Trump Ruins WH Thanksgiving Pardon With Awful Speech

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump ruining the annual Thanksgiving Pardon Ceremony tradition by losing control during the speech and injecting his own bizarre and deranged behavior.

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Speaker 3 Donald Trump just ruined the annual Thanksgiving pardon. This should just be a normal, wholesome tradition.
You pardon the damn turkeys. It should be pretty easy.

Speaker 3 Not for Donald Trump, who used the pardon ceremony, again, which is supposed to be fun and light-hearted, to attack Governor Pritzker of Illinois by calling him a very fat slob. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 Of every newspaper, it's out of control. The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is

Speaker 4 a big fat slob he ought to invite us in

Speaker 4 say please make chicago safe we're going to lose a great city if we don't do it quickly make

Speaker 3 and then donald trump goes on to talk about how instead of pardoning these turkeys he was thinking about sending them to the terrorist confinement center in el salvador so he's making jokes about sending Americans unlawfully to concentration camps in foreign countries.

Speaker 3 That's what he's doing right now. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 But instead of pardon, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship gobble and waddle straight to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador.

Speaker 4 And even those birds don't want to be there. You know what I mean? It was a tough, I'd like to thank the president of that country.

Speaker 4 They do a rather efficient job. It's got to be the largest prison in history.
I've never seen anything like it. And a lot of people are behaving on our streets now.
You know, Washington, D.C.

Speaker 4 is a safe, it's considered a safe zone. This was one of our most unsafe places anywhere in the United States.
It is now considered a totally safe city. I won't tell you about murders.

Speaker 4 We're having murders, like a lot of murders. on a weekly basis.
We haven't had a murder in six months.

Speaker 3 And there was once upon a time where the president was a respected tradition and you would show your kids these ceremonies. This is just awful, awful.

Speaker 3 Here he is further attacking Pritzker and saying that he's fat, he's a fat so, fat slob.

Speaker 3 I shouldn't call him a fat slob, but he's a fat slob. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 You're not going to have these crimes that are making the newspapers and the front page of every newspaper and television story, news story, will make Chicago a safe place very quickly.

Speaker 4 I looked at the various cases, granting mercy, discovering that

Speaker 4 the terrible trauma that everyone's going through, and I had a little bit of a Pritzker joke.

Speaker 4 I was going to talk about Pritzker in size, but when I talk about Pritzker, I get angry because he's not letting us do the job. So I'm not going to tell my Pritzker joke.

Speaker 4 They have a very cute little joke, you know.

Speaker 4 Some speechwriter wrote some joke about his weight,

Speaker 4 but I would never want to talk about his weight. I don't talk about people being fat.

Speaker 4 I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a fat slob. I don't mention it.

Speaker 3 Then Donald Trump goes on and starts lying about the

Speaker 3 fact that there's no murders in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 3 He said that we haven't had a murder in six months in Washington, D.C. There's actually been a lot of murders in D.C.

Speaker 3 15 in June, 15 in July, 8 in August, 5 in September, 8 in October, 5 in November. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 We're having murders like a lot of murders on a weekly basis. We haven't had a murder in six months.
And it doesn't sound good even to say that. We haven't had a murder in six months.

Speaker 3 But when

Speaker 4 you were averaging one and even sometimes two a week, and you haven't had one in six months, you can walk with your family down the middle of any street. go to a restaurant, you won't get in.

Speaker 4 They're opening new restaurants all over.

Speaker 3 Then Donald Trump says that he brought back praying and that because of him, people pray again and that now religion is back and religion was gone before. It's stupid.
Just stupid stuff, right?

Speaker 3 I mean, it's just like, I don't care what political party you're from. This is just dumb.
Here, let me show it to you. Let's play this clip.

Speaker 4 Anything like it.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 4 we have more people working. We have more people praying.
The churches are coming back. I don't know if you've been reading that story, but religion is coming back to America.

Speaker 4 Some people say, oh, why would you mention that? To me, that's a big deal.

Speaker 3 He then lies and says that gasoline is going to be $2 a gallon. By the way, prices are surging on basically everything.
To be fair, gas is basically the same this year as it was last year.

Speaker 3 It's not dramatically lower. It's the same.
Even though there's more oil pumping,

Speaker 3 the price is the same. So that tells you something, too, about who's making some money off this.
But anyway, play this clip.

Speaker 4 In a long time, egg prices are down 86% since March, and gasoline will soon be hovering around $2 a gallon.

Speaker 3 Then again, Donald Trump can't just do anything normal without attacking Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 3 And he goes, you know, I was going to call the turkey Pritzker because it was fat, and now I'm going to call it Nancy and Chuck, but I would never pardon them. Ha ha ha ha.

Speaker 3 They would never get a pardon. I wouldn't care what Melania Melania told me.

Speaker 3 What are you talking about? Play this clip.

Speaker 4 That's going to be saved. The turkeys being pardoned today go by the names of Gobble and Waddle.
When I first saw their pictures, I thought we should send them,

Speaker 4 well,

Speaker 4 I shouldn't say this. I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy.

Speaker 4 But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people.

Speaker 4 I wouldn't pardon them. I wouldn't care what Melania told me.
Darling, I think it would be a nice thing to do. I won't do it, darling.

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Speaker 3 And he goes on this weird rant about how this year's turkeys are the biggest turkeys ever and they've never been bigger turkeys before. And he goes on and says that these turkeys are eating beef.

Speaker 3 He says that the turkeys are, that these are beef-eating turkeys, by the way. Okay.
Okay, record size, never been bigger, never been bigger turkeys in the world. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 These are two of the largest turkeys ever presented to an American president, over 50 pounds each. It's the largest we've ever had.
And those are big turkeys.

Speaker 4 Are they as good as the normal-sized turkey? Better or as good? Do they tend to be a little fatty, maybe?

Speaker 4 No, he said, no, he knows the turkey business. Anyway, despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever Maha turkeys.
I don't know if I agree with that.

Speaker 4 These are Maha.

Speaker 4 In other words, they could be fat, but they're still Maha.

Speaker 4 They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef,

Speaker 4 to allow the smoothies and all of the other things that they've been eating for this occasion. This was a really big occasion, but they've eaten every fattening food that you can eat.

Speaker 4 We work like we wanted to really make them special, and they really are. They're like record-setting.
I've never seen a turkey that big before. Are they violent at all?

Speaker 4 Will they attack as I walk over?

Speaker 4 Because if they were, I'll say right up here.

Speaker 3 And he uses the speech to talk about how he wants the National Guard to invade Chicago after calling Pritzker fat.

Speaker 4 Let's play it. Just fine.
And I want to thank the National Guard. I want to thank Pete Hegseth.
The job you've done here is incredible.

Speaker 4 And I hear you're having the same kind of success in Memphis, Tennessee, where you had an even worse situation. And Memphis crime is down 64% in three weeks.

Speaker 4 And by the time you have four or five weeks, you're going to have it down. almost where there won't be crime.
And we could do that in Chicago, by the way, if they would let us.

Speaker 4 If the mayor was a low IQ person, but he should understand this. This is a very serious thing.
You saw all the crime that took place last night, the night before,

Speaker 4 the woman with the burning, they burned the woman. To be talking about that now, they burned this beautiful woman riding in a train.
A man was arrested 72 times.

Speaker 4 72 times. Think of that.

Speaker 4 And they'll let him out again. The liberal judges will let them out again.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 4 we're ready to go. You know, we've been moving toward Chicago.
We have a governor that thinks it's wonderful that only like seven people were killed this week.

Speaker 4 But we are moving toward doing, and we're going to, if crime gets, it's horrible what's happening in Chicago. We could make Chicago a safe city

Speaker 4 in a period of four weeks. In a period of eight weeks, nine weeks, ten weeks, it would be totally safe.
And the people of Chicago want us to go there.

Speaker 3 And if you look at then Donald Trump says, America is the leading in everything. Jobs are pouring back into our country.
Play the clip.

Speaker 4 We're leading in AI. We're leading in everything.
Our auto plants are pouring back into our country. Way do you see the jobs coming with them?

Speaker 4 But many of them are under construction, but Lee's done a great job in getting those approvals. I appreciate him very much.
FBI Director Cash Patel, who's been very busy and doing a great job.

Speaker 4 Also, thank you, Cash.

Speaker 3 So we've had the highest jobless claims since the Great Recession at this point.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 jobs are heading in the wrong direction. There's basically a manufacturing and construction recession right now.
About 80% of the country is experiencing recessionary conditions.

Speaker 3 Consumer confidence has never been lower, but there he goes and just lies over and over again. Then Donald Trump goes and starts talking about Hunter Biden and auto pens.
And it's just, dude, shut up.

Speaker 3 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 Where's Hunter?

Speaker 4 No, Hunters was good. That was the one part in Pam that was good, right? The rest of them are all invalid.

Speaker 4 I don't know what the hell you're going to do about that, but that's now we're going to take a little of the joking. That is a mess.

Speaker 3 Then he says, he thinks this is funny: that he goes, we're approving nuclear power plants in a week. Ha ha ha.
Great job, Lee Zeldon. Let's play this clip.

Speaker 4 Howard Luttnick, Linda McMahon, Scott Turner, administrator, Lee Zeldin, who's done a great job.

Speaker 4 A nuclear power plant gets approved in less than a week. Okay, I'm only kidding, but pretty close to that.

Speaker 4 And we have more. Where's Lee? Stand up, Lee, one of my great superstars.

Speaker 4 Thank you.

Speaker 3 I'm not sure that's something to brag about, not going through the requisite approval processes. It's not really sure why it's funny.

Speaker 3 Then Donald Trump says the White House is the department of everything.

Speaker 3 And And then he goes on to attack former President Biden and says, sleepy Joe Biden, that the turkey pardons are not valid because of Autopen.

Speaker 3 Dude, just be, just, can you just pretend for like 30 seconds to be dignified? I mean, do we need to like, let me just say, like, could we do a cardboard printout of Mom Donnie?

Speaker 3 Just put the cardboard printout next to Donald Trump and here, play this clip.

Speaker 4 You remember last year after a thorough and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all of the people at the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA,

Speaker 4 the White House Counsel's Office, and the Department of Everything. We have a Department of Everything.
You know what that is? I think that's called the White House.

Speaker 4 Into a...

Speaker 4 terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. He used an auto pen last year for the turkeys pardon.

Speaker 4 So I have the official duty to determine, and I have determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid,

Speaker 4 as are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned other than

Speaker 4 where's Hunter.

Speaker 3 Now, while Donald Trump is giving that speech, Let's talk about what they were saying on Fox. Even Fox had to fact-check Donald Trump, and they said, really, gas hasn't gone down at all.

Speaker 3 It's pretty much the same this year as it was last year. But they're like, people have conflicting views about gas prices.
There's no conflicting views. Trump and the Republican lie about it.

Speaker 3 And then there's the truth. And the truth is, to be fair, the gas prices didn't go up.
They're about the same, but all the other prices went up. That's the truth.
Let me show you this clip.

Speaker 3 Let's play it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, always better to me to drive than to fly, Sandra. But, you know, gas prices.
Well, what about that one behind me? Yeah, that's the most expensive gas in the state of Pennsylvania.

Speaker 6 $4.09, the average gallon, right? You're about $1

Speaker 6 more than the national average. And, you know, people have conflicting views about gas prices.
The administration says it's lower than it was. Others say it's higher.

Speaker 6 The reality is, well, you see it right there. It's pretty much the same as it was last month, last year, $3.05.

Speaker 6 That, despite the change in energy production and energy prices, 13.7 million barrels a day pumped the last month.

Speaker 6 We've got data, and that not only is a record in the U.S., but an all-time record in the history of Earth.

Speaker 3 And then, meanwhile, on CNN, here's what they're talking about: how people are feeling right now. Let me just show you.
This is the sentiment out there. Let's play this clip.

Speaker 7 I mean, just your costs are up versus a year ago. Groceries, 85%, utilities, 78%, healthcare, 67%,

Speaker 7 housing, 66%, gasoline, 54%.

Speaker 7 The bottom line is this.

Speaker 7 Americans feel like prices are rising in each and every single part of their lives, rising ever climber, and they just don't feel like Kate Baldwin that they can catch a break.

Speaker 8 The Treasury Secretary in new comments kind of dismissed the impact tariffs is having on inflation, also saying that prices are going to be coming down in weeks.

Speaker 8 Some other prices are going to be coming down in months. What do Americans think about that?

Speaker 7 Yeah, they think he's full of it. That's exactly what they think.
I mean, just take a look here. Tariffs raising prices are raising prices right now.
Click over Kate's side of the screen, 71%.

Speaker 7 How dare I do that?

Speaker 7 84% of Democrats, 74% of Independents, and even a majority of Republicans.

Speaker 7 When you can get a majority of Republicans to agree with a majority of Democrats, you know that the pain is being felt by the American public right now.

Speaker 7 The Treasury Secretary can try and tell the people something, but they can feel in their pocketbooks.

Speaker 7 They simply put, don't buy what he and this administration is selling them when it comes to tariffs.

Speaker 3 There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think.
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