Jun 3, 2025
Schumer Picks MORONIC Fight With Trump Over Iran
Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer seems to be trying to goad President Trump into war with Iran.
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When it comes to negotiating
with the terrorist government of Iran.
Trump's all over the lot.
One day he sounds tough, the next day
he's backing off, and now all of a sudden,
we find out that Witkoff and Rubio are
negotiating a secret side deal with Iran.
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What kind of bull is this?
They're going to sound tough in public,
and then have a side deal
that lets Iran get away with everything.
That's outrageous.
We need to make that side deal public.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
thinks it's actually a great idea to goad
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the Trump administration into war with
Iran, instead of signing a new nuclear
deal to prevent a military conflict.
I don't really understand what's left
to support within the Democratic Party.
Why are you trying to encourage Trump
or discourage Trump
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from signing a nuclear deal?
Now, look, Schumer was responding
to reporting from Axios
indicating that the Trump administration
is, in fact, considering allowing Iran
to enrich small quantities of uranium,
or more importantly, a new nuclear deal
that would bring small amounts of enriched
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uranium into Iran for their energy needs.
And that would prevent them from building
a nuclear weapon, but would obviously
help them with their energy needs.
Now, that deal would be similar to the
Iran nuclear deal that former President
Barack Obama managed to accomplish back
in 2015, in his second term.
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That deal, as we all know,
was ripped up by President Donald Trump
in his first term.
Since then, Iran has upped its uranium
enrichment to around 60%, according
to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Uranium that is enriched to 90%
is considered to be weapons grade.
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So obviously, time is of the essence.
It's important to enter a deal
to prevent the construction
of these disastrous weapons.
And wow, isn't that shocking
that as soon as you rip up
the Iran nuclear deal, Iran starts moving
toward building a nuclear weapon?
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Now, you'd think that Schumer
would want to pursue diplomatic means
by reentering a new nuclear deal
to prevent a possible war with Iran.
In fact, that was something that Biden
had even campaigned on back in 2020.
Take a look.
I understand what's at stake
and understand the consequences
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of failing to act.
That's why, as president, I renew our
commitment to arms control for a new era.
The historic Iran nuclear deal
we negotiated
blocked Iran from getting nuclear weapons
with inspectors on the ground,
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international inspectors confirming
that the agreement was being kept.
Yet Trump cast it aside, prompting Iran
to restart its nuclear program, become
more provocative and raising the risk
of another disastrous war in the region.
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If Tehran returns to compliance with
the deal, I would rejoin the agreement
and work with our allies
to strengthen and extend it,
while more effectively pushing back
against Iran's destabilizing activities,
which under the agreement,
we are allowed to do.
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- And we had partners to do with us.
- So Biden lied.
That's what he said on the campaign trail
once he became president.
He did no such thing.
And it probably had to do with the fact
that Israel pressured him
to avoid reentering a nuclear deal.
Israeli officials have also made clear
that they intend to raise concerns
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about restoring the JCPoA.
That was the original Iran nuclear deal.
Israeli news outlets reported
that Yossi Cohen, chief of Mossad,
will travel to Washington and press Biden
to make changes to the JCPoA.
Well, changes didn't even need to be made
because we didn't reenter
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a new nuclear deal with Iran.
And now things have devolved so severely
that the Democratic Party
is now trying to, I guess, discourage
Trump from pursuing diplomatic means.
Take a look.
Yesterday I called out President Trump
for, on the one hand,
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telling the public his goal is to fully
dismantle Iran's nuclear facilities,
but then, on the other hand, secretly
negotiating a side deal that will allow
the Iranian regime to keep enriching.
Well, it looks like we got his attention
because he followed up by denying
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this report in an all caps same storm.
The old saying is trust but verify.
In this case, Congress must verify.
The administration must clarify what they
might be hiding from the American people
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in this secret side deal.
Steve.
Steve Witkoff and those negotiating
this deal should testify before Congress
and answer a simple question.
Is there a secret side deal that will
allow the Iranian regime to continue
enriching uranium, and that empowers
the regime's nefarious activity or not.
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In other words, Schumer is literally
taking credit for Trump's about-face
his statement just yesterday on Truth
Social after backlash from neocons,
which of course want to go
to war with Iran,
he wrote the Autopen should have stopped
Iran a long time ago from enriching.
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Under our potential agreement, we will
not allow any enrichment of uranium.
- That's the neocon position.
- That's the neocon position.
But Schumer is taking credit
for pushing Trump in this,
getting closer to war with Iran direction.
Well, that's because he does
deserve credit, but in an ironic way,
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which we'll get to in a second.
So first, we're doing a poll
in the live chat here
because we've got a diverse audience.
I'm curious if anyone, is, going to vote
in the opposite direction here.
Should the administration
sign a nuclear deal with Iran? 10% say no.
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Interesting.
But 90% say the logical thing.
Of course.
Of course we should. Right.
Why?
- Why are we going to war with Iran.
- For the 10% who say no?
I hope you're enlisted.
And I hope you enjoy.
Yeah. Okay.
No, but they're more likely to be
Israelis who want us to enlist.
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I hope you're enlisted.
And I hope you enjoy.
Yeah. Okay.
Americans shouldn't be fighting
a war on behalf of Israel.
Okay. So I'm going to get to that as well.
So why don't we say from time to time
that Democrats are liars?
I don't mean the voters.
I mean the politicians, the leaders,
because they're liars.
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So, what Trump is,
considering doing, before that,
Truth Social post that read you Axios
had the story we were reporting in the in
the middle of the show yesterday that he
was thinking of doing this deal with Iran.
That's why Schumer and the neocons
are flipping out, right.
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So that deal is very similar to the Obama
deal, the deal that Joe Biden said
he was going to get back into.
But he was a liar
and he didn't get back in that deal,
and there's no excuse for it.
He barely even tried.
You see Trump trying here
with all of its problems,
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and he goes back to the neo con position.
But at least you see him trying.
Biden didn't try at all.
Why?
It's amazing. They just say it.
I mean, you saw it on a news story there.
The head of Mossad,
the secret intelligence group
like the CIA of Israel went.
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- And first of all, isn't that outrageous?
- It is outrageous.
Like, imagine if, like, oh, hey,
France is going to make a deal,
but the head of the CIA goes and talks
to their leader, and then all of a sudden
they change their position.
You'd be like,
what did the CIA say to Macron?
That seems kind of like, whoa,
we must have some stuff on Macron there to
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get him to change his position entirely.
But here, since Israel controls everything
and no one is allowed to question them
without getting smeared in America,
they can just say it in public.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Our head of Mossad went and told
Joe Biden, who's in charge, not him.
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Mossad is in charge.
And no, you're not going
to go back into that, Obama deal,
even though you said you were going
to shut up and do as Israel tells you.
Okay.
So you're seeing with your own eyes,
then, Chuck Schumer, aren't you thrilled
that he's going to go back into a deal
that is similar to Obama's?
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That's what you all wanted.
You said you wanted it, right?
Now all of a sudden, Chuck Schumer no
no no no no no no no no no no no no.
This is a terrible deal with Iran,
the terrorists.
We must fight that war
on behalf of Israel.
Oh, I didn't mean on behalf of Israel,
on behalf of America for what?
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Which America's wanted.
What are we going to get out of a war
with Iran other than trillions of dollars
we're going to spend, like we did in Iraq
and tens of thousands of Americans dead?
For what? For what?
So because Israel decides
that Iran is their number one enemy
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and they're going to make our intensely
corrupt Democratic and Republican
politicians do exactly as they're told.
So that's why when Schumer says
we got him to Trump to change and go back
into not doing the deal with Iran,
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he doesn't mean we as in Democrats,
Trump couldn't give a rat's ass
what Democrats think he means.
We, as in the Israeli lobby and the
Israeli lobby showed we're in charge.
And there's another layer
to this Ana, too.
They keep talking about how it's a secret
side deal, first of all, every peace
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negotiations secret until you have a deal.
So what does it mean that it's secret?
They're saying it's secret from Israel,
not from the public.
They're saying this is a side deal.
Wait, why is it a side deal?
It's us and Iran, the two major powers
here in this particular case.
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Right?
They're saying no.
How dare you keep it a secret from Israel?
And how dare you not
involve Israel in this deal?
Israel decides what deal America makes.
And that's what Democrats
like Schumer and Biden say.
That's now Trump has switched his
position, and he's back to Yes, sir.
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Netanyahu, sir.
Yeah. Of course sir.
Did the head of Mossad come?
Did the head of Mossad come?
No one in America wants this war.
The only entity
that wants this war is Israel.
So if we go to war.
I'm telling you ahead of time.
Ahead of time.
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Israel pushed America into this war.
That is 100% what they want.
And now we're going to see
how much they control our politicians.
We're going to see.
Look, I already know the extent
to which the Israeli government
has influence over our government.
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The question is, do they have
the same stranglehold on Donald Trump,
who's got more ego than other politicians?
And I would like to believe
that his pride wouldn't allow him
to be publicly dog walked and humiliated
the way that Biden was,
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but so far he has been with one exception,
which was making a deal with Hamas
to release that one American Taken hostage
and doing
so without the inclusion of of Israel?
No, there was a Houthi.
Oh, and the Houthi. Yes.
And three And Israel already commanded him
to attack Iran.
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That's right. And he didn't yet Trump.
This is where, in my opinion,
I'm seeing some positive developments.
Right.
Don't get dog walked
and and force American soldiers
to engage in a war on behalf of Israel.
We'll wait and see what happens.
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But I actually think it is a good thing
that they're based on some reporting,
pursuing diplomatic means
to prevent a war with Iran.
So final thing I'll say about this.
Look, I've already given up
on Democrats like Chuck Schumer,
which is why he doesn't trigger me.
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I already know he's trash. Okay.
But the one contribution I'll make
in terms of commentary on this
is there are a lot of rumors about AOC
potentially running for president,
which I personally think is insane.
I think it's premature.
I don't think she should do that.
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Please, for the love of God
primary Chuck Schumer in the Senate.
She's not fantastic on foreign policy,
but she's better than this way.
Better way. Not not close.
I'll take AOC over Chuck Schumer any day.
On issues like this and many other issues,
Schumer just works for the donors.
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And it's not just Israel, it's pharma oil.
Anyone can buy Chuck Schumer.
But to be fair to Chuck Schumer,
anyone can buy 90% of our politicians.
All right.
My last two points are,
look, guys, remember this.
The reason why I'm so adamant about this
is because there's no downside
to this deal.
You end their military nuclear program
so they can't have nukes
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and we don't go to war.
Where's the downside?
There's no downside, right?
The only downside is Israel
wants us to attack for them.
So they don't have to risk their soldiers
and they don't have to use their money.
So they want to make us do it.
So but America has zero upside.
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And finally, MAGA, let me ask you this.
So you see us criticizing Democrats
like Schumer and Biden a very,
you know, harshly because we're honest.
Are you going to do likewise for Trump
or are you going to be a good little boy?
And if Trump becomes goes with the neocon
position because he got more campaign
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checks and more deals and got seduced by
some insane, ludicrous Trump Riviera idea,
because, God, that is so stupid.
Are you going to go back?
Oh yes, we would love. We love war.
Woo hoo!
Yay! Let's go bomb Iran for Israel.
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Because Daddy Trump told us, I don't know.
The jury's out.
You're going to make that decision.
And I'm very curious to see
how that turns out.
But so far,
Trump hasn't made the final decision.
So if he makes the right decision,
I give him all the credit in the world and
the left can cry all they want about it.
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I don't want that war.
That war is a disaster.
Okay.
If he goes to the neocon position,
then he's a bitch.
And let's see if he was honest about it.
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