The MeidasTouch Podcast - Hidden Trump Videos Found by Meidas as Secrets Surface

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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We've managed to locate video from a 1991 beauty pageant called Look of the Year that Donald Trump threw with a guy named John Casablanca from Elite Model Management. Casablanca died in 2013, allegedly from throat cancer. Casablanca had affairs, sexually assaulted, 15-year-old girl, 17-year-old girl. I'm going to go through Casablanca's background with you. We hear a lot about Trump's connections with Epstein. Donald Trump was also very close with this Casablanca's guy who elite model agency was used to prey on underage girls as well.

All right, so let me share this with you. You have Donald Trump at this 1991 beauty pageant. Here are some of the photos that we have. You see him right here. The little girls would come into the room, again, mostly underage. They would come into the room in bathing suits, very little clothing, and he would sit there and he would judge them and he would determine if they can make it through the next round.

Here are some of the photos we've been able to identify. You can see Donald Trump right there looking at these girls who he made wear the bathing suits and kind of walk in front of him. And again, some of these girls as young as 14. Here's a photo of what the actual competition looked like from the 1991 look of the year. This was from the Guardian's report on it. Let me read for you what they said

what happened the night before the event. Then I'm gonna show you some of the video that we've been able to locate at the Midas Touch Network. So this was a photo from the Guardian article, still from a previously unseen footage of the 1991 Look of the Year finale. There are articles from about 10 years ago or so, teen models, powerful men, and private dinners when Trump hosted Look of the Year. It's actually from 2020.

In the early 1990s, Donald Trump judged the world's biggest modeling competition since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how people who were there remember it. On September 1st, 1991, a large private yacht cruised toward the Statue of Liberty. It was a clear, breezy evening, and from the upper deck of the Spirit of New York, a golden sunset could be seen glinting off the Manhattan skyline. Downstairs, a party was in flow. Scores of teenage girls in evening dresses and miniskirts, some as young as 14, danced under disco lights. It could have been a high school prom were it not for the crowd of older men surrounding

them. As the evening wore on, some of the men, many old enough to be the girls' fathers or even grandfathers, joined them on the dance floor, pressing themselves against the girls. One balding man in a suit wrapped his arms around two young models, underage girls, leering into the film camera that was documented in the evening. Can you get some beautiful women around me, please? The party aboard the Spirit of New York was one of several events that Donald Trump, then 45, attended with a group of 58 aspiring young models that September.

Again, mostly underage girls. And it talks about how they were, this was part of the elite look of the year competition. Elite model management was run by John Casablancas. He since died in 2013. So Casablancas' marriage to his second wife, Jeanette Christensen, ended in 1983 when it was revealed he was having an affair with a 15-year-old girl who he described as a woman child is how he described the girls that he would be with. He called them woman child.

This again, one of Donald Trump's best friends. And then he had a marriage to Aline Wurlminger, who was a 17-year-old from the Look of the Year competition. A 2020 Guardian investigation into elites look of the year competition uncovered allegations from former contestants and industry insiders that these competitions, the events that I'm about to show you that Trump attended as well, were used by Casablanca and others to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models, some of whom were teenagers. The allegations range from sexual harassment, exploitation, and in some cases rape. The investigation highlighted a culture where

young girls often aged 14 to 18 were exposed to older men in powerful positions at events like after parties where alcohol was served to minors. Okay, so now I have the videotape of the Look of the Year 1991 competition. I have the full event. It's too hard to watch. If you want me to post it, I'll post it on another thread. But let me just show you some of the lowlights of this event. This is what happened.

And you can see that these are young girls. These are little girls dressed like in very little clothing, dancing and just watch for yourself of a dream come true. Career as one of modeling superstars. We'll take you behind the scenes, onto the run-throughs. You'll see the fun, feel the excitement. You'll pick your feet along with our panel of expert and celebrity judges enjoy front row VIP seating at Gala Evening. One of these contestants will be selected as the girls' look of the year. And then here's another clip where it talks, and you heard Donald Trump there as well. So here's another clip right here of the kind of pre-competition to get into the finals, if you will, and just watch how creepy this is. Here, play this clip.

58 contestants participated in an exhaustive round of personal interviews, designed to help our judges discover what makes each one special. You're five and I, really? Serious, huh? We made my choice, man, tonight before again. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much, Ian. The concentration was intense inside the judging room and out. Each girl was considered not only for her beauty and poise, but also for her personality and that indefinable something extra that makes a top model.

When it came time to choose the 21 finalists, emotions ran high. As each judge expressed his or her opinion. You said you were the best and I said yeah. No, no, no. Now, one of the things that we know as well is that Donald Trump and he talked about this, that he would inspect the girls in the beauty pageants that he would hold. He held a lot of beauty pageants, so whichever beauty pageants he's talking about here, and he would look at them naked and he would inspect them. He said because he was the leader of the competition, he was the owner. You can inspect them naked.

He said, you do it when you're the leader. They let you do it. Here he is on audio saying that to Howard Stern. So you can just hear in his own words so you know that I'm not paraphrasing. Just hear what he says. Here, play this clip. Well, you could also say, as the owner of the pageant,

it's your obligation to do that. So you have done that. Tell me what. Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else and you know no men are anywhere and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting I want to make sure that everything is good. Is everyone okay?

Is everybody okay? You see these incredible looking women and so I sort of get away with things. And then we have the confirmation of what's happening from some of the contestants in the beauty pageant. Like here was Miss 2006 North Carolina describing what would happen when Donald Trump would show up in the room. Let's play it.

Is it normal to see men in dressing rooms at pageants and the owner of the pageant? No, no. in dressing rooms at pageants? In the owner of the pageant? No. No. The director of the North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama pageants, it's very much a family atmosphere. She doesn't even go backstage when the girls are getting ready.

Only the female chaperones are allowed backstage in the dressing rooms with the girls. I've never had an experience where there were men or directors or anything like that walking back in the dressing rooms. Yeah. As I understand, you have an experience of something that happened the night before the pageant? Well, not the night before the pageant,

but when we were in New York City on the media tour, they were doing a book launch at Trump Towers for the Universal Beauty book. And they had a bunch of former Miss USAs and Miss Universes and all 51 of us. And we did the red carpet, and that was tons of fun. And then they lined us all up, and Trump went down the line, and he shook your hand and, you know, looked you over,

looked you up and down, head to toe, and was just checking everybody out. And you thought you felt? I felt very dirty. It was very creepy. It's kind of like when you're at a bar and a creepy guy is checking you out. That's, that was the experience for me. Now here is Miss Arizona 2001. Tasha Dixon is her name describing what she observed when she was in the competitions. Here play this clip. He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked. As Miss Arizona 2001, Tasha Dixon competed

in the Miss USA pageant. Donald Trump owned the contest along with Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA for 19 years. Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis. To have the owner come waltzing in when we're naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the, you know, the people

that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him. And Dixon has strong opinions about what she thinks were Trump's motivations. I'm telling you, Donald Trump owned the pageant for the reason to utilize his power to get, you know, around beautiful women. Dixon, who lives in West Hollywood, was 18 at the time. Who do you complain to? He owns the pageant. So there's no one to complain to.

Everyone there works for him. The year she competed, the theme was empowering women. And after hearing recent audio of Trump talking about women, she decided to speak out. I miss Arizona, so I veer more on the conservative side. But I just like to choose what's right. We should also remember how Donald Trump treated Alicia Machado. She was Miss Universe 1996 and Donald Trump described her as being too heavy and too overweight and that he had to work on the way she looked. I mean, just completely misogynistic and shaming and just how ridiculous is this? But here's a clip of Donald Trump next to Alicia Machado talking about that here.

Play this clip. For the first time in the history of the pageant, viewers can actually participate. There'll be a question up and the viewers can actually call in and vote. Let's bring up the question. It says, should a pageant title holder be required to maintain her physical appearance during her reign? Why do you think this is an important question the viewers would care about? Well, it's something that really has come up over the last year and Alicia has done

an incredible job. She really has turned out to be one of the great Miss Universe, as I will say. And she had a little problem during the middle where she gained a little weight. I don't think so. Yeah, she's probably right. I don't think so. And so let's talk about that debate because it's interesting. The viewers are going to make a decision today and they're going to vote in one way or the

other. Alicia, do you think that that should matter? Because after all, you were voted in as being the most beautiful woman in the world. I am the most beautiful woman in the world. I certainly don't doubt that. With 20 pounds or no pounds, I am the most beautiful woman in the world. Do you not think that it's important to maintain a certain look during that year? Yes, of course, but I think all women in the world have a problem with the weight.

And I think maybe I had some problem with this, but I'm fine now. And I think 15 pounds is nothing with 20 years old. And I think the most important for the next Miss Universe and then is no more dinners, no more lunch, no more breakfast, and no more when you travel diplomatic dinners and parties. I think what Donald's talking about, and I think most people agree that there is a look to Miss Universe. And more time for go to the gym. It's very important because when you have,

when you are Miss Universe, you don't have time for nothing. Right. Donald, how do you think that this Miss Universe will be different from the others? Well, I don't know that it's going to be different. We have many beautiful women and it's actually incredible. I was over there today and the women are magnificent. And so I don't think it's going to be different.

It's going to be more of the same. And just to remind you of the issues regarding Alicia Machado, they came out in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton brought it up. Here's a nice summation of what went down here. Play this clip. And some people when they have pressure donate and some people when they have pressure don't eat and some people when they have pressure eat too much like me but like Alicia.

And she had a little problem during the middle where she gained a little weight. I don't think so. Yeah, she's probably right. I don't think so. Donald Trump called you Miss Piggy. Yes, Miss Piggy, Miss Housekeeping. How did that make you feel? So sad.

Congratulations, you're citizens of the United States. Donald she has a name. Where did you find her? Her name is Alicia Machado. Where did you find her? And she has become a US citizen and you where Donald Trump's competitions were being boycotted because when some of these allegations were coming out and he talked about grabbing women by their genitals without consent.

Here's how they were talking about it at the Miss USA competition in Louisiana. Play this clip. We saw that Donald Trump announced on Twitter he would not be here for the pageant tonight. I'm going to be famous. You do? Of course.

I always do. I know. I just knew it was going to be her. I just knew it was going to be her. I know what. Thank you. Thank you. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, something interrupted me.

I'm just wondering if that changes anything as far as the pageant goes tonight or as far as the brand of the pageant tonight? You know, as I said two or three weeks ago, this pageant is an opportunity about the women and the city, and that's what we're focusing on. And you know what? It's good for us that we're just focusing closely ahead. It hasn't really changed because that's all we've been doing for the last few days. And I know that there's a big campaign going on out west, and we're focusing here in Louisiana. And then I'll add this as well. Here's Donald Trump

talking about Lindsay Lohan on Howard Stern. Lindsay Lohan at this point was either 17 years old or just turned 18. I forget, but she was very young when Donald Trump made these statements about her. Here, play this clip. What do you think of Lindsay Lohan? I think she's hot. There's something there, right? Yes. But you have to like freckles. I've seen a close up of her chest. Yes. clip. If the father's a wreck like the way he is right you imagine this sex with this trouble Yeah, you're probably right. She's probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed back in the day How come the deeply troubled women? Yes, you know deeply deeply troubled right? They're always the best at that For some reason what I said is true. I mean, they're just unbelievable I could tell from the you know, I'll be with them for the long term

But for the short term there's not and this is what Donald Trump had to say about Paris Hilton when she was 12 years old. Here, play this clip. I said who the hell is that? One banger. She's a well at 12. I was an interest. I've never been into that right They've sort of always stuck around that 25 category, but even at 12 you were kind of I thought she was beautiful, but honestly you know Paris gets knocked and this and that but she's very beautiful So she's flawless. She's she's dumb like a fox have you seen the video the sex video. I have seen it You did what you do you do? It was just yeah, how did you You did, what'd you do? Did you let on the internet? No, it was just, yeah, just- How did you see that?

What did you do? Melania showed it to me. She did? She showed it to me. What did you think of that? I think it's probably unfortunate, and perhaps it made, what is that noise? That's the tape.

So I share all of that with you, the relationships with Casablanca, elite management. I show you those two video clips there and you can see what was going on, obviously in light of everything that's happening with Trump covering up the Epstein files. The information is all out there before our eyes. Anyway, hit subscribe, let's get to 6 million subscribers

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