Trump TURNS on Hegseth in BIZARRE Press Conference

[0:00] Iran has rejected a U.S. ceasefire proposal. [0:03] Negotiations aren't happening as of now. [0:04] Trump is sending another 2,000 troops to the Middle East. [0:07] Israel is still bombing Iran and Lebanon. [0:10] And the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. [0:12] So naturally, this is what Trump and Pete Hegseth [0:15] had to say in the Oval on Tuesday. [0:18] The air campaign that we've conducted, [0:20] that Israel's conducted alongside us, [0:21] was one for the history books, truly. [0:23] And it's because we have a president of the United States [0:25] that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, [0:28] he unties their hands to actually go out and close with [0:31] and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible [0:34] from moment one. [0:35] And that's why we see ourselves [0:36] as part of this negotiation as well. [0:38] We negotiate with bombs. [0:41] You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, [0:44] as the president talked about, about your future. [0:47] The president has made it clear [0:48] that you will not have a nuclear weapon. [0:50] The War Department agrees. [0:51] Our job is to ensure that. [0:53] And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle [0:55] as long as it's hard, as it's necessary. [0:58] Mm-hmm. [0:58] To ensure the interest of the United States of America [1:00] are achieved on the battlefield. [1:02] Let's call that for socials. [1:02] You know, the only two people that were quite disappointed, [1:06] I don't want to say this, but I have to, [1:08] I said, Pete and General Raising Cane, [1:11] I think this thing's going to be settled very soon. [1:15] Here they go. [1:16] Oh, that's too bad. [1:19] Pete didn't want it to be settled. [1:21] I don't know if you caught the hand on the throttle motion. [1:24] I did. [1:24] It was really... [1:25] Trump caught it. [1:26] Yeah, I was going to say, [1:27] there's a couple people caught. [1:29] Trump's expression, he was just like... [1:31] It was even too much for him. [1:32] Although you can kind of see there that Trump's like, [1:34] Pete's really excited about dropping bombs. [1:37] Yeah, I don't believe that... [1:40] I can believe that Pete Hegseth would be disappointed [1:43] to have this, and I don't believe that [1:46] the chairman of the Joint Chiefs feels the same way. [1:49] A person who is part of this operation [1:54] but seemed to try to lend some seriousness to it, [1:58] even though the people making the decisions [1:59] are not serious at all. [2:03] One reason that Trump might actually think [2:05] we've won this war, [2:06] did you see the NBC story about the little movie [2:09] they put together for the president every morning? [2:11] I did. [2:12] The highlight reel of all the things going boom. [2:14] Yeah, stuff blowing up, they call it. [2:16] They send... [2:17] It's so ludicrous. [2:19] They prepare... [2:20] He's a visual learner. [2:22] A trailer for the... [2:24] Previously on the war in Iran, [2:26] you know during the Olympics, [2:27] in the Olympics there's now a feed, [2:30] you know, [2:30] you can watch called like Oops! All Gold, [2:32] and it's basically just watch Americans win [2:34] over and over again. [2:35] That's beautiful. [2:36] I love that. [2:36] I like that that exists as an option. [2:38] It's like NFL Red Zone, [2:38] but for just bombing Tehran. [2:41] But you wouldn't want that to be what the, say, [2:43] coaches of the players are watching, right? [2:45] You'd want them to see everything, right? [2:47] For us as Olympic fans, [2:50] you enjoy watching Americans get the gold, [2:52] but a strategic point of view, [2:54] you'd probably need to know everything [2:55] that's going on around the war. [2:58] Yeah, officials are in the NBC story saying, [3:00] that they're actually a little concerned [3:02] that Trump's not getting all the information. [3:05] Then maybe not getting all the good and the bad, [3:08] the full scope of what's actually happening. [3:10] And then he's complaining about the press coverage [3:12] because he's like, [3:13] why is the press coverage like this? [3:15] Because why aren't they seeing what I'm seeing, [3:17] which is just shit blowing up in Tehran [3:19] and throughout Iran, I guess. [3:21] Yeah, I actually, [3:23] I am sure that he is getting more information [3:25] than just the bombing highlight reel, [3:26] but does speak to what he wants and what he appreciates. [3:28] And the fact that that's what they think, [3:30] I think is helpful to helping the president [3:32] see what's going on, right? [3:34] Like they want to like put a, [3:36] basically a ball of yarn in front of them [3:39] before like just to keep them entertained [3:41] while they're trying to explain to him [3:41] what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. [3:43] Yeah, there was also some like, [3:45] they're trying to get him some more polling [3:47] that shows it's unpopular, [3:48] but it's really not like a, [3:51] it's not even like he cares that much [3:52] about public opinion at this point or believes it. [3:55] It really has to do with like the decisions he's making [3:58] about the fucking war. [3:59] Like, you know, if you have a bunch of people, [4:00] you have a whole bunch of people saying to you like, [4:02] hey, this could go on for a long time [4:04] and it doesn't seem like the Iranians [4:05] actually want to negotiate [4:07] or at least want to accept your crazy conditions [4:12] for the end of this war. [4:13] And like, it's gonna, [4:15] I mean, he's just gonna prolong the war [4:17] because he's gonna think that like, [4:18] if only I drop a few more bombs, [4:22] then this, it'll do it. [4:23] And of course, the longer the war goes on, [4:26] the less the bombing is actually effective [4:28] because they hit a bunch of targets. [4:30] They hit hundreds of targets already. [4:32] Like what do they say? [4:33] 9,000 strikes. [4:36] So they've hit a bunch of these targets already. [4:37] So at some point there's, [4:39] you've hit all the military targets [4:41] and that the war has continued. [4:42] The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. [4:43] Like, what are you gonna do? [4:44] Yeah, I was sort of having lived through several wars [4:50] while we've been in politics. [4:52] We had a similar debate [4:54] about what success looked like in Afghanistan, [4:56] had another debate about what success looked like in Iraq. [4:59] And one of the lessons from those conflicts, [5:01] is the US military is the greatest military [5:04] in the history of the world. [5:05] It can destroy any army on the planet, [5:08] but it turns out making another army lose [5:11] doesn't mean you achieve your objectives. [5:13] It doesn't mean you've won the war. [5:14] And we've just done this. [5:15] I remember news cycles about Afghanistan [5:19] where they were running out of places to fucking bomb. [5:23] Same thing happened in Iraq. [5:26] We've done, we've been through this before. [5:28] And the point of a war, [5:31] is not to be as vicious as possible to your enemies, [5:33] actually, that that's actually not the metric. [5:35] Viciousness, maximum viciousness [5:37] is not a strategic imperative [5:39] because it's not about inflicting pain. [5:41] It's about achieving your objectives [5:42] with as little pain as possible [5:44] if you're fighting a just war. [5:45] And so Pete Hegseth has seen- [5:47] When you're not sure of your objectives though, [5:48] then it becomes tricky. [5:50] You measure in how many things you blew up [5:52] and the kind of things you can show the president. [5:54] But Hegseth, even still, we're weeks into this [5:56] and he's still doing this clown show where he's like, [6:00] he's unshackled our war. [6:01] He's unshackled our war fighters. [6:02] It's not a woke war. [6:04] And that's what makes it so amazing. [6:05] And then saying like the Department of War agrees [6:09] that this is the objective [6:10] and we're negotiating with bombs. [6:12] And like, okay, man, say whatever you want. [6:15] It'll play on American television. [6:17] You'll get good responses from your friends and fans. [6:20] The reality on the ground remains. [6:23] Also, the reporting this morning is, [6:26] Sororan publicly rejects the ceasefire proposal [6:28] from the United States, [6:29] but they are, [6:31] privately a little open to negotiations. [6:33] But as we talked about on the pod Tuesday, [6:37] like they're unclear if they want to actually participate [6:41] in any kind of negotiations, especially in person, [6:43] since they have been burned by the United States [6:46] and tricked by the United States [6:48] several times in the past now. [6:49] Several have been killed, burned alive by the United States. [6:52] I'm just like, what are we talking about here? [6:54] So it's like they're, [6:55] of course they don't trust the United States. [6:57] Of course, like, of course there may be open [6:59] to some kind of negotiation in the war, [7:01] but why would they trust the United States? [7:02] Fucking Pete Hegseth is talking about negotiating with bombs [7:05] and they're going to be like, yeah, [7:06] let's hop on a flight to Islamabad and hash out [7:10] some negotiations with JD Vance. [7:12] Did we get any more clarity on what Trump was saying [7:14] yesterday about how the Iranians gave us a beautiful gift? [7:16] Apparently someone asked Caroline Leavitt this morning [7:18] at the briefing just now, and she said, [7:19] well, I'll let him talk about that. [7:21] So we still don't know, still don't know, still don't know. [7:23] Probably probably means absolutely nothing [7:24] like most of the drivel that comes out of his mouth. [7:26] Here's a strange coincidence. [7:28] First reported by Bloomberg and the FT, just minutes. [7:31] Minutes before Trump's post, where he backed down [7:34] from threatening to blow up Iran's power plants, [7:37] $580 million of oil future contracts were traded. [7:42] 6,200 futures contracts, specifically, [7:46] when the average number over the previous five trading days [7:50] was 700. [7:52] Wonder what happened there. [7:53] Just 15 minutes before the big post, suddenly, [7:56] and there was no other news event, [7:58] no other market moving information that was public [8:01] that could have, [8:02] changed how oil futures were traded. [8:05] Just suddenly, a bunch of contracts [8:06] traded 15 minutes before. [8:08] It would be the kind of thing the DOJ would look into [8:11] in a previous era or something that the SEC might investigate. [8:14] CFTC, pick your lettered agency. [8:19] Yeah, extraordinary. [8:21] Is it the Trump family? [8:22] Is it someone in Trump's orbit? [8:24] It's a lot of money, so it's somebody starting with a lot [8:26] of cash on the table. [8:29] Just in any other era, a staggering, [8:32] staggering breach that would lead to investigations, [8:36] hearings, because by the way, much like Hegseth texting, [8:39] if this kind of information is now either, [8:42] it's private information that's being taken advantage of [8:44] by the information, or it's somehow leaking to the public. [8:46] Both would be worth getting to the bottom of. [8:49] But that would depend on having Republicans in Congress [8:52] that give a shit, having an SEC that was independent, [8:54] having a DOJ, that's independent. [8:56] I was thinking about these Republicans in Congress, [8:58] how they think they're savvy, how they think their cynical. [9:00] Boy, what a bunch of absolute fucking [9:02] fucking chumps they are selling to be making all this money well sure there's more money there's [9:07] more money made corley and dowsey is trying to get you know a little bribe here and there [9:11] according to news reports but uh they are selling their souls and backing trump to keep their [9:18] you know couple hundred grand in congress meanwhile trump is and the people around [9:22] them are making billions billions on our backs i was thinking about this too like say this happened [9:28] in the obama white house and the the huge difference aside from the fact that it wouldn't [9:35] have happened um but the huge difference here is that like if obama was going to make a major public [9:41] announcement about war like trump did the circle of people who know would be small but like there [9:48] would have been a process yeah they were you know and so like a whole bunch of people in the nsc and [9:53] the pentagon and here and there and like there would have been a whole you know chain of command [9:57] thing and a group of people and [9:58] probably emails about it stuff like that so then if it leaks and you're like who are these traitors [10:03] the the culprit could have been any number of people right but in who knows how many people [10:08] trump told he was going to post that truth about when he was going to his taco on the [10:14] power plants who knows five people less we just have no idea no idea but probably not a big circle [10:21] probably not a big circle right not a lot of potential suspects there outside trump and uh [10:26] and a few others let's put it on our list let's put it on our list [10:29] uh the the future justice list that's it for this week's preview of pod save america only friends if [10:35] you want to watch the rest of this episode become a paid member of this channel by clicking the join [10:39] button below when you subscribe you also get more exclusive content and ad free episodes of pod save [10:44] america and more crooked shows plus joining is the best way to directly support us as we build a [10:49] counterweight to right-wing media you can learn more crooked.com friends thanks and see you next [10:54] time