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Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office on Monday morning. He said that he is called the President of Europe now. He says that's what they call him now, the President of Europe. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
President of Europe, which is an honor. I like Europe and I like those people. They're good people. They're great leaders.
Narrator/Host
Then he points to the gold World cup trophy, which he basically stole from FIFA, and he goes, look, they gave me this gold trophy, by the way, they gave me throughout this press conference. I want you to look as Donald Trump tries to cover up his hands. You'll see that he's got these massive health issues that he's dealing with. You see all of the discoloration and it almost looks like his hand is decomposing. But watch what he says about his trophy. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
You saw the World cup was here the other day and come to think of it, there's your trophy for the World Cup. In fact, it's solid gold. That's actually solid gold. So heavy that some of the people in this room wouldn't be able to lift it up. I think what I'm going to do is place it right above the angel, right over there. That's our goal, too. We're going to put right up there. Look at that. There's a solid gold trophy. They know how to get to me, you know, I like the angel better, to be honest with you.
Narrator/Host
So then he says that he's not able to resolve the war in Ukraine because there are issues with people's personalities. We have big personality conflicts, he says, and that's the issue here. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
And the one I thought would be easiest, frankly, was going to be Russia and Ukraine. But that turns out to be some big personality conflicts. It's one of those things. But we're going to get that stopped eventually. We're going to get that stopped to 7,000 soldiers died last week. Think of that. 7,000.
Narrator/Host
Then he says that he now calls the Department of Defense the Department of War because we need to be going on the offense and we need to be invading. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
All right, let's come. You let me know if you want to do it. I think Department of War, it just sounded bad. He said, sir, on behalf of the Department of Defense. Defense. I don't want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense, too, if that's okay. So you'll make a decision. But, you know, as Department of War, we won everything. We won everything. And I think we're gonna have to go back to that.
Narrator/Host
Then he whines about how he gets 97% negative stories against him. And he says that he does 97% positive things. All of his policies have been great, but he gets 97% negative stories, he says. So he's whining about that during the press conference. Let's play it, Brian.
Donald Trump
Everybody before me is happy what I'm doing. Most of you won't say that because you're radical left. The newspapers are so dishonest. The press is totally dishonest. But that's all right. We've gotten used to it. And we wanted a landslide, so they obviously lost their power. I mean, it's impossible to imagine that when you get 97% negative stories, purposely negative stories, even though you've done 97% positive things, that then.
Narrator/Host
If you're wondering what's the point of this press conference, Ben, it's a great question. No one really knows you. He's apparently signing executive orders to prosecute people who burn flags. And he then talks about potentially sending the National Guard and the military to invade other states after Washington, D.C. and California. So he then starts talking about how he has a friend who lives in Los Angeles, and this friend just leaves the garage door open in LA to allow people to steal the things so that the garage door doesn't get damaged. And what the hell are you even talking about here? Play this clip seen before.
Donald Trump
Nobody lives like that. I have another Friend, he has a garage, and in order to save his garage door, he leaves it open so the people can just walk into his garage, take whatever they want and leave. But all the cars are so many cars. I've been told this by many people, Stars, big people, they leave their doors open so the doors aren't destroyed by these criminals. All over Los Angeles, this is taking place. And you know that. I mean, you've heard that.
Narrator/Host
Christy, could you say, you know, it's so imbecilic. Like, it's just so stupid, the stuff that he's saying. The fact that there's people who want to normalize this, it just baffles me. Then he goes, yeah. Also another friend I have in Beverly Hills, in addition to the friend who leaves their garage door open to let people steal because they rather do that than harm the garage door, I have friends. They leave their trunk door open so that people can steal from inside the car so that the trunk isn't damaged. What are you even. What are you talking about? Like, how dumb is this? Who are these friends of yours? These your imaginary friends? Donald, here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Thank you very much, Steve. You know, in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills is, you know, great place. I have a house there. I had a house there. I used to stay a lot of time. Spend a lot of time there. And a great place. You know that. I have friends. They leave their trunk open for their car because they don't want. They know they're going to be vandalized. They don't want the trunk ripped off in order for them to steal what's in the bag. They leave the doors open. So when they go in to steal the radio or whatever, they take that. They don't rip off the door. They leave the doors totally open. So the criminals, when they go and open the door, they have to break the windows and kill the car in order to steal whatever it is in the car that they're looking for. And that's at a level that nobody's ever seen before.
Narrator/Host
As you also may know, Abrego Garcia was released. He got to be with his family for a few days, but he was arrested earlier today by ice. They want to send him to Uganda now because he refused to plead guilty to a phony charge that they're trying to prosecute him for now that he's been brought into the United States. And then Donald Trump starts calling Abrego Garcia a wife beater. And then Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, basically calls him a human trafficker and a terrorist, essentially. Here's what she says, by the way, this violates a gag order that's in the case. She's not allowed to say this. It's so reckless for an attorney general to be saying this about an active case. It's illegal, frankly, in my opinion. But here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
He beat the hell out of his wife. His wife is afraid to even talk about her. She's been mauled by this animal. And, you know, through a system of liberal courts, he's doing things. But no, we have that under control. And Pam has got that very much under control. Do you want to comment on it? No, no, we've got him under control. He will no longer terrorize our country. He's currently charged with human smuggling, including children. The guy needs to be in prison. He doesn't need to be on the streets like all these liberals want him to be.
Narrator/Host
If we want to talk about actual sex traffickers, it's not a brago Garcia. It's. It's people like Ghislaine Maxwell who the Trump regime has given immunity and given all these, like, awards to, basically. And it's the covering up of the Epstein files. If you want to talk about actual sex trafficking covering up, it's happening right there in the Oval Office, right before our eyes as we're watching this. Then Donald Trump starts attacking former President Biden and he calls him an idiot. Again, just who behaves like this? I mean, but this is Donald Trump here. Play this clip being captured.
Donald Trump
What. What they've done to our country, these people that circle this, this moron that we had behind this desk. What they've done to our country is unthinkable. It's unthinkable. I mean, if you.
Narrator/Host
Right before this press conference took place, Donald Trump posted some conspiracy theory about South Korea. He goes, what's going on in South Korea? Seems like a purge or revolution. We can't have that and do business there. I'm seeing the new president today at the White House. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So a reporter asks him, what are you talking about with South Korea? What does that even mean? And Donald Trump's like, I don't know. I've read a few things. I may not be true and may be true or not true. Dude, you're the President of the United States. What the hell are you posting here? Play this clip.
Donald Trump
Very nasty, horrible thing.
Narrator/Host
Could you please elaborate on your post on South Korea?
Donald Trump
What were you referring to? Well, I heard that there were raids on churches over the last few days, very vicious raids on churches. By the new government in South Korea that they even went into our military base and got information. They probably shouldn't have done that. But I heard bad things. I don't know if it's true or not. I'll be finding out. As you know, your new president's coming and just a couple of hours coming here. I look forward to meeting him. But we won't stand for that. We just won't stand for that.
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Narrator/Host
It may be true, it may be not true, and may be coming to me from some bizarro cult in South Korea that's giving it to me that has alternative intentions. But I'm just going to go and say it as I speak with the leader of South Korea. Screw our alliances and our trading relationships and stability in the world. I'm just going to say things from the Oval Office again. This behavior can't be normalized. Then Donald Trump says that he has no problem ordering the National Guard troops into American cities, regardless of what governors want. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
Prepared to order National Guard troops, though, into American cities if those governors don't request the federal deployment? I am. But I also think that, look, Chicago, everybody knows how bad it is. Everybody standing there knows. We know you don't have to be doing any studies. They should be saying please.
Narrator/Host
Then you have Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, or as Donald Trump now calls the Secretary of War, says the morale of our troops could never be higher. They love the mission. They love the mission of being in United States cities, not what our troops are for to invade American cities. The hell are we talking about here? Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Defending the nation's capital and ensuring it is safe and beautiful and working with law enforcement. And Mr. President, let me tell you, the morale of the troops sitting out there talking to them, they love this mission. They're grateful to be doing it, whether they're D.C. national Guard or other state national Guards. And at your direction as well, sir. It's just common sense to make sure they're armed as well. And so they were rolling out, ensuring they're armed, capable of defending themselves and others, if need be, supporting law enforcement. And we're proud to be there, sir. Well, look at the mission you just.
Narrator/Host
Accomplished with then Donald Trump, he spends like five minutes doing this. I'm just going to show you a shorter clip of it. We're where he calls J.B. pritzker, the governor of Illinois, a slob. In other clips, Donald Trump says he needs to go to the gym. You need to go to the gym, and you need to get checked out. Whatever the hell is on your hand, Donald, that's what you also need to do. Donald Trump says they all say that I'm a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I could be a dictator, but I'm not a dictator. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
It'll be good to work together. So I'm thinking about, you know, when I have some slob like Pritzker criticizing us, before we even go there, I made the statement that next should be Chicago, because as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now. And they don't acknowledge it. And they say we don't need them. Freedom. Freedom. He's a dictator. He's a dictator. A lot of people are saying, maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person.
Narrator/Host
Then Donald Trump says that Biden wasn't even alive when he was in office. And thus all of Biden's pardons should be eliminated because Biden was never really alive. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Sir, because the person that ran it said he spoke to it briefly, twice about nothing. That means that all those pardons that he gave to some very bad people, very unpatriotic people, very evil people, it looks to me like those partners are worthless because, number one, you shouldn't use an auto pan very specifically. But if you do, it has to be a very good reason. And they have to know that the president wanted it. The president didn't want this. The president didn't know he was alive, okay? He never approved any of this stuff. He wasn't for open borders and all the other things. He was never for open border borders. I've known Biden a long time. He was never very sharp, but he was never in favor of open borders and all of the other things he did to destroy our country. Let's go. Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag.
Narrator/Host
And Donald Trump lies and claims that he stopped all of these wars. Multiple wars, seven wars, three wars, 10 wars. He says that he likes black people because he stopped the war in Rwanda and Congo. He claims he did that. That's how he says he loves black people. He says deep dark Africa. He says deep dark is what he says. And then he tries to take credit for stopping the war between India and Pakistan. That would have been a nuclear war. So you have deep dark Africa, as he says. The war between India and Pakistan, which would have been. There would have been nukes. He saved the world, everybody. What are you talking about? You didn't stop any of these wars. India and Pakistan. The Indian prime minister and foreign minister even say you have nothing to do with it. You've destroyed the relationship between the United States and India. But play this clip.
Donald Trump
We stopped them all. We stopped three wars. Go to Africa. They like to say, oh, you know, I love black people. And they. And I did great with the vote, with the black people. But they say he's a racist. He's a racist. I said, really? For 35 years, a war raged between Rwanda and the Republic of the Congo. And it was a vicious war. Nine million people were killed with machetes, largely hatchets, machetes. That went on for 30, more than 30 years. But 34, 35 years. And I stopped it. In fact, the presidents are coming in a week or two to sign the. We have the foreign ministers. It's all signed. The war stopped, but I got it Stopped and saved a lot of lives. The Congo, as deep into deepest, darkest Africa. I got that war stopped. Nobody else could have done that. We did a lot of jobs. We did. A lot of. A lot of wars were stopped that nobody thought would even be possible. And I'll tell you what, the war with India and Pakistan, that was the next level. That was going to be a nuclear war. They already shot down seven jets. That was raging. And I said, you guys want to do trade? We're not doing any trade. We're not doing anything with you. If you keep fighting, you got 24 hours to settle it. They said, well, there's no more war going. And I used that on numerous occasions. Trade. I used trade. I used other. I used whatever you had to use. But we got seven of them stopped.
Narrator/Host
And then, of course, this press conference ends, like they always do. The person has to give Donald Trump something gold. You have to give him an offering. So here, the head of the U.S. marshal Services gives him a golden badge. Here you go. Here's a gold badge. It's a key that unlocks handcuffs that we put on migrants and citizens. Donald, here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Yes.
U.S. Marshal Service Director
Thank you for put me in charge of this search. As the director of the United States Marshals Service, it's the oldest law enforcement agency. It was created in 1789. So on behalf of all the federal law enforcement agencies that we're working with and those that have yet to join the team, we thought it was only appropriate to present you with higher or honorary United States Marshal Service badge. And this, this badge comes with this little item right here, which is a handcuff key, Mr. President, because you continue through your policies and your efforts with your staff to unhandcuff law enforcement officers all over this nation, and I can tell you personally that they thank you for that.
Donald Trump
Thank you. That's beautiful.
U.S. Marshal Service Director
You can continue on handcuffing law enforcement.
Donald Trump
That's a very great honor. I'll save that and put it someplace up, which is important. Thank you very much.
U.S. Marshal Service Director
Thank you very much.
Donald Trump
Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you. Well, we love those people.
Narrator/Host
And remember the whole time, you see him covering up his hand during this press conference, you see all of the, like, trophies that he stole. You see the other trophy in the background that he stole from the FIFA club World Cup. So he's got the FIFA World cup one right next to him, which he goes, it's so heavy, you can't even pick it up. He's got that one, but then he has the one behind him, which is the one he stole recently in New Jersey, the FIFA Club World cup one, which he stole as well, the original one. And then the teams had to act or the players had to get like fake versions because Trump actually stole it. So you have that honorary badge play that you saw that clip. And then he starts attacking Gavin Newsom and saying he's an idiot. We saved it. We brought in the water. We brought in all the water. The fires. I put out the fires. Here, play this clip better some.
Donald Trump
We saved Los Angeles and all we did is get criticized by this idiot that's running the state into the ground right where people are leaving. He should be thanking us and he should be requesting us to be there.
Narrator/Host
And it's so utterly deranged. After the fires were 100% contained, Donald Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to go to like Northern California and dump out 2 billion gallons from our reservoirs in California onto farmland that's nowhere even connected to Southern California. Wasted the water, claimed that he put out fires that were already contained at that point and was nowhere even connected to it. The guy's literally a psychotic individual who's clearly rotting before our eyes. Also, just to fact check, every time that Donald Trump claims that this is the first time in D.C. there's been no murders in a week from February to March, there were 16 days of no murders. In April, there were seven days of no murders. In May, there was eight days of no murders. In August, there were eight days. And numbers essentially every month so far in D.C. there's been a week or week and a half period of no murders. Okay. Because at a 30 year crime low, if you want to actually deal with addressing crime, maybe go to the red states and red cities where crime is at its highest. Well, anyway, that was Donald Trump's disastrous press conference this morning. We'll keep you posted with more. But how outrageous was that hit? Subscribe. Let's get to 6 million.
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Episode: Trump Loses It in Disaster Press Brief in Oval Office
Date: August 25, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers break down a chaotic and controversial Oval Office press conference held by former President Donald Trump. The episode blends sharp political commentary and biting humor with fact checks, showcasing Trump’s most outlandish statements, unsubstantiated claims, and escalating rhetoric. The brothers highlight the dangers of normalizing such conduct from a former president, reinforce the need for democratic vigilance, and call out disinformation, all while maintaining their trademark comedic banter.
This episode provides a minute-by-minute breakdown of a Trump press conference described as “disastrous,” highlighting a blend of the former president’s misinformation, personal grievances, fabricated anecdotes, and authoritarian overtones. With direct quotes, pointed fact checks, and energetic banter, the Meiselas brothers expose the dangers of normalizing such behavior, the need for democratic engagement, and the importance of holding leaders to account. The episode is essential listening for those concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and wanting a sharp, fact-based, and often hilarious perspective on the latest political theatrics.