Trump Crashes Out in War Presser Conference with Japan PM
3/19/202618 mincomplete
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0:49Donald Trump just had a full -on meltdown in the Oval Office during a press
0:54conference with Japan's Prime Minister Takeishi.
0:57Donald Trump was asked why he did not tell his allies about the war before
1:02attacking Iran. And Donald Trump's like, you know a thing or two about surprises, Japan.
1:07Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
1:11Now, Donald Trump is just ripping to shreds our alliances in real time.
1:16Watch how uncomfortable Prime Minister Takeishi is.
1:19Here, let's play this clip.
1:22Of course, no, Japan and U .S.
1:25are very good friends. But one question, why didn't you tell U .S.
1:31allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?
1:37So we are very confused about Japanese citizens.
1:41Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much.
1:43You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell
1:47anybody about it because we wanted surprise.
1:50Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
1:53OK, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
1:57OK, right? He's asking me, you believe in surprise, I think much more so than
2:05us. And we had a surprise and we did.
2:09And because of that surprise, we knocked out the first two days, we probably knocked
2:13out 50 percent of what we and much more than we anticipated doing.
2:19So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise.
2:23Right. OK. Next, Donald Trump talks about how NATO doesn't want to help us defend
2:30the Strait of Hormuz. He goes, but now they think I'm being nicer to them.
2:34So now they want to help, but I don't want their help anymore.
2:37We don't need the help of them.
2:39Here, play this clip. But we think of it.
2:43We don't use the Strait.
2:45We're defending the Strait for everybody else.
2:48And then in the case of NATO, they don't want to help us defend the
2:53Strait. And they're the ones that need it.
2:55But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude.
2:58They're getting much nicer, but it's as far as I'm concerned, it's too late.
3:03You know, UK wants to send aircraft carriers now.
3:08And I said, I want the aircraft carriers before the war.
3:12I don't want them after the war is won.
3:15They want to send me aircraft carriers after the war.
3:17There's practically nobody to shoot at them.
3:20You know, their missile count is down.
3:21Maybe you could discuss it by about 90 something percent.
3:25The drones are way down and the factories are being demolished.
3:29Maybe, sir. Our missile missiles being shot are down over 90 percent since the beginning.
3:35One way attack drones down 90 percent since the beginning, which is a reflection of
3:39overwhelming firepower. But you mentioned the most important part, Mr.
3:42President. Their defense industrial base.
3:44If you can't make more of it in the future, then you have a limited
3:48supply. And so we're going after all of their defense contractors that make all of
3:52their exquisite weapons and ensuring that even if they wanted to rebuild more launchers or
3:56more missiles, they couldn't in the future.
3:58And that's a level of devastation for their military that they've never seen before.
4:02So we have literally more from Donald Trump here.
4:06He says, we expect Japan that you must step up immediately right now because we
4:11have that kind of relationship.
4:13What are you doing, Japan?
4:14As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, this moron continues to incinerate alliances that
4:20were built by far better people than him over the past 80 years.
4:24Let's play it. This looks like one of your people right here.
4:28Thank you. Is he good or bad?
4:30Is he a good reporter or bad?
4:32Don't you know? So, so.
4:36All right. It looks like a nice guy.
4:38Go ahead. Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan is stepping up.
4:43What kind of support do you expect from Japan in the future?
4:49Look, I expect Japan to step up because, you know, we have that kind of
4:54relationship and we step up with Japan.
4:56We have 45 ,000 soldiers in Japan.
5:00We have we spend a lot of money on Japan.
5:02So and we've had that kind of a relationship.
5:05So I expect I'm not surprised that they would step up.
5:08We don't need much. We don't need anything.
5:10I mean, honestly, we don't.
5:11I don't need anything from Japan or from anyone else, but I think it's appropriate
5:15that people step up. In the case of Japan, I hear they get more than
5:1990 percent of their oil through the strait.
5:24So that's a big reason to step up.
5:26I mean, we've demolished. That country is close to demolished.
5:32The only thing is the strait.
5:33It's very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in
5:37the water and they're holding things up.
5:39So we don't want that to happen.
5:42But honestly, Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe get a lot of their oil through
5:49the strait. We get none.
5:50Practically, we're less than one percent.
5:53We don't have to be any percent.
5:55We don't even I think we do it just to be nice.
5:58But we think of it.
6:00We don't use the strait.
6:02We're defending the strait for everybody else.
6:05And then in the case of NATO, they don't want to help us defend the
6:10strait. And they're the ones that need it.
6:12But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude.
6:15They're getting much nicer. But it's as far as I'm concerned, it's too late, by
6:20the way. Just take a look at Prime Minister Taka Ishii's face right here as
6:25Donald Trump is saying these things.
6:26She is utterly bewildered. I would say it mildly.
6:31Then Donald Trump says, of course, we're going to need to spend another two hundred
6:36billion dollars on this war.
6:38He says it's a small price to pay so that we're tippy, tippy top.
6:43We want to be tippy, tippy top.
6:45Here, play this clip. So then naturally, the questions are, well, if you're asking for
7:06another two hundred billion dollars, then clearly this war isn't going to end anytime soon.
7:12And by the way, didn't the Republicans say we didn't have thirty billion dollars to
7:17ensure that people can continue on with their Obamacare plans and that we don't have
7:22any of this money and we had to take away two hundred billion dollars from
7:25rural hospitals. And now it's all going to this disastrous and unlawful war.
7:30But Trump's like everything was going great.
7:32The economy was going great because things were so amazing.
7:36Trump says I decided to take an excursion.
7:39We all want this excursion in Iran an excursion.
7:42You mean a disastrous war, which is now resulting in the death of many of
7:47our troops and crushing our economy.
7:49Here, play this clip right here.
7:51It's all done. Everything was going great.
7:53The economy is great. Oil prices were very low.
7:56Gasoline was dropping to, I mean, we had a dollar ninety nine, dollar eighty five.
8:01We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran and I said,
8:06I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it.
8:10And I actually thought the numbers would be worse.
8:12I thought that it would go up more than it did.
8:16But we're doing this excursion and when it's completed, we're going to have a much
8:20safer world. And the prime minister agrees with me on this.
8:24He considers it to be terrible what they're in it.
8:26I think every country does.
8:27Just about every country does.
8:29Iran is a serious threat to the world, to the Middle East and to the
8:32world. And everybody agrees with me.
8:35I think virtually every country agrees with me on that.
8:38So I wanted to put out that fire.
8:42And I said, you know, if I do that, oil prices will go up.
8:45The economy will go down a little bit.
8:47I thought it would be worse, much worse.
8:50Actually, I thought there was a chance it could be much worse.
8:52It's not bad. And it's going to be over with pretty soon.
8:55We've. And Donald Trump says we've demolished Iran.
8:58The only thing left is the Strait of Hormuz, which we know is false.
9:02We know that even today, Iran hit an American F -35.
9:06We know that Iran just struck the Haifa energy plant.
9:10We know that Iran struck the liquefied natural gas plant in Qatar the other day
9:16and Riyadh. I mean, Iran's capabilities have actually been improving and their ability to strike
9:22targets has actually been improving.
9:25But here's Donald Trump lying.
9:26You can hear him lie for yourself.
9:28Here, play this clip. The Strait.
9:31So that's a big reason to step up.
9:34I mean, we've demolished. That country is close to demolished.
9:39The only thing is the Strait.
9:40It's very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in
9:44the water and they're holding things up.
9:47We don't want that to happen.
9:49Then Donald Trump passes when asked another question on the Strait of Hormuz.
9:53Let's play this clip. To $4 billion.
9:57Mr. President, on the Strait of Hormuz, on the Strait of Hormuz.
10:02Thank you. Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan.
10:06What about you coordinating all of these attacks with Netanyahu, Donald?
10:10Have you talked to Netanyahu about attacking the oil and gas fields?
10:14And Donald Trump, I did.
10:15And we won't do that.
10:17We all know that Donald Trump coordinated the Southpars attack in Iran with Netanyahu.
10:22We can play this clip right here.
10:24I don't blame him. Thank you, Mr.
10:26President. You talked to Prime Minister Netanyahu about attacking the oil and gas fields.
10:30Yeah, I did. I did.
10:31I told him don't do that.
10:33And he won't do that.
10:34We didn't discuss. You know, we do.
10:37We're independent. We get along great.
10:39It's coordinated, but on occasion, he'll do something.
10:43And if I don't like it, and so we're not doing that anymore.
10:48Next, Donald Trump is asked about Jerome Powell and Donald Trump starts saying that Jerome
10:54Powell is under investigation because he's building the Federal Reserve building and it's too expensive
11:00for Donald Trump. It's too wasteful, he says.
11:03Here, play this clip. And the last one, if I could, the Fed chairman told
11:07me yesterday that he plans to stay until a new Fed chairman is confirmed.
11:12He also plans to stay on the board until the investigation is done.
11:16Well, he's under investigation because he's building a building for hundreds of billions of dollars
11:21more than it's supposed to cost.
11:22The building you see over there is under budget and ahead of schedule.
11:27That's the ballroom. The ballroom is a much bigger building.
11:30It's a much more complex building than what he's doing.
11:33And it's at a fraction of the cost.
11:36Something is going on, whether it's contractors.
11:38That's what I do. Best in the world, I build.
11:41I build great buildings. I've always done it.
11:43And I build them under budget and ahead of schedule.
11:46They could have $4 billion.
11:48This is a renovation job.
11:50Another question is asked, which is if the war is almost over, so then why
11:54are you spending $200 billion?
11:56A reporter asked a similar question.
11:58And Trump's like, we want to have vast amounts of ammunition, which we have right
12:03now, but it's being taken down by Ukraine.
12:06So he finds a way to attack Ukraine here.
12:09How despicable is that? Let's play this clip.
12:12If the war is almost over, why is the Pentagon going to ask Congress for
12:17an additional $200 billion? Well, we're asking for a lot of reasons beyond even what
12:23we're talking about in Iran.
12:25This is a very volatile world.
12:28And the military equipment of some of this weaponry is unthinkable.
12:35You don't even want to know about it.
12:36Oh, you could end this thing in two seconds if you wanted to.
12:40But we are being very judicious.
12:44But we want to do.
12:45Don't forget, Biden gave away.
12:47I rebuilt the military my first time.
12:50Biden gave away so stupidly to Afghanistan a lot.
12:54He didn't want to move it.
12:55He was too lazy, too stupid to move it.
12:58But it was a very small amount.
13:00It was a lot, but it was very small relative to what I purchased and
13:03what I built. We want to have a good, we want to have vast amounts
13:08of ammunition, which we have right now.
13:11We have a lot of ammunition, but it was taken down by giving so much
13:16to Ukraine. Then Donald Trump says we can take out the island anytime we want.
13:21I call it the island that sits there totally unprotected.
13:24What the hell are you saying?
13:25Play this clip. We can take out the island if anytime we want.
13:31I call it the little oil island that sits there.
13:34So totally unprotected. We've taken out everything but the pipes.
13:38We left the pipes because to rebuild the pipes would take years for, you know,
13:43for them to do. But we are, I would say, we are substantially ahead of
13:48schedule. Now, earlier today, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson was talking about removing sanctions, not just
13:55on Russian oil, but apparently rewarding Iran and removing sanctions from Iran.
14:00Let's play this clip right here.
14:02We had a break the glass plan across the administration and a treasury.
14:08We unsanctioned Russian oil. We knew that there were about 130 million barrels on the
14:14water and we created supply that is beyond the Straits of Hermos.
14:19So we anticipated this. We knew that there could be a temporary, and I want
14:26to emphasize temporary, choke point there.
14:29And there was 130 million barrels of floating storage.
14:34In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water.
14:40It's about 140 million barrels.
14:43So depending on how you count it, that's 10 days to two weeks of supply
14:47that the Iranians had been pushing out.
14:50That would have all gone to China.
14:52In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the
14:58price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign.
15:05So we then heard from Pete Hegseth earlier in the day as well, where Hegseth
15:09talked about, we need $200 billion to kill the bad guys.
15:13Yeah, to kill the bad guys.
15:15How despicable is this guy?
15:16Here, play this clip. Both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that
15:21as well. As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously.
15:26It takes money to kill bad guys.
15:31So we're going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we're properly
15:35funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future.
15:40Ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled and not just refilled, but above and beyond.
15:45I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term.
15:48Didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had.
15:52So thank goodness he did that.
15:53And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was
15:57spent. And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of
16:01freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is what he's doing.
16:04And then, you know, what, as the 10 - Tennessee Holler says, so which country
16:09is the extremist theocracy again?
16:11Because throughout Pete Hegseth's entire press conference, that was right before Donald Trump's press conference,
16:17Hegseth was like, may the almighty God continue to bless us in this war.
16:22May Jesus Christ and the church's support.
16:26I mean, it's like, just like, listen to this guy, what are you doing?
16:28Stop invoking religion right now as you engage in this disastrous war.
16:33Frankly, whether you're religious or not, this administration is the most hateful and despicable regime,
16:41which any religion, it would violate its basic precepts.
16:45And regardless of religion, it violates basic humanity and dignity with these despicable clowns in
16:51Washington right now who have ripped away our health care, ripped away your futures, ripped
16:57away basic life, sent people to die in Iran, and then they go up there
17:03and they do this. Seriously, these are the worst pieces of trash imaginable.
17:07Here, play this clip. And I say the same to every American who wants peace
17:11through strength. May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight.
17:18And again, to the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee
17:25with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ.
17:33There you have it, folks.
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