CNN tallied 38 separate occasions where Trump claimed a peace deal with Iran was close or that Iran was desperate to negotiate. None materialized. The war continues. The ceasefire is fiction.
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The hosts zoom in on one of the week's most alarming details: Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz. The Pentagon initially suggested it may not have been intentional — a claim Tommy finds absurd. The crew was stranded for hours in the dark ocean before being rescued by an unmanned drone system. Trump, who has spent years calling Obama weak, called the incident 'not a big deal' in a call to The Wall Street Journal. Ben recalls the GOP's outrage when sailors briefly drifted into Iranian waters during the Obama years — an incident that was resolved quickly after John Kerry called the Iranian foreign minister — and how that moment was used as a campaign talking point for years. Ben argues the Iranians are deliberately focusing military efforts on the strait to establish the subtext that they can close it even if they reopen it, and that Iran retains far more military capability than Pete Hegseth's earlier briefings suggested [1] — Tommy Vietor "Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the crew adrift for hours before a drone system rescued them…" 12:58 . CENTCOM then announces self-defense strikes against Iran in response, and both hosts note the cycle of violence has no visible endpoint.
CNN counted 38 separate instances of Trump claiming a peace deal with Iran was close or that Iran was desperate to negotiate.
Trump told reporters that in the Middle East, a ceasefire simply means 'shooting in a more moderate manner.' He also renamed highly enriched uranium 'nuclear dust' because it's 'cute.' Tommy and Ben argue the media must stop letting Trump redefine words with dictionary definitions.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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