In short
A critical recap of Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference, portraying it as chaotic, factually dubious, and politically inflammatory.
Guests
None mentioned; the transcript is a solo host commentary with embedded clips.
Guest backgrounds
Not applicable.
Key claims
Trump calls himself “president of Europe,” boasts about stolen/solid-gold World Cup trophies, blames Ukraine on “personality conflicts,” renames the Pentagon “Department of War,” complains of “97% negative stories,” suggests National Guard/military action in U.S. cities, and attacks Biden, South Korea, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and others.
Notable examples
claims about garage/trunk doors left open in Los Angeles/Beverly Hills; comments about Abrego Garcia and alleged gag-order violations by Pam Bondi; false claims about stopping wars (Rwanda/Congo, India-Pakistan); awarding a golden Marshal badge with a handcuff key.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Disastrous Press Conference
0:30 to 1:56
Discussion on Trump’s bizarre claims during a press conference, including calling himself the 'president of Europe'.
“He said that he is called the president of Europe now.”
The Gold Trophy and Personality Conflicts
1:56 to 4:21
Analysis of Trump's comments about a gold trophy and personality conflicts in international relations.
“But that turns out to be some big personality conflicts.”
Whining About Media Coverage
4:21 to 7:33
Trump's grievances about negative press coverage contrasted with his claims of positive accomplishments.
“But all the cars are, so many cars, I've been told this by many people, stars, big people, they leave their doors open so the doors aren't destroyed by these criminals.”
Imbecilic Claims About Los Angeles
7:33 to 9:06
Examination of Trump's absurd anecdotes about friends in Los Angeles and their garage situations.
“has given immunity and given all these awards to, basically.”
Legal Issues and Reckless Claims
9:06 to 11:04
Discussion on Trump's comments regarding Abrego Garcia and the recklessness of legal pronouncements by officials.
“And as you know, your new president's coming in just a couple of hours coming here.”
Attacks on Biden and Conspiracy Theories
11:04 to 11:59
Trump's attacks on Biden, including bizarre conspiracy theories about South Korea.
“I'm just going to say things from the Oval Office.”
Trump's Disastrous Press Conference
14:00 to 21:04
A critical analysis of Donald Trump's recent press conference, highlighting his claims and contradictions.
“Because the person that ran it said he spoke to briefly twice about nothing.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Ben Meiselas:Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for$15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made$15 bills, but it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch.
0:29Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office on Monday morning. He said that he is called the president of Europe now. He says that's what they call him now, the president of Europe. Here, play this clip. President of Europe, which is an honor. I like Europe and I like those people. They're good people. They're great leaders. Then he points to the gold World Cup trophy, which he basically stole from FIFA. And he goes, look, they gave me this gold trophy. By the way, throughout this press conference, I want you to look as Donald Trump tries to cover up his hands.
1:01Ben Meiselas:You'll see that he's got these massive health issues that he's dealing with. You see all of the discoloration and it almost looks like his hand is decomposing. But watch what he says about his trophy. Here, play this clip. You saw the World Cup was here the other day. And come to think of it, there's your trophy for the World Cup. In fact, it's solid gold. That's actually solid gold. So heavy that some of the people in this room wouldn't be able to lift it. I think what I'm going to do is place it right above the angel, right over there. That's solid gold, too. We're going to put it right up there.
1:32Look at that. There's a solid gold trophy. They know how to get to me, you know. I like the angel better, to be honest with you. So...
1:42Ben Meiselas:Then he says that he's not able to resolve the war in Ukraine because there are issues with people's personalities. We have big personality conflicts, he says, and that's the issue. Here, play this clip. And the one I thought would be easiest, frankly, was going to be Russia and Ukraine. But that turns out to be some big personality conflicts. It's one of those things. But we're going to get that stopped eventually. We're going to get that stopped too. 7 ,000 soldiers died last week. Think of that, 7 ,000. Then he says that he now calls the Department of Defense the Department of War because we need to be going on the offense and we need to be invading.
2:24Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. All right, you let me know if you want to do it. I think Department of War. It just sounded bad. He said, sir, on behalf of the Department of Defense, defense, I don't want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense too. That's okay. So you'll make a decision. But you know, as Department of War, we won everything. We won everything. And I think we're going to have to go back to that. And he whines about how he gets 97 % negative stories against him. And he says that he does 97 % positive things. All of his policies have been great. But he gets 97 % negative stories, he says.
3:05Ben Meiselas:So he's whining about that during the press conference. Let's play it. crime. Everybody before me is happy what I'm doing. Most of you won't say that because you're radical left. The newspapers are so dishonest. The press is totally dishonest, but that's all right. We've gotten used to it and we wanted a landslide. So they obviously lost their power. I mean, it's impossible to imagine that when you get 97 % negative stories, purposely negative stories, even though you've done 97 % positive things. Then if you're wondering what's the point of this press conference, Ben? It's a great question. No one really knows.
3:38Ben Meiselas:He's apparently signing executive orders to prosecute people who burn flags. And he then talks about potentially sending the National Guard and the military to invade other states after Washington, D.C. and California. So he then starts talking about how he has a friend who lives in Los Angeles, and this friend just leaves the garage door open in LA to allow people to steal the things so that the garage door doesn't get damaged. And what the hell are you even talking about here? Play this clip. I've never seen before. Nobody lives like that. I have another friend, he has a garage and in order to save his garage door, he leaves it open so that people can just walk into his garage, take whatever they want and leave.
4:26But all the cars are, so many cars, I've been told this by many people, stars, big people, they leave their doors open so the doors aren't destroyed by these criminals. All over Los Angeles, this is taking place. And you know that. I mean, you've heard that. Christy, could you say a few?
4:45Ben Meiselas:You know, it's so imbecilic. Like, it's just so stupid, the stuff that he's saying. The fact that there's people who want to normalize this, it just baffles me. Then he goes, yeah, also another friend I have in Beverly Hills, in addition to the friend who leaves their garage door open to let people steal because they rather do that than harm the garage door. I have friends, they leave their trunk door open so that people can steal from inside the car so that the trunk isn't damaged. What are you talking about? How dumb is this? Who are these friends of yours? Are these your imaginary friends, Donald?
5:20Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. Thank you very much, Steve. You know, in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills is a great place. I have a house there. I had a house there. I used to stay a lot of time, spend a lot of time there. And a great place. You know that I have friends, they leave their trunk open for their car because they don't want, they know they're going to be vandalized. They don't want the trunk ripped off in order for them to steal what's in the back. They leave the doors open. So when they go in to steal the radio or whatever they take, that they don't rip off the door. They leave the doors totally open.
5:53So the criminals, when they go and open the door, they'll have to break the windows and killed the car in order to steal whatever it is in the car that they're looking for. And that's at a level that nobody's ever seen before.
6:05Ben Meiselas:As you also may know, Abrego Garcia was released. He got to be with his family for a few days, but he was arrested earlier today by ICE. They want to send him to Uganda now because he refused to plead guilty to a phony charge that they're trying to prosecute him for now that he's been brought into the United States. and then Donald Trump starts calling Abrego Garcia a wife beater and then Pam Bondi, the attorney general, basically calls him a human trafficker and a terrorist, essentially. Here's what she says. By the way, this violates a gag order that's in the case. She's not allowed to say this.
6:42Ben Meiselas:It's so reckless for an attorney general to be saying this about an active case. It's illegal, frankly, in my opinion, but here, play this clip. He beat the hell out of his wife. His wife is afraid to even talk about him. She's been mauled by this animal. And, you know, through a system of liberal courts, you know, he's doing things. But, no, we have that under control. And Pam has got that very much under control. Do you want to comment on it? No, we've got him under control. He will no longer terrorize our country. He's currently charged with human smuggling, including children. The guy needs to be in prison.
7:20Ben Meiselas:He doesn't need to be on the streets like all these liberals want him to be. If you want to talk about actual sex traffickers, it's not a Brego Garcia. It's people like Ghislaine Maxwell, who the Trump regime has given immunity and given all these awards to, basically. And it's the covering up of the Epstein files, if you want to talk about actual sex trafficking covering up. It's happening right there in the Oval Office, right before our eyes, as we're watching this. Then Donald Trump starts attacking former President Biden and he calls him an idiot. Again, just who behaves like this? I mean, but this is Donald Trump.
7:57Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. What they've done to our country, these people that circle this moron that we had behind this desk, what they've done to our country is unthinkable. It's unthinkable. I mean, if you right before this press conference took place, Donald Trump posted some conspiracy theory about South Korea. He goes, what's going on in South Korea? Seems like a purge or revolution. We can't have that and do business there. I'm seeing the new president today at the White House. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So a reporter asks him, what are you talking about with South Korea? What does that even mean?
8:34Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump's like, I don't know. I've read a few things. It may not be true. It may be true or not true. Dude, you're the president of the United States. What the hell are you posting here? Play this clip. Very nasty, horrible thing. Could you please elaborate on your post on South Korea? What were you referring to? Well, I heard that there were raids on churches over the last few days, very vicious raids on churches by the new government in South Korea, that they even went into a military base and got information. They probably shouldn't have done that. But I heard bad things. I don't know if it's true or not.
9:09I'll be finding out. And as you know, your new president's coming in just a couple of hours coming here. I look forward to meeting him. But we won't stand for that. We just won't stand for that.
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11:28Ben Meiselas:I'm just going to say things from the Oval Office. Again, this behavior can't be normalized. Then Donald Trump says that he has no problem ordering the National Guard troops into American cities, regardless of what governors want. Play this clip. Prepare to order National Guard troops, though, into American cities if those governors don't request if any of the point i am but i i also think that look at chicago uh everybody knows how bad it is everybody's standing there knows we know you don't have to be doing any studies they should be saying please then you have pete hegseth the secretary of defense or as donald trump now calls the secretary of war says the morale of our troops can never be higher they They love the mission.
12:14Ben Meiselas:They love the mission of being in United States cities. Not what our troops are for. To invade American cities? The hell are we talking about here? Here, play this clip. Defending the nation's capital and ensuring it is safe and beautiful and working with law enforcement. And Mr. President, let me tell you, the morale of the troops getting out there, talking to them. They love this mission. They're grateful to be doing it. Whether they're D.C. National Guard or other state National Guards. And at your direction as well, sir, it's just common sense to make sure they're armed as well. And so they were rolling out and shooting their arm, capable of defending themselves and others if need be, supporting law enforcement.
12:49And we're proud to be there, sir.
12:50Ben Meiselas:Well, look at the mission he's just accomplished. Then Donald Trump, he spends like five minutes doing this. I'm just going to show you a shorter clip of it where he calls J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, a slob. In other clips, Donald Trump says he needs to go to the gym. You need to go to the gym and you need to get checked out, whatever the hell is on your hand, Donald. That's what you also need to do. Donald Trump says, they all say that I'm a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I could be a dictator, but I'm not a dictator. Here, play this clip. It would be good to work together. So I'm thinking about, you know, when I have some slob like Pritzker criticizing us before we even go there, I made the statement that next should be Chicago, because as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now.
13:36And they don't acknowledge it. And they say, we don't need him. Freedom, freedom. of. He's a dictator. He's a dictator. A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person.
13:52Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says that Biden wasn't even alive when he was in office and thus all of Biden's pardons should be eliminated because Biden was never really alive. Here, play this clip. Because the person that ran it said he spoke to briefly twice about nothing. That means that all those pardons that he gave to some very bad people, very unpatriotic people, very evil people. It looks to me like those partners are worthless. Because, number one, you shouldn't use an auto pen very specifically. But if you do, it has to be a very good reason. And they have to know that the president wanted it. The president didn't want this.
14:34the president didn't know he was alive, okay? He never approved any of this stuff. He wasn't for open borders and all the other things. He was never for open borders. I'd known Biden a long time. He was never very sharp, but he was never in favor of open borders and all of the other things he did to destroy our country. Let's go. Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on Flagler.
14:56Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump lies and claims that he's stopped all of these wars, multiple wars, seven wars, three wars, 10 wars. he says that he likes black people because he stopped the war in Rwanda and Congo he claims he did that that's how he says he loves black people he says deep dark Africa he says deep dark Africa is what he says and then he tries to take credit for stopping the war between India and Pakistan that would have been a nuclear war so you have deep dark Africa he says he says the war between India and Pakistan which would have been there would have been nukes he saved the world everybody.
15:31Ben Meiselas:What are you talking about? You didn't stop any of these wars. The Indian prime minister and foreign minister even say you have nothing to do with it. You've destroyed the relationship between the United States and India. But play this clip. We stopped them all. We stopped three wars, go to Africa. They like to say, oh, you know, I love black people. And I did great with the vote with the black people. But they say, he's a racist. He's a racist. I said, really? For 35 years, a war raged between Rwanda and the Republic of the Congo. And it was a vicious war. Nine million people were killed with machetes, largely.
16:08Hatchets, machetes. That went on for 30, more than 30 years, but 34, 35 years. And I stopped it. In fact, the presidents are coming in a week or two to sign the, we have the foreign ministers. It's all signed. The war stopped. But I got it stopped and saved a lot of lives. The Congo, as deep into deepest, darkest Africa. I got that war stopped. Nobody else could have done that. We did a lot of jobs. We did a lot of wars were stopped that nobody thought would even be possible. And I'll tell you what, the war with India and Pakistan, that was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war. They already shot down seven jets.
16:49That was raging. and I said, you guys want to do trade? We're not doing any trade. We're not doing anything with you. If you keep fighting, you get it. You get 24 hours to settle it. They said, well, there's no more war going. And I use that on numerous occasions. Trade, I use trade. I use whatever you had to use. But we got seven of them stopped.
17:11Ben Meiselas:And then, of course, this press conference ends like they always do. The person has to give Donald Trump something gold. You have to give him an offering. So here, the head of the U.S. Marshal Services gives him a golden badge. Here you go. Here's a gold badge. It's a key that unlocks handcuffs that we put on migrants and citizens. Donald, here, play this clip. Law enforcement, we're out there every single night. Yes, thank you for putting me in charge of this surge as the director of the United States Marshal Service. It's the oldest law enforcement agency. It was created in 1789. So on behalf of all the federal law enforcement agencies that we're working with and those that have yet to join the team, we thought it was only appropriate to present you with an honorary United States Marshal Service badge.
18:06and this badge comes with this little item right here,
18:14which is a handcuff key, Mr. President, because you continue through your policies and your efforts with your staff to unhandcuff law enforcement officers all over this nation. And I can tell you personally that they thank you for that. Thank you. You can continue unhandcuffing law enforcement. That's a very great honor. I'll save that and put it someplace up, which is important. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you.
18:46Ben Meiselas:Well, we love those people. And remember, the whole time you see him covering up his hand during this press conference, you see all of the like trophies that he stole. You see the other trophy in the background that he stole from the FIFA Club World Cup. So he's got the FIFA World Cup one right next to him, which he goes, it's so heavy you can't even pick it up. He's got that one. But then he has the one behind him, which is the one he stole recently in New Jersey, the FIFA Club World Cup one, which he stole as well, the original one. And then the teams had to act or the players had to get like fake versions because Trump actually stole it.
19:21Ben Meiselas:So you have that honorary badge play that. You saw that clip. And then he starts attacking Gavin Newsom and saying he's an idiot. We saved it. We brought in the water. We brought in all the water, the fires. I put out the fires. Here, play this clip. Fair to sum. We saved Los Angeles and all we did is get criticized by this idiot that's running the state into the ground, right? Where people are leaving. He should be thanking us and he should be requesting us to be there. It's so utterly deranged. After the fires were 100 percent contained, Donald Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to go to like Northern California and dump out two billion gallons.
20:04Ben Meiselas:from our reservoirs in California onto farmland that's nowhere even connected to Southern California, wasted the water, claimed that he put out fires that were already contained at that point, and was nowhere even connected to it. The guy's literally a psychotic individual who's clearly rotting before our eyes. Also, just to fact check, every time that Donald Trump claims that this is the first time in D.C. there's been no murders in a week, from February to March, there were 16 days of no murders. In April, there were seven days of no murders. In May, there was eight days of no murders. In August, there were eight days of no murders.
20:39Ben Meiselas:Essentially, every month so far in D.C., there's been a week or week and a half period of no murders, okay? Because it's at a 30-year crime low. If you want to actually deal with addressing crime, maybe go to the red states and red cities where crime is at its highest. Well, anyway, that was Donald Trump's disastrous press conference this morning. We'll keep you posted with more, but how outrageous was that? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.midastouch.com. All 100 % USA union made.
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