The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Nightmare Sunday as Protests Shock Him

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous Sunday as protests spread around the world and he gets hit with more awful news as his cover ups backfire. 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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doing in their name who hate what Netanyahu is doing with Gaza and the occupation and the atrocities being committed there with Netanyahu and Trump enabling it. We see the protests here in the United States as well. Corporate news was not talking about any of the protests here. We've been showing you all morning those protests in Los Angeles that broke out as well. And then last week we covered the protests in Australia against Netanyahu. We're going to keep on covering what's taking place across the world. These are deeply serious times as Donald Trump sets a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska where Trump lied to the American people and said Putin promised to give back land to Ukraine. But then Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Whitkoff, after being confronted by

Europe, admitted that Whitkoff was lying and Trump was lying and that Putin said he wanted to conquer an additional 25% of the land in the Jepregia and Donetsk region of Ukraine and have it handed over to him at Donald Trump's demand, basically, as a precondition for the discussion with Trump. I mean, it is one horrific march of folly after another by this despicable Trump regime. Donald Trump's out there posting images like this this morning. I don't know why. I mean, it just, he's cognitively impaired. And he's posting images. of a man holding a shark and fighting a shark in water. There's no other kind of context to it other than it says a kangaroo island father has earned

the title shark wrangler after wrestling with a monster bronze whaler. That's what Donald Trump keeps posting a guy just wrestling a shark. Oh, then Donald Trump posts the following. Last week in Aberdeen, Scotland, he's posting more videos of himself golfing over and over again, posts and videos of himself golfing from last weekend. I mean, folks, again, we have real serious business to attend to right now. Donald Trump is causing massive problems with our economy here. Massive issues here as ice agents are disappearing human beings.

Massive issues here as the billionaires get wealthier and everyone else gets screwed. He's posting images of himself golfing in his course, and he's promoting his course from the official White House account. And I did mention, in fact, yesterday, Donald Trump was going to run up on the roof again of the White House. And like the Secret Service stopped him. The White House press pool talked about how Donald Trump may have canceled this plan to go to the roof. The security was positioned around the roof to basically stop him. Secret Service is still holding in place on the roof in case Trump does go and run back on the roof. And earlier in the day, again, that's what he keeps on

doing, keeps running on the roof. I'm not making this up. You've seen the videos I posted. He runs on the roof. And then he shouts, I'm building nuclear weapons on the roof. I'm building nukes on the roof. He says, I'm not making that. He says, I'm building nukes on the roofs. Then he points around and he goes, I own all of this. I bought this. This is my money. Here's what I'm spending pointing to the White House and Washington, D.C. I mean, by the way, he also posted earlier this morning as well, that he's holding a press conference tomorrow where he's likely going to have the National Guard and the Marines and the military takeover, Washington, D.C. We'll be covering that and see exactly what he says. While Donald Trump, again, threatening to go on the roof

and talk about putting nukes on the roof, setting at meetings with Putin, legitimizing Putin, bringing Putin to Alaska on American soil based on false pretenses or giving up. ukrainian massive amounts massive chunks of ukrainian land to putin you then have j d vans who was one of the people who was confronted in the uk by our european allies or maybe even former allies dude what the hell is steve whitkov doing so he's now giving this interview with fox j d vans says and j d vans says you know i'm really glad that we're talking about epstein right now because it drives home the fact that democrats are the ones who are really with epstein it's really the Democrats who are all about Epstein. Here, listen to what J.D. Van says this morning,

here play this club. Was it the right move for Comer to send subpoenas to the Clintons? It absolutely was. And it drives home how, while the Democrats have tried to make this Epstein thing about anything but the fact that Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein Island all the time, who knows what they did, but it's totally reasonable to ask these questions. What you saw in the House of subpoena is they are trying to investigate all of the things related to this particular case. I know a lot of Americans want answers. I certainly want answers.

And I think James Comer and the team of the House, they're doing the right thing. And of course, we know that Clinton or allegedly he went to the island 26 times, 28 times, totally appropriate for Comer to be asking what was going on at that island. Let me get you. More J.D. Vance talking about Epstein

and the left-wing politicians all have relationships with them. This is a left-wing thing. What are you talking about? We know Donald Trump. By the way, if it was, release the files. We'll all figure it out. Okay. Anybody who had those relationships should be held accountable deal. End of story. But we know that Donald Trump was like best friends with Epstein. We know that Donald Trump's already given Gilane Maxwell immunity and has moved her to the minimum

security facility right by Texas A&M. I mean, we see what's happening. Here, play this clip. But I have to say, Maria, I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested in the Epstein files for four years, Joe Biden and the Democrat, did absolutely nothing about this story. We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires, and now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this, and yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him

and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years. Again, I think it's important to note in this story is not getting enough attention as well. There was a terrorist attack that took place at the end of last week in the United States, outside of the Center for Disease Control headquarters at Emory University, a domestic terrorist tried to shoot up the place and did shoot up the place, killed a black police officer who defended the building.

Donald Trump's made no comment about it. Trump and all of the MAGAs spreading their anti-vax conspiracies, their anti-CDC conspiracies. By the way, have you heard anything from RFK Jr. about this? He's canceled MRNA funding, which has saved millions of, of lives. He canceled MRNA funding, but he's not out there holding a press conference where his anti-vax policies and ideas have caused domestic terrorists and basically activated cells with the type of rhetoric out there and who engage in this like despicable

behavior. The CDC shooter blamed the COVID vaccine for his depression. And no statement from Trump, no statement from the seat. There's just no statements about that at all. and just want to let you know too and by the way if you look at it no right wing media is covering that at all not a lot of media in general is covering it but no right wing media is covering it but no right wing media is covering it basically a small amount use the research tools that i do go to ground dot news slash mtn or scan the QR code get 40% off the vantage plan which is all the tools that I use, ground. dot news slash mtn. And you can also see like if there's any blind spots,

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Dot news slash MTN or scan the QR code and get 40% off Ground News's top tier vantage plan, which again is all the tools that I used. Going back to J.D. Vance, he denies that there was any meeting at all at the White House regarding Epstein. Here, play this clip. Can you give us some clarity on this meeting that is reportedly happening or happened last night at the White House about the Epstein files and how you're communicating the Epstein story? So I've seen so many different fake reports about this. So let me set the record straight. There was no meeting at my house last night. There just

wasn't. Was there a meeting at the White House? We did meet at the White House yesterday, but not at the time that they said that we were going to meet and not about the subject that we said that we're going to meet about. We have a great FBI director and a great Department of Justice Lead, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and we met to talk about how to ensure we have justice for the American people. We actually didn't talk about the Epstein issue at all. That was never meant to be the subject of the meeting. And it's one of those things where I guess somebody leaked a calendar entry maybe. And then people assumed that it must have been about Epstein, even though it had nothing to do with Epstein. I'll show you one of the things that was going on at the

White House, you had Donald Trump showing off a location in the White House to the Azerbaijan dictator, a section of the White House dedicated to Trump 2008 merch as they discussed Trump unlawfully pursuing another term. Play this clip. You know, you're not allowed to run. So, because everyone, I'm 28 points higher than anyone. Everybody wants me to run. But including that. Yeah. It's funny. So this drives me crazy You look for a more year, so it's sort of cool. Fellas, come on, grab what you want.

That's okay. As our economy struggles and suffers and things are less affordable from this week, Donald Trump, it demonstrates how Donald Trump has turned the White House into a golden bordello, like it just looks absolutely gross.

Here, let me show you this clip. Let's play it. The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable. Here's what it looked like in November when Trump visited Biden after the election. By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls. By July, it's gold everywhere. Just this week, more scaffolding popped up. Even more new gold trim appeared. The room where presidents have long struggled with the big decisions

has never looked so so golden. And have you seen the Rose Garden lately? Jackie Kennedy's creation, the grass has now been replaced with bright white paving tiles. You might call it the rose patio. The latest edition this week, umbrellas, just like the ones on the patio at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. The Magu Republicans like Congressmember Norman are saying higher prices are here to stay.

Higher prices are good. That's what we deserve as the American people. This is how you have to fight by paying more. This is the new MAGA Republican talking point from Ralph Norman. Let's play it. Well, I think a lot of people are seeing higher prices. I'm in the, our family is in the construction business. And we get a lot of our timber from Canada and other countries.

Yes, it's higher. Still prices are up. But it's for the good of the country. And should we expect high prices for a short time? Yes. But overall, we couldn't keep going the way we were going. The cancer in this country was letting other countries rule the day and tax our products. And why should we run a deficit every...

And finally, this is what was going on yesterday. I think it's important for you to see. In West Virginia, voters coming out to see Bernie Sanders in a ruby red area. And they're asking, what can we do here in West Virginia? Bernie Sanders says, political revolution is what needed. Here, play this clip. West Virginia currently has four members of Congress. We're down from five recently.

Not one of them is willing to come here and do what you're doing. So I want to say thank you. I know that they're not willing to come here and meet with us because I have called every single office. They're state offices, the D.C. offices, and they're not willing to come here. That's not on their agenda. It's not on their plan. And so my question is, as a member of Congress, what can we do? Aside from calling and writing letters and begging to be scheduled for meetings,

I've never felt more powerless in my entire life. And that's saying something because I'm a native of Southern West Virginia and we're historically just a forgotten people. The answer is not an easy answer, but the answer and by the way, one of the reasons I'm here in Mingo County is I have I remember a little bit

of my American history and the struggles that your mine has fought here so they were fighting oligarchy way back when and some of them lost their lives in that struggle look to answer your question

in my view is you need a political revolution in this country. And what does that mean? It means that we need to start electing people who are accountable and from the working class rather than people who are busy running, raising money from billionaires. There you have it, folks.

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