The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Awful Day as Trip Goes Horribly Wrong

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's disastrous speech in front of troops at the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. Smalls: Head to https://Smalls.com/MEIDAS and use promo code MEIDAS at checkout for 60% off your first order PLUS free shipping! 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

Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous speech at a naval base in Japan, one of the worst speeches he's given recently, utterly embarrassing. So Donald Trump tells the troops in Japan that he'd love to have their job. Here, play this clip. Thank you very much. A big hello. This is a special group of Patriots, champions, winners. You are winners. Oh, I'd love to have your job.

I'd love to have you. And a very special... Well, Donald, did you also tell them that you dodge the Vietnam draft five separate times claiming that you had bone spurs? Well, you did tell them that inflation has been solved and you said that everybody is prospering in the United States because you've officially defeated inflation. You say mission accomplished in front of these troops in Japan at the naval base. Play this clip. Because we're doing so well, inflation has been defeated and workers' wages are raising at the fastest pace in 60 years. and that includes your wages.

They're rising in the fastest pace. The workers, I'm not talking about the rich people. Rich people, everyone's doing well. Everyone in our country is now doing well. My first term, we built the greatest economy and the history of the world. We had an economy like nobody has seen before now. We're doing it again, but this time actually it's going to be much bigger,

much stronger. I told you, $17 trillion, but it's going to be $20, $21 trillion. And that's numbers that have never been heard of before, much bigger than any other country in the world by literally 15, 16 trillion dollars. Then Donald Trump just starts glitching and ranting and raving about just random topics. He talks about the Gulf of Mexico. He's like, and I call it the Gulf of America and the Supreme Court loves me. Play this clip.

In Gulf to what is now known as the Gulf of America. Is it nice? They say it now routinely. the news today. The Gulf of America, weather is wonderful. They don't say it with a smile. It's called the Gulf of America. How did that happen? Right? And it took me, you know, for many years, I said, why is it called the Gulf of Mexico when we seem to have the show? Well, we do. We have 92% of the shoreline. So I said, you know, when we make it back, not if, when, too big to rig, we made it too big to rig. I said, get out and vote. Too big to rig. Make it that way. I said,

I'm going to change it. And one of the first things I did is I changed it. Nobody could even fight it. They tried. We got sued all over the place. We won every suit. And it's now officially the Gulf of America. Isn't that nice? But our sailors have written honor, greatness, and triumph into the pages of history. What you're doing is incredible. And it's an incredible time for our country on gun decks and flight decks and torpedo rooms and cockpits. The men and women of The Navy have poured out their blood and sweat and tears to defend the land. Next, Donald Trump says that grocery prices are way down and that everyone is able to afford everything in the United States.

And he says, it's incredible how well people are doing back at home. That's what he's telling our troops in Japan play this clip. Very important. After years of crippling inflation, back home, we had the worst inflation in the history of our country. Energy costs are down. You know, energy costs are way down. Gasoline prices are way down.

Grocery prices are way down. We have a little problem with beef. We're going to get that down very quickly, but the prices are way down. Mortgage rates are down despite having an incompetent head of the Fed. I call him too late. He's always too late. He's too late in lowering interest rates.

I call him Jerome too late Powell. But despite having a totally grossly incompetent guy, we have, we just, we blow through it. through it because we're doing so well. Of course, we know he's lying. Inflation is surging. Things are much less affordable right now. People are living paycheck to paycheck and suffering as a result of Donald Trump's policies. Donald Trump then tells the troops in Japan that he doesn't like good looking people. Play this clip. From the men and women of the rank and file. That's true. It comes from you people, incredible people, good looking people, too many good looking people. I don't like good

looking people. I never liked good-looking people, I'll be honest with you. I've never admitted that before. But see, I'm allowed to, see, you know, we wanted the Supreme Court to think based on merit. You know about that, right? Merit. Everything now in our country is based on merit, and that's why I look at you, and I see nothing but merit. It's great to have a country back where we can go by merit now. We don't go by anything else except for talent and work and hard work and he said he said he's never told that to anybody before uh that he doesn't like good looking people what he talking about and they're kind of laughing at him like he's a clown which he is then donald trump says that we need to bring back steamships steamships and then he'll soon

talk about catapults steam catapults as well from ships here play this clip i'm gonna put in an No, seriously, they're spending billions of dollars to build stupid electric. And the problem, when it breaks, you have to send up to MIT, get the most brilliant people in the world, fly them out, is ridiculous. They say they can fix it with a hammer and a blowtorch. And it works just as well, if not better. And I love the sight of that beautiful steam pouring off that deck with the electric. You don't have that. So, you know, we did the Ford in Electric.

It cost overruns, everything else. but, you know, I hope it's going to be okay, but I like steam. We're going to go back to steam. They change just for the sake of changing. I said to the architect, have you ever designed a ship before, you know? He only did the biggest ship in the world, right, the Ford. But we're going to go back. Okay, now let me.

Yeah, he really likes the steam. He likes steam, he says. Then he goes on to talk about how we need steam for the catapults and hydraulics for the elevators. And he's like speaking to the admirals that are there and the generals. that are there. And he's like, you all agree, this is what we're going to do. We're going to go back to steamboats. None of these aircraft carriers anymore. You'll play this clip. Can I ask you the top ranking gentleman right here? Seriously, I'm putting out an order. I'm going to sign an executive order. When we build aircraft carriers, it's steam for the catapults and it's hydraulic for the elevators.

We'll never have a problem, okay? Do you agree? He agrees. Everybody agrees with these people in Washington. All right. We're going to do that. I'm serious about it. By the way, Xi Jinping and China just must be laughing right now. Donald Trump's talking about bringing back ships that are just based on steam and catapults. You're doing catapults? Anyway, then Donald Trump talks about how he just approved a first batch of missiles and that he hugs all of the missiles. Here, play this clip. But I'm delighted to report that I've just approved the first batch of missiles. You saw a couple of them coming down with me. I hugged them.

We need them. They're the best in the world. Nobody has them like we have them. They all want our missiles. That's the problem. Everybody wants them. But it's the first batch of missiles to be delivered to the Japanese self-defense forces

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clip. Through an open border policy where 25 million people poured into our country, totally unvetted, totally unchecked, they came from prisons. They came from mental institutions and insane asylum. They were drug dealers. They were bad people. 11,388 were murderers. half of which committed more than one murder. They let them into our country. We're getting them the hell out. We're getting them out. We're getting them out fast.

Is that okay with you? Yes, right? I have no doubt. Got to get them out. Donald Trump then talks about putting water onto magnets or something. I don't even know what he's talking about. Play this clip. Second question.

Hydraulic for your elevators or magnets. You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic, that you can be hit by lightning and it's fine. You take a little glass of water and you drop it on magnets. I don't know what's going to happen. So, you know, the elevator. He then lies and says he ends eight wars in eight months, which is a lie.

Let's play it. And as you know, and I said before, I ended eight wars in eight months the most of any president in history. No president that we know has ever ended any war. A lot of them go into wars. But says that tariffs have been the greatest thing and that we are so rich as a result of tariffs let me show you what he says right here let's play it united states and it's because of november fifth election day but it's also because of tariffs the tariffs have been so good

it were taken in trillions and trillions of dollars i heard them before i came up i heard on you're all on television now they're talking to all the networks all everybody's covering it look at these characters back look at all of them and you're all and they were talking about the tariffs the tariffs have nobody understood tariffs like i understood tariffs and the tariffs are having people go into our country and spend tremendous numbers like we've never seen. Then he goes on to tell the troops a lie, a vicious lie. He goes, he won the election against Biden by a lot. He goes, I won the second election by a lot.

I mean, you're in front of our troops in Japan saying that you won the second election against Biden by a lot when you lost by 7 million votes. And this is what you're telling our troops. This is just so grotesque. You know, we won the second election by a lot, so we had to just prove it by winning the third by too big to rig, I called it. It was too big to rig. Then it was an amazing, it was an amazing victory.

Let's bring out the actual facts. Food banks right now are bracing to be overwhelmed based on the demand as the supplemental nutrition assistance program cut off looms, the growing need and decreased resources are squeezing the charitable food system. I've showed you on other videos before what these food bank lines look like. They're not currently, they're not able to meet the demand. Usually you get 300 or 400 cars are able to get the food and then they run out of food. But we've never seen food bank lines like this since we saw in COVID during Trump's first administration.

Then there's this headline. inflation ticked up 3% in September. U.S. belatedly reports. By the way, who knows if we can even trust the stats now coming out of the highly partisan Bureau and Labor statistics. I mean, Trump's full control. But we know when we go to the supermarket, what the price of groceries are, and they are significantly higher right now.

We know when we go out that things are virtually unaffordable right now. And health care costs are about to go up on average $24,000 a year, $24,000 a year. Also this morning headlines like this. UPS cuts 48,000 jobs in management and operations. The shipper disclosed workforce reductions. And then based on them firing 48,000 people, the stock price goes up. Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know about our economy right now?

They fire 48,000 people. And then the oligarchs are like, yeah, let's invest in that company. Consumer confidence fell to 94.6 in October. That's the lowest level since April. Also, the conference board inflation expectations edged up to 4.8%. If one views this as informing on the Fed's dual mandate goal, there's nothing to support the rate cut that is almost surely going to happen tomorrow because Trump's pressuring the Fed to issue interest rate cuts, which are only going to result in inflation rising.

And then as Carl Keentania points out, we're at. the watering down soap, chlorox, and windex part of the economic cycle. The lengths Americans are willing to go to make every penny count. This Wall Street Journal article talks about how Americans now have to water down their soaps and their shampoos because it's too expensive. By the way, while all of this is taking place as well, we have military aircraft flying over the national mall. The military is doing a series of flyovers, D.C. right now.

This is where there's during the government shutdown. I'll just show you this is what's going on in Washington, D.C. Play this clip. And then from the Alert D.C. D.C. comments, just the kind of local where the D.C. residents live, we're seeing comments like this. We're in the middle of what is looking like it will be the longest government shut down in history, yet we have the Blue Angels flying over D.C. It's actually our fighter jets flying over D.C. What a great use of our funds. That just shook my apartment. Seriously, what are we doing today? This is still going on. Surely they have enough takes of F-18's information over the Washington Monument for whatever propaganda video.

they are filming with not properly paid staff during a government shutdown over an occupied city. And then someone goes, meanwhile, the U.S. just bombed three more fishing boats. God help us. And someone says, like everybody else, heard the noise, then saw the planes. I have a lovely view of the Washington Monument and saw the planes fly over in formation, thought what the heck seriously, and came here to see what people knew. I'm so over the noise from jets, helicopters, and the internet and phone flickering outages

that result, oh, look, here they come again. It feels like I'm under attack. That's what it feels like to live in the Trump regime. Starvation, panic, under attack. But we the people need to stay together right now more than ever and fight back against this despicable vile regime. And that's what we're going to do here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe.

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