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Trump Has Disaster Presser as Trip Ends Terribly

Thu, 15 May 2025

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous press conference in Qatar as his finishes up what was possibly the worst foreign trip in American history. Reverse hair loss with @iRestorelaser Get $625 OFF with the code: MEIDAS at https://iRestoreLaser.com/MEIDAS #irestorepod Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chapter 1: What happened during Donald Trump's press conference in Qatar?

0.069 - 18.816 Ben Meiselas

Donald Trump just gave a disastrous press conference in Qatar. He began by talking about Pete Buttigieg riding bicycles and Pete Buttigieg riding bicycles really makes Donald Trump upset. And that was something that Donald Trump wanted to share with the Qataris. Here, play this clip.

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18.976 - 42.91 Donald Trump

Tree comes down also, by the way. It's so intense. I mean, you see these trees being knocked down like they're being sawed down by a top-of-the-line timberman like, you know, who? Sean Duffy. Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg...

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43.57 - 67.78 Donald Trump

was the head. And he goes bicycling to work. He takes a bicycle to work. Can you believe he's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work? And they say he's going to run for president. I don't see it. Who knows, right? But I don't see it. But when I look at what they've done, it's so horrible what they have done. And the work they did do.

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67.82 - 89.497 Donald Trump

They wasted billions of dollars in trying to hook up air systems to copper, and they tried to hook up copper to glass, and the glass doesn't work with the copper, and they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs, and when they put it all together, they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working, and we're going to be giving out a brand new system.

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89.537 - 94.882 Donald Trump

It's very important that we'll have the best system, and we think we know who that system is, but we have a lot of

95.302 - 122.139 Ben Meiselas

really donald that's what you're thinking about while you're at lusail palace in cutter begging them for 400 million dollar gold-plated jets you've got pete budaj on your mind you know what he else what else he has on his mind so he's talking about uh how drones are being used in the war when russia unlawfully invaded ukraine And how it shoots down trees.

122.92 - 130.104 Ben Meiselas

And then he says, Sean Duffy climbs trees. His transportation secretary loves climbing trees. Here, play this clip.

130.404 - 144.793 Donald Trump

When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine, the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people. You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with trees. With fire, you don't have a chance. The tree comes down also, by the way. It's so intense.

144.893 - 164.753 Donald Trump

I mean, you see these trees being knocked down like they're being sawed down by a top-of-the-line timberman like, you know, who? Sean Duffy. Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years?

Chapter 2: Why did Donald Trump focus on Pete Buttigieg and Sean Duffy during the press conference?

333.34 - 357.207 Donald Trump

And I met the new leader of the country, and he's got a, you know, strong past. I'd be very nice. He's got a strong past, but I liked him a lot. I think you'll be a great representative and we'll see. You're going to have to have a strong past to put that one around. You cannot be a weak person. If you're a weak person, we would just be wasting time.

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357.287 - 364.293 Donald Trump

So he's a strong guy and I thought he was good and let's see what happens. But we're going to give him a fighting chance by taking off the sanctions.

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365.674 - 367.775 Ben Meiselas

More of Trump talking about Syria.

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367.795 - 388.202 Donald Trump

Let's play it in a big fight. And the other, of course, is Syria. We took out the sanctions and that's been I didn't even realize it's been many, many years that they've had sanctions. And as you know, there was a very big change at the top. And I thought that we have to give them a chance. They really have no chance with the sanctions. They were very biting. They were top of the line.

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389.187 - 394.189 Donald Trump

Nobody could even deal with him. You couldn't even, you couldn't make a phone call to Syria.

394.229 - 415.04 Ben Meiselas

So we did that and- You know, and one of the things that makes Trump such a vile piece of trash and just an overall horrible, like just person and leader, but just a horrible person, you know, he's there in the Middle East. And he spends all of his time not setting forth a vision of what to do, right? That's what leaders do. Here's the plan. Here's what's going to happen.

415.48 - 437.905 Ben Meiselas

Here's how I want to strengthen our relationship. He just goes there and whines about Biden. Oh, Biden was bad. Biden was bad. Oh, I'm sorry he was so bad. First off, he wasn't. He didn't need to beg Qatar for $400 million jets. He didn't have to go around to the Middle East and beg. He understood who America's true allies were in NATO.

438.845 - 445.547 Ben Meiselas

Unlike you, who's now trying to cancel the United States from going to the G20. But here he is right here. Just listen to what Trump says. Let's play it.

445.747 - 470.626 Donald Trump

Say and then we're doing something very special. But It's a special country. You know, we were losing the Middle East because the past administration didn't handle the relationship properly, didn't show the kind of respect that they deserve. And me, I have a lot of respect and I have a lot of liking. I like the crown prince a lot. I've known him a long time in Saudi Arabia.

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