Jim Banks. Let's play this clip. The new war in the last four decades. Senator, do you still see President Trump now were nearly five months into the war with Iran as the greatest peacemaker?

I do. His legacy is going to be largely wrapped up in ensuring that Iran never has a nuclear

weapon. I do not want my kids to grow up in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon that will be pointed directly at the United States of America and our troops abroad at our allies. President Trump is the first president in 47 years. He said the guts to stand up to the regime there and tell them that they're not going to get away with it. There's been lots of good news of what's happened. The greatest military in the world as an Afghanistan veteran myself

watching what our military has accomplished wiping out 85% of Iran's ballistic missiles Iran's defense industrial base and making sure that they can never achieve their ultimate goal to have that nuclear weapon. Then you have Donald Trump propaganda, Maria Bartiroma, saying that if Democrats say that the economy is not doing well, well, that's just pure propaganda. She says she goes, it's doing amazing.

She says I talk to CEOs and the US economy has never been better.

maybe if you talk to CEOs who are celebrating layoffs and who have gotten richer on the American people suffer, but this is exactly what is wrong with our country right now, and the American people know it. Here play this clip. President Trump is constantly talking about record markets. You mentioned there rising wages, and what we are still saying if you were layoffs, but yet this week already we're going to be hearing

from Democrats about how horrible the economy is. Yeah, that's just propaganda. I mean,

things are going well, and I think we all feel it. Right, Griff? I mean, look at where we are right now.

You've got job creation. You've got economic growth. You've got $18 trillion of new investment.

The President's main priority has been to put America first and get the supply chains back

to America so that we're not reliant on Asia for semiconductor chips, which we need for defense, or China for pharmaceutical components. And so that in and of itself is such a positive for the economy and for growth. So really, everyone's going to say what they want to say in a campaign season, and I expect the campaign season is ramping up right now. But when you actually look at what's going on, things feel pretty good. I was spoken with a number of CEOs who tell me that

business is up, strongly, and it has to do partly. It has to do partly. It has to do probably with the big beautiful belt. Now, going back to that Maga Republic and Senator Jim Banks for a moment, he then echoes what Maria Bartiroma says. And he says, yeah, I give the economy an A plus right now. Play this clip. Let me ask you now about the biggest issue for voters. The economy, one of the most defining issues of the midterm, certainly President Trump said this

week, quote, I think we should be given an A plus on the economy. Friday's jobs report, as you know, says the U.S. lost 23,000 jobs in July. Do you think President Trump deserves an A plus on the economy, Senator? I do. And here's why every single jobs report, except for this one, has exceeded expectations. And there's still good news, even in this July jobs report, about the resurgence of manufacturing jobs and construction jobs that are being created in America.

Never forget that the last two years that Joe Biden was in the White House, we lost a quarter

of a million manufacturing jobs. And we've seen a significant resurgence because of President

Trump's trade policies and bringing back those good paying factory jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs. We're seeing it nowhere more than in states like Indiana. That's the return of the made in America economy. Those are long-term sustainable jobs. And we're going to keep seeing that in this Trump economy. So then Trump sends his national economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, this guy lies about everything he did the various morning shows. I'll just show you this one clip

where he says we actually have no inflation right now. He says he goes, there's zero inflation and we're experiencing a massive boom. He says here play this clip. So it does seem as though the President's policies have led to this economic situation where the job growth is slower than in the last 18 months of Biden's administration. Right. Well, let's unpack these things. First of all, if you look at the latest inflation numbers, the consumer price index was negative

for the month of June, core was zero. That's to think that the Fed cares about the PCE index, which is the Fed's number one index was negative both for core and top line. And so all of the price data have been decelerating. Now, there was a big inflation in the previous administration, but there's been rapid deceleration of inflation under President Trump. And so if you're going to tell a story that tariffs are causing some kind of positive shock to inflation,

then you got to come up with some counterfactual that explains why it is that right now inflation is running at about zero. And so, you know, it's so important that we get accurate information with all of the lies out there. It's why I do my research and I get my news from Ground News every morning before I do these videos. I want to see what the right is reporting on, what the so-called left is reporting on, what the center is reporting on. So I could give you the best objective reporting

that's out there. I found this fascinating when I was looking this morning. The story about how Trump wants to end this war and basically surrender. It's actually being viewed far more by right-wing

media right now, which is interesting to me. And the reason for that I believe is because I think

left-wing and center media know that already and that right-wing media is not like what? We're just learning about the six months he wants out. I actually think it's a good sign, but, you know,

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vantage plan. Again, I use it every morning. They're subscriber funded. I mean, not only getting a tool we all need today. You're supporting our work here on this YouTube channel. Go to GROUND.News/MTN or click the QR code. Thanks, Ground News. Let's get back into some of the reporting for today. Also, we know an MQ9 Reaper was shot down over or crashed. Either shot down or crashed over Djibouti. So yet another piece of American military equipment destroyed. I don't know if you saw this.

The Trump regime also gave all defense companies a 21-day ultimatum. You need to come up with

the plan to build more weapons in the next 21 days or else or else what the government's going to take over the companies. You're going to take over more of the modes of production or invoke the defense production act and shut companies down. The mismanagement of this war lies with the liars. It lies with Trump and Heggsip and these completely unqualified people who are being checkmated at every point by Iran and it is just frankly an embarrassing humiliation ritual that the Americans are put

through every day. I talked about when Netanyahu's been saying you have Israelis, energy minister. I'm saying I think from our perspective it would be better if there's no agreement. We can continue putting pressure on Iran and I tell you another two or three years with God's help, the regime and Iran will fall. Remember where this started, we made sure to sew all those seeds that will lead to the fall of the regime. Just admitting that they've brought us into this catastrophic and unlawful

war of the Netanyahu regime. So then Kevin Hassit, the National Economic Advisor also showed you the

clip before on CNN. Jake Tapper asked him. You said this is the strongest job market ever in American history by what metric and then he goes, yeah, we're booming things are great. I mean, this is the lies that they tell over and over again here. Let's play this clip right here.

And the bottom line is that if you look at the overall economy, then things are really,

really booming as an example. There are 83,000 construction workers building factories right now. That's a number that we've never seen before. Additional claims for unemployment insurance are the lowest they've done since World War II. There are more job openings than there are unemployed workers. So they're all these things that suggested the numbers should have been really strong. And when it didn't come out strong, we sort of dug in and we saw that the two things that made it

negative. One of them was a reduction in government workers and it was mostly teachers at states, it states, you know, taking July off. And the other thing was that the thief ended and so that we had a whole bunch of hospitality workers, you know, file for unemployment in July. And so anyway, so you take those two out and you get back to what the consensus number was about a 100,000 job creation. And the point is that if that were a nice relation, I wouldn't be carrying in

a bit caring about throwing this or that on the side, because it's a special story. But the fact is everything else is so strong, but I think that it makes sense that the consensus was about right. Tim Scott was asked by Monu Raju on CNN. Why don't you just call Abdul Al-Sayed Abdul,

like that's how he refers to himself as. Like are you just trying to let, I think people know

he's a Muslim, but is this like a way to do like a Islamophobic dog whistle? Like, what are you doing? And Tim's like everyone calls me Timothy Eugene. What are you talking about playing this clip? Oh, you're early attack ads against him. You're using his full name in these attack ads. We've just gotten some attention. Abdul Raman Muhammad Al-Sayed. He calls my Abdul Al-Sayed. Are you trying to say, hint into voters? He's Muslim? Not at all. We're saying to it.

What we're always saying to voters is a simple thing. He says he's the most dangerous candidate

you can find. He's right. We should trust his words, not ours. But why not just use his name? Abdul Al-Sayed. What's he going with? I go by Timothy Eugene. And so I could call that all the time. Here's what I know about that question. It's about what he stands for. And we're going to focus and bring attention to the fact that not only is he sympathetic for him, but not only does he run around with Hassan Pikes or someone who said that Americans deserve 9/11, he should be held account for exactly

where he stands and what is for. So I then on face the nation, you had Senator Cassidy of Louisiana who ended a voting for Todd Blanche. He wanted a participation trophy. He wanted credit for almost

Voting no on Blanche.

decision. That is wrong. And no American should be targeted by the law. But no American should be above

the law. And that frankly, almost weighed to vote no. And you're just hoping it you had to accept it.

So utterly bizarre. And then I'll show you Abdul Al-Sayed. He was on seeing in this morning. And he was asked about the hateful imagery or the post that Donald Trump was making. All last night

were Donald Trump would post him and Melania. And then he posted Abdul and Abdul's wife. Abdul and his

wife met at University of Michigan. They fell in love. They've had a committed marriage, raising two kids. Remember I just talked about that this morning. Go and watch the morning video

by the way to go check out that for him video. If you can, go back and watch that. I think it was

comprehensive. And Trump posts him and Melania. He's like, there's two types of Americans. I don't know, you cheated on Melania with adult film actress when, you know, and said that you remind that you have of her daughter, according to the adult film actress. And then you brag about sexually assaulting women. And then you were introduced by a guy who brags about being on the Epstein list, Polos on Poli. And you met at a kidcat club. And, you know, I mean, I mean,

yeah, they're, I guess there are two Americans. There's a sick Epstein class America. And then there's America of hope and love and family. And Abdul, I'll say it hits that point. Let's play it. I want them to live in an America where they can breathe clean air and drink clean water.

And actually, so I like each other. I don't know about the first lady in the president, but

from what I've heard, it's a bit of a rocky road. Breaking this morning is the new. Well, there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Get your copy of WTF America preorder. Now, the book arrow in my brother. I hope you'll preorder it. We spent a lot of time writing it. It's not an election book. It's a book that talks about this community and how we

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