Trump Loses It at Midnight as Life Is Collapsing

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What triggered Donald Trump's midnight meltdown?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
Donald Trump was having a psychotic meltdown all last night. He kept on making post after post of photos of himself with the words Tariff King, Mr. Tariff. Then he went on the White House account and posted Mr. Tariff. He was posting photos of himself referring to himself as Tariff King all last night. Then he was posting this as well. Remember how he promised the people of Iran that if they went out in protest and fought back against the Ayatollah, that Donald Trump would have their back. Donald Trump said that if the Ayatollah killed a single protester, Donald Trump said the United States would go in guns a-blazing. and the United States would attack the Ayatollah and protect the protesters. Well, now Donald Trump has a different message.
Ben Meiselas 0:51
He greatly respects the Ayatollah, he says. He goes, I greatly respect the fact that all scheduled hangings, which were to take place yesterday, over 800 of them have been canceled by the leadership of Iran. thank you, thank you, Ayatollah, signed Donald J. Trump. So Donald Trump went from, we will kill the Ayatollah, we will attack this Iranian regime if they dare kill a single protester. Iran slaughtered thousands. thousands of protesters. We don't know if it's in the low thousands or tens of thousands, because there's an internet blackout. But Trump said, I've got your back, protesters. If you go out there, we got you. And now Donald Trump's saying, you know what I've done? I've been able to stop 800 hangings.
Ben Meiselas 1:41
Thank you, Ayatollah. We greatly respect you. The Hell is going on.

How did Trump's recent posts reflect his changing stance on Iran?

Ben Meiselas 1:47
These are deeply serious times right now, and we have a deeply unserious human being, a dangerous human being, someone who's currently involved in invasions against American cities, specifically blue states and blue cities. And it is someone who's making a mess of America standing in the world, destroying America standing in the world. All of that's taking place. The Trump regime is telling we, the people, what we deserve, one pencil. One doll. Why would we want more than that? And when it comes to food, the Trump regime's recent recommendation is we don't have to worry about inflation if we just got one piece of chicken, one tortilla, one piece of broccoli, and one other thing. That's how it was referred to by Donald Trump's agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins.
Ben Meiselas 2:40
Or one other thing. Well, the Wall Street Journal did a report on this, and they said, you know, it can cost around $3 in a meal. It's an inflation-busting plan. You know, get that piece of chicken, the piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other thing. And the Wall Street Journal hit the grocery stores to test the theory out. And you could, if you just get one piece of each, you may be able to get it for under $3. That's what the regime is trying to tell the people. That's their plan to stop inflation. Do we know how utterly offensive all of that is? It is so deeply offensive. By the way, you want to talk about deeply offensive? You have Donald Trump's CIA director, John Ratcliffe. hanging out with Delcy Rodriguez, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, who Donald Trump has as his puppet, setting up Qatari bank accounts.
Ben Meiselas 3:37
So while Donald Trump sells Venezuelan oil to Donald Trump's right-wing oligarch buddies, The proceeds from that sale doesn't go to the Treasury, doesn't go to the United States banks. It goes to bank accounts in Qatar with very little accountability. I wonder what those bank accounts in Qatar are going to be used for. So Donald Trump has pushed aside, as you know, Maria Karina Machado. He's taken her Nobel Peace Prize as the opposition leader who stood up for Trump. democracy before she had to kiss the gangster ring and I think embarrass herself. I guess I understand why she feels she needs to do it, but it's been grotesque to watch her give the Nobel Prize. I don't like it one bit.

What are the implications of Trump's remarks on the Ayatollah?

Ben Meiselas 4:27
I'm not going to tell people, though, who feel a certain way how they should feel. I'll just share my opinion there briefly. But then Donald Trump is out there, CIA director with Delcy. with Díaz-Dados Cabello, the enforcer of Maduro.

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