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The Philip DeFranco Show

Trump's Iran Meltdown Was Worse Than You Think & The TSA Crisis Now Has An ICE Problem

The Philip DeFranco Show

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Trump just tackled out of his latest threat to obliterate Iran's energy infrastructure if it didn't reopen the straightover moves, but he also only pushed the deadline back by five days. And if he does decide to follow through, the consequences could be catastrophic. And it's also not clear that we can count on another taco, especially as he may be getting just more and more desperate with each unsuccessful effort to clean up the mess he created. Right, he's repeatedly demanded that American allies that he spent most of his presidency threatening and berating, risk the lives of their own troops by escorting commercial ships through the strait, with him then responding to their repeated refusal to do so by continuing to threaten and berate them, including on Friday when you had him writing on social media. Without the USA, NATO is a paper tiger. They complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don't want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don't want to help open

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the strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do with so little risk, cowards, and we will remember. Of course, it's not so easy. Right, if it was, why would the US need NATO's help? And in fact, Trump has claimed more than once that the US doesn't even need NATO's help even while continuing to complain about not getting NATO's help. And so in the meantime, to try and keep a handle on the rising prices, he's been handed out gifts to US adversaries, including the one he started this war against. This weekend, the Trump administration lifted sanctions on some 140 million barrels of Iranian oil already loaded onto vessels. And that, coming a week after the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil already at sea and a couple of days after the easing of sanctions on companies in Belarus, a key Russian ally, often called Europe's last dictatorship. And so all of that, it's why you have people like Brett Erickson, a consultant specializing in financial crimes and sanctions telling the Washington Post. Two countries that we've spent years sanctioning are now the direct beneficiaries of a conflict the United States chose to start. The United States has spent

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years building sanctions architecture specifically designed to constrict Russia and Iran. Within

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three weeks of this conflict starting, we're tearing it to shreds. But also with this,

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you had Trump claiming on Friday that his administration was actually getting, quote,

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very close to meeting its objectives as it considers winding down its great military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime of Iran and adding the Hormuz straight will have to be guarded and policed as necessary by other nations who use it. The United States does not. If asked, we will help these countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn't be necessary once Iran's threat is eradicated. Importantly, it will be an easy military operation for them. And then with that, while Trump claimed that the US was winding down its operations in the region, the military was actually ramping up attacks against Iranian drones and naval vessels in its latest effort to unblock the Strait of Hormuz. Not to mention, there are thousands more U.S. troops on their way, possibly to take part in a ground operation aimed at that objective. And then a day later, Trump only added to the confusion by writing

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in another post. If Iran doesn't fully open, without threat, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48

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