Trump Gets Scared as Shutdown Is Not Going as He Planned

0:00And we're live from the living room as Doug eyes up the matchday spread. He's reaching for the Buffalo wing. Perfect. Hang on, what's this? Oh, he's going for a can of Pepsi too. Incredible. What a finish. Sensational combination. Look at the delight on his face. There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Matchdays deserve Pepsi. Food deserves Pepsi. Grab a pack of Pepsi Zero Sugar for today's match. It's poetry in motion. I wrote a little song to remind you, Choice Hotels gets you more of the experiences you value. The Cambria Hotel's got it all. A rooftop bar, have a ball. Cocktails up here feel just right.

0:45It's Cambria amazing, all right. Bring a date, your team, or even your mom. Book direct at choicehotels.com. See you on the roof. Amazon Health AI presents Painful Thoughts. I, um, I can't stop scratching my downtown. Yeah, but I'm not itching to go downtown and tell a receptionist I'm here to talk about my downtown. Some things you'd rather type than say out loud. There's no question too embarrassing for Amazon Health AI. Chat your symptoms and get virtual care 24-7. Healthcare just got less painful. I didn't think the pain from the shingles rash would affect simple everyday tasks like bathing, getting dressed, or even walking around.

1:38I was wrong. Though not everyone at risk will develop it, 99 % of people over the age of 50 already have the virus that causes shingles, and it could reactivate at any time. I developed it, and the blistering rash lasted for weeks. Don't learn the hard way, like I did. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today. Sponsored by GSK.

2:27H.I. Koushi, trade the beautiful game. 18 plus only restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Koushi products are not available in all jurisdictions. Prices, values, and available markets may differ from those mentioned. For more information, see Koushi.com slash regulatory.

2:46Ben Meiselas:His behavior is getting more odd and deranged. I mean, just look at this guy right here. he's hiding during the middle of a government shutdown. He has ordered MAGA Mike Johnson to have all the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives leave for yet another week and go on a paid vacation. That's right. No House Republicans are showing up to work next week because Donald Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson told the House Republicans, don't come to work. We're back to your district. All the while, Donald Trump is focused on making a$1 coin of himself to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, which, by the way, is not legal.

3:34Ben Meiselas:It goes against 31 U.S.C. 5114B. Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities. But this isn't stopping the Trump regime propagandists like Steve Guest to say, attention all patriots, America's back. And so is the$1 coin. Donald Trump will forever be commemorated on American currency. He's putting his face on American currency. He's building 90 ,000 square feet golden ballrooms where no one even knows how the hell it's being funded. He's ripped apart the Rose Garden and turned it into a club called Club Rose Garden for his rich Republican friends.

4:18Ben Meiselas:He's talking about UFC fights in the White House. He's bailing out Argentina with $20 billion of our taxpayer dollars. And he's bragging about removing funding, rescinding funding that by law is supposed to go to all of these states because he says they're Democrat states and their scams. He says that this shutdown is a great opportunity for him to inflict pain on the American people. He's like giddy. He's enjoying it. I mean, look at him. But he's in hiding. He doesn't want to show his face at the same time. I mean, he's posting photos and videos like this of the author of Project 2025 and the current Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vogt.

5:05Ben Meiselas:You see him here. Trump's posting AI videos of Russ Vogt as the Grim Reaper, stealing the taxpayer money, taking away services. I mean, I don't see the humor in that. He's posting photos of himself as the Grim Reaper. Donald Trump is posting on social media more ISIS-style death videos of the American military shooting boats off the coast of Venezuela. Donald Trump posts, a boat loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 ,000 to 50 ,000 people was stopped early this morning off the coast of Venezuela from entering American territory. We never get information about where the boat is. This boat looked very, very small.

5:54Ben Meiselas:This one actually looked like a 16-footer. It Looks like the boats are getting smaller with each of these death videos that he's posting. And we previously told you about what New York Times reported, how one of the family members of someone on another boat just said that their husband was a fisherman, not a drug dealer at all. We have no transparency about what the hell is happening here. And we know that Donald Trump lies about everything. And the most likely scenario is every week he kills another innocent group of people on a fishing boat, or even if they are drug dealers, Donald Trump's playing judge, jury, and executioner.

6:30Ben Meiselas:How do you know they're not trafficking innocent individuals who you may be killing as well? I just want transparency, okay? We don't have the death penalty in the United States for people who deal drugs. I want people who deal drugs to be held accountable, the fullest extent of the law. I just don't think Donald Trump should be judge, jury, executioner. Anyway, take a look at these polls right here. A pretty clear story emerges. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight or nine polls right now all show that Americans blame Trump and Republicans overwhelmingly for the Trump government shutdown.

7:07Ben Meiselas:As Governor Newsom says, yeah, that's because they shut it down. Americans are blaming the people who shut it down. Republicans control all branches of government, White House, Congress, both branches of Congress, the House and the Senate. By anywhere from margins of 25 to 17 to 12, Americans blame Republicans more than Democrats. Even inside the White House right now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting they're getting very nervous. The White House senses a real political risk on healthcare, despite the bravado that they're showing? Why? It's simple. Because Americans are either on Medicare, Medicaid, or likely on an Affordable Care Act plan.

7:57Ben Meiselas:And if you're on an Affordable Care Act plan, the ACA, Affordable Care Act subsidies, are keeping your monthly premiums to a level that's reasonable. Still more than it should be. In my own personal opinion, healthcare is a universal right. It should be free. But these Affordable Care Act subsidies have kept the price at least tolerable. Without the subsidies, the price of your monthly premiums goes up from$300 to$400 a month to$900 to$2 ,000 a month. I mean, you're talking$24 ,000 to$25 ,000 to$30 ,000 a year for your healthcare because the subsidies, the government funding, that's what a subsidy is, that helps pay for the insurance fee is what keeps your premiums down.

8:49Ben Meiselas:So without the government payment, the subsidy, you pay more. Do you get it? So what American making$85 ,000 a year or $65 ,000 a year can afford to pay$20 ,000 a year in healthcare? You can't. You go bankrupt. So So Trump and MAGA, they're trying to blame, oh, it's the undocumented, it's transgender people. But Americans, no, we're not buying that. In fact, if you actually look at the cross tabs of some of these polls, you can really see that Americans are not buying it. Even like amongst Republicans, only like 22 % of Republicans actually believe that the reason that the Democrats negotiating position is to help unlawful migrants.

9:38Ben Meiselas:That's Trump's base. And only 22 % of Republicans are buying the fake story because they're on Affordable Care Act plans also. What they see is stats like this. If you look at Roanoke, someone making$84 ,000 a year who currently pays$947 per month for their health care plan will soon pay$2 ,023 per month. Someone who makes$65 ,000 a year in Georgia who's paying$307 a month will soon be paying $964 a month. Those are just the facts, Jack. You don't have to like him, but those are the facts. So while Donald Trump is screwing America here domestically, he's also being outmaneuvered internationally.

10:20Ben Meiselas:Xi Jinping of China has made some moves in order to actually secure significant leverage over the United States. And he's done it rather easily because Donald Trump is not that bright and not that good with money. He's bankrupted most of his companies in the past. So what Xi Jinping did, I've told you this before, China stopped buying soybeans and other produce from the United States. American farmers are now experiencing what they're calling farmageddon. They're all going bankrupt. They need a government bailout. The size of it is likely going to need to be$50 billion. So to be clear, we're bailing out Argentina for$20 billion.

10:57Ben Meiselas:We're bailing out farmers, probably$50 billion down the road. I know the golden age, right? The golden age. But Donald Trump claims we brought in$17 trillion, although nobody knows where the$17 trillion is because we didn't bring in anything like that. Oh, by the way, in response to our exclusive reporting that the House Oversight Committee would be investigating where the$17 trillion go, because we know it doesn't exist. Trump's White House issued a response. No, we're just talking about investment commitments. You know what we're talking about. In any event, what China is now doing that it has leverage over the Trump regime, and they know that Donald Trump really just cares about TikTok and securing the TikTok algorithm for right to have his right wing oligarchs in the United States acquire TikTok to push MAGA content on TikTok.

11:46Ben Meiselas:China is now pushing Donald Trump to drop curbs as it dangles investment pledge, allowing a surge of Chinese investment into the United States economy would be a major concession to Beijing, tantamount to the U.S. becoming part of the Belt and Road Initiative. So China wants to dominate the U.S. Right now, the U.S. has trade barriers with China beyond Donald Trump. Historically, because America's tried to check the growth of China, America's prevented China from doing certain types of business in the US. Well, Donald Trump is now cornered. Xi Jinping knows how to play Donald Trump. And it's just so interesting, right?

12:31Ben Meiselas:All these Republicans who were like, we need to decouple from China, we're China hawks, and we support Taiwan. They folded so damn quickly to Xi Jinping. It's absolutely unbelievable. No, it actually is very, very believable. Some other news to report, you know, that statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands that was at the mall a few weeks ago, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Well, it's back. The statue titled Best Friends Forever was reinstalled after it was removed last week. An anonymous group of artists has taken credit for continuing to return it. Quote, like a toppled Confederate general force back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to stand gloriously on the National Mall once again, the group's statement said.

13:23Ben Meiselas:This is really important to listen to. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. I think he says it perfectly here. You want to know whose shutdown it is? Pay attention to who's enjoying it. Here, play this clip. Here we are in Washington with more than 20 million Americans about to see their health premiums double or worse. On top of all the other Trump cost increases in groceries and electric bills and home insurance and all the rest of it. And the House isn't even here. They've gone into hiding someplace. The Senate is leaving after these votes so that the Republicans can go to a fancy resort for a big fundraiser.

14:06The vice president is saying we're having a good time. The president is putting out weirdo tweets. And Russell Vogt, the OMB chief, is sharpening his knives to do something that one senator said has been his dream since puberty. to hurt people and break government programs. We need to do a lot better than this. But if you want to know who's shutdown it is,

14:38Ben Meiselas:look who are the ones who are enjoying it. So the Republicans then start posting images of sombreros on a donkey on the DNC pic, to which the DNC immediately responds by slightly altering the Republican elephant logo to say pedophile protectors, because they are. One of the things that we've been doing is calling the shutdown, the Jeffrey Epstein shutdown, the Trump Epstein shutdown, because as we've talked about on many a video, Adelita Grijalva, the congresswoman-elect from Arizona's 7th congressional district who won by over 40 points two weeks ago, she's supposed to be sworn in. If she gets sworn in, she'll be the 218th signature to Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna and Republican Congress member Thomas Massey's discharge petition, meaning there would be an immediate vote on the release of the Epstein files.

15:29Ben Meiselas:But if they don't ever open up Congress again, then she's not sworn in as Maga Mike's philosophy, even though they've sworn in Republicans right away within 24 hours in pro forma sessions. But this is Maga Mike's new rule. We're shut down. Congress isn't in session. I'm not going to swear you in because they don't want the release of the Epstein files. Trump is deathly scared about the release of the Epstein files. Let me show you this clip right here of Trump's EPA director, Lee Zeldin. Here's what he had to say. Let's play it. And you know well, when making these decisions, you analyze authorities, legal risk.

16:04Yes. And then you make decisions. And it is a door that is opened by Democrats continuing this shutdown. Yes. Not only are the sombreros going to grow 10 feet higher on President Trump's social media accounts, But the powers of these agency heads administering the president's agenda and directives, it only gets easier. You're doing a bang up job. And finally, let me share with you some hope to hear some strong, competent leaders, Democratic leaders, talk about what's going on.

16:38Ben Meiselas:Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker, let's play it.

16:52Thank you.

17:30Ben Meiselas:And here's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom from California. Let's play it. I don't think it shut down advantages anybody. So I hope we can find compromise. It's difficult to do that with a guy who was more interested in playing golf over the weekend. Do you think that Democrats should... I'll continue. Not only he played golf all the weekend after canceling a meeting with Senate Democrats, the president of the United States canceled a meeting with the leaders in the Senate and in the House of Representatives and then felt it was more important hours before shutdown to play golf. And then, rather than having a serious meeting, decided to troll those leaders with a Trump 2028 hat that he put on the Resolute desk and sent out a tweet after he sent out an AI video doctored with a racist video of Speaker Jeffries in a sombrero.

18:26Ben Meiselas:These are not serious people. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. And thank you so much for watching. Love this video? Support independent media and unlock exclusive content, ad-free videos, and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.

19:04The entire time. Fortunately, though, Mint's story is better. Every plan,$15 a month, even unlimited. That's it. Happy ending. Zero tears. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of$45 for three months,$90 for six months, or$180 for 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only. Greater than 50 gigabytes. May slow when network is busy. See terms. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm. When it comes to my policy, Farmers gives it to me straight. So there's no surprises. It's your coverage. You should never be confused. You hear that? An insurance provider with a conscience.

19:36We're a choir, but yes, we have that too. Straightforward coverage you can literally understand. That's what you get when you have farmers. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Learn more at Farmers.com. Underwritten by Farmers Truck or Fire Insurance Exchanges or Affiliate. Products not available in every state.