The MeidasTouch Podcast - All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Caves in Public

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s weakness having disastrous consequences in the United States and across the world.  Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And then you have that as a result. Zelensky also called Donald Trump out for his silence and saying, basically silence is complicity at this point. You're giving Putin a pass. As I said at the outset, when it comes to Donald Trump, it's the art of surrender. It's the art of defeat. It's the art of surrender. It's the art of defeat. It's the art of weakness. Donald Trump over the weekend again also announced that those 50% tariffs he threatened against the European Union, what was it?

Two days ago, three days ago at this point, that he is going to delay imposing the 50% tariffs on Europe, which was going to take place in like five days. He's going to be now moving the next deadline to, I think he says July 9th because he got a call from the president of the European Commission, Ursula von Drilley, and he said, okay, okay. Then he tries to pretend that that's a victory. It's the art of weakness. It's the art of surrender.

As our editor in chief at the Midas Touch Network, Ron Filipkowski, who you know and love, here's how he describes it. Trump reduced the tariffs on China in exchange for nothing. He capitulated. He caved. Trump paused the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in exchange for nothing. He just postponed the tariffs on EU in exchange for nothing. He threatened Russia with sanctions if they didn't sign a ceasefire and then did nothing.

That's what Donald Trump believes is the art of the deal. But it's really just cave man Trump because he keeps on caving, always giving in on tariffs at the deadline while getting no deals in return. Concepts of deals though, lots of stuff happening behind the scenes. Any day now, I guess that golden age is going to be here. No, Trump's turned the United States of America into the laughing stock of the world. I saw something on the Council of Foreign Relations recently where one of the speakers said the United States is even doing something that Russia didn't do the United States is both

Making itself weaker on the international stage and destroying the basic functioning of the day-to-day governance Ron Philip Kowsky air editor-in-chief also writes the following On Sunday Donald Trump says that he's not happy with Putin. He goes, he's not happy with Putin bombing civilians every day. But it's only because Trump's dream of a Nobel Peace Prize isn't happening. He won't do anything about it though, except say he's unhappy and then go back to golf. And then like he did yesterday, what was he posting a photo while he was golfing of a swan attacking his golf buddy. Donald Trump thought that that was something that he should post.

Incidentally, our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski explained, I think that's the swan at Bedminster at the 16th hole that guards the grave of Ivana, Donald Trump's first wife, who he buried at Bedminster in kind of the marsh area actually by that hole so that Donald Trump could potentially claim tax deductions by calling Bedminster, his golf course, a cemetery. And then Ron Filipkowski also writes, really Trump's surprised that Putin doesn't want peace? Shocked.

Shocked, I tell you. So here's what Donald Trump said yesterday, just so you can kind of see for yourself. A reporter asks him, you mentioned you're unhappy with Putin. You've talked before about more sanctions. Is that something you're considering? And then Donald Trump goes on this weird rant. He's like, I'm shocked. What the hell happened to him? This is not the Putin I know. I've known him for a long time. Can you believe this? Yes, we can believe he's Putin.

He's a genocidal maniac. We can absolutely believe that. But you were the one who promised everybody that on day one in 24 hours, you were going to bring peace to Ukraine, you said, because of your relationship with Putin and Zelensky. But you are an absolute liar, but here play this clip Then a reporter asks Trump additional questions about Putin and then Trump's response was to basically finish his sentence by saying Why the hell would I tell you what i'm gonna do? You're fake news, aren't you? You're fake news. And again, it's just so

You're fake news. Why would I tell the fake news dude? What the hell are you talking about here? Play this clip right here. Yeah, i'll give you an update. I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don't like it at all. Okay? We're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm surprised. I'm very surprised.

We'll see what we're going to do. What am I going to tell you? You're the fake news, aren't you? You're totally fake. Any other questions? I don't like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit. He's killing people and something happened to this guy and I don't like it. And as Donald Trump's being asked these questions by reporters in Morristown, New Jersey on

this landing strip or tarmac, wherever the heck he is, he was told that Pete Hegseth, Department of Defense's interim chief of staff, worked in the Biden administration as a holdover who was critical of Trump. And it was like the first time Trump heard that, he's like, that's very bad. I'm going to have to do something about that. Secretary Excess acting chief of staff is a Biden administration holdover who has said some very critical things about you and Vice President Vance. Do you have thoughts on that?

Who is the chief of staff? Britney Correa. about you and vice president Vance. I have no idea who he is but if he did say that I would recommend that we don't take him. I mean if he did say something like that I would recommend we don't take him but let's see I'll take a look. Do you even know who's working for you Donald? Like do you know at all what's going on? Do you know what's signing? It's always projection and confession with the trump regime and these magas though, you know, isn't it? So like when they accused former president biden of like you didn't do anything. It was just the auto pen that did anything Like you know, they're telling on themselves because who the hell makes up something like that the auto pen Here's what I know under former president Biden, we had a stable, predictable values-based

government. Two new nations joined NATO. Our international standing was never more powerful than it was under former President Biden. Domestically, we had GDP growth that was number one across the world. We had inflation under control such that the Fed was reducing interest rates. We had record job growth, 16.2 million jobs created, record low unemployment. We were energy independent, producing the most energy anywhere in the world.

40,000 infrastructure projects were going up across the country. So that's what I do know about what actually was transpiring under the Biden administration. And here, Donald Trump, whose whole thing is what? America, America. Well, he's approving the deal now with Nippon Steel in Japan to take over US Steel. But see, Trump's such an idiot that he thinks he did the deal with Nissan, not Nippon. He goes, Nissan is a great company. Nippon, it's Nippon, not Nissan, you idiot.

Here, play this clip. Another question you announced on Friday about US Steel and Nippon Steel. Yeah. What will the ownership structure look like? What made you say that? It'll be controlled by the United States, otherwise I wouldn't make the deal.

I went to the unions, to all of the local unions. They all wanted it. And I'm doing it because all of the congressmen came in, about five of them, and the others, I understand, are in conference. And they asked that I do it. Everybody seems to want it. And we'll see.

I mean, you know, we'll see what the final is. But they're going to invest millions of dollars in steel and it's a good company. Nissan is a very good company. We'll see. But it would be, it's an investment and it's a partial ownership, but it'll be controlled by the USA. Now, I played the clips of Donald Trump's disastrous speech before West Point, before

the United States Army grads over and over again. So I'm not going to play it again here, but it was like when Donald Trump said that he gave a great commencement speech at the Ohio State University, when he gave the speech at Alabama. Not to mention Donald Trump talking about trophy wives in front of the Army grads and that he doesn't like stealth because Trump literally thinks that stealth planes are invisible and he says I could still see them even though they have the funny shapes. That's a pretty problematic thing for a commander in chief to say.

He also attacked Obama and Biden, which was disgraceful. He attacked the transgender community, which was disgraceful. It was just an overall, he called, he compared himself to Al Capone. Just bizarre stuff. I mean, like, like here, while Donald Trump is answering questions to, you'll see again that he believes that one of the big problems with Harvard is like, it's like he's learning for the first time that they have international students Donald there's so many schools that have international students. It's not just Harvard

That that's what upsets you about Harvard that it has international students then he demands the names here play this clip Yeah on harvard. Do you think you'll come for their endowment in any way or go after my name, please? come for their endowment in any way or go after my name? Well, look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31 percent, almost 31 percent of foreigners coming to Harvard. We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous. We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard. But there are 31 percent, but they refuse to tell us who the people are. We want to know who the people are.

Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with. I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31 percent. It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31 percent foreign. Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard. We do. So why are they doing so many? Number one.

Number two, we want a list of those foreign students and we'll find out whether or not they're okay. Many will be okay, I assume. And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad. And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic. Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic and that's got to stop immediately. Here was Donald Trump capitulating, saying that he would be not imposing the 50% tariffs on Europe, conveniently, as we head into the opening of the markets.

You know, soon, it's obviously Memorial Day, by the way, happy Memorial Day to everybody. And it's really a solemn day as well, where it's important that we remember all of the fallen soldiers who have sacrificed everything for us. But here's the speech of Donald Trump at the EU. Let's play it. You spoke to European Commission President von der Leyen. Did you discuss the 50% tariffs and did you agree to the lose? She just called me, as you know, and she asked for an extension on the June 1st date and she said she wants to get down to serious negotiation because I told you specifically

haven't I told anybody that would listen they have to do that and we had a very nice call and I agreed to point out as well. The shipping situation from China to the US actually hasn't gotten all that much better since Trump rushed trade advisor Jameson Greer and Scott Bessentus, Treasury Secretary to cave to China. Apollo says the following, it's been nearly two weeks since the China US trade deal, but container traffic from China to the US hasn't shown a strong rebound.

Are 30% tariffs on China still too high? Yes. Or are US companies simply waiting to see if tariffs will drop further before ramping up shipments? That's the problem with Trump's policies. He's so malicious, arbitrary, and capricious that no one even knows what the hell he's even doing at any given point and time One I always got to mention climate on these videos now because it's so so important And I think it sometimes gets short shrift and not a lot of people talk about it

but one of the things that Trump has directed his Justice Department to do is It's not good enough that the Trump EPA and the Trump agencies are trying to destroy the environment at the federal level. They're having the Department of Justice sue the states that are trying to, as states' rights issues, help the environment in their states. So there's a lot of states that are saying, or we're going to make polluters basically reimburse the state for their stuff, Trump suing them. Trump and the MAGA Republicans pushing forward legislation to try to block the emission standards that California sets.

And I live in California. What, 30 years ago, there was so much smog, it was gross. We got that under control in California, but Trump wants to bring back the smog because it's an absolute death cult. There's nothing else to really say about it. There you have it right there again. He caves. He's a loser, weak, pathetic, and you can see it just all play out there, I think.

It's just the behavior of a loser and it's humiliating to the United States. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. And thanks so much for watching and have a restful Memorial Day. But remember what the Memorial Day is all about. It's about remembering the troops who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.