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Trump Has Massive Panic in AM After Disaster News

2025/6/26
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Ben Meiselas: 今天早上,我报道了特朗普的崩溃,因为欧洲情报部门证实了美国情报部门的发现,即美国对伊朗核设施的袭击并不像特朗普声称的那样成功。伊朗可能能够重建核计划,并且在袭击发生前已经转移了铀。特朗普还让国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯举行了新闻发布会,这简直是国防部历史上最可耻的时刻,赫格塞斯竟然开始攻击记者,并要求他们闭嘴。此外,特朗普一直在自称“daddy”,还在出售印有他脸的橙色T恤,这真是令人作呕。与此同时,国内经济也面临困境,第一季度GDP数据被下调至负0.5%,接近70%的美国消费者认为未来一年内将会出现经济衰退。不过,参议院议事规则专家对预算案进行了分析,并对共和党削减医疗补助的计划造成了重大打击,这算是一个好消息。 Pete Hegseth: 作为国防部长,我坚决捍卫特朗普总统的政策。在新闻发布会上,我只是在履行我的职责,指出那些歪曲事实、恶意攻击特朗普总统的媒体。他们总是试图破坏总统的努力,无论是在伊朗问题上还是其他方面。我们必须团结起来,支持我们的军队和总统,而不是散布虚假信息和制造分裂。 Jennifer Griffin: 作为一名记者,我的职责是报道事实,并提出重要的问题。在新闻发布会上,我只是想了解更多关于伊朗核设施袭击的信息,以及高浓缩铀是否已被转移。我并不想攻击任何人,只是想做好我的工作。

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This chapter analyzes Donald Trump's reaction to European intelligence reports revealing the ineffectiveness of the US military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. It details Trump's meltdown, including his self-proclaimed 'Daddy' persona and the selling of related merchandise, alongside the controversial press conference by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
  • European intelligence confirms US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities were not as effective as claimed
  • Iran moved uranium stockpile before strikes
  • Trump calls himself 'Daddy,' sells merchandise
  • Hegseth's press conference attacks reporters, shows lack of confidence

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that the United States military strikes against the Iranian nuclear facilities were not as successful as Donald Trump claimed, that Iran will likely be able to rebuild a nuclear program, and that Iran was able to move the uranium out before these strikes took place. Earlier in the morning, Donald Trump had his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsip, give

give a press conference, which may have been the most shameful moment in the history of the Department of Defense, where Pete Hegseth just started attacking reporters and saying, you should just be waving the American flag and shut up.

And he would go to different reporters and say, you're the worst and you're the worst. Just shut up and report on what the regime wants you to report. Also, Donald Trump has been calling himself daddy all day. He's been posting photos on Instagram, basically saying to call him daddy. And now he's also selling T-shirts with his face on it. And I think it's his mugshot report.

which is also his presidential portrait, which says daddy. He's selling daddy orange t-shirts.

Let's just go through what's happening this morning so you can see the meltdown that's taking place. And you can just see how unprofessional and how despicable this is while Donald Trump is causing havoc on the home front. And you have this disastrous budget bill that's attacking the American people, though I have a positive update on the disastrous budget bill that I'll talk about in this video. So here's what Donald Trump posted early in the morning, all in caps, saying,

Fake news reporters from CNN and the New York Times should be fired immediately! Bad people with evil intentions. And then he's now selling this shirt right here. It's called the Daddy Merch Collection from the official Trump account. It's a photo of himself on an orange shirt, and then it says Daddy under it.

Here's what we're learning about the European intelligence. Early intelligence suggests Iran's uranium largely intact. European officials say preliminary assessments indicate that Tehran was able to move much of its nuclear stockpile.

Intelligence suggests that Iran's stockpile of uranium enriched close to weapons grade levels was not concentrated in the Fordow facility at the time of last weekend's attack.

So now talking about Secretary of Defense, former Fox weekend host, Pete Hegseth's press conference earlier this morning. Here's how Donald Trump described it. One of the greatest, most professional and most, quote, confirming news conferences I have ever seen, exclamation point. What's a confirming news conference? The fake news should fire everyone involved in the witch hunt.

and apologize to our great warriors and everyone else! So one of the things that Donald Trump and Hegseth are doing, and I think it's beyond despicable, is they're claiming that the B-2 pilots

who were involved in the mission against Iran are very sad and they're almost crying. They're almost in tears, according to Trump and Hegseth, because they're being treated very meanly by the media who says that the strikes weren't as effective as the regime claims the strikes were. So Donald Trump says that if you accurately report

on what the intelligence is from our own intelligence community, what the Pentagon said, what CENTCOM said, what the European officials said. You're being mean to the B-2 fighters, and that's really disrespectful to our troops. That's what the regime is going with. So here's what went down at that press conference. Jennifer Griffin, who asks this question, she is the main defense correspondent for

for Fox. So she works at Fox. So this is a Fox host. Although she works at Fox, she's very respected in the space of reporting on the Defense Department and on the military. And she usually gets her facts right. She's known as just a

Just a good reporter. So here she is asking a question to Hegseth, and then Hegseth attacks her and says, Jennifer, you've been the absolute worst. Here, play this clip. Scene that suggests that we didn't hit exactly what we wanted to hit in those locations. That's not the case.

It's about highly enriched uranium. Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow Mountain or some of it because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved? Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But Jennifer, you've been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally.

what the president says. I'm familiar. I was the first to report about the ventilation shafts on Saturday night. And in fact, I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue with that. I appreciate you acknowledging that this is the first, the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here. And I appreciate that.

So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence. I mean, again, just think about the behavior by Hegseth there. And that does not exude confidence. I mean, to Trump and Hegseth, and I guess people who don't know what tough guys actually are, they think that that's a tough guy act. But it shows to me that you're covering something up. If you're so defensive about a basic question,

Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved because all of the intelligence says it was? And you go and attack the question. Just tells me that you're covering things up. That's weakness. What Trump's doing is weakness. What Hegsit does, what this whole regime does to me is weakness masquerading as strength.

So then Pete Hegseth opens up that press conference, attacking the media and ranting that Donald Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. Now, what took place in Iran was the single greatest American military feat ever. Not D-Day, the Iran bombing. OK, play this clip. Let me read the bottom line here.

President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history. And I'm not going to show you many more clips. I'll show you one more just so I want to give you full context of what's taking place. Here, Pete Hegseth just continues to attack the press. And this was all this was about. He attacks the press. He goes, it's in your DNA. You hate Trump. You're never Trumpers. You hate him. So you are trying to make him look bad. And that is mean.

That's what they were doing all morning. Play this clip. Because you and I mean specifically you, the press, specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad.

You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective. Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful.

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Remember when the first quarter GDP numbers were revealed and it was negative 0.2%? Well, now we know it's actually worse than that. The first quarter GDP growth was actually revised further down to negative 0.5%.

Contraction of the economy. Now, that is a stark drop from the previous quarter's 2.4%, as Stephen Ratner notes. Just look at the difference between the Biden economy and the Trump economy right there. Also, close to 70% of U.S. consumers think there's going to be a recession within the next year based on how erratic Donald Trump is handling things.

Remember I said that there was good news on the disastrous budget bill? Well, one of the things I was honored to share with you, and maybe you caught it yesterday,

We held on the Midas Touch Network on our YouTube channel an exclusive press conference by the Democratic leaders in the Budget Committee who laid out all of the issues that were major problems with a disastrous budget bill. And I know you all like that feature, so shout out to them for doing that as well. And it got a lot of views as well. But one of the things that just happened in the Senate was

now threatens to destroy the entire budget bill, which is a great thing. So the Senate parliamentarian, that's a position that makes sure the Senate is conforming to the rules. And one of the rules is on a budget bill, if a provision is not directly budgetary in nature, it's called the Byrd Rule, you can't pass it through reconciliation.

So passing something through reconciliation, first and foremost, you can only really pass budget and taxing things through reconciliations, and you don't need 60 votes. So you can avoid the filibuster if you can just get 50, 51 votes. Ultimately, Vance could break a tiebreaker, but you can avoid the filibuster if it's through reconciliation.

If it is outside of budgetary means, you need at least 60 votes and then there can be a filibuster and the Republicans don't have the votes. So the Senate parliamentarian analyzes the provisions of a budget bill to see are they allowed or if they're non-budgetary, then you could filibuster it. So the Senate parliamentarian just struck down

just struck a massive blow to Republicans Medicaid cuts per an announcement from the Senate budget Dems that it's not compliant with the Byrd rule, meaning they need to be stripped or overruled. That's what I was just basically saying to you. So the provider tax crackdown rule.

which basically prevents states from taxing medical providers to fund Medicaid. That's one of the ways Medicaid would be destroyed. That that could not be put in reconciliation. Limiting the federal money for states that allow undocumented immigrants to get Medicaid. Additional limits on Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for immigrants who aren't citizens.

and then some other things like that. But the big one right there is the provider tax crackdown. So this could blow up the entire scheme by the MAGA Republicans to destroy Medicaid because the provider tax crackdown was a big one of how they wanted to get rid of Medicaid. Basically shift everything to the states.

shift the burden to the states and the states aren't able to shoulder the burden of funding Medicaid, then you limit the provider tax that the states can then tax the providers in order to try, which they still wouldn't be able to do, to fund Medicaid. And then you just destroy the whole program. That was their trick to build it. But the parliamentarians said, nope, you can't do that.

More posts here by Donald Trump saying, "Daddy's home, daddy's home." How weird is that? He's making posts saying, "Daddy's home." Also earlier in the morning, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini delivered a video. He doesn't seem to be afraid of the Trump regime.

His video was, you know, look, it's obviously Iranian propaganda and it should be taken for the propaganda that it is. But I think it's important to see that Khomeini views this as a victory. That's what he's celebrating, this ceasefire right now, because in his mind, they still have their nuclear program. Donald Trump's encouraging oil sales between Iran and China.

and the strikes didn't fully destroy the facilities. So Khamenei congratulates everybody. He congratulates his people. I'm not going to go through all of Khamenei's propaganda, but he released a video saying that Iran won, which, you know, on the one hand, you have Trump regime propaganda. On the other hand, you have Ayatollah propaganda. The Department of Defense official rapid response account says that

At Secretary of Defense just called out the fake news. I mean specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard. It's like it's in your DNA, in your blood to cheer against Trump. And the way they spell corps is not C-O-R-P-S. They spelt it C-O-R-E because we are led by a bunch of dummies.

Finally, a lot of people were asking in this bizarre picture of Donald Trump at NATO why his pants are so big, like he used these gigantic pants. And again, there are a lot of people in the past who have speculated whether or not he wears a Foley catheter. I'm not a medical doctor, so I don't know one way or another, but it's yet another example of him wearing ridiculously gigantic pants.

You know, and when you see his behavior, I did a video this morning on how sickly he looks, how cognitively addled he presents, how he can't speak in sentences, and frankly, the ramifications that's having on our country and the world.

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