Trump Booed to His Face at NATO After War Backfires

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Why was Donald Trump booed at the NATO summit in the Netherlands?

Ben Meiselas 0:10
That was Donald Trump getting largely booed as he was in the Netherlands heading to The Hague for the NATO summit. Take a look at Donald Trump right here, how Awkward he looked when he was in the presence of adult world leaders surrounding him. Before Donald Trump arrived in the Netherlands, you saw a lot of NATO countries bolstering the relationships amongst themselves, isolating the United States. For example, Canada signed a defense pact with the European Union, where they basically said, Look, our sovereignty is under attack. without saying the United States, basically by saying by Trump and we need to stand firm together and Canada's looking towards Europe instead of uh the United States and Europe's looking towards Canada.
Ben Meiselas 1:01
While Donald Trump was in the uh Netherlands, a few important points. First off, as Donald Trump was arriving while he was on the plane, he said that uh he wouldn't necessarily commit to uh the Article V obligations of NATO for mutual defense. He says it has lots of definitions, which it doesn't. It has one definition of mutual defense. So here I mean it's article five of NATO.
Unknown 1:29
Uh depends on your definition. There's numerous definitions of Article five, you know that, right? But I'm committed to Uh being their friends, you know, I become friends with many of those leaders, and I'm committed to helping them.
Ben Meiselas 1:43
And then, of course, Donald Trump was talking about Vladimir Putin on the plane. Because what else would he talk about? Play the clip.
Unknown 1:49
You know, I'd like to see a deal with Russia. As you know, Vladimir called me up, he said, Can I help you with the rent? I said, No, I don't need help with the rent, I need help with you. And uh I hope we're gonna be getting a deal done with Russia.
Ben Meiselas 2:03
Then around three AM in the morning, Donald Trump posted the following all caps fake news CNN together with the failing New York Times have teamed up in an attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history. The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed. Exclamation point.

How are NATO members reshaping alliances and isolating the United States?

Ben Meiselas 2:26
Both the Times and CNN. Are getting slammed by the public. No, the person who's getting slammed by the public is you, Donald. Your approval rating has fallen to the lowest levels in the Gallup poll thus far. 57% of Americans disapprove. Only 40% of Americans approve. This is in line with the Quinnipiac and Ugov and Reuters Ipsos, which has Donald Trump's Approval in that 37% to 41% range, really the lowest ever for a president at this time in their uh term. Donald Trump then also posts this from the Detroit Free Press. And this is how Gannett had all of their uh coverage from all of their local papers. It says obliterated. And so I guess Donald Trump's trying to use as justification or as evidence that the nuclear sites in Iran were obliterated was by posting a newspaper that is quoting him, lying and saying obliterated.
Ben Meiselas 3:32
Because what we actually learned is a few things. First, Iran's enriched uranium stockpile was largely moved before the U.S. strikes, according to the New York Times and several other outlets. And that came from our intelligence sources as well as Israeli intelligence as well. Donald Trump basically tipped Iran off as to the strikes that were going to happen, and they moved the Iranian. Also, uh, this was a CNN exclusive, and then New York Times confirmed that's what Donald Trump was whining about at 3 a.m. in Europe. Uh, exclusive early U.S. Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites. And then the New York Times report says uh the nuclear sites were damaged, but not destroyed, and that the centrifuge.
Ben Meiselas 4:22
and a lot of the areas underground are still uh very much intact. As our editor in chief at the Midas Touch Network, Ron Philipkowski writes, The problem with having a congenital liar as president is that sometimes the firehouse of lies can be laughably cartoonish, but more often they involve things that are really freaking important for the American people and the world to know, like nuclear weapons. Now here's the thing. Donald Trump had an opportunity to share the intelligence with a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans from the House and the Senate.

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