Jordy Meiselas

i wouldn't do a video that says donald trump has a disastrous morning because of i would say the pretty great freaking morning 10 trillion dollars wow we're gonna get rid of all of our debt maybe we can actually use that money to lower prescription drug prices and to get people free education and to get free health care for people and build great things around the country and modernize our infrastructure

10 extra trillion dollars that we weren't expecting Donald Trump was able to get.

But it's just a made up number.

Sometimes he goes with 17 trillion.

Sometimes he goes with 10 trillion.

He goes to these countries and it's only a handful of them does these fake deals that are never memorialized in writing.

Like, just ask yourself that question.

Have you ever heard of like a deal that is of anything of importance that is not in writing?

You know, there's a funny example in the law, and you may have heard people in your family or friends who studied for the bar exam who would always be worried about there's a there's something called the statute of frauds, the statute of frauds.

which is basically a law that says in various states, and every state has their own version of a statute of frauds, there are some agreements that are so important they need to be reduced to writing.

Otherwise, one can imply that there's a fraud taking place.

And so there are like mortgage agreements, employment agreements that last more than a year.

You wouldn't want that to be an oral understanding anyway.

I'm not sure why I'm giving you a bar exam tutorial right here.

Suffice to say that there is no written agreement on major deals with countries so we don't get to see it.

And then the countries say, that wasn't the deal.

I mean, how predictable is it that's what they're going to say?

Like, that's not the deal.

And then Trump goes around and says things like, well, actually, you know, Japan, Japan's giving us a signing bonus.

Japan's given us a signing bonus of...