The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Gets Terrible News in AM and Freaks Out in Public

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous Tuesday morning as he gets hit with bad news from all directions. SOUL: For 30% off your order, head to https://GetSoul.com and use code MEIDAS. 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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Tuesday, and we've also learned that one of Donald Trump's top advisors was actually born in the Soviet Union and has been keeping that a secret. More on that in just a moment. Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic on his social media platform. He's talking about those letters that he sent to countries that he couldn't do deals with in his failed trade war. Here's what he writes, as per letter sent to various countries yesterday, in addition to letters that will be sent today, tomorrow, and for the next short period of time. Then he puts this all in caps.

Tariffs will start being paid on August 1st, 2025. There has been no change to the state and there will be no change. In other words, all money will be due and payable starting August 1, 2025. No extensions will be granted. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Again, a tariff is a tax on the American company. The foreign countries are not paying the tariff. The importer is paying the tariff. This is a tax on American companies. So then Donald Trump held a disastrous cabinet briefing. In about 90 minutes, I'll do a longer video because this thing was off the rails. But Donald Trump said that everybody did a great job in Texas.

He said, congratulations on a job well done. And then he takes credit for saving so many lives. And he says, this is the way it's supposed to happen. This was great. We crushed it. We did amazing. This is what he says at the cabinet meeting this morning. Play this clip.

Response has been incredible. And the fact that we got along so well, I don't know, it's not, I don't even think that's a political thing, but we got along so well and it was so unified. I think a lot of lives have been saying that could have been as bad as it was. And you could have lost double or triple. This thing was just really horrible. Well, congratulations on a great job and appreciate it. I know you're going down. I'll be going down on Friday with you. Now I'd like to show you what former National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration head Richard Spinrad had to say. And we've shown you videos of him before about two months ago where he

was warning about what would happen with the cuts to NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, and the NWS, the National Weather Service, which is under NOAA. This is from this morning, where Richard Spinrad says that he is convinced, he uses that language, that the staff cuts were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond. Here play this clip. I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability

of the emergency managers to respond. The staffing was just fine and the White House has concurred with this to get the forecast out, to get the watches and warnings issued. But when you send a message, there's no guarantee it's being received. So someone needs to follow up and that's the warning board nation meteorologist, a position that was vacant. Now, as he mentions in that clip, the vacancies were there in Texas. There were key vacancies within the National Weather Service and specifically the position of the meteorologist coordinator and the emergency coordinator was missing at the National Weather Service.

So, there's more than just pushing a button and then an alert goes out because you get alerts all the time, right? That doesn't necessarily mean that when you see an alert you immediately respond to it. It would be great if everybody did. But the whole reason why you have the federal government create these positions is precisely for this reason that people could be sleeping or not paying attention or they could be inundated with so many alerts that one alert on their cell phone doesn't trigger the emergency as it should. So the feds were supposed to be in there immediately and the feds were supposed to be leading or

at least running a joint task force or co-leading with the state. Now I'll show you again more of this in another video I'm going to do. But this is Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, which controls FEMA. And here Kristi Noem says that the federal government does not manage disasters. The state does. This is not true, which she's saying is incorrect. Sure, the state has a role at a local level in doing a lot of work

and the state has local functions, but the feds are supposed to go in there and take the lead and help run the show. Here, play this clip. We as a federal government don't manage these disasters. The state does. So as you go from Kristi Noem, then you take a look at some of Trump's other cabinet members, you have people like Brooke Rollins, Donald Trump's secretary of agriculture this morning. And this is the new talking point from the Trump regime and Brooke Rollins. I think Aaron Melnick says it the best. So the Trump administration's new talking point on the budget bill is that we're going to deport all of the farm

Laborers and we're going to make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance Now you may be saying Ben what in the world are you talking about? Well, the Secretary of Agriculture from the Department of Agriculture Brooke Rollins She gave a press conference this morning where she said they're going to go after the migrants, not criminals, the migrants who did not commit crimes who are working on the fields. But she goes, we'll be able to replace them because there are 34 million able bodied adults in our Medicaid system. Here, play this clip. Single day. The second thing to your question about mass deportations, the president and adults in our Medicaid system. Here play this clip. be strategic in how we are implementing the mass deportation so as not to compromise our food supply. Ultimately the answer on this is automation, also some reform within the current governing

structure. And then also when you think about there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America but we just have to make sure we're not compromising today, especially in the context of everything we're thinking about right now So no amnesty under any circumstances Mass deportations continue but in a strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward more automation and toward a 100% American workforce as Jordan Weissman says lol So we've gone from the USAID program analysts will make shoes to people will pick strawberries in order to keep their health care.

You then had MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan. And Jim Jordan goes on Fox and he says, you know how we know this budget bill is great? The left hates it and if they hate it must be amazing Owning the libs by taking the health care away from your own constituent great job Jim Jordan Play this clip if there's an able-bodied adult out there now who is in our welfare system Guess what that person is going to have to work that is fair to taxpayers. That's good for our economy Maybe most importantly that's's good for our economy, maybe most importantly,

that's actually good for that recipient, for that individual, gets them on a better path to attaining work and skills and everything else to get to a better position in life. That is far from immoral, but I always say, David, we know this is a good bill because the left hates it. And the left hates it because it does not empower government.

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That's get soul.com promo code Midas, M-E-I-D-A-S for 30% off. And here you have a Fox host with a MAGA Republican Congress member, Greg Stube. And the Fox host and Stube cannot be more cruel. They're like most people, lots of people work 80 hours a week and then stoops like I would cut even more from the government But we have some more moderate members who don't let us cut I would have cut everything from the government here play this clip But in within Medicaid and I think this is where the messaging has been interesting It's 80 hours a month that you have to show that you worked. 80 hours a month. A lot of people, congressmen, work 80 hours a week. Things like that that were in those Medicaid decisions,

those cuts, at the same time, you've got reconciliation coming, you've got rescissions coming. So aren't there more places that we can cut? And where would you be willing to make cuts in spending so that we don't completely blow out the debt in this country, which is already sitting at 37 trillion? Yeah, I support massive cuts to a whole entirety of government programs that we have. But unfortunately, we have, well, not unfortunately, but we have moderates in our party that obviously can't

support the type of cuts that somebody like me would support. Like folks, we need a functioning government. What is wrong with these people? That's why I call this a death cult. Then you had Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, right? It was each cabinet member be clowning themselves worse than the next. No offense to clowns. These are fascist clowns.

Sean Duffy then says, you know what? He goes, you know, all of these stupid liberal, stupid policies in New York are so stupid. That's how they talk now. That's how they communicate. Here, play this clip. They're taking roads for buses and for cars, and they're making them bike lanes. So, you take away lanes, you get more congestion. And then they complain about congestion. It's just stupid liberals with stupid policies that impact the lives of New Yorkers. And again, if MTA or the governor don't care, DOT, President Trump and I care about their safety

as they ride the subways. Now, as I mentioned, one of the things that has been uncovered this morning, OCCRP, hat tip to them, Organization for Crime and Corruption posted this. So, Donald Trump's top advisor, Sergio Gore, who has refused to submit to the most basic background check on himself, and he's the guy in charge of hiring the top people in the executive office. That's his role. The director of personnel. He was secretly born in the Soviet Union and he was concealing that according to this article. The birthplace of US President Donald Trump's

director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation. Then it goes, when he was named the director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel under U.S. President Donald Trump. A media report called Sergio Gore may be the most powerful person you've never heard of. Gore's public profile has increased more recently as he continued to work on overseeing appointments of thousands of officials for the Trump Administration. Media coverage has since filled in much of his biography with one glaring exception, his birthplace.

Now the Times of Malta and OCCRP have obtained a notarized Maltese property record that shows Gore's origin. He was actually born Sergio Gorchovsky on November 30, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time. Gore's lawyer Robert Garson confirmed by email that his client was born in Tashkent. Gore had previously declined to say where he was born. There you have it right there, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network.

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