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Mrs. Claus
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Political Commentator
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Donald Trump
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Political Commentator
It happened again. Donald Trump was in the Oval Office and he crashed out on live tv. Just fell asleep over and over and over again. Let me show you what happened here. Play this clip.
Mrs. Claus
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Political Commentator
We've been saying something is seriously wrong with this guy and they can try to say, ah, it's so normal. He just shakes a lot of hands. That's why it's discolored. And he didn't get an MRI of the brain. It was a abdominal. No one's buying it. No one's buying it. Here he is again falling asleep during this press conference. Play this clip. Initiatives to study the data that we're collecting. Howard Castro, God bless you for being.
Donald Trump
A pain in our sides.
Political Commentator
Mr. President. He's promised to stop calling you. We'll see more, I think RFK Jr. Speaking right now, by the way, on the same day where Donald Trump illegally saying he's renaming the name of the Kennedy center to the Trump Kennedy center, which is just horrific. Trump falls asleep the whole time. He's like falling asleep, falling asleep, falling asleep. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
And if you don't have standby dosing, any study that you do is comparing apples to pears and we don't know the difference between.
Political Commentator
Then he has these people in white coats behind him who even knows what's even what the purpose. They're announcing something that is he's not going to do like everything's he does is a fraud at this point. But he says that the doctors behind him that, that they don't really know about trend and how bad they are. And he goes, they don't know. Okay. I mean after the speech last night, after what we've seen this morning, folks, this guy's cooked. The hell are we even watching here at Play this clip.
Donald Trump
Emptied their prisons into our country. We had trend, which Supposedly the doctors don't know this. It's the meanest gang of them all. Okay, doctor, you don't have to know about it. You got other problems. But they let a lot of bad people in here. And so I think I'll be talking about that. I think I'll be talking about the tremendous success we have by sending the National Guard into various cities. D.C. is the ultimate example. People walk to work and they, they thank me all the time. People in the White House, they just walk to the white house from 10 blocks away before, you know.
Political Commentator
But it's deeply serious. Someone so cognitively addled, someone who's falling asleep, someone who's so compromised, ethically morally compromising himself, the whole thing. I mean, he's out there in this press conference saying that, oh, Ukraine better agree to the deal. Ukraine, Russia's there. Russia's already in agreement with a peace plan. Why isn't Ukraine? What are you talking about? Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire over and over again. Russia is demanding that Ukraine surrender all of its eastern territory. They want all of Donbas, they want all of that. And all you're doing is just being an agent of Putin at this point, in my opinion, based on your behavior and conduct. But this is what Donald Trump says here. Play this clip.
Mrs. Claus
Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President,. There's a meeting this weekend on Ukraine in Florida. What are you hoping will come out of that meeting?
Donald Trump
Well, they're getting close to something, but I hope Ukraine moves quickly. I hope Ukraine moves quickly because Russia's there and you know, every time they take too much stand and Russia changes.
Political Commentator
Their mind, then as tens of millions of Americans are going to be losing their health care. If you're on an Affordable Care act exchange, the subsidies are expiring despite the fact that a discharge petition was signed by four Republicans who joined with Democrats Maga Mike and Donald Trump shut down the House of Representatives. Go back home, everybody. We're taking a vacation so that Donald Trump can give you one of his two bit con artists, scam artists, snake oil salesman routines. He goes, I'm giving the people their money back today. They could have their money right now. I'm giving it to them. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Bad thing. We can have a great thing. Let the money go directly to the people and let them buy their own health care.
Political Commentator
But this is an urgent problem.
Mrs. Claus
Mr. President, is there anything you can do now? Mr. President, can I ask.
Donald Trump
This is going to be, this is going to be right now as far as I'm concerned. Go ahead.
Political Commentator
We just do you mean you're giving them the money? No. You don't know the way insurance works. Like the very concept of what insurance is and risk pools and why there is an Affordable Care act, what single payer means, what Medicaid is, what Medicare is. You know, Trump doesn't know what any of these things even mean. You can't just give somebody a check, which by the way, you're not going to do and say, take $2,000. That's your insurance. What happens when they need a surgery, a procedure, chemo or whatever do. You don't know the way insurance works. So a reporter asked Donald Trump. More than 20 million Americans are bracing, bracing for their premiums to skyrocket. And Trump's like, ah, because of Obama, because of Obama. Obama, you're in charge. You're supposed to be responsible. Obama, Obama. You're going to keep whining Obama until Obama, Biden, Hillary. That's just such. I don't care what political party you're from, whatever the hell this is just, is not how adults behave, certainly not how leaders behave. And if you find this acceptable for the President of the United States, look yourself in the mirror, because you're not. Okay, play this clip.
Mrs. Claus
Mr. President, a health related question on your health care plan. You've said you want to make direct payments to Americans, but these Obamacare subsidies are expiring now in a matter of just a few days. More than 20 million Americans are now bracing for their premiums to skyrocket. Are you going to let this happen or will you intervene?
Donald Trump
They will skyrocket because it was never any good. I'd like to see the money that is going to the insurance companies by the hundreds of billions of dollars. You know, their stocks are up 1400%, 1800% and 1624%. Their stocks are up through the roof over a fairly short period of time because they're getting vast amounts of money. I want that money to go to the people directly and let the people buy their own health care and they'll get much better health care than they get with the Unaffordable Care act, as it's, as it's known by a lot of people. It is virtually unaffordable for people. It's a bad thing. We can have a great thing. Let the money go directly to the people and let them buy their own health care.
Political Commentator
Oh, can I come with some receipts, please, as well? Let me just, let me just show you what Putin's been saying, okay? While Trump's doing this press conference, you know, What Putin is saying who? Donald Trump goes, putin's there. Putin is saying, and I translated this so you can hear it in English. He's like, those European countries swine, they're trying to help Ukraine. Yeah, I don't think this guy is looking to do a peace deal. Yeah, I just don't because he and Lavrov and Dimitriab and Usakov and all, they've said as such that they don't want a peace deal. Here, play this clip.
Vladimir Putin
Those European little swine, you see, they immediately became involved in these efforts by the former American administration, hoping to profit from the collapse of our country.
Political Commentator
And here Putin is again, and you can hear him talk about the special operation is in effect and we will achieve all of our goals. When they refer to special operation, that's the invasion, that's the genocide in Ukraine. It's taking it all over. So this is not a guy who's trying to make a deal, but you see deranged Putin, deranged Trump, like very similar people. Here, play this clip.
Vladimir Putin
What I want to particularly note here, what tasks to set in the sphere of military construction, including taking into account the dynamics of the situation on the line of combat contact. First of all, the objectives of the special military operation will without any doubt be fully achieved. We would have much preferred to accomplish this and eliminate the fundamental root causes of the conflict through diplomatic negotiations. However, should the opposing parties, along with their foreign patrons, refuse to engage in any substantive dialogue, Russia will then proceed to achieve the liberation of its historical territories through military means. The critical task of establishing and expanding a secure buffer zone will also be systematically addressed and resolved.
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And Donald Trump says the whole heritage of DC was down. I brought the heritage of DC back. You brought the heritage of DC Back? What the hell are you talking about? Play this clip.
Donald Trump
We were losing all the restaurants. We were losing our life in this. We were just the whole. The whole heritage of Washington D.C. was. Was down the drain. And we brought it back. And now everybody's thrilled to be here. It's the hottest. It's a part of the hottest country anywhere in the world. We become, in 10 months, the hottest country anywhere in the world. And we were, and I say it all the time, we were a dead country one and a half years ago. Do you expect to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu while you're down in.
Political Commentator
Then he mentions the. What he refers to as a warrior's dividend, where he goes, and look what I've done. I've given every soldier $1,776 in a check. I'm putting my name on it. I gave it to the soldiers. No, you took. You stole. You took money away from a congressionally allocated reconciliation fund to subsidize the housing of those soldiers. You took a housing allowance, that is for the basic allowance of housing of soldiers. And you took it and you wrote them a check with that money when that money should be going to their housing. Here's what Donald Trump said. That's why I want to fact check all this stuff. He's lying. The Tariffs didn't bring this money in. He's a fraud. He's a con artist, this guy. Enough. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, you announced the warriors dividend last night in your primetime speech. Very patriotic, very generous. What was the rationale and the thought process? How'd you come up with the idea?
Donald Trump
What made you want to give Back to. Well, 1776 was easy to come up with because we're actually at 1775. You know, the number was 1775. And I said, wow, I think we can afford one more dollar. But we actually, they came up to me, it was, you know, $1,775. So I said, well, let's add a dollar to it. I think we could find that and very simple. We've had a military that, in my opinion, by other presidents was not treated well. They're incredible. Our finest people. They're protecting us. And because of tariffs, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars more than we ever have before. With no inflation, by the way. With no inflation. You saw the inflation numbers. It just came out today. What great timing. Practically no inflation, and yet we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. And this is small potatoes by comparison. But it's a way of taking care of our warriors, our soldiers. And I appreciate that question, Daniel.
Political Commentator
And finally, Donald Trump brags that the Kennedy center will now be named the Trump Kennedy Center. Just even the way these questions are being phrased are so utterly pathetic, too, right? The question, like a board, a board has awarded you this. And Donald Trump's like, it's an esteemed board of who's on the board? Laura Ingraham, Pam Bondi, Maria Bartiroma, Brian Ballard, who's like a Trump lobbyist. Dan Scavino, Usha Vance, Susie Wiles. Oh, Lee Greenwood, great. Sergio Gore. That's your board made up of Trump loyalists. Seriously. Anyway, played you that clip, Daniel.
Donald Trump
Carolyn, that was an easy one.
Political Commentator
She just posted on the Extra press secretary that the board members of the Kennedy center voted unanimously to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center.
Donald Trump
What is your reaction to that? Well, I was honored by it. The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country. And I was supporting, surprised by it. I was honored by it. You know, we've. We're saving the building. We saved the building. The building was in such bad shape, both physically, financially and every other way. And now it's very solid, very strong. We have something going on television, I guess, on the 23rd December. I think it's going to get very big ratings and the Kennedy center is really, really back strongly is a very bad shape, very very bad shape physically and we were also to get, get Congress to put up a lot of money and other people to put up a lot of money. We had a lot of donors come in for record setting numbers so we, we saved the Kennedy center and I was really this was brought up by one of the very distinguished board members and they voted on it and there's a lot of board members and they voted unanimously. So I was very honored by. Thank you.
Political Commentator
There you have it folks. Let me know what you think right there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. We appreciate you. Thank you for watching.
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Episode: Trump Crashes Out in Oval as Health Worries Grow
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Date: December 20, 2025
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers take a deep dive into recent public appearances by Donald Trump that have fueled speculation about his declining health and cognitive fitness. The discussion focuses on alarming footage of Trump apparently falling asleep during a high-stakes Oval Office press conference, his incoherent policy statements on major issues like health care and Ukraine, and controversial moves such as the renaming of the Kennedy Center. The brothers provide fact-checks, pointed political commentary, and their signature blend of humor and dead-serious analysis about the condition of American democracy under Trump’s leadership.
Trump’s vague and deferential comments about Ukraine’s fate and negotiations with Russia are juxtaposed with translated soundbites of Vladimir Putin making aggressive and dismissive remarks about the West.
[06:18] “I hope Ukraine moves quickly because Russia’s there…”
— Donald Trump during the press conference
The hosts note the striking similarities in tenor between Trump and Putin’s messaging, raising questions about Trump’s motives and allegiances.
[10:18] “Those European little swine, you see, they immediately became involved in these efforts by the former American administration, hoping to profit from the collapse of our country.”
— Vladimir Putin (clip translation)
Trump’s proposal to end ACA subsidies and “just give people money” for their health coverage is dissected and dismissed as unserious and out of touch with basic insurance principles.
[08:57] “They will skyrocket because it was never any good. [...] I want that money to go to the people directly.”
— Donald Trump
The hosts highlight how millions stand to lose health care, yet the administration and House have gone on vacation.
[07:23] “You don’t know the way insurance works. [...] This is not how adults behave, certainly not how leaders behave. And if you find this acceptable... look yourself in the mirror, because you’re not.”
— Political Commentator
Trump touts the so-called “warrior’s dividend”—a one-time $1,776 check for soldiers—while the hosts point out the money was redirected from housing allowances and not from increased government revenue, as claimed.
[15:20] “$1,776 was easy to come up with because we’re actually at $1,775. [...] And I said, well, let’s add a dollar to it.”
— Donald Trump
Ben (and brothers) lambaste Trump’s misinformation and boastful retelling, exposing the inconsistencies and theatrics.
Discussion moves to reports Trump has renamed the Kennedy Center to the “Trump Kennedy Center” via a board packed with loyalists rather than through any legitimate authority.
[17:21] “The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country… So I was very honored.”
— Donald Trump
| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |---------------|-----------|-------------| | 02:45 | “Donald Trump was in the Oval Office and he crashed out on live TV. Just fell asleep over and over and over again. Let me show you what happened here.” | Political Commentator | | 03:11 | “We’ve been saying something is seriously wrong with this guy… No one’s buying it.” | Political Commentator | | 04:42 | “Someone so cognitively addled, someone who’s falling asleep, someone who’s so compromised… he’s just being an agent of Putin at this point.” | Political Commentator | | 06:18 | “I hope Ukraine moves quickly because Russia’s there… every time they take too much stand and Russia changes.” | Donald Trump | | 07:23 | “You don’t know the way insurance works... This is not how adults behave, certainly not how leaders behave. And if you find this acceptable... look yourself in the mirror, because you’re not.” | Political Commentator | | 08:57 | “They will skyrocket because it was never any good. [...] I want that money to go to the people directly.” | Donald Trump | | 10:18 | “Those European little swine... they immediately became involved in these efforts by the former American administration, hoping to profit from the collapse of our country.” | Vladimir Putin (clip) | | 13:48 | “We were losing all the restaurants. We were losing our life... The whole heritage of Washington D.C. was... down the drain. And we brought it back.” | Donald Trump | | 15:20 | “$1,776 was easy to come up with because we’re actually at $1,775. ...Let’s add a dollar to it.” | Donald Trump | | 17:21 | “The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country… So I was very honored.” | Donald Trump |
The brothers remain sharply critical, mixing biting humor and incredulity with profound concern for democracy and leadership standards. There’s a persistent theme of warning: the state of Trump’s leadership is not merely embarrassing—it’s actively dangerous, both in terms of domestic policy competence and international alliances. Their fact-checking is thorough, and their banter is pointed and energetic, maintaining an informal and engaged tone throughout.
This episode is an urgent, humorous, and scathing indictment of Trump’s current state, underscored by the Meiselas brothers’ characteristic blend of camaraderie and political activism.