Tim Dillon: “The government of our country might say, listen, we're going to go back to workhouses and gruel ... We might be heading in that direction”
Dillon: “Trump has come out and said, I don't think about the financial situation of Americans, we're just going to go to war. We're a war nation now, and too bad if you can't eat.”
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From the May 23, 2026, edition of The Tim Dillon Show, uploaded to YouTube
TIM DILLON (HOST): Now this economic fallout, by the way, is bad. And they're saying there's gonna be a major food crisis in six months and that people are not going to be able to get food. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a temporary disruption says Politico, but the start of a systemic shock to global food prices.
So now, who, because by the way, we talked about it on Piers Morgan the other day, fertilizer, things like this that move through the Straits of Hormuz by the way, are not moving. So it's hurting everything. It's hurting agriculture. Decisions now by farmers and governments on fertilizer use, imports, financing, and crop choices will determine whether food prices spike later this year or in early 2027.
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If the food stops showing up at the grocery store, people are going to have to, or it's too expensive, people are going to have to starve naturally the way they did in the Great Depression, so no more injectables, no more GLP-1's. People are just going to have to go to bed with an empty stomach like an orphan from Oliver Twist. And the only people that will be fat will be rich people who can afford the food prices and then you go back to the Great Depression. And that's what may happen. And by the way, that might be the plan.
The government of our country might say, listen, we're going to go back to workhouses and gruel. Please sir, may I have some more? We might be heading in that direction. Because Trump has come out and said, I don't think about the financial situation of Americans, we're just going to go to war. We're a war nation now, and too bad if you can't eat. It's going to cost you too much money to feed your children. Therefore, they have to go to Iran.