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Apr 27, 2026

Trump Suddenly CALLS OFF Iran Talks In Fit Over Strait Of Hormuz Proposal

Donald Trump throws a fit over Iran proposal to end chokehold on Strait of Hormuz ship passage and attacks and suddenly calls off his envoy's trip to continue talks to end the war. Yasmin Kahn and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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We're not going to 15 hours in airplanes all the time going back and forth to be giving a document that was not good enough. And so we'll deal by telephone and they can call us [00:00:16] anytime they want. They gave us a paper that should have been better. And interestingly, immediately when I canceled it, within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better. We talked about they will not have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. Well, as we talked about [00:00:39] earlier on the show, the man lies. So definitely take it with a giant grain of salt that Iran gave him a letter or a paper as he kept calling it saying that they would not get a nuclear weapon. There is no evidence of that, but Trump did cancel the talks between the US and Iran. [00:00:55] So now Trump is claiming that it was canceled because we have all the cards. Do we though? That's really not how it's looking to anyone who is not Trump. So the latest is that Iran has outlined what they want and it doesn't sound like they're willing to give up its nuclear [00:01:11] program. So Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the US lifting its blockade on the country and end an end to the war while proposing that discussions on the larger question of its nuclear program would come in a later phase. And that's [00:01:28] from two regional officials. That's what's done on Monday. So the proposal would push off negotiations on Iran's nuclear program to a later date. So Iran's armed forces would be the authority responsible for the Strait of Hormuz under the country's proposed law for managing the waterway. [00:01:45] oh Yeah, the top officials on Monday, so Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the National Security Commission in Iran's parliament, told state television that the armed forces were already in control of the strait. And we're seeking to prohibit the passage of hostile vessels. So Iran is [00:02:04] proposing that shipping companies should pay charges for specific services when they cross the Strait of Hormuz in a move that would enable it to raise money from shipping traffic without presenting the payment as a toll. So Trump will most likely not take this deal. Meanwhile, [00:02:21] we have confirmation that Israel did push the US into the war. We have confirmation that Israel is responsible for everything that we're dealing with right now, which is exactly what we all suspected. So the State Department admitted it in this government release. It says Epic [00:02:36] Fury is only the latest round of an ongoing international armed conflict with Iran. As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the UN Security Council, including most recently on March 10th, the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request [00:02:53] of and in the collective self-defense. its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States own inherent right of self defense. JR, JR, do you make of it? They just [00:03:08] admitted the thing that we had all been saying, the thing that they've been denying for so long. What do we do with this now? Well, I mean, the confirmation came when Marco Rubio said so like the first couple of days afterwards and then denied that he said it. These are clowns. We already knew about this. But by the way, pathetic is it? This guy lies his [00:03:27] ass off this much standing on that tarmac that he has this whole story about being handed a paper. This thing is called a paper. Then I gave him a paper back. So the simplest question of what was on the paper because even if you're like a lackey journalist, you'll still be curious enough to be like, yo, that's a great story, Donnie. What's on the paper? Because that's [00:03:46] interesting. You're a badass. You negotiated. You wrote the art of the deal when you didn't. And it's probably a bad book in the first place. would be you'd normally ask that question. He doesn't have an answer. How is it that you constructed this lie and you didn't even have [00:04:02] a follow up answer for making up what was on that paper that someone can ask you about? So maybe you can continue to puff your chest out and say that you're a badass. He didn't even have the answer. What does he expect these conversations to be like? He tells a story and someone's not supposed to ask a question. Even sycophag minions would may want to ask [00:04:19] that question. And instead um it's that they shouldn't have a nuclear weapon. That's what was on the paper? Was that on the paper you gave back to them? What was on the paper that they gave to you? Dummy, he's stupid. Anyways, also, he keeps talking about how we have all [00:04:34] the cards. If anybody knows maybe the origins of a term like we have all the cards, maybe that's in like a game you're playing. And if you have all the cards, what you could do with those cards is eventually lay them down and then you win the game. When are you going to lay down those winning cards, bro? When is that going to happen? Because at this point, [00:04:52] this continues to be at this stalemate. You keep playing other cards that aren't winning cards. um I feel like even if you want him to play the cards and win the game, eventually you're getting frustrated with these cards never being played. I feel like the whole line about having all the cards isn't real. Yeah, I mean, we know he doesn't have any cards. [00:05:12] We know that whatever cards he did have, he's played them all. We also know that he's blowing through all of our money. through all of our stockpiles, well, like half of it's gone by now. And then there's no way that they can replenish it quickly enough. So ah that's where we're at right now. And that, I mean, they admitted the thing and there's not a whole [00:05:32] lot that like I can do about it. So I guess we'll just see what happens.

The Damage Report: April 27, 2026

Hosts: Yasmin Khan   Guests: Jayar Jackson