The Michael Knowles Show - The 12 Day War is Over. Michael Reacts.

00:00:00.000 President Trump has just announced a full ceasefire, not only between the United States

00:00:05.120 and Iran, but between Israel and Iran, which is the real heart of that war.

00:00:10.100 It's over. The panicans are totally defeated. Some of us, I'm not going to say who,

00:00:17.560 some of us are totally vindicated here. Everyone was losing their mind. This is World War III.

00:00:22.640 Trump isn't allowed to hit the Iranian nuclear sites. He's going to get us dragged into a long

00:00:27.360 regime change war. Actually, that didn't happen. What just broke earlier today, and we'll talk

00:00:33.120 about this more in the show tomorrow, but what just broke earlier today is that Iran retaliated

00:00:38.560 against the United States by striking bases primarily in Qatar, but also in Iraq and maybe

00:00:45.960 in Kuwait. It lobbed some missiles. When I saw this, all the panicans on Twitter were saying,

00:00:52.020 this is it. We're in a full war. This is George Bush 2.0. Here is World War III.

00:00:56.960 I said, hold on, hold on. I said, first of all, we need to see where the missiles land.

00:01:00.240 God forbid if they injure an American serviceman, now we're in a different situation. Then it's

00:01:03.680 an escalation. I said, right now what it's looking like is nothing. Right now what it's looking

00:01:10.460 like is Iran is trying to save face. The U.S. just came in, completely obliterated their chief 0.97

00:01:18.100 strategic objective, their nuclear program, and they need to save some face, so they're going

00:01:23.600 to put on a fireworks show. I didn't say this publicly. Publicly, I said all of that,

00:01:28.320 but the thing I said privately was, I wouldn't be surprised if they called the U.S. to get

00:01:33.640 permission beforehand. Then what happens? We find out, according to reporting, Iran called Qatar

00:01:40.620 and back-channeled to the United States to tell them, hey, we're going to hit your bases,

00:01:46.180 so let's minimize casualties. They lobbed some missiles. They basically put on a glorified firework

00:01:51.160 show. And then that's it. Trump announces, I'll just read it for you right here. I got

00:01:54.900 the truth social right here. Congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed by and

00:02:00.080 between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately

00:02:05.120 six hours from now when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in-progress final

00:02:09.180 missions for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended. Officially, Iran will start 0.95

00:02:13.660 the ceasefire, and upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and upon the 24th hour,

00:02:17.500 an official end to the 12-day war will be saluted by the world. Notice the branding here. He already

00:02:23.080 brands it, because we have the 6-day war. He's going to call it the 12-day war, and Trump's the

00:02:26.620 one who ended it. That's how he's viewing this. I'm quite confident. I hate to speak for the

00:02:30.040 president, but that's what I'm seeing here. During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful

00:02:34.780 and respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will. I would like to

00:02:38.760 congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what

00:02:42.600 should be called the 12-day war. He's hitting it again. He's branding right again. The 12-day war

00:02:47.720 brought to you by Trump. Actually, the end of it brought to you by Trump. This is a war that could

00:02:51.100 have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. God bless

00:02:54.980 Israel. God bless Iran. God bless the Middle East. God bless the United States of America. God bless 0.56

00:02:59.060 the world. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America. We'll get into the president's

00:03:05.580 takes on some of those missiles earlier as this was unfolding. Delightful posts. But this is really

00:03:11.800 what it's about, because the fear for a lot of people was not that we take out the Iranian nuclear

00:03:16.600 program. The vast majority of Americans and the vast majority of Trump's base wanted that. The fear

00:03:20.900 was we don't want to get bogged down in a protracted war. So once Iran had the weak retaliation today,

00:03:26.960 my only concern was, okay, I'm not concerned about the Iranians so much. They have sleeper cells of 1.00

00:03:31.220 terrorists. I mean, we have to be on guard for that. But the official response seems to have been

00:03:35.340 kind of weak. My fear was that Israel would not be happy with merely taking out the nuclear sites,

00:03:40.480 but would want to go further for regime change and take out the Ayatollah. So I thought, actually, 0.67

00:03:44.700 now what Trump has to do, he's dealt with the Iranians. Now he's got to rein in our Israeli 1.00

00:03:49.240 friends to make sure they don't keep going further and bog us down even more. The fact that Trump can

00:03:55.020 then announce a ceasefire means, as I predicted earlier, you can check the timestamps on X, that this

00:04:02.420 whole episode may have come to an end. This brief episode of the show that I have to keep showing

00:04:07.120 up for because events keep happening around the world. This has come to an end, but we will have

00:04:10.340 much more on my show tomorrow. See you then.

The Michael Knowles Show - June 23, 2025

The 12 Day War is Over. Michael Reacts.

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