Tim Pool suggests Trump may have “intentionally flubbed all of this” with Iran
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From the April 13, 2026, edition of Timcast, posted to YouTube
TIM POOL (HOST): Donald Trump has announced that the US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz after negotiations with Iran have failed.
And it pains me to say this for a few reasons.
First, this is bad news. We want no war. We want a resolution to this conflict. We didn't want the war in the first place, and Trump is suffering in the polls among white working class voters. Now, in the past week or so with the announcement of the ceasefire, I said, this is it. Trump has done it. He's won. I wanted to contrast the message that we had seen from people that were attacking Donald Trump despite attempting to negotiate a ceasefire, whether it was through failure or an honest attempt at peace. And, well, I was wrong. We knew it was a possibility the ceasefire could fail. Some have just attacked the president no matter what he's done. I don't live in this reality, guys. There are certainly reasons to criticize Donald Trump, but we are trying to bring an end to this major conflict.
Now that being said, I would be remissed if I did not point out that one of these theories as to what's really going on, it's called game theory number 18, may actually be playing out in which, surprise, surprise, Donald Trump intentionally flubbed all of this. Now I can already hear the liberals saying this is cope and seethe, that you're trying to justify Trump's failures with some kind of 3D chess. Well, chess is already in three dimensions, technically. I guess the board itself is only two. No. This one works for you too, liberals. You just need to pay attention.
That is Trump started a war and is jamming up the global economy, causing death and suffering as part of a greater plan to bolster American economics. You can frame it however you want. For some that are more pro-Trump, they're saying, Trump shut down the Strait of Hormuz intentionally. Now he knew Iran would do this, and he wanted them to because this forces China to buy oil from us. We have cut off around 20% or more of Chinese energy — effectively curtailing their economic growth, stunting them, and making it so that they won't supplant the US power as an economic power in the coming years.