4-7-26 Afternoon Rush - Iran v US War Updates As Trump's Deadline LOOMS

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Good afternoon everybody on this Tuesday, April 7th, 2026, I've got all of your news for

your rush hour ride home and Alex Jones is sounding the alarm, war crime alert, Trump

on Iran, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

So Alex Jones of course, a former Trump supporter, along with Tucker Carlson, who we're going

to share today and others are all sounding the alarm, saying what the hell is going to

go down at 8 p.m. tonight, Donald Trump loves his ratings and of course he's using the

nuclear option as a way to, I guess, to peace with strength.

I'm going to share with you guys what some Republican representatives are saying as to

why they still support Trump, man, talk about being so far on the wrong side of history.

You guys know where we stand using our platform, which previously just covered harmless pop

culture news, which we will have pop culture tomorrow morning.

We will be discussing because I pre-tape my morning episode.

So I will give your Blake Lively updates.

I will give your updates on Taylor Frankie Paul getting a restraining order on Dakota for

the Bachelor at News or Mormon Housewives News.

We'll get to that in the morning, but right now this is insane what could go down tonight.

It could be the launch of World War III.

Some might argue already in a World War III, as there's an economic war which is broken

out that being Iran in response to the offensive war started by the United States of America.

We have to be truthful here.

The United States started this war.

In response, Iran has grabbed the world by its balls.

The straight of Hormuz stopped the flow of oil, which has shot up prices over 60 percent

across the globe.

Or as I should say in the United States, even more so in other parts.

So Alex Jones says this is now what we voted for.

And I'll get into more of why Tucker Carlson is now calling Donald Trump evil.

It's an insane time to be alive.

So we shared on the after we did a lunch episode where we dove into Candace Owens calling

for the 25th Amendment.

We now have over a dozen Democrat Democratic lawmakers calling for the 25th Amendment,

which would be the removal of the president.

Now that puts JD Vance in office.

I don't know if that's a better option to be quite frank, but I guess you could call

for the 25th Amendment on him too.

Why don't we just redo the elections?

How about that?

Here's what Candace has now tweeted.

The Iranian president tweets that he is willing sacrifice his own life for his people.

Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice Charlie Kirk and is willing to sacrifice every American

life and livelihood for greater Israel.

Who is the animal again?

I know it's pretty wild stuff, right?

Trump was calling the Iranians animals, which is sort of the word choice used when you

are beginning in a genocide, right?

To get rid of a whole race to call them animals and cockroaches and whatever vermin.

These are literal Nazi language being used in order to defend extermination, you know,

those types of language.

So the Iranians had said more than 14 million proud Iranians have so far registered to sacrifice

their lives to defend Iran.

I too have been and will remain devoted to giving my life for Iran.

And again, this is what it comes down to.

We are now in a war with a country that will do anything and everything to defend itself

in its religion.

A country that's been around for three, four thousand years.

Much longer than this experiment in the United States of America, we are but a child,

250 years young.

And what are we, are we willing to fight this war on the other side of the world?

Now we've seen this play out with other wars, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, where we, you

know, we say, oh, well, we can blow this up or we can assassinate this person.

But that's not it.

That's not how you win the war.

And the war will never be won from our, you know, comfortable lounge chairs here in

the United States.

It's just not going to happen.

And this is why people didn't want us to get into a war in the first place.

Now, how about this?

The Wall Street Journal reporting that Iran has now cut off diplomacy.

They are going, what are they gray zoning it?

What is it?

What do they call it when you go no contact?

They're going no contact on the United States and this weird lovers quarrel that we have

here.

Have a listen to this.

That's right now.

We were reporting two hours ago that definitely talking absolutely was the comment I got.

Wall Street Journal is reporting right now that Iran has cut off the diplomacy with the

United States.

It's just one line.

I don't have much more detail about that at all, but that's just crossing the wires right

now.

So I mean, publicly they've done that throughout and still we've had conversations with

people inside the administration that say, here's what's happening.

Here's.

Who's Trump's dick taste?

You've been gurgling these balls for years now.

Brett Baer.

Look, I'm torn on this stooge, right?

Because he's given some fair interviews to folks like Bernie Sanders.

He kind of just plays up whoever he's talking to when he talks to Trump.

I don't know if he realizes he's one of Trump's puppets, but I'll play another clip in

a second where he's kind of championing like, hey, Trump, what Trump's doing is working.

This is the art of the deal, right?

This is all they say.

Oh, it's art of the deal, art of the deal.

You just have to wait and see how it plays out.

I'm sorry.

I don't want to wake up tomorrow and find out that we nuked another country.

I don't want the country that I am proud to be from to have a such a stain in its history

and become the bad guys.

I'd rather not that happen.

I'd rather prevent that.

The communication.

Here's what's going on.

So, you know, what's the public Iran and the private Iran don't know.

I do know there's a deadline and I have a feeling that it's going to be met.

And deadline will be met.

That deadline tonight.

And Trump, of course, the acronym TACO, Trump always chickens out, right?

This came about because Trump, people got tired of him crying wolf and saying, I'm going

to tear up this 5,000% tariffs.

We're going to, you know, people got so annoyed that he was sort of showing his cards

on how he negotiates.

He asked for the stars and he settles from the moon.

I don't know.

You know what I mean?

So, here it was, is what Brad Bear previously said.

And again, Trump now is, you know, quickly becoming international war criminal.

He's threatening genocide.

And now we have, you know, Fox News kind of has been the sort of megaphone for Trump.

You know, you know, kind of doing his talking points.

But I just got off the phone with the president and he called and I said, listen, if you were

to put odds on it, what were the odds that this is going to end up being a negotiated

deal?

He said he wasn't going to put odds on it, but he said, APM is happening.

That's what he said.

He said, it is, if we get to that point, there is going to be an attack like they have

not seen.

Now he's sticking to that at this point.

Now he said, if negotiations move forward today, and there is something concrete, that

could change.

But at this hour, he didn't want to put odds on it, but he said it is moving forward

with the plans that we have.

Now, of course, the reporting here that Iran is not negotiating with Trump.

My guess is, if he does taco, which I hope he does, is that he's going to claim some

sort of victory that's going to delay the inevitable.

There were some good news, so we're doing a 10-day hold on the plans or whatever.

And again, it's like they're not flinching.

They have not flinched yet, and the only thing that has happened now is our oil prices

have led to everything going up in price.

I mean, gosh, I go shopping, I go to Kroger, I go to Costco, it is insane.

You can't buy a piece of steak.

Literally, the price of ground beef is higher than the minimum wage.

So that's insanity.

It's insanity.

The previous inflation was from COVID, a pandemic that nobody asked for, that everyone,

you know, different countries tried their best to handle, and inflation was an international

issue because money was pumped into the economy to prevent the, you know, Wall Street and

so many issues from getting out of control.

Like the trillions of dollars were pumped into the economy during the pandemic.

That inflation happens.

That's an inflationary thing to do, and we had to deal with the consequences of it.

Inflation is happening now because Trump started a war because we were about to release

the Epstein files.

I don't, I don't have any other scenario.

His polling was so bad, he thought a war would boost morale.

I mean, what else can we say?

He is in the Epstein files, mentioned in the Epstein files more so than Jesus Christ

is mentioned in the Bible.

And we only received 2% of the overall data of the Epstein files.

No man has been arrested in the United States, although the British royal family seems

to be stepping up, right?

There's been investigations into Prince Al, or whoever the hell the former princes, he's

been stripped, and other officials have been arrested in European countries.

But not here in the United States, instead rather than face accountability, after a ground

swell of support from the American public to release the Epstein files, rather than

that, rather than getting some spoon-fed redactions, we get a war that we didn't ask for.

Here's Rep Sherry Biggs on Trump's threats that the Iranian civilization will die tonight

says it's peace through strength.

What a stooge.

The House of Homeland Security Committees.

And she is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard.

Wonderful to see you back here today.

Oh, she's in the Air National Guard.

Can we send her in?

Can we send old Sherry?

What's her name here?

Can we get Representative Sherry Biggs on the first flight to Iran, please?

It is a huge day, as the world kind of holds its breath to see what Iran does, what President

Trump does.

Talk to us about why you thought that was an important message as many are looking at

sentiment for a war here.

And of course, the brave men and women who were there and who could be serving in it.

Well, hello, and thank you so much for having me today.

First of all, the accent says everything I need to know.

I would just like to clarify, I don't think war is good.

I would love to see some kind of resolve to this conflict quick.

Oh, she's got bad wife, I can't even have a good wife, I trust in this bitch.

Because I want our men and women to come home safely, but unfortunately, I think that

at times you have to use strength and there is peace through strength.

And I think that's what we're seeing right now.

And there is the cost for hesitation.

And President Trump understands that.

President Trump understands that sometimes you've got to wipe out a whole country and

here we have the reporter wearing her cross right on the clavicle there.

Good grief.

Get the fuck out of office.

You cruel.

I mean, how dumb.

Wow, just think that sometimes you've got to wipe out a nation to prevent them from

hurting themselves.

Good grief.

We've got so many more takes that are ridiculous.

Rep Carlos Menez, let's see if he supports what the president's doing.

I want to get your take on where we are in this war in Iran.

Look, I think that we have to finish the job.

Simply Iran has demonstrated to the world why a nuclear armed Iran is an untenable Iran.

They don't have nukes.

Look what they're doing to the straight of hormones.

Look how they're threatening all their look what they're doing in response to what we

did to them.

How dare they fight back?

We punched first neighbors right now.

Can you imagine if they had a nuclear weapon and they feel invulnerable?

Could you imagine if, could you imagine if Santa Claus was real?

I mean, he is right for the kids listening.

Of course, he's real.

The point is is like, what are we, could you imagine if they nuked us?

No.

Because their nukes can't reach us because our taxpayer dollars pay for intelligence,

18 different agencies all came to the same conclusion that they don't have a nuke,

that they're not developing a nuke and that it can't reach us.

Goodbye.

Oh, uh, no, the president has to follow through with his threats and also.

He's got to follow through with his threats and there it is.

The Dow just tumbling, just tumbling off a cliff here, unbelievable stuff.

I tell you what, I got to take a quick break for it.

My ad sponsors, I'm coming back in a couple of minutes.

I've got more commentary about what's going on.

More people like Tucker Carlson calling out Trump as evil.

They are no longer skirting around the issue.

Uh, this might be a day for the history books in our United States.

Young history.

We'll have to see how it all plays out.

We'll be back right after this.

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As reported there it is Iran is officially cut off all direct diplomacy with the United

States.

Trump threatened to destroy their whole civilization.

How do you negotiate with that right?

And by the way here's what the people of Iran are doing Alex Jones shared video footage.

Iran's volunteer to go on major bridges around power plants putting their lives in the

line in response to Donald Trump.

This is an insane day to be alive.

Powerful images from across Iran of families volunteering to go out on major bridges and

around power plants saying you want to wipe out our whole civilization, you want to commit

genocide against us.

Well, then kill us and by the way, how about Alex Jones with the papers?

Can you imagine what's going on?

What's what's worse?

The way his brain, his voice, it's a global democracy, yeah, the they're they're coming

for it.

You know, Trump is part of the deep state.

He's, you know, it's like what insect, you know, is this too little too late?

Is it too little too late that Alex Jones has finally turned on Trump?

Here's another person, you know, and again, these are massive Republican sort of voices.

And you know, Tucker Carlson may be one of the, you know, he may, he may run for president

and as a Republican, right?

And again, he, there's a lot I could criticize him on, glad to be agreeing with him here.

If you work in the White House, we're in the U.S. military, now it's time to say no,

absolutely not and say directly to the president, no, case you're thinking about using some

weapon of mass destruction is the population of Iran in whose name we liberated Iran,

we killed their religious leader for their benefit.

Do you remember that?

This was last month.

By the way, Panikens is also trending on Twitter.

That's the term for people that they call, they, they call Republicans who are like whistleblowers

Panikens because they're getting, don't get all, oh, you're panicking.

You think Trump's going to really do this?

He's claiming that he will.

You need to take the president seriously.

I want to go back to a time where presidents are so boring and they don't tweet every thought

and we can just judge them based on like, you know, the actions that you would judge

would be supposed to be a world leader.

You know, that's why I love, some of these leaders of these other countries, they're so

boring to listen to.

And yet we've got a president who kind of triggers a lot of people's limbic systems, they,

they trigger you to fight or flight, we're going to wipe them off.

We're going to do this.

We're going to drain this while we're going to, and he says that he talks in this very

like elementary way that I think takes away, in some cases takes away their critical thinking

skills.

Well, we got to do something before they get to us and it's like they're not getting

to us, right?

So good to see better late than ever.

Folks, I took a Carlson saying somebody better say no.

Those people who are in direct contact with the president need to say no, I'll resign.

I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this because this is insane and I've given

you order.

I'm not carrying it out.

Anyone who carries out an illegal order, I just hope they're prosecuted.

I hope that's, I hope that happens because you're complicit if that goes down.

So here's Tucker Carlson, again, mentioning, and by the way, this was all before this crazy

tweet came out about wiping out the civilization.

But here is calling Trump evil for the Easter message.

Who do you think you are?

You're tweeting out the effort on Easter morning?

You'll be living in hell.

Just watch.

Praise be to Allah.

So obviously you're mocking the religion of Iran.

Okay.

If you seek a religious war, that's a good idea.

But by the way, no decent person mocks other people's religions.

You may have a problem with the theology, presumably you do if it's not your religion and you

could explain what that is.

But to mock other people's faith is to mock the idea of faith itself and we should never

mock that.

And again, and by all means to my Godfairing Christians out there, Trump uses your faith.

He used your faith for votes.

He didn't go to church on Easter.

He didn't go to the last time I saw him in church, the bishop was pleading with him

and JD Vance to do a good thing to be compassionate toward the immigrants.

And JD Vance rolled his eyes.

That's what they did.

They rolled their eyes towards Christianity.

Because at its core is the acknowledgement that we are not in charge of the universe.

We did not build it.

We won't be here at the end of it.

We can destroy life.

We cannot create it because we are not God.

The message of all faith at the biggest picture level is the message in our Bible, which

is you are not God.

And only if you think you are, do you talk this way?

Of course.

I mean, that's kind of Trump's MO.

It's a narcissism along with whatever dementia he's got there is that he does talk that

way.

So the Epstein Coalition Trump has bombed the Syed Ismail market in Tehran, slaughtering

shop owners and customers, multiple people.

This is again, today, and there's so many updates to get to that it's hard to vet anything.

There isn't much, you know, multimedia coming out of Iran right now with regards to this

bombing.

But yeah, this is what's happening.

So, you know, this isn't bombing military sites, which again would still be like, why are

we doing this?

But this is, you know, this is trying to disrupt their way of life.

JD Vance, again, here he is campaigning in Hungary.

He's in Hungary on the eve of a potential nuclear war.

He's in Hungary campaigning for another country's president.

What are we doing here?

And he's using Jesus Christ, again, here's JD Vance, whatever the hell his name really

is.

Right?

This is the fourth name he's ever had.

He's got all these different names.

He's a puppet for the, you know, billionaire tech owners, Silicon Valley's puppet.

And here he is using Jesus Christ.

We just celebrated Easter, of course, all of us.

And for 2000 years, our civilization has been shaped all above all and beyond all by

the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ.

I have a message here.

Go fuck yourself, JD Vance.

All right.

You know, you got to save the GFY for a special moment.

You can't overdo the GFY.

Go fuck yourself.

And this is a problem is maybe today they do invokes a 25th amendment.

And then this stooge becomes our president.

Can we do a double 25th amendment?

Can we do it?

Can we just call it the 50th amendment where it wipes out out of office?

That is the president and the vice president, although I don't know who's, you know, then

who do we get?

Mike Johnson.

Who's up there?

Who comes after the vice president?

Is the speaker the, who the hell knows?

Good golly.

And again, as we show before, Iranians are human shields nationwide as they, you know,

do peaceful protesting, peaceful protesting, which I think is what our good Lord would

be all about.

Now, here we are.

Here we have JD Vance invoking Jesus Christ saying, oh, you know, we're God fearing Americans,

Christianity, blah, blah, blah, right?

Well, what would Jesus really want?

We're spending all of our tax dollars to kill innocent lives in another country.

Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of Americans die annually due to lack of health

insurance and inadequate access to care.

Equally cited studies and reports place the number of annual preventable deaths between

45,000 and 68,000 with some analysts suggesting over $100,000, $100,000 deaths, depending on

the scope of the study.

Now why is this important?

Because we have the money in our country to get everyone adequate care.

Care that makes it so that they don't just wait till they have to go to the ER, they

can get preventative screenings for they'll lump in the breast or that pain in the abdomen

or that mold that's getting a little bigger, you know, or that that cavity that just needs

to be taken care of.

We have the money in our tax system to pay for all of this and we choose not to.

From now on, I will never again vote for anybody into political office that doesn't support

universal health care.

This is the thing that should tie all of us together.

We saw how quickly we got together to get the Epstein files released, even though they

weren't, but we all came together and our political leaders will vote for a system that

takes health care that we have for seniors and drops it down 10 years, every year for

four years.

We drop it down 10 years until the whole country's provided health care.

And then maybe we surge into the hospitals and to the health care providers for the first

couple of years as we try to catch up on all the things we've missed out on.

But then eventually we just come and we go as we feel sick.

We stop bringing our illnesses to work.

We stop bringing them to school and we take care of ourselves and that's a world we

can live in.

And we need to see the amount of money being spent on death and destruction and we need

to realize that it doesn't have to be the way.

Here's Megan Kelly with again, the lady on the left here, Emily Gisinski.

She is a two faced son of a gun.

She really is because she's willing to go on Megan Kelly and work for her and share how

archaic her sort of thought presses, presses are.

And then when she goes on breaking points, one of my favorite programs, she kind of plays

into the more centrist kind of view that, oh, Trump's a bad guy.

She's the worst of the worst as far as I'm concerned because they have no backbone.

They play to the audience that they have and not their core beliefs.

So here is Megan Kelly explaining why she still thinks Trump's better than the Democrats.

Honestly, Trump could drop a nuke and I still vote Republican over those people because

they want to have a new voter.

In some ways, I really am.

Where's the pushback?

Where's the pushback on Megan Kelly for that?

Really?

You would choose millions of people's death over voting for a Democrat.

Now I understand there's some shitty Democrats out there.

But the Democrats that want to tax the billionaires and provide better social welfare programs

to the poor, regulations on all those corporations that are profiting so heavily off of Americans,

the middle class, really?

That's the issue you want to die on, Megan Kelly.

But honestly, what they want to do is nuke our own country.

It's like the open border, what they're doing to children, all that stuff is still,

they would do it all.

They put back in power and I think most Republicans know that.

So there she is, racist catwoman right there.

Megan Kelly, like, I don't know, again, I don't know if it's the ozemic or the Botox or just

being at Fox News too long, maybe some lead poisoning from growing up with leaded paint.

I have no idea.

Did you look, did you look a leaded toy growing up, you know, where you're on a lead swing

set?

Like what the hell did it?

Too much mercury in her sushi, I have no idea.

But it is insane that she'll still use culture war to divide us.

Really open-borton, literally nobody wants open borders.

People want a humane system that funds the immigration judges so that they can actually

decide who's seeking asylum, who we can let in and how we can get more people of path

to citizenship so that they can pay taxes and not live in fear.

And this idea, I mean, she's talking, she's literally talking about being okay with

millions of deaths, all to prevent several handfuls of cases of issues where people decide

what to do with their bodies.

You know what I mean?

It's unreal how broken her brain is.

All right, so let's rush through the rest here.

And here's Gary Cardone, most certainly not what I voted for.

Again, we'll have to cover some of this more on our next episode because we literally

can't get it all today.

But yeah, there are plenty of people that say, I didn't vote for this.

And they're realizing that, well, there's consequences to actions.

And even if you didn't vote for this, this is where we are.

And we need to use all of our voices to speak up.

And it's not a time to just fight with your relatives online.

But let your political leaders know there'll be consequences if they're not going to be

on the right side of history.

We'll be back in the morning.

Again, I'll have a pop culture update in the morning and then I'll have my lunch episode

which will cover exactly what the hell's going on.

I mean, you know, there's a greater than zero present chance that we don't even have

internet tomorrow.

Now, I'm not some crazy fear of monger.

I think we will.

But I'm just saying what Trump is planning to do as he says it out loud could lead to

a change in the world order that we didn't even think could be possible, right?

That's just the world we live in.

Is that me being a panicking?

We'll have to see.

Before he does the greatest taco of all time, which is like pull back on the threats

of genocide.

I mean, it's a real, you know, pick your choice.

We'll see you guys then.

I'm Dave and this is The Rush.