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Sickly Trump Has Disaster Landing in US After NATO Fail

2025/6/26
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Ben Meiselas: 在这次节目中,我主要关注特朗普在北约峰会后的表现以及他之后发表的一系列争议言论。首先,我认为特朗普在北约峰会上看起来非常虚弱,这使得美国在国际舞台上显得软弱无力。他回国后,立即在网上发布了一系列疯狂的言论,这让我感到非常不安。特别是他对伊朗的评论,他似乎在赞扬伊朗,甚至对伊朗与中国达成贸易协议感到高兴,这与他之前的强硬立场截然不同。此外,他对以色列总理内塔尼亚胡的审判表示震惊,并称其为“女巫狩猎”,这让我觉得他干涉了他国司法。最让我无法接受的是,他声称自己可以结束乌克兰战争,但实际上他并没有做到,而且他还承认自己之前的承诺是讽刺性的。总的来说,我认为特朗普的这些言行不仅损害了美国的国际形象,也暴露了他自身的许多问题。我个人认为,他的行为是不负责任的,并且对美国的国家利益造成了损害。我希望通过我的报道,能够让更多的人了解真相,并对特朗普的行为进行批判性的思考。我强烈谴责特朗普政府在医疗补助削减、赤字增加以及他们在伊朗的成就上撒谎,他们不停地散布谎言,意图用宣传淹没真相。此外,我对ICE在洛杉矶的恐怖行动感到震惊,他们随意逮捕没有犯罪记录的拉丁裔居民,这种行为简直是无法容忍的。最后,我对那些因抗议医疗补助削减而被捕的残疾人表示同情,他们的遭遇让我感到心痛。

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The episode begins by highlighting Donald Trump's sickly appearance upon his return from the NATO summit. His erratic online behavior following the summit is discussed, specifically his reactions to reports about the unsuccessful military strikes against Iran. This chapter focuses on Trump's physical and mental state, and the conflicting reports about the military action.
  • Trump's sickly appearance upon return to the US
  • Trump's erratic online behavior
  • Conflicting reports on the success of military strikes against Iran

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Hmm. Disturbing. A very, very sickly looking Donald Trump returned from a disastrous trip to the NATO summit in the Netherlands at the Hague. He was struggling to walk down the steps of Air Force One as he returned to the United States and then began ranting and raving like a lunatic online.

over the leaks that the military strikes against Iran were not as successful as he claimed. Let's take a look at him struggling to walk down a flight of steps from Air Force One. Play this clip.

While on Air Force One, Donald Trump was ranting and raving like a lunatic. He was begging Israeli courts not to pursue cases against Benjamin Netanyahu. I'll show you those posts in a minute. He was also attacking anyone who dare criticize the United States intelligence from the Pentagon and CENTCOM, which state that these strikes were

on the nuclear facilities in Iran were not as successful as Donald Trump claimed, and that Iran would likely be able to continue to build a nuclear program if it desired, and that Iran was able to move the uranium out of the facilities in advance of the strikes based on Donald Trump's erratic behavior and Donald Trump's constant posts.

Today or tomorrow, it's unclear with this Trump regime. There are supposed to be some briefing with the Congress over what took place, but apparently the Trump regime is no longer allowing Tulsi Gabbard to be involved.

part of that anymore specifically excluding their director of national intelligence from issues regarding national intelligence also the trump regime is severely curtailing any of the classified information that congress will be able to look at why because they are hiding a lot of stuff here's what donald trump posted i'm not going to read the whole thing i'll just give you a flavor of what a lunatic he is

He goes, Secretary of Defense, war, exclamation point. Pete Hegseth, together with military representatives, will be holding a major news conference tomorrow morning. It's happening already. It's happened today at the Pentagon in order to fight for the dignity of our great American pilots.

These patriots were very upset. After 36 hours of dangerously flying through enemy territory, they landed. They knew the success was legendary. He puts that in caps. And then two days later, they started reading fake news by CNN and the failing New York Times. They felt terribly. So in Donald Trump's unhinged, deranged, lunatic, fictitious world,

The fighter pilots of B2s are calling him up to complain and cry that they think the reporting by CNN and New York Times of the actual intelligence.

by the United States government shows that Iran's military or Iran's nuclear facilities were not destroyed and that now our fighter pilots are crying as a result. So in Donald Trump's world, he's making the fighter pilots seem like they're whining when

When it's Donald Trump who's whining and using the fighter pilots as props to insulate the fact that the mission was not achieved, that the mission was not successful, and that Donald Trump tacoed. I didn't want to see a war to begin with there. But then after not completing the successful mission, Donald Trump then entered into a

A ceasefire, which he claimed he was never going to do before. He said he would never enter a ceasefire. Remember what he said? He said that he wanted total denuclearization and that would be the total surrender of Iran. Well, that didn't happen. But when Donald Trump was in The Hague, when he was at the NATO summit, all he seemed to be doing was proliferating.

praising Iran. And he was so excited about, you know, Iran doing a trade deal with China. First, let me show you this clip where Donald Trump talks about how brave and heroic the Iranians were and how he said it was very nice that the Iranians hit the American military base in Qatar and how they planned it together and just how nice the Iranians are. Here's what he says. Play this clip. You saw that where 14 missiles were shot at us the other day.

And they were very nice. They gave us warning. They said, we're going to shoot them. Is one o'clock OK? They said it's fine. And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn't get hurt except for the gunners. They call them the gunners. And out of 14 high end missiles that were shot at the base in Qatar, all 14, as you know, were shot down by our equipment.

Amazing stuff. Amazing that they can do. It's like shooting a bullet with a bullet. It's the same thing if you think about it. 14 out of 14, and they weren't even that surprised. I said, do you do that well often? They say, we pretty much do, sir. Now, here's the clip of Donald Trump saying that he's really happy and he really encouraged people

Iran to sell its oil to China. This is gonna be great for Iran, it's gonna be great for China, Donald Trump says, and it's really his honor to make this deal between Iran and China. And I'm watching this, I'm like, what the heck? You're playing this clip. - Yesterday you said China can now continue to purchase oil from Iran. - Yeah. - Are you giving up on your maximum pressure campaign? - With who? - 'Cause there's sanctions right now. - With who? - On Iran. - No, look, they just had a war.

The war was fought. They fought it bravely. I'm not giving up. They're in the oil business. I mean, I could stop it if I wanted. I could sell China the oil myself. I don't want to do that. They're going to need money to put that country back into shape. We want to see that happen. No, if they're going to sell oil, they're going to sell oil. We're not taking over the oil. We could have, you know. I used to say with Iraq, keep the oil. I could say it here, too. We could have kept the oil.

No, China is going to want to buy oil. They can buy it from us. They can buy it from other people. But you're going to have to put that country back into shape. It desperately needs money. So then Donald Trump posted this. Again, I'm not going to read the entire thing, but here's what he says about the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. He goes, breaking news.

I was shocked to hear that the state of Israel, which has just had one of its greatest moments in history and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continue its ridiculous witch hunt against their great wartime Prime Minister Bibi. And I just went through hell together fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran. And Bibi could not have been better, sharper or stronger in his love of the incredible Holy Land. Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment and chaos.

Bibi Netanyahu was a warrior like perhaps no other warrior in the history of Israel. And the result was something that nobody thought was possible. Then Donald Trump goes on to say Netanyahu's trial should be canceled immediately or a pardon given to a great hero.

What an odd statement to give. By the way, let me show you two weeks ago. Just I want to come with receipts. I want to give you the data. Remember two weeks ago when Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, you had the Juventus football club, the soccer players for our American viewers behind him being used as a prop to promote FIFA. But Donald Trump kept on talking about Iran. This was before the strikes.

And Donald Trump said he wanted total surrender, which he said was denuclearization. Here, just play the clip so you can hear it for yourself. President Emmanuel Macron of France the other day, the G7. He's a nice guy. Look, he said I was going back home to make a ceasefire. Not a ceasefire. We'll long be on ceasefire. And I said, why do you say that? Why would you say ceasefire? It's a bad term to use.

Because a ceasefire means like everything's going swimmingly. We'll take a little time off. It's not. We're not looking for a ceasefire. We're looking for a total, complete victory. Again, you know what the victory is? No nuclear weapon.

mr president i thought it was a very badly worded statement by him and obviously i let him know that our editor-in-chief ron philip kowski i think puts it in the proper context they the regime are lying about medicaid cuts they're lying about the deficit increase they're lying about what they accomplished in iran they lie about everything it's just a non-stop torrent of lies intended to flood the zone with propaganda let's take a look at the data right here look at may home sales

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in Los Angeles. Most were taken off the streets, have no criminal convictions at all. It's the data point that we have. And again, I think it's important that we use accurate data right here. And a lot of what we see, and I'm going to just show you a short version of this clip, is you just have

Ice agents, masked. Are they actually ice agents? Are they just deputized Gestapo? Here they are in Huntington Park. By the way, HP, that's where my wife grew up, just so you all know. That's where my wife's family lives. I've been to this Home Depot before.

Huntington Park, hardworking Latino community that's being terrorized by ICE agents who are doing this. Here, let's play this clip. Hey, where's your fucking warrant? Where's your warrant? No, fuck you. Give me your badge and your name. Give me your badge and your name. You guys have no warrant. No probable cause. Shame on you guys. Shame on you. What is your name? Shame on you.

Horrific, horrific stuff right there. And then I'll show you a short clip over here. This is people in wheelchairs.

getting arrested at the Russell Senate office building in DC yesterday. They showed up to tell Republicans and Congress not to cut their Medicaid because they can't afford healthcare without it and they will die. And you'll see these individuals in wheelchairs being zip tied and being pushed out in a line. Here, play this clip. -

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Finally, one of Donald Trump's disastrous moments in NATO as well. He was asked by a reporter, look, you said that you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, but you didn't do it. Can you explain what's happening? Can you explain why? Then Donald Trump said, I never really meant that seriously. I meant it sarcastically. I never truly meant I could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. He said, but I have said

Given peace deals between India and Pakistan, which, by the way, I've showed you videos, the India prime minister said Trump had nothing to do with the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Also, it was Donald Trump's weakness, I think, that led to the conflagration in that area in that region in the first place.

Trump is taking place for peace in Serbia. Donald Trump is taking credit for peace in Rwanda. Donald Trump is taking credit for peace. He goes, I all deals in the past 30 years. He claims that he did it. Let me just show you what he said. Play this clip.

Mr. President, Johannes Petra from Austrian National Television. How are you? You once said that you would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. You later said you said that sarcastically. Of course it was sarcastic. But you've now been in office for five months and five days. Why have you not been able to end the Ukraine war? Because it's more difficult than...

People would have any idea. Vladimir Putin has been more difficult. Frankly, I had some problems with Zelensky. You may have read about him. And it's been more difficult than other wars. I mean, look, we just ended a war in 12 days that was simmering for 30 years, frankly. We ended Rwanda and the Congo. It's coming to sign the documents. We've already signed basic documents, but they're coming, I think, to the White House on Friday.

We ended Serbia was going to go at it. But maybe the most important of all, India and Pakistan. And that wasn't whether or not they may someday have nukes like we're talking about in the Middle East, like we're talking about with Israel and Iran. This is they have nuclear weapons. I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade. I said, look,

If you're going to go fighting each other, it was getting very bad. You know how bad that last attack was. It was really bad. If you're going to go fighting each other, we're not doing any trade deal. No, no, no. You have to do a trade deal. They said, we're not doing any trade deal. And in fact, I had the general who really was very impressive. The general from Pakistan was in my office last week.

You know, Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine. He's a great gentleman. He's a great man. And I got them to reason. I said, we're not doing a trade deal if you're going to fight. And if you're going to fight each other, we're not doing a trade deal. And you know what?

They said, no, I want to do the trade deal. We stopped the nuclear war. Go ahead. Now, let me just share with you a clip of what Donald Trump's campaign promise was. So you can judge for yourself. Was Donald Trump being sarcastic or is this what he actually promised the American people about stopping the war in Ukraine in 24 hours? Play this clip. And the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes. How would you do that? I know Zelensky very well. I

I'll end that war between those two countries in 24 hours. It won't even take that long. I will get the war ended. I'll stop all of those lives from being wasted and lost. And there'll be no more bombing of Ukraine. There'll be no more bombing of Russia. And everybody will be happy. It can be negotiated, I think, within 24 hours. It really has to be done from the office of the president.

And you have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to each one of them, which I won't reveal now, which will guarantee that this war will end immediately. Yep. So you had a very sickly and weak looking Donald Trump making America look very weak in that NATO summit.

I've done other reports on this. I'll do another report in about 90 minutes or so on this. So check our YouTube feed. But you have Canada and the European Union entering into a defense pact, which I think has major implications. Just a very weak, weak and sickly Donald Trump. You see right there for yourself. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. Thanks all. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.

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