Trump's Saturday Morning is a Disaster

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump rushed out of the White House to go to a Tennessee football game today. And as he was leaving the White House, he was ranting and raving like a lunatic. He was posting fake news should not be allowed in the White House. It has gone on far too long at a tremendous cost to our country. He hates the First Amendment. He hates the U.S. He hates the Constitution. Then he goes and says, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. D.J.T. He rushes out of the White House and then he starts again just like yelling and behaving like an absolute lunatic. And then he said, Iran made a proposal to try to resolve the war, but I rejected it, he said, because what, Donald?

0:41Ben Meiselas:It's you want the gas prices and the diesel prices to be higher? Here's what he said here. Play this clip. They made a proposal, but I rejected it. And then he goes, Iran outsmarted themselves. You see, they were like, let's close the Strait of Hormuz and cause a problem for the world. But then I came along and we put a blockade of steel around them. And now they're stuck. You kind of forgot the key part of that, Donald, where you and Netanyahu invaded their country. and then they shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which they still control right now. And now gas prices and diesel prices are surging.

1:24Ben Meiselas:And now we're in a never-ending catastrophic war. But okay, I guess in your version of events, Iran just shut down the Strait of Hormuz out of nowhere. And then in your version of events, it's still open right now and everything's amazing and gas prices are down. And we're in a golden age. Listen to what he says here. He's like, they outsmarted themselves. Here, play this clip. You know why? Because they're dying. You know why they're dying? Because they have no money coming in. Because they get their money from the Hormone Strait. So they outsmarted themselves. They said, let's close it and cause a problem for the world.

1:59And then I came along and we put up the greatest blockade ever in military history. It's a wall of steel. And we put it up. And guess what? They don't have any money now because they wanted to close the strait. And I said, that's fine. We're going to close it on you. But everybody else is able to use it.

2:18Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump, as he's leaving to go to the Tennessee football game, he goes, here's my message to Zelensky. Settle with Putin now. Oh, were those, though, magic words that you promised in 2024 that you were going to resolve the war in 24 hours, that you would tell Zelensky the magic words and Putin the magic words and the war would magically end like you promised in 24 hours? Here, listen to what he has to say. Let's play this clip. But you know what I want him to do? Make a deal. I want him to settle with Putin and I want Putin to settle with him. Last month. I mean, it's what a lunatic.

2:55Ben Meiselas:What Zelensky should just say here, Putin, just take all of eastern Ukraine. It's your were those the magic words, Donald? I think that's what you thought the magic words were going to be. But now the war there is escalating. Wars in the Middle East are escalating. The Houthis on Surala have taken over all of Western Yemen and they're pushing east right now. The world has never been more volatile because of you and how weak and pathetic you are. And then you bring Xi Jinping over, roll out the red carpet, have our army and air force personnel get down on their knees and roll out the red carpet for him.

3:31Ben Meiselas:It was sickening. And then Donald Trump says, I had a major breakthrough with Xi when he visited. What was the breakthrough, Donald? did you talk about Taiwan? Did you talk about, I don't know, Iran? Did you talk about, what would you talk about? Oh, he's like, she likes the idea of calling AI, SI, super intelligence. Here, play this clip. On SI, and he likes the idea of changing the name to SI too, because it's much more accurate. It's actually much more elegant, but it's much more accurate. And this country is going to do it 100%. We had a lot of talk about it. The United States of America is not going to be putting on brakes.

4:14Ben Meiselas:A reporter then asked Donald Trump, will you strike Iran after the midterms? Or so what's the plan with this catastrophic war that is destroying the lives of Americans here and destroying the lives of people abroad and destroying the people's lives in Iran? Trump goes, I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal, but I think that they're begging for it. And I don't think any deal is acceptable right now. Here, play this clip. Well, I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the straight immediately because they're losing so badly. You know, you don't read that or you don't see that in the fake news.

4:54But we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Harmo's straight. massive amounts of oil are coming out of the Harmo Strait. Last night we had 29 ships come out. They want to make a deal and I think that's fine. I like making a deal too. But that deal would not be acceptable.

5:16Ben Meiselas:And by the way, this is why Donald Trump is incapable of making deals because he doesn't even recognize the existence or basic humanity of the person or the people or the country he's doing the deal with. And so he views any overture of, okay, well, why don't we go back to the memorandum of understanding that you previously agreed to when the Strait of Rome was open in a short period of time? Some of the prices started going down. Like he's a sex predator. He's a disgusting, vile piece of trash, Donald Trump is. So he views that as, ah, I got you where I want you. because Trump views negotiation not as a way to actually make a good faith deal.

5:58Ben Meiselas:He looks at it as manipulation and deceit and how could I destroy somebody in the process, which is why he's never made deals in his life. He's always been a destroyer of things. Then a reporter asks him, so do you only support news outlets or do you only want news outlets that support you? Is that the goal? Because Donald Trump also banned CNN from going on this trip today to Tennessee. And so is that what the goal is? Here, play this clip. You only want outlets that support you to be a part of the press. No, no, I want real news, not fake news, like you. I want, listen, I want real news. I love an open free press.

6:38What I don't like is the fake press where a group like CNN, you people watching, or MSDNC, which they changed, I guess, to now. But you know why they changed it? Because their ratings were so bad.

6:50Ben Meiselas:Oh, I only want the real news, he says. That's it. Just give me real news. Again, this guy hates the First Amendment. He hates our Constitution. He hates our country. There's a reason in the White House, the two big photos right as you're heading into the Oval Office, it's Trump and Putin and Trump and Xi. That's who he looks up to. That's what he wants. He wants the U.S. to be subservient and bend the knee to people like Putin and Xi. That's who he wants. Then Donald Trump's asked about Taiwan. So certainly you must have brought up Taiwan, America's owes Taiwan. This military package, there was a deal that was made, $14 billion in military.

7:35Ben Meiselas:What's the latest? There, here, play this clip. It did. It did. We didn't talk about it too much. Right now it's, you know, fine. It's just moving along. But we didn't we didn't spend a lot of time talking about Taiwan. He understands very much how I feel. Oh, so you didn't talk about that at all? No conversation about Taiwan? Then Donald Trump says to the reporters, you're all supposed to be dead now, all of you, because of the climate hoax. and you're not dead. So therefore, climate change is a hoax. This is why this guy is an absolute lunatic and a moron. We can see the impacts of climate change every day.

8:15Ben Meiselas:We can actually see it. It doesn't mean everybody's going to die all at once, but it does mean over time, you're going to create the conditions where things are going to be much worse for living. It's basic. Everybody agrees with that, but this lunatic and lunatics like him. Here's what he says. Here, play this clue. where they want to put on bricks it's just like everybody's going to be dead you're all supposed to be dead now because of global warming uh it's like russia russia russia hoax all of these different hoaxes well what they want to do is they want to stop our progress notice he was also like russia russia russia russia russia it's a hoax like russia russia russia russia you two minutes ago you were just saying that zelinski just needs to settle that's all he needs to you have a picture of yourself and Putin outside the Oval Office.

9:06Ben Meiselas:You invited him to Alaska. You made our service members get down on their knees for him. You've invited him to the G20. Yes, Russia, Russia, Russia, Donald. Then a reporter asks Donald Trump, says, well, you know, Obama just did an interview. He had a discussion at a university, and he said that if you put women in charge of every government for two years, things would be better. And Trump, the creepy sex predator, disgusting, vile piece of trash that he is, he's like, I love women, but what a ridiculous thing to say. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, Barack Obama just said, if you put women in charge of every government for two years, things would be better.

9:49Do you buy that? It's ridiculous. I love women. I think they're great. But what a ridiculous statement that is, right?

9:57Ben Meiselas:A reporter then asks him, do you have military action planned against Cuba? To which Trump says, he goes, I think Cuba wants to make a deal with us so badly. They want to make a deal. Here, let's play this clip and you can see what he says. Let's play it. I would say that Cuba and us will make a deal. I don't think we'll need the military. Cuba is failing very badly. We want to help Cuba. We want to open Cuba up to our people. We have great Cuban Americans that want to go back. We want to open Cuba up to our people. Then another reporter asks, so did you talk to Zelensky about Patriot interceptors because Russia stockpiled all of these ballistic missiles and Iskander's and these cruise missiles and they're preparing for a major winter offensive.

10:45Ben Meiselas:And back in July in NATO in Ankara, you promised Zelensky interceptor licenses. We all saw it. You said it on live TV. So did you talk to him about Patriot missiles? And Trump's like, I did. I spoke to him a lot. And he's going along and Putin's going along. Someday, hopefully, there'll be a deal. What words? You're just saying words. He's going along. Putin's going along. What does that even mean? He's going along and Putin's going along. And someday, hopefully, there will be a deal. You all see what Trump wants to do, right? You see what the plan was, right? In my opinion, when Putin called Donald Trump on July 4th on America's 250th and they spoke for 90 minutes that we know about and the plan all along, it's Putin saying, I need more time.

11:35Ben Meiselas:We're going to take over Donetsk. Just give me this. I need more time. You'll see. We'll be able to do it. Drag Zelensky along, drag Zelensky along. And so this is what the plan is. Donald Trump thinks he's giving cover to Putin to be able to take over all of Ukraine. Zelensky's responded now by striking all that infrastructure as well in Russia as things are escalating. We saw the Moscow refineries. We saw the Perm refineries that we've been reporting about. And so here was the hint so you can see what Trump said. Did you talk to Zelensky about Patriot missiles? Here, play this clip. I spoke to him a lot and he's going along and Putin's going along and someday hopefully in the not too distant future maybe before the heavy winter they'll make a deal then Donald Trump is asked more questions about AI you know are you talking about AI with Xi he's like no we didn't really talk about it I don't want to integrate anything here play this clip China it by a lot and we're going to keep it that way.

12:37We didn't spend that much time talking about it. I would rather not integrate because we're leading by a lot. When you're leading, you don't open it up to each other. We're leading by at least a year and maybe a year and a half. Some people say two years. I'm not looking to open it up and we really didn't talk much about it. We did talk about the name.

12:59Ben Meiselas:And then more from Donald Trump over here about we need to call it super intelligence, AI, super intelligence. Here's what he has to say. Play this clip. Well, I say this, that super intelligence, SI, I don't call it AI anymore. I call it SI because it's a much better name. It's a much more accurate name because when you say the other, it means it's fake. Artificial means it's fake and it's not fake. It's just, it's very strong intelligence. So I think a lot of people are doing that now. I call it SI. I found this notable as well. I wanted to see how press was covering what I just shared with you this morning.

13:36Ben Meiselas:So I took a look at Ground News over here. And so this is the story. Trump predicts Cuba and U.S. will make a deal. And I wanted to see like who is writing about that story. So you have like almost no so-called left-wing media reporting on it. You have the center and right-wing media was covering this. And this, to me, shows you the problem right over here because they just parrot and they're Donald Trump's personal stenographers. If you're going to report on what Donald Trump is saying, oh, there's going to be a deal with Cuba. Trump lies about everything. And I think the reason why you don't see left-wing coverage of this is because everybody knows it's just a lie.

14:16Ben Meiselas:It's just one massive lie. And all he wants to do is have the embargo on the people of Cuba, further torture the people of Cuba, then say it's a failed state and it's a failed country, and then hope that something just miraculously happens, and then either take credit for it or blame people. That's his strategy. But right-wing media says, look, there's going to be a deal. Look how great of a dealmaker is. And the so-called center media is just serving as his stenographer and just pushing that out. It's one of the reasons I partnered with Ground News for this episode, because they're the best tool for me to stay objective with my reporting.

14:50Ben Meiselas:Ground News is an app and a website that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them by story to show you how the left, the center, and right are framing the story differently like I just showed you there. Also, you can sort through whether it's independently owned media is covering a story or whether it is a large media conglomerate or corporate media covering a story. And they have that layout that I just shared with you right there. And I could see, OK, the right and the center media is covering this. There's no left wing coverage over there. And that's the dedicated blind spot feed that Ground News have.

15:24Ben Meiselas:And it has, I believe, in Ground News so much. We're going to be offering you 40 % off the same vantage plan that I use for my research. So just go click the link in the description or go to ground.news slash MTN or scan the QR code up here. It's one of the biggest discounts they've ever offered. If you want to support this channel and get a clearer understanding of the world, try out Ground News. One more time, go to ground.news slash MTN. By the way, while Donald Trump was rolling out the red carpet for Xi and having our military personnel get down on their knees while Donald Trump was bringing Xi into this weird closet room that I shared with you yesterday and was saying, look at all the photos of you and me.

16:07Ben Meiselas:Look how much I respect you. Let me show you what China's vice president, Han Zheng, was just doing at the United Nations. So China's vice president, Han Zheng, on Cuba said China urges the relevant country stop using threats of force. The relevant country. They don't even say the United States. China urges the relevant country. Here, play this clip. Of the crisis. China urges the relevant country to immediately stop using threat of force against Cuba and immediately and completely lift the blockade and sanctions against Cuba. So do you see what Xi was able to accomplish on his trip? He accomplished actual objectives for China.

16:52Ben Meiselas:He's continuing to get the U.S. to delay giving military aid and assistance and our military sales to Taiwan, this$14 billion military package that's supposed to go to Taiwan. Xi comes here, talks about the Thucydides trap on American soil, while Trump has American military personnel bow down to him and get down on their knees for him. And Xi talks about the Thucydides trap. China's the rising power. America's the declining power. So China is asserting its hegemony, and Trump is reflecting the destruction and descent of the United States into the abyss. And meanwhile, at the United Nations, China is out there calling out the Trump regime's destruction of a global world order.

17:43Ben Meiselas:And China's projecting itself as a new protector of a multilateral world order. That's what's happening here. More from China's President Han Zheng says that China holds the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected. That's what China holds. Here play this clip. China holds that the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected. International industrial and supply chains should be kept stable and unimpeded, and global trade should be safeguarded. China calls for advancing the governance of the West Bank and the post-conflict reconstruction

18:38Ben Meiselas:And then he goes on to say the China Vice President, Han Zheng, that the world wants peace, not war. Here, play this clip.

18:57The international order underpinned by international law that emerged after World War II must be upheld. We should turn into action the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, and reject the Cold War mindset and block confrontation. We should settle differences and disputes through dialogue and consultation and oppose unilateral military actions that violate the UN Charter and circumvent Security Council authorization.

19:32Ben Meiselas:You can see there, again, that this was part of a broader strategy while Donald Trump was out there behaving like an absolute lunatic. One more point I want to bring up. So Trump and Putin were working together at the United Nations in order to block regulation of lethal AI weapons. So the U.S. and Russia weakened a U.N. effort to regulate lethal AI weapons by removing key safeguards, including requirements for predictable systems, ethical considerations and human review before AI assisted strikes. The talks at the United Nations mark the furthest progress yet toward a possible treaty on autonomous weapons.

20:17Ben Meiselas:But Trump and Putin, Washington and Moscow pushed to reduce restrictions during closed door negotiations. U.S.-Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact. It would have been a landmark U.N. effort. And you know what this also reminds me of as well in a different context? Remember under former President Biden when there was actually a bipartisan immigration deal between Republicans and MAGA people and liberal people and Democrats and Biden forged this great deal? Do you remember that? It would have had tough border security, but it would have treated immigrants with respect and dignity.

21:02Ben Meiselas:It would have had a pathway to citizenship. It would have made sure that there was ability to get out people who were actually engaged in crimes, but while putting a lot of investment into just the asylum process to ensure that the process gets expedited. So it was actually a great compromise that could have been reached. And what did Trump do? He's a destroyer of deals. So Trump destroyed that deal because he said running on chaos is a winning issue for me. I don't want to solve the problem. I want to create the problem. And then the arsonist comes in and says, I alone can fix it. That's the authoritarian playbook.

21:43Ben Meiselas:Go back to how we started this video. The way Donald Trump tells the story of the Strait of Hormuz, he leaves out the part that he and Netanyahu invaded, started the catastrophic war. That's why the Strait of Hormuz is closed. But in his telling, he's the savior and he's the loser. He's the bankruptor. He's the destroyer. That's what we've seen all along in his life. And we have to recognize this and stand up to it. That's what we're going to do every damn day here on the Midas Touch Network. Make sure you get your copy of WTF America as well. That's the book I wrote with my brothers. It comes out October 20th.

22:16Ben Meiselas:We hope you'll get your copy, but pre-order it right now. The pre-orders are really helpful and important. So if you're thinking about getting it, do the pre-order now if you can. There's audio. So check out the audio book. I read it. and my brothers did the audio. And then there's an ebook and then there's a hardcover. But we spent a lot of time on the audio as well. All right, thanks for watching. We appreciate you. We'll be reporting throughout the day here at the Midas Touch Network. Before you go, our book, WTF America, is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back.

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