DESPERATE Trump tries a press briefing, FAILS MISERABLY

[0:00] I got PTSD watching Trump hold a surprise. White House press briefing yesterday gave me horrible [0:07] flashbacks to the covid era. Remember those unbelievable press conferences where Trump would [0:12] talk about injecting bleach and what about using light inside the body? And it showed us that this [0:20] guy really didn't have what it took to be president of the United States. Well, we are apparently [0:24] doing it again. And this particular press briefing started with the president of the United States [0:29] showing up with Dana White, the president of UFC to promote a UFC fight. Now, think about [0:34] that. Republicans suffered disastrous midterm election losses. There's an ongoing war with [0:41] Iran. The secretary of defense is facing articles of impeachment and Trump holds a surprise press [0:47] conference with UFC president Dana White. But he he's built an amazing and amazing machine. [0:56] He's got a big fight this weekend at Madison Square Garden with the two greatest women [1:02] fighters of all time. As far as I'm concerned, women's fighting. It's not a nice thing, but [1:09] they are they are very tough when I say no, no men in women's sports. That's great. I would [1:14] not want to fight it. However, I would not. How would I do against one of them? Would I [1:18] do well? I don't think so. Well, sir, this would this would not be a good. How would I do in a fight, [1:26] Dana? So it became very apparent that if you put Trump in front of reporters without a lot of [1:33] structure, it's not a good idea. Trump was asked about the midterm elections and he goes, you know, [1:38] I wasn't on the ballot, so I don't take it personally. Now, I wasn't on the ballot. I [1:43] shouldn't take anything personally. Right, right. But hold on a second. For weeks before the election, [1:51] Trump was telling voters, pretend I am on the ballot. Make the election a referendum about me. [1:57] And he went around the country campaigning for Republican candidates and he made it a referendum [2:02] on his first two years of the second term. Now Republicans lost. And now all of a sudden, [2:07] it's well, this has nothing to do with me. I wasn't on the ballot. It's amazing how that works. [2:12] Now, then we got a question about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang and the reports about Wang's relationship [2:21] with a woman that is believed to be a Chinese spy. And Trump has asked, do you know about did you know [2:28] about the allegations when you went to China earlier this year? And Trump's answer is really weird [2:34] because he goes, Jensen denies it. But it's like, what, what does he deny? Confident that he'll be [2:39] in good shape. When you went to China earlier this year in May, did you know about these alleged ties? [2:48] No, I didn't hear about it then. But a lot of people have heard about it. And Jensen totally denies [2:56] that he had. I asked him today because I did speak to him today just to see if he's feeling all right. [3:00] How you doing? And is he feeling all right? I like that. Ask him about that. And he said he had [3:06] absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy. I asked him that question. Did you have [3:13] any idea that she was a spy? He said, I had no idea that she was a spy. And I really believe him. [3:18] Okay. Oh man. So, so listen carefully. So he goes, Jensen denies it. Now there's a natural question, [3:27] which is like, what does he deny? Does he deny the affair? Does he deny that she is a spy? And it [3:34] seems that what Trump is trying to say is Jensen denies knowing, knowing that she was a spy. [3:42] Um, Trump explains he didn't know that. Now that's a denial of prior knowledge. It's not a denial of [3:51] the reported relationship. It's not a denial that she is a spy, but Trump kind of goes, no, no, no. [3:58] It's all resolved. I spoke to him. I like him and he denies it. Okay. Remarkable way for a president [4:07] to talk about a serious counterintelligence investigation. We'll talk more about the Jensen [4:11] Wang thing, um, later in the week. But first really quick, a word from our sponsor. There's [4:17] something about this time of year. Routines take more effort. The weather changes, schedules move [4:22] around. Mornings are a little less predictable. So I try to keep the basics consistent and that's [4:27] where AG one pro fits in. It builds on AG one next gen by combining more ingredients into the same [4:34] morning routine. One pack with cold water. Really simple AG one pro combines 80 plus ingredients, [4:42] including vitamins, minerals, pre and probiotics, calcium HMB and five grams of Korea vitalis creatine [4:51] monohydrate creatine is one of the better studied supplements. There's evidence supporting benefits for [4:57] strength and exercise performance. 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So he won the war in two places, two big places. Very important, very impactful. And [6:09] they were one. They're not like Vietnam when nothing was one or Afghanistan or Iraq or any of these wars [6:16] when nothing was one. It was he won the war and he's winning the war. So which is it? Has the war [6:23] been won or is the war still being fought? Now, you might remember that Trump said we won this war [6:29] 60, 70 times if we won it. Why are we continuing to hear about more military operations, additional [6:38] strikes, more bombings, missiles, all of it. Now, fortunately, a reporter asks Trump essentially [6:44] that question. And the report reporter points out, you know, you've been saying for months [6:49] that the war would end soon. Why would we believe you this time? And Trump's answer is to just deny [6:57] he ever said it. Mr. President, you say the war with Iran would be ending fairly soon. You've made [7:04] this claim dozens of times over the past eight months. Why should Americans think this time [7:08] they won't have a nuclear weapon and they won't have a nuclear weapon. Well, we knocked them out a year [7:14] ago. Uh, that was, I said I was going to do that and I kept my word on that. Now what we're doing [7:20] is we're, uh, it's really status quo territory. We're keeping it going. We have the greatest military [7:28] blockade ever. We're keeping it going. The war is over, but it's not. And we're keeping it going. [7:35] We have the new iron gate. Iron gate is land. So by land and by sea, and we will, uh, take care of [7:42] business. Look, Iran, I hope we're going to be able to make a deal with them, but nothing's going to [7:49] happen. And if we have to, we'll take very serious. We are so loaded. We just have another aircraft [7:55] carrier. So I'm loaded right now. So zero answer. This, this is serious stuff. How long is the war going [8:02] to last? And you've said so many times that it is over and it's ending. And he goes, well, no, [8:07] I never said that. I just said, we're never going to get, let them have a nuclear weapon. [8:10] Now you can believe that preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons is a good thing. You can go, [8:16] no, that's, that's an important objective. That's fine. But you have said the war is over dozens of [8:21] times. The, the, it is not contradictory to say, I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, [8:26] but you keep saying that the war is over. And I keep coming back to those COVID briefings [8:32] because this is the same problem we saw then, which is he believes that if he just keeps [8:37] talking confidently, that it doesn't matter whether he's giving an answer that corresponds [8:43] to the question. He can just declare victory and declare it again until everybody, everything's [8:48] going beautifully and just move on. But the actual questions aren't being answered. What is the plan [8:54] for Iran? You just lost in part because of that. When does it end? What happens to Pete Hegseth? Why did [8:59] Republicans lose so badly? Why is Dana White here? But all he wants to do is sort of have fun [9:07] nominally being president without doing any other work, promote a UFC fight, bring his friend Dana [9:12] White into the press briefing room. We are resolving zero issues. And if Trump is starting to believe [9:17] that more unscripted briefings are going to reverse the damage that his party has suffered based on [9:24] yesterday and what we just watched, Democrats should be saying, please do a briefing every single day. [9:31] We love it. And this Hegseth thing is going to become a really big issue. Let's let's go into that.