The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Gets Rude Awakening in AM as National Guard Called on Him

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Trump waking up to the news that California Governor Gavin Newsom has called up the California National Guard for a humanitarian mission to help people receive food and services during Trump’s disastrous shutdown and Meiselas highlights the other bad news Trump received this morning. Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://fatty15.com/MEIDAS and using code MEIDAS at checkout. 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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We'd love to talk, business. Donald Trump just got a rude awakening on Wednesday morning as California Governor Gavin Newsom says he's bringing in the National Guard. Yep, California Governor Gavin Newsom is sending in the National Guard as a result of Donald Trump's disastrous government shutdown. Newsom will deploy the California National Guard and California volunteers on a humanitarian mission, essentially, against Trump to support food banks as the federal government shutdown delays food benefits. for millions of California family. So think about the contrast. Donald Trump sending the National Guard into cities to destroy people's lives

and attack people living in the United States. Governor Newsom sending the National Garden to deliver food and to help people. This morning we also learned that Melania Trump's crypto architect of that Melania coin that absolutely crashed. Surprise, surprise, accused of fraud. fraud surrounds the Trump's. Yep, the architects of the first lady meme coin Melania, they were accused in a recent court filing of organizing the launch of that coin, knowing it would plummet

and trying to basically do a pump and dump of it. Investors were the ones who filed that lawsuit. Another fraud lawsuit swirls around the Trump family. Meanwhile, as Donald Trump destroys the east wing of the White House, literally demolishes it with bulldozers. Many people are calling the awful, gaudy, disgusting golden ballroom that he wants to build on the White House grounds. They're calling it the Epstein Ballroom, and you should call it the Epstein Ballroom as well. As the government is shut down, Donald Trump's also trying to funnel $230 million. from the federal government, from the Department of Justice, into his own pockets.

He claims, oh, I'm going to give it to charity. Sure, you are, Donald. We know how your charities work, or I should say don't work, because a lot of them aren't allowed to operate anymore because of, yeah, that F word, fraud. But yes, Donald Trump wants to have the federal government that he controls issue a settlement with himself because Trump says the 2020 election was rigged. and says that as a result of all of the investigations into him, that he experienced all of this pain and suffering.

So he wants $230 million in a settlement from his own DOJ. How pathetic. Yep, as the Epstein ballroom goes up, Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are psychologically tortured by the policies of the Trump regime. They can't afford rent. If they're lucky enough to have a home, can't afford their mortgage. People are having their health care ripped away. 20 million Americans

losing their health care as a result of the Trump regime and Donald Trump literally bulldozing the east wing of the White House. Page one in Miami. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the approval process in D.C. in an echo of the strategies that he deployed in Palm Beach and New York. It's why I always talk about Donald Trump's despicable dark past as a felon, as a criminal, as a sexual abuser, as a bankruptor, because he's using those same things, yet again, now destroying the United States of America. So when Trump would go and do projects in Miami or Florida or elsewhere, he wouldn't abide by the approval process. He would just destroy things, then sue everybody and try to bully everybody into, submission. And when people would stand up to him, he'd go bankrupt. But lots of times people just don't stand up to the fact that he's an utter maniac. You have to stand up and assert yourself

to maniacs like that because he's actually a weak and pathetic human being and he surrounds himself with weaker, more pathetic human beings, but you got to stand up. And it's not easy because the guy's a freaking maniac, a relentless maniac, but you got to stand up. You can't capitulate. You can show weakness. You have to lead with strength. It's the only way to do that. He sues you. You sue him back. You set his deposition. You put him right across and you show him real freaking strength. Frankly, the way Governor Newsom is doing. There was a disastrous press conference earlier this morning with Maga Mike Johnson. He didn't know about anything, apparently. He didn't know that Trump was asking the American taxpayers to pay for his pain and suffering in legal cases. He didn't know

that Donald Trump wants to now open the American up to Argentina. beef, which lots of it has foot and mouth disease and would be very harmful to our ranchers here in the United States. Still doesn't know about the guy who threatened to kill credibly, threatened to kill Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who was pardoned by Donald Trump. He was involved in the January 6th insurrection, and now he threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries. Like so many of these despicable terroristic insurrectionists that Donald Trump pardoned, they get out and they commit more criminal offenses. But Maga Mike doesn't know anything about that. Maga Mike just wanted to brag this morning about everything that's been accomplished with health care.

He goes, the MAGA Republicans have been the ones that save health care. He goes, remember the bill that we did, the big beautiful bill? We gave you Medicaid. We gave you health care. Maga Mike, no one believes this. We know the disastrous budget bill cuts trillions from health care. We know it shuts down rural hospitals and then mag and michael be like but we gave the rural hospitals 50 billion dollars after you took away 200 billion dollars okay if you steal one thousand dollars for me and return 200 you've still stolen 800 for me maga mike people aren't stupid i know you're used to the magumush brain followers you know who every time Donald trump sends an email i'm giving you my VIP club access you've now joined my cabinet okay donald i'm in your cabinet but most americans

Americans ain't like that Maga Mike. We're freaking pissed, man. Here's what Maga Mike said earlier this morning, play this clip. We put a few on the handy chart over here. But just think of what's been accomplished in the last nine and a half months. A couple of things listed here. We passed the historic working families tax cut, one of the most landmark pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress for the benefit of the American people. We slashed taxes for hardworking Americans geared for the lower and middle class earners who needed that assistance. We cut hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse from government. We solve the border crisis. We are working now to solve the crime crisis in major cities around America. We strengthened Medicaid.

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bring in Lisa McLean, MAGA Republican Congresswoman, and she's like, we are the party that's actually meeting with Americans. While Democrats are out there marching in radical mobs, we're meeting. No, you're not. You are the people who are running away from your own town halls. You're refusing to do town halls because you're scared about your own. constituents. Here, play this clip. Right? While Democrats were marching with their radical mobs, Republicans were actually meeting with Americans, listening, helping, and working. Let me give you a few examples. Congressman Siskamani visited a food bank helping families with food insecurity. Congressman Rick Allen stood with veterans left in limbo by the Democrats' political

games. And Congresswoman Nicole Malia Takas thanked U.S. Park police officers while they worked without pay. That's the contrast. Because as a Republican Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina says, I really don't like the optics of Donald Trump reaching settlements with himself from the DOJ and paying themselves $230 million. It's terrible optics. It is. But it's also a terrible thing. Not everything for the, you know, is optics. Like, I get optics, but it's a thing also. It's unlawful. Trump destroying the White House. It's unlawful. Yes, it's bad optics. It's unlawful. Ripping away health care from 20 million Americans, I know y'all think about that as just optics because you all have golden health care plans, like the top of the line. But yes,

it's more than just optics because people are dying. When RFK Jr. engages in these horrific dismantling of vaccine panels. Yes, it's bad optics, but it also means that children are more susceptible to getting measles, mumps, rubella, and dying. So let's put this in context of what this is. I know with Trump and MAGA optics, optics, oh, golden ball, no, this is about life and death. This is about peace and war. And we need normalcy and competent grownups.

Not this crap right here as MAGAMI. Mike says, I don't really know about that $230 million settlement. Here, play this clip. Yes, ma'am. Second row, right? How comfortable are you with the president, apparently seeking $230 million from the Department of Justice? I don't know the details about that.

I've just read it. I didn't talk with him about that. I know that he believes he's owed that reimbursement. What I heard yesterday was, if he receives it, he was going to consider giving it to charity. I mean, he doesn't need those proceeds, but we're for the rule of law. We're for what is Justin Wright.

And it's just absurd that, I mean, as has been noted here several times this morning, they attack him for everything he does. It doesn't matter what it is. Also, you should all know that these posters are going up across D.C. right now. Big photos of Stephen Miller that say creep. They're being posted all throughout D.C. It's accurate. Oh, there she is Lindsay Halligan. Look at Lindsay Halligan.

Everybody wave hello to her. She's the former insurance lawyer, never been a federal prosecutor in her life. somehow became, well, we know how she became Donald Trump's personal lawyer. He met her, former beauty pageant contestant and insurance lawyer. That was enough to make her Donald Trump's lawyer. Now she's the top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia on a rocket docket as James Comey's lawyers are making circles around her. She's now opened Donald Trump up to discovery with his potential direct messages that he's

sending on his truth social accounts. And so great work, Lindsay Halligan. Also, you didn't seem to be appointed. legally and so the whole case may fall apart because you were the only person in the grand jury room when you weren't actually appointed as a federal prosecutor. That's never happened in history before. But Lindsay Halligan, you'll create the Halligan precedent. Great work, Lindsay Halligan. We'll keep everybody posted on that. I'm going to do a video with Harry Litman in there. And finally, I just want to keep reporting accurately what's happening as the ceasefire that's taken

place or was supposed to take place, which I always said was a fraudulent ceasefire, not a peace deal that the media wanted all claim between Israel and Hamas, which neither Israel or Hamas sign, it's fallen apart, it's fallen apart, it's never existed in the first place, pick which one you think it is. Israel has killed 97 Palestinians and wounded 230 others, committing 80 ceasefire violation since October 10th, according to the Gaza Media Office. The Guardian reports numbers that are slightly less than that, but still over 40 ceasefire violations or so and dozens of Palestinians dead, Israel not sending all the humanitarian aid through Rafa like it was supposed to. Hamas asserting control over Gaza, reasserting its control, saying it's not

going to disarm. Netanyahu doesn't support a two-state solution. So the whole point of these discussions is, can you have a free Palestine and a free Israel living side by side? That's what's been difficult to it for people in the past to resolve, right? I mean, it shouldn't be difficult to resolve, but there's obviously a significant history there. But that wasn't addressed in the ceasefire. So if you don't address in the ceasefire, what are you talking about in the ceasefire? What are you talking about in the deal? It isn't. It's a fake deal. The same way Donald Trump lies with fake deals with $20 trillion and fake deals about I brought in $600 billion from the European Union. fake fake fake but that's the trump regime go back to his past a con artist and a bankruptor

before he went into politics a loser who bankrupted business after business after business scam people enriched himself destroyed lives that's who he is and that's why we expose that every day here on the midas touch network thanks for watching hit subscribe let's get to six million thank you everybody want to stay plugged in become a subscriber to our substack at midasplus.com you'll get daily Recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add three episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at Midasplus.com.