Breaking Afternoon UN Updates with Ben 9/22/2026

Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I've been my cellist. This is your breaking news Donald Trump utterly be clowning himself His entire regime and sadly the United States at the United Nations 81st session of the General Assembly the general debate began today Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly and he started talking about war crimes He started saying how he wants to change the name of AI to superintelligence and I hear by declare it as such so you all need to call it that He bragged about to the victor goes the spoils about Conquering Venezuela and stealing their resources. He claims that he brought peace to Gaza and that everything's just Amazing right now. There was one weird point where he and dangerous point where he said that Melania Trump is responsible for you reuniting all of these children that were taken by both the Ukrainians who stole Russian children and Russia who stole Ukrainian children just both sides in the issue Then Donald Trump continued to say, you know, we're going to blow up the Iranian civilization as we know it They're done. They're over You know, it was just oh he attacked the international criminal court and said that I want everybody here in the United Nations to leave the international criminal court at once He attacked other united nations entities like UNESCO and said that it's globalist and the globalist scum speaking at a global organization That in theory is dedicated to peace and diplomacy That's located in New York because the post-World War 2 global order was shaped by the United States and order that Donald Trump Has now destroyed and as I kind of reflect upon this disastrous appearance at the United Nations it really kind of feels like You know the the end. I mean there will be the beginning of a new chapter here But as we've been reporting on the Midas Touch Network about The close of a prior post-World to global order This kind of feels like it cemented it and it was you know the end the end of this version and then we move on I mean to a place where I think the US will be far more isolated which we already are I think there's a broader reflection at this United Nations from the speeches given by other leaders that the United States will never be a reliable ally again Regardless of what happens in future elections You get rid of Trump. I think the general view internationally is You brought this guy in twice. So you get rid of him You're gonna bring in somebody else like him what eight years from now. How could we do deals with you? How could we trust you on anything if ultimately you're just gonna bring a guy like this in? So I want to show you what went down there You know meanwhile, I think it's also important to pay attention to that you know Iran's foreign minister has been holding meetings on the sidelines with just about everybody I mean from the vice president of the European Commission Kahakala to the foreign minister of Qatar, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Belarus You know these major meetings have taken place. They're not economic outcasted by any means One of their main trading partners China is about to get a massive Welcome by Donald Trump when Xi Jinping visits the White House on the next 48 hours or so And so I think the US looks weaker. I think the US looks weird It looks like a loser country and you know seeing this here domestically Um is certainly shameful But when you see this play out on the world stage. I I guess a example could almost be like imagine um, you know for the world cup The United States puts on the field um a volleyball team To to compete against other nations in the world cup and they start playing volleyball And everybody's looking at you like dude. What the hell are you even doing like you know this is football or soccer We don't know what you're even like what what game are you playing? Um, and you see this you know, especially I mean the example I just gave does it really apt though in the sense that You know the US was before known as a global superpower And now to basically be you know the You know thinking about and you know the kind of the the smelly weird kid You know and then and the bully all wrapped into one You know is a strange uh is a strange thing to see the United States You know in in this in this position this bullying This but this utter weakness combined with the weirdness is is what I think you've seen all day and you know from The perspective of our adversaries. I mean they they must love this um from our former allies Why do you think they're meeting with Iran? Why why do you think they're holding these meetings with foreign minister aron chief? I think they realize um, you know as we heard prime minister al-thani of katar say the other day at the katar economic forum You know, we have to understand a new regional dynamic where aron Um is a nation that we need to cooperate with and we have to recognize Uh aron in a way that you know they they Didn't think they had to be for um, it should also be noted and trump said this during his meeting with zalinsky Uh that there were long conversations that had taken place earlier in the day Between the United States and aron so people were trying to understand what that even was We're learning some details about that. It was a meeting by steve witcoff Donald trump scumbag real estate friend Who has no diplomatic experience and who's absolutely horrible at what he does and i mean know what he's doing and I think the one thing that unites Putin and zalinsky is they each look at witcoff as just being Completely inept and someone who shouldn't be handling this at all. Maybe that's the plan and it really isn't though But in any event apparently witcoff met with foreign minister aron g It's like i don't even know how to describe what that meeting is like um and aron responded after the meeting and they said here's what happened The state news agency for aron reported The reason for accepting witcoff's request for this meeting was the communication of aron's conditions for reopening the straight of or most aron's firm positions were conveyed to the us representatives during this meeting Immediate lifting of the maritime blockade immediate payment of all frozen aronian assets And an end to the war on all fronts of the resistance are among aron's conditions for reopening the straight of or moose in other words The memorandum of understanding and aron said we're fine to meet If you want to meet with us, but we're going to be very clear what we are conveying what we are conveying is abide by the memorandum of understanding Or there's no deal and aron has been making these very terms Very clear Whether you like the terms or not It's not about liking or not liking right since march Aron has been saying these things consistently over and over and over again if you actually Do your due diligence on foreign minister aron's foreign minister You will learn that he actually wrote one of the preeminent if not that preeminent in treatise on international negotiations that lots of foreign ministers read and one of his principles there is just a consistent Restatement of a term over and over and over again and you don't ever move From that position where you have your non-negotiables because when you waver a little bit You then show that you're not a reliable negotiating adversary You can potentially threaten to escalate your negotiating terms, but you don't You know do what Donald Trump does and say yeah, we're making great progress We're not we're going to obliterate you. That's the worst thing that you can do and so to be clear What aron said is that they are reiterating their position that they previously stated Donald Trump wants to cast that as a victory to try to manipulate the oil markets Which is basically all the united states has just like Donald Trump's Fraud business practices in the past. This is how he runs the united states into the ground We also heard from the IRGC spokesperson and just so you Understand the dynamic. I know we've talked about this, but sometimes we talk about IRGC Right the Iranian guard and sometimes we talk the aren't the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps And then we talk about the army and then we talk about about this kind of group, the Alcatam group that kind of sits on top of it. So there's like their Sencom, which kind of coordinates between their IRGC and their Army and the IRGC and Army are distinct entities. But at any event, the IRGC did a joint, the joint chief of staff and the IRGC. This came from their central command and this was a statement that they issued. After Donald Trump gave his speech where he threatened Iran, this is what they said. They said the hostile statements and repeated threats by the US president against Iran, which are being used to justify aggression, create insecurity and engage in looting on a global scale are merely a tool for domestic propaganda and are not based on real world facts. These statements demonstrate a strategic impasse for the United States in its aggression against the Iranian nation. The repetition of baseless claims and threats given the aging of the US military is not a sign of strength, but rather a sign of their strategic desperation. And when he says the aging of the US military, he means that every day those aircraft carriers are there on the blockade with the damaged logistics that exists because Iran was able to successfully strike US military bases in the region and destroy most of them, including Bahrain. It puts more and more strain on the aircraft carriers, the same issue we were seeing with the USS Abraham Lincoln. And before that, the USS Gerald Ford and other troops in the region also, the US doesn't have all that many troops in the region right now. Not a little bit, but I mean about 50,000 troops in the region or so. And the US has run out of a lot of its weapons, a lot of interceptors, the patriots and the thads. Iran knows that. And Iran's actually able to test when the United States escalates the catastrophic war like we saw about two weeks ago. Remember the US struck that wedding in Syrac County. Iran responded, struck the US base in Jordan. You're able to see how the Jordanian government is able to use the remaining US interceptors. And what you can see is that during the first wave of Iranian ballistic missiles, there were indeed interceptors that were still functioning at that Jordanian base. But then as the second and third wave hit, you started seeing less. And by the third wave, Iran was able to strike those US bases pretty hard. And Iran's able to study that. And I'm sure they're also getting assistance from Russia and China. I don't think that's really that much of a secret. I think the world kind of gets that and knows that. So they're able to really kind of see these things in a way that's not just satellite footage, but they can test it out at any event they go on to say. The Islamic Republic of Iran has always been a source of security in the region, especially for free and international trade and contrast the United States with its illegitimate illegal and aggressive presence in the Middle East is a source of threat and security and instability to compensate for its repeated failures and aggressive actions against Iran and maritime piracy. It has taken the global economy hostage. The rhetoric of the US president does not change the power dynamic. And we will never compensate for this country's declining position in the new world order, nor will it make up for the humiliating defeat suffered by the United States in the war against Iran and the resistance front. So pause there when they're talking about the resistance front. Just so you know, they're talking about Ansarallah, the Houthis in Yemen. And Ansarallah has been able to make these major advances taking control of all of Western Yemen, Al-Mokha, and then moving east as the Saudi-backed PLC forces are in retreat. So we see that there. Also they're talking about the Iraqi resistance. They're also talking about Hamas and they're also talking about his Ebola. That's what they mean by the resistance front. The powerful and capable armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which draw on the experience of the eight-year sacred defense in the second and third imposed wars, are fully prepared to deliver even more severe devastating and unpredictable blows to the aggressors and the leaders of the United States and the Zionist regime in response to the lies and threats of the murderer of the Imam, the martyred leader of the nation, and the innocent and oppressed children of the schools in Manab and Lamar, and other esteemed martyrs of the country. God willing, the respected president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will convey the message of the brave nation, the heroic armed forces, the power of invincibility of Iran in the world at the United Nations General Assembly. And I'm not reading that to you to show you, okay, here's what Iran's propaganda is, everybody, you need to believe every word that they say. I think it's important, though, that we understand the perspectives that are being shared generally. So we have a clear understanding. Like what's going on? Does Iran really feel like they're desperate when they're on the ropes? Are they begging for a deal? And of course they're not. They view themselves, not just because of those words, but you take the totality of circumstances. They view themselves as in a much stronger position. Then even when the MOU assigned, okay, they're following the news. They know what's going on here. They're aware of the surging price of diesel, the surging price of gas. How this is crippling our economy here. They are very aware of what's happening. And yeah, Donald Trump can try to say we've brought all these barrels through the Strait of Hormuz and everything's amazing. And the Venezuelan oil is going into our strategic reserves, which it isn't. And we're bringing all these oil, 27 ships. He said 31 ships have gotten out of here. He could say all of these things, but it's just not true. And I mean, it may for a little bit manipulate the market. I think the market recognizes. Although the market still gets manipulated by the stuff a little bit now, I don't know. Really why or how other than I think the understanding is, it's the oligarchy that is involved in a lot of the manipulation, I thought, but they can't hold it back forever. And I think you'll see slight dips that appear nonsensical, but overwhelmingly, we're seeing the trend of the prices going way way up for the price of cruise, not just cruise. There's a lot of other stuff that comes through the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran sees what's going on. They're very much aware of this. And you know, you can see weakness everywhere too, not just there. I mean, there was another story today. I'm not sure if you caught it, but a cybercrime group called the shiny hunters said it breached the FBI and stole all the data on current and former FBI employees, including agents and job applicants. The group claimed it accessed information on almost all FBI agents and released samples as proof. Let me just think about that. I mean, that's what happens when the FBI puts in charge of counter-terrorism, like an intern who was like 23 years old, this Thomas Fugate III, and you have cash betel running it. I mean, we have real incompetent dumb and evil people in charge, and they're behaving like incompetent dumb and evil people, and with all of this kind of underestimating the opponent and acting like Iran is incapable of engaging in tactical military moves. It's like, it's such a massive blunder. Iran is a very sophisticated and smart civilization. Think about it and what you want to think about it. But to underestimate the intelligence and the fact that we're talking about top-level PhDs that understand engineering and all of these dynamics at levels that are deeply advanced, I mean, you underestimate that at your own peril, and that's one of the things that we are seeing here with Donald Trump, and in this regime of kind of just con artist and fraudsters and predators. And we're seeing that play out in a dynamic on an international scale like we've never seen before. It just doesn't it feel like when we're watching what took place at the UN today, it just feels like we put the worst team out there, right? And you really can feel it, I think, extra. When you see other world leaders speaking, whether it's Prime Minister Karni or you name the world leader, we have the worst team, and it should be embarrassing, not just as like a Democrat or an independent or Republican, but as an American, having the worst team, these evil people say these horrible things. And you think about his speech last year at the UN, and you think about his speech this year. It just, it progressively gets worse and worse and worse. And so I'll show you over here. This is when he was heading into the United Nations. Just think about this. He's banned members of the press in the United States from covering him. So CNN, MSNOW, Politico, are banned, right? And so he sees Caitlin Collins as though he thinks that because she's banned, she can't report from the United Nations and ask him questions. But this is how it starts out with him saying, you should not be here covering me. You're not allowed to cover me. What do you mean you're not allowed to cover me? Again, this is loser behavior right here. Let's play this clip. - Mr. President, two thirds of Americans, two thirds of Americans don't think The U.S. is winning the war with a rhyme. Wimmel it! It's an honor to be here. I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me. The United Nations allowed us in sir You should not be here covering me You said you weren't going to cover me. You shouldn't be covering two thirds of Americans don't let think that the US is winning the war with Iran When will it end what making a lot of progress our country is doing really really well. Thank you very much Americans don't think the United States is winning As our nation is doing really really well and then he just walks away and then how pathetic is it say to Caitlin Collins? You shouldn't be here. You shouldn't be quite why shouldn't she be here and covering you Donald Trump and addresses the UN and he says Here's my decision again. He's at the UN, which is about diplomacy and peace And that's what it's supposed to be about right and he's addressing the general assembly Like you're not in the security council Which this rhetoric is not appropriate for you're addressing the general assembly and I mean it's it's like having in Giving you my opinion. It's like having a Hitler in there. It's like it's like hearing a Hitler speech I don't know how it's to describe it. So I'm not going to mince my words, but that's the closest historical example I could imagine it's like watching a Hitler give a speech, but this guy is In doing it in the name of the United States despite his record low approval. I mean 32% from Reuters 29% from America research group I mean the America people hate this guy buying large now, but this like what is this? I'm going to annihilate the Islamic Republic Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival? I mean, what the hell is this here play this clip? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope? of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election Because it doesn't make sense for them not to They're waiting to see how I do in the Do I drive them into hell for all future generations? So he's not Talking about the regime in Iran. He's talking about the people. He's clear to everybody's talking about the people of Iran And that he wants to destroy generations of Iranian civilization. I mean again, he's talking about mass genocide He's saying it on the world stage. He's aiding in a betting net and Yahoo's genocide on the world stage And you know, you watch that and you go I don't care what political party you're from The hell is that? What the hell is that? It's sick. Then here's what he says about Cuba causing the Cuban delegation to walk out of the speech. Let's play this clip I'm ease of humanity My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba where the communist regime is under great pressure The biggest pressure they've ever been under it's an absolutely failed state It's failing like never before and it will fall Marco Rubio is handling a negotiation. He's deep into negotiations with Cuba Now if they're a failed state Then why do you need to do an embargo? If they're failed Why do you need something that targets the people? And and this is something that we see with this Trump regime over and over again I mean their latest action against Iran is what? To prevent civilian airplanes from Taking off to destroy the Iranian airline industry which impacts people. I mean think about where the Trump regime is now spending its time striking Iranians civilian cargo vessels tankers preventing supplies and medicine from getting into there preventing medicine and supplies from getting into Cuba And again, this is a it's a predator mindset. I mean Trump is a sex predator, right? So his view is if I torture you And I engage in all of this horrific conduct then you'll eventually say yes And that's how he treats it, right? I mean he's someone who's been found liable for sex assault in a civil case. He's a sick. He's a sick human And here he is. He brags about the boat strikes of these fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela Where he's killed hundreds of fishermen and without providing any evidence that they're narco terrorists and even if they were Even if they had drugs on them first up which drugs and even if there were drugs Why do you have the right to kill them and also how is just killing Potential smugglers addressing the issue when you're pardoning the drug lords and you're enabling the drug lords Like we've seen oh and pardoning them. I mean how how is that by the way? Did you see that for a brief period of time today the Trump regime remove the pardon List from the Department of Justice website. It just went down It just went down Anyway, here's what he says about Venezuela and boat ships that just disappear. Let's play they should be killed Exile or detained as enemy combatants without the possibility of release which is what we're doing To that end the United States has carried out dozens of strikes and cartel drug boats destroying 97% of the drugs coming into The ocean and sea you've seen it They disappear very quickly and we're down 90% they're down 97% Nobody thought that was possible. It was a big source of delivery Now again imagine if Kim Jong-un gave a speech like that or Putin gave a speech like that, right? I mean They're not going to go up there and give a speech where they brag about disappearing people Even when they do it I mean set aside our allies. I mean just think about who who in the world Would potentially, you know like are you trying to think about it? Kim Jong-un is not going to give a speech bragging about mass murdering people in South Korea Because he knows it's also against The national interest to do that at the United Nations. You're not going to do that at the UN Right, I mean it when Putin goes to the UN and if you look at his speeches He's not out there basically saying You know the quiet part out loud he's saying, you know, and I'm not suggesting that Trump should Not that that that that what should really be happening. It's just you don't say it and you hide it I just am saying that he's engaged in these war crimes and then he's bragging about it because he wants to look tough In front of these people in front of these world leaders and he looks weak and he looks like a Like a Hitler. He looks like a sicko Hitler And and and and we can pathetic and so it's not about national interest even it's about he feels inadequate So he goes up there and brags about killing people in the United Nations to the general assembly And talk about shattering US credibility when you see that Even even when even if and when Democrats take control of the House in the Senate Which looks increasingly likely or they take control of the White House in 2028 Who's gonna who's gonna look at us and be like? Oh, okay, we We fell for that one before and so you know, we know it's gonna like that's to me as we look ahead a major issue We need to think about all right. Let's take our first quick break of the show Reminder get your copy of WTF America right now. It's out Um for pre-order it comes out October 20th officially Uh pre-order right now. Let's keep that pre-order momentum going All right, let's take our first quick break of the show. 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It was also what took place on the sidelines, which we'll talk about also. So right, you have the general assembly speech itself that the world leaders all have an opportunity to address the general assembly. Tomorrow, Iran's president Psefsky is going to do that. Like also today, we heard from French president Emmanuel Macron. We heard from a number of world leaders as well, which we've covered. But you also have the meetings on the sidelines, right? So we talked about earlier Iran's foreign minister having a lot of sideline meetings. And the fact that you have the European Commission Vice President, Kaha Kallas, who is the former president of Estonia, meeting with the foreign minister of Iran, foreign minister of Iran. Actually, this is a big deal, right? Also, the fact that you have Norway's foreign minister in Italy, and Qatar, and Belarus, also after Donald Trump was bragging about the Padash deal. Nothing says super power, like the president of the United States bragging about a Padash deal with Belarus and ally of Russia. We did a list at the Midas Touch Network, and I talked about it in the video I did this morning, so you could check it out. And the Trump regime, you know, praising scarcity as a result of their horrific policies, like little girl should only have one doll, two dolls. We shouldn't be eating beef anymore if it's too expensive. Let's just make sure we eat chicken and let's eat fish. And if beef is too expensive, we should only have two, three pencils max, right? We should brag about the amount of soybeans that China is buying when it's half the amount they were buying under former president Biden. Let's brag about 13 million metric tons of soybeans when under Biden, it was 26 million metric tons. And now we have found the best supplier of Potash, everybody, the best supplier, Belarus. You know, it could be like Canada's right there with a lot of Potash. We don't like Canada anymore regarding to Trump. We're against Canada. Why do we talk about our best ally? They're mean to us. They're mean. You're talking to a bunch of losers. I mean, just the idea that the could you imagine former president Obama or even former president Biden making a post bragging about Belarus Potash? I need to come on. What are we talking about? What are we talking about here? You know, and then you have Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner, just dumb and dumb or like running around. It's it would be a parody of like a horrific straight to tape or straight to DVD movie. They don't do those anymore. Of these two idiots like going around acting like they're diplomats and screwing everything up even worse wherever they go. They're like the least respected people. They're self interested, by the way, whether it's Whitcoff's world liberty financial crypto dealings where he's, you know, made, you know, whatever he's made, you know, you've got Jared Kushner, you know, doing his fund, making billions of dollars off in middle of these countries. And then the middle of these countries don't get these security guarantees that they're promised, but there was a meeting that was just held of Donald Trump and some of the Gulf states like you had Turkey there and Syria and Pakistan. And if you other nations that were at this meeting, UAE notably wasn't there that I think they kind of like divided it like if you're part of the Abraham Accords, you're not missing this is the non Abraham Accords meeting and there's another one that's like the allied with Israel meeting such as this fascinating dynamic to think about. But I read you earlier these statements from the Iran state TV and from the IRGC about Whitcoff reaching out to Iran at the UN and Whitcoff begging for a meeting and Iran's foreign minister taking the meeting, but Iran very quickly posted knowing that it would be misconstrued. And I'm misconstrued that Trump would lie about it and say here are non negotiables, basically we're reiterating the MOU. So at this meeting that Trump just held, he says Kushner and Whitcoff, the Iranians respect them both very much. This is what Trump says, let's play. Warrior Mike, good job Mike. Jared Kushner who is between Steven, Jared we have two very smart people and they're doing a job and I think they're going to get this thing ended. We have a lot of respect on both sides, they respect him, the Iranians respect him both very much and I think it's important, but I think we're going to get it done and CEO of the U.S. International. I think we're going to get them done. We're going to get them done. Iran respects him, but here's the thing. What intentionality, why Iran doesn't and so when you say that and it's so false, Iran looks at you like a clown. And if you're trying to show like dominance or whatever, whatever false bravado you're also putting on, why is that a strategically significant thing for you to say as well as though they've earned the respect. Iran, I mean, just a facet like it's just, it's just word vomit out of the guy's mouth and if you're Iran, you look at that and go got it there week. They're pathetic. We don't respect them. He's going to pretend that we respect Whitcoff and Kushner and the whole world knows Whitcoff and Kushner are clowns, but that's what he, that's how he behaves. So here's what Donald Trump says at the UN on all he's giving a speech about Venezuela. Here's how he refers to the U.S. taking over Venezuela. You can hear for yourself. And the numbers are absolutely incredible. When you add the United States and Venezuela together, we have more than 60% of the oil in the world. So it's perhaps the biggest deal. It was a war, but it's perhaps the biggest deal ever made to the victor along the spoils. You've all heard that. Our actions in Venezuela are approved. Okay, well, gas and diesel are at record highs. So if there's all this Venezuelan oil that's flowing into the United States, where is it? If the United States is releasing unleashing all of these resource, where is it? Where is it? I previously showed you when Congress came back into session for basically half a day and Treasury Secretary Bessent was cross-examined. He was asked by a Congress member, I believe it was Casson. Okay, Donald Trump says we brought in $13 or $12 billion from Venezuela oil. Who's the we? Where's the money to which Bessent flipped through the book that he had in front of him so he could fill a buster because with Republicans controlling Congress, they limit the amount of time. of time a witness has to answer questions for many of you. particular Congress member so they're filibustering and he goes through the and he goes I'm not allowed to say okay you can't tell me where the money is or how much money no I can't tell you what we do know is that Trump set up a Katari bank account for himself just think about this we know about the Katari jet there's a Katari bank account where apparently money from Venezuela is going is that Trump's account is Trump the signatory on the account why isn't this first off we shouldn't take over Venezuela and take their resources let me be very clear about that the idea that a president of the United States deranged lunatic going to the victor goes the spoils to the victor goes I mean what a horrific and heinous thing to even observe take place in the name of the United States but then also where's the money oh it's in a bank account and and then best it's like but it's being audited okay have you seen the audit the audit hasn't happened yet okay so it's being hypothetically all you're just using the word audit because it's a big word and you want us to know I guess it's being audited I guess that solves the issue well where's the audit and why aren't the American people seeing the audit on a daily basis you know this oil belongs to Venezuela let's be very clear the resources belong to Venezuela Obama could have taken over Venezuela if he wanted to okay Biden could have taken over Venezuela if he wanted to okay but the idea from the perspective of the US place in the world is that that is not what the US should do because then it encourages essentially the destruction of any rules based order which would then have a domino effect of wars everywhere and wars increasingly targeting civilians when the US just goes to the victor goes to spoils and we're going to take over Venezuela the message gets sent to Putin or to whoever that this is okay this is how it were allowed to behave because the US isn't supporting any rules based order so if they're out there doing it why shouldn't we just say well you're doing it we're doing it and having a moral authority to speak from I think is important did you see the video I did this morning if not go and look at it where it was an interview at the LBJ center with retired admiral William McCraven forced our admiral he led US special command he was in charge in 2011 of the raid by the Navy seals that ended up leading to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden and he spoke at length at the LBJ center at the library over there about how the US has lost its moral authority in the world what that means and when you watch this deeply serious person retired admiral McCraven I don't know what political party he's from I don't care if he's a Democrat if he's a Republican if he's an independent the point is he sharp as hell he's a leader he's behaving with a level of seriousness that we should expect of leaders that's it to me we have lost the plot is an understatement in the purpose of governance and treating all of this as a gamified horse race or a reality show leads the dystopian reality show guy to ultimately be the person who became the president and now we the people no longer are we the people we're treated as non-consensual extras in this dystopian reality show that we don't want to be a part of we're Donald Trump post memes in the morning of himself leering over the globe like the sex predator that he is and it says his hemisphere that's sick that's sick behavior and again I approach this not as Democrat ban or independent ban or this is just this should be basic stuff that we should be discussing and describing now I'll show you what else went down you know Donald Trump when he gives this speech he's like America is back and our country is greater today than ever before and like nobody claps your play this clip we've got this I can report to you with pride that America is back and our country is stronger today than ever before our economy is the envy of the world the hell is that now I want to share this with you as well because I want to switch gears just for a moment because I don't want to hear more of him at the UN now I want to switch gears though and talk a little bit about what Abdul El Sayed said I'll show you what he said recently I want to show you what was going down when he was in front of a gas station showing how high the prices were in Michigan to show the consequences of what went down and so let's just play this first one right here if we've got it let's play that one salty you say you're a capitalist what do you mean capitalism is the process by which we enable supply and demand to allocate capital so that it's the most productive in in economy we are not in a situation where we have capitalism we have corporatism yeah and I would go a step further I would say we have a form of communism right now under the I know people are uncomfortable saying that but right now there is a form of communism led by the Trump regime of state owned you name it with this kind of corporatism right and Trump owns stakes and companies the defense department has an oil company that does business with Delsey Rodriguez and but it also doesn't give free healthcare so it's that version of authoritarian communism without healthcare where Trump takes your loaf of bread then he dangles bread crumbs in front of you and then he never gives you the bread crumbs when you had the loaf to begin with and then he tries to berate you and wear you down to make you beg for the bread crumbs and he doesn't even give me the bread crumbs that's the system that he has that's what he's that's what he does every damn day so let me show you this other clip right here about dual else I had from earlier today I think I can I say this about him a lot of things but I think he is demonstrating that he's also an incredible campaigner because he's a smart guy and he speaks from the heart and he is very his his ideas are very well thought out like I did a video where I shared one of his answers it was nine minutes one answer was nine minutes where a young lady who just graduated to become a teacher she was going to become an elementary school teacher and she went to a doctor up dual else I had event and she started crying and she said I'm crying because I want to be a teacher but I also know that by going into this profession I'm not going to be able to afford a home in Michigan I am going to struggle to pay rent and I look at the life that I've chosen going into a noble profession of teaching and I see really hard times ahead where I don't know if I can survive by being a teacher and Dr. Abdul Al-Sahed talks about how our education system is under attack how we need to have a to set a guaranteed wage with dignity for teachers that can allow teachers to afford homes and be treated with respect and how we can actually make a functioning public education that was an incredible answer and a complex and a complex answer with layers and well that's what I like that's what I like to hear so and and and the way he's campaigning in front of the gas station today I thought that was just a plus because everybody's feeling it right whether you are a Trump supporter or whether you are in damage whatever everyone this is painful and Trump specifically ran on $2 a gallon electricity prices would be cut in half no more never ending wars he would end the war in Ukraine 24 hours after the election and it would then lie after lie like he's done his entire damn life so watch what Dr. Abdul Al-Sahed said here in front of of the gas station let's play opponent primarily because initially he supported Donald Trump and the award in Iran that has caused gas prices and really everything else to go up but how do you do you do you think about this well you actually apply your thought to the problem not drapes in a ballroom so when you're the president of states and people are struggling with gas you don't sit there and talk about your new helipad or your drapes in a ballroom you actually go and do your damn job you say that's what it's about do your damn job stop talking about golden ballrooms and helipads and that you're gonna turn triumphal arches into sniper positions with drones everywhere and what do you even talk about? talking about, how is this behavior even not called out for being the most lunatic, the qualifying thing imaginable, right? How do we get here? And we got here because we turned politics into reality TV into games, meds versus Yankees, Celtics versus Lakers, Cowboys versus whatever the team, you know, you name the dynamic, right? Cowboys versus Giants, pick the teams, and that's not what it should be. We should be on team America together and we should want to elect leaders who have demonstrated exceptional character and exceptional results, not someone who's been found civilly liable for sex assault who's on audio bragging about it, someone who we clearly would have known would cover up the Epstein Files because he was friends with Epstein, that's what he wrote. He rolled with Epstein's crew, it wasn't just Epstein, it was all of them. It was Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel and this part, they were all friends, that was their crew. That's what they, what do you think, what do you think was going on? And he bankrupted everything, all of his casinos. And now you have Treasury Secretary Besson, it's like, I'm the house now. That's the problem with Trump, the house lost, the house went bankrupt, so stop bragging about being the house under Donald Trump, under Trump, the house went bankrupt, not once, not twice, not three times, how do you bankrupt at four times? You shouldn't bankrupt at the first time, but you do it over and over and over again. It's the definition of insanity and then you pretend that you're, it's all great, it's not my fault, it's this person's fault, it's that person's fault. It's Dr. Fauci's fault, it's Biden, this one, that one went, went, went, went, the whining off, enough, all right, let's take our last quick break of the show, a reminder, a book's called WTF America, I wrote it with my brothers. It's out October 20th, but get your copy today. You can pre-order it now and it'll arrive October 20th, so pre-order it. You can scan the QR code, it'll put a link in the description below. 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That's d-o-s-e-d-a-i-l-y.co/mytus, M-e-i-d-a-s, for 35% off your first month subscription. Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I've been my cellist and this is the Breaking News. Got a lot to discuss that I want to share with everybody. I think it's worth reflecting though on anecdotal information and then compare that with the polls. anecdotally, you'll hear people in red states saying the Trump flags are down, Trump bumper stickers are removed, no one's seeing the red mega hats anymore, and we're also hearing stories every damn day of former Trump supporters, three-time Trump voters, and they're saying the same thing. You betrayed us. You said America first. You said that you were going to lower prices. You said you would not be involved in these never-ending wars. It seems that you're putting Netanyahu's agenda over the United States agenda or you're putting the agenda of other countries over the United States. You've screwed over farmers, you've screwed over ranchers, you can't just be like, I love you. You know, it's enough, we fell for that before we're not going to fall for that again. The Mahat people are like you support all of these herbicides like glyphosate in food, not only did you not do any Mahat agenda, but you pursued the most prochemical, pro herbicide agenda imaginable and it seems like every other day there's a major recall that's happening of some food product or something that's going on there, I mean you, and then Trump's constant focus on ballrooms and helipads and cattari jets and the weirdness with Natalie Harp and hiding and catering containers when you're on a nato trip and the constant attacking of nato allies, it's just, you know, so you have the anecdotal, right, statements, what you're seeing in red states, the videos, that three time Trump voters, but you don't want to buy into all of that, we've seen that story before, right? But then we have to look at the polling data and you know, you take a look at the latest marist polling data from inside Iowa, for example, where they're the Democratic Senate candidate, Josh Turk. And I know Josh's sister's also a big fan of the Midas Touch Network, so we always want to say what's up to her, and she's an incredibly courageous and wonderful person. So I just wanted to, I wanted to say that, but Josh is up 50% to Ashley Henson's 42% and what we increasingly see is MAGA extremist, like MAGA extremist congresswoman, Ashley Henson, she is now running ads that are like, I want to do compromises with the Democrats, really, because you supported Trump's trade war against the world as tariffs against Canada, as never ending wars, as disastrous budget bill. You're responsible for the pain and suffering that the people in Iowa are facing. You see that also against Dr. Abdul Sien's opponent as well. It's like, I want to now do, we understand that the price of the pump is hurting you. So here's my solution, we're going to do bands of diesel exports and here's what, it's like you caused the problem, it's you and your supportive Trump, like you or you people know that you caused the problem. I want to say this about this diesel export ban as well. I think in theory, it sounds like appealing. I think we have to be thoughtful about it, though, because it can end up backfiring and raising the prices pretty quickly, because we do produce a lot of diesel in the United States. So if you do an export ban to say that the diesel will only be used in the United States, a lot of states still import a lot of diesel from outside. So what you will be doing, because there is a global market by doing a diesel export ban, which you have to really guard against, is it will cause the overall price of crude to go up, the overall price of diesel to go up, because you're going to be adding to the shortage, the supply shock that exists. And so it can actually backfire on you if one of the biggest exporters of diesel is no longer exporting it in global markets. So I just want to point that out. And again, this is where I think debates should have happened. not the debates and it shouldn't happen now, but in normal political times and it shouldn't be about, you know, export bans because it clearly demonstrates that we're in a catastrophic supply shock situation. So I'll be clear there. But, you know, where we should be talking is over, okay, well, here's how I think we can do better. Here's how I think we can do better. Can we reach a compromise or here's this approach? Oh, wait a minute, that's not working. Let's test this. This is a let's figure out the best solutions versus whatever deranged lunatic behavior we're seeing from this Trump. It's not the issues to me are being cast as political. When in reality, we have a psychotic lunatic sex predator that's in charge of the United States whose behaving as such here and abroad. And it's like, well, actually, what's the Democrat messaging or the messaging shouldn't be a Democratic. It should be this guy's a freaking lunatic. This guy is actually psychotic. And what we're seeing happen on the world straight stage is psychotic behavior and not like, oh, the Democrats are this or that. What is notable, though, as well, is when you look at just issues right now, beyond the polling, and I talked about Reuters, Donald Trump's approval is at 32%, America Research Group, Trump's approvals at 29%, but when you look on these specific issues, so if you look at taxing billionaires, very popular, plus 34, DACA for young arrivals, helping immigrants, plus 20, Medicare for all, plus 17, and then it goes deporting undocumented, plus six, Obama endorsement, plus six, Trump's tax bill polls at a net negative six, abolish ICE negative 18, DSA policies negative 19, Trump endorsement is a net negative 22, the $5,000 GOP checks that Trump promised, which is just more fraud, is a net negative 25, sending weapons to Israel is a net negative 30, and the war in Iran is a net negative 33, and where we've seen a lot of the recent rapid decline in Trump's approval, he dropped nine points in one week amongst Republicans, where his approval now on the issue of cost of living for Republicans, he is underwater, more Republicans disapprove of Trump handling cost of living, and that's a pretty big freaking deal because living and the cost of it is pretty much the main thing on voters mind right now, and he's underwater on that issue in the Republican party, and so we're even seeing people like MAGA Republican, Extreme, as Congress member Byron Donalds from Florida who's running for governor there, he's removed the references to Donald Trump from his campaign website, it's so phony, baloney stuff, like do stand on business dude, you were MAGA, you support Trump, you support it all this stuff, so now you're going to just remove him from the website and hide that you supported the disastrous budget bill, ICE and Border Patrol, Gestapo, terrorizing people, the disastrous trade wars against the world, the catastrophic war in Iran, you do stand on business, you supported this crap, and it resulted in bad things happen, just admit it, stop with this phony shit, but that's the MAGA Republicans for you right there, I want to go back to just a few other quick points of what went down though at the UN, this was a notable deranged moment that I think deserves more attention, and I want to explain with the dynamic of what's going on here, and I call it out a lot, but I want to cue you into it because it may not be getting the attention it deserves elsewhere, or with the right context of what's really happening here, so Maloney was there, Natalie Harp was there too, but Maloney was there, and so it's interesting how Donald Trump also utilizes kind of Maloney's presence, and so what, and this is a dynamic I think we've seen go back to a lot of the questions over their charities before he was in office, and all of the stuff that was I think deeply problematic before, so one of the, and this is how they work hand in hand, you know, with each other, so Maloney has been claiming that she does these reunifications of children between reunifying children that she says that Ukraine took from Russia, that Ukraine stole Russian children and bringing these children back to Russia, and that Russia stole Ukrainian children, which we believe took place, and that she's returning the children back to Ukraine, so she treats it as a both sides issue, as though Ukraine stolen children, Russia stolen children, and she's done a reunification of the both sides issue that both countries are stealing, we never really get to see who these kids are, we never really hear the stories, there's never a deep dive into the background of what we just hear a number, she's done her fifth reunification, or her sixth reunification, and at the same time I've been doing reports and not just me, but everyone, I mean other people, I think I cover it a lot here on the Minus Touch network more than lots of other places, though you can see the children being killed in the catastrophic war, so what I see is mass death of children and women in Ukraine, Russia, but especially in Ukraine, especially in Gaza, in Lebanon, and so to me, this idea of these, you know, it's like, look, we're showing that diplomacy is working between Russia and Ukraine, and it's children, so it pulls that your hard string, so it makes you feel better about the situation, to me that's what this is about, and I just have, I don't know, so I'm just sharing with you my opinion protected by the first amendment of the constitution, but I have a lot of questions about this program, who these children are, if she's saying both sides, which Ukrainian, when did the Ukrainian steel Russian children, because she says it's happening, I'm doing swaps, so what does that look like? I mean, and why aren't we getting the detail? You could try to answer for yourself, but here play this clip. I also want to recognize the extraordinary work of our great First Lady, who has secured the safe return of many displaced Ukrainian and Russian children back home to their families, so many. Thank you very much, First Lady. Thank you very much. Where is our First Lady? Where is she? She's around here someplace, I can you imagine? I can't see the First Lady. Yeah, I mean, what a displaced both, and thank you, First Lady, and then people, what are we watching? The hell are we watching over there? I'll show you, then Trump meets with Selinsky, and it's always a bold sides issue. He goes, both Putin and Selinsky want to see the war at now. If you watch the Midest Touch Network, I try every morning, or at least every other morning, to show you what's happening in the war. It is escalating far more on a daily basis, and I also have showed you what's going on in Europe, what's going on in Estonia, and Lithuania, and in Poland, where they are on red alert with the view that Russia is going to be launching hybrid warfare into Europe, and I talked to you about, I was looking at Estonia in an area in East Estonia that has a lot of Russian links and Russian heritage, and I was wondering and positing might Russia do what they did in Crimea, or might they do what they did in some of these other areas in East Ukraine and try to claim, well, look, based on the Russian links, that area of Estonia is going to be annexed, so we're going to take over certain cultural centers over there, and then test NATO's article four, article five. As I've been trying to read between the lines about what the CIA meetings were and what I've observed happening, over Polish airspace, over Estonia and airspace, in Romania, I kind of come back to that as my working theory. Estonia, the links of East Estonia to Russia, certain cultural centers, but I'm just positing that, but also then you have Putin saying, well, we think that this is being done to further escalate and to justify the strikes deeper in Russia, as we see Zelensky being able to successfully target refineries and petrochemical facilities in Moscow and elsewhere. So, here is what Trump said that I think both Putin and Zelensky want to see the world end, let's play it. He's willing to make, he'd like to see the war end with both you and Rachel. I think it's both hard to see the war end, to be honest with you. It's time a lot of people being killed and they don't want that, but I think they both want to see the war end. You know, in Zelensky has to just sit there and be like, really, this is this. He's asked, well, talk to us about Belarus and the Potash deal. Belarus obviously aligned with Russia. So by buying Potash from Belarus and attacking Canada, doesn't that ultimately help Putin's war in Ukraine? Is that the goal? I mean, it seems like not in flammatory, that just seems what the outcome is. So, what's your response to that? Mr. President Trump, how does the deal look between with the value of the president over potash? And if that goes through, are you concerned that the money for that deal would strengthen Russia's hand at all? No, not at all. But the Belarus has a lot of potash and our farmers need good prices and we want to get a lower price in Canada. We'll continue to go with Canada, but Belarus would like to sell it for a much lower price. Also, Lukashenko and Belarus previously said they're out of potash for the rest of the year. It's all been committed to Asia. pesky thing called facts, but regardless, why is the president of the United States talking about potash? Potash. I mean, the hell is what's going on? Salty, in that first stack, there's also Donald Trump saying that we have munitions and that we're not out of munitions and anybody who says we're out of munitions is not telling you the truth. And this is one of the things that he says in this speech, cowards and traders would love to say the United States is low on munitions. Do we have this clip? If we do, let's play that one. Cowards and traders would love to say the US is out of munitions. I know you're finding that one. And I want to play this clip specifically because United States of America, if you have to address whether or not you have munitions, also in front of the United Nations, which is a global body that focuses on diplomacy and you're bragging that you have munitions, isn't that also the ultimate weakness that you have to brag like, I want potash, I want munitions. We're out of it. We have a lot of munitions. Okay, you do that. We're the United States. We should have munitions. And the fact that you are talking about it clearly calls into question what you're saying. Here, let's play this clip. The cowards and traders would love to say the United States is low on munitions, but that's not true. We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using. And we're building them at levels that we have never done before. We are adding to our stockpiles faster than we have ever been able to do before. Top of the line stuff. And again, you know, you're bragging because you think that makes you look tough to the United Nations general assembly. And again, I don't care what political party you're from. That's weak. That's weak sauce. We shouldn't like that. That doesn't make our nation look strong. And we're also not that strong anymore right now because we're out of weapons and we're out of munitions. And they've so recklessly operated a war that we shouldn't have been involved in at all that we ran out of weapons. But what else would you expect with Trump and Hexoth? Of course, that's going to be the consequence of it. I'll show you two, two final things. First, a guy by the name of Robbie Smither always would vote Republican. And he goes, I'm going to tell you why in the first time in my life, I'm voting Democrat. Why I'm going to vote David Jolly in Florida over Byron Donalds. And let's listen to what he has to say. Let's play. I'm a Republican. But you know what pisses me off more than anything is when the people that I vote for sell me out for globalists on the other side of the world who want to have global police state and use our resources, our men and women of our military, and our wealth to fund it. This right here is a direct result of bad policy that was put in place by Republicans that I voted for. It's shameful for me to say, and I hope that, like me, you remember in November, who did this? And I've been seeing a lot of videos like that as well of people recording themselves by the gas pump as their paying record prices for gas when Trump's promise was no more never ending wars and the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, half the price of electricity, everything would be cheaper. And this is what we're seeing. By the way, did you see that post about what Matt Gates said in response? Isn't this perfectly encapsulate the Magna Republican party? He's like, bro, we need your vote. I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to trans your kids. The Democrats want to trans your kids. The hell are you talking about? I mean, the Democrats want, doesn't even mean they want to trans your kids. You know, and so much of the discussion about, you know, and that how it's not a trans issue. I want to be very clear with you, like it's the trans issue. It's a culture war issue. Sometimes we fall into the trap, I'm saying it, transgender people are people, okay? This is about respecting people's dignity and the value of their life. And before you proceed and you want to talk about sports and men and women, all of that, what is very obvious is that it is used as a tool to divide and to bully and to dehumanize human beings. And so again, to me, shouldn't be viewed as an issue, a political, how are we going to message this? Know how you message it? If you respect people's basic decency and humanity, you start with that. You go, I stand with the trans community because they are people. And we deserve to treat all people with respect and appreciate the value of their life. And that what the magas want to do is they want to post photographs of transgender people. And then mock the photographs. That's what they want to do because they think that that is a wedge issue to divide us as people. And I just think we have to start with the core principle of human beings and let's treat people. They're going to trans our kids. Are you talking about what a sick, what a strange thing to even say anyway. I want to make that point at the outset because so much as it's an issue, it's a diss, it's a culture war, it's a diss, it's a bad people, human beings, people's lives, beautiful, incredible people. So stop it, stop it. And finally, I'll leave you with this. This is what JD Vance said and it's always projection, it's always telling on themselves here. Play this clip. I struggle to understand the mindset and the psychology of a person who makes billions of dollars in the greatest country and the history of the world and decides to use that money not to maybe provide health care to people who need it, but to ensure that we're unable to check the eligibility criteria for programs that American people depend on. It's just a sick, sick use of charitable dollars. What a scandal that is and thank you guys for fighting it in court and getting back to a point where we can do the common sense thing was just check whether the people who get your tax dollars actually are entitled to get them. Mary Marker. And again, they're just always telling on themselves, right? They're always telling on themselves and this is again why I think, you know, when I talk about this in the book, the way out of this hell is we have to look beyond the gamified politics of this team versus that team. When you treat politics like again, Mets versus Yankees or Celtics versus Lakers, I say it like this, just think about what sports team do you really like, right? Let's just say for the sake of growing up in New York, right, a Mets fan, right? And so when you're a Mets fan versus Yankees fan, could you ever see yourself ever becoming a Yankees fan if you are a Mets fan, right? You can never see it. So what if all of a sudden even the Mets start like, you know, making fun of you or being rude to you and you think to yourself, man, the Mets, they just became dicks like what the hell happened? Well, why are the Mets such, I mean, the Mets happen to torture your childhood if you're a Mets fan, but I won't go there right now. Like why are they being rude, why, why are they be, but would you still be like, I'm going to join the Yankees, right? So think about that example, but now pull back and think about something that's even more deeply encor rooted than Mets versus Yankees, but you think about in the context of Democrats and Republicans, your very core identity of how you've, have how your parents told you to live, how you've lived, and how intrinsic that is. And then you wonder, well, how could there still be 29% approval or 32% approval? And the divisions and the tribalism of the political parties, it's gotten so much worse, especially as you've had, you know, you know, I think a lot of right wing propaganda operations launching post Nixon in order to, how do we help in the future? Future Nixon's and that's what Roger Els' memo was about actually, you know, in the declining days of Nixon to Nixon and so to me, what we have to recognize is that very framing of the Democrat, Republican, tribal fight is a gamified way that will always lead to a seesaw of destruction, of a Biden, Trump, you name the next person, you know, whether it's, you know, who do you think it's going to be, whether it's, I saw for AOC or Gavin or Buttigieg or Kelly or, you know, you name, you name whoever the person is. I'm not trying to exclude people. I just don't want to list the whole thing. So you have your person. But then who does it go to next? Does it go to like a disantis or a rubio and then the pendulum swings this way, the pendulum swing, that's bad. Even if you get whoever you want next, that pendulum is a bad. So we have to look beyond that. And that's why I keep on stressing on these episodes. We have to talk about values and principles and what makes us American and what that means and not chase personalities. But have them chase these values and principles. And then once you have these values and principles, you find connections. Like we do here at the Midas Touch Network with Midas Canada. Like we then do in Europe and Australia and South America and Mexico and Africa and Asia. And we start to build bridges in the Middle East. We start to then build bridges and understand our shared humanity. And that to me, I know it sounds corny, but it just isn't talked about. And I think it needs to be talked about. And I think as leaders, we need to focus on that. And that's something we need to spend a lot of time. And that's what we'll continue to discuss here a lot at the Midas Touch Network. So I wanted to say that before we go, especially when we see the insanity of what happens. I'm going to report on it. I'm a journalist. I'm a reporter. I have to tell you, here's what happened. Here's what they said. Here's what happened. Let's talk about it. Play the clip to me is based on being a trial lawyer. I would say, let's pull up exhibit A. What does exhibit B? What does exhibit C? What does exhibit D say? Right. I have to show it to you. We have to know. But then we have to have these discussions at the end of it. Why? And the why just can't be why we want to win. They can't just be why. And the answer can't be because we want to win. But what are we trying to win for? We should try to win because we want a better world. Because we respect ourselves and our neighbors and our country and the world. And we want a better world for future generations. When we win, it's not just a win to beat the other team that gamifies it. We want a win to make the world a better place. And that's not corny. That's why we should be. That's what we should be doing. And we should take enjoyment out of life together and talk about shared humanity. Anyway, I'll leave you with that. Thanks everybody for watching. Get your copy of WTF America. I talk about things like that in WTF America. Pre-order it right now. We got to keep that momentum going. The book comes out October 20th, 2026. But you can pre-order it right now. If you're planning on getting it, can you do the pre-order? Because that helps us plan what we're going to be doing? Are we going to be showing up here or there? Do we do? So pre-order it if you can. We'll keep doing updated videos throughout the day. We're grateful for you. We appreciate you. Thanks everybody. Shout out, Midas Mighty. This has been Ben on Breaking News. Want to stay plugged in? 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