The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Gets Stunned as Army Seems to Defy Him

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on veterans who have said the Army members who participated in the parade intentionally did not stand in formation because they didn’t want to be used as props for Trump’s dictator birthday parade. Go to https://Graza.co and use code: MEIDAS to get 10% off your Graza Starter Kit and get to cookin’ your next chef quality meal! 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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That's a theme, though. I've been hearing a lot from a lot of our veteran supporters at the Midas Touch Network who were saying, Ben, if our soldiers wanted to show up and march in formation and meet the pomp and circumstance of a situation, they would be able to do so. So one of the things that I've been hearing is basically this could have been a subtle form of protest within the military against the Trump regime for using them as props

for Donald Trump's dictator birthday parade co-opting the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. I mean, and you even saw people in the army, like they were holding like drones over their head. The whole thing almost looked like it was mocking Trump. And by the way, it looked like Melania was mocking Trump while Donald Trump was inconsolable. I've never seen Melania look happier to see somebody suffering when Donald Trump was there right next to her. So you have all of Donald Trump's sycophants in his regime trying to pretend that hundreds of thousands of people showed up when it was like less than 10,000 people who attended.

So you have the Department of Defense, rapid response, they write. We were honored to host hundreds of thousands of proud Americans at the Army's 250th anniversary. America is the greatest country on earth and they post either this photoshopped image, that's not what it looked like yesterday. Go back and watch all of the videos I did. I did it from every single angle. There was not 250,000 people there. There were not hundreds of thousands of people who showed up.

Donald Trump's communication director, Stephen Chung, posed amazing. Despite the threat of rain, over 250,000 patriots showed up to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army. God bless the USA. Once again, there was probably at most around 10,000 people who showed up. But let's dissect this, shall we? David Earl Williams III, a United States Navy veteran who served from 2002 to 2006, writes the following,

as a US Navy veteran, I can confidently say the troops in Trump's flop of a military birthday parade weren't even marching. They were casually strolling. The lead soldier couldn't even muster a proper salute. Then there's the lone soldier awkwardly holding a DJI drone above his head. It's equal parts hilarious and pathetic. You can bet soldiers around the world will be reenacting and mocking this mess during their next formation. Meanwhile, the No Kings protest drew an estimated 5 to 12.5 million attendees, absolutely dwarfing Trump's bargain pin parade.

Barring any major health event in the next three years, one thing's for certain, Trump won't be doing this event again. And here's the video that he dropped of it here. Play this clip. Next up, this veteran writes the following. Jake writes, when military men and women in uniform march, they march with tight timing and in lockstep as sign of pride. These soldiers couldn't be further from marching in lockstep.

It's clear that they don't want to be part of Trump's dictator parade and are just phoning it in. Here, play this clip. Again, today's a celebration of army. As you noted, the other branches are much younger. I'm sure that's a source of competition at times, but this is a chance to celebrate soldiers. This account Terry writes, someone in the highest position within the

chain of command of the Department of Defense need to resign or be fired. This parade put our soldiers in a bad light. Not dressed right, no dress, no lockstep marching, with the cadence and collar. Looks like the first week of basic training. This one I saw go viral by Irvy. She writes, former army here. It takes about a week of drill and basic to learn how to march. Once you do, it's ingrained in you for life. You know how to self-correct if you fall out of step. And if there isn't a commanding officer leading the march, there's a designated point person within the ranks to call out a left, right, left if they notice disorder in the cadence.

So this cluster F of a parade leaves me with only one conclusion. This was a silent protest, a Foxtrot Delta Tango, if you will. Speaking of that, Shannon Watts points out the following. For the kids, the song they were playing during this dictator parade is called Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival, which is a protest song that critiques the social injustices and class disparities of the Vietnam War draft system that Donald Trump exploited to claim he had bone spurs to get five deferments to not Be drafted into the Vietnam War here play this clip There's a lot of things that you can do But you can't remember what I see It's the reason that you start to laugh

You can't remember what I said, so I don't know what you're talking about You can't remember what you're talking about And the irony cannot be lost that as they're playing Fortunate Son, you have Donald Trump saluting the army soldiers dressed in the Vietnam fatigues that Donald Trump dodged the draft and said that his personal Vietnam was his claim. Proportedly, he says that he avoided STDs during the 1980s, which he says made him more courageous even than those who fought and died in Vietnam Here let's just play that clip right there again dating right and when you got him say to a woman Hey listen, you got to go to my personal doctor and I'm gonna have you checked out Is that a tough thing to say to a woman or you just got the balls to say it?

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Okay, were any of my fellow veterans out there caught off guard by just how shitty Trump's military parade looked? I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I was genuinely shocked. Now don't get me wrong, the United States Army has plenty of problems, but finding the pageantry and stagecraft necessary to pull off a tight public performance, not generally one of them. They pretty much nail that one every time. The presentation of the equipment was lackluster and

uninspiring the uniforms didn't look all that sharp the March the marching was a horror story like they're just walking nobody's in step I couldn't believe it all is witnessing I don't know the entire thing just seemed tacky cheap and unprofessional to me which is really funny when you consider the fact that they went out of their way to tell you that this was sponsored by random crypto scams. Special thanks to our sponsor, Coinbase. It's like a bad dream. To end on a good note, whenever I saw one of the army marching bands, they look pretty

tight. They seem squared away. And to end on an even better note, I love that the thing was sparsely attended. It couldn't happen to a better guy. This next one comes from the medic rigs TikTok account. And they write, apparently practicing drill and ceremony was not of importance. Play this clip.

Bro, that's feel like a hot damn mess. Lip, lip. All right, so bootcamp story. Whenever we had marching drill days for like drill competitions and boot camp, it was dumb as shit ever. The 900 divisions always won because there's just a bunch of band camp nerds, which I was one of those I was not in 900 division. But anyways, I digress. All of the kids who could not march who had had no rhythm at all, the RDCs just went around and was like, hey, you, your ankle hurts today, right?

You need to go to sick call? The kids would be like, no. What? And the RDCs are like, no, your ankle. It looks like it's swollen up. You need to go to sick call. And they just ship them off to sick call so that they would have an advantage and get rid of all the kids who couldn't march.

Emily Ruins says this is so embarrassing playing this clip. Here's what Governor Newsom had to post. Let's play this clip. ["Sekular Talks"] Shout out to my buddy over at Sekular Talks and Paulie Ticks for posting this AI video that made me laugh and warning. This is AI, this isn't real, okay? This isn't real, it's AI. Although it probably is a reenactment

of what actually went down last night and into today. Play this clip, shout out Polytix, play it. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shout out Paulie. Let's play it So tell me what you think folks and hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.