Valuetainment - March 17, 2026


“Trust Trump’s Instincts” - Trump Moves 2,500 Marines As Iran Ground War Talk HEATS UP

Topics
trust trump's instincts
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Trump Pete Hegseth Hormuz Scott Besson Erica Brown Dale Carnegie Biden Raph
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Length

9 minutes

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Word count

1,872

Sentence count

162

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Rob and Rachael discuss the latest in the Iran situation, including a possible ground deployment of troops to the Middle East, the loss of a U.S. military refueling tanker to Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, and the possibility of ground troops being deployed to the region.

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00:00:00.000 This is yesterday, right?
00:00:01.120 Oh, a couple days ago.
00:00:02.080 Go ahead, Raph.
00:00:02.540 I think this is a Friday.
00:00:03.360 I listened to you on the...
00:00:04.780 The President wants you.
00:00:07.780 Sorry, the President wants you.
00:00:09.980 Oh, okay.
00:00:12.540 Allegedly, they were going to the situation.
00:00:14.300 No problem at all.
00:00:16.140 When the President falls...
00:00:17.860 See you shortly, Mr. Secretary.
00:00:19.360 You can work that in.
00:00:20.940 Mr. Secretary, I have to say, it's a first, I'm sure, a last as well,
00:00:25.280 that an interviewee's been pulled away to go to the Situation Room.
00:00:28.980 How was the president? Was he was he stressed?
00:00:32.600 No, the president is in great spirits.
00:00:36.980 The Iranian mission is proceeding well ahead of schedule.
00:00:42.400 And I have to tell you, well, that I've a teenage teenager who's considering military service.
00:00:51.840 And I could give this team my highest compliment from President Trump to the head of the Joint Chiefs to the Secretary of War.
00:01:00.520 I would say that I would trust my child's life in their hands.
00:01:06.200 That is kind of weird going from a regular interview to the president needs you right now, which is an emergency.
00:01:13.500 You leave for an hour and a half and you come back and sit down.
00:01:16.280 And the first thing out of your mouth is, hey, listen, I have a son and I'll send him to war.
00:01:21.700 That, to me, sounds like, this is my opinion,
00:01:25.220 that they went in there and they said, hey, listen,
00:01:26.940 we're probably going to be sending ground troops
00:01:28.380 since you're going to be on this interview
00:01:29.680 and it's going to be going everywhere.
00:01:31.120 Kind of say that you would send your kid.
00:01:32.820 That's a wild shift, Tom.
00:01:34.820 What do you think?
00:01:36.100 And you saw his body language?
00:01:37.580 Normally, Scott Besson, like you just said, Pat,
00:01:39.060 normally Scott's like this.
00:01:40.380 He's usually very precise in command of his facts.
00:01:43.100 He'll correct the news media.
00:01:46.960 Excuse me, let's back up and look at the facts here.
00:01:49.700 Pentagon sending a salt ship, at least 2,500 Marines, towards Iran as U.S. works
00:01:53.620 to reopen the state of Hormuz while oil prices spike.
00:01:57.480 This is a couple days ago.
00:01:58.640 Yes.
00:01:59.100 But that story came out that they are doing that, Rob.
00:02:01.120 Is this on the way?
00:02:02.620 It's CBS News reporting on that.
00:02:03.420 Is it right off the bat?
00:02:04.480 Yep.
00:02:04.840 Go for it.
00:02:05.320 Over an hour ago, we did get word that 2,500 Marines and another warship are now being
00:02:11.020 deployed to the Middle East.
00:02:12.560 This is one of several developments in the fighting that continues between the U.S. and
00:02:16.620 Iran that Erica Brown is reporting on.
00:02:19.240 The Pentagon Friday confirmed the deaths of all six crew members aboard a U.S. military refueling tanker that was supporting operations in Iran.
00:02:29.940 Officials say a second aircraft was also involved but landed safely, and they believe the incident may have involved a midair collision.
00:02:38.040 It was not the result, as CENTCOM has said, was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
00:02:42.960 Iran's threats to the Strait of Hormuz continue to disrupt the global oil supply. 0.91
00:02:49.480 The Trump administration is considering deploying U.S. Navy warships to escort oil tankers through the waterway.
00:02:57.440 Iran still has the capability to harm friendly forces in commercial shipping.
00:03:02.600 Tom, thoughts?
00:03:03.920 So the ship they're talking about is USS Tripoli. That was confirmed multiple sources.
00:03:07.740 The USS Tripoli is a—Rob's probably looking that up—this is basically an amphibious assault ship.
00:03:15.620 It is designed to go ashore and open up this great big door where all the amphibious vehicles and everything come pouring out.
00:03:27.380 The purpose of the USS Tripoli is one thing, to bring troops ashore in a military action.
00:03:34.500 It's not a hospital ship. It's not a barrack ship or a transport ship.
00:03:39.100 This thing, that's what it's made to do.
00:03:41.560 And after what happened on Karg Island, many people, including me, are speculating that the strategy may be, Pat, to bring, because there's 2,500 Marines.
00:03:51.540 This is the Marine Corps Expeditionary Force, which means, you know what that means.
00:03:57.920 Those are the guys that are trained to go in kind of like first responders, first guys out.
00:04:02.740 And you have the U.S. Tripoli going there. So, number one, he's sending that message to Iraq. Number two, you throw 2,500 Marines on Karg Island and you just go up and you shut off the valve so that they can't export the oil. You've already hit all the military things that are supporting it. So I think this is pretty significant.
00:04:25.140 I think so as well, but remember what Pete Hex had said.
00:04:29.000 He said two, three days into it,
00:04:31.560 the president has the ability to send troops if he chooses to send so.
00:04:34.920 So they said that.
00:04:35.880 Now, you know, the critics are going to come out and say,
00:04:40.240 wait a minute, this is the thing.
00:04:41.660 We thought this was going to be like Venezuela in, out,
00:04:43.740 and there was not going to be any troops on the ground.
00:04:46.000 Let me ask you a question.
00:04:47.280 Do you think that they thought that?
00:04:49.020 Do you think the president was briefed by Pete Hex and all these people?
00:04:53.520 like, hey, Mr. President, this is going to be in and out.
00:04:55.940 But from what it's seen.
00:04:56.660 No, I don't think so.
00:04:57.580 No, no, no, I don't think so.
00:04:59.300 I think from the beginning, no.
00:05:01.480 Look, you either trust this guy's instinct or you don't.
00:05:04.660 Just make up your mind.
00:05:06.100 It's that simple for me.
00:05:07.680 You either trust Trump's instinct or you don't.
00:05:10.820 Either he is a guy that got lucky to become a billionaire,
00:05:14.320 he got lucky to run a show that was number one for 10-plus years,
00:05:16.940 either he got lucky to become a president one time
00:05:19.580 and then, you know, he gets whatever happened with the second time
00:05:23.320 and then wins again after getting shot in his ear
00:05:26.520 and somehow pulls off the greatest comeback,
00:05:28.980 you think he got lucky or he's not that smart, or you believe he is.
00:05:32.160 If you're part of the camp that you believe he is,
00:05:34.600 you have to trust his instinct that in the situation room,
00:05:37.640 he's making the right decisions.
00:05:38.780 But pick and choose who you are.
00:05:40.220 You can't just be like, I voted for, I didn't vote for this.
00:05:43.280 You don't have all the information.
00:05:45.520 So you either voted for, like, you know,
00:05:47.880 when you hire somebody to be an executive and you gave them the job,
00:05:51.260 either trust, like the other day we had a conversation
00:05:53.220 with one of the people we're hiring, and it was like,
00:05:55.720 so do you want this person to do this,
00:05:58.140 or do you want that person to report this?
00:06:00.100 I said, what did we hire this person to do, to do this?
00:06:02.300 Why are we not giving them that authority from day one?
00:06:04.780 If we collectively are making a decision,
00:06:07.560 empower the man to make those decisions or not, right?
00:06:10.120 So then, let's go to the next, and I'm not talking to you,
00:06:13.080 I'm talking to anybody that's watching this.
00:06:14.900 So if you do trust this instinct, do you not think in a room,
00:06:20.500 what is the one question anybody asks
00:06:22.700 when you make an investment or you take a risk?
00:06:25.220 What's the one question anybody...
00:06:26.600 And you ask it in your mind all the time.
00:06:28.280 You ask this question when you're dating somebody,
00:06:30.240 about to get married.
00:06:30.920 You ask this question when you're about to buy a house.
00:06:32.760 You ask this question when you're about to start a business.
00:06:34.640 You ask a question when you make an investment into a company.
00:06:36.940 You ask this question when you're about to have a kid.
00:06:39.000 You ask this question when you move to a different state.
00:06:40.700 You ask this question when you do...
00:06:42.240 Anything you do, ask this question.
00:06:43.840 You ask this question 24-7 in your brain.
00:06:46.380 You don't even know it.
00:06:47.120 What's the question?
00:06:48.840 Is this the right decision?
00:06:49.460 Am I committed?
00:06:50.800 Aside from that, what's the other question we ask?
00:06:53.080 Trust me, you ask this question all the time.
00:06:55.600 There's a book called How to Stop Warning and Start Living by Dale Carney.
00:06:58.640 You wrote it 100 years ago.
00:07:00.380 The question is, what is the worst thing that can happen?
00:07:03.880 You ask this question all the time.
00:07:06.320 We all do.
00:07:07.760 What is the worst thing that's going to happen in this relationship?
00:07:10.540 It's not going to work out.
00:07:11.440 She's going to do this.
00:07:12.220 He's going to do this.
00:07:13.460 What's the worst thing that's going to happen if we move to the other state?
00:07:15.700 Oh, my God, I've got to move back.
00:07:17.080 I've got to do this.
00:07:17.820 I'm going to lose someone.
00:07:18.920 So what's the worst?
00:07:19.880 You don't think Trump asked, what's the worst thing that's going to happen?
00:07:22.960 We send troops.
00:07:24.780 Drones, protracted experience.
00:07:26.620 Okay, what do I do then?
00:07:27.720 Right.
00:07:28.020 And what do I do then?
00:07:28.800 Then what do we do?
00:07:29.620 Then we do this.
00:07:30.260 If they do this, then we got to call this out.
00:07:32.280 You don't think he has those questions?
00:07:34.100 You don't think a guy that negotiated all the deals in New York is used to, you know, sitting there and, you know, asking.
00:07:40.360 One of the deals that he did, he wanted to buy a property and the guy wouldn't work with them because they were dealing with, what do you call it?
00:07:46.260 Not air.
00:07:47.060 Air rights.
00:07:47.340 Air rights.
00:07:47.900 I don't know if you know New York real estate has air rights.
00:07:50.520 Like, you know, you can't build above certain things
00:07:53.020 because I have to be the higher one than you.
00:07:55.020 He's like, yeah, I got patience.
00:07:56.140 It's good.
00:07:56.960 I'm patient.
00:07:57.820 We'll take our time.
00:07:58.860 This guy's been doing these types of things for a long time.
00:08:01.420 So you're either I trust his instincts, great,
00:08:05.560 then trust when you trust instincts,
00:08:08.560 the guy's not going to get it right all the time.
00:08:10.420 Or guess what?
00:08:11.300 You don't trust his instinct, which is fine.
00:08:13.900 I didn't trust Biden's instinct.
00:08:16.300 I didn't.
00:08:16.860 i didn't trust that desantis was the guy to do the job today maybe in 10 years but not today i
00:08:23.020 didn't trust his instinct today i didn't trust his marketing instinct i was right he had a terrible
00:08:28.100 marketing instinct i i trust his instinct today to know that they knew this was going to happen
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