Scott Bessent Loses It After Getting Heckled at a Wine Bar

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Tim Miller takes on the viral confrontation between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and a protester at a DC wine bar, and makes the case that public officials don’t get to cause mass suffering and still expect polite silence in public.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the bulwark.
0:01.8	Fellow content creator Lucas Tim, that's Lucas Tim, T-H-I-M-M. I'm T-I-M-T-I-M. Lucas was out at a restaurant with his mother. Lo and behold, sitting across the way from him was Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, who is just doing a horrific job managing the economy and being very smarmy and condescending while he's out at the farmers. Farmer Scott. old farmer Scott was at a wine bar in DC
0:24.7	I managing the economy and being very smarmy and condescending while he's at the farmer's
0:20.9	farmer scott old farmer scott was at a wine bar in dc i guess he wasn't didn't have time
0:26.3	to tend to his crops well as lucas is there um he notices some other another person another patron
0:33.7	was not very happy with Scott Bessent.
0:39.3	Didn't like him none too much.
0:41.7	And she started shouting.
0:46.6	Let's watch.
0:48.3	Sounds like something you want to watch, right?
0:49.4	I enjoyed it. We have a special guest here, and we want to make a toast to the Secretary of Treasury
0:56.3	Scott Vesson.
0:57.6	So let's give it up for the man who is eating in peace as people starve across the world
1:04.3	based on his sanctions, which are economic warfare.
1:10.7	Of course you're gonna boo this.
1:11.6	He's the person who...
1:12.6	He oversees the death of 600,000 people
1:17.6	due to sanctions annually.
1:19.6	And this president, let's cheer to the Monroe Doctrine.
1:23.6	Trump today said the Venezuelan oil... And you have no idea how much you are.
1:30.3	Ignorant, you are responsible for the death of 600,000 people annually because of sanctions.
1:37.3	How many people are going to die because of the blood is on your hands?
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