Ben Shapiro critiques NYC Mayor Zorhan Mamdani for allegedly ignoring ISIS-inspired attackers while condemning anti-Islamist protesters, citing the mayor's wife's support for extremist content. He declares a decisive U.S. victory in Iran, noting the destruction of Kharg Island and the regime's surrender to neighbors after atrocities like the 1983 Beirut bombings. Shapiro argues this triumph dismantles the "grievance party" narrative shared by the left and horseshoe right, ending conspiratorial thinking about events from 9/11 to October 7th, while promoting a Young America's Foundation rally at Mount Vernon. [Automatically generated summary]
There was a violent Islamic attack in New York City using two IEDs.
Zorhan Mamdani's immediate response perfectly captures how screwed New York is right now.
That's just the tip of the iceberg for Mamdani and the Democratic Party.
Speaking of people who really despise America, Iran also has a new supreme leader who is impotent, like actually medically impotent.
You can almost hear those 72 virgins breathing a sigh of relief.
We'll give you everything you need to know from the streets of New York to the younger Khomeini cowering in his bunker, and we'll tell you how all of it affects you.
This is the Ben Shapiro show.
We keep hearing that Americans should stop focusing so much on the Middle East and focus a lot more on what's going on here at home.
I totally 100% agree because it turns out lots of terrorists are here and they have the tacit and not so tacit support of the mayor of New York City and also his wife.
So over the weekend, an anti-Islamist protest took place outside Gracie Mansion.
It was titled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.
It was run by a white supremacist named Jake Lang.
About 20 people showed up.
That was 20 too many for one 18-year-old man, one Emir Balat, who threw an ignited device toward the protest area.
He was shouting at the time, wait, wait, wait for it.
You're never going to guess what he was shouting.
It's impossible to think.
He was shouting, wait.
Yes, he shouted, Allahu Akbar.
I know.
I know it was shocking.
Here's the footage.
There he comes from behind, throwing an incendiary device and then taking off down the street.
Balat then apparently ran toward a second 19-year-old man named Ibrahim Nick.
And he grabbed a second device.
He lit that and then he started running.
Eventually, he dropped it.
Both men were arrested.
Here is this person trying to light a second IED.
What are the cops doing?
I love that he's standing there lighting it and they're like, and then finally they chase him down.
Well, here's the thing: these were not smoke bombs.
According to original reporting, they were smoke bombs.
These are not smoke bombs.
They were IEDs.
According to the New York Post, those IEDs were homemade.
They were packed with nuts, bolts, and screws, and also a household concoction nicknamed by international terrorist groups, the mother of Satan.
Law enforcement sources told the post the IEDs were so volatile, they wouldn't even have needed a fuse to go off.
Well, to no one's surprise, I know no one's surprised.
Balat traveled to wait for it, Istanbul, like over in Turkey, for more than three months last year.
Nick had traveled to Istanbul in 2024.
It turns out there are a lot of people in Turkey who are really, really Islamist.
The pair admitted to the cops upon arrest they had watched ISIS videos and were inspired by ISIS.
Now, this should be the biggest story in the country.
Yet another attempted terror attack by a radical Islamist shouting Allahu Akbar.
I say another because in the past 10 years or so, there have been a wide variety of such attacks.
The Austin nightclub shooting just last week, where the terrorists wore a sweatshirt reading, property of Allah.
The New Orleans terror ramming of January 1st, 2025, killing 14, where the suspect had an ISIS flag in his truck.
The New York City truck attack of October 31st, 2017, in which a terrorist ran down eight people.
The same cloud mall stabbing in September 2016, in which 10 people were stabbed by a terrorist shouting Allahu Akbar.
The Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting of 2016, which was to that point the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
I was shouting Allahu Akbar.
The University of California Mercedes stabbing of 2015.
And of course, this wasn't even the only suspected terror bombing in the West over the weekend.
In Norway, the U.S. Embassy was bombed early Sunday morning local time.
No one was injured or killed, thank God.
And as Iran flails around in its death throes, we can expect more of the same.
So that's not even the biggest story here.
The biggest story was the reaction in New York, which was actually the mayor's office released a statement condemning the anti-Islamist protesters.
Not a word about the attempted bombers as of last night.
Mayor Zorhan Mamdani's press secretary said, quote, the crusade against Islamification gathering held outside Gracie Mansion today by Jake Lang, a vile white supremacist, was despicable and Islamophobic.
Thankfully, the mayor and the first lady are both safe, though the events are a stark reminder of the threats they both face regularly.
The mayor put out another statement: Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion, rooted in bigotry and racism.
Such hate has no place in New York City.
It is an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are.
What followed was even more disturbing.
Violence at a protest is never acceptable.
The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.
Did you notice something in those statements?
Jake Lang was condemned in the fullest possible terms.
So were the protesters.
But you may have noticed that you have no idea from those statements who were the people who were throwing the IED.
What did they actually believe?
Were they wrong?
Not a word of condemnation.
Not a single word.
In fact, if you read the mayor's statement and you had no context, you would come away thinking that Lang and his group threw the IED, which is disgusting and crazy and vile, because it turns out that if ISIS devotees throw a bomb at the Stop the Islamic Takeover rally, the people who ought to be called out are, you know, the ISIS devotees.
They're the ones who threw a bomb.
So you have one group that's saying stuff you don't like, and you have another group of people, a couple guys, they're lone wolves associated with ISIS, who literally built IEDs to throw at a crowd.
And Zorhan Mamdani's response is, man, that rally was super bad.
And the violence that happened afterward, I mean, that was bad.
What are you even talking about?
Well, I mean, we know what's happening here.
This is not a shock.
Zorhan Mamdani, the mayor of New York, is a lifelong supporter of terrorists going all the way back to his days as a failed rapper.
And as it turns out, so is the first lady of New York.
She repeatedly liked social media posts celebrating October 7th as it unfolded.
Those likes included an Instagram post from some account called The Slow Factor, which read, quote, As all eyes around the world focus on Palestine, keep in mind that these walls were built to separate along ethnic lines, the very definition of apartheid.
This was posted on October 7th while the attacks were taking place, and it was referring to the border wall between Gaza, which had been breached by Hamas.
The breach of that wall resulted in the death of 1,200 people.
According to the post, which was again liked by the First Lady of New York City, Gazans would only be punished after their murder and rape spree for, quote, wanting freedom from apartheid.
Actually, the first lady liked a bevy of materials from the People's Forum, that is a foreign-funded network of nonprofits that do propaganda work essentially for China, Russia, and Iran.
She liked one post calling New York Times reporting on the Israeli women by Hamas, quote, a mass hoax.
So here was Zor Mamdani's response to the reports that his wife liked a bunch of posts that were sympathetic to terrorists.
You know, my wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.
I, however, was elected to represent all eight and a half million people in the city, and I believe that it's my responsibility because of that role to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my decisions.
Why was your statement about ISIS affiliates throwing bombs at a rally?
Why didn't your statement mention ISIS, radical Islam, terrorism, or anything else?
Are we supposed to believe that the husband of the woman who was kind of sympathetic to October 7th disagrees with any of her sentiments?
And if so, precisely why?
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Now, the problem here isn't just a fringe issue.
It is now a mainstream issue for the Democratic Party, which has decided that poo-pooing radical Islam is dirigur in order to condemn both America and Israel.
It happens every single time a Democratic figure is asked to say the same thing that Senator John Fetterman will say, that, for example, the world is better without Ayatollah Khomeini in it.
Instead, from Democrats who get hemming and hawing about how the Ayatollah was really bad, it's kind of mean, but somehow killing him is significantly worse.
None of that is necessary.
It's just another instance of ideological capture by a fringe of the Democratic Party base.
There's a brand new Manhattan Institute study examining what most Democrats actually think on the issue.
So, for example, Democrats were asked whether they believed Israel is a colonial apartheid state that must be dismantled, that Israel, not the Palestinians, bears responsibility for any and all violence that has followed its establishment.
That would be the position of Zorhan Mamdani's wife and of Mamdani himself, likely.
But that view is only held by 13% of Democrats overall, not 13% of Americans, 13% of Democrats.
In fact, more Democrats believe Israel is a legitimate country facing serious security threats and that while its actions are not perfect, it is largely acting in self-defense than believe what Zorhan Mamdani believes.
A plurality of Democrats believe Israel has a right to exist, but they don't like how the Israeli government treats Palestinians.
Or take immigration.
Only 11% of Democrats believe we shouldn't be focused on deporting illegal immigrants at all.
Only 23% believe the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States legally ought to increase.
So that's a fringe position.
How about transgenderism?
46% of Democrats, a plurality, believe that people ought to compete in sports against others who share their gender at birth, meaning like boys should compete against boys and girls should compete against girls.
Only 34% of Democrats believe the opposite.
Only 21% of Democrats believe that minors ought to be allowed to receive transgender medical interventions.
You hear that stat?
That's an insane stat.
Because if you listen to Democrats, trans kids must be, they must be given medical and only two in 10 Democrats believe that's the case.
64% of Democrats believe the founding of the United States has been mostly a force for good in the world.
Only 18% of Democrats believe the criminal justice system is too tough on offenders.
55% believe police are essential.
So you might notice, even Democrats, most Democrats take largely mainstream normie positions.
So what's happening with Democratic politicians?
If most Democrats aren't totally nuts, then why are so many major politicians who are Democrats moving in the direction of the crazies?
The answer is that beneath the veneer of rational moderation, politicians are sensing something.
And it's a real thing, a grievance-based view of the world that can be exploited for votes.
The most important statistic from that Manhattan Institute poll concerns conspiratorial thinking.
Conspiratorial thinking, as we've talked about a lot on the show, is a hallmark of grievance culture.
When you believe the system is screwing you over, you tend to also believe that the system is lying to you about everything.
Now, again, there is a difference between conspiracies and conspiracy thinking.
Conspiracies actually exist in the real world.
There's evidence for these conspiracies.
You can uncover that evidence.
You can explicate what is happening.
Conspiratorial thinking suggests that in the absence of any evidence, there must be some evil cadre of people manipulating the system and lying to you.
And this has become incredibly prevalent among Democrats.
Fully 46% of Democrats say the assassination attempt against President Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him.
64% of Democrats believe Vladimir Putin has blackmailed Trump.
24% of Democrats aged 18 to 29 say the Holocaust did not happen as historians describe.
28% think the moon landing was fake.
37% are 9-11 truthers, 38% say October 7th was an inside job.
That's young Democrats.
52% of all Democrats believe the U.S. has a long history of racism and is still a very racist country today, which is a grievance politics.
So why does that matter?
Because politicians now fear saying true things for fear of upholding that supposedly conspiratorial system.
Conspiratorial thinking is, in its essence, anti-establishment in the fullest sense.
If you believe the moon landing wasn't real, you believe that every single person in your life, from your parents to your teachers, to television to books to the government, has been lying to you.
If you believe that Vladimir Putin blackmailed Donald Trump, you believe that our system is so moth-eaten with corruption and evil that no one can put it right.
The system has to be torn to shreds.
When that feeling runs strong in voters, politicians fear to speak the truth.
Because if you speak the truth, like for example, the moon landing happened and the Holocaust did happen and Donald Trump was in fact shot in the ear by somebody who is not a fan of Donald Trump.
If you say that sort of stuff, it is now perceived as an establishmentarian act.
If you say that men are not women as a Democrat, you're saying that the system actually has been telling you the truth your whole life, and that tends to uphold the system.
If you say that the border ought to be controlled, you're saying the system deserves to be upheld, and that upholds the system.
If you say Israel isn't an apartheid state and that America is right to strike Iran, you're saying that the West is fundamentally better than Iran, and that burnishes the system.
Democratic politicians suspect they will receive no credit for upholding the system, not in today's day and age.
Upholding and correcting the systems that make our country great, our constitution, our rights, our meritocratic values, or defending America's history and virtues, all of that is establishmentarian.
And upholding the establishment is boring and also at its core, kind of demanding.
Because we're conspiratorial thinkers, inherently preach this culture of grievance, which is a culture placing responsibility for failure upon evil systems.
Defending America requires telling Americans the hard stuff that most of their choices are in their own hands and they need to take responsibility for their own lives.
And that's the thing Democratic politicians will not do.
To be fair, more and more Republicans won't do so either.
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Sadly, younger Republicans have become similarly prone to conspiratorial thinking.
According to Manhattan Institute, 54% of young Republicans, men under 50, believe the Holocaust didn't happen as historians describe.
53% of Republicans under 50 believe in 9-11 conspiracy theories.
51% believe the moon landing was faked.
These people too have bought into a grievance-based distrust of the system.
And it's showing in their embrace of psychotic figures and disconnected politics.
You want to know why the left and the horseshoe right have been holding hands?
The answer is they share at root the same common worldview.
The only difference is the people they believe are the victims of the system.
The left says that the victims of the system are marginalized groups, blacks, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ plus.
And the horseshoe right believes that the marginalized people are white Christian males and they're the victims of the system.
Okay, the reality is that there is always a grain of truth to every complaint, that obviously America's history is replete with discrimination against minority groups.
And also, it is true that in the past couple of decades, policy has been reversed to discriminate against white Christian males, for example.
But instead of trying to horse correct or recognizing that even today, most of your decisions are in your own hands, politicians in the grievance party, which is what we should call them, politicians in the grievance party instead tell you that all of your problems must be laid at the foot of the system and you are not responsible for literally anything in your life.
And this is a major problem.
The horseshoe right and the left, they believe at root the same basic type of politics.
So we should probably stop distinguishing between them and just call them what they are, the grievance party.
So how should non-conspiratorial Americans fight all of this?
How should we promote things like rationality and meritocracy and American strength?
The answer is by winning.
The answer is victory and there's no substitute for it.
And this is where the war in Iran comes in.
So good-hearted liberals seem puzzled that so many Democrats, people who supposedly believe in human rights and stand against theocracy, are against President Trump's intervention.
Bill Maher is a good-hearted liberal, and here he was on his show on Friday night, being absolutely puzzled why Democrats are suddenly against overthrowing the Ayatollah.
I just want to reiterate what I said in the monologue.
I'm cautiously optimistic unless he puts boots on the ground, then he's going to lose me.
We'll see for now.
I just don't get what liberals don't get about liberation.
I see so much happiness.
I see it in Venezuela.
I see it here in Iran.
Could we skip the part where we talk about, oh, they had so many different reasons for going to war, regime change, and we got to get rid of the nukes and they were supporters of terrorism.
It's all of it.
How about this?
This was a fascist theocracy and nothing in the Middle East was ever going to get better while they were still there f ⁇ ing everything up.
And it's not like Democrats in elected office have good answers.
So Maher had on Senator Adam Schiff, who, again, it's insane that Adam Schiff is a senator, given the extraordinary lies he told during the first Trump administration about Russia Gate and the fact that he basically set a pup tent up in the CNN offices so he could be on TV every five seconds.
In any case, Maher had on Adam Schiff, and he basically shellacked him over this.
The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without authorization.
I and many others pushed back on that argument.
Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.
But I respect the fact that that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward.
Well, you might have noticed that Bill Maher didn't mention Syria there.
He mentioned Libya, where Barack Obama was very much involved.
So again, Democrats have no principles on these issues.
In fact, President Trump is frustrating the living hell out of many members of the Grievance Party by standing up for some basic American principles.
America is a force for good in the world.
Radical Islamists are evil.
American allies who demonstrate strength are an asset for us.
Terrorists are bad.
Members of the Grievance Party are losing their mind over this.
And now they've been relegated to basically rooting for Iran to win.
So members of the Grievance Party, meaning Democrats and members of that horseshoe right, have decided that after paying lip service to the horrors of the mullahs, the true horror is American interventionism and destruction.
America must be undermined.
Mehdi Hassan, a man who is essentially a propagandist on behalf of Iran and has been for a very long time, says that the United States military is worse than the Nazis.
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It's a moral abomination.
Yeah, and yes, it's tactically stupid.
They bombed a submarine and just let the sailors drown to death.
Even the Nazis didn't do that during World War II, apparently.
I mean, this moral exemplar, Mehdi Hassan, also spent the weekend questioning just how bad Hamas was on October 7th, to which the White House responded, calling him, quote, a depraved terrorist-sympathizing moron.
Well, points for accuracy.
And of course, horseshoe theory is undefeated.
Tucker Carlson sounds pretty much exactly like Mehdi Hassan these days.
They hold hands.
Maybe they spoon at night.
Here was Tucker Carlson explaining that he hopes that America does not get unconditional surrender from Iran and accuses the United States military of apparently wanting, and President Trump of wanting to actually go into Iran and rape everyone.
Okay, this is, remember, this is Tucker Carlson, supposed conservative.
Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want.
And everyone knows that.
And that has been, if there's one consistent lesson of history, it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter.
Everyone can feel that.
That's like the most atavistic instinct there is.
And so to avoid that, people will do anything.
And so that's why it requires that level of force to get a population subdued to the point of unconditional surrender.
That's why.
And so in this case, of course, we don't have the ground force necessary.
I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it.
So he thinks that when President Trump calls for Iran's unconditional surrender, what he's calling for is the mass rape of Iranian women by American troops.
And also we're going to nuke Iran.
I would ask if Tucker Carlson was dropped on his head as a baby, but we have a long record of him not being like this.
So the question now is whether he was dropped on his head as an adult.
I highly recommend before anyone uses as much alp as Tucker is using, that they take a look at the outcome of that kind of alp use, because you end up saying this kind of crazy horse.
Holy moly, holy moly.
I would call this stupid, but it is so beyond stupid that we lack for verbiage to describe this type of nincompoopery, this type of imbecility.
It's insane, which, by the way, should be the name of Tucker's autobiography at this point, total insanity.
That Mehdi Hassan-Tucker Carlson crossover episode, which I am sure is shortly to drop, will be lit.
And then we'll be told by the usual suspects that Tucker is still, don't worry.
He's a mainstream part of the conservative movement.
Well, he says that Trump wants American soldiers to Iranian women and wants to nuke Iran.
Well, the grievance right is very real.
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Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, podcast host, confused wearer of multiple shirts simultaneously, and Jeffrey Epstein's PR flak, yes, he was, is also upset about the possibility of American victory.
This sack of modeled alcoholism clad in multiple shirts and three pens.
My goodness.
Well, Tucker and Bannon and the Grievance Party would love nothing better than America losing here because if America loses, they can claim the systems were skewed against them by the Jews or the military industrial complex or the Israelis or whatever.
They are always the continuing victims of a nefarious system as they rake in millions and millions of dollars off of their audience who they are informing are the victims.
These folks have some administration allies, apparently.
A leaked intelligence report printed in the Washington Post over the weekend and springing from the National Intelligence Council, basically Tulsi Gabbard's office, said the United States would, quote, be unlikely to oust the Islamic Republic's entrenched military and clerical establishment.
The report completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on February 28th, outlined succession scenarios stemming from either a narrowly tailored campaign against Iran's leaders or a broader assault against its leadership and government institutions, the people familiar with its findings said.
In both cases, the intelligence concluded that Iran's clerical and military establishment would respond to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini'i by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power.
Well, I mean, first of all, duh.
You mean that when you attack a regime, that they are likely to follow protocols to preserve their own power?
Woo!
Mind blown.
But of course, the real story is not that report because we don't have all the reports.
We don't know what all the reports said.
We have just that report.
The real surprise, of course, is not even the leaking to mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post, seeking to undermine the president.
That has been a constant feature, a constant feature of this administration.
Isolationists, as part of the administration, seeking to undermine the foreign policy of the administration by leaking to legacy media outlets.
And that is a thing that has been happening over and over and over again.
But America happens not to be losing.
We happen to be winning right now.
Over the weekend, the Iranians secretly selected a new leader.
Why were they so secret about it?
Like they held it for like the whole weekend.
Well, they were really, really worried that the minute they said his name out loud, an Israeli F-16 would appear in the skies above them and just kill the guy.
Who is it?
Well, it's Iranian Nepo baby Majdaba Khomeini, mostly known for his impotence.
Not like his ideological impotence, his actual impotence, like his penis does not work properly.
According to the New York Post, quote, the son of Iran's slain supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was reportedly the favorite to succeed his despotic father in power, was treated for impotency so severe he had to be hospitalized numerous times.
Diplomatic leaks show.
First of all, I'm not sure how he got hospitalized for impotency.
That's that's interesting.
Take some might say his missile launchers are misfiring.
Failure to launch is occurring repeatedly.
Well, apparently, Nepo Baby Mojtaba's big credential is that he is close with the IRGC.
The regime, it should be noted, declared hereditary transfer to be un-Islamic back in 1979.
But no, biggie, you go with the army you got, and that apparently includes the impotent wounded son of Ali Khomeini-e.
He was already wounded and like the original strike.
President Trump has already announced that Khomeini's son is unacceptable as the leader, which should not be a surprise.
In fact, the least surprising thing here will be when Israel kills him, at which point he will be replaced by a cousin or a nephew, and then Israel will likely kill that person as well.
Things are getting discombobulated for the Mullahs.
Over the weekend, the Iranian president Mahmoud Hazheshkian actually apologized hilariously to countries Iran is currently bombing, pledging to stop.
But he didn't mean it.
The Iranian foreign minister actually had to back off of that this weekend.
You got to love the picture in the background of Ali Khomeini-e with the black band around it, because, of course, he is now resting in pieces.
Here is the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araki, dancing around the apology, Mr. Foreign Minister.
Well, first of all, apology in our culture is a sign of dignity and strength.
Secondly, he apologized from the peoples of the region for the inconveniences they have faced because of this aggression by the United States and retaliation by us.
So, as a matter of fact, it is, in fact, the president of the United States who should apologize from the people of the region and Iranian people for the killings and destructions they have done against us.
So, remember, they apologized, and then they went on TV and said, Really, the United States owes us an apology.
We are only apologizing for the apology that we never apologized, that we apologized, and also we're bombing a bunch of countries that weren't involved in the war directly in the first place.
Awkward.
So, how is the war going?
Well, swimmingly, I mean, not for the Iranian Navy, which is basically at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz at this point.
As the Secretary of War, Pete Hexov says, this is not a fair fight, and it should not be.
But we can be clear with the American people that this is not a fair fight, and that's on purpose.
Our capabilities are overwhelming compared to what Iran's are.
And frankly, when you combine our Air Force with the Air Force of the Israeli Defense Forces, it's the two most powerful air forces in the world.
The ability for us to be up over the top and hunting with more conventional munitions, gravity bombs, 500-pound, 1,000-pound, 2,000-pound bombs on military targets.
We haven't even really begun to start that effort of the campaign, which is going to showcase even more how we will execute on those objectives.
The United States is destroying, along with our Israeli allies, Iranian facilities, including oil facilities and IRGC and police stations.
Here's some before-after satellite images of damaged Iranian naval and aircraft facilities.
Okay, this would be the before.
So you can see there is the aircraft facilities.
There is the after.
You can see that things are not going amazing for the Iranians.
We're blowing up all of their vintage airplanes.
They have these airplanes left over from 1965, and they're all being blown up on the ground.
It's really sad.
Meanwhile, the Tehran oil depot was set on fire as well.
the images were pretty spectacular.
President Trump put up a post on truth saying, quote, we just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. defense manufacturing companies where we discussed production and production schedules.
They have agreed to quadruple production of the exquisite class weaponry in that we want to reach as rapidly as possible the highest levels of quantity.
Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and plants and production of many of these weapons are already underway.
We have a virtually unlimited supply of medium and upper medium grade munitions, which we are using as an example in Iran and recently used in Venezuela.
Regardless, however, we have also increased orders at these levels.
The companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3 Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, North Rup Grumman, and Raytheon.
The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months.
States all over the country are bidding for these new plants.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.
And Iran has been running out of leadership options.
The president was aboard Air Force One, and he explained that eventually we'll find somebody who will surrender, or maybe we won't because they'll all be dead.
And now they have continued to fire off the occasional missile.
They're afraid of firing too many because the minute they fire a missile, then the Americans and the Israelis locate their missile launchers and blow them up.
Iran has some real problems.
So, left with virtually nothing over here in the pantry, opponents of the Iran action have now turned to their latest product, the latest panic attack, oil prices.
Now, here is the reality: always and forever.
When things get spicy in the Middle East, oil prices go up.
But the panic has set in.
Oh, no, oil prices are up 20% since the beginning of the war.
This is going to be just like the 1970s.
That's true if you are a dumb person.
Here is a chart of crude oil prices in the United States from 1950 to 1980.
Behold, take a look at the fact that crude oil prices on this chart were from basically 1950 to 1970 somewhere between $250 and $4.
And then 1973, you got the Arab oil embargo, and prices spiked by 300%, not 20%, 300%.
They triple.
And that oil embargo lasted for five months.
And then the prices basically stayed there for the rest of time, forever.
Well, here's a thing that's not going to happen.
That thing, President Trump happens to be right.
Here's the president of the United States on Truth Social.
He put up a post.
He said short-term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for the USA and world safety and peace.
Only fools would think differently.
President Donald J. Trump.
Correct.
He is right.
So you ask, why would the prices drop again?
Well, because what we're watching here is not a serious reduction in oil supply that is systemic in nature.
It is a temporary choke on oil supply in the Strait of Hormuz.
And what's happening over there is going to be over one way or another within the next few weeks.
But listen, if you're Iran or its fifth columnist allies in the United States, this is basically your only leverage point.
You're getting your ass kicked in the air, in the water, on land.
So now you're going to claim the oil supply will be permanently kinked by the United States' action here.
Iranian general Mosset Rajai is warning that oil will reach $150 a barrel in the next few days.
Qatar, which, again, likes to play both sides and is trying to convince the United States to stop, is saying the same thing.
They're all hoping that if they put pressure on Trump because of oil prices, that Trump will call off the dogs.
That is likely not going to happen.
Why not?
Well, because the United States has a timeline.
That timeline is weeks, not months.
And the United States is going to win.
And you know what's going to happen when the U.S. wins?
The amount of oil coming out of Iran itself and into the world market will skyrocket.
See, as of January 2026, before the action, Iran was producing somewhere between 3.2 and 3.3 million barrels of oil per day.
Most of it went to China.
For the past couple of weeks, it's been 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.
If the Iranian economy were integrated into the world economy, the original number would double.
You'd be talking 6 million barrels of oil per day from Iran.
And so if Iran were to integrate into the world, if Trump gets what he wants, the amount of oil coming from Iran would be twice as high in the next few years as it has been prior.
Or what if, and I don't mean to speculate about future military action here, but I kind of think this is highly likely, President Trump were to go full Venezuela and just take control of Iran's oil supply directly.
Behold this island.
This island is called Karg Island.
It is located some 15 miles off the coast of Iran.
This small coral island is responsible for processing 90% of all Iranian oil.
See that tiny little island right there?
Yep, that cute little thing.
Well, according to CNBC, before 90% of Iran's oil even makes it to the Strait of Hormuz, it passes through a tiny strip of land in the Persian Gulf called Karg Island.
PMV oil analyst Thomas Varga told CNBC: quote: If President Trump were to decide to seize this pivotal hub, it would deal a significant blow to the Iranian regime, as it would deprive them of a critical source of revenue.
So, if the United States were to seize Karg Island, it would essentially choke off the Iranian economy completely.
The United States would then be in control of basically all Iranian oil flow because it's a choke point.
Game over.
The RAGC could not pay its terrorist friends.
It couldn't pay for new ballistic missiles or literally anything else.
At that point, it becomes kind of likely that the president of Iran, Mazoud Peshakian, would cut some sort of deal, mainly because he wouldn't have an alternative to a deal.
So, what would it take to take over Kharg Island?
Maybe a few special operators, maybe a few, a few soldiers.
I would assume this is why the administration is not ruling out all boots on the ground, because there might be some sort of special operation here.
Yeah, that's still the answer, but we reserve the right.
We would be completely unwise if we did not reserve the right to take any particular option, whether it included boots on the ground or no boots on the ground.
So, again, Hayseth saying, like, guys, I'm not going to tell you what we're going to, like, you'd be an idiot to tell the press what you're going to do.
Duh.
I mean, like, again, this is stupid.
Of course, he's not going to tell Major Garrett.
Yeah, by the way, here's our specific plan.
Here's what we're going to do tomorrow and the day after.
I have to say, the impatience that people have for military operations is pretty astonishing, really astonishing these days.
We are now on day 10, entering day 11 of conflict.
Day 11.
It's worth noting here, by the way, that using a limited number of troops to perform a single operation is not boots on the ground in the way that most people think of it.
When people think boots on the ground, they think a prolonged operation involving hundreds of thousands of troops for years on end.
No one is talking about that.
Now, listen, maybe the United States doesn't do this thing on Harg Island.
Maybe it does.
But could it be on the table?
Sure.
But here's the bottom line to all of this: the United States is currently winning, and we are winning for a good reason.
They are among the most evil people ever on earth.
They cut babies' heads off.
They chop women in half.
What they did, take a look at October 7th.
Take a look at what they've done over the last 47 years.
So I know nothing about a desalinization plant other than to say if they're complaining about a desalinization plan, we complain about the fact that they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off, okay?
It should be mentioned, by the way, that we are also much, much better than they are at breaking things and much, much more moral than the people that we are targeting in terms of the Iranian regime.
A lot of Trump's critics today are pointing out this tragic incident with an Iranian school at which 160 girls were killed.
That is indeed tragic and it's terrible.
And it's also called collateral damage in war.
It is unclear at this point whether the munitions were American or Iranian.
We'll find out.
Here is the point.
Do you really believe that the Trump administration knew there were girls at a school and they decided to hit it with a tomahawk?
Do you really believe that?
If you do, you hate not only Trump, but America, truly, because that is a scurrilous lie.
Iran, by the way, would.
If Iran had the ability to launch a cruise missile at an Israeli school filled with schoolgirls, they absolutely would hit it on purpose.
They do it constantly.
Iranians at this point are punch-drunk.
As President Trump says, Iran is in serious trouble.
On Truth Social.
He said Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East.
He said, Iran, which is being beat to hell, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors and promised it will not shoot at them anymore.
This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack.
They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East.
And it's the first time Iran has ever lost in thousands of years to surrounding Middle Eastern countries.
They've said, thank you, President Trump.
I've said, you're welcome.
Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East.
They are instead the loser of the Middle East and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse.
Today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior.
Are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time?
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Here's the thing: if America wins, the grievance party loses because they can't claim that America was screwed by a coterie of elites.
America winning would be great for everyone.
It would be great for American security because the chief sponsor of global terrorism would disappear.
It would be great for the American economy because the Middle East would bloom into an area of investment and non-conflict.
It would be amazing for our geopolitical standing because Iran, of course, is both a client and a sponsor state for Russia and China.
Most of all, most of all, American victory would be excellent for American politics because when America wins, Americans are less likely to feel aggrieved and therefore become subject to the grievance party.
That's true everywhere.
Listen, grievance parties aren't unique to the United States.
They've existed throughout the history of politics, like literally since the beginning of time.
But in catastrophe, such parties gain power and then they use that power to wreck systems and destroy lives.
In fact, it's precisely those who claim they have been aggrieved in politics who are likeliest to centralize power in themselves and then harm the people they don't particularly like.
The philosopher Karl Popper, who talked about societal conspiracy theories, he wrote, People who sincerely believe that they know how to make heaven on earth are most likely to adopt the conspiracy theory and to get involved in a counter conspiracy against non-existing conspirators.
For the only explanation of their failure to produce their heaven is the evil intention of the devil who has a vested interest in hell.
When you look at the political leaders of the Democratic Party these days, who are charter members of the grievance party, or many of the commentators on the right who are rooting against the United States in the war with Iran and are members of the grievance party, remember, the American people are a strong, virile, and durable people.
We're a free people.
We are people who have the capacity to choose.
So don't fall into the trap of these grievance mongers, the grievance mongers who are constantly catering to the far left and far right fringes of the Democrat and Republican parties.
Don't fall for it.
Don't fall for it.
President Trump isn't falling for it.
America's victory will be a signal rebuke to the grievance party, to the Democratic Party, and to the horseshoe right that is holding them up and holding hands with them.
So I want to tell you about a rally that I am doing at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate August 6th this year.
It's part of a national tour marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.
That event is organized by my friends over at Young America's Foundation in partnership with the Daily Wire, and it's going to be the opening program for YAF's 48th annual National Conservative Student Conference, which is going to be awesome.
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