The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Plans Crash

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump facing failure after failure as his bullying and idiotic policies collapse and his presidency becomes the worst in history. 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

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you will own one doll and one pencil and you will be happy, little girl, and you're going to pay more money for it because the Trump regime central planners say that's what little girls get. Stop asking for all of these dolls. That's actually something that Donald Trump's been repeating over and over again as his presidency continues to plummet and spiral out of control. Now, as Donald Trump is doing that, let's take a look at what else he's doing as well. Of course, yesterday, he continued to push his Trump meme coins, enriching himself as he's still done no deals in the trade war against the world.

One of the things we've learned is that the Trump family net worth, though, while Donald Trump's wagging his fingers at little girls saying you can only own one pencil and one doll, and while mortgage rates are soaring and housing is less affordable and inflation is on the rise, the new Goldman Sachs report shows inflation's coming back and it's coming back bad, folks. Donald Trump's family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, according to new reports. Also, we know that the Abu Dhabi fund is going to be using Trump crypto in billions of dollars worth of transactions, shifting transaction fees right into Donald Trump and his kids pocket as Donald Trump then continues to do deals with Qatar for Trump resorts, deals with Saudi Arabia for Trump resorts in Oman. And Don Jr. continues with his club

called the Executive Branch, which he's selling memberships for for $500,000 a membership. One of the things that went down yesterday that we got to talk about as well is Donald Trump firing his Surgeon General via a social media post. Now, Donald Trump's prior Surgeon General was a Surgeon General named Dr. Nashuat, and Laura Loomer wanted that doctor fired. So then Donald Trump hired like a social media, like a junk science, fake science kind of influencer person by the name of Casey Means, who I don't even think is a licensed doctor to be the Surgeon General. And of course, Donald Trump announced it via a social media post. Donald Trump goes, I am pleased to announce that Dr. Casey Means will be nominated as our next Surgeon General

of the United States of America. Casey has impeccable Maha credentials, Maha credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Well, Andrea Love, PhD, explains, Casey Means is a grifter who dropped out of her ENT residency to start a company selling glucose monitors and health all to non-diabetics.

She doesn't know basic science yet claims she's a metabolism expert. Incomplete ENT residency does not an expert make. But of course, she's now up for Surgeon General. Pat Dennis says, here's a list of things our new Surgeon General Casey Means did to find love at age 35 per her newsletter, shrine, full moon ceremonies. She talked to trees and then she did mushrooms. Even Donald Trump's close advisor, Laura Loomer, says, what are you doing? Aren't Surgeon Generals supposed to be top doctors, not people who appear not to even have their licenses? We'll report more on this today, but that's Donald Trump's Surgeon General for you folks.

Also, Donald Trump tends to announce today, according to the New York Times, that he's going to do some sort of deal with the United Kingdom, but it seems to be one of those fake deals to manipulate the market again because Donald Trump realized that systemically our market, our actual economy right now is breaking. But what he saw with his trade war against the world is that he can move the market and manipulate it, especially for his rich oligarch friends who get inside tips or learn about it through private meetings. And he can do that by tweeting and posting about things. But when you actually look at what this UK supposed deal is going to be, the deal won't even get rid of the 10% tariffs on the UK. It looks like there will be a reduction in tariffs on British cars in exchange for the UK lowering taxes on digital services like Google. So it's not a deal. Is this one of those sub deals

that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is talking about? Is Spencer a Kimmy and says, yeah, every six hours, Donald Trump's going to come back with a new massive trade deal that ends up being absolutely nothing just to pump the markets for a few hours. Here was Donald Trump yesterday during that bizarre press conference that we covered here on the Midas Touch Network, where he was asked, are you willing to pull back your tariffs to get China to the negotiating table? Remember, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says he's going to Switzerland to speak with China's trade representatives. So the reporter asks, are you going to pull back any of these tariffs? Trump sabotages Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's talks with

China before they even begin. Trump says no. Here, play this clip right here. In order to have substantive negotiations, you have to bring down your 145% tariffs. Are you open to pulling back your tariffs in order to get China to the negotiating table? No. A reporter then follows up with Donald Trump and says China said that the U.S. initiated the trade talks this week. What do you say about that? To which Donald Trump said they're wrong. They're lying.

Donald Trump, you pretty much have the track record of lying right here. Let's play that clip. We will, but we haven't made that decision yet. China said the U.S. initiated the trade talks this weekend and that its position hasn't changed. Are you still confident you can reach a deal with China? They said we initiated it? Well, I think they ought to go back and study their files. Okay. I do think that. That's what Donald Trump's saying right there.

What is Xi Jinping saying? Well, Xi Jinping is taking a trip to Russia where he is going to be in Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin. Do you see, by the way, both of them giving Donald Trump the middle finger right here? It is a move showing that they think Donald Trump is utterly weak and pathetic. And trust me, our NATO allies who now see Donald Trump as weak and pathetic know exactly what this meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping is about. And ahead of this meeting, China's Xi Jinping likens U.S. hegemony to fascist forces ahead of this meeting. Xi Jinping has drawn a parallel between the modern-day U.S.

hegemony and the arrogant fascist forces of 80 years ago, ahead of Thursday's Moscow summit with Vladimir Putin and Second World War Victory Day celebrations. The Chinese and Russian president are using the visit to signal the strength of their alliance against the U.S.-led international order. As Donald Trump unleashes tariffs on Beijing and tries to push Moscow towards a peace deal, I don't think that's what Donald Trump's actually doing there. The just forces, this is the quote from Xi, the just forces of the world, including China and the Soviet Union, fought bravely and defeated the arrogant fascist forces side by side, Xi wrote in an article published in Russian and Chinese media before his arrival in Moscow on Wednesday. He added, 80 years later, unilateralism,

hegemony, and bullying are extremely harmful. Humanity is once again at a crossroads. Moscow struck a similar note in the run-up to Thursday's summit, the first between Putin and Xi since Trump took office in January. The just forces of the world, including China and the Soviet Union, fought bravely side by side to defeat the arrogant fascist forces, Xi wrote in the article. And again, analogizing it once again to what's going on right now. I want to share this with you, though, because let me bring you some other just objective data. I want to share with you what's going on in the Seattle ports. So first, I want to show you the guy who's leading the Seattle ports right now, so you can see what he's saying about the ships coming in. Let's play this clip first. Let's play

it. Of America. So it's great to have you here tonight, sir. The tariff so far, I wonder for you directly, what is the impact that you're seeing? How could you sum up how much your job has changed because of the policies coming out of the White House tonight? Thanks for having me, Caitlin. You know, I can see it right over my shoulder here. I'm looking out at the Port of Seattle right now, and we currently have no container ships at birth. And that happens every once in a while in normal times, but it is pretty rare. And so to see it tonight is, I think, a stark reminder that the impacts of the tariffs have real implications. It means that we don't have longshore workers on the dock right now unloading merchandise. We don't have trains

taking that merchandise to inland ports and all the way across the country to places like Des Moines, Iowa and Chicago, Illinois. And that's hundreds of jobs right here in our region and across the country. You have none at your port right now? We currently do not have any container ships at port right now. That's correct. And that's because just nothing is being shipped over? I mean, that's pretty remarkable. It is. It's pretty unusual. We do anticipate, I was looking at our schedule, we anticipate about 25 vessel calls between here and the port of Tacoma over the next seven days.

And keep in mind, we're not just importing from Asia or just China. We do have activity from all over the world, largely the Pacific Rim, but we are seeing a significant drop in container volume through our... And now let me play for you the guy who's leading the ports in Los Angeles, in Long Beach over here, so you can see what he's saying right now. Here, play this clip. Just describe for us, let's take a beat, really frame it for us, how much volume has just dropped off in the last few weeks? Yeah, about a third of the import volume, which means give or take about 50,000 20-foot equivalent units, gone off the arrivals coming in next week.

From next week is when you expect to see this really hit? The announcement's back on April 2nd. Then on April 8th, a little bit of a change on everybody, ex-China, Mexico, Canada. And those arrivals are coming at us this weekend. We'll, of course, dedicate time to your pour, but I'm just wondering how you're anticipating this rolls and ripples through the economy from here, how it hits trucking, when this turns up on the shelf. What's the distance, the time from when you see a drop off in volume and when we as consumers see the shortages? Right. So CEOs are telling me, hit the pause button, right? I'm not going to import any more at these kind of prices. Let's wait and see. I don't know if it's going to be two hours, two days or two weeks until I get some clarity. Then hiring off the table for right now, capital investment, pause. And the retailers are telling me that realistically,

with even the 10 percent, I'm going to have to pass it on to the consumers. So how much is this really coming from all over? It's not just about China. This is about really global trade coming to a standstill until there is a much greater degree of certainty and a much lower tariff rate than even the baseline that's been put out there. Yeah. When I was last with you all, Lisa, I said global trade's gonna slow, economies will follow, and that's exactly what we're seeing. Back in November, so many of us were wringing our hands about 4% inflation.

We've just added 10 percentage points to imports coming out of Southeast Asia for our port and these unbelievable numbers out of China. Now, I bring you that objective data because while Donald Trump's out there lying, while you see Xi Jinping and Putin forming stronger alliances against the United States, so you see what's going on there, while you see a war between Pakistan and India, India attacked Pakistan after a terrorist attack

in Kashmir, and that they're at war with each other right now, a hot war, you see that Donald Trump has no clue what he's doing in all aspects, economic, foreign policy, you name it, Trump has no clue. So let me just show you one other objective data. I want to show you hard data, the ports. And now I'll just show you what the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said yesterday. Here, play this clip. What looks likely, given the scope and scale of the tariffs, is that we will see certainly the risks to higher inflation, higher unemployment have increased. And if that's what we do see, and if the tariffs are ultimately put in place at those levels, which we don't know, then we won't see further progress toward our goals. But we might see a delay in

that. I think in our thinking, we would never do anything but keep achieving those goals. But at least for the next, let's say, year, we would not be making progress toward those goals. Again, if that's the way the tariffs shake out. The thing is, we don't know that. There's so much uncertainty about the scale, scope, timing, and persistence of the tariffs. So I think that paints to you a clear picture of what's happening in the world right now. And we'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. But the message over and over again is weakness, weakness, weakness of Donald Trump. I don't know how you come away with something different. And you think Donald Trump's going to do a deal with China

after what China just said and what Trump's saying about China? The worst deal maker ever. A destroyer, not a builder. You tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.