The Culture War - Tim Pool - April 14, 2026


China BREAKS US Blockade In Strait Of Hormuz, Trump's SECRET Plan NOW EXPOSED


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00:00:00.120 Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz for ships seeking to enter or exit Iranian ports.
00:00:07.460 Now, China has defied that blockade after calling it dangerous.
00:00:12.460 They successfully got an oil tanker through the strait.
00:00:16.640 Now, the question is, what are the goals of this war with Iran?
00:00:20.400 And many have asked this.
00:00:21.960 Now, I believe Donald Trump's intention was to shut down the strait.
00:00:28.340 Of course, when I bring this up, many people say, Tim, you are coping.
00:00:32.880 It's a coping to seethe.
00:00:34.500 Donald Trump has failed on the war with Iran.
00:00:37.660 Israel forced us to do it.
00:00:39.780 But I say this, my friends, I see something strange happening.
00:00:44.360 When you take a look at the intentions of the United States as it pertains to oil and
00:00:48.860 the economic order that controls how oil is sold around the world, everything lines up
00:00:55.300 perfectly.
00:00:55.840 It all makes sense.
00:00:56.580 The Qatar-Turkey pipeline resulting in a war in Syria, Burisma in Ukraine, Russia trying to take Crimea.
00:01:04.620 Seems like all of this has to do with the liberal economic order and control of energy globally.
00:01:12.440 Saddam Hussein wanted to trade oil in euro.
00:01:15.420 He died.
00:01:16.360 Muammar Gaddafi wanted to trade oil in gold dinar.
00:01:19.120 He died.
00:01:20.080 And now we have this.
00:01:21.580 What is the outcome of what is occurring with the war in Iran?
00:01:26.580 Well, there's something called Game Theory 18, where a Chinese professor says that Trump's
00:01:31.740 intention was to get the Strait of Hormuz closed because it's where China gets a large
00:01:37.400 portion, a major chunk of its oil, Iran, exporting oil as well as other Gulf states and selling
00:01:44.780 this oil to China.
00:01:46.620 Whether it was intentional or not, one thing is certain.
00:01:51.160 China is suffering with this blockade and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:56.580 On top of that, U.S. crude exports in the Gulf are reaching record levels.
00:02:04.020 So the outcome is obvious.
00:02:06.900 But what is the reason behind it?
00:02:09.180 Now, there are naysayers online.
00:02:10.740 They say Donald Trump was tricked into this ideological war for greater Israel, which I got to be honest, seems fabricated whole cloth.
00:02:21.540 What are they even talking about?
00:02:23.860 No, I'm well aware of these ideas that Israel wants to expand.
00:02:27.940 They want to move into Lebanon, et cetera.
00:02:30.300 We get it.
00:02:30.740 Syria, we get it. 0.99
00:02:32.100 They want to control the whole region, including Iran and Iran's the only thing standing in 0.97
00:02:35.580 their way.
00:02:36.360 But the actions that we see from the U.S. don't align with whatever that is.
00:02:40.560 When you take a look at Panama, Taiwan, Greenland, and now what's happening with Iran and the
00:02:47.860 Strait. It very much does seem like the U.S.'s plan the whole time was to close the Strait of
00:02:54.620 Hormuz. The question then, of course, why not just come out and say that? I think it's actually quite
00:02:59.600 simple, my friends. The U.S. is never going to come out and say we started a war for oil.
00:03:04.240 They're never going to come out and say we blew people up for cheap energy. They won't do it.
00:03:09.720 They've not done it. They're not going to do it now. Although we all kind of know that's the big
00:03:14.460 play, right? Donald Trump will not come out and say to the American people, your cost of living
00:03:19.820 is going up. Your energy prices are increasing because we are trying to choke out China and win 0.95
00:03:26.140 an economic conflict. The idea is actually quite simple. Trump is launching a sacrificial attack, 0.97
00:03:33.040 taking great damage to the U.S. economy to create much more damage to our adversaries,
00:03:40.200 to China, to Iran and many others. Could it be that Trump started this war hoping
00:03:47.380 Iran was going to shut the straight down? And then when Iran announced they were going to
00:03:53.500 reopen it, what happens? Trump says we're going to blockade anybody trying to trade with Iran,
00:03:59.760 maintaining the stranglehold on China. At the same time, before this war began,
00:04:06.680 what did the U.S. do? They went and got Maduro and seized the largest producer of crude Venezuela.
00:04:14.700 Now, again, I've talked about this in great detail, and I've got these people,
00:04:18.260 these former conservative now anti-Trumper guys saying, I am coping and seething. I don't care
00:04:22.740 for your tribalism. Not at all. My question is, what is going on in this world and what is
00:04:29.040 the big picture? Now, Trump certainly has gone after many of his former supporters.
00:04:34.240 But again, actions speak louder than words. And I throw it to Alex Jones himself because he taught
00:04:41.000 me this. Ki Bono, who benefits? Who benefits from what is happening? Now, the people, they'll tell
00:04:47.140 you Israel does. And to a certain degree, I'd agree with that. Absolutely. But take a look at 0.99
00:04:52.480 what's going on right now. U.S. crude at record levels. China being choked out so desperate.
00:04:57.640 They're trying. They have broken through a U.S. blockade.
00:05:02.820 China's hurting from this. They're taking on massive economic damage.
00:05:08.120 This could theoretically stop China from becoming the dominant global power. 0.98
00:05:13.020 So who benefits? The United States does because we are selling oil like crazy. 0.88
00:05:18.320 But again, would Trump ever come out and say your gas prices are going up because I'm starting a war to hurt China?
00:05:25.220 Would people understand why he's doing it?
00:05:28.340 Would they even want him to?
00:05:30.320 Let's break down the news.
00:05:31.460 I want to go through exactly what we've got.
00:05:32.960 But there's another big story that I want to start with.
00:05:36.200 Guys, I'm not here to be a diehard Trump supporter.
00:05:39.400 I think Trump has done a lot of questionable things.
00:05:42.040 He attacked Riley Gaines.
00:05:42.880 I'm not a fan of that.
00:05:44.240 Trump is an egotistical, brash guy.
00:05:46.560 We get it.
00:05:47.940 But right now, there's a viral story that Trump was booed at UFC.
00:05:51.980 As far as I can tell, he wasn't.
00:05:55.500 But the headlines say Trump booed.
00:05:57.920 The libertarian type coming out saying, wow, Trump is getting booed.
00:06:01.480 The former Trump supporting now, you know, right-leaning individuals now anti-Trumpers.
00:06:05.800 I got studio monitors.
00:06:07.780 We've got ultra high-end equipment here.
00:06:10.340 I cannot for the life of me hear a single boo.
00:06:13.160 But the headlines are all repeating these lines over and over again.
00:06:18.520 Something does not make sense.
00:06:20.420 I don't have access to deep intelligence. I don't believe there's grand conspiracies.
00:06:25.660 It could be an emergent phenomenon. But it does seem like there are people
00:06:29.420 piling on to attack Donald Trump for reasons I honestly don't understand. That's just me.
00:06:37.480 Maybe I'm not smart enough. That's it. Maybe I'm not smart enough. Because the Iran war stuff,
00:06:43.960 but putting out a fake video claiming he was booed, I mean, these are weird things.
00:06:48.120 Perhaps those that oppose this war don't care.
00:06:51.080 They feel the ends justify the means, so they'll lie to smear Trump, I guess.
00:06:55.620 Don't get me wrong.
00:06:56.220 Trump deserves to be criticized for a lot of things.
00:06:57.700 I did this morning.
00:06:58.760 But these stories seem strange.
00:07:00.780 Let's start here and talk about what's currently going on.
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00:07:19.940 advertising and it's a tough it's a tough world out there, my friends.
00:07:24.080 I don't think I'm the smartest person.
00:07:25.560 I don't know right about everything, but I can tell you this.
00:07:27.360 I can't figure out this puzzle.
00:07:29.640 All I can tell you is it seems like Trump is doing this on purpose based on the outcome
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00:08:08.520 But here's the news.
00:08:10.040 China defies Trump.
00:08:12.520 Chinese tanker travels through the Strait of Hormuz after Beijing declares U.S. blockade
00:08:17.340 dangerous and irresponsible. Well, here's the story. This is from Al Arabia English. China
00:08:25.000 says Strait of Hormuz blockade against global interests and urges restraint. Now, this one's
00:08:31.060 interesting. Of all of these special interests to come out when Trump says he's going to shut
00:08:35.320 down the strait, here comes China. China said a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would go against
00:08:40.460 the international community's best interests and urged calm and restraint by all sides.
00:08:44.480 The U.S. military said it would begin a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting
00:08:48.040 Iranian ports at coastal areas on Monday after the failure of weekend talks in Islamabad
00:08:54.140 aimed at ending the Iran war. Before the war, most Iranian oil exports were shipped to China,
00:09:00.760 the top global exporter of crude. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz does not serve the common
00:09:06.460 interest of the international community, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi told Khaldun Khalifa
00:09:11.180 al-Mubarak, special envoy of the UAE, president for China in Beijing on Monday, according to a
00:09:17.380 ministry statement. Wang said China understood the legitimate security concerns of the Gulf Arab
00:09:22.300 states and that the fundamental way to resolve the crisis was a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire
00:09:26.280 achieved through political and diplomatic means. I have a lot to break down for you, my friends.
00:09:30.780 first and foremost from the IEA, the International Energy Agency, Iran Energy Crisis, will redraw
00:09:38.200 the global energy map. And the response that I have gotten from my videos talking about this has
00:09:43.860 been that I am a desperate Trump supporter, coping and seething because Trump is an utter failure.
00:09:50.160 Well, certainly you can rag on Trump. I don't care. But this does not seem to make sense with
00:09:56.180 moves our military is making. Donald Trump says he wants a ceasefire. I begged for it. Many people
00:10:01.560 attacked Trump and called him a chicken and a coward. And I said, how does this make sense
00:10:04.720 unless they want the war? Unless they actually want the war. Maybe they do. Well, unfortunately,
00:10:13.200 the ceasefire failed. The end result is Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is
00:10:18.720 angry about it. But when Iran then says we're going to reopen the strait and people will pay
00:10:23.060 tolls, the U.S. then shuts it down. Was that plan B? Was the goal always to choke China out?
00:10:32.560 Now, there is a viral video I want to show you. Many of you have already seen it. I've played it 0.99
00:10:36.880 many times, and I find it very compelling and very interesting. Check this out.
00:10:53.060 war in Iran. He is threatening to invade with ground troops. He is pissing off NATO by threatening
00:10:57.860 Greenland. He is picking fights with Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Colombia. JP Morgan says the
00:11:03.240 world will run out of oil by mid-April. The global economy is about to collapse. Trump looks like the
00:11:08.100 worst president in history. I'm a complete buffoon, right? But what if that's the whole point? What if
00:11:12.960 Trump wants to lose the war in Iran? What if he wants the American empire to collapse? What if he
00:11:17.000 wants to destroy the global economy? Then he would be a genius. Let me explain. Right now the world
00:11:21.700 gets 20% of its oil from the Middle East. Japan gets around 75% from the Middle East. India gets
00:11:27.860 around 60%. China gets around 50%. Europe is also heavily dependent. But here's the thing, oil is
00:11:34.420 not rare. Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. Canada has massive reserves. United
00:11:39.660 States has massive reserves. Trump just took over Venezuela in January. He's threatening to take over
00:11:44.620 Canada. You see where this is going. If Trump closes the Strait of Hormuz by fighting Iran,
00:11:49.000 the Middle East oil stops flowing. But North America is still pumping. Suddenly Europe, China,
00:11:54.060 Japan, South Korea, they all would need American oil. And not just oil, fertilizer too. The nitrogen
00:11:59.340 for food production also comes from the Middle East. If that's cut off, where do they turn?
00:12:03.480 There are only two options, North America and Russia. Trump is making the entire world dependent
00:12:08.420 on the resources he controls. Now here is the genius part. Who owns the most US debt? Who's
00:12:14.020 financing America's 39 trillion dollars. It's Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, UK, France,
00:12:20.500 Belgium and Luxembourg, the same countries that need Middle East oil. There's been this fear that
00:12:24.880 these countries would stop buying US treasury bonds, that they would move to gold or Swiss
00:12:29.240 francs, that America's Ponzi scheme would collapse. But now they need American energy,
00:12:33.900 they need American resources, they can't abandon the dollar, they are trapped. Trump just turned
00:12:38.480 America's biggest weakness, its debt, into its greatest weapon. By starting an unwinnable war
00:12:43.900 in Iran, he's forcing the entire world to depend on North America. This isn't new. Putin already 0.96
00:12:48.980 proved that this strategy works in Ukraine. Russia has been fighting for five years. It's a slow
00:12:54.000 grind, but it has restructured Russia's entire economy around war production, drones, ammunitions 0.81
00:12:59.540 and military manufacturing. Russia went from importing Iranian drones to making their own
00:13:04.180 and now exporting them to Iran. Putin's plan was that the world is collapsing anyway, so why not
00:13:09.140 build a fortress, make Russia self-sufficient, control the resources, and weather the storm.
00:13:14.040 America saw this and said, we can do the same. Greenland for rare earth minerals, Canada for 0.62
00:13:18.660 oil and resources, Venezuela for oil reserves, Mexico for manufacturing, Panama Canal for trade
00:13:24.080 control. So maybe Trump is not being reckless. He is actually building a self-sufficient North
00:13:28.460 American fortress while the rest of the world burns. So yes, Trump looks like an idiot. Yes,
00:13:33.060 he's losing the war in Iran. Yes, he's destroying the global economy. But if the goal was to end 1.00
00:13:37.780 the American empire and rebuild it for Americans to make the world dependent on U.S. resources
00:13:42.520 while everyone else collapses, then Trump might go down as the greatest American president
00:13:46.960 in history.
00:13:47.860 Maybe the new world order is dead and maybe we are heading towards a Trump world order.
00:13:52.320 Maybe that is indeed cope and seethe.
00:13:55.920 What I can say at least is that it does appear that the end goal is the closure of the Strait
00:14:01.260 of Hormuz.
00:14:02.540 Donald Trump is now enforcing it himself, albeit not particularly effectively.
00:14:06.360 China got a tanker through. But again, if the goal was to reopen the strait, many people mocked
00:14:11.840 Trump saying, what do you mean? The strait was open the whole time. You started a war and the
00:14:16.480 strait got closed and now you're floundering. Indeed, one would have to believe that Donald
00:14:24.120 Trump, the billionaire celebrity, is a brash guy. So it's not entirely impossible. You have to
00:14:31.320 believe that not just him, though, Hegseth, Vance, his entire administration, more importantly,
00:14:37.720 the deep state itself, the intelligence agencies, did not think through what was about to happen.
00:14:45.020 Every military leader, everybody, these people genuinely believe there is one man controlling
00:14:49.620 everything, and it's just Trump. That's retarded. The entire machinations of the political 1.00
00:14:56.900 infrastructure in the United States is not controlled by just Donald Trump.
00:15:00.960 Trump does not snap his fingers and declare war on Iran. Other people are involved. Marco Rubio
00:15:07.000 is involved. Now, I'll tell you this. Perhaps the greatest of levels, it really is just that simple.
00:15:13.360 A bunch of dumb guys bumbling on accident. Guys, I just don't believe it. Now, if you're a first
00:15:21.900 order thinker, you're screaming Trump is an idiot because you can't think beyond step one.
00:15:27.500 If you project your capabilities onto another person, you can't understand what's happening.
00:15:33.720 Me, I'm a strategy game player. I played chess when I was a little kid. I like Magic the Gathering
00:15:37.480 and I play poker quite a bit now. The people who can't understand planning several moves in advance
00:15:44.140 can only see a man who's blundered his way into everything he's ever gotten.
00:15:49.340 But I cannot. I cannot believe that. That's possible. Don't get me wrong. But there is an
00:15:56.680 intelligence apparatus at play here. It exists. Certainly it would have tried to stop Trump if
00:16:03.140 it was a bad idea, right? Well, the response that we get is, yes, it's because it's controlled by
00:16:07.980 Israel. Does Israel have a plan here too? Is their plan to lose the war? If you believe it is Israel 0.74
00:16:15.380 pulling the strings, then certainly you'd agree. They've planned four or five steps in advance. 1.00
00:16:18.700 We all saw what happened with the Pagers in Lebanon.
00:16:20.880 They carried these things around for years, apparently, and then all exploded at once. 0.98
00:16:25.560 They have planned ahead.
00:16:28.560 And when they start a war, and I mean the military, the U.S., whoever you believe is controlling whatever, 0.85
00:16:34.120 and it closes the Strait of Hormuz, then when Iran announces the reopening with a toll,
00:16:40.280 the U.S. shuts it down again, or tries to.
00:16:44.140 It sounds like the intended condition. 0.72
00:16:46.680 Now, that video said the world order was breaking apart and Russia was trying to build a fortress.
00:16:53.780 Maybe the U.S. was doing the same. Xi Jinping himself of China says world order crumbling into disarray.
00:17:02.700 Seems that powerful interests around the world all agree. It's all breaking apart.
00:17:07.980 Now, I don't know why certain things are happening.
00:17:11.140 I can only speculate as to the pieces that I see before me, where I try to put them together
00:17:17.020 and figure out what this puzzle is. But I'll tell you what the puzzle is not.
00:17:22.360 The puzzle is not Donald Trump doing things on accident. These people who say that Trump's a
00:17:28.080 buffoon and Elon Musk is stupid and they think they're so smart and they're smarter than they
00:17:32.260 are. You do not become president, a billionaire, by being stupid. It's fascinating to me. You know,
00:17:40.160 we here at Timcast, we run a company. I have plans a year out. I have plans for what we're going to
00:17:47.380 do a year from now. It's remarkable to think that Donald Trump would not do similarly, if not more,
00:17:56.400 or that the CIA and the FBI and the D and the NSA, the DEA, all of them, that they would not
00:18:03.820 also have plans far in advance. Meaning when Trump started this war, they've, here's how it
00:18:10.740 works, guys. Now, I'm not trying to patronize you. I know many of you already get this,
00:18:14.960 but if you've ever played chess, okay, you decide you're going to move a piece.
00:18:21.300 You consider if I move my knight into the square, who threatens it? Well, your opponent's bishop
00:18:28.360 is pointing right at that square. And so you say, you know what? I'm not going to move it there
00:18:34.000 because the bishop might get it. The only issue is, actually, I'll give you a better example.
00:18:39.040 There's a really great video I watched. I sometimes watch these chess videos.
00:18:43.300 Very common, relatively common move, sacrificing the queen for a checkmate, a trap. There was one
00:18:49.380 brilliant one I watched recently where you couldn't necessarily see the trap. It was a
00:18:55.100 little bit harder to tell. And this guy breaks down this video of a famous chess game where
00:18:59.540 a person moves his queen into a certain position. The opponent, thinking only one step ahead,
00:19:06.000 says, aha, you've made a mistake. Uses his queen to take the queen. And then the guy pushes a pawn
00:19:12.320 forward and goes, checkmate. Something like that. There's actually really much, much better chess
00:19:17.240 plays where there was one I saw where a guy moved his rook into a position that would have the 0.69
00:19:24.600 black player use his rook to capture seemingly for free. The only problem is this closed one 0.81
00:19:33.260 of the exits the king, his king had, and then the guy needed only to move. I think it was like a
00:19:38.180 bishop. And now the king had no moves and there was no way to block the bishop. So it was a check
00:19:41.760 bait, a trap. He should have seen it. There's a ton of moves like this. The idea that ignore Trump
00:19:50.300 for a moment. The United States itself, its corporate interests, the CEOs would not have
00:19:56.000 at least thought what happens if this occurs is shocking to me. Take a look at this from the Wall
00:20:02.760 Street Journal. Blockade helps put U.S. crude oil exports on record pace. Indeed, Axios. Trump
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00:21:16.600 wants to trick them into making what's called inducing or induction. You take an action
00:21:22.900 to induce your opponent to take a move you want them to make. That's what may be at play here.
00:21:32.340 Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Trump is just a buffoon who slipped on a banana peel and pulled off a
00:21:36.620 perfect backflip. Maybe this really is greater Israel's campaign to take over Iran, I guess. 0.59
00:21:42.940 And all of this is just an accident.
00:21:46.840 I just don't think so.
00:21:48.920 Guys, I play poker all the time.
00:21:51.840 And something that, you know, I'll tell you this because I love the game.
00:21:56.760 It works because there are so many people who think they're so smart.
00:21:59.380 They can't understand the strategies and how deep the strategy actually goes.
00:22:05.180 Many people look at a game like it's a game of cards.
00:22:07.960 I get two cards.
00:22:09.000 If they're good, I win, right?
00:22:10.740 80% of hands that win are not the best hands.
00:22:15.140 This is the amazing thing.
00:22:16.260 That's why they say it's a skill game.
00:22:18.080 Most of the time in tournaments, you don't go to showdown.
00:22:20.460 No one ever sees the cards.
00:22:22.600 It's a battle of wits and strategy.
00:22:25.360 Inducing an opponent would be intentionally not betting so that they make a bet against
00:22:30.580 you when you have the best hand, and then you trap them because now they've thrown chips
00:22:33.780 in a tournament.
00:22:34.380 it. When you get dealt your first two cards in a game of Texas Hold'em and you look down,
00:22:41.720 you don't just think, here's order one. I have gotten good cards. I will make a bet.
00:22:50.400 I hope I win. That's first ordered thinking. Better players say, I've gotten good cards.
00:22:57.420 I am in the first position, under the gun, which means after I make a bet, I can expect to see
00:23:05.240 several things that may occur. That's order two. Order three. In the event,
00:23:12.840 plus one makes a bet, plus two makes a bet, plus three makes a bet, middle position, hijack,
00:23:17.560 et cetera. At that point, the variables explode. You are now in that one moment looking down,
00:23:24.800 calculating what is my recourse in the event of variables A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and then
00:23:32.820 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, because there's variables on top of variables.
00:23:37.220 Good players in all strategy games have already planned five, six, seven moves in advance.
00:23:43.580 You will not convince me that the U.S. military apparatus did not do the same.
00:23:49.200 It doesn't mean they're succeeding, but man, oil exports are nearing record levels.
00:23:56.400 The U.S. is intentionally blockading the Strait of Hormuz or trying to for the Iranian ports.
00:24:01.860 I get it.
00:24:03.320 While everyone's calling Trump a moron and a retard, Iran energy crisis will redraw the
00:24:10.920 global energy map.
00:24:13.020 Now, the IEA says that what's going to happen is many of these countries are going to prioritize
00:24:18.140 self-sufficiency, nuclear energy, alternative energy sources, perhaps fusion, because of the
00:24:23.700 risk of relying on Middle Eastern oil. Trump is gutting Iran's economy by shutting down their
00:24:31.260 oil trade. He's damaging even our allies in the region. He is shutting everyone else down.
00:24:38.140 They've become too reliant on the Gulf 20 percent. And now the U.S. is poised to be 0.99
00:24:45.000 the principal exporter. Now, I want to show you this because I think I've gone ad nauseum, right?
00:24:50.340 Rich Bares points out that Cook Political does show a major shift away from Republicans. Trump
00:24:55.300 is taking political damage on this one. That is a factor for Iran. But I want to show you this. 0.99
00:25:01.860 This one fried my brain. Raw story. They're getting sick of him, ex-GOP operative in awe,
00:25:09.580 as Trump booed at UFC Miami. I don't hate Trump. I like him. I don't love him. I think he's been
00:25:18.200 a net positive. I think he's been the best president of my lifetime for a variety of
00:25:21.120 reasons. I don't think of him as perfect nor even the greatest. I say net positive. He's better than
00:25:27.460 the rest of them. But you know, what can you say? I'm not going to hate Trump because the mob says
00:25:32.940 to hate Trump. I'm not going to scream and praise Trump because other mob, the other mob says to
00:25:38.000 praise him. I have a tweet from this morning where I criticized Trump for targeting his supporters.
00:25:42.420 And I get Seth Dillon of Babylon Bee being like, are you talking about the supporters who called
00:25:46.400 him a puppet and a demon? And I said, no, I'm talking about Riley Gaines. And he's like, oh,
00:25:50.340 OK, yeah, well, you're right. Don't come at me and tell me I'm wrong. OK, I'm not going to blow
00:25:57.100 smoke up anybody's ass or pretend to like somebody. But there is a weird thing happening.
00:26:02.360 It is true. There are people attacking Trump that seem it seems to not make sense.
00:26:05.960 At the same time, Trump is attacking like he criticized Riley Gaines.
00:26:10.060 That's stupid.
00:26:11.320 I will call him out for that.
00:26:13.660 But Trump was not booed at UFC.
00:26:16.340 And this is weird.
00:26:20.120 It's weird.
00:26:21.760 This is where I'm just thinking, I'm just sitting here being like, is this a prank?
00:26:25.940 Am I in the Truman Show?
00:26:27.860 Is this one big gag?
00:26:29.640 Because I am done with this.
00:26:31.680 This is not real.
00:26:32.940 We are not having real conversations about what's going on in the world.
00:26:35.960 about whether Trump is a good or bad president. It's just psychopaths making things up and
00:26:41.100 marching around like moron lemmings off a cliff. Trump boot. OK, let me play the video for you.
00:26:47.060 Here's the video.
00:27:05.960 there's no booing. I've got studio monitors, expensive monitors. I also have these bad boys,
00:27:30.060 the DT-770 Pro.
00:27:33.760 For the life of me,
00:27:34.480 I could not hear booing.
00:27:35.840 Maybe there's one person?
00:27:37.740 I don't know.
00:27:39.540 The response is,
00:27:40.940 oh, no, no, no,
00:27:41.540 they cranked the music up
00:27:42.660 so you can't hear it.
00:27:44.760 In the crowd,
00:27:45.740 everyone's standing there
00:27:46.400 holding up their phones,
00:27:47.120 filming them coming out.
00:27:48.760 They say, oh, well,
00:27:49.480 you got to compare it
00:27:50.280 to what it was like in 2025.
00:27:53.640 At the end of 2024,
00:27:56.980 I think it was 24, was it?
00:27:58.620 Was it the beginning of 25?
00:28:00.060 I went to a UFC game, UFC fight, and Trump was there.
00:28:05.300 And this is exactly the same thing that I saw.
00:28:08.180 Everybody held up their phones and filmed.
00:28:11.160 Loud music played.
00:28:12.800 I hear nothing.
00:28:17.060 This guy, a tune, says Trump just walked out of the UFC.
00:28:20.460 They turned the music all the way up to hide the booze.
00:28:23.100 You can still hear them crying emoji.
00:28:26.080 There's no booze.
00:28:29.280 Look at this.
00:28:30.060 Here's the original video. Eric Daugherty says, President Trump just walked out to an electric
00:28:36.080 UFC 327 crowd. Marco Rubio with him. The man is in his element. Love that Marco is here. He's
00:28:42.180 crushing it lately. This video was originally posted by Eric Daugherty. Goes hard. The man
00:28:48.380 works hard. Now that is full energy for Trump. Epic. The response is all positive from the
00:28:56.720 original video. Now take a look at what this guy posted. They hide the booze. This guy, Miguel
00:29:04.440 Milhow, I was at the show and didn't hear any of that. It seems to me I hear several. In any case,
00:29:10.720 it is quite noticeable that there is much less support now. Clint Russell said, podcasts don't
00:29:17.580 matter. Walks into a stadium filled with podcast listeners, gets booed. Oh, maybe that wasn't smart
00:29:22.500 after all. What? There's no booze, man. Bro, criticize Trump in the Iran war. Do it, please
00:29:30.580 do it with my blessing. But what the is this? I am I am done with the retardation. OK, this is
00:29:38.540 exactly what I see with woke BS. I remember these videos back and they stopped making me defend
00:29:44.080 Trump. Are we back here again? You know, what are you talking about? There's no booze. I cranked
00:29:49.820 the volume. I put the headphones on. I listened to it like 15 times, trying to figure out what
00:29:54.280 the anyone is talking about. And they're running articles saying Trump booed at UFC Miami. Y'all
00:30:02.380 joining the likes of the liberal wackaloons lying about what is going on because you don't like the
00:30:07.220 man. I don't want war in Iran. I do not support these foreign interventions. I have said it from
00:30:14.160 the beginning. I was skeptical on Venezuela, though I understand Venezuela. I don't want
00:30:18.840 entrenched U.S. war in Iran. But y'all are lying about everything. And when I point out the facts 0.75
00:30:27.440 of the war, these people come out and say, Tim is coping and seething. I'm not playing your stupid
00:30:32.980 games. Trump is an imperfect man. He is bad for a lot of reasons. OK, but you tell me the truth
00:30:39.500 and you don't spit in my face because I am done with this. You don't have to like him. You never
00:30:44.880 did. But you don't lie to me and you don't put out fake garbage. I'm not playing these games with
00:30:51.400 these people. I can go look into the eyes. And this has always been the case. I can sit with
00:30:56.940 a Trump supporter and say, Trump shouldn't have done this. And they'll say, OK, fair point.
00:31:01.520 What the living is this? These people coming out and attacking Trump, claiming he was booed when
00:31:07.340 he was not. Did you even watch the video? It's like 2016 all over again. I don't I don't I don't
00:31:14.480 care. Look, Trump's not going to be president. He's got a couple more years left. We got a
00:31:18.740 midterm we need to win. Is the goal to have Democrats win so that we can have whatever
00:31:22.600 it is they want to do? This is nuts. I'm not playing this game. I'm not doing this.
00:31:29.020 I'm not doing this. Y'all are lying. Y'all are lying. I'm not here to be lied to. I see these
00:31:36.760 posts. I make a video going into great detail about what it is that's currently happening.
00:31:41.240 China breaking this blockade. What is the real play happening in Iran? And you get these goons
00:31:48.080 coming at me. Cope and see, Tim, Trump's an idiot. Yeah, if you think Trump's stupid,
00:31:54.060 I got a bridge to sell you. He's certainly egotistical. He certainly does dumb things
00:31:59.040 sometimes. But you're also telling me that the entire military industrial complex
00:32:04.660 made a mistake. I can make mistakes. Don't get me wrong. Take a look at Afghanistan and how that
00:32:11.000 turned out. But they one could argue they didn't plan 20 years in advance. But I'm going to say it
00:32:17.240 for the final time, guys. You start a war that triggers the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
00:32:22.120 choking out China. China gets pissed. Iran reopens the strait for a toll. So the U.S. then goes in
00:32:27.920 and says, no, we're shutting it down. Sounds like that's the intended condition. The U.S. is
00:32:33.020 exporting record amounts of crude in the Gulf just after we seized Venezuela. I think it's pretty
00:32:39.240 cut and dry. So why lie? I don't know. Whatever, man. All I care about is what's true. I'm sick
00:32:49.480 of the politics and I'm sick of these people playing these stupid games. So go live in your
00:32:54.100 stupid Wally world where you believe fake garbage for all I care. The rest of us want to try to
00:32:59.880 figure out what's happening in the world so we can better understand it and predict things
00:33:03.180 and prepare for ourselves, our friends and our families and advocate for a better future.
00:33:07.600 You guys want to go lie?
00:33:09.140 Go lie.
00:33:10.260 I'll leave it there.
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