“Ladies and gentlemen, it seems as if the Iranian regime thought that they had outmaneuvered President Trump. They thought that they could just sort of run down the clock. They thought that they could stall the negotiations and drag their feet long enough that President Trump would just get bored, give up, and go home.”
“Well, we actually just got a breaking news update just now, just this morning, from President Trump himself. And as it would turn out, they were wrong. The Iranian regime, in fact, they were dead wrong in their calculations, in their planning, in their scheming. 100% wrong. In fact, take a look at this.”
“I want to kick this off with this breaking news report. Israel assesses on their own that President Trump has in fact decided to attack Iran. This news is hot off the press with joint US-Israeli preparations now fully complete to carry out an attack. Israel is on its highest alert since the ceasefire started right this moment and says that it must strike first or potentially risk a preemptive strike from Iran.”
“Israel just got done holding a 5-hour long security council meeting last night with the IDF chief and air force commander. Netanyahu has also requested to cancel his own court testimony tomorrow due to ongoing security developments. So, Israeli intelligence right now is saying that an attack is actually imminent. But, okay, we have a lot more to talk about here.”
“Let’s start breaking all of this down. First off, take a listen to this.”
“Yeah. Hey guys, good morning. Look, the clock is still ticking. President Trump giving Iran a few more days to get their act together. The president posting on True Social overnight that he had planned to attack Iran, but he’s holding off at the request of Gulf leaders.”
“He said in part on True Social, ‘I’ve instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegs, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Daniel Kaine, and the United States military that we will not be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full large-scale assault of Iran on a moment’s notice in the event that an acceptable deal is not reached.'”
“The timeline here remains the biggest question. The Israeli military remains on high alert and the US military buildup across the region is growing each day. President Trump indicated this is a temporary pause to see if an agreement can be reached.”
“I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal.”
“And if we can do that where there’s no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think and if they’re satisfied, uh, we will be probably satisfied also.”
“The Iranians released a few statements overnight with the country’s president Masud Peskin saying dialogue does not mean surrender and a senior Iranian official Mosen Razi attacking President Trump on X saying he sets a deadline for a military attack and then canceled it himself with the false hope that he will surrender the Iranian nation and officials. The iron fist of the powerful armed forces and the great nation of Iran will force them to retreat and surrender.”
“Still a lot of tough talk from the Iranians overnight and questions about how long this temporary pause could last, guys.”
“A lot of tough talk. There’s they’re still after having the living hell blown out of them time and time again, they are still talking trash.”
“On top of that, over in the Middle East right now, we’re actually still on high alert. Take a listen to this. This could kick off at any moment if the president sees there is no serious deal on the table and these Gulf countries will be updated about that understanding that they will likely come under direct attack from the Iranian regime.”
“I’ve been talking with regional sources over the past 24 hours and many of them have been quite silent about what comes next because there is a lot of very serious intelligence behind the scenes and again the United States and Israel are not going to project to the Iranian regime what their plans are.”
“They want to catch them by surprise, understanding that Iran still poses a threat to US forces and allies across the Middle East. So again, what President Trump knows and what he says publicly are two different things. And the United States and Israel remain prepared for the possibility that this bombing campaign resumes.”
“That is something that is very, very important to keep in mind here.”
“President Trump has all of the top intelligence, all the top information, all the top insight. He’s got better knowledge than anybody else in the entire world. Let’s be honest. most certainly more than I or any of us have. So just because something is being said in the media does not mean that a certain other plan is unfolding.”
“But beyond everything we just took a look at, we also heard from President Trump himself just this morning about this entire admittedly very fragile situation. First off, take a listen to how close he was to striking Iran again before some of our Middle Eastern allies pleaded with him to pump the brakes at a minimum just for a couple days.”
“Take a listen to this.”
“How close were you to striking around?”
“Uh I was I was”
“I was an hour away.”
“We were all set to go. You’re talking about yesterday.”
“We were going to be striking very It would have been happening right now.”
“Yeah. I was all done. The boats, the ships are all loaded. They’re loaded to the brim and we’re all set to start.”
“We were one hour away from striking Iran again. And then we got the message from it was UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia said, ‘Listen, hold up. Please give it a couple more days. We think we might have a deal here.'”
“Then this morning, President Trump went on to say this.”
“You know, we’re negotiating with Iran. And then you have the Democrats, I call them the Democrats, putting in a bill that Trump should immediately stop. You know how it is to negotiate with a country where you’re beating them badly. They come to the table, they’re begging to make a deal cuz they’re begging to make a deal.”
“I hope we don’t have to do the war, but we may have to give him another big hit. We may have to give him another big hit. I’m not sure yet. Uh you’ll know very soon. But how do you feel when you’re negotiating? You’re winning every point and they say, ‘But in Washington, they want to stop you from negotiating. They want to stop you.’ And it’s only political.”
“It’s the Democrats. They’re dumb. It’s a new name. It’s a very accurate name. So, I’m in the middle of a negotiation. And I’m saying you cannot have a nuclear weapon. And it comes over the wire that the Democrats want to stop Trump from further negotiations. They want to stop Trump from if he has to giving them another slap.”
“They want to have a nuclear weapon to blow up the Middle East and to blow up, frankly, the world. It’s not going to happen.”
“Folks, think about how just insane this is. President Trump is negotiating really an unconditional surrender with the Iranian regime after having blowing blown the living hell out of him for weeks.”
“And while all of this is happening, as President Trump has got the Iranian regime in a headlock, he’s trying to get him to tap out here. You’ve got the Democrats back here in the US, the radical progressives and the left-wing media. Every single day they’re getting up here on Capitol Hill printing their articles. Left-wing mainstream media saying the United States is losing.”
“The Iranian regime is winning. Blah blah blah blah blah. Trump has no plan. He’s an idiot. He has no idea what he’s doing. Are they helping? Do you think that they’re helping this situation? No. In fact, effectively, whether or not they know what they are doing, I would suspect they do. They are carrying water for the Iranian regime.”
“They’re pushing propaganda for on behalf of the Iranian regime. What do we do about that? Well, some of us might have an idea. President Trump then explained what his entire thought process here is with this entire situation. Take a listen to this.”
“Know how long did they know that you were playing the Gulf?”
“Uh, they knew I was getting ready to attack. I didn’t tell them. I’d never tell anybody when.”
“You’re a close contact.”
“I never tell anybody when, but but they knew that we were very close. I would say we were I was an hour away from making the decision to go today and we would probably not be talking about a beautiful ballroom today. We’d be talking about that.”
“And uh no, I we were I had made the decision. So they called up. They had heard I made the decision. That is sir, could you give us a couple of more days because we think they’re being reasonable.”
“How long for Iran to come?”
“Well, I mean, I’m saying two or three days, maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something. Maybe early next week. A limited period of time.”
“Because we can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. If if they had a nuclear weapon, they would start with Israel. They would blow it up and they would blow it up fast, but they’d blow it up. And I’ll tell you what, they go after Saudi Arabia. They go after Kuwait. They go after UAE. They go after Qatar.”
“They go after I think they go after the entire Middle East. And it would be a whole different negotiation. It would not be it would be it would be nuclear holocaust. And there’s no question in my mind that they’d use it. There’s no question. And I deal with these people. They’re extremely radicalized. These are not people like when I deal with you. You’re a very nice guy.”
“These are people that are seriously radicalized. They would use it. The only question, would it be the first minute, the first hour, or the first day?”
“Folks, I want to share with you a thought. It’s been running through my mind for a couple days now. You know, we’ve heard from the Trump administration, Marco Rubio, Hegsith, Vance, Trump himself, all of them, that when we kicked off Operation Epic Fury, we engaged with our preemptive offensive strikes against the Iranian regime, what in late February, February 28th was it? Whenever it was a couple months ago, we had to do it then. It was urgent. It was a time-sensitive issue. It had to be done then. We could not wait.”
“That the Iranian regime, they were on the cusp of achieving a couple things. potentially being able to deliver a nuclear payload on the top of one of their ballistic missiles.”
“What’s more, that they would have a conventional weapon, not nuclear weapon, a conventional weapon umbrella. What does that mean? that they would have so many bunkers, so many missile launch sites, so many drones, so many mines, so many ballistic missiles and otherwise that they would have been so entrenched and stockpiled and well equipped that we would not have been able to stop them from their nuclear ambitions a year from now or two months from now, any point in the future.”
“They were on that cusp of becoming so entrenched and well-armed that we had to stop them now because we could not have done it 12 months from now or some point in the future.”
“And you know what I want to say? I think that makes a lot of sense. And I’ll give you one reason why. Just one. There’s many reasons why I think that makes sense.”
“Let me give you one reason. For every single reason imaginable, it would have been much better. I’m talking politically speaking. It would have been a better political move to wait until after midterms to start bombing the living hell out of Iran. If Trump really wanted to bomb Iran, it would have made way more sense to wait until after midterms. He didn’t do that.”
“He he started bombing Iran 9 months before midterms. Well, that’s not helping anything. That makes midterms incredibly difficult, right? Because it’s controversial. It might end up costing us midterms. Some people say that. Some of the top experts.”
“And so then you ask the okay well then if this is obvious that he should have waited until after midterms to do this why did he not why did he do it nine months before midterms because there was an imminent threat that’s why it couldn’t wait because it could not wait there was an imminent threat an imminent concern and that’s why we did it nine months before midterms think about that for a moment.”
“Now I want to share something with you folks finally President Trump here he said something this morning that is in my opinion actually very very powerful. Effectively what Trump says is that sometimes a man in life has to make decisions and take action even if those decisions and that action are controversial or even unpopular.”
“They’ve got to be done nonetheless. I want you to take a listen to what he said.”
“I’m not doing this politically. I’m Look, everyone tells me it’s unpopular, but I think it’s very popular. When you when they hear that it’s having to do with nuclear weapons, weapons that could take out Los Angeles, could take out major cities very quick.”
“When they hear that, you know, when they’re explain, I’ll tell you what, when we explain it to people, I don’t really have enough time to explain to people. I’m too busy getting it done. When they understand, I think it’s a I think it’s frankly very popular. But whether it’s popular or not popular, I have to do it because I’m not going to let the world be blown up on my watch. It’s not going to happen.”
“Whether it’s popular or unpopular, it’s got to be done. Had to do it. Popularity be damned. You know, I’m a father. Sometimes my kids want to have an ice cream bar. I have to say no. Sometimes they can’t have ice cream for every meal. Amongst my house, amongst my children, it is incredibly unpopular when I make the decision to not allow them to have ice cream for every single meal.”
“But it’s the right decision nonetheless. Sometimes the right decision, as Trump said, as we all know, sometimes the right proper decision is the unpopular decision. Actions have to be made.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s for this reason here, for this entire thought process, this line of reasoning here that frankly in me instills once more faith in Trump that he will continue going forward to keep on putting America first.”
