Trump Abruptly Storms Out of Interview, War Escalates, + MORE UPDATES

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2:41Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just had a absolute meltdown during an interview with Kristen Welker of Meet the Press. And then he abruptly took off his microphone and ran away. He also touched Kristen Welker very awkwardly. Let me show you what just went down moments ago as she was asking some pretty basic questions about his catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. The pressure was just too much for Donald Trump and he ran away. Here, watch this. Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking a winner? local officials acknowledge they are slow they're urging no they're crooked they're urging the votes to be counted quickly that's how they're crooked just like you're crooked your press is crooked and beat the press is crooked to be fair i'm not crooked but let's really well you play right into their hands let's continue you're either crooked or you're stupid you play right into their hands with this rap you know that these elections are rigged your network knows that they're rigged you You know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94 percent bad press.

3:47But, Mr. President, you've never presented evidence. You know why I got that? Because you have no credibility. But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about it. I want to talk about Todd Lynch. You have more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented. Let's talk about - Your elections in this country - We're like a third world country. But, sir - Your elections are crooked and you're crooked and Mr. Press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President. Your one-sided crooked networks. All right, let's call it quits because I've had enough.

4:16Thank you, darling. Have a good time. Mr. President, let's please. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've sat in the rain with you. I know. I've sat in the rain with you for an hour. On and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? Mr. President. A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.

4:42Ben Meiselas:I mean, that's not the temperament of anybody who should be anywhere near a position of leadership. Just think about that. That's how he's behaving every day in the White House. That's why I keep saying he's panicking and he's running away. You saw it right there. Then Donald Trump gets angry because he felt that he was being interrupted with his microphone. Here, watch this. this took place before he ran away. Here, play this clip. I was in Iowa and the prices were$1.85 a gallon,$1.91 a gallon. What? This time it wasn't the rain, but an audio issue that forced us to pause the interview again.

5:23Ben Meiselas:Then let me show you what went down right before Donald Trump stormed off. You can see how this meltdown developed. I mean, he is way too emotional to be in this position or anywhere near this position that he has. Here, play this clip. Crooked press. People like stupid Biden, he's not smart enough to know what's going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful resolute desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong. Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying, but There's a lot of evidence.

6:00Let me ask you about Todd Blanch. Let me ask you about Todd Blanch. Listen to me. Let's talk about Todd Blanch. There's tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence. It's not been presented in a court of law. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. You've never presented evidence that the 2020 election was rigged. It's happening right now in California. Right now, it's looking. Look at what's happening in California. Where's the evidence to that? It's four days. The Republicans are doing well in California. In California, it's... No, they're not. They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election.

6:26Let me tell you. it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with it. That's how they count the votes in California. You know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election. Do you have evidence to support that? All I have to do is look. All I have to do is look. That's not it. And I listen. And I listen to people. And let's see what happens. But, sir, that's not evidence. Do you think it's appropriate? That's how they count the votes in California. Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere close to picking a winner?

6:52State and local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging. No, they're crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote in California. They're crooked, just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked. And meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's continue. Really? Well, you play right into their hands. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this crap. You know that these are...

7:13Ben Meiselas:Then throughout the interview, Kristen Welker was asking him some pretty basic questions about this catastrophic war in Iran. And then Donald Trump would be like, Iran's going to blow you up with nuclear weapons. Meet the Press is going to get hit with nukes. Meet the Press is going to get hit with nukes? What are you talking about? Your own intelligence community said that Iran didn't have the nuclear capabilities when you and Netanyahu invaded. Now you're saying they're going to nuke Meet the Press? Here, play this clip. And the threat is largely over. Soon it will be over. But you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon or they will blow you up.

7:50There will be no, Kristen. There will be no NBC. There will be no meet the press. You will end the meet the press string. Let me ask you, though.

7:59Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked about his promise that he would not have America get into new wars. And Trump goes, I don't promise that. I don't promise anything. I've never made promises about nothing. OK, here play this clip. So when you say I promised, I didn't promise anything. I don't like these endless wars. This is not an endless war. We've been doing this for three months. Much of it has been under the form, a pretty good form of ceasefire. The blockade has been amazing. Our Navy is amazing. Our military is the best in the world. Hey, we took over a very powerful country, Venezuela, a lot of soldiers, big, strong military.

8:38We took over Venezuela in a matter of minutes. We destroyed the capability of Iran in a matter of days. nobody's ever seen anything like it now I'm gonna finish it but remember you were in v and then he

8:53Ben Meiselas:goes the reason I won the election is that I have good judgment I'm a good judgment person I know how to close deals and if they don't do the deal with me I'm gonna blow them the hell up I'm gonna this guy I mean he's always unhinged this is as unhinged as we've ever seen him before and that's saying something folks here play this clip make a judgment do I want to go along and have a country that's doing really well, but somebody is going to try and kill us? Or do I want to put out that horrible threat? And I did. I put it out. I put it out for many, many years. Now I'm going to put it out permanently.

9:30I'm going to do it either through negotiation where we're very close to a deal or I'm...

9:35Ben Meiselas:And then Kristen Welker says, okay, you keep talking about deals. Do you wish you would have made a deal during your first term after you ripped up Obama's deal. Okay. Easy to destroy a deal. Difficult to make one. You say you're a deal maker. Why didn't you make one during your first time? Say, listen, you want to know why? It takes a long time to do deals. Okay. Well, you had your entire first term. Okay. And then you had right now, you had two years to do a deal right now and you decided to invade. You did Operation Midnight Hammer or whatever the hell you called it, where you said their nuclear material was obliterated.

10:10Ben Meiselas:Well, here, play this clip. President, you promised that you were going to negotiate a better deal. Do you wish you'd done it in your first term when you ripped it up at that, before you ripped up the deal? No, they weren't ready. No, this is much better. This is much better. If I would have done it in my first term, Israel wouldn't have been ready. Hear that sound, that sound of thunder, lightning. Is that going to interrupt, guys? No. Okay. People won't. More from Kristen Welker right here about pressing him. You said you would have a new deal after you ripped up Obama's. You claim you're the best negotiator.

10:44Ben Meiselas:So where is it? And I think this is what was really getting under his skin because she was saying you're not a good deal maker without saying it. But just asking him, where's your deal? By the way, where's any of your deals? Where are your trade deals? Where are the 90 deals in 90 days that you promised? Where's one deal in writing? Is there any? No, because he's a liar and he's a fraud. Here, play this clip.

11:33They've been taken off their legs and their arm and their faces have been hurt so badly and so horribly. I'm moving very fast. I'm into three months. You know, Vietnam lasted 19 years. I'm into my third month. And all I do is say, whoa, when are you gonna win? If I were a Democrat, nobody would be talking that way, but it doesn't matter to me. I've gotten so used to it. Look.

11:55Ben Meiselas:Then he goes and he praises the Ayatollah and he's like, the Ayatollah is a very strong, powerful man, much respect, much respect, I mean, we are literally watching Donald Trump just decompose, like watching a lunatic right now. Okay, so you love the Ayatollah now. After saying you're going to blow him the hell up, you realize that the whole world just recognizes that you're an absolute psychopath. Here, play this clip. But no, I think that we'll either have something done fairly quickly or we'll finish it out militarily. Are you talking about the son of the supreme leader? Well, he's a part of it, yes.

12:34He has not been seen in public. What is his status? No, but I do believe - Have you talked to him directly? I do believe they have great respect for him. I see it. I mean, they want to get his concurrence. They've said to me, they've said to others that they're looking for approval, and he is part of the approval process, absolutely. Have you spoken to him directly? I have not. You said you'd want to meet with him. I have not. I would if he'd like to, but I have not spoken to him directly. Do you know where he is? I will tell you, they do. How he is? Yeah. They do pay homage to him, I would tell you if they didn't.

13:08They seem to, based on what I see, they seem to respect him a great deal. Do you know where he is? Do you know how he is doing physically? I don't want to say whether or not I know where he is, but there's a good probability that I do. Is he inside Iran? I'd rather not say that. Okay, he is the son of...

13:27Ben Meiselas:Is the game plan to do what you did with Kim Jong-un of North Korea? Send him love letters. You're respected. You're beloved. You're an amazing guy. Okay, well, want to see what North Korea was doing today while Donald Trump was doing that interview? North Korean state media published this. A new report on Kim Jong-un inspecting a local defense plant and its fulfillment of ballistic missile production plans for the first half of 2026. The current scale of Iswasong 11 ballistic missile production is huge, and they keep bragging about their nuclear weapons every day. The whole world sees Donald Trump's weakness.

14:04Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump claimed, oh, we got a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Donald Trump is viewed as the weakest person, and Netanyahu continues to pull the United States back into open hostilities with Iran. Moments ago, we learned that there were targeted assassinations by Israel in Beirut's Daya district. And Iran considered, said this before, you attack Beirut, that's our bright line. We will then be attacking Israel, to which Israel will then ramp up attacks on Lebanon and Iran. And then the open hostilities begin. This is exactly what Netanyahu was trying to do when he was invading Tyre and Sur and all these other areas.

14:46Ben Meiselas:and escalating after the initial ceasefire was announced unilaterally, I might add, by Donald Trump, whatever it was, a month and a half ago or two months ago. And here we're seeing the images right here. Israel has just launched airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, acting on direct orders from Netanyahu per IDF. Iran has warned it will directly strike Israel if Netanyahu carried out this exact strike. We're now hearing from Iran's parliament, I might add. One of Iranian parliament member says, we will deliver a decisive and painful response to the Zionist regime's attack on Daya. These rabid dogs must be disciplined and put back in their place.

15:25Ben Meiselas:Look at the sky over the occupied lands tonight. Expect Iranian strikes in Israel. Expect Israel to retaliate against Iran. And it looks like full-fledged war is back because we're looking at Donald Trump's absolute weakness right there and being dragged into this war by Netanyahu, who also to cover up the Epstein files, which nobody wants us to talk about right now. I mean, I was looking this morning at this article from Ground News. Nancy Mace knows her Epstein vote screwed her. And I was just looking at the media distribution of who's even covering this. And I should note that coverage is down generally on Trump's cover up of the Epstein files, except here on the Midas Touch Network, where I'm bringing it up now just to make sure you all know about it.

16:08Ben Meiselas:But like very few, when I look at the data and analyze it here, right-wing media sources at all cover anything Epstein, just a full-fledged kind of cover-up by Donald Trump's propaganda media. By the way, it's why this morning and all mornings when I do my research, I use Ground News. It's an app that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story to show you how the left, how the center, how the right are framing stories differently. For every story, the color-coded layout makes it easy to see political bias of each source. I can filter for high-factuality sources and see which sources are independently owned or owned by large media conglomerates with corporate issues and corporate interests.

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17:26Ben Meiselas:Go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code up here. Now, back to Donald Trump's interview with Kristen Welker right here. Kristen Welker said, OK, will any deal with Iran include the release of Americans who may still be held by Iran right now? Is it going to include that? And then Donald Trump's like, no one knows the list. We don't have the list. there's no list did you ask for the list do you is that part of your knowledge set would you like to know that answer here play this clip will any deal you make include the release of americans who are being held by iran well we talk about it and we'll see nobody really has an accurate list of who they are what they are or if they're being held but if they're uh we've been talking about it Nobody really has a list.

18:17You know that, right? You know, you're asking me about... Nobody has a list. But are you demanding a list? Are you demanding to know and saying they've got to come home? You're supposed to give me the list. I mean, do you know people that we're talking about? If you give me the names, I'll do my best to get them out. Well, I don't think that's been reported. Huh? I don't think it's all of the people who've been held. All I'm saying is this. If you have a list of names, give them to me, and I will get them out. But is it something you talk to them about? We talked about people if they have them, but nobody knows who they are.

18:46Just like you don't know who they are.

18:49Ben Meiselas:More Donald Trump praising the Ayatollah, let's play it. Okay, he is the son of the last Supreme Leader, who was obviously hardliner. Is this younger Komeni any better for the United States than his father was? Younger, I think more rational, injured, he's pretty badly injured. So there's a certain bravery there. A lot of people, if they were injured that badly, they wouldn't be talking about, you know, how we doing with the United States. They'd have other things on their mind. So there's a certain bravery there. But he is very seriously injured. Yeah. And then Kristen Walker's like, OK, well, what about, OK, if you're saying we're not at war, everything's great.

19:32Ben Meiselas:Would you consider bringing back some of the 50 ,000 troops that you sent to the Middle East then? Why don't you bring the troops home? It costs me very little to keep them there. And we may use them. I don't know what I'm going to do with them. Here, play this clip. It's ever even envisioned. I think we're doing a great job. But so are you saying you would consider sending some of the troops home, sir? Some of the 50 ,000 troops who were sent there as a part of operation at the Cury? It costs us very little to keep them there. I don't consider them in danger. We have the best defense anyone's ever seen.

20:05We have the best offense anyone's ever seen. So I don't consider danger. I would say it would be foolhardy to do that because maybe we may use them. It's unlikely, but I think we'll keep them there until such time as we have a completion. And when we have a

20:18Ben Meiselas:completion, you will see things like you've never seen the oil will go down. Kristen Welkins, all right, let's talk farmers. You spoke in Wisconsin recently. 70 % of farmers say they can't afford fertilizer at all. What do you say? What do you say to them? Here, play this clip.

21:01Ben Meiselas:And then finally, let me just show you one last time Donald Trump storming off at the end and how utterly bizarre that was. I'll show this to you. Let's play it one more time. I've sat in the rain with you. I know. I've sat in the rain with you for an hour. On and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest. Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.

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