Trump Using a Trump Card to Trump His Enemies and Then Himself.

On this Episode we Take a look at Trumps Strategies against Iran and then we React to the photo he posted/shared on X.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:11

Over the weekend, I don't know if you've seen the very well. Let me just let's before we get into that, let me just start off. There's there's back in 2016, Ben Shapiro had a little shtick he would do on Facebook, right? It was good Trump and Bad Trump. You know, and then he would have an article where Trump is doing something really, really good, and then he would have an article where Trump was doing something really, really bad, and just it would kind of go back and forth and back and forth like that. And I'm less of a fan of Shapiro than I was back then, but I still like that bit. I think it's a good bit. And that's kind of how I feel this weekend went. There was really good Trump, and then there was really, really bad Trump. So let's let's start before we get to what everybody already knows. Let's start with the good Trump. And this is a segment from Benny Johnson's video about he came out with very last minute, basically last night. So we'll let him explain something pretty impressive that Trump did, actually. So let's just start there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

President Trump just played a historic tactical Uno reverse card on Iran, the likes of which the world has never seen. He's remade the economy of the planet, and it's going to hurt America's number one enemy the most. That's not Iran. Get ready. Buckle up. The peace negotiations failed, and that seemingly was the point. The more that you followed them, the more you realized it was more like Sun Tzu art of war when peace is impossible. Make it seem as though you tried so that when you have to do the inevitable, it seems like your only logical step. Peace negotiations did not go well. JD Vance saying, unfortunately, we weren't able to make any headway. We were quite flexible. We were accommodating. The president told us, come here in good faith and do your best. And ladies and gentlemen, less than 12 hours after the collapse of the peace talks in Islamabad, Donald Trump went superbod and closed the Strait of Hormuz. That's right, you heard that right. President Trump says that he is actually now going to close the Strait of Hormuz. He's going to stop all the oil from flowing out of Iran. Yes, sir. What's the Strait of Hormuz?

SPEAKER_05 2:44

Strait of Hormuz. You know what the Strait of Hormuz is? Hormuz? I don't know what that is. You're not familiar? Alright, let me Google it really quick. So yeah, the Strait of Hormuz. Uh let me get a picture up. It's a part of Iran where all our uh oil goes through.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

Why would we go through Iran for oil?

SPEAKER_05 3:03

Well, it's not mainly us, it's China, but it's a bottleneck for the world's oil. So let me pull this up.

SPEAKER_06 3:10

Oh, okay. I've heard people talk about this.

SPEAKER_05 3:13

Yeah, so this right here, this is the Strait of Hormuz. Uh Iran has been guarding that for a very long time. And just to cut to the chase, basically, they Iran's military's gone, leadership's gone, they really don't have any cards to play. The war is pretty well over, but they've had a stranglehold, if you will, on the Strait of Hormuz, right? And that's been their big point of leverage. And so Trump and everybody's been going back and forth trying to get them to actually let ships go through without Iran basically dropping mines because they don't have a navy, they don't have an air force, they don't really have very many missiles left. Their whole army's been decimated, but they can still, you know, in sneaky fashion, drop mines in the water and try to blow up ships attempting to get oil. And that's been their big thing. So they were trying to put a stop to that. That was what the negotiations are. Yeah, that's not that's what the negotiations were about. They failed because Iran is very, very confident in their stranglehold over this strait. And then Trump did something unexpected. He just said, Okay, you want to play that way? We're gonna shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Now nobody can get oil because Iran was basically like letting some people in and some people out. And, you know, Trump was like, okay, we're shutting the whole thing down. Nobody can get in here.

SPEAKER_06 4:49

Is that what that blockade thing was?

SPEAKER_05 4:51

Yes, that's what that blockade thing was. So he took their point of, I mean, it's brilliant. It's brilliant. He took their point of leverage and just basically flipped it on its head and said, Okay, your entire economy's going kaput. We're not letting anybody through. And what that did, going back to the Benny Johnson video, let me skip ahead. Uh again, he's going to do a better job explaining this than me. I'm thinking about starting to run other training. Hey, look an ad. Don't you want to drop your belly fat? Total BS. Hey, it's V Shred. He is super reliable. V Shred is super reliable. Not really. Never listen to V Shred. V Shred will keep you fat. Anyway.

SPEAKER_06 5:33

So well V Shred is only useful if you don't have ADHD.

SPEAKER_05 5:39

If you if you've spent any time in like the bodybuilding space, that man is like anathema to like Greg Duset and like all those muscle guys. They they hate V Shred. They hate him. And I I I agree with them. I agree with their arguments. That's all I'll say about it. But anyway.

SPEAKER_06 5:59

Yeah, I got into a little bit of listening to him, and I'm like, this guy's full of pizza.

SPEAKER_05 6:05

Full pizza. That's very diplomatic of you, yes. So anyway, so if you look, uh, somebody also made an interesting observation that I thought was very clever. I don't remember who it was, though, but they were commenting that this is why Trump made a deal with Cuba as well. Because they all knew ahead of time that this was going to be the plan. They were going to shut down Iran's access to like active ability to put out oil. So that's why Trump went after Venezuela. And then Trump was doing something. It could be that the whole citizens' protest thing might have been backed by the CIA or somebody like that. And they coordinated all that so that they could create the infrastructure infrastructure and the supplies needed. They wanted to keep, I shouldn't say it that way. They wanted to keep Cuba from going after ships, so they made a deal with them. And then they took out Maduro to get the extra oil needed because they knew they were going to go after Iran. And so now if you look, if you look here, all these ships. Pretty remarkable here when it That's like all the ships of the world making a beeline towards the Gulf of Mexico to get the oil that they were getting from Iran.

SPEAKER_06 7:21

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 7:22

So he just flipped the entire global economy on its head. It's freaking brilliant. So there's that, and we'll let Benny Johnson keep talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

When it comes to massive tankers heading straight into the Gulf of America. Yikes, what's going on here? Uh the world's economy is resetting in favor of United States energy. As the number one energy producer on Earth, now that we have Venezuela in our control and Iran in our control, America effectively controls 85% of tradable energy on the planet. Now, markets haven't stabilized just yet, but we've just cut off our number one geopolitical enemy. And by the way, the most sophisticated, largest capacity refinement facilities in the planet exist here in the Gulf Coast, in the Gulf of America, and they're increasing their capacity every single day. This is, of course, also where our oil companies have their biggest productions. This is the Gulf of America, packed with super tankers racing to load up on U.S. oil. Record exports, global energy demand is shifting directly to the United States of America. The economic boom is incoming. Look at this map. What this map shows is every large-scale tanker on the planet turning directly in the direction of America. President Trump had it planned out from the beginning, 10 steps ahead as always. Boats are sailing up, heading to our country, big, beautiful tankers. We'll load them up with oil, gas, and everything else. Right now, everything is changing. Look at this. This post going viral right now. Check out the map right here.

SPEAKER_05 9:21

So that's very impressive. It's not all sorry, go on.

SPEAKER_06 9:27

Sounds like he's playing chess instead of Uno.

SPEAKER_05 9:29

Yeah, it's chess instead of checkers. You know? Like Iran spent this whole time thinking they were the ones that held all the cards. And then he turns around and goes, Okay, you want to play it that way? We're shutting the whole thing down. You think we need your oil? And it turns out the whole time he was preparing to have everybody buy the oil from us. China, from what I understand, is absolutely losing its mind over this. So, I mean, I just you got from a military standpoint, you've got to hand it to him. Like, that's impressive.

SPEAKER_07 10:00

Yeah, check it out.

SPEAKER_05 10:01

That's that's impressive. But it's not all good. It's not all good. So Glenn Beck had a little bit of a different take, and so we're gonna listen to Glenn Beck's take a little bit on it. Cause uh this is not going to be good news for your pump, like your price at the pump.

SPEAKER_07 10:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:19

Because obviously, if everybody in the world is buying oil from us, you don't get as much oil. You're you're talking, you're talking about paying out the teeth when it comes to gas prices. And Beck points that out, so we'll jump to him really quick.

SPEAKER_08 10:37

All right, so uh here's the Washington Post. President Donald Trump's posting of a rendering that appeared to depict him as Jesus drew a rare criticism from the religious right, prompting calls for him to take down the post and allegations of blasphemy. For the weekend, tankers will be escorted, but the lanes that Iran says everybody has to use, uh, he is blocking those. Okay. So what's what's coming here? Um tomorrow, the next day, Navy warships are going to be um stopping ships that try to pay the illegal toll for Iran if that if that happens. Oil tankers are rerouting, they're slowing down. As I showed you in hour one, they are actually rerouting to the United States. Prices at the gas pump are going to go up. They're already jumping. I mean, expect another 50 cents or maybe even a dollar in the next week or so if it drags on. Groceries, diesel trucks, all of that is gonna go up. It's not it's not good. It's not good. Heating oil, God bless you if you're in the Northeast, how are you affording this? Your 401k, it's gonna take a little bump in the road, probably. You know, this isn't somewhere else. This is your grocery run, your commute, your kids' soccer fees, and Iran knows that. Iran knows that. That's the bet they're making. I said earlier in the show, what do they have that they think they can beat the United States? Because we're wiping them out. We're we're cleaning their clock on the field of battle. What do they have? It's not missiles, it's what they see when they look at us through social media. Iran sees a divided America, an exhausted America, 20 years of forever wars. They see an America that's ready to turn on itself the second price of gas goes up. They see social media turning every clip into a weapon, and they're not wrong.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

You know what burns my ass? Doctor looked at my knee for five seconds. It's a right, as he said, just part of getting the old. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_05 12:45

They're not wrong. You gotta love how every podcast advertisement looks exactly like the Joe Rogan experience. I just wanna you know it's all AI. Yeah, it's it's all AI, right. Well, what? Was it the echoey distorted robot voice? Did that give it away, Trevor?

SPEAKER_06 13:00

So No, it's it was the fake dudes.

SPEAKER_05 13:02

Oh, it was the fake dudes, okay. My mistake. No, anyway, just just as an aside, like from what Beck's saying, I have a very hard time acting super worried about a 401k. Maybe it's just because I'm a millennial. I'm like, when I was in high school, 2008 happened, everybody lost their 401k. So I'm like, huh, good luck if you can keep it. So I don't know. That's kind of hard for me to wrap my brain around.

SPEAKER_06 13:32

Yeah, I personally 401k because of my job.

SPEAKER_05 13:37

Yeah, Jess has a 401k, but I'm like, hey, it'll be great if we got one, but I wouldn't I wouldn't hold your breath.

SPEAKER_04 13:45

I mean, they'll they'll create a bubble somewhere and take it. That's kind of what they do, but you know, good luck.

SPEAKER_06 13:52

Yeah, that's just me. That's a whole other thing, though. From my opinion, that's just a glorified savings account.

SPEAKER_05 13:58

Yeah, it's a glorified savings account, except yeah, with the stock market can really mess it up. But anyway, so old Beck is saying that uh he's not as optimistic, he doesn't sound as optimistic as Benny Johnson is. I think the short the short way to put it would be from a military strategy standpoint, this is brilliant. Like, he's really put the screws on Iran. Iran might be betting that we're going to give up after two weeks when the gas prices shoot up, though. And so it's like Yeah, if the American make a lot of people mad. Yeah, yeah. I mean, in the long term, if Trump finds a way to keep this situation the norm, like it's gonna benefit the country immensely. Like, if we become the main exporter of oil, I mean you matter. You make NATO irrelevant, you make Iran irrelevant, you make China irrelevant, you make Russia irrelevant. I mean, this would completely flip the board if if people would accept it, taking it on the nose. And, you know, a lot of people are cutting it really close, you know, financially, so they might not be willing to do that. It's gonna I'll I'll say what I I've said you know before. It I think I've said it before. If he can get this Iran war thing wrapped up before the midterms, as unpopular as he is supposedly is in the polls, is right as supposedly is in the polls right now, as unpopular as he is, there's gonna be a backlash. If he the second he ends the war and actually wins it, he'll be more popular than he's ever been. Because that's kind of how this goes, you know. It's like in the middle of the war, it's like, oh, how dare you! You know, you're you promised, no forever. He never made that promise. The libertarians made that promise. He always made it clear that if Iran tried to get a nuclear bomb, he'd go after him. And I I watched the 24 campaign too. He said that. You got it, it was wishful thinking that that wouldn't happen. But that people were thinking that Iran wouldn't try anything. That was wishful thinking. Trump always said he was going to go after Iran. He's been very consistent on that. I'm livid with him on the Epstein thing, but to his credit, he has been very consistent on the Iran deal. That that whole no new wars thing, that wasn't. He might have said that once, but he's been very consistent about what he was going to do about Iran. But anyway, from a military my point is, from a military standpoint, this was brilliant. If this works, it'll change the the world like forever, and it'll make America stinking rich. But so like that's a pretty big play. It's very smart, brilliant, brilliant. And I think Benny Johnson kind of has the right tone with it. And so you've got brilliant Trump at the beginning of Sunday, and then Sunday night. We've already seen it alluded to a couple times. Uh, this this one happened. There have been people saying it's not Jesus, it's the Pope. I'm like, quit kidding yourselves, guys. He he said he was Jesus. Just admit it. It's just ridiculous, captain strategist on foreign affairs. But when it comes to domestic policy, you're like, Trump, why? Why would you do that? So you knew people were gonna be livid, like just livid over it. Anyway, so we we found this one on Twitter where he added some weight and got Epstein there on the hospital bed. I thought that was pretty funny. And then, yeah, you've got Epstein again, and then there was one other where he was like doing it was like Hunter Biden. He was healing Hunter Biden. I thought that was pretty great. Huh?

SPEAKER_06 18:24

There's a doctor one.

SPEAKER_05 18:27

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:29

That's from that's from one of those doctor shows.

SPEAKER_05 18:33

Oh yeah, well. Yeah, so I guess that gets us, segues us into his response when people were like, Hey, did you really post a picture of yourself that you were Jesus? Of course, he deleted it this morning, so this was his explanation.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Mr. President, did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Well, it wasn't depicted, it was me. I I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor, and had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support. And uh only the fake news could come up with that one.

SPEAKER_05 19:08

So I Yeah, yeah, he's a doctor, Trevor. Don't worry, trust him, he's a doctor. He was a doctor. That's that's not Jesus at all. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 19:21

Oh my.

SPEAKER_05 19:24

It's like 10 a.m., master of the world, strategist, 10 p.m. This will tick him off. It's just crazy.

SPEAKER_06 19:35

I uh I just heard Huh. Let's make him mad real quick.

SPEAKER_05 19:40

Yeah, let's make him mad real quick. Let's just see what everybody does. I think he okay, this is the story that everybody's been saying. I don't know what's true or what's not, but they've been claiming he was getting into an argument with the Pope, and he decided to s you know send this to the Pope to mess with him. That's what I've been hearing. I have no idea if that's true, but that's that's what I've heard today. But I'm like, either way, it's like you had to know that wasn't gonna play well. What were you thinking? Why would you do this? So anyway, let's finish what he has to say.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

About it. And I said, how did they come up with that? It's supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better, and I do make people better. I make people uh a lot better. As an example, uh the 11,000, I understand your husband's going through treatment.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

He's going through some very uh serious cancer treatment, so this goes a long way.

SPEAKER_03 20:33

Yes, sir, it sure does.

SPEAKER_05 20:38

So am I offended? Not really. I mean, I kind of wonder if I should be, but I'm not. Like, what's your thoughts? Do you think people ought to be upset about this, Trevor?

SPEAKER_06 20:53

Um well people are gonna be upset no matter what you do, so yeah.

SPEAKER_05 20:59

I guess my point was I was like at one point in the afternoon, I'm sitting there going, This guy's a freaking genius. He's an absolute genius. That straight of hormoose thing is incredible. I was like impressed and astonished that he did that. And then not two hours later, I, you know, you learn about the picture of him being the Pope or a doctor or whatever, and you're just like, What? Why? It's like only Trump, you know? Only Trump. You're he's a genius one minute and you want to tear your hair out the next.

SPEAKER_06 21:33

So, I don't know, what are your thoughts? Yeah, I heard I heard about it on uh Jessie Lee Peterson's show this morning.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

Oh, what Jessie Lee Peterson have to say.

SPEAKER_06 21:43

Um pretty much kind of the same thing you did.

SPEAKER_05 21:52

He was astonished that the man is like an ultimate Napoleon one minute, and then just posts something ridiculous that I Second.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

No, he actually just thought it was kind of funny. That's about it.

SPEAKER_05 22:07

I mean, it's funny, but you know people are gonna get mad. I'm just like, what okay, what's what's the point? But anyway. Do you think people should be mad?

SPEAKER_06 22:19

Um I mean if he was depicting himself as Jesus, I could see it. But uh that's what Jesse said. He he he he thought of it more of he's a brother of Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 22:34

So I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_05 22:36

It's just it's he's a troll, you know what I mean? It's like on the one hand, you know he just does stuff to mess with people. That's a good way to do it. It doesn't change the fact that it's still disrespectful, though. So I'm kind of got like one boot and you know, I'm being wishy-washy, essentially. You know, on the one hand, I'm I'm just like you you knew that was gonna kick a hornet's nest. Why would you do that? But on the other hand, I'm like, what am I asking? It's Trump, of course he would do that. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 23:09

Yeah, it's it's it is kind of funny, but uh I can see where a lot of people would get up. Right.

SPEAKER_05 23:17

Because I don't want to be like super disrespectful to people that are like upset about this, because I'm kind of like feeling a little guilty that I'm not more angry about it. But at the same time, I'm like, it is Trump, though. I yeah, I don't even think he we're not talking about somebody who's gonna be registering the theological implications of something. That's not really his wavelength. Give him money and war, but you know, philosophy, maybe not so much.

SPEAKER_06 23:44

Yeah, so he's just a businessman. I don't know, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:49

I I don't know why you would do this. Like he was alive during the whole John Lennon thing. You remember John Lennon was talking bragging about how you know the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and that was like a huge thing, and then John Lennon had to apologize. Like the Christians, you know, everybody was up in arms over that. So back then. So, you know.

SPEAKER_06 24:13

Yeah, no, I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_05 24:14

Well, yeah, I guess it was our parents' day and age, but yeah, John Lennon said that uh, you know, the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and everybody was like, excuse me. And he's like, I'm sorry. So I'm like, Trump was around back then. I don't know what he thought was gonna happen, and he must have gone, oh crap, for as much as he likes to troll. He, you know, I mean, Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers was like, hey, you know, this isn't that big a deal. Like, I understand if you're mad, but it's not that big a deal. I'm like, well, you you you did do a podcast on Sunday night when you normally don't do that. You knew it was kind of a big deal. So anyway, I I I va- I I waver, I waver, I don't know, but that was Trump. Genius on Sunday morning and troll on Sunday night. So anywho. Well, we all have our moments. We all have our moments. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Faith Fiction and Folklore. If you did, we would love it if you would subscribe to us on YouTube or follow us on Rumble. We can also be found on X, Instagram, and Facebook. And we are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio. Thank you again very much for listening, and we'll see you next time.