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Chapter 1: What bizarre moments occurred during Trump's latest Cabinet meeting?
No secret that Donald Trump loves attention. He loves to be on television. He loves to be in the media. My question is, though, that I've noticed these cabinet meetings that Donald Trump has, it's starting to creep in gradually, gradually, gradually, every time he has a cabinet meeting. For some reason, the either broadcast or cable news channels
air these things some of them do the whole entire thing live now they got so much criticism you know in during the first run in 2016 about airing donald trump's rallies just willy-nilly without fact checking because you know he has a problem with the truth and so the same thing is sort of happening instead of like a trump rally it has become the trump cabinet meeting which becomes a trump rally which becomes propaganda and lies about what he wants the mission all of that so
This time, though, was a lot about this latest cabinet meeting that just happened was mostly about the war. But it seemed odd that he sort of talked about the war, but then kept veering off into other things after he gave the propaganda. And through that, through talking about the war, he came up with propaganda. But it was just sort of side note things that's weird.
And I kept wondering, why are we doing this? What's going on? This is not good. What's going on? Take the information, watch it, record it, and then give context to it by playing it back to your audience. That's how I feel. Because... That's how people become the most informed about the truth. But the thing is, back to, I felt like when I was watching it, like, what's up? He's bored.
And sure enough, this news report, this breaking news report happened. Roll it.
Yeah, Willie, good morning. That's right. Look, some really illuminating reporting here just about the growing tension that exists within the White House on the messaging on the war with Iran. That's from the president himself and also the White House communications team. I spoke with three different White House officials about this, two of which were actively still employed at the White House.
One of them told me that the president's messaging around Iran over the past couple of weeks, but increasingly so, has been hyperbolic. They continue to say that the president has essentially grown bored with the war in Iran and is looking to round things up and has already shifted his energy to more domestic issues.
Another official was telling me that typically a strategy of the president's that he's employed over the years is essentially lying to the American people, but knowing that eventually they will get on board with some of the things that he's saying as he kind of slowly ingests that energy. into their system. But this time around, in a warlike setting, that's not necessarily the case.
It's not hitting the same way it has previously. There's also this second component and frustration amongst folks inside the White House walls about the social media strategy taking place about the war in Iran right now. We've seen over the past couple of weeks White House social media accounts posting a lot of these meme-like posts, essentially
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Chapter 2: Why is Trump showing signs of boredom with the Iran war?
I mean, it's just really juvenile. And one wonders, like, what is happening? This can't be real. This can't be the United States of America, which sort of decides the trajectory of the world, especially when you are starting wars and you have the power to somewhat end a war. Now, he's bored.
Now, imagine how the families of the 175 mostly schoolgirls, the people who died because of a mistake reportedly by the U.S. military and the U.S., the Department of Justice or the Defense Secretary. And he's bored. But the truth to it is, yeah, he seems bored.
And if this doesn't give you an indication that he is not a serious person and he is bored with what's going on, let's talk about Sharpies. Watch.
For $25 million, and it would be better, it would be better. See this pen right here? This pen is an interesting example. It's the same thing. So this pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well. I like it. They can't have the pen the way it was. You know what it is. I don't want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well. Sharpie. So I came here. They have $1,000 pens.
And, you know, you hand pens out. You're signing, and you're handing them out. You're handing them out to all these people. Sometimes you have 30, 40 people. And they were $1,000 apiece. Beautiful pen. Ballpoint. Thousand who's gold silver gorgeous, but I'm handing out to kids that don't even know what they know. What is this mommy? This is kids.
They're getting a pen for a thousand dollars They have no idea what it is and I'm and I feel guilty because I'm like, you know, I'm by nature I I don't you know, it's the government.
I love the government like I love okay We got it this went on for an extraordinary in inordinate amount of time Like, why are we talking about, why is he talking about Sharpies when we're in the middle of a war? Again, I go back to why are we airing cabinet meetings live? Because this is, how is this productive for the American people? What do they get out of this by having that run?
Couldn't there be more important information that they are learning while he is sitting there waxing poetic about Sharpies? And also, in the same cabinet meetings, spouting racist words. propaganda or racist theories about Somali Americans, Somalian Americans and Somalia itself. Watch.
And in the case of Minnesota, it's a lot, it's very Somalia oriented. Think of it. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world, acknowledged to be one of the worst countries in the world. Some people say it's the worst. They have no money, they have nothing. They come to our country, low IQs, and they rob us blind.
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Chapter 3: How does Trump's messaging about the Iran conflict reflect leadership issues?
And Gavin Newsom said that he can't read a speech. He can't do almost anything. And then he said, he's as dumb as all the people in the room. And he got accused of being a racist, which was an amazing. I thought it was the worst interview I've ever seen anybody give. He's actually a very stupid.
So he's a very stupid person. How is he insulting and calling people by name and demeaning people who have disabilities? How is that productive? Why are we listening to that, to this crazy person? And then this is, I think, one of the most important things that he said, because I don't think he realized that this was a self-owned.
And if I were in that room or and most people who can think logically and maybe are not MAGA brained, they would be thinking the same thing. Like, wait a minute. Are you talking about yourself? And even so, even if they are MAGA, they had to have thought of this because Donald Trump says he doesn't want a stupid person as president.
I think that that statement, that interview, he admitted that he's a stupid person. I don't want a stupid person being president, you know?
Is he talking about himself? Is he talking about himself? That's what everyone wonders. And most people don't want a super president. And the polling shows right now most people think that we have one. Again, why are we hearing this? Why is this being run live on the networks, on some of the networks? How is this productive just for him to sit there and insult people and to give misinformation?
Now, something I thought that was good that came out of that was that his hypocrisy on mail-in ballots. He believes that it's a mail-in scam. It's mail-in cheating, he says, to vote by mail. And lo and behold, guess who voted by mail?
Tell me about mail-in ballots going.
You may not use the mail-in ballot. You probably said, yeah, I did.
You know what?
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Chapter 4: What concerns do White House officials have about Trump's communication strategy?
Because I'm president of the United States and because of the fact that I'm president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot for elections that took place in Florida because I felt I should be here instead of being in the beautiful sunshine.
You were in Palm Beach, sir, the last few weekends.
That's right. And I decided that I was going to vote by mail-in ballot because I couldn't be there because I had a lot of different things. But, you know, we have exceptions for mail-in ballots. You do know that, right? So if you're away, we have an exception. If you're in the military, we have an exception. If you're on a business trip, we have an exception.
If you're disabled, we have an exception.
Chapter 5: How is social media influencing the perception of the Iran war?
And if you're ill, If you're not feeling good, whatever. So I was away, mostly in Washington, D.C., so I used a mail-in bell, but I appreciate the question because I know it was so well-meaning.
Bullshit. Why are we getting this load of bullshit propaganda with no fact-checking? He's like, oh, well, I was away, or I couldn't be there, or then except... That is why people vote... by mail. That's the reason that there is a vote by mail, pretty much, is to make it convenient for people to be able to vote. What he's saying is the voting by mail rule is for thee, but not for me.
And so now you know it's a scam. But again, why are we listening to this live? That could have been done in a report that was curated to show the hypocrisy so that people are not misinformed because there are people who may see that and believe like, yeah, he's the president, there's an exception. What he's saying is not making any sense.
So what I would say to the networks and to the American people, we need to stop living in this lunacy. And the news organizations are not helping out by running these unrestricted lies that come across our televisions every single day or our feeds of just him spouting on and on and on about bullshit. This is no different than running a Trump rally, propaganda rally.
This is a propaganda campaign and an election campaign for the midterms, for Donald Trump. Stop doing it. Do something that you can inform your viewers with. Be productive and be smart because people need to be educated. The electorate needs to be educated, especially with this upcoming election in November. It is important. Thanks so much for watching everybody.
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