The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Goes Silent as All Hell Unleashed

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump going silent as he unleashed chaos and suffering and Americans are pissed at him. 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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parade after the no-kings protests. But I guess most acutely and significantly right now with potentially war about to break out involving the United States in the Middle East, Donald Trump has gone silent. Donald Trump called what's called a lid last night. The White House called a travel photo lid, which means that Trump is not expected to appear on camera or address the media in any way about what the hell is happening in the Middle East. Is America involved in a war right now involving Iran? Are we committing our troops to another war in the Middle East? Is America involved in a war right now involving Iran? Are we committing

our troops to another war in the Middle East? What are the ramifications of that? Why did Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, say less than 90 days ago under oath before Congress that Iran did not have nuclear capabilities and was not pursuing nuclear weapons, and all of a sudden that changed? What is the latest intelligence we have? What the hell is happening? And you know who also is not holding a press conference, who's never held a press conference to date?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to address what in the world is going on right now. We know that Donald Trump just reamed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after the disastrous dictator parade. But look, Donald Trump is posting this while they have a lid at the White House, while the world is looking to see will the United States be committing troops to another war now in the Middle East. Here's what Donald Trump just posted. It is my great honor to announce that I will be putting up two beautiful flagpoles on both sides of the White House, North and South Lawns.

It is a gift. Gift is in caps for some reason from me of something which was always missing from the magnificent place. The digging and placement of the poles will begin at 730 a.m. Flag will be raised at 11 a.m. These are the most magnificent poles made. They are all tapered, rust-proof, rope inside the pole and of the highest quality. Hopefully, they will proudly stand at both sides of the White House for many years to come. You know, of all of the issues confronting our country right now, as war continues in Ukraine after Russia's unlawful invasion and Trump was not able to negotiate peace in 24 hours, as he promised with prices going up with the disastrous

budget bill working its way through the Senate where they want to make additional cuts to Medicaid in the Senate. We now hear from bipartisan, nonpartisan groups that the new version of the disastrous budget bill will cause a $20 trillion increase in our debt. Inflation is only increasing. Mortgage rates are above 7%. As all of that is going on, Donald Trump believes the biggest issue is flag polls. We need two flag polls in the North and South lawn of the White House.

That is Donald Trump's gift, everybody. Oh, thank you, Donald. I was wondering, we need big giant flagpoles. That's what we were looking for. Donald Trump then posts the following. $5 for MAGA, official memo from Trump. Ben, I know I send you a lot of emails, and I hate to take up even a moment of your valuable time,

but this can't wait even a second longer. I just got sued by Gavin Newscombe. So here are three reasons to give $5 to show your support for me today. One, I'm putting together a list of every supporter in your state who shows their support for me right now. Two, I've set a goal for rallying 1 million patriots

to my cause. None more important than you. Wow. Three, everyone who donates right now is entered to win the only set of Trump gold golf balls available in the world. That's Donald Trump right now. Five dollars for MAGA? Five dollars for MAGA, please.

Can I have five dollars for MAGA? I'll give you a big beautiful gold golf ball. This is what he's doing right now? Absolute, absolute maniac. You see it right there. Oh, he did call into Jesse Waters last night. This just in. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, Jesse Waters fantasizing about a massive penetrator? Jesse Water says, Justin, Trump says the Ayatollah can run, but he can't hide.

So Donald Trump's just using like movie cliches right now. You could run, but you can't hide. Stay tuned! Will we be sending our troops to war? Stay tuned. And how about the fact that our constitutional safeguards and the War Powers Act actually requires that Congress declare war? Here's what Jesse Waters says, Israel is begging the US to drop the massive penetrator on Iran's

nuclear sites. Donald Trump has been making all of these posts saying, we've done this to Iran. We, we, we were saying that the United States is essentially at war. That's what Donald Trump's saying. Now, again, let me be very clear and state my position. I think that Iran should absolutely never have nuclear weapons. I think the Ayatollah is a cancer on what can otherwise be a great country if it was kind of restored and changed to what it looked like before the Ayatollah.

And in fact, went more in a pro-democracy direction. I think there's a lot of potential. I think the people are hungry for it. I also as an American, I remember growing up and seeing all the same stuff they were saying about WMDs in Iraq. So what happens when you do regime change in Iran? Let's just say you get rid of the Ayatollah.

You're going to declare mission accomplished, remove the Ayatollah, and then what? Then we're going to have a civil war in Iran between factions aligned with the Shah's family in the United States and those aligned with the far with the Groups that are far more extreme than even the ayatollah I mean you realize you could turn that region into a massive civil war then what then are we going to commit American troops? Israel Israeli troops are going to be on the ground You think that Iran wants to have Benjamin Netanyahu's pick to be the leader of Iran I guarantee you that they don't Well, all of this was going on the Secretary of Homeland Security

Kristi Noem dog-killer Cosplayer she purported she was rushed to the hospital. She went unconscious. There was a very serious emergency unconscious, there was a very serious emergency, they claim that she had an allergic reaction to something, and she's alert and recovering after passing out and going unconscious. MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee wrote, prayers for Secretary Noem. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, prayers for an allergic reaction, but mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren't in your tribe with no apology or remorse. Fake Christian small man. Of course, MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee was mocking the murders that took place in Minnesota by the assassin and he was mocking the situation and like laughing about it like the pathetic coward little person

that he is. Folks, just looking at the data right now as well, homebuilder sentiment has cratered this year to the third lowest level since 2012. Remember when Peter Navarro said 90 deals in 90 days were at day 67 and were at zero deals? You may say, Ben, what about the UK? Wasn't that a trade deal? Okay. The papers that I saw fall on the ground when Donald Trump was with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Trump claimed he did a deal with the European Union. First off, didn't have anything written on it. At least I couldn't see anything written on it. A trade deal is not three pages long. There are hundreds of pages, if not thousands of pages, and it just related to automobiles

and aerospace or aeronautics. And the whole thing it did was give the United Kingdom preferential treatment for Rolls Royce, Jaguar, and Land Rover over American car manufacturers because they would get a preferential tariff rate. So that's not that that is not a deal to be celebrated. Oh, and China was not a deal where we just caved where Trump taco'd and he made 145% tariffs, 35% tariffs or 55% tariffs. Remember when Donald Trump said this back, what was it, 15 years ago at this point or 12 years ago when he said, Obama will start a war with Iran because he's stupid, play

this clip. Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. Then fast forwarding, this is what Kristi Noem, our director of national intelligence, for better or worse, and I would say for much worse, she's the director of national intelligence. She's Trump's pick. She went before Congress less than 90 days ago, and here she is. She says that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon, that they did not have the capabilities, and that was the best assessment of our IC, our intelligence community, playing this clip.

The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. It may also be a significant issue though to the director of national intelligence that the White House personnel director, Sergio Gore, skipped the background check for himself. As colleagues question, who the hell is this guy? Where's he from? He claims to be from Malta. There's no record of him being from Malta.

He's responsible for vetting 4,000 administration appointees. He didn't submit the most basic form, the SF86 form, which begins the security clearance process. And he's been saying, oh, the deep state says that I, I can't submit it. The deep state's gonna come after me. The deep state's gonna come after me.

Hat tip to New York Post for breaking that story. As our editor in chief Ron Filipkowski writes, can someone please ask Caroline Levitt, the chief propagandist for the White House, why the White House director of personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete the most basic paperwork for a background check. Can you also go ask if Sergio Gore is the name on his birth certificate?

I don't know. Seems a bit important. Also seems important when we look at this photo from the G7's second day working session on Tuesday. Of course, the first day had the immediate countries in the G7 like the US and Canada and France and the United Kingdom, that UK, Australia, Italy, Germany. Today was the working session with other countries like India was there and who else did you have there?

Australia was there and you had the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, President Zelensky. Look at this photo. Donald Trump not there and you had his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the back left when you take a look. Governor Tim Walz posted the following, I signed the final bill Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in this country, in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That's how democracy should

function. Donald Trump was asked yesterday, he reached out to Governor Walls to say anything about the assassinations that were taking place in Minnesota. Governor Walls was on the list as a target of the assassination, as was about 70 other Democratic lawmakers and pro-democracy politicians and leaders in the state. Donald Trump then attacked Governor Walls. play this clip. Have you called the governor yet or been able to speak to any of them? I don't really call him.

He appointed this guy to a position. I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him. He's a mess. So, you know, I could be nice to call him, but why waste time? You know, and I think that's significant because, you know, especially as we also head into hurricane

season, we've seen Donald Trump refuse to acknowledge the death of our soldiers overseas. Remember, four of our soldiers died in Lithuania. Lithuania did an incredible heartfelt solemn ceremony. Donald Trump didn't even acknowledge their deaths. Two of our soldiers died on the border when Donald Trump sent our soldiers as part of his operations on the border. Donald Trump didn't acknowledge that. Dozens of Americans have died and perished over the past few months in horrific storms

in Kentucky and Indiana, in Missouri, in Mississippi, in Arkansas, and across the country. Donald Trump has not even acknowledged these storms, and he was late to send FEMA or didn't send FEMA at all in some cases. I mean, you have in Donald Trump, oh, a lady died the other day as a result of Donald Trump's dictator parade. A truck carrying a tank rolled over and killed a woman in Washington, DC. Trump doesn't acknowledge any of that. Someone died from Donald Trump's dictator parade. No acknowledgement.

Just what you heard him say about Governor Wallace on that clip, right? We showed you that clip. And so, horrific, horrific stuff right there. Let me say these names right now. Senator Alex Padilla, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, Mayor Roz Baraka, Judge Hannah Dugan, Controller Brad Lander, Democratic politicians who were attacked, assaulted by ICE, prosecuted by the Trump DOJ. It's not normal. It's not okay. A Santiago mayor says, we cannot let them convince us that this is normal or okay. We'll keep calling it out here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit

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