The MeidasTouch Podcast - MAGA Podcasters Turn Against Trump as Approval Plummets

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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You know, these MAGA podcasters who sold out their audience to Schill for right-wing oligarchs, now they're deeply regretting it. You have Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn and what's that guy, Sholes and others who were saying, actually, what ICE is doing is really bad? Actually, Donald Trump is covering up the Epstein files. On Theo Vaughn, they had Bernie, he had Bernie Sanders as a guest this past week. I just want to show you as these MAGA Republican podcasters are admitting that they made the worst mistake of their lives. Now, some of these podcasters are worse than others, so I'll try to draw a distinction when possible. But first, I'll show you the most MAGA of them all, the deepest betrayal of them all, I think to his listeners, Joe Rogan. You know, and it's always interesting to me because I'm always being told, you're like the left's Joe Rogan.

I'm like, I'm not the freaking left's Joe Rogan. And I would never want to be anything like this guy at all. I just want to be the Midas Touch podcast that stands up for humanity, that fights for empathy, that wants to restore democracy and freedom. It's just that simple to me. But anyway, here's Joe Rogan this past week talking about the Epstein Files. Here, let's play this clip. Well, it's going to go on for a long time, I suspect.

I mean, they said they released them, but what did they release? No, they're still not all out yet. But what are they released? Yeah, yeah. Like, it's weird. The whole thing's weird. It reminds me of that Onion article where they're like, oh, CIA realizes they've been using a black highlighter this entire time. It's like that.

It's like, oh, okay, you just blacked out pages. Redacted the shit out of everything. Yeah, yeah. So, like, what did they release? Did they release something recently? No, they haven't released anything in a minute. They had that initial release where everything was blacked out and it was that picture of Winnie the Pooh, which was hilarious. But isn't there talk about some new releases that are happening soon?

Have they? It feels like everything's been drowned out by everything. everything else been going on with like Somali uh the Somalians and the ice shooting. It feels like that's completely drowned out. Anything about it. I think some of that's on purpose. Oh, 100%. And then you had Andrew Scholes this past week saying that he doesn't like how ice is covering

up their face. He's like, they got the schistion. It's insane what these ice officers are doing in the streets. They're terrorizing and torturing people, Andrew. They are terrorizing and torturing communities like terrorizing. like the Gestapo, like the SS. And sadly, what you were doing before as a podcaster enabled this to happen. Weren't you all supposed to be like the don't tread on me crowd? This Trump regime is exactly like authoritarian regimes across the globe, whether it's Putin

or Kim Jong-un or Saudi Arabia or the Ayatollah in Iran. Trump is like them. Play this clip of Shulls. Let's play it. I don't know. I feel need their names on their badges. Because now getting people mixed up in the crosshairs. Talk to me. Because if they're like, I don't know, apparently, like, they're not named. Like, apparently they don't have like. Well, yeah, they got the, the shy-eisties on. Exactly.

It's insane. Yeah. Right? It is insane. Yeah. Yeah. It's a tough look. And I think that, like, because we don't see it in New York, like, we're, like, somewhat

detached from New Yorkers would not be going with this shit at all. Well, didn't they fight. That happening. Yeah. Canal. And we weren't with that shit. And we were like, on canals fine. But they wouldn't be fine with that happened.

Listen, now we've got to clean some stuff up. That's how this should work. And then you have Senator Bernie Sanders on the Theo Vaughn podcast. And Senator Sanders, let's listen to what he had to say. And Theo Vaughn's like, I agree, Bernie. I agree. Trump has authoritarian energy. Authoritarian energy, Theo, you're almost there.

He is an authoritarian period. Here, play this clip. What Trump is using ICE for now is a domestic military operation. And it's part of this intimidation. And if you stand up and that woman in Minnesota, Good is the name. Yeah, Renee Good. Renee Good. All right.

I saw that video. You know, you don't shoot somebody in the head who is in that car. And I think it's Trump saying, I have the power. And we got domestic army. It's called ICE and we're going to go out there and we're going to arrest and we're going to intimidate and part of that is what trumpism is about it's intimidation all right you're in the media your cbs you say some i'm going to sue you you know uh theo you say something i don't like i make sue you know and in in i don't like venas well i'm going to you know send in the troops i got the power

and i'm going to use it i i really that scares me because that's what authoritarianism is about so do we should we deal with immigration through comprehensive reform absolutely I think that's what the American people want. Do we want guys with masks around their face, dragging people out of their apartments, out of their cars? You know, I don't think so. I don't think that's what the American people want. Yeah. More and more and more resentment to that.

Yeah. And we're in a tough spot too because we see things more now, right? We see all of it. Yes, you know. We see it. So before you would just hear about her, you would knew it was a plan. That's right. But you didn't have the visual effect of it and how the visual effect makes you feel. Cell phones have revolutionized politics and that's everybody got a cell phone.

phone can take a video. And I think that's one of the side effects. It likes to, like, I agree, like Trump has an authoritarian energy, right? Back to Joe Rogan here who says, you know what ICE is doing? They're like effing shooting a lady. It seems like kind of crazy, man. Yeah, murder's crazy Joe Rogan. We understand that terrorizing communities is crazy Joe Rogan. Sending people to concentration camp. Yeah, man, it's kind of crazy dude kidnapping five-year-olds and two-year-olds. Yeah, man, that's kind of a little bit crazy. Listen to what Rogan says here. Play this clip.

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That's wild alaskan. dot com slash mitis, M-E-I-D-A-S for $35 off your first order. Thanks to Wild Alaskan Company for sponsoring this episode. I want to show you one more clip of Bernie Sanders on Theo Vaughn. Let's play this clip right here. This stuff is moving very, very quickly. It is being pushed by the wealthiest people in the world who, in my view, could care less about ordinary people who want more wealth and more power. Now, they deny all that stuff.

That's my view. I think we've got to slow it down and ask the question that you ask. All right. If AI can and it can do some good medical diagnoses, do some good blood testing. It's, is not a good thing? It is a good thing. If you're working in a crap job in a factory, right? You know, and AI can increase worker productivity so you could work 20 hours a week rather than 40 hours a week.

Is that a good thing? I think it is. Et cetera, et cetera. Right. If the company then shares some of the profits that the company is making with the work with the workers. That's the issue. It's a very simple proposition. Who is AI and robotics going to work for?

Does it work to improve human life? or does it work to make the billionaires even richer? That's the question that we've got to focus on. Yeah. You know, now someone who's more of a right-wing podcaster, I would say, he's less MAGA and more right-wing. But here's Tim Dillon. And Tim Dillon said, you know, these are clumsy, insane,

over-the-top deportations. Play this clip. When you have this clumsy, you know, kind of somewhat insane over-the-top deportations, people are looking at this and going, you know, and this, what did they use, this Sabrina Carpenter's song? Yeah. Play this. Let's see. This one.

Have you ever tried this one? Have you ever tried this one? It's unserious. It's unserious. It's childish. It's cruel. I think one of the problems with whatever the MAGA movement is evolved into is it's duped their hardcore followers so much that the only thing left now is performative cruelty. And Tim Dillon went after Barry Weiss and CBS for their total capitulation play this clip.

Now, Barry Weiss, friend of the show, is the editor-in-chief of CBS News, and Barry is running that news company into the ground at a pace and a rate that even surprises me. I'm even shocked. It is a 1990s slapstick comedy how Barry Weiss is failing over there. By the way, it's unbelievable. And then Tim Dillon talked about how these ice raids are so bad and so crazy. Listen to what he has to say here. Let's play this one. And some of these ice raids are so barbaric and they're so crazy.

And these like 19-year-old college students are being deported to Honduras. and they've lived there their whole life. Again, it's wrong on its face. Like, it shouldn't be happening in the chaotic insane way that it's happening. It's, you know, when you look at someone, a grandmother get handcuffed and zipped tied and thrown into a car by a bunch of masked psychopaths, not only is that wrong. And more right here on Joe Rogan saying the quiet part out loud. Let me play this clip.

Then they start showing up at Home Depot. Instead of like looking for gangbangers, looking for criminals and cartel members, they go to whatever's easiest pickings so they can get numbers up. Do you know Ed Calderon? Do you know who he is? He's worked, he was a Mexican military guy who now is an American citizen, but he reports extensively on the cartels and just was telling me some horror stories about Ice raids and one of them was they took this guy who had been brought over here when he was a baby But didn't have American citizenship his family you know came over here illegally lived here for 20 years can't speak Spanish

They deport him send them to Tijuana can't speak Spanish can't speak Spanish Does not speak Spanish he is essentially an American citizen. He just Never lived anywhere else. He just doesn't have the paperwork He's not a criminal they sent him over to Tijuana and now he has to live in Mexico he doesn't know what the fuck to do he's on the streets

there's no idea it doesn't have any money and then finally let me show one more clip of Tim Dillon saying I don't believe the cop was justified in doing the shooting here play this clip I don't believe the cop was justified in shooting her three times in the face by the way I've always believed this

and this is something that I've caught heat for but I've literally believe it since I'm a kid. I don't believe you should ever shoot someone in the face more than once. No, seriously, I think, I just think it's ridiculous. So that they did that and they, you know, the guy, these are, these are not well-trained law enforcement people in ICE right now. We are taking people that did backyard wrestling.

I mean, we are the people that are. The people that are in ice right now are, I mean, this is your cousin who, like, was in backyard wrestling. Like, this is tough. This is not the cream of the crop. You know the guys that kidnapped Maduro, like Delta Force Navy SEALs? This is not them. This is not the Delta Force Navy SEAL people.

This is people that, like, had, this is people in their third grade report card. The teacher wrote there has violent tension. You know, I mean, this is not, it's just what it is. Yeah, I mean, they're all having this awakening now. I mean, maybe it's because the Midas Touch Network's the number one podcast in the country right now because we've stood on our values and principles. We didn't waver in our values and our principles. We're fighting for the people.

We're fighting for the general strike that took place in Minnesota. We're standing on behalf of democracy. Maybe that's why. Maybe that's where the people are. and maybe you shouldn't betray the people. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to $6 million. Subscribe to our audio podcast as well, and thanks so much for watching.

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