Hannity SNAPS at Trump for FAILING MISERABLY

[0:00] In a previous video, I mentioned how Donald Trump sat down for an interview with MAGA Fox News host Sean Hannity during Trump's overseas visit to China. [0:08] During the course of that interview, Hannity, who is one of Trump's most devout supporters in media anywhere, [0:14] became visibly frustrated and annoyed with Trump when it became obvious that Trump had accomplished very little of productive value in his negotiations with Xi. [0:24] But before we unpack all that, if you end up liking this video and you want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe, and alert bells before you go. [0:33] All right, folks, as the New Republic notes, Trump even pissed off Sean Hannity with his latest Iran talks. [0:39] Fox News' Sean Hannity is tiring of Donald Trump's non-answers. [0:43] In a new interview between the pair, aired Thursday evening, the longtime face of the conservative news behemoth appeared visibly frustrated and irritated that the president would not directly address the war in Iran. [0:53] So I want to play some clips of that exchange. [0:57] Again, Asin of Midas Touch, and kudos to him and Aaron Rupar for putting these clips together. [1:02] But even Asin notes that this is one of the few times I've seen Hannity frustrated with Trump's answers. [1:07] So let's look at this, okay? [1:09] And remember, Hannity is a close supporter of Trump. [1:12] He is a close advisor to Trump. [1:14] It's in Hannity's best interest to stay in Trump's good graces. [1:17] So he has to be careful about expressing his rage and frustration. [1:22] But it is obvious. [1:23] Check it out. [1:23] The country's decimated. [1:25] You know, they're charging tolls. [1:26] Where's the money going? [1:27] Do you think President Xi and China have the ability to influence the Iranians, considering they are one of their biggest customers? [1:37] Yeah, probably. [1:37] But, look, he's not coming in with guns. [1:43] He's not coming in with rifles. [1:45] They're not coming in shooting. [1:46] You know, somebody said he's been very good. [1:51] They get a lot of their oil, 40% of their oil from that location. [1:55] So what has happened, and one thing I think that we're going to make a deal on, they've agreed they want to buy oil from the United States. [2:02] They're going to go to Texas. [2:03] We're going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska. [2:08] And I think that was another thing that was agreed to. [2:11] That's a big thing. [2:14] Hannity's unimpressed. [2:15] More on that in a moment. [2:15] We have some other clips to play. [2:17] But, you see, Hannity is one of the few MAGA hosts at Fox News. [2:21] I think Laura Ingraham is another one. [2:23] Maria Bartiromo is another one. [2:24] So it's basically the three of them who don't just simply kiss Trump's ass. [2:28] They kiss Trump's ass with a strategy in mind, right? [2:31] So Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham are all MAGA Fox hosts. [2:36] But they want Trump to genuinely succeed. [2:38] And they are smart enough to understand when Trump does something stupid or unpopular. [2:43] They're going to be delicate about how they cover the subject, if they choose to cover it at all. [2:47] But when they sit down for interviews with Trump, as all of them have, they also try to guide Trump. [2:52] They're thinking to themselves, this guy's an idiot. [2:54] He has no concept of strategy, but he has charisma, and he is the cult leader of the Republican Party. [2:59] And if I want my preferred policy outcomes to prevail, if I want to own the libs as much as I do, [3:05] I need Trump to do the smart thing. [3:07] And Trump very often does the dumb thing when left to his own devices. [3:10] So they'll ask leading questions. [3:11] They'll ask guiding questions. [3:13] They'll try to kiss his ass but also massage him in a more productive way, unlike somebody [3:18] like Jesse Waters, for example, or Greg Gutfeld, where all they do is kiss Trump's ass, right? [3:23] That's it. [3:24] Just effusive praise. [3:26] For Hannity, there is an ideology behind it. [3:29] Like Hannity is genuinely a conservative, so are Ingraham and so are Bartiromo, and they [3:33] want Trump to do things that they want which will benefit them and their political movement. [3:38] The reason that Hannity is asking Trump about this and about whether or not he broached the [3:44] subject of the Iran war with Xi is because Hannity knows, and it is a fact, that Trump is [3:50] losing the war against Iran. [3:52] Now, Hannity would never publicly acknowledge that, but he sees the polls. [3:55] He watches the news. [3:56] He understands the coverage. [3:57] Trump is getting humiliated on a regular basis, that Trump has been debunked on a regular [4:01] basis, that Trump has constantly moved the goalposts on a regular basis, that Trump is [4:05] contradicting himself on a regular basis. [4:08] Hannity also recognizes that the economic consequences are staggering and the American [4:12] people are correctly blaming Trump. [4:15] In other words, Hannity knows that Trump is in a political disaster of his own making, and [4:21] it's likely to cost the Republican Party the House, if not the Senate as well. [4:25] Hannity wants to prevent that. [4:27] So basically, he's trying to pump Trump. [4:29] So did you ask Xi Jinping, who has influence over Iran in a war you're losing, what's he [4:35] going to do about that? [4:36] I mean, he has a lot of influence over Iran, and he's pissed off that Trump is giving these [4:40] evasive non-answers. [4:42] Like, dude, did you talk about this or not? [4:44] What can you tell our viewers so we can hopefully spare you from the political consequences in [4:49] November? [4:50] That's why Hannity was like, I'm not talking about guns. [4:52] What about influence? [4:53] I mean, what did Xi say? [4:56] That's why he's annoyed. [4:57] But there are other clips as well. [4:59] Let's take a look about this particular line of inquiry. [5:02] He's been very good. [5:05] They get a lot of their oil, 40 percent of their oil from that location. [5:10] So what has happened, and one thing I think that we're going to make a deal on, they've [5:14] agreed they want to buy oil from the United States. [5:17] They're going to go to Texas. [5:18] We're going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska. [5:24] And I think that was another thing that was agreed to. [5:26] That's a big thing. [5:27] What about liquefied natural gas? [5:29] It's not that much longer. [5:29] Gas, too? [5:30] Yeah, everything. [5:32] Energy. [5:32] Energy. [5:33] It's the one thing. [5:33] You can even hear Hannity is like, he's so skeptical. [5:36] He's so dubious. [5:37] He's like, again, I'm trying to guide you on this. [5:39] Like, what about liquefied natural gas? [5:42] You know Trump is like, sure. [5:44] Sure. [5:44] Yeah, exactly. [5:45] One hundred percent. [5:46] Oh, OK. [5:47] Yeah. [5:47] We really need energy. [5:48] That's the one thing. [5:49] They have an insatiable appetite for energy. [5:52] And we have unlimited energy. [5:55] Again, Hannity is not impressed whatsoever here. [6:01] Now, again, got another clip where Hannity is trying to get Trump to give a concrete answer [6:06] that will calm markets and the economy and inspire Trump supporters and demoralize Democrats [6:11] and give some sort of positive spin to this war. [6:14] And Trump just doesn't get it and just doesn't deliver. [6:18] Other countries. [6:20] Bahrain. [6:21] It also helps China. [6:22] We're actually I told him today, I said, you know, we're helping you and we're helping [6:27] you in another way, because I don't think they want I don't think China wants Iran to [6:31] have a nuclear weapon either. [6:33] I said, just don't go crazy. [6:37] You don't need them having a nuclear weapon. [6:39] What did he say? [6:39] What did he say? [6:41] Well, he's not going to respond too much. [6:42] He's a pretty cool guy. [6:44] He's not going to say, oh, gee, that's a good point. [6:46] I think he was going to do. [6:47] I mean, what a wonderful point. [6:49] You think he agreed? [6:50] Yeah, I think that was the impression. [6:52] I don't think he wants him to. [6:53] No, he's just like, oh, so China, China does agree that their ally Iran should not have [7:01] a nuclear weapon, that they oppose Iran having a nuclear weapon, which is the predicate for [7:05] this war, at least allegedly. [7:06] So so China cosigns that, right? [7:09] Well, I mean, you know, she's a cool guy. [7:11] He's not going to like, you know, but but I looked into his eyes. [7:14] I looked into his eyes. [7:15] And and what I saw there, I saw there nothing but love and agreement. [7:19] So, yeah, Hannity is so desperate here to get something tangible to tout as a victory. [7:28] And Trump refuses to give it either because he's too stupid or because he doesn't have [7:34] anything to give. [7:35] I would assume I'm in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of their military. [7:42] I should say this, too. [7:43] This is where it gets interesting, because here's the other part where Hannity is trying [7:47] to guide Trump. [7:48] One of and we talked about this a few days ago, one of the reports is that China and [7:55] Trump during the course of these negotiations, that Trump was going to erode barriers between [8:01] the U.S. and China, that Trump was going to allow significant Chinese investiture into [8:07] the United States. [8:09] And again, China has been doing this for decades with developing nations across multiple continents. [8:14] I call that their silk. [8:15] Some reason I had in mind it was their Silk Road Initiative. [8:17] It's their Belt and Road Initiative. [8:20] Somebody in the comments in a previous video fact-checked me on that, the Belt and Road [8:24] Initiative. [8:25] So, in other words, whereas the U.S. tries to impose military bases and we still have an [8:30] advantage over every other country on Earth, including China at the moment, for the ability [8:35] to more easily project power across oceans and across air, what China was doing is using [8:43] soft power, so economic investment, currency, things of that nature, to develop. [8:47] Like many African nations and things of that nature, and again, other countries across the [8:52] planet, to get these countries indebted into China and to provide natural resources as well. [8:58] So again, the U.S. likes to project more hard power. [9:02] China, over the past several decades, has been projecting diplomatic and economic soft power. [9:06] This is relevant for this clip because the rumor was that Trump was going to allow, in his credible [9:15] reporting, and that spooked Laura Ingraham and Megyn Kelly and obviously Sean Hannity here. [9:20] I mean, he's terrified, and again, he's trying to guide Trump to what he believes is the correct [9:25] answer. [9:25] The reporting was that Trump was going to allow China to significantly increase their actual [9:31] footprint and their ownership of U.S. property, for example, U.S. farmland. [9:36] So with that in mind, here are the clips I want to show you from Hannity trying to guide Trump here. [9:42] I'm in Beijing. [9:43] If I wanted to buy property near one of their military installations, I don't think President [9:49] Xi. [9:50] No, they wouldn't let Xi. [9:50] I don't. [9:51] Look, it's not that I love it. [9:53] You want to see farm prices drop? [9:54] You want to see farmers lose a lot of money? [9:56] Just take that out of the market. [9:59] But they've had a lot of land for a long time. [10:03] Obama did nothing about it. [10:06] They bought a lot of it during the Obama administration. [10:09] He did nothing. [10:10] So Trump seems to be flirting with the idea of letting him, oh, I don't love it, but [10:15] I mean, Obama let him do it. [10:16] So if Obama does it, why not me? [10:19] That was not the correct answer for many conservatives. [10:22] And quite frankly, a lot of liberals and progressives as well, right? [10:25] Again, if you are trying to remain competitive with China, what you don't want to do is just [10:31] open the door and allow significant investiture for them to, again, have a footprint both economically [10:37] and in terms of geography here in the United States. [10:40] But Trump just seems to be openly flirting with the idea, signaling that he supports it. [10:44] And of course, this redounds to Xi's benefit. [10:46] But I think people would argue they worry about that they have nefarious. [10:50] Sure, I know. [10:51] And we worry about that. [10:52] And honestly, you know, they do things to us and we do things to them. [10:57] It's it's it's a very, very fine line, the whole thing with students. [11:03] So they have 500,000 students and our university system does great. [11:11] So again, this also involves, you know, not just in terms of Chinese investiture, but a lot of [11:21] conservatives. This was a major flashpoint in the MAGA civil war right after the November [11:25] 2024 election. And during the interregnum, while President Biden was still in office and there was [11:30] about to be the transition in the early months of the Trump administration, about to what extent [11:35] would you allow Chinese students to, you know, get their education in the United States? [11:41] Now, the more nativist elements of and the nationalist elements of the Republican Party, like hell [11:49] no, don't let any Chinese foreign nationals into the country for an education or anything. [11:53] Now, again, I think much of that was motivated by xenophobia. Right. And not just fear of a foreign [11:59] power. But again, you know, a lot of these people just believe that the United States should be [12:03] exclusively white. So I don't take a lot of their concerns of credibility. But that is a major [12:09] element of the MAGA movement. And Trump, again, seems to be indicating, yeah, I mean, if Xi wants to [12:14] send, you know, however many students over to the United States, yeah, why not? In addition to the [12:20] investiture and the procurement of real estate in the United States. So again, what Hannity was [12:25] trying to do is like, well, what if China has nefarious intentions, both with respect to real [12:30] estate and the people that they send over here, right? I think one concern is much more legitimate [12:36] than the other, right? The former concern about, you know, what could they do with real estate and, [12:41] you know, investiture in the US economy compared to, you know, sending Chinese students. I don't think [12:45] there's any reason to just assume that there's any nefarious intent there. But Hannity's [12:50] question is, well, you're going to piss off a lot of the MAGA base. And a lot of the MAGA base [12:53] is suspicious of China. What about this? And Trump defaults to what he said during his first term, [12:59] which is, you know, when he was trying to downplay disagreements with Putin and Russia, [13:04] he would say, oh, I mean, we're no angels either. Like we do bad stuff too, which is true. [13:10] But it suggests, again, a coziness with a particular foreign autocrat. First, it was Putin. Now it's Xi. [13:16] And that's not what Hannity wanted to hear. [13:18] It'll come off. So we had a lot of, you know, we were in there for a few hours, right? [13:23] Long time. Do you think you made progress? Did you feel like that the give the give and take, [13:30] for example, you're not going to sign this big agreement after [13:33] ours meeting, but do you feel the foundation was late for great success? [13:38] Yeah. Better than last time. You know, last time we signed like 36 deals. [13:44] Do you think like this was productive and like we got anything out of this, [13:47] right? This was, you got something, yeah, sure, whatever. I mean, folks, [13:51] again, Hannity's panicking here in real time because he is recognizing that this was not only [13:56] not productive in terms of US interests, it looks like it was incredibly productive with respect to [14:01] Chinese interests, right? So Mr. Art of the Deal got very little out of this. And it seems like Xi [14:06] just walked away with Trump's lunch money by comparison. And that's why he is so frustrated [14:12] and trying to guide Trump here, trying to give Fox viewers and MAGA some sort of tangible success. [14:17] And they didn't get any, right? And again, we've got so many other things to talk about from this [14:22] very long interview. And also, as we speak, apparently Trump also sat down for an interview [14:26] with Fox News host, Brett Baer, who's not quite as MAGA as Sean Hannity. So I'm sure [14:30] much was said there that we have to unpack. But yeah, Hannity visibly frustrated with Trump, [14:35] realizing that Trump has failed spectacularly, and that China has prevailed in this dynamic with [14:41] Trump. In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments.