Trump Faces Renewed Health Scrutiny as Iran Conflict Escalates

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3:16Ben Meiselas:The entire world saw it, Donald Trump, rapidly, cognitively, and physically deteriorating before our eyes, in front of the entire world. Donald Trump passing out during NATO summit sessions. Donald Trump referring to Iran as the Islamic Republic of Japan. Donald Trump referring to the JCPOA as the JPOC, the JPOC. Donald Trump not knowing where he even was. Donald Trump struggling to get up the stairs of Air Force One and not flying the Qatari Air Force One for reasons that haven't fully been explained yet. Although Donald Trump said that he feared an assassination attempt could be taking place.

4:05Ben Meiselas:The whole world saw Donald Trump making weird faces at world leaders. Let me just show you piece by piece, receipt by receipt, what was going down. So you can see for yourself what was taking place here. Donald Trump talks about how Iran is the Islamic Republic of Japan. Play this clip. We had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan. They were shot at the - Then Donald Trump proclaims that NATO, he would make the best communist. He would be like Lenin, is how he refers to Lenin. Here, play this clip. I would be the greatest communist in history. I'd be right up there with Lenin. I'd be as good as anybody.

4:52You've got free rent for the rest of your life.

4:55Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump refers to the JCPOA as the JCPOC or the JCPOC. It's the JCPOA. Here, play this clip right here. The Obama deal, that was one of the worst tragedies that happened. That's what happened in the Middle East. That deal set back that whole situation. They went with it. Frankly, they picked the wrong country. They picked the wrong country. JC, POC, what a terrible, what a terrible deal. I call it the Obama nuclear waste deal. Then Donald Trump says that Turkey is a great company, that the country is a very good company. Here, play this clip. I want to thank President Erdogan, who's really a great man.

5:50He's a great leader. He's a friend of mine, been a friend of mine for a long time. He's a strong person, a very strong personality. And that's why he runs such a successful and good company.

6:02Ben Meiselas:We then saw Donald Trump passing out asleep during a NATO summit session. Let's play it. Covered within three years, even before the pledged date. We have allocated an additional budget of 20. Donald Trump then turns to Zelensky and starts calling Zelensky Putin. Here, play this clip. You have a question for President Putin, please? Do you have a question for President Putin, not Zelensky? And then Donald Trump says, okay, okay, pretend I'm Putin. Ask me questions and I'll answer for Putin. Here, play this clip. Last year you called Russia a paper tiger, referring that they're not doing that. Who did I call?

6:49I'm from Telegraphy, Ukrainian media. No, give us a question, not for Zelensky, give us a question for Putin. Why is he attacking Ukraine's city and he wants peace? Why is he attacking Ukraine's city and he wants peace? When will he end this war? That's a good question. I don't think I've ever asked him that question. I've been asking him that question. Mr. President, what's the status of a trial deal between you and Ukraine? Say it. What's the status of a trial deal? By the way, I will tell you, though, he's going to tell you that he wants it ended as soon as he can end it. He wants it ended.

7:25He wants to end it soon. And I ask him how we talk. I talk to him a lot. I talk to him a little bit less, but the relationship is very good. But I talk to President Putin a lot. He wants to end the war. A lot of people don't believe that. What are President Putin's conditions for ending the war? Well, they were certain conditions. They were a little bit different. I think they're changing. I think they're probably getting a little bit better toward some of the things that you'd like.

8:00Ben Meiselas:That's what you were doing as NATO, role-playing as Putin, either because you're such a Putin bootlicker or because you've been calling Zelensky Putin. You were pretending to the press that, oh, that must have been saying, let's ask Putin. I'm Putin. I mean, how stupid is that? I'm Putin, everybody. I mean, could you imagine if anybody else behaved like this? Then a reporter says, so Ukrainian reporter, what's your assessment of Ukraine's ability to strike Russian oil refineries? Pretty basic question. If you're following the news, you know that the Ukrainian drones, the FP1 and the ballistic missiles, the FP5 Flamingos, have been striking the Russian oil refineries.

8:40Ben Meiselas:The question was clear. Everybody could hear it. Donald Trump's like, rephrase the question. I don't, what do you mean? What are you talking, Marco, Marco, Polo? I didn't say Polo. Marco, can you answer? You're playing this clip. Mr. President, what is your assessment on Ukraine's strike on Russian oil refineries and military factories. Where are you from? Ukraine.

9:04Phrase the question differently, please. Ukraine delivered strikes on Russian military factories and on all refineries, and they ran out of gas. Marco, why don't you answer that, because you're right in the middle of it. Yeah, no, I think what you're discussing is the ability of Ukraine to reach deep inside of Russia and conduct strikes. I think that's one of the dynamics that's changed in this war over the last few months, and that is that the Russians are finding it more difficult to defend their own airspace.

9:34Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump's like, and this is like the real sicko, psycho disinhibition, genocidal maniac. And then he just like has this tantrum. It's like, and we're gonna destroy the desalinization facilities in Iran, water facilities. We're going to destroy their electricity. We're going to destroy their infrastructure and their bridges. This is quite literally like you're speaking like Hitler. I mean, you are just talking about war crimes loudly and proudly in NATO where future generations of Americans and current, but especially to go, how the hell did this happen to America? The stain, the taint on the United States of America, the embarrassment, the humiliation ritual.

10:19Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip right here. The highest level of the bridges there, which we can knock down, I would say in one day, we knock down every single bridge in Iran. There's not a thing they can do about it. Their electric manufacturing facilities, right? Their electric plants, where they make their electricity in there. We will, if we have to, we'll take them out. I don't want to do that, but if we have to, we'll take them out. They have desalinization plans. We'll take them out of behalf to, I hate to do that. That's probably the one I would like that to do at least. Then Donald Trump's like, Tic Tac, Tic Tac, I'm number one on Tic Tac, and all I do is talk about communism.

11:02Ben Meiselas:You're not number one on Tic Tac, okay? It's not even true. I'm Tic Tac, I talk about communism. The hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip. Dangerous, it's so horrible, they're spreading all these rumors. And the numbers came out yesterday. Do you know who's number one on TikTok? I am. I'm number one on TikTok. And all I talk about is how bad communism is, right? You can see Donald Trump's hands were rotting again, which we've been pointing out. He wears makeup all over his hands. Here was Donald Trump trying to walk up Air Force One, the old Air Force One, because the Qatari Air Force One was, I think it was in the UK.

11:40Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump was pretending at the Royal Air Force Base. and they made up some excuse about why he wasn't flying on that one. But anyway, here he is walking up those stairs. Let's play it.

12:09Making weird faces at world leaders, weird faces at world leaders,

12:12Ben Meiselas:posting AI images from 2025 of Iran. I don't know why you're posting 2025 images of Iran. I'll show you Donald Trump trying to walk up those stairs one more time. You can see for yourself. It's him trying to walk up again slower. And then let me share with you some footage of Donald Trump trying to go down the stairs of the old Air Force One as he arrived at the Royal Air Force Base in the United Kingdom as he was switching Air Force Ones with the old Air Force One to the Qatari Air Force One, which by the way, massive waste of taxpayer dollars. And also they're covering up the real reason why he didn't fly the Qatari Air Force One out of Turkey, which obviously is close to Iran.

12:56Ben Meiselas:We'll learn about that soon. But just look at him struggle to get down those steps as well. Look at it as he struggles to get down the steps. And then let me highlight what went down two days ago. So two days ago, Donald Trump cognitively and physically declining as well. Let me share with you what he was doing then. It's not looking good for Donald. His health collapsing before the entire world. This is exactly what we predicted. Now Donald Trump is getting mocked in countries like Russia for his cognitive and physical collapse at NATO. I'm sure you saw what went down. We covered it, but let me bring some receipts to talk about just how bad Donald Trump looked physically, cognitively, and this resulted in real-world consequences as well.

13:44Ben Meiselas:We saw the United States back at war with Iran after Donald Trump making a horrible decision and striking Iran yet again and pulling out of the Memorandum of Understandings requirements of the general license to Iran for Iran to ship its crew to cross the world. Take a look at Donald Trump declining on the world stage. You can see how slowly he shuffles from his car, as called activism puts it. Let's play it.

14:36Of course, there are all these photos of Donald Trump being literally propped up and held by President Erdogan of Turkey as Donald Trump didn't know which way he was walking. Russian TV made a very big story out of this, that Donald Trump had been cognitively and physically declining in Turkey. He needed the help of Erdogan in Ankara just to walk in a straight line. Here, play this clip.

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17:19After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. It's time to make laundry day the best day of the week. More photos right here of Erdogan really clutching Donald Trump, holding him up. Again, he looked really bad. I'll show you how they were covering it on state regime media so you can see for yourself as Erdogan clutched a wandering Trump's arm to guide him around. Let's play this clip. I told the Iranian leaders, whoever they are, I'm staying out of this. Right. And then you they got they rocketed Turkey a couple of times. So now they said and they said some negative things about the Turkish leader at the Ayatollah's funeral, the never ending funeral he's on.

18:04So they said something negative about Turkey. So he kind of risked that alliance for the president.

18:09Ben Meiselas:Let's listen in to this. You just stop briefly. You know, then during the initial press conference at NATO, I mean, it was just an absolute disaster. Of course, you had Donald Trump being asked very basic questions by the press, like, is the Turkey missile defense system going to be handed over to a third party as part of any F-35 deals? Of course, that's a reference to the fact that Donald Trump, during his first administration, sanctioned Turkey because Turkey bought Russian air defense systems. And there was a law passed by Congress that said if you buy a certain amount of Russian weapons or air defense systems, you'll be sanctioned.

18:56One of those sanctions is you can't get access to American F-35s. And there's also a bunch of other financial sanctions that are part of this package. But Trump did the sanctions against Turkey during Trump's first term. So the question was a basic one. Like if you have a very basic understanding of the Turkey relationship, the question is, well, if you're going to remove sanctions from Turkey and give them F-35s, are you going to claw back the Russian defense systems? So they don't have that anymore. And Donald Trump's like, what are you talking about? What does that even mean? What does that mean?

19:32I mean, you're aware why Turkey's being sanctioned by you. You, Donald Trump, sanctioned him. Here, play this clip.

19:44Is that not part of the deal? What is the third? With respect to what? There's our concerns about the Russian missile defense system. Do you have those concerns about the system? Are they going to have to?

20:03a leader of a country, that he's made a much better country, which is a more powerful country. And if you see it, it's beautiful. You get off the roads of your country. And then Donald Trump announces that Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, is a very famous man. He goes, Marco Rubio, a very famous man. Have you heard about him and how famous he is? We've agreed to lift all of the sanctions against Turkey. And Marco Rubio had testified before Congress the other day, or in early June, that that wasn't going to happen. So Marco Rubio was surprised by this. Donald Trump just blurts it out. And it's unlawful.

20:41It requires a congressional law. It requires authorization. But Donald Trump just says it on the international stage. Here, play this clip. I can tell you, we're going to be taking the sanctions off. OK, I don't want him to waste his time answering that question because we're working very closely with Marco Rubio, very famous man, great secretary of state. And with Scott Bessett and with Pete and everybody else, we're going to be taking the sanctions off. It's time to do that. OK. We don't want to sanction friends. It's very simple. Just so you can see what Marco Rubio testified to under oath in Congress.

21:27I'll show it to you right here. Let's play it. Let me just ask you a quick question about something that Ambassador Barrack said, changing the subject a little bit. He compared Israel to Hezbollah for one thing. That was a pretty concerning comparison. But also he said Turkey should join the F-35 program. These comments are inconsistent with law and longstanding policy. And I'm just wondering what your position is as Secretary of State. Can Turkey get F-15s and, I mean, F-35s or not? We seem to be helping the bad guys and not the good guys. Well, I'm sure you're aware, Turkey actually was in the F-35 program.

22:11The reason why they can't get them is because they purchased the S-400 system. from the Russians. They still have those and they're still under mandatory sanctions. Correct. So as you know, that's governed by statute. Okay, or not. Well, right now, we don't have that choice because it's governed by statute, both provisions of the NBAA and the statute. Well, there's a lot of our ambassador out there saying that. Why? And then Donald Trump like thinks that he and Erdogan are like friends or like lovers and they have great chemistry together. So that's why he's doing it. You know, me and Erdogan, we're friends.

22:39We get along so well. We have great chemistry right from the very beginning. This is what we've been seeing, the disinhibition by Donald Trump, where he always talks about how sexually attracted he is to a lot of the male authoritarian leaders who he comes into contact with. The head of UAE, Prime Minister Modi in India, el-Sisi in Egypt. And here he does it again with Erdogan that he's like, we have a great relationship. We have great chemistry. Very special, very special relationship here at Play This Clip. As everybody knows, it's been very much reported. We are great friends. The president has done an incredible job.

23:20Just landing at the airport to see such a beautiful airport and to have a building named after me. I'm very happy about that. It was very nice. The airport is absolutely beautiful. The roads coming in were brand new and beautiful. He's been a great leader and a respected leader all over the world. And we really do. We've had right from the beginning good chemistry. We've had a very special relationship. And then Donald Trump was asked, okay, you know, you've been making social media posts where you say that Georgia Maloney, the prime minister of Italy, needs a restraining order. Those are pretty harsh words to say about a leader from a NATO ally heading into a NATO summit.

24:06You're essentially accusing her of stalking you and harassing you so that you need a restraining order against her. And then Donald Trump's like, I like her. I actually like her. She's a nice person. We've had a good relationship. I didn't put a heavy press on her. I didn't put a heavy press on her. I didn't put a heavy press on her. Doesn't that sound like when he was in the Axis Hollywood tape? I moved on her. I put a heavy press on her. You're probably a sick human being. Here's what he says. Let's play this clip.