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Deadline: White House

“Skeezy stuff”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses Donald Trump’s first major international trip to Saudi Arabia while he faces scrutiny from all sides over his administration's plan to accept a luxury jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One, his deal with China on tariffs, the growing backlash over his extreme immigration policies, his hostile takeover of the Library of Congress, and more. Joined by: Senator Chris Murphy, Sam Stein, Luke Broadwater, David Gura, Daniel Schuman, Rep. Joseph Morelle, Lee Gelernt, Matt Dowd, Charlie Sykes, and Pablo Torre.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everybody. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It turns out corruption makes for strange

0:12.5

bedfellows. We'll start the show in a way we've never started it before. We will hand it over to

0:17.7

Ben Shapiro and Ted Cruz.

0:22.4

Is this good for President Trump?

0:23.4

Is it good for his agenda?

0:25.6

Is it good for draining the swamp and getting things done?

0:27.9

The answer is, no, it isn't.

0:28.6

It isn't.

0:33.1

If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop.

0:34.8

Well, listen, I'm not a fan of Qatar. I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding

0:38.4

theocratic lunatics who want to murder us, funding, funding Hamas and Hezbollah. And that's a real

0:45.2

problem. I also think that the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems.

0:52.1

So we'll see how this issue plays out.

0:55.4

How about that? Now, the $400 million gift, the luxury Boeing 747 given to Donald Trump

1:03.0

from a nation with ties to terror groups isn't enough for you. There is much more where that came

1:07.9

from. Today, the Saudis rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump.

1:11.4

It's actually a lavender carpet. And Trump and the Saudi crown prince touted all the deals.

1:16.6

They say they're busy making. Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman promising Trump a trillion dollars

1:21.7

in investments in the United States. Of that, the New York Times writes this, quote,

1:26.1

economists say that number equivalent to

1:28.3

the size of Saudi Arabia's annual gross domestic product is not realistic. But if Trump and the

1:34.4

Saudis claims of a trillion dollars to be invested in the U.S. isn't real, but it's very real,

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