The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious India Blasts Trump for Screwing Them

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on India losing their patience with Donald Trump disrespecting them and lying about them. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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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please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. India is furious at the Trump regime right now. This is not being reported at all by American media, but it is being reported in India. Let me explain to you why India is furious. There's three main reasons. Number one, Donald Trump was taking credit for brokering the ceasefire between India and Pakistan after the terrorist attacks in Kashmir. India saying Trump had nothing to do with it at all. It actually makes India look weak when India said, we negotiated this on our own based on the strength of the Indian military. Stop interfering, Donald Trump. Another reason is that Donald Trump's been misrepresenting that he has some trade deal with India that hasn't taken place.

And Trump said that he basically used trade as a carrot to broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. And again, that makes India look weak. And India is saying that's not true. We don't have a deal. We're only going to do a deal that's in the interest of India. Stop lying about our negotiations and our discussions. And along those lines as well, remember Donald Trump attacked Apple, the company Apple, for saying it was going to move factories to India because

Donald Trump said that, you know, that was an end run around his tariffs against China. He said, he called Tim Cook and said, don't build factories in India. So India is like, why the hell are you telling Apple not to develop factories in India? That's screwed up. And then finally, the third reason why India is absolutely pissed and there's deeper levels of complexity here. I'm overgeneralizing it is that the Trump family seems to have done a crypto deal with Pakistan and with the Pakistan government. And Indian officials are basically saying, is Donald Trump going to be changing his policies toward India? Is Donald Trump engaging in behavior that's pissing off the country of

India right now because Trump's family, which has a 60% stake in this WLFI, this World Liberty Financial company, is that why Donald Trump's position with India has changed? So let's break down all three of these things. And why don't we bring you directly some great reporting from India itself? And then we'll break down this kind of one by one. I want to give a shout out here to Vantage Media, show Vantage with Palki Sharma. They do a really good job here. And in this first clip I want to show you from the show, they talk about how this is India's external affairs minister saying that the negotiations regarding a ceasefire between

India and Pakistan is being handled on a bilateral basis. And this host, by the way, Palki Sharma, is incredible. I mean, I think that she's a very strong host, you know, at least here. Here, play this clip. The amount of ignorance out there. Like we've said before, the Kashmir issue is not thousands of years old. It dates back to 1947. Also, what's this obsession with trade? Kashmir is a deeply emotional issue for India and Pakistan. You think they would settle it over trade? Pakistan may need the money, but India is under no such pressure. Today, Foreign Minister S.J. Shankar made India's position clear. All dealings with Pakistan will be bilateral. Our relations, our dealings with them will be

bilateral and strictly bilateral. That is a national consensus for many years. And there is absolutely no change in that consensus that dealings with Pakistan will be bilateral. Now, here this host, Palki Sharma, as well, then talks about Donald Trump misrepresenting the trade deals with India. Let me show you this clip right here. And then she also cites the external affairs minister as well. Let me play you this clip right here. offer. Again, the clarification came from Minister Jaishankar. Any trade deal, any trade deal has to be mutually beneficial. Any trade deal has to work for both the countries. And I think that would be our expectation from the trade deal. And until that is done, I think any judgment on it would be premature. India says any judgment would be premature, but that is not stopping Trump.

He's also threatening companies against making in India, companies like Apple. Apple was thinking about setting up factories in India. Trump's tariffs made China unsustainable. So Apple thought, why not make in India? But US President Donald Trump says he will not allow it. I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday. I said to him, Tim, you're my friend. I treated you very good. You're coming in with 500 billion dollars, but now I hear you're building all over India. I don't want you building in India. You can build

in India if you want to take care of India, because India is the highest, one of the highest tariff nations in the world. It's very hard to sell into India. In baseball, there are three strikes. Trump has used them up in just one week. First, he claimed credit for ending the fighting between India and Pakistan. Then he unilaterally claimed zero tariffs from India. Then he warned Apple against making in India. And now we get news of his family striking a deal with Pakistan, which brings me back to my original question.

Whose side is Donald Trump on? Personally, we know he's on the side of money. Now, here's what DW News has to say about these tensions between Trump and Modi right now and why India is so furious. It's along the lines of what I was saying, but here, play this clip. Trump has claimed the role as dealmaker-in-chief after the two nuclear-armed neighbors came dangerously close to war when they struck each other with missiles, drones, and heavy artillery for four days. So what exactly did Trump say that's

ruffled feathers here in Delhi? Let's stop it. Let's stop it. If you stop it, we'll do a trade. If you don't stop it, we're not going to do any trade. People have never really used trade the way I used it, that I can tell you. And all of a sudden they said, I think we're going to stop. And they have. And Trump didn't stop there. He even claimed he prevented a nuclear war. I think it could have been a bad nuclear war. Millions of people could have been killed, so I'm very proud of that. That's definitely not how India tells it. Modi's government says it was Indian firepower that forced Pakistan to ask for a ceasefire on May 10. Friends, after the Pakistan earthquake,

India has only continued its military operations. If Pakistan again shows a terrorist activity or military mischief, then we will answer it shows a different face, then we will break his face and answer him. Just to be clear, India has confirmed getting calls from U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio right before the ceasefire. But while Pakistan later thanked Donald Trump for the truce, India doesn't acknowledge any U.S. role. It's also pushed back

on Trump's claim that trade even came up. Instead, Delhi says it won't fall for what Prime Minister Modi called nuclear blackmail from Pakistan. And it's sticking to this one line. Let me be clear, it was the force of Indian arms that compelled Pakistan to stop its firing. Now, let me show you what World Life Liberty posted about their deal with Pakistan's crypto council. This is from April 28th, 2025. So about six days after the terrorist attack in Kashmir, here's what WLFI posted. Historic moment, WLFI has officially signed an MOU with Pakistan. It was an incredible experience meeting with Pakistan Crypto Council and the leader shaping the future of crypto.

We're proud to be building with Pakistan to drive innovation forward. This is just the beginning. I'll play you about 30 seconds of this hype video, but mind you, the Trump family has a 60% stake in this W to participate in the digital financial ecosystem. They want to participate in what the future of finance looks like. And you really have to come here to see it. And we thank you and, of course, all of your countrymates for their hospitality. It's been nothing short of excellent. Now, let me flesh out some of these clips as well that has really made India furious.

I mean, and you've seen him there in those other clips that I played for you. But here's Donald Trump on his most recent interview with Brett Baier saying that everyone knows that without me, the N-word would have been in place. The N-word, Donald Trump says over and over again, which Donald Trump says the N-word means nuclear. And here's kind of him saying that with Brett Baer. Here, play this. It was tit for tat. It was getting deeper and more. I mean, more missiles. Everyone was stronger, stronger, stronger, to a point where the next ones are going to be, you know what, the N-word. You know what the N-word is, right?

Nuclear. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification. I figured you'd want to clean that up. No, it's the N-word. That's a very nasty word, right, in a lot of ways. The N-word used in a nuclear sense, that's the worst thing that can happen. Now, this was Donald Trump giving a speech from the Oval Office, where he falsely took credit for brokering the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

And as I just showed you before with the foreign minister, Donald Trump had no role in the ceasefire, really at all. Here, play this Club. The strength and the wisdom and fortitude to fully know and to understand the gravity of the situation. And we helped a lot. And we helped also with trade. I said, come on, we're going to do a lot of trade with you guys. Let's stop it. Let's stop it.

If you stop it, we'll do a trade. If you don't stop it, we're not going to do any trade. People have never really used trade the way I stop it. If you stop it, we'll do a trade. If you don't stop it, we're not going to do any trade. People have never really used trade the way I used it. That I can tell you. And all of a sudden they said, I think we're going to stop. And they have. And they did it for a lot of reasons. But trade is a big one.

We're going to do a lot of trade with Pakistan. We're going to do a lot of trade with India. We're negotiating with India right now. We're going to be soon negotiating with Pakistan. We're going to do a lot of trade with India. We're negotiating with India right now. We're going to be soon negotiating with Pakistan. And we stopped the nuclear conflict. I think it would have it could have been a bad nuclear war. Millions of people could have been killed. So I'm very proud of that. And this was Donald Trump, what he said about Tim Cook. Let me play this. Apple, as you know, it's coming in. And I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday. I said to him, Tim, you're my friend. I treated you very good.

You're coming in with $500 billion. But now I hear you're building all over India. I don't want you building in India. You can build in India if you want to take care of India. Because India is the highest, one of the highest tariff nations in the world. It's very hard to sell into India. And they've offered us a deal where basically they're willing to literally charge us no tariff. So we go from the highest tariff. You couldn't do business in India. We're not even a top 30 in India because the tariff is so high

to a point where they have actually told us, I assume you too, Scott, you were working on that also, that there will be no tariff, right? Would you say that's a difference? They're the highest and now they're saying no tariff. But I said to Tim, I said, Tim, look, we've treated you really good. We put up with all the plants that you built in China. So I think you can see why there, why India would be absolutely livid and pissed about this. And again, this is being reported by media in India and elsewhere and international media, but not being reported in the United States. And I think it's an important factor for you to see how one, people view Trump internationally as this clown, as this person who's just focused on himself and putting his

interests above even the United States. Anyway, let me just conclude this video by saying I think it's why it's so important that we have an international perspective of things and we keep you posted at every step of the way. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All at store.midastouch.com.