Trump Crashes Out in Presser as Iran Rejects Deal

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1:26Ben Meiselas:Scaling your work from day one. The same Monday.com with an easy and intuitive setup. Go to Monday.com and try it for free. Donald Trump just held a catastrophic press conference in the White House as Iran has rejected Donald Trump's begging at this point for them to negotiate with him. As they said, your deadline is not something that we are going to bow down to. Now, during this catastrophic press conference, Donald Trump said that he should run and become the president of Venezuela. Donald Trump took credit for killing Osama bin Laden. And then Donald Trump said the Iranian people are begging to be bombed.

2:05Ben Meiselas:They love being bombed. When Donald Trump was asked about his conduct being war crimes, he just started attacking the reporter. And then Donald Trump said that if Iran does not immediately surrender, he's prepared to blow up everything in Iran and totally obliterate and destroy the entire country of Iran, making no distinction between the Islamic Republic and the people of Iran. So let's just go through with the receipts of what happened during this catastrophic press conference. Donald Trump said that he wants to run and become the president of Venezuela. Play this clip. And we just so you understand, the people of Venezuela, they say if I ran for president of Venezuela, I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela.

2:49So after I'm finished with this, I can go to Venezuela. I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take too long. I'm good at language. And I will go to Venezuela. I'm going to run for president. But we're very happy with the president-elect that we have right now. The people that are running it.

3:05Ben Meiselas:If you remember Bush. And Donald Trump said that he was the one who killed Osama bin Laden. Let's play this clip right here. It was so easy. I terminated that and then the B-2 bombers and I did one other thing I had killed Qasem Soleimani who was an evil genius and the reason I did it I heard he was going to knock out five of our military bases and had he lived I believe we would be fighting perhaps a different Iran right now because because he's never he's never been replaced, you know, and I also I did one other, but this one was not picked up. Osama bin Laden. If you read my book, I said you got to take him out one year before the World Trade Center came down.

3:55So I wish you'd read the book.

3:59Ben Meiselas:Next, Donald Trump says that the Iranian people are upset when they are not bombed. They like being bombed, he says. Let's play this clip. You've said Iranians would be mad if you stopped these attacks, but why would they want you to blow up their infrastructure, to cut off their power? Wouldn't that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime? They would be willing to they would be and it's suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom. The Iranians have and we've had numerous intercepts. Please keep bombing bombs that are dropping near their homes. Please keep bombing.

4:35Do it. And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave and we're not hitting those areas, they're saying, please come back, come back, come back. These are the people. I don't know what they do. All I can tell you is they want freedom. They have lived in a world that you know nothing about. It's a violent, horrible world where if you protest, you are shot.

5:01Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says Iran was great 25 years ago when they were part of the axis of evil. They were actually great, he says. Let's play this clip. They've lived so horribly. You know, Iran was a great country. If you go back 25 years ago or so, the Persian people, they're incredible, smart. Then Donald Trump talks about the plan that he has, he says, to basically destroy all of Iran and to completely obliterate the nation and just destroy all their bridges, power plants, civilian infrastructure. Here's what he says. Let's play this clip. We have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o 'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning exploding and never to be used again i mean complete demolition by 12 o 'clock and it'll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to we don't want that to happen we may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation and you know what if that's the case the last thing we want to do is start with power plants which are among the most expensive thing and bridges you saw the bridge the bridge went we were very close to a deal and then i got a call from mr whitkoff mr kushner and jd saying i think they're breaking the deal i said tell them that's okay don't worry about it but tell them to look out their window and watch and within 45 minutes i gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge i gave the order knock out the biggest bridge in i believe the middle east but the biggest bridge in iran and within 10 minutes after i gave the that order.

6:51That bridge was.

6:53Ben Meiselas:Then he's asked how many special forces and other troops were sent into Iran to purportedly extract the F-15E pilot and crew members after the F-15E was shot down over Iran. Then Donald Trump is told, don't say it because it is confidential information, classified information. Then Trump claims it was hundreds of people. And it also should be noticed that multiple C-130 aircrafts and helicopters and other important military equipment was destroyed, including the Reaper drones, like half a billion dollars of military equipment was destroyed. I did a report on what I suspect actually went down near the Isfahan facility where this extraction took place.

7:37Ben Meiselas:But listen to what Trump says. Play this clip. And don't forget, how many men did you send altogether approximately for the operation? I'd love to keep that a secret. OK, well, but I will tell you the number. I'll keep it a secret, but it was hundreds. And then Donald Trump says that God is telling him to obliterate Iran. Play this clip. Thank you very much. You've said glory be to God in this conflict. Do you believe that God supports the United States actions? And I do it because God is good because God is good and God wants to see people taken care of. God doesn't like what's happening. I don't like what's happening.

8:18Everyone says, I enjoy it. I don't enjoy this. I don't enjoy it. These two guys don't enjoy it. You know, people say, oh boy, they're so tough. They don't want, they don't like, I don't like seeing people killed. I've ended eight wars. Nobody's ever done it. The person who won the Nobel Prize came to me and said, you deserve the Nobel Prize. She announced that when they announced, they said, goes to Maria. She's a great person, really a good person. She said, no, no, no. This is ridiculous. They gave me the Nobel Prize. President Trump ended eight wars. I could go over every one of them, including India and Pakistan, where the prime minister of Pakistan said, President Trump saved from 30 to 50 million lives.

9:02That makes me much happier than what we're doing right now. That makes me much happier. We have one more to end, by the way.

9:11Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump attacks NATO, refers to NATO as a paper tiger. And he says, that's what Putin tells me all the time. Play this clip. You know, NATO is a paper tiger. Now he's coming to see me on Wednesday, as you know, he's a wonderful guy. Secretary General is great. And Mark Ruta, he's a great person, but he's got, and you know, it all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland. We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us. And I said, bye bye. He then attacks American allies like South Korea, Japan and Australia. Show you this clip right here. You voiced your displeasure with NATO in the past.

9:53Ben Meiselas:Is there a danger to the US not being the de facto of the leader of the alliance and then other powers within the alliance then getting the decision making when it comes to wars and nuclear weapons? No, it's not a danger. NATO's, look, we went to NATO. I didn't ask very strongly. I just said hey if you want to help great. No, no, no, we will not help I said that's alright. You don't want to help because I've always said NATO is a paper tiger See NATO is a paper tiger Putin's not afraid of NATO. Putin's afraid of us very afraid of us And he's explained it to me a lot of times. I got to know him very well.

10:28I know very well NATO is a paper tiger NATO is us and When we needed them, but we didn't need them by the way We didn't need them, obviously, because they haven't helped at all. Just the opposite. They've actually gone out of their way not to help. They didn't even want to give us landing strips. Think of it. And it's not just NATO. You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. You know who else didn't help us? Australia didn't help us. You know who else didn't help us?

10:58Ben Meiselas:Japan. Donald Trump is asked by a reporter why he calls Iranians crazy bastards and if his mental health should be examined. It's a good question. We covered a lot here on this network. And Trump says, I never heard anybody asking that my mental health be examined. Yeah, everybody in the world is asking that pretty much right now. Donald, let's play this clip. You called yesterday in your truth social, you called the Iranians crazy bastards. True. What is your response to critics who say that I don't care about critics? What is your response to critics who say that is your mental health that should perhaps be examined as this war continues?

11:32I haven't heard that. But if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people like me because our country was being ripped off on trade or everything for many years until I came along. So if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people.

11:48Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked about would he end the war if Iran continues to charge tolls and control the Strait of Hormuz? And Trump's like, you mean the U.S. charging tolls? We should be the ones who charge the tolls in the Strait of Hormuz because we won the war. No, Donald, that's not what's happening at all, actually. But you're the one begging for Iran to negotiate, and they're not negotiating. They control the Strait of Hormuz. I mean, this is real deranged stuff. But in any event, let's play this clip. Mr. President, are you allowed to or are you willing to end this conflict with Iran charging tolls for passage through the strait?

12:26Us charging tolls? Iran. What about us charging tolls? Is that something you're considering? I'd rather do that than let them have them run. Why shouldn't we? We're the winner. We won. Okay. They are militarily defeating. The only thing they have is the psychology of, oh, we're going to drop a couple of mines in the water. All right. No, we, I mean, we have a concept where we'll charge tolls. Okay. I thought you meant us. Your question, your question would have been more accurate if you

12:58Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump just starts cursing and said the Iranians are good bullshit artists. Let's play it. They say there might be eight. I don't know. I don't know. I think there might be none because they're very good bullshit artists. That's why for 47 years they've been bullshitting other presidents and they haven't done the job and people are living in hell. You live in that country. They're living in hell. No, I think that 47 years. Trump is then asked about his messaging on the war has moved from the war is coming to an end to we're going to bomb Iran to the stone age. So which is it? And Trump goes, I can't tell you, I don't know.

13:34Ben Meiselas:Let's play this clip. Your messaging on the war has moved from the war is coming to an end to we're going to be bombing Iran to the stone ages. And we've heard a range of those kind of messages. So are you, so which is it? Are you winding this down? Are you escalating? I can't tell you. I don't know. I can't tell you. Depends what they do. This is a critical period. Watch what happens when a New York Times reporter asked Donald Trump about war crimes that deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure constitute war crimes. Watch what Trump says. Play this clip. I'd have them stand.

14:12Ben Meiselas:Thank you, Mr. President, for the question. Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva kind of conventions and international law. Who are you with? I'm with the New York Times. Zolan from the New York Times. Are you feeling, feeling? Are you concerned? Circulation way down at the New York Times. Are you concerned that your threat to bomb power plants and bridges amount to? No, no, no, no, no. I hope I don't have to do it. But again, I just said 47 years they've been negotiating with these people. They're great negotiators. Then Trump says he'll take out the entire country of Iran in one night.

14:45Ben Meiselas:tomorrow night. He plans to obliterate all of Iran. Let's play the clip. Well, at a level that nobody's ever seen before. The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night. Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive. He then says that Iran is at its weakest point they've ever been. So now we have to communicate with them like children, like 2 ,000 years ago, passing notes like children. Does that even mean? Let's play this clip. Years of this stuff is long enough. They're at the weakest point they've ever been. They have no Navy. They have no Air Force.

15:27They have no anti-aircraft weaponry. They have no radar. They have no communication. In fact, the biggest problem we have in our negotiation is that they can't communicate. I said to Steve, what are they saying, sir, they can't communicate. They have no method of communication. So we're doing, we're communicating like they used to communicate 2000 years ago with children, bringing a note

15:49Ben Meiselas:back and forth. And obviously they're not at their weakest point. They control these straight and her moves right now. And lots of countries are now doing bilateral negotiations. The U S is at its weakest point right now. Then Donald Trump goes on to say that there were 101 missiles going 2 ,700 miles an hour aimed at the Abraham Lincoln. Play this clip. You know, we have in terms of technology, we had one day 101 missiles going at 2 ,700 miles an hour aimed at the Abraham Lincoln. 101 missiles out of 101 missiles, 101 missiles were shot down. unbelievable technology then trump says that our b2 bombers backlash june totally obliterated the nuclear facilities okay so then why are why are we here what are we doing let's play this clip had those beautiful b2 bombers not gone in eight months ago and obliterated that's it and by the way the word is obliteration cnn said well maybe it wasn't complete it was so complete that they still haven't been able to get it.

16:56It was obliteration, but...

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