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Ben Miceli
You see with Donald Trump, it's the art of weakness, the art of surrender. That clip I just shared with you were the sound of drones being sent by Russia shahid drones into Kiev, bombing Kiev, killing over a dozen people on Kyiv day, celebrating the 1500 years since Kyiv was first founded. And Russia sees Donald Trump's actions, Putin sees Donald Trump's actions as pure weakness as Donald Trump refuses to be involved in any type of negotiations anymore between Putin and Ukraine. In fact, Donald Trump seemed to be cheerleading for Putin if anything, and then you have that as a result. Zelensky also called Donald Trump out for his silence and saying basically silence is complicity. At this point, you're giving Putin a pass. As I said at the outset, when it comes to Donald Trump, it's the art of surrender, of defeat. It's the art of weakness. Donald Trump over the weekend again also announced that those 50% tariffs he threatened against the European Union, what was it two days ago, three days ago at this point, that he is going to delay imposing the 50% tariffs on Europe which was gonna take place in like five days. He's gonna be now moving the next deadline to, I think he says July 9th because he got a call from the president of the commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and he said okay, okay. Then he tries to pretend that that's a victory. It's the art of weakness. It's the art of surrender. As our editor in chief at the Midas Touch Network, Ron Filipkowski, who you know and love, here's how he describes it. Trump reduced the tariffs on China in exchange for nothing. He capitulated. He caved. Trump paused the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in exchange for nothing. He just postponed the tariffs on EU in exchange for not he threatened Russia with sanctions if they didn't sign a ceasefire and then did nothing. That's what Donald Trump believes is the art of the deal. But it's really just caveman Trump because he keeps on caving, always giving in on tariffs at the deadline while getting no deals in return. Concepts of deals though. Lots of stuff happening behind the scenes. Any day now, I guess that golden age is going to be here, no? Trump's turned the United States of America into the laughing stock of the world. I saw some something on the Council of Foreign Relations recently where one of the speakers said the United States is even doing something that Russia didn't do. The United States is both making itself weaker on the international stage and destroying the basic functioning of the day to day governance. Ron Philip Koski, our editor in chief, also writes the following On Sunday, Donald Trump says that he's not happy with Putin. He goes, he's not happy with Putin bombing civilians every day. But it's only because Trump's dream of a Nobel Peace Prize isn't happening. He won't do anything about it though, except say he's unhappy and then go back to golf. And then like he did yesterday. What was he posting? A photo while he was golfing of a swan attacking his golf buddy. Donald Trump thought that that was something that he should post. Incidentally, our editor in chief Ron Philipkowski explained, I think that's the swan at Bedminster at the 16th hole that guards the grave of Ivana, Donald Trump's first wife, who he buried at Bedminster in kind of the marsh area, actually by that hole, so that Donald Trump could potentially claim tax deductions by calling Bedminster his golf course a cemetery. And then Ron Philipkowski also writes, really? Trump's surprise that Putin doesn't want peace? Shocked? Shocked, I tell you. So here's what Donald Trump said yesterday, just so you can kind of see for yourself. A reporter asks him, you mentioned you're unhappy with Putin. You've talked before about more sanctions. Is that something you're considering? And then Donald Trump goes on this weird rant and he's like, I'm Shocked. What the hell happened to him? This is not the Putin I know. I've known him for a long time. Can you believe this? Yes, we can believe he's Putin. He's a genocidal maniac. We can absolutely believe that. But you were the one who promised everybody that on day one, in 24 hours, you were going to bring peace to Ukraine. You said, because of your relationship with Putin and Zelensky, but you are an absolute liar. But here, play this clip.
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Reporter
You mentioned you're unhappy with President Putin. You've talked before about putting more sanctions on Russia. Is that something you're considering more to.
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Donald Trump
Absolutely. He's killing a lot of people. I don't know what's wrong with him. What the hell happened to him? Right. He's killing a lot of people. I'm not happy about that. Go ahead, what else?
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Ben Miceli
Then a reporter asks Trump additional questions about Putin. And then Trump's response was to basically finish his sentence by saying, why the hell would I tell you what I'm gonna do? You're fake news, aren't you? You're fake news. And again, it's just so embarrassing. You're fake news. Why would I tell the fake news? Dude, what the hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip right here.
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Donald Trump
Yeah, I'll give you an update. I'm not with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all. Okay, we're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don't like it at all.
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Reporter
What do you want to do about that?
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Donald Trump
I'm surprised. I'm very surprised. We'll see what we're going to do. What am I going to tell you? You're the fake news, aren't you? You're totally fake. All right, any other questions? I don't like what Putin is doing. Not even a little bit. He's killing people, and something happened to this guy, and I don't like it.
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Ben Miceli
Then, as Donald Trump's being asked these questions by reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, on this landing strip or tarmac, wherever the heck he is, he was told that Pete Hegseth, Department of Defense's interim chief of staff, worked in the Biden administration as a holdover who was critical of Trump. And it was like the first time Trump Heard that he's like, that's very bad. I'm going to have to do something about that.
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Reporter
Secretary Hegseth's acting chief of staff is a Biden administration pulled over who has said some very critical things about you and Vice President Vance. Your thoughts on that? What would be chief of Seth, I'm risking Faria.
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Donald Trump
I have no idea who he is. But if he did say that, I would recommend that we don't take him. I mean, if he did say something like that, I would recommend we don't take him. But let's see, I'll take a look. Maria. I'll check it out.
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Ben Miceli
Do you even know who's working for you, Donald? Do you know at all what's going on? Do you know what's signing? It's always projection and confession with the Trump regime and these magas though, you know, isn't it? So like when they accused former President Biden of like, you didn't do anything, it was just the auto pen that did anything. Like, you know, they're telling on themselves because who the hell makes up something like that? The auto pen. Here's what I know. Under former President Biden, we had a stable, predictable, values based government. Two new nations joined NATO. Our international standing was never more powerful than it was under former President Biden. Domestically, we had GDP growth that was number one across the world. We had inflation under control such that the Fed was reducing interest rates. We had record job growth, 16.2 million jobs created, record low unemployment. We were energy independent, producing the most energy anywhere in the world. 40,000 infrastructure projects were going up across the country. So that's what I do know about what actually was transpiring under the Biden administration. And here, Donald Trump, whose whole thing is what? America? America. Well, he's approving the deal now with Nippon Steel in Japan to take over U.S. steel. But see, Trump's such an idiot that he thinks he did the deal with Nissan, not Nippon. He goes, Nissan is a great company. Nippon. It's Nippon, not Nissan, you idiot. Here, play this clip.
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Reporter
You announced on Friday about U.S. steel and Nippon Steel. What will the ownership structure look like?
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Donald Trump
What made you think it'll be controlled by the United States? Otherwise I wouldn't make the deal. I went to the unions, to the all of the local unions. They all wanted it. And I'm doing it because all of the congressmen came in, about five of them and the others, I understand are in concurrence and they asked that I do it. Everybody seems to want it and we'll see. I mean, you know, we'll see what the final is. But they're going to invest billions of dollars in steel and it's a good company. Nissan is a very good company. We'll see. But it's an investment and it's a partial ownership, but it'll be controlled by the usa.
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Ben Miceli
Now, I played the clips of Donald Trump's disastrous speech before West Point, before the United States army grads, over and over again. So I'm not going to play it again here. But it was like when Donald Trump said that he gave a great commencement speech at the Ohio State University, when he gave the speech at Alabama, not to mention Donald Trump talking about trophy wives in front of the army grads and that he doesn't like stealth because Trump literally thinks that stealth planes are invisible. And he says, I could still see them, even though they have the funny shapes. That's a pretty problematic thing for a commander in chief to say. He also attacked Obama and Biden, which was disgraceful. He attacked the transgender community, which was disgraceful. It was just an overall. He compared himself to Al Capone. Just bizarre stuff. I mean, here, while Donald Trump is answering questions, too, you'll see again that he believes that one of the big problems with Harvard, it's like he's learning for the first time that they have international students. Donald, there's so many schools that have international students. It's not just Harvard. That's what upsets you about Harvard, that it has international students. Then he demands the names. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
Yeah, on Harvard. Do you think you'll come for their endowment in any way or go after financial aid? Look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31%, almost 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard. We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous. We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard, but there are 31%. But they refuse to tell us who the people are. We want to know who the people. Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with. I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31% foreign. Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard. We do. So why are they doing so many? Number one. Number two, we want a list of those foreign students and we'll find out whether or not they're okay. Many will be okay, I assume. And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad. And then the other thing is they're very anti Semitic. Everybody knows they're anti Semitic. And that's got to stop immediately.
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Ben Miceli
And here was Donald Trump capitulating, saying that he would be not imposing the 50% tariffs on Europe, conveniently as we head into the opening of the markets soon. That's obviously Memorial Day, by the way. Happy Memorial Day to everybody. And it's really a solemn day as well, where it's important that we remember all of the fallen soldiers who have sacrificed everything for us. But here's the speech of Donald Trump at the eu. Let's play it.
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Reporter
You spoke to European Commission President von der Leyen. Did you discuss the 50% tariffs?
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Donald Trump
And did you. She just called me, as you know, and she asked for an extension on the June 1 date. And she said she wants to get down to serious negotiation because I told you specifically what I told anybody that would listen, they have to do that. And we had a very nice call and I agreed to move it. I believe June 9th would be July 9th, would be the day that was the date she requested. Could we move it from June 1st to July 9th? And I agreed to do that and that she said we will rapidly get together and see if we can work something out.
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Ben Miceli
A few other data points I want to point out as well. The shipping situation from China to the US Actually hasn't gotten all that much better since Trump rushed his trade advisor, Jameson Greer, and Scott Besant, his Treasury secretary, to cave to China. Apollo says the following. It's been nearly two weeks since the China US trade deal, but container traffic from China to the US hasn't shown a strong rebound. Are 30% tariffs on China still too high? Yes. Or our US companies simply waiting to see if tariffs will drop further before ramping up shipments. That's the problem with Trump's policies. He's so malicious, arbitrary and capricious that there's that no one even knows what the hell he's even doing at any given point in time. I always got to mention climate on these videos now because it's so, so important. And I think it sometimes gets gets short shrift. And not a lot of people talk about it. But one of the things that Trump has directed his Justice Department to do is it's not good enough that the Trump EPA and the Trump agencies are trying to destroy the environment at the federal level. They're having the Department of Justice sue the states that are trying to as states rights issues help the environment in their states. So there's a lot of states that are saying, we're going to make polluters, basically reimburse the state for their stuff. Trump suing them. Trump and the maga. Republicans pushing forward legislation to try to block the emissions standards that California sets. And I live in California. What, 30 years ago, there was so much smog, it was gross. We got that under control in California. But Trump wants to bring back the smog because it's an absolute death cult. There's nothing else to really say about it. So there you have it right there again. He caves. He's a loser. Weak, pathetic. And you can see it just all play out there, I think, right? I mean, it's just the behavior of a loser and it's humiliating to the United States. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thanks so much for watching. And have a restful Memorial Day. But remember what the Memorial Day is all about. It's about remembering the troops who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Love this video. Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram Itastouch and help US blow past 1 million followers.