Trump's Sunday Just Got Even Uglier...

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Why did Donald Trump get booed in Tennessee and then head to the President's Cup in Chicago?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
After getting booed at a Tennessee college football game yesterday, Donald Trump is off to another sporting event where he's now made himself the honorary chairman of the President's Cup in Chicago. He's heading to Medina Country Club. While the American people are suffering, while gas and diesel prices hit record highs and the American people are feeling the pain right now, he's off. To another sporting event on the taxpayer dime. He spoke with the press briefly before taking off to Chicago. And he said, We have the best poverty in the United States right now. Here's what he said: play this clip.
Donald J. Trump 0:37
We have the best uh I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country. In other words, there's less poverty now than at any time in the history of our
Ben Meiselas 0:51
And then he said, but don't worry, yes, gas and diesel prices are high, but the price of oil will come down. It will be dropping very soon once Iran gives up, he says. Here, play this clip.
Donald J. Trump 1:03
With all of that, oil will come dropping down as soon as Iran gives up, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon, oil is gonna come plummeting down and oil prices are coming down. But prices for groceries have come way down from Biden. Almost every price has come way down. And remember one thing, oil is less expensive now than it was under the Biden administration. But with all of that being said, we're taking tremendous amounts of oil out. Uh last night we took a record amount of oil out from the Harmo Strait, more than we took out before the war. Thank you very much, sir.
Ben Meiselas 1:43
And then he said, Did you know that last night we took in a record amount of oil through the Strait of Hormuz? More than when the war started. How about that? More than the war. More than when the war started. Here, play this clip.
Donald J. Trump 1:56
Uh, last night we took a record amount of oil out from the Harmbow Strait, more than we took out before the war. Thank you very much.
Ben Meiselas 2:07
So I'm trying to get this straight, Donald.

What is Trump’s claim about record‑low U.S. poverty and how does he link it to oil prices?

Ben Meiselas 2:10
So you're saying that the oil prices are gonna drop as soon as the war ends and Iran gives up, but we're taking in more oil than before the war. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Then ranting and raving like a lunatic as he was heading to Chicago. He's posting things like this. More people are working in the United States right now than at any point in history. Things are amazing. Everybody is rich. This is the golden age right now. He then send Treasury Secretary Besson to make his rounds on state regime media. And Besson says, Yeah, so Iran's claiming they want to open up the Strait of Hormuz if we do a deal. We don't even care anymore, because we control the Strait of Hormuz. The straits are open, everybody.
Ben Meiselas 2:49
Here, play this clip.
Scott Bessent 2:53
Feeling the pressure here and that's that's why they want a deal. And you you you saw when President Trump was leaving the White House this morning, the the Iranians say they'll open the straits within seven days. Larry, the straits are open. That if you take out the if you take out the Iranian oil, which we're not letting out, we are not letting it out, that we're averaging now
Ben Meiselas 3:15
Really, because if the straits are open, Besson, then why don't you put the Navy destroyers and the aircraft carriers through them if they're really open? And if they're really open, then why is the price of gas and diesel continuing to surge? We know it's not open. Also, it should be noted that Iran was able to capture yet another drone belonging to the United States, a submersive drone in the Strait of Hormuz. It sure sounds like it's And also, as we reported yesterday, Iran seemed to launch more mines in that southern route in the Strait of Ramuz. And then, like almost every other day, I've been reporting about another tanker being hit in the Strait of Ramuz. But okay, Besson, sure, whatever. I mean, the Besson propaganda is like the worst propaganda, also.
Ben Meiselas 3:58
Like, we all know this guy's lying. Then he says, also, China has substantially reduced its assistance to Iran. Here a play of the. Clip.
Scott Bessent 4:06
I I I again um I have great respect for General King, but he is mistaken here.

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