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Trump SCREAMS Then Passes Out

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Trump SCREAMS Then Passes Out

The transcript details a deeply concerning press conference where Donald Trump displays profound cognitive and rhetorical failures. He repeatedly falls asleep, misinterprets simple questions—such as those about Ukraine and Russia—shows no coherent line of thought, and makes absurd claims, like placing his face on Mount Rushmore or falsely stating his convention had massive viewership. These incidents reveal a lack of grasp of basic governance and public discourse. The video also highlights Trump’s recent announcement banning media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the White House, labeling them "fake news." This action directly contradicts the First Amendment, which protects against government censorship of the press. Despite claiming to uphold free speech, Trump’s actions demonstrate a clear effort to suppress critical reporting. The remarks are not only factually incorrect but morally and legally indefensible, sparking immediate calls for legal action. This behavior reflects a dangerous erosion of democratic norms, where a president undermines transparency, accountability, and the foundation of free expression. Such actions threaten the integrity of American democracy and signal a troubling shift in how political leadership engages with the public and the press.

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So Donald Trump had this really bad press conference in the Oval Office today, and I say this with my full chest. What we just watched was a five-alarm fire for our country. Not just our democracy, but our country. Clearly, this man is a wannabe dictator, an authoritarian, who is going after our fundamental rights while simultaneously being completely lost. He has no idea what's going on in these meetings. He was almost falling asleep again in front of the entire country. This is an emergency for the United States. We cannot have somebody like this in the Oval Office who really shouldn't be president. He should be in a psych ward. So I want to show you some clips from the press conference today. But of course, I want to start with something that really is just an ongoing crisis for our country, which is Donald Trump falling asleep. Why is this just, like, accepted? Republicans just do not care that the president of the United States falls asleep in all these meetings. Check this out. Aaron Ruppar, alert the press. It is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office. Look at this. This is Trump today. $64 billion that President Trump said. That's money back into states' budgets to fund other needed priorities. Our state partners have shared with us that they expect this to help them expand access to drugs and preserve access to needed medications. That's something that benefits the most vulnerable members of our society. The mother with a child who needs access to a treatment. The person with a disability who depends on Medicaid. Look at him nodding along. Look, he's just, like, nodding along. He's, like, pretending that he's awake. He's, like, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh. He's out of it. He is out of it. He has no idea what's going on. He is very clearly very much struggling to stay awake in this Oval Office meeting. And I think Aaron Ruppar is right, that this is not normal. And it just drives me nuts that nobody has asked Donald Trump himself to his face on camera, like, hey, why are you always falling asleep in these meetings? I mean, look, if he's going to attack the press, you might as well get the questions that we want to know out, right? And then check this out. He started to rant and rave, like, a lunatic. This is a minute straight of Trump's brain randomly firing from topic to topic as he just went off on this incoherent rant. Check this out. Very concerning stuff. When I left Iowa, just before I started this, I had no choice. I said to my people, I'm going to have to do an excursion down to Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, because they're going to have a nuclear— if we don't hit them with the B-2 bombers, they right now would have a nuclear weapon. And if they hadn't, it would be a matter of days. I equate it. I equate it somewhat to the Democrats. If they ever got into power, they will terminate the filibuster, and they will immediately have D.C. as a state. They will immediately have many other things take place, but D.C. and Puerto Rico will become immediately. That gives them four more senators. That gives them lots of other things, like 12 congressmen. They want to have, ideally, 21 supremacists, 23 Supreme Court justices. They will have everything they ever dreamed of. And, frankly, Republicans should terminate the filibuster, because if you don't do it, they're going to do it. So, to be clear, he started that answer by talking about how he was in Iowa, and then said Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon, and then said Democrats want how many Supreme Court justices? Like 13, 12, whatever he said? Which, by the way, making D.C. a state, Puerto Rico a state, sounds good to me. So, you know, we don't have to pretend about that. I think we should. I mean, D.C. is literally taxation without representation, an idea that we kind of fought against in the Revolutionary War. But, you know, nonetheless, that sounds great. But what's not great is the fact that the President of the United States doesn't have a stream of thinking. He can't stay on topic. He's going from thing to thing. And when he speaks on these topics, he's completely incoherent. And it didn't stop there, because then he got confused with a question, a reporter asking very clearly, very simply, may attack Ukrainian allies. And I guess that was too complex of a question for Donald Trump to understand. Check this out. Mr. President, Polish leaders have expressed concerns that Russia may attack Ukrainian allies. Do you agree with that assessment? Well, I think they already have attacked Ukrainian allies. They've been attacking Ukrainian allies for approximately five years. And then, Mr. President. So I do agree with that. I think everyone agrees with that. Mr. President, we have the best. No, go ahead. Did you mean Ukrainian or another country? I agree with that. I agree with that. Right, so Poland is concerned. You mean, are they concerned that they're going to attack Poland? Yeah, they might attack Poland. Well, you have a great president. He was a big Trump fan. What the. What is going on with this guy? So he didn't understand. Oh, my God. He is out of it. This guy is cooked. He didn't understand the question. And it was very clear. You know, Poland is. Or Ukraine and Poland, they're concerned that Russia may attack Ukrainian allies. And then Donald Trump says, well, they've been attacking Ukrainian allies for five years. What is going on in this guy's head? The answer is nothing. That's what's going on. Here's a good meme about this. I'm playing 5D, a five-dimension chest. Afternoon glare totally ruined my watch party for the big game. That's when my buddy recommended Blinds.com. 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You're speaking to UNGA next week. What is your message? Because last year you sort of said that the United Nations wasn't helping end wars. Well, last year they wouldn't let my person in the teleprompter room. Remember that? My teleprompter operator was banned from the room. He went out, came back, and they wouldn't let him in. And so standing there without a teleprompter, isn't it nice to have a president? And actually, they said it was one of my best speeches. I don't know how that happened. But they're introducing, ladies and gentlemen, behalf of the United States. And I'm looking at the teleprompter screen, and it's totally blank. And it was for more than half the speech. Somehow they let him in in about half the speech. Probably they did that on purpose. And he shouldn't have been leaving the room for a minute. He had to leave the room, come back. But you remember that? They turned off the escalator. Fortunately, my first lady was very strong. And I was able to grab her back or another part of her body. It was actually a little bit lower than the back. And it kept me standing tall. I was standing very tall. But you remember, I was going up in the air. And it came to a dead stop. I built a lot of escalators. I put in a lot of escalators. You can have some beauties right over here. What? There's escalators at the wall? At the White House? No, there is not. What is he talking about, dude? What's your message to the UN? Very simple question. A question that, quite frankly, every president, regardless of your beliefs, should be able to answer. Your message is what? Your teleprompter guy was banned from a room, apparently. And the escalator stopped when you stood on it. And you grabbed Melania's behind to keep yourself up? Guys, this is. This is bad stuff. This is really, you know. And then it gets even worse. I mean, if you can even imagine it, I. He starts talking about Mount Rushmore and putting his face on Mount Rushmore. He urges the governor of the state to put his face on the monument. I just. I think this was just good common sense leadership on your part. So thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership on this issue. Well, I'll be very nice to him because maybe he'll get my face on that beautiful wall. That beautiful wall that I've been looking at. Come on, Larry. Come on, let's get going. You gotta get going. You want it on Crazy Horse? Thank God. Oh, man. Yeah, that'll lower prices. Well, everybody, don't worry. You can't afford a house. The interest rates are high. Grocery prices are high. Gas prices are high. We're in a war where Americans are dying, being injured. Our bases are being blown up. And our standing around the world has diminished tremendously. But don't worry, everybody. Remain calm. Because Trump's face is going on Mount Rushmore. That solves it. Deal over. These people, and like all these slimy Republicans standing behind him. You have Sarah Bahuckabee Sanders, Dr. Oz, RFK Jr., Tate Reeves, the governor of Mississippi, a racist, by the way. All these people standing around him. Ha, ha, ha, ha. It's so funny. Really? I don't think any of this is funny, actually. I think our country and people's suffering is very serious. It requires serious people, serious solutions. None of these people are offering any of that. Their only solution is, let's throw his face on Mount Rushmore, huh? My God. I'm so pissed off. You know what I mean? I think we're on the same page. Then Donald Trump claims that his Trumpapalooza, the midterm convention he had in Dallas, had four times the audience of the NFL opener, which is, of course, not true. And then the final thing I want to show you after this clip is his blatant attacks on the First Amendment. I mean, kicking media outlets out of the Oval Office, media outlets that are reliable, that we talk about on the show often, we use as sources on the show often. We'll talk about that in just a moment, but this is Trump. once again, coping with his minuscule attendance and viewership for his midterm convention. Came out, I thought I'd show up too. You'd be happy to see. The other thing that just came out is that the first ever midterm RNC, if you look at the convention that we just had, it was just announced, we had over 100 million live stream views. Everyone is amazed because the NFL was our opponent on that one. And the NFL had 25 million. So we had for the convention, 100 million live stream views, which is a record. All right. Well, look, if he had 100 million live stream viewers for his midterm convention, then I have a trillion bazillion gillion subscribers on YouTube. And matter of fact, I'm also president and I'm king of England. And I'm actually, actually, I'm king of the world because, you know, we're just making stuff up. I'm also getting drafted number one to the NFL, by the way. I don't know if you knew that. We're just making stuff up, right? So we can, we can all do that. It's not just him. A hundred million people. He thinks a hundred million people watch that crap. You know, let me just quickly give you a fact check here. This is CNN, you know, media outlet that he's targeting. Trump said the GOP's midterm convention outperformed the NFL rating show. Otherwise, of course, there were two big events on television Wednesday night, Donald Trump's speech at the RNC convention, and the NFL's 2526 season kickoff game between the Seahawks and the Patriots. The NFL game drew more than 25 million viewers, which is a lot of people. Trump's speech reached around 3 million. So he's just, he's off very slightly, just very slightly. He's off by 97 million people. Actually, matter of fact, he said over a hundred million. So he's off by even more than 97, but give or take 97 million people he's off by, but you know, it's, it's a close difference, right? It's right there. Oh my God. And look, the final thing I want to show you is Donald Trump's blatant attacks on the first amendment. Um, it just got dropped today by him and his administration. They're bragging about it. Republicans are bragging about it. By the way, these are the same people who said they're free speech warriors. Isn't that right? They love the first amendment. They love speech, even if it's speech that they disagree with. And this is what Donald Trump is saying. I am proud to announce that effective immediately. I am banning fake news, CNN, MSNOW, who recently changed their name from MSNBC and Politico, the recipient of an illegal and less $8 million subscription all time record directly from the U S government, which also, by the way, Trump did that as well, uh, from the white house as a result of their constant reporting, fake news media outlets, shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the president of the United States, the Trump administration, or the United States of America, other fake news media outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So this is so blatantly and so obviously against the first amendment. It's so obvious. And I imagine that these outlets are going to challenge this in court like that. They've already put out statements standing by the reporting, standing by their journalists, which is great to see. These are hardworking folks who are in the white house every single day, but this is so anti-free speech. It makes me want to puke. I won't do that on the video. We don't, you don't need that. I don't need that, but it makes me want to puke how anti-free speech this is. And Republicans are somehow defending it. Donald Trump is somehow defending it. He was asked today, you posted that you intend to ban CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the white house. Every president takes an oath to uphold the constitution, which includes the first amendment. How do you justify this? Trump says, because they're fake news, they may, there may be others to join them. Now, theoretically speaking, fake news, if you know, MSNOW is reporting something that Donald Trump deems fake or doesn't like that is protected by the first amendment, even if he doesn't like it. That's, you know, the definition of the first amendment. It's, it's speech that can't be prosecuted by the government, even if the government doesn't like that speech. And that's exactly what Donald Trump is doing. He was also asked about this in another clip. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the first amendment. Are you trying to intimidate the press from doing its job? And this is what Trump said in response to that question. Mr. President, freedom of the press is enshrined in the first amendment. No, no, no, no. I dislike dishonest press like you. I think you're terrible, but I dislike dishonest. I like to see honest press. Yeah, please. Wow. This guy is a total piece of crap. You know, stating the obvious here as if we didn't know that already, but just man, like these Republicans can never, ever, ever take a moral high ground or attempt to take a moral high ground ever again. Now that ship has sailed. I mean, that ship is across the Pacific already, but especially now when it comes to free speech, I mean, they tried to claim the Biden administration and the Democrats were censoring people. We were throwing people in jail because of their speech, which was obviously fictional, but also he's literally banning outlets from the white house because he doesn't like their reporting and they're reporting on Iran or they're reporting on the Epstein files. You name it. He doesn't like it. So he just bans them. It's against the first amendment. And I assume and presume that not only are lawsuits coming and they'll probably be filed like tomorrow or first thing Monday morning, but that they'll be successful in their lawsuit. So look, I will leave the video there. That was madness, but thank you so much for being on the rollercoaster with me. I appreciate you being here. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video comment. Let me know what you think about the story and everything we just talked about. Have an amazing day. Bye. Have an amazing rest of your day. That's when my buddy recommended blinds.com with custom window treatments made to fit your style, space and budget. Customers who shop at blinds.com experienced overwhelming satisfaction. And we will talk soon.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Donald Trump exhibited severe incoherence and confusion during a press conference, failing to stay on topic and misinterpreting basic questions.
  2. The president repeatedly fell asleep or appeared disengaged, raising concerns about his cognitive ability and fitness for office.
  3. Trump made bizarre, illogical statements, including claiming his face should be placed on Mount Rushmore and misrepresenting the viewership of his convention.
  4. He falsely claimed his midterm convention had far more viewers than the NFL game, which contradicts verified data showing a significant discrepancy.
  5. Trump announced a ban on media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and Politico, citing them as "fake news," directly violating the First Amendment.
  6. The administration’s actions contradict longstanding principles of free speech, with no legal or constitutional justification.
  7. Trump’s rhetoric suggests a pattern of dismissing legitimate press coverage and attacking media outlets he disagrees with.
  8. The remarks have sparked widespread outrage and are expected to lead to legal challenges, highlighting a serious crisis in democratic governance.

Summary:

The transcript details a deeply concerning press conference where Donald Trump displays profound cognitive and rhetorical failures. He repeatedly falls asleep, misinterprets simple questions—such as those about Ukraine and Russia—shows no coherent line of thought, and makes absurd claims, like placing his face on Mount Rushmore or falsely stating his convention had massive viewership. These incidents reveal a lack of grasp of basic governance and public discourse.

" This action directly contradicts the First Amendment, which protects against government censorship of the press. Despite claiming to uphold free speech, Trump’s actions demonstrate a clear effort to suppress critical reporting. The remarks are not only factually incorrect but morally and legally indefensible, sparking immediate calls for legal action.

This behavior reflects a dangerous erosion of democratic norms, where a president undermines transparency, accountability, and the foundation of free expression. Such actions threaten the integrity of American democracy and signal a troubling shift in how political leadership engages with the public and the press.

FAQs

It raises serious concerns about his ability to focus, lead, and engage with the public and media, which are essential skills for a president.

He frequently shifts topics abruptly and fails to understand basic questions, such as confusing Poland's concerns with Ukraine about Russian attacks.

Yes, he claimed it had 100 million viewers, while the actual number was around 3 million, making his claim extremely inaccurate and misleading.

He announced banning them from the White House, claiming they report 'fake news,' which directly violates the First Amendment.

By banning media outlets based on political disagreement, he undermines free speech, which is protected under the First Amendment.

It reflects a lack of serious leadership and suggests a shift toward populist, absurd, and non-constructive political symbolism.

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