The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Faces New Threats as Funeral Crowds Turn on Him

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump being scared for his life as Ayatollah’s funeral spreads to Iraq! Home Chef: Home Chef is offering my listeners 50% OFF and FREE shipping for your FIRST box PLUS FREE dessert FOR LIFE! Go to https://homechef.com/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 The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 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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Lots of signs there saying kill Trump, lots of signs threatening Donald Trump, lots of chance that we're hearing death to Trump, kill Trump types of chance and death to America chants. And the Iranians are saying, look, we're talking about the government, not the people. Let me show you what's going on in Iraq right now. As noted, the prime minister of Iraq has declared today, Wednesday, a public holiday. You see the sign here, hashtag killed Trump. I'll show you some B-roll right here of signs that also say killed Trump. In the Najaf welcoming area, Najaf is in Iraq. So the first days of the profession were in Iran.

Now it's in Iraq. Why Iraq? Huge Shiite population there. And the Ayatollah was. was a spiritual leader for the Shiite community. I've described him as basically the equivalent of the Pope for the Shiite community. A huge Shiite community in Iraq. We saw the president of Iran, Dr. Pasechkin, was there,

although he had to leave once the Trump regime attacked Iran's Keshem, Syriq, and other cities right there on the Strait of Hormuz. We'll show you some B-roll right here. of the people in Iraq holding the casket right there of Ayatollah Khomeini right there. I mean, this was at the airport. Here's Iran's president, Posseschian, its former, its foreign minister, general Rase, deputy parliament speaker, all walking alongside the Iraqi prime minister over here. You see them.

More B-roll of that. You take a look right here. There's also Iraqi Christian pastors, pastors. who are out there as well. You see signs in Iraq right now like this on a national day of morning. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has declared today the National Public Holiday, as I noted.

Here's another poster that we see in Iraq right now along the funeral route. It says, welcome you who humbled the US and exposed normalization of relations with Israel. Let me just show you what the funeral procession, looked like right here in Najaf, because I mean, this procession, not just huge in Iran, it's huge in Iraq.

Show you some photos here, photos, photos, photos, photos, photos, other photos right here of the huge procession taking place in Iraq. I'll just show you about 10 seconds of it so you can see for yourself what's going on there. Now, you'll see over here, Iraqi Prime Minister, Al-Zaidi officially welcoming President Peseskian who had to leave early.

The Iraqi forces, performed an official military salute for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Let me show you what that official salute looked like. Here, play this clip. And here's how it's being described on dropside. I think they have a pretty good summary of what just went down. So the body of Ayatollah Khomeini arrived in Najaf, Iraq, where it was received with full state honors by Iraq's type leadership,

including Shia, Sunni, Kurdish, Christian, and other political and religious representatives. Some Iraqi members of parliaments were heard chanting death to America, while angry crowds gathered outside the shrine holding signs reading Kill Trump. Iraq is hosting an official state funeral for the former Iranian supreme leader, with millions of Iraqis expected to line the streets to pay their respects. And again, this is just the beginning, but today, obviously, we're seeing the crowds grow and grow and grow. For many Iraqis, Kamenei was their spiritual and religious leader. Others viewed him as the leader of a legitimate resistance movement against the United States and Israel, while others saw him as a prominent Islamic scholar, deserving of respect regardless of politics. Notably, senior IRGC commander, Moshen Razai, stood alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi throughout the airport ceremony,

days before al-Sudani is expected to meet President Trump next week. I think that is notable as well. Now, it should be noted that during these processions, that's when the United States attacked Iran in Keshem, in Syrac, and Manab as well. They attacked right by the Manab Hospital, and that's, of course, where the Trump regime previously slaughtered 168 Iranian little girls. to which M. v. Galabhafen's parliament leader says major MOU violation by the U.S.,

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Homechef.com slash mitus must be an active subscriber to receive free dessert. And then you have Iran's revolutionary guard corps leadership over here saying the following. Iran to neighboring countries, restraint is over. target the infrastructure of the American Zionist enemy, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, and their partners in a way that will deprive America and its allies of the region's oil and gas for years. Consider this your warning. Donald Trump was posting on social media, things like this. I voted for this. Boom. That's Donald Trump's behavior and war in peace. Boom, I voted for this. Let me share with you what Professor

Marandi, who was with the Iranian negotiating team, with Galabaf, with the Rajshy. I mean, he was there in Islamabad. He's very close to the civilian leadership in the Iranian regime. He just spoke with Professor Glenn Dyson about what, you know, his view of the funeral procession, why it's sending a message that has Donald Trump terrified, and also how Iranians. has used the MOU period, and Iran has used the ceasefire to build up its military capabilities. I mean, you can hear it directly from the source right here. Let's play it for yourself. And Iran has been using the ceasefire and the MOU to prepare itself for war.

Iran has There were lots of tankers in the Persian Gulf where Iran which were trapped, Iranian tankers and then as soon as Demo you were signed all these tankers left for their markets in Asia and ships have been moving

going to Iranian port so Iran has been herring itself militarily and Iranian society for further confrontation not that we want confrontation but it's Trump and it's Netanyahu, so Iran has to be prepared for war.

So Iran is more prepared for war today, militarily speaking, than it was at the beginning of the war. It's manufacturing new missiles with more advanced missiles, more advanced drones, expanding its underground network of missile and drone cities, command and control centers, and so on. incorporating new technologies into the armed forces. And then, of course, we have today the ongoing funeral, which we saw yesterday, too, that well over 10 million people attended yesterday, the largest funeral of human history, which is ongoing today in the city of home. You have a couple of million people there.

It shows the high degree of popular legitimacy of the, of the Islamic Republic. No one can deny it anymore. But for the first time, this crowd, for the first time, is being somewhat acknowledged in the West for what it really is and what it means. And so you can,

one, I would claim that Iran has much more popular legitimacy than Western regime soon. And these are, you know, the evidence is in front of us. In the heat of summer, at a time when the country has been under economic siege for decades, It has just gone through two wars of aggression, infrastructure damaged, and a siege on Iranian ports.

It hurt the economy significantly. You see these numbers come to, these people come to the streets. And the depth of that popular legitimacy is another issue as well. Coming out in the heat of the summer, it took me three hours, almost three hours to get there. And we had to walk hours in the sun. and then it took me a couple of hours to get home.

So I was exhausted and I had to go to sleep. So it just shows that, you know, the strength of Iran. It has the support of the public. Armed forces are capable. All of this is leverage. All of this is leverage. And so ultimately, if the United States refrains from forcing the Israeli regime out of Lebanon, things are not going to get any better for Trump.

the economic problems will persist at a time when the U.S. economy is in deep trouble, and he will not get a nuclear deal at all, despite the fact that he promised to get a much better deal than Obama. And meanwhile, Donald Trump has been repeatedly posting overnight images of Iran under attack by the United States, and Donald Trump is posting this on his social media, platform right now, just very bizarre behavior, very bizarre behavior by Donald Trump right there. Massive strikes against Iran. Ial Yakabi, he posts that. Boom. And the United States military has never been stronger, more powerful. No other nation can do what we do. It's not even close.

That's what Donald Trump says. It's not even close. And then, of course, you know, the day before Donald Trump said, no one knows. what the straight of Hormuz is. Here's what he said. The straight and the famous straight of Hormuz that nobody ever heard of but it's some, it is a, that is some big

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