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Trump doesn't have any intelligence - press gaggle at airport [1]
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Date: 2025-06-21
Donald Trump flew to New Jersey to play golf, host a MAGA, Inc. dinner and play golf again today. He is, however, flying back to DC to have a National Security meeting at 6pm ET. Trump has no concept of how much this is costing taxpayers with these constant flights to Bedminster to play golf. It's getting obscene. Joe Biden used Air Force One to go visit disasters and give support. Trump hasn't visited one since taking office.
At the airport, as usual, there were press awaiting to talk to him.
Reporter: What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.
Trump: Well then my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?
Reporter: The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
Trump: Uh, she's wrong.
Always better to fly by the seat of your pants than to listen to reason. Trump makes up stuff all the time. To deny intelligence reports shows he has none.
There were 747 CargoLux airfreighters tracked leaving China and bound for Iran.
Reporter: Mr. President, are the [inaudible] Chinese in any way helping Iran's [inaudible]? We're hearing reports of serious planes landing in Iran and China.
Trump: I don't know, they say that they are there to take people out. But, uh, I can't tell you about that.
Then he goes into a spiel about how he and Xi get along so well. You don't use 747 airfreighters to fly people out of Iran. There aren't any seats. It was most likely electronics and missile parts being sent to Iran. Three were tracked, one each on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Trump is then asked about whether the decision to attack Iran is the biggest decision he'll ever make as president, and then he says he'll tell the reporter in a year, or 5 or 10 years from now. Apparently, he thinks he's going to live that long.
Reporter: ... former Congressman Matt Gaetz threw out an interesting idea suggesting that if --- if --- you were to broker a deal where nuclear inspectors go into both Israel and Iran, that you could win a Nobel Peace Prize, and they might even rename it the Trump Peace Prize. Did you hear those? What do you think of that?
Trump: Well, they should give me the Nobel Peace Prize for Rwanda, and, uh, if you look, the Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo. You could say a lot of them. You could say, uh, I mean, the big one is India and Pakistan. You could --- I should have gotten it four or five times. I think I should get it for the, uh, I think that the Abraham Accords would be a good one too.
Now you know what inspired his Truth Social post about the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. An idea by Matt Gaetz. Think of the source.
Reporter: But what do you think of the idea?
Trump: They won't give me a Nobel Peace Prize, 'cause they only give it to liberals.
The definitive thought on the subject. He wants one so bad, but they'll never give it to him. Whatever good he may ever do, he's already killing millions of people by stopping the operations of USAID.
Then he gets into a thought pattern about Iran and nuclear power generation and he says that there's no reason for Iran to have nuclear power plants because they have all that oil. Idiot.
Reporters ask two inaudible questions.
Trump: We're always concerned about that, and we have to take them out and be very strong. You're even in danger talking to me right now. Do you know that? You're in danger talking to me right now, so I should probably get out of here. But you guys are actually in danger. Can you believe it?
My guess is that they asked him about the previous intelligence that said there were Iranian hit squads looking to assassinate him.
A reporter then asks him about Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo having visited Ukraine and encouraging them to continue the fight against Russia.
Trump: Well, we're gonna see, and, uh, people have to be very careful with what they say. They gotta be very careful with their mouth, because their mouth could get them in a lot of trouble.
"Their mouth could get them in a lot of trouble." He never sees the irony of what he is saying.
The reporter then prompts Trump about the actions of ICE and Trump rambles off into talking about California and Governor Newsom and how he saved the day. And then he complains that Newson sued him, but he won the case. No, it's just another delay for the proper decision.
Reporter: Sir, do you think people pay attention --- do you still want your legacy, Mr. President, to be that of a peacemaker? Do you worry that's striking Iran would change that?
Trump: Always a peacemaker, yeah. Always a peacemaker. That doesn't mean, sometimes you need toughness to make peace. But always a peacemaker.
Sure. Demanding an unconditional surrender and then implying that if they don't, that he can easily take out Ayatollah Khomenei. Sure, that's being a peacemaker.
Reporter: Mr. President, if there are, if there is an attack on US assets, will you promise to, to conduct a full investigation and make it transparent with the American people before blaming Iran for such an attack?
Trump: Well, if there is an attack, we'll know almost immediately with modern equipment who made the attack. And those people will be very, very unhappy. I want to get you people out of danger! You're in danger standing with me.
Again, the imagined assassins that follow him everywhere. After Butler and the guy on the golf course, there haven't been any attempts that we know about. Maybe he believes the intelligence on this one item, about the Iranians trying to recruit Americans to do it for them.
Reporter: One more. Prime Minister Netanyahu said that they had the capacity to take out all of Iran's nuclear facilities. So what role would the US be able to play, and why would they if, if Israel says that they have all these capabilities -—
Trump: Well, I'm not sure he said that. But, uh, they really have a limited capacity. They can break down a little section, but they can't go very deep. They don't have that capacity. And we'll have to see what happens. Maybe it won't be necessary. Maybe it won't be nec -—
Israel isn't talking about using bombs to take out Fordo. They're talking about a commando raid, killing everybody and then blowing up everything inside from the inside. As I said originally, Trump has no intelligence about his intelligence community. He ignores it and so he is ignorant.
Reporter: Mr. President. Would you like to see Congress pass a bill that bans child transgender surgeries?
Trump: Well, I know that they're talking about it, aren't they? And we're gonna have to see how it comes to me, in what form. Certainly, it's been something that I've been talking about also. Okay? [inaudible] Thank you, be careful. We're done. We're done. Thank you.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is behind the bill banning transgender surgeries in the House. She's constantly posting on her X account about it. She is completely opposed to getting the US involved in the Israeli-Iran war. It is surprising that Trump didn't just instantly say he was all for the legislation. But he also didn't say that he opposed it. How could he do that with all of his propaganda he's put out during both his campaign and after taking office?
Trump must have gotten some sleep after deciding to put off attacking Iran for two weeks. He wasn't as incoherent as he was when talking as the flagpole on the South Lawn of the White House was put in. He was just stupid.
Let's hope Trump uses more of that "modern equipment" to help him make decisions.
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