Benny Johnson on negotiations with Iran: “I don't understand people like Mark Levin. I don't understand Roger Wicker in the Senate, Ted Cruz, and these people are all lashing out at the president”
Johnson: “You could see everyone crashing out yesterday, all of the people that want war, that want death, that want destruction, that want just pure bloodletting for the sake of, I don't know, like, something demonic possessing their soul”
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From the May 24, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): New story that just broke that makes us very, very happy in the incoming Iranian peace deal. Iranian president says that we want to assure the world that we will not be seeking to possess a nuclear weapon. We will not seek to destabilize the region. A massive victory for Trump trusters right now. As Iran has said, we will assure the world that we are not seeking nuclear weapons. We are not seeking instability, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. I don't know how to pronounce it. This is such an important victory for President Trump. I think that this was obviously the sort of linchpin. You could see everyone crashing out yesterday, all of the people that want war, that want death, that want destruction, that want just pure bloodletting for the sake of, I don't know, like, something demonic possessing their soul. I don't understand people like Mark Levin. I don't understand Roger Wicker in the Senate, Ted Cruz, and these people are all lashing out at the president. They don't know anything. In fact, it's amazing how this worked.
Mike Pompeo was one of these people. Mike Pompeo used to be the secretary of state, now totally humiliated, worked with the deep state to try and take out President Trump.
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Dude, this aged very poorly.
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How many people do you think are being paid by Israel? How many people do you think are being paid by foreign countries? Like, by the way, not just Israel — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, whatever. Like, how many of these tweets — because you saw all these tweets go, like, literally, mechanically, you know, like, we don't like it because it's not good for Israel. Like, I want what's good for America. I need my party to win here in this country. If you want to go be Israeli or you want to go live in Saudi Arabia or Qatar or the UAE or Oman, you should go do that. You should go live in Oman, go spend Omani dollars. Go spend your time on Omani beaches. If you want to live in Dubai, I hear, whatever, it's nice. Have a great time. I'm going to live in America, and so I want my party to win in America. You can go get your dirty foreign dollars no matter what dirty little country that send the dollars to you. Go get those dollars somewhere else. I'm so pissed off. I'm so infuriated at the number of takes that I saw yesterday.