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Trump Goes Silent as All Hell Unleashed

2025/6/18
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Ben Meiselas: 在G7峰会等一系列灾难性事件后,特朗普对可能涉及美国的中东战争保持沉默,并对伊朗是否拥有核武器的信息含糊不清。与此同时,他却在社交媒体上发布关于在白宫安装旗杆的消息,并请求支持者捐款。我认为这种行为是极其不负责任的,尤其是在乌克兰战争、预算问题和通货膨胀等诸多问题面前,他却认为最大的问题是旗杆。此外,他对明尼苏达州的暗杀事件漠不关心,反而攻击州长,并拒绝承认海外士兵的死亡,以及风暴灾害,甚至他的阅兵式导致了一名妇女死亡,但他都没有承认。我认为我们不能让他说服我们这是正常或可以接受的,他的行为是绝对疯狂的。

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Donald Trump remains silent as the world faces potential war involving the US and Iran. His silence contrasts sharply with the gravity of the situation and his recent actions, including a focus on installing new flagpoles at the White House.
  • Trump's unusual silence during a major international crisis
  • His focus on seemingly trivial matters like flagpoles
  • Lack of official communication from the White House regarding the Iran situation

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So after lighting the world on fire after his disastrous appearance at the G7, which was short-lived before he fled, after his disaster dictator parade, after the No Kings protests, but I guess most acutely and significantly right now with potentially war about to break out involving the United States in the Middle East, Donald Trump has gone silent.

Donald Trump called what's called a lid last night. The White House called a travel photo lid, which means that Trump is not expected to appear on camera or address the media in any way about what the hell is happening in the Middle East. Is America involved in a war right now involving Iran? Are we committing our troops?

to another war in the Middle East? What are the ramifications of that? Why did Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, say less than 90 days ago under oath before Congress that Iran did not have nuclear capabilities and was not pursuing nuclear weapons, and all of a sudden that changed?

What is the latest intelligence we have? What the hell is happening? And you know who also is not holding a press conference, who's never held a press conference to date?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to address what in the world is going on right now. We know that Donald Trump just reamed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after the disastrous dictator parade. But look, Donald Trump is posting this while they have a lid at the White House, while the world is looking to see, will the United States be committing troops to

to another war now in the Middle East. Here's what Donald Trump just posted. "It is my great honor to announce that I will be putting up two beautiful flagpoles on both sides of the White House, North and South lawns. It is a gift

Gift is in caps for some reason. From me of something which was always missing from the magnificent place. The digging and placement of the poles will begin at 730 a.m. Flag will be raised at 11 a.m. These are the most magnificent poles made. They are all tapered, rust-proof, rope inside the pole.

and of the highest quality. Hopefully, they will proudly stand at both sides of the White House for many years to come. Of all of the issues confronting our country right now, as war continues in Ukraine after Russia's unlawful invasion, and Trump was not able to negotiate peace in 24 hours, as he promised with prices going up, with the disastrous budget bill working its way through the Senate, where they want to make additional cuts

to Medicaid in the Senate. We now hear from bipartisan, nonpartisan groups that the new version of the disastrous budget bill will cause a $20 trillion increase in our debt. Inflation is only increasing. Mortgage rates are above 7%. As all of that is going on, Donald Trump believes the biggest issue is flagpoles.

We need two flagpoles in the North and South lawn of the White House. That is Donald Trump's gift, everybody. Oh, thank you, Donald. I was wondering, we need big giant flagpoles. That's what we were looking for.

Donald Trump then posts the following. $5 for MAGA? Official memo from Trump? Ben, I know I send you a lot of emails, and I hate to take up even a moment of your valuable time, but this can't wait even a second longer. I just got sued by Gavin Newsom. So here are three reasons to give $5 to show your support for me today. 1.

One, I'm putting together a list of every supporter in your state who shows their support for me right now. Two, I've set a goal for rallying one million patriots to my cause. None more important than you. Wow. Three, everyone who donates right now is entered to win the only set of Trump gold golf balls available in the world. That's Donald Trump right now. Five dollars for MAGA?

$5 for MAGA, please. Can I have $5 for MAGA? I'll give you a big, beautiful gold golf ball. Can you, this is what he's doing right now? Absolute, absolute maniac. I mean, you see it right there. Oh, he did call into Jesse Waters last night. This just in, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, Jesse Waters fantasizing about a massive penetrator.

Jesse Water says, Justin, Trump says the Ayatollah can run, but he can't hide. So Donald Trump's just using like

movie cliches right now. You could run, but you can't hide. Stay tuned! Will we be sending our troops to war or not? Stay tuned. And how about the fact that our constitutional safeguards and the War Powers Act actually requires that Congress declare war? Well, here's what Jesse Waters says. Israel is begging the U.S. to drop the massive penetrator on Iran's nuclear sites.

I mean, Donald Trump has been making all of these posts saying, we, we've done this to Iran. We, we, we. We're saying that the United States is, you know, essentially at war. And that's what Donald Trump's saying. Now, again, let me be very clear and state my position. I think that Iran should absolutely never,

have nuclear weapons. I think the Ayatollah is a cancer on what can otherwise be a great country if it was kind of restored and changed to what it looked like before the Ayatollah, and in fact, went more in a pro-democracy direction. I think there's a lot of potential. I think that people are hungry for it. I also, as an American...

I remember growing up and seeing all the same stuff they were saying about WMDs in Iraq. So what happens when you do regime change in Iran? Let's just say you get rid of the Ayatollah. You're going to declare mission accomplished, remove the Ayatollah. And then what? Then we're going to have a civil war in Iran between factions aligned with the Shah's family in the United States and those aligned with the far with the.

groups that are far more extreme than even the Ayatollah. I mean, you realize you could turn that region into a massive civil war. Then what? Then are we going to commit American troops? Israeli troops are going to be on the ground. You think that Iran wants to have Benjamin Netanyahu's pick to be the leader of Iran? I guarantee you that they don't.

While all of this was going on, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, dog killer, cosplayer, she was rushed to the hospital. She went unconscious. There was a very serious emergency. They claim that she had an allergic reaction to something, and she's alert and recovering after passing out and going unconscious. MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee said,

wrote prayers for Secretary Noem. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, prayers for an allergic reaction, but mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren't in your tribe with no apology or remorse. Fae Christian small man. Of course, MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee was mocking the murders.

that took place in Minnesota by the assassin. And he was mocking the situation and like laughing about it, like the pathetic coward little person that he is.

Folks, just looking at the data right now as well, home builder sentiment has cratered this year to the third lowest level since 2012. Remember when Peter Navarro said 90 deals in 90 days? We're at day 67 and we're at zero deals. You may say, Ben, what about the UK? Wasn't that a trade deal?

Okay, the papers that I saw fall on the ground when Donald Trump was with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Trump claimed he did a deal with the European Union. First off, didn't have anything written on it. At least I couldn't see anything written on it. A trade deal is not three pages long. There are hundreds of pages, if not thousands of pages. And it just related to automobiles and aerospace or aeronautics.

And the whole thing it did was give the United Kingdom preferential treatment for Rolls Royce, Jaguar, and Land Rover over American car manufacturers because they would get a preferential tariff rate. So that is not a deal to be celebrated. Oh, and China was not a deal where we just caved, where Trump tacoed, and he made 145% tariffs, 35% tariffs, or 55% tariffs.

Remember when Donald Trump said this back, what was it, 15 years ago at this point or 12 years ago, when he said, Obama will start a war with Iran because he's stupid, play this clip. Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. Then fast forwarding, this is what Kristi Noem, our director of national intelligence, for better or worse, and I would say for much worse,

She's the director of national intelligence. She's Trump's pick. She went before Congress less than 90 days ago. And here she is. She says that Iranians

that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon, that they did not have the capabilities. And that was the best assessment of our IC, our intelligence community. Play this clip. The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. And Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.

The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. May also be a significant issue, though, to the director of national intelligence that the White House personnel director, Sergio Gore, skipped the background check for himself. As colleagues question, who the hell is this guy? Where's he from? He claims to be from Malta. There's no record of him being from Malta.

He's responsible for vetting 4,000 administration appointees. He didn't submit the most basic form, the SF-86 form, which begins the security clearance process. And he's been saying, oh, the deep state says that I can't submit it. The deep state's going to come after me. The deep state's going to come after me. Hat tip to New York Post for breaking that story. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes,

Can someone please ask Caroline Levitt, the chief propagandist for the White House, why the White House director of personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete the most basic paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if Sergio Gore is the name on his birth certificate? I don't know. Seems a bit important.

Also seems important when we look at this photo from the G7's second day working session on Tuesday. Of course, the first day had the immediate countries in the G7, like the U.S. and Canada and France and the United Kingdom, that U.K., Australia.

Italy, Germany. Today was the working session with other countries like India was there. And who else did you have there? Australia was there. And you had the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, President Zelensky. Look at this photo. Donald Trump not there. And you had his Treasury Secretary Scott Besant in the back left when you take a look.

Governor Tim Walz posted the following. I signed the final bill Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in this country, in the county, all of them bipartisan.

We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That's how democracy should function. Donald Trump was asked yesterday if he reached out to Governor Walz to say anything about the assassinations that were taking place in Minnesota. Governor Walz was on the list as a target of the assassination, as was about 70 other Democratic lawmakers and pro-democracy politicians and leaders in the state. Donald Trump then attacked Walz.

Governor Walz playing this clip. You know, and I think that's significant because

Especially as we also head into hurricane season, we've seen Donald Trump refuse to acknowledge the death of our soldiers overseas. Remember, four of our soldiers died in Lithuania. Lithuania did an incredible, heartfelt, solemn ceremony. Donald Trump didn't even acknowledge their deaths.

Two of our soldiers died on the border when Donald Trump sent our soldiers as part of his operations on the border. Donald Trump didn't acknowledge that. Dozens of Americans have died and perished over the past few months in horrific storms in Kentucky and Indiana, in Georgia.

Missouri, in Mississippi, in Arkansas, and across the country. Donald Trump has not even acknowledged these storms, and he was late to send FEMA or didn't send FEMA at all in some cases. I mean, you have in Donald Trump...

A lady died the other day as a result of Donald Trump's dictator parade. A truck carrying a tank rolled over and killed a woman in Washington, D.C. Trump doesn't acknowledge any of that. Someone died from Donald Trump's dictator parade. No acknowledgement. Just what you heard him say about Governor Walz on that clip, right? We showed you that clip. And so,

Horrific, horrific stuff right there. Let me say these names right now. Senator Alex Padilla, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, Mayor Roz Baraka, Judge Hannah Dugan, Controller Brad Lander.

Democratic politicians who were attacked, assaulted by ICE, prosecuted by the Trump DOJ. It's not normal. It's not okay. As Santiago Mayor says, we cannot let them convince us that this is normal or okay. We'll keep calling it out here.

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