The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster in Oval With Massive Meltdown

Episode Date: August 23, 2025

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says that everything relating to Epstein is one big, gigantic hoax. Here's what he says here, play this clip. Because it's a, it's a Democrat hoax. The whole Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax. So we had the greatest six months, seven months of the history of the presidency, and the Democrats don't know what to do, so they keep bringing up that stuff. But it affected them. And here's where Donald Trump pulls out that photo of Vladimir Pooh. Putin and Trump from Alaska and Donald Trump goes to the head of FIFA. Look what we got. And Vladimir Putin really wants to show up at the FIFA games.

Putin, our friend Putin. Here's what Donald Trump says here, play this clip. Testifying for that. Absolutely. And I just sent a picture from somebody that wants to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of me and of our country, but not so respectful of others. But he'll, I'm going to sign this for. but I was sent to one and I thought you'd all like to see that's a man named Vladimir Putin, who I believe will be coming, depending on what happens. He may be coming and he may not,

depending on what happens. We have a lot of things happening over the next couple of weeks. But I thought it was a nice picture of him. Okay, of me, but nice of him. So that was very nice that it was sent to me. Okay. Uh, yes. Can we just talk about how, traitorous and treasonous, that is. There's been no ceasefire. Putin has escalated the attacks on Ukraine. There's been no agreement by Putin to any security guarantees at all in Ukraine, which Trump claimed existed. Putin has not agreed to a trilateral meeting or a bilateral meeting. Things are getting significantly worse in Ukraine. And Donald Trump's there in the Oval Office like a fanboy holding up a photo with the head of FIFA. Like, how is this not criminal right there? I mean, we're going to

going to call it out what it is on the Midas Touch Network. Then Donald Trump says, you know who Epstein was really friends with? Larry Sumner and Bill Clinton, but Larry Sumner was his best friend. I'm not going to mention that, though, but Larry Sumner was Epstein's best friend. You know, the all head of Harvard? No, you were Epstein's best friend, Donald. You were literally Epstein and Delane Maxwell's best friend. Here play this clip. The Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don't want to bring that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever his name is, Summers, the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Nobody ever talks about that.

I mean, but I don't want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epsey. It should be noted as well, I'm going to do a full expose on this, that a lady who was at the minimum security facility in Brian, Texas, where Gilane Maxwell was transferred, she just got moved this other lady to a maximum security facility for hardened criminals and sex traffickers because she spoke. out against Geelaine Maxwell. She gave an interview saying that it's bad to put the sex trafficker in Camp Ryan. Then they moved the non-sex trafficker into the sex trafficking prison and move the sex trafficker into the minimum facility in Camp Ryan, Texas. That is what this government is. It is a government by the pedos for the petos at this point in a massive cover-up.

Then Donald Trump continues to talk about how he hates California Governor Gavin Newsom, to which Governor Newsom then responds such low-energy. sad here play this clip. The governor's incompetent. I know Gavin very well. He's an incompetent guy with a good lot of bullshit. And he doesn't get the job done. Then the head of FIFA, who is randomly there, gives Donald Trump the prior FIFA World Cup

Championship trophy and says, because you're a winner, you get to touch it. And then Donald Trump touches the trophy and says, now it's mine. I get to keep the trophy. Again, do you all know how humiliating this makes the United States? Look, what in the Kim Jong-un is this? Here, play this clip. Only the FIFA president, presidents of countries, and then those who win can touch it, because it's for winners only.

And since you are a winner, of course, you can, as well, touch it. It's pretty heavy. It's the winner's trophy. The last one who lifted that is Leo Messi, Leonard Messi of Argentina. And here it is in the Oval Office, in the White House. keep it? What do you? Well, you can continue. We're not giving it back. That's just, that's serious. It fits well. It goes very well on the wall right over there. Put it right below the angels. It fits well here, I think. That's beautiful. Yeah. Until we have to give it to the next winter.

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that you do nothing if Putin doesn't come to the table for Steve Spire? I'll see who's fault it is. If there are reasons why, I'll understand that. I know exactly what I'm doing. We're going to see whether or not they have a meeting, that'll be interesting to see. And if they don't, why didn't have a meeting? Because I told them to have a meeting. But I'll know in two weeks what what I'm going to do. Your Justice Department is also sending... Putin sent Trump a signed autograph and Trump's out there holding it when he's supposed to announce the release of the Epstein file. What the hell is going on? And then Donald Trump says that he's going to send our military and our National Guard into Chicago and New York next. Here, play this

clip. Something happens. So I think Chicago will be our next and then we'll help with New York and we're going to help with and I think really I think a lot of and a lot of these people that are you see on television they're including the people in this audience they'll say bad things about me and then they'll say thank God he's here because half of them got mugged and they don't want to get mugged again but another question about how long will you give Putin to to what to agree to what was supposed to be agreed to last Friday Donald Trump's like, hey, I don't know, a couple of weeks. Donald Trump is literally doing Putin's bidding.

Donald Trump is doing the sex traffickers bidding right now. This is a authoritarian regime that covers up for sex traffickers and people like Putin. Play this clip. Mr. President, how long would you give Putin? A couple of weeks. We're going to figure it up. Do you think you'll have to intervene at something? Look, it takes two to tango.

You understand that. I wanted to have a meeting with those two. I could have been at the meeting, but had a lot of people. think that nothing's going to come out of that meeting you have to be there maybe that's true maybe it's not but we're going to see in the meantime people continue to die but i've solved seven of them where they were in wars for 31 35 and 37 years we had three of them that were for more than 30 years jen and i got them solved uh and we solved one that could have been a nuclear war with india and pakistan that was getting ready to be a nuclear war i solved them all then donald

Trump's like, but it's okay. I settled seven wars, maybe 10 wars. Maybe I settled 10 wars. I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. Here play this clip. It was sent to me, okay? Mr. President, on that subject, have you talked to Vladimir Putin about the fact that yesterday a big U.S. factory was hit in a Russian a strike in Ukraine? What's your reaction to that? I'm not happy about it. And I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I said, I settled seven wars. And actually, if you think about it, pre-war, wars and three more so it would be 10. And again, what the announcement supposed to be is releasing

the Epstein files. But you have the head of FIFA and you're holding up Putin's autograph and you're bragging about wars that you settled, which you didn't. And then Donald Trump goes on to talk about how everything in the Oval Office is gold and how expensive everything is. Well, I'm sure that's what Americans really want to hear now who can't afford groceries, whose energy costs are skyrocketing right now, who can't afford things, who are losing their their jobs. Yeah, great. The Oval Office is filled with gold. Here, play this clip. It'll be great. It'll be fantastic. You see the way this is looking. Nice. I can't tell you how much that gold costs a lot of money. There's nothing like gold and there's nothing like

solid gold. But this, this beautiful office needed it. It had to be representative. When we took it over, it was dirty, not clean. I immediately changed the chair and had this beautiful desk renovated brought out by the White House. People that do this, they did a great job. We said to that we have a craftsman who's great. But this was not appropriate to the Oval Office what I took over. And now, if you look at all those paintings, you're allowed to turn back. You know, that's the people's house.

The whole thing about the White House is that it's not supposed to look like some Middle East palace. The idea of it is it is a humble abode by the people for the people, which Donald Trump is turning into exactly what we fought the revolutionary war against kings and our corporate news and our corporations are like, let's just go full authoritarianism, whatever. While we the people are suffering, it is so utterly despicable. Then Donald Trump addresses the fact that he ordered the DOJ and FBI

to raid the home of his former national security advisor, John Bolton earlier today, in order to further distract from the fact that they ain't releasing anything substantial regarding the Epstein files. But Donald Trump's like, you know, I'm the chief law enforcement officer, so I can do whatever I want to do, but I don't know anything about what's happening with Bolton.

I just leave that to Pam Bondi and Cash Patel and Dan Bongino here, play this clip. Mr. President, I have a question about the search of Ambassador Bolton's home, the vice president recently just in an interview saying that it's about classified documents, but that there's also broad concern about him. What are the concerns? Well, I haven't spoken to Pam in the group yet, but I will be. I saw that just like everybody else. stay out of that stuff. I'm allowed to be, and I'm chief law enforcement officer, believe it or not. I don't like to go around saying that, but I am. That's a position. But I purposely don't want to really get involved in it. I'm not a fan of John Bowman. I thought it was a sleaze bag, actually.

And he suffers major Trump derangement syndrome, but so do a lot of people, and they're not being affected by anything we do. Here's another question where Donald Trump is asked about the Epstein files, and he starts talking about Bill Clinton. Here, play this clip. is also sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee today. Are you in support of them releasing all of them? If they wanted to release. People shouldn't be there, but I'm in support of keeping it totally open. I couldn't care less.

You've got a lot of people that it could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be people, because he knew everybody in Palm Beach. I don't know anything about that, but I have said to Pam and everybody else, give them everything you can give them because it's a Democrat hoax. It's just a hoax. The whole Epstein thing is the Democrat hugs. So we had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency, and the Democrats don't know what to do, so they keep bringing up that stuff.

But it affected them. Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don't want to bring that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever, his name is, Summers, the head of Harvard, who is Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Nobody ever talks about that. I mean, but I don't want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

No, this is a Democratic hoax to try and get the, uh, the significance of what we've done over the past seven months. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. They say it's number one in history. What we've done, including stopping seven wars. I mean, just include that. Then Donald Trump choreographs or intimates that he's just going to keep the military in D.C., essentially forever by declaring fake.

emergencies in Washington, D.C. here play this clip. That money, that money will come out of Congress. I think it'll be even bipartisan. I mean, I would imagine Democrats would vote for that one. Is the plan to get it before the September 30 standing deadline on the hill? Well, I don't know if there is a headline, a deadline because if I declare a national emergency, which this was, that ends the deadline. So, I mean, I keep seeing about a 30-day deadline of which we have 22 days left or something.

But if I think we're in great shape here, that's one thing. But if I don't, I'm going to just say it's a national emergency. And if I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want. People are not going to want to have the troops. In 30 days, you know, it's one thing to get them out. It's another thing to keep them out for a long period of time. You've got to train people. You can't do this.

You can't pop people over the head. And a lot of those people are in courts right now going to court. They're going to go to jail for a long time. So that's going to take more than 30 days. But if I have to, I'll declare a national emergency, which I don't think I'll have to do. Then Donald Trump lies and says that people are going to restaurants in D.C. In record numbers, which is false. Actually, Restaurant Week in D.C. has been the biggest disaster.

In its history, people are not showing up to restaurants. 79% of D.C. residents do not want the National Guard there. Here, play this clip. Johnny, I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that, too, actually. Oh, yes. But it's a whole different place. people are excited again. They're going out to restaurants again.

That was the other thing I saw numbers. That restaurant business is down in the last week. No, no. Restaurant business, you can't get into a restaurant. Just really lying people. And that's why people don't understand how bad and how dishonest the press is. Then Donald Trump says that he will fire

the mayor of Washington, D.C. If she doesn't get her act together, he says, and he will just become the mayor of D.C. And just take it all over himself. Here, play this clip. It was horrible. And Mayor Bowser better get her axe straight or she won't be mayor very long because we'll take it over with the federal government running like it's supposed to be run. Then Donald Trump just lies and defames the city of Washington, D.C.

He said it's a rat infested hellhole, which it absolutely was not. You may want to go to some of those red states and red cities where crime is multiples higher than Washington, D.C., but that's not what this is about. This is about an authoritarian vile piece of trash. in a golden bordello, um, just attacking democratic states because he's no different than Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un. A real vile piece of trash is what he is. I have zero respect for him. You should show him zero respect. He's destroyed the presidency. Here, play this clip. The numbers were horrible. It was a crime-infested rat hole. And they do have a lot of rats who are getting rid of them too. Next up, Donald Trump goes and says, and you're one of the reasons

why you show him zero respect is that he's there with Christy Gnome, the dog-killing cosplayer who Trump goes, she's a great rider of horses yesterday. But Donald Trump talks about today how they painted parts of the border wall black in order to burn the hands of migrants who touch it. So they die if they touch the wall. They've got a thousand concentration camps. They're building across the country. They've got the alligator concentration cap where they joke about alligators ripping people's bodies apart, migrants and citizens alike. And here's what they're talking about, painting border walls black. So if people touch him, your hands burn. Here, play this clip. But I said, we got to get a coat of paint. And it should be black because black makes the steel very hot. It's untouchable.

You can fry an egg on it. And if you got a good black, flat paint, it would look beautiful. It will preserve it from rust. And that was it. And I gave it to her along with 30 other things. and she's done such a good job on the border with Tom Holman and the group. Tom Holman's a fantastic guy, what the job he does, and the way they work together. So I turned on last night, and I see Christy's painting the wall. And it looked beautiful, by the way, when that's great one over there. And it's hot. It's hot.

It's hot. If it's white, it's not hot. If it's black, it's going to be very hard to climb that. It's not going to be easy, but it's black and a high-quality black. You know, it really looked good. Yeah, we got a two-coat job or one coat? No, just one coat. One coat.

We used the paint you told me to buy. Yep. The two-coat will take place in three years from now. We'll do the second cut. But it looks beautiful. But thank you very much. I didn't know you were listening to that. Because we talked about seven different subjects.

And all of a sudden, I see you're out there painting with a lot of painters and everything else. But it was a beautiful thing to say. More praising of Vladimir Putin. Let's play it. For four years, it was never even a subject. And Vladimir knew. And you see.

his picture right here. It was nice that he said, but Vladimir knew very strongly, we wouldn't have stood for it. Then Donald Trump says that he may try and play in the FIFA games and he may put on shorts because, you know, he's a very good athlete, he says. Here, play this clip. Oh, soccer, but I see the money that these soccer players are making, I may try and play. I'm a very good athlete. My son, my son is a very good athlete, and he's a good soccer players on the tall side for soccer. He's 6.9. It's pretty tall. That's pretty tall. It's on the tall side, but he's good. But no, I may, uh, I may put on shorts, I'm extremely good in shorts and join the play. A utterly despicable event by Donald Trump will keep you posted every step of the way,

release the damn Epstein files. What the hell was that? Seriously, if you look at that and you're like, that's normal, your mind has become utterly mush at this point. Because what we've seen there is despicable, impeachable, it's criminal. It's criminal on steroids, what we saw right there. There's frankly not a lot of words to describe how disgusting and despicable and weak and dangerous that is. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Support independent media and unlock exclusive content, add free videos, and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.

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