Here is a transcript, edited for clarity:
Good morning. It’s Friday, April 10th, 6 o’clock AM in the morning, Eastern Standard Time. The sun is rising as I am speaking to you.
This has been, I think one, of the craziest weeks—and I hesitate to use hyperbole here, but I think it’s true—one of the craziest weeks in the history of the country. I didn’t even know what to say last night for the video this morning, for my little ramble here, because the emotions that I felt in the last week have been so scattershot, so up and down.
I mean, on Tuesday, which wasn’t that many days ago, we were all genuinely, and with good reason, concerned that the President of the United States was going to launch nuclear bombs on Iran. That was a thing that we really thought might happen, because Trump has been talking about it and clearly wants to do it. And we all were like, “Shit, this is going to be the end here.”
Because he had this ultimatum—and I know the ultimatum kept changing, but this ultimatum seemed more ultimatum-y. Then the deadline, which by the way was primetime, 8 o’clock PM Eastern Standard Time—or Epstein Standard Time, as the Iranians called it—it came and went. And there was some peace plan that was announced, a ceasefire brokered by Pakistan—which, good job Pakistan—that was violated almost within 15 minutes by Israel. And that was it.
And it became clear that this Taco Tuesday was going to be the last Taco Tuesday that mattered. And I don’t like saying, “This is the end of Trump,” because I’ve been down that road before. I thought it was the end of Trump in 2018. I thought people would come to their senses about a Russian asset running the country, and I was wrong then. And I am not going to sit here and tell you that this is the end, because it ain’t the end until he’s gone.
But I feel like there’s been a shift since Tuesday. I feel like there’s been a shift. I don’t know why, exactly—if it was any one thing. But I feel more hopeful now entering Friday morning than I’ve felt in a while. So let’s just go through and take the lay of the land. mean,
First of all, JD Vance is in Hungary, ostensibly to support Viktor Orbán, who we know now is Putin’s puppet. I mean, there was audio leaked of him saying, “I am your mouse, mighty lion. I will do whatever you say,” or something like that. I’m not even exaggerating that much. And we knew Orbán was a crook. We knew he was a bagman for the Russian mob, for Semion Mogilevich. Now we have a second source for that. So it’s definitely true.
And he’s running this country. He’s Moscow’s main guy, fucking up NATO, clogging up the works. And if Orbán goes, that’s a real blow for Putin. It’s a real blow for Putin, in terms of the EU and in terms of NATO, and his war with Ukraine, which continues to rage on and on and on with no end in sight because he’s a genocidal maniac.
So JD Vance is there ostensibly to help, to endorse Orbán, and immediately, predictably, the poll numbers for Orbán get worse as soon as JD Vance shows up and starts talking. Because, I don’t know, how do you say “couchfucker” in Hungarian? Nobody likes this guy—except for maybe the Russians now.
And maybe Vance wasn’t there to support Orbán as much as he was there to declare his own fealty to the Kremlin. That’s the way I read it. Because I think the Russians are sick of Trump now. I think he’s way outlived his usefulness to them. He’s delivered incredible return on investment, but now it’s just getting a little too dicey. And they’ve gotten everything they want. The United States is horribly weak. NATO is horribly weak. Our economy is in shambles. We’ve wasted three quarters of our stockpile of Tomahawk missiles fighting a war that we didn’t need to fight. The sanctions have been lifted to a large degree. What else does he want? Nobody’s invading him. We’re all distracted. So swapping out Trump for Vance at this point makes a lot of sense, if you’re Putin. So I think Vance being there is not so much an endorsement as an audition, let’s say. How would this guy look in Europe on the world stage? And the answer is he looked like a moron, which is also what Russia wants.
So that’s the first thing. The second thing is the Melania piece. Out of the blue, yesterday, Melania Trump, who nobody’s heard from in weeks, calls a hasty press conference that no one knew was coming, including possibly Trump and the White House, to explain herself with regards Epstein, and to say, you know, basically, “I didn’t know Epstein. I am no friends with Jeffrey. I no friends with Accomplice Maxwell.” She said “Accomplice Maxwell,” even though we know she was friends with Ghislaine. We know they hung out. Come on. We’ve seen the photos. You were with them all the time, for God’s sake.
So there was speculation as to why Melania was doing this. And I think the reason why, and I’m not the one who came up with this, but there is a woman named Amanda Ungaro—a model, who is now in Brazil. And she for a long time was dating Paolo Zampolli, a guy from Italy who discovered Melania in Milan and brought her to the United States back in—whatever year it was. I don’t want to mess up the year. So he brought her to the United States. She stayed in the apartment that he owned when she first moved here. And they remain good friends. And they’re around the same age. They’re around the same age. Born around 1968, 69, 70, somewhere in there—roughly my age, these people.
So this Zampolli guy, who’s had numerous roles in Trump’s various governments over the years, indicating how important he is to the inner circle and to the mission—whatever that is—he and Amanda Ungaro had a child, and then they broke up. And he used his position of authority to call ICE to have her deported back to Brazil. So just think about that for a minute. What kind of person would do that to your…somebody you presumably were in love with, or close, and the mother of your child. You have them deported using your position in government. That’s, I mean, even for these people, that’s pretty fucking awful. And Ungaro, I believe at the time reached out to Melania, who she had been friends with for many years, because again, Paolo and Melania are still very good friends. Apparently Amanda Ungaro close with Melania’s parents, according to her Twitter posts.
Ungaro came out—two days ago; so like maybe 12 hours, you know, a day before this weird impromptu press conference of Melania’s—replying to old tweets from Melania on Twitter and basically threatening to spill the tea on something.
We don’t know what it is. We suspect we know what it is, but we don’t know what it is. And on PREVAIL, we’re not going to say what we think it might be, even though there’s plenty of things that it might be.
So Melania hastily did that. At no point in her denouncement of Epstein did she claim that Donald was innocent, notably; just that she was. So let’s keep an eye on that because I read on the social media that Amanda Ungaro is doing, or has done, an interview with a Spanish news station that’s airing over the weekend and concerns Melania. Anthony Andrews over on Twitter has done a lot of research into this, and they haven’t come after him yet, which is curious and probably means he’s right about the stuff he’s saying.
So anyway, that’s the thing that’s happening. And that makes Trump look weak also, because here’s his wife—and we know it’s a sham, this marriage, right? Still, she’s the First Lady of the fucking United States right now, right? She’s there making this announcement about Trump’s child sex trafficking pals—plural; plural, because there’s two child sex traffickers, Ghislaine and Jeffrey—distancing herself from them, which is the opposite of circling the wagons, right?
That makes Trump look incredibly weak. Like he can’t even control his own house. That’s the takeaway for me. And his posts on Truth Social are even more rambly and out of control than usual. People love to use the word “unhinged.” I’d like to have a moratorium on the word unhinged. What does that even mean? People aren’t unhinged; doors are unhinged. And that just means the door don’t close no more.
So I don’t know—I think the situation is unhinged because the door is open and it can’t be closed, but Trump himself is clearly beside himself. Apoplectic, livid, whatever word you want to use. And scared. He sounds scared to me. He sounds terrified. And I tried to go to the Truth Social page to find this latest rage tweet, which is like three pages of gobbledygook that I can’t even understand about the fake news and this person and Alex Jones and Tucker, and none of it makes any sense. Sometimes we wonder if he wrote the tweets? He wrote that one.
This is a guy who, again, three days ago, four days ago, was threatening to destroy a civilization. We’re now 12 minutes into this and I’ve forgotten the tweet where he said, “Open up the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards.” He actually wrote these words on Easter Sunday. “Open up the strait. You crazy bastards.” No, “Open up the fuckin’ strait. You crazy bastards.” Excuse me. I don’t want to misquote the president.
So again, he’s out of his fucking mind. And I don’t like when people say he’s crazy. And I don’t mean that he’s not a cogent or sane. I mean, he’s mad. He’s angry. He is realizing that the ship is sinking. That’s what it seems like to me.
That doesn’t mean the ship is sunk. That doesn’t mean that the Democrats won’t fuck this up, like they fuck up everything, and not do enough to try to remove this guy while the iron is hot. It doesn’t mean the Republicans won’t circle around him and protect him. Doesn’t mean any of those things. I’m not saying that. I’m saying that as a force of power and authority, Trump is no longer seen as invincible. That’s the thing that’s changed.
And then it goes back to the war that he started with Iran at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu and Netanyahu’s government in Israel. This has been confirmed now by reporting from the New York Times. No less an authority than Maggie Haberman has written about the process by which Trump made his decision to enter this ridiculously stupid war with Iran. Netanyahu came to the United States and you know, bamboozled Trump. In the war room! They let this motherfucker in the war room! And he bamboozled Trump, and Trump said, “I’ll do it. Good idea. Let’s get ‘em. You know, it’ll be easy. They’ll greet us as liberators.” I think he probably said those words, but stupider, right?
And of course this didn’t happen. Iran has been preparing for this for years. Do they have nukes? No. Do they know how to defend themselves? Fuck yeah. I’m still not sure what happened with this pilot stuff. If the pilot was shot down, if there were one pilot or two pilots, or if it was just a botched mission to go get uranium and export it from the country. Which seems like a really like a bad idea on so many levels. Like, you’re taking it away from them, but this isn’t fucking Capture the Flag. It’s uranium. It’s radioactive. Didn’t these people see Chernobyl? I mean, come on. It was a stupid idea.
The Iranians have defended against us, and they’ve used propaganda so effectively. Now, it’s very easy to do that because Trump is such a buffoon and a rapist and an Epstein buddy and a fool and everything else. But they’ve been making these videos.
For people unaware, pretty much every day, they’ve come up with a video, about two minutes long, that features LEGO Trump—LEGO as in the toy—Trump doing various things to this very catchy, hip hop sort of soundtrack that varies day to day. These are all really high quality and good—unlike the MAGA slop that they’re doing with AI.
So I wanna play you just this clip. This is like the chorus of a song from, I think, two days ago. So listen to this:
All right. So first of all, it totally slaps. The beat is good. But you look at what they’re saying there. “Your government is run by pedophiles,” as they show Trump chasing girls down a dark alley. And then, “They’ve ordered you to die for Israel.” And then he’s on top of a pile of dead U.S. service members, waving a bloody Israeli flag. Then Netanyahu is in the background with a book that says “Epstein File” on it.
And I don’t even know how far from the truth that is. Except that it’s not just die for Netanyahu’s government here that we’ve been asked to do. We also been asked to underwrite another genocide. And this is another problem. This is another reason I think this is not going to work.
A couple of things happened also this week. The number two guy in the government there, I think he’s the defense minister or some bullshit, his name is Itamar Ben-Gvir. He is the dorkiest, most loathsome person that I can possibly imagine. He dresses like Trump. He’s, you know, kind of rotund and he’s just pure evil, pure evil. There was a bill that his party—I forget what it’s called, but effectively the Nazi party of Israel—pushed through whereby they can now execute Palestinians who they have in custody for basically being terrorists. And who determines if they’re terrorists? They do, of course.
And these people, Ben-Gvir and the hideous members of his party, wore little nooses, little noose pins on their lapels to promote this. And then when the law was passed, they popped champagne and were celebrating the fact that they could now just kill Palestinians with impunity. It’s so nauseatingly evil that I don’t really have words for it. It’s just, it’s…
You know, we’ve watched what happened in Gaza over the last couple of years now. They’ve leveled that place. They’ve killed 70,000 people—which is a lot of people. I think proportionally, in terms of percentage of the population, it would be like killing 18 million Americans. People are starving. Literally children starved to death in Gaza. And these numbers have been confirmed now by the actual Israeli government. They’re not just “Palestinian propaganda numbers” as one bot accused me of repeating, on Twitter last week. They’ve leveled the place. They’ve leveled it. I guess they’re just doing demolition, so Jared Kushner can go in there and build his condos and there can be Trump Tower Gaza City, or whatever the fuck they’re doing.
They’ve already done that. And by they, I mean Netanyahu and his government. That’s what I mean. I don’t mean Jewish people. I don’t even mean Zionists. I mean Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and that group—Nazi-Likud coalition. They’ve already done this in Gaza, and now they’re attacking Lebanon and going into Southern Lebanon. And they’ve been doing this now for what a week, week and a half.
And they claim to be rooting out Hezbollah, Hezbollah being the Iranian proxy terrorist group that is nominally in charge of Lebanon and does things like it does attack Israel and sends missiles there. That’s all true. And should Hezbollah be rooted out? Yes. Are they the enemies of Israel? Yes. But that doesn’t mean that you go around and blow up apartment buildings and level entire neighborhoods, which is what’s happening now. That’s what’s happening now.
“Well, we have to get Hezbollah,” they say. “Hezbollah’s there. We got some Hezbollah people.” Okay, this is a government, this is a military, so sophisticated that they did that op where they made everyone’s cell phone blow up simultaneously. Remember that? Everybody’s cell phone just blew up in their pocket at the same moment. They can with pinpoint accuracy kill somebody like walking around an apartment building. That same government, that same military and intelligence agency, is asking us to believe that, “No, we have to destroy whole neighborhoods because Hezbollah is there. That the only way to get these guys is to level the entire apartment building complex, the entire hospital. Because there’s a doctor there that’s Hezbollah.” It’s like they think if they repeat these words over and over again Hamas Hezbollah Hamas Hezbollah it makes it ok.
It’s bullshit. After a while, it just becomes bullshit. It just becomes an excuse to do another genocide—and to do imperial stuff. It looks to me like they’re going to not just attack Lebanon in the South, but occupy it and take it over. This is no different than what Putin is doing in Ukraine, except it’s more brutal, I think, even than that, because Lebanon has really no way to defend themselves.
And the U.S. government now is abetting this. That’s what’s happening. By going in with Netanyahu, Trump is abetting this. And this entire Strait of Hormuz business and the ceasefire and any kind of deal that Trump is gonna get—which is gonna be a much shittier deal than the one we already have, by the way, the one that Obama made—the deal is just complete capitulation. It’s just…you know, I don’t even know what to say. It’s so humiliating. It defies description, what Trump has agreed to already.
But the Iranians have said, “Make Bibi stop in Lebanon,” and he can’t make him stop. Trump can’t make him stop. Even though we’re giving them weapons. So maybe stop giving them weapons? And things are so bad in Lebanon that we’ve now had the president of France, the prime minister of Spain, and the foreign minister of Italy call out what’s happening, call out Israel explicitly, in the media and in public statements, which is something they would never have done before.
So we keep an eye on this. The United States has entered a war with a genocidal maniac in Netanyahu, who’s egged on by this Ben-Gvir guy who’s one of the most evil people that I can possibly imagine. And we’re giving them money, we’re giving them weapons. And we have no ability apparently to constrain the bloodshed and the violence and the destruction that’s being wrought. And it’s being wrought in our name. It’s being wrought in the name of the United States, and the people of the United States.
And I don’t know that people want this. Even the MAGA people don’t want this. It’s not something that people want. Nobody wants to send their kid to go die in this fucking war. There’s no appetite for it at all.
Hegseth announced that they’re gonna automate the draft registration. And I don’t think that means there’s actually gonna be a draft, but if there were a draft, that would be the end. That would be the end. We’re going to try to impose a draft so that this drunk, rapist secretary of defense—who says, “We negotiate with bombs.” I’m waiting for Hegseth to say, “We said it was a ceasefire, not a cease bomb.” I mean, he’s that stupid.
People are not going to tolerate having their sons—not their daughters, Hegseth’s established that—drafted to go fight in a war, which, we’ve now confirmed it—the New York Times said we’re doing it because of Netanyahu. I don’t know if Netanyahu has stuff on Trump. I mean, he does, but I don’t know if that’s the motivation for it or if it’s just he bamboozled him into thinking it would be a good idea and make him look strong. “Take out Iran, be strong.”
Either way, it doesn’t make any difference. Trump’s in it now for the haul. He’s failing on multiple levels. And the Strait of Hormuz is still blocked or partially blocked or blocked enough that they’re gonna have to call a fucking plumber. And the supply chains are going to be disrupted soon. That hasn’t even happened yet. That’s not gonna be good for him either.
So the thing to do now is to get rid of Trump. This is what Congress needs to do. They need to remove him. They need to remove him quickly. Then Beardo there, Couchfucker, needs to get in and blame everything on Trump, pull all the troops out and then agree to terms. That’s what needs to happen. That’s the only way out of this.
Also, repudiate Bibi would be good. That’s one thing Vance could do to make people maybe like him is come out strongly against what’s happening in Lebanon. I doubt he’ll ever do that because I don’t think he’s capable of doing the right thing. But at this point…
Again, on Tuesday, we genuinely thought that there might be a nuclear Holocaust coming. We’ were that close to the precipice of disaster. And we’ve been given a reprieve now. This two-week—everything’s always two weeks with this guy—this two-week period is the period when we have to remove him. We have to get him out of there. This isn’t sustainable for anybody.
And I haven’t even mentioned all the Polymarket oil shorting and clear market manipulation that’s happening. We need to remove him and we need to go after these people that have profited off this war. War profiteering is pretty awful. And all of this gambling with the economy.
I don’t even know what to say. We’re seeing levels of evil that I think haven’t been this visible in the United States in a long time. Not that we haven’t done evil things. It just hasn’t been this blatant and this egregious and this impossible to deny. And I think people are starting to see it now. Everybody watching this already knows, but I feel like other people are starting to be like, “Hey, why haven’t we won in Iran?”
And maybe Fox News is saying that we have. That’s well and good until the supply chain stops, until the oil hits $6 a gallon. What are they going to say then? You know, I don’t know.
But I entered this week, and this weekend, uh, on a somewhat hopeful note. And I don’t even know if I even felt that way yesterday afternoon, but I don’t know. I don’t know if it was the Melania thing that brought the Epstein files back into the fore. I don’t know if it was all the Trump stuff. I don’t know if it was the catchy Iranian music. But I feel like I feel like the end is near for him.
And again, this isn’t a prediction. You know, “the end is near” doesn’t mean anything. I went back and looked at some tweets that I had from 2018, even from 2017, where I was calling him out for being a Russian asset. And I was very confident that once the Republicans knew that Trump was working for the Russians, my God, they would take action. And of course that never happened, because the whole party was corrupted, which I did not realize at the time.
So I’m not going to promise anything, but I’m just—I detect a shift. My inner Geiger counter detects a shift. There’s the disturbance in the force. That’s all. And I feel like, for the first time in a long while, I feel really strongly that we shall prevail.
P.S.
My God, I did this entire thing and I didn’t even mention the thing about the Pope! The Pope! The Defense Department sent a dude to try to intimidate the Pope! The Pope! He brought up Avignon, which is basically a veiled threat that the Pope is going to get killed. Trump’s government threatened to kill the Pope!
It’s a bad fucking idea, dude. A really bad fucking idea. Come on, man. Come on.
Anyway, I also forgot to say there’s no new Five 8 tonight, but there’s going to be a replay that we’re going to do at eight o’clock, so you can go and watch it and gather. And also, I’m running for the first time as a podcast, in audio form, the interview that I did last week with Brooke Harrington. So if you prefer audio, you can check that out too.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
