The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous morning as he wrecks the country and people get pissed. Trust & Will: Get 10% off plus free shipping of your estate plan documents by visiting https://trustandwill.com/Meidas 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 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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we're going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the the gold is there you know that we're going to go into fort knox do you know about that how is that bad are they going to eliminate more national security positions civilians there we'll see what happens but one of the things we do want to look at me we hope everything's fine with fort knox but we're going to go to fort knox the fabled Fort Knox, and make sure the gold is there. If the gold isn't there, we're going to be very upset. But Donald Trump's team does not want the media to criticize any of this. Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's national security advisor, says that they are getting pushback and badmouthing in the press and that criticizing the administration is unacceptable. Let me show you what Mike Walls, Trump's national security

advisor, said moments ago. Why we're getting this pushback and certainly this kind of, as the vice president said, bad mouthing in the press for all the the administration has done in his first term as well. And all the United States has done for Ukraine is just it's unacceptable. They need to tone it down and and and take a hard look and sign that deal. Also, Donald Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance was at CPAC and J.D. Vance said the following about the essence of masculinity is telling jokes. Here, play this clip. It's because, you know, when I think about like what is the essence of masculinity, you could answer this in so many different ways.

But when I think about me and my guy friends, we really like to tell jokes to one another. It doesn't get much more cringy than that. While all of this is going on, the Pentagon has circulated to congressional Republicans a list of generals and flag officers that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is interested in firing or replacing. The list, per two sources who have seen it it includes firing General C.Q. Brown, who is currently the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Previously, he was the chief of the Air Force, appointed in 2020. Then in 2023, the Senate confirmed Brown to a four-year term in 2023. The vote was 83 to 11. You all may remember when Pete Hegseth was talking about conquering Gaza, or Donald Trump was talking about occupying Gaza,

conquering Gaza, conquering Greenland, conquering Panama, conquering Colombia, annexing Canada. General C.Q. Brown was in the room. Let me just remind you of why former Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth now wants to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here, watch this. Have a plan to send troops to Gaza. Are you working on options for the president right now that would involve U.S. troops in Gaza? The president is involved in very complex and high-level negotiations of great consequence to both the United States and the state of Israel. And we look forward to working with our allies, our counterparts, both diplomatically.

Folks, while all of this was taking place, a joint key press conference with U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg and Ukraine Zelensky. The Ukrainian president Zelensky was canceled at the request of the United States. You can see them right here. This is Keith Kellogg, the special envoy, arriving in Ukraine to meet with Zelensky. This follows Donald Trump yesterday saying that Zelensky is a dictator and that Zelensky needs to be careful and watch out for himself. Also, you have Donald Trump and Elon Musk pushing Russian propaganda points and saying that elections need to be immediately held in Ukraine so that Russia could put in their puppet. But the U.S. canceled this press conference

between Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Zelensky. If you've been watching my shows, you know that I've been saying that I thought that Keith Kellogg is going to be one of the first people to get fired or to get pushed out of the administration. Just to remind you, this is what Donald Trump said yesterday about Zelensky and calling Zelensky a dictator. Play this clip. Thank you. Yes. We're hearing that Russia wants to force Ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign any kind of a peace deal. Is that something that the U.S. would ever support? Well, we have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in

Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4% approval rating, and where a country has been blown to smithereens. You got most of the cities are laying on their sides. The buildings are collapsed. It looks like a massive demolition site. The whole I mean, so many of the cities. I mean, they haven't done it in Kiev because I guess they don't want to shoot too many rockets in there. They've done it 20 percent, but they haven't done it 100 percent. If they wanted to do it 100 percent, it would probably happen very quickly but you have cities that are absolutely decimated and yeah I would say that you know when they want a seat at the table you could say the people have to wouldn't the people of Ukraine have to say like you know it's been a long time since we've had an election that's not a Russia thing that's something coming

from me and coming from many other countries also. You know, Ukraine is being just just wiped out. Look at what's happening to the cities that there are cities. There's not even a building standing. It's a massive it's you talk about Gaza. I mean, it's it's literally these cities look like Gaza. While Donald Trump was calling Zelensky a dictator, Donald Trump was making posts like this yesterday. Long live the king, with photos of Donald Trump wearing a crown, calling himself a king. Space Station because the commander of the International Space Station called out Musk for lying about the plans to bring the astronauts home. Just take a look at this. Andreas Mogensen, who is the commander of the International Space Station, responded to Elon Musk saying that the

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because Ronnie Jackson's congressional district was in Amarillo, Texas. And Ronnie Jackson said that he was a consumer who was injured as a result of the way 60 Minutes aired an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris when she was running for the presidency because he says that it hurt him and Donald Trump's feelings and caused emotional distress. I believe Ronny Jackson signed a Paramount Plus arbitration agreement, though, so he inadvertently may have also compelled the entire Ronny Jackson's portion to arbitration and the fact that donald trump and ronnie jackson are saying the 60 minutes interview caused 20 billion dollars of damages is one of the most pathetic thing but now cbs is now seeking broad discovery

including those related to trump's personal finances and those of Truth Social and his Trump crypto project. So it's good to actually see after all this news we heard that CBS is fighting back. In addition to talking about trying to find gold at Fort Knox, Donald Trump also was asked, do you still think you can pay for extending your tax cuts without cutting Medicaid or Medicare? And you can see kind of a very old and adult and cognitively challenged Donald Trump respond. Here, play this clip. of money to make cuts too. I think we're going to take in tremendous tariff money, number one. And number two, you take a look at Doge and you see what's happening with saving billions of dollars. Finally, it should be noted that Donald Trump is now sending messages like this to his supporters. If I say please, will you at least answer question number one? If I say

please, will you answer this, Ben? It's the easiest question. Please let me know. Will you stand with Trump if I'm impeached again? Dude, you control both the House and the Senate. Unfortunately, you're not going to get impeached this term, but he's whining about getting impeached when there's not votes to impeach him right now as much as he should be impeached. Then he writes this. He's just a whiner. He just has to play the victim. They're trying to impeach me. I'm going to Fort Knox. It's like, dude, you said you were going to lower prices. You are not. You said you were going to make housing more affordable. You lied. You don't do anything with no tax on tips. You don't do anything with no tax on social security or no tax on overtime. Nothing about capping credit card interest rates or penalties. It's all absolutely BS after BS. And then he sends this, but $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires. And then Donald

Trump writes this, President Trump hasn't heard from you in over two days. Ben, did you hear that you were handpicked to become a cabinet level advisor? Please accept your invitation right away, Ben. That's what we got for you this morning. We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. We're on our way to 5 million subscribers. Please hit subscribe right now and help us get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas?

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