Trump Has Disaster Presser in WH with African Leaders

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2:24Ben Meiselas:Awards based on 2026 model year. Newer models may be shown. Donald Trump just held a disastrous press conference with five African leaders at the White House. Donald Trump turned to the president of Liberia and said, very impressive that you speak English. Liberia's official language is English. Here, play this clip. Well, thank you. It's such good English. Such beautiful. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Were you educated where? In Liberia? Yes, sir. Well, that's very interesting. It's beautiful language. I have people at this table can't speak nearly as well. Then Donald Trump is asked if he's learned how it was that weapon shipments stopped to Ukraine.

3:08Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump says, yeah, I still don't know how that happened. And then the reporter says, don't you think that's something you should know? And Donald Trump's like, I know everything. You just said you didn't know, though. Here, play this clip. Yeah, please. Sir, yesterday you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine. Have you since been able to figure that out? Well, I haven't thought about it because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but I have no, I have not gone into it. What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?

3:43I would know if a decision was made. I will know I'll be the first to know. In fact, most likely I'd give the order, but I haven't done that yet. Yeah, please.

3:52Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked how he calculates tariffs. Watch what he says here. Play this clip. Sir, can you explain how you calculated your latest round of tariffs? Was there a formula that was used? And do you expect any of these countries to face tariffs as well? The formula was a formula based on common sense, based on deficits, based on how we've been treated over the years and based on raw numbers and we're going to have a couple of more coming out today brazil as an example has been not good to us not good at all and we're going to be releasing a brazil number i think later on this afternoon or tomorrow morning but they're based on very uh very substantial facts and also past history you look at the past history we've been uh And we never had anybody in the White House that understood the numbers or were into it like I have.

4:51You know, we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, hundreds of billions. And we haven't even.

4:58Ben Meiselas:Yep. It's even dumber than you thought. He goes, I do it based on common sense and deficits. Then Donald Trump says that gasoline prices are down to$1.99 in many states, which is false. Here, play this clip. things are more costly no they're much less costly uh yesterday a dollar 99 a gallon there's two states three states uh we're selling gasoline at a dollar 99 you haven't seen that for a long time and i brought costs way down just about every cost i can't think of a cost that went up but just about every cost so what they do is they lie i mean they take ads uh they'd almost think that the um the advertising station would stop it because they know it's wrong it's such an it's such a lie all you can do is say it's a lie and explain it i guess i have the ability to explain it at conferences like this so i like to donald trump is asked about the chinese buying farms near military installations in the united states donald trump seems unfazed and he He goes, I like Xi Jinping.

6:04Ben Meiselas:We love Xi Jinping in America. Here, play this clip. Also announced this week that they are going to start limiting Chinese ownership of American farmland. Why do you think that the Chinese have been buying up all this farmland in our country so close to military installations? Well, I don't want to get into that. I have a very good relationship with President Xi. We're going to see and I'm going to, you know, they're going to be making a recommendation to me. But we have a very good relationship. As you know, we are paying a lot of tariffs to the United States now. And so I'm not going to get into that right now.

6:42Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says that he loves that churches can now endorse political candidates and still keep their tax exemptions and still be tax free. Here, play this clip. Do you support that? I love the fact that churches can endorse a political candidate. I think so, because we have a lot of respect for the people that lead the church, for the pastors and the ministers and the rabbis and all different leaders, all different religions, and people respect those people. And I think there's nothing wrong. You know, it was a very big penalty if that took place just a little while ago. They had a thing called the Johnson Act, and it was a very big penalty.

7:25I think it's great if a pastor, minister, priest, rabbi, and we can very much go into your religion, by the way, which is something that people are having great respect for throughout the world.

7:38Ben Meiselas:Yeah, that's a new settlement that the IRS entered into saying churches, we will still consider you to be nonprofits if you endorse political candidates. Donald Trump then starts getting very bored about this press conference and you'll see him gesturing to one of the African leaders. hey can you wrap this up here watch this let's play resources in our seawaters so lots of fishing and whatnot i don't want to spend too much time on this but i appreciate it very much i appreciate it maybe we're gonna have to go a little bit quicker than this because we have a whole schedule um if i could just say it's you know your name and your country would be great.

8:23Thank you, please.

8:28Ben Meiselas:Then Fox State Regime Media asks him a question. When was the last time you went sunbathing? Very odd. Let's play it. And now a few weeks after the strikes that you ordered on the nuclear facilities in Iran, there is an Iranian official who says you, President Trump, have done something that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago as you lie there with your stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit you in the navel. It's very simple. Do you think that's a real threat? And when is the last time he went sunbathing anyway? It's been a long time. It's been a long time. I don't know. Maybe I was around seven or so.

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11:01Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked if he will be tariffing any of the countries that are at this meeting today. He's issued numerous tariff letters, as he calls them, to other countries during the day. And just watch what he says here. Play this clip. Do you expect any of the countries here to face tariffs as well? I haven't thought of it, but maybe, I don't know. Let's say I like him, him, him, him, and him. No, I don't think so. Not too much. He's very good. These are friends of mine now. And now if you want to see how our trade deals are actually done and made right now, the president of Senegal says to Donald Trump, you are a great golfer, Donald.

11:43Ben Meiselas:Do you want a golf course in Senegal? Here, watch this. Senegal has exceptional opportunities to offer, including in the area of tourism. So perhaps an investment could be made in a golf course in Senegal. It would just be six hours by flight from New York, from Miami, from Europe, or from the golf. And that would be an opportunity for you to show off your skills on the golf course too. Thank you for your attention. concern. Nice. Some way to show off my skills. It's a long trip to show off my skill, but that's really nice. And he's led a very interesting life. He looks like a very young person.

12:30Ben Meiselas:He's a little older than he... As you saw before, Donald Trump's basically saying his decisions on tariffing is if he knows the country or if he likes the country. So that's what's going on in the White House, which you just saw right there with the president of Senegal. Then Donald Trump calls Senator Cory Booker and Alex Padilla, people who hate our country. Let's play it. And on a further subject, two Democratic senators now, Cory Booker and Alex Padilla, have a new bill out. They want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs, and they don't want CBP or ICE officers covering their faces.

13:05Would you ever sign that? Well, they wouldn't be saying that if they didn't hate our country. And they obviously do. I'm surprised that they would do it. Knowing a little bit about them. I don't know them well. But these officers are doing a tremendous job there.

13:23Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump then looks around the room and he particularly likes one female reporter from Africa. And he goes, where is my reporter from Africa? That's how he refers to her. Where's my reporter from Africa? Where's my reporter from Africa? And she goes, I'm here. Play this clip. Talking to you as we have the meal. Do you want to ask any questions, please? Where's my reporter from Africa? There you are. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you, Mr. President. Very famous in Africa. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have one question for the African presidents and one question for President Trump. Then Donald Trump, who's used anti-Semitic slurs over the past number of days.

14:13Ben Meiselas:says that Harvard, he attacks Harvard University in this meeting of international leaders and says Harvard is very anti-Semitic. Let's play it. Your administration took new actions against Harvard University today. Are you still optimistic about reaching a deal with the university? Oh, yeah, I think so. Harvard's been very bad, totally anti-Semitic. And yeah, they'll absolutely reach a deal. Peter? Donald Trump then says that former FBI director James Comey and John Brennan, former CIA director, are very dishonest people who should pay a price for it in response to a question about whether they should be behind bars.

14:53Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. James Comey and John Brennan now under criminal investigation related to the Trump Russia probe. Do you want to see these two guys behind bars? Well, I know nothing about it other than what I read today, but I will tell you, I think they're very dishonest people. I think they're crooked as hell. And maybe they have to pay a price for that. I believe they are truly bad people and dishonest people. So whatever happens, happens. And now, as you may know, the DOJ to cover up the fact that they're now claiming the Epstein files and the Epstein list does not exist, announced that they would be investigating Comey and Brennan in order to distract from Trump covering up the Epstein files because of Donald Trump's relationship with Epstein.

15:43Ben Meiselas:By the way, the reporters should have asked Donald Trump a question about Jeffrey Epstein in that press conference. Every day, Donald Trump should be asked about Jeffrey Epstein. We're going to focus on it here in the Midas Touch Network. I mean it. Every time there's a cabinet meeting or one of these propaganda things, reporters should say, what about the Epstein files? And then see Donald Trump's response. Oh, wait, are you too afraid you're going to lose your access? Cable news reporters. And then Donald Trump wraps it up and says, great job, everybody. We did great. This was, you did good.

16:16Ben Meiselas:You did good. You did good. Like it's a reality TV show. Like this is The Apprentice. Here, play this clip. Okay. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much.

16:30Good job, everybody. That was a good job.

16:37Ben Meiselas:And folks, that was utterly, utterly deranged, which you just witnessed. We don't normalize that here at the Midas Touch Network. We call it out for what it is. And obviously, you know, Donald Trump is not just humiliating himself, shaming the White House, but frankly, the entire United States of America with his weak, pathetic, and vile behavior. But what else would you expect? He's a sexual abuser, found liable. He's a felon, he's a criminal. He's been found liable for fraud, and he's a bankruptor. He's a piece of trash. Just say what it is. Easy. You See how I'm doing at Cable News? Easy. Everybody hit subscribe, get to 6 million subscribers.

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