Trump goes on crazed tirade on national TV - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

BTC: Donald Trump is sick and tired of having to live up to these promises that he made. This is just another day.

It's safe to say that things are a bit tense in Washington these days. Once again, high-ranking administration officials are attempting a second round of peace negotiations with Iran, desperately seeking an end to this unnecessary and costly war. So, one can only assume that the commander-in-chief was hunkered down in the Situation Room, monitoring every moment of the process.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Joe Kernen: Joining us now on the Squawk News Line, uh, President Donald J. Trump. President Trump, welcome. Thanks for joining us this morning.

Trump: Well, thank you very much, Joe.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Or not. Yes. Rather than doing any actual governing or peacekeeping, Donald Trump chose to kick off his shoes and hop on a quick 37 minute phone call with the anchors over at CNBC's Squawk Box. 37 minutes on the phone. If I'm texting with somebody for more than 37 seconds, I want to throw my phone in the river, but I guess I just don't have as much free time as the President of the United States. Anyway, I'm sure it was just a chill call and the prez just wanted to catch up.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Trump: When it's over, you know, they want it to be over immediately. And I just looked at a little chart. World War I, four years and three months. World War II, six years. Korean War, three years. Vietnam, 19 years. Iraq, eight years. I'm five months. Okay. Five months. I would have won Vietnam very quickly. I would have, if I were president, I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time that we won because essentially we've won here.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Good news. Donald Trump has set the bar for success at Iraq war levels. So technically, it's not even fair to judge him until we're at at least 20 years and three trillion dollars spent. And Trump would have won Vietnam quickly if he were the president. Yeah, I'm finding as much truth in that statement as Trump's podiatrist found in the bone spurs in his foot.

But if you thought Donald Trump just hopped on the horn to simply complain about the war, you're sorely mistaken.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Trump: But because we lost by just a two votes, you know, just little vote, two votes, we have to pay back $165 billion. They could have with a little one sentence, you don't have to pay back tariffs that have already been received. You start from this point.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Isn't it nice to hear how the president of the United States views changing our nation's laws? He thinks if it's just a few itsy-bitsy words and a couple of teensy-weensy sentences that it's not a huge deal. Unfortunately for him, those words are what make up laws. Honestly, I think that's the same way that Matt Gaetz sees the law. Come on, the word 17 isn't that different from 18. Both have the word teen in it. What's the big deal? But not to worry, this call wasn't a total gripefest for Trump.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Andrew Ross Sorkin: On that topic, there's a whole number of very large companies, including Apple and Amazon and others that have not sought uh reimbursements yet uh for the tariffs, meaning they they haven't they haven't tried to collect refunds. Um, and from what I I understand, part of the reason that they have waited is because there is a worry uh about frankly offending you. Uh, do would you find it offensive for them to try to uh collect a refund?

Trump: I think it's brilliant if they don't do that. I actually think if they don't do that, they they got to know me very well.

[cut to studio]
BTC: That's right. They did get to know you very well. They know that if they play you like a fiddle and pretend as though they fear Mr. big, strong, scary mob boss that it'll sufficiently boost your ego and you'll give all those billionaires and their companies even bigger tax breaks. Or did you think they just gave you all those gifts because they like you?

But it wasn't just the CEOs of these major companies who seem to know our president oh so well. Turns out CNBC's Joe Kernen is also well-versed in Trump speak which made him think that with a little encouragement he could get the president on the right track.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Kernen: I understand your your threats to to to uh to bomb the bridges in the electric grid, but I don't think the regime cares about the people of of Iran. And and if you did that, I'm sure it's the last thing you you'd probably want to do, but it would hurt at least some of the people that that we we care about and why why we embarked on this uh in the first place. So, that would be I'm I'm sure a last resort for you.

Trump: It's not my choice, but it will also hurt them.

[cut to studio]
BTC: You know when you're the parent of a very small child giving a book report to their class and you're just trying to nudge them into saying the thing that you rehearsed with them. Remember, Donnie, how you think that annihilating an entire civilization is bad now? But let's give Mr. Kernen another shot. Maybe he can get uh Donald Trump to move on from war crimes and try again with a different topic. How about the way you're sicking your Department of Justice on Fed Chair Jerome Powell?

[cut to video from CNBC]
Kernen: If this goes forward with Department of Justice and it delays u the appoint or the uh you know him being confirmed uh Kevin Warsh, it it's kind of counterproductive for for what you're trying to do in terms of changing the the the mo of the Fed up to this point. So I'm just trying to look for an offramp to get for you.

Trump: Well, it isn't. It isn't, Joe.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Holy shit. Come on, man. Can't you see this journalist is trying to throw you a bone? I mean, you don't have to be a doctor to diagnose what's going on here. But come on, one more time.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Kernen: If it would be possible for the Banking Committee to completely investigate all of your concerns about the cost overruns and the testimony uh of J. Powell in front of Congress. If if you could take that offramp to get this moving.

Trump: We have to find out why a small building cost close to $4 billion. It's not finished, by the way. They have a long way to go. They ripped down the most beautiful ceilings. They'll never build them again.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Well, you've done fucked up now, Joe. If you wanted to steer Donald Trump toward an answer that would come off as remotely palatable to the American people, getting him talking about buildings was not the move.

[cut to video from CNBC]
Trump: Most beautiful thick foot and a half thick walls. They had the best. That building was so beautiful. I would have fixed that building. I would have had it brand new, beautiful for $25 million. Beautiful boardrooms and meeting rooms. It was so beautiful. The nicest in Washington. All those beautiful thick walls with gorgeous moldings would have been left.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Holy shit. Donald Trump is so hot for this Fed building, you'd think it was his own daughter.

The reality is if there is one person Donald Trump should be mad at today, it is himself because every complaint he has is based on a standard that he himself set. He wants to bitch and moan about the haters saying that his war in Iran is taking so long. Maybe someone should have told us it wouldn't?

[cut to video from Recount Media]
Trump: Right from the be beginning, we projected four to five weeks.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Hey, numbers are like words. What's the big deal if you change a few, right? Or how about America's windfall of tariff money? Donald Trump wants to complain about that pesky third branch of government forcing him to return it. Maybe he should have checked with them before he bragged about how it was going to make it rain inside Club USA.

[cut to video]
Trump: In the coming days, there will be complaints from the globalists and the outsourcers and special interests and the fake news. Always the fake news will always complain, but never forget every prediction our opponents made about trade for the last 30 years has been proven totally wrong. It's going to be Liberation Day in America and it's going to be a day that hopefully you're going to look back in years to come and you're going to say, you know, he was right. This has turned out to be one of the most important days in the history of our country.

[cut to studio]
BTC: Oh, it's definitely an important day, but not sure in the way that you intended. And if this man wants to stomp his thick, swollen-ankled feet because Americans aren't fans of getting into debt trying to fill up their cars at the pump, well, maybe someone should have tapped the brakes a bit when he was getting giddy over gas prices.

[cut to video from C-SPAN]
Trump: Uh, the gas has gone to the lowest level in decades, and you're seeing $1.99, $1.98, and I saw $1.95.

[cut to video from Fox News]
Trump: Getting gasoline below $2 a gallon bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs. It will be an economic revival of our country like no one has ever seen before.

[cut to studio]
BTC: I'll give him that. This is a recovery like no one has seen before. Just as the Oracle in the Matrix predicted, one day a man would come along to create the first ever reverse recovery. One where the high cost of gas, groceries, and housing was viewed as a good thing. I mean, not by the rest of us, but that's why he's The One and we're not.

This president's entire brand is selling a false bill of goods. He said he'd protect healthcare. He didn't. He said inflation would decrease. It didn't. He said he'd release the Epstein files. Guess he just hasn't gotten around to it yet. And honestly, I think all of Donald Trump's complaining today is just another sampling of his bullshit.

This man doesn't care if the war in Iran goes on for months, if his tariff cash has to get withdrawn, and if America's gas prices continue to balloon. Everyone knows that all Donald Trump cares about is throwing his name on golden crusted buildings and shoving as much money into his pockets as he can before he's out of office.

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Trump: They got to know me very well.

BTC: Yes, I'd say they have.