The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/27/25

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

In this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down Trump’s disgraceful Memorial Day message where, instead of honoring our fallen heroes, he used the occasion to attack his political enemies. We also expose MAGA Mike Johnson’s pathetic weekend show appearances as he struggles to defend the GOP’s disastrous budget bill, which is already facing major pushback in the Senate. Plus, Trump is now targeting key protections for Cuban immigrants—a direct attack on one of his own voting blocs. Ben, Brett and Jordy got all that and more. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors!  ZBiotics: Head to https://zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Qualia: Take control of your cellular health today. Go to https://qualialife.com/meidas and save 15% to experience the science of feeling younger. Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar per month trial at https://shopify.com/meidas MD Hearing: To get our $297-when-you-buy-a-pair offer, including a free charger, head to https://ShopMDHearing.com and use code MEIDAS 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This says we've now learned that federal judges, because of Donald Trump's attacks, don't even trust the US marshals anymore who are supposed to protect them from the threats since they technically work for the executive branch and they want their own special protection or they're just going to go out of pocket. Folks, we're not in a constitutional crisis. We're well beyond that. We're in an authoritarian regime where we need to resist and oppose and call it out.

And clarity is needed where Donald Trump gives a deranged speech at a West Point army graduation and starts talking about trophy wives and starts comparing himself to Al Capone, says that he doesn't like stealth technology because he doesn't like the shapes. And he thinks he gave a speech at the Ohio State University where he gave a speech in Alabama. We here at the Midas Touch Network call it out and make it a big deal because it is. And it's having real world ramifications on our lives as this maniac destroys our country, destroys our alliances, destroys our economy.

Also today, it's gone under-reported, so we should highlight it here. Donald Trump pardoned a corrupt Virginia sheriff who was found guilty of taking bribes to hand out badges to people in the business community in Virginia. This was someone who was sentenced to 10 years and the Trump DOJ even bragged about the sentencing back in March of 2025. But Donald Trump said that this was a Biden witch hunt and Donald Trump putting more criminals back on the street. I think it's also important we talk about

the Trump budget disaster as well in the sense that the MAGA Republican senators who were making weekend news appearances said that they're not going to be supporting it. We'll see ultimately if that takes place, but that's at least what they said. We'll talk about that and more on this episode of the Midas Touch Podcast. Brett and Jordi, how are you guys doing? I'm doing great. It's great to be here with everybody and welcome everybody to the special Memorial Day edition of the Midas Touch podcast. I hope everybody's having a powerful day, a reflective day filled with gratitude for all the brave young men and women who gave their lives in service to our country. And it's a reminder of the reason why we are always, you know, doing this, why we get up every day and we all work so hard in order to get these messages out here because we want to live up to that. We want to be able to defend those same values. So, today we honor them.

Thank you for making us part of your day here. It's not just the day off. It is a day to reflect and a day to continue the fight. So we appreciate you being with us. Jordy, how are you doing? I'm doing well, brothers. Might as mighty. Great to be here. I'm excited to get into the show today. And so with that, Benji, where do you want to lead us off? Well, let me reflect on the Memorial Day Parade in my town just at the outset of this episode.

You know, it was an overall great parade, but there was one part of the parade where the town Republican club had their own kind of crew and they made it so Trumpy and they had the Trump flag and they had all of the Trump stuff and all of this language, you know, DEI is bad, we hate DEI. And it was a little bit wild too because as I was watching some of the people in the group, it wasn't just all kind of white people and it was like a small group and it was a little bit wild too, because as I was watching some of the people in the group, it wasn't just all kind of white people. And it was like a small group. And it was just, you know, coming into my town where we have a Democratic assemblyman,

a Democratic senator in a blue state. And just to see them making Memorial Day about Donald Trump with the Trump flag, and they were playing the YMCA song, it just, it left a certain feeling with me, which is why I'm talking about it. But it's also important why I wanna reflect on that, that we continue to build this pro-democracy community and we talk about things like that. And we share it with others in our community,

in real world settings to let people know that that's not okay. I'm not okay with people coming into my community and saying that they don't support diversity and inclusion in a community that actually is about diversity and inclusion. So I always say it's important that we not normalize that behavior

and we just speak about it and say, I'm not okay with that, I'm not cool with that. I support diversity and not be afraid of all the narratives out there that try to convince you otherwise. And when I think about these narratives that try to convince you otherwise, you know, it's this corporate news reflex to just try to watch a Trump speech and then report on it as though it's a completely different speech. And maybe they're doing it for access. Maybe they're doing it because they're Trumpers

and Trump cheerleaders. Maybe they're doing it because they're lazy. But I think it's important to be like, what the hell are you doing? And I like some of the business reporting by Bloomberg. I like their podcast reporting at Bloomberg. So when I saw a Bloomberg reporter take a look at that West Point graduation

where Trump gave a commencement speech and said, some of President Trump's advice to West Point graduates today, do what you love, think big, work hard and never give up. Don't lose your momentum. Have the courage to take the risks and do things differently. Never lose faith in America. I watched these speeches. He didn't say any of that ever. He showed up disrespectfully wearing a red political campaign hat. He railed about trophy wives being not good, but then good, but then not good.

He talked about how he didn't like stealth. He compared himself to Al Capone. He attacked former president Biden and former President Obama. He made these deranged comments that there was nobody joining the army until him. All of those grads who were there joined the army under former President Biden because they were there for four years and they were graduating now. So when I watch that, it's the exact opposite.

Setting aside politics, it's the exact opposite of what this Bloomberg reporter, Jennifer Dooley wrote about. And it's just the exact opposite of what we should be teaching in my view, future leaders in the military, future leaders in general and forget leaders, just people being decent, good human beings. And so how on her list does she not mention the things that were happening? I mean where a United States president says he doesn't like stealth because the shapes and he thinks the shapes get outdated I don't even know what the hell he's does He thinks stealth literally means that the planes are actually invisible versus that they can't get detected on radar Here's what Trump says about stealth play this clip Here's what Trump they're stealth.

I don't know. That whole stealth thing, I'm sort of wondering. You mean if we shape a wing this way, they don't see it, but the other way they see it, I'm not so sure. But that's what they tell me. That's what they tell me. And by the way, Donald Trump, they're talking about the trillion dollar budget because he likes the word trillion,

which is part of what the Trump regime is doing that's going to add trillions of dollars to the deficit. I mean, just look at the disastrous budget. It increases the debt ceiling by $4 trillion over the next two years, meaning we're at a very minimum going to be running a $2 trillion annual deficit. The next thing that Donald Trump talks about is... Can I answer your question for a second, not to interrupt your flow? Yes, he absolutely thinks that stealth planes mean they're supposed to be invisible. And he doesn't understand why they're not invisible. And I wouldn't even know, I'm not sure I would have even said that a few weeks ago. But going back to that incident with ABC and the Kilmar-Brega-Garcia, the MS-13 tattoo where Trump literally thought that that was the actual tattoo. I now realize, I think he actually thinks this stuff. Like I think he is actually that stupid when it comes to this sort of thing. He's that, he's that stupid and his

people, his followers and stuff, end up just parroting these ridiculous comments that he makes 100% he thinks stealth planes are actually invisible. Here he is on trophyrophy Wives. Play this clip. He had a company and he had nothing to do. He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't, and that doesn't work out too well. I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives doesn't work out. But it made him happy for a little while at least.

But he found a new wife, he sold his little boat and he got a big yacht, he had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world. Compares himself to Al Capone. And the American people, because they're always gonna be there for you. I went through a very tough time with some very radicalized, sick people.

And I say I was investigated more than the great, I mean, how humiliating. And then he believes that he spoke at the Ohio State University as his last commencement speech when he spoke at Alabama University. Here, play this clip. Army careers. And I thought I'd do this and I can make this to a civilian audience or to a military audience. It's pretty much the same. And I did this recently at Ohio State. And they really liked it. I gave them a

little advice as to what I see for what you want to do and some tips. I mean, just can I just get in here real quick? Brett, can you please bring up what the Bloomberg reporter wrote about what Donald Trump said during this? So again, for our audio listeners, this up what the Bloomberg reporter wrote about what Donald Trump said during this? So, again, for our audio listeners, this is what this Bloomberg reporter wrote about this. And look, I don't like attacking or going after reporters for the sake of doing it, but something I say often on the show is don't be gaslit by corporate media.

And this is exactly what I'm talking about. So this is, again, this is what the Bloomberg reporter said that Donald Trump said during his speech, do what you love, think big, work hard and never give up. Don't lose your momentum, have the courage to take risks and do things differently. Never lose your faith in America. And here's all I want to say about this is, look, I don't want corporate media out there to lie and make things up about what Donald Trump

is saying. But you don't have to cover for the guy in this bizarro way. I'm just simply asking, please just report on what he's actually saying because it is absolute lunacy. Trophy wives, Al Capone, Ohio State, like, he doesn't know what stealth is. This person has the nuclear codes. And what are we gonna,

how is corporate media gonna cover this? They're gonna ignore it and try and gaslight you, listeners and viewers, and say, no, no, no, this is what he said. It was actually, and I just honestly, I have to ask why. Is it because corporate media, you're scared that Donald Trump's gonna see your tweet about him? Like just you reporting on his actual words

and then he's gonna get mad at you and call you a mean nickname, say, nasty Bloomberg reporter. If that's the case, this isn't the profession for you. I don't mean it to be rude, but I'm just honestly saying, please, for our country, just report on what he's saying because it's bizarro land and people need to actually see this stuff. That's why I'm so happy we play these clips. I think they're just so lost in this corporate media brain that I've noticed. Some people have corporate media brain and they can't escape it. Like, and then they just

have to think a certain way. And I think it's because when you come up in these structures, you're taught to kind of report a certain way, right? I'm gonna, I need to give this side some certain credence, then I get need to give this side a voice as well. And then we let the audience, the truth is going to be somewhere in the mix of those two things. So we say this side did this, this side did that. You decide audience, because we can't seem biased. A reporter's biggest fear throughout their kind of careers is to appear biased. The issue is we're not in normal times right now. And when you're not in normal times and you have somebody who has so thrown off everything about what it means to be an American. All you're doing is you're allowing this individual to move the overton window so far to the right, so far to the right, because you're normalizing that behavior, because this is not just about Bloomberg. This is an infection

that has spread throughout so much of the corporate media. And I'll pull up this example as well, not to harp on this for too long, but let me show you a tale of two headlines right here. Here is how the New York Times reported on this speech yesterday. Do you know, here's their headline. Trump gives commencement address at West Point, stressing a new era. The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to absurd ideological experiments or nation building crusades. Now, let me compare that to how they did this overseas at the independent and shout out to the independent for their headline,

which told the truth here. The independent said Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf, and the great late Al Capone and politically charged West Point address. That's now that is an accurate description of what we all saw. And so just the fact that so many of these outlets are going with that first New York Times sort of style to try to just placate people and say, hey, listen, we're not biased.

We're just telling you what happened here. You're not though, because you're actually withholding the dangerous things that people need to know about. And that's how you soften these rough edges, which is to say the least, and you make somebody like Donald Trump palatable. I rarely watch local news, but every time I do watch local news, I'm, you know, a lot of great local news reporting. When they cover these events though, in many of these cities and towns throughout America, what you end up seeing is the way they frame it. You know, Donald Trump came to, you know, whatever Idaho today and he spoke about,

he wanted to make America great. Then they'll play like three seconds of Donald Trump saying, we gotta be great. And the crowd cheered. And then he did his signature dance moves and walked off the stage and everybody, and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That is not exactly what happened there.

Like, let's tell people what went down. But that's just not what we're getting. And I think it's part of the reason why we're in the place that we're in right now. This journalistic negligence or outright maliciousness, depending on how you view it, it has real-world implications here because it doesn't erase what is taking place.

You're just hiding it from a subset of Americans. Fortunately, the Midas Touch Network is growing bigger than a lot of these corporate news networks, and we're the most viewed now out there. But there's still a lot of people who get their news from disinformation centers or from centers that do what we just shared with you with that Bloomberg reporter. But why I make an emphasis of covering international news and why on the Midas Touch Network I share with you, here's what the reporter from India is actually saying. Here is how the Canadians, the people

actually feel about this. Here's what the meaning behind King Charles giving a speech from the throne, the first since 1977 on Tuesday, what that really means and how it is a show that Canada is aligning with the Commonwealth of the UK, of Australia, and saying that it is now looking towards them and Commonwealth nations and looking away from the United States and how it is basically a see you later message to the United States and that King Charles is sending that message as well. When Donald Trump says, oh, we've got to deal with India. That's right around the corner. Or Donald Trump takes credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan when Donald Trump

attacks the American corporation, Apple, causing it to lose $80 billion of market cap in a day by saying that he's going to tariff a company. He's going to tariff Apple, okay, and says you can't build in India, how that makes people in India feel. I also want to give you the international perspective of when Donald Trump is attacking universities in the United States, the international perspective to that as well.

When I speak to a lot of our India followers, they have a huge amount of foreign students that go to Harvard and that go to American universities who are worried that their family members are all, and it's not unique to Indians, across the world with people who study in our universities who are worried that their family members are going to be sent to concentration camps in El Salvador or South Sudan or Libya, or they're gonna be detained and treated like criminals when they were here to study. And you could just imagine the perspective of a student

who's preparing for finals or who spent three years as a productive member of an academic community now being told, you're a criminal and here's what's going to happen to you and that's going to result in brain drain away from the United States as China, Canada, Europe, Australia, others are starting to recruit from the United States of America. You know, we're letting you know when Xi Jinping is not meeting or talking with Donald Trump, Xi Jinping's putting forward

a made in China policy to actually double down on manufacturing in China because of how weak and feckless he believes Donald Trump to be. And he's right about that because he saw Donald Trump cave and how he's been hosting Latin American and Caribbean nations and African nations in Beijing to strengthen alliances there. You know, we're covering right after South African President Ramaphosa leaves the Oval Office, French President Emmanuel Macron meets with the Vice President of South Africa, projecting France and the European Union as a stabilizing force.

And when Donald Trump, what was it, four days ago, he said that he was going to put 50% tariffs on Europe on June 1. Then you have the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen gives him a phone call. Donald Trump moves the date back to July and you see the kind of just overall instability in his policies, which by the way,

isn't really hurting Europe as much as it's hurting the United States. Of course, the instability hurts all, everybody, but it's hurting our companies way more than them. And again, it's not a shock when you see French President Emmanuel Macron having a phone call recently with Xi Jinping and announcing that they had a phone call together,

French, European together, French, European Union, China representing kind of stability, and then a tour to Southeast Asia, while Vietnam is talking about building Trump towers in Ho Chi Minh City to try to avoid the Trump tariffs, basically saying, oh, I guess we just got to bribe the guy if we want to avoid the tariff regime by the authoritarian Trump regime. You have French President Emmanuel Macron going to Vietnam, going to Indonesia, going to other countries and projecting what can we do to help build your countries and make you more prosperous and better. Now, you may say, well, I think that's BS

and propaganda. I think what Xi Jinping is doing is BS. Sure. But they're actually playing the game intelligently in a geopolitical way. And Donald Trump's there speaking to our army grads wearing a stupid red hat, talking about trophy wives. And again, that also gives the green light to Putin on Kiev Day and other days, you know, especially recently too, to start sending more Shaheed drones, sending more ballistic missiles to kill innocent Ukrainians. Like, what I just gave to you are the facts. I'm not giving that to you from a democratic perspective or a Republican perspective or an independent. Like, what I just told you is that's the reality.

Now you can choose to accept that that's the reality or you can deny the reality and say what I just said is a crazy leftist thing. But everything I said there was just pure objective reporting on the facts, Brett and Jordy. One of the interesting things recently, Ben, is you interviewed Dave Weigel of Semaphore recently, and you could listen to that on the Midas Touch podcast. Make sure you subscribe on Apple Podcasts

and Spotify and all the things. And he said something that caught my attention, which was basically like, if we saw this happening in any other country around the world, the media would not hesitate to call this authoritarian. It wouldn't even be a question. This is blatant authoritarianism that we are witnessing. If we saw what Donald Trump is doing with the universities, with Harvard, with these corporations, we would call that out. Everybody would call that out. Marco Rubio would call that out. It wouldn't even be like a question for our government for whoever it would

just be what we discuss. But because it's in the United States of America, everybody needs to show some sort of odd restraint and deference and know maybe this isn't maybe this, this is just strategy and this and that and it's like no, it's like stop it. Let's not normalize this thing. Now I just want you to think like say you are, you know, one of the best and brightest, right? You are an international, you know, student, you're a foreigner, right? You're, you're, you're, you're, you're super bright, you know, incredible future. You have a choice of whatever college you want to go to. And you could get into Harvard University,

or you could go to Oxford, or you could go to a top university in China or wherever. What are you gonna choose right now, honestly, if you're looking at the country, if you're looking at the geopolitical climate right now, are you gonna come to the United States of America where you could be there, invest all this money into the school pay for the

schools start trying to move your entire life over to this new country, bring your talents to this new country, all because one guy one day could send out some dumb ass post on his social media platform, and then make you illegal and get you arrested and deported or sent into a concentration camp or whatever, when you could have been the next scientist who discovered whatever sort of form of energy or life curing disease, life curing antibiotic or whatever it is, we're gonna be pushing all of these people away. It's just basic, just basic to look at what's going on and realize we're gonna be driving the best

and brightest minds away right now, all for Donald Trump's ego. I mean, the whole thing is just so insane, the way he is attacking these corporations. You can't tariff a corporation. You can't tariff Apple. Okay? You can't do that. That's not what you do.

And the fact that, you know, the one disheartening thing is seeing that, you know, these kind of smaller countries that are being bullied by Donald Trump, that they're looking and they go, oh, so if we want to, you know, get rid of this, we just need to say, we'll build a Trump tower here. Let's say we'll do this and do all these giveaways. And so Donald Trump continues to profit, continues to exploit the office for his own game. It's just the most blanket corruption that we have seen ever, like ever. And this is not even, this is not my subjective opinion. This is not me coming from a political perspective. This is objectively

the most corrupt administration imaginable happening in plain sight every single day. And because he, I don't know, speaks loudly and the media normalizes, I just, I just don't get like what's going on with on with the coverage right now. And let me just add to that too, because I want to speak specifically about the student visas that Trump is just... That is honestly the most anti-American thing to me. Because look, we went to high school and when we went, it wasn't that long ago, right? Like I'm 32, Brett, you're three years older, Ben just turned 40.

And what were we taught? It's not like we went to some hippie dippy, you know, private school. We went to public school on Long Island. And like of central value that was instilled in us is like what makes this country so great is that it's a melting pot. It's people from all different cultures and backgrounds

coming together with their different life experiences and languages and art. And it's just, that is what makes this country so amazing because it's everyone here working together with all these differences. And how awesome is that? Also, what we learned is that when you try and tout that your culture is the best and stand on top of the mountain and say, Oh, we don't need anyone else. It's just, it's just us guys.

It's xenophobia. That's xenophobic right there. That's a bad thing. That's an anti-American thing. And so now to see the script reversed and Donald Trump holding the highest position in the States right now, and proudly hitting his chest and saying,

we don't, all these other cultures, we don't want y'all. Uh-uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're gonna do it, we're gonna do it this way. You guys don't, don't come here. That's so upsetting to me, just from like a human standpoint and from someone who actually like truly does love America and loves this country.

And I know it could be the like the greatest country in the world, so long as we'll allow it to be. We haven't lived up to those values as of recently. That's for damn sure. But I'm hoping we could get to a place where we can once again. But I'll tell you how that's never gonna happen is by telling other folks from different countries

and different backgrounds that they're not wanted. I can't tell you how much that like truly infuriates me at my core. And it's just like, I have nothing more to say about it other than it's just so infuriating. Well, as you say, Jordy, as a human being, it infuriates you, but just being very selfish about it also, the question is, is don't you want the smartest people here to create the jobs here that's going to pay people more money here? Don't you want to detect the diseases

here so people don't die? Don't you want the scientists? Don't you want to detect the diseases here so people don't die? Don't you want the scientists? Don't you want weather forecasting so we know what's going to happen as we approach hurricane season? Don't you want the people to clean up after the disaster? Doesn't that actually help out? What are we doing here? What we're doing is living in Trump's dystopian reality show vision of the United States, a criminal, a felon, a sexual abuser, a bankruptor, someone who's been a loser his entire life, someone who thinks it's a good idea in Atlantic City to build three casinos right next to each other, over leverage yourself. Everybody warns you're going to go bankrupt.

Just threaten the people. It goes bankrupt. Take the money, have everybody lose their jobs. You move on to your next scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam. That's been the guy's entire life. He's doing it with America. It's so freaking obvious right now. It's like right before our eyes. And what we can do here with our platform is call it out and to let other people know what's actually happening so that they can use the language, share this with other people, and we can all come to some understanding that

this is a perfect path towards the complete obliteration of the United States of America. All right. Let's take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody to go to MidasPlus.com. That's our sub stack. It's where our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, cooks. He goes to work. MidasPlus.com.

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approval is plummeting. It's the worst ever for a president who's been in office at this time, period, full stop, objective data, the worst ever based on all of the polling, not just like one specific polar. But you know, it's interesting when you still look at it, you're like, there's still 37 to 40% of the people who like support this guy. You know, and it's an intriguing analysis for me to truly try to understand like, what the hell is going on here. One of the things that I've been looking at a lot recently is Little Havana in Miami,

where Donald Trump's support among the Cuban community is strong, very, very strong. It's changed the whole dynamics of Florida politics, which was once a purplish state, then became a ruby, ruby red state. And a lot of it was the Cuban and Venezuelan population in Florida and some other Latino populations that are there as well. I've been very supportive of kind of Trump and MAGA. And what's so wild to me about it is that every single day,

Donald Trump does more and more things to let that population know how much he hates them. Like the most brutal type of stuff. So under former President Biden, the Cubans, the Venezuelans, and others had temporary protected status. It was a major priority to protect these communities from Castro in Cuba, from Maduro in Venezuela. And without any hesitation, Biden would make sure that these communities were protected.

And then you would have a lot of MAGA Republican senators, like Marco Rubio, when he was a senator of Florida, make that kind of his big priority. I mean, in fact, when it came to this rapper named L. Funky, I think was the guy's name, you know, Marco Rubio used this Cuban rapper's lyrics to basically be the name of this bill, to put more sanctions on Cuba.

I think it was Patria y Vida was the name of the bill and was also the name of this kind of protest rally song that was really inspirational to Cuban dissidents. You know, but Donald Trump's like targeting these people. Like, this guy, El Funki, is part of the Cuban community that's going to be sent back to the Castro regime. Their immigration status has been revoked by Donald Trump under the initial kind of Cuban protection, the various kind of Cuban protection,

the various kind of Cuban protection acts. That's not even including the next wave where the same way the Venezuelan temporary protected status has been revoked, it's gonna be revoked with Cubans as well. And frankly, all groups across, all of these Latino groups across the country. And so let me just share with you,

this was some recent reporting in Little Havana in Cuba. Just watch this, it's mind boggling to me. Here, play this clip. On a recent visit to Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, we found conversation about temporary protected status heating up. You think it's bad for them to remove the status, but you still approve President Trump?

So you continue to support the president? This is iconic Domino Park, where many Cuban Americans come to enjoy their favorite past time playing dominoes. And in between games, some have told us that they agree with President Trump on most things except this. Venezuelans should have a right to be protected. Clearly, yes, she said. So we support him on everything, other than the thing where he wants us basically dead, other than the thing where he wants us killed. And you start to think about that.

And you don't just think about that from the perspective of Cubans or Venezuelans or... You just think about it, you know, with how he's treated red states when it comes to FEMA. Not sending FEMA into red states, gutting the National Weather Service and national oceanic and atmospheric agencies.

When you see how he's taking away SNAP benefits, we'll talk about the budget in a little bit. I saw when Mike Johnson was being interviewed on the Sunday shows and he was railing against how bad SNAP is. Louisiana gets more snap than any state other than one. So you're literally kind of killing your people. But going back to where we started this episode, Jordy and Brett, there's been this overwhelming amount of propaganda out there that make people feel that there are these other issues to focus on. But when it comes down to like, I don't know, to me, the issues that would be most impactful

to me first would be my wife and my kid, my family, then probably me living and then the community and then I probably branch out a little bit, but where they're directly attacking your literal existence, your ability to live, it's just a wild concept and it's a segue into talking about this budget because the factions, when we talk about the senators who don't support this bill, it's not like they're great people. They don't support it because they want more cuts to Medicaid.

They want more people suffering, Brett and Jordy. That's why they want the cuts. Yeah, and I did a deep dive on the El Funke story over the weekend and was reading about the guy. And this is how extreme it is. He says that if he is sent back to Cuba, he will be imprisoned and would likely, could likely end up dead because he did this major protest anthem, which led to a lot of protests

in the country. And so his life is literally at risk because of Donald Trump's administration, yet he still supports Trump and has supported Trump. And the whole thing is just so mind blowing to me. The thing that always just really confuses me, and I think this is going to your point, Ben, of the propaganda, is that Trump resembles all of these autocrats who they are fleeing. That's who Trump like idolizes. That's who he tries to be in the mold of when Donald Trump does everything that he does. He's following the same playbook as these communist dictators.

He's, as I said on a previous episode, and I'm not being facetious about it, I think Donald Trump is most similar to a communist leader in one of these countries than we have seen in American history, leading the United States of America. And so the irony of the people railing against this, being attracted to this individual is just like so shocking to me. But I guess there's some psychological thing happening, which also happens in communist countries, which is you beat down on the people, you make them suffer, you blame other people, and then you throw them scraps and you tell them in the words of JD Vance, say thank you.

Did you say thank you? Say thank you. You should be thankful for the little scraps you're getting. Oh, we took away your healthcare, but you should be thankful for what we're doing for you. And we see it with, I mean, the FEMA thing alone is just absolutely crazy right now, especially after we saw months of propaganda

from Trump, from all these MAGA people. Remember the $750 number that they would throw out? The United States government is only giving $750 to help clean up this mess. That wasn't true. That was an immediate payment to help people with their immediate expenses, which was something passed by Congress that FEMA was allowed as the maximum amount they were able to actually pay for that. And then there was a whole lot of other money that was paid out to these

communities and people who applied for assistance, uh, assistance that, that Donald Trump and those MAGA people tried to prevent people who apply for assistance, assistance that Donald Trump and those MAGA people tried to prevent people from applying for. Now not only they're not getting the $750 people in harm's way in many of these red states, they're not getting anything. They're not getting any money and they're being forced to beg for help right now. And this government is not doing anything and they don't even acknowledge it, which is part of their strategy as well.

Just pretend like nothing happens, right? Pretend that there are no issues. Pretend that there is no storm. Pretend that there is no measles. Pretend that the CBO, that there is no deficit that's going to spike because of this crazy bill. And when we look at this bill, it's clearly what the biggest debt deficit bomb that we have ever seen in the country. And Ben, I remember you making these predictions before Trump even entered office. And you're like, he's going to increase the debt. What was your prediction? Like 20 trillion, 30 trillion? 20, 30 trillion easy. And, and a lot of people I think at the time were like, come on, like that's, that sounds a little crazy. It seems like we're headed, I have to maybe even pass

there at this point with, with what's going on. And for these people to position themselves as fiscal hawks and fiscal conservatives, and then just be so reckless with the money. I mean, Doge has to be, if you take Doge face value, and I don't, by the way, if you take Doge though face value on what its intended goals were to make the government more efficient, to save the government money, it's the biggest failure maybe in any government's history ever. I mean, adding $4 trillion to the deficit, adding like $20 trillion in debt, this was supposed to save us money. And this is just a total complete disaster. Then you see Mike Johnson, you see all these people go on TV. They have to try to defend it.

Mike Johnson always pretends that he like doesn't see the numbers or doesn't see Donald Trump's corruption and they just play this constant game of don't look up. When reality is staring us in the face, like this stuff could not be clearer as to what's going on, could not be clearer as to what's happening with this bill, the amount of people who are going to lose their health insurance with this bill, the amount of people are going to lose their Medicare, their Medicaid. And they can pretend like it's just the illegals or whatever they want to say, all they want, that they're cleaning up waste,

fraud, and abuse, but people are actually going to lose their lives if this bill passes as is. And so I think it's important that we constantly are grounding this in the reality of what's going on and cut right past all the propaganda that they're spouting every single day. Can I just touch on the Yelp funky situation really quickly? And I'm still going back and forth in my head whether that's the best rap name of all time

or the worst rap name of all time, but that's neither here nor there. I'm just going to use this as an example. People are inherently smart. I genuinely like actually believe that. Everyone has a brain, you know, and at a certain point, it's up to you to really cut through the, yeah, it's up to you to just know right from wrong and know when you're being lied to. But in these instances, the propaganda,

there's just so much money poured into it where I start to genuinely feel for some of these communities that are really just being preyed upon, that are being deceived. Now again, they have brains, right? Figure it out. Like you have to see through this, you have to know that you being deceived. Now, again, they have brains, right? Figure it out. Like you have to see through this. You have to know that you're being lied to.

But at the same time, I mean, this is a trillion dollar operation of propaganda that's being flashed into people's brains, literally flashed from their phones into their eyes on all the crevices of the Internet, Tick Tock, Facebook, you know, Twitter, you name it. Once you get hooked into that algorithmic loop, at a certain point, you stop saying, oh no, this is actually impacting my life. And you start caring about the conspiracies

about the South African white farmer genocide that's not happening. Because Donald Trump and the trillion dollar propaganda machine told you to care about that versus your life and your community. So for me, it's such a give or take when we talk about these situations. It's why I don't love the F around and find out motto, like as much as I think I used to enjoy it back because I actually see how it's impacting people on a day to day. And like I said, trillions of dollars of propaganda money are being poured into this entire operation

to deceit and to fool people every single second of the day, or they start caring more about the trans athlete, which again, makes up 0.0002% of the NCAA, who are actually trans athletes in the NCAA, and stop caring about yourself, your life, your community, and your loved ones. And it's just so, you know, that's for me what it is. They think though, that they're caring about themselves. They think that the transgender volleyball player is going to prevent their family from having opportunities. That's how it's framed. Or they think that what is the South Africa is a dog whistle for why you

need to deport everybody and have mass migration and have the largest deportation. That's what it is because the explanation and how it's framed when they're eating your dogs and your cats is that these people are going to come and kill you and your family, and that's who you should be afraid about. But the real killers are the ones who are selling the people the lies, the people who are actually stealing from you, the people who are actually attacking your family, the people who are taking your valleys, the people who are literally going to send you back to Cuba and Venezuela and elsewhere, and then welcome the white Afrikaners. The people who are doing that are the people who are selling you the lies.

And we shouldn't have to, we shouldn't in our messaging and our discussions, over complicate their, you know, what's really happening. It's why I think it's so important what we try to do here is listen to people and understand what is it that is appealing to individuals about this authoritarian messaging, and also not to center it from an American perspective only, and to recognize this right-wing authoritarian fascism is creeping across the world. And there's a real kind of, whether you want to call it, a cold or hot war taking place between the idea of liberal democracies and the idea of right-wing fascism.

We saw that play out in the Canadian elections with their Trump candidate, Pierre Poliev, who would have won, but for the fact that people actually saw, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, my God, this is actually gonna kill us. Same thing in Australia. They had their Peter... I thought you were gonna say, it's because he went on Joe Rogan or something.

That's what you're saying. They had their Peter... They had their Peter Dutton, who's their team who trumped. Same thing what we saw in Romania, with their Trump MAGA candidate losing. This is the tension. Do you want to be more like Hungary, you know, Victor, you know, with a Victor Orban,

or do you want to be more like, you know, like what the United States was, not is anymore? You know, what a Canada, you know, what a Canada, you know, could be, you know, and, you know, or do you want to be a Western liberal democracy, or do you want to be under Putin's spell? And I think that Putin and these right-wing authoritarians, they've recognized the history of mankind has actually been defined by authoritarianism and not democracy.

Democracy is very hard. It's hard. And that's why people looked at the American democracy experiment with kind of shock and disbelief, but also hope. Like, how were you able to do this? Your constitution's not all that long. Your amendments are like one sentence long, some of them. Yet you have all of these good faith beliefs

and that kind of hold it together. And yes, it's very, very messy. They know it's, it's, it's certainly nowhere near perfect or close to it. Um, but how'd you hold this together? But then a lot of our States, and I give David Pepper credit for coining this name, became these laboratory laboratories for autocracy. And you started to see how you can get Trump like people at the state level to gerrymander the crap out of things and then to actually change the dynamics of a state and crushed and literally kind of crush the people, but then stay in power. And that was a learning lesson of autocracies across the world.

That that's what's that's the dynamic here that we have to confront and address. All right, we'll take our last quick break. When we come back, I do wanna talk about what's going on in Ukraine. I wanna talk about Magomaiq's bill and Trump's bill, this disastrous budget bill, seeming to run into some big obstacles in the Senate,

although we'll see what happens there. And we should talk about Donald Trump. We should say then, we also have, you know, Ken Harbaugh, Midas Touch contributor, currently in Kiev right now going across Ukraine. He's gonna be getting some exclusive footage for us there. Ken, please stay safe. We got a team there who is gonna be getting you, you know,

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Somebody has to stand up and yell, the emperor has no clothes, and everybody's falling in lockstep on this, pass the big beautiful bill, don't question anything. Well, conservatives do need to stand up and have their voice heard. This is a problem we've been facing for decades now, and if we don't stand up on it, I really fear the direction the country is going. So I saw also Ron Johnson from Wisconsin had a similar message as well, but I don't want to like try to give them props. Like what they're trying to do is cut Medicaid and to cut more services that people actually need while giving the tax cuts to the billionaires. And let me be very clear. You want to know how you solve this? You tax rich people more. Okay? Rich people should pay more taxes. It's a very simple solution. If

very rich people paid more taxes, they would still be very, very rich. And they would have wealth for generations and generations and generations and more generations. Okay? And they would be able to actually be patriotic by supporting our country. It's a very basic solution. We should be loud about that idea, unflinching in that idea, and we shouldn't be worried, oh my God, are we going to sound like, no, that's where the American people are. Stop doubting yourself. American people aren't billionaires or decamillionaires, okay? Most Americans are psychologically tortured living paycheck to paycheck and they support the idea of taxing rich people more.

First off, we can start by taxing rich people fairly which they're not even being fairly taxed. They pay less actual taxes and definitely less percentage wise of taxes than most Americans pay in general. Heck when we saw Trump's federal taxes, there were years where he paid $0 or he paid $750, which is basically the filing fee. Also in this big budget bill disaster, they're cutting the ability for free tax filing as well. So like they're even cutting your ability to go through the IRS free tax filing system,

which was very popular. So just say it loud and proud, rich people need to be taxed more. You don't have to overcomplicate it with slogans. That's not like, oh my God, we need to find our next Joe Rogan. No, just be a normal human being and speak to where people are. If you listen to people, you know where they are

and it's just doing the right thing. Like here's Maga Mike Johnson talking about how he wants to cut SNAP from his own people. But Louisiana gets more SNAP than every state other than one, play this clip. We don't want to slash benefits. And again, I make this very clear. We are not cutting Medicaid.

We are not cutting SNAP. We're working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse. SNAP, for example, listen to the statistics in 2024, over $11 billion in SNAP payments were erroneous. I mean, that's a number that everyone acknowledges is real. It may be much higher than that. Louisiana is like the second largest recipient of food stamps in the country, sir. Let me explain it, Margaret. Let me explain it. The states are not properly administering

this because they don't have enough skin in the game. So what we've done in the bill is add just a modest state-sh sharing component so that they'll pay attention to that so that we can reduce fraud. Why? Again, so that it is preserved for the people that need it the most. This is common sense, Margaret. It's good government and everybody on both sides of the aisle should agree to that. So then what he's saying that everybody in his state basically commits, are all committing fraud basically? Is that what the argument is? No. They're getting rid of Medicaid. Okay. They are getting rid of, they are getting rid of SNAP programs and what? It's going to be Mike Johnson and

Donald Trump. Their central body is going to be the ones to make determinations of who's able-bodied, who's not able-bodied. They're the ones who are going to be the ones to make determinations of who's able bodied, who's not able bodied. They're the ones who are going to make those determinations. And there are already a lot of requirements like that that exist already. And it's a very dim view about the American people that what the American people are so what they're's they're so hungry for food that they're making up that they have. Isn't there a broader issue there taking place? And if you're saying that Americans need to make up lies in order to be handed food so that they could be able to live and actually feed their freaking family in the first place, or maybe just maybe where the fraud is actually coming from is people like these MAGA Republican billionaires who run the biggest Medicaid fraud in history. Oh wait, MAGA Republican Senator Scott from Florida was involved in the biggest

Medicaid fraud in history. So if you want to know where the fraud is actually taking place from, it's usually from a lot of the big Republican donors who are the ones like actually implementing the system and they're the ones defrauding the government, not the actual human beings who depend on services literally to live. And then what? They go into the workforce where a lot of employers

don't provide healthcare. And then the big disastrous budget bill also guts the Affordable Care Act and guts Medicare. It is a big nasty disastrous bill. And again, when we're talking about this to human beings, it's not about, oh, we got to find our Joe Rogan to be cool. Oh, y'all, y'all, y'all.

No, what are you talking about? Just speak to human beings like humans and let them know the stakes and talk to them and let them know you care about them and hear them. I mean, you heard the story where there's an E. coli outbreak in Indiana that they tried to like hide and cover up as well because the Trump regime got rid of the people who collect the data and report on them. And these are the people that say if you don't test like a miracle, it's going to go away. I promise you that measles, E. coli is not a popular are not popular. And while the Trump regime also banning people under the age of 65 from getting COVID boosters. I mean, these people are idiots. They're maniacs. They're dangerous. Just call it what it is, guys.

Yeah, these are common sense ideas. Okay. And these are things that if you were to put it in front of a poll without a party affiliation next to these topics that we're discussing on this, they probably pull 70, 75%, maybe 80% for a lot of these issues like taxing the wealthy, you know, things like that. And so like stop with all these sideshows. Like I truthfully do not understand how it has become gospel in this country amongst democratic circles that the reason why the Democrats did not win the 2024 election is because of Joe Rogan or right-wing podcasters.

This whole concept to me is just so crazy. So what about the rest of the world that also shifted in the exact same direction? By the way, the US actually shifted less than the rest of the world did comparatively, but they all have a Joe Rogan, they all have whatever. And by the way, like, whatever, I'm gonna I'm gonna stop there, because I'm going to get a lost in like a tangent.

But the whole thing is so ridiculous. You have popular ideas, just stop being weird, and just say them straight, just say them clearly. Say them with focus, say them with passion, say them with confidence. You know, on one of our shows the other day on Majority 54 on the Midas Touch Network, I'm not sure if you folks listen to that, with Jason Kander and Ravi Gupta, Kander made a really good point, which is like, why do Democrats, they always almost sound like afraid to speak the truth. Like when they have the argument on their side, when they have the facts on their side, they sound timid at hearings.

They sound timid sometimes when they're actually confronting people and debating these topics. While the Republicans, while Donald Trump, they may be totally wrong, and they are totally wrong about all these things, but they say things with such bravado and such confidence. And that confidence that they project causes people to think that they are telling the truth even when they're telling the lie. So I'm just saying I want to repeat what Candor saying and be confident in yourself. Be confident your beliefs. These are popular ideas. Stand up for them. Be strong. Make your case to the American people. You don't need a Joe Rogan to do that. Okay. You just need you.

You need your messaging. You have all the platforms. You got the need a Joe Rogan to do that. Okay. You just need you. You need your messaging. You have all the platforms. You got the Midas Touch Network. You got all the platforms you could ever want to go on. Okay. You got plenty of soap boxes to speak from, but use them. Use them and use them confidently and stop blaming whatever you want to blame on your own issue. It's really why, too. It's really why I rock with Beshear, Andy Beshear, Governor Beshear out of Kentucky, right? Kentucky, governor of Kentucky. He says it with his whole chest. You know, he's saying, no, I'm going to stick up for LGBTQ brothers. I'm going to do that. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Not just because it's the popular thing to do, but it's the right thing to do because he's got real morals and real values.

And so if Andy Beshear can say this as the governor of Kentucky with someone who likely, I don't know, probably has greater even aspirations than that, Democrats, say it with your whole chest. You know, defend your policies. You got good ideas. The American people are with you on a lot of them. Stand behind it and say it with your chest. In a world of Fed or Minsk, be a Beshear.

Benji, where to? Look at Donald Trump talking about Putin. I mean, this is some crazy stuff. I mean, just look at this message. This is how Donald Trump does diplomacy. And this is not diplomacy. This is just madness. He writes the following on social media.

Like the fact that you're writing a message on social media, like what are you in some rap battle? Like what, like, what are you in, like some like rap battle? Like I would, what, what, what is this? Like, like you're in some like, tick tock battle between people like, or some high school drama battle and you, and you talk negatively on each other's like Instagram page, like, what in the world is this? So this was this is Trump's post about Putin from yesterday, I've always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has This is Trump's post about Putin from yesterday. I've always had a very good relationship

with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He's gone absolutely crazy, and he puts crazy in caps to make Trump seem crazy. He needlessly, he is needlessly killing a lot of people. And I'm not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into cities in Ukraine for no reason whatsoever.

I've always said that he wants all of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that's proving to be right, but if he does it, it will lead to the downfall of Russia. Likewise, President Zelensky is doing his country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems. I don't like it, and it better stop. This is a war that would never have started if I were president. This is Zelensky's, Putin's and Biden's war, not Trump's. I'm only helping to put out the big and ugly fires that have been started through gross incompetence and hatred. You imagine if former president Biden, when it came to the Afghan withdrawal

that Donald Trump did in a disastrous manner by releasing 5,000 Taliban prisoners for absolutely nothing in return and then basically gutting all other operational sites except for like one base and then dumped it all on former president Biden and refused to allow the Biden administration to even talk with Trump's State Department or Department of Defense to try to actually harm the Biden administration. Could you imagine if I and I know it's getting tried for me. Do you think this goes down like this, like Putin, you know, Putin, Putin, one of his advisors comes up and he's like Vladimir, got some bad news.

He's like, what about it? What is it, sir? A tweet. And then he sent a tweet. Shit. End the war. And then he sent a tweet. Shit. End of war. He has called you crazy. He has stressed a very good relationship with you in the past. He is equally upset at Zelinsky.

He's mad that Zelinsky is mad. He's mad that Zelinsky is mad because... I need to know. Did he use all caps for the word crazy? Yes. Shit. Shit. He got me. He got me. I don't know what to do. It's over. It's over. It's all crumbling. It's just like, that's how Trump thinks it actually happens, though. I'm

like a confident that's how he thinks this goes down. Yeah. When Trump said on day one, I'm going to put I've got a great relationship with Zelensky and Putin. I'm going to put him into a room and it'll be so easy, it'll happen before day one. Okay, that is not just a vicious, venomous, vile lie. It's one that causes the loss of lots of lives as well. And it's one that Donald Trump needs to be held accountable

for every day. He also said he was gonna bring peace to Gaza in 24 hours and he has not done that. He's made things worse. He's said he was going to bring peace to Gaza in 24 hours and he has not done that. He's made things worse. He's made things worse in Gaza. He's made things worse in Ukraine. He's made things worse throughout the world. And he makes it worse also when he takes credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan that he had absolutely nothing to do with at all. And the people in India are now pissed and they're like, you had nothing to do with this at all.

So stop taking credit and stop acting like you could dangle, you know, trade with us. And that that's somehow gonna make us go, oh my God, yes, please, please, please. We'll do whatever you want. It's like India is a complex economy that has its own other alliances and relationships and has actually been making trade deals over the, you know, for a very long time, but have

been speeding up their trade deals recently as well. You know, and this right here, I mean, this message that he's posting is utterly deranged. Everybody's known Vladimir Putin's been crazy forever and that Vladimir Putin's goal is a complete and total genocide of Ukraine, wipe it off the face of the earth. And that's why you need to have a strong response. And Donald Trump has threatened sanctions against Russia before, sort of, and then doesn't implement them.

And so it's like, okay, got it. You're just a liar. You're just a liar with everything. And it's all of the things that Trump does, the tariff threats, the this, the that. He always backs down. He's caveman. He's, and this has been his whole life. He gives up.

Unless you buy into his crap, and unless his taunts make you scared, and then you buy into him, he always backs down. If you could be united and confront him, that's just his whole history, his whole life. He is a weak, pathetic, vile piece of trash is ultimately who he is. And then Bret and Jordy and Midas Mighty, he mixes a post like that. And then the next post he makes like his friend that he golfs with because he can't be bothered golfing,

getting attacked by a swan and getting bitten in the balls by a swan. And then Trump post, I always said golf can be a dangerous sport. My friend being bit at Bedminster and look, there's a time and a place where that may be a funny joke, but certainly sandwiched between Putin and sandwiched between posts attacking federal judges, that's not humorous. And that platform of the presidency is not to beclown yourself and the nation. Look, there are times where presidents can be funny. The White House Correspondents Dinner,

which Donald Trump doesn't show up to because he can't take jokes about himself. So he gutted and made it like into the weirdest Kim Jong-un kind of propaganda thing for Donald Trump ever. But there are times where you could, but this is not funny behavior and the rest of the world looks at it like what the hell is absolutely happening.

And that kind of brings me to this other story that I think needs to get more attention and we'll certainly cover it here that Donald Trump just pardoned a corrupt sheriff from Virginia who was found guilty of taking bribes in exchange for law endorsement badges. Those who bought the badges use them to drive in emergency lanes, bypass TSA lines, and for other favors. This was an individual by the name of, it was the Culpepper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, who's like a full MAGA sheriff. So Donald Trump gives this guy the pardon from Virginia. And if you just look at the DOJ website from two months ago, March 21, 2025,

who was in office guys, March 21, 2025. This is Trump's DOJ post. I'm reading you Trump's DOJ post. Scott Jenkins received over 75,000 in cash payments in exchange for auxiliary deputy sheriff appointments. The former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for accepting $75,000 in bribes

in exchange for appointing numerous Northern Virginia businessmen as auxiliary sheriffs within his department. In December, 2024, a jury convicted Scott Jenkins, 53 of Culpeper, Virginia, of one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud, and seven counts of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.

Scott Jenkins violated his oath of office and the faith the citizens of Culpeper County placed in him when he engages in cash for badges scheme Acting United States attorney Zachary T Lee said we hold our elected law enforcement officials To a higher standard of conduct and this case proves that when those officials use their authority for unjust Personal enrichment the Department of Justice will hold them accountable. I'm grateful to the FBI for their tireless work on this investigation. Now here's Donald Trump's post. Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia and their family have been dragged through hell

by a corrupt and weaponized Biden DOJ. And he goes on to whine more and more and more. You saw what the Trump DOJ said about him in March. You saw what Trump's own DOJ. So what? Trump's now going to fire the DOJ people who put out that statement. Is that what's going to happen next? We'll see, but my prediction is that's what's going to happen.

But what else would you expect from Donald Trump, who's now it's been reported he's looking to raise $3 billion off of a new crypto venture under the Trump media entity that has only made about $4 million in revenue per year and has lost like hundreds of millions of dollars in its past year filings. Yeah, the Donald Trump who held a crypto meeting and even like scammed the crypto people. He gave them like the worst, most disgusting looking like rubbery gross steak. There was one person who attended this meeting who said,

this is an actual photo by the way, actual photo for those listening. It's just like a gross, this was what you were served. And then for drinks, you got either one bottle of Trump wine For your table and you know, that's got to be like old and it's my guess old Expired wine to begin with or they gave you water. They didn't even serve soda juice anything And they only filled your water cup up once by the way

And then they had the leaderboard of all the top 220 people who held the Trump crypto. And so $148 million worth of crypto holders were at this event, which Donald Trump's propagandist, Caroline Levitt said, that's his personal time, everybody. That's just his personal time. Let's let the courts remember that. But I just need to go back to this image of the food for one moment. I've had airplane food that looks and probably tasted much more appetizing than whatever the heck I'm looking at here.

I mean, look at the nastiness of the steak. What even is on, is that a piece of chicken on the right? I don't even, I can't even quite identify what meat that is. What's the top? Is that potatoes? Is that bread? Is that a piece of chicken on the right? I don't even, I can't even quite identify what meat that is. What's the top? Is that potatoes? Is that bread? Is that polenta?

I'm not even quite sure what I'm looking at here. And this is what $148 million gets you. You know, I have a lot to say, but I'll just leave it at folks. I wanna end this episode by acknowledging one more time what Memorial Day is always about, what it's really about. It's about honoring our fallen soldiers, our fallen troops who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Our grandfather Murray, who passed away almost 20 years ago at this point, was a tail gunner on the B-29.

I remember being at his house in Boca after he retired. I remember he would share with me all of the stories of his fallen brothers in World War II who gave their life. It left a very important impression on me. Throughout everything that we do here at the Midas Touch Network, I always think about the work we're putting in and just recognizing that it's nothing in comparison to what people who have fought and died for our country have done. And I just hope in some small way that what we've built out with this network is able to honor the memory of those who fought for our country and fought for our democracy against Nazis, against fascists, against authoritarians. So to everybody on Memorial Day, I just want

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