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Donald Trump just held a disastrous press event in the Rose Garden that he destroyed, which he now calls Club Rose Garden.
And Donald Trump spent the time at this event bragging about not being murdered at a ceremony supposedly honoring a guy who was murdered.
Then he goes on this deranged rant again about how California didn't turn on a magical valve and that that's why the fires weren't put out and there was a secret valve that you turn on and that would have got rid of all the fires back last January.
What the hell is this guy talking about?
I mean, this is so deranged.
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As Governor Newsom responded right away, is not having a sense of reality a symptom of dementia?
The answer is yes.
And I love that Governor Newsom keeps going on the offense.
Then Donald Trump said, I heard about Charlie Kirk that he liked his enemies.
I loved his enemies.
I'm not the same.
I'm not the same.
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Then again, at this odd, another memorial ceremony for Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump says that we're a country with almost $18 trillion of investments coming in now.
It's no, we don't.
That's not happening.
There's not $18 trillion of investments.
Literally everything he says here is just a complete fraud.
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Then he talks about J.D.
Vance going on ABC and he refers to George Stephanopoulos as Slopidopoulos.
Again, this is what you're doing in the in the memorial, huh?
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By the way, I'm not even sure you could have gotten worse than the previous memorial in the Arizona football stadium, but this is pretty bad.
Donald Trump then says he's not going to make it to heaven.
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Then Donald Trump said that if Charlie Kirk was here, he would love the fight that the Republicans are doing on the government shutdown where they're ripping away health care for tens of millions of Americans.
And then Trump obsesses over the signs that happened at the No Kings protest.
He's like, these are beautiful signs.
How are the signs so beautiful?
It must be done by Antifa terrorists, these beautiful signs, huh?
Here, play this clip.
And he's invoking Charlie Kirk's name here.
Very odd behavior here.
Play this clip.
But they're hurting our country, and we're really taken.
He then says that people who are Democrats or on the left, I guess, I'm not even sure what he's saying, that they have the devil's ideology.
The devil's ideology?
This is what you're saying at a memorial?
Again, this is just an evil and weird human being.
We just have, this is not a normal person.
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This event was purportedly yet another Charlie Kirk memorial event.
And then Erica Kirk remarked that, yes, Charlie Kirk did pray for his enemies, which is hard, but he did.
And then Donald Trump gives this weird shit-eating grin.
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And this followed Donald Trump's bizarre press conference with the president of Argentina, where the US is giving Argentina $20 billion in a bailout while Trump's depriving 20 million Americans of healthcare.
$20 billion to Argentina, 20 million Americans without healthcare.
And then Donald Trump is asked a question from a woman reporter, and just watch how misogynistic Trump is here.
I didn't cover this in my last video, but look what he says, he goes,
I just like to watch her talk.
Good job.
Thank you, darling.
The hell?
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And then as Donald Trump was flying into DC, he referred to Caroline Leavitt's lips as like, you love her lips.
She's got machine gun lips.
What?
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And then finally, Trump talked about how he would look better at a beach with his shirt off than Biden.
And this is what Trump's talking about in front of the president of Argentina.
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Somebody told... Folks, this is someone who is deranged, unwell, sick in the head, dangerous, disgusting, vile.
You fill in the words, but I just showed it to you.
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An explosive hearing in the United States Senate as Donald Trump's own CDC pick, who Trump fired, Dr. Susan Monterrez, testified against the Trump regime, testified against Donald Trump.
So Mark Wayne Mullen is lying here and saying that we secretly recorded you.
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It was a recorded meeting.
Then even Republican Senator from Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, he's like, I learned when I stepped out that Mark Wayne Mullen was up here claiming that there was a recording.
If there's a recording out there, a secret recording that was made of Dr. Monterrez that I don't know about it, you turn that over right now.
Here, watch this.
Wow, is that a vote?
And then Mark Wayne Mullen basically admits that he didn't do the recording, but Cassidy is just fully fed up with MAGA Republican Mark Wayne Mullen's antics.
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But here's the thing, Senator Kennedy, I mean, Senator Cassidy, you got played by RFK Jr.
You're a physician, Senator Cassidy.
You're a physician.
And you should never have allowed, ever have allowed RFK Jr.
to be approved as the health secretary.
You knew his background.
And then you had other Republican senators like Tillis said they relied on you because you were a physician and you gave the green light to RFK.
Now, let me show you Ron DeSantis's pick to fill in as the senator when Rubio is picked to be secretary of state.
The governor gets to pick the replacement.
Ashley Moody, she's like the worst.
She's not even good at being a hack.
She's a whack hack, meaning a bad hack, whack hack.
But anyway, Ashley Moody is so bizarre in her attack of the former CDC director that even Senator Cassidy was like, all right, I'm not sure.
Can we move on here?
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Next, I want to show you the top medical officer in the CDC, the chief medical officer, Dr. Auri.
testified against RFK Jr.
She testified how she learned that the Trump regime was going to be getting rid of the vaccine recommendation.
So there you have it.
You have Donald Trump's own CDC director and the chief medical officer are now whistleblowers against the regime.
Wow.
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She goes, I learned about it via a social media post on X. Here, play this clip.
Now, I know a lot of attention has been spent on the hearing of Kash Patel, Trump's FBI director, who failed miserably trying to cover up Donald Trump's dark past.
Next up, you have Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin, who just does an incredible job.
And she's particularly very powerful when it comes to health care, when it comes to women's reproductive rights issues, when it comes to agriculture.
But here she is asking Dr.
whether or not she was able to brief the health secretary, RFK Jr.
Like, was RFK Jr.
taking advice from the chief medical officer of the CDC?
And the answer was absolutely no.
He didn't want to hear from any scientists at all.
Here, play this clip.
But this was in many ways a more important hearing involving this whistleblower who was Trump's own pick.
Going back to Dr. Susan Monterrez right here.
Remember, she's the former director of the CDC appointed by Trump, confirmed by the Republicans in the Senate, turned whistleblower against Trump because Trump and RFK are trying to kill all of us.
And she's like, I may be a, you know, a Trump pick, but I can't support people being killed like I'm still a doctor.
And so she goes on the morning of August 25th.
Secretary Kennedy demanded two things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of public officials.
Here she is laying out the Trump regime and folks, I don't I'm not trying to make this political.
I'm just bringing out the receipts.
This is life or death stuff for us.
This is health like we've got a bunch of quacks with RFK Jr.
Her name is Dr. Monterrez.
and Dr. Oz and these idiots right here who are doing things that are going to potentially kill us, kill people we know, harm our children.
This is a red alert, folks.
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Trump fired her because she was not OK with RFK Jr.,
arbitrarily and capriciously and maliciously just destroying the vaccine recommendations for Americans, especially children.
Now, going back to Dr. Moneriz here, she says that RFK Jr.
's comments defaming her were clearly not accurate.
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Let me show you what went down in the United States Senate as Dr. Monteres, the former CDC director,
Here's an exchange between her and Senator Kaine.
Let's play it.
appointed by Trump, confirmed by the Senate, testified yesterday.
Now, here is Senator Alsa Brooks and Dr. Owry.
Remember, Dr. Owry is the chief medical officer at the CDC, the top scientist who reports directly to the CDC director, who then is supposed to report
to the health secretary rfk jr but rfk jr didn't want to hear from the scientists rfk jr just wanted on his own to just destroy vaccines to gut the vaccine uh board medical board and to put his own quackery in place of science and data here play this clip ask dr howie very directly
So Dr. Monterrez talked about how RFK Jr.
had no data, no science to point to when he butchered the vaccine recommendations that scientists and thus doctors and Americans rely on.
Watch this.
Another powerful exchange between Senator Kaine and Dr. Howery.
Let's play it.
And another powerful exchange between Senator Alsa Brooks and Dr. Susan Monterrez.
Here, play this clip.
So then the MAGA senators tried to do some cleanup and it backfired in their face.
So you had MAGA Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
Now he lies.
and claims that when CDC Director Monteres was pushing back against RFK Jr., he goes, I know you're lying.
You know how I know you're lying?
It was all recorded.
You were being secretly recorded by what, RFK Jr.
was secretly recording her?
And so then it turns out that Mark Wayne Mullen was either lying about that or realized that he screwed up.
Because if there was a secret recording by RFK Jr., it may have been illegal.
It could be potentially a crime if that took place.
And also, if there is a recording, then Mark Wayne Mullen had an obligation to.
to immediately turn that over to the full Senate committee, which he did not do, thereby making it potential that Mark Wayne Mullen had a significant ethical breach.
And he could be potentially involved in either criminal activity, obstruction, or maybe something lesser.
By the way, Donald Trump's hand was literally rotting while it was there.
It looked worse than ever.
I've described it as...
looking like Donald Trump has put his hand into a piranha tank.
But after luring Donald Trump in and making Trump dress up in, you know, the white suit and all that white tie suit, here's what King Charles did.
Boom.
In his speech, he looks at Donald Trump.
He talks about World War I.
and World War II, and the U.S., and the U.K.
's historic relationship there.
And then in front of the world, King Charles brings up Ukraine and says, this is why we're uniting, to defeat Russia, to defeat the forces of tyranny.
As you have Donald Trump kind of sitting there, like, look at his face.
That was Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, at the Mexico Independence Day celebration.
Zoom in on Trump's face right here, if you can, with the still...
And then King Charles is like, and here is why we defend Ukraine.
That's what this whole setup was for.
Watch it go down in real time.
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All right, now back to Mexico for a moment.
So today you have Prime Minister Carney of Canada meeting with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico.
They are signing a strategic partnership agreement
And they are going to unite their positions as well ahead of the Kuzma review, the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement review.
Remember, there was NAFTA in the 90s.
Then Trump slightly changed it during his first regime and called it USMCA or Kuzma.
It's very much like NAFTA, but with a few additions.
And then Donald Trump, when he came in power, his regime this time basically ripped Kuzma to shreds, although he paused the tariffs on Kuzma related items.
But it was always believed that Donald Trump was going to attack his own deal, rip his own deal because Trump breaches contracts and screw over Canada and Mexico as he has done.
So we have this big meeting right now between Carney and Claudia Scheinbaum.
Now, furious world leaders like you saw there with Claudia Scheinbaum strongly asserting their sovereignty, their strength, their power.
and they're planning how they're standing up against the Trump regime, uniting their positions, while Donald Trump is out there saying, Mexico does what we tell them.
Canada does what we tell them.
They obey.
They submit to me.
No, they don't, Donald.
The world is laughing at you, you vile piece of trash.
Here, play this clip.
Now, take a look right here at this chart right here.
Pew Research released this in the past week.
Most people in Mexico and Canada now say the United States is their country's greatest threat.
So if you look at comparisons of United States, Russia and China in Mexico, 68% say U.S.
is the biggest threat to Mexico.
Only 6% say Russia, 5% say China.
In Canada, 59% say U.S.
is the biggest threat.
11% say Russia, 17% say China.
In Indonesia, 40% say the U.S.
is their biggest threat.
3% say Russia, 19% say China.
In South Africa, 35% of the population say America is their biggest threat.
against a very weak and sickly Donald Trump and pathetic Trump regime.
19% say Russia, 13% say China.
In Brazil, 29% say U.S.
is the biggest threat.
Russia, 12%.
China, 15%.
Argentina, interesting, 24%.
U.S., Russia, 13%.
China, 13%.
So amongst Mexico, Canada, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina, U.S.
is their biggest threat.
U.S.
is tied for the top threat in Spain and Kenya between Russia and
in Spain.
And then you look at other countries in Australia, you have China is their top threat, but 20% still say U.S.
is their biggest threat.
In Japan, 18% say U.S.
is the biggest threat.
53% say China.
Interesting data right there.
I want to show you now how furious King Charles III lured Donald Trump in for a trap as part of Donald Trump's visit to the United Kingdom.
should be noted as well the mayor of las vegas begging mexico and canada to resume tourism to vegas vegas is getting crushed right now i think vegas is in a great recession perhaps even already in a depression so all those people who thought that they were getting no tax on tips are finding out they're not really getting tips anymore
Now,
King Charles knows how Donald Trump is so pathetically wanting to be a king and how he is in awe of the pomp and circumstance of the royal family.
because their income is all the way down as a result of Trump's policies, his trade war against the world, his disastrous tariffs.
So Donald, when you say Mexico does what we tell them, I just wanna show you again, for the first time in Mexico's history,
you're going to have a woman hosting the Independence Day event.
President Claudia Scheinbaum marked the 215th anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain.
Let's take a look at this portion right here as well.
By the way, I think Democratic Congress member Moskowitz puts it really smart here where he goes, maybe, Donald, you want to treat Russia like you're treating Washington, D.C.
or Canada or our allies.
Maybe if you treat Russia, just treat Russia like them.
Here, play this clip.
So here's what King Charles did as well.
And then I want to talk about Mexico and Canada having a huge meeting tomorrow.
Now, let me share this with you as well.
This is from President Zelensky right here.
Powerful post that he made about security guarantees.
He goes, when we speak about security guarantees for Ukraine, there are several key elements.
First, the Ukrainian army.
We already agreed on what we need in the sky at sea and on the ground.
Our partners now understand the scale of these needs.
I want to talk about Zelensky.
But the important thing is
is that we are on the same page and they are ready to deliver.
Second, the strength and size of the Ukrainian army itself.
We know exactly what it has to be and this requires significant funding.
This is why financial support from our partners is crucial.
Third, Article 5-like guarantees.
We are discussing this with the U.S.,
I want to talk more about Europe.
And I believe we will reach bilateral decisions.
And finally, sanctions in case Russia decides to repeat aggression again, as well as reconstruction, including the use of frozen Russian assets.
To give an example, the cost of this war today is about $120 billion per year.
I want to talk about a poll, by the way, that shows that
Ukraine covers half of it from its own budget.
The other half, $60 billion, must be secured.
Plan A is to end the war.
Plan B is to secure the cost.
I think that's really said very smart.
And I'm a data guy.
So you give me the info and the data and the plan, that's what I respond to.
Zelensky also goes, Russia prepared offensive operations along four main accesses this year.
Sumy, Novovlakia, Porosk, and Zaporizhia.
The Sumy operation has already failed.
Russia suffered heavy losses, especially in manpower, and has redeployed forces to other fronts.
Many countries now view the United States as the biggest threat to them.
Ukrainian armed forces inflicted even greater losses on them there.
I think we might name the exact area in the next two days.
As a result, Russia is left with two operations, but it has lost so much manpower that it cannot deliver strong additional actions in the above mentioned directions.
I believe that as of now, they lack the strength for large scale offensives.
I want to show you also as Donald Trump was kind of lured into this brilliant trap by King Charles.
You see him right here again in the golden carriage.
Again, him looking deeply, deeply sickly over there.
Here is what Donald Trump said about being at Windsor Castle and Trump pretended that he was the first president of the United States to ever be at the U.K.,
and Windsor Castle, which is utterly ridiculous.
But okay, King Charles' view is, all right, Donald, believe that.
I'm gonna put you right there next to me and frickin' shame you on Ukraine.
And I'm talking about like United States former allies or allies thinking that.
Here, play this clip.
And so all the other stuff that you saw, like Trump inspecting the guard of honor with King Charles, I don't like seeing a sexual abuser, a felon, a bankruptor, a putrid human being there in the UK on our taxpayer dime, on the UK taxpayer dime.
But first, watch this brilliant trap by King Charles.
But I did want to show you what the plan was.
So here he is inspecting the guard of honor.
Play this clip.
Here's the Royal Air Force Red Arrows play this clip.
So he brings Trump over, the pomp and circumstance.
And so to me, all of that was
a way to help Zelensky more than anything.
But then do you see how forceful Mexico, Canada, you see what's going on, right?
You see it, huh?
I wish more of corporate media in America would talk about it.
This is a big deal.
The world order is shifting, folks.
It's a changing.
And the U.S., weakling.
Weak.
Pathetic.
He's got the flyover, Windsor Castle, the golden carriage.
Trumpy.
Like he's done with his businesses.
A lot going on.
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Republicans did not see this coming.
Now, finally, I want to show you Democratic Congresswoman Summer Lee.
Here's what she's got to say.
She similarly deserves far more attention than she gets.
I think she is a very strong Congresswoman.
She's always calling out the lies.
And what you notice the difference is that Marjorie Taylor Greene is out there in that performative way, attacking science, attacking common sense.
And here you have these Democratic Congress members just speaking to the people
about actually helping them.
Here, play this clip.
Well, there you have it, folks.
Let me know what you think.
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Obviously, I showed you the explosive hearing yesterday involving Kash Patel in the Senate.
Let me show you what went down in the House of Representatives yesterday.
Democrats led by AOC were on fire cross-examining these MAGA Republican witnesses at hearings yesterday.
before the house energy committee let me show you what aoc's cross-exam of a guy named jeffrey novak the acting general counsel and principal deputy general counsel of the epa looked like aoc was just spitting the facts she was saying do you know how many jobs have been lost
Then you had Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia go to the floor of the House of Representatives because the MAGA Republicans put forward a piece of legislation that would lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC.
First, let me show you what Congress member Garcia said.
Play this clip.
that the president is obsessed with washington dc he's obsessed with its local laws i ask him once again he should step down as president and run for mayor if he's so interested by the way even republican thomas massey from kentucky had something to say he said tonight congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in dc so
Let me get this straight, Congress member Massey said.
Congress wants to prosecute 14-year-olds as adults, but they don't want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14-year-olds?
Release the damn Epstein files.
And of course, you know what Kash Patel said.
at the hearing yesterday, just to remind you when he was asked by MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy about who else is in the Epstein files and who did Epstein traffic to, Kash Patel said that there's no credible information from the FBI that Epstein trafficked to anybody else.
He was a lone wolf, is what they're going with now.
To try to cover up Donald Trump's dark past, they're going with Epstein was a lone wolf, utterly disgusting.
Here, play this clip.
due to Donald Trump's closure of clean energy projects in the first half of this year alone?
You know how many jobs he's costing the United States?
Now, I'm going to show you some other Democratic Congress members pushing back against the MAGA Republican absurdity.
But let me show you Marjorie Taylor Greene at this congressional hearing where she wanted to bring up the topic of weather modification and cloud seeding because one of the kind of conspiracies that MAGA Republicans push is
is that all of these storms that are taking place right now are the result of human cloud seeding and weather modification and not climate change and not global warming.
Watch AOC go to work, play this clip.
That's why they push this.
My own view is, of course, we need to analyze weather modification, we need common sense solutions, and we need to understand what it is to make sure that it isn't dangerous.
So I agree with that, but that's not how MAGA Republicans are using this issue.
They're using it to spread conspiracies that when there are these disastrous storms taking place, that it's some secret government plot that's doing it.
But then again, Marjorie, Donald Trump's running the government right now.
So how are you?
Anyway, here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene had to say at the hearing yesterday.
Play this clip on weather modification.
Let's play it.
And here she is again.
Let's play this clip.
Now, I want you to contrast that to Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury.
I want you to watch this full clip because, first off, Congresswoman Stansbury deserves far more attention than she gets.
uh she is an incredible congress member she is diligent she comes with receipts she's fact-based and this is the type of leadership that i want to see more of fact-based science-based data-based let's take a watch this whole clip she says doge is back and what's the gop up to rooting out waste fraud and abuse nope they're using doge to platform climate denialism and anti-science theories you saw that right there here play this clip