Trump Crashes Out in Cabinet Meeting Over War
3/26/202620 mincomplete
0:00Donald Trump just crashed out during a cabinet meeting in the White House regarding this
0:05disastrous war in Iran. Donald Trump began by saying, we don't even need the Strait
0:11of Hormuz. Watch what he said here.
0:13Play this clip. And, you know, they're affected.
0:15The amazing thing is we don't need the Hormuz Strait.
0:18We don't need it. We don't need it at all.
0:21We don't. We have so much oil.
0:23Our country is not affected by this.
0:25We have more. We have twice the amount of oil as Saudi Arabia or Russia.
0:32And soon it'll be three times the amount.
0:34Chris, do you want to speak to that?
0:35Then Donald Trump said that the reason he's now asking for NATO's help is that
0:39it was a test and they failed the test.
0:42And he will never forget.
0:43He will remember the fact that he thinks he's been screwed over by NATO because
0:48he and Netanyahu invaded Iran without telling NATO he was going to do it.
0:53Play this clip. And nobody's a match for the United States, but they're not a
0:58match for the United States.
1:00It's small potatoes. That's why I'm so disappointed in NATO, because this was a test
1:05for NATO. This was a test.
1:07You can help us. You don't have to.
1:08But if you don't have that, you know, if you don't do that, we're going
1:12to remember. Just remember. Remember this in a number of months from now.
1:17Remember my statements. Have an expression, a great expression.
1:23Never forget. You can never forget.
1:26But for Donald Trump, he says this is just a nice little detour, a detour,
1:31and it won't be long.
1:32Watch how deranged this is.
1:34Here, play this clip. Has been put into our country in the last year.
1:38And again, we had to take a little detour.
1:40Won't be long. Going to end soon.
1:44We had to take a little detour, go to Iran, and we had to put
1:49out a fire. Next, a reporter asked Donald Trump, so are you going to take
1:53control of Iran's oil? And Donald Trump, before answering that question, says we're beating the
2:01shit out of them. We're beating the shit out of Iran.
2:04Again, this is how the United States president is communicating.
2:08It is so horrific. And all it is doing, it is emboldening the regime in
2:14Iran to try to galvanize support there against the United States.
2:17Here, play this clip. The reason they want to make a deal is they have
2:21been just beat to shit.
2:24Are you thinking of taking control of Iran's oil?
2:29It's an option. I mean, I wouldn't talk about it, but it's an option.
2:33Is that something you thought about?
2:34Well, in Venezuela, we've done very well working with Venezuela, and certainly we've taken in
2:39billions and billions of dollars.
2:42And by the way, Venezuela is doing better right now than they've ever done in
2:45the history of their country.
2:47Next, Donald Trump says that if he were to do certain things and tell the
2:53press what his plans were, that his cabinet might invoke the 25th Amendment.
2:58Let's play it. Embarrassed. I don't want to embarrass you because I think you're, I
3:02think she's a friendly reporter, so I'm sorry.
3:04But, you know, I can't say what we're going to do, because if I did,
3:07I wouldn't be sitting here for long.
3:09They'd probably, what is it called?
3:11The 25th Amendment that institute the 25th Amendment, which they didn't do with Biden, which
3:20is shocking. Then Donald Trump, after talking about the 25th Amendment, says, I don't want
3:26any people with mental disabilities to be the president.
3:30Okay, Donald, here, play this clip.
3:32I said, I have no problem with it, but I don't want a person with
3:35mental disability to be my president.
3:37I mean, you don't want to have a person with mental disability being your president.
3:43Then Donald Trump said that he's been reading that he's desperate to make a deal.
3:47He goes, I'm not desperate.
3:48I'm not desperate. Let's play this clip.
3:51It would be nice if, like the fake news, New York Times, which is so
3:56fake, and the Wall Street Journal is terrible, terrible.
3:59I mean, I read a story today that I'm desperate to make a deal.
4:01I'm not, I don't, if I was desperate, he'd be the first to know me.
4:06Let's get the hell out of there.
4:07I'm the opposite of desperate.
4:10I don't care. I want to, in fact, we have other targets we want to
4:15hit before we leave. We're hitting them on a daily basis.
4:20I don't talk about you.
4:21I can't talk about specifics.
4:23A lot of people say that wouldn't matter.
4:24Maybe it doesn't matter. Who knows?
4:26But I wouldn't talk. It's like the question of this young lady.
4:28Yes. Sorry about that. I embarrassed her.
4:30I don't want to embarrass you because I think you're, I think she's a friendly
4:33reporter, so I'm sorry. But, you know, I can't say what we're going to do
4:36because if I did, I wouldn't be sitting here for long.
4:40They'd probably, what is it called?
4:41The 25th Amendment? Then he starts talking about cognitive exams, that he takes cognitive exams
4:46all the time. He aces it.
4:47He says, let's play this clip.
4:49I'll say it right now.
4:50I say it because no person ever reports it.
4:53I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test.
4:56I took it three times.
4:58It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people.
5:01It wasn't hard for me, but it's a cognitive test.
5:04It starts off with an easy question.
5:06And by the time you get to the middle, it gets tough.
5:08And by the time you get to the end, very few people can answer those.
5:11questions you get very tough mathematical equations and things i took it three times i
5:18aced it all three times in front of numerous doctors that i have no idea
5:21who they have who they are and i was told when i went in i
5:25they said doc ronnie told me this my current doctors are fantastic doctors they said
5:31well if you take it you know it's walter reed it's essentially a public hospital
5:36and if you do badly it's probably gonna get out but i aced it i
5:41got them all right and one doctor said i've never seen anybody get them all
5:45right i've been doing the test for 20 years i want people i i would
5:49love to see anybody that's a president or a vice president or anybody that has
5:54any um chance of being a president i would like to see them take a
5:59cognitive test and then he talks about he doesn't want stupid people to be in
6:03office and again do you know how weak this makes our nation look and how
6:08weak we are under this ridiculousness let's play this clip i believe and and by
6:14the way gavin newscombe who is one of the candidates i believe he took himself
6:20out of the running when he says he is he suffers from mental disability and
6:25a reporter said it was terrible that i talked that way about somebody with mental
6:28disability i said i have no problem with it but i don't want a person
6:32with mental disability to be my president i mean then donald trump attacks germany um
6:38and says that uh i think that germany made very inappropriate statements about the u
6:43.s let's play it i think that's calming down a little bit and i think
6:47we have a chance of getting it done but we it it doesn't affect us
6:51thousands of miles away that's why it when i heard the head of germany say
6:56this is not our war about iran i said well ukraine's not our war we
7:04helped but ukraine's not our i thought it was a very inappropriate statement to make
7:09but uh he made it you can't erase it but he felt that way i
7:13said well you know ukraine's not our war but and it's not but i would
7:17like to see all those young people stop being killed i mean they're being killed
7:21it's like a slaughterhouse what's happening there is horrible then trump says can i reveal
7:26the gift that iran gave us the present that i've been talking about they let
7:31eight of our ships go through the strait of her moves and i know that
7:35happened because i watched it on fox fact check no sign of donald trump's eight
7:40oil boats in hormuz the bloomberg tanker tracker showed no evidence that eight large oil
7:47tankers that donald trump mentioned move through the strait of her moves ever the tracker
7:52did note two iran linked lpg carriers leaving the persian gulf thursday morning possibly the
7:59extra two trump referred to or perhaps donald trump is deranged and demented here play
8:04this clip you know i told you about a present right steve can i reveal
8:09the present they said to show you the fact that we're real and solid and
8:22we're there we're going to let you have eight boats of oil eight boats eight
8:26big boats of oil this was two days ago and they'll sail up tomorrow that
8:31was three days ago and i didn't think much about it and then i watched
8:38the news and they said a very good anchor actually happened to be fox but
8:46i watched it and he said uh something's unusual happening there are eight boats that
8:53are going right up the middle of the homo strait eight big tankers are going
8:59loaded up with oil right through and i said well i guess i guess they
9:04were right and they were they were real then pete hegseth started talking and donald
9:09trump fell asleep let's play it we're here to win and we're full speed speed
9:14ahead so steve we appreciate your efforts uh more from hegseth right here hegseth starts
9:20comparing iran to the surge in iraq let's play it this actually isn't something new
9:27to me maybe a young guy mr president but i'm not a rookie in this
9:31realm in 2007 in 2007 i helped lead the surge the public fight for the
9:37iraq surge stood and watched people stand in the senate and declare the war is
9:41lost before it even started who was that it was harry reid that was the
9:46democrats and the media working hand in glove back then it was three years into
9:50a war now we're three weeks into an operation then donald trump wants to talk
9:57about his golden ballroom and his triumphal arcs and redesigning the kennedy center this is
10:04top of his mind right now play this clip and we have some projects that
10:09are great this ballroom is going to be something that's so beautiful for the city
10:12so desperately needed by presidents i mean now it's uh no secret the military wanted
10:18it more than anybody it was supposed to be secret but it became unsecret because
10:23of people that are really unpatriotic saying things but does it matter it doesn't matter
10:31it's going to be great we're building an arc a triumphal arc which will be
10:35incredible for the city we're fixing up the what was the Kennedy Center.
10:40I was honored when the board changed the name a little bit.
10:44Trump then talks about a famous island, although is he talking about Epstein Island?
10:49But then he starts attacking the UK.
10:51And then again, he starts attacking NATO even more.
10:55Let's play this clip. And I think we've been proven right.
10:58You know, they took one missile, it went 2 ,500 miles.
11:02They supposedly didn't have a missile like that.
11:04They had no missile with that capability.
11:06But they shot the now famous Ireland, the island that the UK was very afraid
11:16to give us because they didn't want to get dragged in.
11:19But we don't want to get dragged into their wars either.
11:22One thing we're very disappointed, I'll say it publicly, we're very disappointed with NATO because
11:27NATO has done absolutely nothing.
11:30And I've always said 25 years ago, I mean, I was somebody that wasn't a
11:34politician, but I was always involved in politics and I understood politics.
11:38I said 25 years ago that NATO is a paper tiger, but more importantly, that
11:43we'll come to their rescue, but they will never come to ours.
11:47And I want you to remember that we said this, they didn't come to our
11:50rescue. Now they all want to help when they're annihilated.
11:55The other side is annihilated.
11:56They said, we'd love to send ships.
11:58They actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get involved
12:03when the war's over. No, it's supposed to get involved when the war's beginning or
12:08even before it begins. We had the UK say that we'll send, this is three
12:13weeks ago, we'll send our aircraft carriers, which aren't the best aircraft carriers, by the
12:18way. They're toys compared to what we have.
12:20But we'll send our aircraft carrier when the war's over.
12:25I said, oh, that's wonderful.
12:26Thank you very much. Don't bother.
12:29We don't need it. And we don't need it.
12:31We don't need them. Then we have Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner, who Iran has
12:36said they absolutely want to have no dealings with ever again, since they believe there
12:40were productive conversations the Friday back in February before the war began.
12:45And then Whitcoff says over here, Jared and I both agree that the Iranians were
12:51just trying to buy time.
12:52Let's play this clip. I have no doubt that we exhausted all efforts on behalf
12:56of a peaceful resolution, as you directed.
13:00Jared and I both agreed that the Iranians were there to buy time until a
13:05weaker president arrived. This was a flawed strategy, as your clear direction was to never
13:13allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon today or any time in the future.
13:18More from Donald Trump's cabinet.
13:21Rubio talks about how I think that all the countries across the world should be.
13:26Thank you, Donald Trump. Let's play it.
13:28Mission here is achieved. And frankly, I think countries around the world, even those that
13:32are out there complaining about this a little bit, should actually be grateful that the
13:35United States has a president that's willing to confront a threat like this and not
13:39allow it to continue to persist.
13:41Because J .D. Vance goes on this weird religious tangent and says, and we're fighting
13:46this war during the most holy day for the Christians.
13:50Okay, you play this clip.
13:51I turn it over to Marco is, I'm very mindful, of course, that we have
13:55a lot of folks overseas fighting very ably for the United States of America.
13:59And Pete and the whole team, we're very proud of them.
14:01But they're fighting at a time where we're about to enter as Christians, the most
14:07important week of the Christian calendar, the holy week that celebrates the return of Jesus
14:12Christ to Jerusalem. And so I want to say to all of my fellow American
14:16Christians, but particularly those serving in the Gulf, that I wish you all a very
14:19blessed Easter, a very blessed holy week, and we continue to stand behind you and
14:25continue to support you every step of the way.
14:27Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.
14:28Donald Trump then starts talking about a pen and how he's got this pen.
14:32Here, play this clip. For 25 million, and it would be better better.
14:37It would be better. See this pen right here.
14:39This pen is an interesting example.
14:41It's the same thing. So this pen is very inexpensive.
14:45But it writes well. I like it.
14:48They can't have the pen the way it was.
14:49You know what it is.
14:50I don't want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well.
14:53Sharpie. So I came here to have $1 ,000 pens.
14:59And you know, you hand pens out, you're signing and you hand them out, you're
15:02handing them to all these people.
15:03Sometimes you have 30, 40 people.
15:05And they were $1 ,000 a piece.
15:08Beautiful pen, ballpoint. Thousand. It was gold, silver, gorgeous.
15:13But I'm handing out to kids that don't even know what they are.
15:15What is this, mommy? It's kids.
15:17They're getting a pen for $1 ,000.
15:19They have no idea what it is.
15:21And I feel guilty because I'm like, you know, by nature, I don't, you know,
15:25it's the government. I love the government.
15:27Like I love myself economically.
15:30I want to save money.
15:31So I'm saying, this is crazy.
15:33And it had another problem.
15:34They didn't write well. So I take it out and I saw it and there's
15:38no ink. And I got all you people looking and you say, there must be
15:42something wrong with Trump. And there's no ink in the pen.
15:46And it costs $1 ,000.
15:48This is what I call the guy.
15:51I said, I'd like to use your pen, but I can't have a gray thing
15:54with a big S on it.
15:56Saying Sharpie as I'm signing a trillion dollar airplane contract to buy brand new fighter
16:03jets, brand new B -2 bombers of which we just ordered plenty.
16:07Can't do that with the press.
16:09Use your pen, but I like the pen the best.
16:11But I've signed it. I could do like Biden did, you know.
16:13More from Donald Trump's cabinet here.
16:16Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says that the American people are great with short -term viability,
16:22volatility. We'd be great with viability, but it's volatility.
16:27Watch this clip. Thousands of American lives.
16:30Many people, especially the Democrats, underestimate the will of the American people for short -term
16:36volatility for 50 years of safety that we are going to have on the other
16:41side of this. And I believe energy prices will be lower.
16:46Inflation will be lower. Before, we had the appearance of security, which is not real
16:53security. Now, the American people and the world will have absolute security.
17:00Really, you think the American people like volatility?
17:02Absolutely deranged. Then a reporter asks Donald Trump.
17:06So there has been a report that essentially the U .S.
17:09is looking to divert some munitions meant for Ukraine to the Middle East.
17:13So we're taking our weapons away from Ukraine as we did in Asia and moving
17:17it to the Middle East.
17:19Donald Trump basically admits that's what we're doing.
17:21Play this clip. Thank you, Mr.
17:22President. There's been a report that potentially the U .S.
17:25is looking at diverting some munitions, air defenses that were meant for Ukraine to the
17:31Middle East. Is there any accuracy to that?
17:33Is that something you're concerned about?
17:33Well, I'd have to ask me, but we do that all the time.
17:36You know, we have tremendous amounts of ammunition.
17:38We have them in other countries, like in Germany and all over Europe.
17:42We have, you know, we're packed.
17:43And we take sometimes we take from one and we use for another.
17:47We help Ukraine. Biden started and he gave $350 billion away.
17:54Too much, way too much.
17:55And we sell it now to NATO.
17:59We sell it to NATO and they probably give it to Ukraine.
18:02Mostly, I think they give it to Ukraine.
18:04Should Iran be able to charge boats, countries now, to use the Strait of Hormuz,
18:10Donald? Because before they weren't doing it, now they have a stronger control on the
18:14Strait of Hormuz. And Trump's like, they shouldn't be able to, but they're doing it
18:18a bit. But their capabilities are less than two weeks ago.
18:21How are their capabilities less if they're doing it right now?
18:23Play this clip. Let's see what kind of a job is.
18:26Mr. President, yesterday you said that you hate Iran's balance.
18:29Excuse me? Should Iran be able to charge a toll for the Strait of Hormuz?
18:34They're charging some vessels to go through.
18:36Oh, yeah. Well, should they be able to?
18:39I mean, they shouldn't be able to.
18:41But they're doing it a little bit.
18:43I don't know. Look, their capability is a lot less than it was two weeks
18:46ago. And with every week and every day, frankly, it gets less and less.
18:52All I can tell you is they're begging to make a deal.
18:55So let's see what happens.
18:56We may make a deal.
18:57And more from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett.
18:59Let's play it. Economic strength is fighting off this evil regime.
19:05The Iranians believe they are fighting a two -front war.
19:08It is a military war that our great warriors are prosecuting.
19:13But on the other side, they are trying to take control of the global economy
19:18through a choke point that we believe does not exist and that we will overcome.
19:24The historic operation at Epic Fury seized a generational opportunity to demolish a regime that
19:30has coordinated over four decades of global terror.
19:33There you have it, folks.
19:35Let me know what you think.
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