The MeidasTouch Podcast - Panicked Trump Screws Himself as Term Collapses

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the ugly collapse of Trump’s presidency as his agenda blows up quickly. Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://fatty15.com/MEIDAS and using code MEIDAS at checkout. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But what they said here is actually from the White House. This was another week filled with endless wins for the American people under President Donald J. Trump. All right, well, let's take out the receipts. Let's see if we've got these endless wins from the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Again, this is a right-leaning Wall Street Journal. How do you like the trade war now? Trump is furious that Canada won't take tariffs lying down from the Wall Street editorial board. We said from the beginning that this North American trade war is the dumbest in history, and we were being kind, Donald. It's the right-leaning Wall Street Journal.

So if you're like, oh, I heard that this is the anti-Trump channel because that's what they're saying in the media. I'm just reading for you the headline from the Wall Street Journal. I find those other headlines funny as well. Take a look at this one right here from Chief Executive Magazine, not exactly a bastion of liberals. They said the following. A poll of more than 220 U.S. CEOs finds business confidence at the lowest level since November 2012. CEO optimism plummets in March amid tariff uncertainty. Here's another doozy from the Wall Street Journal. Trump's economic message is spooking some of his own advisors. President's team receives flood of calls from business executives concerned about mixed

messaging on tariffs. Quote, senior officials, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, have received panic calls from chief executives and lobbyists. It has been a horrific start for the economic policy team. So, you know, when I have the headlines, oh, Trump panicking, because I'm literally saying what the truth is. And I know sometimes in a Trump world, the truth may hurt, but we got to say what the truth is. Here's another Wall Street Journal headline. Is Trump throwing it all away? Duh. His tariff circus undermines U.S. standing just when it could be most useful.

The U.S. has been the best functioning, most innovative economy in the world at a time when its rivals and partners are all struggling for different reasons. Trump is throwing it away with his tariff policy. But Donald Trump doesn't seem to care. What was he posting first thing in the morning yesterday? Wow. He goes, he goes, wow, people are loving Elon. A great patriot. Nice to see.

I mean, literally people despise Elon Musk. I'll show you this one right here. For example, I'll show you this one right here, for example. I'll show you a Trump Republican congressional district right here during a town hall. They now do phone town halls rather than in-person town halls because they're terrified of what's going to actually happen. And so the MAGA Republican Congress member, Tom Barrett from Michigan 7th, this Republican district, asked the people, type whatever if you like Doge, type whatever if you don't support Doge, watch what happens. I wonder if these are all the Soros bots. Here, play this clip. poll question. And that question is, do you approve of the Department of Government Efficiency's mission to streamline the federal government and reduce spending? Again, this question is regarding DOGE. Do you approve of the Department of Government Efficiency's mission to streamline

the federal government and reduce spending? Press one for yes and press two for no. Again, that's one for yes and two for no. Our results are coming in and it's at 70% for no and 30% for yes. That's 70% for no and 30% for yes for the approval of Doja's mission to streamline the federal government and reduce spending. By the way, you know, people are calling C-SPAN and I'm not going to, I could show you dozens of calls like this, but I'll just show you this one right here. Let's play. Just like in 30 days. I mean, our, you know, domestically, he's tanking the economy singly handed with the terrorists. And I just, I just got a new heater today. I'm already affected by the

tariffs how's that the part uh parts are uh they say up eight to ten percent already just in parts for the heater so i ended up getting a new heater but the company told you that the company that you bought it from. Right. Right. And they passed on that eight to 10 percent to you. So you paid an extra. OK. Yeah. And that's this is for every kind of part from outside the country. And no matter what it is, I mean, that includes everything that comes to the United States. Do these terrorist cities imposed. Can we geek out for a minute on something? I think it's going to be helpful for you. It's called Fatty 15. Its co-founder, Dr. Stephanie Van Watson, discovered C15 as the first essential

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Trump doing? Holding product placement events, saying how much he loves Elon. Here's a scoop right here from Karen Tumulty. Scoop, social security facing pressure from Doge is now weighing big cuts to phone service. Agency considers ending phone program that helps claims processing and is used by millions. In other words, you won't be able to call Social Security anymore. Remember I showed a video a few days ago where the wait time just to even get somebody was like 10 hours and then then to process a claim, it was like a year. What do you think happens when they fire everybody? Who's going to be able to process the claims? So one of the ways they're going to try to privatize

and get rid of social security is by firing everybody, let the system crash, let it fail, and then try to have a business basically take it over. I wonder, I wonder which businesses it's going to be. Is it going to be an Elon Musk business? Shocker, shocker, shocker. But you know, look, the Trump administration's focused on what's mattering to the American people most, plastic straws and making sure that the DOJ is involved in robust enforcement

of plastic straw situation. From the office of the Attorney General, President Trump. in robust enforcement of plastic straw situation. From the office of the Attorney General, President Trump, this is real. This is real memo that was issued moments recently. Trump recognized that there has been an irrational campaign against plastic straws that has led to the forced use of non-functional, more expensive, and potentially hazardous paper straws.

The department stands with the president in rejecting this misguided effort of supporting plastic straws. Folks, there's a real, I'm not making this up that that's what their focus is on. That's a real memo. I'll give you this update as well. Judge Tanya Chutkin, Washington, D.C. federal judge, issued a powerful ruling yesterday, which has Trump and Musk freaked out, saying that Doge needs to submit to immediate expedited discovery. We told you about Judge Cooper doing that in another case. Judge Chutkin goes even further. So the walls are closing in on Doge. The walls are closing in on Doge and Guantanamo Bay is closing. Remember, as I say, the corruption of the Trump administration is matched by its incompetence. So they couldn't even figure out this Guantanamo Bay thing. First, one of the

things people uncovered is that in Guantanamo Bay, where they said they were giving the most dangerous migrants, almost none of the migrants were actually dangerous. They picked like 40 or 140 people originally. It wasn't even that many people. And they were nonviolent people, not the gangs that they said. And they just took like people and threw them in Guantanamo Bay and then like deported them elsewhere to other places. And they just took people and threw them in Guantanamo Bay and then deported them elsewhere to other places. But they put them in Guantanamo Bay. Well, now ICE has now returned all migrants from Guantanamo Bay to stateside facilities. A new court filing described strip searches and the use of restrained chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.

Jennifer Griffin over at Fox, she's one of the good ones they have over there, good reporter. She goes, Gitmo detention plans hit another bump. The administration's decision to take migrants to Gitmo appears, at best, to have been an expensive photo op. Now Fox News has learned all the migrants held at Gitmo have been sent to the U.S. and plans to send more to the U.S. Naval Station have been put on hold. Read the thread from Liz Fryden below. Why can't all the reporters there be like Jennifer Griffin? There are currently no migrants being held at Gitmo and no flight scheduled to arrive.

Fox has learned none of the 195 tents set up to hold migrants have been used because they do not meet ICE standards, according to several U.S. officials. The operation to build more tents was halted back in February, just several weeks after it started. Remember these photo ops from COSPLAY Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem? Under President Donald Trump, the days of open borders are over. High threat criminals are being arrested and locked up in Gitmo. Then she did this photo op. And then she did this video where she talked about it.

And then she went on Fox and did this video. Hi, everybody. I'm down here at Guantanamo Bay checking out some of the operations operations that were standing up to house the worst of the worst and illegal criminals that are in the United States of America. They won't be there for long. We want to thank President Trump for all of his hard work to make America safe again. Well, it was all BS. I do want to mention this as well because it's not getting attention in American media. Did you all know that a Russian ship, cargo ship, intentionally crashed into another ship, a U.S. tanker, transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off the coast of Britain on

March 10th? Did you know that happened? I mean, the Russian national's been arrested, the Russian crew was arrested, but it seems to be an intentional act of war. We don't hear a lot of people talking about that here, that the captain of the ship was Russian. We'll be reporting on more on that in other videos as well. The one thing I think to note about America's crashing economy, though, is that other areas in the world are doing okay or good. Like if you just take a look at this chart right here, the U.S. stocks have underperformed the global markets in 2025, like significantly.

And when was the date where the global markets significantly overtook the U.S. markets? Ah, surprise, surprise. The day of the inauguration. The day of the inauguration, the Atlanta Federal Reserve was predicting if Trump just kept the former Biden economy on autopilot, did nothing, golfed, took credit for it, just said, look what I did, look what I built. It probably would have grown about 3% GDP quarter one. Now we're expecting a contraction, a recession as well with about negative 2.8 to negative 3% GDP.

But folks, the MAGA Republicans want to spin this all as great stuff. Like Laura Ingraham says, this is a transition. We're living through a great transition. Play this clip. So what we're living through now is a transition. And this one's good for us. For decades, ours has been an economy driven by government stimulus,

a lot of printing and borrowing of money, government spending, government giveaways. And Trump knows our survival, though, requires a return to an economy by private sector productivity, the way it used to be. That's why the playing field in global trade has got to be leveled.

And Tommy Tuberville, MAGA Republican Senator says no pain, no gain. Play the clip. And Trump's tariffs making America great again. It's a great strategy. If somebody's finally doing something out of the White House, President Trump, that is, that says you have to take an action in another country. Yeah. No pain, no gain. That's what we used to tell our football players. There's going to be some pain with tariffs.

But tariffs got us back to the strongest economy in the world when President Trump was in the first time. He knows what he's doing. Democrats get out of the way, shut up. You have no answers. You didn't do anything right in the last four years with Joe Biden. We have a game plan. Trump has a game plan along with Howard Ludnick and the other people that are pushing the tariffs.

We can turn this thing around. But, folks, let me tell you, this is our last chance. If we can't get it done now with tariffs and with pulling regulations and getting people back to work and cutting our debt and cutting the amount of spending, we're not going to have the country that we've had before. So people need to just listen, learn from this, understand it's short-term pain. We're going to get this turned around. President Trump knows exactly what he's doing and he has a game plan, something Democrats didn't know anything about. No pain, no gain. And then you have Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, saying this was the best 50 days ever.

Play this clip. President Trump has had the best 50 days of any president in American history. And there's no sign inside here or outside there that that's going to slow down because we've got a lot of good stuff to go. And we're just going to, I mean, and I'm so pleased with the trade team and the vice president because we are all on the same page,

moving in the same direction under the president's leadership and it's working beautifully. Well, the last thing I want to point out to everybody as well is, it seems obvious that Vladimir Putin rejected the ceasefire agreement. Putin launches drone strikes on Kiev hours after Trump challenged him to, quote, tango

and agreed to Ukraine ceasefire as pressure mounts on Kremlin to back down. Oh, that's going to do it. Trump's going to say tango. Tango, Putin. Don't you want to tango? Putin's just like ignoring it. Sergei Lavrov, Putin's foreign minister is like just basically ignoring it.

And they're not only ignoring it, they went into the Kursk region dressed in military fatigues and Putin demanded that the war be escalated and that more land be taken. So that's what happened. Anyway, we'll keep you posted with more. I'm Ben Mycelis.

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