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🚨 Trump’s COLLAPSE ACCELERATES!!!

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "🚨 Trump’s COLLAPSE ACCELERATES!!!", an episode of MeidasTouch published November 10, 2026 (26 min, about 4,469 words). It mentions 46 people, works and ideas, including Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, Ben Meiselas, Congress, Iran war (2026).

What this episode is about

The piece argues that Trump’s political and economic standing is collapsing as inflation surges, wage gains lag, and fears of continued rate hikes by the Fed mount, amid criticism of Trump-era policies and warnings from critics about rising energy costs and trade tensions. It frames bad inflation data and expert predictions as confirming a worsening economic scenario for Trump.

Key takeaways

  • Inflation surges, wages stagnate, and the arithmetic screams a squeezed consumer under the weight of energy-driven price hikes.
  • Trump’s economy narrative collapses as CPI burns blueprints for rate cuts; reality checks out the door.
  • Hegseth’s impeachment collision—military victories mocked, press freedom threatened—reframes governance into a televised catastrophe.
  • Energy-led inflation bites: 37% gas costs year-over-year; core disinflation dreams evaporate in the market’s glare.
  • War-backfire logic: boasted triumphs collide with credibility loss, as impeachment chatter and economic pain overshadow bravado.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, Iran war (2026), Kevin Hasset
  2. – 10:00: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, Strait of Hormuz, Stone Cold Steve Austin
  3. – 15:00: Pete Hegseth, Congressman Thomas Massie, Iran, Congress
  4. – 20:00: Russia, Ukraine, Jared Kushner, Abu Dhabi
  5. – 25:00: Donald Trump, Congress, Department of Justice, Todd Blanche
  6. – 25:53: Ben Meiselas, MeidasTouch, New York Times, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy

Notable quotes from "🚨 Trump’s COLLAPSE ACCELERATES!!!"

  • Introduced by Republican Congress member Thomas Massie. We expect a vote on the impeachment later today. Hegsith held a press conference earlier this morning at the Pentagon. It was an utter disaster.
    about Pete Hegseth · at
  • Impeached today, then the House will leave for the day and then the official impeachment vote will be tomorrow. Let me show you a short portion of Hegsith's press conference…
    about Ben Meiselas · at
  • Missiles, more cruise missiles, more drones underneath the mountains. And they released video footage today right after Hexit's press conference. Here, play this clip.
    about Iran · at
  • Front. the UAE for a lot of the Russian money that's going into Alaska right now and other places in this country. So clearly Kushner and Witoff want to be in Abu Dhabi, but…
    about Jared Kushner · at
  • From the Europeans is are the Russians and this president really ready for peace? And from what Steve and I have heard from him, we can say very strongly we believe so under…
    about Russia · at
  • False. Yet, the Interior Department and the Trump regime lie about absolutely everything. For example, Donald Trump also posting this morning, Dan Sullivan plus Dan Sullivan…
    about Donald Trump · at
  • He's doing working for this administration. And again, just to remember, everything that he has done, he has worked with the Department of Justice to make sure that he's…
    about Department of Justice · at
  • Country and that's unfortunate, right? There you have it everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe.
    about MeidasTouch · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Pete Hegseth — Person · Referenced official / Main subject of impeachment coverage · 14 mentions · first at
    Central figure in the episode's coverage — discussed as the Secretary of Defense (referred to as 'Secretary of War' in transcript) facing impeachment over actions in the Iran conflict and criticized for press conference behavior.
  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure / Subject of criticism · 13 mentions · first at
    Episode frames Trump's administration and actions (including foreign policy and economic messaging) as central drivers of the crises discussed — inflation, war with Iran, and defense leadership choices.
  • Ben Meiselas — Person · Host · 1 mention · first at
    Primary presenter of the episode, guiding the narrative and offering analysis/criticism of the Trump administration and related events.
  • Congressman Thomas Massie — Person · Referenced congressman / Impeachment introducer · 4 mentions · first at
    Republican congressman noted in the episode as introducing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and quoted discussing impeachment rationale.
    Articles of impeachment have been introduced by Republican Congress member Thomas Massie. We expect a vote on the impeachment later today. Hegsith held a press conference earlier this morning at.
  • Jared Kushner — Person · Referenced advisor / Diplomatic actor · 4 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as part of the Trump team's foreign policy efforts (attending an Abu Dhabi peace summit) and criticized for involvement in diplomacy despite perceived conflicts of interest.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu — Person · Referenced foreign leader / Influencer on U.S. policy · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as encouraging renewed U.S. military action against Iran and as engaged with Trump regarding strikes; context used to explain regional pressures on U.S. policy.
    Losses it has suffered. We will not agree to that. This has been said repeatedly. What's also been said repeatedly by Netanyahu is all reports show that he's trying to get…
  • Marco Rubio — Person · Referenced politician / Source of quoted remarks · 1 mention · first at
    Senator whose press conference and statements about economic pressure on Iran and regional instability are quoted and criticized in the episode.
    Then you had Marco Rubio holding a disastrous press conference this morning where Rubio says the economic campaign against Iran is so successful that we don't need to conduct military combat.
  • Vladimir Putin — Person · Referenced foreign leader / Conflict actor · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed in relation to Russian aims in Ukraine and whether Putin would accept a peace deal — used to critique simplified diplomacy by Kushner/Trump team.
    Says we think he does. Under the right circumstances, he does the right circumstances. He wants all of Ukraine.
  • Todd Blanche — Person · Referenced legal defender / attorney · 3 mentions · first at
    Central figure in legal defenses cited
    Table. That's being reported by Connor Stringer and by the Telegraph. Finally, you had Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's attorney general this morning, referring to responding to the…
  • Kevin Hasset — Person · Referenced economist / Administration adviser · 2 mentions · first at
    Named as Trump's former White House economic adviser who struggled to spin new inflation data referenced in the episode.
    This catastrophic war in Iran, Donald Trump's trade wars against the world are backfiring in his face. Even Kevin Hasset, Donald Trump's national economic adviser, who always…
  • Gianni Infantino — Person · Referenced executive / Subject of probe · 1 mention · first at
    FIFA president mentioned as facing congressional investigations tied to alleged assistance benefiting Trump-related interests.
    Chair the powerful House Judiciary Committee, is examining fresh allegations involving Infontino, including revelations that he asked a FIFA intermediary to help secure a work…
  • Stone Cold Steve Austin — Person · Referenced prior Defense Secretary · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a comparison point (question of why he wasn't impeached) when Hegseth and allies defend current actions by pointing to past controversies.
    More from Hegsith over here. And he's and of course he's going to make this about Biden. He's So why didn't you impeach Lloyd Austin? Why didn't you impeach Biden's defense…
  • Dan Sullivan — Person · Referenced political candidate / Opponent · 2 mentions · first at
    Referenced in the context of Alaska election results and criticized as the target of Trump's election-related social media claims.
    False. Yet, the Interior Department and the Trump regime lie about absolutely everything. For example, Donald Trump also posting this morning, Dan Sullivan plus Dan Sullivan…
  • Steve Witkoff — Person · Referenced business figure / Participant in Abu Dhabi summit · 1 mention · first at
    Named as accompanying Jared Kushner at the Abu Dhabi summit; criticized for being part of Trump's informal diplomatic entourage.
    Front. the UAE for a lot of the Russian money that's going into Alaska right now and other places in this country. So clearly Kushner and Witoff want to be in Abu Dhabi, but…
  • Connor Stringer — Person · Referenced journalist/source · 1 mention · first at
    Credited as a reporter for the Telegraph story about FIFA/Infantino investigations referenced in the episode
    Committee source tells Telegraph, All investigation options remain on the table. That's being reported by Connor Stringer and by the Telegraph. Finally, you had Todd Blanch…
  • EJ Antoni — Person · Referenced commentator · 1 mention · first at
    Quoted indirectly as a named person the host referenced when discussing economic data and energy's effect on CPI
    About 1 and a half annual rate, but then things have accelerated over the last 3 months. And you know my friend EJ that you just quoted I think characterized it pretty well…
  • Charlie Kirk — Person · Referenced public figure · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned briefly in passing as part of a list of personalities; not a primary subject of the episode
    About at the Department of Justice is you talked earlier a little bit ago about all the threats around Charlie's death and what's happened since then. We cannot let the…

Companies & orgs

  • MeidasTouch — Company · Producer / Host network · 1 mention · first at
    The show/network producing the episode; host promotes MeidasTouch content, merchandise, and subscription services.
  • Department of Justice — Company · Institutional defender / Legal advisor · 3 mentions · first at
    Referenced as having advised and cleared Hegseth's actions and as part of the administration's legal defense; source of dispute in episode.
  • Fox — Company · Referenced news organization / favored outlet · 3 mentions · first at
    Listed among the outlets Secretary Hegseth allegedly called on during the Pentagon briefing; used to illustrate media selection/partisanship
    Criminal and that you abandon our troops. But during this briefing, Hegsith was only calling upon O, Real America's Voice, Daily Wire, Fox, Daily Signal, and Washington Times.…
  • Financial Times — Company · Referenced news organization · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as reporting that Netanyahu has been urging Trump to strike Iran daily; used to support claims about foreign pressure on U.S. policy
    Show that he's trying to get Donald Trump to re-engage in the catastrophic war in Iran. The Financial Times reporting that Netanyahu has been calling Trump every day saying…
  • New York Times — Company · Referenced news organization / source for book success · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in two ways: as a news organization and to note the host's book appearing on the New York Times bestseller list
    Lot of news this morning. Get your copy of WTF America: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Two weeks in a row in the New York Times bestseller list. Let's keep it…
  • Interior Department — Company · U.S. government department referenced in records controversy · 2 mentions · first at
    Agency implicated in alleged document destruction
    Oversight, and other House committees when they're about to take power. That the Trump regime's interior department has allegedly been destroying documents related to Trump's…
  • FIFA — Company · Governing body of world football under discussion · 2 mentions · first at
    Institution mentioned in context of investigation
    Infantino, who leads FIFA, is likely going to be hauled before Congress within weeks. Democrats are preparing to escalate their investigation into FIFA's ties to Donald Trump…
  • Daily Wire (company) — Company · Referenced news organization / favored outlet · 1 mention · first at
    Listed as one of the outlets given prominence at the Pentagon briefing; part of criticism about selective press access
    Criminal and that you abandon our troops. But during this briefing, Hegsith was only calling upon O, Real America's Voice, Daily Wire, Fox, Daily Signal, and Washington Times.…
  • CNN — Company · Referenced news organization · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as reporting that whistleblowers warned incoming House Democrats about alleged document destruction at the Interior Department
    Herzog of Israel. A few other data points I want to talk about as well. You have reporting this morning from CNN that whistleblowers are warning Democrats in the House…
  • Washington Times — Company · Referenced news organization / favored outlet · 1 mention · first at
    Listed among outlets that were called on at the Hegseth Pentagon briefing; used to illustrate partisanship in media access
    Criminal and that you abandon our troops. But during this briefing, Hegsith was only calling upon O, Real America's Voice, Daily Wire, Fox, Daily Signal, and Washington Times.…
  • Telegraph — Organization · News outlet cited as reporting source · 1 mention · first at
    Source of reporting in the narrative
    Committee source tells Telegraph, All investigation options remain on the table. That's being reported by Connor Stringer and by the Telegraph. Finally, you had Todd Blanch…

Concepts & topics

  • Congress — Concept · Legislative body / institutional actor referenced in investigation context · 6 mentions · first at
    Key governmental body involved in oversight and investigations
    Reporting is unless something dramatic happens, that will break in favor of impeachment. So, we expect Hegsith to be impeached today, then the House will leave for the day and…

Places & events

  • Iran war (2026) — Event · Ongoing armed conflict referenced in episode · 5 mentions · first at
    Represents a major conflict mentioned; affects geopolitical context and rhetoric
    You slaughtered little children in Manab and La Mer. What are you talking about here? Play this clip. For the first time in American history, a cabinet secretary overseeing…
  • Iran — Place · Primary actor / Location in geopolitical discussion · 2 mentions · first at
    Nation at the center of the military conflict and sanctions campaign discussed; referenced regarding tanker strikes, missile capabilities, and regional influence.
  • Strait of Hormuz — Place · Geographic focal point / Incident location · 4 mentions · first at
    Named as the site of tanker strikes and maritime confrontations referenced in the episode tied to Iran and regional instability.
    Impeaching him for. His effectiveness in breaking the law and violating the constitution. And as I noted before, the IRGC Navy announced that it struck two more tankers in the straight of Hormuz.
  • Pentagon — Place · Setting for press conference / Institutional locus · 3 mentions · first at
    Location of Hegseth's press conference where reporters were reportedly threatened and mainstream press excluded from certain parts of the briefing.
    Hegsith was only calling upon O, Real America's Voice, Daily Wire, Fox, Daily Signal, and Washington Times. Most of the mainstream press corps remained in the back of the room…
  • Russia — Place · Referenced international actor · 6 mentions · first at
    Discussed in relation to Ukraine, deals with Iran, and Putin's strategic aims; referenced via quotes from Russian officials.
  • Ukraine — Place · Referenced conflict party / Diplomatic topic · 5 mentions · first at
    Discussed in relation to Putin/Russia and Jared Kushner's attempts (portrayed as unlikely) to broker peace; used to critique Trump team's foreign policy competence.
    From the Europeans is are the Russians and this president really ready for peace? And from what Steve and I have heard from him, we can say very strongly we believe so under the right.
  • Operation Rough Rider — Event · Referenced military operation (alleged/claimed) · 1 mention · first at
    Cited in the episode as part of claims about recent U.S. military actions and their effects in the region; used to critique administration messaging about 'victory'
    Operation Ruff Rider hit them more than a thousand times. They cried uncle and they stopped shooting at our ships to this day. Iran found out next. Operation Midnight Hammer B2s from the heartland.
  • Abu Dhabi — Place · Event location / Diplomatic summit setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Site of the cited 'peace' summit (Kushner & Witkoff) regarding Russia-Ukraine talks where Trump associates were participating.
    And by the way, after that was signed, inflation went down and now inflation is surging again. You also have Jared Kushner right now. He is in Abu Dhabi for some I don't know…
  • Alaska — Place · Referenced election battleground · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned regarding the Alaska election results and discussion of Dan Sullivan vs. Mary Peltola vote counts, used to critique Trump's election-related rhetoric.
    The Trump regime lie about absolutely everything. For example, Donald Trump also posting this morning, Dan Sullivan plus Dan Sullivan wins the Alaska election by thousands of…
  • Operation Epic Fury — Event · Named military operation (claimed) referenced · 1 mention · first at
    A key military operation cited in the narrative
    Later in Operation Epic Fury, by every measure, we achieved a historic military victory.
  • Venezuela — Place · Referenced foreign country · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in context alleging U.S. involvement in an unconstitutional kidnapping and capture of oil tied to administration actions
    Not have had people who were guilty of smuggling drugs. He's been effective at waging an unconstitutional kidnapping in Venezuela. The president himself brags that they have…
  • Afghanistan — Place · Referenced past conflict / Comparison point · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as a prior example (Kabul withdrawal) when discussing past Defense Secretaries and impeachment comparisons.
    You know 5 years ago America was humiliated in Kabell Afghanistan and every enemy on earth took notice. But somehow as the president pointed out yesterday no impeachment vote for Lloyd.
  • Lebanon — Place · Regional actor mentioned in foreign policy discussion · 2 mentions · first at
    Referenced in Rubio's remarks about regional instability and U.S. dealings with Lebanon/Israel as part of Middle East dynamics.
    And I think the countries more from Rubio over here. He's Why would we ever talk to Iran about Lebanon?
  • Eastern Europe — Place · Geopolitical region referenced · 2 mentions · first at
    Referenced in the context of Putin's claims about territory and Russian aims in Ukraine, and as part of the critique of simplistic diplomacy.
    Says we think he does. Under the right circumstances, he does the right circumstances. He wants all of Ukraine.
  • Manab — Place · Referenced site of alleged civilian casualties · 1 mention · first at
    Named (with 'La Mer') when the host accused military operations of killing children—used to criticize administration conduct in the conflict
    You slaughtered little children in Manab and La Mer. What are you talking about here? Play this clip. For the first time in American history, a cabinet secretary overseeing America's military is being.
  • Operation Midnight Hammer — Event · Referenced military operation (claimed) · 1 mention · first at
    Cited in episode dialogue as part of a sequence of operations the administration claims were decisive strikes against Iran; used to illustrate claims of victory.
    A thousand times. They cried uncle and they stopped shooting at our ships to this day. Iran found out next. Operation Midnight Hammer B2s from the heartland halfway around the world straight into Foro, Natans, and Esvahan. Flawless.

Sponsors

  • WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy — Book · Promoted book / Call-to-action · 1 mention · first at
    Host promotes this book at episode start/end as a recommended purchase and source of additional commentary related to the show's themes.
    Let's get to 7 million subscribers. A lot of news this morning. Get your copy of WTF America: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Two weeks in a row in the New York Times bestseller list. Let's keep it on that list. Thanks.

Full transcript with timestamps

Donald Trump's collapse continues to accelerate. On Tuesday morning, it's been bad news after bad news. This morning, we learned that the October CPI inflation rose by 4% month over month, above the expectation of.3%. The Trump regime is refusing to now post the year overyear inflation numbers. But if you just do some basic addition, we know it's over 4% close to 4.1% year-over-year. And now the Federal Reserve is likely going to need to raise interest rates at least 25 basis points, probably multiple 25 basis point increases this winter, experts are saying. And when you take a look at the inflation data that just came in as well, the inflation is wiping out all wage gains of 3.1% in the past year. Seven straight months of a massive squeeze against consumers.

This catastrophic war in Iran, Donald Trump's trade wars against the world are backfiring in his face. Even Kevin Hasset, Donald Trump's national economic adviser, who always goes on state regime media to brag about how good the numbers are, how amazing things are when we get bad data. Even he couldn't spin this. Watch what took place.

You say slightly hotter inflation and a virtual certainty from the market at least than the Fed raises rates in December. What say you on that?

Right. Well, well, there's no doubt that uh you guys are right that it's it's a disappointing report uh that we had this period in the summer, you and I talked about it back then where core got all the way down over a 3-month average to about 1 and a half annual rate, but then things have accelerated over the last 3 months. And uh you know my friend EJ that you just quoted I think characterized it pretty well what we're seeing in the data which is really uh energy prices and the CPI are up 20% year-over-year and gasoline prices are up 37% year-over-year and uh we had so much good news throughout the year like lower drug prices and everything that it kept things from you know heading in the wrong direction on the wrong trajectory but right now the trickle down from the higher energy prices is definitely very palpable in the data

a a little disappointing for you. Got that? Now, I'm going to change the subject. I want to talk about

Speaking of not being able to spin this. You can't spin being a freaking war criminal and losing a catastrophic war in Iran that we should never have been involved in in the first place. Pete Hegsith, the Secretary of Defense, who's now likely facing an impeachment. Articles of impeachment have been introduced by Republican Congress member Thomas Massie. We expect a vote on the impeachment later today. Hegsith held a press conference earlier this morning at the Pentagon. It was an utter disaster. So you had Hegsith security agents threatening reporters from who normally handle the regular defense department beat. As Tara Cop says, "This is the first time any of us reporters could remember being threatened. We were told we will be physically removed from the briefing room if we don't conform to what HEGs believes is professional decorum. All of the reporters who were like the legitimate defense department

reporters who have mostly been kicked out and they were just allowed to be in the back room but they were threatened. They said this is absolute crazy town. What's going on? And so during Hegsit's purported briefing that took place this morning where he was trying to say, "You can't impeach me cuz if you impeach me, it's like going after the troops." No, don't you dare try to use the troops to cover up the fact that you are a war criminal and that you abandon our troops. But during this briefing, Hegsith was only calling upon O, Real America's Voice, Daily Wire, Fox, Daily Signal, and Washington Times. Most of the mainstream press corps remained in the back of the room in assigned seats where they were being guarded by security and they were being threatened.

Now, Lisa DJardens, a Capitol Hill reporter, has given the following update on the Hegsith impeachment. She says, "I'm told that the House will take a key procedural vote at 5:30 p.m. Our reporting is unless something dramatic happens, that will break in favor of impeachment. So, we expect Hegsith to be impeached today, then the House will leave for the day and then the official impeachment vote will be tomorrow." Let me show you uh a short portion of Hegsith's press conference over here where Hegsith would keep on saying he was he kept on saying, "We won the war."

Why would they impeach me if we won the war? You didn't win the war. It's been catastrophic. It's been a major loss. It's destroying our economy. All of our bases have been destroyed in the region. You slaughtered little children in Manab and La Mer. What are you talking about here? Play this clip. For the first time in American history, a cabinet secretary overseeing America's military is being attacked not for losing conflicts with our enemies, but for winning them. condemned not for defeat but for military victory. The disgruntled congressman even admitted this himself.

Yes. More from Hegsith's disastrous press conference at the Pentagon where he's like, "And the real problem here is that the media can just never admit that we had military success." Let's play this clip. The media can just never admit the military success because they you hate the president more than you love our country or our troops. More from Hegsith over here saying, "I stand behind every one of the operations that I've did so far." Like when you killed the little children in Manab and Lamar and this is why you need to go because if you stand by what's occurred, we objectively got our ass kicked. We've lost this catastrophic war. It's still ongoing.

We're still losing every day. There have been more tankers struck in the straight of Hormuz today. At least two tankers struck in the straight of Hormuz. This guy needs to go. This guy is a traitor. This guy has been involved in treason. This guy is scum. He needs to go. Here, play this clip.

In a generation, a commander-in-chief with the courage to lead and the resolve to win. I stand behind every one of these operations. I was proud to execute them and I would do it again tomorrow.

More from Hegsith over here. And he's like, and of course he's going to make this about Biden. He's like, "So why didn't you impeach Lloyd Austin? Why didn't you impeach Biden's defense secretary?" Huh? Remember the Chinese spy balloon? Remember the Chinese the Chinese spy balloon as you're saying is an impeachable offense where Biden was transparent about what took place and shot it down whereas in the first Trump administration you would just cover it up and you know probably all the things like that that are being covered up right now and you're equating that to a catastrophic war in Iran where our troops have been killed I believe thousands have been injured although the official total is more like 900 but I believe it's much more suffering from traumatic brain injury and that that like again another data point why you need to go here play this clip.

You know 5 years ago America was humiliated in Kabell Afghanistan and every enemy on earth took notice. But somehow as the president pointed out yesterday no impeachment vote for Lloyd Austin for that terrible withdrawal. Not even one vote. Or no impeachment vote for when he went awall for over a week. No impeachment vote for when he let a Chinese spy balloon fly over the country for over a week. You see, President Trump ended that kind of wokeness and weakness. Peace through strength, not as a slogan, but as a way of war. And then Hexith keeps on bragging and says, "We control the straight of Hormuz. It's ours. We've won. And we've eliminated wokeness and weakness." And the Houthies found out and Iran found out. They f around and they found out. What did they find out? That that we lose wars, that we're incapable of fighting, that we run out of munitions. What What precisely did they f around and find out? Here,

play this clip. You see, President Trump ended that kind of wokeness and weakness. Peace through strength, not as a slogan, but as a way of war. The Houthies found out first. They fired out American ships. Biden had let it happen. President Trump said, "No more." Operation Ruff Rider hit them more than a thousand times. They cried uncle and they stopped shooting at our ships to this day. Iran found out next. Operation Midnight Hammer B2s from the heartland halfway around the world straight into Foro, Natans, and Esvahan. Flawless.

The largest and most successful B2 strike in American history. Nuclear sites obliterated. Later in Operation Epic Fury, by every measure, we achieved a historic military victory. Under 40 days of sustained combat, more than 13,000 targets struck, their navy sunk, their air force grounded, their defense industrial base gone, more than 80% of their nuclear industrial base gone, their military in ruin, the ironclad blockade unbroken. We control the street of Hormuz. But Donald Trump's been posting on social media right after uh throughout the morning and right after that press conference. Trump goes, "Pegsmith gets an A+ an A++ for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated former congressman Thomas Massie, a total loser. You think the economy is A++? You think our country is A++? You think the war has been A++? You think Hexit is A++? That's because you are an Fminus. You are a bankrupter, a

loser, a sex predator. You are a disgusting scumbag. And that's what you are. So I guess in your mind, anyone else who's like you is A+. Here's what Republican Congress member Thomas Massie just said. Play this clip.

Well, first of all, impeachment is is actually kind of a polite thing. I'm not I'm not proposing he go to prison. I'm not proposing that he be exposed to civil liability. We're just saying you need to be out of a job right now. And when the Democrats get control in January, they are not going to be as polite as I am.

More from Congressman Massie this morning. Let's of impeachment, but that's what's before us. And um you know, he has been effective. He was effective at killing 200 school children. He was effective at bombing uh fishing boats that may or may not have had people who were guilty of smuggling drugs. He's been effective at waging um an unconstitutional kidnapping in Venezuela. The president himself brags that they have captured this oil and that our companies, our corporations are getting rich from the oil that they've captured that Pete Hegsth helped to capture. I mean, he in some aspect he has been effective and that's what we're impeaching him for. His effectiveness in breaking the law and violating the constitution. And as I noted before, the IRGC Navy announced that it struck two more tankers in the straight of Hormuz.

It claims one was a super tanker that struck a naval mine while a second tanker was allegedly being escorted by US fighter jets and it suffered an explosion and caught fire. Then the IRGC released this video right here of a new missile city that they are unveiling today in the presence of Major General Abdul Ali, the chief of the general staff and Brigadier General Mousavi, commander of the IRGC. They're saying, "We're ready to go. We have built our military bases with more ballistic missiles, more cruise missiles, more drones underneath the mountains." And they released video footage today right after Hexit's press conference. Here, play this clip.

Then you had Marco Rubio holding a disastrous press conference this morning where Rubio says the economic campaign against Iran is so successful that we don't need to conduct military combat operations anymore. What economic operations do you think are working? The ironclad border blockade where Iraq has just opened up the border. There is no blockade to the to Afghanistan and Pakistan and Turkey and Turk menistan. What world are you actually living in? We've seen Iran ink new deals with Russia regarding gas pipelines, nuclear facilities, uh regarding technology, helicopter parts, um regarding railway.

But anyway, here's what Rubio says. just played this clip that at this point the economic campaign and the pressure and the devastation that our economic campaign is having on the Iran Iranian regime is working so well that the president really doesn't have any need to conduct major combat operations. Now obviously if Iran crosses certain red lines if their regime uh does certain things that should not happen and I'm not going to speculate what those are but you know what they are. uh more from Rubio over here and he's like all of the instability in the Middle East is from Iran. It's all of their fault. I mean, you want to take some uh blame for the United States and what the United States has done in the region. You want to talk about what the Netanyahu regime and what Israel has done in the region, but you're saying everything is Iran's fault. Here, play this clip.

But it's another point to be made. If you guys go through the Middle East, talk about all the instability in the Middle East, Houthis, the militias in in in Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, um the civil war that occurred in Syria that almost destroyed that country, uh all what do these things all have in common? Behind every single one of these destabilizing activities in the Middle East, there's one common denominator, the Iranian regime. They are behind all the instability in the region. They are the source of instability in the region.

And I think the countries more from Rubio over here. He's like, "Why would we ever talk to Iran about Lebanon? That's none of their business. It's none of your business. It's none of Israel's business. They are a regional. This is about regional security. And so why would you talk? Why do you think you are responsible for what? For allowing Israel to occupy southern Lebanon here, play this clip.

Government. We deal with President Aun. We deal with the Lebanese armed forces. Uh that's who we did an agreement with Israel and Lebanon with. So um why would we talk to Iran about Lebanon? It's none of their business.

Israel to hold back on attacks in Lebanon. Then a reporter asks Rubio, "But why do you think this stalemate is beneficial?" And Rubio's like, "It's not a stalemate. We're winning." Okay, it's worse than a stalemate. Iran is winning. Iran is winning the catastrophic war that the United States should never have been involved in. Play this clip. in order to arrive at a final uh agreement here.

Sorry, just back to Iran. Why is a stalemate on the Iran war beneficial to the United States?

It's not a stalemate. You call it a stalemate. I know. It's not a stalemate. How is it a stalemate? The United States is imposing extraordinary damaging uh effects through our sanctions and other measures and the blockade on the Iranian uh economy that every month.

Oh, and then Rubio says Iran would love a deal. The problem is the conditions they continue to place are absurd. They're not even serious. But that could change. Eventually, you have to eat. In other words, again, threatening war crimes against Iran. Eventually, you have to eat. Saying US is going to try to starve the people of Iran to death. And when you say the conditions, the conditions they place are absurd. It's the same conditions that you agreed to in the memorandum of understanding over the summer. It's literally the exact conditions. Donald Trump signed it. He held it up in vers. And then you all proceeded to breach it when you all said here were the terms and you celebrated.

And by the way, after that was signed, inflation went down and now inflation is surging again. You also have Jared Kushner right now. He is in Abu Dhabi for some I don't know performative peace uh summit with Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi. And by the way, why Abu Dhabi? Well, Abu Dhabi has actually served as a front. the UAE for a lot of the Russian money that's going into Alaska right now and other places uh in this country. So clearly Kushner and Witoff want to be in Abu Dhabi, but they're out there like again Kushner and Witoff should not be representing the United States at all, but they're like the question that we're asked is does Putin want peace? Kushner says we think he does. Under the right circumstances, he does the right circumstances. He wants all of Ukraine.

He wants to take it over. He doesn't acknowledge that Eastern Europe's a thing. That's Putin's view. Putin's view is Eastern Europe is a fabrication and it belongs to Russia with the borders of the Soviet Union. That that's his view. I mean, listen to what he says. Listen to what Sergey Lavrov says. Listen to what Ushakov says. And Ukraine and Europe are saying, "No, we don't agree with that." Here, this is what Kushner just said at this Abu Dhabi peace summit where they're pretending they're going to do a deal with Russia and Ukraine when we know there's zero chance of that happening. And Trump can't do a deal with anyone. And remember how Kushner and Whit tried to inject like the idea of, well, we want to talk about the security architecture of Europe. And Europe's like, we're not talking about our security or we have security architecture. just get security guarantees for Ukraine and get a

ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine like Trump promised he would do in 2024. But apparently he can't do it. Here, play this clip of Kushner.

From the Europeans is are the Russians and this president really ready for peace? And uh from what Steve and I have heard from him, we can say uh very strongly we believe so under the right conditions and uh and then the Russians asked the same questions of the Ukrainians and Europeans. Are they really genuinely ready for peace? Then you had Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov saying, "We will not agree to another truce, another ceasefire, whatever you want to call it, without understanding what comes next." That means European security architecture.

That means Russia's view that they don't want to do a ceasefire. They want all of Eastern Ukraine. They want to be clear that they'll have all of that territory and that there is no concept of Eastern Europe anymore. That's what that's what they say publicly. Russia's foreign minister Lavrov then goes on to say this morning, "Everything we hear now from Brussels," referring to Europe and other European Union capitals amounts to a demand for an immediate ceasefire. They absolutely need to buy time for their clients in the Keev regime and use that time to somehow replenish the military losses it has suffered. We will not agree to that. This has been said repeatedly. What's also been said repeatedly by Netanyahu is all reports show that he's trying to get Donald Trump to re-engage in the catastrophic war in Iran. The Financial Times reporting that Netanyahu has been calling Trump every day saying let's

strike Iran. Let's strike Iran. This as uh the Lakood party which is led by uh Prime Minister Netanyahu is basically about to be out of power. The Ashar party is forming a coalition with the Arab block that will be led by Gotti Eisenkot. They have given the go-ahead to form this government by President Herzog of Israel. A few other data points I want to talk about as well. You have reporting this morning from CNN that whistleblowers are warning Democrats in the House Judiciary, House Oversight, and other House committees uh when they're about to take power. That the Trump regime's interior department has allegedly been destroying documents related to Trump's Washington construction projects ahead of Democratic control of Congress in January. Democrats are demanding that federal agents preserve records, recover deleted information, suspend document destruction. The Interior Department denies the allegation, calling them 100%

false. Yet, the Interior Department and the Trump regime lie about absolutely everything. For example, Donald Trump also posting this morning, Dan Sullivan plus Dan Sullivan wins the Alaska election by thousands of votes. All votes going to the fake Dan Sullivan, which was done solely for the purpose of fraud and confusion, should immediately be given to the real Dan Sullivan, that's what he's posting. Meanwhile, the latest vote drops that are happening in Alaska right now. Mary Pela may not even need rank choice voting to win. Clearing 50% seems very possible soon. Fun fact, as Russell Drew says, Alaska has not had a Democratic governor and a Democratic senator in office at the same time since the 1960s. But in this later drop of ballots, Pelola won this 4,91 new votes, 68.2% to 30% to Dan Sullivan. This race is likely going to be called soon. Um, should also be noted that Giani Infantino, who leads FIFA, is likely

going to be hauled before Congress within weeks. Democrats are preparing to escalate their investigation into FIFA's ties to Donald Trump with congressional subpoenas being issued as early as January. Jaime Rascin, who is in line to chair the powerful House Judiciary Committee, is examining fresh allegations involving Infontino, including revelations that he asked a FIFA intermediary to help secure a work permit for a maid at his luxury Miami home. FIFA denies the wrongdoing. A committee source tells Telegraph, "All investigation options remain on the table." That's being reported by Connor Stringer and by the Telegraph. Finally, you had Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's attorney general this morning, referring to responding to the Hegsith impeachment, saying, "What's missing from this conversation is Donald Trump and the DOJ told Hegsith that what he's doing is legal." So, that's missing from

the conver No, it's not missing. You're a war criminal, too. Trump's a war criminal. The Supreme Court gave Donald Trump absolute immunity, and that needs to go away. But yeah, you're all war criminals. We get it. Here, play this clip.

Right. So, do we have to wait long for the first big trial? It looks like today we're going to hear about impeachment. We're going to be covering the Secretary of War's message that at the top of the hour. What's your role in defending Pete Hexac? Well, what's missing from the conversation about Pete is that everything that he's done, he is executing on President Trump's um mission and what President Trump has said we should do. When he does what he what he does at the Department of War, he works with the Department of Justice to make sure everything he's doing is legal. So when when when you see these when you hear these rhetoric coming out of the Hill that he's doing something illegal or wrong, that's not true. And guess what? Every single congressman knows that because after we did what we did in Iran, after we did what we're doing against narot terrorists in the Caribbean, we met with DOJ, DOJ went to

Congress, met with the Senate, met with members of the House and explained to them while what we were doing was completely legal. So it is it is he is doing a great job. We very much support Pete. We very much support the work that he's doing working for this administration. And again, just to remember, everything that he has done, he has worked with the Department of Justice to make sure that he's operating within the law. And that's something that's missing from this entire debate about what's happening uh what's happening today on the Hill.

Absolutely. More from Attorney General Todd Blanch over here saying, "And these Democrats, you can't threaten us. You're not allowed to threaten us with oversight." That's literally the job of Congress, Todd Blanch, is to do oversight. is to do robust. They're a co-equal branch of government. You see how pathetic Blanch is over here? Let's play.

What's your role in defending the administration? That's exactly my role is to defend the the administration. And so there's been so much vile rhetoric coming out of the incoming congressmen and senators and and also from organizations that are outside and and we are perfect. You you can disagree with this administration. You can want to to legislate your way with new policies, but you cannot threaten. And and that's what we're seeing and that's we're very concerned about at the Department of Justice is you talked earlier a little bit ago about all the threats around Charlie's death and and what's happened since then. We cannot let the rhetoric turn from just honest debate to actual criminal conduct. And so that's something that that is a problem. I wish I wish like President Trump said on Tuesday night that they would look to work together with this administration to make this country better if they but

they have so far chosen to not even start that conversation. And all they're talking about is impeachments and investigations and going after companies that that want to build jobs in this country and and that's unfortunate,

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Who speaks in "🚨 Trump’s COLLAPSE ACCELERATES!!!"?

Donald Trump (Guest), Pete Hegseth (Guest), Thomas Massie (Guest), Marco Rubio (Guest), Jared Kushner (Guest), Jaime Raskin (Guest), Todd Blanch (Guest).

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The piece argues that Trump’s political and economic standing is collapsing as inflation surges, wage gains lag, and fears of continued rate hikes by the Fed mount, amid criticism of Trump-era policies and warnings from critics about rising energy costs and trade tensions. It frames bad inflation data and expert predictions as confirming a worsening economic scenario for Trump.

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The episode runs 26 min; the transcript is about 4,469 words in 44 timestamped sections.

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