Transcript of Trump's Big America 250 Gamble Backfires New

Well, this is arguably one of the weirdest things I've ever reported on at the Midas Touch Network about Donald Trump, and that's saying a lot. Donald Trump's final event for the so-called America 250 took place this week, and it was an utter disaster. Yeah, it's still going on, America 250. Could you believe it? It's been disaster after disaster. The final event is what Donald Trump called the Patriot Games, which he said would feature the greatest athletes. Within the United States of America involving high school students ages 14 to 17 years old. And he said these would be the best athletes in the United States of America, and they would be competing at these games that would be like the Olympics. Well, it was anything but. So the event took place in a small city called Geneva, Ohio. The population there was under 6,000 people. Look, I don't want to mock these kids because I'm sure they're well-intentioned. I don't, I don't know. My goal isn't to mock the kids themselves, but they were not the best athletes. They weren't really good athletes at all. And as we and others dug into the criteria for being a participant in these so-called Patriot Games, the Trump regime mostly recruited from Christian schools, from Catholic schools, from evangelical schools, and They would ask the students to submit a video essay and also a regular essay, and they would be selected on that basis.

It was mostly all white kids. There was one or two— I saw a few people who weren't white, but it was mostly white kids. People really weren't in great shape, and they were doing kind of games you would see at the state fair or like in gym class in 5th grade. They were doing like dodgeball and They were doing tug of war. And they were doing like weird obstacle courses that— I mean, I hate to say this, but you know when you see those dog competitions and the dogs go through the obstacle courses? That's like what a lot of these obstacle courses looked like. It was like American Ninja Warrior, but like a bootleg version of a bootleg version of a bootleg version. I think about when I was a kid growing up, I remember I attended— I was a big big fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And these people showed up pretending to be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but they were wearing cardboard boxes. I remember I was 5 years old and I cried because they were wearing— it was so horrible looking. And so this is the cardboard box Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of Ninja Warrior.

It was so bad. And it's just getting ripped online right now. I mean, I saw I think The Recount posted a video of one of the kids who was involved in the competition who was going through the obstacle courses and it was just so bad and it was not good. I don't want to— again, I really don't want to mock the kid. So I'm not going to show the video. I was debating, should I show you the video of him doing the obstacle? It's really, really bad. And he was very serious and earnest about going through the obstacle course and And throwing the tennis ball at the Velcro thing and doing the tug of war. It was really, it was really tough to, it was tough to watch. I'm not going to make you endure it. Okay. And so here are some of the comments. Looks like, looks like they did it. Looks like they did a dog. Looks like they did a dog agility course. Keep it together, Ben. The fact that they picked mid-white athletes at best speaks volumes.

How much of our taxpayer dollars went into this farce.

The competition was silly, and the first video footage looked like boot camp, which maybe is what they were looking for. This wasn't a competition at all. It was like being at some state fair games. Watching this kid go through those agility sticks was an experience. So MAGA 5th grade Flag Day games only missing the egg on a spoon and a potato sack race. Dog DEI Olympics is a hilarious way to put this. LMAO. Is it mostly all like 98% white kids? DEI Olympics. So we are all supposed to pick 95% white kids to participate in this. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that our best athletes were not present at the event. And then there was a part where the guy said triumph and he pronounced it triumph. Anyway, I thought I was watching a dog agility competition. Mediocre games with Temu medals. I think you get the point right there. And so, you know, you had the Trump regime promoting this. The girls took on the presidential qualifier air this afternoon and left nothing behind. Round 1 of the 2026 Patriot Games is officially in the books. And then Donald Trump went to the finals on Tuesday.

And by the way, it aired on Thursday on ABC, primetime ABC. And as of this recording, they have not released the Nielsen ratings because, you know, it was just so bad. They're like covering up the ratings. Of the Patriot games. It was prime time. And you know, if it was good, you know, you get the day after ratings, right? You know that, right? So like normally you have an event and then the next day you get your initial readout and then more data comes in and they're covering up what the ratings are because it's so bad. Also, was ABC paying for this? Did ABC give the airtime for free? Was this part of the settlement agreement that they entered into with Donald Trump before? So this was ABC, ESPN, You had Pat McAfee, that ESPN host, like, the Patriot games. Yeah, it's not happening. We know that this is some ridiculous thing right here. This guy Ben Koo, he posted, I showed you the photo of Donald Trump looking very creepy at these little girls. Ben Koo goes, I'm watching the Patriot games as it was not shown locally due to Bengals preseason football last night.

The last event before the Freedom Finale contestants are set is Pop-A-Shot. Pop-A-Shot. Do you remember the games when you go to like a Chuck E. Cheese? You go to a Chuck E. Cheese. Bring my daughter to the Chuck E. Cheese and you shoot in a little hoop. That was one of the, it's really stupid. Oh my God. It's really sad. But isn't this a microcosm of all things MAGA, right? They would mock the woke athletes and this and that. These are the people who were like, yo, we don't want "Men and women's sports." Whatever the stupid stuff they're saying. "All you care about is participation trophies." Dude, this whole event is a participation trophy. I don't know what we're even watching right here. And then you had, again, it was Geneva, Ohio, small area. You look at it, you had the, it was pretty empty also. It was in this weird warehouse building. It was not well attended. I don't know, maybe there was 700 people who showed up, including Donald Trump. As our Washington, D.C. bureau chief Scott McFarland writes, quite a paragraph in the Washington Post report about the Trump-touted Youth Patriot Games in Ohio.

The event billed itself as bringing together America's best youth athletes with all participants between the ages of 14 and 17, but the White House-backed Freedom 250 nonprofit scarcely promoted the competition outside of its own channels. There appeared to be only a handful of non-white participants. The Atlantic described it as such: What if your high school gym teacher walked headfirst into a pole and was then asked to throw an Olympics with a budget of exactly $6 and 3 weeks' notice? Welcome to the Patriot Games. And here's how I give a hat tip to the CNN segment. Here's how they described what went down here. Play this clip. So after the break on This Morning, we're going to talk about one more thing. Trump's Patriot Games.

Have you heard of this?

Basically, we want to know whether this is a representation of America, this youth sports event, or maybe a kind of MAGA Olympics.

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Now, this from The Atlantic: Hunger Games MAGA style. A gym class style competition might be the oddest 250th celebration yet. The semi-quincentennial event that Donald Trump personally directed have been a celebration of his vision of America, version of America. The bloody UFC fight on the White House lawn was followed by the sparsely attended Great American State Fair and a world record-breaking July 4th fireworks show held alongside a dangerous lightning storm. Next weekend will bring a high-speed car race through the museum-lined streets of Washington. But all of these festivities, the Patriot Games might be the oddest. Organizers convened 120 teenagers from across the country, and they're telling the next generation of leaders, competitors, and champions, but also whoever happened to respond to an online request for personal essays and video entries. At a high school in Geneva, Ohio—population 5,924—roughly 45 miles northeast of downtown Cleveland, for 3 days they competed in gym class staples such as ball toss, long jumps, tug-of-war, dodgeball, and an arcade-style basketball game called Victory Hoops. Victory oops. They called it victory oops. They called it victory oops. The field was narrowed to 8 contestants who competed before the president on Tuesday night, clambering through a Ninja Warrior-style obstacle course while wearing red— we're so freaking cooked.

We're so cooked. Oh boy. One boy and one girl were crowned champions, and each was given a $125,000 scholarship. ESPN has streamed more than 26 hours of this contest. And this guy goes— he goes— the reporter goes, I could barely follow how the various events were scored. It was like watching a nationally televised field day. And then it said Trump came the last day. He was front and center watching the grand finale unfold and eyeing the golden trophies that he could present. But who were these contestants? How were they chosen? Why these random events? What does this say about our country? The biographies of these kids suggested that the organizers might have struggled with recruitment in some deep blue jurisdictions. The boy representing Puerto Rico has a southern accent and resides in Texas. Elsie Buchard was the contestant for Vermont, but her hometown was listed as Ohio. Her cousin Rebecca Roberts competed for Maine, but her hometown was Cornish, New Hampshire. Bobbi Vickers was representing Massachusetts, but she's from California. I get a bunch of questions like, why are you representing Massachusetts and not your home state? But I think it's really cool because a lot of my family is from there and my favorite basketball team is actually the Boston Celtics.

I'll show you some B-roll right here as Donald Trump creepily dances with these high school white kids at the event right here. I'll show you the— this is the male and female 14- and 17-year-old athletes arriving at the Patriot Games. I'll show you this right here. And, uh, this is apparently that we paid millions. This is what our taxpayer money is going to. Here, I'll show you this.

And then I'll give a hat tip to Myron Clifton, who did a recap of it, just so you can see for yourself what this looked like. This is Myron Clifton's recap here. Play this clip.

Yeah, so I watched these Patriot games on ESPN so you didn't have to. Here's a quick recap of the whole mess that was at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio. Now they have this little game right here where they get a little agility deal, and this guy is named after Ronald Reagan and David Dukes. And there he is doing his little agility, and they did the cannonball. I don't know what this is. The girls, they were there as well. This is— she ain't no Sha'Carri Richardson, but that's all right. You know, you're in high school, you learning how to hurdle. That, that's it. I found Brother Man out there. He was playing kickball. Man, you should have kicked that ball back to Cleveland. They had dodgeball. This is like when you have rainy day at school, you just do some indoor activities. And after one day, this is the leaderboard. You got Brendan, Rockwell— see these little names? You got Kylie and Bridgette. You got a Tegan, you know, all solid names. I found Brother Man again. Like, come on, Mr. Man, I saw something here. Good Life 360, so everybody know where you are, sister.

They did this thing where you kick these little, these little balls and they stick up there, right? I forget that little game we played when we're kids. Then they had them throw the ball through here, and then these were moving targets. And then they did my man Rockwell Myers. Is that— that's a real name. He went tumbling over this little pyramid scheme. And then they did the monkey bars. But you know what, they weren't even skipping bars. I used to be able to skip 3 bars. But Mr. Rockwell Myers, you know, they had, uh, what is this, pull of war, tug of war. And you know, okay. And they even did this little Dave and Buster's little basketball This is too much. And then they had like American Ninja Warrior course. It was the Patriot Course. I thought these were cast because I thought that was Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, but those are just, I don't know, of course or something. See, that's just a little course and they were doing like American Ninja Warrior but about 100 times easier. They had this little deal right here, right? And then I was looking, you know, these are like some of the The crowd, it wasn't really a big crowd there, mostly like a repass.

And then, um, yeah, he was there because there were kids. That's a better shot of the crowd. I see something up there, Mr. Man. I see you up there, sir. They'll either go to college and get in athletics, or, you know, they, they might do something else. I don't know. It reminds me when I was in the Junior Olympics. That's me right there. I got the silver medal in the 50, and my cousin got the gold. She never let me forget about it. It was a lot of fun. So congratulations to all the winners. You know, you, you basically rose up to my ever when I was 12 years old. Good job.

Well, there you have it, everybody. Oh, here's Donald Trump saying it was going to be the, the event with the greatest athletes ever. This is Trump's— I'll give you my grand reveal. This is what Donald— after you've seen all of that, here's how Donald Trump described what this event was going to be. Let's play it. In the fall, we will host the first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented 4-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes One young man and one young woman from each state and territory, but I promise there will— And doesn't that just sum it all up though? I'm sorry, I was like crying. This thing was so bizarre. But here's the, let's get serious though for a moment as well. Donald Trump said this is gonna be the greatest event, the best athletes, the biggest and the best, but this is everything. This is painted blue on the reflecting pool. This is Pete Hegseth running the Defense Department. This is Operation Epic Fury. They give it the name. This is, you know, this is 90 deals in 90 days. This is tariffs make us rich. This is we brought in $19.1 trillion.

This is we've never been hotter. This is who he is. This is who he is. And authoritarian, check. Incompetent, check. A bad, evil person, check. A sexual predator, check. A felon, check. You know, a bad, bad, bad person, check. Someone who bankrupted companies, check. He's bad at doing things. He's bad at doing things. Like, what the hell is that? You know, you could have done the best athletes and the this and the that. You could have brought in the best musical talent, you know, with America 250. You could have done it. You could have done the fireworks great and not screwed them all up by doing all the fireworks at once. So all it was was a bunch of smoke. And this, you could extrapolate this to the broader issues facing our country right now, for real. I just don't get it. The guy's a loser. The guy's an effing loser. He's a loser. Don't you see? He hangs out with losers. And by the way, him hanging out with losers, that's a step up from the types of people he loved hanging out with during the '80s and the '90s and the early 2000s, the pedos who were his friends.

So I guess losers is a step up, but some of those losers are pedos too. And they cover up child sex trafficking. Is that right? Enough, enough of me. Enough of me. Anyway, thanks. Thanks for watching, everybody. We appreciate you.

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