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Trump Holds Disaster Presser as Xi Threatens Him

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s first press conference following China’s President Xi launching a nuclear-capable ballistic missile test and other world leaders engaging in mil...

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Oh, yeah. Donald Trump just gave a disastrous press conference at the White House, following China's nuclear threat, Xi Jinping just successfully test fired, nuclear capable ballistic missiles,

carrying a training simulation warhead from a strategic submarine into the Pacific high seas. This triggered a massive condemnation from New Zealand, Japan, Papua New Guinea. They said this was a threat to regional stability.

I'll show you what Donald Trump just said at the White House. This also follows North Korea, test firing, 12 long range, nuclear capable cruise missiles in rapid succession from one of its destroyers.

You can see right there. This also follows Russia, escalating its attack on Kiev. You also had Ukraine launching drone strikes, 2500 kilometers or 3,000 kilometers into Russia, on one of its biggest oil facilities over there.

Donald Trump's speech also follows tens of millions of mourners at Ayatola, Komenaze, funeral. You see right here in Tehran as Professor Morandi, who's on the negotiating team with M.B. Gallaboff and Iraq, she says, "Don't worry, Peers Morgan.

We're all AI, and this is an actual image of the size and scope of the mourners who are out there showing really a show of force there in Iran. So with all of these developments happening

in the past 24 hours or so, what's Donald Trump doing?

This is a time where we want our leaders to deliver a speech that can speak to the moment, can speak to the American people, something that's nonpartisan, something that is assuring us that everything's going to be OK and that it's all under control. Donald Trump just walked out.

He said that we're doing a speech right here for like our luncheon with all of his rich friends at the White House. The bankers are all there. The hedge funds, the private equity, everybody is there. As he's refusing to sign, the housing affordability bill.

And he says, Nicki Minaj is here. She's the administrator of the small business association. We gave Nicki a job. She's the head of small business. What?

Here play this clip. First of just doing a phenomenal job at the SBA small business.

Nicki Minaj is so incredible.

They call it small business, Nicki, but when you add it up, it's bigger than any bank probably in the world, right? And then Donald Trump says, the only issue we have trouble fighting here in DC are crimes of passion.

Do you know what that is? This group referring to all of his rich oligarchs who are at this lunch. He says, you probably know about crimes of passion. Kind of disgusting thing is the sexual predator saying right now. Here play this clip.

The only thing we have a hard time stopping is a crime of passion.

Do you know what that is? Anybody was anybody? This is a group that probably knows something about crimes of passion. But these crimes of passion we can't do much about. And then Donald Trump talks about ringing the Nasdech and the New York Stock Exchange

Bell at the same time. He says it was so beautiful to do. He had Michael Dell from the company Dell behind him. The Dell Stock Sword after Donald Trump said all of these things about Dell today. And then Donald Trump said, I'm keeping the bell that Nasdech and New York Stock Exchange

gave him. I'm not returning the bell. Play this clip. Good morning. Many of you join me in the Oval Office for the ringing of the opening bell and something happened

that was incredible. Never happened before. We had the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdech that top of both these are great people.

But they never did a bell and opening together.

This is the first time. There's the bell right there and I said it's so beautiful. I'm not giving you back. I don't know if it's supposed to go back. But they're going to have to fight like hell to get it back.

We're not giving it back. You understand? That's got. Don't let it leave. It's so beautiful.

But that's the bell we rang. And then Donald Trump gives a shout out to everybody who's attending this lunch.

He says, I got the biggest guys in Wall Street here today.

Goldman Sachs. Blackstone. Blackrock. They're all here. There.

That's great Donald that they're all here while the American people are suffering.

And I'm highlighting what's going on right now internationally.

And this is what you're doing. I just want everybody to be aware that this is what's going on right now. See for yourself. Play this clip. A lot of you Wall Street guys.

I see Larry and I see some of the the biggest guys in Wall Street David, Goldman Sachs. Blackstone. Blackrock. They're all here and think of it. I'm making them all geniuses.

Everyone of us at geniuses. Anybody doing poorly of you. Then Donald Trump says, OK, when it comes to all of these threats that are taking place,

he goes, I'm going to be OK, though.

I'll be fine because we're building a ballroom in a tremendous military center in the White House that was supposed to be top secret. But then I got sued and all of these lawsuits revealed my plans of turning the White House into a military bunker, by the way, before the lawsuit was filed against Trump, when they were talking about demolishing the East Wing, before the East Wing was even demolished.

Do you remember on the mightest touch the video that we did when we said they're going to turn it into a military installation and they're going to spend billions of dollars to create this bunker and to update the bunker that was they remember. And there were lots of people who were attacking mightest touch, oh you guys, there's no evidence of it.

Remember when we reported on that? Here's what he says. Play this clip.

The building has been redone and has been done beautifully and the best thing and the

biggest thing that we're doing is we're building a ballroom and a tremendous military center. That was supposed to be top secret, but it's no longer top secret because no matter what you do, you get to, they should because they think the ballrooms too big, the ballrooms too small, I don't like the color of the ceiling, we don't like, you know, you just get

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$40 bonus gift. And then he says how the girls in Washington, DC, now for the first time feel that they can walk the streets of DC and the rich guys over here who are old and rich as hell, they can't walk because they're rich as hell. Play this clip.

They say you've made it a safe city.

I've never said people have never seen anything like it.

Washington, DC, every day somebody says thank you. I know immediately what they're saying, young women that walk to work and white house. They used to take Uber and they felt unsafe because the Uber car was robbed and dangerous. They shoot people. That doesn't happen anymore.

The girls are working to work and the young guys are walking to work and the older guys if they can walk. They walk. Half of them can't walk because they made too much money or rather these guys here. They can't walk with their riches out.

And then he says we're protected though because our soldiers, they're so strong physically, they're so handsome, they're so good-looking.

Have you seen how strong and good-looking our soldiers look in Washington, DC?

Play this clip. Like, we'd like to have strong soldiers. I want my soldiers to be strong physically and we have strong soldiers. And when the bad guys see our soldiers out on the streets of Washington and you saw

That Jeff, you were saying you said I never saw so many big, strong, good-loo...

And it's all based on merit. So our military has got merit-based, everything we do is merit-based. And then he talks about how when he went to England, he spoke with King Charles about William the Conqueror and he said I wanted to call you Charles the Conqueror. Here, play this clip.

I said to Charles, who built this?

This place is incredible.

William the Conqueror, I said, oh William the Conqueror, was he a nice man?

Charles said, don't know who was extremely strong and very tough. He said, I figured, with the name William the Conqueror, I would think, when do you think? I think it would be tough, Michael. What do you think? I said, we have to come up with a good name for you, Charles, maybe Charles the Conqueror.

No, no, no, please. But William the Conqueror, I've built that great building. But we are building one that's going to top them all. He goes back and he talks more about drones, play this clip. But we were able to get 921 people in and this will hold many times that numbers of people

without the tables, as seats, and bulletproof drone proof, missile proof in many cases,

and beautiful at the same time, and a big military component, including on the roof, a

drone port. Can you believe we have a drone port, and it's like no other. So we're doing a great service, it's great national security, we also take care of a need. Every president said this is crazy. By the way, here's the opening, this is what he did when he rang the opening bell.

You can see the kids there who are just incredibly bored. Take a look right here, another picture from Reuters, Evan Vucci, of children sitting through Trump's remarks in the Oval Office. This is what went down earlier, you can see for yourself here, let's play this clip. A few minutes, oh, Trump accounts will benefit, so ring the bell, Mr. President.

And then you'll recall that earlier, Donald Trump threatened to attack and invade Iran again. Remember he said that, let's play it. A, B, make it a deal. I don't know, we'll make either, look, we're going to win one way or the other. We're either going to make a deal, oh, we're going to finish the job.

Okay, and it won't be tough to finish the job.

I'd rather make a deal, because I don't want to affect 91 million people.

We can knock down their bridges in one hour, we can knock out their energy supply, all of those big plants that they built, big beautiful modern plants add a lot of money. They don't have any money now. We haven't given them any money, but we can knock out their electricity and power generating plants, and I would say a small part of an afternoon, every plant will be gone, and they

know that. And then he said, nobody ever heard of the straight of Hormuz. Let's play it. The straight and the famous straight of Hormuz, nobody ever heard of, but it's some, it is a, that is some big money machine, I'll tell you what, when you look at the numbers

Michael. And then he said that, he'll be making a deal very soon with Ukraine and Russia. And though he promised he would do it right after the election day one after the election, it's about to happen. Don't worry, everything looks good here, played.

I think we're getting much closer than people realize, and President Putin wants it to

end. I will tell you that very strongly, good call, and President Zelensky actually wants it to end now, and we're going to be going to NATO and we're going to be talking about it. And I think we're going to get it, I think we're going to get it ended. It's been terrible.

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