Trump's Latest Presser Made Our Heads EXPLODE
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:24.6 | I always want to get a little Tim Miller on Monday, start the week off right. |
| 0:28.7 | We're going to be talking about Donald Trump's press conference, which concluded earlier this morning. |
| 0:34.3 | But before we get into that, subscribe to the feed. |
| 0:36.9 | All right, Tim, look, the press conference was an out-of-body experience to some degree |
| 0:41.5 | because here you have a Democratic, not, sorry, Republican President, Freudian slip, Republican, |
| 0:47.4 | Freudian president, Republican president next to RFK Jr. |
| 0:52.1 | And Dr. Oz talking about price controls for prescription drugs and talking about, |
| 0:58.3 | you know, alluding to direct negotiations with Qatar to release a hostage, apparently going |
| 1:04.3 | over the head of the Israeli leadership. You have RFK Jr. saying, look, this is Bernie Sanders' dream |
| 1:10.3 | and my Bernie Sanders supporting kids were reduced to tears. |
| 1:13.9 | They were so happy to hear what Trump was doing. |
| 1:16.7 | So I felt like I was in Huff Post 2007. |
| 1:20.0 | I was about to write a joyous article about everything that was going on. |
| 1:23.7 | Well, I mean, you were probably an Islamophascist back then, too. |
| 1:33.1 | Back then. Yeah, we're going back and forth during this press conference over, you know, |
| 1:40.3 | is this a, you know, Islamic kleptocracy petro state that we're running? Or are we like a Northern European Democratic Socialists? Well, not Democratic Socialist, I guess, because Congress didn't actually do this as we did this by decree. So, you know, kind of a soft authoritarian socialism or maybe a Petro-Islamo-Fascist state. It's the best of both. It's the best of both and the worst of both at the same time. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess this is |
| 2:02.1 | what John Thune is for now. And Mike Johnson, I guess the party has just totally accepted this. |
| 2:07.0 | We're just doing price controls. We're doing deals with the people that are funding the Hamas |
| 2:10.6 | protests. Like, we have, it's fine for us just to take $400 million bribes from countries that are allied with Iran. |
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