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June 17, 2025 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Trump to Iran: SURRENDER Or Face The Consequences!
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Tons on today's show.
President Trump is threatening Iran.
They must, he says, unconditionally surrender.
Tucker Carlson continues to go nuts on Trump, who responds by calling Tucker, kooky Tucker Carlson.
Plus, we get to the latest from the left and their bizarre desire to crap on the military parade.
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All righty, so the news coming like a fire hose.
A lot of updates coming from the United States.
What is the United States going to do?
But over the course of the last 24 hours, Israel told the Iranians they were going to take their state media offline.
They then proceeded to do so in quite colorful fashion.
and the clip that was making the rounds looked like this.
The line is a great way to the land of the country.
The line is a great way to the right and the truth is.
The line is a great way to the right and the right and the right.
In any case, What Israel is doing right now, they have complete air superiority over the entire country of Iran.
Not just that.
Over the course of the last 24 hours, apparently they also took down, via a hacktivist group, a group called Predatory Sparrow, they took down Bank Seppa, which is one of Iran's oldest financial institutions with ties to the IRGC as well as the army, according to iraninternational.com, which is sort of a dissident website.
That operates, I believe, from outside Iran.
Several bank sepa branches were closed on Tuesdays.
Customers told Iran International they were unable to access their accounts.
They have 1,800 branches in Iran and others in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
The United States imposed sanctions on bank sepa in 2019.
President Trump did that after it withdrew from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal.
So, the banking system collapsing in Iran.
The propaganda system collapsing in Iran and the military system collapsing in Iran as well.
According to Israel Hayom, Israeli Air Force jets struck a manned command center at the heart of Tehran, killing Ali Shadmani.
That is Iran's chief of war staff.
He was the most senior operational military commander in the country and the closest advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He had served as the chief of war staff and commander of the emergency command center of Iran's armed forces, overseeing both the IRGC and the regular Iranian army.
He had a very short-lived tenure.
He had a really terrible temp job.
He actually was appointed to command Iran's armed forces about five days ago because his predecessor, Alam Ali Rashid, was eliminated on day one.
So congratulations for the promotion and also condolences for his death.
And these are all people working for one of the most evil regimes on the planet, a regime that not only spreads terror throughout the region, is responsible for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of American troops across the region, but also happens to repress its own people to an extraordinary degree.
So, Israel took out a top general, they took the banks offline, they took down the Iranian media, they also were blowing up from the air the F-14 Tomcats.
That Iran had left over from the pre-revolutionary period.
So the United States had sold F-14s to Iran back when the Shah was running Iran.
If you ever watch Top Gun Maverick, there's a country in it with F-14s.
There's only one country on planet Earth that still operates F-14s.
That country is Iran.
And just like in Top Gun Maverick, it turns out the F-14 is not a very good plane by comparison to today's modern models.
And so this is what happens to F-14s in modern combat.
They just get blown up on the ground.
Alrighty, you can see the actual video here.
It is a sort of drone footage of the F-14s being exploded on the ground.
Tom Cruise is nowhere in sight.
Other developments.
China has now told its citizens it's time to leave Iran, presumably in expectation of more Israeli strikes.
Israel says they have now destroyed 50% of the IRGC's ballistic missile launchers.
And this is one of the big problems for Iran.
Iran keeps trying to fire missiles.
They announced they're going to fire missiles into Israel.
The problem for them, as I talked about on the show yesterday, is that if they fire hundreds of missiles at one time, Which ballistic missile launchers are lighting up?
And then can destroy the ballistic missile launchers?
So instead, what they've been relegated to doing is firing ten at a time.
Five at a time.
One at a time.
In the hopes that maybe somehow this is going to hold off, I don't know, a revolution from within.
It certainly isn't holding off Israeli offensive action.
And it's certainly not taking a tremendous toll on the Israeli public.
The Israeli public just has to run into basements once in a while.
But this is a radical decrease from the beginning of the war, when in the first couple of days Iran was shooting off 100 or 200 missiles.
At a time.
Qatar, for its part being a font head for the Iranian regime, is trying to talk its way out of this.
We warn against a reckless attack on Iran's energy facilities.
The Israeli move is ill-considered and will have repercussions on oil prices.
Attacking nuclear facilities poses a serious threat to regional security.
We discussed with the IAEA ways to improve the security of the facilities.
A little too little too late, guys.
Sorry, but that's going to be a big no on that one.
By the way, the idea that there is a giant oil spike that has happened.
That is also not true.
This is something the Wall Street Journal is pointing out.
Qatar is basically lying about this.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the big news in oil markets since Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear program is the price spike that wasn't.
Brent crude popped from $66 a barrel or so to a high of $78 last week.
By Monday, it was back down below $73.
That non-panic owes to the ample global supply.
It's a lesson for Congress and the Trump administration as they contemplate putting new sanctions on Russian oil exports.
So global oil production is in pretty good shape to cope with.
The loss of Iranian supply.
So, meanwhile, the question becomes, what exactly is the next step here?
So, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he says, listen, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Ayatollah of Iran, he's still on the table here.
He might not make it out in one piece.
But U.S. officials tell us that the president flatly rejected a plan, an opportunity that you, the Israelis, had to take out the supreme leader.
Do you understand his concern?
My understanding is his concern is that this would escalate the conflict beyond where it is already.
It's not going to escalate the conflict.
going to end the conflict.
We've had The forever war is what Iran wants.
And they're bringing us to the brink of nuclear war.
In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression.
And we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.
Prime Minister Netanyahu also, because the Iranian media were taken completely offline yesterday, he actually gave a message to the Iranian people.
This message he gave via an alternative network that was broadcasting into Iran.
So the only TV that Iran was able to see was essentially Israeli TV in Iran.
Here we go.
But I think you should understand, these dictators in Iran, sure, they fear us.
But they fear you, the people of Iran, even more.
And your hour of freedom is near.
It's happening now.
They understand that 80% of the people of Iran despise them.
I hear a lot of them.
You know, I do these videos that I broadcast to the Iranian people.
I tell them how we could offer them help in the water shortage that you have.
The regime refuses, of course.
We tell them how we could cooperate these two.
Glorious ancient peoples that have cooperated from the times of Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great freed the Jews.
Now it's time for you to be free.
And you have that opportunity.
The people of Iran, I think, have a brilliant future.
And our friendship can be restored to what it was and what it should be.
This is the time.
Okay, so, again, it's not an explicit goal of the Israelis to topple the regime.
They want to get rid of the possibility of nuclear development by the regime.
But if the regime happens to fall, well, no one is going to be crying about that.
Already coming up much, much more on what the Israelis are doing in Iran.
Plus, President Trump is dropping a lot of hints about what may be ahead.
And he's in a fight with Tucker Carlson.
Tucker somehow thinks that he is like the leader of MAGA, and President Trump slapped him down yesterday.
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So, President Trump, as I've been saying, is playing this absolutely brilliantly.
Thus far, the Israelis have basically done the world's dirty work.
The Israelis have taken out the vast majority of Iran's ballistic missile launchers.
They've now taken out Iran's top military layer and many of the members of its secondary military layer.
They've taken out a vast bevy, maybe up to 90% of its nuclear facilities.
The only things that are really left on the table for the Iranians right now are the Ayatollah himself, the nuclear facility at Fordow.
And the oil fields.
Those are really the only things that Iran has.
Israel has refrained from hitting the oil fields, specifically because it does not wish to create any sort of serious oil spike.
It has refrained from hitting Khamenei, because it would like to see Khamenei either surrender or flee, presumably, because if Israel were to kill Khamenei, then there's always the possibility that there's some sort of red button somewhere that does let off the rest of the missiles all at once.
And then there's the Fordo nuclear facility.
Now, if Fordo goes down, the problem for Khamenei is that that ends.
All nuclear future for the Ayatollahs.
And at that point, the regime is extraordinarily vulnerable.
Obviously, militarily, they're very vulnerable right now.
They do not control their skies.
On the ground, they're vulnerable as well because Israel can hit them pretty much anywhere.
And when it comes to its nuclear future, the nuclear future was supposed to be the guarantee that the Ayatollahs could stay in power despite the fact that they are quite unpopular at home.
And this is why the Ayatollahs built Fordo below a mountain.
Apparently, they built the...
So, the only people on planet Earth who have the planes capable of carrying the bunker busters that would make the process easy are the Americans.
Now, Israel, I'm sure, has come up with some clever ways to take out Fordow or to wreck the inside of the facility.
Israel would not have entered this war without some endpoint, including the destruction of Florida.
It might be risky, it might be costly, but there's no way the Israelis went into this believing that there was no way they could take out Florida.
With that said, everything becomes a lot easier for the world if, given the fact that Iran now has no offensive capabilities to speak of.
Again, they are firing one missile a night at the Israelis, and the Israelis are wrecking them militarily.
The thing that would end this war pretty quickly, and when I say pretty quickly, I mean within 24 hours, is...
That's really the whole thing, because at that point, the Iranians have nothing to negotiate with.
At that point, Khamenei has nothing to hold out for.
He may as well just say, listen, you guys got what you want.
Please leave.
Please, please, please.
And then it's just a question of whether the people of Iran want to do anything.
But nobody here, by the way, is in the business of nation building.
The United States is not in the business of nation building.
If you think Israel is taking responsibility for nation building Iran, you got another thing coming.
Israel is a country of 9.7 million people.
Iran is a country of 91 million people located some 1,500 miles away.
So none of that is happening.
That is why all comparisons to Iraq are just completely inapt here.
They do not match.
This is much more similar to President Trump taking out Qasem Soleimani.
A move celebrated, by the way, by many of the same people who are now freaking out about the possibility of President Trump taking out Fordo.
That is the reason why the latest polling shows, according to Greyhouse, poll taken just a couple of days ago, do you support the United States attacking Iran if necessary?
Trump voters.
Yes.
72%.
No.
19%.
That's a very, very large majority.
The idea that there's a giant split in Trump's base over whether If we have to?
If that's the best choice?
Actually, that is not particularly divisive inside the Republican Party.
Which is why, yesterday, or late yesterday evening, President Trump announced that he would be leaving the G7 summit early to return to Washington, D.C. And there was talk that he was going to be meeting with the National Security Council inside the Situation Room.
There's a lot of speculation that there may have been a military move that was happening as of last night.
According to Associated Press, world leaders had gathered in Canada with the specific goal of helping to defuse a series of global pressure points only to be disrupted by a showdown over Iran's nuclear program that could escalate in dangerous and uncontrollable ways.
Again, I'm waiting to see an explanation for what the escalation looks like.
China is already abandoning ship.
Russia has already abandoned ship.
They told Ayatollah Khamenei, we are not coming to your rescue at all.
There are no outside forces coming to the rescue of Iran at this point.
So the only question is, what are Iran's capabilities?
And let's just put it this way.
If Iran had significant offensive capabilities, they should have flexed them already, considering that Israel is completely wiping the Iranian military and nuclear facilities off the map with extraordinary impunity right now.
So President Trump left to head back to Washington, and President Trump was asked on Air Force One about negotiating, because, of course, there are some in his administration who have been leaking to the press.
We can speculate who those people are.
There are some who have been leaking to the press that President Trump is trying negotiations.
And Trump's like, uh, no, I don't know.
That's going to be a no from me, dog.
Are you open to negotiating with the Iranians right now, or do you want to wait?
I don't know.
I've been negotiating.
I told them to do the deal.
They should have done the deal.
Their cities have been blown to pieces.
They've lost a lot of people.
They should have done the deal.
I told them, do the deal.
So, I don't know.
I'm not too much in a mood to negotiate.
Not in too much of a mood to negotiate is one of the great historic lines.
I gotta say, it's really great.
It's not just, we're not negotiating right now.
I'm not in the mood to negotiate.
It's just spectacular.
It's just spectacular.
It's just great stuff.
This is, among many other things, what I voted for.
This is what I voted for.
I said, I voted for Trump 1.0 foreign policy.
This is like Trump 1.0.
On steroids.
And it is great.
This is what peace through strength looks like.
Because guess what?
Iran's a hell of a lot less of a threat to the region now than they were even a week ago.
And they will be a hell of a lot less of a threat a week from now than they are even now.
President Trump, meanwhile, was asked about a ceasefire.
There are a bunch of people at the G7 who are calling for President Trump to broker a ceasefire.
He's like, we're not doing ceasefires.
Ceasefires are temporary.
What I want is an end to this war, like an end-end, meaning no nuclear program for Iran.
What specifically is better than a ceasefire?
What are you looking for here?
An end.
A real end, not a ceasefire.
An end.
So something that will be permanent?
Yeah.
Or giving up entirely.
Is that okay too?
Are you closer or are you possible?
Is that possible in the next $24?
Why not?
Certainly possible.
Complete give up.
That's possible.
He says give up.
That's possible.
That seems like a pretty clear message.
Again, he has played this all the way, all the way to the mat.
He's got all the cards.
As President Trump likes to say, he is the one with all of the cards.
And that's real.
And so he's playing all of those cards.
He was asked about the fact that Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, who put out that bizarre video last week that we analyzed, the one where she talked about the evils of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and seemed to imply that any action against Iran would somehow end a nuclear conflagration, None of it made any sense.
Tulsi Gabbard, a few months ago, had testified that there was no ongoing nuclear threat from Iran.
Of course, this is contradicted by literally all intelligence services and the IAEA.
President Trump was asked about Tulsi Gabbard's comments.
He's like, no, that's a big no from me.
Mr. Batiba always said that you don't believe Iran should be able to have a nuclear weapon.
But how close do you personally think that they were to getting one?
Because Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.
I don't care what she said.
I think they were very close to having one.
Yep.
Yep.
He is correct.
And it does not sound like Tulsi Gabbard, our DNI, is in the good graces of the president.
Nor should she be, because that was trash when she said it.
It was silly.
And it was contradicted at the time by the Secretary of Defense.
Pete Hegseth.
Okay, so, then the president decided to take to Truth Social and let his thoughts be known.
Quote, Iran should have signed the deal.
I told them to sign.
What a shame and waste of human life.
Simply stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
I said it over and over and over again.
Everyone should immediately evacuate to Iran.
That is what he sent yesterday evening at 6.30pm.
By the way, when he says he said it over and over and over again, he did say it over and over and over again.
Steve Guest cut a 16-minute compilation of President Trump saying it over and over and over again.
Here's just a few seconds of it.
You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
You cannot let it happen because bad things will happen if that happens.
But everybody stopped.
They were ready to make a deal.
We would have made a deal that was great for everybody.
No nuclear weapons.
You can't give them nuclear weapons.
Now they're going to have a nuclear weapon.
Don't let Iran have nuclear weapons.
That's my only thing.
I have to tell you today, don't let them have it.
They would have never had them.
Including Iran.
They can't have a nuclear weapon.
That's all.
They can't have nuclear weapons.
It's too destructive, too powerful.
They can't have it.
But I wanted to make a deal with them.
No nuclear weapons.
You can't have nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons are the single greatest threat to this world.
To the whole world.
Okay, it goes on and on like this for 16 minutes.
On and on like this.
President Trump has been absolutely 100% consistent on this his entire political career.
All of it.
And that's why, as we'll get to, all of the people in the supposed MAGA coalition who are yelling at him about a position that he has been taking consistently for 10 years without a gap, maybe you misinterpreted.
Maybe you think you're the leaders of MAGA.
That guy is the creator of MAGA.
That one.
The President of the United States.
I'm just going to read to you from his 2015 Golden Escalator speech.
Literally from the very first moment he entered presidential politics as a Republican, he was talking about this.
We need to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran is going to take over the Middle East.
Okay, Iran is racing toward developing nuclear weapons.
He said all of those things in his opening speech when he came down the golden escalator.
Was he unclear?
Did you miss the part where he said it?
Do you have hearing problems?
Do you have a brain problem?
He's been saying it consistently.
So all these people who are now mewling and screaming and crying because he's doing the thing he said he was going to do.
Welcome to President Trump, who generally does the thing he says he is going to do.
So President Trump then went to Truth Social.
And reiterated this.
He said, listen, America first means no nuclear Iran.
America first means many great things, including the fact that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Make America great again.
Can he be any clearer?
Well, in case you were wondering, he actually tried to do it even more.
Emmanuel Macron started trying to speak in President Trump's name, which is absurd, suggesting that he was working on a ceasefire.
So first of all, President Trump cannot stand Emmanuel Macron.
As we'll see a little bit later on in the show, neither can...
Maybe there's a reason that he had to marry a woman twice his age.
In any case, he is not a popular man with people who know him personally, apparently.
Georgia Maloney rolled her eyes so hard, the Prime Minister of Italy, at having to deal with Emmanuel Macron that her eyes rolled directly out of her head.
Anyway, President Trump was upset with Emmanuel Macron.
He tweeted, quote, publicity-seeking President Emmanuel Macron of France mistakenly said, I left the G7 summit in Canada to go back to D.C. to work on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
Wrong!
He has no idea why I'm now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with his ceasefire.
Much bigger than that.
Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong.
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Again, I have suspicion as to which people who are leaking to Axios as per usual.
Always in the same direction.
President Trump is going to pursue negotiations.
President Trump then went on Truth Social.
This would have been at 5.20 this morning, Eastern Time.
I have not reached out to Iran for peace talks in any way, shape, or form.
This is just more highly fabricated fake news.
If they want to talk, they know how to reach me.
They should have taken a deal that was on the table.
Would have saved a lot of lives.
Okay, later in the day, the President of the United States tweeted out a message from Mike Huckabee, a text message from the ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.
And here's what it says, quote, Mr. President, God spared you in Butler, Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever.
The decision's on your shoulders.
I would not want to be made by anyone else.
You have many voices speaking to you, sir, but there is only one voice that matters.
His voice, meaning God's.
I am your appointed servant in this land, and I'm available for you, but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts.
No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours, not since Truman in 1945.
I don't reach out to persuade you, only to encourage you.
I believe you will hear from heaven, and that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's.
You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice, and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy.
My job is to be the last one to leave.
I will not abandon this post.
Our flag will not come down.
You did not seek this moment.
This moment sought you.
It is my honor to serve you.
So President Trump posted that.
He said, for Mike Huckabee, a pastor, politician, ambassador, and a great person.
And then, later in the morning, he tweeted out, quote, We now have complete and total control over the skies over Iran.
Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American-made, conceived, and manufactured stuff.
Nobody does it better than the good old USA.
Now, notice the use of the first-person plural.
We now have complete and total control over the skies of Iran.
Not Israel.
We.
So all of this seems to imply that President Trump may be ready to simply put an end to this conflict by dropping a couple of bunker busters on Fordo.
That would be the easiest way to end the conflict.
President Trump knows that.
That seems like a pretty easy lift for the presidents of the United States.
He also started removing troops and personnel from American bases in eastern Syria, presumably to avoid any sort of blowback should he decide to make that call.
Now again, it's not clear that he is going to make that call or which way he's going to go.
The president has the Iranians right where he wants them.
At this point, they have no hand to play, as the president likes to say.
This becomes clear from another Wall Street Journal piece that was reported this morning.
Ayatollah Khamenei and his top advisors never expected Israel to launch airstrikes on the scale they've seen in recent days while they were negotiating with the Americans.
The foreign minister told diplomats they'd been played by Trump.
And the U.S.-Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff into thinking negotiations would prevent a strike, according to European and Arab officials.
The Iranians have said privately they could be open to resume negotiations as long as Trump publicly says he doesn't support the Israeli strike.
So what do they want?
They want Trump to say that, oh, no, no, no, I don't like the strikes.
Trump's not going to do that.
Why would he possibly do that?
The Iranians think they can bully President Trump into saying that he disapproves the Israeli strikes?
With what?
With what leverage would they compel the President of the United States, the most powerful person on planet Earth, with the unfettered capacity to fly over Iran with anything he pleases, up to and including a paraglider?
What leverage do they think they have?
They're insane.
They're out of their minds.
That's crazy.
Apparently, the foreign minister said a private message is not enough.
The U.S. government needs to condemn the attack on nuclear facilities and explicitly withdraw from this conflict to prove its good intentions.
And then he said that Iran would only accept a deal that allows it to enrich uranium.
This is Baghdad Bob kind of stuff.
The foreign minister is Tehran Tom, apparently.
What a hot take from the foreign minister.
He's going to bully the president of the United States into apologizing for Israel's action in the Middle East.
Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, the supposed conflict that is breaking out amongst MAGA, it is not real.
I'm just putting it out there.
It's not real.
There are some voices that you hear that are very big on X. Some people who are in the media space who have And let's just be clear, by the polling data, that is not true.
This has been and remains a fringe opinion.
The president is a peace-through-strength advocate.
You think that the guy who blew Qasem Soleimani into little tiny pieces, pieces so small that they could not put them back together again, you think that that guy is a pacifist?
You think that the same Donald Trump, Tomahawk missiles into Syria, that one's the pacifist?
You think the president who on Saturday had a gigantic military parade to show off our hardware and praise the U.S. Army's history, that guy's the pacifist?
He doesn't sound like the kind of guy who, for example, thinks that Churchill was the bad guy of World War II.
Doesn't sound like the president of the United States.
The president of the United States, he doesn't sound like the kind of guy who thinks that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II was some sort of great moral blight.
On the history of the United States.
That doesn't sound like President Trump.
It sounds like other people in the supposed MAGA movement, people who wish to grab control of that MAGA movement, pretend that they are the substitute leaders of that MAGA movement, that actually it's their movement, independent of President Trump.
But that doesn't sound very much like President Trump to me.
Well, obviously, one of those people is Tucker Carlson.
So, over the course of the last 48 hours, he has continued to up the ante.
So, last week, he put out, of course, a newsletter in which he suggested that the president had betrayed MAGA in America first, and President Trump responded by saying he made MAGA in America first, which, of course, is true.
And then yesterday, Tucker spun off while doing an interview with Steve Bannon, who seems to be taking a similar position, talking about how this could end Trump's presidency.
By what stretch of the imagination?
Seriously.
A full-scale invasion and occupation of Iran would end its presidency.
Fortunately, literally no one alive is talking about that, because that would be crazy.
But here is Tucker Carlson, again, going after the president on this.
I actually really love Trump.
I think he's a deeply humane, kind person.
And I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my country's going to be further weakened by this.
I think we're going to see the end of American empire, obviously.
Other nations would like to see that, and this is a perfect way.
To scuttle the USS America on the shoals of Iran.
But it's also going to end, I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it.
Okay, so it's going to effectively end Trump's presidency.
It's going to end American Empire.
I thought he doesn't like American Empire, first of all.
So what is he so worried about?
He doesn't like America's role in the world.
Also, you know, I'm going to take it with a grain of salt when he says that he loves the president of the United States, since in 2020, it was uncovered in that lawsuit in which Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit against Fox News.
That he was texting people saying that he quote-unquote passionately hated Donald Trump in 2020.
So I'm not sure whether he passionately loves Donald Trump or whether he passionately hates Donald Trump, whether he believes that Donald Trump has betrayed the MAGA movement or what he believes President Trump has betrayed about the MAGA movement.
Suffice it to say, President Trump was unhappy with this.
And President Trump labeled Tucker Carlson kooky yesterday.
He put out a statement on Truth Social.
In which he said, someone please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
So President Trump calls Tucker Carlson kooky Tucker, which again, I think is a very, very good descriptor of Tucker Carlson.
At this point, let's just say that he has pushed a bunch of theories that are specious in the extreme, unbased in evidence or reason.
And you can enjoy Tucker Carlson to your heart's content.
It is a free country.
Suffice it to say, I do not find that his takes are rooted in reality, rooted in rationality at this point.
And President Trump, of course, sounding off about this because Tucker is the leader of an entire new wing of MAGA.
It's not very large, but it is very loud, suggesting that the president is not in control of the movement that he created.
That, of course, includes Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She, of the less-than-average IQ, She put out a statement talking about how much he loves Tucker Carlson.
He's one of her favorite people.
That's fine.
That's fine.
He unapologetically believes the same things I do, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, that if we don't fight for our own country and our own people, then we will no longer have a country for our children and our grandchildren.
Okay, we thank you for that meaningless statement.
I think we all agree with that.
And foreign wars intervention, regime change, put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction.
Well, I mean, those aren't all the same thing.
Foreign wars intervention and regime change?
Like every intervention?
Like killing Soleimani?
That made America broke and led to our destruction?
That's not kooky.
That's what millions of Americans voted for.
It's what we believe is America.
Who gives a sh**?
What Marjorie Taylor Greene believes is America First compared to Donald J. Trump.
Again, I have my disagreements with President Trump.
You've heard me disagree with President Trump many times.
I don't claim I'm the leader of America First or MAGA.
That's an absurdity.
Her speaking in the name of the MAGA movement as opposed to President Trump?
It's ridiculous.
And the people who are siding with this?
Trying to wrest control of a movement they did not build and they are not responsible for from the President of the United States is insulting in the extreme.
All right, still a lot coming up on the show.
We'll get to the latest from the G7+.
The UK supposedly tackling racial data with regard to those grooming gangs?
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Dave Smith, another one of these.
He came out and suggested yesterday that Trump should be impeached, full-on impeached, for the crime of defenestrating one of the worst regimes on the planet without firing a shot.
That's the big mistake.
Now, I will say, Dave Smith, I will say he was consistent a while ago, then he was inconsistent, then he was consistent again.
So if you go back a couple of years, he was calling for Donald Trump to be impeached.
Then he voted for Donald Trump, apparently.
And then he's calling for Donald Trump to be impeached again.
So here he is back to being captain impeached.
But don't worry, he too is...
And if you disagree with that, then you are not America first.
You know, then you're just some guy like President Trump who's an anonymous rando.
I mean, what an impotent leader to be sitting there talking about coming back to the negotiating table.
It's like sitting after Pearl Harbor and telling FDR, now's the time to go negotiate with the Japanese.
Negotiations are over now.
The time for negotiations was before this.
And so, yeah, Donald Trump looks, and man, I supported him this last year.
I apologize for doing so.
It was a bad calculation.
At the time, it seemed like the right one.
But he should be impeached and removed for this one.
Okay, and then just to follow that up, Dave Smith went on Twitter, and then he called the President of the United States, quote, the most impotent of a leader imaginable.
He's allowing one side of a war who clearly wants to drag us into lie about our involvement while not correcting the record.
Trump has betrayed MAGA and every principle of America first.
He is no longer worthy of any of our support.
He probably never was, has Dave Smith.
So, just going to point out once again, these are the people who believe they should be in control of MAGA.
Do you agree with that?
77 million Americans voted for Donald Trump.
Some of us campaigned for Donald Trump.
Some of us gave money to Donald Trump.
I'm one of those people.
And you know what I voted for?
This.
And you know who represents that view?
The President of the United States.
Who, on the afternoon of June 17th, put out on Truth Social the following statement, all capital letters, unconditional surrender!
So, is that not America first?
Or it wasn't America first when America asked for the unconditional surrender of Japan.
It wasn't America first when America sought to end the Gulf War by pushing Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
It wasn't America first when President Trump hit Qasem Soleimani because these self-appointed MAGA priests get to decide not the President of the United States.
Well, Donald Trump had one more comment about Tucker Carlson who's asked specifically about Tucker's take.
He said, you know what?
Maybe you should get a TV network and then talk and then maybe people will listen.
I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying.
Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen.
Thank you.
Meanwhile, it is worthwhile noting who does agree with Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dave Smith and Candace Owens and all the other very loud voices who are claiming that President Trump has betrayed the movement and so on and so forth.
Those people would include Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who President Trump has won at the primary, It includes Bernie Sanders, who has also come out against the President of the United States.
The horseshoe theory is real and working.
Thomas Massey says, quote, this is not our war.
I'm introducing a bipartisan War Powers resolution tomorrow to prohibit our involvement.
So first of all, that is not how the War Powers Resolution...
I mean, you can provide the resolution, but then the president has 60 days within which to continue to conduct activities before he has to go back to Congress for the possibility of a permission or shutdown of funds.
So good luck with that, because this thing...
Alexander Ocasio-Cortez signed on as well.
Bernie Sanders very upset.
The boys over at Pod Save America are siding with Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I have a general rule.
If the people at Pod Save America are agreeing with you on a major foreign policy issue, the designers of the JCPOA, you are doing it wrong.
Here is Tommy Vieter, former van driver for Barack Obama.
The folks they're fighting against are like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I think on the merits- Our best friends.
I mean, on the merits and on the politics, like I'm team Tucker, Steve, MTG here, fellas.
So on the merits, I think they have correctly identified, and they did so before this week, that this wasn't really just about weapons of mass destruction.
This was a regime change war.
Which has been confirmed by all these reports that Trump is vetoing plans to kill the Iranian Supreme Leader.
So check for Tucker there.
And on the politics, I just think that Tucker and Bannon and MTG are way more in tune with the MAGA base than the gang at National Review.
And no one wants another war in the Middle East.
And no one is going to believe another intelligence-based, trust me, worthy experts pitch about why we need to go decapitate the leaders of another Middle East.
So, first of all, Israel has not asked the United States to decapitate the leadership of another country.
Second of all, Tommy Veeder is the biggest idiot in foreign policy.
That dude worked with Ben Rhodes on the JCPOA to set up an Iranian-dominant Middle East that ended with October 7th and wild expansion of terror groups all over the region.
That guy.
So if he's agreeing with you, you should be running for that.
Also, if someone speaks for MAGA, Tucker can't speak for MAGA.
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't speak for MAGA.
Tommy Vieter-Shrish doesn't speak for MAGA.
I mean, that's just ridiculous.
At least Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Greene can claim to have voted for the president.
Tommy Vieter hates that guy, and he's going to speak for what MAGA wants?
Good luck.
Again, I think only one person kind of speaks for what MAGA as a general rule wants.
And I may disagree with it, you may disagree with it, but only one guy speaks for that movement, and that is the president of the United States.
Which brings us to the subject of today's takedown.
So, Jon Stewart, who is still around.
One of the things that always strikes me about Jon Stewart and some of these other types is how old they are.
Jon Stewart made his bones as the cool young guy.
He is now 62 years old.
Jon Stewart is seven years younger than my dad.
And that dude is still kind of wheeling around now, hobbling around on his walker, talking to me about politics when he was...
I truly believe this.
I've talked about it publicly before.
Jon Stewart turned politics from, let's have a discussion, into, what if I play a clip out of context and then go, hmm, huh?
And half of our political conversation is now that.
Just making funny faces at pieces of clips.
So, I've got editors too.
And they can do stuff and edit.
Jon Stewart, if you asked him to simply fill in the names of the countries in the Middle East, you gave him a map and it just had borders and it didn't have names, and you asked him to fill in any of those countries, there is no chance in hell he knows what he's talking about.
None.
In any case, Jon Stewart, he says that what President Trump is doing is just, just terrible.
Here we go.
But what happened with Iran?
Weren't we about to make a nuclear deal?
Wasn't our dealmaker-in-chief making a deal to keep Iran from enriching uranium?
Actually, didn't we have a deal before our dealmaker-in-chief so wisely pulled us from that deal?
Why did this have to go bomby on Iran now?
And by next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment.
And move on to the final stage.
Iran is months away from having a nuclear bomb, says Netanyahu.
In 2012.
Pause it there.
He's a moron.
You know what happened after 2012?
Here's what happened after 2012.
The Stuxnet virus.
Israel somehow got the Iranian scientists to load into their own centrifuges a computer virus that effectively...
Israel also had a consistent way of blowing up Iranian nuclear scientists.
They would mysteriously die in Iran, like over and over and over again.
Israel was consistently performing below-the-radar operations in order to keep the Iranian nuclear program in check.
That was a thing that was happening consistently.
What changed?
What changed is that Iran started to break out this year.
That's what the intelligence was suggesting.
Not mine.
The IAEA.
Not Netanyahu's.
The IAEA.
Jon Stewart's beloved International Atomic Energy Agency.
They said that Iran was breaking out and racing.
You want to know why the G7?
The G7 hates Israel.
You think that the G7 is fond of Israel?
The G7 is like, you know what?
Netanyahu's not wrong.
They're developing a bomb.
But according to Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart knows better because after all, By the way, did Iran happen to get that bomb from a company called Acme?
So now we're just bringing back jokes from 2012.
Nobody made that joke ever.
Will it be delivered to Israel on rocket-powered skates?
Will it go off in a tumultuous...
Seriously!
Why did we have to bomb Iran now?
Iran is so dangerous.
Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
Holy s***, that's why.
Iran's only weeks away from having an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs, says Netanyahu.
In 2015!
Well, yes, again, consistent efforts by the Israelis kept Iran from going nuclear.
And then Iran decided they were going to break out of that over the course of the last couple of years in particular.
They decided that now was the moment.
There's contemporaneous reporting on this from the New York Times, from the Wall Street Journal.
But apparently timelines don't exist and events don't exist in the world of Jon Stewart.
All right, well, he continues along these lines.
He then starts attacking President Trump.
Of course, a hot war between Israel and Iran could threaten the United States.
It's best we stay out of it.
Secretary of State Michael Rubio saying Israel took unilateral action against Iran and that the U.S. is not involved in strikes.
We're not involved.
That's good.
The U.S. says it was informed beforehand.
We were informed.
Let us know.
Still not being involved, really.
President Trump acknowledged yesterday that he was aware of the Israeli operation, and he gave it a green light.
They don't know what they're talking about.
We were told, we approved, it's still Israel's game.
Israel used American equipment during its initial strikes against Iran.
What the f*** are we doing?
Hold up a second.
So first of all, What do you think Israel is forced to buy under terms of contract with the United States?
The United States gives $3 billion in aid a year to Israel.
Israel doesn't just spend that $3 billion in military aid in the United States by contract.
They have to.
They then spend another tens of billions of dollars in their own military budget on U.S.-made military equipment.
Who else manufactures F-35s?
Quick show of hands.
Anybody?
No one.
The only party on planet Earth that manufactures F-35s.
In the form that they currently are is the United States.
So yes, you know who else has military equipment from the United States?
Turkey.
Saudi Arabia.
Half the countries on earth have some military equipment.
Ukraine.
There are plenty of countries that have...
Seriously.
The fact that people take commentary from people like Jon Stewart, professional comedian, as though they are some sort of holy writ.
This man was such a big part of making our politics so much dumber.
So much dumber.
But don't worry, our politics can always get even dumber than that.
One of the things that is talked about very frequently these days is how dare the United States get involved in the politics of Iran.
You know, the last time the United States got involved in the politics of Iran is when we toppled the leader Mossadegh.
When we toppled this wonderful, politically, democratically elected leader Mossadegh back in 1953.
There's only one problem with that.
That's not actually what happened.
Mohamed Mossadegh was never elected.
That is not the way the system even worked in 1953.
There's this whole alternative history of Iran that has now been written based on a bunch of sort of self-congratulatory books by figures who were tangentially involved.
But Peter Thoreau has a great piece of tablet from March 2023 talking about what actually happened in Iran.
And the answer to what happened in Iran is that Mohamed Mossadegh was the appointed prime minister, appointed by, wait for it, wait for it, the Shah, and then approved by the parliament.
And then parliament wanted to get rid of him.
And the Shah finally decided to get rid of him.
And in a democratic procedure, they decided to get rid of him and he resisted.
And then there was a quote-unquote coup.
That's what actually happened.
Yes, the United States and Great Britain wanted that to happen because Mossadegh had also attempted to nationalize all of the oil fields and all of the oil drilling in Iran.
But this bizarre idea that we must never, ever, ever be involved in Iran in any way.
Forget about deposing Ayatollah Khomeini.
We shouldn't bomb Fordo.
We shouldn't give Israel weaponry.
Because of what happened in 1953 in Iran, I can give you an example of what happens when the United States does not get involved in Iran.
That would be the 1979 Iranian Revolution, where the Ayatollahs took over from the Shah.
Have things been better or worse since then in Iran?
Everybody continues to operate under a series of bad historical analogies.
Every war is Iraq.
Every intervention is the deposition of a democratically elected foreign leader, even if that's not even what happened in the first place.
I will note, by the way, that the Shah was a significantly better ally to us than Mossadegh would have been.
He would have allied with the Communist Soviet Union at the time.
But, again, bad history is the ally of people who don't like reality.
Okay, meanwhile, the G7 is continuing apace.
The President of the United States stopped by, and then he left.
So he was there to negotiate some trade agreements.
He talked to Keir Starmer, the ridiculous leftist leader of the UK, and he said, you know what, I like Keir, so we'll figure something out.
Mr. President, can you guarantee the UK will be protected from any future tariffs?
What?
Can you guarantee the UK will be protected from any future tariffs?
The UK is very well protected.
Do you know why?
Because I like them.
That's why.
That's their ultimate protection.
Thank you very much.
The Prime Minister's done a great job.
I want to just tell that to the people of the United Kingdom.
He's done a very, very good job.
He's done what other people...
Six years.
And he's done what they haven't been able to do.
So he's done really a very good job.
So, you know, again, President Trump operates very much off the basis of personal relationships.
And so you'd assume that something will get done with the tariffs with the UK.
Perhaps the funniest moment of the sort of abbreviated G7, again, President Trump left because of what's going on in the Middle East, was George Maloney, who is the Prime Minister of Italy, who obviously just cannot stand Emmanuel Macron, just cannot stand him.
You can see in this video, she is like falling over.
She cannot deal with Emmanuel Macron.
She's supposed to be talking with him, and she's like, oh my god, oh, I just can't, I can't.
Yeah, you and me both, sister.
Turns out a lot of us are not big fans of Emmanuel Macron.
Now, back to the UK for a moment.
Scandal has now broken out across the UK after the Secretary of State for the Home Department of the UK.
Acknowledged the gigantic scandal of a cover-up of the grooming gangs case in the UK.
She condemned, according to the Guardian, damning failures by the authorities to protect children from grooming gangs.
She announced there will now be a formal requirement on police for the first time to collect ethnicity and nationality data for all cases of child exploitation.
For those who don't remember this case, this is a case in which literally hundreds, if not thousands, of young white girls were trafficked by British Pakistani men, meaning they were groomed into sexual assault.
They would create grooming gangs.
They would drive the girls around to various locations.
And the authorities knew about it and they virtually did nothing.
They really ignored an enormous amount of it.
Well now, finally, years later, they're acknowledging this is a problem.
There's a report by a person named Louise Casey assessing what was known about the grooming gangs.
And Casey said the failure of the authorities until now to collect good data on the ethnicities of the offender did a disservice to the British-Pakistani community and could leave them at risk.
So I love this.
So it was disproportionately British-Pakistani men who were engaged in the grooming gangs.
And the person who did the study says that it's a disservice to British-Pakistani men, not together, ethnicity data on all of this.
She says, you get the far right using that type of situation.
Yes, clearly, the far right is the big problem here.
They're all just doing now the Norm MacDonald joke.
Imagine if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in the middle of a city.
Imagine the Islamophobia that might arise.
That would be the true tragedy.
That's what they're doing now.
There's a grooming gang scandal featuring Muslim men preying on white women.
Not white women, white girls.
And the government's like, you know, the real victims in all this could be other Muslim men.
Asked if she was worried that recording the data could lead to civil unrest.
The crossbench peer responded, let's put it the other way.
If for a minute you had another report that ducked the issue, what do you think is going to happen?
Do you think they're not going to use that as well?
So, Mr. Speaker, I warned in January that the data collection we had inherited from the previous government on ethnicity was completely inadequate.
It was only collected on 37% of suspects.
Baroness Casey's audit confirms that ethnicity data is not recorded for two-thirds of grooming gang perpetrators, and she says it is not good enough to support any statements about the ethnicity of group-based child sexual exploitation offenders at the national level.
I agree with that conclusion.
And frankly, it is ridiculous and helps no one that this basic information is not collected, especially when there have been warnings and recommendations stretching back 13 years about the woefully inadequate data on perpetrators which prevents patterns of crime being understood and tackled.
Ignoring the issues, not examining and exposing them to the light allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.
The vast majority of people in our British, Asian and Pakistani heritage communities continue to be appalled by these terrible crimes and agree that the criminal minority of sick predators and perpetrators in every community must be dealt with robustly by the criminal law.
OK, so.
Maggie Oliver was the constable in the Greater Manchester Police, who was a whistleblower when the government was simply ignoring the Rochdale child's ring.
And here she was, slamming Yvette Cooper, saying, like, what the hell?
Why is this about somehow defending against Islamophobia as opposed to, you know, defending the actual victims?
So to hear Yvette Cooper speaking today as though this is all a complete surprise for her is complete and utter nonsense.
They have been pushed into a corner, and I don't care if it's Conservative or Labour.
They are equally negligent, in my opinion.
As our chief constables, as our senior social workers, all those who turned away should be in prison.
They should not be allowed to just say it's an apology as though they care.
They don't care.
Of course, the reason that this was neglected for so long is because so much of the British population is now imported radical Muslims.
I mean, that just is a reality.
It's a reality in France as well.
It continues to shape the politics, not only of those countries, but the globe, because that has an impact on global policy.
Meanwhile, President Trump continues to say, we are not going to do that here in the United States.
He issued a statement with regard to ICE and immigration enforcement.
This happened yesterday.
Quote, our nation's ice officers have shown incredible strength, determination and courage as they facilitate a very important mission.
The largest mass deportation operation of illegal aliens in history.
And then he points out, The problem in major American cities, largely blue.
And he says, I want our brave ICE officials to know that real Americans are cheering you on every day.
The American people want our city, schools, and communities to be safe and free from illegal, alien, crime, conflict, and chaos.
That's why I've directed my entire administration to put every resource possible behind this effort and reverse the tide of mass destruction migration that has turned once idyllic towns into scenes of third world dystopia.
Our federal government will continue to be focused on the re-migration of aliens to the places from where they came, preventing the admission of anyone who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.
Tom Homan, the border czar, reiterated this.
He said, listen, we are focusing first and foremost on criminals.
Look, like everything else, President's prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats.
When it comes to worksites, we prioritize those operations, too.
Many places we do, where we target the worksite enforcement operations, it has to do with forced labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and criminal investigations where they're funding, they're not paying taxes, there's tax evasion, or they're funding cartel activity.
So we prioritize worksite investigation, too.
Again, this is the right approach.
This is the right approach.
So, the administration isn't going to give a green light to everyone who's illegally immigrated to the country, but obviously, you are going to have to tranche your priorities.
Not every illegal immigrant is an equivalent priority.
You're going to have to focus in on the people who are the grave or criminal threats, for example.
That is just perfectly obvious.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, continues to pretend nothing is wrong while she literally scrubs graffiti off the streets.
Here's what that looked like.
I spoke about the president's decision to quote-unquote send in the troops to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass in a 101 interview on Thursday.
She was hearing this little PR effort basically trying to clean some of the graffiti off the walls.
Well, I mean, good job, California.
Good job, Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Chicago, which does have the worst mayor in the country, Mayor Brandon Johnson, he says, no matter what, we will continue to resist.
I assume that's the point of actually going to jail, which would be somewhat delicious.
But no, he's not going to do that.
Yeah, let me just first acknowledge the level of anxiety and fear and trepidation that this administration has caused.
You've never seen a society improve or expand under this type of fear.
And we're going to continue to resist and we're going to do it in many different ways, whether it's taken to the streets or to the courts or policy.
One of the things that I am very proud of is that we are a welcoming city, which means our local law enforcement do not dub or behave as federal ICE agents.
So, again, this is what Democrats are.
This is what they have become.
Now, again, it is amazing how the Democratic Party is falling apart.
I think maybe the most hilarious story of the last 48 hours is that two major union leaders just quit the DNC.
The DNC is so completely dysfunctional and unworkable that Randy Weingarten, who's head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Sounders, the president of a large union of public workers, each quit the DNC.
They both announced...
In their resignation messages, they suggested that under Martin's leadership, the DNC was failing to expand its coalition.
They originally had supported Martin's rival in the chairmanship race, a guy named Ben Wickler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
But the basic idea here is that the party is too fragmented, it's too fractured, and they can't find a way forward.
Well, yeah, because it turns out that just yelling at President Trump ain't gonna do it.
That's not gonna stop them, though.
Jimmy Kimmel?
Last night, he was out there mocking the military parade.
Because if there's one thing Americans love, it's when you mock the American military.
Ahead of the parade, there was rain in the forecast, but nothing was going to ruin Donald's big day.
He wrote, rainy day parade, spelled with an E, brings good luck.
Which is what they tell the bride to get her to stop crying.
Turnout was much lower than expected, or as Trump would say, there were record-setting crowds.
The bleachers, you can see, were mostly empty.
The crowds were sparse.
There was not a whole lot of cheering for the tanks and military vehicles.
This tank was very squeaky.
This tank, this one could have used some of Diddy's baby oil to get it going on.
Squeaky tanks.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert was mocking the President of the United States as well.
Well, you know, if this is the best they can do, they are in for a continued losing streak here.
I gotta tell you, I am in a great mood tonight because this weekend was Father's Day and Daddy got just what he wanted.
No one came to Trump's big stupid birthday parade.
Though, of course, the White House claims that 250,000 people attended.
So now, apparently, a quarter of a million people looks like this.
They must be really good at hide-and-seek.
It was...
Okay.
So, you know what?
Sure.
That make you feel better about yourself, guys?
You're still not winning.
Alrighty.
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