The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious Zelenskyy Checkmates Trump on UK Trip

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Ukraine President Zelenskyy checkmating Trump while Trump takes a trip to the United Kingdom. Unlock your brain's full potential. Try brain.fm FREE for 30 days when you go to https://brain.fm/MEIDAS 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

President Zelensky of Ukraine is going gloves off. He's calling out Donald Trump's weakness in public. Let's take a look at what Zelensky just said. He also gave a powerful interview with Sky News in advance of Donald Trump's trip to the United Kingdom. I want to show you that because it was clearly timed right before Donald Trump arrives in the UK. Then I want to contrast that with Donald Trump's incredibly weak rhetoric from today. weak would be an understatement, as well as Marco Rubio's weak words, again, would be an understatement. So earlier this morning, President Zelensky posted the following. Every single day

Russian terror continues, and every single day the Russians reject the possibility of ending this war, of ceasing fire and truly talking about peace. We in Ukraine have responded positively to all the proposals from the U.S. and Trump to end all of these attacks and killings. Ukraine has also proactively put forward various formats to bring the war to an end. It is Putin alone who is interested in these killings. Every day this war remains solely his war, the war of Russia alone. Pause right there. That's in clear response to Donald Trump's social media post, blaming the war and saying

this is Biden and Zelensky's war. So Zelensky's saying, this is Russia's war alone. Clapback, just saying, shut up. Donald. Then he goes on to say, and we expect the world to draw conclusions from this. In other words, stop being an idiot, Donald. Stop being a Putin bootlicker. Donald. Then Zelensky goes on to say, especially after the drone incursion into Poland, a country that is extremely important for the security of all of Europe. In other words, if you don't give a crap about Ukraine, Donald, which you should, what's next? Poland, what's next? All of NATO, Donald,

Pay attention because they're coming from you, you Putin bootlicker. Then he goes on to say, a country that respects America and President Trump. Hello, Poland likes you. They just showed up. You may not like me, Donald. Poland likes you. They respect you. So realize what the hell is going on, you moron.

Then Zelensky goes on to say, it is crucial that Europe truly understands when it comes to Russia. It's not about one neighbor or another. it's about everyone. Otherwise, Russia will draw its own conclusions and only expand the war and not necessarily against Ukraine alone. Then Zelensky was asked during this interview with Sky News, do you think that Putin

is trying to manipulate and trick Donald Trump? Here, play this clip. He definitely wants to trick the U.S. He's doing everything he can. can to avoid sanctions, to prevent U.S. and Trump from putting sanctions on him. And if you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared. Yeah, and he goes, yeah, they want to continue the war. They want to postpone meetings on a ceasefire.

Here, play this clip. You know, that they want to continue the war. And that's why they postponed, you know, this meetings. of decisions and about cease far and it's not about this far in any way. Yes, I don't know what is in their heads. It's difficult to understand, but we have to recognize that they don't want peace. It's understandable. Now, Donald Trump on his way to the United Kingdom was asked about Ukraine. And Donald Trump's response was, it takes two to tango. That's his word. It takes two to tango. Zolinsky and Putin hate each other. And it looks like I'm going to have to get in the

room. Putin doesn't want you in the room. Zelensky wants you in the room. Someone wants to tango, you idiot. And it's Zelensky. Zolensky's agreeable to a ceasefire. Putin isn't. If Putin agreed to a ceasefire tomorrow, Donald, there would be no war. But weren't you the person who said that if you went to Alaska and Putin did not agree to the ceasefire? you would impose strong sanctions against Russia. But then Putin didn't agree to ceasefire and didn't agree to security guarantees and didn't agree to a bilateral and trilateral meeting

and instead used the meeting in Alaska as the biggest global humiliation in the history of the United States as you, traitor, Donald, ordered our troops to get on their knees and roll out the red carpet to our sworn enemy, Vladimir Putin. On American territory, that photograph will forever, as long as Russia is an authoritarian, Putin-like country, be in their museums the day they brought America to its knees. And it will be a shameful memory of one of the most humiliating points in American history.

Play this clip of Donald Trump. Tango, do Tito Tango. Who likes this guy? I mean, for real, this guy's an idiot here play this clip. without being accomplished a lot, but it takes two to tango also. You know, those are two people, Zelensky and Putin that hate each other. And it looks like I have to sit in the room with them because they can't sit in the room together. There's great hatred there. But no, that beating accomplished a lot.

Oh, and you remember what Donald Trump said on March 15th, 2025? He said when he said that he would bring peace to Ukraine 24 hours after the election, that was a joke. He was being sarcastic, Donald, being funny. This is he jokes about war and peace. We should have known it was all one big sarcastic joke. Here, play this clip. I'm not understating the complexity of all this. But as a candidate, you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours.

Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that. What I really mean is I'd like to get it settled. How pathetic is that? I want to remind you of this as well. 89 days into the Trump presidency on April 18th, 2025. Remember when Marco Rubio held that meeting with Russians back then? And then he came out and he was like, we have a framework. We have a framework.

They always have frameworks. That's their term. Frameworks of a trade deal. Concepts of plans where they manipulate the market, manipulate sentiment, manipulate our stupid corporate media in the United States. It's like, we've got a free. They did a framework. Yay.

I mean, it's so utterly dumb. This is April 18, 2025. Just to remind you, 89 days into the Trump presidency, when Rubio said the U.S. will move on if they're unable to achieve peace in a couple of days from day 89. Well, now we're well into past 200 days, Rubio. What are you going to do other than show utter weakness here, play this clip. I'm not going to tell you what the framework says, because when you start negotiating these things

through the media and so forth. They fall apart. And it's a broad framework. It's a framework that gets us into a position to see, look, there are going to be differences. There's no one's saying this can be done in 12 hours. But we want to see how far apart it is and whether those differences are, can even be narrowed. If it's even possible to get movement within the period of time we have in mind. And so we've talked about outlines of both sides. I thought we had positive meetings yesterday. Obviously, the Ukrainians have to go back home. They have to run it by their president. They have to take into account. You know, their views. on all of this, and we hope to hear back from them very soon.

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That's brain.fm slash mitus. That's M-EI-DAS for 30 days free. Going back to the Zelensky interview as well, Zelensky talks about it's hard to send messages to people without ears. Just think about that, how smart Zelensky is. use phraseology like that when English is not his main language to say, it's hard to send a

message to people without ears. By the way, it's clear he ain't just dogging to Mount Putin. He's talking about Donald as well, here play this clip. You know, it's difficult to have messages to people without ears. You know, they don't want to hear. They live in their fish tank. It's really, they think that there is their world. By the way, they have the name Russian world is through and they think that they that they that they can count to bring back all the countries who've been in the Soviet Union and they think that this is the Russian justice yes to bring back all of them under under their rules and to have this joint country, Russian Empire. And of course, they think that it's

right. And what is terrible that young people, young people think the same way. They're young faces, but they are really old people. They are really old Soviet people. And Zelensky says that he is ready to meet with Trump and Putin. He's just not going to Moscow. It's like, why would I go to to Moscow. They'll kill me if I go to Moscow. They're the invading country. I don't go to Moscow. Meet literally anywhere else. I would have gone to Alaska. I'll go somewhere in Europe. I'll go to somewhere in Africa. I'll go to somewhere in the Middle East. I'll go anywhere. I'm just not going to Moscow. That's stupid. I'm not going to Moscow here, play this clip. I'm ready. I'm ready to meet with President Trump and Putin, but I'm ready to meet without any kind

of conditions. Are you willing to go to Moscow to do that? Because that is something that Vladimir Putin has suggested. No, of course not. Of course not. It's not conditions. It's the situation. Russia attacked us. I can't go to the country when this country, this city, Moscow, they're attacking us. So it can be so under missiles to go to their capital. It can be so, but we can meet in any other country. And Zelensky says one day Russians will that Putin destroyed their history. Here, play this clip.

What to say to them if they don't want to hear? Yes, there is only one thing that, of course, of course, after some years, I don't know when, after some years. Yes, of course, they will, maybe even they will not understand, but they had to, they will have to recognize that Putin destroyed their history and they will apologize

and their children will apologize and their grandchildren who didn't fight they will apologize because of this and this is a fact Ukraine is really one country for today one country who is smaller than Russia but decided to fight for children and for freedom

because Ukrainians want to be free It's just in our blood, like, you know, that's why Ukraine want to be European. Zelensky then posted this video right here and says a typical day for Russia, which unfortunately continues to avoid strong global pressure in response to prolonging the war. At night, there was a series of brutal artillery and aerial bomb strikes on Zuprecia against ordinary homes and city infrastructure, Kharkiv and other areas. Here, play this clip. And by the other,

And by the way, Donald Trump's claim that he'll impose sanctions if Europe stops buying oil from Russia. I've debunked this over and over again. Who's Donald Trump's best ally in Europe? Hungary. Slovakia. Where do they get their oil from? Russia. Directly. Whereas the rest of Europe does not get oiled directly from Russia. Hungary does.

Hungary is led by Victor Orban, the authoritarian leader there. It was very unpopular there, by the way now. will probably lose the election in a year, but he obviously wants to try to block free and fair elections and one of the things he wants Putin's help with theirs. We're going to see similar things with Trump there in the midterms. But Victor Orban wrote Donald Trump a letter complaining how Zelensky has been knocking out Russian oil depots of Hungary and Slovakia. Then Donald Trump responded to Orban and said, that makes me very upset to hear that Zelensky is destroyed. drawing the oil depots.

You should be getting your oil from Russia. Donald Trump said, well, the hell? So your whole attack on Europe is BS. Look, they are getting some small amounts, very small amounts, sometimes from India, which buys from Russia. So there are ways around these sanctions. But by and large, Europe has reduced its oil dependency on Russia by significant amounts and has imposed serious sanctions, except for Hungary and Slovakia, which gets direct from

Russia, which Donald Trump applauds. And by the way, Donald Trump lifted travel sanctions against Hungary yesterday. And Hungary's trade minister announced that. So Trump's rewarding Hungary for getting its oil from Russia. It's how you know what they're saying is total and utter BS right there. And I showed you the video that Zelensky posted. Here, play the clip in case I did it. We're going to be able to do. Now, finally, Zelensky writes, in Zupresia, first responders have completed extinguishing fires after the city was shelled by Russian artillery. They struck deliberately to terrorize our people. 13 were wounded, including two children.

Many residential buildings were damaged. In another region, one person was killed when an ordinary farm came under fire. My condolences to the family and loved ones of Kyiv, Khashon regions were also under attack. over 100 drones and over 150 glide bombs in just this one night. Emergency services are responding wherever they are needed. Since the beginning of September alone, more than 3,500 drones of various types and nearly 190 missiles, along with more than 2,500 aerial bombs have been launched against our people. There have also been provocations against our partners.

This is precisely the kind of aerial terror against which Ukraine is called. calling for joint defense so that no one has to scramble combat aircraft in haste and feel Russia's pressure on their freaking border. That's how it's done. Zelensky's standing up and fighting back and Trump looking like an idiot. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million.

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