Valuetainment - “Blown To HELL!” - Trump’s Hormuz Blockade PUNISHES Iran After Peace Talks Collapse

00:00:00.000 Trump announces, Strait of Hormuz, blockade, after Iran talks, collapse.

00:00:06.540 Here's the president.

00:00:07.360 So there you have it.

00:00:08.160 The meeting went well.

00:00:09.560 Most points were agreed.

00:00:11.200 But the only point that really mattered, nuclear, was not.

00:00:13.920 Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the finest in the world, will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz.

00:00:22.960 At some point, we will reach an all-being-allowed-to-go-in, all-being-allowed-to-go-out basis.

00:00:29.240 but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying there may be a mine out there somewhere that nobody knows about but them.

00:00:38.420 This is world extortion, and leaders of countries, especially in the U.S., will never be extorted. 0.66

00:00:43.940 I've also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran.

00:00:52.680 No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. 0.97

00:00:57.900 We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the straits. 0.99

00:01:02.300 Any Iranian who fires at us or at peaceful vessels will be blown to hell. 1.00

00:01:06.620 Iran knows better than anyone how to end this situation, which has already devastated their country. 1.00

00:01:12.320 Their navy is gone. 1.00

00:01:13.220 Their air force is gone.

00:01:14.240 Their anti-aircraft and radar are useless. 0.98

00:01:17.500 Khomeini, he probably meant to say Khomeini, and their leaders are dead, all because of their nuclear ambition. 0.97

00:01:24.120 The blockade will begin shortly. 0.95

00:01:26.000 The other countries will be involved with the blockade. 0.86

00:01:29.140 Iran will not be allowed to profit of this illegal act of extortion.

00:01:33.780 They want money, and more importantly, they want nuclear. 0.80

00:01:38.040 Additionally, and at an appropriate moment, we will fully be lock and loaded, 0.98

00:01:42.660 and our military will finish up the little that is left of Iran. 0.96

00:01:47.160 So that announcement is made. 0.96

00:01:48.620 You look at oil prices right now, Rob, if you want to go to it real quick,

00:01:51.320 just to kind of see where we are with it.

00:01:53.400 As of right now, oil prices, maybe press a refresh.

00:01:56.340 Is it live?

00:01:58.160 103.39.

00:01:59.200 There you go, 103.39.

00:02:00.640 It was at 105 in the morning.

00:02:01.880 It went all the way up to 119.

00:02:03.880 They're saying if this continues for another week or two, we could be looking at 140.

00:02:07.840 Even if a little bit longer, we could be looking at 200, which is pretty wild to be thinking about.

00:02:12.260 And J.D. Vance himself was out there, I believe, trying to negotiate with it.

00:02:18.820 He even said that it went for 21 hours.

00:02:21.180 And I think in an interview, Rob, if you have it, he says it's bad for Iran.

00:02:26.220 It's not good for Iran after 21 hours of a negotiation that they had about the blockade.

00:02:32.440 And the president came out and said something.

00:02:34.740 Hopefully we'll find a clip to show you.

00:02:36.660 But he came out and said, is this the one, Rob?

00:02:41.040 Yes, one of them.

00:02:41.820 Go for it.

00:02:43.380 How often did you communicate with President Trump throughout the negotiations?

00:02:46.520 There were reports that there were multiple rounds where there were breaks in between.

00:02:51.180 negotiations. How often did you communicate with the president throughout those rounds? And

00:02:55.140 what was he saying as you were going through these negotiations that you said fell short?

00:02:58.880 Yeah, obviously, we were talking to the president consistently. I don't know how many times we

00:03:03.180 talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously also talked

00:03:07.620 to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marco, to the entire national security team. We talked to Scott

00:03:12.540 a number of times. So look, we were constantly in communication with the team because we were

00:03:17.440 negotiating in good faith you can pause it right and you can pause it right there rob okay so tom

00:03:21.640 what do you think about the blockade so i'm gonna let's take a look at a map so everybody can

00:03:25.940 understand they because over the weekend that's it right there rob get that one uh left no no no

00:03:31.600 no no no no no no that one okay so take a look at this on the lower side is oman the dark blue

00:03:39.480 water is oman and there's the two old shipping lanes when the strait of hormuz was operating

00:03:46.020 before the war see it one woes this way one goes that way those are known as shipping lanes and

00:03:51.020 they keep two miles in between for bad weather fog you know all the kinds of things you want

00:03:56.500 so these boats go this way and that way that's the way it was before the you see the red uh gridded

00:04:03.260 area there where iran is declared it a hazardous area see that square there pat yep iran has said

00:04:09.520 we put a bunch of mines in here but we can't remember where we put them that's why the president

00:04:14.620 in his quote that you just read.

00:04:17.000 Do you believe they really don't know where it's at?

00:04:19.180 No.

00:04:19.660 I believe they're using the unknown to force their offer,

00:04:25.120 which is, see the two lanes that now run through the pink? 0.88

00:04:28.620 The pink, although light, light red, is Iran territory waters,

00:04:33.340 and they're trying to force the shipping lanes to reroute. 0.80

00:04:36.540 They're going to put the toll booth on Larac Island.

00:04:39.620 See that right there with the two lanes?

00:04:41.200 Yep.

00:04:41.380 One goes this way, one goes that way.

00:04:42.820 So they're saying, hey, you're going to pay a toll to us. This is where it's going to go. And gosh, I wish I could help you with those shipping lanes down there, but I got mines in the area. So the president is saying, screw you. I'm going to blockade you on those new shipping lanes that you're offering that your own boats are shipping through.

00:05:03.200 and we're going to go clear any mines out of the old shipping lanes by Oman

00:05:07.960 and we're going to get life back to order.

00:05:10.360 That's what the president is saying on an operational level.

00:05:14.420 These are the actions he's going to take.

00:05:16.280 On the other side, Iran wasn't given.

00:05:19.900 And they weren't given, which is kind of put him in the, 0.92

00:05:22.940 all right, you're not going to give up, so I'm going to go blockade the other way. 0.89

00:05:27.660 But ladies and gentlemen, that's why you're hearing Iran saying, 0.82

00:05:30.980 we're blockading using it because they say there's mines and we say nope we're gonna blockade saying

00:05:36.140 we're gonna block the new lanes that have been offered by iran adam so u.s is winning iran is

00:05:42.960 losing and everyone else is trying to pick up the pieces of what's what's actually going on

00:05:46.420 it's very interesting to me to see obviously we saw the tweet that trump did when he called out

00:05:50.620 everybody especially the mega crowd who's basically abandoned trump it's like you don't abandon the

00:05:55.960 guy that got you here so the question with trump now regarding hormuz and just the overall trump

00:06:00.960 situation is is trump betraying his base or is he actually just following through to what he's

00:06:07.560 always said so if you just look at trump's track record then i'm going to get to this trade of

00:06:11.860 hormuz he came in in 2015 came down the escalator in that speech everyone he addressed the mexican

00:06:18.080 situation they're rapists or this or that and some are good people what was missed from that

00:06:22.520 speech is he called out iran in his first major speech okay gotcha he's exited the jcpoa the iran 0.98

00:06:29.520 nuclear agreement i don't want to curse right now but he said i'm gonna bomb the out of them

00:06:34.020 do you remember that quote then he did it yeah i don't care i don't care i don't care he said this

00:06:39.800 years ago he takes out soleimani by the way took out isis where are they these days he was in the

00:06:46.920 12-day war the uh the bombing of the nuclear facilities he did a muslim ban and all of a

00:06:53.280 sudden people are like dude where'd this come from i thought you didn't want any new wars with iran

00:06:58.580 I view it this way. Trump's not starting a new war. He's ending a war with Iran that we've been

00:07:04.480 at war for 47 years. Now let's talk about the Strait of Hormuz. This is all Iran's got left.

00:07:11.000 We've taken out their military. We've taken out their Navy. Do they even have an air force? 1.00

00:07:15.260 Do they even have defensive missile capabilities, defensive? They're making themselves enemies of

00:07:21.320 all their neighbors, their social pariah. And all they got left is the Strait of Hormuz. So it's an

00:07:26.660 economic war over oil. So I'll ask you this. Remember the famous situation where Trump and

00:07:32.220 J.D. Vance were in the Oval Office and they were dressing down to Zelensky's, you don't have the

00:07:35.840 cards. You don't have the cards. Now, Iran jokingly goes, yeah, we have a straight, the

00:07:41.760 straight of Hormuz. And Trump's using this blockade and saying, oh, really? Nice straight.

00:07:46.720 Boom. Here's a royal flush. I'm going to blockade your blockade. You think you're crazy? I'm crazier 1.00

00:07:52.400 than you the bottom line is this trump has all the cards he has all the leverage and now iran is

00:07:58.480 going to have to scramble to dictate what trump's going to do i want to show you two things rob if

00:08:02.860 you want to pull up the jd vance clip real quick when he explains 21 hours and nothing happened go

00:08:07.800 ahead rob well good morning everybody and let me say a couple of notes of appreciation first of

00:08:16.020 to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and to Field Marshal Muneer, who were both incredible hosts.

00:08:23.300 And whatever shortcomings of the negotiation, it wasn't because of the Pakistanis who did an amazing job

00:08:28.580 and really tried to help us and the Iranians bridge the gap and get to a deal.

00:08:34.280 We have been at it now for 21 hours, and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians.

00:08:42.380 That's the good news. 0.96

00:08:43.620 The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement.

00:08:46.500 And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.

00:08:50.160 So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. 0.93

00:08:54.140 We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on,

00:08:58.800 and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on.

00:09:01.480 And we've made that as clear as we possibly could.

00:09:04.700 And they have chosen not to accept our terms.

00:09:07.800 Okay, so you hear that. Wait, you hear that right there.

00:09:10.320 Then you see the president coming out and he's speaking to Mario Bartiromo.

00:09:14.820 And this is what he says to her on what he wants now from them.

00:09:19.080 I predict they come back and they give us everything we want.

00:09:22.880 And I told my people I want everything.

00:09:25.000 I don't want 90 percent.

00:09:26.480 I don't want 95 percent.

00:09:28.340 I told them I want everything.

00:09:31.260 Yeah.

00:09:31.780 So now here's the thing.

00:09:32.740 I think one of the things the president did by sending J.D. Vance out there, I actually like that move a lot.

00:09:38.660 And I'll tell you why, because if Rubio went out there negotiating on his behalf, Rubio people would say he's an interventionist.

00:09:46.380 But if J.D. Vance goes out there negotiating as a guy whose position is probably a non-interventionist, more like an isolationist,

00:09:56.200 because the ties of names like Tulsi being tied to J.D., Joe Kent being tied to J.D., a lot of Tucker Carlson's son,

00:10:03.560 Ben, I believe his name is Buck or Buck, Buckley Carlson being tied to JV, J.D.

00:10:10.560 I think these are all good things that the president did of sending J.D. Vance out there because the world is now saying, well, guess what?

00:10:17.120 Rubio, J.D. and Trump are all on the same page when it comes down to Iran.

00:10:21.340 You can say whatever you want. Those three are now on the same page.

00:10:24.140 So, you know, the average person would have probably thought the better person to send to negotiate here would have been who?

00:10:30.040 Rubio. Rubio and Whitcoff. They've been doing their work.

00:10:33.140 But why did he not send Rubio?

00:10:34.740 Why did he send J.D.?

00:10:35.820 I think it's a great, absolute, great move that he sent J.D. instead.

00:10:40.820 And, by the way, here's the thing that we're going to realize as well.

00:10:43.660 And this is a little bit tough because, you know, people say things to me,

00:10:49.120 and they'll say, well, you know, why don't you send me?

00:10:50.740 Why don't you send me?

00:10:51.440 You know, when we're doing certain negotiations.

00:10:53.240 And I'll say, look, if I send Tom, here's what Tom's going to do.

00:10:58.040 Tom's going to close.

00:10:59.420 The deal's going to get done.

00:11:00.820 We're going to make progress.

00:11:01.820 If I send you, will you close?

00:11:04.900 If you don't close, Vinny, then I'm not sending you.

00:11:07.940 But we've got to send somebody that's going to go close the deal

00:11:10.900 without you being there.

00:11:12.360 So the pressure is also on who?

00:11:14.280 The pressure is also on J.D. to close.

00:11:16.840 Because right now, what are a lot of people saying?

00:11:19.020 You saw the criticism that's going viral right now.

00:11:21.140 What is the criticism?

00:11:22.160 Did you see it about J.D.?

00:11:23.640 I don't know if you guys saw this this morning or not.

00:11:25.460 He doesn't have the cloud.

00:11:26.280 He can't close the deal.

00:11:27.260 Anything he touches, it doesn't turn to gold.

00:11:31.360 It's what people are saying.

00:11:32.360 Like he's the Drake of politics.

00:11:33.840 Like they're saying, hey, I'm telling you what Twitter,

00:11:37.760 the criticism is saying.

00:11:40.060 JD's approval rating has fallen 21 points from January of 2025,

00:11:44.320 a plus 3 to minus 18 today.

00:11:46.080 So he has to rebuild his credibility because he went to help out Orban.

00:11:51.680 Orban didn't work yet.

00:11:52.740 He went to negotiate.

00:11:53.920 So this is also a way of saying, hey, you want to go be a president?

00:11:58.040 Show up.

00:11:58.680 Do you know how to negotiate in these high-intense, high-pressure type of situations?

00:12:05.180 We're going to see what he's going to do as well.

00:12:07.160 I'm confident that he's got the skill set to be able to do that as well.

00:12:10.540 He's fairly poised.

00:12:11.860 He showed up in a debate when he was going up against Tim Walz.

00:12:15.480 So I think he has that diplomacy in himself as well.

00:12:18.020 But you've got to close.

00:12:19.060 You have to close the deal.

00:12:21.060 So will others be threatened by what he's saying?

00:12:24.120 We don't know.

00:12:24.700 We're about to find out.

00:12:25.480 Vinny.

00:12:25.640 And I'll give you credit where credit is due.

00:12:27.400 when we were in the van coming back,

00:12:29.540 this just broke, and this was one of the first things

00:12:31.940 that you said, is that they know that they're sending

00:12:34.260 a guy that doesn't want war, that was distancing himself.

00:12:37.180 Trump was in, they quoted him, I don't know which,

00:12:40.140 I don't know if it was New York Times

00:12:41.040 or Wall Street Journal, where they said,

00:12:43.020 the president said J.D. Vance was,

00:12:45.040 then they put in quotes, less enthusiastic about the war.

00:12:48.900 And by the way, so this looks like a dead end.

00:12:50.420 If you want, from a strategic point of view, Tommy,

00:12:53.120 you want to send the guy that has to now get his hands dirty 0.87

00:12:56.140 Because this trip, to me, was about watching, documenting, and letting Iran show in real time that there was no real path forward. 0.89

00:13:03.560 And I believe they kind of already knew that going in. 0.64

00:13:07.000 Once the optics were locked in, the moral high ground was established, and whatever comes next can now be framed as the only remaining option.

00:13:13.220 In fact, it made me look at the book, The Art of War.

00:13:15.860 And Sun Tzu wrote, all warfare is based on deception, which basically the lesson is, when conflict is unavoidable, let your enemy prove peace was never possible.

00:13:25.480 then when force follows it no longer looks like aggression it looks inevitable so i think this

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Valuetainment - April 14, 2026

“Blown To HELL!” - Trump’s Hormuz Blockade PUNISHES Iran After Peace Talks Collapse

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