The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump has Awful Landing to DC as He Loses It

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s arrival back to Washington DC after another weekend vacation where, upon his return, Trump quickly began behaving like a deranged maniac again. Head to qualialife.com/meidas and use promo code: MEIDAS at checkout for 15% OFF your purchase of Qualia's products. 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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exclusions, and terms apply. Instacart, groceries that over-deliver. It's just pure lunacy in the Trump regime. So Donald Trump just returned to Washington, D.C. after taking yet another vacation in Florida on the taxpayer dime where he golfed and partied with the billionaire oligarchs. As he was landing in Washington, D.C., he started making deranged social media posts after deranged social media posts. He also attacked President Zelensky of Ukraine and former President Biden. This as Donald Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to go to St. Petersburg and put his hand over his heart and essentially pledge allegiance to Vladimir Putin. Let's take a look at what Donald Trump's just been posting.

He posts the following. All in caps, he goes, the best definition of intelligence is the ability to predict the future. I mean, literally, it's the ranting and ravings of a madman. But if you want to talk about intelligence, Donald, now, when European Union ambassadors and diplomats show up in the United States, they're all using burner phones and they're preparing as if they were in an authoritarian regime, like when they visit China or when they used to visit Russia. They're getting burner phones and they're taking steps as though the United States is an adversary. That's how they're treating their visits right now're taking steps as though the United States is an adversary.

That's how they're treating their visits right now. Then Donald Trump posts the following. Congratulations to Rory. What a great job he did. Tremendous courage and talent was on full display at yesterday's Masters. What a win! He's referring to Rory McIlroy, who won the Masters golf event. I wouldn't exactly say courage. I mean, courage, I would use that word for somebody like President Zelensky.

I would say it was a good golf match. Congratulations. But I don't know, Donald, maybe you should be addressing, I don't know, the fact that the Jewish governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was targeted for an assassination attempt and his residence was burned in an arson attack. And now we're learning that the arsonist brought a hammer to try to kill Governor Shapiro. You don't address that, huh? No thoughts on that, Donald? Well, actually, when Donald Trump was on Air Force One heading back to Washington, D.C., he was asked about the assassination attempt against Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. And Donald Trump doesn't say anything about it other

than I just heard about it. So Donald Trump has spent the weekend watching the Masters, talking about the Masters, talking about his bogus health report. I'm going to do a whole hot take on that where it says he weighs like 230 pounds and that as evidence of his good health, he wins all of these golf tournaments. That's literally what it says on his physical that was just released. But here's what Donald Trump says when he's asked about Shapiro? I just heard about it. No, I have to look into it. You got the perfect health report. Everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven't set up the 2 a.m. Here was Donald Trump's post at 9, 12 a.m. this morning. He goes, the war between Russia and Ukraine is Biden's war, not mine.

Just pause there for a second. What a deranged thing to say. You are the leader, unfortunately, right now, of the United States. You enabled Putin to do this in your first administration. But who goes, that's someone else's war, not mine. That's the mind of a malignant narcissist. Donald Trump then goes on to say, I just got here and for years during my term had no problem in preventing it from happening. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you know, that you have to be the president of the United States.

You were the one who ran on that you were going to create peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now it's not my war. I just got here. This is the, again, no offense to petulant babies. This is not the behavior of a leader at any level. This is, again, no offense to petulant babies. This is not the behavior of a leader at any level. This is not leadership at all, yet alone the biggest position of leadership, which is in the White House. And it's not to mention that Donald Trump's a sexual predator, a felon, and someone found liable for fraud. But don't even get me started on that rant.

Then Donald Trump goes on to say, President Putin and everyone else respected your president, right? So Trump's saying positive things about Putin. I had nothing to do with this war. This is all caps, but I'm working diligently to get the death and destruction to stop. Pause. You promised on day one that it was going to be solved. Peace in Ukraine. You said as soon as you won, there would be peace in Ukraine and you've made things worse, exponentially worse. Then Donald Trump goes on to say if the 2020 presidential election was not rigged and it was in so many ways that horrible war would never have happened. Pause. So here we are, April 14th, Donald Trump's regime is kidnapping and disappearing migrants on the street, sending

them to concentration camps in El Salvador. While then Trump takes vacations every weekend to Florida. He's whining about the 2020 election, saying that it's rigged, which it is not saying it's not my war. I have nothing to do with any of this. And then he goes on to say President Zelensky and crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin. There are so many ways of preventing it from ever starting, but that is the past. Now we have to get it to stop and fast. So sad. What a

despicable, vile piece of crap Donald Trump is. I mean, truly a piece of trash who deserves none of our respect. He is a piece of freaking trash, period. Full stop. You're blaming President Zelensky and Ukraine from having their country unlawfully invaded. You despicable, vile thing. You you get no respect from democracy loving Americans. You piece of crap. You sorry. That just makes me absolutely livid. But what Donald Trump did want to talk about on the airplane while he land was that the masters, he loves the masters. He loves watching golf. He loves why he's so healthy. He loves watching golf here. Play this clip. No, I wanted to watch it. You it there was no way even for you people that was no way that was it it's one of my favorite shows ever the masters is to me maybe

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I thought all the MAGA Republicans say you got to wear suit and tie in the Oval Office. You're not exactly a wartime president. I mean, Zelensky is a wartime hero. You're showing up there, what, bringing kidnapped Americans into your concentration camps? And this is who Donald Trump respects, one of the poorest Latin American countries. So it's like him and Donald Trump loves Javier Millet. But yeah, we screwed over wealthy nations in Europe and our allies in Canada, wealthy allies in Canada and Australia. We attack them. But it's good to know that Donald Trump is bros with Nayib Bukele, who has the highest incarceration rate per capita any country in the world and is an impoverished

country. But let's go and pretend that El Salvador is exactly what America should be. In fact, that's what Trump is turning America into. So Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, who kills her dogs, who does all the cosplay photos when she, remember, she showed up also to El Salvador with her $60,000 Rolex in front of the half-naked men. And she was just like, we'll put you in these jail. We'll put you in this concentration camp. Here she is talking about the partnership with Bukele. That's the partnership with Bukele in the concentration camps. Here, play this clip.

Terry, this meeting between the El Salvadorian president and President Donald Trump, does that indicate that the flights will continue, that the deportation, that you guys aren't going to allow the courts to stop you? Well, I think the conversation is going to be extremely beneficial. El Salvador has been a fantastic partner. And when I was in El Salvador visiting with President Bukele, we talked about the fact that he would accept more flights, would accept more individuals into SECOT.

So I'm looking forward to that partnership continuing. Secretary Christie Ngo, thank you so much for joining the program. Yes. Thank you, Lawrence. All right, Christie, if it's a partnership then in these concentration camps, then partnership should be bring back the migrants like the Supreme Court ordered with Abrego Garcia. The Supreme Court ordered, I've done a million hot takes on a million. I've done several hot takes on it. We talked about it on Legal AF. It was a nine to zero ruling from the Supreme Court saying return

Abrego Garcia, one of the migrants who was kidnapped, who has disappeared to the El Salvador concentration camp, who the Trump regime admits in their filings was sent to El Salvador in error, which now the Trump regime says they're not going to do. And here they have Stephen Miller today. This is their messaging. And I talked about it earlier in my hot takes this morning and the videos I did where they're saying we're not following the Supreme Court's ruling saying return to Brego Garcia in the most dystopian Orwellian way. They're now saying the Supreme Court didn't actually rule that. The Trump regime says we won. It was a nine to zero ruling that we won saying Abrego Garcia stays in El Salvador when literally

the ruling said the opposite. It said return Abrego Garcia, facilitate his return immediately. The district court said do it immediately. Now the Trump regime's like, what are you talking about? The Supreme Court said we were the winners. They said keep Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Here, watch this. Your argument is that you don't have to bring him back home, but will you? So I want to correct. I hate to do it, Bill, but I got to correct you on every single thing that you said, because it was all wrong. First, we won the Supreme Court case.

Clearly, 9-0. A district court judge said unconscionably that the president and his administration have to go into El Salvador and extradite one of their citizens, an El Salvadorian citizen, so that would be kidnapping, that we have to kidnap an El Salvadorian citizen against the will of his government and fly him back to America, which would be an unimaginable act and invasion of El Salvador's sovereignty. So he appealed to the Supreme Court and it said clearly no district court can compel the president to exercise his Article Two foreign powers in any way whatsoever. DOJ called me after that Supreme Court ruling and they said,

this is amazing. We won this case 9-0. We are in excellent standing here. So this has been portrayed wrong for 72 hours. Totally, totally deranged. You want to see what's going on, though, in international diplomacy? You have China and Vietnam with a major diplomatic meeting today. Xi Jinping met with the leader of Vietnam. They signed dozens of cooperation deals on Monday, including on production and supply chains, as well as railway cooperation. As Chinese President Xi Jinping visit the Southeast Nations. Footage of the signed documents seen by Reuters showed. And then Xi Jinping talked about how they need to stand up

against other unilateral bullies in the world. Goldman Sachs is saying the prospects of a recession have increased. Goldman CEO says hearing a greater sense of short term concern from CEOs outside the US. Oh, and one other thing that I'll mention too is you have Donald Trump's post last night where he attacked 60 Minutes and CBS and then directed his FCC commissioner to take away CBS's broadcast license. He said he's directing Brendan Carr to take away CBS's broadcast license because he didn't like what 60 Minutes was playing last night, the 60 Minutes show. You know what the 60 Minutes show last night was on? It had President Zelensky mourning the deaths of Ukrainian kids

who were killed. That's what was on 60 Minutes. That's what triggered Donald Trump to write that message. An utterly despicable, vile, trash human being. And I'm not going to hold back my words about what I think about him and what I think about the people who surround him. Seriously. I mean, you judge for yourself based on the facts. I'm Ben Micellis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.