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Chapter 1: What disaster occurred during Trump's press conference?
We are seeing in real time what a disaster Donald Trump's call with Vladimir Putin was yesterday. Donald Trump held a disastrous press conference today in the Oval Office. He said it was about building this golden dome, as he's calling it, over the United States of America, this missile system that's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
But Donald Trump was asked about the breaking news that it looks like Russia is further amassing troops along the borders towards Finland and Norway and whether that concerns Donald Trump. Here's his response.
Chapter 2: What did Trump say about Russia's military buildup?
People actually love it. Mr. President, on Russia, are you worried about the reports on a military buildup along the borders towards Finland and Norway? No, I don't worry about that at all. They're going to be very safe. Those are two countries that are going to be very safe.
Nun, wir können wirklich sehen, wo sie ihre Truppen besiegen. Also, Wladimir Putin gab Donald Trump gestern einen großen Mittelfinger. Und Donald Trump sagt, er hat keine Angst. Er sagt, es äußert ihn überhaupt keine Angst, dass unsere NATO-Alliierten von Wladimir Putin so getötet werden. Now, what Donald Trump did want to talk about, though, was not that.
He wanted to talk about this fake declaration of independence that's in the Oval Office, which he claims was the original one. And he just goes on this bizarre rant and says, I took it from a vault. I got the declaration from a vault. Here, play this clip.
The USA, by the way, very important. So it's something that I've been looking forward to for a long time. And I just noticed you too, Jim, you're standing there and behind you is a very important document, Declaration of Independence. Und das war seit vielen Jahrzehnten in der Wälder, direkt unter dieser Gegend. Sie haben Wälder mit Bildern. Auf der Spitze haben Sie Abraham Lincoln.
Sie sehen, das war der originale Abraham Lincoln, der originale Washington. Und weiß jeder, wer in der Mitte war? General Grant. Und so ist es sehr aufregend. Wenn Sie hier und über Ronald Reagan schauen, haben Sie Thomas Jefferson. Das ist Monroe aus dem Monroe-Dokument. And you know who that is, right? Andrew Jackson. So we have a lot of very exciting pictures.
And on the other side, likewise, just some great, great presidents and great people. Many of these people we're asking about, many of them, almost all of them, were in the vaults or nearby, but generally in the vaults downstairs.
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Chapter 3: Why is Trump focused on a 'Golden Dome'?
I mean, it's pretty pathetic that what concerns Donald Trump is finding a fake declaration of independence from a fake vault versus actually talking about the issues that matter to the American people. And here he is talking about what he calls this Golden Dome. He goes, it's going to be $175 billion in total. He says that there's $25 billion going to go to the Golden Dome. Here's what he says.
Play this clip.
Das ist unglaublich, wenn man es sich vorstellt, schießt man Schüsse aus dem Herzen. Ich bin auch froh, dass die eine große, wunderschöne Billung 25 Milliarden Dollar für den Goldenen Dom beitragen wird, um die Konstruktion zu helfen. Das ist die initiale Art von Down-Posit. Und wir haben...
So then he's asked, like, so, are you listening to military commanders or are you just winging this yourself? And Trump says, it's my idea to do this Golden Dome. He just likes the word gold and dome. And so now he's putting this golden dome over the United States when we have systems in place that deal with this already. Here, play this clip.
You have mentioned at the beginning of your remarks that this was a campaign promise of yours. Have military commanders asked for this system specifically? Because NORAD had said previously that the current system was adequate. So what does this get the United States?
There really is no current system. We have certain areas of missiles and certain missile defense, but there's no system. We just have some very capable weapons that hopefully we never have to use, but we have some very capable weapons. Now this is a different league. There's never been anything like this. This is something that's going to be... Sehr schützend.
Ich denke, Sie können sicher sein, dass es nichts wie das wird. Niemand anderes ist es möglich, es zu bauen. War das etwas, was die Militärkommandanten Sie gefragt haben?
Haben sie Sie gefragt, das zu tun? Na, lassen Sie mich es anders sagen.
Ich habe es empfohlen, und sie haben alle gesagt, wir lieben die Idee, Herr. Das muss es sein, oder?
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Chapter 4: How does Trump's military budget plan affect social programs?
You know, he's taking away these key programs, but giving these tax cuts for the billionaires that many estimate will cost at least 5.1 or at least 4 to 5 trillion dollars. So then Donald Trump continues this lie where he says, look, we just brought in 5 trillion dollars from the Middle East. I've just collected 5 trillion. So we're cool. We're good. Here, play this clip.
When you first announced this idea, critics said it would be prohibitively expensive, potentially ineffective and could trigger an arms race in space. What do you say to those critics about that?
Well, they're wrong. It's about as close to perfect as you can have in terms of real production. I told you Canada wants to be a part of it, which would be a fairly small expansion. But we'll work with them on pricing. We'll be dealing with them on pricing. They know about it very much. They've asked to be a part of it, actually. They've asked us to be a part of it.
I think it's something that is great. If you can afford to do it, we can afford to do it. You know, we took in 5.1 trillion dollars in the last four days in the Middle East. And when you think about it, this is a tiny fraction of that. But we make it all here. We're going to make it all here. We have... Er hat nicht 5 Trillionen gekauft.
Er hat nicht einmal so viel Geld gekauft. Saudi-Arabiens gesamte jährliche GDP beträgt 1,1 Trillionen. Katars jährliche GDP beträgt 200 Billionen. Und die United Arab Emirates GDP beträgt 400 Billionen. You add all of those annual GDPs up combined together, it is under $5 trillion. These countries are not giving their entire annual GDP to the United States of America.
He's just coming up with a fake number the way he gives fake valuations for his properties to justify the fact that the deficit is going to increase by at least $5 trillion. And if you listen to MAGA Republican Congressmember Thomas Massey, Er sagt, dass dieses GOP-Budget das Defizit von 20 Trillionen Dollar erhöhen wird, ist es, was er sagt.
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Chapter 5: What are the criticisms of Trump's defense spending?
Hier verschwindet Donald Trumps Gehirn, als er versucht, das Wort Dokument zu sagen. Er spielt diesen Clip. Das ist Monroe aus dem Monroe-Dokument.
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Hier versucht Donald Trump zu beschreiben, was die Golden Dome ist. Und er sagt, denk dran, du schießt Schüsse aus dem Luft. Wiederum, er weiß nicht mal, was er hier spricht. Er sagt keine kompletten Sätze. Lass uns diesen Clip spielen.
Es ist unglaublich, wenn du es denkst, du schießt Schüsse aus dem Luft. I'm also pleased to report that the one big beautiful bill will include 25 billion dollars for the Golden Dome to help construction get underway. That's the initial sort of a down posit. And we have Dann gibt es Pete Hegseth, der Donald Trump aufschüttelt, das seltsame AI-Foto von Golden Dome zu zeigen.
The United States looking gold. And Hegseth is like, add this to the long list of promises made, promises kept. Dude, you said you were going to lower housing prices and make things more affordable. You said you were going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Not this crappy or play this clip.
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Chapter 6: What false claims did Trump make about funding?
Go ahead. Herr Präsident, ich möchte das zu der langen und wachsenden Liste der Voraussetzungen und Voraussetzungen erneuern.
Hier ist auch Hegseth zu Donald Trump mehr und sagt, ja, Sir, ich habe gesagt, Sir, das war eine tolle Vision, Sir. Hier, spiel diese Klippe hier.
Ich möchte darüber sprechen.
Chapter 7: How does Trump describe the Golden Dome project?
Wie geht es Ihnen, es zu beenden? Ja, Sir, ich meine, wie ich gesagt habe, Without your vision willing to say and do things when other people wanted to look away and pretend like the threat didn't exist, or be focused on foreign adventurism, some other threat that we've been told is affecting us.
When you look at the data, sir, from Russia to the Communist Chinese and other, and their capabilities, what they're trying to do to supersede us and threaten us, How do we find the best innovators, the best military leaders, the best companies, tech companies? You mentioned open architecture, that's exactly right. So multiple companies can pour into this, sir.
It's a layered defense, so if you miss at one, you catch at the next. And it integrates existing technologies that can speak to each other, so it moves quickly. while also investing in further ranging space-based interceptors. So our enemies, our adversaries are going to pay a lot of attention to this, just like they have to President Trump from day one.
So you're defending the homeland, defending the American people. It's going to benefit my kids, grandkids, all of ours in this room. So thank you for your leadership. We're going to charge ahead as fast as we can.
Just to remind you what Donald Trump had said after his call with Vladimir Putin. This was from a press conference before this one, where Donald Trump was asked, you believe that Putin wants peace. So if Putin wants peace, Donald, then why is he continuing to send ballistic missiles to kill innocent Ukrainians and drones every single day? Ukraine's agreed to an unconditional ceasefire.
Putin has not. What do you say to that, Donald? Here's what he said.
You mentioned that you believe Putin wants peace, but he just attacked Ukraine yesterday. So what makes you think that he wants peace?
Well, he's in a war. Nobody said don't. They're fighting, they're attacking, they're attacking each other. And people are dying all the time. He's in a war. He's fighting a war. Nobody said he was going to stop. I think, is it terrible? Yeah, it's terrible. I do. I think it's terrible.
Can you wait for President Biden? President Biden is dying.
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