Lawrence: British Parliament Member calls Trump ‘a dangerous and corrupt gangster’ over Iran war

[0:00] Last night in Canada, three Liberal Party candidates won special elections to the Canadian [0:05] Parliament, thereby solidifying the Liberal Party's full control of the Canadian government [0:10] under Prime Minister Mark Carney. Prior to Donald Trump's attacks on Canada, prior to [0:16] Donald Trump's deranged insults to Canada, prior to Donald Trump's publicly expressed [0:20] demented desire to annex Canada to the United States and make it the 51st state, the Liberal [0:28] Party was in deep, deep trouble in Canada. It was wobbling. The Conservative Party was [0:35] on the rise. But then the Liberal Party rose up against the right-wing lunatic self of their [0:44] border. And Canadians elected a publicly modest banker who had never run for office as the [0:53] Liberal Party Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. And when Prime Minister Carney visited [1:01] Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Donald Trump discovered that here was a foreign leader [1:05] who had no intention of trying to flatter Donald Trump into some kind of working relationship. [1:12] The Prime Minister's response to Donald Trump's trade war against Canada was to fight right [1:17] back. And Canada is winning that trade war. The Prime Minister rallied the Liberal Party before [1:27] the special election vote in a speech filled with thunderous applause and cheering for that mild-mannered [1:35] man who never expected to be rallying Canada in opposition to the President of the United States [1:41] of America. And when you listen in a moment to what the Prime Minister said, know that you are listening [1:49] to the international sound of resistance to Donald Trump and know that you are listening in this case [1:58] to the sound of victory over Donald Trump, a sound that will be heard in this country. And listen to [2:07] what that victory feels like in that audience of Canadians who never expected to be rising up against [2:15] an American presidency. And listen to how the best neighbors a country could ever have, the most stable, [2:22] stable and loyal and friendly neighbors a country could ever have. Canadians. Listen to these Canadians [2:30] at the very mention of Donald Trump's state of Florida, which they used to love to visit. [2:39] This is not the time for politics as usual, for petty differences, for political point scoring. [2:48] United, we will build Canada strong, a Canada for all, a Canada strong that no one can ever take away. [2:55] I feel that strength. I feel that strength in this room. I feel that strength. I feel that strength. [3:23] As Diana mentioned, we feel that strength across this great country. At this decisive moment, [3:29] Canadians are demonstrating just how strong we are. You know, it started quietly. People choosing a wine [3:39] from the Okanagan over one from California. Anyone, anyone had any bourbon recently? No, sorry, sorry. [3:54] A family planning a vacation to Prince Edward Island instead of booking flights to Florida. [4:02] Small individual acts of solidarity, but repeated millions of time. And together, [4:09] they make a statement. We are the masters of our destiny. [4:14] Small individual acts of solidarity, repeated millions of times. That is what it will take. [4:34] That's what it will take to beat Trumpism in the next congressional election and in the next [4:39] presidential election. That's what can happen here. Small individual acts of solidarity, [4:46] repeated millions of times. That wasn't Hungary we were watching just then. That is Canada. [4:55] If Canadians can do it, this country can and should do it. The international sound [5:04] of resistance to Donald Trump was heard in the British House of Commons. And the language used [5:11] to describe Donald Trump was on a par with the language Winston Churchill used to describe Adolf [5:19] Hitler during World War II. Hitler is a monster of wickedness. A monster of wickedness. Words to [5:32] describe the worst, most murderous dictator in European history and world history. And yesterday in the [5:39] British Parliament, the words, he is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, were used to describe the [5:49] president of the United States, an office once occupied by the president who beat Adolf Hitler in [5:56] World War II. The leader of the free world is a phrase invented during the television age and applied [6:04] by the American news media to the president of the United States, while most of the rest of the world [6:08] didn't quite see it that way. The phrase was always a fiction, falsely suggesting that the world [6:14] could be led by anyone or even half the world, the so-called free world, could be led. The American [6:23] news media that so mindlessly used that term for all of Donald Trump's lifetime has unconsciously, [6:32] I presume, dropped it. When is the last time you heard Donald Trump referred to as the leader of the [6:41] free world? No one in the news media could possibly use that phrase about him. The news media that so [6:49] overdid that phrase has mercifully dropped it without ever having had a meeting about, [6:55] hey, let's not use that phrase anymore. It just disappeared. It's just so obvious to everyone, [7:04] including everyone in the news media, that Donald Trump is not even a leader of his own country. [7:11] And so the phrase has disappeared, leader of the free world. It has just disappeared from recent usage, [7:17] but it was revived yesterday on the floor of the House of Commons only to rip it away from Donald [7:25] Trump. Edward Davey is the leader of the liberal Democrats in parliament, and he rose yesterday to [7:34] say this. A whole civilization will die tonight. Words I never thought I would hear from an American [7:43] president. And though Donald Trump thankfully didn't follow through this time, these words are a stark [7:51] reminder of how reckless, immoral, and completely outside the bounds of international law this [7:58] president is. Regrettably, he is no friend of the United Kingdom. He's no leader of the free world. [8:06] He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him. [8:13] A dangerous and corrupt gangster. That will no doubt be the title of at least one biography of Donald Trump, [8:21] probably by a British historian. That is the kind of description of Donald Trump that will live in history [8:28] because of where it was given, because of when it was given, and because of the otherwise positive [8:34] history, centuries of positive history between presidents of the United States and the British [8:39] Parliament. Presidents of the United States, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II, [8:44] were treated as heroes by the British Parliament. Heroes. And now the president of the United States can be [8:52] called a dangerous and corrupt gangster in Parliament. And no one shouts that down. No one [8:59] disagrees. And that is how we must treat him, says Edward Davy. And no one disagrees with that. [9:07] Edward Davy described Donald Trump's latest fit of madness in his war in Iran. [9:18] And when it comes to Trump's latest cunning plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, [9:24] that will only escalate this crisis and jeopardise the precarious ceasefire. So it's right that the UK [9:32] is not joining Trump. And I welcome the Prime Minister convening a summit to offer an alternative [9:39] to Trump's. We must work with our reliable allies in Europe and the Commonwealth and our partners in [9:45] the Gulf to bring this conflict to an end and keep open the Strait of Hormuz. That is critical [9:51] for tackling the cost of living crisis. It's getting worse and worse. [9:58] And so the American president is now a problem that has to be solved by the British government [10:03] and other European governments. Donald Trump's war on Iran has now become a war for control of [10:10] the Strait of Hormuz. And Donald Trump is losing. Donald Trump is also losing elections. He interferes in [10:17] in Hungary. And Donald Trump is strengthening the victories of the Liberal Party in Canada that stands [10:24] in united opposition to Donald Trump and Trumpism. Opposition to Donald Trump, who was indeed Jeffrey [10:33] Epstein's closest friend for 10 years and is now the world's most dangerous and corrupt gangster.