We'll have the straight opened up. Now, right now we have it closed. We have total control of the straight. And the fact that it's closed, they would have opened it up three days ago. They came to us and they said, we will agree to open the straight. And all my people are happy, everybody was happy except me. I said, wait a minute, if we open the straight, that [00:00:17] means they're gonna make $500 million a day. I don't want them to make $500 million a day until they settle this thing. What thing? So setting aside that he's literally the only person I've seen throw out repeatedly that $500 million thing, he's uh telling you, you dear [00:00:33] American, I'm gonna continue to screw you over. I could have had it open. there's so many lies. So we totally control it, except that that is not true. What he means is we can keep it shut, which I'm gonna show you in a minute how that's not even true. That would be one [00:00:49] form of control, but it's hardly total control because if you totally control something, you could open it. But he can't open it. He can't open it. Now he also wants to imply that they're desperate to open it. So he says three days ago, they could have opened it, which if that was true, they would have done that because he desperately wants it to be open because [00:01:06] this is really hurting him economically and politically. So it's not true that they were going to do that. And so, okay, so now you're causing it to be closed, except again, he doesn't have the full form of control that he's pretending to have because he can't get it open. He doesn't even have the limited form of control that he can keep it closed. And I know that- Because [00:01:24] Iran is deploying more mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which is literally the last thing that we would want to do. Okay, you're saying you can stop a tanker from going through, which why are you doing that? But you can't stop them from mining it more. And I'll remind everyone, the Pentagon told Congress that right now it would take, we think something like six months [00:01:45] to remove all the mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which is crazy because a week ago Trump said that Iran had already done that. But okay, he was lying, whatever. So it's gonna be six months except they're deploying more. Now, a US official is saying we know exactly how many they deployed, but we're not gonna say how many. Well, that doesn't make any sense. If you know how many, [00:02:04] then clearly you were watching them. Do something about it. So you're watching it, you're like counting it, like on your on a whiteboard. That doesn't make any sense at all. Now I wanna balance this, Brett, with at least a little bit of good news, I guess, which is that in [00:02:20] theory, Trump is announcing. the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is being extended by three weeks, which hypothetically would be great because it's terrible. And a lot of civilians are dying in Lebanon, they're being murdered by Israel, except that that's not true at all. Because we know the IDF is saying that Hezbollah fired some rockets, so we started [00:02:40] destroying blah, blah, these different places again. And maybe they're right, maybe Hezbollah did, or maybe they didn't, maybe they're lying once again. All I know is I've- the last couple of years, I've heard a lot about ceasefires that Israel has been involved in. And the fire never seems to cease. look, hypothetically, it'd be great, but I don't actually believe [00:02:58] it. What do you think, Brett, about the mines and about that? I love what the ceasefire, it reminded me of what Trump said during his press conference earlier where he was like, listen, I took a timeout. This isn't dragging on forever. We call it timeout. I said timeout, we all got Gatorade. So it doesn't matter. This is not horrible for a while. What they fail [00:03:19] to understand and what they really want us to buy, uh what they fail to understand is from the perspective of the American person that's just going about their day, this just keeps going on forever. And not in a way that the Middle East is a terrible place full of historical [00:03:39] grievances and hatred and death and murder. No, this is worse than just the Middle East is chaos. I'm just saying from the perspective of how the average American just perceives what's happening there. We typically go around going, it's bad, something about Jews and [00:03:59] Muslims and colonialism and Jesus and Muhammad. And now it's like, how do I know there is like, every time they call a ceasefire, which I was hoping for so I could go about my day, it just never holds. And in the meantime, all of this and the people are learning more and [00:04:20] more about the conflict. And it's not turning out well for the president who really needs people to back him on it. Especially in light of the fact that the Lebanon stuff being tied to the Iran stuff in the grand narrative means that now what's happening in northern [00:04:39] Israel, southern Lebanon is tied to my gas prices. as far as the American people are concerned. And no one really wants to learn all the ins and outs of that. They just know that we bombed Iran some straight as close now and I look at the gas prices. I live in California, [00:04:59] they're supposed to be high, but they're insanely higher than they've ever been. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's absolutely absurd. um And again, he's never going to, why am I expecting? It's not [00:05:14] that he won't solve the problems. He in no case will even assure you that he understands your pain or like nothing. You're getting nothing out It's just so boring. What's great about [00:05:29] term limits is they're eight years. Unfortunately, I feel like Trump has been president for 12. It is strange to think that I started at TYT in early 2012. Wow. come down the escalator [00:05:45] for at least three years. Okay, so it does actually overwhelm the sheer number of years I've been here, it feels, I don't remember those three years. I have no capacity to remember a time before that, which was almost an entire presidential term. But soon, blessedly soon, it will be [00:06:02] done.