straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. Well, President Donald Trump stormed out of an interview with uh Kristen Welker, Jillian Michaels style, of course, while on [00:00:17] Meet the Press. Now things got pretty spicy as Welker pressed the president on multiple things, including the ongoing war against Iran, which Trump repeatedly claimed uh is not in fact a war. I just, listen, I understood the original rationale for why Trump didn't wanna [00:00:38] call it a war. He claimed, not he, but the thinking was, you need Congress to authorize a war. And if you call it a war, you're confirming that you went to war without getting authorization from Congress. Trump doesn't care about Congress. He doesn't care about Congress at all. He doesn't [00:00:54] care about our institutions or the rule of law. I think that's pretty clear at this point. What Trump does care about is attempting to maintain this very fractured coalition that he has had a hard time maintaining. Because he did promise over and over again that he [00:01:12] would not start any new wars, and he did exactly that. But he thinks that maybe there's a loophole if you don't call it a war. It's very much a war. Like we slaughtered 175 children at an elementary school in Manab, Iran in the opening salvos. Please, okay. But anyway, uh here's [00:01:34] how he squared the circle of we're not really at war with Iran. Your Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the war had concluded. And yet just this week Iran attacked US allies in the region calling it retaliation for a set of US airstrikes. Is the United States at [00:01:51] war with Iran? Well, they've been largely decapitated and I call it a military exercise because people would rather have it called that. It's not a big war for us. It's not the most powerful military in the world. I built it. There is a naval blockade in place. Yeah. Which technically [00:02:10] is an act of war under international law. So is this a war as long as there's a naval blockade in place? Well, we have a blockade. It's been extremely effective. And the reason we have it is they try to blockade and now we blockaded them. And as you know, they're losing four to $500 million a day. It's not sustainable for them. They have an economy that's shot [00:02:30] in addition to everything else. Okay, we're at war against Iran at the behest of Israel. I shouldn't be more factual and honest with the American people compared to the President of the United States, but here we are. We are at war with Iran and the blockade has not been [00:02:45] successful. Because what the blockade has managed to do is, it's kind of amazing. I do have to give Trump credit for managing to do something that is kind of impossible. Because through the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the US blockade specifically, Trump has managed to [00:03:02] both continue destroying the global economy, which we can all experience at the gas pump here in the United States. While also creating a situation in which some ships do get through the Strait of Hormuz, even with the US blockade intact. So You might recall just a few weekends [00:03:21] ago, I had shared with you that 28 Chinese vessels were able to transit through the Strait of Hormuz unarmed, untouched. I'm sorry, they were not all Chinese vessels. Let me be clear about that. I don't want to misspeak. But some of them were transiting cargo to China. [00:03:41] But 28 within a 24 hour period a few weekends ago, each vessel paid the $2 million toll. So Iran is kind of making money off of this war in some ways, right, by collecting that toll. And at the same time, I mean, by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has been able to [00:04:03] ensure that there's economic pain on not just Americans, but everyone globally. And that drums up pressure to get this to stop, right, to get the war to end. Anyway, it's just amazing to me that he thinks like, no, no, no, I'm totally killing it. Totally kill it. I did the blockade. [00:04:21] I did the blockade. Everything's great. You're in a quagmire homeboy. You are in a lot of trouble. And as a result of that, the entire global community is in a lot of trouble economically speaking, not just in regard to energy, oil, liquefied natural gas, being unable to transit [00:04:39] through the Strait of Hormuz as freely as before. But we're suffering economically. We're starting to see the very beginning phases of it because a third of the world's fertilizer transits through the Strait of Hormuz. So American farmers are having a hard time getting their hands [00:04:55] on the fertilizer necessary to grow their crops. What do you think that translates to? Higher food prices. Later, Welker did grill President Trump on how negotiations are going with Iran. She wondered if Iran was uh or has, Her whole thing, and I think this is actually a really [00:05:13] great question. Her whole thing is, you keep talking about how the Iranians are begging to meet for a peace deal. So why isn't there a peace deal yet? Let's take a look. You have been saying for months, Mr. President, that Iran is begging to make a deal. They are so [00:05:33] desperate to make a deal. Why haven't they made a deal with you yet? it's a very hard thing for them. They've had great independence. They've dealt with very weak and ineffective leadership on behalf of the United States and other countries, frankly, that allowed them to get away with [00:05:51] murder. And I think they can't believe they're in the situation where they've been virtually decapitated. But if they're so desperate, Mr. President, why haven't they said yes to the terms you're proposing? they're proud. There are things they never thought they'd be doing [00:06:07] that they're have to do. They've got no choice. It's just, it's so amazing, so amazing. So Welker repeatedly asked Trump why he would go to war with Iran rather than renegotiate the JCPOA. That was the Iran nuclear deal that former President Barack Obama managed to accomplish. [00:06:29] And to be sure, Obama's foreign policy was garbage. But this was the one thing that stood out as Obama accomplished something positive for the future. the United States for the future of the Middle East. I mean, there are checks to ensure that Iran isn't [00:06:46] enriching uranium to a point where they're able to build nuclear weapons. 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So here you have Kristen Welker, maybe she is read in on the reality of the situation, maybe not. Maybe she's genuinely naive and she's asking an honest, innocent question. Mr. Trump, why wouldn't you just renegotiate [00:09:01] the Iran nuclear deal? And Trump led a very interesting admissions slip right before weather, literal weather like rain, thunderstorms, interrupted the interview. Take a look. uh [00:09:23] before you ripped up they weren't ready. No, this is much better. This is much better. If I would have done it in my first term, Israel wouldn't have been ready. Hear that sound, that sound of thunder, lightning, Is that gonna interrupt, guys? No. Okay. People will understand. [00:09:39] We're on a farm. Israel wouldn't have been ready. Who cares? Who cares? Israel wouldn't be ready for what? How about Israel stop attempting to expand its borders? How about Israel stop [00:09:57] killing innocent people? The IRGC is not interested in attacking Israel unless Israel attacks them or their allies. So this is not a difficult thing to do. There was no indication that Iran was going to attack Israel, that an attack was imminent. But Trump was stupid enough [00:10:18] to get goaded into a war against Iran at Israel's behalf anyway. I don't give a damn about what Israel is or isn't ready for. This is Israel's mess. This is also the United States' mess, [00:10:34] thanks to our gullible, idiotic, incompetent president. And now we're in a quagmire. So, If you're going to allow the desires and the wants of the Israeli government to lead your [00:10:51] foreign policy, then you're going to make the worst decisions and that's what we're seeing here. Neither Trump nor Welker followed up on that topic, but Welker did press Trump on his promise during his campaigning, of course, to avoid starting any new wars, which Trump [00:11:10] is now claiming he never stated. So you're saying you didn't break your promise and yet, Mr. President, in your first term, you held to that promise. And it was so fundamental to who you were as a candidate to a first term president. What changed because you insisted no new wars? [00:11:29] Look, of all, didn't guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military, I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment, we had nothing. I built a tremendous military. Biden gave a lot of it away, but It's still a relatively small portion compared to what I built. minute. Why would I build a military? Now, I didn't [00:11:50] want to use this, but I'm doing you and everybody else a big favor. In the midst of the greatest stock market in history, in the midst of the most successful country, because as you know in the last time we were dead country. Trump not only claimed multiple times repeatedly [00:12:08] that he would start no new wars. He also falsely claimed that he ended like eight wars, which wasn't true. He failed in ending the war in Ukraine. And uh the other thing that he lied about on the campaign trail is he claimed that he wanted to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, [00:12:26] including in the Pentagon. But that didn't happen, did it? Instead, we got a president who is saying to the American people and to Congress, that a trillion dollars allocated [00:12:44] for the National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon funding bill, not enough, trillion dollars, not enough. He's asking for $1.5 trillion. He is a liar. And the American people who voted for him unfortunately did get hoodwinked. Some people have woken up, others have decided [00:13:05] to remain in the cult. as they pay those exorbitant gas prices at the pump and experience what we're all experiencing at the grocery store. Congratulations. I hope you're enjoying your little cult. [00:13:21] We gotta take a break, but when we come back, I wanna tell you about the second half of Trump's interview with Welker because they got into some other topics including rigged elections. You don't wanna miss that. That's when he started to get really irritated and [00:13:37] eventually stormed off the set. So stick around for that. We'll be right back. uh