Sickly Trump Has Disaster WH Presser After Awful Trip

0:00Ben Meiselas:A very sickly and cognitively adult Donald Trump just had a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. He looked deeply unwell. He couldn't really even understand what the reporters were asking him. He confused his conspiracy theories. I'll give you this example. He was asked by a reporter about the latest MAGA conspiracy that they've been pushing this morning, that Obama had burn bags regarding the Russia hoax that the FBI just discovered. Now, MAGA and Trump's crew, they're trying to use this right now to cover up for Donald Trump's Epstein connections. But Donald Trump thinks the reporter is asking about Epstein.

0:43Ben Meiselas:So Donald Trump says, it's all a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax. Watch as Donald Trump just, again, very cognitively addled and he kind of jumbles his conspiracies because he's just lying about everything. Play this clip. Thousands of documents and he's back, supposedly burned back, except the FBI in the secret room. Well, I want everything to be shown, you know, as long as it's fair and reasonable. I think it will be shown and it should be shown. And I think he feels that way. And I think Pam feels that way. But it's got to be, you know, it's got to be stuff that really doesn't hurt people unfairly because you have so many people involved.

1:21And if they can do that in a fair way, I think it's great. I think it's really great. It's the whole thing is a scam. It's a scam set up by the Democrats and they love talking about it. But I would like to see people exposed that might be bad. And we'll see how that all works out. But it's getting to be very old news. You know, if they had anything, they would have done it the week before the election because they were losing by a lot. If they had anything, they would have done it. They control the file. the Democrats controlled at Comey and all this, you know, sleazebags, every one of them that you read about all the time.

1:57And I guess they've got some problems now having to do with yet a different scandal, very big one. But they control that file. So I would think that if they would have had something in the file, they would have released it about a week before the election, maybe two weeks. Right, Brian?

2:12Ben Meiselas:And then you could even see when the reporters asking Donald Trump about burn bags. And that's the term that's being used by his FBI and DOJ to try to distract from the Epstein stuff and Trump's connections with Epstein. And Trump's like, burn bags, burn. What are you talking about? Here, play this clip. Mr. President, I don't know that Cash Patel reportedly found burn bags of Russia-gate materials, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. He said what? Burn bags of Russia-gate materials. I don't know that. I don't know. I don't know what you mean by that statement. Say bags full of Russia.

2:48I thought you said appointed a man named Burden Bank. Go ahead. You got to speak up.

2:55Ben Meiselas:Thousands of documents and he's back supposedly Burden Back. And then Donald Trump lies and says, we've made the greatest trade deals. He goes, Japan, they're sending us a check for$550 billion. He goes, Europe, they're sending us a check for $750 billion,$400 billion,$600 billion,$300 billion. He's literally just making up numbers. And no, they're not sending us checks. Japan said, uh-uh, there's no binding agreement. They're not sending us a check. They said maybe discretionary investments, but no different than what they already do. And the European Union said that they don't have the ability to give a$600 billion check to the United States.

3:36Ben Meiselas:What the hell are you talking about? That's what they've already said. But here Donald Trump lies. Play this clip. I think we're going to have the richest economy you've ever seen. We have money coming in that we've never even thought about at numbers that nobody's ever seen before. We have a deal with Japan where they're going to pay us$550 billion. We have a deal with Europe where they're doing$750 billion plus$400 billion plus$300 billion. And many other countries, it's likewise, you know, relatively. Those are two big ones. And again, speaking about Donald Trump being deeply cognitively addled during this press conference, Donald Trump doesn't realize that there are two Congress members standing right behind him.

4:18Ben Meiselas:He's like, where's the Congress member? Oh, oh, oh, you're right behind me? Here, watch this. I'm thrilled to be joined by the bill's sponsor, Congressman Derek Van Orden. Where is Derek? Right here. Derek? Hello, Derek. I didn't see you back there. Wow. I didn't see you. I'll snuck up. I see you. Mike, how are you, Mike? Mr. President. These two gentlemen are terrific. They are working together, and they've been working together, Mike, a long time. I just want to thank you both, and I'll ask you to say a couple of words. An estimated... I told you. He's very sickly and very unwell. And he's just a liar about everything.

4:56Ben Meiselas:He goes, in three states, gas prices are$1.99. It's so cheap,$1.99. It's not$1.99 everywhere. And inflation is increasing everywhere. Here, play this clip. If you look at fuel,$2.35 a gallon, a lot of that. But we actually had three states, four states where it's down$1.99,$1.99 as opposed to three and a half,$4. And it went up a lot higher than that. They got rid of my policy and then it went through the roof and then they broke my policy back, but it was too late. They blew it. We had the highest. You ever realize how ridiculous your old wallet was after you finally upgrade? I used to carry around this bulky beat up leather brick that barely fit in my pocket, cards falling out, cash crumpled up.

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7:07Ben Meiselas:It's like the stupidest conspiracies they're spreading. From Fox exclusive, Patel found thousands of sensitive Trump Russia probe docs inside burn bags and secret room at the FBI. All right, there's a super serial secret room inside the CIA that they secretly just found all of this. And it's a big secret since 2016. And Russia, Russia, Russia, don't ask any questions about Jeffrey Epstein, except if you ask about burn bags, Donald Trump will think you're talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump has asked about Senator Hawley introducing legislation that would ban members of Congress from owning stocks.

7:43Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump's like, well, you know, this is really good because we got to stop Nancy Pelosi. She's the biggest grifter. Let's investigate Nancy Pelosi. You're literally the biggest grifter imaginable, Donald. You've made billions of dollars selling out to the White House. And according to all of these reports, you're pushing to block that bill because it would ban trading in the White House in the VP's office. But play this clip. Thank you, Mr. President. Senator Hawley introduced legislation that would ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks at expense to the president and vice president.

8:16Ben Meiselas:Are you in favor of that legislation? Well, I like it conceptually. I don't know about it, but I like it conceptually. And, you know, Nancy Pelosi became rich by having inside information. She made a fortune with her husband. And I think that's disgraceful. So in that sense, I'd like it. But I'd have to really see the I'd have, you know, I studied these things very carefully and this just happened. So I'll take a look at it. But conceptually, I like it. And what I do think is Nancy Pelosi should be investigated because what she has the highest return of anybody practically in the history of Wall Street, save a few.

8:55And how did that happen? It happened by she knows exactly what's going to happen, what's going to be announced. She buys stock and then the stock goes up after the announcement's made and she ought to be investigated. it.

9:06Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked, well, what do you say to your critics who say that if you just start lowering interest rates, like by multiple points, it's going to result in inflation rising? And Donald Trump's like, well, then we'll just raise them again. That's what the Fed's doing, you idiot. Here, play this clip. It was stronger than expected GDP report just morning. What do you say to analysts who worry that lowering interest rates would actually lead to depression? Well, if that happens and we just raise them. What you do is you lower them and let's see if there's inflation. Right now, there's no inflation.

9:39Everybody thought there would be. All we have is billions of dollars of cash pouring into our country from other countries that took advantage of us for many, many years. You know, they would.

9:49Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump just says, oh, well, we're negotiating with all these other countries to do deals. We're just going to do fake deals. You're just going to make you make up fake deals. There's we haven't seen a single piece of paper with any deal so far here play this clip we're now negotiating with various other countries and the rest we're just sending out the the bill to we send a bill we send a letter saying that you'll pay a certain tariff obviously that's most of them because you have as you know hundreds of countries a lot of countries out there so we look at the deficit or we look at the surplus and we look at the country and how the country's treated us and Lots of other things go into the equation.

10:32And we make a decision as to what that tariff will be. And it's pretty standard letter from that point on. And I want to tell you, this is something to me. It's a VA bill signing. And it's very important to me and to many of the people in this room.

10:49Ben Meiselas:Now, here's the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Jerome Powell was giving a press conference at the same time Trump was giving a press conference. Here, play this clip. Total PCE prices rose 2.5 % over the 12 months ending in June, and that, excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices rose 2.7%. These readings are little changed from the beginning of the year, although the underlying composition of price changes has shifted. Services inflation has continued to ease, while increased tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods. near-term measures of inflation expectations have moved up on balance over the course of this year on news about tariffs, as reflected in both market-based and survey-based measures.

11:34Ben Meiselas:You see, it's clear inflation is on the rise. I mean, actual data and statistics being used there from Chairman Powell versus what Donald Trump is saying,$600 billion,$750 billion, a quadrillion bajillion. Trump's just making up ridiculous fake numbers. By the way, the Midas Touch Network podcast, number one of all YouTube right now. We just again, be Joe Rogan and kill Tony. Finally, here's Donald Trump's message to the parents of kids who are getting ready to go back to school. He's like, I've done it. Victory. We've gotten rid of the woke. The woke is gone. Here, play this clip.

12:22Ben Meiselas:administration labeled a lot of parents domestic harassed for showing up at school board meetings what's your message to parents now as they return their kids to school knowing that they have the support of you well the beautiful thing is as you know we've gotten rid of the woke woke is gone and i think pretty well buried we're going to keep we're going to make sure it's buried but the parents are now taking over the school boards they're getting rid of these people that uh probably didn't like the children very much based on what they were doing. And it's a big difference. And, you know, one of the other things, and I keep watching these talking points that the Democrats have, they say, oh, prices are up.

12:59No, prices are way down.

13:00Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think right there. You may have heard my little baby crying in the background. She's with my wife right now and my niece, and she wasn't feeling all that good today. So I'm going to see her right now. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. And let's get to 6 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.