F-Bombs on Easter, Pipe Bombs on J6 and Truth Bombs from Patrick Bet-David

Fortunately, no nuclear bombs.

Since last week…

1. Trump’s Easter weekend threats against Iran draw ire among the right for profanity and derangement.

2. Dan Bongino squares up with Rep. Thomas Massie over bots and whistleblowers.

3. The feud between podcasters Dave Smith and Adam Sosnick elicits constructive criticism from Sosnick’s mentor and co-host.

Mentioned: Donald Trump…Nick Fuentes…Tucker Carlson…Ben Shapiro…Candace Owens…Alex Jones…Marjorie Taylor Greene…Sneako…Megyn Kelly…Piers Morgan…Dan Bongino…Thomas Massie…Ed Gallrein…Dave Smith…Adam Sosnick…Coleman Hughes…Patrick Bet-David.

From Easter Sunday to Power Plant Tuesday

Early on Easter morning, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social threatening to destroy Iran’s civil infrastructure if the country refuses to open the Strait of Hormuz:

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Some of the internet right’s most prolific Christian nationalists weighed in on what they deemed a sacrilegious display by the president:

• Nick Fuentes: “It’s literally the holiest day of the year, and this is what you post? Not Happy Easter, Christ has risen, nothing. You threaten to bomb Iran, which is bad enough by itself, but then it’s the profanity…Mocking God in the middle of it as well…This is when you realize Trump is evil… He is a completely hollow and wicked person.”

• Tucker Carlson: “To send out a tweet with the F-word on Easter morning promising the murder of civilians, then saying ‘Praise be to Allah.’ You are mocking me and every other Christian because we’re Christians. We can’t support that. Under no circumstances can we support that…You are not God, and only if you think you are, do you talk this way.”

Ben Shapiro shot back at Carlson for taking issue with Trump mocking Islam, essentially calling him a hypocrite: “This is the same person who has said the Christian Zionists are the people he hates most on planet Earth, who spent pretty much every episode of his show attacking ‘dispensationalist’ and mainline Evangelical Protestants. ‘Don’t mock religion, as long as that religion is Islam,’ says Tucker Carlson.”

Nick Fuentes also weighed in on Tucker’s criticism of Trump, saying “I read the post and said, you definitely shouldn’t be threatening to kill civilians, dropping F-bombs and mocking God on Easter. But this whole, like, ‘Don’t you dare mock Islam,’ it’s like, okay, so is he getting money from Qatar?”

Roughly 12 hours before his imposed deadline for the Iranians to reach a ceasefire agreement, Trump elevated his threats against the Iranian people, issuing a genocidal ultimatum, writing, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

Trump added that he hoped the wholesale destruction of Iran could be avoided if “different, smarter, and less radicalized” leaders of Iran “prevail,” and closed with: “WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

Several influencers, many of whom supported and campaigned for the president, expressed outrage and even called for his removal via the 25th Amendment:

• Candace Owens: “The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness.”

• Alex Jones: “How do we 25th Amendment his ass?”

• Marjorie Taylor Greene: “25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”

• Sneako: “The total and complete normalization of genocide has happened in front of our eyes. Without Gaza, Trump would never have been able to get away with his rhetoric. But now he is publicly threatening to wipe an entire civilization and nobody is doing anything about it.”

• Megyn Kelly: “I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this shit. I’m just sick of it. Can’t he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president, ‘3D chess’ — just shut up. Fucking shut up about that shit. You don’t threaten to wipe out an entire civilization.”

• Piers Morgan: “This is a brazen pre-admission of genocide against the Iranian people, which would obviously be a war crime. Madness.”

However, the president was not without his own loyal champions. Standing in Trump’s corner? None other than the former deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, and Ben Shapiro.

• Ben Shapiro: “Now, of course he doesn’t mean that Persian civilization will die. The reality is that Persian civilization will flourish and survive if the Iranian government dies.”

• Dan Bongino: “For the pearl clutchers and the people getting their drawers in a bunch, pulling an ‘oh my gosh’ — Donald Trump does this over and over and you guys keep with the clutching the pearls ‘oh my gosh, I can’t believe he said that’…He takes a maximalist position…He’s doing what he always does.”

It remains to be seen whether Trump’s supporters in the media will come back around to support him and his war in Iran, or if, in fact, threatening genocide is a bridge too far for even his most loyal backers.

War of the Receipts

Dan Bongino stepped into the ring yet again last week to square off with Trump’s most vocal critic in the Republican congressional caucus: Rep. Thomas Massie.

The pair previously clashed in November 2025 over Massie’s promotion of a whistleblower’s claims that a U.S. Capitol Police officer matched the description of the January 6 pipe bomber. More recently, tensions between the two had been simmering amid Massie’s Epstein files crusade, his opposition to the war in Iran and Trump’s endorsement of his primary challenger Ed Gallrein, before reaching a boiling point last week.

Last Tuesday, Bongino erupted against Massie, calling him a “zero” who “supports Third World tyranny” in a lengthy X post that concluded that Massie denied Bongino’s offer for briefings on multiple open investigations to instead “litigate [them] on X for clicks.” Bongino added “receipts” of phone records between himself and Massie to demonstrate that he made good-faith efforts to inform the congressman. The images showed one 10 minute-long call and two missed follow-ups. Massie shot back with his own account of how the call actually went:

1. “You seemed upset that I had received and had released FBI whistleblower information about the pipe bomb investigation.”

2. “I informed you that your staff had threatened to criminally investigate my staff as retribution against me (for pipe bomb or Epstein activity?)”

3. “You threatened to personally finance a defamation suit against reporters on behalf of a suspect…In any case, the Deputy FBI Director shouldn’t be financing civil lawsuits against reporters covering cases the FBI is working on.”

4. “You said you were going to call every agent in and get to the bottom of the whistleblower issue.”

5. “You offered me a briefing but I was going to be tied up until at least 6pm…So I asked how late I could get the briefing and you said you were going to leave the office at 5pm.“

6. “I asked you a few questions on the call and your answers indicated to me that you were perhaps less informed than me on some of the issues, or you were going to be less than forthcoming.”

Massie also alleged the FBI tried to “out” its own whistleblowers while simultaneously pressuring his staff via late-night Signal calls to “back off” the Epstein case. Bongino responded, claiming “none of what [Massie] just vomited out is even remotely close to what happened,” and calling Massie a “grifter and a fraud.”

“Careful,” Massie warned, “there are receipts for this.”

A day later, Bongino shredded Massie again on “The Bongino Show.” Before interviewing Massie’s primary challenger, Bongino continued calling Massie a “fraud” and claiming that his popularity on social media is inflated by bots:

• “I have never been as disappointed in a human being in politics as I am in Tom Massie… I could not believe what a fraud this guy was. I mean like, an epic level fraud.”

• “Go on your X feed and post ‘I love Tom Massie.’ Then later go post ‘Tom Massie’s a fraud’…Just test that out and you tell me who’s got a bot army and who doesn’t.”

Clickbait of the Mouth

The feud between comedian Dave Smith, host of “Part of the Problem,” and Adam Sosnick, co-host of the “PBD Podcast,” took some unexpected turns. The pair began their beef on X the same day the Iran war started, when Smith called it “an illegal war of aggression.” Sosnick urged Smith to read the room. Smith responded by taking a jab at Sosnick’s literacy.

On March 24, they appeared together on Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” to discuss the Iran war. The interaction devolved into a tense and personal shouting match:

Adam Sosnick: “I realized who Dave Smith is…Dave Smith is a radical libertarian…What’s another word for radical? Extremist… This is why you call the U.S. military the greatest terrorist organization on Earth, right?…Something tells me you have what is known as clickbait of the mouth.”

Dave Smith: “I would also consider it when our politicians lie us into wars that slaughter millions of innocent people, and in many cases, target those innocent people. I consider that terrorism as well. There’s the answer, Adam. If you wanna keep doing this, buddy, you could tell me to check the scoreboard. I’ll run circles around you on this… Check your scoreboard, Adam. How’s it looking for you?…Substantively respond to any of that.”

Adam Sosnick: “You’re saying the United States is a terrorist organization. You’ve already lost the debate. You live in America, tough guy. You have the luxury of sitting in your little studio, in your hooded sweater, like you’re 17 years old.”

Dave Smith: “I’m 17 years old… I have a wife and children. Who depends on you, Adam, your mom?…Substantively respond to one thing, Adam… you don’t know anything, so move on. Stop picking a fight with me, dude.”

Sosnick fired back by comparing Smith to a schoolyard bully and telling a long-winded, seemingly directionless story about Smith’s experience on Coleman Hughes’s podcast. Even Morgan briefly chimed in, asking: “Adam, I’m not quite sure — what is the point you’re making?” Morgan continued, pressing Sosnick about his approach, noting that “It’s an unusual debating strategy to spend 10 minutes of this debate talking about another debate that most viewers may not have seen.”

Sosnick’s ultimate argument was that Smith “already lost the debate” for saying that America is a terrorist organization, that Smith’s views are unpopular because libertarians make up less than 1% of Americans and that Smith is perpetually in a “body bag” after losing an argument with Coleman Hughes about Israel and U.S. foreign policy.

Roughly a week later, Patrick Bet-David — who hosts the “PBD Podcast” with Sosnick — expressed deep discontent with Sosnick’s debate performance. Bet-David, who is considered Sosnick’s mentor, leveled criticisms at his mentee during a live show:

Patrick Bet-David: “I didn’t see you making arguments on Dave Smith…There’s an element of also representing where you’re coming from, where the expectation is, ‘hey, where are you going?’ Be professionals. That’s not how I handle debates. I don’t handle debates that way. That’s not my MO. So if you are close to me and you’re handling it that way, that is not my style.”

Shortly after Bet-David’s dressing-down, Piers Morgan called for a rematch between Smith and Sosnick, but Sosnick declined.