Trump accidentally confesses why he is antagonizing Minneapolis

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki 44 min 5 speakers 8 chapters transcribed 3 months ago
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Why is Trump antagonizing Minneapolis?

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Jen Psaki 0:38
Klaas Olsson. If there is one thing, we all know this, if there is one thing Donald Trump cannot stand, cannot accept, cannot bear to live with, it's his own failure. He hates losing. He hates failing so much that he can never bring himself to accept his own defeats. I mean, he still, to this day, won't admit that he lost the 2020 election, still won't admit he lost the 2016 popular vote, still won't admit that he lost the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz almost a decade ago. That one, that still sings in my bed. He behaves like a petulant toddler who cries and whines because some other kid got a trophy and he didn't. And if you think I'm being hyperbolic here, consider this. Today, the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize literally had to hand that prize over to our butthurt president in order to try and secure the future of her own country.
Elliott Payne 1:32
Maria, did you offer to President Trump your Nobel Peace Prize?
Nandita Bose 1:38
I presented the President of the United States the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jen Psaki 1:47
Yes, this is 2026. That is the leader of Venezuela's opposition movement, Maria Machado, saying she literally gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize. And it was not just some gesture that Machado came up with to flatter Trump. Trump has been incredibly vocal about the fact that he felt he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize last year. He's been hinting at the idea of taking the prize from Machado for weeks while refusing to endorse her as the potential next leader of Venezuela. And last week, two people close to the White House told the Washington Post that Trump was unwilling to support Machado because she accepted the prize. So there's that. And so now Machado has regifted her Nobel Prize to Donald Trump simply because he cannot accept his own failure.
Jen Psaki 2:33
And it is all made worse by the fact that failure is actually the one thing Trump and his administration seem to excel at. I mean, take, for instance, the issue voters consistently rank as their number one concern, the cost of living. We've seen this across the board. It is no secret to any of you that Trump and his cabinet lackeys have completely failed at bringing down grocery prices. I mean, in fact, the last month, in the last month, grocery prices rose at their fastest rate in four years, which I'm sure you have noticed when you've gone to the grocery store. But the Trump administration is still lying about it. And their attempts to spin their own failure on this have been laughable at best.
Jen Psaki 3:13
I mean, here was Trump's agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, trying to explain why, actually, it's not that expensive to feed your family right now. We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money. I mean, a thousand simulations spit out a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other thing. Sounds filling, Brooke. Have you tried it? Have you tried that as a filling meal? I doubt it. I mean, the internet immediately jumped on those comments, of course, mocking up example after example of what an affordable dinner looks like in Donald Trump's America.
Jen Psaki 4:03
And some of them are pretty funny. The one with the single red M&M is probably my favorite. You can see on the screen right there, probably my favorite. And the cost of living is far from the only issue, though, where the Trump administration has completely failed to deliver. Millions of Americans are facing skyrocketing healthcare costs after this administration failed to extend the Obamacare subsidies in December.

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