Jen Psaki
speaker
23,394 appearances
111 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5d ago
Jen Psaki’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His team even reportedly conducted advanced visits to the site to prepare for his attendance, which means they were very close to him going.
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But apparently Trump decided not to back out uh to uh to after learn uh to back out, I should say, after learning that he could not deliver a speech at the annual event that is long, long barred remarks from politicians for good reasons.
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And that's according to four people with knowledge of the events and and what he decided.
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And for what it's worth, the White House denies that.
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But instead of going to the ground zero, where presidents have gone, somberly, quietly remembering, Trump chose to attend the commemoration event at the Pentagon, where he was allowed to give a speech.
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And I'm going to get to that speech in j just a second.
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But I first wanted to point out that during the moments when Trump wasn't speaking, when Trump was not able to make the event all about himself.
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himself, he appears to have nodded off on stage.
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I'm showing you all the pictures now, you can be a judge for yourself.
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He was unable to keep his eyes open as the other speakers on that stage commemorated the twenty fifth anniversary of nine eleven.
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And that split screen of the current president of the United States resting his eyes, slumped over, waiting to speak, while all of the living former presidents stood quietly and solemnly together in New York City.
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is its own representation of how we have gone backwards.
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But it was what Trump said today during his remarks that should be the most disturbing piece of deja vu.
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I think we all remember that one of the most frustrating peace experiences Americans felt in the years after nine eleven was the feeling that our political leaders had used the tragedy of that day to drag our country into a protracted military conflict with Iraq.
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A country that had nothing to do with the attacks we experienced on September eleventh.
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And there's a very long, very well documented history of how the Bush administration tried over and over again to draw a line between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, hoping to gin up support for an entirely different war with an entirely different country.
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And that experience left such a bad taste in the mouths of the American people that Trump was able to capitalize on it during his first campaign for president.
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That message was a big part of how Donald Trump rose to power in the first place.
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But today, without any hint of irony, Trump decided to once again use the specter of nine eleven to justify his entirely separate war with an entirely separate country.
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That that kind of rhetorical slate of hand you just heard, using one war to justify another war, is exactly the kind of things American had hoped was behind us.
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