The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disaster Speech at UK Dinner as Trip Goes Wrong

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disaster dinner speech at Windsor Castle as he looks very unwell and as the protests already to London. Wildgrain: Wildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off their first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to https://Wildgrain.com/meidas to start your subscription. 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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or go to explorevolvo.com. A very sickly and deeply unwell-looking Donald Trump just wrapped up a public event that he had at dinner at Windsor Palace. You can just see him in the carriage right there. Look at his face. Look how sickly he looks as he's in this golden carriage being brought to Windsor Palace. Take a look at him with the royal family right here, the first pick of Trump. Also with the prime minister from the state visit that was just posted as well. Could we zoom in on Donald Trump's hand right there? Yeah, that's looking really, really bad folks.

As I've described it before, it really looks like his hand was just dipped into a piranha tank at this point. It is rotting and decomposing before our eyes. I mean, it looks very, very serious. And he looked very sickly and weak as he was at this dinner doing this public speech there over at Windsor Palace. There were lots of protests. taking place in Windsor, huge protests also taking place in London. I'll show you those in a bit,

but he really struggled to read his speech right here. And during the speech, he pretended that he was like the first United States president to ever visit, like the United Kingdom, as though, like, no one else had ever been to Windsor Palace before. I am the first person to ever be here. You're playing this clip. It's a singular privilege to be the first American president welcomed here. And the, if you think about it, they said, it's a lot of presidents and this was the second state visit. And that's the first. And maybe that's going to be the last time. I hope it is, actually.

But this is truly one of the highest honors in my life. Such respect for you and such respect for your country. And then he starts to mention shaking people's hands. Well, after seeing your hand, Donald. I don't really know if that was the right idea. Donald Trump says, I will tell you, I stood in line and shook about 150 hands. That's not the reason why your hand looks the way it looks, the way it looks rotting. And Donald Trump says, the king knew everybody's name. That's kind of what you do with people you know. You kind of remember their names. I know that's a difficult concept for you, as you call the prime minister of Japan, Mr. Japan, or the CEO of Toyota or Honda or whatever. You just call them the company name, but people sometimes learn other people's names. Donald, here, play this clip. I'll tell you that I just stood in line and shook about 150 hands. And the king knew every single person and every single company. And some of them had bad names like XYZ-Q-3. And he knew

every one of them, or at least I think he did, because nobody was complaining. I was very impressed with that. Then Donald Trump goes on this rant. Just look at this room, by the way, too, though. It's such a bad look, not just for the United States. It's a bad look for the UK as well. There are so many people who can't afford groceries right now. There are so many people who are struggling, living paycheck to paycheck right now being psychologically tortured. There are so many people can't afford homes who are struggling to just keep their health care to stay alive. And they're at this like golden palace and golden carriages. Look at this room right here.

And then Trump's like, we're the hottest country right now. No, no, we're not. We're not the hottest country. Like, America's at its weakest right now than it's ever been in its history. But anyway, play this clip. The bond of kinship and identity between America and the United Kingdom is priceless and eternal. It's irreplaceable and unbreakable. And we are as a country, as you're now doing unbelievably well.

We had a very sick country one year ago, and today, I believe, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. In fact, nobody's even questioning it, but we owe so much of that to you and the footing that you gave us when we started. Then Donald Trump talks about how we must defend the exceptional heritage that makes us who we are, and we need to focus on the English-speaking world. Okay, well, then why, if you believe that, Donald, then why are you? basically letting Putin do whatever the hell he wants. Here, play this clip.

Together we've done more good for humanity than any two countries in all of history. Together, we must defend the exceptional heritage that makes us who we are, and we must continue to stand for the values and the people of the English-speaking world, and we do indeed stand for that. And then Donald Trump just starts listing names of authors. And by the way, you can see like Melania there. Very bizarre scene. Play this clip. Perfected in the pages of Shakespeare

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send it backwards there we go let's pop that down there we don't want jaded on that's right that's absolutely correct um listen we have incredible put the sound up here uh this is part of the trump not welcome protest march uh hat tip to rhythms of resistance who's handling the drumming. You got some mini-angry baby Trump balloons over there as well. Take a look right here. Take a look at some. lookalikes in the protests. You have Trump, you've got Vance, you've got Nigel Farage, you've got Putin,

you've got Elon Musk as part of Stop the Trump protest in London. Let's play it. Let's another scene. You'll see the crowds have gathered in central London to protest Trump. Let's play it. Here's how they were referring to the Stop the Trump Coalition on Sky News. Good reporting there. Let's play it. Well, they're loud, they're proud, and they're certainly trying to drown out all of the pedantry that's happening at Windsor Mark. But I'm not sure if they're doing a good job as it or not, really. I mean, a lot of the people here have not been watching those gorgeous

opulent pictures from Windsor. Instead, they have been focused very much on making their voices of opposition heard. I mean, it's a real mixture in the crowd today. We've seen people carrying Ukrainian flags, people with Palestinian flags, people that have got banners that cite that, you know, that infamous relationship between the predator, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, an image that he, of course, would rather not be showcased today. But frankly, whilst all eyes have been on Windsor, it's been very hard. in a sense to ignore the voices of the people here today. The crowd, you're right, estimated to be thought about 5,000 in size.

It's thought the last time that there was a state visit for Donald Trump in 2019, where the crowds packed out to Fowler Square, where we saw that giant blimp of Donald Trump lifted above the crowd. It's thought the crowd, the numbers there were nearing 100,000. So perhaps organisers might be a little disappointed in the numbers that have turned out. However, there is currently behind me in Parliament Square, a huge rally with people, speakers on stage, voicing their thoughts regarding this visit.

You know, they talk to me about how they feel as though the flattery as farcical, how the pomp and the pageantry should have been safe for someone that deserves it. Some of those people voicing their idea of saying they feel sick at the sight of, you know, King Charles and the Queen next to Donald Trump and the visit and the rolling out of the red carpet is not sitting well with some. in direct contrast, as Mark Stone said there, to the pro-Trump supporters that you've seen down in Windsor, there have been pockets of support for him because there are a huge number of people who do want him here, more than 40% of people during an attitude survey of Donald Trump's visit

over the weekend do actually want this state visit to go ahead. You then had King Charles give his portion of the speech, and he talked about golf and how in the UK, British soil is very good for golf. Let's play it. Mr. President, you have spoken of your pride in your British roots. In fact, not only have you set foot on British soil twice in the last two months alone, but I understand that British soil makes a rather splendid golf courses. You have King Charles mentioning the ties between the United States and the UK

were so strong that the media once wanted him to be married off to a Nixon. Here play this clip. And there were 20 visits since that time. I have cherished the close ties between the British and American people. In fact, had the media successful, in the 1970s in their own attempt to deepening a special relationship, I myself might have been married off within the Nixon family. And by the way, while all of that was going on in the House of Representatives, you had

Cash Patel claiming that he didn't know Trump was mentioned in the Epstein files one time, a thousand times, or 10,000 times. Oh, that was a disastrous hearing with Cash Patel, Trump's FBI director. But then you had Republicans moving to block a motion by a Democratic Congresswoman to subpoena suspicious activity reports related to Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell. They don't even let her finish reading the motion before they attempt to block it. Play this clip. John, let me state the motion. Okay. Pursuant to close 2K6 of Rule 11, I moved that the committee subpoena U.S. Treasury

Secretary Besson to produce or otherwise make available to the committee. all suspicious activity reports in the possession of the Treasury Department, identifying the roughly $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions. California is recognized? I move to lay the motion on the table. The motion is not debatable? I didn't finish. She hadn't completed the motion.

Is it proper to cut it off before it's completed, Mr. Sherman? Finish your last sentence there. The gentlelady can finish. Okay, so we're asking them to identify the roughly $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions related to the sex trafficking crimes of Epstein, Maxwell, and their co-conspirators. And as we know, Mr. Patel said that the treasurer made up the information on the table. Yep. The motion not debatable, the question occurs on the motion table.

Those in favor say, I. And so while Donald Trump is riding around in a golden carriage, right now in the United States, the latest U-Gov economist poll shows that only 20% of adults in the United States think that the economy is actually getting better, take a little. look right here. In contrast, this was Donald Trump in that carriage, enjoying his golden carriage ride at Windsor Castle. This is what UK taxpayers and American taxpayers are paying for. Let's play it. In any event, the main objective is pageantry. Apparently, the president told the pool press who were flying with him overnight yesterday, enjoy yourselves, okay? He said he was really,

really, really looking forward to this. He said it's going to be a beautiful event. Now you can hear the British national anthem playing as the carriages continue to move towards eventually Windsor Castle. And then they're going to have a lunch. And then there's going to be more pageantry. The president and the first lady will lay a wreath on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II, who the president really, really appreciated. He was met her twice here, won an official state visit, which was at Buckingham Palace, and then a later visit here to to Windsor Castle. This is the first time there's been this kind of major state visit for an American president at Windsor Castle. Usually they're in London at Buckingham Palace and, you know,

they go up the mall. But certainly Windsor Village has been decked out with the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. And so as much pageantry as they can muster without the usual people involved is happening right now. And here he is, by the way, breaking etiquette also by walking in front of King Charles, but here Donald Trump is inspecting the Guard of Honor with King Charles. Let's play it. Show you what the people of London, people in the UK in general, really think about Donald Trump. We're allowing a convicted felon onto British soil. It's a total disgrace.

incur. It's a disgrace that he's in the United States. Let's play the clip. I don't want to be here. I feel like I have to be here because Kirstarmer's made a massive mistake in letting a convicted felon. They actually convicted him in his country. And we're letting him come on British soil. And it's a total disgrace. It's disgusting. I think it's an absolute waste of taxpayer money. Already millions of pounds were spent to keep him safe last time. And it's really just for show. I mean, this is just because he's a royals watcher and they're just going to, you know, His wife's going to go see the doll museum and the scouts. I mean, there's a lot of emphasis, of course, that the state visit is going to bring about a trade deal.

I think it's really unclear exactly what our politicians and our monarchy intend to do with this visit if there's some diplomatic ideas behind it, but I don't think it's sending a great message. He changes his mind as often as he changes his diaper as far as I can see. He could say what a wonderful visit he's had, and then two minutes later, he's going to say something else. Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler unless, you know, history showed how that worked out. Appeasement is not the answer. There will not be peace in that time while Trump is the president of America. And then finally, we've learned that following Donald Trump's trip, the Times is reporting that the United Kingdom will recognize the Palestinian state following the end of Trump's state visit, not because of Trump, but just because that's the right thing to do, recognize the Palestinian state.

It's the right thing to do. And obviously, Donald Trump didn't want that happening. There you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $6 million. Love this video? Support independent media and unlock exclusive content, add free videos, and custom emojis

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