Trump Loses Control at Disaster Presser with UK PM

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2:39Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference with Prime Minister Kiara Starmer as part of Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom. Donald Trump was speaking about Russia and says the whole Russia situation, not really a big threat to the United States or to the United Kingdom or Europe. And maybe I'll have some good news in a few weeks. Here, play this clip. But the Russia situation, I hope we're going to have some good news for you coming up. But again, it doesn't affect the United States. And he, look, it doesn't so much affect you. Of course, you are a lot closer to the scene than we are.

3:17We have a whole ocean separating us.

3:20Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump continues with his lies about the United States bringing in$17 trillion in investments in eight months. Quite literally, none of this is true at all. He just makes up the number$17 trillion. Let's play it. $17 trillion. And this is during an eight-month period being invested in the country, which is not only a record, but if you compare$17 trillion to the last year of the Biden administration, they did$250 billion. They didn't do$1 trillion for the four-year period. We did$17 trillion of investment coming in. A lot of it's because of tariffs, and a lot of it's for a lot of other reasons, but there's never been anything like it.

4:12It's an economic superstar. That's what's become. It was mismanaged and badly handled for a long period of time, but it's not badly handled anymore. So that's a record. And remember, that's up until eight months. We have another few months to go, and that number is going to get significantly higher, especially if we win a certain case that we're waiting to hear.

4:38Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is then asked a very good question by a reporter about the UK ambassador to the United States, Lord Mandelson, who was fired by the UK government. He was removed from his position because his letters to Jeffrey Epstein in that birthday book from 2003 for Epstein's 50th birthday were revealed. And then Bloomberg had additional information about Lord Mandelson emailing Epstein and just saying nice things to Epstein and being just helpful and protective of Epstein. Very similar to Donald Trump. And so the reporter asks Donald Trump, like, well, how do you how do you feel about that? And watch the response here.

5:23Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. Scare him and impose sanctions. And finally, if I may, the elephant in the room, Lord Mandelson, he is no longer the ambassador. Do you have some sympathy with him that he lost his job over historic links to Jeffrey Epstein? Thank you very much, sir. I don't know him, actually. I had heard that, and I think maybe the Prime Minister would be better speaking of that. That was a choice that he made, and I don't know. What is your answer to that? Well, I mean, it's very straightforward. Some information came to light last week, which wasn't available when he was appointed, and I made a decision about it.

6:00And that's very clear.

6:03Ben Meiselas:Okay, so Donald says he does not know who that is. Yes, you do, Donald. Like y 'all knew each other pretty well. The White House official account back on May 8th, 2025 posted the following. Lord Peter Mandelson, British ambassador to the US, you've done what you said you would. You've been true to your word. He hung out with you in the Oval Office. not once, but I believe on multiple occasions, and you knew him well. Weren't you all part of that crew back in the day too with Jeffrey Epstein? As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media account, either it's dementia or he's trying to distance himself from another Jeffrey Epstein friend who participated in the birthday book with him.

6:46Ben Meiselas:Either way, not great. Then Donald Trump continues to lie at this press conference. What else is new? And Trump said that in the 2020 election where he lost by over 7 million votes. He said, we won in 2020 big. Then he said, we've already solved inflation. We've solved prices. We've solved everything. You've solved nothing. It's all false. Here, play this clip. And you see all the information that's come out. We won in 2020 big. And I said, let's run. We got to run because I saw what was happening. And the worst thing that I saw was all of these people. You know, we've already solved inflation.

7:23We solved prices. Oil is way down. Energy is way down.

7:27Ben Meiselas:The United States, by the way, calling FCC commissioner. Why don't we ban Fox for putting this on? Should we ban Trump's speech right now? What what else should we ban FCC commissioner? Anyway, then Donald Trump struggles to say Azerbaijan. And he's like, Azerbaijan. And then he believes that there was a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Albania. I think he means Armenia. So that's great to the people in Armenia that Donald Trump doesn't even know what your country is or what the hell even happened. Here play this clip. That one's not settled. To think that we settled Aber, Bajan and Albania as an example, it was going on for years.

8:15It was never going to be settled. If you remember the prime minister and the presidents, they were there for many years. They said when they were in my office, we settled and they started off at both sides of the Oval Office so far away. I didn't know you could be so far away. And as we were together for an hour, they kept getting closer, closer. And by the time we finished, we all hugged each other.

8:39Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump attacks the idea of wind energy. Let's play it. Thank you, Chuck. I would like to say that we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. We had inflation the likes of which we've really never said. They say 48 years, and I'll accept that, but I really don't. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country. And we had a expression that I used a lot, drill, baby, drill. And as you know, we brought fuel way down, prices way down. And we don't do wind because wind is a disaster. It's a very expensive joke, frankly. And we got our energy prices way down.

9:18That brought the inflation way down. And now we have very little inflation. And we have a very, very strong economy. So that was very important. Drill, baby, drill. And you have a great asset here. We spoke about it. It's called the North Sea. The North Sea oil is phenomenal. And I hope, because I love this country, you know, my mother was born in Scotland and the Hebrides, Stornoway, that's Syria, Scotland. We were talking about it. And I want this country to do well. And you have great assets that you're going to start using, I believe, under this prime minister. Thank you. As the mornings start to cool down, my coffee routine shifts.

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11:08Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was asked a question by a reporter about free speech, knowing that Trump regime threatened broadcasters with their licenses if they wouldn't get rid of Kimmel, both expressly and implied intimidation. Also, a lot of these companies that carry the affiliates are far right wing companies as well. And they're like, you have to donate to Charlie Kirk now, Jimmy Kimmel. You have to donate to his family and you have to issue public apologies. Jimmy Kimmel didn't say anything wrong, in my opinion at all, that he described how MAGA was spending the weekend trying to make sure that the shooter who came from a MAGA Republican gun-toting family would not be connected with them as MAGA pushed a narrative that he was a leftist.

11:55Ben Meiselas:That's what MAGA wanted to push. Jimmy Kimmel was just literally stating a fact. He didn't even say anything negative about Charlie Kirk. He could have actually told the truth about Charlie Kirk's past and all of the hateful things Charlie Kirk said about black people, gay people, trans people, about executing former President Biden, about how the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and should not exist. The horrible things Charlie Kirk said about Martin Luther King, the horrible things Charlie Kirk says about migrants. Jimmy Kimmel didn't say any of that. Could have. Here, play this clip of Trump saying why Kimmel was fired.

12:29Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. and on a separate issue free speech your vice president uh vance said that free speech is under attack in the uk do you agree with him and prime minister we saw the dismissal of a very well-known chat show host in america last night mr kimmel is free speech more under attack in britain or america well jimmy kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call that free speech or not.

13:09He was fired for lack of talent.

13:11Ben Meiselas:Then Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend asked Donald Trump about the fake auto pen scandal that they go. They go Biden was using the auto pen. Therefore, anything Biden signed via an auto pen should be disqualified. Here play this clip. And my question to you, President Trump, is there any update on the auto pin? Yeah, it's just gotten worse from their standpoint. The people that used it, in particular one person, was never told by Biden to do it. Then Donald Trump brags about how TikTok, there's going to be an American subsidiary of really rich people. Really rich Americans, good rich people.

13:54Ben Meiselas:He keeps saying that. Good, really rich people. are going to potentially have ownership in an American subsidiary of TikTok. I'm not sure how this addresses any of people's national security, the Senate's national security worries of TikTok and the findings there. If China controls the algorithm and controls the IP, that was the issue that the Senate was concerned with. So now you're just giving your friends a sweetheart deal to own as subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S., but not addressing the security concerns that the Senate on a bipartisan basis pushed here. Play this clip. TikTok has tremendous value.

14:35The United States has that value in its hand because we're the ones that have to approve it. I specifically get the right to approve it. The people that are investing it are among the greatest investors in the world, the biggest, the richest, and they'll do a great job and we're doing it in conjunction with china but we are getting uh the united states is getting a tremendous fee plus i call it a fee plus for just making the deal and i don't want to throw that out the window i can say this that uh you'll have a lot of very unhappy youth and i use tiktok very legitimately very straight just statements every day i do little statement short statements sir make it short please and tiktok jack we call them it was pretty good did a good job for me, I guess.

15:19But no, I'd rather reap the benefits. I mean, the kind of money we're talking about is very substantial. And it'll be owned by all American investors. And, you know, the best investors and the, you know, very rich people and companies are going to be owning it. Very, very straight, very legitimate countries, companies, and really companies that love America. So they're going to be owning it. It's a big thing. And on a much bigger scale, and probably that's why we were able to get that. But on a much bigger scale, we're pretty close to a deal. We may do an extension with China, but it's an extension based on the same terms that we have right now, which are pretty good terms.

15:58Ben Meiselas:There's two other portions of this meeting that took place between Keir Starmer and Trump. I want to highlight Donald Trump bragging about the disastrous budget bill, which has hurt so many American lives. Play this clip. Aspect of the bill. I call it the big, beautiful bill the great big beautiful bill we got so much the largest bill ever passed in the history of our country in fact so big that we really don't have to pass too much anymore we can just do this for four years implement and i like to implement because the bills are wonderful but you have to implement but and then again donald trump bragging that there is no inflation let me show you that i have a great process going and inflation is virtually uh non-existent as you know we we're taking in trillions of dollars from tariffs and they've been so incredible for our country so incredible we're keeping our companies happy we're keeping them solid and sane and uh they're very very thrilled at what's happened they can't even actually they can't even believe it and we've there you have it when i say it was a disaster I think this video showed what you come up with another word to describe whatever that is, but it was absolutely a disaster.

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