SCHIZOPHRENIA | Day 159 | Trump blusterf*ck | Hormuz deadlock | Burnham and Epstein | Ukraine strike

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Vinnie the Chin Gigante feigned madness for years on the streets of New York to forestall prosecution as a Genovese crime family mob boss. Is that what Donnie Gigante Trump is doing? Schizophrenia? Anyone?
What is he going to do? When will he make his minds up about Iran?

**George Galloway** (0:28)
Is he going to blow it to kingdom come?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:30)
Or are things moving along very, very nicely?

**George Galloway** (0:34)
We'll be talking to an expert about that. And tonight is the night that the great Tucker Carlson and his merry men and women set out a new course for a third party, an anti-war movement that will contest the next presidential elections.
And the situation in Iran is poised on a knife edge. But 20 minutes ago, Iran announced that they had reached agreement with Oman on the course of the waterways of the Strait of Hormuz.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:14)
Is peace slipping into view?

**George Galloway** (1:17)
All of that and more tonight, here on the Mother of Old Talk Show, stay tuned.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:28)
You are listening to the Mother of All Talk Show's podcast with George Galloway.

**George Galloway** (1:37)
I don't know if you know the story of Vinny the Chin, Gigante, the Genovese crime boss.
He was mad as a hatter walking down the road in his striped pajamas, in his bathrobe, in his slippers, coming out naked into the street, urinating publicly, looking for all the world like a madman. But all the time he was actually building the Genovese family into a mighty powerhouse of the mafia in New York. I got to thinking of the similarities between Vinnie the Chin and Donnie Gigante Trump. And if you think about it, it's not all that far-fetched, not any more far-fetched, that the host of The Apprentice should end up running the United States and plunging the world into World War III. It's not that far-fetched that Trump is laying the groundwork for an insanity plea if and when he leaves office and if and when he faces prosecution for multifarious crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the American people, crimes against the American Constitution. In fact, Donald Trump is a far, far bigger criminal than Vinny the Chin Gigante ever was. Vinny the Chin didn't succeed in his madness plea in the end, going down in the 1990s into Sing Sing or wherever they put these chaps these days.
But Donald Trump won't get away with it either. Just this very day he put out a social media post hailing the defection from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party of Alan Dierchevich, Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:45)
And when you're in the trouble that Donald Trump is already in, it seems like he has some kind of death wish.

**George Galloway** (3:53)
Certainly his erstwhile friends, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, and above all Primus Interparis, Tucker Carlson. This very evening at 11 o'clock, right after this show, will be going live on the Tucker Carlson Network, TCN, to launch the third party, launch the third way, launch the anti-war, decent money, no more foreign donors, no more corruption, phenomenon that might just take US politics by storm in the next couple of years. After all, who the Democrats are going to put up against Tucker Carlson? Who are the Republicans going to put up against Tucker Carlson? Oozing charisma in spades, a grasp of world affairs that no official of the Trump administration can even approach remotely?
Tucker Carlson, after Donald Trump, the best known man in America, after JFK, the smoothest, coolest, most handsome presidential candidate in 60 years or more in American politics. It's an exciting development. And I'm not just saying that because Tucker Carlson thinks I should be the Prime Minister of Britain, but I think Tucker Carlson should be the President of the United States. If only it could both come true, how the world would be different. I'm mentioning all this mental health stuff because it seems to me that Donald Trump has a very wide seam of schizophrenia running through him.
And when we say, when will he make his minds up, we mean it because from hour to hour, perhaps depending on whether the stock market is open or not, perhaps depending on what he has bet on the oil markets or on the stock market, the corruption has been estimated by experts in Iran as having been worth some nine billion US dollars, fraudulently made on the oil markets, on the stock markets, by manipulating the prices of both by declarations of developments in the Persian Gulf War. But it seems that the neighbors have taken over the reins. It seems that Donald Trump, without interceptors, without warships that work, without the means of affecting the course of events, has left to the neighbors in the Gulf the job of finally solving the conundrum of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump wants them opened, you see. But they were open before Trump's sneak attack, his day of infamy, when he massacred in the same day, not just the octogenarian leader of Iran, but more than 180 little girls sitting at their desks in a school in Manab. The manipulation, the corruption scarcely needs stating anymore. I mean, even Barron Trump, who's still at school, has become a multi-millionaire listening in the drawing room as teenage children do, and then sneaking off and making a purchase or three of stocks and shares based on what he's just heard his father talking about. I mean, there have been a lot of corrupt American presidents, but there has never been an era of corruption like this, an era of madness like this. One minute, Trump is going to end Persian civilization, 5,600 years old. You hear that number, Donnie, 5,600 years old. He's going to blow it up. He's going to destroy everything. He's going to commit multiple war crimes. He's going to destroy water, electricity. He's going to destroy civilian bridges. He's going to commit every war crime that was the cause of multiple hangings of the war criminals concerned at the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945 But hey, who even remembers that stuff? Tokyo Tribunals, even less so. But the signs are, according to Iran, 20 minutes before I came on air, they have reached agreement with their neighbors about what channel tankers and other boats will go in to the Straits of Hormuz and which channels they will exit it from. And while there will be no tolls as such, it seems there will be fees. A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet after all. So it's a big, big triumph for Iran. As I was just saying on Sunday, Trump, who claimed he'd won this war, at least 47 times can now be said with certainty to have finally lost it. Not least because the head of the US. Navy told everybody that his ships could not protect Israel any further. They had no missiles. They had no interceptors. And these missiles, these interceptors take two to three years on the production line. So when you can't protect Israel and you're the United States government, which seems to exist only for the protection of Israel, you can say that you have definitely lost the war.