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Oh, we're here with Steve from Edmond, Oklahoma, just a couple hours north of here. Steve, President Trump, look, this is a heavily red state, maybe the most red state in the country. Why is the president coming here to Oklahoma today? Why is he needed here? - Well, he needs here to just help all the Republican candidates that are running for state office and Senate. And we just want to make sure it stays red. - gubernatorial candidate Mike Mazze running and he's a help to, Trump is a help to Mazze, you say. - Absolutely. - Steve, thank you very much. President guys will be in Texas just north of Dallas before he makes his way to Oklahoma tonight. And we actually, with a gentleman here, Tony, you work at that truck manufacturing plant where the president's going to be this afternoon. Why are you here in Oklahoma when you should be down in Texas? - Well, I retired six months ago, eight months ago now, so. - Is Trump a help to folks like Ken Paxton in Texas? It was leaked audio that came out yesterday from the New York Times saying, Ken Paxton isn't sure that the numbers after that midterm convention helped him and maybe hurt him. Are they still on board? Republicans at large on board with President Trump and his political influence. - Yes, sir, 100%. - What do you say to those Republicans who have any doubt about Trump's influence? - Get on the Trump train. We're going to the front. The only way Trump can lose is if he gets cheated. That's my opinion. - All right, and then when you look towards November, still confident that the president's going to be able to maintain his majorities in the House and the Senate. - Taking it all. We're taking it all. - What gives you that confidence? - Just what he's been doing overseas as of late. - You're happy with how things are going in Iran. - I'm happy. I'm happy with that. I'm happy the way things are going in the country right now with him. - All right. - I just wish he could get a third turn.

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This is a meme image with a white banner across the top reading "Iran's Navy" in large bold black text, flanked on both left and right by the Iranian flag (green-white-red horizontal stripes with the red central emblem). Below the banner is a wide underwater photo/render showing dozens of shipwrecks — old naval vessels with masts, superstructures, and hulls — resting on a sandy seabed covered in coral, algae growth, and debris, with sunbeams filtering down from the surface. The image is presented as a joke asserting that Iran's entire navy consists of sunken/wrecked ships on the ocean floor.

Text in image: Iran's Navy

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Digitally illustrated political cartoon/artwork in a watercolor style. A man resembling Donald Trump, wearing a dark navy suit, white shirt, and red tie, stands on the left with a stern expression, gripping a large sledgehammer with both hands. The hammer's head is painted in a U.S. flag design (blue field with white stars, red and white stripes). He is shown mid-swing, striking down onto a cracked, map-shaped landmass labeled "IRAN" in bold black capital letters. The impact point shows the ground shattering into angular fragments and debris flying outward, with smoke/dust clouds billowing on either side of the cracked landmass. The background is a warm beige/tan abstract watercolor wash with darker cloud-like brush strokes.

Text in image: IRAN

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A simple map graphic of Iran, outlined in black on a beige/tan background, with the Caspian Sea shown in blue at the top (with a green-tinted coastal strip) and the Persian Gulf/Strait of Hormuz area in blue at the bottom. The country's name "Iran" is labeled in black text at its center. Above the map, in large bold red text with a red underline, is a caption asserting a political claim about Iran.

Text in image: Iran is a Failing Nation! Iran

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A chart/infographic titled "Iran's Currency is DESTROYED" (with "DESTROYED" underlined). It shows a line graph of the value of 1 million Iranian rial in US dollars from January 2025 to August 2026, declining steadily from about $1.29 in Jan-25 to about $0.26 in Aug-26, with a large red arrow pointing downward along the declining portion of the line from around Dec-25 to Aug-26. Two callout labels with black underlines and arrows mark points on the chart: "0.9 Million RIAL to $1 Dollar" pointing to an early point on the line (around May-25), and "2.27 MILLION RIAL to $1 DOLLAR" pointing to the final, lowest point on the line (Aug-26).

Text in image: Iran's Currency is DESTROYED VALUE OF 1 MILLION IRANIAN RIAL IN US DOLLARS $1.40 $1.20 $1.00 $0.80 $0.60 $0.40 $0.20 0.9 Million RIAL to $1 Dollar 2.27 MILLION RIAL to $1 DOLLAR JAN-25 FEB-25 MAR-25 APR-25 MAY-25 JUN-25 JUL-25 AUG-25 SEP-25 OCT-25 NOV-25 DEC-25 JAN-26 FEB-26 MAR-26 APR-26 MAY-26 JUN-26 JUL-26 AUG-26 SEP-26

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A political meme/chart-style image showing two stacked maps of the Middle East, labeled "BEFORE" and "AFTER" in black bars. Both maps show the same region with countries labeled: Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Caspian Sea. In the "BEFORE" map, Iran is shaded orange in its normal, actual national border shape. In the "AFTER" map, the same orange-shaded area labeled "IRAN" has been redrawn/distorted into a shape resembling the silhouette of a human head in profile with swept-back hair (styled to evoke Donald Trump's distinctive hairstyle and facial profile), instead of Iran's real geographic borders.

Text in image: BEFORE OMAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES QATAR SAUDI ARABIA RED SEA BAHRAIN Persian Gulf KUWAIT IRAN JORDAN ISRAEL MEDITERRANEAN SEA IRAQ CYPRUS SYRIA CASPIAN SEA TURKEY AFTER OMAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES QATAR SAUDI ARABIA RED SEA BAHRAIN Persian Gulf KUWAIT IRAN JORDAN ISRAEL MEDITERRANEAN SEA IRAQ CYPRUS SYRIA CASPIAN SEA TURKEY

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This is a digitally composited/edited political image, styled after the famous "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" photograph. It shows a man resembling Donald Trump in a navy suit and red tie, gripping a flagpole and planting a large American flag on the deck of a ship, in a pose mimicking the Iwo Jima flag-raising. Two armed soldiers in military fatigues and helmets, carrying rifles, stand behind/beside him assisting with the flagpole. A large Iranian flag lies crumpled/discarded on the deck at his feet. In the background is a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier at sea with fighter jets visible on its deck and an American flag flying from its tower, set against open ocean and blue sky.

Text in image: It's Our Oil Tanker Now!

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There was a threat, there was a man who was arrested, seemed to be heavily armed near the property here on Sunday. Is it, it's an ongoing concern, sir. Talk about that for briefly if you can. Well, the only thing I get a little solace from is they say only consequential presidents. And I am definitely consequential. I mean, if you look at the economy, if you look at what's happening, Iran, as an example, will never have a nuclear weapon. They already can't, but it's going to be formal. The strait's going to be open very soon, or they're going to get hit very hard, and then the strait's going to be open. We were going to a tremendous attack, the biggest since World War II. And they called me and said very politely, "Please, can we talk? Can we talk?" They didn't want. And I said, "Yes, we can talk. Let's get it done. Finally, let's get it done." This should have been done by other presidents for 50 years. You know, you keep here in '47, but that's been for three years now. It's been over 50 years. Other presidents or other countries should have been able to do this. And I did something that I had to do, because if they had a nuclear weapon, this whole world would be a different place. If they back out again, are they done? Well, if they back out again, they're going to get hit really hard. You know, they know that. They understand that. I have no choice. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. It's not like, "Gee, let's, you know, think about something else." No. It should have been done by many presidents over many years, and it wasn't. And I'm doing it. Obama was taken to the cleaners. He thought he could bribe his way out. He gave them billions, tens of billions of dollars, so stupidly. $1.7 billion in cash, green cash, on a Boeing 757, an airplane, loaded up with cash. They probably looked at it. They said, "You've got to be kidding. Now, you can't bribe your way out. All you can do is fight your way out." And if they didn't, they wouldn't be talking if we weren't doing what we're doing. We hit them very, very hard. But the hard hit is yet to come, and hopefully we won't have to use it. I hope we won't have to. We're having very good discussions. They don't like to admit that. But, you know, it's a little bit disconcerting. You tell people like you, "We're having wonderful discussions." And then some guy will come out of Iran and say, "We have not met. We have not..." Just until, like, all day long, you understand. It's just incredible. They'll say, "We didn't talk about nuclear." "Well, what do we talk about? We're sitting there twiddling our thumbs, right?" But it doesn't matter. Let's talk. The only thing that matters is action, and they want to make a deal. We'll see what happens. If they don't make a deal, it's going to be too bad. Sir, thank you for doing this for us. We very much appreciate this. One of the big stories of the day, and we'll talk about the markets. The markets were way up today. But one of the big stories, of course, is the primaries. In Michigan, specifically, where it looks like Abdul El-Sayed is going to win, has a very good chance to win that Senate race, at least his primary race. What do you think about the traction these candidates who were backed by the DSA and members of the DSA are getting? Well, I think it's crazy because they're going to ruin our country. They want to... I don't know if they want to. I think either they're very naive or they actually want to ruin the country. No matter where you look, go back a thousand years with different names. Anybody doing what they're doing and what they're espousing, everything turns out to ashes and junk and filth. You know, one thing I said the other day for the first time ever. Never thought of it. But you go to these cities that are taken over by the socialists and the communists. They're always filthy dirty. They're disgusting. They're always dirty. And you know, I'm a clean person, and people I know are clean. And you are. I know you very well. You're very clean. But aside from crime, aside from all of the other problems, no jobs, no anything, no money, they're always filthy, disgusting, dirty. And that's what you'll get. You know, I won Michigan. I did great in Michigan. And we should win. We have a man. Mike Rogers is going to be fantastic. Now, I'm not a big believer in polls, but I believe in him somewhat. And based on the polls, he'll do much better against Abdul than he's going to do against the Congresswoman. Do you think, sir, that that the Republican Party is hitting home the facts that these people literally want to open up to prisons? They want to privatize. They literally want to get rid of of private insurance. They want Medicare for all, which means private insurance for none. Are they hammering that home so people get an idea of how radical these agendas are? Well, outside of you and people that happen to be in Fox and a few others, they don't talk about it. Really, they don't. You turn on NBC fake news or ABC, which is the worst of all, where CBS or CNN, any of them, they don't talk about that. They talk about as positive as you can talk, which isn't easy to do, but they don't talk about the consequences because it's all about the consequences. And a guy like this is just look at his views and then they change the views for the election. Now, they're actually having to go a little bit right, which is very hard for them to do. But it's a very sad thing when you look at it. And as far as the Republicans, like the Republicans talk about it, it's not put on. But they've got to get tougher. They've got to talk. And they've got to talk about how well we're doing. I watched Laura before and she was saying this is the most incredible. She's giving the numbers, the financial numbers of the trade numbers that just came out today. Our trade deficit is way down. There's never been anything. It's never gone down in history like it has during this a little bit more than a year. Think of that. And she was going over just point after point. I'm saying how many people report this? People don't know. Then they saw in the economy. Trump is at 42 percent. I shouldn't be afraid. We have the greatest economy, maybe in the history of the world for any country of 19.2 trillion dollars being invested in the United States. And if I wouldn't have won, you would have had 10 trillion being taken out of the United States and your welfare would have doubled and tripled. And we would have had a bankrupt. You touched on Iran there. You know, it's got to feel like Groundhog Day to you. So I mean, they're they're in. They want to deal the deals off. I mean, at what point do you say enough? And there's no coming back for Iran. Well, I I have plenty of time. You know, people talk about the midterms for the midterms. They want to see winning. You know, in Venezuela, we oh, people were so opposed to what I did in Venezuela. It lasted one day. And now they look, we're making hundreds of billions of dollars. And so are they. They're getting Venezuela is like a different place, but we're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars. They're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars. It's a different place. It's actually becoming me. They had the tragedy the other day with the with the problem, as you know. But there was a terrible problem. The earthquake, I guess you'd call it. It was a bad one. But outside of that, they have a country that is a very happy country again. But we are we paid for the cost of that war many, many times over. Where have you heard that? But everybody was against it. And then when I won, they all think it was great, but nobody talks about it anymore. So I have to talk about it. Nobody talks about the fact that we have the safest border in history. And I probably got elected partially, at least in big part, because of the fact that the border was so bad. Twenty five million people, you know, people say 14. It's only 19 or it's only 20 to 25 million people. Probably it's probably more than that. They came pouring into our totally unchecked and unvented pouring into our country. And many of these people are not the people you want in our country. We have drug lords. We have people from many people, millions of people from prisons, eleven thousand. You've heard me say it. Eight hundred and eighty eight murders, most of whom or many of whom committed more than one murder. We're getting them all out. We've got so many of them out. We're doing such a good job. But with the hardest thing we inherited, we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. But the worst thing we inherited was the fact that Biden allowed twenty five million people. They would not have qualified many of them, most of them, but many of them to come into the country. And we're getting them out. Why is it you think that nobody is talking about the fentanyl deaths? Fentanyl deaths have come way down since the border has closed. It should be one of those prime topics because we have saved tens of thousands of lives in the short period. You look at the numbers from just a couple of years ago, they have come down dramatically. It doesn't seem to be a topic. Sixty eight percent. I'll tell you what. By sea, by ocean. Ninety seven point two percent. Ninety seven percent. Now you've seen the pictures of the boats and it's all horrible. But when you think that each time you knock out a boat, you're saving ten thousand people. More than that. Probably they say twenty five thousand. You know, they're carrying massive amounts of fentanyl. And that's an occupation that's very hard to fill right now. Nobody does it. Nobody would have done what I did. But we are down over ninety seven percent in drugs coming in by sea. And now we've started a very heavy push for drugs coming in by land, which is actually comes through Mexico, which is actually much easier. The land is the sea is the hardest. But we we have a solution to that. Nobody's I mean, basically, they can't do it anymore. They don't get away with it. We know every boat that's coming in. We know who it is and what's on that boat. And it's largely fentanyl and other really bad drugs. So we're down ninety seven percent. But we're down the numbers on fentanyl. If you would have said that you were going to do that, nobody would believe it. They say it's just a politician talking much higher than anybody ever thought was even part. People thought if we could get it down two or three percent, it would be good. We get it down sixty seven, sixty eight percent. Nobody seen. And that's why your fentanyl numbers look so good. The markets were way up today. You had oil coming down to seventy five dollars a barrel. It was in the high sixties before the war started. Yet gas is still thirty percent higher than it was six dollars and twenty seven cents here in California. I paid yesterday. It's a little different thing because they charge taxes on gas every time every time it goes down, they take taxes. I mean, they've done a terrible job in California, but I think we're going to have it coming down to the oil companies have to start going. They're making too much money and they've got to start lowering it. But we're going to be down into the threes and maybe the twos pretty soon per gallon. We'll see what happens with the war. We have a very good day today. You know, they don't like to say that the Iranians, they always like to say we didn't discuss that. We didn't. People have found out that's not true. They had an all day negotiation today and it looks like things are very good. And if that happens with the straight has opened up, they'll never have a nuclear weapon. But if the straight opens up and it's partially opened anyway. And as you know, we control the straight totally through the blockade. But if we have no friction, then oil will go down to I think it'll go down to two and a half dollars a gallon. Two and a half dollars. You know, it was down to one eighty five before I had to make this little journey to the Islamic Republic of Iran. I had to make it. We had the best numbers that anybody's ever seen. But now you take a look with that going on. We have you just hit to get today. I think it's number seventy nine. Seventy nine days. We had an all time stock market. I have four or one case of the highest they've ever been by double and triple. Yeah. And then I read where we're doing badly on the economy. I just by the way, job numbers. We have more people working in the United States today than ever in history. We're doing an unbelievable job. Costs are coming way down. I inherited, you know, they talk about costs. I inherited very, very high costs. And they're all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it's all coming down. We've done a great job. You know, I think we should be given an A plus on the economy. But I think that's coming. People are starting to talk about it. I'm wondering, sir, I wanted to ask you about A.I. as the president. You know, everybody is. Everybody wants A.I. But everybody's scared of it. Right. Nobody wants the A.I. data centers in their backyard. But nobody wants China to have them either. How do you navigate that as the president of the United States? Well, a big part of it is China. Look, whoever wins the A.I. race is going to win. A.I. It's bigger than the Internet. It's bigger than maybe anything that has happened for many, you know, for literally hundreds of years. It is the biggest thing. And it's mostly good. And the communities that are giving a hard time now, a lot of people think that's China oriented. You know, that China doesn't want. They're spending a lot of money on promoting. Don't, you know, build because we're beating China in A.I. We're really doing a great job. I approve it was my idea, actually, for every plant that's built, they build their own electricity. So this way, they're building unbelievably modernized, you know, much better than anything we have had in the country. You know, these are super genius, as they know about building plants and they're building their own power. We need tremendous power for that. China is building massive amounts of power. We are, too. We're building more than China because every one of those buildings that you see going up is building their own. So they're not taken to the community and the excess power that they have, which is substantial. They're selling them that back at a very low cost to the grid. So we're getting more and more electric. Of course, there's nothing. I think any community that turns down A.I. is making a big mistake because your taxes are going to go way down. If you own a house, it's going to be more valuable. It's a tremendous thing. And I see it. It's almost like there's a there's a campaign against, you know, data centers. But data centers, if you look at the stats, everything's good around them. Now, the thing they should look at is blue states and blue cities, cities run by Democrats because that's really the threat to the country because they're a disaster. But when you turn down data, since and within this country where they get turned down, there's other communities that want them desperately. Two quick questions, sir. One, you're here to talk about the economy. Right. What's what's your big message? You want to leave one takeaway with this crowd? What is it? So tariffs have been incredible. We've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. Supreme Court gave us a little shot, but we're allowed to do it in a different manner. They said that. But we are anyway. I mean, regardless, we have the law. I was doing it great. It was a very close decision. But we've done it a different way. And it's just frankly, it's just as good, a little more complex, but just as good. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. And what it's done is it's brought all these companies that didn't want to pay. Because if you build here, if you make your car here like Toyota just announced they're building one of the largest car plants in the world. They're coming out of Mexico. Others are coming here at numbers, drug companies, A.I., yes, but not even talking about A.I. We're building more automobile manufacturing plants than at any time in the history of our country. For 40 years, we didn't build one, not one. Now we're building many and the biggest in the world. We're building them the biggest in the world. So I think if there's anything I say, our country is rocking and rolling. We've never been this successful. They don't want to talk about it, but they're having no choice. And again, whether it's Laura or Sean or Jesse or you, you have such a good show. I watch you all the time. Sometimes they tape it and watch it. It's OK. I don't know what they call it today. They used to call it TiVo. Maybe they still do. But I love TiVo or its equivalent. But you do a great you do a great job. Thank you. Really good.

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I'm so glad you brought this up, Trace, because it's a really underreported story and so many Americans and their families have suffered because of the deaths of fentanyl. And President Trump always says, he says, "No drugs, no drinking, no smoking," and he's totally right. But so many Americans, unfortunately, do struggle with addiction. And it's because of drugs like fentanyl that are highly addictive. And we have to remember that it wasn't just millions of people who came across our wide open border under Biden. It was drugs, and it was drugs that killed Americans. I want to mention also, there have been zero, zero border crossings the last 14 months under President Trump. That's what a change of leadership does. Not only that, the president has gone further. He's designated drug cartels for the first time in our nation's history as foreign national terrorist organizations, meaning they now share the same designation as Hezbollah, which they absolutely deserve. So bang up job by the president. I mean, I was talking about this, Katie, where, you know, a lot of times we on the air say, "Listen, you know, the chaos happened." People say, "Oh, Trump chaos." The chaos happened in the previous administration when you let all those illegal immigrants in. Cleaning up the chaos can sometimes be messy, but it's necessary. And that's what we have been seeing for the past 18 months. Absolutely. And President Trump is right. He's not getting enough praise for the decrease in fentanyl deaths. And the other component of this trace is how tough he was with China. He said to China, "I will keep a 20% tariff no matter what, as long as you continue manufacturing fentanyl precursors and they dropped it." That combined with the lowest, if not to none, border crossing in the history, plus a strong ice. He has been the most effective president for the border and interior enforcement. Back to Iran, Elizabeth Pipko, for you, because I asked the president directly, it's like Groundhog Day. The Iranians said they want to cut a deal and then the deal's off and then they want to come back. And I think you can tell by his body language when he says it, he's done. He's had enough of this. It's going to happen or it's not going to happen. I completely agree, Trace. And I think when it comes to President Trump, when it comes to what's been going on here, he should be applauded, right? Instead of criticized for being able to restrain himself, he should be applauded for wanting to exhaust every single diplomatic possible option that he has in front of him before he has to unleash what he knows will be a very destructive attack. He knows how capable our incredible military is in the US and he knows he doesn't want to do this. He also knows he's the only one that has the courage to do this. I can tell you, Trace, we're getting close right now to the 25th anniversary of 9/11, a day that I remember living through as a first grader in New York City. And since that day, I think growing up, I waited for a leader to enter into the White House that I believed would have the courage to stand up against absolute evil. And unlike those before him, Donald Trump actually has that courage.

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A screenshot of a tweet/X post from the account "OSINTdefender" (@sentdefender, with a verified checkmark badge and a wolf-head logo avatar), timestamped 10:48 PM · Jul 8, 2026, with 115.8K views. Below the caption text is an embedded nighttime photo showing a distant fire and large plume of smoke glowing orange against a dark blue sky, with city lights, low buildings, utility poles, and a palm tree silhouette in the foreground. A faint streak/light trail is visible in the upper sky above the smoke.

Text in image: OSINTdefender @sentdefender Local officials have now confirmed that U.S. strikes indeed targeted Iranshahr Airport/Airbase in the Southeastern Iranian city of Iranshahr, which is partially utilized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC-AF). 10:48 PM · Jul 8, 2026 · 115.8K Views

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