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June 25, 2025 - Lionel Nation
20:58
Trump the Peacemaker? Or Master of Misdirection? Iran-Israel Ceasefire Shocker EXPLAINED
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This morning, it is Tuesday morning at 12.36 a.m.
Ready to go on live at 1 a.m.
for this thing of ours that we involve ourselves with every single day.
And I am so glad you are with me indeed on this day.
Today promises to be a hot day in New York City.
A hot day.
And of course, people are going to be going crazy because it's something to talk about that doesn't require any thinking.
That simple.
You see, I love the world of complex.
I love the world of things that are not really black or white, but things that are gray, things that have different permutations, dare I say.
And that's why I don't fit in the world, because people don't like to live in a world of permutations.
They like other stuff.
They like to live in a world of, well, how do I say this?
They like other stuff.
They like simple, matter of fact.
And today, dear friend, today we ask a very simple question.
And today's question is very simply this.
What do you think of the president's announcement or the announcement of, dare I say, this thing called a ceasefire?
What do you think about this?
Does this make any sense to you whatsoever?
Do you believe in this thing called a ceasefire?
Anybody listening now, let me make sure I get my stuff.
Make sure I get my right folks who were on there.
Because one of the things which I do not understand is, and when I say this very critically, people get all upset.
I don't know whether I can trust President Trump, meaning, meaning, I'm not saying he's a liar, but he does things sometimes strategically to confuse and, dare I say, obfuscate.
You hear what I'm saying?
He obfuscates.
He puts himself in the position of sometimes saying things which are not necessarily true.
And for reasons he does this that are in essence strategically there for a reason.
He doesn't do it to be mean.
He doesn't do it to be deceptive.
He does it because he is a skillful manipulator of the truth.
And sometimes he will say things that are not true so that you will think they are true.
Sorry, the reflection in my glasses.
Weird Matter is here.
Says hello.
Carol Wardropper says, can it be trusted?
Susie Q, I'm hopeful.
I only listen to Lionel when he is live.
Now YouTube has so many commercials, it doubles the watch time of a video.
Yeah, yeah.
That's how we make money.
Life's a Hail Mary.
That's how we make money.
We make money that way.
When you see a commercial, that's a sign.
Somebody likes us and we're making money.
Isn't that good?
I think that's important.
Lionel needs to shut his yap.
What is this?
To shut his yap and let things happen before passing judgment.
Have I passed any judgment this morning, by the way?
Have I passed any judgment?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
And by the way, we have a very nice family here.
And I suggest, if you think I'm not shutting my app, maybe you might want to go someplace else.
That's right.
I moved the flag behind us in the studio.
Make sure the flag's there.
Other channels are 6-second or 30-second commercials.
Oh, sorry about that, Life.
So what would you, this is important, Life, what would you prefer that we do just to accommodate you?
Just let me know.
What can we do to accommodate you?
Commercials are how we make money.
This is how people make money.
What would you suggest we do?
Do this for free?
This is it.
I mean, what would you like us to do, life?
I'm very serious.
What would you like us to do?
Yes.
How to express yourself without using the yeah.
But I'm very curious, before we get on, life's a Hail Mary.
Life doesn't like this.
She doesn't like commercials.
What would you suggest that we do?
What would you suggest that we do?
I'm just thinking.
I'm going to wait a couple of seconds more.
What would you suggest that we do?
I make no bones about this.
Everybody makes, everybody, everybody, I don't know, everybody does this.
I'm really serious about this.
Can we believe Trump about a ceasefire?
Fred, that's what we're talking about.
Fred, that's what we're talking about.
Thank you, Freddie.
That's it, my friend.
Can you believe Trump?
Why do you think so?
I like this one.
Angel says, how many times has Lionel been wrong about the political atmosphere these past few years?
A heck of a lot less than the so-called experts, if my memory serves me correctly.
Life says, I think it's a form of shadow banning.
Commercials?
Commercials where we make money is shadow banning?
This, I don't think shadow.
Is anybody going to talk to the shadow and explain what's going on here?
This is the most important.
This is the most important thing in the world.
Nobody's judging anything.
We are American citizens.
We have the right to address and assess what is happening as it occurs right now.
I'm not judging anything.
I don't know whether the president, very frankly, now here we go.
J. Miguel Deval says, coward.
Who's a coward?
This is my rant lately.
I don't know what to, I don't know what to say.
When you write coward, what coward?
Who?
Trump?
Me?
The person you're talking to?
You have to be clear.
If we don't know what the you're talking about, what's the point of this?
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
This, I don't understand what's happening.
It's becoming harder and harder to understand what people are saying.
The ceasefire started at 12 a.m.
Eastern Time.
Okay?
Some ceasefire, they were shooting each other beforehand.
Iran says, you hit me twice illegally.
Now you call for a ceasefire?
What?
Well, thanks.
Appreciate that.
Isn't that something?
I think that's the funniest goddamn thing ever.
I think this is the funniest thing ever.
Iran, I know you're not supposed to like Iran.
Nobody likes it, but it's like, we blast you the paper.
Okay, how about a ceasefire?
Okay, well, whatever.
This is the most fantastic thing we've ever seen.
You go off on wild, fast and loose theories and comments.
I don't know what that means, but thank you very much.
What does that mean?
Fast and loose.
You are a little boy on a grown-up channel.
I repeat, piss off.
Who are we talking about now?
Me?
Are you talking about me, Susan?
See, I got to stop reading your comments.
That's what I'm going to do.
Unless you give me a reason to comment, I'm just, I can't follow it.
I can't follow it.
It's like being in a room with a bunch of drunk people who are all talking, I think, to each other.
Maybe talking to me.
I don't even know.
I tried.
I officially give up.
I don't understand it.
Now I know why people like others don't spend their time reading comments.
I wanted to be different.
I tried.
I really tried.
But I don't think this is working.
Okay, the bottom line, let's see what happens.
Let's see.
Let's see if this ceasefire works.
Here is my question.
Does anybody see Iran's point of view?
No.
No.
Okay.
Would you like to know what they're thinking?
No.
Okay.
Do they have a point in all this?
No.
Do you want to maybe think about what they're saying?
No.
McNamara's position years ago was interesting.
I interviewed Robert McNamara, and it was during his book or his piece called The Fog of War.
And McNamara says, one of the things he learned about, he said, which was so critical, now McNamara was a son of a bitch who, by the way, said the most stupid things ever.
And they said, this is the most stupid thing ever.
They showed, he said that, well, you can imagine there were different reasons for him to.
He ran the war like he did the Ford Motor Company.
Remember that one?
Now, one of the things he said was, later on, after he was done, he said, understand your enemy.
Understand your enemy.
Don't agree with them.
Don't love them.
But understand what they're about.
Understand them.
What's their point?
Do you know how many people?
Do you know how many people?
Yes, Errol Morris was very, very good.
By the way, it wasn't just error.
I mean, it was what McNamara did himself.
And of course, you might want to say he was trying to soft-soap his own particular errors.
But anyway, the thing which is so profoundly critical, which I find, and by the way, throwing this in, notice how they stop scratching up Teslas.
Remember that one?
Remember that one?
That was the most fun.
When they were doing this for no particular reason.
So anyway, so one of the things I try to do, which is the most important, is I try my best to try to figure out what is it that the other people are saying.
Do you believe that Iran is evil?
Do you?
They talk about you can't, a woman cannot, a woman cannot walk around with her hair showing.
You hear that one?
Women cannot, cannot, cannot.
And yet we're seeing videos over and over and over and over of people currently right now out and about.
Parts of Iran look like Europe.
So do I believe them?
I don't know.
And if Iran wants to have Something where women cannot walk around without their head covered, are we going to bomb them because of that?
I mean, isn't that their house call?
We have in this country nuns who elect.
Now, some do and some don't.
But if you decide to have a world where a woman cannot drive or have long hair, are we supposed to go to war with this country?
I don't think so.
I hope we don't, because I don't think it's a good idea.
You know what I'm saying?
Does that make any sense to you?
So let me ask you a question.
Who believes the president?
Now, when I say do you believe the president, meaning do you think it's going to be, it's real or what?
Do you believe this?
Now, let's see what happens here.
Let me read.
Let's see.
Here we go.
Got some good stuff here.
Let me see.
Am I missing something here?
I think I'm missing something.
Okay.
Bald ego writes, something is fishy in this equation.
Scientists in general's diet tell aviven rubbles.
Missiles are flying as we speak.
I smell more deception.
You know, Bald, you're absolutely so correct.
And I mean to tell you this, one of the reasons which is so important is for me to recognize one particular fact, and that is that I don't believe anything from anybody.
Nothing.
People want to believe that which they believe.
They want to believe what they believe in.
Somebody, one day we were asking questions, do you believe in the power of prayer?
Nobody wanted to get to the science of whether prayer was correct.
He wanted to believe in prayer.
Um...
Show me, he says, you had a question today about what is the truth.
Rudy G said it best.
The truth is not always the truth.
Us citizens will never know what's going on.
Absolutely right.
He was in the military academy.
He knows the art of war by Sun Tzu.
Please, Sun Tzu, notice how I say that, is not the be-all, end-all of war, nor is Marcus Aurelius.
Everybody's quoting Marcus Aurelius.
The question is simply this.
You have a group of people, you have Trump who says, anything Trump says is considered genius by Fox News.
Genius!
Absolutely genius!
100%.
Everything is just genius.
He's 4D chess.
The man is a genius.
Okay.
Then you've got other folks.
Ooh, I'm sorry.
You've got other folks, Fox News and I mean MSDSC, who say everything he does is wrong.
So between those parameters, this is what most people believe in.
Where do I go?
I go to people in Europe.
I go to, believe it or not, Iranian things.
I go through.
There's so much to go through and so much to really think about.
So much.
It's the most incredible thing in the world.
And I don't, I'm not satisfied with a black and white answer.
I know things are kind of gray.
I realize that.
I recognize that.
Somebody says, Trump's a decent leader.
I think he's pretty good.
I like him.
Who else are we going to pick?
Who?
Who?
Who else is there?
I like that.
Arcane.
Let Iranians do what they want.
If the people want to change their government, they do it.
They don't need to be forced to do it at gunpoint or at the West.
Absolutely.
It's the most important thing.
How do we say this?
It's some of the most important things ever.
I mean it, it's some of the most important stuff ever.
Absolutely possible.
Or theoretical.
Let me see this.
Who else we have here?
I'm looking at some of your comments.
Some of this is pretty, you know, Let me see what else is here.
I'm not seeing anything that's jumping out at me from some of your comments, but that's okay.
That's alright.
Let me see here.
Something is fishy.
Nuclear bombs just days away from completion, and these Biaches want to negotiate.
We've been doing that for 40 years.
like that.
I wonder how much people are writing That's a very good question.
That's a very, very good question.
So what I'd like everybody to do right now is do me a great favor.
Oh, look at this.
Iranian students are being forced to support the regime.
They may need some help.
How about some USAID money for this?
What are you talking about?
There are people who are saying no.
This is the most important.
I've got to tell you something.
There are some things which I find fascinating.
Let me see what we can do here.
Let me see.
And move some others here.
Somebody said, let's put Tim Walsh in charge with Kamala.
Maybe Lionel will be satisfied with them.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Okay.
What else we have here?
Let me see here.
Nobody knows anything about what Iranian students are.
Do you?
Do you think they are?
Do you think they really understand?
Do you think, seriously, do you think, do you honestly believe that people, do you believe the truth about Iran?
I'm seeing others who are saying this isn't even true.
So how do you know what you know?
How do you know what's look, the bottom line is this.
I want to believe the president.
I want to believe, but he's not going to tell us necessarily what he's doing.
And he's not going to tell us what he thinks is right.
Not everything the president does is right, but I want to know what other people think.
I want to know what the enemy thinks.
And I want to know who's really evil.
Are people really evil?
When you go to, you step off the plane and you go to Iran, they're all evil, and then they sit around and they kind of like they rub their hands together because they're evil.
I don't believe that for a moment.
I think that's too easy to understand.
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So in any event, dear friends, have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to be cutting up.
It's about 12.55, so I've got to go back and start the show.
It's been terrific.
Some of you have been wonderful.
It's all propaganda.
I want to know what is evil?
Define evil.
I think that's what I'm going to do for the radio show.
So thank you for that.
At any event, my friends, have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
And I appreciate it more than anything else.
And ask you, before we begin, before we continue rather, before we end, to always do the right thing.
And to, sorry, to my camera's right there.
So if I try to undo this, you'll see my thumb.
Sorry about that.
So anyway, don't forget the Monkey's Dead show is over, so you gotta go.
Gotta go right now.
Time to go.
Thanks for the great comments.
Some of them useless.
Some of them piquant, but I think you know which one.
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