The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster Saturday as Catastrophic News Hits

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous Saturday as he is hit with more catastrophic news of his own making. Go to https://Ground.News/MTN to cut through misinformation, critically analyze the news shaping our lives and hold the media accountable. Save 40% off unlimited access to Ground News with my link or scan the QR code on screen. 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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escalate attacks on Ukraine. Bloomberg reported this morning that Putin believes that the way to negotiate the best deal right now is to escalate attacks against Ukraine and escalate attacks against NATO allies and that Trump will do nothing. Just take a look at these images that we're seeing out of Kiev this morning. Over 40 missiles, crews and ballistic 580 drones of various types were launched last night by Russia from Kiev to Odessa to Sumi to Kharkiv. Frankly, all around Ukraine, we've been seeing this. This is at the same time where we learn this morning that the Pentagon has informed European diplomats that the United States will partially halt military assistance to Baltic nations and NATO states bordering Russia? You may recall

there was some reporting about this last week. Well, now an official decree was made to our European allies, letting them know the United States will not be supporting you. This, as Russia has escalated its actions amongst NATO countries, right? They sent drones into Poland and Estonian. and we've seen them in Romania and we've seen them in other locations as well. The Pentagon within the United States, led by former Fox Weekend host Pete Hegesith, also put out a decree, chilling First Amendment speech that any report from reporters who work and cover the Defense Department must be read, approved, and cleared by the Department of defense before it may be published. No reporter may publish any story about the Defense Department

if you work within the Defense Department until it gets approval by Pete Hegesith. Here's the article from the Washington Post. Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material. A new document spells out the latest in a series of escalating restrictions placed on the press. And those who refuse to sign the new policy, will be stripped of or denied permanent credentials to cover the Pentagon. So it is not surprising to me and should not be surprising to you that Donald Trump's approval is the lowest in modern presidential history. The person with the second lowest approval in modern presidential history is Donald Trump

during his first term. We're nine months in and Donald Trump is way below anybody else, including himself, during his first term. The AP NORC, APNORC poll shows Donald Trump's approval at 39% only 60% approval while 60% disapproved. And the new AP poll that came out earlier as well. Donald Trump's net negative 29 when it comes to health care, only 35% of Americans support how he is dealing with health care. frankly, I have no clue who those 35% of people are. They must be very privileged because Donald Trump has gutted Medicaid. He's significantly harming Medicare. And if you are on an Affordable Care Act plan,

which I know many of you are, you may not be in Medicaid, but you may be on an Affordable Care Act plan, well, a lot of those premiums are reduced because of Affordable Care Act tax credits for your premiums. Well, those tax credits are now expiring. Democrats don't want them to expire, so Democrats have said to Republicans, look, please, in your continuing resolution to fund the government, include an extension of the premium tax credits so Americans aren't going to get hit with $1,500 to $2,000 a month premiums for their health care. Republicans have refused to speak to Democrats.

And so in the United States Senate, Democrats have not agreed to vote for cloture on the funding bill. Cloture requires 60 votes. It's basically a vote to then vote that's called cloture. So Democrats have stopped that. Republicans aren't even talking to Democrats. And so we're heading to a shutdown right now on October 1st because Republicans want your health care costs to spike. And Democrats are trying to keep it. down. It's just as simple as that. Also, Maga Mike Johnson has told his members not to show up

September 29th and September 30th. Those are the key days to avoid a shutdown. And Maga Mike told Republicans do not come to Capitol Hill and he shut down voting on those days. So essentially, because next week there's Jewish holidays. So Congress really isn't coming in then. And then you have the next week. So we're heading to a shutdown. I know not a lot of people are talking about it in such clear terms, but they should be because we're absolutely heading towards a shutdown. You know, and just the atrocities taking place across the country need to be highlighted. And it's important to highlight as well what the media is suppressing and the media dynamic that exists. So you know when I do these videos, I use a tool called ground news.

Lots of people ask me, Ben, how do you do your research to make these videos? Well, I use ground news. Let me show you how I use it and feel free to kind of copy me because I think it's a helpful strategy for doing good research and having a high level of media literacy. So here's an example. So after rescinding protections, ICE is moving to deport more immigrants who were victims of crime. ICE has ended protections that once shielded crime victims from detention leading to more arrest of immigrants even while they cooperate with the police. So victims of serious crimes, ICE wouldn't really want to target, a victim of sexual assault, a victim of harassment,

a victim of gang violence. And oftentimes these people could be helpful to law enforcement as well. And also, you know, victims are suffering. So why would you go after someone who's suffering and can cause more pain? Well, here's the thing. On the right wing, they're not covering this at all. Only 7% of sources on this article are right wing sources. So that's how I stay up to date on the news. And also, I'm curious, how does the right wing find itself in this extremist magab bubble? Because they're not getting the news the right way. So I use ground news.

You guys, it's subscriber funded. It's a new site that pulls thousands of articles from around the world. And it organizes them by story. And then it shows you what's the right reporting, what's the left reporting, what's the center reporting, what independent media is reporting, what corporate news is reporting. It's a game changer because as active responsible citizens, we must get our news from reliable sources, and it helps me find what are those reliable sources? And that's why I love ground news because for every article, they also tell you, did a media

conglomerate news outlet put this out or was it independent media? And they also list the degree of factuality, which is interesting, as there are a lot of news sources for media conglomerates that have mixed or low factuality. Independent media seems to have a higher factuality, but you get all of that with your Ground News Vantage plan. That's the tool that I use. It's called the Vantage subscription. I like their blind spot feature, which highlights stories that are disproportionately covered by one side of the political spectrum. Like the story I just shared with you. So join us by going to ground.com news slash MTN. Get 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan that I use every morning.

They're subscriber funded by subscribing. You're not only getting a tool we all need today. You're also supporting our work here on this YouTube channel. That's G-R-O-U-N-D dot news slash M-TN. And we've pinned the link to purchase your subscription below. That's ground. Dot news slash MTN. Now, folks, with all of this chaos in the world right now,

what is Donald Trump messaging to his supporters? What is he saying to the MAGA base? I subscribe to his email list so you don't have to. And in a matter of 24 hours, he basically told his supporters they won three different awards. That's the scam that he pulls every day. You've won this award. Give me money. You've won that award.

Give me money. You've won this award. Give me money. Let me show you what I mean. So he goes, I've reviewed your records. That's the subject. That's kind of ominous. I've reviewed your record, so you open it up, and then it goes, this is huge.

Message from Trump, I've reviewed your records and you're just one step away from joining Elite MAGA Platinum membership club, the absolute best honor for true patriots who live and breathe the America First Movement. Nobody does it better than you. Okay. Then right before that, the day before, he goes, I'm upgrading you to diamond status. That's the subject. So you open it up and it goes, you didn't accept my own.

offer the first time, so I'm personally delivering it the second time. I won't do this again, Ben, not even for you. Last chance. Accept my special offer and join the impressive roster of Trump Diamond Club members. Accept Trump's offer. Invitation from Donald Trump, I'm upgrading you to Diamond Trump status. And then right before that, he sent this email. I pick Ben for my inner circle. Your unwavering support has not gone unnoticed. This is your direct line to me. Donald J. Trump, after reviewing America's most loyal defenders, I'm personally handpicked you for the official Trump Inner Circle. This is my 2025 Patriot Advisory Board. This elite group is reserved for my top 1% Patriots. Congratulations. That's you. I've been in nonstop meetings

with world leaders to secure peace, but your opinion is the one I really care about, the voice of real Americans. Now, I'm just thinking about the MAGA supporter who reads this. and is like, wow, I am elite maga platinum. I'm diamond status. I am in the inner circle. I mean, this stuff works on people. That's kind of scary that this stuff is actually working on people. And the MAGA base, like, sees these emails and it makes them happy.

It's very, very strange stuff right there. And meanwhile, you have Donald Trump making social media posts of ISIS-style death videos where he is posting the American military, again, executing fishing boats, more and then bragging about it. A few other points I want to mention, though, because I think it's important for the weekend that we have all the facts. Based on the latest information before the Justice Department, there's been no evidence at all found yet of any ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and any left-wing groups, officials say. This despite the fact that right-wing bad faith, the extremist, fascist media wants to push that.

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk's assassination told NBC news that investigators have yet to find the link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups. This is not surprising. This wasn't a left-wing guy. This was a MAGA white family. This kid was 22 years old, not a kid. He went down the internet rabbit hole. He's from a gun-toting family.

He fits the profile of what a lot of the people. shooters look it's not like a political thing it's this weird kind of four chan eight chan culture of internet perversion and these and it warps these these minds and and these people are these internet trolls who believe that they're these revolutionary agitators it's it's very dangerous but it's important that we come together as a nation and try to heal and try to come together not do what MAGA did here. Civil War, the leftist, the leftist furry trans. Come on, that's just such stupid crap.

And it's dangerous. And that's what Kimmel was trying to point out, by the way, which was true. Kimmel wasn't attacking Charlie Kirk. And by the way, Kimmel had a First Amendment right if he wants to talk about Charlie Kirk's horrific background. And that Charlie Kirk would say, in my opinion, really horrible things about black people and gay people and trans people and women. Kimmel didn't even do that. Kimmel just said that Maga's been trying to tie this to leftist and show that this guy's not one of them. And then he showed Donald Trump being asked a question about mourning for Charlie Kirk. And Donald Trump was like, you like my ballroom? You like my

ballroom? And look, this is what's going on on right wing media, like on Newsmax, where they're showing photos of Antifa. These folks are the real problem. They're the menace. Antifa is real despite left's ignorance. And Donald Trump's like, Antifa is a terrorist group that we're going after. I didn't even know what the hell you're anti-fascist. What that? What group is Antifa? Who's the, what are you even talking about?

But what they want to do is they want to create this common enemy so that they can take away your First Amendment rights because Donald Trump can't take a joke. Donald Trump is thin skin. Donald Trump's a fascist. He's an authoritarian wannabe. And he's a weak one too. He's a weak and pathetic one. And you look at the 2026 generic ballot by Atlas Intel, which was the most reliable polling that was done in last election cycle.

They have Democrats up by 8.3% amongst independents up 63 to 28% amongst non-voters, 62, I think it's the 27%, but up significantly amongst 2024 non-voters. And against young people, 18 to 29, Dems 63 to 28% against Republicans right there. I'll finally leave you with this. How Americans are feeling about groceries right now. Let's play this video. Basically, two bags, a hundred bucks. At this Santa Clarita grocery store, the sticker shock is real.

1699 for one pack of pecans. It's insane. You would think like 10 bucks or something like that, but it's crazy. Other shoppers told us they are buying less and stretching meals just to keep food on the table. You know, it seems like to go up and up. So I guess it's crazy. Like, I mean, it's insane. I mean, everything is go up.

So sometimes you just pick up three things and $20, like, just small things. I try to go different stores and pretty much are the same. This mom says it's painful to hit the market. A little disappointing. Yeah. Yeah, I spent quite a bit, but I needed all these things. And I have a son that eats a lot. What was your hall today?

$211. Yeah. Okay. So I've spent more than that before, you know, because it doesn't last long. with my family. When I'm walking around and I see the prices, it does, it does freak me out a little bit. Yeah, it's bad. I can't believe how much some of this stuff costs, actually. And it seems like steak is the new eggs with the Bureau of Labor Statistics saying that the price of steak has gone up more than 16% over last year. An Associated Press poll shows more than half

of Americans say grocery costs are a major source of stress. Economists point to drought, tariffs and supply chain shortages as drivers. And with beef prices leading the surge right now, ground beef up nearly 13%. Families are forced to stretch every dollar. Thank you for watching. We really appreciate you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $6 million. Thanks so much. New Midas merch.

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