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Trump Abruptly Cancels Bill Signing Ceremony

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump abruptly canceling a press conference in the Capitol Building moments before it was about to start as his tantrums continues to cause massive harm...

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in order to promote an actual bipartisan piece of legislation referred to as the Road to Housing Act. Donald Trump posted the following message moments ago. Today's housing news conference and signing is here by canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, DJT, so Donald Trump refused to do this press conference on a bipartisan basis with Republicans and Democrats inside of the Capitol building where there would be the signing of the 21st century Road to Housing Act, which was actually passed with massive bipartisan support. I'll talk about what's in that.

Even when the political parties come together, Donald Trump wants to make it divisive, make it about himself, make it about voter suppression, because he just wants to take away everybody's joy instead. What he wants to do is post about the reflecting pool. This is the hard rubber surface, no paint before the vandals pulled it apart and then

he posts more photos of what he claims to be the reflecting pool. This bipartisan housing bill was co-sponsored by Elizabeth Warren in the United States Senate on the Democratic side and Tim Scott, Republican Senator from South Carolina. So when you have Scott and Warren coming together and then on the House, you had a Republican Congress member, friend, and Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters coming

together. This bill passed in the Senate 85 to 5. It passed in the House 358 to 32. So it's veto proof. It's got massive support and it's going to help the American people.

And what does Donald Trump do? He makes posts like this, the Elizabeth, Pocohontas, Warren, Centric Housing Bill. No folks, I keep on reading this and it doesn't have to be this way. This isn't me speaking as a Democrat or independent or speaking about Republicans or politics. It doesn't have to be this mean spirited and evil and divisive and hate-filled.

We can actually exist together as a country and do things like housing legislation that benefits the people and do it with grace and do it with dignity and not with the drama.

I'm canceling it.

I'm canceling it.

β€œI'm going to call Elizabeth Warren, Pocohontas, and I'm going to be a racist asshole.”

Come on, man. Come on.

This is what Donald Trump posted.

The Elizabeth, Pocohontas, Warren, Centric Housing Bill, which is a minor importance compared to lower interest rates and even Pfizer, pals and comparison to the passing of the save America. That's his voter suppression act. Which would also make women have to go back, find their birth certificates, present

that when they vote if they have a different last name as their maiden name. That is what Americans both Democrats, Republicans, and everyone else care about. Get the bad Republicans to approve it. Our better yet, terminate the filibuster, everything else Republicans have ever dreamed of. The Democrats will do it in one hour, 100% Republicans will feel very stupid if they don't

do it first. I'll be watching with tears in my eyes, DJT, then he goes, my real poll numbers are the highest they've ever been. Thank you. DJT.

In terms of what the 21st century wrote to Housing Act does and why it was supported on a bipartisan

basis, it merges elements from the Senate's wrote to Housing Act and the House. It increases housing supply, reduced cost regulation, modernizes programs, support affordability, addressing institutional investors. So like let's just talk about some of the things that it does, boosting supply and cutting red tape, grants and incentives for local government tribes to reform Zooming, adopt

pre-approved designs, limits on large institutional investors. And this is a big one, restricting large investors, generally those owning 350 plus single family homes, from buying more single family homes, aiming to prioritize families, over private equity, corporate landlords, buying up the housing supply. I mean, we all want that.

β€œI mean, I think it should be more aggressive, but that's at least a step in the right direction.”

And as other reforms to rural housing manufacturing, modular housing, when it comes to financing and home ownership, it has provisions for small dollar mortgages, community banking support, pathways to home ownership. And so it actually is a bipartisan piece of legislation. And then Donald Trump wanted to, again, turn a day, which could have been about actually

bringing the country together into this. We had Scott McFarlane, the Midas Touchhead of our Washington, DC Bureau. He was there when this all went down.

Here's what he describes just took place.

Welcome to Statuary Hall, where they have removed the presidential seal from the Bill signing desk. They have removed the presidential seal from the podium where Trump was to sign a housing bill. If I've partisan housing bill today, one that members of his party will be one of the

campaign on to say they're doing something about housing. Trump blew up the event. blew up the bill signing has not been clear if and when he's going to sign this bill, arguing that he wants them to pass these saved act firstly, federal elections bill members of Congress have shown up to do their own videos, dunking on this.

Yes, that's Maxwell Frost of Florida, Suha Subramayem of Virginia is here. This is an episode. They're trying to amplify as a sign of this function in the administration, this function at the White House is Trump putting his own personal interests ahead of country's interests. We have a lot of empty seats, there will be no ceremony, but there is the grandeur of

Statuary Hall for you and me to enjoy. You can see some photos of what the press conference looked like, where it was going to take place before Donald Trump canceled it. Elizabeth Warren, one of the co-sponsors of this piece of legislation, along with Magga

β€œRepublican Senator Scott, she was asked on CNBC, why do you think Donald Trump did this?”

And she's like, I'm not going to get into the guy's head, like the guy's a psycho. You're playing this clip. Senator, I'm curious why you think then that the president canceled the signing at the 11th hour. And I asked that because the House voted on Tuesday at 358 to 32, so it was largely bipartisan

here. I'm just curious what you think actually changed. Look, I'm sorry. If you're asking me to get into Donald Trump's head and figure out what's going on there, you need somebody else.

I just don't have any idea, this just doesn't make any sense. Rather than, whatever it is he wants to do, it's a complete indifference to the cost squeeze on American families and to genuine efforts to do something about it. You know, he could be over here trying to claim the victory lamp. And instead, he's saying, no, no, he doesn't want anything to do with it.

It's because he really doesn't care about American families. It doesn't care about the fact that prices are up and the promises he made to lower costs on day one have not only come to nothing, prices are higher on groceries, prices are higher on health care, prices are higher on virtually everything that Americans buy because of Donald Trump's policies.

You know, and while Donald Trump announced that he was canceling this press conference,

You had the House lead co-sponsor, Mag or Republican Congress member, friend,...

saying how much Donald Trump supported it, although Donald Trump refused to be there to sign

it and Trump was attacking it. This is what the Republican was doing at the same time, it was announced that Trump was canceling things. Let's play it. Often New York or somewhere.

It's a legitimate issue. And Tim Scott and I found a way to put that into law that in our view meets the president's test, but absolutely will not reduce capital flowing into housing, which has been my top goal. Lower the cost of housing, make it more affordable, more accessible, encourage the banks to

lend more that have been shut down since the global financial crisis in 2008. And this bill does that. And so I'm proud of the work that both chamber struggle through for those of you who cover this every day you know the back and forth between the House and Senate.

It's a successful today and I'm proud of the work of the House and Senate to get this to get

people to yes. And so I knew that. And then you had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant doing the next hit on CNBC saying,

β€œI think we were a little too successful in Iran.”

Things went way too good. Actually, like we were so good here, play this clip. Okay. Again, you're generous with your time. We appreciate it and making the effort to have like all that.

Can you leave the secret service? You need those guys. I think we've been a little too successful with the Iranians. We're in the middle of the time square. Every time you see training tapes, it's like filmed out here.

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And then you had maga Republican Congress member Mazer. He went on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And he said, I know that everybody's a little bit worried about the economy right now and affordability. He's like, but we'll deal with affordability.

And then after the election, we'll get Iran. Just do wait. That's when we'll do it after the election and the midterms.

β€œThat's what he and Brian Kill needs say.”

Let's play this clip. And yes, with the affordability question is there, but they realize it's over a ran and the President's winding that down. So the terrorist state of Iran is going to be in the history books in a matter of days.

Well, yeah, if not, after the election, I'm sure they're going to get it. It's actually talk about what's happening while Donald Trump is creating this unnecessary and vile drama here in the United States. You have Marco Rubio, as I did a video on this earlier in Abu Dhabi in the United Emirates, as I said, he's doing a meeting with the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

And I believe he's trying to sabotage the MOU. He didn't want to be affiliated with it. He wasn't there in Switzerland during the technical discussions, even though that's quite literally the job description for the Secretary of State. But notice when you have, you have Rubio meeting with the leaders in Abu Dhabi in the

United Emirates.

Who's also there, as well, you have Trump's son-in-law, Michael Bullos, Tiffany Trump's husband there.

So you have Jared Kushner, who is apparently raising $5 billion more dollars, in addition

to the $5 billion, he previously raised in the Middle East. And now you have Michael Bullos sitting next to, in this meeting in UAE with the shake NBC, the country's leader, he's the president, and Bullos is no formal role in our government, but Trump's other son-in-law right there, meanwhile, while you have the nepotism fest of Bullos and Kushner, and whenever the hell Rubio is doing, Iran is making notable gains

and strides. They're meeting it as you're by John, you have M.B. Gallaboff, their parliament leader and lead negotiator, basically going on a victory tour, he announced today during a meeting

the Islamabad memorandum of understanding became a declaration of America's defeat.

β€œFor us, the ceasefire, Gallaboff says in Lebanon, has been as important as a ceasefire”

in Iran, and likewise ending the war in Lebanon has been as important as ending the war in Iran for us, while he was saying that you have Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, that's his name. Israel Katz says, "Even if there is an American demand, we will not withdraw from Lebanon. 200,000 residents will not return to their homes in Lebanon.

That is our territory now, that is our security zone now, is what Israel defense minister Israel Katz says, Netanyahu, held a press conference moments ago where he said, "When I came to Trump, I told him, we're going into Iran, I don't ask for permission, I inform him of our plans, they told us don't enter Syria, they said it wasn't wise, they said it wasn't justified, we went in with full force."

Then he said the same about Lebanon as well and the same about Gaza, a broader narrative unfolding as well that I've been talking about now for months. In those morning videos, I do with world leaders.

β€œRemember where I was talking about a new multi-lateral organization amongst the Arab states forming,”

pushing out the U.S. security umbrella that the U.S. power in the Middle East will fade now, and there will be a broader cooperation with Iran, while we're seeing that happen. So Katz's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Al-Fani, says that Gulf states and Iran, GCC are negotiating a new regional security framework, one that relies less on Washington and one that relies more on regional cooperation.

For decades, as I'm in Jamil explains, Gulf security rested on the U.S. umbrella, but what we saw now with the U.S. failure in the catastrophic war in Iran, the Arab nations are now saying, why would we ever be allied with the -- we can't depend on a U.S. security umbrella. So the Gulf countries are moving toward a multi-polar security order that will include

Iran.

β€œSo whether this becomes a lasting stability or temporary alignment remains to be seen,”

but the entire regional architecture is shifting, U.S. out Iran in -- in terms of the Abraham Accords, which was Israel, UAE, Bahrain, dictating terms in the region, that weakening and now a new arrangement rising with Iran in command in charge. I want to note -- want to note as well while you have those regional developments, you have Pete Heggsiff and Donald Trump continuing to cause irreparable harm to the United States

military. I did a video on it this morning about General Christopher Doniew, a four-star general.

The last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021 was basically forced to resign Heggsiff.

Kicked him out. He was the U.S. Army Commander in Europe and Africa, and, you know, I went through all of his accomplishments, but I mean, here was someone who was, you know, literally one of the most decorated and accomplished generals that we had, lots of people believed he should have been the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and certainly a future Army Chief of Staff.

But the other Army Chief of Staff, Randy George, was fired as well, or forced to resign by the Trump regime. I'll note this at the end as well, just to show you what the magas are now talking about as well. You have maga Republican, Congress member, Berchett talking about turning the reflecting pool into its own ecosystem. Let's play this clip. Anyway, actually, this reflecting pool controversy. Yeah, it's algae in science, and it's just going to happen. I don't, it's a dark, it'll be darker, of course.

You've got to have filteration system, and you're going to have to hit it wit...

It's just not bleach or whatever. I know they did wrong side. There's other methods too, but

β€œI would, you know, honestly, I think it'd be cool if they just just let it go and create an ecosystem, have fish in there and everything, and just let it go.”

I think that would be a really cool way to go, but heightens are around and you can re-plast or you can do a lot of things.

And then you had J.D. Vance being, let's just say he showed a lot more affection to Erica Kirk than his wife.

β€œDid you see when he greeted his wife for some weird podcasts? They were doing he like patented her leg?”

I mean, did you see this here? I'll, I'll, I'll play us out with J.D. Vance right now. One of the strangest individuals around here playing. That's right. Today's special reader is my husband. Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance.

β€œThanks for joining us today, honey. Of course, good to see ya.”

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