Trump Has Disaster Presser After Giving Up

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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Politics, News

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous press conference after caving to China in a failed trade war that Trump launched. Get 40% off your first order of Sundays. Go to https://sundaysfordogs.com/MEIDAS or use code MEIDAS at checkout. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump just held a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office where he attacked members of the press for bringing up the fact that Qatar is giving Trump a $400 million private 747 jet.
0:13.8	Also, Donald Trump announced his latest price controls that he wants to unilaterally impose via executive order instead of actually systemically
0:23.4	addressing our broken health care system. And of course, Donald Trump needed a new distraction
0:28.9	after completely caving and capitulating to China and the negotiations that took place over
0:35.2	this weekend, removing his tariffs on China from 145% to 30%,
0:42.2	and essentially getting nothing in return from China, just unleashing a trade war against the
0:48.6	world that has shattered consumer confidence and has harmed businesses across this country, essentially all for nothing.
0:57.3	Let me show you what went down.
0:58.8	Donald Trump here talks about how the European Union is now his big target.
1:03.9	They are in many ways, he says, nastier than China.
1:07.3	Let's play this clip right here.
1:08.7	The European Union is in many ways nastier than China.
1:13.6	Okay? And we've just started with them. Oh, they'll come down a lot. You watch.
1:21.6	We have all the cards. They treated us very unfairly. They sell us 13 million cars. We sell them none. They sell us their
1:32.4	agricultural products. We sell them virtually none. They don't take our products. Next up,
1:39.4	Donald Trump attacks members of the press, and specifically an ABC reporter for bringing up anything
1:45.5	having to do with Trump getting a $400 million 747 jet from Cutter.
1:50.9	Let's play this clip.
1:52.0	As a business man, some people may look at this and say, have you ever been given a gift
1:56.3	worth millions of dollars and then not received anything?
1:58.9	It's not a gift to me.
1:59.7	It's a gift to the Department of Defense.
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