Trump Holds Disaster Presser as Xi Threatens Him

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3:15Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just gave a disastrous press conference at the White House following China's nuclear threat. Xi Jinping just successfully test fired nuclear-capable ballistic missiles carrying a training simulation warhead from a strategic submarine into the Pacific high seas. This triggered a massive condemnation from New Zealand, Japan, Papua New Guinea. They said this was a threat to regional stability. I'll show you what Donald Trump just said at the White House. This also follows North Korea test firing 12 long-range nuclear-capable cruise missiles in rapid succession from one of its destroyers.

3:59Ben Meiselas:You can see right there. This also follows Russia escalating its attack on Kyiv. You also had Ukraine launching drone strikes 2 ,500 kilometers or 3 ,000 kilometers into Russia on one of its biggest oil facilities over there. Donald Trump's speech also follows tens of millions of mourners at Ayatollah Komenay's funeral, you see right here in Tehran as Professor Mirandi, who's on the negotiating team with MB Galibaf and Arag, she says, don't worry, Piers Morgan, we're all AI. And this is an actual image of the size and scope of the mourners who are out there showing really a show of force there in Iran.

4:50Ben Meiselas:So with all of these developments happening in the past 24 hours or so, what's Donald Trump doing, right? This is a time where we want our leaders to deliver a speech that could speak to the moment, can speak to the American people, something that's nonpartisan, something that is assuring us that everything's going to be okay and that it's all under control. Donald Trump just walked out. He said that we're doing a speech right here for like our luncheon with all of his rich friends at the White House. The bankers are all there. The hedge funds, the private equity, everybody is there as he's refusing to sign the housing affordability bill.

5:33Ben Meiselas:And he says, Nicki Minaj is here. She's the administrator of the Small Business Association. We gave Nicki a job. She's the head of small business. What? Here play this clip. A person who's doing a phenomenal job at the SBA, small business, Nicki Minaj, who's so incredible. They call it small business, Nicki, but when you add it up, it's bigger than any bank probably in the world, right? I don't know. And then Donald Trump says, the only issue we have trouble fighting here in DC are crimes of passion. Do you know what that is? this group, referring to all of his rich oligarchs who are at this lunch, he says, you probably know about crimes of passion.

6:19Ben Meiselas:Kind of disgusting thing is the sexual predator saying right now. Here play this clip. The only thing we have a hard time stopping is a crime of passion. Do you know what that is? Anybody? Was anybody in this is a group that probably knows something about crimes of passion, but these crimes of passion, we can't do much about. And then Donald Trump talks about ringing the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange bell at the same time. He says it was so beautiful to do. He had Michael Dell from the company Dell behind him. The Dell stock soared after Donald Trump said all of these things about Dell today.

6:59Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump said, I'm keeping the bell that NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange gave him. I'm not returning the bell. Play this clip.

7:37understand that, Scott? Don't let it leave. It's so beautiful. But that's the bell we rang.

7:43Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump gives a shout out to everybody who's attending this lunch. He says, I got the biggest guys in Wall Street here today. Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Blackrock. They're all here. That's great, Donald, that they're all here while the American people are suffering and I'm highlighting what's going on right now internationally and this is what you're doing, I just want everybody to be aware that this is what's going on right now. See for yourself, play this clip. A lot of you Wall Street guys, I see Larry and I see some of the biggest guys in Wall Street, David, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, BlackRock, they're all here.

8:27And think of it, I'm making them all geniuses. Every one of them is a genius.

8:32Ben Meiselas:Is anybody doing poorly? Then Donald Trump says, okay, when it comes to all of these threats that are taking place, he goes, I'm going to be okay though. I'll be fine because we're building a ballroom and a tremendous military center in the White House that was supposed to be top secret. But then I got sued and all of these lawsuits revealed my plans of turning the White House into a military bunker. By the way, before the lawsuit was filed against Trump, when they were talking about demolishing the East Wing, before the East Wing was even demolished, do you remember on the Midas Touch, the video that we did when we said they're going to turn it into a military installation and they're going to spend billions of dollars to create this bunker and to update the bunker that was there?

9:20Ben Meiselas:remember? And there were lots of people who were attacking Midas Touch. Oh, you guys, there's no evidence of, remember when we reported on that? Here's what he says. Play this clip. The building itself, that's been redone and it's been done beautifully. And the best thing and the biggest thing that we're doing is we're building a ballroom and a tremendous military center that was supposed to be top secret, but it's no longer top secret because no matter what you do, you get They sue because they think the ballroom's too big, the ballroom's too small. I don't like the color of the ceiling. We don't like, you know, you just get sued.

9:57In this world we're living, especially if your name is Trump, you get sued. And you get sorta good at it after a while.

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11:35Ben Meiselas:and the rich guys over here who are old and rich as hell, they can't walk because they're Rich as hell. Play this clip. They said, you've made it a safe city. I've never seen it. People have never seen anything like it. Washington, D.C., every day somebody says, thank you. I know immediately what they're saying. Young women that walk to work at White House, they used to take Uber and they felt unsafe because the Uber car was robbed and dangerous. They'd shoot people. That doesn't happen anymore. The girls are working to work and the young guys are walking to work. And the older guys, if they can walk, they walk.

12:15Half of them can't walk because they made too much money. A lot of these guys here, they can't walk, but they're rich as hell.

12:21Ben Meiselas:And then he says, we're protected, though, because our soldiers, they're so strong physically. They're so handsome. They're so good looking. Have you seen how strong and good looking our soldiers look in Washington, D.C.? Play this clip. Like, we'd like to have strong soldiers. I want my soldiers to be strong physically. And we have strong soldiers. And when the bad guys see our soldiers out on the streets of Washington, and you saw that, Jeff, you were saying, you said, I never saw so many big, strong, good-looking people. And it's all based on merit. So our military's got merit-based. Everything we do is merit-based.

13:02Ben Meiselas:And then he talks about how when he went to England, He spoke with King Charles about William the Conqueror. And he said, I wanted to call you Charles the Conqueror. Here, play this clip. I said to Charles, who built this? This place is incredible. William the Conqueror. I said, oh, William the Conqueror. Was he a nice man? Charles said, no, no, he was extremely strong and very tough. I said, I figured with the name William the Conqueror, I would think, what do you think? I think you'd be tough, Michael. What do you think? I said, we have to come up with a good name for you, Charles. Maybe Charles the Conqueror.

13:40No, no, no, please. But William the Conqueror built a great building, but we are building one that's going to top them all.

13:48Ben Meiselas:And he goes back and he talks more about drones. Play this clip. But we were able to get 921 people in. And this will hold many times that numbers of people without the tables as seats and bulletproof, drone proof, missile proof in many cases, and beautiful at the same time. And a big military component, including on the roof, a drone port. Can you believe we have a drone port? And it's like no other. So we're doing a great service. It's great national security. We also take care of a need. Every president said this is crazy. By the way, here's the opening. This is what he did when he rang the opening bell.

14:35Ben Meiselas:You can see the kids there who were just incredibly bored. Take a look right here. Another picture from Reuters, Evan Vucci of children sitting through Trump's remarks in the Oval Office. This is what went down earlier. You can see for yourself here. Let's play this clip. Just a few minutes. Trump accounts will benefit. So ring the bell, Mr. President.

15:05Ben Meiselas:and then you'll recall that earlier donald trump threatened to attack and invade iran again remember he said that let's play it maybe making a deal i don't know we'll make either look we're going to win one way or the other we're either going to make a deal or we're going to finish the job okay and it won't be tough to finish the job i'd rather make a deal because i don't want to affect 91 million people we can knock down their bridges in one hour we can knock out their energy supply all of those big plants that they built big beautiful modern plants had a lot of money they don't have any money now we haven't given them any money but we can knock out their electricity and power generating plants and i would say a small part of an afternoon every plant will be gone And they know that.

15:56Ben Meiselas:And then he said nobody ever heard of the Strait of Hormuz. Let's play it. The Strait and the famous Strait of Hormuz, nobody ever heard of. But that is some big money machine, I'll tell you what, when you look at the numbers, Michael. And then he said that he'll be making a deal very soon with Ukraine and Russia. Even though he promised he would do it right after the election, day one after the election, it's about to happen. Don't worry. everything looks good, here played. I think we're getting much closer than people realize. And President Putin wants it to end. I will tell you that very strongly.

16:33Good call. And President Zelensky actually wants it to end now. And we're going to be going to NATO and we're going to be talking about it. And I think we're going to get it. I think we're going to get it ended. It's been terrible.

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