Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Alex Jones’ June 19–20, 2025, show where he falsely claims Trump nearly bombed Iran but backed off due to inflation warnings—echoing fringe conspiracy tactics. They mock his endorsement of Mark Lynch in the 2026 SC Senate race, despite Trump’s public Graham support, exposing Jones’ shift from anti-establishment rhetoric to defending Trump while attacking critics as "globalists." His gold IRA promotion with Kirk Elliott, framed as survivalist advice, highlights unethical financial schemes and flawed crisis prep, forcing him to abandon past predictions if events don’t align. Ultimately, Jones’ declining relevance mirrors his reliance on fearmongering over substance, alienating even his former audience. [Automatically generated summary]
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Oh man, some of those things you see, you know, you you imagine a difficult Mega Man level, but even in a difficult Mega Man level, you're usually always going from left to right, you know, like the whole time or up.
Not like, okay, we have to go back and forth and back and forth and up and down and then we have to do it's crazy.
Alex has made peace with the fact that Trump doesn't seem to be all that pissed off about it and seems to be sabre rattling in a way that indicates that he's going to join in and attack Iran.
There's so much restraint that there's there's some sort of agreement that they reached beforehand, whether it's financial or Alex thinks he's gonna get a lot of attention out of this.
an interview with Nick Fuentes where you talk about how Nazi shit is the answer and you're really friendly to him and you treat him like a luminary and then you have a hostile confrontation with Rabbi Shmooley.
It's the reason why Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rated as one of our three greatest presidents, started the Manhattan Project.
Roosevelt didn't know much about nuclear science back then, and no one knew if a bomb would even work until they detonated in the deserts of New Mexico.
Even Oppenheimer didn't know if it would work.
They built the bomb because they were afraid that Hitler was building a bomb.
And Hitler had some of the greatest nuclear scientists in the world, like Heisenberg, who were working on his bomb, who became Nazis.
Well, Hitler kind of gave up building it because he probably because he all he thought that all nuclear science was Jewish science and he hated Jews so much that he even was prepared, as I said before, to destroy himself.
Who is dumb enough to kill, pick Albert Einstein out of your country and let him live in a better world?
So it's never made sense to me how much Alex name drops Max Planck.
He constantly talks about how Planck came up with all sorts of metaphysics ideas long before their time, and it seemed to me like it was just Alex's way of talking about how the human mind can vision things before they're physically possible.
Alex is so triggered on the point that Shmooley makes about the Jewish contribution to the invention of the nuclear bomb, and that's where Alex has to bring up Max Planck.
Planck's was never a stand-in for human ingenuity.
He was a symbol for Alex, a way to deny the historical importance of some Jewish people and transfer their achievements over to an Aryan person.
I'd never really thought about it that way, but now I think that this is the focus.
The focus on Max Planck is actually a remnant of the environment that Alex grew up in and how so many of the sources that his intellectual tradition comes from are Nazi apologists.
Under Hitler, it was forbidden to talk about Einstein because he was super anti Nazi and had renounced his German citizenship in nineteen thirty three.
Whatever innovations he was making in important fields of science would need to be undermined and attributed to someone else, and though Planck wasn't a Nazi himself, he stayed in Germany and was in the relative good graces of the government.
Planck was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society until 1937, which would later be renamed the Max Planck Society, An organization which apologized for their involvement with experiments carried out in concentration camps during the Holocaust around 2001.
They made a big deal out of, like, we can't deny this part of our legacy.
Alex's worldview is built on the shoulders of neo Nazis and crypto Nazis, so it makes sense that most of the sources he grew up reading and studying, they would have an investment in minimizing Einstein's importance and elevating Max Planck's.
Yeah, and something that's so interesting to me, too, is like, I can listen to hundreds of hours of Alex's show, and there's a plausible way for me to think, like, this guy's hung on Max Planck.
Oh well, maybe he just read something that he thinks is interesting in a book or whatever.
And it never would, like, it would never cross my mind to be like, is there a bigot reason why this is his, his paradigm?
And this exchange that he has with Shmooley, like, it really made me reconsider and look into, is there a reason that a Nazi would be into Max Planck and not other people?
an assumption that you are looking at things through a bigot point of view whenever you imagine what Alex is thinking or doing or whatever the motivations behind it.
And it is a blind spot of your own when you don't even know that there could be a bigot.
But I think also if you make a default of like every position comes from a place of it must come from a place of bigotry.
I think that you're falling into the same sort of thought shortcuts and cheats.
Sure.
That lead to mistakes that a lot of people do.
Like it is unfortunate that a lot of times you poke around a little bit and you realize like, oh shit, a lot of more of this is bigotry than I thought.
Sure.
But starting with that assumption, I think is bad.
Steve Bannon went to the White House yesterday and spent a lot of time with Trump.
I'll leave it at that.
I talked to Steve some off air also on air today on his show.
And here, here's the good news.
War fever has broken at the White House and with Trump., and Trump has now got more briefings than the majority of his advisers in the Pentagon and are saying, no, you don't want to go directly to war with Iran.
Here's why.
But Trump had pretty much decided to do it by today, and I said that over the weekend and it did come out a few days ago.
But then as he got more information and all the other horrible scenarios, what is that warming up?
That are probable to happen.
One of them doubling inflation.
They close the Straight of Hormuz conservatively and they can do it and they've said they'll do it and it just gets worse from there.
He pulled back and said two weeks yester yesterday.
So the storyline for the past week or so on the show has been that Trump was going to attack Iran on Thursday night or Friday morning.
Alex claimed that he had heard this from high level sources and that even if that timetable was incorrect or if the exact time changed, it was coming from Intel, not vibes.
Now here we are on Friday morning, getting close to afternoon, and Trump hasn't attacked Iran.
His press secretary said that Trump was giving Iran two weeks to negotiate, so this is the direction that Alex is going.
He and his patriot buddies like Tucker and Bannon caused enough of a stink about how dangerous attacking Iran was that Trump saw the light and he isn't going to do it.
We live in the future, so we know that it at about two AM Iranian time the next day, Trump bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran.
The plans for this, which was called Operation Midnight Hammer, were already set by the time that Alex is on air here, and he's just regurgitating bullshit that the Trump press secretary is knowingly or unwittingly lying about.
Essentially, Alex is acting as a mouthpiece for a government that's planning attacks while pretending publicly to want diplomacy.
Trump posted a statement saying, quote, based on the fact that there's substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
He said that Thursday evening, and the truth is that he had already made up his mind.
The plan was already there.
Falling for this kind of shit is exactly what Alex made a career complaining about the mainstream media doing, and I can't see it as anything other than fitting that this is what he's become.
Yeah, I mean, like on the one hand, it makes sense.
You do not want a government or a military to be obligated to tell you when it's going to do stuff.
Technically, that's not very wise.
At the same time, you don't want a government that's like, nah, we're not going to blow up those strangers that you don't know and we'll never bother you.
I mean, listen, for all, for all complaints about blanket pessimism aside, part of the agreement that we have with politics is that even if they're not completely full of shit, they're always at least a little bit full of shit whenever they're talking.
That's what politicians have to do because they can't be like, we're definitely going to have this done.
There has to be negotiating., blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
But at the very least, you should not blanket accept anything they say as being one hundred percent going to be the future.
Now, I don't think that's a feint to make Iran think everything's okay so they can hit him even harder.
No, that's real.
And since I surmised all this scanning and all the information.
I've talked to people that have met with the president and others and talked to Bannon on air and off air, and it's exactly what I thought was going on.
Alex is 100% wrong, and whoever these sources are that he talked to were either wrong in the exact same way as him or were feeding Alex misinformation.
So he would do exactly what he's doing on air.
Yeah.
Now, because that serves the purposes of the power.
I have contacts everywhere, but I only contact them to see what they're thinking and saying, what they know, to confirm what I already come to the analysis of.
This is so embarrassing with hindsight that Alex is just being played.
He's out here thinking he's briefing the president by being on a podcast, and all the while, behind the scenes, Trump's already decided to bomb Iran.
Nothing Alex does or says in any of these shows is going to change that reality.
The only thing that's happening here is that Trump has put out a piece of disinformation that's so appealing to Alex that he can't resist reporting on it as fact and even taking credit for it.
Now, he said that Bannon asked him to brief the president.
Mr President, I absolutely agree with you that the Mullahs want to destroy Israel and that they're unpopular and that they're a serious danger to world peace.
But if you look at all the different assessments that I know you've been given and I know that most of your advisers have told you, it will be bare minimum.
cause oil prices, which you already see going up, to explode.
Most assessors will easily block threat to Hormuz by sinking their own ships, Much less ours or others.
Twenty percent of the oil the world goes through there.
I, while he's giving that speech, I imagine, like, I don't know, I don't know, just Iran walking up behind him and he's like, ah shit, Iran's behind me, isn't they?
Like, if you've ever seen those clips of the guys who clearly got a touchdown, running, everything's fine, and then just drop the ball just an inch before the goal line.
You know, that's what it feels.
But they don't know.
They keep celebrating.
They don't know that they have just been on TV for the rest of their lives doing the dumbest shit they could possibly do.
When he's talking about war and oh, it'll stabilize things to go, he looks like a wolf when he's like in 20002, he's like, and then we get this country and that country, we get all of them have nuclear weapons, and we have to take them off.
He's learned to kind of hide that a little bit.
I mean, you look at those eyes though, I mean, I can't even do those eyes.
I mean, it's just like absolutely committed to death, probably possessed by Satan himself.
But yeah, when you're, when you're someone like Alex who's like, I speak to God, God speaks through me, you should avoid words like that when you're, when you're, when you're trying to pretend that you don't actually mean he's the Messiah.
And it's the same kind of dynamic as, like, you know, when you're a crazy, violent asshole like Alex, you should just use other words than I'm going to kill you and then say politically.
But the point is when everything turns into a war and everything is broken down and everything is deception, you have the bra breakdown of society, you have mental illness, you have endless war, you have lies.
That's why Trump wants peace through strength, overwhelming force, direct, clear agenda, and not a bunch of double, triple dealing, which he's been doing and which the world wants, but only a country that is the most powerful can act like that.
Because all the others are going to use dirty tricks or black mag lazy I don't mean literal black magic, but in the art of black magic, it's when you do something with your will or action that hurts people.
And that always creates even bigger ripple effects of bad that comes out of it and that comes back on you.
Black magic always comes back on who does it, multiple.
As a fan of Final Fantasy VII and the Final Fantasy games in general, you have Fira, you have Faraga, you have Blizzara, you have Blizzard, you have many different black magic spells, you have Flair, that's the ultimate in fire magic.
So Mossad's former motto was the Hebrew text from Proverbs 24:6, which can be translated in a number of ways.
But generally is quote, for by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war.
There are other ways that this has been translated to English that veer more towards the subterfuge angle like for by strategy war is waged, that kind of thing.
Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
In nineteen ninety, a former agent of Mossad named Victor Ostrovsky released a book called By Way of Deception, the Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer, which was very critical of Mossad.
A lot of the things that he wrote in the book have never been proven either way, like proven true or false.
But the title of the book has stuck as the go to translation of Proverbs twenty four six for folks in Alex's information space.
Which is to say, a lot of neo Nazis and crypto Nazis.
Mossad has since changed their motto to Proverbs 11:14, which says, Cit, For lack of guidance a nation fails, but victory is won through many advisers.
And Trump administration reportedly looking at nuke the underground nuke base in Iran is the equivalent of pulling up a septic tank truck that just pumped out twenty septic tanks and putting a hose in a pool and filling it with liquid fecals.
I hate giving Alex any props, but this is exactly what he should be doing.
All the dumb bullshit about Rabbi Shmooley and how he's secretly briefing Trump through being on Bannon's podcast.
It's all just a bunch of entertainment filler.
But where he holds the ability to make any difference in terms of power is by promoting anyone who's primarying GOP politicians that Alex doesn't like.
Alex thinks that Lindsey Graham is too effeminate and is a globalist who's not loyal to Trump, so he wants him out.
But Graham is also a hawk about war, and it's very easy to come up with a marketable reason to want to get him out of office.
Primarying Graham is something that could have support across the aisle, uniting the extreme right wing with people on the left even.
This is what Alex should spend his time doing, but I think it's too late for him to play this game personally.
The hope you'd have here is to use a big platform like Alex's show to promote and validate fringe insurgent candidates, but I don't think that Alex has the ability to validate anyone anymore.
Association with him is only going to stigmatize a candidate because the two sides Alex hopes to unite don't really like him.
In the aftermath of events like Waco and nine hundred eleven, Alex was able to form a coalition audience out of extreme right wingers who thought that he was their voice, the radio guy who was tossed aside by the elites who just wanted their mainstream right wing voice out there in the form of Rush Limbaugh.
That group was supplemented by non political folks who were just generally paranoid and enjoyed conspiracy theories, and by left wing folks who agreed with Alex on some primary things and were tricked into thinking that Alex was an ally for them that they could work with.
These would be folks on the left who were super against the war in Iraq and felt like Alex was unbeholden to corporate media that was beating the drums of war.
These were people who were against the bank bailouts and thought that Alex was actually on the side of Occupy Wall Street, and you could make an argument that like, hey, we have this important issue we're on the same page about.
Alex was able to make it appear like his politics were broad enough to include all of these folks, and that worked for a while, but that game is up now.
Paranoid conspiracy fans have a million other choices of people to follow, many of whom are far more creative than Alex and less reliant on just pretending that sci fi movies are real.
If you want that entertainment, there's better out there.
The extreme right wing folks have new voices that far more closely align with them than in what they believe than Alex, and he's become a watered down voice in that space compared to other figures who are willing to spout clear antisemitism and white supremacy.
And the left leaning folks who might have fallen for the illusion that Alex really wasn't all that right wing and maybe you could make common cause with him, they generally aren't as susceptible to that trick as they used to be.
You'll see left leaning people getting tricked into thinking they can work with other folks like like Alex, like Elon Musk or Tucker or Rogan, like you said.
But for the most part, Alex doesn't really have that cachet himself anymore.
The, the, like consolidation of these people is such that they are still, they're so big that there's a easier way of tricking yourself into being like, well, there's no choice but at the very least, you know, engage in all these things.
whereas Alex used to have that bigness in the form of integrity.
He used to have that size because it was like he can't be bought.
You know, you can buy Rogan.
We know that.
He's advertised on Spotify, you know, like that kind of thing.
Whereas that's where Alex could have the upper hand, and that's gone.
Yeah, but these other people have a facsimile of it in some way, in that, like, there are people on the left in the Democratic Party who will be like, let's see if we can work with Rogan.
On top of this, his entire dynamic is flipped, where he's invested in defending the government that's in power.
When Clinton, Bush, and Obama were in office, Alex didn't want to root out the deep state while keeping the president in power.
He wanted the whole thing overturned.
Now Alex wants to keep the guy he likes in power.
power and keep power in the hands of the people who are specifically loyal to him.
People who are not loyal to Trump or do things that Trump isn't supposed to like, they're the deep state figures who need to be taken out, but let's not upset the whole thing.
It's still very early for the 2026 race, but a recent Qantas poll asked people in South Carolina about a hypothetical ballot where Mark Lynch was running against Graham in the GOP primary, and 48% preferred Graham compared to 23% for Lynch.
That's a big gap, but it's also a pretty strong sign of vulnerability for Graham.
Lynch isn't a household name and really was in that hypothetical poll as a stand-in for someone other than Graham.
This poll in theory says that 23% of Republican voters are probably just not interested in voting for Graham, and under 50 specifically are.
That same poll showed twenty nine percent of these voters being undecided, so there could be some traction here.
Like he might have something to work with, but Alex is in no position to chip in.
And even beyond that, that kind of polling is going to galvanize or encourage other candidates.
It's going to show that Graham is vulnerable, has a weakness.
And so other GOP primary candidates are going to probably want to get involved.
But it does show that, you know, Lindsey Graham might be in trouble and, you know, I would like for those polls to have to include just generic woke candidate.
There are a lot of rhinos and Democrat operatives that pose as Republicans in state, local, federal seats that we all need to continue to do assessments of these people because they're all over us.
So, yeah, I mean, he's trying to talk about how, like, his, uh, Graham's voting record is not in line with these constitutionalist principles and stuff.
Roger was his wingman when he would be in between divorces and Trump didn't want his girlfriends in the news.
So, you know, he'd be the guy that would go out to dinner with him so he could sit with Roger.
I mean, Roger's that close to Trump.
He knows Trump very well.
He's his genius level on some things, but other levels, if somebody just tells him nice things up front and he feels good about it, he'll trust him.
And Roger just pulls his hair out over this.
And so, but pressure on Trump works if he respects you and you give him the facts.
He doesn't respect people that just kiss his ass at the same time.
So I think we should all put pressure on Trump to, certainly, if he's not going to remove the endorsement, if the polls show you can easily beat the Democrat, which I think is clear, I think he's been advised that they'll cheat more if there's a real Republican.
And so Trump's what?
So Trump's like, well, I'll go with who they'll let in.
I just think if he just fully got behind you, but I get it.
If he endorses you early, then Graham will publicly stab him in the front, not in the back.
See, now this is why all Messiahs really peaked with Saint Patrick, because what is there more, like, wholesome than just giving rid of all those fucking snakes.
I think that we are in a place where I don't think it is fully there yet, but we're in a place where providing a positive vision could become a very attractive electoral strategy.
Now US Intel says, oh, if you keep attacking Iran, they've got the parts to put the bomb together now, they'll nuclear Israel responds and says, Yeah, just breaking.
All this stuff is he's like ramping up all this anxiety and all these news stories in order to canal those feelings towards now buy gold from Kirk to make sure that you're safe from all this terrible inflation and the strait of Hormuz closing.
Yeah, I mean, this this gets to the fundamental tension that the gold sales always have.
Yeah.
And that is that there's like a sound investment angle that they're trying to sell this on was like, gold would be up twenty percent and then you can sell it and look, you've made money for your retirement.
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Yeah, I imagine that the way he gets around it is like, these are the people that are doing this are going to find somewhere else to go because this is the world that we exist in.
When you're like, hey, this retirement plan that maybe you've been putting in for twenty years working, you should move that over to my gold.
Yeah.
There's something elevated about how cruel that is.
Yeah.
And Alex loves to talk about how the globalists are raiding the pension funds and the 401k and stuff like this is some kind of evil thing that the globalists are doing.