This was really hard to watch

It's getting worse

For 44 minutes in the Oval Office, the President of the United States presided over the swearing-in of his new Homeland Security Secretary and turned it into something between a campaign rally and a mob operation. He accidentally called Markwayne Mullin “Mark Twain.” He discovered on camera that the man he personally nominated is Native American, saying, “I didn’t know that, huh? Let me look at you.” His Attorney General botched the oath of office. And then Trump told the room that Iran had given him “a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money,” and that receiving it convinced him “we’re dealing with the right people.” He described a gift from the country he is actively bombing, where American service members have been killed, like a man who just won an award, not a man presiding over a war.

Iran’s parliamentary speaker denied any ongoing discussions. Iran’s military command said their forces “will not stop until complete victory.” And former CIA Director John Brennan said he “tends to believe Iran more than” Trump. Before the war started, Iranian negotiators had already put a seven-page proposal on the table. The Omani mediator said both sides had made “substantial progress.” Thirty-six hours later, this administration launched its strikes. They chose war over a deal already in motion. And now, after killing thousands and losing 13 Americans, the president is bragging that a nice gift may have changed his mind. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is drawing up orders to deploy up to 3,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne to the region. The five-day bombing pause isn’t a ceasefire. It’s a reload.

And just five minutes before Trump posted his announcement halting attacks, someone placed a $1.5 billion bet on S&P 500 futures while simultaneously selling $192 million in oil futures. The trades were four to six times larger than anything else at that time. Senator Chris Murphy called it “mind-blowing corruption.” Donald Trump Jr. sits on the advisory board of Polymarket, where similar suspicious bets appeared before both the Iran strikes and the Venezuela operation. Every time this administration launches a military action, someone who knows what’s coming cashes in before the rest of the world finds out.

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This video is based on my written post, available HERE originally written on 3-24-2026.

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