Trump Boasted Total Air Superiority: Then Iran Shot Down TWO US Jets #1737

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David Feldman

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Donald Trump claims we have "total air superiority" over Iran. Pete Hegseth calls our military operations "flawless." But the reality is an F-15 and an A-10 Warthog smoking in the Iranian desert on Friday. How did two of our most advanced jets get swatted out of the sky by a "decimated" enemy? Welcome to The Mop-Up. While Pete Hegseth is busy holding Protestant-only prayer services at the Pentagon and asking for "divine wrath," the actual US military is burning through 25% of our Tomahawk missile stockpile in just five weeks. It takes two years to restock. Do the math. We aren't just losing the hardware; we're losing the moral high ground. US troops are being pulled off airbases and blended into civilian populations — a move that, by any other name, is using human shields. Meanwhile, Trump is proposing a $1.5 trillion military budget to build "Trump Class Battle Ships" while gutting FEMA, education, and disease research. The Pope is calling for a ceasefire. Our allies in Europe and Japan are cutting their own deals with Tehran. We are isolated, overextended, and led by a man who thinks prayer is a substitute for a flight plan. In this episode: • The F-15 and A-10 Takedowns – What really happened in the skies over Iran. • Stockpile Collapse – Why we're running out of Tomahawks faster than we can build them. • Human Shields – The Pentagon's new strategy of embedding troops in civilian centers. • The $1.5T Grift – Who loses their social safety net to pay for "Trump Class Battle Ships." • International Breakaway – Why the world is leaving Washington behind. Key Figures: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, Seth Moulton, Pope Leo, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, Pastor Doug Wilson, Paula White-Cain. 🔔 Subscribe to The Mop-Up for sharp, anti-corporate analysis ⏰ Chapters: 🎙️ 0:00 – F-15 and an A-10 Warthog Downed ✈️ 0:07 – Trump's "Air Superiority" Meets Reality 🗣️ 1:11 – Pete Hegseth: The Pentagon's Pundit-in-Chief ⚖️ 5:44 – Admitting to War Crimes: The "Double Tap" Problem 🕵️ 14:50 – Riyadh: The Disaster They Tried to Hide 🎭 18:20 – The Secret Ground War: CIA Disinfo Uncovered 📜 28:30 – From Bush to Trump: Two Decades of Illegal Wars ⛽ 43:45 – Economic Dominoes: Gas, Food, & Oil Spikes 🔥 57:59 – Chaos Strategy: Triggering the Insurrection Act 💰 1:00:40 – $1.5 Trillion: Battleships for Trump, Nothing for You 📉 1:07:36 – Killing the Safety Net: Medicare & Education on the Block 🌊 1:12:51 – Abandoning FEMA: Why States Are On Their Own 🐺 1:18:15 – "Feral Jesus": Pete Hegseth's Violent Theology 👑 1:25:50 – The Easter Blasphemy: "They Call Me King" 💪 1:28:51 – Final Word: Protecting the Weak #IranWar #PeteHegseth #TheMopUp #USIranWar #StraitOfHormuz #Trump #MilitaryBudget

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0:00.0	This is the mop-up. I'm David Feldman in New York City to those of you who celebrate Easter,
0:07.0	Felice Navidad. On Friday, a two-seat American fighter jet was shot down over Iranian skies.
0:14.7	The pilot and the man sitting behind him called the Weapons Systems Officer.
0:19.8	They successfully ejected from the plane.
0:23.5	The pilot was rescued immediately,
0:25.2	but the weapons officer injured was forced to evade enemy capture
0:30.0	high up in the Zagros Mountains in southwestern Iran.
0:34.1	He was behind enemy lines.
0:36.6	A U.S. commando mission was immediately launched to retrieve this weapons
0:41.0	officer before the Iranians who placed a bounty on his head, offering money to tribes' people
0:47.4	in the region to get them. America wanted to get our soldier first. The missing airman's
0:53.6	survival kit included one nine-millimeter
0:56.0	pistol and a radio beacon that signaled CENTCOM that he was located 7,000 feet above sea level
1:03.3	in near freezing weather alone in the mountains while commando units dropped into Iran. this was seen as a major blow to our military,
1:15.8	a humiliation, puncturing a hole into Pete Hexeth's boast of American air superiority and dominance
1:24.9	over the skies of Iran. We were told by Hexeth and by Trump that our B-52s could
1:33.0	run bombing missions over Iran with their eyes closed, that the entire Air Force had been
1:40.2	eliminated, Iran's entire Air Force had been eliminated eliminated and that 90% of Iran's drones and
1:47.8	missile launchers decimated. Donald Trump has been repeatedly assuring Americans that Iran's air
1:55.6	defenses are in ruins. But his intelligence agencies are telling a different story, and Reuters has been
2:04.9	doing tremendous reporting on this. Intelligence officers inside the Pentagon telling Reuters that
2:11.9	Hexeth and Trump are inflating numbers. Gee, what a surprise. It is believed privately, or at least inside the
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