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Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING in Ireland…

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s turbulent visit to Ireland, where mass protests greeted his arrival in Dublin and his comments about Irish reunification sparked controversy. Meiselas breaks down Trump’s meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Trump’s latest claims about talks with the Houthis, and his appearance at the Irish Open at his Doonbeg golf property. Meanwhile, BRICS leaders meet in New Delhi and advance their own diplomatic agenda as Meiselas examines America’s declining influence on the world stage under Trump. Car Shield: Visit https://carshield.com/meidas to lock in your coverage today and protect yourself from expensive car repairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump just got a rude awakening on his trip to Ireland. Massive protests took to the street in Dublin by some estimates over 50,000 protesters there. Holding up signs that Donald Trump is a war criminal. Holding up signs that Donald Trump is complicit in genocide and slaughtering little children and women holding up signs that Donald Trump has covered up the Epstein files. Now why is Donald Trump in Ireland at all? Why is he taking this trip? Well he did a meeting with the TAYSHU, one of the leaders of Ireland this morning. But the real reason he's there is because of the Irish open at his golf course. Of course, this is all one massive gift folks. Now Donald Trump held a press conference and he made things even worse for the standing of the United States. While he was there, he continued to attack the UK.

He talked about how he wanted to see full Ireland unification. And he said that that would be a very important thing. Donald Trump then went on to basically say that the UK doesn't have the ability to even take care of the Foculin Islands anymore. This as Donald Trump is giving more military equipment to Argentina. Donald Trump then went on to say, I think that Canada really wants to make a deal. And he lumped Canada and Iran into the same category. He goes, Canada and Ireland are begging me. They're begging me to do a deal right now. And I'm just not sure what we're really going. I may have to wait until after the elections. Then Donald Trump lied. What else is new? Every word, syllable sound utterance from this guy is a lie. And he said, the Houthis have called me. And they said that they respect me. And so I have a really good understanding with them.

They're going to let our ships go through and everything's amazing with the Houthis right now. Shortly thereafter, Houthi leadership responded and said, he's making all of this up. What an absolute fool. And the leader of the Houthis made a video mocking the Saudi monarchy for Donald Trump forcing them to dance in front of him. They're like, go dance for Donald Trump. You freaking losers. Meanwhile, the Houthis continue to take more territory in Yemen. Now they're starting to move more to the east. The question is, are they going to go through Aden or are they going to stop right now where they control the Bob El Mondeau straight? So we're going to be paying attention to that. And while all of this is taking place, it should also be noted. Pay attention to what's happening in New Delhi for the BRICS summit over there. The meeting of that BRICS group, which was originally founded by Brazil.

Russia, India, China and South Africa. But now includes numerous other countries, which has now asserted itself as a major dominant player actually in the world as Donald Trump continues to attack NATO and Canada and all of United States traditional allies. You have Iran at these BRICS meeting and Iran has been greeted like an absolute hero at the BRICS meeting. President Pasezkin and the delegation from Iran has had major speaking roles. They're truly being treated as not just a regional power, but a global power by Xi Jinping, by Prime Minister Modi, by Putin, and by others. We're going to be paying very close attention to what's happening in BRICS. But the split screen here, the contrast of what's taking place of Donald Trump's buffoonery, Donald Trump being protested in Ireland. And then what we're seeing in New Delhi at this BRICS meeting, to me it is an important point of comparison here.

So let's take a look at what's going down right here in Ireland. Let me show you what's going on in Dublin City with about 50,000 people on the street. Let's play this clip. You can see crowds gathering earlier in the day in Dublin to protest Trump's visit. Look at some of these balloons right here, everybody. Here play this clip. Yep, you were seeing that right there's Netanyahu, Epstein, Trump balloons right there. That's what's going down over there. Now let me show you another clip right here. By the way, Donald Trump claimed I didn't see any protests at all. Again, the guy lies about everything. Here's another angle of those protests. I'll just show you a short clip.

And then I'm going to show you where Donald Trump's with the T-Shuck, one of the leaders in Ireland. And Donald Trump's like, I never saw any protests at all. But first, just another angle of that protest right here. Watch for yourself. Let's play it. So a reporter says, what do you make of all of these protests, Donald? And he goes, I don't see any of them here play this clip. I haven't seen any protests, but I haven't seen any protests. You know, once you have a family, a car problem isn't just a car problem. We're constantly driving with our kid and our dog. And the last thing that I want is to be stranded somewhere and suddenly staring at a repair bill for thousands of dollars.

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Really, let me show you one more angle of the protest. I'm pretty sure you could see here play this clip. Right, the guy lies about everything. Then Donald Trump is asked a question about Yemen, and Trump said the Hoothies called us. They don't want to fight here. Play this clip. They want us to be much safer and not having us involved. They're letting a lot of ships go through this one country that they're not doing after you. One of the Hoothie leaders, his mom Al Assad said, quote, as usual with his clownish lies, the criminal Trump comes up with baseless claims. But reality sums him up with the old proverb, the hand you cannot break, kiss it and pray for it to break.

That's what they think of him. Also, you have Abdul Malik Alhuthi, the leader of the Hoothies, absolutely roasting the Saudi monarchy. How their king in princes used to look at Donald Trump with tears in their eyes when he visited Saudi Arabia. And Donald Trump would say, dance for me, dance for me, prince, dance for me, king, just completely mocking the United States and Saudi Arabia. But Donald Trump was also asked a question over here. He was asked on your call, Donald, with MBS. On your call with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, what is the US going to do with Saudi Arabia now that the Saudi backed forces, right? The PLC and the Saudi backed coalition is in retreat. There's all these stories that MBS was asking you for help. You got to help us, Donald, we gave you all this money. I gave cushion or money. I gave you money and Donald Trump's like, yeah, I'm friends with the Hoothies and the Hoothies like this guy's crazy.

So what's the plan, Donald? And Trump goes, everything's going to work out fine. Everything is amazing. You're playing this clip. What do you have for a call with MBS and what is the US going to do? Well, I have a call with MBS. He's a good friend of mine. And I can just hear him. He's going to work out fine and dandy. It's going to be very good. So you know, get robbed of these things. I have a very nice, nice speaker. I'll be with you over here on the Oph답ies. No one can. But no, I think it's going to talk working. Have fun. I would say shortly after they went a great convention. A reporter then asked Donald Trump, when will the war in Iran and let's play this clip? When will the war in Iran hang? I think very soon, I think it'll be probably right after Trump's trying to hold out as long as they can to complicate the election. But I think people will want to do it because Iran cannot have nuclear weapons very soon.

Very soon, everybody, after the election, just you wage. It's going to all going to happen after the election. Then Donald Trump says that Canada wants to make a deal very badly. Let's play it. And he said, you'll probably see a deal with Canada very, very soon. He says he said, Canada wrong. They want to make a deal. You'll see you'll see a deal with Canada very soon here. Play this clip. They're product and they need our product. They do all of their business almost with us and you very little with them. But you know, they've taken advantage of my father's. So that's Canada wants to make a deal right now. Just like Iran wants to make a deal very badly. You know, I just don't think they're ready. But Canada wants to make a deal. Trump then says we very powerfully control these straight of everybody knows we powerfully, you know, control the straight of our most. And now we're on with its allies, the who these totally control the Red Sea. They control the Bob Almond, Dobstreet. You weep pathetic loser. You're a war criminal. You cover up sex trafficking rings. You yourself are a sexual predator.

You are a disgusting vile piece of trash. The only reason you're even in Ireland is because of the Irish freaking open. And you want to grift in our taxpayer dollars or paying for this ridiculous script and your loser. And you did one of the aspects of this is you do these horrible things and then you do the horrible things. Horrible because you're a freaking loser. Anyway, we played that clip, right. Donald Trump says after saying he controlled the straight of removes Donald Trump says I would love to see Ireland unified. He said I'd love to see it unified. It's going to now this breaks the entire tradition of all United States presidents remaining neutral on this point. By the way, even the government in Ireland's position is more nuanced than that. It would have to be done by referendum when a majority of people, you know, an Ireland would agree in Northern Ireland. They would have to do a referendum and Donald Trump's like the Tasia. He's going to make sure that it happens because Donald Trump's been on a tear right now to attack the UK over and over again. And one of the main reasons is that the UK now has a new prime minister, the new prime minister has issued fairly limited sanctions against the unlawful settlements in Palestine that are taking place by the Netanyahu regime.

And so Netanyahu regime Trump regime are now their plan go after UK try to break this new prime minister support, Falkland islands going to Argent or Argentina conquering the Falkland islands. So this is all part of that. That's where this is all kind of rooted in Trump Netanyahu's alliance. That mean to be very clear. So this is what Trump says. I want to see them unified and then this received a very, very, very sharp rebuke by the UK right away. Let me just play you that clip first of Trump on Ireland. Let's play it. There are rich people. How can they be bad? Right? I'd love to see it. I think it would be great. Yeah. A great feather and everybody's cap that happened. It's going to happen eventually. Mr. President, you know what?

I don't know. It's going to happen eventually. What happened now? We're talking about it. And you get the right man over here to get it moving. But yeah, I don't think it would be a fantastic thing. Now the UK, well, I have something to say about obvious. But I think it would be a great thing. I mean, how can it be bad? Then Donald Trump on the Falkland Islands. You remember the Falkland Island war that the UK won and defeated Argentina. And the Falkland Islands is like an independent territory part of the UK as well. It's linked with the UK, of course. They don't want to be part of Argentina. But Donald Trump is a Javier Malay, you know, well, Javier Malay is a Trump mega bootlicker. And so that's what's going on there. And Trump, by the way, has given new military equipment, Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina. Why? In order to attack the UK, Donald Trump keeps attacking our allies. But here's Trump on the Falkland Islands. Play this clip.

Well, the Falkland Islands is very interesting because here we go again. I remember there's a young boy, pretty young boy anyway, but the Falkland Islands. And I think it was a different country at that time, the UK a little bit, but they went in and they took it over. I'm not sure if they're doing that. They have a little problem with immigration. They have a little problem with energy. And have some other problems that have to take care of. So I don't know. I don't know if they're going to be willing to travel that far. That is very far away. You know, I'm sure I'll be called into that potential. There's a stupid if they do. I'll probably be able to settle settle it out. But right now you have two countries that are not happy. We will certainly the Falkland. There's a good question. Then a reporter asked Donald Trump is Iran responsible for the attack on the East West pipeline, even though Donald Trump previously said Iran has no capabilities. He says they probably are here. Play this clip.

The reality is it was the Houthis who blew up the East West pipeline. Then Saudi Arabia didn't want to admit that because it would show further weakness that the Houthis are able to so thoroughly destroy him. So these Saudis, MBS then blame the Iraqi resistance. The Iraqi resistance said we wish we did it. It's an honor that is not ours. It was the Houthis. The Houthis are like we did it and Trump's like Iran did it. Do you see the freaking clown show that is this Trump regime? A report that asked Donald Trump about his complicity in genocide. And here's what Donald Trump says you can play this for yourself. And then Donald Trump oddly says my wife is here. He did he went to a

business event after meeting with the Tashuk and Trump's like my wife is here. My wife is here. Melania isn't here. He's like she's here in spirit. Everybody she's here in spirit here. Play this clip. And my wife is here. My wife is here in spirit. She's watching right now. She said say hello because she's very friendly with these two people. I said, well, what on you come with me? I said, she said, well, it's a seven hour trip. Maybe I'm not that friendly. Meanwhile, just take a look at I'll do longer videos on what's going on in the bricks meeting right now. But take a look right here. You can see Prime Minister Modi. You can see Xi Jinping. You can see Putin. You can see South Africa president Ramaphoso. You can see President P isn't wrong. Well, do with just Virginia of unity for the future, growing banyan trees together.

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