Trump Spirals Out of Control on Sunday as Condition Is Worse

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2:58Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a terrible Sunday as his regime continues to fall apart. He's ranting and raving, posting things like this. Crooked Joe Biden, Mayorkas and so-called border czar. Kamala Harris really screwed our country by letting anyone and everyone come in totally unchecked and unvetted. This says it's increasingly clear that Donald Trump was the one who granted asylum to the D.C. shooter. Donald Trump quite literally is physically falling apart in Mar-a-Lago where he is yet again vacationing on the taxpayer dime. Just take a look at these photos right here. Both of these photos were taken this weekend.

3:36Ben Meiselas:You see former President Joe Biden on the left. You see Donald Trump on the right. MAGA wants to attack the health of former President Biden, when in reality, Donald Trump, unfortunately, is the one in the Oval Office right now who looks significantly worse. Donald Trump then gives himself Fox TV therapy. He had to turn on Fox. And then he says that a political commentator named Deborah Lee was great on Fox and Friends this morning, working with the wonderful Charlie Hurt. You know, what was interesting is that, her commentary was actually not all that complimentary of Donald Trump. She was saying, put your grudges until the end of your term and focus right now on trying to do things so you don't lose in the midterms.

4:20Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump was really happy about the way she presented that information. She then did a social media post on Instagram back to Donald Trump. And by the way, her prior posts include the following, who wants to play mermaid with me? That's apparently how you audition right now to get a cabinet position in the Trump regime. Just take a look right now at what is going on in a meeting in the United States between the Ukrainian delegation that is here, as well as you see Steve Whitcoff, who is the one laundering the Russian plan of surrender to Ukraine. You see right there, Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner is in the room.

5:01Ben Meiselas:Why the hell is Jared Kushner there. Isn't it enough just to keep grifting off the American taxpayers and making billions of dollars from the Saudis? You've got to be in that room to screw up things even more, Kushner. Just look at the faces of the Ukrainian delegation looking across from them at the traitors who want to give their land to Russia. Do you see how utterly pissed they are? But look, folks, as I said, you know, as Donald Trump throws his temper tantrum this morning, There are ways that he likes to medicate himself. He turns on Fox. He likes to make social media posts about some of the commentators that he likes.

5:35Ben Meiselas:And then he sends emails to grift off of his supporters. That's a fun pastime of Donald Trump to give himself the therapy he needs as he is psychologically, cognitively, mentally, physically deteriorating. So he's like, I need that MAGA money. Let me rip off all of my supporters again. So he sends an email to his supporters saying this is the only tariff rebate email authorized by President Trump. And it's Donald Trump holding$100 bills, taunting his supporters, asking them if they want a tariff rebate and then for how much. And then when they click it, you want a tariff rebate, say, for$2 ,000.

6:12Ben Meiselas:So you click$2 ,000 and guess what? You end up paying Donald Trump$2 ,000 to his campaign. Yes, his campaign. He's still campaigning and has a campaign fund right now where you pay Donald Trump. Who the hell knows where that money is even going? I think we probably actually do know. And then Donald Trump sends this doozy. He goes, Ben, I hate asking my supporters for help. But today is one of those days where I just don't have another option. I need your help. My end of month deadline is less than 24 hours away. I need your help to reach my presidential fundraising goal ASAP. I wouldn't ask unless it was important.

6:50Ben Meiselas:Will you make a personal sacrifice for me and help me reach my fundraising goal? So as Americans are suffering right now, Donald Trump is asking the American people to make sacrifices for him. A billionaire who's made that money, lying, cheating, stealing, committing fraud and screwing over the American people. The Trump regime then sends its propaganda artists to make its rounds on the morning shows this morning. So you had Kristi Noem saying, oh, it was former President Biden who was responsible for the vetting that Trump did in April of 2025. Yes, Trump was in office. Trump was the one who granted asylum.

7:28Ben Meiselas:But Biden did the vetting. So we're going to blame Biden. You were in office. When Biden did the vetting, the vetting actually cleared back in 2021. But guess who's in office now? Yeah, Donald Trump's in office. It's your responsibility. You can't be in what October, November, December, January. What next November is it going to be Biden did this. Biden did that. Every time you invoke Biden's name right now, don't you realize how stupid you look and how stupid the American people think you are? Here, play this clip of Noam. And you said that he was radicalized here in the United States. He was admitted to this country by the Biden administration.

8:08That's 100 percent correct. 2021. But he was granted asylum by the Trump administration in April. So did you see any red flags? If you remember, John, all the information that was gathered on that vetting process was gathered under the Biden administration. His asylum claim application started under the Biden administration. That information was provided by them. And the responsibility lies with them. And we need to know that and speak the truth of how this entire process happened so that we can fix it. That's what President Trump has been doing and dedicated to, is that when we look at people who deserve asylum, they have to be thoroughly vetted.

8:49They weren't under the last administration. That has completely changed under President Trump. But again, he was granted asylum in April, so President Trump had already been in office for several months. You had been in office. Are you saying there was no vetting done by the Trump administration? You were simply relying on what had been done under the Biden administration. You did no vetting before granting him asylum. The processes put in place were put in place using information that was gathered during the application process that happened under Joe Biden. And that has been completely fixed.

9:23Ben Meiselas:And you had Mark Wayne Mullen, MAGA Republican senator, MAGA through and through whatever Donald Trump says, Mark Wayne Mullen agrees with. It doesn't matter what it is. And so Mark Wayne Mullins asked a question here on the CNN morning show, and he said, hey, so I'm just trying to understand this. You claim you're going after the narco-terrorists, the drug traffickers, but Donald Trump announced this weekend that he's pardoning Juan Hernandez, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, who was one of the biggest narco-terrorists, who was convicted in a federal court in the United States, sentenced to 45 years in prison.

10:01Ben Meiselas:This guy said, literally, I'm going to shove the cocaine down the noses of those gringos until they die. He worked with Chapo. Chapo gave him millions of dollars to give the Sinaloa cartel safe passage. This guy's whole career was being one of the top drug traffickers. So that makes sense to you to pardon the top narco terrorist who's in prison in America? Justify that MAGA Republicans here play this clip. It presidential power is pretty much absolute. And I get that. But as a ally of the president, as a senator, you I'm sure have an opinion is on the one hand threatening Venezuela and Maduro while on the Maduro.

10:44And on the other hand, saying that you're going to pardon a guy who was convicted in American justice system for doing exactly what you're saying, you know, intentionally poisoning Americans with drugs. Is that a good idea? Well, I wasn't involved in the conversations that he had with the president of Honduras at the time. I believe there's probably a good faith that is being stretched forth here. If you saw the true social post he put out, there was a direct message. I guarantee you the president's foreign affairs approach is one that's being very effective around the world, a lot better than the Biden administration.

11:23That's why world leaders are coming in every single day wanting to visit with the president. That's why the president is able to stop eight foreign wars and hopefully nine if we can hopefully negotiate a deal between Ukraine and Russia because the world leaders respect him. And so what the president is doing is always calculated. And I haven't had a direct conversation with the president about it, but I do trust his natural reaction and his approach to foreign affairs because we can see it's being very, very effective.

11:52Ben Meiselas:I want to turn. Then you have on Fox state regime media, Alina Habba, she's back in action. And you know what she's going to talk about? Auto pen, because right now as Americans can't afford their groceries right now, as Americans are struggling, living paycheck to paycheck, psychologically tortured, unable to pay their rent right now, as we have the highest foreclosures in modern history. Yeah. Alina Habba is talking about the auto pen, auto pen, this auto, we don't know what your Tali is even talking about. Just your next deranged conspiracy. Just act like freaking adults here. Play this clip.

12:26Says the auto pen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the president of the United States. The radical left lunatic circling Biden around the beautiful resolute desk in the Oval Office took the presidency away from him. And the president wants to void all documents that were allegedly signed by Biden's auto pen. Yeah, I don't disagree at all. The president is 100 percent right. I can tell you right now, as somebody who worked in the West Wing, as somebody who worked with President Trump, that man is signing everything with intent, with knowledge and with his own ink to paper.

13:02We do not use the auto pen for executive orders. The president knows what he is doing. Now, go back to President Biden. I don't think he knew what he was doing, but I will tell you what, the people around him most certainly did. And they were not elected into office and they know

13:16Ben Meiselas:Now, while all of this is also going on, Donald Trump's out there, as I said, the way he loves to scam people. And what better place gives you to the biggest office in the world gives you the biggest platform to scam? That's how Donald Trump thinks about it. While other presidents would say that's the biggest responsibility to conduct yourself pursuant to the Constitution, not Donald Trump. So what Donald Trump's out there saying right now is I may eliminate income taxes because tariff income is just so high that we won't even need income taxable income taxes bring in about three trillion dollars the tariffs which are taxes on the american people at most may bring in 200 billion dollars it's a tax on ourself by the way it's why spending by dollars was higher on thanksgiving but people bought less significantly because things are more expensive right now because there is a tax on the American people through these tariffs being passed through because a tariff is a tax on the importing company.

14:18Ben Meiselas:So Trump says he's going to offset$3 trillion by$200 billion, which doesn't make sense at all. And by the way, his tariffs are likely going to get knocked out by the Supreme Court very soon because they're unlawful. And it's just so interesting when I was looking at this latest scam by Donald Trump, it's notable that right-wing media ran on this story. and right-wing media is reporting. Trump says he's going to do this. Trump says he's going to do this. And I noticed that there was very few left-wing media sources that were reporting on it. I mean, perhaps they were reporting on it critically, like I'm doing right now, saying he's a con artist.

14:54Ben Meiselas:But this is being pushed by right-wing. Why? Because they lie to their base to try to string them along. And by the way, I get asked often, Ben, how do you do your news reports in the morning? Where do you get your news from? Well, I stay up to date on the news all the time in order to do this podcast. And the biggest news source for me, it's called Ground News. You guys, this is a subscriber-funded app and news site. And every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story and then show you what the right's reporting, what the center's reporting, and what the left is reporting.

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16:32Ben Meiselas:That's G-R-O-U-N-D dot news slash MTN. And we pin the link to purchase your subscription below. Right. Getting back to some of the other news right now, you had Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan saying that anybody who was here on asylum, he views basically as a criminal and that he's going to deport them all. Essentially, we'll deport them all because they're all bad. Here, play this clip. There is no way to clearly vet these people, you know, 100 percent that they're safe to come to this country from these third world nations. President Trump's doing the right thing, reviewing every one of these people who came under Biden administration and drilling down on them.

17:11I really, truly think that most of them are going to end up being deported because we're not going to be able to properly vet them.

17:18Ben Meiselas:An Afghan. Then you had Alina Habba this morning saying that, you know, there are individuals who view America as a safe harbor for them and their family. They should never view it that way. Do you know that Alina Habba's parents emigrated to the United States from Iraq, citing persecution? Literally, her parents are doing the thing here that she condemns as she's what? She's pretending that her grandparents came here on the Mayflower and that she's white. Is that what she's doing? Here, play this clip. There was no process. We were allowing open borders. We were allowing criminals, criminals to come into our country.

17:56And then there were individuals that were saying that this should be a safe harbor, a safe haven. Why? America is America because we protect our own. We don't allow this to happen. So when you say we, I want to be very clear. It is not a we. It is not the Trump administration. It was not Trump one. And it is most certainly not Trump administration that is currently happening.

18:15Ben Meiselas:Then you have Kristi Noem dismissing reports about Hegseth murdering people at the sea and the war crimes being committed. And she goes, oh, that's just based on anonymous sources. That's not really happening. You see how they lie about everything? You know there's going to be drone footage? There will be a video. The reporting by The Washington Post describes the video that exists of the two individuals clinging on. So we will see a video of it happen. It will be pretty easy to determine the war crimes here. Here, play this clip. But let me ask you about another question. It was during that period of time.

18:50There's a Washington Post report that one of those Venezuelan boats that was attacked by a U.S. missile, alleged drug boats, that a second missile was launched because there had been two survivors clinging to the wreckage of the boat. I know this was obviously carried out by the Defense Department, But is the administration concerned here that that may have violated the laws of war? I mean, was there an imminent threat posed by those people that were clinging to the wreckage of a boat that had already been struck? Oh, John, that entire story is based on anonymous sources. So we see the press and we see that rag use anonymous sources all the time to print things that aren't true, that are lies, that are completely not based in reality.

19:40So I would not put any credibility to that story, to what was said. I have full faith and trust in this president and in this government to do the right thing to keep the American people safe. And I'm so grateful at the amount of work that has been done to stop those deadly drugs from getting into our country.

19:59Ben Meiselas:And I want to highlight this. I thought Governor Tim Walz this morning, his appearance was an important one. Remember, Donald Trump just called Governor Walz the R word. at midnight, right? Two nights ago, midnight, Trump went on a rant after Thanksgiving and said, this guy's seriously R-word. And here's what Governor Walz had to say about that. Let's play this clip. Governor, let me have you weigh in on this because part of your initial response to President Trump's post was to call for him to release the results of his MRI. And I want to give you a chance to give our viewers exactly a sense of what you mean what exactly were you suggesting by that governor well here we got a guy on thanksgiving where we spent time with our families we ate we played yahtzee we cheered for football or whatever this guy is apparently in a room ranting about everything else this is not normal behavior it is not healthy and presidents throughout time have released a couple things they've released their tax returns not donald Trump and they've released their medical records, not Donald Trump.

21:07Ben Meiselas:And look, the MRI is one thing, but I think what's most concerning about this is as your viewers out there are listening, has anyone in the history of the world ever have an MRI assigned to them and have no idea what it was for, as he says? So look, it's clear the president's fading physically. I think the mental capacity again, ranting, you know, crazily at midnight on Thanksgiving about everything else. There's reasons for us to be concerned. This is a guy that randomly says the airspace over Venezuela's closed. He's ruminating on if you could win a nuclear war. Look, this is a serious position.

21:45Ben Meiselas:It's the most powerful position in the world. And we have someone at midnight throwing around slurs that demonize our children. At the same time, he's not solving any of the problems. So I'm deeply concerned that he is incapable of doing the job. And again, Governor Walz then talks more about Trump calling him the R word. And just then he says here as an educator and parent, you know, using that term is so damaging. Here play this clip. Look, Donald Trump insulting me is a badge of honor for me. But I think we all know as both as a educator for a couple of decades and as a parent using that term is just so damaging.

22:25Ben Meiselas:It's hurtful. We have fought three decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language. And mainly, look, at first, I think it's just because he's not a good human being. But secondly, to distract from his incompetency. We know we just came through a Thanksgiving where prices are up. We know people are concerned about heating their homes as we're experiencing blizzards out here at the same time he's cutting those programs. So, look, we cannot allow this to be normalized.

22:58Ben Meiselas:And I thought Governor Walz here talking about, you know, well, Donald Trump and this regime, they like to say this is woke and that is woke. He goes, you could use the word like no one's preventing you from saying the R word. OK, but if you use it, you have to realize that it's hurtful and it damages people. And as grownups, as adults, we want to encourage people to be inclusive and to work with each other and to not be mean and to not be evil. Like, that's what this is about. You want to say the word, go say it. But if you say it, we're going to think you're a bad person and you're going to hurt people by saying it.

23:32Ben Meiselas:So why do that? Here, play this clip. Look, we cannot allow this to be normalized. The people who Trump is, you know, like this is language police. You guys are woke. Many times it's just about being decent to people and making them feel included. You can use that word. Sure, you can use that language, but you shouldn't. And that's something that Donald Trump fails to realize. But again, Kristen, this is this is cruelness. This is meanness. It's aimed at a broader community. And it's there. You have it, folks. Let me know what you think. That's what's going on this Sunday morning. Keep you posted every step of the way.