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Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's first press conference?
how he thinks it's okay for him to continue to sell meme coins because the other billionaires with him in the Oval Office, they're very rich. Donald Trump went on to make a bunch of other attacks on Canada. Let's just go through what went down. Again, I'm not going to show any video or audio of Donald Trump. We don't do that here. But I will describe what went down.
We'll show some graphics and we'll take you through this disastrous press conference. So Donald Trump was asked, look, you've made all of this money on crypto and selling meme coins. Are you going to stop doing it? And Donald Trump said, no, why would I? How much did I make? To which the reporter then respond, you've made several billion dollars selling these meme coins already.
in the event leading up to the inauguration. And then Donald Trump looked at the other oligarch billionaires in the Oval Office and said, that's peanuts for these guys pointing at the tech billionaires. Then Donald Trump was asked, well, you didn't bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours like you promised. What are you going to do? To which Trump said, I've asked President Xi Jinping to get it settled.
Huh? Donald Trump saying that he's now delegating the deal to bring peace to Ukraine to Xi Jinping in China? That's as weak and pathetic as you get. And I guess that's how Donald Trump and MAGA is tough on China. Donald Trump then talks about the spending bill that he wants the House of Representatives to pass.
Chapter 2: What controversial statements did Trump make about Ukraine?
And he said before it was going to be difficult, but now we're going to use Los Angeles as a bargaining tool. We will deprive, this is what he says, we're going to deprive Los Angeles of aid unless Democrats agree to everything we want in the spending bill so we can get rid of the debt ceiling and we can push through all of our priorities for the billionaires and the oligarchs.
So when Trump was asked about the spending bill, he goes, it has now been made much easier much simpler by Los Angeles because they are going to need a lot of money. And you'll find a lot of Democrats are going to be asking for help. So I think maybe that makes it more one-sided.
Now, if that isn't treasonous, traitorous, pathetic, I don't know what it is because, well, I guess I'll tell you what it is. Perhaps allowing American foreign policy to be led by Xi Jinping. So I want to correct myself right there. But here, Donald Trump's saying, again, this is unprecedented in American history.
We always would say, okay, natural disasters, catastrophe relief, disaster relief, that's not a political wedge issue. Well, Donald Trump's just saying it out loud. Donald Trump was then asked about tariffing Canada, or annexing Canada and Mexico. And Donald Trump responds regarding the tariffs. Trump responds, I'm going to tariff both of them. He says both Canada and Mexico are very dangerous.
Chapter 3: How did Trump describe his relationship with Canada?
He positions them as enemies of the United States. He goes, Canada, very much so. They have allowed millions and millions of people to come into our country. They referring to Canada, they've killed 300,000 people last year. My opinion have been destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl. And Donald Trump will say, I didn't mean Canada. I meant fentanyl.
He's saying they though, as though Canada is shipping fentanyl to kill Americans, which is absolutely false. You want to know where most fentanyl comes from? It comes from China. By the way, Canadian citizens and Mexican citizens, by and large, are not consumers of synthetic drugs. 99% are Americans. And in terms of also who's bringing synthetic drugs into America, it is mostly Americans as well.
When you hear Donald Trump say things like this, it is very reminiscent. of when Vladimir Putin talked about the pretext for invading Ukraine is denazification, where President Zelensky of Ukraine is Jewish. And you're like, that's just the craziest thing Putin's saying, denazification. And he's saying that the Ukrainians are Nazis. And it sounded like a crazy thing.
Well, Donald Trump's basically doing the same thing and saying that Canada is killing Americans by intentionally sending fentanyl here. Again, that is false. Donald Trump is then asked, do you have TikTok on your phone? Donald Trump says, no, but I think I might put it there.
To be clear, TikTok is currently not available in the Google Play or App Store, and that's because of the ban that Donald Trump started. And by the way, Donald Trump shortened the deal period from 90 days to 75 days, the extension within which time TikTok will be shut down. And then also Donald Trump talked about
the United States government, like the actual government buying TikTok or owning 50% of TikTok or TikTok turning over 50% to the United States government. And again, for all of the MAGA Republicans out there who talk about socialism or all this needs to be done by private business, I'm What in the world is he even talking about?
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Chapter 4: What were Trump's views on TikTok during the press conference?
But then Donald Trump was also asked, would you want Elon in the same press conference? Do you think it would be great or okay if Elon Musk bought TikTok? And Donald Trump said, I'd be okay if Elon Musk bought TikTok.
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Then Donald Trump is asked about HB1 visas. And so he's asked about these visas, H1B visas rather. And Donald Trump is asked, well, what's your perspective on H1B? Because you previously said you were going to phase H1B out and you said you were going to give all of these STEM related jobs, science, technology, engineering, and And by the way, Vivek's no longer part of Doge.
He overstayed his welcome sources close to Elon Musk and Doge said he lasted negative Scaramucci's. But what Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said was that Americans are just dumber than people from India. And that's why we need H-1B visas because Americans can't handle these jobs. Americans can handle STEM jobs. And by the way, wasn't that Donald Trump's promise?
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