The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster Presser Which Quickly Goes Sideways

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous press conference in the Oval Office where he instantly had a meltdown when confronted with the idea that people might protest his military parade and then the press conference got he even odder when he made up fake conversations between himself and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Smalls: Head to https://Smalls.com/MEIDAS and use promo code MEIDAS at checkout for 60% off your first order PLUS free shipping! 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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guaranteed to fit every time. eBay, things people love. Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office. I think it was supposed to be about FEMA, but Donald Trump ended up whining and saying that if anybody starts to protest at my big military parade this weekend, I'm going to put so much force against you. What a baby here. Watch this. Celebrating big on Saturday. We're going to have have a lot of and if there's any protestor once they come out

They will be met with very big force by the way for those people that want to protest They're gonna be met with very big force and I haven't even heard about a protest But you know, this is people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force. Thank you very much, everyone. Then Donald Trump lies and claims that he spoke to California Governor Gavin Newsom a day ago, which is just 100% false. And then Donald Trump said, you need to stop the death. There's not been a single person who has died as a result of the protests against ISIS raids against hardworking migrants here, but play this clip. When is the last time you spoke with Governor Newsom? A day ago. Called him up to tell him, got to do a better job. He's doing a bad job, causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death. And what you saw take place in California and Los Angeles just a little while ago.

And as Governor Newsom then wrote, there was no call, not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a president is deploying the Marines onto our streets and doesn't even know who he's talking to. Hat tip to California Governor Gavin Newsom for the rapid response. Then Donald Trump starts yelling at a reporter and saying that, we won the war, we won the war. And if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German or you'd be speaking German and Japanese combined. What? Here, play this clip. Only country that didn't celebrate the victory, and we're the one that won the war. Okay. clip.

Then you have Kristi Noem there, because this was supposed to be about FEMA, urging Californians not to elect California Governor Gavin Newsom again. Watch this. And Governor Newsom has done a disservice to the status of California for many years. The people there should never elect him into a leadership position ever again. He clearly is a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent. When it comes to his railroad.

Think they're scared of California governor Gavin Newsom. Then you have Donald Trump. Again, this was supposed to be, I think this press conference was supposed to be about Christine Ohm, the dog killer, cosplay, Homeland Security Secretary, assuring people that there would be resources for FEMA available in hurricane season. But Donald Trump says we want to wean off FEMA. We shouldn't be dealing with it. It's the governors. We want off of FEMA. Watch what Donald Trump says. Let's play it.

Thank you very much, Richard. Everybody. So we want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level. A little bit like education, we're moving it back to the states so the governors can handle it. That's why they're governors now. If they can't handle it, they shouldn't be governor. As my friend Dan Coe, who was in the Biden administration and worked on disaster relief, says, the federal government gave $76 billion to Louisiana for Katrina relief efforts, not to mention physical resources and personnel. The entire state budget for Louisiana that year was $18 billion. There's a role for states, but there's a role for the federal government.

States need the federal government. States need FEMA specifically for emergency relief. Dan Coe also says, as someone who worked on disaster response in the last administration, I can say unequivocally that eliminating FEMA would be a debacle and cost lives. Then Donald Trump says, the FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment. Let's play it. But the FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment, very, very expensive, and it doesn't get the job done. You saw what happened in North Carolina under the past administration. And when we got in, we did a great job for North Carolina, brought it back,

but it was a disaster, FEMA. And it has not worked out well. It's extremely expensive. And again, when you have a tornado or a hurricane or you have a problem of any kind in a state, that's what you have governors for. They're supposed to fix those problems and it's much more local and they'll develop a system and I think it'd be a great system. Then Kristi Noem has to then assure people and says, but we're prepared for what's coming. Even though we're weaning off of FEMA, we're prepared for what's coming here. Play this clip. Great job.

Thanks, Chris. Yeah, Mr. President, we are in hurricane season right now. It will last for the next several months and we are prepared for what is coming. We are anticipating that we will have a higher than usual activity during this hurricane season. We could have three to five major storms up to a dozen other hurricane level thresholds that we will meet throughout this season. And FEMA stands prepared and has been working with all of our regions. And of course, they're not prepared for what's coming. You've been seeing the reports that I've been doing where we show, I show you the denial letters. FEMA has been denying supplemental assistance to Georgia and North Carolina and Arkansas

or assistance in general to Arkansas. Where has FEMA been in St. Louis with devastating tornadoes? Mississippi, Kentucky, Indiana, I can go on and on. Donald Trump doesn't even acknowledge when these deadly storms have hit American states thus far and have killed dozens and dozens and dozens of people. Trump doesn't even acknowledge that it even takes place. He ignores the whole situation. Is listening to the craziness of the world making you just want to cuddle up on the couch with your cat?

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for years I've been meeting with heads of other countries and they are forest countries. They call themselves for us, Austria and others. And they say we're a forest nation. We live in a forest and they don't have forest fires. And in one case he said, you know, our trees are much more flammable than California, but we don't have forest fires because we cleaned the floor. We sweep the floor of leaves, of dead debris, of trees that fall, because after 18 months, a tree is like real, it's like tinderwood, and it goes up, it virtually explodes. Well, we don't take the trees out. California is a disaster, what they've done in California. They don't do anything. And if you did, you wouldn't, you almost would not have forest fires. And you can say you, you in theory you shouldn't have any forest fires and we spend billions and billions of dollars a year because

People don't clean the forests and we're going to clean the forest We're going to start cleaning them and as our editor in chief Ron Filipkowski correctly writes This story for years was always that he spoke to the president of Finland about it Then the people in Finland started mocking Donald Trump. So in 2023, he switched it to someone in Austria. He also said in 2019 that nobody in the US ever heard of forest management until he taught them about it. Donald Trump then says that there were areas of Los Angeles last night that you could call

an insurrection. Play this clip. Not playing around. How will you determine whether or not there is an insurrection? Well, you'll take a look at what's happening. I mean, I could tell you there were certain areas of Los Angeles that you could have called it an insurrection. Donald Trump then says that there's no timeline for how long the National Guard will remain

in California. Whenever he wants, he may keep them there forever. Play this clip. There's no danger they'll leave. You would have had a horrible situation had I not sent them, and horrible. You'd be reporting on a lot of death and a lot of destruction that's not going to take place. I think, if you look, every night it got less and less. They were met with very strong force, the bad people, the bad, sick people that do what they do.

But these are paid people in many cases, not in all cases, but in many cases. And, uh, they really are, they're agitators. I was wondering if you had any... Then Donald Trump learns that Mexico's very popular president, Claudia Scheinbaum, has been very critical of how Donald Trump has been treating protesters. So then Kristi Noem, who by the way went to Mexico to suck up to Claudia Scheinbaum, then has to criticize Claudia Scheinbaum.

I condemn her. I condemn her. Here, watch this. They really are. They're agitators. I was wondering if you had any response to Mexican President Scheinbaum who condemned the violence there. Have you been in touch with her at all? Said what? I was wondering if you had any response to what Mexican President Claudine Chaybong said in response. What did she say? She condemned the violence in L.A.

Oh, I do, too. Have you been in touch with her at all? Well, you think I don't condemn it? I condemn the violence in L.A., ladies and gentlemen, but I also stopped the violence in L.A. And by doing what I did, I stopped the violence in LA. That would have been, I think, maybe I'd ask Kristi to speak to that.

That would have been an unbelievable tragedy. We would be talking, I don't know, that would even be here right now. It would have been so bad. I'd probably maybe be out there. I don't know. But, Kristi, could you speak to that? Absolutely. So, in 2020, I was a governor of a neighboring state to Tim Walz and watched him let his city burn. And the president and I have talked about this in the past, and he was not going to

let that happen to another city and to another community where a bad governor made a bad decision. So Claudia Scheinbaum came out and encouraged more protests in LA, and I condemn her for that. She should not be encouraging violent protests that are going on. If people are allowed to peacefully protest but the violence that we're seeing is not acceptable and it's not going to happen in America. Then Donald Trump says that residents of other American cities can expect ICE raids like the ones in Los Angeles. Here play this clip.

The reaction to these large-scale ICE operations in Los Angeles. Should people expect to see similar quick hat tip to the company called Snapstream. These are criminals and people are criminals that allowed these criminals into our country. And I don't think I also want to give a quick hat tip to the company called Snapstream. That's the technology behind the way we get those clips. Aisin, ACYN, who works for us helps get those clips. I also use some of the clips from Aaron Rupert. So hat tip to Aaron. He's great as well. And the folks at Snapstream, a totally disastrous press conference by Donald Trump. Let me know what you think.

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