The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster Morning as War Explodes

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous day as the war in Ukraine accelerates with a European Union building and United Kingdom building getting hit and Trump continues to plummet in the polls. For 30% off your order, head to https://GetSoul.com and use code 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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Four children have just been killed in Ukraine. 16 overall people have just died. Russia is striking Kyiv and other cities right now across Russia with ballistic missiles and Shahid drones. We're learning that the European Union mission has been hit by Russia. The British Council building has been hit by Russia, both in Kiev. Russia is clearly targeting European United Kingdom buildings to send a message following Donald Trump's weakness right now. French President Emmanuel Macron is responding 629 missiles and drones in a single night over Ukraine. This is Russia's idea of peace, terror and barbarism, more than a dozen dead.

That number right now at 16 total with four children. Residential areas and civilian infrastructure deliberately targeted. The offices of the European Union delegation and the British Council have been hit and damaged. France condemns the senseless. and cruel attacks in the strongest possible terms, full support to the Ukrainian people and deepest compassion for all of the grieving families. Ukraine has now declared a day of mourning for August 29th as a result of these massive terrorist attacks in Kiev and throughout Ukraine. Donald Trump has not acknowledged them at all. Instead, this morning, Donald Trump has been posting messages like this,

and sending emails to his supporters like this. Do you want a Doge check? Tell me here. Do you want a Doge check? We all know that Doge was a failure and didn't save any money. You're still doing the fraud about Doge dividend checks? I mean, how pathetic can you be? Rebate check poll.

I only need you to answer one question, and it's a very important one. I'm only sending this poll to my most trusted 1%. I'm even providing you with the two-hour extension. Should bonus revenue from tariffs go back to the American people via a check signed by Trump? Are you getting your frauds confused right now? While you're not addressing the fact that last week, Russia hit an American factory in western Ukraine, the flex factory. Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, admitted. to doing it. And J.D. Vance, your vice president, said that's war. That's just what happens. No condemnation of

that. Now Russia's striking the British Council building and the European delegation building. And you're talking about doge checks and you're confusing it with your other fraud of your tariff rebate checks as you destroy the American economy. And then you also post this. No tax on social security, Ben, I got no taxes on social security passed. I signed it into law. That's not in the budget bill. There is a $6,000 deduction for social security recipients that expires in about two and a half years. That's in the bill, if we want to be honest. But there's nothing about no tax on social security. No wonder if you look at the new generic ballot from the economist that just came out this morning. Right now, Democrats lead Republicans by plus 26 in 18 to 29 plus 26. So for all of those

people out there who want to sew these narratives, oh, the Democratic brand is tarnished and da da da da da da and it's never going to be plus 26. And by the way, you want to look at real elections like Senate District 1 in Iowa that we covered, where the Democrat outperformed the Republican candidate in a plus 11.5 Trump district by about 20 points or so and went on to when you all remember that we covered that. Because if you want to talk about real waste, fraud, and abuse, just think about this. Alligator Alcatraz at this point. Remember that concentration camp. it was so poorly run, so poorly managed, that literally they're shutting it down. They want to try to keep it open. They're fighting in court to keep the concentration camp open, but they don't know how to run it.

How Trumpian is that? Fighting to keep a concentration camp open that you're even incapable of running. That like sums up Trump so much. A federal judge basically said that this concentration camp is entirely unconstitutional, but even setting aside that judge's order, the Associated Press got their hands on an email that was sent from one of the concentration camp leaders to a local rabbi in the area, saying that we're going to be down to zero prisoners soon. And basically, there's no need to provide religious services at all for any of the religious leaders there because we're pretty much shutting it down anyway. So as Democratic Congress member, as Democratic Congress member says, Frost says, and just like that, $450 million of your taxpayer dollars are going down the drain. That's why our national debt right now is surging and with it our deficit is surging.

There's been more government spending under Donald Trump by far than ever before. This isn't fiscal conservatism. This is Trumpism and go back. There's a reason why he's bankrupted business after, business after. He's the worst businessman ever. And I'm not just saying that because I don't like him. Just objectively go back. If there was a Guinness Book of World Records for like the most bankruptcies for casinos and other businesses,

Trump would make a good run for being at the top of that list before he ever went into politics. He just had this fraudy image of, oh, I'm a businessman, you're fired, you fired. The whole thing was a fraud. Come on, people. wake up. I'll tell you who's waking up too. Foreign countries are waking up. Japan, I reported on this this morning as well. Japan has canceled its meeting with the White House. Same thing, Prime Minister Modi of India not returning Donald Trump's phone calls. Foreign leaders are just learning. It's easier. You just ignore the guy. He comes back and begs because he's a little pathetic weasel. That's how you have to treat

him. You can't. It's like little, it's like, I don't know, I was going to say, say like little children, but little children are far more mature than Donald Trump. But like, you just have to, you can't appease it. You just have to ignore it and just say, shut up. No, go away. And then he comes back, blub blub, blub, blub, you just have to ignore the guy. And so Japan was supposed to come back this week to talk more about that fake trade deal. Remember we told you it was a fake trade deal with Japan because Donald Trump was like,

Japan will give me $550 billion. $90% of the profits will go to the United States, 10% go to Japan. Japan's like, we never agreed to that. That's the stupidest deal. Why would we ever agree to that? Trump's like, nope, it's a signing bonus. They've paid me $550 billion.

Like, okay, that's not happening. So now the Japanese trade representative, Akizawa, and that whole delegation, they've canceled their meeting with Trump this week because they know if they show up, he's just going to lie about it again. I love going out with friends, but I don't always want to drink.

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Now, Prime Minister Modi is preparing his big meeting with Xi Jinping next week in Shanghai. All these world leaders that the United States work decades and decades, generations to build relationships to make America the strongest, richest, most powerful nation, in the world, America just screwed it all up. America screwing it up. In other news, we know that Donald Trump has been just firing everybody who, in order for his dictatorial ambitions to be pursued. So we've reported, and you know this by now, Lisa Cook, the governor at the Federal Reserve,

whose term expires 2038. Donald Trump maliciously and falsely accused her of engaging in mortgage fraud. Trump has that guy who runs the Fair Housing Administration Bill Pulte and Bill Pulte gins up these mortgage fraud allegations against Trump's political enemies like New York Attorney General

Leticia James, Lisa Cook, Congress membership, and then Trump uses that to fire people. So Trump did that with Lisa Cook. She's like, I'm not fired. I'm not leaving right now. So she just filed a lawsuit against the Trump regime

and I think she'll end up winning that lawsuit. Susan Monterez. She's about to file a lawsuit against the Trump regime. She's the head of the CDC. She was just appointed by Donald Trump to be the head of the CDC. She was outspoken against RFK Jr's plan to prevent Americans from getting vaccines. RFK Jr. basically has prevented people from accessing vaccines. He's dismantled the vaccine board. He's dismantled the COVID, you know, making the COVID vaccine accessible. Why, wait, we as adults can't make decisions for ourselves and our families. You are of K Jr., who looks, your face looks like us. I saw somebody saying this. A 100-year-old baseball glove, you're going to be the one who's going to tell me what I can and can get for my family that's accessible in the United States. You're preventing me from getting that for my family.

F you. I mean, who are these freaking people? F you. By the way, if you don't want to get the vaccine, don't get the vaccine. But now you're forcing my family not to get it? Or we have to go and we have to, what? I mean, it's the most ridiculous. Anyway, so Susan Monteraz was pissed at that as the head of the CDC.

The Trump regime wanted her to resign. She goes, I'm not resigning. And then last night they said, okay, you're fired. Well, she's like, okay, well, then we're going to sue you too. And so she's preparing that lawsuit, Susan Monteraz right now. You've had mass resignations at the CDC as well. Horrific, horrific stuff. And by the way, I want to remember this guy right here, Thomas Fugate, the 22-year-old Trump intern, who was appointed to lead the counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security.

Remember this guy, Thomas Fugate, as Adam Cochran writes, you know, this guy gutted the entire department that deals with addressing domestic terrorist threats, stopping future school shooters. It's basically been gutted by 75%. You have this 22-year-old intern who's leading it with zero experience in this field at all. And one of the things we know about that shooter in Minneapolis, this person was posting publicly over and over and over again. And as the Trump regime has gutted the FBI, gutted the CIA, gutted law enforcement, defunded law enforcement and the police, that's objectively what they've done so that they could fund ICE to go after hardworking migrants on farms and factories. That's what their focus is, going after hardworking migrants, not criminals. It's hardworking people if their skin is brown.

That's what their focus is on. When do we need to have a conversation about how much more dangerous we are? And could things like this have been stopped? I mean, just think about Texas. What corporate media has moved on? They don't want to talk about the Guadalupe Rwhip. flash floods that resulted in hundreds of children dying, hundreds, a catastrophic event where hundreds of children's died. It was preventable. FEMA stopped urban search and rescue

teams from doing their jobs. The FEMA head didn't even show up for like two weeks. Was Christy Gnome like taking a vacation that weekend? What the hell was she doing on that Fourth of July vacation weekend? All of the local Republicans in that area refused to take the money that Biden wanted to give them to put in emergency warning systems. And they took the money, though, to use for like bonuses for themselves so they wouldn't have to give it back, even though it was supposed to be used for emergency system. It was a four-minute walk for those children to get to the top of the mountain and they wouldn't have died.

And what, we don't talk about that anymore than hundreds of children died. And by the way, we're going to, of course, keep talking about Donald Trump's cover up of the Epstein files. He thinks that just goes away. They turn over 33,000 files that have been produced before. and they think that we're just stupid and we just go away from it. This is the most incompetent and despicable regime. But frankly, we also have a media that normalizes this behavior.

I mean, this is the front page of the New York Times today. Front page New York Times today. Trump takes power quest to new level. Attack on Fed officials likely to test justices. A power quest? What is this like Zelda, Akarina of Time? A power quest? you're going to travel for power.

It was like the Hobbit. I mean, you know, Lord of the Rings, a power quest. What are you talking about? The guy's behaving like a dictator. He's ripping to shreds our Constitution. He's destroying the United States of America. Just put that in your freaking headline. Is that so hard?

Because objectively, that's what's going to happen. But even look at AFP. Trump stamps dictator chic on Washington. Dictator chic? The F are you talking about? dictator chic. Oh, you know, he's just doing the, doing the styles, a little bit of Hitler, a little bit of Mussolini, it's dictator chic. He's destroying America. He's destroying our alliances. He's empowering Vladimir Putin. The European delegation building in Kiev has been

freaking blown up. So too has the British Council building. They blew up an American factory yesterday. But Trump's doing dictator chic. Have you seen? He's doing. He's doing. Kim Jong-un-style photos on the buildings in Washington, D.C., as we have the National Guard everywhere picking up garbage. The hell is going on here. The hell is going. What do you talk? Are all these people so brainwashed? Sometimes I feel like I'm in like a zombie movie and I haven't been bit by the zombie. You know what I mean? You're walking around. You're like, hello, what the hell is going on? But I know that. I know that there's more of us than them. That's the thing.

I just don't get how the them is writing these things. That's why we, the people, need to reclaim the power. Go ahead, subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new truth over lies collection at store.midastouch.com. All 100% USA Union made.