The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Handed Crushing Defeat in AM…It’s Happening

Episode Date: May 3, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous morning as he got another massive international rebuke in Australia and his approval continues to plummet in America. For 20% off your entire order, head to https://LaundrySauce.com/MEIDAS20 and use code MEIDAS20. #laundrysaucepod Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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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And not only that, the Timu Trump candidate who leads the Liberal Party, again, Liberal in Australia means the Conservative Party, I just want to make that clear, a guy by the name of Peter Dutton, lost his seat in Dixon, the same way Pierre Poliev, T. Moo Trump in Canada, lost his riding in the elections in Canada, where the Liberal Party in Canada, which is actually the Liberal Party, went on to form a minority government. Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader, went on to win there. Similar results we're seeing right in Canada and Australia, where if you look back just a few months ago, the right wing MAGA styled parties that use the language like woke this, woke that, enemy of the people, the news, all the Trump stuff, those parties were leading. And then in a stark reversal, the left parties,

the pro-democracy parties went on to win. It's now officially being reported. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been reelected as his Labor Party surge to victory, projected to form a majority government in Australia. in a historic first opposition leader, Timu Trump, Peter Dutton, often likened to Trump. Hence, Timu Trump lost his own seat in Dixon. Let's check in right now with the victory speech from Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. And in this speech, he makes a powerful call to action for Australians to also feel proud about being

Australia and to look to itself for strength and not to imitate, not to copy, not to try to ever be like the MAGA virus that has infected parts of the United States. Here, play this clip. My fellow Australians, serving as your Prime Minister is the greatest honour of my life. And it is with a deep sense of humility and a profound sense of responsibility that the first thing that I do tonight is to say thank you to the people of Australia for the chance to continue to serve the best nation on earth. Today the Australian people have voted for Australian values, for fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all. For the strength to show courage in adversity and kindness to those in need. In this time of global uncertainty Australians have chosen optimism and

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smell good, look good, feel good with laundry sauce. Yeah. It's just stunning again, right? Cause if you take a look at the polling in Canada, where the conservative party was leading in Canada a few months back, and then all of a sudden the Liberal Party in Canada, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, shot up. Same thing we're seeing in Australia. And this is described simply as the Trump effect. Australia, Canada, we're going to see elections elsewhere soon as well. They're seeing what went down in the United States. They're seeing Trump and Musk and the wrecking ball as they've destroyed what used to be the world's strongest economy.

And these other countries are saying, not now, not ever. We need to protect our democracies here. We're rejecting the Timu Trump, the Timu Maga-styled candidates and politicians here. Bye-bye, Pierre Poliev. Bye-bye, Peter Dutton. Although a footnote to that, and this is what a loser Pierre Poliev is, he basically forced out another conservative member from the conservative members' riding in Alberta, which is nowhere near where Pierre Poliev's riding is when Pierre Poliev lost his election. So Poliev basically

stole the seat of another conservative member because Poliev still wants to be in parliament and the other member forfeited it to him. I mean, really embarrassing stuff, but that's a MAGA mentality. They just can't accept a loss right there. All right, bringing things back to domestic affairs here in the United States. This morning as well, we're hearing more about a dire situation on the ports. How long have I been talking about the ports here on the Midas Touch Network? We've been talking about freight volumes, right? We've been talking about trucking volumes here. track how this tariff war, trade war, disastrous liberation day, which is really depression day, recession day, liquidation day, whatever you want to call it, how it has harmed trade into the

United States. Remember, we've been following the ports of Seattle, the ports of Long Beach in Los Angeles. We've been following the ports in Boston. I want you to hear this morning from the head of the port of Los Angeles, what he is seeing. 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. That's correct. And that matches up. 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 poor, 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 anymore 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 till 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%, 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 is going to 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 percent inflation. We've just added 10 percentage points of imports coming out of Southeast Asia for our port and these unbelievable numbers out of China. Now, that's just facts. I want to bring you the facts here. And that is very dangerous. I mean, I've been describing it like this. Remember with COVID, Donald Trump said, like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Don't worry. There's seven cases, but the cases are going to disappear. It's never going to hit our shores. And then the lie started. Inject bleach. Then they blame Dr. Fauci. He's

doing that again with this disastrous trade war thing that he's doing right here over and over again. I say, when is there going to be that Tom Hanks moment? Remember, Tom Hanks got COVID and everyone was like, oh crap, I guess this thing is real. There's going to be that Tom Hanks moment? Remember, Tom Hanks got COVID and everyone was like, oh, crap, I guess this thing is real. There's going to be a moment. Is that five days? Is it 10 days? When things aren't on the shelf and then Americans are like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm like, yeah, we've been warning you here on the Midas Touch Network.

Talking about other domestic affairs, dog killer, Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem was making her rounds on state regime media known as Fox this morning. She was saying that Abrego Garcia's wife is lying that she wants her husband back from the concentration camp in El Salvador. This is how sick these MAGA vile pieces of trash are. I mean, how else can I describe it? Kristi Noem is saying that Abrego Garcia's wife prefers her husband to be in a concentration camp in El Salvador. He has no criminal history. He's got three kids, three American kids. She's an American woman living in Maryland. Abrego Garcia worked for a union. He had a work permit given to him by the Trump administration in 2019. And here, Kristi Noem says that,

well, she goes, I think Abrego Garcia's wife is an abuse victim, and I know victims. And as a victim, she says she wants her husband back, but she doesn't want her husband back. She's better off with him in the concentration camp. You think she didn't say that? Here's what you're like. I'm sure Kristi Noem says that. I mean, these are vile people. Here's what Kristi Noem said.

Let's play the clip. Yeah, absolutely. And that's what I'm concerned about. What she's saying today is she's still scared. So many people and victims I've worked with over the years, you know, they say one thing in public because they have to, to survive or to protect their children. So I wouldn't say that, you know, what she's saying today is how she really feels. I think she... Now, I want to show you this as well, because you remember, was it last week where Donald Trump was lying and saying that Warren

Buffett, this is what Trump posted, remember? Trump wrote, Warren Buffett supports or helped Donald Trump come up with the plan to tank the markets in order to rebuild better, to cause pain and suffering and destroy people's lives. Donald Trump actually made a video like this and said, Warren Buffett endorsed this plan. Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, two weeks ago, had to come out with a statement and said, we don't know what this is. Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, two weeks ago, had to come out with a statement and said, we don't know what this is. We don't endorse this plan. We don't like it. Warren Buffett was speaking though earlier and Warren Buffett said, trade should not be used as a weapon. The Oracle of Omaha right here is making it very clear. What the hell are we doing? So

maybe you don't want to listen to me. Maybe you don't want to listen to the head of the port of Long Beach or Los Angeles. We want to listen to Warren Buffett. I can give you more data points here this morning as well. Play this clip. No question that trade can be an act of war. And I think it's led to bad things. Just the attitudes it's brought out. In the United States, I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world. And we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best. And I don't think it... That's what we did originally.

I mean, we were good at producing tobacco eight countries with nuclear weapons, including a few that are what I would call quite unstable. I do not think it's a great idea to try and design a world where a few countries say, ha, ha, ha, we've won, and other countries are envious. Now, this morning as well, or I should say yesterday, Donald Trump, last night, Donald Trump was posting images of him as the pope. That's what Donald Trump was doing. Again, I think just like being incredibly offensive to the Catholic community. I mean, what is this? He's posting AI images of himself as the Pope. By the way, after Lindsey

Graham made a serious, this is real, Lindsey Graham made a serious post saying that he thinks that Donald Trump should be considered to become the next pope. And then Donald Trump said he would like to be the pope. He made public statements. Barely got any attention. You know, we covered it here on the Midas Touch Network. I mean, you see Lindsey Graham's post right there. Finally, you have, in addition to Donald Trump posting AI images of himself as the pope, you've got Pete Hegseth posting cartoons of himself holding swords that

say budget cuts, even though they're now making the new defense budget $1 trillion. It's going to be significantly more. The deficit's going to go significantly higher. Donald Trump has announced that he is doing a parade. He's on his birthday. He wants to do a military parade, 6,000 soldiers, 50 helicopters. He's going to have jets flying over in the sky. It's going to cost like $100 million for Donald Trump's one-day birthday on the taxpayer dime so he can look like Kim Jong-un with a military parade in Washington, D.C. Are you absolutely kidding me? I want to leave you with this. Donald Trump got another strong rebuke in federal court when a federal judge from Washington, D.C., Judge Beryl Howell,

granted a permanent injunction and granted summary judgment in favor of a law firm called Perkins Coie against Donald Trump for Donald Trump's patently unlawful orders attacking the law firms. And here's, let me read you a portion from the order from Judge Beryl Howell. Only when lawyers make the choice to challenge rather than back down when confronted with government action, raising non-trivial constitutional issues, can a case be brought to court for judicial review of the legal merits, as was done in this case by Plaintiff Perkins Cooey, LLP, Plaintiff's Council, Williams & Connolly, and the lawyers, firms, organizations,

and individuals who submitted amicus briefs in this case. If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and by so doing serve to promote the rule of law will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written. Be on the right side of history. And it is such a great thing to see Australia seeing what's going on, Canada seeing what's going on. In Australia, it's the Midas mate or the Midas down under. In Canada, it's Maple Midas.

Tell me how you want Midas to be described in your country, wherever you're from as well. But congratulations, Australia, for showing the world how to do it. Canada for showing the world how to do it. Canada, for showing the world how to do it, standing up to the vile gangster piece of trash that is Donald Trump. Great work. I'm Ben Myselis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Help us get to 5 million subscribers and have a wonderful day.

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