5 Crazy Moments From Donald Trump's Bonkers Press Conference
By: Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday with the ostensible aim of touting foreign investment in the United States in anticipation of his administration. It ended up being so much more than that. Here are the five craziest moments from the wild ride.
POSSIBLE INVASIONS OF PANAMA AND GREENLAND
Asked by a reporter if he could assure world leaders that his rhetoric about the Panama Canal and Greenland would not amount to "military or economic coercion" once he takes office Trump responded with a simple "No."
"I'm not going to commit to that, no. It might be that you'll have to do something. Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country," he explained. "It's being operated by China! China! And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't give it to China. And they've abused it, they've abused that gift."
"Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake," continued Trump. "We lost 38,000 people, it cost us the equivalent of $1 trillion, maybe more than that, probably the most expensive, they say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which I guess you can, ever built."
THE GULF OF AMERICA
"We are going be changing — the opposite of Biden closing everything up and getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion worth of assets — we'll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring," Trump explained during one tangent.
"That covers a lot of territory," he added. "The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. It is appropriate. It's appropriate."
'HE WILL EXECUTE EVERYBODY!'
Before taking questions, the president-elect delved into one of his favorite topics: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the criminal cases he's brought against Trump.
"Nobody's ever won so many cases as I have against the Justice Department. I mean, Jack Smith had cases all over the place. People were being subpoenaed, lives were being ruined. They were spending everything they had- money. We were helping them out. We had to they were being they were subpoenaing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about. That's a sick group of people. And it was all to influence the election," mused Trump. It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've never had that in this country. We have had that in certain countries. We've had that in third-tier countries. We've had that in banana republics, but we've never had that in a place like the United States. I don't even know if it's been on a small level. I'm sure it has been on a small level, but this was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out of The Hague. He's a mean guy. He's a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because you look at his picture, you say that's a bad guy with his robe, his purple robe, and he executes people."
"He shouldn't be allowed to execute people because he will execute everybody! He's a nut job. But we won all of those cases with him," he concluded.
'DRIP, DRIP, DRIP'
At one point, Trump took a detour to discuss Democratic policy on energy and various household appliances.
"He [President Joe Biden] wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments. He wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters. I don't know what it is with electric. This guy loves electric," said Trump. "We're going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way. This guy loves electric and we don't have enough electricity. And then we have AI where we need more. And he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater. Gas heater is much less expensive. The heat is much better. It's a much better heat. As the expression goes, you don't itch!"
He continued:
They also want to go back. And they have already started that, too. When you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they want to preserve-. Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do. It's called rain, comes down from comes down from heaven.
And they want to do no, no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So what happens? You're in the shower ten times as long, you know, no water comes out of the faucet.
You want to wash your hands, your he-. They want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now. As you know, I ended that policy. I get you can have all the water you want. Makes no difference. Especially in certain areas. We have so much water, we don't know what to do with it.
But these are all things they want. Very, very little water to go into your dishwasher. Almost none. And you know what people do? They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing. Keep it going. They end up using more water.
Likewise, washing machines they want in your washing machine, you have very little water coming out of the washing machine. So when you wash your clothing, you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water.
HEZBOLLAH CAPITOL RIOTERS
In yet another made-for-TV moment, Trump was asked if he was "you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses" for their role in the January 6 Capitol riot.
Trump responded by the question by saying that "We're looking at it," before declaring that "We have to find out about Hezbollah. We have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted."
"You know, I see it all the time. And you see it, too. People that were doing some bad things weren't prosecuted, and people that didn't even walk into the building are in jail right now," added Trump. "So we'll be looking at the whole thing, but I'll be making major pardons, yes."
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He was having a psychotic episode. Get used to it.
El Presidente Trump -
All Mexicans under 16 years of age - are now 16 years of age!!
Up is down black is white
OMG....he's all over the place. Jack Smith is an executioner? No water comes out of your faucet?
HEZBOLLAH INVOLVED IN THE JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION?!?!?
LMAO, the MAGA’s will rush to defend that crazy shit from Trump.
China does not run the Panama Canal, the Martians do dumb ass.
Trump can see China from his back porch.
Manifest destiny is back, Greenland is over 90% indigenous people, Inuit to be exact. What is he going to do put them on a reservation?
Assisted living, no way more like a mental institution for Trumpski.
Trump has ,literally, been in assisted living his whole life.
He's never had to take responsibility for anything ever.
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I think I saw part of this on TV earlier, but had to change the channel pretty quickly. The sound of that moron's voice, and his broken sentences and rambling manner of speaking is torture.
That Panama and Greenland stuff is so stupid. Un-American even. We're supposed to be the good guys, not expansionist imperialists threatening other peoples' territory. And the U.S. did not lose 38,000 workers constructing the Panama Canal. According to Google it was more like 5,600 over a 10 year period, and mostly to tropical diseases. Still quite a few by today's standards, but why must he over inflate everything.
The Gulf of America? There's a solution to the problem nobody ever had. Ego trip galore. I'm surprised he didn't say the Gulf of Trump.
Of course he'll pardon the traitors who attacked the Capitol. They did it for him. Tyrants love that kind of stuff. But... Hezbollah???
Something may be going drip, drip, drip, but it's not his shower.
And Jack Smith will execute everybody!!!
Get ready for 4 more years of this idiocy, but with few or even no guardrails this time.
He didn't think of it
Maybe he figures if he can make “Gulf Of America” happen, he can change the Atlantic to “Trump Ocean.”
Sounds like "Oceania"...
Yes, it does
I saw an interesting comment on Bluesky, saying that Trump held a press conference TODAY to try and take the spotlight off Jimmy Carter's funeral this afternoon.
Sounds quite plausible , if not likely.
JFC...I reallly hate that man.
Let the games begin because I said I hate that man
Nah. It's your opinion and you're entitled to it.
But's let's be honest.. it's Bluesky... so you probably won't have to look too far to find a comment claiming he's sacrificing toddlers on an altar to baal and then eating them.
Trump is definitely an attention whore, so it would be surprising if he didn't try to make any situation all about him. But so what? Fuck him. We're saying goodbye to one of the best Americans of our lifetime. Don't give one of the worst ones the power to ruin it for you.
Next week you'll have a half dozen different reasons why Trump doesnt matter.
Its old.
Wait, so you are fine with this, but come down hard on Biden? You cannot be serious.
Good point about Mr. Carter. However, I think Bluesky is a lot more factual than Face Book or Twitter
Whereas your 4000 fabricated reasons for panic are new and original.......
I voted for Biden. I don't think he's been a good president, but that is all about what he's done (or hasn't done), not what he's said.
It's pretty straightforward. I care about what people do much more than I care about what they say. They're professional politicians, so only morons believe what they say anyway.
I understand that other people choose to get wound up over words. Right here on NT, we have a couple of folks who are downright infamous for it. But always remember that they choose to let Trump ruin their emotional state. Personally, I spent too many years as a competitive athlete to pay attention to trash talk. IDGAF what he says, and he can't do most of what he yammers about anyway.
Example.... explain in detail how this press conference matters in any tangible way to our nation. It doesn't. It's just Trump being an asshole. How is anybody surprised by that at this point?
My point to Trout was not to let that ruin a good day, where we get to reflect on a life very, very, very well lived by a very, very, very good man.
Trump is not simply some asshole, he is the president-elect. On Jan 20, this asshole will be empowered with the power and influence of the US presidency.
That matters.
International relationships are harmed proportional to the level of mistrust / uncertainty. Trump's tariff rhetoric has illustrated the obvious — that even when a capricious liar president-elect makes threats the world cannot and DOES NOT ignore the rhetoric; national leaders must factor that into their scenarios; they need to be prepared. Business leaders make decisions based on their expected impact of government policies and laws. No way are affected businesses NOT preparing themselves for some level of tariffs from Trump. Investors are similarly influenced by myriad matters and what the PotUS projects as intent does indeed matter. If investors see the CPI likely to rise due to actions by Trump, that will absolutely affect their decisions.
People (especially those with executive level responsibility) cannot and DO NOT just sit back and wait for an executive order to be executed, a law to be passed, or an agreement certified, violated or canceled. They necessarily apply inductive reasoning to prepare prior to the material action.
This proto-argument that Trump is merely an asshole, that nothing he says matters, that one must wait until he executes a material act before paying any attention, that it is pointless to analyze and prepare based on what he says, that there is never anything to see so just STFU ... ignores reality.
Holy shit, he’s insane. This is like some kind of Alzheimer’s rant.
France is going to court to rescind the Louisiana Purchase they said we didn’t meet the sales terms. Next up Russia and Alaska.
No! They can't have Alaska until I make a trip there to go fishing!
Can't wait for the MAGA red hat brigade to join the military to fight the Battle of Greenland or the Battle for Canada or the Battle for the Panama Canal. Will they ask Musk to lead them into battle? Not even inaugurated yet and the crazy talk is already dialed up to maximum crazy.
Denmark who owns Greenland has powerful allies. trmp's mouth is writing checks he can't cash
We can expect this on a daily basis for the entire Trump presidency.
WOW. And the Nutters think Biden is fucked up in the head? Holy shit.
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It is. I guess today is take trump at his word day. Tomorrow we will be back to everything he says is a lie.
Actually, he is fricking mentally ill.
Why do you think talking about invading other countries is funny?
Trump claims to be a non interventionist who wants America out of all worldwide conflicts. I guess that is true unless it is something HE wants.
The president of the United States should not be a real life figure out of The Onion.
Actually it is all the folks taking him seriously that is so funny. You think they would know better by now.
He must be joking about deporting 15 million people then. He must be joking about giving tax breaks to billionaires and enforcing tariffs to replace the income tax.
I never thought I'd see the day when people actually think that things the president of the United States says are intended to be farcical, but here we are.
More hyperbole and stream of consciousness talking but it is good you see it now since he has been doing it for 10 years now
Let him keep his stream of consciousness to himself.
I have been pointing out Trumps complete unfitness for office for 10 years.
It is the people who constantly make excuses for this piece of shit that is dragging this county down.
You are welcome to that opinion. Obviously it is not shared by many.
So, the Americans who want to take seriously what the president says are the stupid assholes?
Did I say that? Why are you making stuff up?
When are we supposed to take a POTUS seriously?
Do you think these people would think Biden was being facetious if he said he was taking back Panama or willing to go to war to get Greenland?
Hell, no, they wouldn't. They would be all over that like white on rice
Ah, now you take the defensive posture. That BS won’t work on me. Your words mean exactly what I said they mean. You excuse Trump’s nonsense and attack regular people for taking him seriously.
I get that this is all fun for you, but the presidency is supposed to be a serious job with serious responsibilities. People are not fools for paying careful attention to the things he says.
I believe that this “oh Trump is just joking” claim that we hear so often in defense of the crap he says is the struggle with cognitive dissonance that his supporters must feel. They claim to care about America. They say Trump will make American great, and they vote accordingly.
But then he says stupid, insane garbage in his official capacity. His supporters know it’s stupid, insane garbage, and they can’t take responsibility for their support of an obvious lunatic, so they are forced to laugh it off. “Trump is just joking and you’re the fool for taking him seriously.” That’s the only way his supporters can sleep at night.
I did?
UM, OK I guess
They do? Thanks for letting me know.
If you wish to hang on his every word, go for it. If I find it funny I will find it funny.
Let me answer the question you never did though. No, I never said "Americans who want to take seriously what the president says are the stupid assholes?"[✘]
uh huh…
Sad deflection attempt.
An example of Trump saying stupid insane offensive shit is a sad deflection attempt , OR, an example of Trump saying stupid insane offensive shit...? Let's think on that one a while
Of course , Trump is just joking about taking over Greenland. Lets all just have a big belly laugh. The king of Denmark must not think its very funny. He just had the royal coat of arms changed to make Greenland in a more prominent position on it. He's telling Trump "we are not giving or selling it to you".
This was being discussed on CNN Abby Philips show tonight. The total asswipe Scott Jennings , who is on this shows panel every night, just smirked when another guest said Trump's hostile bluster will drive allies away. Jennings just smiled when the subject of using military force against US allies was raised.
If we claim a right to take over Greenland because it is in our national interest how can we object to China taking over Taiwan because it is their national interest. Seems like Trump wont complain about that.
It’s fine John. The reason we vote for president is not to run the country responsibly, but to give the people a good laugh and torture the uptight Left. All is proceeding according to plan. Put your feet up and enjoy the best humor anyone’s ever heard of.
That is not true but after Biden I could see how people might believe that
That is just an added benefit. And the uptight left never disappoint.
Trump is hilarious. (Not) Almost as funny as some of the goofballs who voted for him.
Except that both are damaging the nation.
Then enjoy the show by all means.[✘]
The real show is going to start when magas finally start catching on to how badly they've been fooled by their Dear Leader.
www.mediaite.com /tv/fox-host-tells-ontario-premier-itd-be-a-privilege-to-be-taken-over-by-the-u-s-after-trump-calls-canada-the-51st-state/
Fox Host Tells Ontario Premier It’d Be ‘A Privilege To Be Taken Over’ by the U.S. After Trump Calls Canada the ‘51st State’
Fox News host Jesse Watters told Ontario Premier Doug Ford that Canadians should consider it “a privilege to be taken over” by the United States as “everybody else in the world wants” American citizenship.
“I used to love the idea of gobbling up Canada. Vast energy reserves, doubling our geography, we’d never lose another Winter Olympics. But do we really want to add that many liberals to our population?” said Watters on Tuesday’s Jesse Watters Primetime . “I’d still like to add stars to our flag and Canada does seem ripe for the picking. Maybe we just take Saskatchewan and Alberta, because the fact that they don’t want to become part of America makes me want to make them.”
Watters then introduced Ford to the show before asking, “What’s your problem with the United States absorbing Canada?”
“Well, first of all, Jesse, I love the U.S., I love Americans, and I get it. You know, President-elect Trump is a real estate tycoon, he’s made billions,” replied Ford. “But that property is not for sale. It’s as simple as that.”
Watters shot back, “You say this isn’t for sale, but everything has a price. The Million Dollar Man says that. Can you think of this more as a merger instead of an acquisition? Don’t think about being taken over, think about this as a coming together.”
“We can come together on a great trade deal,” Ford declared. “There’s not one American that I speak to out there, Jesse, that has a problem with Canada. Do you know what the problem is? China’s the problem.”
Watters proceeded to take offense at Ford’s reluctance to see his country become absorbed by the United States.
“You say that Americans don’t have a problem with Canadians, and we don’t, but it seems like you have a problem with us, because if I were a citizen of another country and I was a neighbor of the United States, I would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the United States of America,” the Fox News host remarked. “That’s what everybody else in the world wants, American citizenship. For some reason, that’s repellant to you Canadians, and I find that personally offensive.”
“Well you know something, Jesse? We’re proud Canadians just like there’s proud Americans, and if we join together and take on the world with a great trade deal between us, I think that’d be fabulous,” Ford concluded. “No one can stop us.”
In recent months, President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States.
“Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on taxes and military protection,” wrote Trump last month. “I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shot back at Trump’s taunts on Tuesday, declaring, “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
Watch above via Fox News.
These people are sick.
Canadians do not want to become part of the USA. I would like to go to Canada but I'm not worthy of citizenship.
Maybe we should trade California for a Provence to be named later but I bet Canada doesn't want California in case stupidity is contagious.
This evidently is the cover page of todays New York Post. Trump posted it on Truth Social , I guess as a bragging point.