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Political Commentator
So Donald Trump's chief propagandist, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt, held a press conference where she invited 10 year olds to ask questions and she actually crumbled under the questioning by the 10 year olds who were serving up the biggest kind of softballs in the world. Like a 10 year old asked her who is Donald Trump's favorite president besides himself? And Caroline Levitt like froze and she couldn't really answer it. Play this clip.
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Caroline Levitt
Nora, go ahead.
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Political Commentator
Which income's favorite president besides himself?
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Caroline Levitt
That's a good question because it would be probably himself. No, I think that perhaps he would say George Washington. I know he speaks very highly of George Washington, who was of course the first president of our great country and he has his big beautiful portrait hanging in the Oval Office above the fireplace. Good question.
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Political Commentator
By the way. Do you think that the only president who she knows other than Donald Trump is George Washington? You think that's why she just says George Washington? I mean remember earlier in the day when Kristi Noem, the dog killing Homeland Security Secretary was was asked what is habeas corpus? And she didn't know and literally responded the exact opposite of what habeas corpus is and said that means that Donald Trump can send people away without a hearing. And then Senator Kim asked Kristi Noem, where in the Constitution does it mention habeas corpus? And she's like, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe you want to look into Article 1 under the powers of Congress. I bet you these 10 year olds probably know that. Dog killer Christine Ohm the next question for propagandist Caroline Levitt was how many people has Donald Trump fired? To which Caroline Levitt of course lies Again. She kind of glitches out when she gets asked this question here. Play this clip. How many people has fired?
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Caroline Levitt
How many people has he fired thus far? Actually, we have not had anyone fired with the exception of one individual who did leave their job. But we have a great team here. So far so good. Thank you for the question.
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Political Commentator
Why don't you tell the kids about all of the veterans that he fired? Why don't you tell the kids about all of the park rangers and government workers performing essential functions that Donald Trump fired? Why don't you tell the kids about how you fired all of these people who work at female who are unable to respond to disasters. Now why don't you actually talk about how there was a hostile government takeover where you not just fired people but defame them and said it was for performance related reasons when it was not. And now you've deprived Americans of essential services that are absolutely needed. The next question from one of the 10 year old kids is what is Donald Trump going to do about climate change? Now Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's top propagandist did not like this climate change question. Play this clip.
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Caroline Levitt
Yeah. What is Donald Trump going to do about climate change? What is Donald Trump going to do about climate change? Well, that is a very good question. The president cares very much about our environment. He says all the time. He wants to have the cleanest air, the cleanest water, the cleanest environment for the world. He also cares very much about our energy independence and ensuring that that we can keep the lights on in our homes at a very cheap rate. So we want to make energy here in the United States because we do it cleaner and better than everyone. So I think that's how the President would answer that.
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Political Commentator
That's how you answer the question to little kids. He also cares much about energy independence. You know, under former President Biden, we were actually energy independent for the first time and we cared about climate change. Why don't you be honest with the kids? Why don't you tell them, are you too Cowardly Caroline Levitt, look the kids in the face and tell them the truth, that Donald Trump does not believe climate change is real. Tell them your view. Tell them that you believe climate change is a scam and that you and Trump and the regime have systematically dismantled America's efforts to address climate change. Why don't you tell the kids that you are destroying their future and subordinating their future, future livelihoods and health? Because Donald Trump and you are frauds, grifters, felons.
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Political Commentator
But he's a felon. You're just a fraud. Okay, next up. The next question is what is Trump's favorite room in the White House? Here, play this clip.
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Caroline Levitt
Go ahead, honey. Favorite room in the White House. I think his favorite room in the White House is definitely the Oval Office because it's so beautiful and he has decked it out in gold. It's now MAGA gold in there.
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Political Commentator
Yeah, I'm sure that really resonates with the kids that he, what, spray painted things gold so he can make it feel like a royal palace. That's why he likes the Oval Office, because it's all gold. I mean, I'm getting not just secondhand embarrassment, but like, this is humiliating for our country. One, what the heck is even going on? Why? You have 10 year olds asking you questions and your response is because of all of the gold. That's your response. Then the next question is, what is Trump's religion? Here, play this clip.
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Caroline Levitt
Remember your question?
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Political Commentator
Yeah.
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Caroline Levitt
Okay, let's hear it.
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Political Commentator
What's the President's religion?
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Caroline Levitt
What's the President's religion? The President is a Christian and he believes in Jesus. Yes. In the back.
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Political Commentator
Why don't you actually tell the kids that Donald Trump doesn't really have any knowledge about Jesus, or doesn't have any knowledge, but pretends to do it and that he uses it as a subterfuge to manipulate people. Why don't you, why don't you tell him you, you know the truth right there. Now, why was Caroline Levitt doing a press conference with 10 year olds? Because they don't want to answer the questions. They don't want to answer the questions. Like they're trying to push through this budget bill that's going to add trillions of dollars to the deficit. They don't want to talk about that. Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill earlier in the day where he cursed out MAGA Republican Congress members like Thomas Massie and also cursed out MAGA Republican Congress members like Mike Lawler from New York because they're not supportive of the budget for different reasons. But here Thomas Massie is being asked, while you have Caroline levitt speaking to 10 year olds and not doing a good job, you have Thomas Massie right here talking about how let me go. He goes, I'm a Republican. Okay, let me be very clear. This bill is going to add 20 trillion doll to the deficit. This is a disaster. Here, play this clip.
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Political Commentator
No, actually I've got a lot of people in the maga base who realize that we could have done this differently. We could extend the tax cuts and pay for them, but instead we're not. I mean over here the people in favor of this bill say that under the policies of this bill we're going to add $20 trillion to debt over the next 10 years, which is three and a half to $5 trillion more than would have been deficit control.
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And Trump was pretty blunt inside the room when it came to the issue of Medicaid, Wolf. In fact we are told from multiple sources, two sources inside the room, that Trump said quote don't f around with Medicaid and he used the curse word not f around. But that was the message to his colleagues. The question is going to be whether those Republicans will ultimately fall in line because we know that that Mike Johnson can only afford to lose three Republican votes on a straight party line vote. He's trying to get this out of the House by Thursday but there is so much opposition concern within the ranks. Can he get those members to fall in line? That's going to be a big question. As members walk out of this room in a matter of moments. We'll ask them if Trump changed any of their minds.
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Political Commentator
Republican Congress member Mike Lawler saying the same thing. Let's play the clip this morning. Let me let New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawlor make his own stance known.
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Political Commentator
Watch. I made very clear when I ran for office back in 22 that I would never support a tax bill that does not adequately lift the cap on salt. As it stands right now, I do not support the bill, understands obviously how important these issues are. Obviously, it's imperative that we get a deal done and get a bill passed. And so I'm going to continue to negotiate in good faith a large and then to rewind here for you. This was the press conference that Caroline Levitt held yesterday where she said that it's not going to add anything to the deficit that we're going to get so rich. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump
Just a quick follow up.
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Caroline Levitt
Is the President okay with this bill.
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Political Commentator
Adding to the deficit?
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Donald Trump
Ms.
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Caroline Levitt
This bill does not add to the deficit. In fact, according to the Council of Economic Advisers, this bill will save $1.6 trillion. And the president absolutely understands, and here's the concerns of fiscal conservatives and of Americans who want to get our fiscal house in order. That's what the intention of this bill is. There's $1.6 trillion worth of savings in this bill. That's the largest savings for any legislation that has ever passed Capitol Hill in our nation's history. The next bill that even comes close was $800 billion. That's less than half of the savings that we see in the one big beautiful bill. And so the goal is of this bill is to produce economic growth, to cut taxes, and to get our fiscal house in order, and this is the right step in the right direction towards doing that.
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Political Commentator
Now, when you're speaking to these kids, Caroline Levitt, why don't you explain that this is all built on fraud. So one of the reasons why you claim that there's not going to be anything added to the budget deficit is that Donald Trump is lying and claiming that he got somewhere between five to seven trillion dollars in his Middle east trip. Five to seven trillion dollars from countries whose entire annual GDP is not a trillion dollars. Qatar's annual GDP is $200 billion. Okay, so you're not getting more money than the amount, than what the countries are worth. Here's, here's what Donald Trump had to say about getting 5 to $7 trillion here. Playlist clip they respect our country.
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Donald Trump
Again, they were going to go to China. China was going to take over those countries. 100%. They were dealing with China, China because they weren't treated right by the last administration and they have tremendous economic power. They have more money than anybody. We probably have more money, but we have other things like this. They are very, very, they are very cash rich, to put it mildly. And they're spending 5.1 trillion. Probably it's going to be 7 trillion by the time we stop. And you know, somebody said every other president goes and leaves and spends money, gives other countries money. I'm the only one that goes and takes money back. You know, when you think of it, I said, that's an interesting statement. I never thought of it that way. But we have, this is really just a pep talk. You have a very unified House and we have a very unified Senate.
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Political Commentator
By the way, earlier today, Donald Trump was not even aware of what negotiations were taking place. He was asked a very basic question which is, don't you want these negotiations to be over? Because a lot of Republicans have not agreed to this budget bill. And Trump's like, what negotiations? What, what are we talking about? And then he starts attacking blue states and starts saying how he doesn't want to include money in the budget for blue states. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump
Do you want the negotiations to be over now? Which negotiation over this bill? Oh yeah, well, it's going to be, we're going to be putting it in soon and I think we're going to have great support. We're going to make a, of, couple, couple of tweaks. I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better. But they don't know what they're doing. We don't want to do any damage to a state. We want to help all the states. But we have governors that are from the Democrat Party. Let's say New York. I tell them big ones. And let's say Gavin Newscomb, who's done a horrible job in California. I'm, you know, we want to benefit the, we want to benefit Republicans because they are the ones that are going to make America great again. The Democrats are destroying our country and you see that with the passing administration, with an open borders policy that allowed 21 million people into our country. And many of those people are stone cold murderers, killers and trouble. Yeah.
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Political Commentator
Now, as someone who lives in a blue state like California, someone who grew up in a blue state like New York, I just want to be very clear, okay. These blue states are what's called donor states. The red states by and large are taker states, meaning they're failed states without the blue states. The blue states literally subsidize failed red states. And why are they failed? Because they have MAGA policies which go drive you into bankruptcy. So I understand what, why a MAGA Republican Congress member, even from a state like New York, if you're representing your constituents like a Mike Lawler says to the red states, why are you capping state and local tax deductions at $10,000? Either raise it significantly or remove the cap in general. Why are red states screwing over, you know, the blue states that are funding your red states? So that's what's going on here. That's one of the issues. You have the SALT caucus, these MAGA Republicans in the House who are saying that they can't support this budget bill because of the SALT cap. The state and local tax deduction hurts their, hurts their state and their MAGA Republicans in blue states. Then you have other MAGA Republicans who are saying that they are, they want more cuts to Medicaid. And you have others who are saying this increases the deficit too much. And then you have others who are saying that it's a problem, that it's cutting so much Medicaid. So that's the fight right now. But you keep speaking to 10 year old kids about Donald Trump's gold plated Oval office. I'm Ben Meisellis. This is the Midas Touch Network Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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