Donald Trump’s return to Washington D.C. was portrayed as a chaotic and poorly managed event, marked by a visibly erratic public appearance and a heavy focus on personal social media content, such as posts about his golf courses in Ireland. This contrasts sharply with the escalating global energy crisis triggered by regional conflicts: Iran’s retaliation in the Strait of Hormuz, Houthi attacks on Saudi refineries, and severe damage to the Saudi East-West oil pipeline—accounting for nearly 4% of global oil supply—are causing a sharp rise in oil prices, with Brent Crude projected to surge to $120–$150. The situation is further compounded by the U.S. government’s decision to dismantle climate regulations, including eliminating emissions limits on power plants and preventing future federal action, a move seen as environmentally reckless and politically destabilizing. Meanwhile, international diplomacy is shifting, with nations like China and Russia openly supporting Iran and forming a new multilateral order in opposition to U.S. influence. Trump’s repeated attacks on Ukraine, Canada, and renewable energy policy—while downplaying his own role in economic and environmental collapse—highlight a pattern of mismanagement and personalization of foreign policy. Critics argue that his actions, including blaming Ukraine for rising energy costs and ignoring climate policy, undermine national stability and international trust. The overall narrative paints a picture of an increasingly isolated, reckless, and out-of-touch U.S. leadership, facing both environmental and geopolitical crises.
Donald Trump's return to Washington DC late last night was a complete disaster, no surprise there. After the Trump regime struck an Iranian cargo tanker in the Strait of Hormuz as predicted, Iran responded, striking another tanker in the Strait of Hormuz that was trying to use the US southern route by Oman. Iran was not having it. Also, we're now learning that the Saudi Arabian east-west pipeline was damaged even worse than previously expected. We do indeed believe that in the next few days Saudi Arabia will essentially completely run out of oil, going through that east-west pipeline, not enough, has been stored on the west coast area. Also, the Houthis are continuing to strike refineries all throughout Saudi Arabia yesterday into the early morning hours. We're keeping an eye on that as well. While Donald Trump returned to the White House at around 10-12 pm, guess who was there by his side, the pool reporter described it as thus. Marine 1 was wheels down at 10-08 pm. The beast and several other armored cars rolled up to greet it. Donald Trump climbed off the helicopter at 10-10, climbed into his limo, he was followed off Marine 1 by several aides, including Natalie Harp. The motorcade rolled back to the White House at 10-12 pm. Donald Trump calling a lid with Natalie Harp and not before though he made a bunch of social media posts before it was lights out at the White House, posting about the drone port, more photos of his golf course in Ireland because the American people who are waking up to even higher gas and diesel prices, what they really want to see is all of Donald Trump's golf courses as he enriches himself more from the taxpayer dollars. Exactly what we wanted to see. His grift trip to Ireland to be at the Irish open where he be clowned himself in the United States yet again. Donald Trump does have a plan though when it comes to his catastrophic and unlawful war, whom I kidding, he doesn't have a plan at all. It apparently includes though reposting articles on his social media account like this. Ron's not even close to winning the war from the epic times. That's the way you're going to win this catastrophic war that you shouldn't have been involved in all. Just post random op-eds from the epic times. More posts from Donald Trump. The spectacular bald room is being built or he posts random photos of 8647. You see there is vandalism, 8647 here. That's what they're saying. Vandalism everybody or Donald Trump posting. The White House was in very bad condition both inside and out. Frankly it was a dump. Past presidents did not take care of it, but I alone will fix it. What a demented lunatic by the way as noted before. I mean just take a look at these new high resolution satellite images of the East West pipeline you can see for yourself what it looks like. From Abkaiq to Yanbu, I mean this is how Saudi Arabia transfers. What is it around 4% of the global supply of oil goes through that East West pipeline. What you think was going to happen Donald when you put the blockade of Iran. You didn't think that maybe some of their allies like the Houthis or the Iraqi resistance would strike back or that Iran would strike back really. Did you see what happened at Bricks in New Delhi where Iran's foreign minister Iraqi and Iran's president Pezashkin were treated like absolute conquering heroes at the Bricks. You see this photo Donald being posted by the various Russian embassy accounts of Iran's leadership with all the Bricks leadership. They're taunting you. They're showing you how weak you've become. This is a direct message that they've posted on there that the Russian embassy is posting as Scott Besson said economic d-day. We're going to show Iran. If you dare do business with Iran, we're coming after you. Well, all of the Bricks nations right there not only are doing business with Iran, they're leaning into doing more business with Iran recognizing that they are now a regional, if not a global power. What was that? Was it I think Grammys or what was the award ceremony? Was it the Oscars where it was like the photo of like Ellen and all those Hollywood people at the time. You remember that photo right there? Basically, you have the Russian embassy in China and Iran doing that version of a photo to Taunt Donald Trump while you have the Saudi East-West pipeline burning while you have the Houthis taking control of Western Yemen and moving East while Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz while oil prices are absolutely surging right now. I mean Brent Crude's probably going to hit $120 a barrel in the next few days. It's already at $108 a barrel. When I think more of the consequences of the Saudi East-West pipeline are understood, that could go 120, that can go 150 soon. I think we're going to be thankful for the days where gas was five or six dollars a gallon. I think it's going to go much higher and that's not me being alarmist. It's what I've been warning about. Pay close attention to the salt caverns, the strategic petroleum reserves here in the United States because I think there are massive ruptures and defects that are now existing in there and that we're going to see more issues as the salt caverns have been drained right here. Pay close attention folks. Before Donald Trump landed with Natalie Harp, completely demented appearance that he made aboard Air Force One. He talked about how he loves flock cameras. He loves flock cameras. He was asked about his use of AI. He says, "I'm not going to tell you how I use AI." Although we do know one of the ways you use it apparently is to post demented memes in lieu of actually leadership. You post demented AI memes. But Donald Trump was asked, "What do you think about Kushner and Whitcoff?" You like their negotiating? I think they're doing great. They're doing fantastic. Well, they're doing great and fantastic. I'd be clowning the United States and making us look like absolute jokes on the world stage by weakening us. I mean, the trip that Kushner and Whitcoff took to Moscow and Ukraine couldn't have been more embarrassing. Donald Trump and continued to attack Zelensky and Ukraine. He says, "The reason that diesel prices are going up, it's Zelensky's fault. You've got to stop striking the refineries in Russia's Zelensky." Hey, Donald, you promised you were going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours after the 2024 election, which you never did. And now you're attacking Ukraine. I don't know. You're going to tell Russia stop invading or how you're just going to complain. Is Zelensky, your Dr. Fauci, is Canada your Dr. Fauci, as you destroy the economy? Things were going to be so perfect, but then COVID hit. Things were going to be so perfect, but then Canada and Zelensky and the Democrats and this and that. They stole it from me. I had it all set up. We were bringing in trillions of dollars. We're not bringing in trillions of dollars. We want to talk facts. Our national debt has increased to over 40 trillion dollars because of you. You're responsible for over 30 percent of our national debt. Our deficit continues to increase. Treasury yields are through the roof. Our Treasury bond market is absolutely destroyed and ruined right now. It only getting worse as more countries are dumping their Treasury bonds. The U.S. has now viewed as a unpredictable corrupt developing nation. That's how the U.S. has looked. Now you have new multilateral global order structures forming. You have Canada thinking about maybe taking on an associate member role in the European Union. You have the bricks block asserting itself. We have idiot Donald Trump. You're running around talking about his love of flock cameras and telling a reporter in Ireland that he that she reminds him of Shenato Conor and how cute she looks. I mean, he's saying that he believed that Melania was her spirit was there. Even though he said that first that she was there in Ireland, you got Donald Trump just making a fool of the Houthis called him. The Houthis talked to me. The Houthis spoke to me. Iran, they want to make a deal. Iran, Canada, the Houthis are all calling me at once. He lumps them all together. They all want to do a deal with me. Everybody knows that you were just a demended lunatic. You are a sicko, a predator, just a horrible overall like human. Do not normalize this through any normal political lens. Ben, what's the best political messaging we can have? I don't know. Just we have a lunatic sex predator cover up of the Epstein file, racketeering enterprise in the White House. We have a lunatic who's behaving like a lunatic. Maybe start with that. I don't know. Let's we can start there, of course. Donald Trump was asked to board Air Force One. Do you have concerns about Witt Koffen Kushner? He says he loves flat cameras. Let's play it. Speaking of AI, flat cameras, you haven't talked a lot about these flat cameras. A lot of law enforcement say they really help them. Would you be willing to back that? No, I sort of like them because of that, because of of course, but some people
know they think it's an infringement. He attacks Zelensky for the rising diesel, but it's not a Lensky's fault. That's when not Trump's fault. It's Zelensky's fault. Again, this is Donald Trump in his form, blaming people for his own disasters that he causes playing this clip. The way things are going now with Russia and Ukraine, which war do you think could end sooner have with Ukraine and Russia is that, you know, a lot of the diesel comes, diesel low comes, and that's the one where there's a big up. It comes from Russia, and the Russia just plants are being hit by Ukraine. And I've asked President Zelensky not to hit the diesel plants, refineries. Is it potentially that Ukraine war could end? Is it potentially that diesel is being driven up by the fact that it's having a hard time coming out of Russia? And that's the case that hurts the world. We got to stop. But of course, while Donald Trump loves attacking Zelensky, loves attacking Canada, won't attack China. Here he is attacking Canada. Let's play it. President, you talked a lot about Canada. And I talked a lot about Canada just in the recent weeks or so. You keep saying also that Russia and China, China, Canada is more dangerous to the US than Russia and China. They said they're more difficult to deal with. I find Canada to be the worst country to deal with. Really? The most difficult country. With that being said, they're dying to make a deal. I find Canada to be very, very difficult to deal with. They're leaders. Not the people, the people of Canada. But I find them to be very, very different. On AI. And they've ripped off our country for years, but they don't rip them off with it. Are the tariffs still in effect? Yeah, but we have a lot of tariffs in Copenhagen. Don't forget on January 1st, the big one is cars. That's what we take it a lot of their cars, car tariffs in Copenhagen. Here he is praising China. Let's play it. I don't have the topic of she. We recently reported that Chinese entities may have provided Iranians with satellite imagery of the air bases in Jordan. We do. They basically do what we do. Are you going to raise that with she when he visits? I think he's behaved reasonably well and we behave reasonably well. You know, when they say that China spies on us, they say, you're right, and we spy on them too, you know? We spy on them too. And here he is when he's asked, have you ever used AI yourself? He goes, yeah, I use it. So how do you use it? And he gives like the weirdest answer. I don't want to tell you. He's willing to lie about everything. But when it comes to, I don't want to tell you how I use AI here. Play this clip. We take it a lot of their cars, car tariffs. This week, again, there's been so much concern about AI. Have you heard directly from any of these AI tech leaders? And you seem to downplay some of the concerns that we've heard. But it's, you know, it's going to be more good than men, but by a lot. And I've said that for many of them, whoever wins AI and we're leading by a lot, whoever wins AI wins. Have you ever used it yourself or have you been, how do you use AI? But let me say, you know, for the most, you can use AI for a lot of things right away. Speaking of AI, that was about Donald Trump's landing. That's what went down last night. Then he and Natalie Harp called the lid. Good night. Donald and Natalie are going to sleep, everybody. They're shutting off the White House. They're saying, good night, everybody. Wow, wow, wow. How is this the United States of America? Did you read the statement from President Connelly of Ireland? As president of Ireland, I am very conscious that Ireland and the United States of America are bound by the strong ties. This is a deep connection built over centuries, which allows us to speak openly to one another. We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are an extricably interlinked. I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalization of war and genocide can ever be accepted as a country which has suffered famine, colonization and the violence of the troubles, but has also importance of long and challenging road to peace. I emphasize the unique insight which Irish people can bring to the resolution of conflict. I highlighted to President Trump the strong commitment, which the Irish people have to international relations to the importance of the United Nations, including the pride which Irish people feel in Ireland's contributions to UN peacekeeping since 1958 and to the obligation contained with an article 29 of our Constitution towards the peaceful resolution of international disputes. I assured President Trump that the Irish people would strongly support all those who have the strength to build a shared peace in all those parts of the world currently suffering from such horrific war and violence, a powerful statement from President Connolly, and what does Donald Trump do? Well, late last night we learned that Trump's EPA is now expected to erase all limits on climate pollution from power plants. Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet warming gases in the United States, but the Trump regime plans to announce today that the US will no longer limit the planet warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas, according to people who are familiar. And what they want to do also is prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants also. Not just this one, they want to make it permanent, prevent anyone from any way limiting greenhouse gas emissions. That's what the Trump regime is doing. Sick, sick in all ways, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, disgusting people, vile, vile scum. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching everybody. Hey, if you want the full story, how democracy got here and how we take it back, pre-order our new book WTF America today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.
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Key Points:
Donald Trump’s return to Washington D.C. was described as a chaotic and disorganized event, with a visibly demented appearance and a focus on personal social media content rather than policy leadership.
Escalating regional conflicts—including Iran’s retaliation against a U.S.-related oil tanker, Houthi attacks on Saudi refineries, and severe damage to the Saudi East-West oil pipeline—have triggered a surge in global oil prices, potentially pushing Brent Crude to $120–$150 per barrel.
Trump’s administration is rolling back environmental regulations, including eliminating all climate pollution limits on power plants and blocking future federal action on greenhouse gas emissions, reversing decades of environmental protections and signaling a disregard for climate stability.
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C. was portrayed as a chaotic and poorly managed event, marked by a visibly erratic public appearance and a heavy focus on personal social media content, such as posts about his golf courses in Ireland. This contrasts sharply with the escalating global energy crisis triggered by regional conflicts: Iran’s retaliation in the Strait of Hormuz, Houthi attacks on Saudi refineries, and severe damage to the Saudi East-West oil pipeline—accounting for nearly 4% of global oil supply—are causing a sharp rise in oil prices, with Brent Crude projected to surge to $120–$150.
S. government’s decision to dismantle climate regulations, including eliminating emissions limits on power plants and preventing future federal action, a move seen as environmentally reckless and politically destabilizing. S.
influence. Trump’s repeated attacks on Ukraine, Canada, and renewable energy policy—while downplaying his own role in economic and environmental collapse—highlight a pattern of mismanagement and personalization of foreign policy. Critics argue that his actions, including blaming Ukraine for rising energy costs and ignoring climate policy, undermine national stability and international trust.
S. leadership, facing both environmental and geopolitical crises.
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The Saudi East-West pipeline was damaged more severely than previously thought, potentially leading to a near-complete loss of oil supply through this route, which carries about 4% of the world's oil.
Escalating tensions, including strikes on tankers by Iran and the Houthis, are causing oil prices to surge, with Brent Crude expected to reach $120–$150 per barrel in the coming days.
Iran is responding to U.S. actions by striking oil tankers and supporting regional actors like the Houthis, while gaining international recognition as a regional power through diplomatic events like BRICS.
The Trump administration plans to eliminate all greenhouse gas emission limits on power plants and prevent future administrations from regulating emissions, effectively rolling back environmental protections.
Trump has blamed Ukraine's President Zelensky for rising diesel prices and criticized his actions, despite evidence that the conflict and supply disruptions are the real cause of price increases.
Trump claimed he uses AI but refused to disclose how, and some reports suggest he uses AI to post demented memes rather than engage in informed policy or leadership.
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