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COMMENTARY
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL ... JULY 21ST 2025
MSNBC: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs.
Why doesn't the White House press corps do its job?
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL ... JULY 21ST 2025
MSNBC: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs.
Why doesn't the White House press corps do its job?
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sprumo3QrtE
MSNBC
Jul 8, 2025
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The American public knows Donald Trump is lying about tariffs. And as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains, they’ve figured it out without any help from the White House press corps who continue to accept his lies as answers.
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Lawrence O'Donnell
Peter Burgess
Transcript
- 0:02
- >> ABSOLUTELY.
- >> THANKS, JEN.
- >> THANKS, LAUREN.
- >> THANK YOU. WELL, THE
- POSSIBILITY OF A. RELENTLESSLY
- STUPID PERSON BECOMING.
- >> PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED.
- >> STATES HAS.
- >> BEEN UNDEREXPLORED. BY
- SCREENWRITERS.
- >> AND THEN DONALD TRUMP.
- >> CAME.
- >> ALONG AND WENT FAR.
- >> BEYOND WHAT HOLLYWOOD EVER
- IMAGINED IN THE PRESIDENCY PRIOR
- TO DONALD TRUMP, THE CHALLENGE.
- >> FOR SCREENWRITERS.
- >> AND FICTION WRITERS WOULD
- HAVE.
- >> BEEN, FIRST OF ALL.
- >> HOW COULD.
- >> A PROFOUNDLY STUPID PERSON
- BE. ELECTED PRESIDENT OF. THE
- UNITED STATES? AND THEN.
- >> HOW COULD A PROFOUNDLY STUPID
- PERSON GET THROUGH A.
- >> DAY ON.
- >> THE JOB AS PRESIDENT? THE
- FICTIONAL PRESIDENT, PLAYED
- BRILLIANTLY BY. MARTIN SHEEN ON
- NBC'S EMMY WINNING SERIES THE
- WEST WING, WAS A WISE AND
- CAREFULLY THOUGHTFUL PRESIDENT
- FOR.
- >> WHOM. I WROTE.
- >> SEVERAL EPISODE SCRIPTS OVER
- SEVEN YEARS OF THAT SERIES. AND
- IF I WERE WRITING THE CHARACTER
- OF A.
- >> STUPID PRESIDENT.
- >> IN A.
- >> SCRIPT.
- >> I WOULD SIMPLY HAVE HAD THE
- STUPID PRESIDENT COMPLETELY RELY
- 1:00
- ON A SMART WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND
- A SMART CABINET AND JUST HIDE
- BEHIND THOSE PEOPLE. AND
- ABSOLUTELY. AND I MEAN
- ABSOLUTELY NEVER TALK TO THE
- PRESS BECAUSE A STUPID
- PRESIDENT'S STUPIDITY WOULD BE
- IMMEDIATELY EXPOSED BY THE WHITE
- HOUSE PRESS CORPS.
- >> AND ON THAT POINT.
- >> I WOULD HAVE.
- >> BEEN VERY.
- >> WRONG. BECAUSE IT. TURNS OUT,
- THE STUPIDEST PRESIDENCY IN
- AMERICAN HISTORY HAS THE
- STUPIDEST WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AS.
- >> FAR.
- >> AS WE CAN TELL. AND THE PRESS
- CORPS.
- >> HAVE.
- >> BECOME ACCESSORIES, AS THEY
- PROVED AGAIN TODAY. NO ONE COULD
- HAVE IMAGINED THAT IF WE GET THE
- STUPIDEST PRESIDENT HISTORY, WE
- WOULD ALSO GET THE STUPIDEST
- WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
- COLLECTIVELY IN HISTORY. BUT
- THAT IS WHERE WE ARE. SOME
- INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE WHITE
- HOUSE PRESS CORPS, AND I WANT TO
- STRESS THIS. REMAIN EXCELLENT AT
- THEIR JOBS, BUT THEY FREQUENTLY
- 2:01
- DON'T GET TO.
- >> ASK DONALD.
- >> TRUMP A QUESTION IN THE ELBOW
- TO ELBOW QUESTION COMPETITION
- THAT OCCURS WHEN DONALD TRUMP
- INVITES THEM INTO.
- >> THE OVAL OFFICE.
- >> OR, AS IT WAS TODAY IN THE
- CABINET ROOM. AND IT WAS THE.
- >> FIRST TIME.
- >> THE TRUMP CABINET HAS MET
- SINCE ELON MUSK LEFT HIS
- POSITION. THAT WASN'T ACTUALLY A
- CABINET POSITION, BUT THAT.
- >> GRANTED HIM A SEAT.
- >> AT THE TABLE IN TRUMP CABINET
- MEETINGS. ABSURDLY, WHICH THOSE
- TRUMP CABINET MEETINGS HAVE
- CONSISTENTLY BEEN.
- >> THE MOST RIDICULOUS.
- >> CABINET MEETINGS IN THE
- HISTORY OF THE CABINET. TODAY.
- DONALD TRUMP'S ACCESSORIES.
- >> WERE ALLOWED INTO.
- >> THE ROOM TO ASK SOME
- QUESTIONS. THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS HAD BECOME ACCESSORIES IN
- MORE THAN. ONE SENSE. THERE IS
- THE CRIMINAL LAW CONCEPT OF
- ACCESSORIES, AND THERE IS THE
- FASHION NOTION OF ACCESSORIES.
- >> DONALD TRUMP'S TURNS.
- >> WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS INTO
- BOTH VERSIONS OF THAT WORD
- ACCESSORIES. HE TREATS THEM LIKE
- HANDBAGS OR CUFFLINKS. ORNAMENTS
- 3:00
- THAT HE FLASHES AROUND TO
- PRETEND, AND ONLY PRETEND THAT
- HE IS OPENLY COMMUNICATING.
- ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOING IN HIS.
- >> WORKDAY WHEN.
- >> HE NEVER.
- >> REALLY ANSWERS QUESTIONS.
- >> AND SO THAT IS NEVER TRUE.
- >> AND DONALD TRUMP.
- >> USES THE PRESS CORPS AS
- ACCESSORIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE
- FACT OF HIS LIES. DONALD TRUMP
- USES. WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS TO
- EVADE QUESTIONS ASKED BY OTHER
- WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS. HE PLAYS
- THEM.
- >> FOR CLOWNS.
- >> AND THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO
- RESIST IT. AND I HAVE TO ADMIT,
- IF I WERE IN THE.
- >> WHITE HOUSE PRESS.
- >> CORPS, I'M NOT SURE I WOULD
- FIGURE OUT HOW TO RESIST IT,
- EXCEPT. TO MAYBE.
- >> YELL OUT SOME QUESTION ABOUT
- DONALD TRUMP.
- >> LYING ABOUT.
- >> SOMETHING.
- >> AND THEN I WOULDN'T BE IN THE
- WHITE HOUSE.
- >> PRESS CORPS ANYMORE.
- >> I WOULD BE SHOWN OUT THE DOOR
- AND THAT WOULD BE THE END OF
- THAT. THERE WAS A MOMENT.
- >> IN DONALD TRUMP'S. PLAYING
- WITH THE.
- >> PRESS TODAY THAT. SHOWS
- EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. IT
- SHOWS. DONALD TRUMP'S COLOSSAL
- STUPIDITY IN AN EXCHANGE THAT HE
- 4:00
- THINKS SHOWS HOW CLEVER HE IS.
- IMAGINE HOW STUPID YOU HAVE TO
- BE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
- STATES TO THINK THAT WHEN ASKED
- A QUESTION ABOUT SOMETHING
- IMPORTANT THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED
- TO KNOW, YOUR ANSWER IS, I.
- >> DON'T KNOW.
- >> WHY DON'T. YOU TELL ME? THERE
- HAVE BEEN PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS
- WHO HAVE BEEN ASKED QUESTIONS
- THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW, THE
- ANSWER TO, WHICH THEY SHOULD
- HAVE KNOWN THE ANSWER TO, AND
- NOT ONE OF THEM SAID, I DON'T.
- >> KNOW.
- >> WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME?
- BECAUSE NONE OF THEM ARE AS
- STUPID AS DONALD TRUMP. ONLY
- DONALD TRUMP COULD DO THAT.
- >> AND ONLY DONALD.
- >> TRUMP HAS BEEN.
- >> ABLE TO BEAT.
- >> DOWN AND.
- >> HUMILIATE WHITE.
- >> HOUSE REPORTERS TO THE POINT
- WHERE THEY TAKE THAT FOR AN
- ANSWER. MEEKLY AND SHUT UP.
- WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED
- TODAY WHEN THAT WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTER TOOK THAT ANSWER,
- MEEKLY TRIED TO MUMBLE A FOLLOW
- UP. ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE REPORTER
- BESIDE.
- >> HER.
- 5:01
- >> IMMEDIATELY JUMPED IN.
- PERFORMING.
- >> PERFORMING HIS ROLE AS AN
- ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT.
- >> OF DONALD.
- >> TRUMP'S STUPIDITY TO.
- >> OFFER DONALD TRUMP.
- >> A COMPLETE CHANGE OF SUBJECT.
- A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT QUESTION.
- TO RUN AWAY FROM THE QUESTION TO
- WHICH IS IDIOTIC ANSWER WAS I
- DON'T KNOW.
- >> WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME?
- >> AND THE REPORTER WHO HE
- ASKED, WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME?
- >> BEGAN TO FOLLOW UP.
- >> BUT THE OTHER WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTER CAME IN TO RESCUE
- DONALD TRUMP. AND ALL OF THAT.
- >> HAPPENS IN.
- >> ONE FLASH IN THE CABINET ROOM
- TODAY. AND NOT A SINGLE WHITE
- HOUSE REPORTER IS OUTRAGED. NOT
- A SINGLE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER
- RAISED A VOICE. AND THE WHITE
- HOUSE REPORTER.
- >> WHO GOT DONALD TRUMP.
- >> TO SAY, I DON'T KNOW, WHY
- DON'T YOU TELL ME IS THE VERY
- SAME.
- >> WHITE. HOUSE REPORTER WHO.
- WAS ALWAYS CONGRATULATED FOR
- BEING.
- >> VERY AGGRESSIVE, AND THAT'S
- THE TERM THEY'RE ALWAYS PROUD
- OF, VERY. AGGRESSIVE WITH
- PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. SHE NEVER
- WOULD HAVE ALLOWED JOE BIDEN TO
- SAY TO HER, WHY DON'T YOU. TELL
- 6:00
- ME WITHOUT AN A, AN AGGRESSIVE
- AND VERY LOUD RESPONSE TO THAT,
- A RAISED VOICE, AGGRESSIVE
- RESPONSE TO THAT. BUT IT'S
- DONALD TRUMP NOW. SO THE WHITE
- HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAS.
- >> CHANGED ITS OWN RULES.
- >> OF BEHAVIOR IN ORDER TO
- CONTINUE TO BE ALLOWED IN THE.
- >> TRUMP WHITE HOUSE.
- >> THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO
- THEIR JOBS IN THE. TRUMP WHITE
- HOUSE, BUT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO
- BE THERE, WHICH APPARENTLY IS
- ALL THAT MATTERS TO MOST OF.
- THEM WHO HAVE EXHIBITED NO SHAME
- WHATSOEVER IN THE DIMINUTION OF
- THEIR STATUS, THEIR. REDUCTION
- TO. ACCESSORIES BY.
- >> DONALD TRUMP.
- >> HERE IS THAT MOMENT WHEN
- EVERYTHING.
- >> ALL AT ONCE.
- >> HAPPENED TODAY.
- >> PUTIN IS NOT HE'S NOT
- TREATING HUMAN BEINGS RIGHT.
- HE'S KILLING TOO MANY PEOPLE. SO
- WE'RE SENDING SOME DEFENSIVE
- WEAPONS TO UKRAINE, AND I'VE
- APPROVED THAT.
- >> SO WHO ORDERED THE PAUSE.
- 7:00
- >> LAST WEEK?
- >> I DON'T KNOW, WHAT DID YOU
- TELL ME?
- >> THAT'S A.
- >> QUESTION FOR THE GO.
- >> AHEAD ON IMMIGRATION. THE
- SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE DID SAY
- THIS MORNING THAT UNDOCUMENTED.
- >> WORKERS WOULD.
- >> NOT BE COVERED BY ANY
- AMNESTY.
- >> OF WHO.
- >> WORKING ON FARMS.
- >> AND WE WERE.
- >> OFF TO IMMIGRATION.
- >> DONALD TRUMP OBVIOUSLY
- THOUGHT HE WAS BEING VERY CLEVER
- WITH THE WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME
- WISE GUY QUESTION. THERE IS NOT
- ANOTHER PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY
- WHO WOULD THINK THERE WAS
- ANYTHING CLEVER ABOUT THAT,
- BECAUSE THERE ISN'T. IT WAS A
- CONFIDENT VERSION OF DONALD
- TRUMP'S RANK STUPIDITY. WHY
- DON'T YOU TELL ME, DONALD TRUMP
- THINKING HE'S SHOWING HOW TOUGH
- AND DEFIANT HE IS OF REPORTERS
- WITH THAT RESPONSE, WHO ORDERED
- THE PAUSE OF WEAPONS SHIPMENTS
- TO UKRAINE LAST WEEK WAS
- ACTUALLY THE BEST QUESTION ASKED
- IN THE CABINET ROOM TODAY, AND
- IT FIGURED INTO CNN REPORTING
- TONIGHT ABOUT THE PAUSED ARMS
- SHIPMENT.
- >> CNN REPORTS.
- 8:01
- >> SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE
- HEGSETH DID NOT INFORM.
- >> THE WHITE.
- >> HOUSE BEFORE HE AUTHORIZED A
- PAUSE ON. WEAPONS SHIPMENTS TO
- UKRAINE LAST WEEK, ACCORDING TO
- FIVE SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE
- MATTER, SETTING OFF A SCRAMBLE
- INSIDE THE ADMINISTRATION TO
- UNDERSTAND WHY THE HALT WAS
- IMPLEMENTED AND EXPLAIN IT TO
- CONGRESS AND THE UKRAINIAN
- GOVERNMENT. PRESIDENT DONALD
- TRUMP SUGGESTED ON TUESDAY THAT
- HE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
- MOVE. ASKED ON TUESDAY DURING A
- CABINET MEETING WHETHER HE
- APPROVED OF THE PAUSE IN
- SHIPMENTS, TRUMP DEMURRED,
- SAYING ONLY THAT THE US WOULD
- CONTINUE TO SEND DEFENSIVE
- WEAPONS TO UKRAINE. PRESSED
- AGAIN ON WHO AUTHORIZED THE
- PAUSE, TRUMP REPLIED, I DON'T
- KNOW. WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME? TWO
- OF THE SOURCES ATTRIBUTED TO
- HEGSETH NOT INFORMING THE WHITE
- HOUSE TO THE FACT THAT HE HAS NO
- CHIEF OF STAFF OR TRUSTED
- ADVISERS AROUND HIM THAT MIGHT
- URGE HIM TO COORDINATE MAJOR
- POLICY DECISIONS BETTER WITH
- INTERAGENCY PARTNERS, NOT
- ANOTHER QUESTION IN THE CABINET
- ROOM BY MEMBERS OF THE WHITE
- 9:00
- HOUSE PRESS CORPS TODAY WAS
- WORTH ASKING, AND SOME OF THE
- QUESTIONS CAME FROM THE TRUMP
- WORSHIPING REPORTERS WHO HAVE
- BEEN ADDED TO THE WHITE HOUSE
- PRESS CORPS BY.
- >> DONALD TRUMP.
- >> AND SO THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF A
- WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAS BEEN
- CORRUPTED BY DONALD TRUMP. EVEN
- BEFORE THE NONCORRUPT, MEMBERS
- OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
- HAVE DECIDED TO USE THEIR
- TALKING TO PETS VOICES INSTEAD
- OF THE SCREAMING LEVEL THAT THEY
- COULD REACH AT JOE BIDEN
- DIRECTLY AND AT HIS WHITE HOUSE
- PRESS SECRETARY. AND SO THAT IS
- HOWUT
- THE PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS, HE'S
- DECIDED TO PUT.
- >> ON THE.
- >> WALL OF THAT ROOM ONCE AGAIN.
- TODAY, THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS PLAYED THE ROLES OF
- PERFECT ACCESSORIES TO DONALD
- TRUMP'S LIES ABOUT TARIFFS.
- NOTHING, AND I MEAN NOTHING HAS
- ENABLED DONALD TRUMP'S LIES
- ABOUT TARIFFS MORE THAN THEY NOW
- OVERWHELMING, STULTIFYING
- IGNORANCE OF THE WHITE HOUSE
- PRESS CORPS THAT THEY DISPLAY
- DAY IN AND DAY OUT. EVERY TIME
- 10:01
- DONALD TRUMP SAYS THE WORD
- TARIFF IN FRONT OF THEM. EARLY
- IN THE DISCUSSION WITH THE PRESS
- TODAY, DONALD TRUMP SAID THE.
- >> TARIFFS.
- >> AS YOU KNOW, ARE STARTING TO
- COME IN AT RECORD LEVELS.
- TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY ARE
- COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY. HE SAID
- THAT, AND NOT ONE WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTER SAID ZERO MONEY IS
- COMING INTO THE COUNTRY FROM
- TARIFFS. NOT ONE WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTER CHOSE TODAY AS THE DAY
- TO DEMONSTRATE THAT AT LEAST
- THAT ONE REPORTER KNOWS THAT THE
- MONEY DONALD TRUMP IS TALKING
- ABOUT COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY IS
- ALREADY HERE. IT IS IN YOUR
- WALLET, IT IS IN YOUR BANK
- ACCOUNT. IT IS IN THE BANK
- ACCOUNTS OF AMERICAN COMPANIES
- THAT ARE GOING TO PAY THE
- TARIFFS IN AMERICAN DOLLARS IN
- THE UNITED STATES, WHICH IS THE
- ONLY PLACE THE TARIFFS CAN BE
- PAID. AND THOSE COMPANIES ARE
- 11:00
- GOING TO PASS ON THE COST OF
- THOSE TARIFFS TO YOU IN
- INCREASED PRICES OF THE PRODUCTS
- THAT HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FROM
- FOREIGN COUNTRIES, PRODUCTS THAT
- YOU NEED, AND A PRODUCT THAT IS
- GOING TO COST YOU MORE MONEY
- BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP'S
- TARIFFS. AND SO NO TREMENDOUS
- AMOUNTS OF MONEY ARE NOT COMING
- INTO OUR COUNTRY. FROM TARIFFS
- AND NEVER WILL.
- >> COME INTO OUR COUNTRY FROM.
- >> TARIFFS AND HAVE.
- >> NEVER COME.
- >> INTO OUR COUNTRY FROM
- TARIFFS, BECAUSE THAT IS
- IMPOSSIBLE. AND NO WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTER SEEMS TO KNOW THAT. AND
- THE ENTIRE CREW OF WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTERS IS STAINED NOW BY THE
- DISGRACE OF WHITE HOUSE
- REPORTERS FAILING TO POINT OUT
- THAT EVERY TIME DONALD TRUMP
- TELLS THAT LIE THAT IT IS A LIE,
- AND FAILING TO ASK HIM WHY HE'S
- TELLING THAT LIE, FAILING TO ASK
- HIM WHY HE CANNOT ADMIT THAT
- TARIFFS IMPOSED BY.
- 12:00
- >> DONALD TRUMP.
- >> ARE PAID ONLY, ONLY BY PEOPLE
- IN AMERICA WITH AMERICAN DOLLARS
- AT THE PORT OF ENTRY INTO THE
- UNITED STATES, THAT NO FOREIGN
- COUNTRY HAS EVER PAID ONE PENNY
- OF A TARIFF TO THE UNITED STATES
- AND NEVER WILL. AND IT CAN NEVER
- BE THAT WAY, NEVER HAS BEEN AND
- NEVER WILL WORK THAT WAY. NO
- TARIFF HAS EVER WORKED THAT WAY.
- WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DOESN'T
- KNOW THAT, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO
- WHAT THEY SAY WHEN THEY'RE GIVEN
- A CHANCE. NOT ONE OF THEM KNOWS
- THAT. TOWARD THE END OF DONALD
- TRUMP'S DISCUSSION WITH
- REPORTERS, DONALD TRUMP GAVE
- THEM A HISTORY LESSON DURING
- WHICH, BY THEIR SILENCE, THEY
- DECLINED TO REVEAL IF A SINGLE
- ONE OF THEM KNOWS JUST HOW MUCH
- DEMENTIA IT TAKES TO THINK THAT
- THIS TRUMP STORY IS AMERICAN
- HISTORY. AND THIS IS WHAT DONALD
- TRUMP ACTUALLY SAID. HE SAID
- THESE WORDS, THEY TRIED TO BRING
- BACK TARIFFS, BUT THE WHOLE
- THING.
- >> WAS.
- 13:00
- >> YOU KNOW, THIS WAS AFTER THE
- DEPRESSION. THAT WAS ONE OF THE
- GREAT MISCONCEPTIONS IS PEOPLE
- LIKE TO SAY, OH, BUT IT WAS
- DURING THE NO. THE WE WENT THE
- COUNTRY HAD A GREAT DEPRESSION.
- AND THEN AFTER THE DEPRESSION,
- LONG AFTER IT STARTED, THEY
- BROUGHT BACK TARIFFS TO SEE IF
- THEY COULD SAVE IT. NO OBJECTION
- TO THAT FROM WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS. NO OBJECTIONS AT ALL.
- THAT JUST SAILED RIGHT THROUGH,
- SAILED RIGHT BY THEM. VIEWERS OF
- THIS PROGRAM KNOW THAT THE
- SMOOT-HAWLEY TARIFFS WERE
- WRITTEN BY THE REPUBLICAN
- CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE WAYS AND
- MEANS COMMITTEE, AND THE
- REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN OF THE
- SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, BOTH
- OF WHICH COMMITTEES HAVE
- JURISDICTION OVER TARIFFS. AND
- THEY GOT THE TARIFFS IN EFFECT
- BY HISTORY NAMED AFTER
- THEMSELVES, SENATOR REED SMOOT
- 14:01
- AND CONGRESSMAN WILLIS HAWLEY.
- THEY WERE SIGNED INTO LAW BY
- REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT HERBERT
- HOOVER IN 1930, AND THEY CAUSED
- AND ACCELERATED PROFOUNDLY THE
- GREAT DEPRESSION. THE TARIFFS
- CAME BEFORE THE WORST OF THE
- GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THEY
- WORSENED THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
- AND THEY WERE DONE AND PUT INTO
- LAW ENTIRELY BY REPUBLICANS AND
- JOE BIDEN ON HIS SICKEST DAY IN
- THE PRESIDENCY, WHEN HE HAD
- COVID AND HE COULD BARELY SPEAK,
- COULD NEVER HAVE SAID ANYTHING
- AS UTTERLY IGNORANT OF HISTORY
- AS THAT LUNACY. DONALD TRUMP
- SPOKE TO THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS ABOUT TARIFFS COMING AFTER
- THE GREAT DEPRESSION. BUT DONALD
- TRUMP CAN DO IT. AND THE WHITE
- HOUSE PRESS CORPS SAYS NOTHING
- BECAUSE THEY APPARENTLY KNOW
- NOTHING ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF
- TARIFFS OR THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
- AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE. THE
- 15:01
- SHAME OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
- PRESS CORPS IS THEIR DISGRACEFUL
- FAILURE TO BE ABLE TO CONFRONT
- DONALD TRUMP ABOUT HIS LIES,
- ABOUT WHO PAYS THE TRUMP
- TARIFFS. THAT IS THE SIMPLEST
- LIE DONALD TRUMP TELLS ABOUT
- TARIFFS, WHICH HAS BECOME A HUGE
- SUBJECT IN HIS PRESIDENCY THAT
- NO WHITE HOUSE PRESS REPORTER IS
- APPARENTLY CAPABLE OF
- UNDERSTANDING. AND DONALD TRUMP
- HAS NEVER BEEN CONFRONTED ON
- THAT LIE BY THE WHITE HOUSE
- PRESS CORPS. IF AN INDIVIDUAL
- MEMBER OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS DOES UNDERSTAND ALL OF
- THIS ABOUT TARIFFS AND HAS BEEN
- UNFAIRLY BLOCKED BY THE TRUMP
- PEOPLE OR COLLEAGUES IN THE
- ROOM, FROM BEING ABLE TO ASK
- THAT QUESTION, I HEREBY
- APOLOGIZE TO THAT UNKNOWN
- REPORTER FOR LUMPING THAT
- REPORTER IN WITH THE GENUINELY
- DISGRACEFUL JOB THAT THE LARGER
- GROUP HAS DONE IN THEIR COMPLETE
- FAILURE TO PENETRATE THAT VERY
- 16:02
- SIMPLE LIE. BUT THE PUBLIC KNOWS
- THE PUBLIC KNOWS MUCH BETTER
- THAN THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
- THAT DONALD TRUMP IS LYING ABOUT
- WHO PAYS THE TARIFFS ON THIS.
- THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, MUCH, MUCH
- SMARTER THAN YOUR AVERAGE WHITE
- HOUSE REPORTER. A NEW POLL SHOWS
- 81% OF AMERICANS ARE VERY
- CONCERNED OR SOMEWHAT CONCERNED
- ABOUT THE IMPACT OF TARIFFS ON
- THEIR.
- >> PERSONAL FINANCES.
- >> AND I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO
- DOUBT THAT 81% OF THE WHITE
- HOUSE PRESS CORPS DO NOT KNOW
- HOW TARIFFS WORK, AND NOT ONE OF
- THOSE 81% OF THE PUBLIC WHO DO
- KNOW. WHO ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT
- IN THEIR CONCERN HAVE HAD ANY
- TRUMP AT ALL, ANY HELP AT ALL IN
- COMPREHENDING THE TRUMP TARIFFS
- 17:00
- FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- CORPS? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? WHAT
- WOULD HAPPEN IF DONALD TRUMP
- TURNED ON A WHITE HOUSE PRESS
- REPORTER AND SAID, WHY DON'T YOU
- TELL ME ABOUT TARIFFS? WOULD
- THEY ALL BE SPEECHLESS? OR WOULD
- DONALD TRUMP'S