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Trump Has Disaster Presser on WH Lawn on Live TV

2025/6/18
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Ben Meiselas: 特朗普在白宫草坪上的新闻发布会简直是一场灾难,他的一系列言论令人震惊和羞辱。我个人认为,他将美国变成了世界的笑柄,无论你属于哪个政党,你都会觉得他今天的表现是可耻的。他先是询问在场的建筑工人是否有非法移民,然后攻击CNN记者是假新闻,接着又吹嘘自己的支持率,并对美联储主席进行人身攻击。此外,他还就伊朗核问题发表了自相矛盾的言论,并声称要扣留给加州的联邦援助。整个过程简直是一场闹剧。 Donald Trump: 在这次新闻发布会上,我主要表达了对国家安全和经济的看法。首先,我询问在场的建筑工人是否有非法移民,这主要是出于对国家边境安全的考虑。其次,我认为CNN是假新闻,他们的报道不客观。我坚信我的支持者比以往任何时候都更加爱戴我。关于伊朗核问题,我的立场非常明确,那就是伊朗绝对不能拥有核武器。至于经济方面,我认为美联储主席的政策是错误的,我希望能够尽快降低利率。此外,我还提到了加州的森林管理问题,并暗示可能会扣留给加州的联邦援助,因为我认为加州州长在森林管理方面做得不够好。当然,我也对以色列总理内塔尼亚胡表达了支持,并表示我每天都与他保持联系。

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This chapter analyzes Donald Trump's disastrous press conference on the White House lawn. It covers his questioning of construction workers' immigration status, his attacks on CNN and Jerome Powell, and his false claims about approval ratings and his interactions with Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • Trump questioned construction workers about their immigration status.
  • Trump attacked CNN and Jerome Powell.
  • Trump falsely claimed his approval rating was the highest ever.
  • Trump discussed his interactions with Benjamin Netanyahu.

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So he put a bunch of construction workers as props behind him. And then he turns around to the construction workers and he says, are any of you illegal? Any illegal immigrants here? Watch this. Play this clip. What they gave to us, fellas, they gave. Do we have anybody in here that's a member? I don't think so. You've known all these people for a long time.

Any illegal immigrants in there? If they were, they'll find out. Right. They'll be checking you. You won't believe. Your whole life will be destroyed because of this press conference. They'll destroy these people. I didn't want to tell them that before this did happen. They'll end up being, he's a so-and-so. This one is from you-know-where.

Don't worry. I think you're going to be okay. I'll be right behind you. I'll be right behind you. So he then starts taking questions. A CNN reporter asks him about how his warmongering in the Middle East could be unpopular, and then he starts attacking the CNN reporter. Here, play this clip. No, I don't document it either. Supporters are split on the U.S. response to who you are.

CNN. There's a split, though. Fake news. Fortunately, nobody watches. Is anybody watching CNN nowadays? I haven't seen it in a long time.

Some of your supporters are wary of the U.S. getting involved in another foreign law. And some believe that we should support it. Do you ever ask a positive question? My supporters are more in love with me today and I'm in love with them more than they were even at election time. Then Donald Trump starts attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.

He calls him a stupid person. I want you to watch the person all the way on the right, the construction worker, who's like, what the hell is this guy even saying? Here, play this clip. You know what it is, but I shouldn't use it in front of the fake news. So it's very sad to see it. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go very short term, like six months, seven months, eight months, wait till this guy gets out, get the rates way down and then go long term.

because we have a tremendous appetite for our debt because our country is doing well. But think of it, I got a call from Congress three nights ago. Sir, we can't account for the money coming in. I said, that's a good problem. You know, the bad problem is we don't have it. Next, Donald Trump starts ranting about how his approval rating has never been higher.

It's the lowest it's ever really been, and it's the lowest in presidential history at this time during a term. Donald Trump is loathed, despised, and hated for his vile behavior, but here he just goes lying, ranting, and raving like a lunatic. Play this clip. I think what she might be alluding to is the base is going to stay with you regardless, and you've gone through different tests regardless.

But some of the people in the base don't want a long-term war. They're afraid that we're going to get into a long-term war. We're not looking for a long-term war. I only want one thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's it. I'm not looking for a long-term shutdown. And I've been saying that for 20 years. I've been saying it as a civilian who got a lot of publicity. People would cover it.

Very simply, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's it. It's not a question of anything else. And if you did, you wouldn't have much of a country because they would use it on us and they'd use it on other people and there'd be a terror all over the world. So I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy and have people outside of the base that can't believe that this is happening. They're so happy. Yeah.

And there was a poll that just came out today that my approval rating is the highest it's ever been. All I'm doing is saying you can't have a nuclear weapon. And I tried to do it nicely. And then on day 61, I said, let's go because we can't let that happen. And I've been saying it for 20 years. OK, I'm going to leave. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir.

Then Donald Trump says that he tells Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, just keep on going, keep on doing what you're doing. Play the clip. Mr. President, can you share some of what you've told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Keep going. What do I say? I speak to him every day. He's a good man. Doing a lot. Been very unfairly treated by his country, I think. Very unfairly treated.

No. He hasn't. So far, he's doing a good job. He has been treated very unfairly. He's a wartime president and he's going through this nonsense? It's ridiculous.

sounds like you had a good day with him very good news anything that came up donald trump whines about a 60 minutes interview that former vice president kamala harris gave to 60 minutes in early october of 2024

This is part of that lawsuit that Donald Trump personally filed for $20 billion against CBS and its parent company, Paramount. Donald Trump is holding up the merger between Paramount and another company, Paramount.

called Skydance until Paramount personally pays Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars. Reportedly, they've already offered him $15 million, but Donald Trump wants more money from them. In my opinion, it's an absolutely frivolous lawsuit. Donald Trump saying it's caused him emotional distress and suffering because there were different versions of the interview that was aired. By the way, I watched the interview.

There's really nothing that was materially edited at all. Like this is all made up. But anyway, here's Donald Trump whining about that on June 18th, 2025. Play this clip. So what they did is they interviewed 60 Minutes. They interviewed Kamala. Her answer was horrendous. I would say election threatening. This is the day before the election.

Our answer was election threatening was so incompetent. So they took the entire answer out and they took another answer to another question and put it away. And they did that, I understand, a number of times. But you don't have to do it a number of times. The main question they asked and we caught them.

And they're very embarrassed by it. And they're working on a settlement. But think of it. Did you ever hear that one before? They took the entire, every word, threw it out, put another answer. Do you think they do that for me? I think it happens daily. Well, I've never seen it. I thought I'd seen everything. That I've never seen. It's very embarrassing. The head of 60 Minutes got fired. The head of CBS got fired.

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We have negotiations scheduled for Sunday, and Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, had said publicly under oath that Iran did not have nuclear capabilities. But then when Donald Trump watched on Fox the decapitation strikes by Israel against the Iranian military generals that wiped out a lot of the generals, Trump wanted to take credit for it. So Trump said, I did it. Here, play this clip. All I'm doing is saying you can't have a nuclear weapon.

And I tried to do it nicely. And then on day 61, I said, let's go, 'cause we can't let that happen. And I've been saying it for 20 years. - Donald Trump then lies and says that gas is as low as $1.98 a gallon, which we all know is false. Play this clip. - In California, you know, we've got some gas stations where just two weeks ago, it was $1.98, $1.99. We've got the gas down below. And we have this little situation, which will drive it up a little bit, but very little.

And it's going to come down again. Going to give people a lot of extra money. Groceries are down. Eggs are down. You know, the eggs. They hit me the first week about eggs. Next, Donald Trump says that he is going to be withholding important federal government aid from California because he doesn't like Governor Gavin Newsom of California. Let's play it. If you went one time, if you went a half a time over the break,

So see what they're doing? They're unwrapping the sand. It's all pure sand. And if it weren't pure sand, it would eat away at the road. Mr. President, with the rail funding in California, will your recent dust-ups with Governor Newsom impact additional wildfire relief out there? They've requested $40 billion. The man's incompetent.

You shouldn't have fires like that. You clean the floor of your forest and you won't have any forest fires. You know, Austria has very, very flammable trees. They don't have forest fires because they clean the floors. They maintain their forest. Good. In fact, you know, hatred is never a good thing in politics. When you don't like somebody, don't respect somebody, it's harder for that person to get money if you're on top.

Donald Trump says the difference between his first term and his second term is that in his first term he was being hunted and now that he's the hunter hunting people. So what Trump's saying at his press conference today about flagpoles, mind you, play this clip. The first time I had it, you know, you guys were after me. I said I had to focus. I was I was the hunted.

Donald Trump is asked about an ultimatum he gave Iran and he said, I gave them the ultimate ultimatum. Play the clip. Uh,

You could say so. They know what's happening. Maybe you could call it the ultimate ultimatum, right? What essentially was that, though? Oh, I don't want to say it. Give me a break. What about the Paramount deal? I would say the ultimate. She's doing great. Then Trump says he spoke to Putin yesterday.

who offer to mediate the dispute between Israel and Iran. Let's play it. You know, Russia, Ukraine is so stupid. Would have never happened if I was president. You guys agree with that, right? Would have never happened if I was president. Putin would have never done it. And I spoke to him yesterday and I said, you know,

He actually offered to help mediate. I said, do me a favor, mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first, okay? I said, Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later. But I think that's going to work out too, but so many people have been killed. The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported.

in the Ukraine, Russia, many, many more people. A building falls down, they say nobody was hurt. Donald Trump talks about winning 35 club championships, and he's upset that he hasn't hit a golf ball in three weeks to four weeks. Let's play it. When you find time in your schedule. 35 club championships. You all know that. 35 club championships, I haven't hit a ball in three weeks, four weeks.

Time to get out there. It's time to get out there. I'm a little busy. Would you rather have me be doing what I'm doing now? Of course. In the end. See, the way they have that hoisting is great. Because if you lift it up from one, you have to lift it from the bottom, but you have to get it there. But if you lifted it from without that, the whole thing would split.

And then Donald Trump says that what they're doing with the flagpole is called a lifting. And he says he doesn't want to use the word with an E erection, but he is calling it a lifting because if he says erection, then he will get made fun of by the media. Play the clip. Have a good. They call it a lifting. They also use another word, but I'm not going to use that word. You know that is the word. It starts with an E.

You know what the word is? If I ever used it, I'd be run out of town by you people. All right. So enjoy it. Doug, you're going to get some good. He's going to win another Nobel Prize, I think, for this picture. So maybe the flag will be even more exciting. But this is pretty exciting. That's some equipment. I'll tell you what. Look at that plane. That's some beautiful. Donald Trump has turned the United States into the laughingstock of the world.

How humiliating is what I just showed you? I don't care what political party you're from. What I just showed you is both horrifying and humiliating and absolutely disgraceful. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe.

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