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Trump Wrecked It…

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on world leaders increasingly forming new alliances and partnerships without Donald Trump as the United States finds itself increasingly isolated on the world sta...

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My 10 is not on. This is too much.

I'm still waiting for this. I'm not sure if I can get it. No, you're just a bit late. You're just a bit late. All right.

All right. They're just like a fish with a fish.

A lot of animals. They're just like a lion. Okay. That's great. More comfort. Craft and dynamic. All right. The passport.

All right. The passport is just a bit late. I'll try. Stay out there. Donald Trump continues to destroy himself. His regime and everything around him. He is a walking wrecking ball right now.

Last night when he was a board. Cotaurier forced one heading back to Washington, D.C. From North Carolina where he gave an utterly deranged speech where he was dancing in front of the crowd as our economy is an absolute shambles.

As he told people, you know what? Gas prices are very inexpensive. It actually be much more. And he said he doesn't care about it because he says the war

is just going so well that it's all worth it.

But when Donald Trump left North Carolina headed back to D.C. You could see him through the windows of Cotaurier. Force one. Take a look right here. He was holding a gigantic placard that said Kennedy Center demolition.

Zoom in right there. Kennedy Center demolition. Earlier in the day, you could actually see according to a legal observer who was monitoring the Kennedy Center for the lawsuit to try to block Donald Trump from destroying the Kennedy Center

or engraving his name into Kennedy Center. You could see four collapse carrying what appear to be more permanent forms of fencing. But the four collapse were then ramming into the pillars of the Kennedy Center several times

as if trying to destroy the Kennedy Center via the fork lift, ramming into it because a federal judge told Donald Trump, you can't engrave your name into the Kennedy Center that violates my previous order that you can't rename the Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center.

You can't get around it by engraving your name into it.

If you want to do it, just get Congress to pass a law.

Donald Trump has been so vivid he wants to destroy the entire Kennedy Center and so he sent a fork lift apparently. I say to start causing damage to it so he can say you see it's damaged, I guess it has to all be torn down and while our economy is suffering while we're in this

never-ending war in the Middle East that no American wants to be in,

while Donald Trump continues to cover up child sex trafficking rings in the Epstein files. There he is, a board, the quid pro quo jet, the Katari jet looking at a placard saying Kennedy Center demolition. This is how much of a lunatic he is, the official White House

accounts as the Kennedy Center board voted nearly unanimously to close the building immediately for safety reasons and prepare for reconstruction. Renovation cannot begin until the DC Circuit Court rules on the board's approved name to name it the Trump building.

It's ridiculous. In the meantime, 17 million raised. 17 million dollars raised by Donald Trump has been placed in the Kennedy Center account to keep it afloat. There's a community note that says Congress recently

allocated $257 million for Kennedy Center renovations. What the hell are you talking about, a federal judge has issued an injunction preventing you from doing this. This is how psychotic he needs his name engraved or else he's sending four clips to demolish it.

This has the American people are dealing with grievous harms inflicted upon them by the Trump regime. It's absolutely outrageous. It is conscious shocking. Meanwhile, the defense department,

which unlawfully calls itself the Department of War and then proceeds to lose the catastrophic wars.

It engages and that it should never have been involved

and post-image like this. The United States will never be an effective, altruist country. The hell are you talking about? What a weird expression to even put in a sentence. We will never be an effective, altruist.

The hell is that? You would be talking about. And this is the whole meme of Donald Trump doing a weird fist thing and then I just looked up effective altruism as a philosophy and social movement

that uses evidence and reason to identify the most effective ways to help others. It comprises many members and associated organizations finding cost-effective ways to improve the world sounds pretty good to me.

But the State Department and the Defense Department and the Trump regime's White House account says

We will never do effective altruism.

Can we have now become a nation of lunatics

because of the Trump regime?

That's how the world perceives who we are.

Because that's how the Trump regime behaves. It's ridiculous. I mean, but just look at the data. Look how Trump broke what he inherited. Gas prices, when Trump took office,

$3.12, they're now on average $4.32, but that's deceiving by you. It's probably way higher. And very soon, we're going to be seeing likely gas prices in national average over $5.

I think diesel will quickly go to $7 or $8. In California, it's $9.99. In North Texas, they're out of diesel. Certain areas in California were running out of diesel as well. We're going to have massive oil shortages very soon.

This is, in high probably, it's the reality

of the supply chain shock. We will soon be seeing oil shortages across the country right now of diesel. And then we will be seeing gas shortages to follow as well. Our salt caverns in Texas that contain our strategic petroleum reserves

are so depleted right now. They may implode within itself. And then you have Iran's Parliament leader, Bobby Gallaboff, he's just posting away saying, "Talja, he's posting the Taylor rule, a central bank formula

for how to deal with interest rates." That's a fairly complex formula. But what Bobby Gallaboff pointed out before the federal reserve raised the interest rates, which we all expected it was going to be due, what they were going to do is the factor that can't be controlled

by the straits, Taylor formula, is the risk premium that is Iran controlling the strait of our moves, the hoothies controlling the red sea,

the east west pipeline by Saudi Arabia,

significantly destroyed and shut down. I mean, Saudi Arabia can do all the propaganda at once and says,

"I think it's going to be up in the next few days.

We're going to connect other pipelines that ain't happening and we're going to see that be another major factor. Every day, the price of diesel, the price of gas is going to surge." I mean, look at the price of crude. There is no end in sight as Donald Trump is out there on this rampage

against the world right now, while he destroys the global world order and stability and he's holding in his hand destroy the Kennedy Center. And then he post things like this, only Trump. I mean, this is the meme of his helipad.

Only Trump. What does that mean? Only Trump. How about we the people? How about America was not founded on only Trump?

We the people. You're supposed to be a public servant, you asshole. And you're supposed to take care of the people and take care that laws are faithfully executed. He then goes, "The hoax buster."

And he's been saying lately that the war is a hoax. He says, "Climate change is a hoax." He says anything that has to do with Trump and Russia is a hoax. He says that AI is a hoax. He says that data centers are a hoax.

He says that the women who accused him of sexual assault is a hoax. He says the Epstein files are a hoax. He says, "It's all one big hoax. Only he has the answers.

The guy whose entire life has been bankrupting. Thing after before he was in politics." bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt. Only that guy, he's the hoax buster. Everything else, hoax, the guy who's bankrupted everything

and has demonstrated his whole life that he's an effing loser. He's the only person who has all of the answers according to him right here. And then it's just the Trump effect.

What's the Trump effect? More US manufacturing means stronger supply chains and more American jobs. Stronger supply chains. Well, I change your bragging about strengthening supply chain

resilience. Are you just the dumbest stupidest people in the world while you destroy global supply chains? And then he does this post right over here. It's like him looking like this.

Americans incomes are up. Poverty is down. Thank you, President Trump. No, thank you for what? For putting more Americans in poverty.

For causing mass economic devastation in our country. Well, feel it. As I said before, I often get asked, hey, Ben, what would your advice be on political messaging heading into the midterms?

What's your political messaging? What the hell are you talking about? What's your lived experience right now? If you've lived these past 20 months or so

with the Trump regime and you think things are great?

If you like him dancing like a freaking clown while the world looks at us with horror.

That crap.

It's nothing I can do.

I mean, go to the airport bunker.

We're Donald Trump gave that speech in North Carolina and said we need to cut off trade with the world if you want to get rich. Right? We're Donald Trump said, you know,

oh, everything's a hoax against him. A eyes a hoax, data base, data centers are,

you know, if you want to be a part of that good luck.

If you want to, while he says, gas is inexpensive. If you want to sit there while he says that stuff to your face, I ain't getting, there's nothing I'm going to do to persuade you. You just, you live a different life.

And you have a different set of values. Good, good luck with that. I mean, here he was at the event. He goes, you have higher gas. It's very inexpensive.

And for the price to pay for all the greatness, I actually think gas should be more expensive.

He says this is what he said at that deranged speech in North Carolina

before flying back on Air Force One and then having a placker that says demolish the Kennedy Center to your play, this clip. They can't go on. The nation's destroyed.

But I have to say, you have a little higher. You have a higher gas. It's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that it's a little more? It's even if it was, frankly,

even if it was a lot more. But that's going to come tumbling down. Okay. Meanwhile, just so you saw for yourself, his chairman of the Federal Reserve, who he appointed,

Kevin Worsh, who Trump appointed, because Trump said this guy, he's going to lower interest rates. Well, they rose it. Now I did they raise the interest rates. And I was there a hike.

It was unanimous. It was a 12 to nothing vote. All of the board members of the Federal Reserve said hike, why? Because inflation is surging.

Here's what Kevin Worsh said when he was asked,

"What's your message to Trump?" And then he goes, "I don't really have the message to Trump." That's just not what I do. Watch for yourself. Here at play this clip.

I have to ask, what is your message here to President Trump, who has repeatedly called to cut interest rates, not raise them? I've got nothing for you on a discussion with the president. But I won't make that count as your question.

More from Donald Trump at that North Carolina speech, where Donald Trump said, "You know what? I think we should just stop doing trade with all countries." If we stop doing trade with all countries that we have a deficit

with, that's how we're going to get rich.

We'll get so rich by doing no trade. We'll get so rich by doing no trade. I mean, this is really a lunatic. What do you mean we're going to get rich by world? Shut down all trade here, play this clip.

And if we stop trading with every country that we have, a deficit with, which is most of them, which would be very easy to do, would make at least $1.5 trillion a year. We do that because it's almost like a reflex.

Meanwhile, Congress now in recess. So because we have officially shut down the house, we can say this definitively, and Jamie Dupree has chronicled this quite well. Lawmakers have only worked 15 days of legislative business

in the past five months, four and a half months or so. They've worked 15 days. And you want to know one of the reasons that they jet out of there so quickly. They're covering up child sex trafficking.

Okay, they're covering up for rapists. They're covering up for sexual assaultors. They're covering up for a mess. They are the cabal covering it up. And they don't want the Epstein discharge petition to to be passed.

They don't want investigations. They shut that down. You know what else they don't want? They don't want hearings into the catastrophic war. They don't want hearings period.

And so they shut. You saw what happened when there was one day of hearings and cash, but tell how to testify. And treasury secretary Besson. They don't want any of that.

They don't want any of that. And that's the type of oversight and accountability that will happen when Republicans lose control of the house. I mean, this is the type of crap that they were doing.

Did you see this Mitch McConnell when he was in the committee?

In the agriculture committee? The Republicans had to tell him how to vote because he didn't know where he was. And he still didn't know where he was when they told him how to vote. Did you see this? This is what our government has become.

Play this clip. Okay. The question is on reporting the agriculture act of 2026 as amended. As an original bill, the clerk will call and roll. Senator Klobuchar.

No. Senator Bennett. No. Senator Smith. No.

Senator Durbin. Senator Booker. No. Senator Luhon. No.

Senator Warnock. You come back.

Senator Welch.

Senator Federman. No. Senator Schiff. No by proxy. Senator Slotkin.

No by proxy. Senator McConnell. No. Senator McConnell. Senator Hogan.

Or how about this right here?

Mitch McConnell leaving the Senate yesterday played this clip.

Good for it. Yes. Any other bills you want you? Oh, yeah. Are we voting tonight, Senator?

When can we expect you back, Senator?

And here's how they're kind of pushing him into the different rooms.

Just so he can raise his hand and he doesn't even know what he says. He doesn't know where he is anymore. This is ridiculous. You're playing this clip. We're going to McConnell.

How do you feel? And all the wild Donald Trump was dancing in Gastonia, North Carolina.

At the airport, you can see for yourself.

This is Donald Trump disembarking from Marine One. As he's followed into his vehicle late last night by Natalie Harp. But he was in the NATO summit.

Remember him and Natalie hit in the catering container.

Terrify that Iran was going to kill him. That's the commander. That's the loser commander right there. He goes. There he goes.

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