Jordan Holmes and Dan Friesen dissect Alex Jones’ June 23, 2025 episode, where he pivots from defending Trump’s Iran bombing—sparking retaliatory strikes on US bases—to speculating about "demonic possession" or divine favor. They mock his reliance on corporate media via Twitter, like Nick Sortor and Mario Nafall, and his contradictory claims (symbolic vs. escalatory missiles) as a desperate narrative shift. Ultimately, the episode reveals Jones’ pattern of deflecting accountability with fringe theories while peddling absurdity under the guise of "truth." [Automatically generated summary]
Because they are, they're tasked with doing something that is probably distracting and annoying to a lot of people, so they have to try and do their job and not be disruptive.
It's very, like when you see one of those plays where they have the like six people who are dressed from head to toe in black and you can just see them moving the sets in and out as though there was an insignificant blob like changing things.
My bright spot is very similar, based around the same place.
I was talking to you, we were talking to you about it just a little bit, but I went to the bathrooms and they were so clean, and this is in Wrigleyville.
You know, it transported me into a stepping through the past of being in Wrigleyville and just the sheer volume of shitty toilets in my history of Wrigleyville.
And this one was perfect.
It's perfect and I don't know what my bright spot is.
I don't know if my bright spot is that it used to be shitty or that it isn't shitty now.
I think if we had both known how many people were going to be like, just in the way, we might have just been like, Let's go there and wait for people to clear out.
So we start off on the 23rd and Trump has bombed Iran and Alex is kind of clinging to some, ah, maybe this is just him taking out the nuclear stuff so Israel doesn't have as much of a reason to want us.
It was 11, almost 12 days ago that Israel started its bombardment of Iran.
We were all told it was just to get their nuclear sites.
It wasn't about regime change.
Then three or four days later, the guy really run the show, Benjamin Netanyahu, said no, it's regime change.
And then yesterday, Trump came out and said it's not politically correct to use the term reg term regime change, but if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change, make Iran great again?
And now to top that off, Trump just threatened Russia with our nuclear submarines, launched cruise missiles, and said, We've got nuclear weapons delivery systems twenty years advanced over every other nation,
and said Kremlin spokesperson and former president of Russia Menediev better not be talking about nuclear weapons when he says nations are moving, including North Korea, who announced they are planning to do it, and they do what they say they're going to do, nuclear weapons.
Putin has come out and issued a warning.
Kremlin warns that other nations ready to give Iran nuclear, dangerous escalation has begun, says Putin.
Alex is having a real moment where the person that you've sold us is not this person.
You know, like the audience has to recognize like this is way out of step with what we would have expected someone with the knowledge, with the awareness that Alex has said Trump has.
to see all the great things Trump's doing domestically and with the economy and sovereignty and going after all the leftist brainwashing and trying to break our will.
I mean, it's beautiful.
And the deportations and the sex traffickers being arrested.
I mean, mass arrests all over the place.
All this good news, and then right in the middle of it, a trillion pound turd in the punch bowl.
Where he looks like he's finally realizing that this Trump guy sure isn't acting like the guy Alex has been pretending he was.
Strangely, it seems like a lot of these moments come up about because Trump has done something that's against Russia's foreign policy objectives, which makes sense because as we've determined, America first loves Russia.
There would be a lot of pleasure in basking in the I told you so type feelings, but none of this even matters to someone like Alex because he isn't just now realizing that Trump sucks.
He's always known, but his desire for things like terrorizing LGBTQ folk and immigrants that always outweighed his embarrassment at pretending that Trump wasn't a piece of shit.
When he has these moments, it's generally because the thing that Trump did was so egregious that there's no real spin for it, and he just needs to punt.
You can't try to tell the audience that Trump isn't in favor of regime change in Iran when he's posting on social media about how he's into regime change in Iran.
If Alex ever believed that Trump was a good guy who should be in office, him posting something like this should be seriously a cause for reflection because Alex would have to recognize that he's super wrong.
And wrong on a level where your analysis might be a public danger, so you might need to rethink really basic pieces of it.
We've seen this go down before that typically Alex will give this little performance about how his principles matter so much to him and he just can't go along with this.
Then shit will cool off and he'll remember how critical Trump is to advancing the white nationalist agenda and things will go back to him loving Trump or I'll call good things good and bad things bad or whatever.
status quo will return.
Sure.
One of these times you have to think that he will finally have had enough.
But here on the 23rd, this really feels like the same on again off again style relationship that he has with Trump.
It's just at the point where there's no way he can with a straight face defend us.
So when you're dealing with cult, right, there's the initial period where you got the charismatic leader, but then a lot of times what will happen is eventually some of the crime.imes that you get when you commit when you're a cult leader will catch up with you and you'll end up going to jail.
But the cult might just stay around and there's someone who steps into the power vacuum and gets to say, Oh, the cult leader totally told me we need to do this.
And that's what you have to do with Trump.
Trump can't, Trump needs to be in prison and you have to be like, Oh, this guy, Trump, he was telling me that we have to go do these things that coincidentally we all wanted to do.
Reuters now reporting, CIA, MI6, Iran launches six missiles towards U.S. bases in Qatar.
The fact that Qatar went on lockdown and closed its airspace first hours and hours ago, and that now that's where the missiles are going, points towards a backroom deal for face saving and the Iranians may be getting ready to capitulate.
I'm not saying that's about to happen.
And if Trump can pull this off, I'll still be pissed off that he went back on what he said he would do for the first time pretty much ever.
And it means the neocons can manipulate us in the future.
But Trump's argument is that'll be a show of strength for the Russians and the Chinese.
If these missiles do not hit the base, the big giant air base we have there, then it means.
So Iran launched missiles at a US base in Qatar in retaliation for Trump's strike, and it went about how one might expect.
US air defense is pretty competent, so the missiles were mostly intercepted.
To minimize civilian casualties, Iran warned Qatar, and Trump even said that he got early notice, and then called the attack quote very weak, and was glad that Iran quote got it all out of their system.
In the sense that it didn't turn into an all out war, that's a positive, but it's still really crazy kinds of brinksmanship, and Qatar definitely wasn't happy about it.
After the attack, Trump said that Iran and Israel had agreed on a ceasefire, which seemed to be a surprise to Iran.
They had not agreed but were willing to not retaliate if Israel stopped their attacks, and this peace held for a matter of hours before there were accusations flying in both directions of attacks.
Trump got all mad about it and said, We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
And he said that both sides violated the ceasefire, but it was back in effect and everything was fine.
There are reported, and we see the video, ongoing attacks with ballistic missiles over the main US military, navy and air force base in the Middle East, Qatar.
All the other bases are on alert.
There are reports of missiles coming in and hitting bases in Iraq.
We are tracking that.
As it unfolds, we're getting a Nick Sortor post with a corporate media report that they're saying that none of the missiles, according to the Pentagon, hit any of the US bases.
We don't know if that's because the Patriot battery stopped them or because the Iranians, as they did in 2020, fired them into the desert or into an unpopulated area.
I want to bring sharp attention to what's going on here.
Alex is covering this unfolding situation where there may be a world war starting.
And the source he's pointing to is something that Nick Sortor posted on Twitter.
If you're watching Alex's show, then you might just think to yourself, I can just follow Nick Sortor on Twitter and get the exact same information that Alex has.
This show really is just watching a guy read Twitter and say, I knew that was going to happen.
And at a certain point, you can just cut out the middleman.
You can read Twitter yourself and tell yourself that you knew that that was going to happen and get about the same kind of juice out of it.
But if you go a step deeper, you'll notice that Nick Sortor's tweet is just him posting a clip from the corporate news.
If you wanted all of the information that's available here, you could just watch the corporate news.
You're just getting the exact same product with layers of bullshit editorial spin added on top of it by people who are desperate to pretend that they're not just stealing contact from actual journalists.
Without the corporate news actually doing the work here, Nick wouldn't have this clip to post on his Twitter with his narrative attached, and then Alex wouldn't have a tweet to cover on his show.
Like we needed, we needed Bob Saget back in the day, because people had to videotape things on a real magnetic thing and then send it in the mail to another human being who would value it and then maybe it would make it on TV.
We needed that.
We don't need that now.
There's no point in Saget here.
And Alex is basically the Saget of bullshit nazism.
The Iranian government is now saying it fired the same amount of missiles at US assets as bombs the US dropped on them.
Well, they dropped how many of the big bunker busters?
Fifteen in total on the three different sites.
But then there was also what, twenty something cruise missiles?
So do the math, that would be So if this is accurate and shorter, you know, only goes off what the Iranians are saying, then it would look like this is a face saving situation.
Again, if you're a new listener and just tuned in, Trump is on record and the Iranians confirmed it, it was all face saving in 2020 over the Soleimani getting killed when they launched those eighteen missiles at the base in Iraq and had them a couple miles away, hit sand dunes.
I don't know.
But if they hit real targets and people get killed, you know Trump's going to escalate, and that means they've decided to escalate.
And last week when he gave them two weeks, they said, no, screw you.
So that's why he went ahead and green lit it.
And I said on Thursday, I said, I don't believe they're going to back down at this point.
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Oh, yes.
I'm just a little distracted with the air attacks and how important it is.
Because during the break, I was looking at some of the comments on X going through videos.
I love to see what people say.
I find a lot of intellect I wouldn't have thought of.
And they're like, what's Jones talking about?
What do you mean Trump made a deal with Iran to do limited strikes?
That's made up.
Just dealing with the level of the public that is just now becoming politically.
involved and militarily informed.
It's like talking to two year olds or it's like you're an auto mechanic that's been doing it for fifty years.
You're a master mechanic and then someone comes in that has never any mechanic work and you're telling them how things work and they're like, you don't know that.
All you do is like cruise around on Twitter, try and find hot tweets, find comments on tweets to try and give yourself an angle you can steal for something, get some intellect.
Of course, you're going to run into a bunch bunch of stupid people saying stupid shit.
And then I think that there's another part of it that is kind of a dark reflection of the way that the media, you know, need tos to make a horse race out of an election.
Both of these things have to be 50-50 true or else like, what is the show?
If Iran isn't doing anything, then Trump is in.
He's in bed with this kind of war theater.
That's not good.
If you land on that.
No.
And the other side of it is they're not coordinating and Iran is about to nuke all the U.S. All the sleeper cells are about to be activated in the United States.
That's because it's actual, like, I don't know, in terms of when on the scale of information to not information, information is better than not information.
So I think that there's a little bit of an infuriating element to Alex complaining about how stupid people are on Twitter when he's just stealing Twitter shit to yell about in his show.
Okay, I want to show one more thing that I'm going to your calls, because this just shows the mindlessness and the propaganda of people like Ted Cruz.
When Tucker Carlson interviewed him last week, it was like, do you know, you know about their weapons systems?
You know about their population?
You know about who the alliances are?
He's like, I don't need to know anything of that.
I just know they're bad.
Well, do you know their population?
No.
Well, it's three times the size of Iraq, three times the population.
And Ted Cruz post Tucker Carlson interviewing Luke Skywalker, what is the population of the Death Star?
And J. Dyer says, Ted Cruz has to appeal to his evangelical boomer audience using children's sci-fi because that's the maturity level of evangelical boomers.
Tucker spent years and years in the Middle East, that's been his beat.
And when he was 17, sent down to Iran Contra to be with the Contras by his dad, high level CIA.
And then Tucker got refused entry into the CIA.
But the point is, is that he's been working for the guys, the bad guys, but he admits he woke up fifteen years ago and is now on our team and came to the city fourteen years ago to apologize to me.
So then to add on top of that, like, oh, and also he's probably an agent of the government who's been tracking me and following me for my entire adult career.
Yeah, no, I'm just saying that it's reasonable if I have a friend who I think joined the CIA and was, he's ly literally coming to me and lying to me about it.
How do I then go like, oh, well, this apology is honest?
Here's another, here's a problem that I have that I feel like keeps popping up is Iran Contra doesn't seem to be a problem at all to anyone anymore.
It's just a historical thing that happened.
It's not like, hey, the people involved were lying and the whole thing and it's against the law and all this stuff and they never face consequences for it.
Yes, we got him elected, something that I am proud to say, despite knowing and in fact having a best friend who is convicted of tam tampering with said election that we were in charge of and take responsibility for.
I've been thinking about it for about a month, I've been thinking about talking about this.
But the reason I haven't talked about it is I don't know what I think about it yet.
Because it's such a big deal.
Like, I'm going to break, come back.
I don't want to like it myself, this is because you all have been through it.
Under the attacks, under the demonization, under my family being attacked, all the things that went on, I was just kind of fighting the globalists, doing my job, believing in humanity, but never wanted to really turn on the juice and really be aggressive.
It was almost like it was embarrassing to me if I really leveled up.
And I just made the decision last year to level up.
And now I knew what would happen.
Now it's happening again.
And now my discernment and my aggression and my prowess is intensifying.
And I can see where this goes.
It's not satanic, but it's the flesh.
And the satanic can interface with the flesh when you turn on too much of your innate berserker, barbarian, Viking power.
And I'll just say it, that's what it is.
So it's very dangerous.
And you can tell Trump's jacked in to the Holy Spirit more than ever and the flesh more than ever.
If you're into the flesh, which Trump is super into, then you're going to have a demon.
But Trump is also super into the Holy Spirit, and he's super into the flesh, which we know means he has a demon, so he's got one hundred percent Holy Spirit and one hundred percent demon in him simultaneously, and that way I can do whatever I want to do tomorrow.
As for Alex here, I think this is a really good call.
On june 23, it does look like the situation with Iran hasn't exploded and the retaliatory strikes they did.
were mostly a face saving measure, so the emergency is deescalated.
But Trump still bombed them, which is pretty impossible to justify to the audience, so Alex is still in hot water with that.
The clock ticking, that's gone.
But Alex has to realize that this thread is still untangling for Trump, and he doesn't want to just go down with the ship.
Alex is planting seeds here that he can try to grow later if he wants, with these very subtle suggestions that maybe Trump has been possessed by a demon.
If it's possible that Trump's got a demon in him, then the status quo of supporting Trump can be maintained.
But if you have to bail at some point, you could just find that little bit.
of evidence that you were missing that shows that he's possessed.
Alex is even trying to give this some credibility by backdating this shit, pretending that he's been thinking about talking about it for a month.
This is a great narrative.
It's got supernatural intrigue, it allows Alex to ditch Trump if things get too hard, and there's zero commitment.
He can just never bring this up again, and no one will call him on it because it sounds fucking silly to ask for clarification about a demon theory.
So, like, this is, this is like, okay, well, if this feels good to say, I can develop this later if I want, but then I can also just pretend I didn't do it.
And he goes on talking about, I could win any of these fights, but I had to literally the devil on my shoulders say, Don't do it, or I would have killed these people.
I I I know, it'd be great if I was in like, if you know that day you're in sixth grade class and the substitute teacher gives you like a little primer and then he's like, and now for more, Bill Nye is going to explain how to make this little experiment.
Come on you, when you get power, whatever you want to call it, that's metaphysical, and here he is the most powerful person in the world that's gone through all these trials, the whole world, even his enemies admire him, Trump is on a pretty trip.
You can call it what you want, but he has to be careful and he has to be humble, because this is the stuff of danger we're dealing with.
This is actually something that we should all be very grateful for.
And everyone listening should keep this clip available with you, okay?
Because any time someone in the future may have some sort of argument like, Oh, well, let's make this compromise with them now because, No, wrong, wrong.
It doesn't matter, it is your fault because they don't like you, because they can't deal with themselves.
There will never, anything that Trump does will never be their fault.
It will always be our fault, despite telling them not to do it.
And I think that to understand it, one of the ways that I helped conceive of it in my brain is like Alex is kind of a prop comic.
A prop comic is a comedian whose act relies on physical props, without which their punchlines wouldn't make sense.
If you're a prop comic and you've been building towards a punchline and when it's time to pull out the prop, your assistant has packed the wrong thing, it's gonna affect your performance.
You definitely can't just tell the joke like you planned, and you might want to storm off stage.
Alex is trying to tell a complex story on this episode, which has a bunch of ups and downs, and he needs his props to do be able to navigate it.
The bottom line is supposed to be that Trump means well, but his advisors convinced him that attacking Iran was the best thing to do for world peace.
In response to that attack, Iran could do a face saving symbolic attack or a full on attack that would indicate that this is the beginning of a world war.
The tension that's powering this show is that is it real or is it theater question, which has more or less been resolved by this point.
Qatar and Trump have said that they had advance warning of Iran's attack, which is a strong indication that this was face saving.
For Alex to continue telling this story, there needs to be create it.
He needs this prop in order to maintain the will they won't they energy on the show, and that's why he blows up at the staff when they give him the wrong thing.
The old bit of information that is like Trump knew, Qatar knew that Iran was going to shoot these missiles, that's the old bit of the roller coaster track.
That's going down.
We need the track that leads upward, and that is this insinuation that Iran is going to continue attacking.
And Alex understands he played roller coaster tycoon.
He knows how to build this thing, and he can't keep go down that downslope.
You need to bring it back up or else you're going to lose all the momentum.
And that's that's really what I feel when I hear him in this instance as a non-drunk person.
You either go away to get drunker and angrier or get your shit in order.
And so you have information to report.
Right, right, right.
And he does neither.
And so it's just kind of like, and I think that this, this I resent a great deal, kind of.
I don't know.
I don't know if I resent it, but like it is a day that's important.
It's a day that matters in the world because you have the possibility of Iran continuing attacks against the US.
Sure.
reaching a point where shit is like the ball is just rolling in a way that, you know, has no brakes on it.
And Alex is just reading Twitter, just reading Twitter, just riffing on tweets, trying to keep both sides of it going, that this is fine and this is the end of the world at the same time.
Like, if you can just trap people in that state, you know, and you can, like, it's it's turned into an interesting thing to watch Alex go from being the person who's trying to trap people in that state to being trapped in it himself.
It's just like you can see it.
You can see the paralysis and the inability to even do anything.