In short
A critical rundown of Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference, focusing on his answers about drug trafficking/cartels, immigration enforcement, international law, and a series of off-topic or incoherent remarks, alongside claims about government shutdowns and political investigations.
Guests
Cash Patel (described as present in the audience/with Trump) and Pam Bondi (also present with Trump). No further biographical details are provided in the transcript.
Key claims
Trump says maritime drug trafficking is “almost totally stopped,” then claims they’ll “stop it by land,” dismisses concerns about legality/war crimes, and suggests land strikes/cartel actions while refusing specifics. He praises Stephen Miller, makes remarks about fixing cities (including San Francisco and Boston), and alleges “political crime” by opponents and investigators.
Notable examples
Coast Guard stopping Venezuelan boats; “CIA authority to take out Maduro” question; claims about winning Georgia three times/Fulton County votes; tariffs ending a Pakistan-Iran war; threats to move FIFA World Cup from Boston.
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Chapters
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0:30 to 0:52
Analysis of Trump's views on Venezuelan boats and military actions.
“HomeServe is an easy way to handle unexpected home repairs.”
Trump's Comments on Immigration and Military Actions
2:33 to 3:48
Analysis of Trump's views on Venezuelan boats and military actions.
“You know, this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they would suspect.”
Trump's Comments on Immigration and Military Actions
3:57 to 4:50
Analysis of Trump's views on Venezuelan boats and military actions.
“Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective.”
Discussion on Trump's Oval Office Décor Remarks
4:50 to 6:28
Critique of Trump's description of the Oval Office and its decor.
“And if you look behind him, you'll see there's a map he wants to build a gigantic triumphant arch.”
Trump's Cognitive Glitches in Press Conference
6:28 to 7:50
Exploration of Trump's confusing statements during the press meeting.
“This is like the ultimate cognitive glitching.”
Trump's Remarks on Crime and Governance
7:50 to 9:10
Examination of Trump's comments about crime and governance.
“By the way, you won Georgia three times.”
Trump's Remarks on Crime and Governance
10:18 to 11:42
Examination of Trump's comments about crime and governance.
“Instead of scraping through college, you wish you bought Bitcoin at less than a cent or secured a few Nvidia shares before they boomed.”
Trump's Remarks on Crime and Governance
11:49 to 12:16
Examination of Trump's comments about crime and governance.
“Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today.”
Trump's Accusations of Political Crimes
12:16 to 14:00
Discussion on Trump's claims about political crimes and the election.
“And again, this is all taking place while he's demanded the Republicans, do not talk to Democrats, keep the government shut down, take away people's health care, cover up the Epstein files.”
Political Crime Allegations
14:00 to 14:31
Discussion about political crimes and Trump's perspective on them.
“This is about something else, but I hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much political crime against a political opponent as what I had to go through.”
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Disastrous Press Conference Highlights
14:31 to 16:42
Review of key moments from Trump's press conference including tariffs and Democrats.
“President, you're meeting with President Xi in a few weeks.”
Future of FIFA and World Cup
16:42 to 17:21
Trump discusses the potential relocation of World Cup games due to city issues.
“If we think there's any reason that whether it's Boston or anywhere else that they're not doing their job, we're going to take that those World Cup games and move them someplace else.”
Transcript
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2:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. He had Cash Patel and Pam Bondi there. Let me just bring out the receipts of what went down. Donald Trump says that in Chicago, you have lots of black women walking around in MAGA hats. He said, all these black women love him in their MAGA hats. And that's what you see in Chicago now. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, on Venezuelan's boats, I want to ask you, why not have the Coast Guard stop them, which it is empowered by a lot to do? You know, this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they would suspect.
2:38Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective. They have faster boats. Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world class speed boats. and but they're not faster than missiles but we've been trying to do that for years and so much of the drugs 25 30 percent would come in through the seas right now we have i would say none coming in through the seas in fact i don't know about the fishing industry if you want to go fishing a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing we've almost totally stopped it by sea now we'll stop it by land what's the next but it never worked it never worked when when you know when you did it in a very politically correct manner.
3:20Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump is asked, well, why don't you try to find out who the people are on these fishing boats that you're blowing up in the Caribbean and Venezuela and Colombia? Don't you want to make sure that they're actually, I don't know, like the bad guys? And like, even if they are, why are we killing them? Isn't that against international law? Isn't that a war crime? Then Donald Trump says, I don't really care about that. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, on Venezuelans boats, I want to ask you, why not have the Coast Guard stop them, which it is empowered by a lot to do? You know, this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they suspect.
4:02Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective. They have faster boats. Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world class speed boats. And but they're not faster than missiles. but we've been trying to do that for years and so much of the drugs 25 30 percent would come in through the seas right now we have i would say none coming in through the seas in fact i don't know about the fishing industry if you want to go fishing a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing we've almost totally stopped it by sea now we'll stop it by land what's the next but it never worked it never worked when when you know when you did it in a very politically correct manner
4:43Ben Meiselas:Then he starts talking about the Oval Office and how much gold is there and how beautiful it looks. It actually looks like a grotesque golden bordella. Looks so anti-American. And if you look behind him, you'll see there's a map he wants to build a gigantic triumphant arch. I think it's called the way Hitler wanted to build one in Germania. That's what Trump's focus is on right now. By the way,$40 billion now has gone to Argentina. It's up from$20 billion. $40 billion to Argentina as 20 million Americans lose their health care as Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans have shut down government.
5:22Ben Meiselas:Watch this. Beautiful Oval Office. It never looked so nice. We're getting great compliments. And you see outside how that's come out. It's been great. We make a lot of improvements to the White House, and we're doing that. One of the things you should be looking at is the palm court. because that's been totally redone. So we like to preserve and make better the White House. And that's really what's happened. And we're getting tremendous reviews and we appreciate it. Then Donald Trump has this weird line about Stephen Miller and that just gross. Here, play this clip. Didn't get elected. I did get elected for crime, but I didn't get elected for what we're doing.
6:00This is many, many steps above. And I want to thank Stephen Miller, who's right back in the audience right there. I'd love to have him. I love watching him on television. I'd love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. But maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little bit too far. But Stephen, thank you for doing an unbelievable job. And the people of this country love you, I'll tell you. And they love what you say about crime and stopping crime.
6:25Ben Meiselas:Next, Donald Trump. I don't even know what he's saying. This is like the ultimate cognitive glitching. He goes, there are great cities that can be fixed. I will strongly recommend San Francisco. I think we can make San Francisco like it was 15 years ago. First, what the hell are you talking about? Number one. Number two, San Francisco is actually making a massive, massive revival right now under the mayor there. So anyway, here play this clip of Trump. We have some cities like that, but these are great cities that could be fixed. I'm going to be strongly recommending at the request of government officials, which is always nice that you start looking at San francisco i think we can make san francisco there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's a mess and we have great support in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe in your next group you'll get great support every american deserves and then it just gets weirder after that let me show you what he says over here let's play it okay i wanted very big the last time and i want to big the first time and i want to big the second time but we had criminals that didn't allow.
7:34I mean, they I hope they're going to go into that. I hope they go into the votes which are being stored in Fulton County and take a look at a real look at those votes. OK, because I want it the second time, too.
7:45Ben Meiselas:I know it's so beyond odd. Continues. This was one of the strangest moments of the presser. Let's play it.
7:54By the way, you won Georgia three times. you agree with me uh he's the media for someone that he spends a lot of time in georgia i believe you won that uh i really have a question you know the word believe isn't strong enough right you know there you go it's true i know i want to then a reporter says so are you going to start uh doing
8:15Ben Meiselas:military strikes on land against uh people that you claim are cartels listen to what trump says let's play it what's the next step in this war on cartels and are you considering options are Are you considering strikes on land? Well, I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control. We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found. And I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing. But we had tremendous amounts coming in by boats, by very expensive boats. You know, they have a lot of money, very fast, very expensive boats that were pretty big.
8:50And then he said this. Let's play it.
8:52Ben Meiselas:Does the CIA have authority to take out Maduro? Oh, I don't want to answer a question like that. That's a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not really a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? Then here's what he says. I got elected for crime, but I didn't get elected for what we are doing. You all know what the hell he's even talking about here? Here play this clip. And make them safe. And now it's like a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me. So I didn't get elected. I did get elected for crime, but I didn't get elected for what we're doing.
9:25This is many, many steps above it.
9:27Ben Meiselas:And he continues and continues. Watch this clip right here. Let's play it. As an example, if you look at Pakistan and Iran, I told them I was in the midst of negotiating a trade deal with actually with Iran and Pakistan was going to be in line. and because of tariffs they all want to negotiate much differently we're making a good deal and then i heard that they're shooting at each other and i said during one of my conversations are you guys going to go to war two nuclear powers we are thinking about i said here's the deal you go to war i'm going to put a 200 tariff i'm going to stop you from doing any business in the united states i said it to both of them within 24 hours the war ended that would have been a nuclear war and again, the Prime Minister of Pakistan who is here.
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12:15Ben Meiselas:It is a downward spiral, this thing here. And again, this is all taking place while he's demanded the Republicans, do not talk to Democrats, keep the government shut down, take away people's health care, cover up the Epstein files. Here, watch what he says right here. What we're doing is nothing. Are you kidding? Nothing. They write stories. Why aren't they doing this, this? And we'll leave. I don't have to leave it up to them, but I choose to at this moment, at least. But there's never been anybody treated in the history of politics. And then he said this. Let's play it. and i hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it i'm not i i'm the one that had to suffer through it and ultimately win but uh what they did was criminal uh deranged jack smith in my opinion is a criminal and i noticed his his interviewer was i think that was weissman and i hope they're going to look into weissman too weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in And Lisa, who was his puppet, worked in the office really as the top person.
13:26And I think that she should be looked at very strongly. There was tremendous criminal activity having to do. If we don't have fair elections in this country, we're not going to have a country. And I've said it from the beginning, fair elections and borders. And we need also fair press, because if you don't have fair press, it's very tough. and uh we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a border where the numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take people into our country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject you're talking about political crime they have committed massive political crime i hope they're looking at shifty shift i hope they're looking at all these people and i'm allowed to find out i'm allowed to You know, I'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer, but I have a very good, talented group.
14:19This is about something else, but I hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much political crime against a political opponent as what I had to go through.
14:29Ben Meiselas:More from Trump. This was a strange moment. Let's play it. Mr. President, you're meeting with President Xi in a few weeks. If you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting, are we in for a sustained trade war with China? Well, you're in one now. Look, we have 100 percent tariff. If we didn't have tariffs, we would be exposed as being a nothing. We would have no defense. You know, they've used tariffs on us, but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it. And continue showing you things from this disastrous presser. Let me show you this right here. Let's play it.
15:08I mean, they call him Darth Vader, but he's actually a very nice person. Russell vote. But Russell vote is is really terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects.
15:21Ben Meiselas:Let me show you a few more clips of what went down just so you get the full the full extent. So corporate news doesn't pretend this is normal. Here, let's play this clip right here. But he was forced to do it by the Democrats. And as far as the shutdown is concerned, this is a Democrat Schumer shutdown. And he's trying to do it to get relevance back into the party because he's a loser. I've known him all his life. He's always been sort of a loser, but an intelligent one. But I think he's losing IQ points with time. I think that happens. I hope it hasn't happened with me. I know if it did, you guys will let me know about it very quickly.
15:56Ben Meiselas:And then finally, here's what he said. I could show you many more, but you get it. Let's play this clip. I know you've talked about I have a question for you. And then I also have a question for Dr. Patel. I know you talked about having some distaste for Boston recently. Is this one of the cities that you might be looking into? And can you give us a hint about other cities that you might be? You're saying for where, for where? For Boston. Yeah. Well, Boston has a a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. You know, most of them are low IQ, but and they're so bad. I mean, what's going on in Chicago is just you'd think the guy would say, hey look we have a problem mr president could you come in and straighten it out i could have that we could have that done in a month if we had their cooperation it's going to be done anyway but we could have it done in a month yeah boston she's got four areas that are you know wrong and you know somebody said would we take would we think about taking the world cup away from boston if they don't straighten it out the answer is yes we have the right to do that with fifa So if we think that LA is going to be bad or we think that applies a little bit to the Olympics too, but we'll talk about FIFA first.
17:05You know, FIFA is very hot. If we think there's any reason that whether it's Boston or anywhere else that they're not doing their job, we're going to take that those World Cup games and move them someplace else.
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