00:00This is APT Opinion, and let me tell you this trait.
00:04The President of the United States just held a two-hour press conference
00:08that sounded less like a leader addressing a nation
00:11and more like a man arguing with reality itself.
00:16Why do I say that?
00:17There was no roadmap, no clarity, no strategy,
00:23just threats, insults, chest-thumping conspiracy talk and economic fantasy.
00:28This was a briefing from the President to mark his first year of being back in power.
00:34It was meant to show Americans how far they'd come and where they're headed.
00:40If anyone walked away from that press conference understanding where America is headed,
00:46congratulations, you understood more than the rest of us.
00:50And please, do leave a comment if you did.
00:53Many of you think Donald Trump is taking America in the right direction.
00:57But that press conference, wow, difficult to swallow.
01:02Stay with me.
01:03I'm going to focus one by one on some of the claims that Trump just made.
01:07What is necessary with tariffs?
01:09I don't know where there's a case even there,
01:11but we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars,
01:14and if we lose that case, it's possible we're going to have to do the best we can in paying it back.
01:21I don't know how that's going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people.
01:28But we're waiting for that case anxiously,
01:31and we have tremendous national security because of tariffs and tremendous income.
01:36You know, we have, and by the way, no inflation.
01:39So everyone said, oh, tariffs will cause inflation.
01:41We have no inflation.
01:42We have very little inflation.
01:44Biden had inflation, and he didn't do tariffs.
01:46We had a huge problem.
01:49We had, we have a 62% reduction in our trade deficit.
01:53So, Trump claims tariffs magically created no inflation
01:57and slashed the trade deficit by 62%.
02:01Hmm, does that sound like economic policy to you?
02:06To me, it sounds more like a fairy tale.
02:09Tariffs are taxes.
02:11When you tax imports, companies pass the costs to consumers.
02:16That's inflation.
02:18Every serious economist will tell you this.
02:21Trump also admits that there is a massive court case hanging over his tariff policy
02:26that could force taxpayers to refund to other countries hundreds of billions of dollars.
02:32In other words, he created a policy so reckless
02:36that Americans may end up paying for it twice.
02:39Trump calls it national security.
02:43In reality, it's economic roulette.
02:46Okay, watch this.
02:48Well, they come here and they become rich and they don't have a job.
02:52I was told that Ilhan Omar is worth $30 million.
02:55She never had a job.
02:57She's a crooked congressman.
03:00So here's another one.
03:02Somalia is not even a country.
03:05They don't have anything that resembles a country.
03:07And if it is a country, it's considered just about the worst in the world.
03:11Foreign policy, diplomacy, alien concepts to Trump.
03:16This is straight out character assassination.
03:20Trump falsely claims Representative Ilhan Omar never had a job and is worth $30 million.
03:25A claim with zero evidence.
03:27He calls her crooked without a single charge, case or conviction.
03:32Now, you may not agree with Omar's politics,
03:35but this sort of unhinged attack is not the way to take her down.
03:40If anything, it gives her more ammunition.
03:43Then he declares Somalia not even a country,
03:48dismissing an entire nation and its people.
03:50Stop for a moment and think about this.
03:53What if a bunch of countries got together and contributed $1 billion for Somalia
03:59to become a permanent member of Trump's Board of Peace?
04:03Look, it's technically possible in a world where we are seeing the impossible happening every day.
04:10I think Trump would recognize Somalia as a country pretty quickly then, don't you?
04:14This isn't leadership, it's racial dog whistling, it's basic bullying and it's beneath the office
04:22of the President of the United States.
04:25You know where the bullying is playing out as we speak?
04:29On the streets of America itself.
04:32If you're American, I want you to leave a comment on where you stand on this,
04:37on what's happening in Minnesota to you as citizens.
04:40Because what it looks like to the rest of the world is a police state.
04:46But here's what it looks like to Donald Trump.
04:49These are tough people.
04:54So this is what the people are trying to protect.
04:58Because all ICE wants to do is get them out of our country.
05:02Bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came.
05:06That's all they want to do.
05:07They're patriots and they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who's a loser, lightweight.
05:13Trump paints ICE as heroic warriors fighting an invasion of criminals while offering zero verified data.
05:22Now, maybe some ICE officers are great people.
05:26Maybe the US does need to resolve its immigration problems.
05:29But look at what the President is doing.
05:31He's lumping asylum seekers, migrants, refugees and undocumented workers into one violent caricature.
05:39Are they all criminals?
05:41No.
05:42Will they all get the same treatment from the Trump administration?
05:46Unfortunately, yes.
05:48He calls journalists losers.
05:50He calls critics agitators.
05:53This is classic authoritarian language.
05:56Dehumanize, demonize, distract.
05:59And notice what's missing.
06:01Any real immigration reform plan.
06:05The only button being pushed again and again is fear.
06:10To people who say this is what is needed to make America great again.
06:15Is this the America you dreamed of?
06:18Fear at home?
06:19No friends abroad?
06:21All allowed in here by an open border policy of the worst president in the history of our country.
06:27A man that didn't win the election, by the way.
06:28It was a rigged election.
06:30Everybody knows that now.
06:32And by the way, numbers are coming out that show it even more plainly.
06:35We caught him.
06:37We caught him.
06:38This is the same narrative that fueled January 6th.
06:42But where's the evidence?
06:43Trump lost more than 60 court cases.
06:46His own Justice Department found nothing.
06:49Republican governors certified the results.
06:52Yet here he is, again, repeating the same theory to the American people.
06:59This time he's not a candidate with an election to win.
07:02He's a sitting president.
07:04One who still can't get over a fight that he lost.
07:08One who has far bigger problems to tackle.
07:11Though Trump did seem to remember that after a while because he came back to talking about immigrants.
07:17These are real criminal, illegal aliens that in many cases they're murderers.
07:22They're drug lords, drug dealers.
07:26They're the mentally insane.
07:28Some of them who are brutal killers, they're mentally insane.
07:32Wow.
07:33Whatever happened to innocent till proven guilty?
07:37Whatever happened to America, the land of the free?
07:40This is not law enforcement.
07:41This is propaganda.
07:42Actually worse.
07:45In America, this is policy.
07:47Despite the fact that study after study shows immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans.
07:54Why is Trump pushing the myth of a criminal invasion?
07:58Is it because fear wins votes?
08:01Because the easiest way to play a hero is to create an enemy out of nothing?
08:06Oh, but wait.
08:08Now he's got a new country to blame.
08:10Time for some more Somalia bashing.
08:12Somalia.
08:14A backward country.
08:16Probably the worst country.
08:17They say it's the worst country in the world.
08:19If it's a country.
08:19I don't even think it's a country.
08:20There's no organization.
08:23They don't have police.
08:24They don't have military.
08:26They don't have anything.
08:27Textbook racism.
08:28Wrapped in geopolitical ignorance.
08:30Wrapped in an outsized superiority complex.
08:33Look, Somalia is a UN-recognized sovereign nation.
08:38It has a government.
08:39It has armed forces.
08:40It has international partnerships.
08:42It may be smaller than you.
08:44It may be poorer than you.
08:46But nothing gives you the right to reduce an entire people to pirates and criminals.
08:51I'm starting to think the rest of the world needs to crowdfund the $1 billion and get Somalia into that border of peace.
08:59But let's not get distracted.
09:00That's actually what Trump wants.
09:02Because this is all strategy.
09:05It's to distract from the fact that prices are still high.
09:09That housing is still a nightmare.
09:11That school shootings still happen.
09:14That the Epstein files are still being suppressed.
09:18That press conference ran for over two hours.
09:22And what did America get?
09:24No healthcare plan.
09:26No housing policy.
09:27No education strategy.
09:29No climate roadmap.
09:30No inflation relief.
09:32Just name-calling.
09:34Racist stereotypes.
09:36Election denial.
09:37Tariff fantasies.
09:39Migrant panic.
09:40Personal vendettas.
09:42This was not a press conference.
09:44It wasn't even a political rant.
09:45It was a distraction.
09:46And even if you support President Trump, you have to admit, every day, every time he speaks, it's getting harder to believe what he says.
09:57This is APT Opinion.
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10:09Let's do it.
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10:11Let's do it.
10:11Let's спасибо.
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