The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious World Leaders Call Trump’s Bluff in Public

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on world leaders exposing Trump in public and smoking out his fraud and weakness and his lies, especially as it relates to broken promises to Ukraine. Head to DrinkOlipop.com/meidas today! 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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I'm going to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine. I'm going to give them the Patriot missiles to help defend against Russia escalating their attacks. You have to say, did Donald Trump send them or what's going on? What's the deal here? And Donald Trump earlier this week tried to frame that he was going to be helping Ukraine and he was going to be giving them Patriot missiles. Former President Biden already promised Ukraine Patriot missiles and our Congress approved

it. They appropriated the funds for it. It was just supposed to be sent. But Donald Trump has like changed the entire thing and he's like Actually, I now want Europe to buy the Patriot missiles from us We will sell Europe the Patriot missiles and then Europe can give the Patriot missiles to Ukraine Okay. Well, is that even happening when you delve deeper you see for example, Germany's like bet We'll buy the Patriot missiles. We want to give it to Ukraine Are these the United States sending the Patriot missiles to Germany? No, what's happening?

Well, you had the German foreign minister show up at the Pentagon to say hey Can we have it and then they have to talk about a deal and then maybe it comes in weeks? Maybe months who knows? At the same time, Ukraine is not getting the weapons that it was promised, that Congress appropriated for it, and that it needs to defend itself. And this, by the way, all follows at the same time that Donald Trump is now giving Russia 50 days, Donald Trump says, before the United States will consider imposing secondary sanctions on Russia.

And again, I've said this in other videos, but let me remind you where that 50 days come from. When Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin before, right, on or around July 3rd, Putin said he needed 60 days for his summer offensive in order to conquer key territory as part of the invasion against Ukraine. So if you go to the July 3rd date, then you look when Donald Trump announced the 50 days, he's giving Putin 61 days. He's giving Putin an extra day to conquer the territory from Ukraine.

That's where that date comes from. So let me just come to you with receipts as I always do here on the Midas Touch Network and let me show you what's going on behind the scenes that corporate news is not reporting on and why countries, NATO and others, are furious at Donald Trump. So I want to play this. This is from the Tarmac where Donald Trump says that the first Patriot missiles for Ukraine are already being shipped by European allies. I want to play this one for you first because I'm then going to play for you the defense minister of Germany who went to the United States. And he clearly says we don't have these Patriot missiles.

But watch what Donald Trump just said the other day, let's put it in the form of NATO. It's very similar. But NATO is going to pay us back for everything. In some cases, we're going to be paid back by countries of the European Union. Now, here's what Donald Trump said as well when he brought in the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Trump was asked, are you giving patriot missiles or are you giving patriot batteries? Donald Trump clearly doesn't know the distinction here, but listen to what he says. Let's play it. Will these be patriot missiles specifically or patriot batteries that you're planning?

Everything. It's everything. It's patriots. It's all of them. It's a full compliment with the batteries. And when do you expect them to arrive in the Ukraine sector? Well, we're going to have some come very soon, within days actually. A couple of the countries that have Patriots are going to swap over and we'll replace the Patriots with the ones they have and Matt will coordinate with NATO. And by the way, the Patriot missiles that he's supposed to give are basically half of what was already promised to the extent those are even going to be given in the first place. So now let me show you what went down when the German defense minister showed up at the Pentagon and he was interviewed about what happened thereafter.

So here's how it's being reported. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, after talks with US Secretary of Defense, confirmed that Germany has offered to buy two US Patriot units to supply them to Ukraine. The agreement is not yet finalized. Talks would continue at the working level to finalize details, concepts of a deal in other words, including the number of launchers and missiles that might be included in the agreement. With the deal in place, the first Patriot unit could be sent to Ukraine within months. So let me just show you for yourself.

Here's the German defense minister, Pistorius. He's interviewed by German TV. We AI the voice so we can translate German into English. So listen to this, let's play it. The new regulation stipulates that the US will produce the weapons for Ukraine. The European NATO partners will pay for them, including Germany. What kind of scale are we talking about here? Is this about more than the three Patriot systems that have been discussed so far?

Today we talked about the full range of possible deliveries from the US. What is clear and President Trump announced this today is that the US will not pay for this. Instead, the Europeans will have to do so. But we've known that for quite some time. But I prefer that the United States is involved rather than not, because they simply have production capacities and can deliver systems that we don't have.

And that's why this signal is the right one. And what exactly will be worked out in the coming weeks will be developed and determined by working groups that will convene very quickly. This will move quickly and it has to move quickly because Ukraine needs further support, especially in the area of air defense. Since you mentioned the full range that was discussed, what is actually on your wishlist? But are there also other weapons systems you would like to purchase besides Patriots? We have agreed to remain silent on that until it is clear what results will come out in

the next few weeks. But I'm sure you understand that discussing this publicly right now would be the wrong approach. We want to become less predictable in what we do and not discuss everything in public forums. As this one account points out as well, the headline is Trump to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine. That's the media headline. The truth is he's selling Patriot missiles to NATO. So in reality, NATO is sending the Patriot missiles to Ukraine and Trump is shaking down NATO to buy from the United States instead of the United

States being the leader of the free world. It's all transactional to Donald Trump right there. So that's what's going on with respect to our NATO allies and it should be noted as well that, and I reported on this before, that Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukraine. In addition, one of the things that Russia struck was a Polish-owned Barlinik group factory in a Ukrainian city that severely injured eight people. So they attacked Polish property in Ukraine and the Polish foreign minister said Putin's criminal war is approaching our Borders. In other words things are escalating

Significantly there. Let me just show you what Russian war bloggers are saying also about Trump's 50-day Russian war bloggers are saying also about Trump's 50-day concept of a plan where maybe there'll be secondary sanctions against Putin. So Chris O'Wickey who studies what these Russian military bloggers are saying, they advised the Russian government to wreck Ukraine in the promised bloodiest period ahead. A military informant asks, where did the unusual 50 days come from for Trump, who previously liked to measure everything in two weeks? It comes up with the same answer many Western commentators in that it matches Putin's timeframe for completing his conquest.

That's what all the Russian military bloggers are saying. So, let me share with you what French President Emmanuel Macron is saying right here. He's talking about, and he realizes that the United States is not a friend when it comes to providing weapons. So he's like Europe, we got to arm ourselves right now, you know, not because Trump is telling us, but we can't rely on the United States. Here's what he has to say. Let's play it.

Our strength is greater when it is collective. And this is precisely the meaning of the commitment made at the NATO summit in The Hague on the 25th of June, which follows the awareness raised at the Versailles summit in 2022. We must do more for our defense. We must do more on the military, industrial and technological fronts in order to be more sovereign as Europeans. It is this effort that will allow us to ensure our credibility with our partners to continue to have the most effective army in Europe and to forge new partnerships such as this week with the United Kingdom. Look I'm gonna be honest I love soda and I've loved soda my whole life well into my 20s and my early 30s and

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Now, let me share with you as well what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has to say. Canada has the potential to become its own best customer. It's time to build with Canadian steel. We need to focus on buying and building Canada first. Let's play this clip. Canada has what the world needs. We're becoming an energy superpower. And we are a leader in the building blocks of a modern economy.

From high value added steel to aluminum to critical minerals and artificial intelligence. And Canadians have just given governments the mandate to build big things, nation-building projects that will transform our economy. We have the potential to become our own best customer for steel, but we will lose that ability if we don't manage the profound transformation now underway in the industry. And to do that, we have to change the way we do things so we can better support our companies and our workers during this time of change. Now, I had the opportunity to speak with Charlie Angus, leader of the Canadian Resistance against the Trump regime, the Resistance Tour, and Charlie Angus is also a former member of parliament there.

Here's what he had to say to me when I was asking him about how Canada feels about all of this. Let's play it. Well, I mean, is anyone surprised that Trump was going to pull this? You know, he declared he was going to have 90 trade deals in 90 days that bombed. He said that he would have a trade deal with Canada on July 21st, and yet he attacked us. He pulled away from the table. The prime minister agreed to drop the digital sales tax, which I think cost the Prime Minister

a lot of trust in Canada. They were like, why did you do that? And the Prime Minister tries to present a vision of saying, you know, I'm reasonable. We're going to work with this guy. The Prime Minister didn't respond when Trump threw arbitrary 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum. The prime minister said, we're not negotiating in public and by Twitter. We're going to sit down at the table. And then Donald Trump pulls this stunt.

So what's very clear, and I think the prime minister had to go through this to really get them the strength he's going to need now, is that you don't sit down and negotiate with a gangster regime in good faith. You just can't trust Trump. And the one thing we know about Trump is he's never veered off his intention of destroying our nation by destroying our economy. He's made that clear. He's come back at us again and again. He's wavered on so many other nations, but Canada has remained his focus, his enemy.

The nastiest people he says We see the rising rhetoric coming from Kristi Noem and Kash Patel and the other mega Dugs that he has that are blaming Canada for all manner of falsehoods and lies So this is a moment of decision for Canada to stand up in the face of this kind of threat or roll over and we are not going to roll over. Now, one of the things that I should mention as well is the response by Mexico. They're very popular. President Claudia Scheinbaum in response to Donald Trump imposing sanctions or additional tariffs on Mexico's tomatoes. Now, America buys a lot of Mexican tomatoes. So Trump is now tariffing those tomatoes,

which was subject to an agreement with Mexico at 17%. It's gonna make our purchasing of these tomatoes significantly higher. But here's what the Mexico's president Claudia Scheinbaum has to say. Let's play. We don't like having a 17% tariff imposed on our tomatoes because we consider it completely unfair and moreover, it's going to affect both countries. The biggest impact will be on the United States because it's very hard to replace

Mexican tomatoes. In other words, exports will continue for whatever percentage might be affected. We're working with producers on different options within the Mexico plan, which we'll announce in due course. Obviously, we're looking to minimize the impact on our country as much as possible, since that's our conviction, our job, and what we absolutely have to do. Now you saw when Donald Trump attacked the president of Brazil, President Lula. What was the response? Lula's approval rating rose significantly after Donald Trump hit Brazil with 50% tariffs because Donald Trump was demanding that the president of Brazil Lula get involved

in the criminal case against Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who was involved in a coup to try to overthrow the government in Brazil. And Lula stood up to the United States and said, no, I'm not doing that. We don't have, that's not the way we operate in Brazil. Lula posted the following as well. He posted an article from his colleague who says, look, Brazil continues to be a country of dialogue, but it will not give up defending the interests of its people, companies, and democratic institutions.

One other thing I wanted to point out as well. Donald Trump met yesterday with the Prime Minister of Bahrain in the Oval Office. You'll recall that that was the press conference where Donald Trump said that he disowns his supporters who believe that Epstein was involved in a sex trafficking ring. He disowns his supporters. You have to believe it is a hoax, he says right now. By the way, I just find it interesting that the Oval Office looks exactly

like Jeffrey Epstein's home. You can see right there that it does. But there was something that struck me about what the prime minister of Bahrain said. He said, we're announcing a $17 billion deal with the United States. He goes, that's not a fake deal like some of these other deals. We're gonna do a real deal. It's an important statement because what he's reflecting is that Donald Trump when he

went to the Middle East and met with Qatar and UAE in Saudi Arabia, he's saying that those deals we're gonna give you five trillion dollars, eight trillion dollars, which Donald Trump now claims he's brought back 17 trillion dollars to He's saying that those deals, we're gonna give you $5 trillion, $8 trillion, which Donald Trump now claims he's brought back $17 trillion to the United States, that those deals are fake deals because that's not real money. The UAE, whose entire GDP is $400 billion,

or Qatar, whose entire GDP is $150 billion. How could they give $17 trillion? Trump's making up numbers. By the way, that was what Trump's fraud case was about when he was found civilly liable. He makes up numbers. So here, the Prime Minister of Brunswick, we're gonna do a real deal.

And by the way, $17 billion, still a big amount of money, but notice now how Donald Trump's just viewed as like a clown internationally. Here, play this clip. Thank you one and all. It is indeed a great honor to be here on this fine morning to put into action the relationship that exists between our two countries.

We will be discussing security issues, we'll be discussing trade and investment, which is very important. We're very happy to be announcing $17 billion worth of deals that are coming to the United States. And this is real. This isn't... It's real money. These aren't fake deals.

These are real deals. They don't have to borrow the money. We don't have to borrow it. It's coming in. Now, one other point that I think is worth mentioning as well, Canada and UK showing the strength of their relationship together. The Commonwealth is really coming together now as a check against the United States. So from last week until July 21st, the Royal Canadian Mount, the King's lifeguard at Horse

Guards, only the third non UK unit in history to do so a proud moment of Canadian nationhood and sovereignty and a great example of Canada's enduring commitment to its allies. So, you know just show it symbolic of course Symbolic but showing the bonds between nations let me know what you think hit subscribe let's get to six million subscribers the truth is more important than ever check out our new truth over lies collection at store.mitustouch.com all 100 USA union made