Donald Trump just had a disastrous Oval Office press conference. I guess the purported purpose of this was to talk about low sperm count in the United States. It was incredibly creepy. He was surrounded by a bunch of women. The whole thing was very bizarre. He started to fall asleep during this press conference. Throughout the press conference, you could literally see him sleeping for significant periods of time. Then he said that the losing the Strait of Hormuz to Iran has actually been genius, and that was part of his plan the entire time. Because now it helps the United States more, he says. He said the Iran plan to end the war is so bad and such garbage that he decided that he wasn't even going to read it. He also talked about having a secret meeting with generals. So he wanted this fertility meeting to round up or to end very quickly. He then started, you know, just, you know, making noises and telling them beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. The whole thing was very strange. Let me just show you what went down. So first, you can see the photos of him sleeping, right?
And here he is falling asleep for— I'm just going to show you 10 seconds of it. But here he is falling asleep in the Oval Office during this press conference. Let's play it.
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Then he says the fact that Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz is actually amazing. Because this, he says, helps the United States. And like Alaska is doing great now and Texas is doing better. America's never done better, he said, because the Strait of Hormuz is now closed. It's amazing. Here, play this clip.
When this first— when people heard about losing Hormuz, they said, oh, this is— it's genius. They're finding other locations. And some of those people I spoke to, companies and countries, Some of those people are going to continue to go to Texas. They like it better. They said it's an extra 45 minutes. They like it better. And it's sort of amazing, you know, it found its way. So a lot of people thought oil would go to $250, $300. It's not. I mean, today it's at less than $100. Think of that. Now, when this ends, you're going to see a drop like a rock. How long are you going to suspend that tax? Uh, until it's appropriate. Yeah.
And he starts making noises like, ba ba ba ba ba. Here, play this.
And you know, they're going, uh, heading 47 degrees north, 1,300 feet, going 3,000 miles an hour. Okay, we have it in our sight. Fire! Boom! 10 seconds. Let me tell you, they need smart people. These people are smart and they're so smart that they're cool.
You know, and again, that goes on and on and on. I'm just going to stop the clip there so you get a sense of it. More sleeping during this Oval Office press conference. Let's play it. Um, during the earliest years of their children's lives.
Second, we are cutting unnecessary red tape, red tape that forced providers to close, limited access to care, and made it harder for working families.
Then talking about the Iran ceasefire negotiations, he said He says the Iran proposal is weak. I didn't even read it. It's on life support. And then he explains what life support means. He's like, you know, that means you have a 1% chance of living. Okay, here, play this clip. I'm being the ceasefire. What? For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place.
It's unbelievably weak. I would say I would call it the weakest right now. After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it. I said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support. They understand these are all medical people. And Dr. Oz, life support is not a good thing. Do you agree? Very prognostic. I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says, Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living. Yeah. Mr. President. Daniel, go ahead. Yep. One of the best reporters in Washington. Thank you, sir.
Then he says, lots of people ask me if I have a plan. Of course I have a plan, he says. Let's play this clip.
What, if any, was just made to break this? Yeah, it was just unacceptable. You know, a lot of people said, well, does he have a plan? Yeah, of course I do. I have the best plan ever. I mean, Iran has been defeated militarily, totally. They have a little left they probably built up during this period of time. We'll knock that out in about a day. But I have a plan, you know, and it's a very simple plan. I don't know why you don't say it like it is. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Then he turns to Brooke Rollins, his agriculture secretary, and he's like, so what's our plan when it comes to beef prices? Here, let's play it.
Really ill. They're not going to live. And we weren't given— and this went on for years, you know, this went on Madam Secretary, you're doing such a good job with prices, agriculture. How's the beef doing? We got to get the beef down. We're working on it. It's the only thing we got to get the beef down. But it's becoming more affordable.
This was, this was so incredible because, and I marveled at it for 30 years, I'd say beef prices, like prices of everything right now, are absolutely through the roof. And now we're hearing more about the hantavirus. And the potential for this Hunter virus to may reach a pandemic status. Hopefully it doesn't, but it's a very serious virus. And, you know, it's very, very, very early stages. Let's be very clear, it shouldn't reach a pandemic status, but people don't know anything. And here's what Donald Trump says. I hope it's fine. He goes here, let's play it.
I don't know how the hell he kept his job, but he was there telling us about this. Now, the one thing with this one is that it's much harder to catch. And we've had it for a long— we've— it's been around for a long time. People are very familiar with it. So, you know, I hope it's fine. All I can do is everything that a president can do, which is some— which is actually somewhat limited. But, but it seems like it is not easy to spread. In fact, it's in certain ways very hard to spread. It's been— we've, we've lived with it for years, many years, and we think we're in very good shape. We're very careful. And Nebraska has done a fantastic job. They have a, a, uh, a place there that those doctors are unbelievable, the job they've done. Yeah, please.
Then he says he's really glad that we pulled out of the World Health Organization now that the hantavirus is spreading. That's a good thing that we're no longer members of the World Health Organization. Let's play it.
What do you think about the handling of the, uh, hantavirus virus by the US. I think fine. Do you regret withdrawing from the WHO? No, I'm glad. So we were paying the World Health Organization $500 million a year. Look, it's a lot of money, but in the overall scope, it's not that much, but it's a lot of money. And we weren't being treated well.
And then he confuses the word countries with companies. And then just keeps on fumbling over the two words. Let's play it.
Dollars over a fairly small number of years. Nobody's ever seen anything like this. And we had to get the countries first. We had to get the companies. And the companies were pretty good, but they knew I couldn't get the countries, so they didn't care that much. I think that's— we— when we got the countries, I think they said, what's going on?
Then he says that the blockade of Iran is genius. He goes, it's military genius, just like Venezuela. And we're stocked up with ammunition. We've got more ammunition. No, we don't. We have far less ammunition.
We're not going to let them. That's the plan. You know, people say, what's the plan? The plan is very simple. The blockade, first of all, was a part of military genius, just like Venezuela was military. We have the greatest military in the world by far. And we're stocked up with great ammunition. We have much better stuff than we did 2 months ago when we first did the attack, which knocked them for a loop. But very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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And he goes on to say that America's tomahawks hit all of the targets that they were supposed to, that American Tomahawks hit everything perfectly. As you know, the Tomahawks were also used to commit war crimes, and a Tomahawk hit the elementary school in Manab. So it's really disgusting that he's saying this. But what else is new? All he says is disgusting stuff. Let's play it.
Some incredible things. There's things that nobody else has. Nobody has a military like we have. We shot the Tomahawks from a submarine 200 miles away, and that went on top of it. But every one of those, including the Tomahawks, every one of those weapons and shots hit perfectly. And they said to me, just to put it on the record, they said to me, there are only two countries in the entire world that could ever get that stuff out of there because we don't have the equipment and nobody else. They said China and the United States.
So then, as the room is, you know, this ostensibly the purpose of this meeting was to talk about sperm and to talk about sperm counts. Donald Trump says in a very creepy way that he's the hunter now. He used to be the hunted, now he's the hunter. Let's play it.
You know, I was hunted, I was the hunter, now the You know, I was, I was the hunted then, and I had to devote a lot of time to that. Otherwise I wouldn't have been too effective. If I was out of office, I wouldn't have been. So we— I was hunted by some very bad people. Now I'm the hunter. It's much better when you're the hunter, but these are bad people.
And, uh, and he says that lots of young people feel like billionaires, or he said, I used to say millionaires, but now everybody feels like billionaires in this country because they have Trump accounts. Saying young people feel like billionaires. No, people are suffering right now. This guy cannot be more out of touch. Here, let's play it.
Started it. And that's another one that's gone through the Trump accounts where young kids, they turn 18 or 20 or 21 and they, they feel like, they feel like a billionaire. Used to say a millionaire. Now you say a billionaire, but they certainly feel rich as opposed to having absolutely nothing. It's so popular.
Then RFK Jr. talks about sperm and in this creepy room, I'm like, why are the Klein class in the Oval Office talking about sperm. So I'm only going to show you a short clip of this. Let's play it.
The fertility crisis for women began in 2007, for men in 1970. Men had twice the sperm count as our teenagers do today. This is an existential crisis for our country. We had a, uh, a series of presidents that were trying to discourage childbirth and motherhood in this country. We now have a president that is trying to encourage it, and I want to thank you again for your leadership.
Then Donald Trump tells the women in the room not to talk too long. He goes, please don't talk that long, I've got an important meeting with generals that I got to do, so please keep it short. Here, let's play this clip.
I think— and Dr. Alex Adams, and you'll speak not too long because I am being waited on by a large group of generals. And that's also important, you know, having to do— having to do with the absolutely lovely country of Iran. That's the way they pronounce it. We will get started then. Okay.
Then Donald Trump says that his plan is to keep on changing, but he'll keep on changing plans. That's part of his plan. Let's play it.
In the world. I built it largely in my first term. And I didn't know I'd be using it quite this much in my second term. But very simply, when they say, does he have a plan? Yeah, I have a plan. The plan is very simple. You know, in war you have to change. You have to be flexible. You have a lot of plans, but you have to do different plans in different days. But I have a great plan. But the plan is they cannot have a nuclear weapon. And they didn't say that in their letter. Mr. President.
He then praises Xi Jinping. Let's play it.
Great gentleman. I find him to be an amazing an amazing man. And when I say that, the press always says, oh, that's terrible that he called it a— you know, he runs 1.4 billion people with a pretty iron fist. He's, uh, he loves his country, I can tell you that. President Xi, I look forward to being there. And if he felt anything, we wouldn't, we wouldn't be doing it.
And then he says, to conclude the meeting before doing the secret meeting with generals, he goes, I feel the same as I did 50 years ago. Because I eat junk food and maybe junk food is good. Yeah, let's play it.
I feel the same as them. I actually feel— for sure, you know, I don't know what this is. I feel the same as I did 50 years ago. Yeah, it's crazy. Uh, someday there'll be a day when that won't happen. I'll let Bobby and Oz know, you know, it's not quite the same, but I feel literally the same. I don't know why. I'm not— it's not because I eat the best foods. Maybe though they are the best foods. Who knows what the best foods are? Maybe Maybe junk food is good and the other food is no good. I know people that eat the best food. They go to a restaurant, they have celery and I don't want, and I'll have steak and everything else. And I say, how you doing? Well, it's over for me at a young age. And all they do is watch it. I know many, many people that all they do is watch their weight, their this, their that. And, uh, They kicked the bucket and here we are. I feel great. Thank you, Daniel. Thank you very much, everybody. Have a good time. Thank you, guys.
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