U.S. Attacks Iranian Cargo Ship While Preparing for New Round of Talks. Trump Wants to Give Himself the Medal of Honor.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s 4/20, it’s Manosphere Monday, and Independent Americans is back with a rapid-fire Monday Blitz to help you navigate another wild week in America and around the world. Host Paul Rieckhoff breaks down Trump’s latest Iran deadline, the Strait of Hormuz shutdown, rising oil prices, and why ten thousand American troops are again on the front lines of a dangerous global standoff. He digs into Trump’s threats toward Cuba and Venezuela, the chaos surrounding FBI Director Kash Patel, and the terrifying reality of mass shootings and domestic instability here at home. From Iran to Ukraine’s killer robots, from narco-terrorist boat strikes to the growing danger of an unchecked commander-in-chief, this episode is a blunt, unflinching look at “President mayhem” and the stakes for our democracy and our troops.

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0:00.0	He said that he should give himself the military's highest honor, which is, of course, a design
0:04.8	honor, bravery, courage, and sacrifice. And there he goes again. Don't be surprised if he actually
0:10.7	does it. Don't be surprised if he actually gives himself a medal of honor and maybe a purple
0:15.3	heart too for surviving the assassination attempt because nothing is sacred to him.
0:21.9	Nothing is sacred to him.
0:22.9	Not the Medal of Honor.
0:24.4	Not your weekend.
0:25.9	Not baseball season.
0:28.0	Not religion.
0:29.6	Not the separation between church and state.
0:32.0	Nothing is sacred to him.
0:33.7	This is the same guy fighting with the Pope.
0:52.0	Yeah. This is the same guy fighting with the Po. Welcome to Independent Americans.
0:54.8	Welcome to episode 498.
0:58.1	I'm your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Monday, April 20th, 420.
1:03.9	So smoke them if you got them.
1:05.2	Let's hear them Monday, and I'm coming to you from New York City, USA, and the weather here is all over the place.
1:22.7	I mean, sunny now and 50, but getting down to the 30s later. Saturday it was sunny and over 80, and then
1:30.8	yesterday it was rainy in the 40s. So we had a beautiful day Saturday for baseball and then a
1:35.9	terrible day yesterday, cold and rainy for football. But we are driving on because that's 2026,
1:41.3	people. It is all over the place. And today's artist, keeping on our run of 2026 Hall of Fame inductees,
1:48.5	is going to be someone to help us deal with all that tumult.
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