BREAKING: Trump Gives Iran 48hr Ultimatum: Open Hormuz or Else

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We have breaking news tonight.

I don't normally come to you on a Sunday night, but this death or a Saturday night, but

this definitely warrants it.

President Trump just about two hours ago announced an ultimatum to Iran.

Let me just pull this up to you.

This is on true social here, and listen, I'll just tell you right off the top, this is

about as unhinged as it gets, and this should alarm everyone.

This is what President Trump said about three hours ago now.

Actually, this is at 7.44 pm specific Eastern Standard Time when this was released, and

that's important.

President Trump writes, if Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the straight-of-hormos

within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit

and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, that weird way he ins all that.

Now, the reason why this is unhinged and should alarm every American, especially those

who are supporting President Trump, already, as I've told you with a lot of clarity and

detail, this was a war of choice that should never have been started that had a golden

bow offering of a diplomatic solution before he gave the order that would have given him

an enormous victory, but instead of taking that, he took a course of action, which has

now resulted in the deaths of at least 13 Americans, 200 at least wounded, probably thousands

of Iranians have been killed, who knows how many in Israel have been killed as a result

of this war that started and others throughout the Middle East, all because he did not want

to take a golden diplomatic victory.

We can only speculate why he decided to choose the war, whether it was to do something

that Benjamin Netanyahu said, who can say?

But now then we see that that was an irrational decision and an unwise decision.

But now then here, he's threatening to open the straight and poor moves.

Let me show you why I say this by itself is unhinged.

Just barely an hour before he wrote this, he wrote this text here.

He says the United States has blown Iran off the map, and yet their lightweight analyst,

day being the New York Times, David Sanger, says that I haven't met my own goals.

Yes, I have.

And weeks ahead of scheduled, their leadership is gone, their navy and Air Force are dead,

they have absolutely no defense, and they want to make a deal.

I don't.

We are weeks ahead of scheduled.

Just like they're in competent election coverage for me, the fellow New York Times always

gets it wrong.

So remember one, just on the surface of it, just as that stands right there, this is irrational.

What are you talking about?

Did you have blown Iran off the map?

You have blown up a lot of things and a lot of buildings and killed a number of people,

but they're hardly blown off the map as they continue to graphically demonstrate with

their missile strikes and drone strikes throughout the Middle East, especially in Israel tonight,

more on that in just a second.

But then he says, you know, some reporter says that he didn't meet his goals and he is

so thin-skinned about this and so paranoid.

He has to go out on through social and put out this claim that, yes, I have.

And then he literally talks like a child.

They said, I haven't met my goals.

Yes, I have.

Does that not, I mean, I'm being serious here, doesn't that sound like a child?

That's how a child would say it.

Yes, I did.

And then weeks ahead of schedule, what have you met weeks ahead of a schedule?

What were you supposed to have accomplished?

What was supposed to take place?

Did their Navy and Air Force are dead?

Did you've blown up that?

They have no defense.

Well, they kind of do as they demonstrate painfully, bloody, graphically, with great explosive

power that is clearly untrue.

But then after insulting David Sanger and saying that you've blown a ran off the map and

you've accomplished your goals, then you want to turn around and say that if the Iran

doesn't open the straight of Hormuz within 48 hours, then we're going to start obliterating

power plants.

I mean, what's, if they're blown off the map, then how can the Gulf, how can the straight

of Hormuz be shut down?

How can the Persian Gulf still be blocked off to traffic?

How can they still be preventing tankers from going out?

How can they still be preventing the US Navy from getting deal within almost a thousand miles

of Iranian batteries in Iran and shoreline?

You see that this is irrational.

But listen, like all these things, this doesn't come as free.

This doesn't come with no cost.

Like I always say, to every action, there is a counter-action.

Now, you may recall early in this war when this, when this first started, it was a desalination

plant that was hit in Iran.

And they said, listen, understand, if this keeps happening, we're going to hit other desalination

plants in the region that if you attack our ability to create clean water that our people

need to literally survive, there are other people who needed a lot worse than we do.

Iran, because of all their mountainous terrain, they actually have enough water that they

can survive without any of these desalination plants.

They get a very small percentage of it, not the case with other Gulf regions.

Like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, they absolutely have to have these desalination plants to be

able to have life-sustaining water for their population.

Well, with President Trump saying that he's going to shut that off, that he's going to

go after their major power plants, if they don't obey within 48 hours, there has been

in a pretty immediate response already, almost right away from the Iran.

It's almost like they were expecting this.

The spokesman for the Central Headquarters of Khazat-Katam al-Anbiya, sorry if I'm pronouncing

that wrong, this is the official spokesman for the Iranian side, following previous warnings,

if Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy, information

technology, and desalination infrastructure belonging to the United States and the regime

in the region will be targeted.

So they're just saying, listen, to play at that game, and listen, I've been telling anyone

who would listen here, Iran is definitely on the lower side of the overall power dynamics,

but that doesn't mean that they don't have some major cards to play, and they have been

restrained so far.

They have been restrained for really for decades, even recently they have.

But now even here in this situation, they have been in the Census War start.

They have continued to be restrained, and they're hitting very specific targets.

But now if you go after their energy supply, if you go after their desalination plants,

there will be a consequence for this action, there will be a counteraction.

And listen, it is clear, this is a full scale war.

It is literal life and death for the Iranian regime.

And if President Trump doesn't what he said in 48 hours, so that was, he made a point

of saying it is true social, exactly at this point.

That means 7.44 pm on Eastern time Monday night.

This means Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 48 hours.

That's when that clock will expire.

Which means that if he strikes and does that and hits, you know, some of these positions

in Tehran and the air defense being what they are, we can we can certainly penetrate

them.

And President Trump can make good on that if he decides to do so.

But they're saying we also have the ability and listen, if anybody sit in doubt about

it, just let's take a look at what's happened earlier tonight in there was some pretty significant

shots that got through 84 people in an Israeli city called Arad.

All those wounded have been taken to the stroke of medical center in Bersheba for treatment.

It goes on to say 84 people wounded 10 are in serious condition after Iranian ballistic

missiles struck a building in Israel's southern city of Arad on Saturday night.

I've actually posted on my ex post on my ex account, you can see some remarkable incoming

missiles.

President Trump keeps talking that I've all but won this war on our shows earlier in the

day.

I talked about that.

How he says we've all won this war.

It's practically just a little bit of mess in the Gulf that has to be to then Trump also

says, but you know what, it's not anything I want to worry about.

I don't need to worry about that.

People in Europe can worry about that.

China can worry about that.

And now here he is hours later given an ultimatum because that exposure to the truth.

He realizes that as long as that that straight doesn't open up as long as the Gulf oil doesn't

get out to the global market, it's going to cause huge problems for him here.

He is literally unwell, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually.

These are not the actions of a rational actor to be saying on the one hand, I've won this

war to be saying on the second hand, we've already won in this, just some mess in the

Gulf.

And then all of a sudden to say it's at 6.37 pm, I've obliterated them.

There's nothing left.

And then in 7.44 pm, just barely an hour later, you wish an ultimatum.

Question is, what is the armed forces going to do?

Because he has control of our armed forces.

If he gives the order, they're almost certain to follow it.

Even as foolish as it would be.

Now fortunately we have 48 hours, so people have a chance to start talking about this.

And hopefully that means leaders in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, in Bahrain, in Kuwait, in Israel.

You guys don't want Iran to make good on this.

Those videos go look at my ex account.

You can see some of the shots that are coming through there.

All these claimed that the Iranian missile and ability to strike targets in the region

is all that eliminated, it's self-evidently untrue.

Those missiles are coming in.

You can see some air defense missiles going up.

Most of them are missing.

Some of aren't even getting attacked at all.

And these things are coming in hitting pinpoint accuracy.

You don't want them having that kind of pinpoint accuracy on desalization plants in countries

are allies that never wanted this war, certainly the people didn't want it, when they don't

have enough water to drink.

And you will be put in their lives seriously at risk.

This is a very, very serious situation here, friends, because this is a war that should

never have happened.

And now that we're trying to figure out how to get it off, adding to the chaos, by the

way, I've also put this on my ex accounts.

You can go and check it out.

Axios was reporting early this evening, I think around 6 p.m.

That the headline made it implied that there was some kind of negotiated settlement might

be worked out.

That the White House was working on a six-point plan, which was interesting at its

own point, as I've put in my ex post, because some of the points of actually most of them

is what Iran offered prior to the war, and I was thinking at the time, and now why would

they be willing to talk about this now, when Iran has been saying all the time, they're

not going to have negotiated settlement unless they get terms of their choosing, and that

they were prepared to go for many months, possibly even years, in a war like this, to

put pain on the White House.

I thought, well, maybe something changed that I don't know where, maybe there was more

pain on the Iranian side than I want, well, then I start reading further into it, and

I've realized these are witt coughs ideas.

He's the one that's kind of been behind this, and then you see that we're not talking to

the Iranian side, and then it says that there's through intermediaries, intermediaries, Egypt,

and I can't remember the other one, other country, turns out that Iran is saying, yeah, I'm

we're willing to talk to you, just like Foreign Minister Abbas Al-Arab, she said, but here's

my requirements.

You're going to have to pony up some pretty significant gifs, or forget it, we're not

even going to talk.

So there really wasn't any change on that, and maybe because that's what the intermediary

said, and reported back to President Trump, that this absurd offer was, it's insulting

as it can be.

They're not going to, they're not going to give you something that they offered before

war.

Now, after you've done all this stuff to get you out of hot water, there's no reason for

them to do that, and there's every reason to think that after 22 days, they're not going

to suddenly fall apart.

This is a country that knows how to suffer and has a lot in the past.

And now I think maybe President Trump is either recognizing the danger to the United

States and to our economy, and that he's losing the ability to keep that price of all below

$100 a barrel, or it's just as simple that he is losing cognitive capability.

I'm telling you, we have to gin you, this is not an insult to the President at all.

This is not an insult to President Trump.

This is an acknowledgement that these actions are not normal.

These are not things that a rational person would do.

And I know it's hard to see, because oftentimes President Trump has, I mean, he's made

his whole, his whole stick, his whole brand is on being irrational, at least acting that

way.

It's one thing if it's an act.

It's another thing if he genuinely doesn't have control and it's hard to tell the difference.

But now that we're talking consequences that have life and death consequences and results

for other people, it has got the US into a war, it can't militarily win.

We can't, the fact that we've even tried to do this on the cheap with air power alone

without having any kind of ground component, just plunge this into an unwinnable situation.

We can't just manufacture ground force, an army out of thin air.

And even if we could, it would be suicidal because all the defenses, all the advantages

would go to the defense there.

So that's not even on the table.

Now if President Trump has come into this conclusion, or he's just not able to make rational

decisions anymore.

And listen, the Vice President, the Cabinet, they're going to have to start given some serious

consideration, starting probably right now, but certainly tomorrow.

Is it time for the 25th Amendment?

For the safety and security of our country, it may be time to take that incredibly

difficult move and to do something that is here and forth unthinkable in American

history as we approach our 250th anniversary, the idea that a president would actually

be incapacitated, it would have to use a 25th Amendment to get him out, it's just unbelievable.

And certainly to the supporters of President Trump.

But we're at that point folks, loyalty or not, you can't be loyalty to the man, especially

if he's losing the ability to cognitively make decisions for the life and death of

our country.

No matter how loyal to you are as a man, if it's apparent that he is dangerous to everyone,

to our allies, to Israel, to Saudi Arabia, to all these other countries that would be

target, do not think that Iran doesn't mean what they say.

They'll hit those targets and they can.

This could be catastrophic for the region.

President Trump has got to be convinced to walk this back and he's good at that.

And believe me, I'll applaud it if he does.

I'm not going to insult the man at all, but we've got to get this under control here or

this thing could spiral way out of control.

That's always the problem when you start a war.

Sometimes you think you've got control of it, but the events start happening that spirals

out of control, especially now, Iran has a vote and they are digging in.

So that's where we are right now, folks.

You just want to bring this to your country.

It's just kind of a short show tonight.

But there is a lot going on and the danger is very high right now.

So we will be taking another good look at this tomorrow.

Definitely, we'll be bringing things to you money.

If there's any other breaking news, you can count on the Daniel Davis deep dive.

We'll bring this to you.

Like we bring to you all those things here, but you deserve to know the truth.

And this one is really uncomfortable and very unpleasant, but it's something you need

to know.

Thanks very much, folks.

We'll see you on the next episode with the Daniel Davis deep dive.

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