Trump Gets Lost on Roof of White House as Panic Sets In

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2:11Ben Meiselas:Anything I do is financed by me. More ways to spend my money. I'm paying for everything. Here's what happened. Let me just show you the clip. On the roof of the White House, he's taking questions. Or he was just a few moments ago. Let's listen in, please. You're looking good, Peter. Where are you going to follow me? I do.

2:38What does that mean? What do you mean? There's four ways to spend my money. Can you give me another hand? I will. I will show you. It's just another way to spend my money for the country. Are you going to spend my money? Anything I do is finance by means.

3:09Ben Meiselas:Yeah, a deeply disturbing moment indeed. He then called up CNBC and started ranting and raving like a lunatic. I'll show you that in a moment. But here's another angle right here of him on top of the roof. Here, play this clip. There's more ways to spend my money. Can you give us another hint? I will, I will show you. It's just another way to spend my money for the country. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, there is a senile old man in orange makeup wandering around on the roof on the White House making weird hand gestures and yelling out, I finance everything. I pay for everything.

3:53Ben Meiselas:It's me who pays for everything. So then he calls CNBC. There's a host on CNBC, Joe Kernan, who's like an ultra MAGA guy. And all these CNBC hosts treat Donald Trump like he's a little baby and they baby him. It's such a strange thing for a financial show to be doing this, but that's the corrosive nature of corporate news right now. But Donald Trump then talks about undocumented farm workers. And he basically says that migrants, they're built for farm work. They have good backs. And if their backs hurt, then they die. And then he seems to suggest that black people are not good farm workers as much as he tries to make them become good farm workers.

4:41Ben Meiselas:That's what he's saying here. But this is what he's saying on a financial show this morning after walking on the roof. Here play this clip. Back to their country with a pass back in legally. And we're doing things that are that are very difficult to do and very complex, but it works really well. We're sending them back and then they're schooling, they're learning, they're coming in, they're coming in legally. We have a lot of that going on, but we're taking care of our farmers. We can't let our farmers not have anybody. You know, these are these people that they're you You can't replace them very easily.

5:17You know, people that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They're just not doing that work. And they've tried. We've tried. Everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally. I said, what happens if they get it to a farmer the other day? What happens if they get a bad back? He said, they don't get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die. I said, that's interesting, isn't it? You know, these are very, you know, in many ways, they're very, very special people. Okay, go ahead.

5:48Ben Meiselas:No. Okay. So then he talks about putting tariffs on pharmaceuticals up to 250%. And again, he's just saying numbers, 150%, 250%. We're going to make all the pharmaceuticals here. So you're just going to make everybody's prescription drug prices cost a lot more money. Okay. Anyway, play this clip. Chips and semiconductors. But on pharmaceuticals, we'll be putting a initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals. But in one year, one and a half years maximum, it's going to go to 150 percent. And then it's going to go to 250 percent because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country. And that's not the chipsack like Biden did because he didn't know what he was doing, where they gave billions of dollars to companies that had more money than they knew what to do with.

6:37President Trump, can I ask you about.

6:39Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump rants and raves on the CNBC show that he has the highest poll numbers ever, even though his poll numbers right now are in the mid 30s. They're actually the worst ever. He says those polls are rigged. Those polls are fake. In fact, his polling is in the 70s, he says, with minimal pushback from Joe Kernan and the CNBC folks here. Play this clip. We'll all talk about all the stuff that. Hey, Becky, I'd like to run. I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. You know why? Because people love the tariffs and they love that they love the countries and they love that foreign countries aren't ripping us off.

7:21For years they ripped us off. Friend and foe. And the friend was worse. Overall poll numbers. You don't have the best you ever had in overall poll numbers. You do. I cited one of those. I have the best. I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. Among Republicans. I have poll numbers where I'm 71%. I have the best poll numbers. Those are among Republicans. You know you've got. No, no, no. Among Republicans, I'm at 94 % and 95%. No, I'm talking about generally. Let me put it this way. There was a gentleman on Harry Emden yesterday on CNN, and he went crazy over how well Trump was doing. Now, you know, you don't put that on because I think CBS is a shade.

8:04Actually, CNN is a shade better than NBC. I think NBC is probably the worst of them all. But if you check CNN tomorrow, watch Harry Emden, and you'll see about the numbers. But that's okay. We have to defend ourselves. But there are other they can say there's your haters cite polls that have you down in the 30s, Mr. President. Yeah, but they're fake polls, Joe. I had a lot of fake polls. You also have me in the 70s.

8:27Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump tries to make the case that all of the job numbers and all of the economic data that's out now showing that the economy is doing very bad is he says that's rigged. And you'll see here the MAGA friendly host, Joe Kernan, I would say maybe somewhat pushes back, but not really. Here play this clip. And certainly not certainly suboptimal, but rigged. Where do you get the notion that it's rigged? Or do you have any evidence there? It is antiquated, but it's also very political. And, you know, I had an election recently where I did very well, won every swing state, won the popular vote, won everything.

9:08All right. One. All the counties. I think 87 percent of the counties were Republican up. That's never happened before. And yet I had to go through hell. And just days before the election, they put out numbers that it was like the country was on fire, was doing so well. And then they did a revision about two weeks later. And the revision was down by almost nine hundred thousand jobs. You remember that? And I said, man, I said, what would have happened? What would have happened if I lost? Think of it. I would have said they gave phony numbers and then they revised them a week and a half later. Those were benchmark numbers.

9:50That happens. They do that. They do that twice a year and it reconciles the monthly figures with like the overall numbers. And it was a big number. And obviously the numbers were the numbers were rigged. Biden wasn't doing well. He was doing poorly. They announced these phenomenal numbers the two days before the election and a little bit before that. Always these great numbers. And you knew it wasn't doing well. You knew prices were through the roof and inflation was terrible. The whole thing was bad. And but think of it. Then they did the biggest revision, I think, in history of almost nine hundred thousand jobs.

10:27And it turned out to be more than that, because later on they did another revision. And so they gave phony numbers in order to win the election. After I won the election, I said, too big to rig.

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12:06Ben Meiselas:The big downward revision was announced in August, not after the election. He is a delusional and a liar, just a horrible, horrible combination. Here, Donald Trump lies and claims the European Union is basically giving him a blank check, for$600 billion that he claims that he can spend however he wants. Notice he doesn't even say the country. He goes, I can spend however I want. They gave me, the European Union gave me$600 billion. And again, this is 100 % false. European Union has said they have not guaranteed anything the same way Japan and South Korea said they haven't guaranteed anything. They're not giving Donald Trump$1, yet alone$600 billion.

12:52Ben Meiselas:There's no binding agreements. There's no paperwork. There's nothing written. It's Donald Trump's social media posts and Donald Trump wandering with his orange makeup, ranting and raving on the roof of the White House. Here play this clip. Mr. President, what kind of teeth though are in those investments? What kind of teeth are in those investments that would force the EU to make those investments? If they don't make those investments what happens on the other side well then they pay tariffs of 35 no no they bought down their tariffs so they paid 600 billion dollars and because of that i reduced their their tariffs from 30 down to 15 and a couple of countries came how come eu is paying less than us and i said well because they gave me 600 billion dollars and that's a gift that's not like you know alone by the way that's not a loan that oh gee three years comes up we have to pay it back there's nothing to pay back they gave us 600 billion dollars that we can invest in anything we want the the deal that nobody knows it becky nobody knows it because you know they they don't know that we have been trying to figure out the details on that mr president so there are no clarity on the details are 600 billion to invest in anything i want anything i can do anything i want with it and the purpose was they've been you know ripping us for so many years that it's time that they pay up and they have to pay up we couldn't afford to have the deficits look i i did something with switzerland the other day i spoke to their prime minister the woman was nice but she didn't want to listen and they paid essentially no tariffs and i said we have a 41 billion dollar deficit with you madam i didn't know her i said we have a 41 billion dollar deficit and you want to you want to pay one percent tariffs you wanted one percent i said you're Then Donald Trump goes after NATO leaders and says, they do whatever the hell I want.

14:48Ben Meiselas:NATO leaders, they do what I want. Here, play this clip. Can I finish one thing? Yes. One year ago, one year ago, our country was dead. Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. And that was told to me by every leader of NATO, which they do whatever I want. that was told to me by the king of saudi arabia by the leaders of uae by the leader of qatar by many many we were a dead country one year ago today we're the hottest country anywhere in the world and i'm i'm very happy to help this president once again thank you uh thanks and donald trump brags about rigging the texas maps and saying that he wants to grab these five seats away from Democrats before the midterms in Texas.

15:40Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. We have a really good governor and we have good people in Texas. And I won Texas. I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know. And we are entitled to five more seats. I don't know. I have to check on that. And, you know, they expect. Why don't you check it, Brian? The fact checkers expect us to check everything you say on the phone. I want you to check it. But for four years, those fact checkers didn't fact check anything that was said about. We don't need to reiterate that either. But they expect fact checking immediately.

16:17Joe, why don't you check it? OK, because I'd like you to. I got the highest vote in the history of practice.

16:21Ben Meiselas:You know, yesterday we heard from the Republican congress member from Nebraska, Congress member Don Bacon. And at least he was honest here when he says, look, people are suffering in Nebraska right now. We're losing jobs. People are struggling. Here play this clip. And I would just say from my vantage point here in Nebraska, we're seeing a bit of a troubled economic mess or right now it's a troubled time. And I'll say In Nebraska, the GDP here has decreased by 6 % over the last year, and it's all about trade. It's all about getting corn and soybeans out the door. So what I hear with weak jobs numbers, we're sort of seeing that in Nebraska right now.

17:07Ben Meiselas:If you look at the generic ballot poll that just came out this morning from YouGov, right now Democrats are above Republicans by significant margin, about 6%. That's been increasing steadily as well as Donald Trump is just completely destroying his presidency, the Republican brand. It's this delusional insanity that you're seeing right there, wandering on the roof, shouting and ranting and raving like a lunatic. I've unearthed some footage that I want to share with you as well because Donald Trump ranting and raving on the roof. I'm spending all my money, everything I'm doing, that's all I'm giving you money.

17:50Ben Meiselas:It just reminded me of this. This is May 8th, 2013. And it's Donald Trump at this event that's called I'm Giving Away Money. This was the event. And it was one of Donald Trump's schemes. I'm giving away money. Like it's like I'm giving away money.com or something. And this is from 2013. This is the type of stuff that he was doing back then. Here, just watch this clip. I'll put these two clips together for you here. Play this clip. Make it to the podium, to be honest with you. And many of the people are in trouble and they need help. And that's what we're about. And by the way, anything that I make from doing this and anything that I get, I'm putting back and I'm giving 100 percent back.

18:34So Bill and his group were giving out three major awards today and we'll be announcing them now. In addition to that, we're going to be giving 10 checks for$5 ,000 apiece to some of the people that are in this massive audience. So we'll be doing that, but let's do this first. So Bill, come on. 20s, 50s. We're giving armfuls of money to people. Anybody want money up there? We got plenty of money for people. Go to fund anything. Tell us your story. We'll try to pick you, give you money. so we're going to be doing these again over the months we'll do them at trump tower we're going to be doing these again we have a few more people that we've just taken from the audience

19:22Ben Meiselas:so we've given away and i'm giving you all my money i'm gonna give you you're gonna be so rich you're not gonna know what to do with it you want tariff rebate checks you want doge dividend checks you want, we're going to be so ready. The guy's a con artist. I can't, how do Americans, how do Americans fall for this crap? And he's a lunatic. I mean, he's on the top of a roof ranting and raving like a lunatic. Well, you tell me what you think and subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Seriously, hit subscribe. Let's grow this channel. Let's get out the truth, people. The truth is more important than ever.

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