Trump Leaves White House as Multiple Crises Escalate

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1:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump rushed out of the White House to spend the next four days in Bedminster, New Jersey, his golf club on the taxpayer dime. Donald Trump walking aboard Air Force One, showing that he again doesn't know how to use an umbrella. Watch as he struggles to use the umbrella boarding Air Force One right here. Yeah, you don't know how to close an umbrella, but maybe you should try to learn that. Then you can see him leaving and arriving in New Jersey where he struggles to even walk. And all of this is going on. The American people are just fed up with this sicko. Before he left, he was talking about how data centers are so important in everybody's communities.

2:12Ben Meiselas:and if you don't have a data center, then you're not going to be rich and you're going to be broke and your life's going to be miserable. I mean, just remember what he said in the Oval Office before he left here. Play this clip. What is your message to communities who say they don't like data centers and they're worried AI could become dangerous? Well, I look at data centers very, very carefully. I mean, being formerly in the real estate business, I was really good at real estate. And I can tell you, if I were running a state or a town, If I was a mayor or governor, I would want as many data centers as I can because they throw off tremendous amounts of money.

2:48They don't take any energy because, you know, the new ones that I approve, they all create their own energy.

2:54Ben Meiselas:And then he brought in these ranchers into the Oval Office, even though he's like destroying the lives of ranchers. So he turned them into part of his propaganda in the Oval Office. And then he told them that they should start killing wolves, even though it's illegal to kill these wolves. He's like, just go and start killing the wolves, man. And the ranchers were uncomfortable. The whole thing was just so utterly deranged. Play this clip. They're up in a tree and held them there until somebody else got there with a vehicle and chased them off. So it's becoming an immense public safety concern.

3:28And it's getting worse. Our sheriffs are all on board and our state. Okay, you're allowed to go and take care of it now. No, no. If you say so, sir. You're allowed. We have no choice. I mean, you know, we have no choice. I've been hearing about it for a long time and you have no choice, just like the process.

3:46Ben Meiselas:Then in the Oval Office, you had Brooke Rollins, the Agriculture Secretary. And she was saying all these lies about how all this produce and food costs are all down and the American people are doing so great right now. It's like, come on, it's the exact opposite. that things are not affordable right now. Things are far more expensive. And this is what you're doing right now. I mean, it's just so utterly pathetic play this clip. I think what's really important, we talk about 2023 just being a catastrophic year for farmers and ranchers. One thing, that was the year that we began to import more food for the first time under Joe Biden.

4:24Again, freedom if you can't feed yourself. But in the last year, food went up 25 % in those four years under Biden. In just the last year and a half, every category of food has gone down, except a couple of outliers. What we're trying to solve today is the cattle herd low. So we've already begun to see beef come down.

4:40Ben Meiselas:I mean, by the way, you have, you know, Republicans in Texas are terrified that they're going to lose this seat over there, that James Tolerico is going to beat Ken Paxton. I'll show you over here, GOP strategist Brian Lanza. Here's what he had to say when he was just interviewed at the end of the week about how he thinks Republicans are going to lose Texas because Trump's so unpopular, Paxton's so hated, and this could be just a massive wave election like we've never seen before. Here, watch for yourself. Let's play it. Real talk. How worried are Republicans about Texas? We're petrified. I mean, I think we're going to lose Texas.

5:21You think you're going to lose Texas? 100%. Listen, we nominated a bad candidate who is not only a bad candidate on paper, He doesn't even like to work that hard. And so, you know, we're going to struggle. He's going to be required to be bailed out financially. And I just don't think the party is going to bail him out. So he's just going to sort of.

5:37Ben Meiselas:And all the while, Donald Trump is still going forward, I guess, with this midterm convention event, this Trumpapalooza thing they're doing, they're calling it the Republican Midterm Convention. By my count right now, it's about 45 or 50 Republican congressmen who are definitely not showing up to this midterm convention. I think it's going to be more like 100, maybe even 150. Like, I don't think anyone's really going to go to this thing. No one wants to be near Donald Trump at this midterm convention. They know it's like the kiss of death for their upcoming elections. But Donald Trump posts away the greatest rally of them all.

6:18Ben Meiselas:The midterm convention is coming to Dallas, Texas, September 9th and 10th. It will be a rally like never before. For the first time ever, Republicans from all across our great country will come together for a midterm convention to celebrate our tremendous victories and success. What victories and success are you talking about? The never-ending, catastrophic, and unlawful war in Iran. The fact that you promised you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and you failed to do that. By the way, when it comes to Ukraine right now, I'm going to do another video on this this morning. but you have jared kushner and steve whitkoff saying that they're afraid to visit kiev right now because of russia's strikes in the city and so the trump regime is now bullying zelinski not to engage in any strikes in moscow orst petersburg or other areas in russia if they want uh whitkoff and kushner to visit and russia hasn't agreed that it would stop striking Ukraine, but Trump wants Ukraine to stop striking in Russia for Whitcoff and Kushner to visit.

7:26Ben Meiselas:Even though Whitcoff and Kushner have visited Russia, Whitcoff has visited Russia like five times. But that's what Whitcoff is going with now. I'm scared to visit Kiev. You're scared to visit Kiev? I mean, Biden showed up. Biden rode in the train to Kiev right there, and he wasn't afraid. And then when we talk about Iran, the New York Times reporting, Iran appears more confident than ever after the six months war that it is winning, that it has the upper edge. Tehran believes it has learned the limits of American military power, retained enough missiles and drones to keep fighting, and gained leverage by disrupting the Strait of Hormuz.

8:05Ben Meiselas:The broader assessment is that Iran sees little reason to negotiate with the United States at all now. Instead, Iran sees the move as prolonging the conflict through the U.S. midterm elections, betting that high energy prices, casualties, and unpopular war will weaken Trump politically. I mean, he's already incredibly weakened politically, but I guess he'll be weakened more politically. And so with that taking place, the Trump regime says, well, we're going to draft a post-war Middle East stabilization strategy. What are you going to do, deals with yourself? you're out. The American security umbrella in the Middle East is done.

8:44Ben Meiselas:The American security umbrella in Asia is done and in Europe is done. You've isolated the United States. You've irreparably weakened the United States. The post-World War II US-led world architecture is done. China's the global hegemon right now. Xi Jinping just took a trip to Egypt where he talked about the new global architecture in the Middle East. And it's apparent to everybody that that's what's happening right now. But I guess Donald Trump wants to pretend that this is Donald Trump being strong. I mean, by the way, you know, again, it's just like day after day. It's like, why would you send our troops?

9:22Ben Meiselas:Our troops aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln with the horrific treatment that they experienced. The ship should have just came home. I know there were so many troops just wanted to get home, but they stopped over in Thailand and it had the predictable results that everybody thought was going to happen in Thailand if you had the troops out there. Here's scenes from the U.S. Navy in Thailand right now that are going viral. You can see for yourself. Here, play this clip. Oh, sailor down, sailor down. Yeah, U.S. Navy. United States Navy.

10:07Bye-bye.

10:35Ben Meiselas:tens of millions of views right now. You can watch for yourself, but like, it's more than just that he's the laughingstock of the United States and on the world. He's just this grotesque thing. Here, play this clip.

10:51What is that?

11:00Ben Meiselas:And then I saw somebody else post this one, symbol of fitness. Here, play this clip. I have a lot of things that are happening, a lot of good things the economy is doing. Unbelievably, believably from the standpoint of Wall Street, we've said another. That's how people feel about this guy right now. Like that's how the world looks at the president of the United States. And it's so damn embarrassing. Oh, and by the way, as Donald Trump claims that things are so much better in Venezuela and that people are so happy now. No, they're not. You've just propped up an extension of the Maduro regime. The Delce Rodriguez regime is still having all the same issues Maduro did.

11:38Ben Meiselas:There's still the blackouts. There's still the issues with the electricity grid there. Oh, and by the way, the Trump regime did this fake oil deal of 65 billion barrels of oil, which is not even a real deal. I've done a lot of videos debunking it with Alejandro Bentecourt, one of the Belichicos, who was responsible for the flawed electricity grid, who made huge amounts of money for himself on it. But you can see right here that the people in Venezuela are absolutely suffering still. They're enduring blackouts. They can't take it anymore. This is what's really happening in Venezuela right now. You can see for yourself.

12:32The light came to the morning at 3.30am, the morning morning, and I worked 24 hours. I didn't sleep. We don't know who's responsible here. We really don't know who's responsible for us. Because I don't see a solution and I see it every day worse. It's enough. We can't. We don't want anything to understand.

13:05Ben Meiselas:And this is what they're posting in Iran. Good day from Iran, the most sanctioned country in the world. And they're saying this is what Iran looks like today. Here, play this clip.

13:35Ben Meiselas:And with all of that taking place, you have Pete Hegseth announcing that the Pentagon is going to temporarily pull its mandatory testosterone screening order just one day after issuing it. Very stable regime we have here. The guidance, which would have required blood tests for all troops 30 and older, was removed from the website and reclassified as a draft because medical experts objected, saying there's insufficient evidence for mass screening of men without symptoms. symptoms of what what are we doing we're doing to oh and then hegseth is mocking a pride event in canada after mocking the young high school student cadets in canada who aren't even in the military they're cadets and he mocked them and tried to shame them he then is mocking the pride event in canada like what's wrong with these people like seriously why why did this trump regime is a bunch of sick sick humans who don't even know how to use an umbrella like learn learn learn he doesn't even know how to use an umbrella and he's in bed minster for the weekend on the taxpayer dime and he's running away from this catastrophic war that he lost and they're covering up the epstein files the whole thing is just a mess anyway let me know what you think hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers thanks for watching y 'all hey if you want the full story how democracy got here and how we take it back pre-order our new book WTF America today.

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