The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster Friday as Melania Is Repulsed in Public

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

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can't walk straight and needed her to hold his hand for him to be able to get into the White House. But you saw that take place right there on that footage. We'll be analyzing that more in detail in future videos. I mean, look how horrible he looked in the UK. I mean, he looked like someone wearing a Donald Trump costume for Halloween, dressed in kind of a white tie tuxedo right there. Here's what Donald Trump's been posting on his social media today. This morning, he's been posting himself in the Oval Office as a stock trader, and he's trading the stock of Intel, a company that the United States has apparently seized a portion of, although we haven't really seen filings from Intel that really confirmed what took place.

but Donald Trump, I guess, just boasting about manipulating the markets right there in the Oval Office. Then Donald Trump bragging about reinstalling paintings of Confederate General Robert E. Lee boasting about it. Just reposting it casually on September 19th, even though this was reinstalled on August 27th. This is what he's thinking about. On August 27th, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point reinstalled the nearly 20-foot canvas portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the West Point Library on campus, the painting hung in the library for 70 years before it was ordered to be removed as part of the naming commission in 2022 to take down items that commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy. I guess Trump wants to

commemorate and memorialize the Confederacy. Then Donald Trump just posted that I completed a very productive call with President G of China. We made progress on very important issues, including trade and fentanyl, the need to bring the war to an end between Russia and Ukraine and the approval of the TikTok deal. He says that I would go to China in the early part of next year, and G would likely come to the United States at an appropriate time, and an appropriate time. So Xi Jinping didn't even agree to come here. The call was a very good one. We'll be speaking again by phone. How good was it? Because when I look at American soybean farmers right now. They're going out of business right now because China is shunning significant trade with

the United States and absolutely crushing our farmers across the country who are on the verge of bankruptcy. So it must be a very, very productive call there, Donald. Meanwhile, across the world, we see countries strengthening their relationships and alliances together as America gets weaker. You have Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico. They met in Mexico City to discuss strengthening the relationships between Canada and Mexico. Watch Prime Minister Carney talk about how, and just watch how he talks. It's just so different than watching the kind of blubbering, blabbering fool of Donald Trump. I mean, Carney's respectful, respecting sovereignty, respecting cooperation.

Here, play this clip. Let me conclude just by observing what's obvious, but what's essential. We are both undertaking massive transformations of our economy. Planned Mexico, Canada strong. Our efforts will be strengthened by working together. As President Scheinbaum said at the G7 summit, and I quote, In an interdependent world, no country can isolate itself. And as your predecessor, one of your predecessors,

Juarez, counseled, unto those invivisos, come onto the nations, respect to the rachio, a genio is the pass. And if I butcher that too much for the translator, among individuals as amongst nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

And it's by balancing this respect for sovereignty and the belief in cooperation. that Canada and Mexico will build together for the benefit of our peoples. Thank you, President Scheinbaum. And similarly, you have President Claudia Scheinbaum bragging about all the new tourism into Mexico, and it's a subtle jab at the United States, as Canadian tourists are not coming into the United States right now.

Here, play this clip. I didn't say this in the meeting, Prime Minister Carney, but I'm saying it right now. We celebrate constant growth of Canadian tourism in Mexico. We truly celebrated because we have an increasingly growing number of families and visitors coming to Mexico as their tourist destination. We express our will to continue facilitating this because this strength of the human cultural ties and also economic ties between our two societies. You had Maria Bartaroma on Fox moments ago, interview the Social Security Administration Commissioner, Biscanano. And he stated that all items are on the table, including raising the retirement age right now. Here, play this clip. So would you consider raising the retirement?

I think everything's considering, being considered. And will be, will be considered. And then you need Congress to. Yeah, they have to, it needs really to be the trustees, which are the four of us, myself, Treasury Secretary, Labor Secretary. HHS, the White House, which is completely committed to protect and preserve, and then Congress, and that's where the real work will happen, and that'll take a while. But we have plenty of time. Are you considering the fact that, like, if you're just reaching 66, 66, 67, whatever, then they are not included, but you're beginning with a much younger...

I think that. I think that. Who are not expecting to retire at 65? Yeah, I mean, remember, most people hold... You and I, Social Security, wasn't going to be around. That's true. And it's going to be around. And so the generations that are coming in will probably have a difference that are old than we had.

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Let's check in with Darius Johnson, who's been on the ground there all morning long. Darius, what can you tell us about how this stuff? Hey, Lou, get right. Hey, Lou, get the shot inside of the facility. They have someone on the ground if you're able to see that, that person, they're closing the gate right now. There's a person on the ground being held on the ground by those ice agents. And look, if you pan over right now, Lou, let's see right here with the vehicle. They are plowing through these.

They are plowing through the protesters right here at this vehicle. They've tried to deploy everything that they could if these protesters were trying to block agents from moving in and out. They have another man. They are just deploying anything that they can to try to get the protesters out of the way. Dana, give me one second as I put my mask on because they just sprayed chemical agents again. Okay. So right now, this is what we have been seeing. This has been one of the tenses moments this morning.

What just happened right now? You had vehicles that were trying to make its way out. Dana, I'm actually going to move away from the camera now that the smoke is now impacting my eyes. You need to. You need to get away from that smoke. Please, we appreciate your reporting. Get away from that smoke. I'm back near the vehicle, Dana.

I'm near the vehicle. I have a mask on. I'm okay. So basically every time that people are. pulling out, they are blocking the vehicles from getting in and out. At this point, what we saw this time was the agents on top of the roof. They started, Lou, you need to get something on your eyes. So let me, it's very important for you. Dana, let me send it back to you. We're going to hold the shot. We're just need to protect our eyes right now. Yes. Yes. Give us one second so we could

just get our bearings straight. It is a very fluid scene and right now, very volatile scene on the ground. Outside them. Oh, and we're also learning that Donald Trump is intending. We'll see if it happens to fire Eric Siebert, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, because he was unable to find evidence to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James. Donald Trump gave the United States attorney, the top federal prosecutor in Virginia. This is an important position as well for a lot of reasons. They also handle a lot of counterterrorism and espionage prosecutions. But Donald, Trump wanted Siebert to prosecute. Just the directive, prosecute attorney general Letitia James. He's like, there's no evidence to be able to prosecute her. So now the Trump regime is planning on firing Siebert. Let me bring you to the Capitol right now. I'm going to bring you to the House of Representatives where AOC gave an important speech moments ago. I'll show you a portion of it. She said, look, it's important that we condemn the heinous violence that resulted in the death of Charlie Kirk 100% we condemn that violence. But AOC said, we should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was,

a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake. That's who Charlie Kirk was. He said anti-black statements all the time, anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-women. He called for Biden to be executed. He called for constant division. And when there would be school shootings, he would say, I don't have sympathy for that. I mean, he would express a lack of sympathy following school shootings. You know, that's just the, just the price you've got to pay if you want to defend the Second Amendment, he said. You know, words to those effect, which I think are hateful, hurtful, irresponsible, and always very divisive. He would go on college campuses not to have honest debates with people, but to really mock people. That's my opinion. You could have

different opinions. And I don't think that we should be honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy at all. If I were to be in Congress, I want to let you know where I stand. I would strongly vote against honoring the legacy of Charlie Kirk. I don't think we should honor his legacy at all. I don't think he was a good guy. I think it's very simple. I think we have to act with moral clarity. Now, do I sympathize with his family? Do I send thoughts and prayers? Do I condemn political violence? Do I think that it was absolutely heinous what took place? Do I feel sad and bad for what happened? As a father, I mean, the fact that he lost children and that his children won't grow up with a father and his wife without a husband. That That makes me actually very authentically, very, very sad.

I just, I don't think he was a good guy that should be honored the way we honor civil rights heroes. Anyway, here's what AOC says. Play this clip. I think, a gentleman representative green for his graciousness. Today, the Republican House majority brought to the floor a resolution honoring, quote, honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's assassination was a horrific and vile attack, an incident of a political violence. And condemning the depravity of Kirk's brutal murder is a straightforward matter,

one that is especially important to help stabilize an increasingly unsafe and volatile political environment, where everyday people feel more at risk. We can deeply disagree and come together as a country to denounce the horror of this killing. And it is not a license for the abuse of power and whitewashing of American history. Today's resolution only underscores the majority's recklessness

by choosing to author this condemnation and honoring on a purely partisan basis, instead of uniting Congress in this tragedy, with one of the many bipartisan options to condemn political violence and Kirk's murder, as we did with the late Melissa Hortman. Instead, the majority proceeded with a resolution that brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregated. Jim Crow and the legacy of bigotry today. We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was.

A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake, who after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi claimed that, quote, some amazing patriot, unquote, should bail out his brutal assailant. and accused Jews of controlling, quote, not just the colleges, it's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it, unquote. His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans, far from the working, quote, working

tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution. But here's what Kaylee McEnany has to say that why do we care about the First Amendment when Charlie Kirk lost his amendments here, play this clip. We were able to get work requirements into the system, which you mentioned at the outset, and I wish we wanted to cover this for a second. Every Democratic president and every Republican president has repeated the belief that you have to have work requirements as part of any social safety in that program. If I'm going to give you free health care insurance, I should expect you to try to get a job. I know if you don't get one, it's fine, we'll still cover you. But if you don't even try, if you're sitting at home and not showing up in life, then that's a problem.

And on average, an able-bodied individual on Medicaid watches 6.1 hours of television. It's a lot of your show. Plus, they sit around. So we want people. They don't want that, though. They don't want to sit around doing nothing. People want to go out and do what God wanted them to do, which is change the world to help your fellow citizens.

So we have a desire to get people engaged in the community. that's not codified in the law, we're implementing it. Again, heinous stuff right there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Support independent media and unlock exclusive content,

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