The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Catastrophic Sunday as Plans Spiral Out of Control

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s awful Sunday as the dire consequences of his invasion are starting to be felt as he has made it clear he wants to work with other leaders in the Maduro regime who he believes will help give him all of their oil and resources and as people throughout the world are horrified by his demented and despicable behavior. 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: ⁠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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump is having an awful Sunday morning as people across the world and here in the United States are letting Donald Trump know what they really feel about him taking over Venezuela so he could seize the oil and keep other stooges from Maduro's regime still in power so that Donald Trump can work with the other authoritarians there to take the oil for himself. You know, the Venezuelan community in the United States, they were saying, did Donald Trump misspeak? when he said he wants to work with the current vice president, now president of Venezuela, Maduro's right hand, Delsi Rodriguez, and Donald Trump threw Machado, the opposition leader under the bus. People said, no, Donald Trump didn't really mean that. He didn't mean that. He wants his own authoritarian in Venezuela. He doesn't want a democracy in there because he wants the oil for himself that he can share with Putin.

Don't you realize that that's Donald Trump's plan right here? and you'd think Donald Trump could take that action without coordinating that with Putin? Come on, let's get real here. So here's how it's being reported in the economist. Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami cannot believe it, insisting that Trump must have misspoken during his press conference. He think he was misspeaking when he said, I want their oil like 20 times during that press conference.

His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day control of Maduro's people with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. Then there's a lot of articles today how, you know, highlighting what we've highlighted here in the Midas Touch Network, how Machado, the opposition leader who backed Edmundo Gonzalez, who most people believe won the July 2024 election with 70% of the boat that she basically said everything that Donald Trump wanted to hear. Miss Machado, that's the main opposition leader in Venezuela, who all of the, you know, Trump bootlicker said, Trump's going to put her in power and she's going to run Venezuela as a democracy. This is what's going to happen.

Ms. Machado had gone out of her way to please Trump, calling him a champion of freedom, mimicking his talking points on election fraud in the United States and even dedicating the Nobel Peace Prize to him. But it was all in vain. how Trump fixed on a Maduro loyalist as Venezuela's new leader. Nicholas Maduro balked at a gilded exile. U.S. officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president, Delci Rodriguez, known for stabilizing Venezuela's economy. So Trump went all in on basically Maduro's right hand or one of the people in the regime, Delsi Rodriguez, and threw Machado under the bus.

the article goes on to talk about as well how Maduro's constant dancing was one of the reasons why Donald Trump decided to invade Venezuela and then White House settled on Delsey as an acceptable candidate and they believe that she would be a good figurehead for Trump to run the country with and that she would allow the oil companies to extract the oil for the United States although she came out with a statement right away saying that Maduro is the only president, and she demonstrated swift defiance, as the Times reports, her swift defiance of Mr. Trump made clear that his plans to swoop into South American nation and run it as his own face many more hurdles than he suggested.

But I just want to show you this right here quickly. This is when Donald Trump threw Machado under the bus and said that she doesn't have the respect of the Venezuela. I just want to be clear. You can have different views. about Machado and especially the fact that the way she's been behaving with Trump, things that she's been saying lately, totally, totally. I think you could be very critical of. It does seem, though, that when she backed in Mundo Gonzalez in the 2024 election, they won that election.

Most people believe in Venezuela. So the fact that Donald Trump said she doesn't have the respect, she's a nice lady, but doesn't have the respect of the Venezuelan people here play this clip. Are you as aware of the location of opposition leader Machado and have you been in contact with her? No. We haven't. No, we haven't. How many heads of things about Machado? Mr. President, on Monday.

I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect to be. So then you have the kind of usual Trump bootlickers and here they are in Florida. You have Maga Republican Congress member Diaz-Balart. He's standing next to Congresswoman Salazar, and they're asked. So I guess you all don't support Marina Corina Machado, right? Because Maria Carina Machado, because we all heard what Donald Trump said.

And you all said you support this plan with Donald Trump 100%. So you all, right? And these are Cuban exiles. They represent their family left Cuba. And they represent the Cuban and Venezuelan communities. in southern Florida, so watch what Magu Republican Diaz-Balart says here, play this clip. Why are you not willing to support Maria Corina and Mungo to be? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Hold on, sorry.

Let's talk about that. First, you're talking to us? Yes. When have we ever not supported it? No, no, no, no, wait. But let's, look, these are serious issues. Do not put words in my mouth. And do not, no, no, wait, but you said us. You said us. You said us. Okay. It's very, I will not tolerate, put in words in my mouth or my colleague's mouth. We have been consistent from day one. And I am convinced there's going to be a transition. We already talked about that. And I'm convinced that when there are elections, whether there are new elections or there's a decision to take the old elections, the last elections, that the next democratically elected president of Venezuela is going to be Maria Corrina-Muchamp.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been. posting images of himself, saying the Don Roe Doctrine, he's holding like a bat or a club that says the Don Roe Doctrine. This is actually a post from Trump's official rapid response account. You see this photo? It says the Don Roe Doctrine, and it's Donald Trump stepping on Canada and South America saying that basically this belongs to him. That's what Donald Trump is doing.

And as Donald Trump does that, he's getting criticized by the Pope. And the Pope, Pope Leo, said that Venezuela must remain independent. He called for respect of human rights and basically said that he does not support an occupation of Venezuela by the United States and the Trump regime. He didn't use those specific words, but he talked about independence and avoiding occupations. I want to show you this now. Donald Trump sends his bootlickers. Trump's getting desperate this morning.

So he sends Marco Rubio. But what did? Marco Rubio has a disastrous appearance. Rubio then talks about basically invading Cuba next. Rubio is like, yeah, Cuba's probably next. Here, play this clip. Go bonkers. Is the Cuban government, the Trump administration's next target, Mr. Secretary, very quickly?

Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah, the human government is a huge problem. So is that a yes? But I don't think people fully appreciate, I think they're in a lot of trouble. Yes, I'm not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard. But I don't think it's any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that we're propping up Maduro. His entire, like, internal security force, his internal security apparatus is entirely controlled by Cubans.

One of the untold stories here is how, in essence, you talk about colonization, because I think you said Delci Rodriguez mentioned that. The ones who have sort of colonized, at least inside the regime, are Cubans. It was Cubans that guarded Maduro. He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards. In terms of their internal intelligence, who spies on who inside to make sure there are no traitors, those are all Cubans. All right. And then Marco Rubio is asked on Meet the Press, will you seek congressional approval for any further action in Venezuela?

And Rubio says, why would we need approval? This isn't a war. This is like a legal operation. We're just arresting a fugitive here, play this clip. This was not an action that required, yeah, this was not an action that required congressional approval. In fact, it couldn't require congressional approval because this was not an invasion. This is not an extended military operation. This is a very precise operation that involved a couple of hours of action.

It was a very delicate operation, too. It was one that required all these conditions to be in place at the right time and the right place. You couldn't afford leaks. We couldn't afford anything out there that would have endangered the mission and gotten people killed or killed off the mission and the optionality. We didn't even know if the mission was going to happen. Then you have Jim Jordan, Maga Republican Congress member Jim Jordan, And all he wanted to talk about was China sending a spy balloon in the air that was during Biden's administration. Do you know how many spy balloons were there during the Trump administration?

Trump's first administration? Way more than Biden's. Trump just covered it up. Do we know how many spy balloons right now exist? We don't know because Trump lies about everything and covers everything up. I mean, that's the reality of it is that we do know that China is doing its most aggressive military training exercises by Taiwan right now. We do know that North Korea launched ballistic missiles again yesterday, and they're testing their missiles again in a more aggressive posture

than ever. We do know that China is not buying American soybeans. Still, we do know that we do know that China's treating Donald Trump like a pathetic little individual. Here, play this clip of Jim Jordan. Strength and takes decisive action. Think about it. Contrast the president's actions. What took place two days ago? What took place with Midnight Hammer when he stopped Iran? Contrast that with the previous administration. Contrast that with Joe Biden led a Chinese spy balloon fly clear across the country and then shot it down. Do you think President Trump would allow that?

I think the American people appreciate the fact that he demonstrated strength and he takes decisive action for the benefit of American. You talk about. And next Jim Jordan is asked on CNN. He says, well, how does this make sense? sense. So you're saying that you're one of the reasons you went after Maduro is that because he's a narco-terrorist, but then Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, one of the biggest narco-terrorists in history who worked with El Chapo to bring in huge quantities of cocaine to kill Americans. So you pardon the biggest drug cartel, narco-terrorist benefactor in Juan Orlando

Hernandez. How does this make sense to you, Jim? Here, play this clip. something that President Trump did. After the former president of Honduras went through the American judicial process, was found guilty, was sentenced for a whole bunch of really bad things with regard to sending drugs into the U.S., poisoning American children, as you would say. The president pardoned him. How is that consistent with going in. The president is clear about this, I think, in his press conference.

The pardon power, by the way, is exclusive to the president. They can exercise it however they don't want. But should he have done it? And he exercised it that way. And he said he thought that the Biden administration treated this individual, the former president, in an unfair fashion. And so he chose to pardon him. President Biden issued pardons. President Biden issued pardons for.

Next, Jim Jordan, as all these MAGA Republicans this morning are asked, well, what's next? What happens next here? And Jim Jordan says, well, I just trust whatever Donald Trump says. That's it. Whatever Donald Trump says, I trust. Here, play this clip right here. But the question is, but the question is, what's next? And what is the American?

And what I'm saying is we'll see, but I trust this administration. Taxpayer on the hook for. I trust Secretary Rubio. I trust Secretary Hanks. I trust President Trump in his making decisions that, again, are in the best interest of the American people. And frankly, I trust our military. And I just want to remind you, when I showed you that press conference, I showed you

Congress member Diaz-Balart, but I just want to quickly remind you of Congresswoman Salazar. Now, Congresswoman Maria Salazar is also a Congress lady from southern uh the southern florida area and i just want to remind you what she said back on november 11th 2024 that she's been guaranteeing this to the to her communities there to the immigrant communities that she represents that donald trump would only go after criminals with ice and border patrol that was her promise to everybody you know she constantly is bringing her community and just throwing them under the bus and she promised him to you probably It's all one big misunderstanding.

Donald, Donald promises us that he's going to do this. And it's just one big lie and grift after another. Here's what she said, November 11, 2024. Here, play this clip. 200,000 undocumented in your community. Is that what you're saying? I am sure that we're not, that the Trump administration is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years

that have American kids, that don't have criminal records, that have been working in the economy and paying taxes. and paying taxes. I am sure that they're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago. Because I wrote the Dignity Act, and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than five years, people who have roots in the country, not people who are coming to commit crimes. If I can just clarify from you, have you received those kinds of details from anyone in a potential Trump administration? Because so far what we've heard is proposal for mass deportations.

30 seconds left. Have you gotten those assurances? Mass deportation to those who are committing crimes who have been here for less than five years. You understand that you have millions of undocumented who are contributing with the economy and are helping our country to be a better ones. Just take a look quickly at some of the headlines internationally. This is the mail on Sunday. Trump, now I'm running Venezuela. America on the war path. America on the war path. That's how this is being described internationally. America on the war path with a deranged, demented individual like Donald Trump doing this. Anyway, hit subscribe.

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