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Chapter 1: What was the outcome of Trump's press conference?
Donald Trump just held a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office where he attacked members of the press for bringing up the fact that Qatar is giving Trump a $400 million private 747 jet. Also, Donald Trump announced his latest price controls that he wants to unilaterally impose via executive order instead of actually systemically addressing our broken healthcare system.
And of course, Donald Trump needed a new distraction after completely caving and capitulating to China and the negotiations that took place over this weekend, removing his tariffs on China from 145% to 30%.
and essentially getting nothing in return from China, just unleashing a trade war against the world that has shattered consumer confidence and has harmed businesses across this country, essentially all for nothing. Let me show you what went down. Donald Trump here talks about how the European Union is now his big target. They are in many ways, he says, nastier than China.
Let's play this clip right here. The European Union
is in many ways nastier than China, okay? And we've just started with them. Oh, they'll come down a lot. You watch. We have all the cards. They treated us very unfairly. They sell us 13 million cars. We sell them none. They sell us their agricultural products. We sell them virtually none.
They don't take our products. Next up, Donald Trump attacks members of the press and specifically an ABC reporter for bringing up anything having to do with Trump getting a $400 million 747 jet from Qatar. Let's play this clip.
As a businessman, some people may look at this and say, have you ever been given a gift worth millions of dollars and then not received anything?
It's not a gift to me. It's a gift to the Department of Defense. because you've been embarrassed enough, and so has your network. Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster. Here is the bill. Bobby, come on out here.
Donald Trump then claims that he does not intend to use the plane, but that he will just simply put it in his library, he says. He goes, it will go directly to the library. I never intend to actually use the jet that you're getting as a gift. I don't think I believe that. Let's play that clip right here.
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Chapter 2: How did Trump change his stance towards China?
It's going to be very interesting.
Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you? Why not leave it behind? You're ABC fake news, right? Why not?
It's only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you. You should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us. I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much. You know, there was an old golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever hear? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer.
And he had a motto. When they give you a putt, You say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. Then they put it, they miss it. And their partner gets angry at him. You know what?
Remember that Sam Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much.
More distractions from Donald Trump here as he claims that there is a, he goes, reporters are not covering the genocide against white people in South Africa. And he accuses the South African government of doing a genocide to white people, play this clip.
I don't know how we can go unless that situation's taken care of. But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about. But it's a terrible thing that's taking place. And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white. But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me.
But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa. And the newspapers and the media and television media doesn't even talk about it.
Then Donald Trump claims that his executive order, which does not have the force of a law and is not a law, is going to allow the Republicans to do health care better than
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Chapter 3: Why did Trump target the European Union?
Never had a president that had the courage to do this. And nobody knew the system like I do. I mean, I've gotten to know this system so well. And I don't think it's fair that it benefits Obamacare. Obamacare is a failure. It's not a good it's not a good health care. It works. I made it work. I had an obligation to make it work or an obligation to let it die. I chose that we had to make it work.
I had to make it as good as possible. And I had a choice. I could have let it fail. or make it as good as possible. As good as possible means it was still not very good, but it survived.
Then Donald Trump says that he's going to, he just starts making up numbers. We'll lower prescription drugs 60, 70, 80, 90%. We'll just lower it all. Here, play this clip.
They'll have to do that. So for the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness to America. Drug prices will come down. by much more, really, if you think, 59. If you think of a drug that is sometimes 10 times more expensive, it's much more than the 59%. It depends on the way you want to analyze it, but in one way you could analyze it that way.
But between 59 and 80, and I guess even 90%, So when I worked so hard in the first term and if I got prices down, I remember I was the only one to ever get prices down for a full year, but I'd get them down like 2% and I thought it was like a big deal. Well, we're getting them down 60, 70, 80, 90%.
But actually more than that, if you think about it in the way, mathematically, and Farmer has- Then he just goes on this word salad about somehow, if you add up all of the money that's coming in from tariffs, which by the way, you just remove the tariffs that you say are so great. If they're so great, why are you removing it? It makes no sense. That's going to pay for golden domes, he says.
Then he just randomly starts talking about Medicare and Medicaid. You know he doesn't know the difference between either. Play this clip.
I just called the leader, our leader in the Senate, John Thune, Mike Johnson, spoke to both of them. I said, when you score, you're going to have to score two things. You're going to have to number one score that hundreds of billions of dollars of tariff money is coming in.
But even bigger than that, you're going to have to score that your your costs for Medicaid and Medicare and just basically pharmaceuticals and drugs is going down at a level that nobody has ever seen before. It'll pay for the Golden Dome. I see the Golden Dome is there. See, that'll easily pay for the Golden Dome. And we'll have a lot of money left over.
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