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4:57Now PlayingDonald Trump made a total fool of himself during a Q&A session with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday. Trump decided to showcase his cognitive decline by going off topic and talking about a “bill” that he claims his wife sponsored that protects children. In fact, the legislation that he is talking about – the Take It Down Act – is less about children and more about combatting cyberbullying, and it had broad bipartisan support. But the way Trump spoke about it should leave all Americans feeling uneasy about this man being in charge, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
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On Monday while meeting with UK Prime Minister, Kira Starmer, Donald Trump and Starmer decided to, you know, take questions from the audience. Obviously it's a big deal. President of the United States, prime Minister of the uk, lot of things happening. We got the EU trade deal that, by the way, screws, American consumers tremendously. But reporters have questions and Donald Trump loves talking to the press because every time he does, he gets his name in the headlines. So trumpet, starmer start taking questions and, uh, outta nowhere, Donald Trump just decides to let his brain go on vacation. And he went on an incoherent, uh, diatribe about how his wife, the first lady of the United States, with no legislative power at all, uh, somehow sponsored a bill in Congress that got passed and now we can protect children. Um, only one of those three things is accurate. And that is, yeah, Congress passed a bill, but, but Melania didn't, didn't put it forward. And, uh, it, it's not necessarily about children, it's about everybody. So I guess by extension, sure, children are covered, but here is Donald Trump showing the world his completely broken brain. Take a look.
Uh, I don't see that as a free speech issue. I see that as a child protection issue.
We actually passed a bill in Congress headed up by my wife, actually. Yeah. Which was, uh, to full bed stuff out, having to do with children because it is a problem. But I cannot imagine him censoring truth, social. That's more of a very political, and, and, you know, it's been a very big success. Not gonna happen. And I only say good things about him in his country. So they, to me, you're making a mistake after. I'm gonna give my ambassador the job. Make sure it's not censor. It's not.
I had not, alright, so he says the bill was headed up by his wife, Melania, first Lady of the United States. It's part of her, you know, anti cyber bullying thing. Well, here's the thing. No, she, she didn't, she had nothing to do with this legislation. And when, by the way, Donald, uh, you just signed this a month and a half ago. It's called the Take It Down Act. And it was passed by both the House and the Senate with broad bipartisan support. You signed it, you should know what it's called. You haven't signed a ton of bills. I know you've signed a lot of executive orders, but you haven't signed very many bills. 'cause not a lot of things are getting passed. And this was one of the few things that both the left and the right agreed on was actually a good thing. And instead of giving credit to Congress for finally working together, you're like, my wife did this.
I know she has no power and she doesn't even know what's in the bill, but she did it. It's all her. Hmm. She's great. She hates me, but she's great. No, that's, that is not the chain of events that happened here, buddy. And for the record, the take it Down Act as you said, uh, pull bad stuff out of having to do with children again. I guess obviously children are covered by this, but the Take It Down Act of course, refers to revenge porn. It stiffens the penalties, it broadens the definition, uh, and it allows victims to, of course, be able to get justice. It's a good bill. It's a, it's a much needed bill, but it, it's not specifically about pulling bad stuff out of children.
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