Trump Crashes Out on WH Lawn during Press Event
4/16/202612 mincomplete
0:00Donald Trump just crashed out on the White House lawn during a disastrous press conference.
0:06He decided to disparage the Epstein victims and survivors during this press conference and said,
0:13I heard they didn't want to testify under oath.
0:16I was surprised that they just didn't want to share their story.
0:20He continued to attack Pope Leo the 14th.
0:23He said that gas prices weren't high.
0:26When he was asked about a ceasefire, he's like, with who?
0:31Between the United States and Iran, sir?
0:34Clearly demonstrating more signs of cognitive decline.
0:38Let me show you what just went down on the White House lawn moments ago.
0:42He was asked by a reporter, do you believe there should be a public hearing
0:46for more Epstein survivors? Here's what Donald Trump said.
0:50Play this clip. The first lady last week called on Congress to further look into
0:57and uncover the truth on the Epstein files, the Epstein saga.
1:01Do you believe that there should be a public hearing for more of these Epstein
1:04survivors? I'm okay with it.
1:06I think we've had a lot of public hearings.
1:07I'm okay with it. But I understand that the women didn't want to go under
1:11oath. That's what I heard, that the women, the victims or whatever, they refused to
1:18go under oath, which was a little surprising.
1:20Melania felt strongly about it because she was accused that I met her through Epstein,
1:26but it turned out to be totally false.
1:28It was a false hearing.
1:28I mean, disparaging and defaming the Epstein survivors, saying that they don't want to testify
1:34under oath, that they are refusing.
1:36The people who should testify under oath, Donald, are you and the others who are
1:41part of this cabal. Next, a reporter asked Donald Trump about Melania saying that she
1:47had no links to Epstein and why she held that press conference.
1:51Here's what Donald Trump said.
1:52Let's play this clip. The first lady came out last week and said she had
1:55no links to Jeffrey Epstein.
1:57Who did? The first lady, Melania Trump.
1:59She had none. Why did she come out and say that last week?
2:01Because the fake news was saying she did, and she had none, and I think
2:04that's been proven. It bothered her that the fake news was being fake news.
2:10That's all. She just wanted to clarify.
2:11So, these questions aren't going away, Donald, nor are the questions going away about what
2:17is actually happening with this catastrophic and disastrous war in Iran and this purported ceasefire,
2:23where the more we learn about it, the more it's clear that these purported negotiations
2:28between Whitcoff and Kushner and the Trump regime and Vance and Iran are not going
2:35very well at all. There's actually no progress that seems to be being made.
2:40So, what's going on, Donald, about that?
2:42And what's going on about this purported ceasefire between Lebanon and Hezbollah?
2:48First, here's what Donald Trump says about the potential ceasefire with Iran and about fighting
2:53resuming. Play this clip. Would you be willing to extend the ceasefire or will the
2:57fighting resume with the president?
2:59I would say the fighting.
2:59If there's no deal, fight and resume.
3:01Okay. More on this in a moment.
3:03Donald Trump is asked why he's fighting with the Pope.
3:06And then Donald Trump just lies and defames the Pope and says, oh, because he
3:12says that he wants Iran to have nuclear weapons.
3:15And the reporter, and I'm glad the reporter pushbacks it.
3:18The Pope never said that.
3:19He never said that Iran should have nuclear weapons and they should be given nuclear
3:23weapons. Why are you lying about the Pope?
3:26Here's what Donald Trump says.
3:27Play this clip. Why are you fighting with the Pope?
3:30And are you worried it's upsetting your...
3:32No, no, I don't. I have to do what's right.
3:35The Pope has to understand that.
3:37Very simple. I have nothing against the Pope.
3:39His brother's MAGA all the way.
3:41I like his brother, Louis.
3:42Why are you fighting with him?
3:43I'm not fighting with him.
3:44The Pope made a statement.
3:46He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon.
3:48I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
3:50And if the Pope looked at the 42 ,000 people that were killed over the
3:55last two or three months as a protester with no weapons, no nothing.
3:59I mean, you take a look at that so I can disagree with the Pope.
4:03I have right to disagree.
4:04By the way, I want to see more reporters do that.
4:07When he lies, check him and say that's not true.
4:10So here Trump was asked, are you considering extending the ceasefire with Iran?
4:15He's like, with who? The reporter's like, Iran.
4:18Iran, Donald. Pay attention. Here, play this clip.
4:22We had a very good conversation.
4:24Why are you considering extending the ceasefire with Iran?
4:28With who? With Iran. We're doing very well, I can tell you.
4:33Maybe it'll happen before that.
4:35I'm not sure it needs to be extended.
4:37Just so you know, Iran wants to make a deal.
4:40And we're dealing very nicely with them.
4:43We've got to have no nuclear weapons.
4:46If we do, that's a big factor.
4:48And they're willing to do things today that they weren't willing to do two months
4:52ago. More from this crash out on the White House lawn.
4:56A reporter asks, would you meet with the Pope to even out your differences?
5:01It's really not differences. The Pope is just talking about peace and love and supporting
5:07each other and wars are bad.
5:09And then Donald Trump's out there disparaging and defaming it.
5:12the pope and threatening avignon papacies back in the united states which is viewed as
5:17a death threat to the pope but now the pope's brother uh is getting death
5:21threats here's what donald trump says play this clip is amazing it's holding up very
5:25strong very powerfully and i think we're making a lot of progress in that but
5:30the pope has to understand iran very simple iran cannot have a nuclear weapon the
5:35world would be in great danger i don't think it's necessary donald trump then says
5:48that a ceasefire between israel and lebanon will be number 10 for him it'll be
5:54his 10th peace deal that he says and it should be noted that this purported
5:58ceasefire between israel and lebanon that i guess is being announced trump posted about it
6:04on social media in israel their national security group didn't even approve it before donald
6:09trump announced it and of course it doesn't include hezbollah which is kind of the
6:13main point here and so it's really not a ceasefire at all but anyway play
6:17this clip i think they will i think it's going to be actually it's very
6:28exciting because it's 48 years uh we're going to be meeting with bb netanyahu as
6:34you know and the president of lebanon and i had a great talk with both
6:40of them today they're going to be uh having a ceasefire and that'll include hezbollah
6:45and i think uh i think it's it could be number 10 for me a
6:51reporter then asked donald trump you know israel and lebanon have tried to make peace
6:55before so what's going to be different he's like me i'm the difference maker well
6:59you've already didn't do the main thing that would probably need to be in a
7:02ceasefire which is what iran said which is you have to include hezbollah and to
7:06the extent you don't want to put hezbollah in there i mean i get it
7:10but then you're not going to get the season there's going to continue to be
7:13attacks israel will say it's attacking hezbollah and it may be targeting hezbollah in some
7:17instances but it's killing thousands of civilians it's killing a lot of innocent people people
7:22at hospitals school children mothers fathers brothers sisters here play this clip more from uh
7:39this crash out on the white house salon how much longer donald our gas price
7:44is going to be up he's like they're not high they're not high at all
7:47right now play this clip okay and then on gas prices how much longer will
7:51americans continue to see these high gas prices well they're not very high if you
7:55look at what they were supposed to be in order to get rid of a
7:58nuclear weapon with the danger that entails so the gas prices have come down very
8:03much over the last three four days i know you know that's what abc says
8:07but the fact is that if you look at the stock markets up everything's doing
8:13really well and the big thing we have to do is we have to make
8:16sure that iran does not have a nuclear weapon because if they do you want
8:20to talk about problems you'd have problems so very important is that iran does not
8:25have a nuclear weapon and they've agreed to that iran's agreed to that and they've
8:30agreed to it very powerfully uh they've agreed to give us back the nuclear dust
8:35that's way underground because of the attack we made with the b2 bombers so we
8:40have a lot of agreement with iran and i think something's going to happen very
8:44positive he then brags about his blockade against the persian gulf and says it's more
8:49powerful than the bombing right now it's more powerful than the bombing you know you're
8:53cutting off not just uh iran in doing this but by the way we're seeing
8:57lots of ships leave europe right now they're weeks away from massive food shortages i
9:03mean this is quickly quickly growing and spreading but based on what trump's doing here
9:07play this clip and a very powerful blockade the blockade is maybe more powerful than
9:12the bombing if you want to know the two are you going to make the
9:15arab countries pay a portion of all of the i think they'll make that i
9:20think they're going to make that contribution i think i think the arab countries because
9:25we've done a lot i think they'd make a contribution toward the cost what about
9:30the group of bishops donald who are out there um saying that the pope is
9:35exercising uh his opinion and preaching the gospel and that the pope's not attacking you
9:42why are you taking the pope preaching the gospel as personal attacks on you and
9:46donald trump's like i'm all about the gospel nobody knows the gospel more than me
9:51i'm the gospel guy okay play this clip because there was a group of bishops
9:56that did put out a statement saying the pope isn't nearly exercising his opinion he's
10:00preaching the gospel and what do you say to people that do well i want
10:03them to preach the gospel i'm all about the gospel but i also know that
10:06you cannot let a certain country which is a very mean -spirited country have a
10:12nuclear weapon if they did they would use it and i think they'd use it
10:15quickly and they would kill many millions of people so you know the pope could
10:20disagree with me on that but certainly we're allowed to have that uh i'm all
10:23about the gospel i'm about it as much as anybody can be but i can't
10:28allow as president of the united states of america i can't allow iran to have
10:33a nuclear weapon and here's the story they won't have they've already agreed not to
10:38have that's good news And I think the folk will be very happy.
10:44Then the Midas Touch Network was able to catch up with Democratic Congresswoman Kamla Gerdov.
10:50And I think she puts it in a way that is fairly blunt and direct
10:54about everything you just saw there and more.
10:58Congresswoman, take it away. Let's play this clip.
11:00Are you concerned about the impact that this war in Iran is having on our
11:03national debt? Oh, my God.
11:05Yes, of course I am.
11:06You would. Stevie Wonder can even see how much this is costing us.
11:10So gas prices are going up.
11:12It's almost $10 in California.
11:14And fertilizer is going up.
11:16I mean, you name it, the prices have gone up.
11:17And this dude, Dr. Jesus, okay, is wanting to spend $2 billion of your money
11:23every single day rather than help you get health care.
11:27Fuck his ass. Thank you, Congresswoman.
11:30Well, there you have it, folks.
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