World Leaders Tear Trump to Pieces in Aftermath of Visit

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2:19Ben Meiselas:And they are now coming out in public. And they are calling him out. They are calling out his weakness. And I think everybody's recognizing what an utter failure that meeting was, not just with Putin, which was just total humiliation for the United States, but the dog and pony show that was that meeting with the European leaders that Donald Trump exited so he can call Vladimir Putin on the phone and get instructions from Vladimir Putin about what to do. How embarrassing, folks. There's no ceasefire, which Donald Trump promised he was going to do, or else there would be serious ramifications against Russia.

2:57Ben Meiselas:So that didn't happen. There's no trilateral meeting between Russia, Zelensky, and Donald Trump. Putin never wanted that to take place. And there are no security guarantees that Russia is okay with in Ukraine. That was always BS. And we've always been calling it out, despite our own propaganda media in America. saying, oh, Donald Trump got security guarantees from Putin. No, he didn't. What Donald Trump got from Putin was basically Putin dominating Donald Trump, Donald Trump rolling out the red carpet for Putin. It was so utterly disgusting, literally with our own soldiers on their knees. So here's what French President Emmanuel Macron just had to say.

3:39Ben Meiselas:And he goes, basically, he calls Donald Trump an idiot. Here, watch this. Several of us told him you were speaking to President Putin. he was bombing Ukraine. So this of course shows the necessity to stop the massacres, the necessity for a truce, and it also shows at some point the facts reveal the intentions. That's all. Today, Russia, in fact, continues the war, intensifies it, wages war against Ukrainian civilians as well, and gives no signal of sincerely wanting peace. And the experience we have over the last 15 years with Mr. Putin, President Putin, in his approach is that every time he can win by war, when he thinks he can win by war, he does not negotiate peace.

4:25That's the reality. That's why I say, and I said again yesterday, you have an American president, European presidents, Ukrainian presidents who want peace. For my part, I have the greatest doubts about the reality of a desire for peace on the part of the Russian president, because as long as he thinks he can win by war he will do so and his ultimate goal is to take as much territory as possible to weaken ukraine and to have a ukraine that is not viable alone or within the russian sphere this is quite obvious to everyone and so our objective is simple to have peace as soon as possible to uphold international law and ukrainian sovereignty to minimize territorial losses for Ukraine and especially to help Ukraine resist any new aggression, to have a Ukraine that has chosen Europe, to be able to continue choosing Europe freely and to guarantee the security of Europeans.

5:21And these are the famous security guarantees we need for Ukraine today and tomorrow and for us Europeans, because it is our security at stake there.

5:29Ben Meiselas:Then in Canada, we saw an important meeting between the Prime Minister Carney and the Premier of Ontario. Watch as they kind of meet Doug Ford and Carney. There was a more extensive meeting, but let's play this clip. I know you're a busy man. You've been a lot done since we saw each other last time. And I'm going to take this opportunity to congratulate you again on your leadership, obviously, of this province, but also of the Council of the Federation at a critical time for the country. You know, the work of the Federation itself, but also the work of the premiers with the federal government at a critical time for our economies has been essential.

6:09And I would like to salute the leadership of the Prime Minister Ford of Ontario and the Federation Council for a long time crucial for our country. We've got a lot of work to do on major projects, on affordability, on security in our communities. And I think we're working well together, but we've got more to do and get it done. And we're going to have a good conversation to move forward. Good. Well, I look forward to it. And thank you, Prime Minister, for having me by. We're going to have a real productive meeting here. And as I mentioned to the Prime Minister and the premiers before, we know President Trump's unpredictable.

6:51We have to find out what we need to do to make sure that we create the environment and conditions for companies from around the world to continue investing in Canada. And we'll have that discussion. But thank you, everyone. Thank you very much.

7:05Ben Meiselas:Now, India is absolutely furious at the Trump regime after decades and decades of the United States trying to cultivate better relations with India, trying to push India away from Russia and China towards the United States, which presidents have done before Trump regime. Donald Trump accepted Bitcoin and investments in crypto from Pakistan, India's enemy. And then Donald Trump basically became a Pakistan fanboy rather than the world's largest democracy or our oldest democracy in India. One of them, Donald Trump likes Pakistan. He loves authoritarian leaders. That's what's going down right there.

7:48Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump continues to try to take credit for bringing peace to India and Pakistan. And India is like, you didn't. Can you just stop freaking lying about that? You had nothing to do with it. But anyway, this was from India's media where they're like, at this point, India is just saying we're going to buy more oil from the people you don't want us to because we're moving away from the United States towards China. Here, watch this. You know, would one be calling this as a big message at this given point to the United States from India that, you know, we will not be bullied around in terms of who we choose to trade with?

8:25Ben Meiselas:Now, I know this is not getting a lot of coverage in any other corporate news, but I focus a lot on how Donald Trump's destroyed the relationship with India, because you're going to see that trend of these countries moving more to China. Countries are de-risking from the United States, and they're moving towards China at this point, where they used to de-risk away from China. Here is the president of Finland, Stubb. Here's what he has to say. And again, very clear how pissed off he is that Donald Trump and what went down at that meeting here. Play this clip. It's personal to you. And not just because you happen to be the president of Finland and you've got the largest land border, all those things that I keep repeating.

9:02I mean, it's personal to you. Your father, your grandfather were both born in cities that Finland was forced to cede to the then Soviet Union. Cities that are part of Russia now. So, I mean, do you have any doubts about Putin's ambitions when it comes to expanding Russian territory?

9:20Ben Meiselas:Well, I mean, we've seen that in both Georgia and in Ukraine. But, you know, I keep on stressing the basics of it. So statehood is based on independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. And after World War II, which for us was the Winter War and the War of Continuation, Finland retained independence, unlike, for instance, our Baltic friends, unfortunately. But we lost sovereignty to decide and we lost territory. But the difference there is that at that time, Finland was alone. But now Ukraine is not alone. And that's why I think it's so important that all of us, both Team Europe and Team US, keep on working for the independence, for the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

10:07Ben Meiselas:And again, just think about what these Trump regime sycophants are saying, like Treasury Secretary Scott Besant just going on Fox and just like utterly like mocking India, like attacking India, you know, so, you know, in no uncertain terms, play this clip. You know better than anyone that the Russian economy really isn't strong enough or big enough to carry on a sustained war. I mean, not certainly not indefinitely. Couldn't do it without the help of India buying mostly oil. Could not do it without the help of China, which is providing the bulk of the support to Russia. Now, India has gotten hit with secondary tariffs, which I think is very positive.

10:49Put them back on their heels a bit. But China really is the big contributor to Russia's current economic stability. Given that, why haven't we put significant secondary tariffs on China for what they're doing to help Russia? Well, a couple of things there, Laura. One, China had always been buying Russian oil. So in 2022, 13 percent of their oil came from China and now it's 16. And they want a diversified oil supply. India, on the other hand, got about 1 percent of their oil from China in 22. Now it's up to 37 percent. So they're doing what I call the Indian arbitrage. They're buying cheap Russian oil, selling petrochemicals back out.

11:33Much of that is going to the richest families in India. We already have very high tariffs on China. And now India is going to see what it feels like. China buys an enormous amount of ag from Russia as well. And they are the biggest supporter of Russia. Without China, Russia couldn't be in this war. Do you not agree? I agree. They have 15 billion minimum in dual use technologies and other support that I'm sure we don't know about.

12:01Ben Meiselas:And again, here's one of Fox's top propagandists, Jesse Waters. Here's what he had to say. The Europeans were sitting around the Resolute desk yesterday like they were waiting for class to start. Trump was giving Europe a geography lesson. He even put up the big, beautiful map and sent it home with Zelensky, his homework. If Zelensky can read a map like Trump can read a putt, we'll have a deal in no time.

12:49Ben Meiselas:continues to say this. And then Donald Trump's become closer to Pakistan at this point than India. Here, play this clip. I think the deal I'm most proud of is the fact that we're dealing with India, we're dealing with Pakistan, and we were able to stop potentially a nuclear war through trade as opposed through bullets. You know, normally they do it through bullets. We do it through trade. So I'm very proud of that. Prime Minister Modi clearly told President Trump that during this entire episode, there was never any discussion at any level about an India-US trade deal or US mediation between India and Pakistan.

13:33The discussion to halt military action occurred directly between India and Pakistan through existing channels between in both armies and was made at Pakistan's request. Prime Minister Modi firmly stated that India has neither accepted mediation nor does it do so and never will do. There is complete political unanimity on this subject in India. President Trump understood the details explained by the Prime Minister and expressed support for India's fight against terrorism. Prime Minister Modi also said that India now sees terrorism not as a proxy war, but as a war.

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15:37We'll have a discussion of that and an important discussion with Premier Ford this morning on a variety of aspects for the Ontario economy, the Canadian economy, which, of course, includes trade but goes much more to the issues that we can control and how we build out from within. Like, what would some examples be? Well, we'll talk about the housing sector. We'll talk about steel, auto, new sectors of the economy, including artificial intelligence, what we're doing in terms of making Canada competitive. What's your advice to President Zelensky regarding, should he accept any deal? I gave that advice yesterday in a meeting with President Zelensky and the coalition.

16:15And what was it? What was it? Do you have anything to say to Air Canada union workers? Just say, I'll say the following. We recognize very much the critical role that flight attendants play in keeping Canadians and their families safe as they travel, comfortable as they travel. And it's important that they're compensated equitably at all times, fairly at all times. That's the reason why there have been negotiations over the course of the last eight months. It is disappointing that those negotiations did not come to an agreement. And it was the judgment of both the union and the company that they were at an impasse.

16:55That's not my judgment. It's their judgment. And so we were in a situation, we are in a situation where literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors to our country are being disrupted by this action. I urge both parties to resolve this as quickly as possible. And the minister will have more to say. Minister Haidu will have more to say.

17:16Ben Meiselas:And I had the opportunity to speak with the former National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Here's how he told me what a massive failure what Trump's done with India is. Here, play this clip. I got to ask you, what do you think about what's going on with India? Donald Trump said that the first deal that he was going to make was with India. I'm best friends with Modi. And then he just started taking credit for resolving the India-Pakistan war, which is a very big, sensitive topic for India. He's saying, you did not do that. Stop taking credit. He does that every day and that like, you know, hurts their hurts everything there.

17:53Ben Meiselas:And it's like crushes them. That's not that's not true. Donald Trump took like his family to Bitcoin from the Pakistani Bitcoin sovereign fund. And they brought in the general from the Pakistan to be there. And India is like, what the hell are you doing? And then meanwhile, you still have Apple building new factories because Tim Cook came in with a gold bar and he's building the factories in India. What do you make of what's happening there? I think this is one of the more underreported stories in Trump's foreign policy, and I'm really glad that you raised it. On a bipartisan basis, going back decades, the United States has worked to build its relationship with India, the world's largest democracy, a country that we should be aligned with on technology and talent and economics and so many other issues, and aligned with in dealing with the strategic threat from China.

18:42Ben Meiselas:And we had come a long way on that. And now, in no small part, I think, because of Pakistan's willingness to do business deals with the Trump family, Trump has thrown the India relationship over the side. That is a huge strategic harm in its own right because a strong U.S.-India relationship serves our interests. But imagine every other country in the world, your Germany, your Japan, your Canada, you look at that and you say that could be us tomorrow. And that only reinforces your view that you've got to hedge against the United States. And having all of our friends and countries around the world decide they just can't rely on the U.S.

19:23Ben Meiselas:in any way, shape or form, that is not in the interest of the American people long term. Our word should be our bond. We should be good for what we say. Our friends should be able to rely on us. And that has always been our strength. And what's happening with India right now has huge direct impacts, but it also has this reverberating impact across all of our relationships and partnerships in the world. I had an opportunity to meet with senior CIA analyst and former CIA spokesperson, Ned Price. here's what he told me about the meeting with Trump and Putin. And then you have the optics of it all.

19:59What President Putin has coveted, especially since President Obama called Russia a quote-unquote regional power in the waning days of his second term, is nothing more than to stand on the same plane as the U.S. president, to stand side by side, to be seen as an equal. And in some ways, President Trump didn't make President Putin come off as an equal. He made him come off as a superior. Again, the pageantry allowing him to speak first during the press conference, allowing him to set the rules for the press conference where they didn't take questions. President Putin got everything he wanted optically.

20:39He got everything he wanted in terms of the imagery. But again, I am most concerned that he got everything he wanted substantively because he left Anchorage with President Trump firmly in his camp. Even after a day of engagement with the Europeans yesterday at the White House, President Trump hasn't moved off that Russian position. He continues to advocate for it to this very hour.

21:04Ben Meiselas:And Jake Sullivan, former national security advisor, also talked with me about how Donald Trump would make these fake deals and how dangerous Trump's fake deals are. Here, play this clip. These trade deals that Trump announces that aren't on pieces of paper that he just does via social media posts, and then it gets reported as, okay, I did a deal, but there's literally no documentation for any of it. Have you in your entire career ever heard of anything like that at all? That's a deal via a social media post with no – there's no document. Nobody knows about it at all, and terms are just made up.

21:41Ben Meiselas:And what are the implications of it? I've never seen it. And, you know, we've already immediately seen the implications of it. Just take Japan, for example. He goes out and says, we got this deal with Japan. Japan's going to pay this amount of money. I get to decide what happens with the money, et cetera, et cetera. And the Japanese come out and say, no, that's not our understanding of the deal within hours. So if you don't actually put the terms down and get both sides to sign on the dotted line, then you're going to have profound misunderstandings about what the terms actually are. And at the end of the day, huge elements of this will never get implemented.

22:16Ben Meiselas:And that's a problem because here you have the president touting all these so-called successes. But then our trading partners saying basically our understanding of the deal is totally different from that. And we're not bound to the kinds of claims that President Trump is making in his social media posts. This is no way to run a railroad, and it certainly isn't going to serve the interests of the U.S. All it's going to do is end up with these tariffs at heightened levels that are going to directly increase the costs of goods that Americans buy and take more money out of their pocketbooks with these just kind of vague promises of what we're getting on the other side of it.

22:54Ben Meiselas:I, you know, I've never seen anything like it. And I think it is not a way to do business. Powerful statement out from the prime minister of the Republic of Bulgaria right now, saying security guarantees for Ukraine should include sustainable support from both the European Union and the US. We welcome President Trump's commitment. They just say that knowing that Trump is not actually committed to it. Then it says today, the coalition of the willing emphasize the main task of stopping the killings and supporting a lasting and just peace based on the principles of international law. Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, writes, Australia continues to stand with Ukraine.

23:34Ben Meiselas:Tonight, I took part in another meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, hosted by Starmer, Macron, Friedrich Merz, Georgia Maloney, and other Democratic leaders. Australia welcomes ongoing efforts toward achieving a just and enduring peace, including yesterday's discussion in Washington. Donald Trump has so thoroughly disrespected Australia. Also, Australia hates Donald Trump right now. The idea of Donald Trump getting rid of AUKUS, the Australian-UK-U.S. agreement on nuclear weapons. Australia, a lot of Australians regretted doing that deal in the first place. Anyway, Trump's making them regret at it even more right now as the U.S.