The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster A.M. as His Approval Crashes Out

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

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consider themselves conservatives. He's dropped negative 14 among people who consider themselves conservative, negative 24 among the age group 18 to 29, where he was making some inroads. Young people hate this guy because they realize he's ripping away their future. Rural voters are seeing how Donald Trump is harming them. And so while Donald Trump is pushing forward this disastrous budget bill that will rip away your Medicaid, we're now learning it's going to potentially rip away your Medicare as well, rip away SNAP benefits, rip away rental assistance and other programs to make housing affordable, to pave the way for massive tax cuts, trillions of dollars in tax cuts for Trump's billionaire buddies. Like what's Donald Trump doing right now while all of this is taking place? This is from his social media app. It did a push alert. So they think this is the biggest news story of the day from Donald Trump. So what he's doing this morning, watch Donald Trump trolls Bruce Springsteen in new video. And then you click on it and it goes to Donald Trump's official

social media account where it's an AI video of himself golfing and hitting a golf ball into Bruce Springsteen who falls on stage. And this follows Donald Trump calling for the Department of Justice to investigate Kamala Harris, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, and Oprah. We're getting more news as well. This is some more bad news for Donald Trump, and he's reacting to it right now, that the very far right wing, they call themselves the House Freedom Caucus, their chair, Andy Harris, is saying this about the budget bill. Now, you'll recall that the MAGA Republicans set a rules committee meeting at 1 a.m. this past night or in the morning, whatever you consider it, so that they could try to avoid the American people watching what they were doing.

They literally set the hearing at 1 a.m., hoping nobody would notice, as they started putting amendments into this horrible bill like they gave tax exemptions for tanning beds while removing hospital beds. That's actually a provision in there. So they were doing all this shady stuff at 1 a.m. But here's what we're learning right now, that the House Freedom Caucus Chair, MAGA Republican Andy Harris, just went on Newsmax and said that there's no way this reconciliation bill passes today. Quote, this bill actually got worse overnight. There is no way it passes today. We may need a couple of weeks to iron everything out, but it's not going anywhere today. He claims there was a deal just

after midnight, but then it was pulled off the table and he doesn't like the SALT cap, state and local tax deduction cap. Quote, I think we're further away from a deal because that SALT cap increase, I think upset a lot of conservatives. We'll get to the deal. We're just not at it today. So that statement was posted. Then moments later, breaking news after Donald Trump posted the video, AI video of himself hitting a golf ball into Bruce Springsteen's head. Speaker Maga Mike Johnson and House Freedom Caucus have now been summoned to the White House to meet with Donald Trump at 3 p.m. Eastern today. Trump is expected to tell the House Freedom Caucus members, I just read you their statement, that the bill needs to pass today. It doesn't matter if they haven't read it. It doesn't matter that they put together these 1,000 pages last night at 1 a.m. for the first time, and no one even knows what the hell is in this thing, other than the fact that we know that 13 million americans

are going to lose their health care and die because of this like let's talk about the human toll 13 million americans are going to lose their health care and they could die because of this of what's in this medicare's on the chopping blocks affordable health care is on the is on the chopping blocks. Affordable health care is on the chopping blocks. Medicaid is on the blocks. All of that right there is on the chopping blocks. Snap benefits is on the chopping blocks. Horrific, horrific stuff. Donald Trump has summoned the MAGAs to show up at the White House to get in line. Oh, by the way, it's going to add at least $6 trillion to the deficit, which Donald Trump goes, no, no. I collected $7 trillion when I went to the Middle East. They gave me $7 trillion.

He's a fraud. He's a felon. He's a criminal. He's a liar. He didn't get $7 trillion. He didn't get any money. He's done zero deals in 90 days. Okay.

Qatar doesn't have that amount any money. He's done zero deals in 90 days. Okay. Qatar doesn't have that amount of money. Their annual GDP is $200 billion. Where are they going to give $1.2 trillion to him? The United Arab Emirates entire GDP is $400 billion. They don't have that type of money. Even though Donald Trump's impressed by their gold palaces, they don't have that kind of money. Meanwhile, while Donald Trump praises authoritarians in the Middle East, people who fund Hamas and who funded the 9-11 hijackers, what Donald Trump does do is he praises the European Union. I mean, he attacks the European Union while praising these Middle East countries. So let's take a look at what the European Union is doing in response.

Business travel bookings from Europe to the United States crashed by more than a quarter in April compared to the same month in 2024, a sign of the widening collapse of positive views of America under Donald Trump. Trump tanks EU business travel to America. May I repeat that? 25% decrease in tourism from Europe. And it's like double that amount or maybe even triple that amount from Canada. Our tourism industry here in the United States is taking a massive blow in addition to all the other aspects of the economy that Donald Trump is destroying. So you go back to the beginning

of this video. No wonder Donald Trump's approval is plummeting even among conservatives by 14 points of a decrease. And look, if you're in Europe, if you're in Canada, if you're elsewhere, you're looking at the sick and demented and twisted and cruel things the Trump regime's doing. I reported how the Trump regime took an individual of Burmese national and against a federal court order, sent a Burmese national to South Sudan and violated a court injunction. And here you have Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security. This is from Trump's rapid response, their official account. Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security rips Massachusetts judge for trying to return violent criminal illegals deported to South Sudan. And this is so the way they did

Abrego Garcia to the concentration camp in El Salvador. They're taking Burmese individuals and sending them to South Sudan, admitting that they're doing this against the court order without due process at all? This was on Fox Business moments ago. The host on Fox News asks Donald Trump's head of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, what's going on with the trade deals? You told us there were going to be all of these deals, 90 deals in 90 days. Where are they? Where are the deals? Here, play this this clip where do we stand on trade deals the last we heard that we were getting close to 20 deals and we were promised that these deals would be announced soon but why no announced deals yet well the first there's a lot going on in the world, as you know, and there's been a lot of focus over the last couple of days in the White House on getting the House bill through.

Pretty much almost the whole White House team was up working with Speaker Johnson yesterday. As you know, the president was on the Hill. But I was in the Oval yesterday with Howard Lutnick and Jameson Greer going over some of the next steps. And I'm highly confident that you'll see a handful of new deals over the next two weeks. And Lutnick and the president are still finalizing the details, but they're so close that I feel like we're very close to having some more announcements, and it's probably a handful of near-term announcements. All right, I'm just going to say it. I didn't realize how bad my old mattress was until I got my Helix. I used to wake up with a sore back,

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It's a consensus that America lost that after Donald Trump said, oh, we're going to get so rich from that. This is from this morning as well. Maria Bartiroma asks MAGA Republican Congress member Greg Murphy, why should we have wind and solar subsidies if it's not windy and sunny?

Here, play this clip. I understand nuclear, but what about wind and solar subsidies if it's not windy and sunny? Here, play this clip. I understand, but what about wind and solar? I mean, should we really have wind and solar subsidies in this bill? What if it's what if it's not windy? What if it's not sunny? Yeah, no, no. They're phasing them out. They're being phased out. But just for the sake of, you know, decency with the American country of companies, We need to give them a glide path out. If you stop it today, look, hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost before anything happens. I see. They are being phased out. They are being phased out.

Okay. And this was from moments ago as well, where a Democratic Congress member, Brendan Boyle, the ranking member of the Budget Committee, basically said, y'all said there wasn't going to be cuts to Medicare. We're looking at this thing that you gave us at 1 a.m. There are cuts to Medicare. Play this clip. As you know, statutory pay go, which stands for pay as you go, is a law that requires tax cuts and spending increases to be offset, meaning that they do not add to the deficit. If at the end of the year, congressional legislation collectively violates PAYGO, those deficit effects trigger across-the-board cuts to programs like Medicare. Does this bill trigger statutory PAYGO? Yes, and it's not me saying it. It is the

Congressional Budget Office confirming it as of a couple hours ago. And look, this is really the breaking news, because when the Budget Committee kicked off this process approximately three months ago, there was a commitment by President Trump that there would be no Medicare cuts in this piece of legislation. And indeed, over the last several months, there's been no discussion of Medicare at all. There has been of Medicaid, but not of Medicare. Well, here we are tonight because, as you explained, because of the size of the deficits, because of the pay-go or pay-as-you-go act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare. And this bill doesn't waive statutory pay gap.

No, it does not. So this will have a direct impact on Medicare and the federal budget, which is, again, I think a lot of people who are not following this as closely as you are probably are not aware of and will be surprised to learn about tomorrow. And finally, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is here saying, look, MAGA Mike Johnson, let's debate. Let's debate this in public. Let's go in front of the people. And you can try to justify this, not some 1 a.m. crap here. Play this clip. So thank you for providing this opportunity for us to have this discussion. But one person is missing.

Speaker Mike Johnson. Over a month ago, I asked our distinguished colleague from Louisiana, the Speaker of the House, to debate any of us, but certainly myself on the House floor, about this very bill. He believes it's one big, beautiful bill. We believe it's one big beautiful bill. We believe it's one big ugly bill that's going to hurt the American people, hurt children, hurt families, hurt veterans, hurt seniors, cut health care, cut nutritional assistance, explode the debt by a minimum of $3.8 trillion. This is being done by people who claim to be the stewards of fiscal responsibility. $3.8 trillion, if not more.

And so the offer still stands. I'd love to have the opportunity to debate Speaker Johnson anytime, anyplace, right here at the Rules Committee or certainly on the floor of the House of Representatives. Not a duel, a debate of ideas. Well, that's what's going on this morning, folks. We'll keep you posted throughout the day. We'll let you know what happens with that Trump meeting and the MAGA Republicans at the White House. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million

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