Panicked Trump Forced to Beg in Public as Karma Eats Him Alive

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2:52Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump realizes that he's screwed up big time. I mean, he screwed his entire administration up with how it's handled South Korea. And now South Korea is like, we ain't investing any more money in the United States. You know, that$12 billion Hyundai plant we've been building for many, many years, even before you took office, Donald Trump. Yeah. Say goodbye to that. Those 300 plus South Korean workers who were trying to train the Americans how to run a battery plant, which would have been great for the economy of Georgia. Say goodbye to that. Here's what Donald Trump's posting, quite literally begging for the workers to come back and begging for other foreign workers from other countries to come back, because this has had a domino effect, folks.

3:43Ben Meiselas:It's not just impacting South Korea, where people feel terrorized by the Trump regime, but all throughout Asia and frankly, the rest of the world. They're like, why would we build factories in this fascist regime in the United States that attacks us, literally puts us in shackles? Here's what Donald Trump posted. He goes, when foreign companies who are building extremely complex product machines and various other things, which he puts in quotes, come into the United States with massive investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people to make these very unique and complex products as they phase out of our country and back into their land.

4:25Ben Meiselas:If we didn't do this, all of that massive investment will never come in the first place. Chips, semiconductors, computer chips, trains, and so many other products that we have to learn from others how to make or in many cases relearn because we used to be great at it, but not anymore. For example, shipbuilding, where we used to build a ship a day and now we barely build a ship a year. I don't want to frighten off or disincentivize investment into America by outside countries or companies. We welcome them. We welcome their employees and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them and do even better than them at their own game sometime into the not too distant future.

5:07Ben Meiselas:And if that wasn't enough right there, then the White House account reposted Donald Trump's post. And then they wrote, we don't want to frighten or disincentivize them. I get it. You don't want to frighten them. But when you have masked ICE agents roll up on them and disappear them and treat them like war criminals. Yeah, that's what's going to happen. And here's the thing, Donald. We live in a very interconnected world. And as you're recognizing in that post, but which you've screwed up massively at, and there's really no coming back from at this time, we depend on other countries for certain things.

5:44Ben Meiselas:They depend on us for a lot of things. And in fact, the things that they depended on us for often was at a major advantage for the United States. And there was a reason why the rest of the world would want to put its money into the United States, into United States real estate, buying United States treasuries, but not anymore because they see what a psychotic regime we have. So, of course, you all know by now, here's what happened to the South Koreans who were kidnapped, shackled. This was an image of them being shackled. Here, play this clip. In video released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Asian workers are seen shackled and getting onto a bus after an ICE raid on a Hyundai Motor car battery facility in Georgia.

6:39300 Koreans were arrested in Thursday's raid.

6:43Ben Meiselas:Now, here is the video that ICE released. Just to be clear, it wasn't just that ICE did it. ICE then made like a hype video. They made a propaganda video of themselves rolling up with the South Korean shackled. And you better believe that was front page news. That's the top story in South Korea right now. Here, play this clip.

7:15GSP in position, north side.

7:26Ben Meiselas:Now, you had the 316 South Korean workers who were kidnapped by ICE militarized forces in Georgia at that Hyundai factory. They returned to the airport back in Seoul. Here's how it looked when they returned. Play this clip.

7:54Ben Meiselas:Just to hear some of the voices as well from the wives of some of the kidnapped workers and some of the kidnapped workers. Let's play this clip right here. Nobody is going to stay in work when it's like this.

8:12After this situation, we consider leaving our jobs. I don't know how the visa will work next time, and there will be some people who need to go there, but I have to think about it.

8:34They went there to help the U.S. The U.S. side also wanted them to work there, but now they are being treated like criminals, which feels very unpleasant. Since they're not actual criminals, the fact that they were taken away like that, I think that's a real problem.

8:56Ben Meiselas:now the president of south korea president lee also made a statement before the kidnapping took place and perhaps he made this statement a little bit too prematurely this is how foreign leaders think about the united states right now so when he was speaking at this international roundtable event right here, the CSIS event, the Center for Strategic International Studies event. He talked about how when he was flying into the United States to meet with Donald Trump in August, he had to be very, he was worried that Trump was going to pull a Zelensky on him. This is South Korea's President Lee saying, I was worried Trump was going to pull a Zelensky.

9:43Ben Meiselas:pull a zelinski that's the phrase that foreign leaders now use to talk about going into the oval office will he pull a zelinski meaning will he try to mock and embarrass and take away my nation's sovereignty in that golden bordello of an oval office here play this clip of president Lee. Let's play it. So before, so first of all, before I met with President Trump today, he posted on Truth Social a very threatening post, which I felt. And then during the press gaggle, he mentioned about the Korean government's investigations regarding the previous government. And he mentioned that he would look into the search and seizure of U.S.

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12:38Ben Meiselas:Just to remind you, This was the post that Donald Trump made right before President Lee arrived. Donald Trump goes, what's going on in South Korea? Seems like a purge or revolution. We can't have that and do business there. I am seeing the new president today at the White House. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So some right wing groups that there's a MAGA faction in South Korea, by the way, like their far right wing in South Korea has modeled themselves after MAGA. And so they bring that same like literally they call themselves like MAGA there in South Korea. And so they kind of laundered into the U.S.

13:19Ben Meiselas:these deranged conspiracies that, oh, South Korea was going after Christians and South Korea is going after all these groups. And so based on hearing that, Trump makes a post. At the press conference, Donald Trump was asked about it. And Donald Trump was like, well, I posted about it because I heard about it. I'm not really sure what it's about, but I post about it. And then at that Oval Office meeting, the South Korean president mocked Donald Trump to his face. But Trump was too stupid to realize that he was even being mocked here. And so South Korea's President Lee, he goes, basically, he goes, look, you know what, Donald?

13:59Ben Meiselas:Because Donald kept on bragging about Kim Jong-un in North Korea. And he goes, I look, this is what the president of South Korea says. Total troll of Trump. He goes, I look forward to you meeting with Kim Jong-un, and I guess I'll see you building a Trump Tower in North Korea, and you're going to be playing golf there, I suppose, knowing that none of those things will ever happen in North Korea. Here, play this clip right here. I hope you can play a role in a global world-like peace.

14:38is the Korean Peninsula, and I would like to ask for your role in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula. So I look forward to your meeting with Chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place. I believe he will be waiting for you.

15:02Ben Meiselas:And when we talk about the real world ramifications of what's going on right now, There is no trade deal with South Korea. Now, do you remember when you have Donald Trump and his entire regime announcing South Korea deal? We've done the deal. Deal, deal, deal. South Korea. Remember, I've always told you that all these trade deals are like entirely bogus. I said, look, show me the piece of paper where there's a signed deal with binding terms. That's like multiple pages in length. Then you can come back to me and say there's a deal. But you have Howard Lutnick saying South Korea deal not signed.

15:39Ben Meiselas:Paperwork remains. South Korea must decide to accept deal or face harsh penalties to face tariffs. We will not give them any flexibility like Japan. Howard Lutnick says this is how you're trying to court them back. Are you kidding me? And then U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. He basically admits that there was no deal struck when he was confronted with it on CNBC. Let's play the clip. To the point on Hyundai. So is the Korea trade deal in jeopardy now? Well, the Koreans didn't sign when the president was in. Right. The president came in. You remember that? He came to the White House. Notice how we didn't talk about trade because he didn't sign the piece of paper.

16:24I mean, the devil is in the details always. Well, I think they saw the Japanese now. So there's no flexibility. Right. The Japanese signed the contract. that Koreans either accept that deal or pay the tariffs, black and white.

16:38Ben Meiselas:Pay the tariffs or accept the deal. But has the immigration raid led to more tension there about climate change? I think you're going to see President Trump go out and address that. He knows that to build these great factories, we need leadership of people who've built them before if he wants to do it fast. So I think he's going to make a deal with the different countries that when they want to build big here, he'll find a way to get their workers proper work visas, meaning short-term work visas, train Americans, and then head home. I think the president is very clear. I think you're going to see an ABC from him.

17:11Ben Meiselas:A, you come in, B, you train Americans, and C, you head on home. And finally, you have Donald Trump threatening the sovereignty of South Korea. Donald Trump's like, because we have American troops in South Korea, I would like for you to give us ownership of your land. We would like to own your land, South Korea. Think about what the people in South, you want to own our land? The hell are you talking about? This is what he's done with Denmark and Greenland. This is what he said to Canada. And also he is a chicken, SHI, you know what I'm about to say as well when it comes down to it. Instead, he has the Navy raiding fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, a tuna fishing boat the other day off of Venezuela.

18:00Ben Meiselas:Oh, and then he has the military bomb fishing boat, which Trump said had 11 people moving cocaine from Trendy, Aragua. How do you know they weren't trafficking innocent people if there were 11? We still don't get to know who the hell these people are. Anyway, here's Donald Trump saying that he wants the South Korean land. Let's play it. South Korea, would you reduce the number of forces in South Korea so that the United States could have more flexibility in the region? Would you consider reducing the number of U.S. forces in South Korea so that the United States can have more flexibility? Well, I would say that now because we've been friends and we're friends.

18:37And look, we have a lot of people that we have over 40 ,000 troops in South Korea. As you know, South Korea agreed to pay for that during my last term. And then when Biden came in, they complained to Biden that I wasn't a nice person. And he agreed not to pay. He gave up billions of dollars. We were getting paid billions of dollars. But then Biden ended that for whatever reason. It's unbelievable that he did. But we have a very good relationship militarily. They would say, but we gave you land. They said, no, you didn't. You lease us land. There's a big difference between giving and leasing. And maybe one of the things I'd like to do is ask them to give us ownership of the land where we have the big fort.

19:19You know, we spent a lot of money building a fort and there was a contribution made by South Korea. But I would like to see if we could get rid of the lease and get ownership of the land where we have a massive military base.

19:32Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Big trouble in South Korea. Big trouble in Asia for the United States. Big trouble, frankly, across the world. I showed you yesterday those data points. Portugal, no F-35s. They're going for the Rafale. They're going for France's Rafale fighter jets. Most of Europe is saying, we don't want them F-35s no more. You had Denmark buying the air defense system from a Franco-Italian company, not the Patriot system. America is losing billions of dollars as a result of this Trump regime. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers.

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