The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Crumbles on Flight Back as Reality Hits

Episode Date: April 28, 2025

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free of charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario no deals donald strikes again there's a reason why we call this the rug pull presidency or the Ponzi scheme presidency, because as he gets less popular by the day, he resorts to more fraud. But what would you expect? The guy is a fraud. He was found liable for fraud. He's a felon. He's a sexual abuser.

He's behaving consistent with his despicable low character. Donald Trump, seeing his poll numbers like this, historically unpopular, 39% approval in the Washington Post, ABC, Ipsos poll, the lowest 100-day score in 80 years. The CNN poll had his approval at 41%, the lowest as well in decades, pretty much dating back to the beginning of CNN even doing these polls. So what's Donald Trump going to do? He's a Ponzi schemer. He gets desperate. He's a

fraud. So what's he going to do? He's got to defraud his base even more in the American people. So now what he's saying is, look, I think we're making so much money from the tariffs. He says, I don't even think we're going to need taxes. I think we're making so much money from the tariffs. He says, I don't even think we're going to need taxes. I think we could pretty much eliminate or lower taxes for everyone because, folks, we've got the external revenue service and that's working so you're not going to have to pay taxes anymore. That's how Donald Trump strings along his base, previously his investors, when he would bankrupt companies. He's doing it again.

I'll show you what Donald Trump said when he landed after that disastrous trip he took in Rome where he was wearing the blue suit. He was the only person violating the dress code at Pope Francis's funeral. He was sleeping and he looked gross. And all of the attendees were like repulsed and disgusted by him. Flies back to the U.S. and here he is, one of his first interviews when he gets back, saying, I think we're going to be able to do a complete tax cut because these tariffs are bringing in so much money. We're rich, like we're winning right now. No, we're not, Donald, but watch a fraud in action. Play this clip. And we're going to make a lot of money and we're going to cut taxes for the people of this country.

It'll take a little while before we do that, but we're going to be cutting taxes. And as possible, we'll do a complete tax cut because I think the tariffs will be enough to cut all of the income tax. Now, we have a lot of debt that's been left to us, unfortunately, over many years. We'll take care of that. But the tariffs, if people only understood the tariffs, we're going to be giving people of this country a tremendous tax cut. And we're going to start with people making less than $200,000 a year. Now, part of Donald Trump's fraud is stringing people along with fake deadlines. He did it in his businesses when he bankrupted casinos and other businesses that he would run. He does it again. I want you just to think back to his first term in office. What would he say

about his healthcare plan? Two weeks away, just you wait. It's coming in two weeks, I promise. It would never arrive in two weeks. And that's what he would say about all of his plans. It's a big, beautiful plan. Just give me two more weeks. Remember when 60 Minutes did that interview with Donald Trump, by the way, during his first term, and he literally had a blank binder filled with blank pieces of paper so he can point out what his healthcare plan looked like. But then the interviewer, Leslie Stahl, opened it up and then saw that it was all blank pages. That's one of the reasons that Donald Trump hates 60 Minutes, and he's really focused on attacking them. So here a reporter asked Donald Trump about his discussions as part of his peace plan in Ukraine. Remember, Trump promised that in 24 hours, he would bring

peace to Ukraine. He says he knew Zelensky well. He knows Putin. It would be easy to do a peace deal. He said, in fact, it should take less than 24 hours. As soon as he was elected, he said it would happen. Obviously, they're nowhere near a peace deal. Trump's made things actually significantly worse. And so Donald Trump, though, tells this reporter, give me two weeks. I'll get this peace deal done in two weeks. And the reporter to this reporter's credit goes, give me a date. Two weeks to what? Here, watch this. You think two weeks about President Putin? What is two weeks? Give us, what is the actual date? What is the timeline? Two weeks or less. And if it's a little more at the time, I say, but you know,

they're losing a lot of people. That's part of the rug pull. That's part of the Ponzi scheme, right? You drag people on. The problem is the same way with COVID. When he goes like a miracle, it's all going to go away. It doesn't. And then the problems compound. And then there's destruction that takes place when it could actually be avoided if you just address the actual issue versus lie about it. Like someone who's like responsible would deal with the situations,

not Donald Trump. Here's what we know, folks, which is getting underreported, but you know now we've been talking about it here on the Midas Touch Network for weeks. It's freight volume and it's trucking volume. The ships right now are all that were supposed to go to the United States are stuck in the ports in China like Shanghai. They're not leaving. The trade's going from China to other areas, not to the United States. When you take a look at the ports in the United States West Coast, like Long Beach and others, they're basically empty. So what this means is that in the next two or three weeks, we're going to run out of products on the shelves. So the damage has effectively been done already. Even if Trump were to now try to reverse course

or come up with some deal, which he's not able to do anyway, what are we, day 16, no deals when they said 90 deals in 90 days, the damage has been inflicted. And so it's going to start to happen. Then corporate news is going to be like, oh my God, where did this come from? If you're following freight and trucking volumes, you know what's happening right now. And that's why these big company CEOs like Walmart and Target and Home Depot, and then the airline industry and the car industry, they're all saying, Donald, you have to stop this. You're about to cause a depression. And Trump's not stopping it. He's just defrauding us all. So the reporter asked Donald Trump when he lands any movement on China. Donald Trump says a little

bit. They obviously want to make a deal. Here, play this clip. A little bit. Look, a little bit. They want to make a deal, obviously. Right now, they're not doing business with us. You know, people talk about going cold turkey with China, meaning just forget about it. And we were losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year with China. And now they're not doing any business with us, you know, because not because of them, because of me, because at 145 percent, you can't do business. But something's going to happen that's going to be possible. And again, more lies right there. And I think Donald Trump's MAGA mush brain audience at 35 percent of Americans who are MAGA, they'll never be convinced otherwise.

Trying to even appeal to them, I think they're a lost cause. But that's about 35%, maybe slightly less of the country. Independents understand what's happening now. Of course, Democrats do. And people who are not politically engaged and weren't like magas, like they're looking at this like, what the heck is going on? I mean, take a look just at a poll among independents for April. Fox has Donald Trump's approval at 26% among independents. New York Times, it's 29%. CNN, 31%. YouGov, 30%. CBS, 36%. ABC Washington Post, Ipsos, 33%. So he's underwater in all of these categories. Let me just show you this as well, how Donald Trump uses the two weeks thing as like fraud. This is from April 4th, what I want to show you right now, when Donald Trump was, or April 3rd,

when Donald Trump was on Air Force One. And remember he said in two weeks, he said he was going to roll out the Trump gold card that he was going to sell for $5 million. He said to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs and all these billionaires would buy citizenship in the United States. Remember what he said two weeks away, two weeks away, play this clip. Five million. For five million dollars, this could be yours. That was the first of the cards. You know what that card is?

Gold card. It's the gold card. The trump card, gold card. Who's the first buyer? Me. Who's the second? I don't know, but I'm the first buyer. It'll be out in about less than two weeks. Pretty exciting, right?

Ready for some questions? Anybody want to buy one? Everything that Donald Trump says, though, is two weeks away this, two weeks away that. But as I've said before, I think perhaps even worse than Donald Trump are those who aid and abet him. People like Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, who's basically become Bernie Madoff at this point. Bessent starts the weeks by teasing conversations with China, manipulates the market. The markets go up temporarily on Besant's news that there were these discussions. And Besant, I think, realizes he can manipulate the markets by injecting, I think, false information into the markets,

in my opinion, about productive trade negotiations, which aren't happening. So he was asked over the weekend, Scott know, Scott, tell us about Trump's strategy to announce tariffs, then dial some back. Why do you think this is good strategy? And Besson goes, we're doing strategic uncertainty, he says. This is all part of the plan, strategic uncertainty. They're calling Donald Trump's malicious recklessness strategic uncertainty because they think we're all stupid. Strategic uncertainty. No, Donald Trump is just taking a wrecking ball to the economy. Play this clip. President Trump's strategy really has been to announce these tariffs and dial some back, pause them, make exceptions. Explain why you see this as a good negotiating strategy.

Well, in game theory, it's called strategic uncertainty. So you're not going to tell the person on the other side of the negotiation where you're going to end up. And nobody's better at creating this leverage than President Trump. He's shown the high tariffs, and here's the stick. This is where the tariffs can go. And the carrot is, come to us, take off your tariffs, take off your non-tariff trade barriers, stop manipulating your currency, stop subsidizing labor and capital, and then we can talk. But I tell you, Martha, that we've had several of these Asian countries that come in and said, oh, well, we'll stop doing this, this and this. And I look at these lists and I think, how did we get here? How did we get here? Because this trading system has been so unfair. And as President Trump says, I don't blame the countries. I blame the previous administrations

that let him get away with it. So then Scott Besant was asked over the weekend. So Scott, Donald Trump claimed in an interview with Time magazine that he's already made 200 deals, he says. What are these deals? There hasn't been a single deal announced, Scott. So what are these 200 deals that Trump claims that he made? And Scott Besant, as I've said, he's like Bernie Madoff at this point. Besant goes, oh, sub deals. He's done the sub deals. The sub deals? What the heck are you talking? What's a sub deal? You either did a deal or you didn't do a deal. Sub deals, everybody.

Here, play this clip. The Time interview with President Trump. He said that he has made 200 deals on tariffs. 200 deals? Who has he made deals with? Is there actually any deal at this point? I believe that he is referring to sub-deals within the negotiations we're doing. And, Martha, if there are 180- but those aren't actual deals. Martha, if there are 180 countries, there are 18 important trading partners. Let's put China to the side because that's a special negotiation. There's 17 important trading partners. And we have a process in place over the next 90 days to negotiate with them. Some of those are moving along very well,

especially with the Asian countries. And finally, as Donald Trump was ranting and raving like a lunatic yesterday and this morning, what was he focused on? What was he talking about? Columbus Day. I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes, he said. Democrats tried to destroy Christopher Columbus.

They tore down his statues and put up nothing but woke this, woke that. Do you see Donald Trump's Ponzi scheme moves? Do you see the fraud that he does? You see his tactics, right? Think about like the way spoiled little petulant brats, no offense to them, how they behave and they react, you know, if they're confronted and seen to be lying, right? You try to change the topic. You go back to familiar ground. Yeah, but you're woke, but you're woke. Oh, I promise you this time I'm going to give everybody talks. Everyone's going to be rich. Oh no, you're doing the Christopher Columbus. Let me do a culture war. I know you all hate me now, so let me do culture wars. Should we talk about trans volleyball players? How about I do that trick?

It's ridiculous. I just want you to be able to see it, to understand these moves that he and his regime of fraud make, because it's ridiculous. Regardless of what political party you are, you should not stand for this, and it should be obvious. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers and thank you so much for watching. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more all at store.midastouch.com.