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Candace Owens confronts what she calls a fundamental betrayal of the America First movement as American planes fly over Iran. After voting for Donald Trump twice based on his promises to end Middle East wars, Owens responds to Trump attacking Tucker Carlson and dismissing his own Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's testimony that Iran wasn't building nuclear weapons. With Trump now aligned with the same neocons he once opposed—the Nikki Haleys and Lindsey Grahams—Owens traces how propaganda, the manipulation of Christian voters through attacks on "Christ is King," and Benjamin Netanyahu's influence led to this moment. She argues both political parties serve the same war machine, questions whether Americans should send their children to die for foreign interests, and declares Trump fractured his base by abandoning the mandate he was elected to fulfill.

June 17, 2025

Predicting the Inevitable War

Candace Owens opens by referencing the fraudulent psychic Miss Cleo from the 1990s, joking that she feels like a fortune teller after accurately predicting for over a year that the United States would go to war with Iran. She clarifies that she's not clairvoyant—she's simply been paying attention to the obvious signs and the words coming directly from Benjamin Netanyahu's mouth. Now American planes are flying in Iranian skies, and Owens warns Americans to prepare to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East. Anyone who opposes this is being labeled a jihadist, or as Trump called Tucker Carlson, a "kook."

The Silver Lining of Political Disillusionment

Despite the grim situation, Owens finds one silver lining: left and right can finally stop fighting each other because both sides appear to serve the same master—money and the never-ending war machine. She plays a clip from comedian Tim Dillon explaining how both the American conservative and liberal bases can be emotionally manipulated into supporting wars. The left gets convinced through domestic wedge issues like LGBTQ rights abroad, while the right gets told they're about to be killed and must strike preemptively. Owens asks her audience: who woke up a week ago terrified that Iran was going to nuke the United States? Nobody did, yet here we are being told Iran is an imminent threat.

What Happened to America First?

Owens argues this isn't a MAGA civil war—it's Trump fracturing his base by abandoning everything the Make America Great Again movement stood for. She traces the movement back to 2017-2019 when it represented a realization that American elites had sold out citizens for never-ending wars. MAGA was supposed to be a declaration of war on neocons, the people who always manufacture reasons to send Americans overseas while American cities, jobs, and education systems declined. The rhetoric focused on forgotten veterans, fallen soldiers who died in foreign lands, and farmers and ranchers neglected by the establishment. The mandate was clear: keep Americans out of foreign affairs and no more wars.

Owens recalls how anti-war sentiment united left and right, making Tulsi Gabbard appealing to both sides after her military service made her extremely war-adverse. Hillary Clinton-types hated Gabbard and called her a "toad" for opposing intervention. Trump himself had been vocal for years before even running for president about the disasters of American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Trump's Past Opposition to Iran War

Owens plays clips of Trump from 2011 and 2015 warning against war with Iran and calling out the Iraq War as a "big fat mistake" based on lies about weapons of mass destruction. She emphasizes: "That is the Trump that I voted for twice." Americans elected him in 2016 and 2024 with essentially the same mandate. People were excited when Tulsi Gabbard became Director of National Intelligence. Yet just eight weeks ago in March, Gabbard testified before Congress that Iran did not appear to be building a nuclear weapon and that the intelligence community assessed the Supreme Leader had not authorized the nuclear weapons program suspended in 2003.

The October 7th Questions

Owens shifts to examining the events leading to the current crisis, focusing on October 7th and the many unanswered questions. After two years of persistent media messaging about the horrors of October 7th, she highlights mysterious facts: the IDF pulled troops away from the border that day, ignored two warnings from Egypt about Hamas planning an attack, and disregarded an intercepted Hamas plan to take 200 hostages. For inexplicable reasons, the IDF couldn't get soldiers to intervene for two entire hours—utterly implausible given Israel's fortress-like security.

She plays a clip of Charlie Kirk expressing identical disbelief, noting that Israel was on the brink of civil war over Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms before October 7th, with massive protests planned against him. Kirk asks legitimate questions: Was there a stand-down order? Why did it take six hours when Israel is the size of New Jersey? These are questions Netanyahu doesn't want to answer. Owens adds that when IDF finally arrived after two hours, they were instructed via the Hannibal Directive to shoot anything that moved, including Jewish people, to prevent hostages from being taken. How many of their own people did they kill?

Netanyahu's Corruption and Propaganda

Netanyahu has been facing corruption charges and trials for his actions or inactions on October 7th, Owens explains. He mysteriously instructed his administration not to record discussions that day as required by law and wanted transcripts edited. His cabinet coordinated verified lies and propaganda shared with Western media—facts Owens says you can read in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, but not in Western publications that have their marching orders.

She argues that virtually everything Americans have watched for the last three years has been one long propagandist effort preparing the public for this war. AIPAC dollars were spent, journalists were funded to overreact to everything. Suddenly everything became anti-Semitism, everything invoked the Holocaust, everyone was compared to Adolf Hitler. The sensitivity became extreme and obvious to anyone paying attention—all to prepare for war with Iran.

Owens' Warnings Proven Correct

Owens plays a clip of herself from last year warning Americans not to send their sons and daughters to fight in a planned war with Iran, urging people not to believe claims about weapons of mass destruction because this strategy has been tried for years in various countries. She told viewers to resist elite oligarchs who benefit from never-ending wars and not let them manipulate Americans into sending children to die on foreign soil for a planned war. She admits she got one thing wrong: she predicted they might use an assassination attempt on Trump as a pretext, but instead something else happened—either an assassination of Trump's opinion or his soul, because the Trump she voted for is singing a very different tune today.

Trump Attacks Tucker Carlson

In the last 24 hours, Trump has been attacking people who remained consistent in standing against Middle East involvement—specifically Tucker Carlson, who graciously said Trump has a good heart and explained why he disagrees with Iran regime change efforts in a conversation with Steve Bannon. A reporter caught Trump off guard at the G7 meeting standing next to Keir Starmer and asked him to respond to something Tucker never actually said. Trump replied: "I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen."

Owens points out Trump is trying to imply Tucker is no longer relevant because he's not on TV, exposing himself as out of touch. Does Tucker need a fax machine too? Trump doubled down on Truth Social, calling Tucker "kooky" and saying "Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon." When reminded that Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon, Trump dismisses his own Director of National Intelligence, saying on camera: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one."

Trump's Contradictory Messaging

Owens catalogs Trump's contradictory statements: initially signaling America had nothing to do with the Iran attack and wouldn't get involved while negotiating peace, then signaling he didn't know the attack was coming but also that he did know, and now using "we" to describe what's happening in Iran. She reads his tweet: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American-made, conceived and manufactured stuff. Nobody does it better than the good old USA."

American troops might die, but Trump wants people to celebrate because American planes look good in the sky. Owens asks: Does he think we're stupid? People online are trying to gaslight Americans into thinking they're betraying Trump by holding him accountable to promises made when they voted for him. Laura Loomer is telling people to screenshot every tweet against Trump, but Owens says Loomer should screenshot Trump's tweets that contradict everything he said in previous years. Trump now agrees with everyone who hated him and called him Adolf Hitler—Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, all the people his supporters had to fight against. Now those calling out the inconsistency are called "kooks."

Gaza, Real Estate, and Moral Contradictions

Owens expresses surprise at how soon, fast, and obvious Trump's reversal came, especially as he talks about building Trump Hotels in the Gaza Strip while children are literally starving there today. She acknowledges Miriam Adelson gave him $100 million but says he should have some dignity and respect for human beings who have been bombed for two years. She and Jared Kushner are discussing hotels and impressive real estate portfolios if people see Gaza as an investment—they just have to murder the people there first.

What's stunning, Owens notes, is that with roughly a million adults in Gaza, the money spent on bombs could have simply bought every Palestinian family's home. They could have offered a million dollars per home. But they chose murder instead—carpet bombing, gaslighting Americans, calling people anti-Semites for noticing the ongoing destruction while simultaneously demanding recognition that these are God's chosen people.

Did Trump Betray His Base?

Dave Smith thinks so. Owens plays a clip of Smith on Breaking Points saying Trump should be impeached and removed for this absolute betrayal of everything he campaigned on. Smith apologizes for supporting Trump, calling it a bad calculation. He predicts Trump will lose his coalition over this because many simply won't go along with it. Smith adds that Trump also loses the deportation fight because of this—he needed all his political capital for deportations with a mobilized opposition protesting around the country. Instead, the neocons win: more war abroad. No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.

Owens emphasizes she didn't vote for the party of John McCain and won't be gaslit into believing her opposition is betrayal. Every politician always aligns with whatever Israel's ambitions are—non-stop war all the time. She reflects on things that didn't make sense at the time over the last couple years: the attacks on "Christ is King," the obvious infiltration. The neocons won. They successfully infiltrated the MAGA movement. She questions whether it was ever really about farmers, ranchers, and veterans, or just rhetoric to secure votes.

The Christ is King Litmus Test

Owens examines a puzzle piece she couldn't understand before: the random attacks on declaring "Christ is King." She became the nucleus of a worldwide debate after somehow it was declared that saying "Christ is King" could be anti-Semitic if a Jewish person is offended. This was a bridge too far for many people who couldn't comprehend where it was coming from. Now it's clear: this was the ultimate litmus test to make sure Christians were in check, to ensure the spirit of Christ wouldn't lead Christians to say it's not okay to murder innocent women and children for two years.

When the obvious immorality can't be justified, Israel's last argument is "we're God's chosen." The litmus test checked whether good little Christians would get in line. They needed to figure out which ones wouldn't. The best way to test this was declaring anti-Semitism so crazy and out of control that even saying "Christ is King" could sometimes be considered fringe.

Jordan Peterson's Evasion

Owens addresses a viral moment from Jordan Peterson on Jubilee that occurred while she was on maternity leave. After Peterson participated in a report declaring "Christ is King" is anti-Semitic, he appeared on Jubilee to debate 20 atheists as a Christian. When a college student pressed him on Catholic doctrine and asked if he was a Christian, Peterson refused to answer, saying "I could be either of them but I don't have to tell you." The student responded, "You're not a Christian," and Peterson replied, "I'm done with him."

Owens finds it odd that someone producing reports about whether "Christ is King" is anti-Semitic, doing rounds on Fox News and Joe Rogan to discuss this topic, can't simply answer "yes" when asked if he's a Christian. She states she has no ill will toward Peterson and would sit down with him tomorrow to discuss this. Looking back, she now sees this was the litmus test for people behind the radical effort to make Americans think they cannot question anything Israel does. Getting Christians in check ensured they wouldn't say it's not okay to murder innocent women and children for two years.

The Logic of Radical Zionism

If you're a real Christian, Owens argues, you cannot justify what's happening in Gaza. You cannot justify giving this nation carte blanche to annex the West Bank at Miriam Adelson's behest, to have soldiers rape detainees they can hold forever. You can't keep justifying what Israel has done and is doing. That's what overcame her—it's obviously the spirit of Christ to understand you can't murder children and put it in a box saying that's what God wants. That's just stupid. Spare the theology, give the common sense: it's dumb to suggest murdering children is what God wants. That's what they've been doing, and they needed good little Christians to get in line.

All these people demanding Christians not say "Christ is King" were aligned with radical Zionism. The irony of calling Iranians fanatical while justifying Zionism—an ideology at its core saying because we're God's chosen we can murder, take, and steal whatever we want. It claims the United Nations gave them the land but also tells people to ignore the UN and ICC because now those bodies think Israel is murderous and crazy. The logic is all over the place, impossible to streamline because none of it makes sense. Yesterday Israel has a right to defend itself; today Iran doesn't have a right to defend itself. Israel has the right to both strike and defend while nobody else can do anything without being called an anti-Semite.

A Message to Those Waking Up

Owens addresses viewers on the same journey she's been on for two years, looking around wondering what this is. She used to be a Zionist because she never understood what they were doing. She was baptized by public school education teaching nothing but brainwashing, and Hollywood movies making everyone feel they must defend Jewish people who could never do anything wrong. Her turning point came when she realized she didn't know the beginning of the 1948 story.

She had assumed that even if the UN and UK via the Balfour Declaration decided to establish Israel after war, they would have done it morally—offering money for homes and property people lived in for thousands of years. That's not what happened. The Bella Hadid story is stunning: people came on ships holding World War II refugee signs saying "please let us into your home." Palestinians opened their doors. Muhammad Hadid (father of models Gigi and Bella Hadid) was an infant when his mother gave birth. They allowed Polish refugees to live in their homes. Then one day they came home to locked doors with guns pointed at them, told to leave or soldiers would murder them.

Imagine your family lived on land for hundreds of years, Owens asks. You allow Ukrainian refugees into your Tennessee house out of kindness and charity. One day you come back, the doors are locked, and those refugees tell you if you try to open the door you will die. That's how land was given to them—a fact no one can dispute. There was no money, no trade, no conversation. They were hijacked in their own homes. The entire story of Israel has been immoral, hinging on ignorance.

The Burden of Truth

Once you know the truth, it's your burden to carry, Owens declares. If you truly supported something out of ignorance as she did when she was a Zionist, that will be acceptable when we all account before our creator. But now you know this isn't the right thing. If you keep doing it out of fear or because you're scared of being cancelled, Owens wouldn't want to be you when you meet your maker and have to account for what you allowed to take place. Those children are dying, being burned to death, carpet bombed. Access to those images is at your fingertips.

To people who believe God's chosen people rape, murder, destroy, pillage, lie, deceive, blackmail politicians through Jeffrey Epstein operations, buy, purchase, threaten, manipulate, and shoot presidents in broad daylight—you may want to crack open a Bible. It shouldn't take a theology course, just common sense, to know that's not what God's chosen people do. God's chosen people were prophesied that Christ would come. When Christ came, they followed him. When you follow Christ and become a Christian, you don't become unchosen. Christians are the chosen people—not ones baptized in the liturgy of the Holocaust defending demonic actions, but ones willing to be smeared and lied about to say something true: we're not pro-life sometimes, we're pro-life all the time. Life is precious. Murder is never okay.

It should be abundantly obvious at this moment in history who God's chosen actually are. It's not Benjamin Netanyahu. If there's ever been any person clearly representing the synagogue of Satan, it would be that man. Owens also mentions "Rabbi Shmuley" and notes if you're on his team and think you're on the good side, you may want to re-evaluate your life.

Trump's Claim to Define America First

Before ending, Owens addresses a Trump tweet showing where his mind is at—that he believes he gets to dictate what is and isn't America First. Trump tweeted: "America First means many great things, including the fact that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Make America Great Again." Owens says you could copy and paste this as anyone's argument—Obama's, George W. Bush's. Everyone claims to be America First; it just means whatever they say it means. Despite no evidence of Iran having a nuke, Americans are told they must go die because Iran could potentially someday maybe have one.

War is not America First, Owens declares. Never-ending war and never-ending excuses for why we have to go to war is not America First. Trump knows that. He can't just say things and expect people to accept them. She doesn't accept that. She wants real America First, and that term belongs to any person willing to execute on it. Unfortunately, Trump doesn't seem to be that individual anymore. She hopes she's wrong.

The Mike Huckabee Message

Trump shared a message from Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, that troubles Owens. Huckabee wrote: "Mr. President, God spared you in Butler, Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you sir, but there is only one voice that matters: His voice... I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's... You did not seek this moment. This moment sought you."

While generally a nice message, the implication troubles Owens: that this is God's design for Trump, so he should just do what he wants and ignore everything because God wants him doing this. This has been the long-lasting Israeli argument—that it's all messianic, how it's going to be, what God wants: destruction, death, American deaths, all so Israel can expand power over the world. That doesn't make sense. If Trump is tweeting this like "God's going to speak to me," Owens doesn't think God told him to send American planes to Iran. She thinks Miriam Adelson's $100 million told him to do that. She doesn't think he had a vision about it. Given the many Zionists in his cabinet and his talk about Gaza property while children starve, she doubts he's been attending church more than those cabinet meetings. Maybe she's wrong and happy to be proven wrong, but that's her assessment.

Final Messages to Service Members and Viewers

Responding to a commenter asking if there will be jobs for military members who get dishonorably discharged for refusing to contribute to harming people or sacrificing their bodies for foreign nation interests, Owens says: absolutely, get dishonorably discharged. Who cares? Why should you die in a foreign land? You now have the benefit of hindsight. Think about men and women who died because they were told there were weapons of mass destruction, because of the Taliban, because they were serving their country. They gave up their lives. For what? The answer: for the elites, like toy soldiers.

Weeks ago she would have said Trump would never throw service members into an Israeli war, but now American planes are flying and things are going nuclear. The dishonor has come from politicians who routinely lie and are willing to let Americans die for their financial interests. Why don't they dishonorably discharge themselves from public office? Security firms are a great place for veterans—Owens herself needs security constantly. Veterans should start their own security companies. America always needs people willing to use their physical capabilities. She would respect a dishonorable discharge at this moment because service members shouldn't die for Netanyahu's messianic vision.

Owens agrees with a commenter suggesting she and Thomas Massie run in 2028, saying if Massie runs, she'll run beneath him, after him, and around him. He's one of very few Americans who hasn't sold out, which is why Trump is attacking him. She doesn't know if something happens when you get to DC that turns everyone into a prostitute for money and lobbying, but somehow Massie has withstood that peer pressure despite AIPAC spending money to go after him and IDF bots attacking him online. She asks how much evidence can be ignored when Israel openly admits engaging in information warfare, training people to edit Wikipedia to favor their vision. This is deception, lies, the synagogue of Satan. You cannot deal in lies and deception and be God's chosen people. Stop listening to podcasters who tell you otherwise because they're part of an infiltration.

Owens declares she is team Tucker, team America, America First. She disagrees with Trump's assessment that he gets to decide whatever America First is. War is not America First. Never-ending war and never-ending excuses are not America First, and Trump knows that. He can't just say things and expect acceptance. She wants real America First, and that term belongs to anyone willing to execute on it. Unfortunately, Trump doesn't seem to be that individual anymore. She hopes she's wrong.

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