The MeidasTouch Podcast - Charlie Angus Reacts to Trump Canada Threats

Episode Date: October 11, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how the Canadian people are beyond fed up with the Trump and the United States after the Trump administration announced it was building a Qatari military base in Idaho which borders Canada and after the horrible meeting this week between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Meiselas speaks with the leader of Meidas Canada Charlie Angus about how the Canadian people really feel. 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 The Influence Continuum: 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 Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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expansion into foreign markets. And we can talk all day about streamlining manufacturing processes. Because at Desjardin business, we speak the same language you do. Business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us. And contact In fact Desjardin today, we'd love to talk, business. Canadians are absolutely furious, as always, that Donald Trump and his regime earlier this week, of course, you had that disastrous Oval Office appearance where Donald Trump continued to threaten the sovereignty of Canada. He attacked the Canadian auto industry, and I just thought Donald Trump's overall behavior was abysmal. And, of course, Prime Minister Carney was there in the Oval Office. Then at the end of the week, we learned that the United States military is helping to build a Qatari, Amiri Air Force facility in Idaho, which obviously borders Canada.

So I'm just trying to get this straight as the Trump regime has pushed Canada far away from the normal coordination on intelligence as the Trump regime threatens Canadian sovereignty. now a military base of a Middle Eastern country is going to be built in an area near the border of Canada. I'm not even sure this is even of precedent in the United States to allow any foreign country to build military bases in the United States, yet alone the country of Qatar having the Qatari. Like there's a Canadian military base. There's joint operations, but we don't give military bases to countries. Donald Trump got the 747 jet from Qatar and now they just get military bases in our country. Just to remind you, this is what went down when Hegsith, who unlawfully refers to himself as the Secretary of War, was with the head of Qatar.

Here, play this clip. No one other than President Trump could have achieved the peace that we believe will be a lasting peace in Gaza. And Qatar played a substantial role from the beginning. working with our folks to ensure that came about. So I want to thank you for that historic piece. I look forward to joining the president as that gets, it's already been delivered, but as that's formally signed as well. And I'm also proud that today we're announcing,

we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Katari-Imiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho. Location will be host a contingent of Katari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training. increasing lethality, interoperability is just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, Your Excellency, that you can count on us. Then next you had Melania Trump bragging that she had open channel communications with Vladimir Putin. Apparently there are open channel communications that are taking place.

And also Putin sent over his diplomats to the United States to talk about. trade deals with Mago-Republican Congress members. We're not talking about sanctions. We're talking about doing trade with the United States. But here's what Melania Trump said, just a reminder, play this clip. President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication regarding the welfare of these children. For the past three months, both sides have participated in several back channel meetings.

and calls, all in good faith. We have agreed to cooperate with each other for the benefit of all people involved in this war. And then when Donald Trump was with Prime Minister Carney earlier this week, in addition to bragging or threatening the sovereignty of Canada, once again attacking Canada's auto industry, and then saying that people of Canada

love the United States, and don't worry, they'll be traveling back to the United States soon. Donald Trump also claims he saved 100,000 Canadian lives, he says, by blowing up Venezuelan fishing boats. And apparently we've learned also he blew up a Colombian shipping boat of people who are not narco terrorists. And in any event, all of the blowing up of shipping boats seems to be a violation of international law.

But here's what he said with Carney. Let's play it. Zero. And as you know, we've taken a very hard. stand on drugs this is also benefiting you we've a lot of the we call them the water drugs the drugs that come in through water they're not coming there are no boats anymore there frankly there are no fishing boats there's no boats out there period if you want to know the trust we're saying does anybody go fishing anymore the fact is we knocked out probably saved at least

100 000 lives american lives and canadian lives by taking out all those boats coming in so They don't come in that way, and now they'll come in other ways, and we're not going to allow that either. So we've done a great job on that. So now let me bring in leader of Midas, Canada, leader of the resistance tour, former member of parliament, Charlie Angus. Hey, Charlie, you heard there. Donald Trump is also saying that he saved all of these Canadian lives, which is a lie. But there were other parts there as well where he says Canadians love us. They're all going to keep coming back.

They will absolutely love us again. So what are you seeing in Canada right now, Charlie? I don't think anybody in Canada expected that we were going to get a deal with this gangster, but people are beyond fed up. The fact that once again, he interrupts the prime ministers. The prime minister is trying to be nice to him to brag about us, becoming part of the United States, destroying our sovereignty, threatening our auto sector, our manufacturing belt,

saying that we're going to like going back. We are not going back. People are more firm than ever. I hear from people all the time. People are not only angry and determined not to buy products, but they're going into the stores and calling out the managers and saying, we don't even want to see these products on our shelves. That's how deep the anger is right now.

But I think what's really concerning in the broader picture is that, you know, in addition to being America's number one trading partner, we've also been one of their closest, may be their closest defense partner because we're on the border. We've been with them in NORAD. We've been with them in the Five Eyes. Trump, they've talked about kicking us out of the Five Eyes network. We were one of their main security partners on this.

They wanted to kick us out. Why? Because, well, we exposed Russian interference in the election as part of the intelligence sharing. They've talked about kicking us out of NORAD, which would leave North America defenseless. They see us very much as an adversary, a threat. some country to be pushed around. And yet now we find out that they're going to put a, what, a Qatari base in Idaho on our border.

This is just not a regime that can be trusted. Right. There are national security implications in the United States, but also as our neighbor in Canada to say, so Trump's going to put military bases of Middle East countries on our border or right there. that's one point of it and the other point which you say is so you prefer Qatar and engaging in relations there over your long trusted partner you know to the north you mean again you look at

the Qatari GDP you're talking about a neglig I mean you know it's not nothing but it's a relatively negligible GDP you know annually in the low low billions you know versus Canada four trillion dollars and fought side by side with the United States against fascist war after war, but Trump likes the Qatari gold and the 747 jets. It sends a disturbing message. Well, I think with the message that it's sending is that as a former ally and as now a potential adversarial neighbor, they can't be trusted. They can't be trusted with intel.

They can't be trusted in terms of coordination. You know, for training, if they wanted to train Qatari pilots, Well, the U.S. has a long history of that. Canada has a long history of that. Canada and the U.S. have long histories of training together out doing naval exercises. If the Americans want to come up into the Arctic to train, we work with them. If we were going to get training in some area on defense, these are common things that you have between nations. What you don't have is giving a foreign nation a military base on your soil. What kind of message is that sending?

But this isn't the first time Canadian intelligence and Canadian military had to really question where we're going to the United States. Remember when Donald Trump was first elected, the first time he fired James Comey and all that's coming back to Bidus. Right after firing Comey, he went into the White House and that was Sergei Lavrov, who's a very militant ally of Putin. And he turned over information on an Israeli agent who was working within Syria. I mean, he gave serious intel to the Russians. This stuff staring us in the face. This guy has given stuff to Russia again and again and again. He can't be trusted militarily.

He can't be trusted with intelligence. Then we have like Pete Heggseth. I mean, my God, if Pete Hegzitt was elevated in the Canadian Navy, I think he'd end up with one of those sock and a soap accidents because this guy is completely unfit for the job. So Canadians are watching this and thinking, this is a nation that we used to work very closely with in terms of trade, very closely with intelligence, very closely with military. We can't trust them on any front. And we're going to have

to start really, really rethinking our own defense in light of this. You know, it seemed that Prime Minister Carney was doing what he could try to do to be cordial and create some semblance of normalcy, especially as the United States-Canada and Mexico agreements or re-up for negotiations. Like, at one level, I understand, and he's an affable, like, he's like a nice guy in general. Like, that's how he is. But even when he's there and Trump behaves that way, I think it's going to get tougher and tougher for him to be that way, especially, I think, on his right flank when you see,

like, the Premier of Ontario, you know, channeling more of even an elbows-up movement saying, I get it. You want to try to do this, do it. But at some point, you got to hit back because you can't treat Trump like this. And so it was an interesting dynamic because I got some pushback from followers saying, Ben, you understand who Ford. I do. I totally get it.

But the point I'm trying to make is you can't keep doing these Oval Office visits where Trump disrespect. That was the point I was trying to make. No, I think you're right on. I think the prime minister came back. He needed to get a win because people are questioning. being nice to Trump. People have said again and again they're willing to take economic hits. We see the polling showing we're willing to take serious economic hits to stand up for our sovereignty.

So when the prime minister is doing the low key, the traditional Canadian way of like, okay, you know, being nice to the drunk at the party so he doesn't do something stupid. But he's running out of room on that. And, you know, Doug Ford and me and Doug Ford, we don't agree on very much. But he's channeling that anger that's out there that I'm hearing at the coffee shop. or people are like, the hell with this. This is, people get it. This guy's a gangster. He's pushing us around.

He keeps expecting, every time you're nice to him, they take ground from us. So we've got a situation where I think our prime minister is going to have to start pushing back harder. People do not want to go along any further right now when we see the United States is actually talking about changing laws. So they think that American police and American security should be able to operate on the, Canadian side of the border. Well, hell with that. We're watching them attacking their own citizens in the cities, on armed citizens. You think we're going to let them come over the border? So the prime minister is going to have to start taking a much harder line. In terms of intelligence, you know, I can't say, but some of the military folks I've spoken with are seriously rethinking

the trust that we had, seriously rethinking where we're going to put our investments and seriously having to rethink what kind of intel are we're going to be sharing with a country that's willing to, hey, you give us a jet or 747, we'll let you set up military bases in our country. If America is open for business like that with countries like Qatar, what's next? So Canada has to really rethink its role as neighbor, as trading partner, and traditionally as ally. Charlie, before we go, we know that Donald Trump and his regime watch this. We know that the ambassador to Canada watches this. He sent you letters, letting us know that he watches this and watches you.

What's your message right now to the Trump regime? Well, Donald, your latest behavior was it planned to just really, really piss us off, to really push us further? What was once your best neighbor, your best friend? Well, we aren't friends anymore. We get that. The fact that you sent Pete Hoekstra, and we know that Midas lives in Pete Hoekstra's head. He seems to be obsessed with us.

Well, Pete, you know, the days coming, when people are going to start demanding, you get given the bums rush because you're just a provocateur. But what's happening now, I think, in terms of Donald Trump, attacking citizens in his own country, attacking cities, and then turning American soil over to foreign military bases, I think ordinary Americans have gone along up to this point of recognizing this is way, way beyond the safe zone. So for Canadians, we're going to do what we've got to do. this elbows up movement's not stopping the boycott is getting stronger it's going to start putting increasing pressure on our on our government leaders who are now trying to feel if there's an opportunity to work with you it ain't going to happen donald we get it people get it ordinary people

get it so you're boxing yourself in further and further so do what you're going to do donald but explain to american people why like who's next who else you're going to get military bases to when's Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States, maybe just outside of Washington? I mean, come on, anything's open with you for sale right now, including your country, including your dignity, including the soul of your people. We're not going to be sold down the river, not by you, not now, not ever. You know, I think if you were to poll American people or the world, who do you think Donald Trump supports more U.S. or Russia, I think overwhelmingly you would see, you know, Russia

is based on how Donald Trump's behavior is, then I also think that if you pulled Donald Trump and his MAGA base and said, who would they rather be aligned with? I think that they're so magamushed-brained out that they're buying into the Trump-Pooten, you know, dynamic right now. Anyway, you and I will talk about that. Yeah, absolutely.

It's it's her. You and I will talk more about that, but everybody, go to Midas Canada on YouTube. It's where you'll hear more of these discussions every single day from Charlie Angus. Let's get Midas Canada to 200,000 subscribers this weekend. Thanks. Appreciate you, Charlie.

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