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Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's disaster press conference in UAE?
Let me set the stage of this disastrous press conference that Donald Trump had in the United Arab Emirates. He's sitting there in a royal palace with an authoritarian regime. And he's attacking the United States court system and talking about how he wants to get rid of migrants in the United States. And he's using the United Arab Emirates royal palace as the backdrop for it in Abu Dhabi.
Here, play this clip.
Chapter 2: What were Trump's controversial statements about migrants?
Because I built hundreds of miles of wall, which we didn't have in the first election, because I hadn't started that yet. But we will soon have a very safe country. We're getting people out. We need help from the courts. The courts are trying to think that they're taking privilege that they shouldn't have. That was not what the election was all about.
The election was they want people that shouldn't be there. People that are criminals in many cases, they want them out. They want them out. We're going to get them out fast.
That's what you are talking about there, attacking our court system. And then while Donald Trump was with the royal family in the United Arab Emirates, he was saying the word groceries is such an interesting word. You know, it's an old fashioned word, groceries, groceries.
While Americans are suffering, you are in a palace with a royal family begging for personal gifts for you, acting like you don't know the word groceries. Here, play this clip. Das heißt Jobs, weil für mich die wichtigsten Jobs sind.
Ich will Jobs. Und wir haben... Die Kosten sind runter. Groceries, sie haben den Term Grocery. Es ist ein altes Term, aber es bedeutet im Grunde, was du kaufst. Essen. Es ist ein ziemlich akkurater Term, aber es ist ein altartiger Sound. Aber die Groceries sind runter, die Kosten sind runter, die Eier sind runter. Die erste Woche, in der sie mich mit Eiern befinden, waren sie hoch. 200 Prozent.
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Chapter 3: How did Trump address the economy and groceries?
Und jetzt sind sie in einem Niveau, das unglaublich ist, 97, 98 Prozent von dort, wo sie waren. Und alle sagten, du wirst keine Eier für Weihnachten haben. Na ja, wir hatten Eier. Alle hatten Eier für Weihnachten. Und wir hatten einen sehr günstigen Preis. In der White House hatten wir einen kleinen Easter Egg Roll. Und wir hatten Hunderten von Tausenden von Eiern gekauft.
Sie sagten, du musst rausgehen und plastische Eier kaufen.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's statements on US court systems?
Das hat nicht funktioniert. So it is not a surprise when we saw the results today that the University of Michigan consumer expectations are showing that right now consumers have the lowest expectations, are more miserable essentially than ever in the United States history. and believe that inflation is going to be the highest essentially ever.
Because of crap like this and because of his reckless behavior. I mean, here Donald Trump then says, well, we're still working on deals with 150 countries and my tariffs against the world. But if they don't agree to deals... then I'm just going to impose the deals myself. That's not a deal, Donald.
If you're just imposing it, because you're unable to negotiate things with anybody, because no one wants to do business with you. And what you did with China is not a deal. You just capitulated. Here, play this clip.
We just reached a fantastic trade deal, as you know, with the United Kingdom, which was wonderful. And we have another big one that we just reached with China. China deals a very big deal. It's in the process of... continuing to be formed. But they wanted to make that deal very badly.
And we have at the same time 150 countries that want to make a deal, but you're not able to see that many countries. So at a certain point over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out, essentially telling people, it would be very fair, but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business in the United States. So essentially be paying
Das ist nicht möglich, um die Zahl der Menschen zu treffen, die uns sehen wollen. Aber das war sehr wichtig, dass ich nach den USA gekommen bin. Saudi-Arabien und Katar waren sehr wichtig für mich, weil ich vielleicht mehr persönliche Beziehungen hatte als alles andere.
Ja, und andere Länder wollen nicht aussehen, wie es in den Vereinigten Königsländern passiert ist, wo es überhaupt keinen Deal gab, sondern nur einen Vorteil für Jaguar und Land Rover und Rolls Royce. I was like, what was this? What is this? What is this thing right here?
And then here Donald Trump says, you know, just in his own kind of just like cognitive declining stewing in whatever the hell he's wearing. He's just like, there's never been anything like what's happening in the US. Never in the history. There's never been anything like, like actually never been anything like this. Here, play this clip.
Und ich sagte, bilde deine Pflanze in den Vereinigten Staaten und du hast keine Tarife. Und das ist genau das, was sie tun. Und das ist das, was viele, viele Firmen tun. Die Euro-Firmen, alle von ihnen. Es ist nie etwas wie das, was gerade in den Vereinigten Staaten passiert ist. Ich kann dir nichts sagen. Es ist nie etwas wie das. Wir sind auf einem Niveau, den kein Land gesehen hat.
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Chapter 5: What critiques were made regarding Trump's foreign relations?
Ich glaube nicht. Wir haben, ich meine, jedes Mal, wenn ich mich treffe, erhöhe ich es meistens um einen Trillionen Dollar, weil wir News von einem anderen Investment bekommen. Aber wir sind wahrscheinlich in der 12-13 Trillionen Dollar-Range von Investitionen.
There's never been anything like this. You mean like the biggest disaster ever? The biggest manufactured economic crisis? Sure. Sure, Donald. By the way, that follows Donald Trump leaving Qatar. And when Donald Trump was in Qatar, he was saying to the troops in Qatar, in Doha, Lying about the 2020 election, saying that he won the 2020 election, which he didn't.
And then talking about how he wants to potentially run again in 2028 and be a dictator. And he's doing it in front of our freaking troops. Here, play this clip right here.
Chapter 6: How did Ground News report on Trump's Mideast trip?
Because as you know, we won three elections, okay? And some people want us to do a fourth. I don't know. We'll have to think about that. You saw the new hat. The hottest hat is, it says, Trump 2028. We're driving the left crazy when you see that. We didn't need that hat, but...
It's been an amazing period of time. Now, I just wanted to see, by the way, how this trip was being covered by sources on the, quote, left, right and center. And so the research tool I use for this is something called Ground News. Let me just show you how it's being reported generally out there. Trump's Mideast trip splashes out on deals and diplomacy, but is quiet on human rights.
Now, this is why I love Ground News, because I can actually get Okay, wie ist es mit dem linken, zentralen und rechts? Und sie besprechen es alle falsch. Das ist das, was mein Forschungsgerät mir sagt. Er fließt nicht auf Verhandlungen. Er verliert auf Verhandlungen. Das sind falsche Verhandlungen.
Du machst keine 1,2-Trillionen-Dollar-Vergabe mit Cutter, wenn die GDP jährlich 200 Millionen Dollar ist. Okay? And yes, he is quiet on human rights. If by quiet you mean he's complicit with the regime that's funding Hamas and complicit with another regime that was funding Al-Qaeda in terms of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, you are complicit in terrorism, is what we're trying to say here.
So let's use the language accurately. By the way, it's why I use the research tool, because I'm like, okay, I know, here's what I'm reporting on Midas Touch. What the heck are they reporting there? I use their feature called Blindspot, by the way, which tells me, am I missing anything? Oh, just a quick shout out to Ground News, who's a sponsor of ours.
And if you want to use the research tools that I use, go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code right here. We're giving our viewers 40% off Ground News' top tier vantage plan. which will get you unlimited access to everything I've shown you and more. One more time, ground.news.mtn. Ground News is subscriber-funded, so they don't rely on ads. That could also introduce bias.
Subscribing supports our channel and their independent team working to keep the media transparent. I just wanted to show you the research tools that I'm using here. Also, let's talk about what Donald Trump was doing in Qatar as well. Here, Donald Trump, again, just like... Ranting and raving and he looks like literally an orange-green color.
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Chapter 7: What were the reactions to Trump's claims about election victories?
Here, play this clip. ...time, a third time. And that was 968 rallies ago. Can you believe that? We did 968 rallies. Another hat says 968. I said, what the hell does that mean? That's the number of rallies. I said, you have to be kidding. But from the very beginning, we played Lee's song and it was the walk-on.
And then for the last inauguration, I had every, all the big singers, they wanted to do a song for me and they wanted to have me walk on to their song. And my people, oh, that would be nice, that would be nice. And when I heard about it, we were all set. We had a lot of them. And I heard about it, I said, I'm not switching. Are you kidding me? I'm not switching.
So we stick with Lee, but nobody could have done better than Lee. And he's been so loyal and so great. And it's been really about nine years of that stuff. And, you know, we had really, honestly, we had three unbelievable campaigns. And it's been an honor.
And here Donald Trump kind of like mocks France in this speech. Let's play it.
...for World War I, because we won that war too. But think of it, I'm calling... Now, we love France, right? But I think we did a little more to win the war than France did. Do we agree? You know, I don't want to be a wise guy. But when Hitler made his speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn't exactly ideal. And I called up the president, Macron, good guy, by the way.
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Chapter 8: How is Ground News helping to navigate misinformation?
Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans. Oh, that's wonderful. Donald Trump in Qatar, talking about Pete Buttigieg.
riding a bike that was occupying Donald Trump's attention apparently. Let's play it.
Duffy, do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now in the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work. He takes a bicycle to work. Can you believe he's 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. Wer weiß, richtig? Aber ich sehe es nicht. Aber wenn ich mich ansehe, was sie getan haben, ist es so schrecklich, was sie getan haben und das Werk, das sie getan haben. Sie haben Billionen von Dollar verpasst. Sie haben versucht, die Luftschutzsysteme mit Koffer zu verbinden. Und sie haben versucht, Koffer mit Glas zu verbinden.
Und das Glas funktioniert nicht mit dem Koffer. Und sie hatten 30.000 verschiedene Vertreter, die 30.000 Arbeiten gemacht haben. Und wenn sie alles zusammenfassen, haben sie Billionen von Dollar verpasst.
Donald Trump lies and says that, speaking in Qatar, and he claims that 100% of ISIS is gone now, which again is just simply, just like a simply false statement, play this clip.
You can finish it off right now, sir. I said, well, I don't know. That's a lot. It's, you know, it's a lot of people. Well, these people are not good people, sir. These are not good people. You'll feel better about it. Well, they're not good people, but they're people, aren't they? And he goes, I said, you know what? Why don't you buzz them for a little while?
And maybe after a day or two of buzzing them, they'll surrender. They don't know about surrendering, sir. Well, maybe they'll raise the white flag. They don't have a white flag, sir. I said, well, give it a shot anyway. He said, all we're going to do is take a couple of bullet holes in our wings. You guys know about that, right? And I said, well, let's give it a shot.
And he calls up and says, let me do the job, sir. I said, all right, do the job. And we defeated 100% of the ISIS-Caliphate in just a very short little period of time. Totally different from what I was told in Washington, D.C. by a bunch of frickin' losers, okay?
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