Trump Shuts Down House and Rages in Oval

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1:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump just had a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office at the same time he has ordered his MAGA stooges to effectively shut down the House of Representatives. Yet again, he has ordered his MAGA stooges not to advance what's called the rule in the House of Representatives to allow voting on additional legislation. He says until the United States Senate agrees to pass his Voting Suppression Act, he wants Congress to be shut down. Let me show you what was going on, though, during this disastrous Oval Office press conference where Donald Trump said that he would not be signing the housing bill that was just passed on a bipartisan basis to try to make housing more affordable and accessible to Americans and especially for first-time homeowners.

1:48Ben Meiselas:Watch what Donald Trump says. Let's play this clip. I said I'm not signing the housing bill. I want to see what happens. We said, look, the housing bill is housing. I made billions of dollars with housing. I know housing better than anybody, maybe anywhere. It's all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rates. You can have all the housing you want. But you have to understand, I don't want to hurt people that own houses, too. These people, for the first time in their lives, they have valuable houses. They become rich. I don't want to hurt them either. What you want to do is, what, good for everyone?

2:24get the interest rates down. We have this numbskull that was the head of the Fed before, and he's a stupid person. And we call him too late because he was too late with the interest rates all the time. We need low interest rates. Low interest rates will solve everything. We'll solve that. Now, despite that, we're doing well with housing.

2:47Ben Meiselas:Now, fortunately, the housing bill was passed by a veto-proof majority in both the House and the Senate. If Donald Trump doesn't take any action, it automatically will become law in 10 days. If Donald Trump vetoes it, then the veto has to be overridden by the House and the Senate. So we'll see where that goes. But at the same time, Donald Trump is attacking this bipartisan affordability housing bill. He says, we're doing great on affordability. Here, play this clip. Affordability. We're doing great. The Democrats gave us a tremendous affordability problem and we're reducing prices a lot. He then says that he finds Mamdani to be very attractive.

3:32Ben Meiselas:He's attracted to Mamdani and Mamdani is charming. Here's what he says. Let's play this clip. Mandami was here, as you know, twice. And he's a very nice guy. He's a charming guy, good looking guy. We talk, we talk, but you can't raise taxes on people when you force them to leave your state or your city and they're leaving and they're going to Florida. Then Donald Trump said that his deal with Iran, the MOU, was going to be so perfect that he was about to do the strongest and most powerful deal ever. However, he says the United States Senate then passed a war powers resolution, concurrent resolution with the House of Representatives.

4:16Ben Meiselas:And that destroyed his ability to negotiate because Iran said, wait, the United States Senate just did a concurrent war powers resolution. So that's why Donald Trump is saying there may be problems with his MOU. By the way, the MOU was done before the war powers resolution. This is what Donald Trump does. He blames everyone and everything for what he does. This is his plan. This is the Trump blame cycle. Here play this clip. So we're doing great in our negotiations with Iran. Right in the middle of one of the key things, which we're going to get anyway, we got. We have breaking news. The Senate has voted that they'd like Trump to stop the war.

5:04So Iran sees that and they go, what's that all about? Now, you know, it's meaningless, right? But I, I.

5:13Ben Meiselas:Now, speaking of the Trump blame cycle, he then says, you know, look, the reflecting pool, it was about to be so beautiful for July 4th. It was going to be amazing. But then he said, the vandals started gashing it. The MOU was going to be perfect. The reflecting pool was going to be beautiful. But then all these people interfered. It's rigged. Everything's unfair. Do you see the pattern here? Let's play this clip.

6:05What is the hottest in the world is the United States of America.

6:10Ben Meiselas:By the way, as we say, as we said on the Midas Touch Network, the Trump playbook, fail miserably, then find a scapegoat. Algae bloom in the reflecting pool caused by his renovations. Vandals did it. Gas prices spiked due to his war. Oil company price gouging. Interest rates remain high due to inflation caused by his tariffs against the world and war. Jerome Powell's fault. Bungle the COVID response. Oh yeah, that's Dr. Fauci. Insight and interaction. It was the deep state. It was the FBI. It was Antifa. It was Black Lives Matter. Immigration enforcement failures. Radical activist left-wing judges did it.

6:49Ben Meiselas:Economy slowing or recession fears. It's Biden's economy. Coming soon. Lose the midterms due to historic unpopularity. It's the RINOs fault for not passing the SAVE Act. you negotiate this MOU that's weaker than Obama's JCPOA. The War Powers Resolution did it. Do you see the theme here over and over again? Then Donald Trump says around the reflecting pool, the grass is messed up now. And that's because they poured acid on the grass. It's acid grass. Here, play this clip. But we fixed those. You know, grass has a life just like people have a life and we fixed a lawn and it will be fixed. One of the other things they did a job around the reflecting pool.

7:34We have a huge field of grass. They poured acid on the grass. The same people, I guess they poured acid. So that's in the process. It killed acid kills grass quickly. So that's being fixed. But the reflecting pool is great.

7:51Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump also says, you know, it's the fake news's fault for reporting on all of this. Let's play this clip.

8:23mugged him up, they would have beat the hell out of him. He would have said, I've never gone back.

8:27Ben Meiselas:And then in terms of the ducking and dodging accountability, a reporter says and asks, so have you seen any report on the Manab school where the United States military slaughtered over 168 little girls in Iran at the beginning of the war, which undisputably the United States did? A sick and disgusting war crime for which anyone involved in the chain of command deserves to be tried in the Hague. It's what I feel objectively. What does Donald Trump say? Ah, we're never really going to get to the bottom of it. It's war. We're never going to find the answers. Lack of accountability, war, criminal, liar.

9:03Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. Can I ask you one other question? Have you seen the report into the Min Ad school attack, sir? I have not seen it, no. Why not? At some point, well, I have to wait for it to be complete. I don't know that they're ever going to solve that problem. I mean, you could ask me, but I don't know that they're ever going to say it was one of our missiles. Pete, I don't know that they're ever going to solve that problem in terms of whose fault was it. Because there were missiles flying all over the place. And it's horrible what happened. But there were missiles flying all over the place.

9:35And somebody said it was our missile. Well, maybe it wasn't our missile. But I've seen nothing to lead me to believe it was. There were plenty of missiles being flown by other people. What do you think, Pete? Oh, Mr. President, we've taken the investigation very seriously. And when the appropriate time is right, whatever that outcome is, that'll be the time to devolve. I mean, if you come up with the right answer, I don't think it's going to be us. I don't think it was us. There were a lot of missiles being fired at that time. Yeah, please.

10:03Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump says, ah, you know, it's the oil price gouging. That's why the prices, the prices should be$2.25, but I'm being screwed by the oil companies. Now, let me just say, I actually believe we are being screwed by the oil companies as well. I do think that there's price gouging. I think though that existed before the war as well. I think we're being price gouged by a lot of collusive behavior by corporations that Donald Trump supports. But I do want to mention this. Donald Trump had all of those oil executives sitting around him right as he was invading Venezuela. And he said, these are my friends.

10:38Ben Meiselas:These who I consult them about everything, right? And so these are your buddies, Donald. These are the people who are getting richer and richer while Americans are suffering. This is your crew. These are your buds. Here, play this clip. The gasoline or the oil prices have come down so much and we are not seeing anything at the pump by comparison to what it should be. We should be, in my opinion, at$2.25 right now at the pump. And we're higher than that. And we are doing a big investigation on it. Yeah. And it just reminds me as I think about this, like this is who MAGA is. Ken Paxton, MAGA Republican AG in Texas, releases a child sex predator.

11:25Ben Meiselas:I mean, one of the most sick, disgusting child sex predators without anything. Midas Touch tried to ask him, so why'd you do that? No accountability. Watch what happened. I'm just trying to show you this is who they are. Here, play this clip. Excuse me, Mr. Paxson, what do you think about Adam Hoffman? Why did you get a plea deal for a sex, title sex predator? Do you have anything to say about that? Should he be registered as a pedophile in the state of Texas? A sex offender? Step back, step back. What do you have to say to Adam Hoffman, the victim of Adam Hoffman? Mr. Paxson, Mr. Paxson, what do you have to say?

12:01Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump says, I'm disappointed in Italy, UK, Germany, Spain, France, Every country, everyone's screwing me over. Here, play this clip.

12:36Spain is not a good group, not a good group at all. But I have great respect for this man. And so we're going to be discussing what took place and we'll see what happens. Thank you.

12:51Ben Meiselas:And while Donald Trump engages in this behavior and while you have Trump and Rubio, you know, saying all of these lies about the MOU, you know, one of the big problems that it creates is this ambiguity that could lead to war restarting again very soon. Iran's foreign ministry spokes spokesperson said the following. The U.S. ruling establishment has never shown any sincerity in its behavior toward the Iranian nation. Iran, while having ample reason for this suspicion, entered the diplomatic process in good faith and signed the MOU to end the imposed war. Iranians know that the enemy's animosity will not end with the signing of a single agreement, and they will take every step, vigilance, bearing in mind the experience of the past five decades, especially the developments of the last year and a half.

13:32Ben Meiselas:The contradictory statements by U.S. officials regarding the MOU to end the imposed war will do nothing to reduce the accumulated distrust of Iranians and will merely serve as a reminder of past breaches of faith. The U.S. ruling establishment must bear in mind that the principle of commitment for commitment requires the fulfillment of reciprocal obligations and the avoidance of interpretations that are entirely at odds with the explicit wording of the memorandum of understanding text. And so let's stick to what's in the text. You know, all of this lying and all of this, you know, these deranged press conferences and statements, they don't help anybody.

14:13Ben Meiselas:They don't help anything. It makes you look like a clown. It makes the United States look foolish. And you're just going to lead to war again. And we saw where that happened last time. That's where we're at anyway. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody.

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