Trump destroys his presidency with insane move - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

BTC: Donald Trump knows we're winning in Iran. He just needs $200 billion to finish the job. Said the man whose projects always come in under budget. This is just another day.

As the war with Iran rages on, the one small dose of comfort we have is that Donald Trump has always been prepared for this and thus set a little missile money aside just in case.

(cut to video from The Hill)
Host 1: The Pentagon is reportedly asking the White House to approve over $200 billion to request to Congress to fund the war in Iran.

Host 2: These funds would reportedly boost the US military campaign and ramp up the production of weapons used during the conflict.

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BTC: $200 billion more dollars. Let me guess, all of our missiles have to look like this now (inset image of gold-plated missile displayed). $200 billion more the Congress needs to sign off on for a war Trump never gave Congress the opportunity to sign off on and the majority of Americans don't even want. I feel like I need some perspective on what this war even costs.

(cut to video from The Hill)
Host 1: In the first six days of the Operation Epic Fury, the US spent over 11 billion dollars on military campaigns.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Just over $11 billion in just the first 6 days of the war. I guess on the seventh day we rested.

Look, I hate to go all DOGE right now, especially because my Occupy Mars T-shirt is at the cleaners, but if we're talking about making sure our government works more efficiently, maybe Trump could dig through his pockets for the same 11 billion dollars it would cost to fund all of those furled TSA workers for an entire year. And I know what some of you are saying. Wouldn't that mean they just miss out on the special perks that they've been getting from Republicans?

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John Cornyn: And what we did today is just offer them a token of our appreciation by delivering some Whataburgers to them.

(cut to studio)
BTC: I think the folks at TSA will find a way to cope without their lukewarm burgers.

But since Donald Trump is acting like a degenerate gambler with America's cash, it seemed only fair for reporters to act like his bookie and ask some questions.

(cut to video from MSNOW)
Reporter: The war is almost over. Why is the Pentagon going to ask Congress for an additional $200 billion?

Trump: Well, we're asking for a lot of reasons beyond even what we're talking about in Iran. When this is a very volatile world and the military equipment, the of some of this weaponry is unthinkable. You don't even want to know about it.

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BTC: I'm pretty sure she does want to know about it. That's kind of the whole gig of being a journalist. Telling a reporter you don't even want to know about it is like a doctor telling their patient, "You don't even want to hear these test results. Trust me."

Donald Trump is giving the Pentagon $200 billion. $200 billion to the agency which has not passed an audit in 8 years. How does this make any sense?

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Trump: It's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Um, I'm no expert on intimidation tactics just ask every bully from my middle school, but is describing the world's most powerful military as tippy top really striking fear into the hearts of our adversaries? Maybe I missed the news reels from World War II when they were described in a similar fashion. (goes into news flashback mode) America is on the march and the Nazis better watch out because our boys are superberino. Yes, there's never been a cracker jack group of warriors like our men. Just you wait. They're going to do a bofo job for the good old US of A.

Well, if the Pentagon is asking for all this cash, seems only fair to ask their tippy top leader why?

(cut to video at Dept. of Defense press briefing)
Reporter: There was a report last night that the Pentagon asked the White House for $200 billion for Iran war supplemental. Can you confirm this? And can you explain why a package this large is necessary?

Pete Hegseth: Well, first of all, none of this would have been possible without Midnight Hammer.

(cut to studio)
BTC: Wow, sounds like someone is still wrapped up in the Oscars. I also have to thank my team over at DoD, my publicist, Lucy, and each one of my wives. I'm so sorry. I'm just so excited. I can't remember which one I cheated on and which one I'm married to right now.

But the music didn't play this man off. He had plenty more to say.

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Hegseth: So, it created the conditions for Iran to step forward and say, "Okay, you can reach out and touch us like that in our nuclear ambitions. You can see that we're still trying to do this. Let's make a deal.” And uh the President Trump put our our two best folks on it, Steve and Jared.

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BTC: Two best folks. Let's just go with folks. They're not lifelong diplomats. They're real estate tycoons. And I'm pretty sure Trump sent one of them so that he could have some special alone time with his daughter. But you were saying.

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Hegseth: As far as uh $200 billion, I think that number could move. Obviously, uh it it takes uh it takes money to kill bad guys.

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BTC: Well, not always. Pretty sure sometimes it just takes a bed sheet (graphic displayed stating Jeffrey Epstein Dead By Apparent Suicide At Manhattan Jail).

But Americans know it takes money to kill bad guys. Like for example, $1.5 trillion worth of our tax dollars. I thought Mr. Everything I do comes under budget would have foreseen this.

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Trump: We are we are being very judicious. What we want to do, don't forget Biden gave away I rebuilt the military my first time. Biden gave away so stupidly to Afghanistan a lot. He he didn't want to move it. He was too lazy, too stupid to move it. But it was a very small amount. It was a lot, but it was very small relative to what I purchased and what I built. Uh we want to have a good we want to have uh vast amounts of uh ammunition which we have right now. We have a lot of ammunition but it was taken down by giving so much to Ukraine that…

(cut to studio)
BTC: Just so I'm following, we need $200 extra billion dollars because Joe Biden gave all of our weaponry to Ukraine, the country that is fighting with Russia, which is also the country that is now aiding Iran in their war against us. So then it stands to reason if we had helped Ukraine even more to actually defeat Russia, we might not need those $200 billion right now. But what do I know? I'm just using basic logic.

What we are witnessing is the result of a 79-year-old having a temper tantrum. Donald Trump hates being told no. Like really hates it (inset graphic displayed stating Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M). And that's exactly what happened.

Trump supposedly obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities over the summer and thought that would give him leverage at the negotiating table. So he sent his two best folks to hammer out the deal. But when Iran didn't shower him with gold trinkets and fake awards, Trump started stomping his balloon-sized ankles and like a child decided to make Iran regret telling him no. Not that he'd ever admit that. His justification has always been that Iran hates America, so they had to be stopped. If that's Trump's excuse for bombing them, I think these people better watch out.

(cut to video from Fox News)
Trump: Schumer and the Democrats have shut it down, which tells you they probably hate our country a lot.

(cut to video from C-SPAN)
Rep. Lisa McClain: This weekend we'll we'll see mobs of rad uh of radicals at the I hate America rally.

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Rep. Tom Emmer: Some of the most radical elements that you saw at the Hate America rally.

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Trump: The ABC is a terrible network, a very unfair network, and you should be ashamed of yourself. NBC is equally bad.

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Mike Davis: Today's Democrats are not liberals who love America. They're Marxists who hate America.

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Mark Levin: You can read all about it right here. The Democrat party hates America.

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BTC: Oh, and what a delightful beach read that must be. I'll join you in a second in the water. Honey, I'm just reading about the war from within.

If there was a legally plausible way for Trump and the Republicans to fire missiles at Democrats, protesters, ABC News, CNN, or 60 Minutes, it definitely would have happened by now. Donald Trump would not hesitate for a second to use the same flimsy justification that he leveled against his foreign enemies on his domestic ones.

Remember that video of Trump in a fighter jet dropping piles of shit on the American people? That wasn't a joke. That was our troller-in-chief and his sycophantic Republicans taking a temperature test of what they can get away with. The reality is there was no imminent threat from Iran. So, I'm not exactly sure what this president is doing here, but it definitely isn't this.

(cut to video from CNN)
Trump: From this day forward. It's going to be only America First.

(cut to studio)
BTC: What part of America First is making your country's healthcare less affordable? Making groceries less affordable? Not bringing back jobs, not investing in infrastructure, gutting education, all while asking for $200 billion extra for a war that you promised not to start in the first place.

(inset video)
Trump: I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars.

BTC: Unless that was just locker room talk.

Donald Trump conned America because lying to your marks and exploiting them for financial gain is what con artists do. Donald Trump has taken our nation for a ride. This war is a disaster. Our economy is failing and America's standing in the global community is worse than it's been in decades. Or to put that another way, we are

(inset video)
Trump: Tippy top.

BTC: Sure.