The Anthony Cumia Show - Decoding Trump's Latest Middle East Strategy ｜ 06-22-25

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.

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00:01:11.320 delay, we will go right to Kevin

00:01:13.700 in the Long of Beach.

00:01:16.100 Long Beach. How you doing,

00:01:17.780 Kev? Yeah, hey,

00:01:19.760 Ant. Yeah, Midnight Hammer.

00:01:21.480 Quite an operation, right? Yeah,

00:01:23.340 Midnight hammer, yo.

00:01:26.080 They used a lot of different delivery systems, though.

00:01:28.840 You know, they used submarines and B-2 and all of that.

00:01:33.600 And they're only in the Iranian airspace for like four or five minutes.

00:01:38.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:01:38.820 Very quick, in and out, no air defenses.

00:01:41.560 They didn't even see them.

00:01:42.520 Very strategic.

00:01:43.800 But I think there's a lot of information we're not privy to.

00:01:46.820 You know, something happened.

00:01:48.100 You know, Israel did it first when they went and did that catapultation move

00:01:51.660 and took out all the senior officials, but something else is going on.

00:01:56.300 And then Trump, I think, probably got a little angry that they did it,

00:01:58.900 and then they wanted help when they, you know, secondary action there.

00:02:03.420 But, yeah, I think there's a lot more going on than we know.

00:02:06.300 You know, we'll find out as time goes on.

00:02:08.580 Oh, there always is a lot more going on, Kevin, always.

00:02:12.080 And, you know, we unfortunately are left to the devices of the government

00:02:17.840 telling us what they did.

00:02:20.080 First of all, why would they tell us anything?

00:02:23.380 And then kind of filtering it through the mainstream media, which is a propaganda wing of the left and of the government in some sense.

00:02:33.580 I think they've kind of lightened up a little bit on some of the subject matter as far as Trump goes.

00:02:40.920 But they're still liars.

00:02:42.680 We really don't have anything.

00:02:44.040 I mean, we saw three or six holes in a mountaintop, and we're told that it was an incredible success.

00:02:54.480 It was completely destroyed.

00:02:55.980 Now, I understand.

00:02:56.920 I know how these bunker busters work, and there was a lot of cement dust and whatnot covering the mountaintop,

00:03:06.260 so I assume it got down through the cement to some extent,

00:03:10.940 But we really are only left to what they say.

00:03:14.080 There's no other confirmation like with other bombings, satellite photos, other countries sending pictures and stuff.

00:03:21.640 We really are only dependent on the government to tell us that it was a success.

00:03:28.160 And, you know, of late, we're not very trusting.

00:03:31.840 Like when they told us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, right?

00:03:36.340 Yeah.

00:03:37.280 These are all the same people cheering this on.

00:03:39.720 You know, it's the neocons, you know, Lindsey Graham, Mickey Haley, all of Fox News, Sean Hannity, the Rob, pounding their chest, you know.

00:03:47.840 But their kids aren't going over there.

00:03:49.660 You know what I mean?

00:03:50.700 I mean, I'm on a lot of I'm on a lot of maggot chat lines.

00:03:53.580 And, yeah, a lot of them are angry because he promised no boots on the ground.

00:03:56.840 But I don't think it'll come to that.

00:03:58.280 You know, I really don't.

00:03:59.200 Well, we'll see.

00:04:00.160 And Israel can take it.

00:04:02.480 Go ahead.

00:04:02.940 We'll see, Kevin.

00:04:03.860 Thanks.

00:04:04.300 Thanks for the call, bro.

00:04:06.020 Yeah, I mean, to jump the gun and just say, he said no foreign wars, no new wars, no boots on the ground, and we're not in that.

00:04:18.460 You know, to say we're not in that right now.

00:04:21.080 Well, does that mean we're not going to be?

00:04:24.620 There's a lot of ifs and what ifs with this whole situation.

00:04:31.300 What about retaliation?

00:04:32.940 if if this does happen we have to respond what if american soldiers are killed um at some overseas

00:04:42.500 bases in the middle east which are easily targeted and delivered uh weapons can be delivered to them

00:04:48.700 from iran we will have to do something obviously uh this this nuclear facility hit was very very

00:04:59.040 surgical it uh didn't claim the lives of civilians it wasn't a a uh in a city where people are

00:05:08.400 wasn't uh apartment buildings or a hospital it was what trump had said he wanted to go after

00:05:16.760 especially um even through his campaign saying we need to make sure they don't get nuclear weapons

00:05:23.000 And this could fit that bill, as I said, but does it go further?

00:05:28.900 And then you have to ask, well, what?

00:05:31.400 So we're not supposed to do anything because they might retaliate after?

00:05:36.220 That's not really a good excuse to not use force because you're afraid of what the other side might do in response to that.

00:05:46.780 If you do that, you can be threatened by anyone, anytime.

00:05:51.260 time well i don't want to touch him he might he might hit me sometimes you know you gotta hit but

00:05:56.900 let's um let's go to uh tommy tommy in brooklyn what's up tommy hey at uh just saying as a long

00:06:06.120 time listener talking to you over terrestrial station is wild i wasn't around for the ona days

00:06:10.780 but this is pretty awesome it's insane yeah so i love it a primary motivation of the 9-11 attacks

00:06:16.160 was america getting involved in the middle east in no way am i saying we should just lie down and

00:06:20.540 take anything, but the Trump ticket in MAGA was foundational on being America first, staying out

00:06:25.720 of the Middle East, no foreign wars. On the 2015 trail, I know I'm going back a while, but Trump

00:06:30.300 literally in front of Jeb Bush said, your brother destabilized the Middle East. How does bombing

00:06:35.120 Iran and getting involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East benefit any American? And

00:06:41.360 doesn't this cause more conflicts than solve anything? In your opinion, what would 2016 Trump

00:06:46.360 to think of this because as of now it's dividing the MAGA movement i don't know if you saw with

00:06:51.060 tucker carlson and uh ted cruz that spat on x but it's something to watch and the whole right

00:06:56.600 is crumbling and i'm not being over dramatic but i'm punching out man thank you for your time and

00:07:00.360 thank you for all the last men no problem tommy and i will uh i will say especially what would

00:07:05.780 the 2015 the first term trump think well the first term trump uh he's he had an airstrike

00:07:15.300 in iran it was you know he it was a strike i think a lot of people are looking at this like

00:07:23.740 we were we're getting involved in a much wider conflict which again we might be i don't know

00:07:33.420 if we're this will lead to something else but right now i really don't see that trump

00:07:39.540 has done anything more than he's done in the past, taking out terrorists, taking out

00:07:47.380 missiles, retaliation for shooting at American bases years ago.

00:07:54.160 This is stuff Trump has done, and every single president has done strikes such as these.

00:08:04.320 And it didn't necessarily mean we were going to war with them.

00:08:09.540 It was just necessary at the time to do this.

00:08:14.960 Now, again, you bring in the Israel factor and a lot of people start talking about being a puppet to Israel and being under Netanyahu's, you know, spell.

00:08:27.580 And I think that's why so many people have more of a problem with this than they had with so many of these other strikes that a lot of presidents have done in the past.

00:08:40.500 I have a list of them I'll go through when we start talking about some of these politicians like Schiff, of course,

00:08:46.300 and Crockett, AOC, and Pelosi, who are saying that Trump didn't consult with Congress

00:08:54.640 and get approval and War Powers Act, which is all nonsense.

00:08:59.420 I mean, they're, again, lying.

00:09:02.500 But, you know, these things had happened before,

00:09:05.940 and there wasn't this issue of what is going on?

00:09:11.760 Why did he do this?

00:09:12.900 Is it going to put us in a deeper way?

00:09:14.560 They talked about it, but not to this extent. And it hadn't fractured what I seem to have seen as a very strong coalition within the right MAGA, Republican, you know, conservative.

00:09:30.100 But we're kind of seeing that now, that fracturing. So I don't know.

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The Anthony Cumia Show - June 24, 2025

Decoding Trump's Latest Middle East Strategy ｜ 06-22-25

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