The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious World Leaders Shred Trump in New Order

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on world leaders calling Trump’s bluff and Trump folding as a weak and pathetic person who doesn’t have the courage to lead. 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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And Zelensky looked at him like, how dare you? And Zelensky stood up to the bully right in the Oval Office in front of the world. And we all got to see just how utterly pathetic Donald Trump is and what a Putin pawn, what a Putin puppet Donald Trump is. So now I see this meme circulating right now after Ukraine just executed one of the most brilliant military maneuvers in the history of humankind. Here's the meme of Donald Trump going, you don't have the cards now, you don't have the cards and Zelensky saying, how about now? Trump never has the cards, Zelensky has the cards, and what Trump is doing is giving other

leaders throughout the world the cards as Donald Trump reveals his tell that he's a weak pathetic taco. Trump always chickens out. Here's this image as well posted by Anonymous. Zelensky didn't have any cards yet. That aged well Donald Trump. I want to highlight how world leaders are just either ignoring Trump treating him like the pathetic vile piece of trash that he is out maneuvering him. You know Donald Trump and his regime whether it was Marco Rubio the Secretary of State of others they came in and said they don't want America as a hegemonic power anymore They said they see a multi polar world and in their vision of the world

You have the United States China and Russia as the big multi polar powers they were really underestimating these things because the United States in just 130 plus days under the Trump regime not only has lost its hegemonic status 30 plus days under the Trump regime not only has lost its hegemonic status lost its superpower Status but has become the weakest in the multi-polar world and you're forgetting also the European Union Donald and Marco Rubio who's stepping up and actually supporting Zelensky as part of the coalition of the willing You're forgetting Canada and Australia. You're forgetting the Commonwealth Nations who are stepping up right now as well. So I want to just share with you some of these important data points as you see a week and neuter Donald Trump where President Zelensky didn't even have to tell Donald Trump

nor why should he about this special operation, Operation Spiderweb in Russia, where Ukraine sent these drones deep into the heart of Russia, knocked out 30% of Russia's strategic air force, about 41 of the flagship military planes in operation by Russia destroyed. And just take a look at how this operation was executed. In these cargo containers, you had all of these drones that were loaded. Ukraine sent their own people deep into Russia who then contracted with Russian truck drivers to bring the car,

who didn't even know what was in the cargo containers. They were told it was something else. They brought the cargo right by these military bases of Russia. Then right when the opera this was planned for about a year and a year plus at this point and right on cue electronically these retrofitted cargo boxes open up, the drones go out and bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, destroy the Russian airplanes. You see him right there. A brilliant operation, as President Zelensky says.

Today, a brilliant operation was carried out on enemy territory, targeting only military objectives, specifically the equipment used to strike Ukraine. Russia suffered significant losses, entirely justified and deserved. The preparation took over a year and a half. Planning, organization, every detail was perfectly executed. It can be said with confidence that this was an absolutely unique operation. What's most interesting, and this can now be stated publicly is that the office of our operation on Russian territory was located directly

next to FSB headquarters in one of their regions. In total 117 drones were used in the operation with a corresponding number of drone operators involved. 34% of the strategic cruise missile carriers stationed at air bases were hit. Our people operated across several Russian regions in three different time zones, and the people who assisted us were withdrawn from Russian territory before the operation they are now safe. It is genuinely satisfying when something I authorized a year and six months ago comes to fruition and deprives Russians of over 40 units of

strategic aviation. We will continue this work. Even before this operation was carried out, we had intelligence indicating that Russia was preparing another massive strike. It is very important for all our people not to ignore the air raid alerts. A powerful message from President Zelensky. Ilya Ponmarenko from the Kiev Independent goes, never, never, ever underestimate Ukraine. Pasy Parenian writes,

I think it goes without saying that today's Ukrainian strikes against Russian air forces are impressive and devastating. While the exact scale of damage will likely be confirmed with satellite footage over the coming days, it is quite likely a considerable portion of Russians strategic bombers. You see this image right here of Zelensky holding up a taco to Donald Trump's face. Gotta love that AI meme right there. Take a look at this map as Richard Woodroffe says, I'm not even joking. This is a live map of the Ukrainian drones heading towards Moscow right now. Ukraine didn't need to go and get Trump's approval or permission.

If you tell Donald Trump, he'd probably tell Putin what a non-factor Donald Trump is. Let's talk about what the European Union is saying. They're not going to just let Donald Trump bully them by raising these steel tariffs from 25 to 50%. You raise the steel tariffs to 50%, you vile piece of trash, Donald Trump. You're effectively creating an embargo. So the EU's saying, get ready for countermeasures, you vile piece of trash over your steel tariffs. The European Commission said over the weekend that Europe was prepared to retaliate against Donald Trump's plan to double tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, raising the prospects

of an escalating trade fight between the two world's largest economies. Trump's announcement on Friday that he would increase the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to 50% from 25% intensifies his global trade war and it came just hours after he accused China of violating an agreement with the U.S. to mutually roll back levies and trade restrictions to critical minerals. The European Commission said it strongly regrets Trump's plan to increase tariffs, adding it undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution. This decision adds further uncertainty to the global economy and increases costs for consumers and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, a European Commission spokesperson said, adding that

the European Union is prepared to impose countermeasures. The spokesperson noted that the European Union is prepared to impose countermeasures. The spokesperson noted that the European Union had paused its countermeasures to create space for negotiations, but of course Donald Trump blows up these negotiations time and time again. You know, Donald Trump's attack on universities is something that is a major topic of foreign countries. We're seeing, for example, in India where they have close to two hundred thousand students in the United States in universities They are pissed at the way their students are being treated in Canada frankly throughout the world

Students are being treated so horrifically by Trump the countries where these students come from are getting absolutely Livid it should be noted that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's daughter The countries where these students come from are getting absolutely livid. It should be noted that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's daughter goes to Harvard, one of the international students caught in Trump's standoff there, where Donald Trump is not allowing foreign students to go to Harvard. There is litigation around that. The daughter of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney could be barred from returning to Harvard University in the fall thanks to this ongoing standoff. Cleo Cardney, who grew up in London while her father was the governor of the Bank of England,

just finished her freshman year at the embattled Cambridge-based institution. She's one of nearly 7,000 international students whose time at Harvard could come to an end after dog killer cosplayer Kristi Noem is revoking the status of foreign students. That case of course is being litigated in the courts right now. I want to point out as well what's going on in the relations between China and Latin America. Latin American countries are siding with China right now over the United States. As Bloomberg Law reports in the tit for tat trade war between US and China, Latin America overwhelmingly siding with Beijing. Calls for closer economic ties with China are growing louder in the region,

particularly in Mexico, the US's number one trade partner. According to Latam Pulse, a monthly survey conducted by Atlas Intel for Bloomberg News, nearly two-thirds of Mexicans surveyed in May said their country should do more business with China, far more than those calling for tighter economic relations with the US, as Donald Trump rattles the global economy with on and off again tariffs. The taco Trump always chickens out. Africom chief warns China attempting to replicate the US assistant as Washington pulls out. General Michael Langley warning comes amid the Pentagon's

rebalancing the priorities. So as the Pentagon pulls out and the State Department pulls out from Africa, China's replicating what the US built with USAID. China is attempting to replicate every type of thing the US military does to build and maintain relationships on the continent, according to the top US military officials there. They're trying to replicate what we do best in our international military education and training program. And then they also said they're going to increase security and training in a number of countries.

General Michael Langley, head of US Africa command told reporters today. So yes, they're stepping it up and trying to replicate every type of thing, whether it be advice and assist type trading and specialized military domains or anything, putting on exercises like they did in Tanzania this fall. Langley was speaking from Nairobi, Kenya as the U.S. wrapped up its participation in the African Chiefs of Defense Conference attended by representatives from more than 30 African nations there. Amid drastic U.S. cuts to civilian aid programs. Langley said he had a message for the

leaders of African militaries. America does not want to do more for Africa but to help Africa do more for itself. I guess that's one way to spin it. Also Beijing focusing on building relationships with Caribbean nations. So you see all of these efforts being made by China also to establish strong relationships in the Caribbean who were traditionally close and tied with the United States of America. The Trump regime claimed they were going to do 90 deals in 90 days. Thus far they've done zero deals in 90 days. The deal with the United Kingdom was not a deal.

It was a memorandum of understanding, which literally said this is not a binding deal. If anything, all it did was help the position of Rolls Royce and Jaguar and Land Rover over American car manufacturers. They got a better discount. And then it wasn't, there was no deal with China by the United States. There was a consensus where the United States cave to China and rolled back its tariffs, 145% to 30%. So now over the weekend, you had Howard Lutnick basically after promising all of these trade deals he went back to look the

deals that we're gonna do we're just gonna make up the number and we're gonna set our own tariffs against the countries that's gonna be what we call deals so in other words no deals here's what Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had to say, play the clip. The president understands the power of our economy. He said it over and over again. We are the consumer of the world. We are the consumer of Chinese goods. If we don't open our markets to them, their economy is in really, really tough shape. So I think I love having all of this power in the president's hands.

He knows how to wield it correctly for the benefit of the American worker. Okay, quickly, because we got to go. The 90-day pause on the major tariffs is due to expire at the beginning of July. You got a lot of deals to get done. Will the president extend that pause? I think we're going to get a lot, a lot of deals done. I think they're all being set up. We could sign lots of deals now, but I think we're trying get a lot a lot of deals done. I think they're all being set up We could sign lots of deals now

But I think we're trying to make them better and better and better and as the president said or he'll just set rates and it'll Set the terms of the deal. So I don't see today that an extension is coming In fact, I think that's the deadline and the president's just going to determine what rates people have if they can't get a deal done President Trump is going to determine what deal there's going to be. Okay. So, of course, discourse like that rattling and pissing off the world. And it's just a sad thing to see that after the United States wanted a multipolar system with Trump, removing the United States as a superpower to see the United States as

basically an incredibly weak and feeble poll in the multi-plurality because of Trump being a taco. Trump always chickens out. He's just weak. He's just a weak, pathetic, vile individual and the world just knows that he's too cowardly to do anything. It's embarrassing stuff to watch. Tell me what you think, hit subscribe,

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