The MeidasTouch Podcast - Panicking Trump Goes Into Hiding From His Own Shutdown

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump hiding from his own shutdown and sending others from his administration like JD Vance and Karolin Leavitt to take the heat as Americans are blaming Trump for the disaster that is now unfolding. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is Donald Trump? I'll tell you where. He is in hiding from his own shutdown, utterly pathetic, as California Governor Gavin Newsom noted. He is rotting away. He is stewing in his misery and his hate for our country. And like the coward that he is, as his hand rots away, he is hiding right now. He sent out J.D. Vance and Caroline Levitt yesterday to spew the same. old nonsense blaming migrants and transgender people for the shutdown it's not working donald people know that you control all branches of government and in government in the united states you have to reach compromise you have to behave like an adult and stop posting your stupid memes of leader jeffreys wearing a sombrero and having a mustache with mariachi bands that's not funny during a situation as serious as this. And it's just weird and bizarre as well. You were the person Donald Trump who said that it is the president who gets blamed for shutdowns. Maybe that's one of the reasons that you are in hiding right now because you do know that it's your fault. And you do know the

American people are blaming you right now. So you don't want to be the face of it. So you're putting J.D. Vance. And I could show you all a dozen clips of this, but I'll just show you one clip. As Governor Newsom says, call it the Trump effect. Here, play this clip. If there is a shutdown, I actually think the president would be blamed. But while Donald Trump is in hiding and while the government is now shut down, he is bailing out his MAGA puppet stooge, the president of Argentina, $20 billion of our taxpayer money is going to help Argentina right now.

They're just going to burn the cash away and probably go bankrupt anyway. And the moment they're getting that $20 billion, you know what they've done already? They've undercut United States soybean farmers who are already getting screwed by the Trump regime. And Argentina started selling their soybeans to China, further hurting our farmers here. And a bunch of other produce they were sending to China as well. Great work, Donald, the art of the deal. Screw over our farmers with tariffs. Bail out Argentina.

Argentina further screws over our farmers. farmers, then bail out our farmers? That's the game plan right there. How dumb and pathetic can you be? Also, while the government shutdown is taking place, don't worry, folks. I know you really all cared about a 90,000 square foot golden ballroom. That's like twice or three times the size of the White House. I know that's what you really wanted to see. The same thing you wanted to see a regime rip apart the Rose Garden and turn it into a private club for billionaires and call it the club rose garden but yes folks fox has confirmed that there will not be a stoppage of ballroom work when the shutdown occurs fox is told that work will continue to be performed as the funds

currently supporting it are not tied to the fiscal year 2026 enacted appropriation what are the funds tied to it does anybody even know is it corporate donors is it foreign countries that are giving money to this what's the quid pro quo there you're going to have your name etched in to the People's House. And here's a question that I've been asking all morning and I've been focused on diligently. If Donald Trump says that he brought in $17 trillion, okay? We know he's lying about it,

but just assume he's telling the truth. When Bernie Sanders engaged in a Ponzi scheme of $45 billion, that was the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. So take Donald Trump at his word. I know you shouldn't, but just assume $17 trillion has been taken in. Well, it's not in the Treasury, right? our House Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee, well, they don't know where $17 trillion is.

So did Donald Trump steal $17 trillion from the American people? Is it in some secret Donald Trump bank account? I mean, really ask yourself that question. If you believe he took in $17 trillion, show me the money. If you brought in $17 trillion, that means that every American would be able to get, remember when Trump was talking about doge rebates and tariff dividends or whatever the hell he was talking about maybe i got those mixed we would each be able to get a hundred and fifty if you made under a hundred thousand dollars and you gave the seventeen trillion dollars to all americans

right every american would be able to get a hundred and fifty three thousand dollars a piece so i tend to think donald that you did not bring in seventeen trillion dollars but you know what if he did that he stole the money so focus on that as well now as the new york times reports the white House is using this shutdown while Donald Trump's in hiding to maximize pain and punish political foes. The moves by the White House appeared both unprecedented and punitive, underscoring the risks of a fiscal stalemate that had no end in sight. Well, it has an end in sight if Republicans just protect the American people's health care.

All of their lies that the money is going to unlawful migrants, it's not allowed to go there under federal law. transgender surgeries in Peru, transgender for everybody. What the hell are you even talking about? Americans who are on Affordable Care Act plans, like $20 million, are going to either lose their health care or it's going to become so expensive. I saw some data right here that like the average family,

take a look at this. This is the stat from Steve Ratner. Pull this one up, guys. Democrats are fighting to preserve an Obamacare tax credit. Without it, a 55-year-old couple making $85,000, would see their premiums more than triple to $24,000 a month. More than $24. How does a couple that makes $85,000 a year pay $24,000 in health insurance?

That's ridiculous. So Trump and all these magas, just stop blaming migrants and stop blaming transgender people. This is a real issue that's going to bankrupt most Americans. So let's act like adults and stop with your stupid memes and behave like freaking grownups. Nope, but they want to do their memes right here. This is what the White House account was posting Chuck Schumer dressed as a hot dog. Oh, very funny. I mean, I know the beam. And by the way, I'm good. You like humor. All good. I like a joke. But not in this context right here. When you're the president of the United States and you've told Democrats last week, go F yourself

in response to serious good faith negotiations. When our government depends on good faith negotiations between both political parties when you told Republicans do not negotiate with Democrats. Don't even speak to them was your position before. When you've referred to Democrats as the enemy from within

and held a meeting in front of 800 military generals and admirals telling them to invade American cities and that the real wars they're going to fight are wars against American people in Democratic cities, when you've just stripped

tens of billions of dollars more in funding from Democratic cities when, by the way, former President Biden, his Inflation Reduction Act and all of his plans, helped Red States even more than the Blue States. I mean, Texas received 20% of all inflation Reduction Act funds. And Biden was like, oh, well, that's a state that tends to vote Republican. No, he was the president for all America.

So Texas and Red States, they get to keep their funding, but you go after the blue states, how utterly pathetic. That's why when you do memes like this, while Americans are suffering, while Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and facing the psychological torture about while Americans can't afford their groceries right now, while Americans can't afford a home if they're lucky enough to have a home with a mortgage, they can't afford to pay their mortgage worst housing market since 1995 right now.

And if you're renting, you probably can't pay your rent and can't pay your mortgage if you have a house. And now you've got to bail out farmers. Remember what I said at the outset, how Donald Trump bailing out Argentina, destroying our farmers. Then we got to bail out our farmers. This is the height of a Ponzi scheme, robbing Peter to pay Paul, or in this case, robbing our farmers to pay Argentina to then rob more from the taxpayers to pay our farmers. Do you see what's happening here, people? Isn't it so freaking obvious? And I don't care what political party you're from. This should just be self-evident, right?

It's self-evident that Donald Trump is a fraud. He's a bankruptor. He's a sexual abuser. He's a felon. He's behaving as such right now in the Oval Office. That's what he's doing or what's going to be left of it after their stupid 90,000 square foot golden ballroom. Here's what Donald Trump actually posted yesterday. The audacity. Here's what he posts. The soybean farmers of our country are being hurt because China is for negotiating. It puts that in quotes reasons only not buying.

We've made so much money on tariffs that we are going to take a small portion of that money and help our farmers. will never let our farmers down you did pause you did let him down okay you did sleepy joe biden didn't enforce our agreement with china where they were going to purchase billions of dollars of our farm product but soybeans in particular it's all going to work out very well oh it's biden's fault that's why these people are such pathetic vile pieces of trash these this is loser behavior act like a grown up act like a leader defend your policies stop with oh bad Biden did this, Biden did that.

You're the freaking president. Behave like a grownup. Could we agree that there is a floor of behaving like a grownup? Act like a leader. Oh, Biden did the soybean. No, you did it. You did it with your stupid tariff policy, your unlawful tariff policy against the world.

Donald Trump goes on to say, it's all going to work out very well, right? Just like a Ponzi schemer. Just give me two more weeks. I'm going to get you your money. Just give me two more weeks and everything's going to be okay. Give me another month. Give me another month. Give me two more months. I got you. I got I got you back. Okay. The money's coming in. Trust me. Trust me.

A fraud. He is a fraud. He is a fraud. Go on to say, I love our Patriots. And every farmer exactly that. I'll be meeting with Xi and China in four weeks. And soybeans will be a major topic of discussion. Make soybeans and other row crops great again. Patriots, I love you. That's this is cult leader tactics and behavior. You don't love them. You just their lives. And when you speak to Xi Jinping, I'll tell you what you're going to be talking about. I know that you want TikTok to be owned by right-wing oligarchs here in the United States so they can control the algorithm and that you can push MAGA content out on TikTok. It's what Benjamin Netanyahu said when he visited the White House. I showed that tape. The most important purchase that we ever have to do is we need to get the TikTok. We've already got X and now we need

to get TikTok. We've heard him say that. It's a good Benjamin Netanyahu impression. That's what he actually said. We know that's what you want to do. You've thrown our farmers under the bus. China knows the leverage they have over you because of TikTok, which our Senate banned anyway, which you're not following the law for. So you've sacrificed all leverage over TikTok at this point. By the way, as Alex Cole points out, government shutdowns under Trump three, government shutdowns under Biden zero. I'll tell you what Biden did. I remember when Republicans were threatening a shutdown. Do you remember Biden brought? in Kevin McCarthy. He brought in the Republicans to the White House. He treated him with respect.

They came up with a deal that benefited everybody. Biden helped red states. He focused on what can we do for you? Let's reach compromises. That's our system. And they came up with deals. Donald Trump says, go F yourself. Literally, that was the quote, go F yourself. More whining from him. I really believe that Jerome Toulate Powell, that's the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is an obstruction Then you had Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's National Economic Advisor. He went on this Punch Bowl News podcast or something. And he says, you know what? Congress actually doesn't need to pass a Trump's farmer bailout.

Donald Trump's just going to do it on his own. Let's bypass Congress. We're so post-Congress, as Carl Keentania writes. Meanwhile, the ADP report yesterday, private payroll data, you saw that negative 32,000 jobs in September. August was revised down by 57,000 jobs going backwards. So August actually had negative 3,000 jobs. Now September was negative 32,000 jobs.

ADP was expecting 51,000 jobs to be created. Do you remember under former President Biden when I would do reports? I'd be like 150,000 new jobs were created, 50,000 new. There was massive job creation month after month after month. And Donald Trump took it and just destroyed it. And now he wants to blame Biden for what he's doing. We saw the direction that it's going. And you moron, he just is so dumb these people and dangerous.

Carl Kingtony also posts the following. There's only one sector truly holding up in ADP job numbers now. So even with those bad job numbers, the only thing that's holding up the job numbers, even to have a negative 32,000 number, guess what it is? health services and education, health services and education, the main areas that these MAGA idiots want to cut. The one area of growth under Trump is the area they're attacking right now and that the Democrats want to preserve and save. Do you see what's happening? I mean, look at the chart. Manufacturing in a recession, construction in a recession, trade transportation utilities, getting crushed. Go ask truckers

and freight shippers, what the hell is going on there. Leisure and hospitality may as well be considered a depression at this point with the whole world boycotting the United States. The one area that's doing good is education and health services, and that's what the Trump regime is going after. New York Post is even reporting beef prices reach record highs as droughts leave cattle inventory depleted. Food inflation, 3.2%, meat inflation, 5.4%. ground beef inflation 12.8 percent beef roast 13.6 percent steak 16.6 percent that's what's happening and meanwhile you have jd van showing up on fox and all they want to talk about is sombrero this sombrero that play this clip so can you give us some insight into what they talked about maybe how we

can come to a compromise and the hats the trump the trump trolling them with 20 a hat yeah thank you lauren That's the most important part. They're also the Trump 2028 hats, which I think made the majority or the minority leader in both the House and the Senate, very uncomfortable. You have Maga Republican Anna Paulina Luna. What do you think they're talking about? Subrero, this, sombrero, that play this clip.

And yeah, all of a sudden, they're offended by President Trump. But in light of that funny joke, I actually did purchase a red sombrero that I hope that President Trump and J.D. Vance will wear during the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month later on this month. All right. You got sombreros all over the one. White House. Peter Ducey said that it's from state regime media, that this is what's going on in

the briefing room TVs, all playing AI generated sombreros on Hakeem Jeffries. These are not serious people folks here play this clip. Hakeem Jeffrey said this afternoon, he thinks the president Trump has engaged in unserious behavior during this shutdown, but officials here don't seem to mind one bit. In fact, the briefing room TVs have been playing that AI generated video of Jeffreys in a sombrero on a loop for several hours, John. He knows he had a troll, doesn't he, Peter? But I'll leave you with this because I thought this was inspiring. Pope Leo the 14th, speaking with the press, he was asked about the Vatican or the Catholic

Church honoring Senator Durbin, who supports women's reproductive rights. So the reporter asks the boat. So what do you think about Senator Durbin, who received? see this honor. There was a number of, I think, bishops and cardinals who ended up protesting Durbin getting this award. She was like, he's four abortions, four women's reproductive rights. So how could you give him, how could the Catholic Church give him this award? And Pope Leo had a great response, I thought. And he said, look, you know, people who say that they're anti-abortion or that they're against abortion, but they support the death penalty, how could you call them pro-life? And then he goes this.

he goes, people who claim that they're against abortion, but they are out there engaging in inhumane conduct of immigrants and migrants in the United States. How do these people say they're pro-life? I thought it was very profound. So let me close this video off by whether you're religious or not religious. I just want you to be a good person. I just want you to be empathetic. Here on the Midas Touch Network, we're okay talking about love and caring for people and helping people up and not punching down. So again, I'm not showing you this in a religious sense. I'm just showing you this because I thought it was an interesting response. So let's end the video with this. Let's play. Just wanted to ask one thing that has become a bit of a divisive

subject in the US right now with Cardinal Supich giving an award to Senator Durbin. Some people of faith are having a hard time with understanding this because he is pro or rather he's for legalized abortion, how would you help people of faith right now, decipher that, feel about that, and how do you feel about that? I'm not terribly familiar with the particular case. I think that it's very important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I'm not mistaken, 40 years of service in the United States Senate. I understand the difficulty and the tensions, but I think as I, myself, have spoken in the past, it's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of the church. Someone who says I'm against abortion, but says I'm in

favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. So someone who says that I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States. I don't know if that's pro-life. So they're very complex issues. I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them. But I would ask first and foremost that there'd be greater respect for one another and that we search together both as human beings, in that case as American citizens or citizens of the state of Illinois, as well as Catholics to say we need to, you know, really look closely at all of these ethical issues and to find the way forward as church. Church teaching on each one of those issues is very clear. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's

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