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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

'No earthly clue what he's doing': Psaki shreds Trump's poor grip on his own government

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki piles up evidence in a litany of examples of Donald Trump having no idea what he is doing, what is being done in his name, or what is going on in his own administration, and not even doing a very good job faking it. Meanwhile, the scammers are running amok, planting ideas in Trump's head and manipulating him on issues like cryptocurrency regulation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're six months in, almost six months into Trump's second term.

0:04.6

There's a couple things I at least know for sure.

0:06.5

You probably do too.

0:08.0

Donald Trump has no understanding whatsoever of the economy, no interest in policymaking at all,

0:13.5

no earthly clue what he's doing or what is even happening on most days.

0:18.4

I mean, every day that fact becomes more and more inescapable.

0:23.1

Just take Trump's on again, off again, tariff policies, which are back in the news today, of course.

0:28.4

Remember, it was only three months ago, just three months ago, that Trump held his big

0:32.2

Liberation Day press conference, slapping arbitrary tariffs on 90 countries, promising deals and sending

0:39.3

the markets into a downward spiral as a result.

0:42.9

He then backed off those tariffs just one week after they went into effect.

0:46.7

He suspended them for three months and promised to negotiate 90 brand new trade deals with

0:51.6

90 countries in just 90 days.

0:53.9

Maybe he liked 90. Today was supposed to be the

0:57.1

deadline for those 90 deals. It was today. And Trump has delivered none of them. Zero. None of them.

1:05.0

We've seen some frameworks for potential agreements, what you might call concepts of a deal, which is sometimes like a press

1:11.9

release. But nothing, none. Nothing has been formally signed. So this week, Trump kicked the can

1:18.9

yet again, saying that most of his tariffs will not take effect until August 1st. And then

1:24.8

he even signed an executive order to make the new deadline official.

1:28.8

But when asked why he was delaying the tariffs by weeks, Trump denied that his deadline had ever

1:34.7

changed. We didn't move. No, no. It's always been August 1st. That's what we're paying.

1:41.6

A statement was put out today, and I put it out just to make it clear.

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