Trump Has Disaster in Oval With Massive Meltdown

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1:11Ben Meiselas:Instead, Donald Trump was holding up an autographed photo of Vladimir Putin and Trump that Putin just sent to Donald Trump. Trump called in the head of FIFA from Italy, which Donald Trump called Italy, and then brought him into the Oval Office. and Trump said, look at this photo. Vladimir Putin just sent me this autograph. How amazing is this autograph, everybody? Then Donald Trump started talking about how gold the Oval Office is and how it's very expensive gold and how incredible that makes everything now for our country. Let me just show you what went down. I mean, Donald Trump says that everything relating to Epstein is one big gigantic hoax.

1:49Ben Meiselas:Here's what he says here. Play this clip. Because it's a Democrat hoax. It's just a hoax. The whole Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax. So we had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency. And the Democrats don't know what to do. So they keep bringing up that stuff. But it affected them. And here's where Donald Trump pulls out that photo of Vladimir Putin and Trump from Alaska. And Donald Trump goes to the head of FIFA. Look what we got. And Vladimir Putin really wants to show up at the FIFA games. Putin, our friend Putin. Here's what Donald Trump says here. Play this clip.

2:25Ben Meiselas:I'm going to testify for that, absolutely. Thank you. And I just sent a picture from somebody that wants to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of me and of our country, but not so respectful of others. But he'll, I'm going to sign this for him, but I was sent one and I thought you'd all like to see it. That's a man named Vladimir Putin, who I believe will be coming, depending on what happens. He may be coming and he may not, depending on what happens. We have a lot of things happening over the next couple of weeks. But I thought it was a nice picture of him. OK, I've made, but nice of him.

3:03So that was very nice that it was sent to me. OK, we just talk about how traitorous and treasonous that is.

3:13Ben Meiselas:There's been no ceasefire. Putin has escalated the attacks on Ukraine. There's been no agreement by Putin to any security guarantees at all in Ukraine, which Trump claimed existed. Putin has not agreed to a trilateral meeting or a bilateral meeting. Things are getting significantly worse in Ukraine. And Donald Trump's there in the Oval Office, like a fanboy holding up a photo with the head of FIFA. Like, how is this not criminal right there? I mean, we're going to call it out what it is on the Midas Touch Network. Then Donald Trump says, you know who Epstein was really friends with? Larry Sumner and Bill Clinton.

3:49Ben Meiselas:But But Larry Sumner was his best friend. I'm not going to mention that, though. But Larry Sumner was Epstein's best friend. You know, the all head of Harvard. No, you were Epstein's best friend, Donald. You were literally Epstein and Elaine Maxwell's best friend. Here, play this clip. The Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don't want to bring that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever his name is, Summers, the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Nobody ever talks about that. But I don't want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epsom.

4:22Ben Meiselas:It should be noted as well, I'm going to do a full expose on this, that a lady who was at the minimum security facility in Bryan, Texas, where Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred, she just got moved, this other lady, to a maximum security facility for hardened criminals and sex traffickers because she spoke out against Ghislaine Maxwell. She gave an interview saying that it's bad to put the sex trafficker in Camp Bryan. Then they move the non-sex trafficker into the sex trafficking prison and move the sex trafficker into the minimum facility in Camp Ryan, Texas. That is what this government is. It is a government by the pedos for the pedos at this point and a massive cover up.

5:03Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump continues to talk about how he hates California Governor Gavin Newsom, to which Governor Newsom then responds. Such low energy. Sad. Here play this clip. The governor is incompetent. You know, Gavin. I know Gavin very well. He's an incompetent guy with a good line of bullshit. And he doesn't get the job done. Then the head of FIFA, who is randomly there, gives Donald Trump the prior FIFA World Cup championship trophy and says, because you're a winner, you get to touch it. And then Donald Trump touches the trophy and says, now it's mine. I get to keep the trophy. Again, do you all know how humiliating this makes the United States look?

5:41Ben Meiselas:What in the Kim Jong-un is this? Here, play this clip. only the FIFA president presidents of countries and then those who win can touch it because this is for winners only and since you are a winner of course you can as well touch it, it's pretty heavy it's the winner trophy, the last one who lifted that is Leo Messi of Argentina and here it is in the Oval Office in the White House can I keep it? What do you want? Well, you can take it. We're not giving it back. We're not giving it back. That's serious. It fits well. It goes very well on the wall right over there. Put it right below the angels.

6:22It fits well here, I think. That's beautiful. Until we have to give it to the next winner. That's fine. That's a beautiful piece of gold. Absolutely.

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8:19Ben Meiselas:Give me two weeks. We'll find out in two weeks. Are you saying there's a real possibility that you do nothing if Putin doesn't come to the table for a ceasefire? I'll see whose fault it is. If there are reasons why, I'll understand that. I know exactly what I'm doing. We're going to see whether or not they have a meeting. That'll be interesting to see. And if they don't, why didn't they have a meeting? Because I told them to have a meeting. But I'll know in two weeks what I'm going to do. I'm pretty good at it. Your Justice Department is also sending... Putin sent Trump a signed autograph, Trump's out there holding it when he's supposed to announce the release of the Epstein file.

8:57Ben Meiselas:What the hell is going on? And then Donald Trump says that he's going to send our military and our National Guard into Chicago and New York next. Here, play this clip. Something happened. So I think Chicago will be our next and then we'll help with New York and we're going to help with. And I think really, I think a lot of, and a lot of these people that you see on television, they're including the people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me. And then they'll say, thank God he's here because half of them got mugged and they don't want to get mugged again. But another question about how long will you give Putin to, to what, to, to agree to what was supposed to be agreed to last Friday.

9:36Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's like, yeah, I don't know. A couple of weeks. Donald Trump is literally doing Putin's bidding. Donald Trump is doing the sex traffickers bidding right now. This is a authoritarian regime that covers up for sex traffickers and people like Putin. Play this clip.

10:16uh, seven of them where they were in wars for 31, 35 and 37 years. We had three of them that were for more than 30 years, Jenny. And I got them solved. Uh, and we solved one that could have been a nuclear war with India and Pakistan. That was getting ready to be a nuclear war. I solved them all.

10:35Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump's like, but it's okay. I settled seven wars, maybe 10 wars. Maybe I settled 10 wars. I deserve a Nobel peace prize. Here, play this clip. It was sent to me. OK, Mr. President, on that subject, have you talked to Vladimir Putin about the fact that yesterday a big U.S. factory was hit in a Russian airstrike in Ukraine? What's your reaction to that? I'm not happy about it and I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I said I settled seven wars. And actually, if you think about pre wars and three wars, it would be ten. And again, what the announcement is supposed to be is releasing the Epstein files.

11:13Ben Meiselas:But you have the head of FIFA and you're holding up Putin's autograph and you're bragging about wars that you settled, which you didn't. And then Donald Trump goes on to talk about how everything in the Oval Office is gold and how expensive everything is. Wow. I'm sure that's what Americans really want to hear now. Who can't afford groceries, whose energy costs are skyrocketing right now, who can't afford things, who are losing their jobs. Yeah, great. The Oval Office is filled with gold. Here, play this clip. It'll be great. It'll be fantastic. You see the way this is looking nice. I can't tell you how much that gold costs.

11:47A lot of money. There's nothing like gold and there's nothing like solid gold. But this beautiful office needed it. It had to be representative. When we took it over, it was dirty, not clean. I immediately changed the chair and had this beautiful desk renovated, brought out by the White House. People that do this, they did a great job. We sent it out. We have a craftsman who's great. but this was not appropriate for the Oval Office when I took over. And now if you look at all those paintings, you're allowed to turn back.

12:17Ben Meiselas:You know, that's the people's house. The whole thing about the White House is that it's not supposed to look like some Middle East palace. The idea of it is it is a humble abode by the people for the people, which Donald Trump is turning into exactly what we fought the revolutionary war against. Kings and our corporate news and our corporations are like, let's just go full authoritarianism, whatever. While we the people are suffering, it is so utterly despicable. Then Donald Trump addresses the fact that he ordered the DOJ and FBI to raid the home of his former national security advisor, John Bolton, earlier today in order to further distract from the fact that they ain't releasing anything substantial regarding the Epstein files.

13:00Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump's like, you know, I'm the chief law enforcement officer, so I can do whatever I want to do, but I don't know anything about what's happening with Bolton. I just leave that to Pam Bondi and Cash Patel and Dan Bongino. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, I have a question about the search of Ambassador Bolton's home. The Vice President recently just did an interview saying that it's about classified documents, but that there's also broad concern about it. What are the concerns? Well, I haven't spoken to Pam and the group yet, but I will be. I saw that just like everybody else. I try and stay out of that stuff.

13:34I'm allowed to be, and I'm chief law enforcement officer, believe it or not. I don't like to go around saying that, but I am. That's the position. But I purposely don't want to really get involved in it. I'm not a fan of John Bolton. I thought he was a sleazebag, actually. And he suffers major Trump derangement syndrome, but so do a lot of people, and they're not being affected by anything we do.

13:56Ben Meiselas:Here's another question where Donald Trump Trump is asked about the Epstein files and he starts talking about Bill Clinton. Here, play this clip. The Justice Department is also sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee today. Are you in support of them releasing all of them? I'm in support of keeping it open. If they wanted to release. People shouldn't be there, but I'm in support of keeping it totally open. I couldn't care less. You got a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be people because he knew everybody in Palm Beach. I don't know anything about that, but I have said to Pam and everybody else, give them everything you can give them because it's a it's a democrat hoax it's just a hoax the whole epstein thing is a democrat hoax so we had the greatest six months seven months in the history of the presidency and the democrats don't know what to do so they keep bringing up that stuff but it affected them uh the uh bill clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times i don't want to bring that up frankly uh you have uh larry whatever his name is summers the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend.

14:59Nobody ever talks about that. I mean, but I don't want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein. No, this is a democratic hoax to try and get the significance of what we've done over the past seven months. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. They say it's number one in history. What we've done, including stopping seven wars. I mean, just include that.

15:22Ben Meiselas:then donald trump choreographs or intimates that he's just going to keep the military in dc essentially forever by declaring fake emergencies in washington dc here play this clip that money that money will come out of congress i think it'll be even bipartisan i mean i would imagine democrats would vote for that one is the plan to get it before the september 30 well i don't know if there is a headline a deadline because uh if i declare a national emergency which this was that ends the deadline so i mean i keep seeing about a 30-day deadline of which we have 22 days left or something but uh if i think we're in great shape here that's one thing but if i don't i'm going to just say it's a it's a national emergency and if i have a national emergency i can keep the troops there as long as i want people are not going to want to have the troops in 30 days and you know it's one thing to get them out it's another thing to keep them out for a long period of time.

16:19You've got to train people. You can't do this. You can't pop people over the head. And a lot of those people are in courts right now going to court. They're going to go to jail for a long time. So that's going to take more than 30 days. But if I have to, I'll declare a national emergency, which I don't think I have to do. Yeah.

16:36Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump lies and says that people are going to restaurants in D.C. in record numbers, which is false. Actually, Restaurant Week in D.C. has been the biggest disaster in its history. People are not showing up to restaurants. 79 % of DC residents do not want the National Guard there. Here, play this clip. Johnny, I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that too, actually. Oh, yes. But it's a whole different place. People are excited again. They're going out to restaurants again. That was the other thing I saw in numbers, that restaurant business is down in the last week. No, no. Restaurant business, you can't get into a restaurant.

17:09just really lying people. And that's why people don't understand how bad and how dishonest the press is.

17:16Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says that he will fire the mayor of Washington, D.C. if she doesn't get her act together, he says, and he will just become the mayor of D.C. and just take it all over himself. Here play this clip. It was horrible. And Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won't be mayor very long because we'll take it over with the federal government running like it's supposed to be run. Then Donald Trump just lies and defames the city of Washington, D.C. He said it's a rat infested hellhole, which it absolutely was not. You may want to go to some of those red states and red cities where crime is multiples higher than Washington, D.C., but that's not what this is about.

17:54Ben Meiselas:This is about an authoritarian vile piece of trash in a golden Bordello just attacking Democratic states because he's no different than Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un. A real vile piece of trash is what he is. I have zero respect for him. You should show him zero respect. He's destroyed the presidency. Here, play this clip. The numbers were horrible. It was a crime infested rat hole. And they do have a lot of rats. We're getting rid of them, too. Next up, Donald Trump goes and says, And one of the reasons why you show him zero respect is that he's there with Kristi Noem, the dog-killing cosplayer who Trump goes, she's a great rider of horses yesterday.

18:37Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump talks about today how they painted parts of the border wall black in order to burn the hands of migrants who touch it. So they die if they touch the wall. They've got a thousand concentration camps they're building across the country. They've got the alligator concentration cap where they joke about alligators ripping people's bodies apart, migrants and citizens alike. And here's what they're talking about. Painting border walls black so if people touch them, your hands burn. Here, play this clip. But I said we got to get a coat of paint and it should be black because black makes the steel very hot.

19:12It's untouchable. You could fry an egg on it. And if you got a good black flat paint, it would look beautiful. It will preserve it from rust. and that was it. And I gave it to her along with 30 other things and she's done such a good job on the border with Tom Holman and the group. Tom Holman's a fantastic guy, what the job he does and the way they work together. So I turned on last night and I see Christie's painting the wall and it looked beautiful, by the way, when that paint went over there. It's hot. It's hot. It's hot. If it's white, it's not hot. If it's black, it's going to be very hard to climb that sucker.

19:48It's not going to be easy. But it's black and a high quality black. You know, it really looked good. Is that going to be a two coat job or one coat? No, just one coat. One coat. We used the paint you told me to buy. Yep. The two coat will take place in three years from now. We'll do the second coat. But it looks beautiful. But thank you very much. I didn't know you were listening to that. Because we talked about seven different subjects. And all of a sudden I see you're out there painting with a lot of painters and everything else. But it was a beautiful thing to say.

20:16Ben Meiselas:More praising of Vladimir Putin. Let's play it. For four years, it was never even a subject. And Vladimir knew. And you see his picture right here. It was nice that he said, but Vladimir knew very strongly we wouldn't have stood for it. Then Donald Trump says that he may try and play in the FIFA games and he may put on shorts because, you know, he's a very good athlete, he says. Here, play this clip. I see the money to be soccer players. I may try and play. I'm a very good athlete. My son, my son is a very good athlete and he's a good soccer player. He's on the tall side for soccer. He's 6 '9".

20:52That's pretty tall. That's pretty tall. It's on the tall side, but he's good. But no, I may put on shorts. I look extremely good in shorts and join the play.

21:03Ben Meiselas:A utterly despicable event by Donald Trump. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. They released the damn Epstein files. What the hell was that? Seriously, if you look at that and you're like, that's normal, your mind has become utterly mush at this point because what we've seen there is despicable, impeachable. It's criminal. It's criminal on steroids, what we saw right there. There's frankly not a lot of words to describe how disgusting and despicable and weak and dangerous that is. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks 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.

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