{"id":58544,"date":"2026-04-02T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58544"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:27:37","slug":"ron-paul-asks-did-you-watch-trumps-speech-how-did-he-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/ron-paul-asks-did-you-watch-trumps-speech-how-did-he-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul asks: Did You Watch Trump&#8217;s Speech? How Did He Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump addressed the nation last night with an &#8220;update&#8221; on Iran. Some expected an announcement that hostilities would cease, some expected a ground invasion announcement. We got neither. As former CIA officer Larry Johnson wrote, it was like all of his recent Truth Social posts fed through AI to form a speech.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jFK4rkIaDjE?si=ieDydMJR3gIEsCPo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump addressed the nation last night with an &#8220;update&#8221; on Iran. Some expected an announcement that hostilities would cease, some expected a ground invasion announcement. We got neither. As former CIA officer Larry Johnson wrote, it was like all of his recent Truth Social posts fed through AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-58544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58548,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58544\/revisions\/58548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58544"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}