Speaker 1: So Trump's reckless diplomacy was on full display yesterday during
his disastrous presser with Israel Prime Minister, bb NET and Yahoo.
Literally standing at the podium alongside a US ally, Trump
turned what should have actually been a serious, a really
serious diplomatic moment into a personal grievance tour, siding with dictators,
teasing covert actions, and treating global conflict like it was
a bragshet. Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on
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hit subscribe, watch, comment, and share because this stupidity, it's
got to come to an end. Now, my friends, what
you're about to see from this two part presser, it's
not leadership, It isn't strategy, it isn't even confusion. It's
literally the same thing that I saw for years behind
closed doors. A weak man, a week man, and desperate
for validation from strong men, and utterly unfit for the
responsibility in front of him. So let's get to it all, right,
clip by clip, because every single word matters, every word
that the President says matters, and none of this should
be normalized. Let's start with the moment that he tells
you everything you need to know about Trump's loyalties. Reporter
went on and asked about an alled strike on Vladimir
Putin's residence. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Straight. Yeah, I don't. I don't like it. It's not good.
I heard about it this morning, you know, tell me
about it. President Putin told me about it early in
the morning. He said he was attacked. That's no good.
It's no good.
Speaker 3: Don't forget you know, the tomahawks. I stopped the tomahawks.
I didn't want that because we're talking about here. It's
a delicate period of time. This is not the right time.
It's one thing to be offensive because they are offensive.
It's another thing to attack his house. It's not the
right time to do any of that. And can't do it.
Speaker 2: And I learned about it from President Puttin that I
was very angry about it. What well it came out.
It came out. Well, we'll find out. I mean, you're
saying maybe the attack didn't take place.
Speaker 3: It's possible too, I guess, but.
Speaker 2: President Putin told me this morning it did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be clear, As I wrote in my
sub stack of this morning, Trump and the flattery doctrine.
This came the moment that should have literally stopped everyone
cult Trump accepting Vladimir Putin's claim that Ukraine attacked his
residence without any without any independent US intelligence confirmation, and
why because Putin said so. Volodmya Zelenski, who's hosted just
one day earlier, called it a lie. But Trump, He's
never trusted allies ho tell inconvenient truths. He trusts strong
men who mirror his worldview. My friends, I've seen this
pattern up close. The louder the lie, the more confidently
it's embraced, especially if it comes from someone who projects
power and feeds Trump's ego. Now, let's talk about Venezuela,
because this, my friends, is where it gets really dangerous.
A reporter asked Trump about an explosion he bragged about
in a radio interview. Play that clip of.
Speaker 2: A must otherwise very quickly. Yep, he's aying.
Speaker 1: More out the explosion video way.
Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't matter, but there was a major explod
and the dock area where they load the boats up
with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs. So
we hit all the boats, and now we hit the
area it's the implementation area. That's where they implement, and
that is no longer around. I don't want to comment
the president.
Speaker 1: How much would you pay to be able to read
what bb net and Yahoo was just thinking? It was like,
I can't believe that this dope sitting next to me
is actually saying this, because then it only gets worse. See,
that's the problem. When he says something, now he's got
to double down, it gets worse. Another reporter asked directly,
was it the US military or was it the CIA?
Played the clip that right?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 2: Can I follow up on Venezuela because the facility taken
out by the US military or was it another entity
like the CIA? Well, I don't want to say that
exactly who it was. But I don't want to say
who it was, but you know it was along the shore.
Speaker 1: Look, let me say, as I said again in my substack,
Trump and the flattery doctrine Net. Yahoo, to his credit
or perhaps to his survival instinct, kept a poker face
literally as he said that he praised Trump as the
greatest friend of Israel that they have ever had. He
emphasized again the content the intensity of the relationship while
all of this world chaos is taking place. In fact,
it's so chaotic. I want to show you a clip
where Trump gets caught again on a hot mic with
net Yahoo, because this is pure ego, unfiltered. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: But to both of them, I said, we're going to
cut you off on more trade. Then I put two
hundred percent tariffs on the next day they called, we
looked at thirty five years of fighting, and they they stepped.
Do I get credit for it? Now? I did eight
of them India, how about India and Pakistan? And then
so I did eight of them and then I'll tell
you the rest of it. How are you doing?
Speaker 4: Okay? You know we'll be outside the beautiful sun. Good,
enjoy your lunch. It's a very good group. We made
a lot of progress already.
Speaker 2: We had about a five minute meeting and we've already
settled about three of the difficulties. So thank you very
much for being here.
Speaker 1: You know, you're sitting there talking to a series of
people on the other side of the table, not Trump's side.
The other side serious serious diplomats who have years of
experience in diplomatic relations. But Bibe, he understands Trump, He
really does. And later even indulge Trump's deepest weakness. What
did he do? He announced that he's going to award
the Israel Prize, the nation's highest cultural honor, to Trump,
who of course responded by declaring that Israel itself might
not exist today without bb Netanyahu's leadership. My friends, you
know what this is. This is a mutual admiration society
that's built on flattery, not foresight. See because next Trump
is pressuring Israel President Isaac Herzog into a pardon for
his friend BB netan Yahoo by stating a pardon is
on the way, a statement Israel's president was now forced
to deny after Trump's public manifesting play the clip, right,
and what's about the.
Speaker 2: Problem that's privates a pardon?
Speaker 4: I think you will?
Speaker 2: How do you not He's a wartime prime minister who's
a hero. How do you not give a parton? I
think it's a very hard thing not to do it.
I spoke to the President and it's on. I mean,
he tells me it's on its way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me go on to say that this first
part is a disaster. But the second half of the presser,
this is where Trump completely loses the plot. Rush out
of the meeting with net and Yahoo, he compares himself
to a wartime president. It's interesting because I didn't know
we were at war. Play the clip, pre supportant.
Speaker 2: It's meant from the heart, thank you, you know, as
I said outside, he's been a time prime minister and
we were look. I guess I could say I was
a wartime president in more places than just Israel, if
you think about it. But is always a big factor,
and we're with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But when the self proclaimed wartime president is pressed
on China now surrounding Taiwan with evil exercises, here's the problem.
Trump flails. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: And they didn't believe what was going to happen would happen. Yes,
ma'am doing naval exercises basically to test encircling Taiwan. Can
you explain to us what your knowledge is of that?
What do you think about that? Have you had any
discussions with Well? I have a great relationship with Presidency
and he hasn't told me anything about it. I certainly
have seen it, but he hasn't told me anything about it.
And I don't believe he's going to be doing it. No,
nothing worries me. Nothing's fire, right, so if you're in circle,
if you're doing naval exercises and air exercises, doing naval
exercises for twenty years in that area. Now people take
it a little bit differently, but in fact larger than
they're doing right now. So we'll see. But they've been
they've been doing that for twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but he doesn't know anything about it, right,
And after shrugging off that question, he pivots back to
his safety mode, breaking about his ballroom. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a magnificent, big, beautiful ballroom that the country
has wanted, the White House has wanted for one hundred
and fifty years. It's a massive job and it's a
tiny fraction of that number, and we're under budget and
ahead of schedule. Now it's bigger than I told you. It's,
you know, after realizing we're going to do the inauguration
in that building. It's got all bulletproofed lass, it's got
all drone they call it drone free roof. Drones won't
touch it. It's a big it's a big, beautiful, safe building.
But it's you know, some big budget for tiny fraction
that we're under budget and ahead of schedule, and they
wanted it for one hundred fIF years. Think of it,
the Federal Reserve building two buildings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows because one hundred and fifty years ago
he sat down and he had a conversation right with
who I mean, finally we get the cherry on the
top Trump threatening to actually sue the Federal Reserve chair.
Speaker 2: It had no impact. We won all seven swing states.
But no, no, we're thinking about bringing a suit against
Powell for incompetence because think of it, these are two
These aren't outstanding buildings. These are small buildings. He said
four billion more. It's gonna end up costing more than
four billion dollars four billion. It's the highest price of
construction again, Democrats, highest price of construction per square foot
in the history of the world. It's never been Gorgeous
monuments are built for a much smaller price. So we're
thinking about bringing a gross incompetence what's called grossing cops,
gross incompetence against Powell. And it was his baby, and
the guy's just incompetent. There is nothing you can do
about it. He's just a very incompetent man. But we're
gonna probably bring a lawsuit a guess him. Thank you
all very much. I appreciate it. BB congratulations, my friends.
Speaker 1: Let's just put this all together. Trump shrugs off possible
military strikes. He won't say who conducted the covert operations.
Congress doesn't know. He pressures our allies, He minimizes China's
aggression towards Taiwan. He talks about ballrooms when he should
be talking about global crises. And then of course he
threatens the FED for not obeying him. This is not leadership.
As I said before, this is not deal making. This
is recklessness fueled by ego and also by fear. And
the reason that I break it down clip by clip
is because the bee behavior only survives when people, when
you and I, when this community stops paying attention. And
here's my promise to you as we head into the
new year. I'm not stopping, and I ask you not
to stop as well. You know, I finished even my
sub stack. Trump in the flattery doctrine with this. As
the new year approaches, people will resolve to eat better,
to drink less, to be kinder. Trump will resolve to
do exactly what he's always done, because in his mind,
the problem has never been him, and that is what
makes this moment in time so dangerous. When ego replaces
judgment on the world stage, the cost is not personal failure,
it's global consequence. And unlike most broken resolutions, this one
doesn't fade quietly by morning. And as always, thanks for listening.
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