Trump Melts Down as His Presidency Hits Turbulence

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2:17Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was having a late night psychotic meltdown as he arrived at Bedminster in New Jersey. That's the golf course that he owns. Here's what he was posting around midnight. It's our oil tanker now. And it's some weird AI meme of him being a pirate taking over an Iranian cargo ship. He posts again. And it's our oil tanker now, and it's some racist AI meme of throwing Iranian people in some white garb overboard as Donald Trump takes over an Iranian tanker. Donald Trump then posts a weird AI meme of General Patton, General MacArthur, and then the meme has Donald Trump stealing the valor of a four-star general.

3:04Ben Meiselas:It's Donald Trump in the four-star general uniform. And then last night, Iran was then mocking him by saying Trump's propaganda versus the reality. And the reality is Donald Trump hiding in a cafeteria container with Natalie Harp. And then the propaganda is the stupid stuff that Donald Trump posts. Also, the Iranian accounts are posting our gas prices here in the United States. So they took this billboard. It's a real billboard out in Georgia. There are billboards like this popping up across the United States. And then the Iranian embassy say, no, it's not Iran. This is Georgia in the United States, where it says before Trump's war,$2.98 a gallon.

3:48Ben Meiselas:And now in Georgia, it's$4.56 a gallon. Well, in many places, it's over$5 a gallon. It may be over$6 a gallon where you live. But right now in the United States, gas prices are the highest they've ever been on average in August right now in the history of the United States. Then Donald Trump posts this bizarre AI meme, Wall of Steel, the blockade. And it's a weird AI graphic of US ships destroying Iranian vessels. And they don't even look like Iranian warships. They look like Iranian cargo ships. That's Donald Trump's fetish about being a pirate. Although if you wanted to make this more realistic, I'd remove the Iranian ships.

4:35Ben Meiselas:I'd remove the fake wall. I'd remove everything other than you can show the ships. But then the fact that our troops are starving, our sailors, our Marines aboard the super carriers, and these aren't the super carriers, but aboard the super carriers, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS George H.W. Bush are literally starving. They're not getting the nutrition that they need. And Donald Trump yesterday was like, keep them out there longer. They need to be out there longer. And then you had Pete Hegseth saying, the sham, reckless media, like attacking us. I'll do a video this morning. I want you to check back and watch it.

5:15Ben Meiselas:More attacks against the Midas Touch Network by the Pentagon, by the Defense Department, by these despicable Trump regime officials. I mean, look what this loser's posting too. I'm only going to show you a handful of this. Donald Trump kept on posting AI images of himself walking through a golden ballroom with George Washington. And he keeps posting it. Another post, another post. He did like 20 posts AI images of himself and AI George Washington walking through the golden ballroom that has now been blocked by the DC Circuit Court of Appeal. You know, yesterday, Donald Trump filed emergency motion.

5:53Ben Meiselas:I covered this to the United States Supreme Court emergency motion. Donald Trump said, oh, this is real. He goes, Iran keeps trying to assassinate me, SCOTUS Supreme Court. I need your help. The ballroom will become my shield against the Iranian ballistic missiles and drones. And so please, please save me. Please save me, Supreme Court. I kid you not. that's actually in a Supreme Court filing, that Donald Trump says the ballroom is his shield against the Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. We know, sadly, that the cancer has been spreading and former President Biden Hunter has talked about that.

6:35Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump continues to post memes mocking former President Biden. Biden isn't even a 100 handicap. And then Donald Trump posts weird AI images, drone port, because Trump's turning the White House into, he wants to turn it into a military facility. And his whole post to the, his whole message to the Supreme Court was also, the White House is now a military complex. And he argued to the Supreme Court that this is a treasonous lawsuit and I want to turn the White House into a military complex. Oh, and by the way, that's what Donald Trump posted. He said the lawsuit to block the ballroom. These are the treasonists.

7:20Ben Meiselas:These are the treasonists that brought the suit against the military complex. They reveal top military secrets. That's what he calls the people who brought the lawsuits. He says they're the treasonists. They are very bad for our country. They stopped many projects. They were asked by the United States military not to bring the suit because of the top secret nature of the facility being built. That never happened. Then Donald Trump cites his new director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, as saying, the project, referring to the ballroom, is critical for ensuring the White House can serve as a secure location for the gathering of the president.

7:59Ben Meiselas:I mean, what a snowflake. There's never been a former president who said we needed a ballroom as a shield against missiles. What are we talking about here? Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Donald Trump cites him. Trump's posting this at like midnight last night, all of this. I declare there is a valid military requirement for a secure state-of-the-art facility that provides for the physical protection of the president and the command control and communications capabilities necessary for the president to carry out his commander-in-chief responsibilities. You need a golden ballroom to do that?

8:33Ben Meiselas:What are you talking about, guys? What are you talking about. You need the golden ballroom to do that. The court said, if you want to build some underground bunker, which already exists, feel free to do it. The ballroom is a shield. What are you talking about? And then Marco Rubio, Trump repost Marco Rubio. In my work with the heads of state and foreign ministers, I am frequently hosted in reception facilities that are visually impressive and reflective of the wealth and beauty of the nations I am visiting. In the United States, by contrast, we currently lack the ability to hold large events of a similar magnitude.

9:08Ben Meiselas:What are you talking about? We could throw events in the United States. Where are you living? What's your issue? And by the way, you saw Marco Rubio's wife just continuously mock him on Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife show. Donald Trump also posting graphics bragging that there has been 18 people dead in the, he calls it, Iran military conflict. He doesn't even call it a war when Hong Kao, the acting secretary of the Navy and others were saying, our war fighters above the USS Abraham Lincoln, they had to hang in there during this horrible war, during this war, and they stood their ground during this war or whatever.

9:49Ben Meiselas:You know, he's calling it a military conflict and he's bragging 18 dead as though that's a good thing. Weird memes of himself and Rosie O'Donnell. And then here's what Iran's posting also. They said he can't even control his own bowels, yet he talks about controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Idiot. That's how they think about him. Here, play this clip.

10:20Ben Meiselas:Now, just to remind you, yesterday, Donald Trump said that the USS Abraham Lincoln's deployment was not long enough, and he wants to see the sailors, the Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln stay on there longer. Play this clip. Well, no, that ship is moving. No, they're not. That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it's being replaced with another very similar ship. No, no, no. Not nearly long enough. Thank you, everybody. And then Hegsett said that all of the military families who are saying that their loved ones are living in these horrible conditions aboard the carriers, that they are liars and that they are telling false information to the media.

11:09Ben Meiselas:Here's what he says. Play this clip. Completely misrepresented. Listen, we make sure at every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors. And so now we learned that the USS George Washington, as a result of the reporting, hat tip to Aaron Parnas, affiliated with the Midas Touch Network and Military Times and Stars and stripes and emmets now and others who have relentlessly reported on this so now fortunately the according to the trump regime although they lie about everything they say the uss abraham lincoln is going to be returning back to the united states which is a good thing the george hw bush has been out there for a long time that's still going to be there that super carrier will still be there and then now the united states is bringing in the uss george washington which is the only carrier in the pacific so we're abandoning our pacific allies to now bring in the george washington because there's no other carrier that can go to the middle east at this point but what we also learned is that one of the ships that was close to the george washington in the pacific is the uss benfold and that also suffered an engineering casualty affecting its power generation system on July 24th while conducting operations in the South China Sea.

12:38Ben Meiselas:And it resulted in a complete loss of power. And here's how it's being reported in U.S. military news. The loss of power meant sailors were without galley services, toilets, and air conditioning. Potable water was also affected. He did not respond to a question about how the sailors handled their waste when the toilets and the plumbing didn't work and there was no water. Okay. And one of the issues that we know about the George H.W. Bush and that we know about the Abraham Lincoln is that, and this also was the Gerald Ford, the plumbing's broken and the Trump regime, they're not fixing it. So there's like feces all over the floor and there's plumbing issues ensue and it's all spilt everywhere.

13:24Ben Meiselas:And it's really deeply problematic. Okay. We also learned that Friday night, another Adnok ship was hit by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. That's the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Two days ago, there were another two Adnok tankers hit. So there's about 20 Adnok tankers that have been hit recently by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and another one on Friday night. Iran continues to control the Strait of Hormuz. That's undisputed. But if you ask Treasury Secretary Besant, despite the American people suffering right now, Besant says in their hearts, Americans feel really good right now. Here's what he says.

14:07Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. Why aren't we seeing this sentiment? Why are people feeling better? Well, I, you know, I when I was in the investment business, there are consumer surveys. But I used to look at what are the people really doing? So at Treasury, we have loads of CEOs come through, whether they're in retail, credit card, the banks and the consumer, while they may be sounding grim, is actually quite buoyant. So we are seeing spending has been very solid across most categories. So they might not feel good, but. Well, look, in the heart of hearts, they feel good. I'm not sure what they're telling the survey people.

14:50Ben Meiselas:What are you talking about? Oh, and then you have Donald Trump's VP, J.D. Vance, says that he wants to end the U.S. dollar's position as a global reserve currency because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply, as Phil Magnus explains. keep that in mind next time you order a$20 burrito on DoorDash. And this is what JD Vance's view is. And like literally everything out of this regime are ways to like harm America and harm the American people. What do you mean you don't want, you don't like the dollar to become the world's reserve currency? Here, play this clip. Yeah, that's exactly right.

15:32And by the way, you know, I am, this is like maybe super heterodox. I am not sure that I think the reserve currency is actually good for the United States of America. I think there is a good argument that reserve currency status is akin to coal in Appalachia. It's a resource curse, right? It allows your consumers to consume very cheaply, right? That's been the story of the American economy for the last 15 or so years, even before that, is we can just borrow basically in

16:01Ben Meiselas:a limited way because we have the reserve currency. And then you had Donald Trump yesterday speaking in Nassau County by the way I grew up in Nassau County in a town there it's run right now by a MAGA County executive Bruce Blakeman who's running for governor in New York against Democratic governor Kathy Hochul and so Blakeman had I covered this in detail so I'm sure you know but just to remind you he had the Nassau County Police Department officials that he paid them and he got paid overtime also to basically be donald trump's props again trump and you know during the speech yesterday and so trump as you know is a sexual predator he's been found civilly liable for sexual assault he's on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women um he says because he's rich he can do it sick man sick human being um he's a felon separately in a different case in a business records case.

16:59Ben Meiselas:He was found 34 felony counts. He's bankrupted a lot of stuff, obviously. And so you have, and of course, all the criming that's taken place right now in plain view. And then here he is as he's covering up the Epstein files. Again, this guy's covering up a child sex trafficking ring and you've, and you, and he's been found civilly liable for sexual assault separately in a separate case. And you've got the police behind him working with the MAGA County Executive. And this is all one big joke as Donald Trump talks about young girls, young girls saying, thank you, you saved me. The hell is he talking about here?

17:39Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. No, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls in the White House, you know, they come in. Now, I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell? These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they want to be safe. And they come, Mr. President, may I speak to you? Yes. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I said, why are you thanking me? Because a year and a half ago, I was afraid to leave. I was afraid to open the door of my apartment. And now I walk to the White House every morning and I have absolutely love you. Thank you, sir. And then, yeah, I'm going to do another video on it this morning.

18:18Ben Meiselas:So I hope you'll watch it. Trump's Patriot Games. where he had these young girls and young guys, 14 to 17 year old high school students that Trump said, these are the best athletes in the country. And they're not, they like wrote an essay and they sent a video and like the Trump regime picked like these girls that, that Trump wanted to be in this game. They're not the best athletes, no offense to them. They're not close to them. They're not good athletes. I mean, they're not, they're not horrible, I guess, but then Trump had them do these weird events. Like, I mean, this is some weird, this is like some weird ass stuff right here.

18:53Ben Meiselas:And so they did pop a shot, you know, like when you go to a Chuck E cheese and you like the, you know, those games with like the, like the basketball, like the arcade basketball. And so that's what they called the Patriot games. And they, and they had like tug of war and like a ball that you threw on like this foam. Super, super weird, super strange. And then I'll just, and then, you know, in the past 24 hours, you've also had Donald Trump's trade secretary, Jameson Greer, just whining about Canada. Here's whining about Canada doing retaliatory tariffs against Trump, putting tariffs and declaring a trade war against Canada.

19:40Ben Meiselas:He's like, why would they do retaliation against them? Why would you go to a trade war? Like, why are you attacking Canada, you idiot? Here, play this clip. Well, I would say that those duties, if you look at what was put out, the legal basis for those duties, the policy basis for those duties, are related to measures that Canada took against the United States. So I've got two countries in the world that have retaliated against the United States for trade measures. The People's Republic of China and Canada. That's not the kind of company you really want to be running in. And so we have three issues where Canadians have banned the sale of American wine and spirits in Canada.

20:19You know, for everything that we've done in the Trump Trade Administration of essentially assessing a fee on foreign goods made by foreign workers, we're not in the business of banning these things from Canada. So that's interesting. So that has to be resolved. We have an uneven dairy treatment. In some instances, Canada gives the EU better treatment on dairy than they give us, their best customer. And we want the benefit of our bargain from NAFTA and USMCA on dairy. And then we have a variety of other issues on procurement and a variety of things like that. I mean, those things have to be resolved because that's the legal basis for those other tariffs.

20:54You know, again, from the U.S. perspective, you know, this is our trade policy. The Canadians have come in and they want to have a conversation about it. And we're having those conversations. I mean, again, this is a global trade policy. We have been suffering in the United States for decades under a trade policy that incentivizes offshoring to China, to Mexico, to Vietnam, but in some cases to Canada even. And we can't allow that to happen anymore. Ultimately, we are accountable to American voters. The president was elected by voters on a campaign, on a platform of protecting American industry.

21:28So that is first and foremost what we need to do. You know, these tariffs that are coming in, they are a response to Canadian retaliatory measures, like the kind of things that China would do. And so those are things that would have to be resolved. Thank you. Yeah.

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