In short
A hostile recap of Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference with Poland’s president, focusing on Trump dismissing the Epstein sex-trafficking case as a “Democrat hoax,” claiming U.S. success, and attacking critics including Gavin Newsom and Putin policy.
Guest backgrounds
No guests are identified in the provided transcript; it appears to be a solo commentary/host segment with embedded ad reads.
Key claims
Trump says “Epstein hoax” and that victims/documents are fabricated; he claims he ended “seven wars”; he argues Ukraine/Russia issues are “hard” and blames others; he claims he “put out” LA fires by ordering water releases; he claims he took strong action on Russia via sanctions and deadlines.
Notable examples
Elaine Maxwell; alleged “subpoenaed” Epstein files; LA fires and Army Corps of Engineers water actions; Putin/Zelensky “two-week” deadline; Trump’s “two more weeks” response on sanctions; Xi–Putin–Kim “show of solidarity.”
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0:51 to 1:41
A discussion of Donald Trump's bizarre comments during a press conference with the President of Poland.
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Trump's Meltdown at the Press Conference
2:19 to 13:13
A discussion of Donald Trump's bizarre comments during a press conference with the President of Poland.
“Donald Trump said, because we're having the most successful eight months in American history, we should not be talking about the Epstein hoax.”
Trump's Claims on Restaurants and Foreign Relations
13:20 to 14:00
Analysis of Trump's comments about DC restaurants and international relations with India and China.
“restaurants are like bustling right now when we know that the D.C.”
Trump's Diplomacy Dilemma
14:00 to 14:35
Discussion on Trump's interactions with global leaders and implications.
“I think it's something we could consider doing.”
India's Shift Away from the US
14:35 to 15:13
Analysis of India's changing alliances and its impact on US relations.
“So Donald Trump is asked, well, what do you think about that?”
Trump's Response to Global Threats
15:13 to 16:20
Examination of Trump's comments on threats from Russia and China.
“with regard to India, and we're doing it with regard to other things.”
Media Critique of Trump's Leadership
16:20 to 17:28
Criticism of Trump's leadership and actions regarding foreign policy.
“Like Russia attacked an American owned factory in Western Ukraine and you did nothing.”
Ukraine Conflict Perspectives
17:28 to 19:51
Discussion on Trump's stance about support for Ukraine amidst conflict.
“You've expressed many times your frustration and disappointment with Putin, but there's no action since you took your office.”
Human Cost of the War
19:51 to 20:48
Reflection on the human impact of the ongoing war and casualties.
“Not American soldiers, not soldiers from Poland, but they're human beings, they're souls.”
Human Cost of the War
21:46 to 22:11
Reflection on the human impact of the ongoing war and casualties.
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Human Cost of the War
22:14 to 22:39
Reflection on the human impact of the ongoing war and casualties.
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Transcript
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2:18Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just had a terrible meltdown in the Oval Office during a press conference with the president of Poland. Donald Trump said, because we're having the most successful eight months in American history, we should not be talking about the Epstein hoax. He says, everything you're seeing out there with the victims on Capitol Hill, it's all one big hoax. Talk about me. Don't talk about them. Watch this. Let's play it. I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room, we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's what I want to talk about.
2:54That's what we should be talking about. Not the Epstein hoax.
3:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump continues to call the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the sex trafficking. He calls it all a hoax. He says it's a Democrat hoax. The victims are a hoax. Everything is irrelevant. Please stop talking about it, he says, while sitting next to the president of Poland. Here play this clip.
3:46in protecting any friends or donors? So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends. You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more, and nobody's ever satisfied. From what I understand, I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given. But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president.
4:20Ben Meiselas:Even if you look at D.C. right now. And he continues and says, look, I've ended seven wars. He didn't. I've ended seven wars. Can I get credit for that? Stop talking about the Epstein hoax. He keeps on saying this during the presser. Here play this clip. All run by Democrats or for the most part run by Democrats. So what they're trying to do with the Epstein hoax is get people to talk about that instead of speaking about the tremendous success, like ending seven wars. I ended seven wars. Nobody's going to talk about because they're going to talk about the Epstein, whatever. I understand. Okay.
4:54Ben Meiselas:And then he's asked, well, you didn't stop the war in Ukraine from Russia's invasion. You promised you would do that in 24 hours. Ah, he goes, that's hard. That's hard stuff. I thought that it would be easy, but not easy. Here, play this clip. I have a power to end things. That's why I was able to end seven and other wars. And you know that I thought of the seven, basically seven, those are tough wars to end. Much tougher, I thought, than the war with Ukraine and Russia. I thought that Ukraine and Russia have a very good relationship with President Putin. I thought that that would be much easier.
5:30I thought that would be in the middle of the pack, maybe one of the easiest. Sometimes you never know with war. You know, war is a very interesting thing. You never know with war. War is complex and dangerous and what a mess. What a bloody mess.
5:43Ben Meiselas:And again, how weak and pathetic do you look sitting there with the president of Poland and saying, I thought it was going to be easy. You thought it was going to be easy, you idiot. Well, you think it's going to be easy covering up the Epstein files by calling it a hoax? I mean, you're sitting next to the president of Poland covering up for a pedo sex trafficking ring where you know your name is all over these freaking files. What an embarrassment the United States of America is. shame, shame, shame. Oh, and then Donald Trump goes and attacks California Governor Gavin Newsom. And he goes, he's so incompetent.
6:16Ben Meiselas:Have you seen his hands? What's wrong with that guy's hands? You see the hand thing that he does here? Play this clip. And this is a very incompetent guy. I watched him with the hands. I'm saying, what's going on with the hands? There's something wrong with, there's something wrong with him. Do you watch him? There's something wrong with this guy. But dude, your hand is literally rotting. You have rotting hands. They're like blue and you cover them up. You put makeup on your hands, not to mention the accordion stupid stuff that you do with your hands all of the time. The ultimate projection right there.
6:49Ben Meiselas:Oh, he's talking more about Epstein. He goes, oh, I understand that we were actually subpoenaed for the files, but we've turned over everything. There's nothing more to turn over folks. We've given all the files. we're done no you're not you haven't turned over the files you quite literally have the white house covering up a pedo sex trafficking ring in plain sight helping out convicted sex traffickers like elaine maxwell and covering up for donald trump's other what powerful friends who are all over this list potentially what the hell is going on here here play this clip nobody's going to talk about because they're going to talk about the epstein whatever i understand that we were subpoenaed to give files and i understand we've given thousands of pages of files and i know that no matter what you do it's going to keep going uh and i think it's i think really i think it's enough because i think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we're having i think we're probably having according to what i read even from two people in this room we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever and that's what i want to talk about.
7:55That's what we should be talking about. Not the Epstein hoax.
7:58Ben Meiselas:Oh, and then Donald Trump, weak, sickly, addled, cognitively done at this point. He goes, you know, when it comes to Newsom, I put the fires out. He goes, you know, like the reason that there were the fires in LA in January is because Newsom likes smelt. He likes the fish and that there was no water in the reservoirs. So I turned on the faucet. I turned on the faucet from the California Canadian border, Trump thinks that California is bordered by Canada. And I turned on the water and I got that Northwest water in and whoosh and whoosh, I put out the fires. This guy is a deranged freaking lunatic.
8:36Ben Meiselas:Just leave it at that. Play this clip. But more importantly, he didn't allow the water to come from the Pacific Northwest. You know, they have tremendous amounts of water in California. People don't know. They send the water out to the Pacific Ocean. So I demand that it be open. If that were open during the fire, before the fire, you wouldn't have had the fire because all the sprinklers would have worked in the houses. They had no water. They had no water in the fire hydrants. You wouldn't have had the fires. It would have been put out after one house, two houses. But he stopped the water from coming in.
9:09And I had to send in the military to have that water open after the fires. And now they have water, but he should have more because they've restricted. They still restrict it. There's something wrong with these people. There's something really wrong.
9:22Ben Meiselas:Governor Newsom's not going to leave it at that. He asks, do people with dementia repeat the same falsehoods and crazy conspiracies over and over again? And then the answer, of course, is yes. Just so you all know what Donald Trump did after the fires in January in Los Angeles, I live in Los Angeles, were 100 percent contained, meaning no longer a threat, caused serious devastation. But after they were 100 percent contained, Donald Trump sent the Army Corps of Engineers to Northern California. California is a big state. So Northern to Southern California is kind of like the difference between like New York and Virginia, let's just say, okay, I'm estimating.
10:04Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump emptied reservoirs in the farmland area in California onto the farms, which is nowhere connected to Southern California and said, see, I put out the fires, harming the water supply for the farmers. And some of those farmers were Trump voters. And he goes, I put out the fire. And he had the Army Corps of Engineers sabotage the water supply in California. I mean, quite literally a maniac in normal times that by itself should be criminal impeached and he should be locked up for the rest of his life for doing that. And he does a hundred things like that every day, this vile piece of trash that he is.
10:45Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump continues to attack Newsom. He's like, Newsom, there wouldn't be the Olympics if it wasn't for me. Newsom should be saying, thank you for me. Newsom, will you little freaking baby bully you? How about when Gavin Newsom standing over you while you're still wearing your heels and shaking your hand, you cower like the little pathetic loser that you are? Play this clip. I sort of want them to let it be known they have incompetent people. A guy like Gavin Newsom, He's the governor of a state that if we didn't go in, if we didn't go into Los Angeles with our soldiers, with our National Guard, you wouldn't even be having the Olympics there.
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13:19Ben Meiselas:And then a reporter says, OK, well, you're saying that like all the D.C. restaurants are like bustling right now when we know that the D.C. restaurants, a lot of them are not bustling and are empty and some are not opened as long because they're trying to protect their own workers and they're worried about Trump's military patrolling. so you've never been to a restaurant in dc there right and trump's like how do you know how do you know because i've been around you i know you've never once showed up at any dc restaurant i may prove you wrong here play this clip well you visit a restaurant in dc you haven't gone to i might sure you haven't gone to one uh in either of your terms that wasn't how do you know how do you know because i and many other Do you want me to prove you wrong?
14:04Do you want me to prove you wrong? Yes, please. But I will. I think it's something we could consider doing. I'd love to do it. I love the White House food, but after a while, I can see going to a nice restaurant.
14:15Ben Meiselas:It's safe. Then Donald Trump talks about the big meeting between Xi Jinping, Putin and Kim Jong-un. Also, the day before or so, you had the prime minister of India, Modi, who's livid and pissed and done with Donald Trump. America's destroyed its former alliance with India. India is now allying with China far more forcefully than ever. It's done with the U.S. So Donald Trump is asked, well, what do you think about that? That was a show of force right there. Does that concern you? What do you think Trump said? Give me two more weeks. I need two weeks. Here, play this clip. We saw a dramatic picture where we saw the leaders of Russia and North Korea and China together the first time the leaders of those three countries have been together in this sort of show of solidarity.
14:59You said that they're conspiring against the United States. What do you think they're conspiring to do? And given this, is it reason why you should slap or would consider slapping secondary sanctions on Russia if they're conspiring against the U.S. now? Well, I've already done that with regard to India, and we're doing it with regard to other things. And I put out a truth last night. You saw that. And I was the one that brought it up. I said, they're only doing this. They're really there looking to when they did what they did, I thought It was a beautiful ceremony. I thought it was very, very impressive.
15:33But I understood the reason they were doing it, and they were hoping I was watching, and I was watching. My relationship with all of them is very good. We're going to find out how good it is over the next week or two. I think that we helped China very much, as you know, when they talk about freedom. And I don't believe that, and maybe I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong, But I don't believe that America, that the United States was acknowledged for helping China to get to to gain its freedom. But perhaps that was just a that was a sleight of hand. I mean, I was very I was very surprised. I watched the speech last night.
16:14President Xi is a friend of mine. But I thought that the United States should have been mentioned last night during that speech because we helped China very, very much.
16:23Ben Meiselas:a reporter then asks uh donald trump um so uh you've done no action when it comes to putin you say you express frustration but there's no action what are you doing and then donald trump's like where are you from i think the reporter says i'm from poland i'm a polish reporter um how do you know there's no action i don't know maybe because in poland they're on the freaking they're freaking right there by the border of ukraine and they can see what the hell is happening. Like Russia attacked an American owned factory in Western Ukraine and you did nothing. Russia attacked a UK building. They attacked a European Union building.
17:05Ben Meiselas:They attempted to assassinate Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, by jamming her GPS signals on her plate. And you're like, oh, I would like for people to jam my GPS. You idiot, You pathetic loser. I mean, just watching this loser there and just thinking about this being normalized, not here on the Midas Touch Network, especially while that vile piece of trash covers up a pedo sex trafficking ring. Here, play this clip. You've expressed many times your frustration and disappointment with Putin, but there's no action since you took your office. How do you know there's no action?
17:45Really? Wait, wait. Who are Who are you with? The Polish media. Okay. How do you know there's no action? Would you say that putting secondary sanctions on India, the largest purchaser outside of China, they're almost equal, would you say there was no action? That cost hundreds of billions of dollars to Russia. You call that no action? And I haven't done phase two yet or phase three. But when you say there's no action, I think you ought to get yourself a new job. Because if you remember, two weeks ago, I did. I said, if India buys, India's got big problems. And that's what happens. So don't tell me about that.
18:25Ben Meiselas:And then a reporter asks him, so you gave Putin a two week deadline. So what are you doing with that two week deadline? Your two week deadlines always pass. Well, I'll have a meeting soon and I'll know I'll get back to you on that one. Here, play this clip. You gave Vladimir Putin a two-week deadline to agree to talks with Vladimir Zelensky. That deadline is now near the approach. Can you give us any indication when you will make a decision? Well, I'm having a conversation with him very shortly, and I'll know pretty much what we're going to be doing. We've taken very strong action, as you know, and in other ways we've taken very strong action.
19:03But I'll be speaking to him over the next few days, and we're going to see. With who, sir? I'm going to know exactly what's happening. I'm not happy with all the people. You got 7 ,819 people killed last week. Russian soldiers and Ukraine soldiers, right? Not American soldiers, not soldiers from Poland, but they're human beings. They're souls.
19:24Ben Meiselas:They have parents. And then finally, Donald Trump's asked, well, what are you doing to help Ukraine? What are you doing to support Ukraine? And he goes, well, we stopped giving Ukraine money. We stopped supporting them with money. So your view of supporting Ukraine is by not supporting Ukraine. So basically what you're saying is you wanted Ukraine to be fully conquered by Russia. That was your plan. But Ukraine is standing strong with this coalition of the willing allies in Europe. And that's what's really going down. Here, play this clip. And Ukraine soldiers, right? Not American soldiers, not soldiers from Poland, but they're human beings, they're souls.
20:02They have parents, they wave goodbye to their parents and their parents never see them again. That's the end of them. Over a stupid war and I want to see it stopped. Now we have stopped the money I send. We send weapons to NATO, they pay full price. We don't, you know, Biden spent$350 billion so stupidly. And it was one of the reasons that this whole thing happened. A big reason this war happened was sitting right in these chairs, this one in particular. So I will tell you that I think that I think we're going to have a good solution. But they're losing soldiers at levels that nobody has seen since the Second World War.
20:44This is the worst conflict. And it's just going on and on. It's one's defense, one's offense. The offense moves a little bit, just a little bit. You take a look. They move inches.
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