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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trumpworld shocked: Governing is hard!

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump and his cast of supporting characters are learning the hard way that actually governing is much more difficult than shooting hot takes from the hip and spinning up conspiracy theories about how the world works. Jen Psaki reviews the struggle Trumpworld is having with real world governing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It has not been a good 24 hours for Donald Trump. It's been a very bad 24 hours for Donald Trump.

0:05.4

I mean, last night, a federal court unanimously ruled the Trump's erratic tariff policy is illegal.

0:11.7

Surprise, surprise. They said that Trump does not have the authority to just randomly declare tariffs on every country in the world.

0:20.2

And then today, another federal judge in a separate

0:22.4

case said basically the same thing. Donald Trump cannot unilaterally tariff countries just because he

0:28.1

feels like it. Now, those decisions are on hold tonight, and that is thanks in part to a federal appeals

0:33.4

court that agreed to take up the case. But this is still a huge loss for Trump. And there are a few

0:40.2

issues Trump has fixated on as much as tariffs. And every day the universe is telling him that upending

0:46.6

global trade as we know it isn't as easy as he thought it would be. It's hard. And this is not the

0:52.4

only issue where Trump is learning that lesson.

0:54.9

I mean, who can forget the extremely confident promise about the war in Ukraine that Trump made over and over and over and over again?

1:02.8

I will end that war in one day.

1:04.6

It'll take 24 hours.

1:05.8

It would be easy.

1:06.9

That deal would be easy.

1:08.0

It will take me no longer than one day.

1:10.0

I will have that war settled in one day,

1:12.4

24 hours. 24 hours. Within 24 hours, you watch. It will be easy. I mean, he repeatedly promised,

1:21.4

as you remember it and you just saw there in all those clips to end the war in Ukraine in just 24 hours.

1:26.3

But here we are, a full four months plus into his presidency.

1:30.5

And we are still waiting because Vladimir Putin has rebuffed his efforts at every turn.

1:36.5

So what does Trump say now?

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