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June 18, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Trump Urges Iranian Citizens to Evacuate Tehran as U.S. Considers Major Strikes
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Whenever I ask anybody what they think about what's going on with the President, with Iran, and what's going on, they will respond as follows.
The true Trumpers will say, I don't care one way or the other.
It doesn't matter to me.
It doesn't matter because I love him, and whatever he does is great, and I don't care.
Okay, fine.
That's one way of looking at it.
Other people are saying he doesn't know what he's doing regarding And what Iran is, excuse me, what Israel is doing, it's incredible.
He basically told Tehran, get out of Tehran.
There's 10 million people in Tehran.
10 million.
Can you imagine everybody in New York leaving?
Roads are jammed.
There's no gasoline stations.
They're freaking out.
They don't know what to make out of this.
10 million people?
Did he mean that?
What is he saying?
Get out of Tehran?
What?
And the other news is, Israel is complaining that they're not letting the people out because they're claiming, I'm not saying this is true, but they're alleging that Bibi wants to use them as human shields.
So he's not letting them out.
So here's what I want you to think.
I want to ask you, what is it that you really think?
And I don't want the following.
Look.
There's no room for I love Trump, MAGA, because I don't think this has anything to do with affecting MAGA, so to speak.
I don't think anybody seriously cares at all about this because I don't think anybody's following any of this.
I'm sorry to say this.
When I say it, some people get kind of upset.
I don't think anybody cares one way or the other.
Thank you.
Americans have believed for the longest time that there's just a kind of a look, you know, there's a bunch of people who for whatever it's worth have always had problems.
There's always been problems with the Middle East.
Always had problems with You know, what am I saying?
There's always been problems with, you know, what am I trying to say?
With the Middle East.
It's always been like.
Don't you understand that the Middle East has always been crazy?
It's always been crazy.
It's always been nuts.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
And they're always fighting.
And they're crazy.
Everybody's crazy.
Everybody's crazy.
And that's the part that kills me.
Everybody's nuts.
They're crazy.
These people.
I'm going to ask a question right now.
Watch this.
Let me ask you something.
How many of you wonderful people believe, and please, answer this truthfully.
Don't answer the right way.
Don't answer the way that you think you should answer it.
But answer the question.
How many of you truly believe that Iran Or Iran is evil.
That they're evil, crazy people.
They're theocratic lunatics.
They live for the desire to destroy Israel.
That the reason why they want a nuclear bomb is to blow up Israel, which is signing their own death warrants.
That if they get a bomb, The first thing they're going to do is blow up Israel.
Who believes that?
And please, if you believe that, say so.
Don't feel like, well, I don't want to say that because people are going to think I'm crazy.
Nobody thinks you're crazy.
But how many of you people really believe, my dear friends, that they're crazy?
Or as Piers Morgan says, they're evil.
Evil.
They're evil.
How many?
How many people, they're evil people, they're evil, they're backwards, they're living in the 4th century, they wear funny hats, and they're, you know, right?
Come on!
You know that.
Laura Loomer, and I like Laura a lot, she's on this, I don't know who's basically, you know, who's inspiring her to say these things, but her whole thing is, this is about Islamists, and that's not the truth.
Do you really, really, truly believe?
Truly believe?
Honestly, do you believe that these people are just crazy, crazy, crazy?
Pilgrim says, better or worse, President Trump will change history.
I don't know what that means.
Oh, he'll change history, that's for sure.
Congestion stops troop trucks.
What does that mean?
Again, I must be dense.
I spend most of my time saying to you wonderful people, what does this mean?
I don't know what you mean.
What are you trying to say?
What does this mean?
I know that sounds kind of rude after a while, but I don't mean to.
I don't mean to do it, but I really ask the question, honest to God, I don't know.
I don't...
I don't...
I don't know what you're trying to say.
Why did he...
I don't know if you saw it right now.
what that means.
What do you think when Tulsi Gabbard, his DNI is basically contradicted when she says we're not Did you hear this?
And Trump says, I don't really care.
What do you think about this?
What do you think about this?
Do you believe, this is important, do you believe that the president is, when he does this, when he says, you might want to leave, oh, and he also says flat out, I don't see anything, oh, one of the options might be to kill the Ayatollah, their leader.
He said this!
You okay with that?
You understand this?
He threw Tulsi under the bus.
Now look at this.
Kathy says, Lionel, it's like Fonzie always said, you need to stand firm and fight when needed.
Fight what?
Fight what?
What are you talking about?
What's standing firm?
Pilgrim says Trump and Tulsi are on the outs.
He'll fire her.
I don't know.
It's not good when it looks like your DNI and you are not on the same page.
Who wants to fight?
Why is it war?
Why do we love war?
Why do we love war?
Nobody's saying that Iran, Iran.
Should get a nuclear bomb?
I didn't say that.
I think it'd be better if they didn't.
But what's the best way to guarantee that they don't get it?
What's the best way?
Believe it or not, it's what?
Not to blow them up or nuke them or fight them.
No.
Do you know what bunker busters are?
Do you know how bunker busters work?
Do you understand that?
Oh, Americans do love war.
We love war.
We love tanks.
We love flyovers.
We love military.
We love this.
We love when during Gulf War and enduring freedom and all this stuff, we had the embedded troops.
People who never were in the military were just absolutely in love with going on transport.
Oh, it was fun.
Oh, Mary, look at this.
Look at the A-10 Warthog.
Ooh!
Isn't this great?
It sure is.
Oh, Americans love war.
We love it.
Doesn't matter.
We feel somehow we're, I don't know, nobody ever complained about Ukraine.
They don't even understand it.
And when it comes to the military, and when you have this idea that this is about Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas.
Hamas is everywhere.
Hamas is this ubiquitous...
They're responsible for everything.
October the 7th, they're the one.
Everything.
You say this.
Number two, you say Israel has a right to self-defense, which of course it does.
What does this have to do?
This is self-defense.
Two carrier groups, strato tankers, it's going down.
Something's going down.
Why?
And you know what happened?
Pakistan, Pakistan said we're in.
China said we're in.
Russia said we're in Iran.
We're behind you.
You think this is good?
You think this is what Fonzie said?
You think what Fonzie said?
You think we should stand firm?
We're getting involved in this.
We don't even have to be involved.
Stand firm against what?
Not against us.
Where's the threat to us?
Where is the threat to us?
Tell me.
Anybody?
There is no threat.
There is no threat.
None of this is a threat.
Why are we even talking about this?
Why is the president doing this?
Why is the president going out of his way to involve himself in this?
I ask you the question.
Maybe you can help me.
Maybe you can figure this out.
Why is this happening?
Why is the president involved in this?
Why do you think the president's involved in this?
Any idea?
Why is it so important for us?
Why is it so critical?
All of a sudden, for there to be no nuclear-grade refinements or what have you of uranium, why?
Why?
Why, why, why, why, why?
Why do you think that is?
Any idea?
Any clue?
Who is responsible?
Who is goading us into this?
Why were we involved in Ukraine?
What did Ukraine have to do with anything?
What was the purposes of Ukraine?
Anybody?
What was the purposes?
Now remember, one of you fine folks said, you've got to stand firm.
Citing Fonzie, of course.
Again, I'm asking the question, where is this coming from?
John McGuire couldn't get hired says the threat is we miss out on massive MIC spending and oil contracts if we can pull off regime change.
Regime change?
You think you're going to have a regime change in Iran?
What do you think you're going to put in there?
What?
Somebody who gives us their oil?
What does that mean, John?
What does that mean?
The threat is we miss out on massive MIC spending and oil contracts.
If we can pull off regime change.
Does anybody think for a moment that regime change is even possible?
Thank you, Jazz Davis.
Does anybody think regime change?
Come on.
You're letting me down.
Why do you think this is going on?
Why are we talking about this?
Do you think we're going to say, okay, Ayatollah Khomeini, we're going to move somebody else?
John says, oh, I don't think so, but that's what the dope pushing the buttons think.
I don't even think they think that.
I don't think anybody gives a shit about regime change per se.
I think Israel has had a hard-on for Iran forever.
How many years?
20 years?
It's always in three weeks, in three years, in one year.
Over and over and over and over.
Come on.
We know what this is about.
Why are we doing this?
Why aren't we focusing on what's going on here?
It's a very simple concept.
It's a very, very simple concept.
The same thing with Ukraine.
What are we doing?
Why is the president squandering his own He's not going to make any friends.
If somebody attacked the United States, oh, he'd be the most popular thing anybody's ever seen.
This is a different story.
Sal Angelo says Trump trying to dish revenge after Iran coordinated attempts in his life.
Do you believe that?
How many people believe Iran coordinated attempts?
Who told us that?
Bibi told us that.
Do you believe Iran wants to kill Trump?
Do you believe there's any evidence of that?
From BB?
Do you believe that?
Who do you think wants to kill Iran?
From within.
That's deep state.
That is deep state.
If you don't know that, I don't know what to tell you.
That fellow in Butler, PA.
What was that, Iran?
Come on.
What is the point of that?
Why would you do it?
Do you think you're going to decapitate anything?
You don't think J.D. Vance is going to be just as good or just as bad?
It doesn't make any sense.
Where do you think that came from?
Come on.
It's ridiculous.
Iran wants to decapitate.
What?
Who is that from?
Bebe.
Bebe, please.
Come on.
Enough!
Oh no, they're going to kill you too.
I want you to understand something, and I'm saying this again.
Iran vowed revenge after the killing of Salami.
Okay, but against Trump?
No.
Iran, how do I say this?
Iran said they vowed revenge.
We were in the middle of working with, remember, until we killed.
The Iranian negotiator.
When Trump did that, I don't.
Oh, al-Baghdadi and all this other.
I don't know how we do this.
I don't know the jurisdiction by which we did it.
Like Zarq, who was this?
Zawahiri or Zarqawi or one of the ones, the American citizen.
I don't know where this comes from.
I think Trump really likes being a badass.
I think he really likes going into that war room.
He doesn't wear that jacket like the others wear.
He doesn't wear it.
He always wears his suit.
He doesn't wear that jacket.
But he has it out so you can see it.
I think he really loves being kind of in the front lines.
He loves being the leader, which is a very good thing because you are the leader.
You are the leader of the world.
You are the leader of the world.
And remember, people are so worried about saying, I don't want to say anything bad about Trump, because I love Trump, is like, okay, well that's good for you.
But the question that we have to ask is a very, very simple thing.
A very, very, very simple thing.
And the simple question we have to ask is, what do you think is going to happen with this?
Oh, by the way, maybe we can have a draft to fight other wars.
Yeah, there you go.
This is nuts!
You know this, I know this.
I like Debbie says, Why is President Trump doing this?
We can't afford this.
Debbie, I'm with you 100%.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We're not pacifists.
We're not people who believe necessarily that this is an impossible venture or that it's wrong per se.
We're not saying that.
I'm sorry, I've never said that.
Sometimes wars are necessary.
This isn't one of them.
We know better than this.
They know better than this.
What are we doing?
I don't believe, and I mean this, and I'm sorry.
Don't take this the wrong way.
I don't believe anything BB says about anything.
And the reason is simply this.
He's a very, and understandably, desperate man.
They're coming after him.
They want to get him and his wife to indict them.
Sal Angelo says, Iran couldn't even send the U.S. a postcard, let alone a nuclear bomb.
Well, they're not going to do anything to us.
But I...
When Iran says, why can't we have the bomb?
You're different.
Why are we different?
Because you're Iran, damn it.
What does that mean?
I don't know.
You just are.
You just are, and you're evil, and that's the way that goes.
He's losing so much capital.
Pilgrim says, could these blue-haired pronouns, kids, could these blue-haired pronouns fight a war?
Well, they're not the ones who are going to be necessarily doing it.
Another thing, too, is there's this myth of the invincibility of the IDF.
They're not as good as you might think.
They're good.
They have mandatory...
But these are not the elites that you think.
Understand something.
Israel is the size of New Jersey.
It has about 600,000 or so troops.
Iran, I'm going to call it Iran, is the size of Western Europe or from Maine to Florida, the East Coast, basically.
It has about 100 million people.
Israel has as many people in the country as I believe as Tehran has in the city I mean the sizes are and you think that they say well Iran doesn't have They have about a million troops.
They're not to be taken lightly.
Now, I'm not saying who's the best and who's this and who's that.
But did you see what happened to Tel Aviv?
Did you see it?
I feel so sorry.
Those are good people there.
I know people get all wrapped up in this, but there are good people in Israel.
There are Arabs and there are Jews and there are people who live there.
They're all Israelis.
And they're good folks.
And one of my really close friends I've known for years.
I always email him and I say, I hope you're okay and you're family.
I got nothing against these people.
They don't want this.
They want to live in peace.
Most people say they have nothing to do with Gaza.
They have nothing to do with this.
Nothing.
They don't have anything.
They have to worry about...
What Bibi's worried about was his biggest concern is, what if two million people just take off?
What if people just take off?
Two million people, if they say, we're out of here, that would destroy it.
And that's why, now remember, this is not, I am not saying this, other people were saying this.
They were suspecting and suspicious of the fact that Bibi was basically setting up his own Israelis as human shields, preventing them From leaving.
Preventing them from driving away.
preventing them.
And the biggest to-do...
He's yelling at...
Tucker Carlson has more people watching him than Fox News.
This is where I want to get to the present and say, what are you talking about?
They're all saying, this is ridiculous.
It doesn't make any sense.
What are you doing?
What about these people you're killing?
Piers Morgan, who's just...
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
It's one of these...
I don't know who's who anymore.
George Galloway thought, he apparently got pissed off at me I mean, he has nothing to do with me because I think he thinks I was either on Israel's side or not in favor.
I don't know what he thought.
I have no idea.
So he doesn't want, he blocks me.
Piers Morgan blocks me.
Everybody's blocking me.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Do I sound like anything other than common sense to you?
Because I don't have this hatred.
See, I don't hate.
Let me explain something to you.
There are people, you understand, who hate.
Hate Trump.
Hate Bibi.
Hate Iran.
Hate.
And when you hate, you lose perspective.
You lose focus.
I don't hate anybody.
This is geopolitical.
This is chessboard stuff.
I don't get upset over this.
I don't hate anybody.
I don't understand this.
I don't hate when B.B. had prostate cancer.
People were hoping he'd be, I hope he dies.
I don't.
The same thing with Trump.
I know people who are theoretically so ill they can't walk around, but they go on these stupid no-king's marches because they hate Trump.
I've got somebody who told me, I can't believe this incompetent President Trump, and said, what did you say during Biden?
How do you do this?
So let me just tell you something right now.
I don't hate anybody.
I don't hate Iran.
I don't hate Israel.
I don't hate Zionists.
I don't hate Palestinians.
That's not it.
It's a game to me.
It is human lives, of course, but I'm looking at the players.
That's all I'm doing.
I don't lose my way into this.
When the radical left and this and that, I don't hate these people.
And it's so funny how they were teaming up.
Everything I've been saying about Fox News, Tucker finally, just, he and, I mean, come on.
Bannon's kind of full of shit and Tucker is too.
I have been nothing but straight with you the whole time.
I'm the most common sense...
I'll tell you exactly the way it is.
I don't lose...
I don't lose...
Do you know that during the...
When the mob was really big, when the FBI went after the mob, the mafia, they would oftentimes...
No, really.
if they would issue a search warrant sometimes they'd let the FBI in, they'd make them coffee, have a seat, they wouldn't It's very simple.
Israel wants Israel for itself.
Who can blame them?
Do you want to share with anybody?
Hell no.
So they want to get these people out of there.
They want to make either Gaza unlivable, uninhabitable.
Get out.
We want this.
It's called ethnic cleansing.
We've done this.
Native Americans, people, oh my God.
Look, we still have them on reservations.
If I'm Israel, I'm saying, I don't want you here.
This is mine.
And I don't give a shit whether you, because it's biblical predisposition, provenance, God.
I'm going to use any goddamn thing I want.
We still think that Christopher Columbus discovered America.
We still think that.
There were people here.
How do you discover something where there's already people there?
We come up with this.
We do the same thing.
We think we're better.
We take stuff.
We took California.
We took Mexico.
Texas.
We've done the same thing.
I understand it.
I don't get upset over it.
Sal says when Trump made his remarks regarding Tucker, he didn't sound like himself.
He sounded tired, fatigued, and irritable.
I wonder if it's not thinking with a clear mind at this time.
You know what, Sal?
I wonder if, a couple of things.
First, I want you to notice something.
First, you know, we all love the president.
Wouldn't have anybody but him.
I think he's, if you can let Trump be Trump, he's the best.
I think he has made so many deals with Israel, either because of AIPAC, because of this, because of that, I don't know, maybe Jared, or business, I don't know.
I think he's thinking to himself, this is the worst thing I ever got myself into.
My heart's not in this.
Why am I threatening Iran?
They don't do anything.
I don't feel it.
Because I'm stuck with this.
I've adopted this enemy.
And I'm going back on what I'm saying.
I'm going against what I'm saying.
This is not me.
It's true with this.
I'm stuck.
I don't know what to do.
And then, of course, you've got people on Fox News.
They're all on the payroll, too.
Let me tell you something.
And I hope you don't take this the wrong way.
Okay?
And we keep saying AIPAC, AIPAC, this AIPAC, that.
There may be other organisms.
But let's just use this as a kind of a generic term.
If AIPAC disappeared tomorrow, they were just defunded.
You would say, whatever you want, they would be so done.
They wouldn't give a shit about this.
They're only in it...
Thank you.
Come on.
Do you think there's anything new?
You don't think climate change?
Do you think Al Gore gave a rat's ass about the snail daughter or whatever it is?
Come on.
It's money.
It's power.
It's billions.
Al Gore could very, they say, would be the first carbon billionaire.
In the old days, there used to be things like, there are people who, Let me tell you something.
They will...
And not only are you a millionaire, you're the Institute for the Study of War with the Kegans and the Newlands.
You're on Fox News.
Your word is gold.
You keep saying, oh no, trust me, go to war.
Okay, because we like Jack Keane because he was a general.
And then you have people like McGregor and these guys who say, what are you doing?
But the first time, if you're 70 years old and you're making five, six million a year, let me tell you something.
Listen to me.
You may think you can avoid that.
You might say, the hell with this.
I'm in.
I'm not going to turn this money down.
Better I get it than somebody else.
Okay, I'll do it.
So what?
Okay.
I'm not a legislator, so I go on and I promote war.
So what?
I'm just one guy.
My family's going to be set for life.
I'm going to do it.
I'll do it.
You do it too.
Don't kid yourself.
You would do it too.
Give you five million bucks to go.
And people love you.
And you were a millionaire.
And what you're saying is not illegal.
It's not.
Wrong.
It's just maybe immoral or something, but that's a different story.
So, listen.
So, when you talk about AIPAC and Adelson, it's no different than anything else, than the military-industrial complex.
It's money.
It's power.
Everybody wants something.
I do believe that Adelson is a true believer.
I think she's absolutely there.
Absolutely.
And I believe that Zionism is a very strong force.
I understand it.
And I know there are people who are Jews who themselves are against it.
Which is another argument which I don't think most people even consider.
Be a realist.
I understand why people do things.
It doesn't matter.
There's no such thing as morality.
It's about how do I get power?
How do I get power and how do I do everything in my power to continue?
But the president, though, I was going to ask you.
Somebody was saying something about he was like walking funny.
Just didn't look right.
You know, when you get to be 80, all of a sudden, remember this, all of a sudden you say, hey, that's weird.
I don't hear that well.
Or it hits you like this.
And he could be a lot of things.
I don't know how he handles stress.
This is not the way to end your life on the back nine.
The pressure is incredible.
I always think he's shown, in some respects, very bad decisions.
I'll tell you this much about him, and I would tell him this.
I love the guy.
He's too much of a star fucker.
Pardon my French.
That's a term of art.
You know what I mean, right?
That's a term.
I'm not just saying that.
He loves stars.
Give me a Judge Jeanine, a Bongino, a Kash Patel, a Pam Bondi.
Do they look good on TV?
Are they on TV?
Yeah, I like that.
Or somebody who's rich, somebody who's a billionaire, somebody who's in his own class.
He loves that.
That's who I want.
He doesn't want you and me.
He doesn't want to know you and me, and that's okay.
That's fine.
He loves it.
And sometimes I think his vision and his judgment has been contaminated by that.
Amen.
Thank you.
And I think that he might be one of those folks who, when B.B. says, Mr. President, you show the courage, you're a lion.
When B.B. brought up a gold pager, I couldn't believe what I was saying.
There were innocent people who got killed by that thing.
Do you think that's funny?
You think that was funny?
Boy, these people are sick.
I think when the president, I think the last person who talks to him, who says, you're going to go out to Mr. President, you're going to go, you're going to show them you are to be.
Don't F around with him.
This is Donald Trump.
That voice, you're a Saladin, you're a George Washington, you're a Patton.
He loves that stuff.
I'm proud to be an American.
His rallies.
You know who the rallies were for?
Not for you, but for him.
He loved this.
I see nothing wrong with that.
Because he loves the notion of patriotism.
He loves the war general.
He loves this.
But with that particular predisposition comes problems.
You're sometimes prone to make mistakes.
You see, if you're a skirt chaser, if you're some guy in business, and you're always looking at people, and you're always going to, you know, ah, you...
You're going to find yourself in trouble.
And that's not a good thing.
You're going to find yourself in trouble.
You're going to find yourself in the position of maybe having people utilize this propensity of yours and kind of set you up with honeypots.
I'm telling you.
Everybody's got their thing.
Nixon, as screwed up as he supposedly was, was one of the greatest true leaders.
He and Kissinger.
Absolutely got it.
Now, they might have made the wrong decisions.
Thank God.
LBJ, not so much.
But Nixon?
Oh, man.
And if you can file...
First, July 19th.
Cutting room.
Better be there.
I want to see you.
Bring camp.
We're going to have a full house like you can't believe.
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She's owning it.
She owns it, in my opinion.
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I'm never going to say something just to be nice.
I told you before, I'm 100% with this president.
I am MAGA blue and blue.
Red and red, whatever it is.
True blue or through and through.
But this ain't MAGA.
No.
I don't know what this is.
This is another story.
Okay?
Alright, dear friends.
Have a great and a glorious evening.
Thank you to all of our kind and wonderful and generous friends tonight.
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And tell the board app, tell the screener, you're a part of the nation.
All right, dear friends.
We love you.
Have a great and glorious time.
See you tomorrow at 9 a.m.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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