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5 min readTrump's recent Oval Office appearance, framed around reinstating a presidential physical fitness test, featured interactions with young children that the host describes as deeply disturbing and requiring public call-out to avoid normalization.
Disturbing Remarks to Children
During the event, Trump used the children as props for his announcement. He mocked a young girl's height and volleyball ambitions, asking if she could jump high and suggesting soccer instead "with your height." He then addressed them creepily about "Barack Hussein Obama," emphasizing the middle name while criticizing Obama's administration for phasing out the fitness tradition. Trump told the kids the 2020 election was "rigged," claiming he won in a "landslide" despite "bad things" happening. Responding to a boy aspiring to weightlifting, Trump pivoted to attacking transgender athletes, recounting a male powerlifter who switched categories, broke a women's record by 119 pounds, and warning the boy, "You'll never compete against women."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:06) **Oval Office Kids Incident Overview** - Host condemns Trump using children as props for fitness announcement amid alleged child trafficking cover-up
- 2 (03:04) **Mocks Girl's Height and Volleyball Dreams** - Trump crushes young girl's sports ambitions, suggests soccer instead
- 3 (03:35) **Creepy "Barack Hussein" Obama Reference** - Trump questions kids unsettlingly about Obama's full name
- 4 (04:12) **Rigged Election Claim to Kids** - Trump tells children U.S. elections were rigged
- 5 (04:38) **Anti-Trans Powerlifting Attack** - Trump warns boy he'll never compete against women, cites record-breaking case
- 6 (05:56) **"Cry Uncle" Surrender Rhetoric** - Trump talks forcing opponents to surrender like in a fight
- 7 (06:45) **Reluctance to Kill Iranians** - Trump says he doesn't want violence despite Iranian friends
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Show Notes
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump scaring little kids with his behavior in the Oval Office and Meiselas calls out the fact that this behavior has been normalized by corporate news.
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