Skip to content
TrackPodcasts
newsSep 11, 202624:26

Trump’s 9/11 Speech Goes Sideways...

About this episode

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s 9/11 speech, where Trump tried to connect the September 11 attacks to Iran and the ongoing war, while also sleeping, with his eyes closing and his face appearing noticeably droopy. Meiselas breaks down Trump’s remarks, his appearance, and the bizarre moments that unfolded during the speech. Go to https://ground.news/MTN to cut through misinformation, critically analyze the news shaping our lives and hold the media accountable. Save 40% off unlimited access to Ground News with my link or scan the QR code on screen. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get every episode summarized

Each time The MeidasTouch Podcast publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.

Email me new episodes

Free for 3 shows. No card needed.

Transcript ready

190 searchable segments. Every word is indexed and playable.

Trump’s 9/11 Speech Goes Sideways...

The MeidasTouch Podcast

0:00
24:26

Full transcript

The MeidasTouch PodcastTrump’s 9/11 Speech Goes Sideways.... Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Donald Trump's 9-11 speech at the Pentagon earlier today went sideways. Well, Donald Trump's face went sideways. He fell asleep during the ceremony. His face was drooping to the side. Just take a look at what he looked like. Then when he gave his speech, he connected 9-11 to the catastrophic and a lawful war in Iran. And he kept on saying basically because of 9-11, this is why we need victory in Iran and we need to escalate the war. It was absolutely horrific. Then defense secretary Pete Higgs said, we're not going to finish. We're not going to stop until we finish the job in Iran. And we are going to continue until judgment day. Let me just show you what went down. First, let me just show you this quick video of Donald Trump's sleep. I can show you minutes of it, but I'm just going to show you like 10 seconds or so so you can see for yourself what this looked like here playing this clip. Now contrast this to how former president Biden looked

when he was in New York City today. Then take a look at Donald Trump actually said during the speech at the Pentagon where he said we salute the service members working right now to ensure the world's number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. What you're connecting your catastrophic war in Iran and Iran had nothing to do with 9-11. You know who did have something to do with 9-11 Saudi Arabia. And this is what you're saying at the Pentagon ceremony for 9-11, you have to make it about yourself and about war mongering. It's so sickening to me here play this clip. And we salute the service members working right now to ensure the world's number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran will never ever have a nuclear weapon. And then Donald Trump continues and says we will never ever forget that's why

we fight today. We don't have a choice. No, this was a war of choice. You literally had a choice. You have a choice not to engage in a catastrophic and a lawful war in Iran where you slaughter little girls in Minab and Lamar and you blew up a wedding recently in Syrac County and you destroyed the global economy. You've destroyed the US economy. So yes, this was a war of choice. We shouldn't have been involved in and stop linking it to 9-11. Stop it. It's just ridiculous. It's beyond insensitive. It's demeaning. And do you think we're all stupid? Well, I guess after what you were doing at the Republican National Convention where you said, if you vote Republican, I promise you this time, I'm not lying like every other time. I'll give you $5,000 if you vote for me anyway. Here he says we will never forget. That's why we need victory in the war. The hell we will never ever forget. That's why we fight today. We don't have a choice. They can only be victory.

And Pete Higgs had spoke and he said, we control the straight. We will finish this. Not only doing non-control, the straight of Hormuz. You know who controls the Bob Elmond Dobstra, Iran's allies, the Houthis, who have been able to take control of over 3,000 kilometers of Western Yemen in the past 24 hours alone. Anyway, here's what Higgs has to say. Here play this clip. And we're ensuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. The economic pressure, Titans, every day, we control the straight. We will finish this fight. And then let me share with you what took place in Manhattan, the 9-11 ceremony that Donald Trump did not want to show up to because Donald Trump knew that he wasn't able to give a speech about himself and he knew there were a lot of families of 9-11 victims who were absolutely living. That Donald Trump continues to cover up for the Saudi regime, the monarchy, that Donald

Trump has put his arm around the Saudi monarchy, has protected all of the documents and has not released what's actually went down and additional information. We know a lot of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. I want you to listen to what Terry Strada said about her husband Tom Strada, who was killed tragically in 9-11 and you have JD Vance at this Manhattan event at 9-11 and Terry Strada calls out all past administrations and this administration looking at JD Vance for helping to cover up more about the Saudi government's role in all of this. Here play this clip. And my husband Tom Strada, you are missed more with each year that passes, but how can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder.

Yes, we finally made it into a court and I proved that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American terrorism around the globe and then sent its agents to support the radical Islamist hijackers so they could attack you and all of our loved ones. But for 25 years administration after administration including leaders in front of us here today chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9-11 families. They withheld evidence, they vetoed jashtol, they wrote promises, both public and private, it has been one betrayal after another. President Trump can still change that, tell the Saudis to stop lying, tell them that if they want to be friends with the USA they cannot continue to deny all of this, all of the pain, all of the destruction that we have all been suffering through.

Vice President Vance, thank you for being here today. Please carry that message back. Stand with the families, stand with the survivors, stand with the Americans, as my husband Tom would have said that is always the right thing to do. God bless all of us, God bless America. And I'll do I want to show you this as well. New York City Mayor Zoraan Mamdani always a class act after Rudy Giuliani has been working to say all these horrible things about Mamdani and saying Mamdani shouldn't be at the 9-11 ceremony and it's an insult to the 9-11 victims and their families that the New York City mayors show up. Mamdani, Mayor Mamdani still shook Giuliani's hand and just look when Mamdani was standing right there, you can say Giuliani shook his hand and after all of that, you just see how phony Giuliani and all these maggot people are here play this clip. We want to look at some of the arrivals there. We're seeing Mayor Zoraan Mamdani with former Mayor

Rudy Giuliani. This is really an extraordinary moment. Here's that photo of Biden and Dr. Jill Biden and George W. Bush, you see the photo right there, former First Lady over there, back to what Higgsit was saying, Higgsit was saying, our warriors have fought an Islamic theocracy that wished us death for nearly half a century that cheered on 9-11. Again, they continued to try to connect their catastrophic war in Iran with 9-11. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with anything. And this is what they're continuing to do play this clip. Over the past six months, we have laid waste to the world's most prolific state sponsor of terrorism. Our warriors have fought an Islamic theocracy that has wished us death for nearly half a century, the cheered on 9-11. And then Higgsit talks about judgment day here play this clip. You see, on that day, many Americans were ignorant of the Islamist threat that we face. But 25 years ago at this very hour, it was no

more because history was not over. It's never over. The struggle against evil continued and it continues now. It will continue until judgment day. Seriously, judgment day. It's more important than ever right now that we have a accurate media diet that we can understand what's actually being reported and we could report in an objective way about these facts because these are not normal political times. I mean, take a look at this article right here. This is an article from this morning. US Slaps, news sanctions on networks, aiding Iran's proxies in the Middle East. You take a look at how this is being covered. This is being covered mostly by right wing news, very little coverage on the left and the center. Why? Because we all know that when it comes to Treasury Secretary, Bessent, it is all absolute BS. Bessent said three weeks ago, economic D day, he would go after any country that provided economic assistance to Iran. And then China said,

we're going to continue to provide economic assistance to Iran. Russia said, we're going to provide economic assistance and we're going to enhance civilian nuclear capabilities of Iran. Pakistan said, we're going to continue all the BRICS nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, they said, we're going to continue to help Iran. And so what does Bessent do? We're going to sanction the birds that fly over Iran. We're going to say it's like, what do you and then Bessent's like, I'm the house now. You want to bet against me? Hey, Bessent, you've been a loser your whole damn life since you went into your own private fund where there were 90% redemptions, the bond market, the equity market, everybody thinks that you are a belowviating idiot. And you lived in Barbies, Malibu, Dreamhouse in Charleston, South Carolina, you painted, you lived in a pink replica of Barbies house. I mean, no one takes you seriously, you're a clown. But that's why on the right wing, they were covering this as though, look at what he's doing. And everybody else is like, okay, we know this is a BS. By the way, that's why I get a

lot of news from ground news. It's a subscriber fund and app and news site every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and they organize them by story and then show you what the right is reporting with the centers reporting with the left is reporting. It's a game change for me. It's why I partner with them on these videos I do in the morning because we need to get our news from reliable sources. They tell you did immediate conglomerate reporting this or was it an independent media source? How is the right reporting on it? How's the left reporting on it? I especially like their blind spot feed that I just showed you. I believe in ground news so much. We're going to offer you the same plan that I use and get a 40% off the plan that I use. It's called their ground news vantage plan. It's their ground news vantage subscription. So go to ground.news slash mtn or click the QR code up there, but I'll put a link as well in the description below that's ground.news slash mtn get 40% off of the ground news vantage plan. And we appreciate that as a

resource. It's a resource I use every day ground.news slash mtn or scan the QR code above and use the research tool that I use. Treasure Resecretary Bessent said the following on Iran. This is what he was saying at the convention. I mean this guy is such a loser here play this clip. Create the wave and you create the pressure and I can tell you what we're seeing with Iran now is a cornered and wounded animal. And you know it's the it's kind of like your open Steve where it says you know it's the last gasp of the dying regime. More from Treasury Secretary Bessent who then calls the Iranians losers. He's like they're just a bunch of losers like sitting around saying yeah we're going to do this. We're going to do that here play this clip. The Iranians get out zero. So you know over a two-week period the score 140 billion to zero. So if they want to say that they have control the street it's like for those of us who are old enough to remember the he-man women haters called on the little rascals. They're just

a bunch of losers like sitting around saying yeah we're going to do this we're going to do that. I mean they're comical to me like and then except Bessent you're referring to yourself okay. Iran says the things and they've done those things. You've said I'm going to do economic D-Day and then you do not do economic D-Day. So you're actually referring to yourself and you're saying this now when in the past 24 hours the Iranian allied Houthis just basically took over all of Yemen where Iran has been able to strike the U.S. bases in the region you know in the past week and we've seen yet more damage done to the U.S. base in Jordan. I mean you have Iran's far in minister Araguchi posting the following the U.S. Treasury Secretary has been gleefully boasting about wanting to impoverish Iranians and collapse our economy instead he stands powerless and exposed as the world loses belief in the U.S. financial system. Meltdown over cost of funding U.S. debt is only beginning and what foreign minister Araguchi from Iran post is just what the

United States 30 year government treasury yields are over 5.35 percent these are record highs treasury yields for the 30 year the 20 year the 10 year treasury yields are now hitting record highs diesels over six dollars a gallon record high the price of gas is hitting record highs right now you have our navi the acting navy secretary hung cow admitted that quote Iran blew the hell out of Bahrain is what he said in Iran's foreign minister Araguchi says we appreciate the candor of acting navy secretary hung cow our powerful armed forces did indeed blow the hell out of the fifth lead headquarters in Bahrain by the way it's why I was showing everybody the satellite photos in real time when it was actually going down and the trump regime was denying it now the trump regimes acting secretary of navy hung cow is admitting it and you have best in saying oh I just laugh at Iran I laugh at what they're doing really because the American people are

laughing at the latest CPI inflation numbers after the PPI numbers were higher than expected yesterday the CPI numbers came in higher than expected today CPI inflation was 3.4 percent inflation rose 0.4 percent month over month so if you just continue this trend at 0.4 percent month over month that means by the end of this year we will be close to 5 percent annual inflation also core inflation rose 0.3 percent in August so this likely means that we will have another we will have an interest rate hikes if Donald Trump did nothing we would have had probably three interest rate cuts this year alone but Trump screwed up the entire economy and it's only going to get worse from there and as I noted I'm going to do more videos on this today because I think it's critically important but the Saudi backed Yemeni government have withdrawn from basically all the airs they're called the

PLC they would drew from all areas in western Yemen including the paramilans in the Bob El Mandab straight the Houthis control all of western Yemen on Sir Allah all of western Yemen they took over about 3000 square kilometers of territory yesterday and if you think about some of these areas by paramilan some areas are as narrow as three kilometers and other areas in the Bob El Mandab straight like 26 kilometers in other words the Houthis can basically just be there with their weapons they don't even need sophisticated radar and they now fully can control which they do right now the Bob El Mandab straight they have all the Hanna Shilins they have paramilaned right now look at this green right here you can see all the areas that the Houthis control I'll show you this in on Sir Allah fighter in Bob El Mandab explaining that they don't need drones or missiles anymore to block non-compliant vessels so now Iran and the Iranian backed on Sir Allah in Yemen

combine control about 30 to 40% of all of the world's oil supply right now so what do you say about that best into your play this clip more scenes are pouring in out of mocha right now and you'll see the people in Yemen are greeting the Houthis the on Sir Allah army as heroes this is what's going on right now in mocha right now that was one of the port cities in western Yemen as the Houthis advanced all all the way down western Yemen play this clip and with all of this going on you have Iran and Gulf states are will be having a meeting on Monday Gulf foreign ministers plan to meet

their Iranian counterpart in a push by Oman and Iran to secure a buy-in for a deal temporarily managing shipping through the straight of Hormuz as regional state seek a pathway to ease hostilities over the waterway the gathering and Omani initiative would be the first meeting between the top diplomats from the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council and a senior Iranian official since the US and Israel launched the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran in other words no more US security umbrella or you have Arab nations meeting with Iran and they are holding their own security meeting demonstrating that the US is basically viewed as utterly weak and pathetic and not having a central role to play and that Trump is incapable of doing any deal at all and finally I'll leave you with this so what's our FBI doing with all of this going on in the world with everything that's happening what's the FBI doing well a recent foyer records

uh demonstrates that cash patell directed the top FBI leadership to find accounts that were criticizing him and respond and one of the accounts he wanted to make sure that responded was an account called an excuse my language this is just me reporting the facts retard finder an aid warned cash patell that replying to retard finder would look bad on the FBI director for responding to that account and patell complained it's getting a lot of tweet views so we need to respond an FBI official said yeah we're not responding to i find retards that would be bad on you you're the director of the FBI and cash patell says it's not about them it's about the number of views man because people see it and they need to be seeing our stats we care about our stats or social media stats man that's the United States government for you right now that's the status of our government on 9-11 folks hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers thanks for watching

hey if you want the full story how democracy got here and how we take it back pre-order our new book wtf america today just scan the QR code or click the link in the description let's do this

More episodes

More from The MeidasTouch Podcast

View all episodes →