The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Holds Disaster Presser as Trip Implodes

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disaster presser in the United Arab Emirates as his Trump comes to awful end. Ground News: 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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getting people out. We need help from the courts. The courts are trying to think that they're taking privilege that they shouldn't have. That was not what the election was all about. The election was they want people that shouldn't be there, people that are criminals in many cases. They want them out. They want them out. We're going to get them out fast.

That's what you are talking about. They're attacking our court system. And then while Donald Trump was with the royal family in the United Arab Emirates, he was saying the word groceries is such an interesting word. You know, it's an old fashioned word, groceries, groceries. While Americans are suffering, you are in a palace with a royal family begging for personal gifts for you, acting like you don't know the word groceries. Here, play this clip. It means jobs because to me, the most important jobs, I want jobs. And we have costs are way down. Groceries, they have a term grocery.

It's an old term, but it means basically what you're buying food. It's a pretty accurate term, but it's an old fashioned sound. But groceries are down, costs are down, eggs are down. They were first week they were hitting me with eggs were up 200 percent. And now they're down to a number that is amazing. We're down 97, 98 percent from where they were. And everybody, they said, you won't have eggs for Easter. That is amazing. We're down 97, 98% from where they were. And everybody, they said, you won't have eggs for Easter.

Well, we had everybody had eggs for Easter at a very reasonable price. At the White House, we had a little Easter egg roll and we had hundreds of thousands of eggs purchased. They said, you have to go out and buy plastic eggs. That didn't work out. So it is not a surprise when we saw the results today that the University of Michigan consumer expectations are showing that right now consumers have the lowest expectations, are more miserable essentially than ever in the United States history and believe that inflation is going to be the highest essentially ever because of crap like this and because of his reckless behavior. I mean, here, Donald Trump then says, well, we're still working on deals with 150 countries and my tariffs against the world.

But if they don't agree to deals, then I'm just going to impose the deals myself. That's not a deal, Donald, if you're just imposing it because you're unable to negotiate things with anybody because no one wants to do business with you. And what you did with China is not a deal. You just capitulated. Here, play this clip. We just reached a fantastic trade deal, as you know, with the United Kingdom, which was wonderful. And we have another big one that we just reached with China. China deals a very big deal. It's in the process of continuing to be formed. But they wanted to make that deal very badly. And we have at the same time 150 countries that

want to make a deal, but you're not able to see that many countries. So at a certain point over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out, essentially telling people, it would be very fair, but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business in the United States. So essentially be paying to be doing business in the United States. I guess you could say they could appeal it, but for the most part, I think we're going to be doing business in the United States. I guess you could say they could appeal it. But for the most part, I think we're going to be very fair. But it's not it's not possible to meet the number of people that want to see us. And but this was coming to UAE was very important coming to Saudi Arabia and Qatar was very important to me because of personal relationships that I had maybe more than anything else. And other countries don't want to look like what happened in the United Kingdom either, where there wasn't a deal at all, where it was actually just a benefit to Jaguar and Land Rover

and Rolls Royce. I was like, what was this? What is this? What is this thing right here? And then here, Donald Trump says, says you know just in his own kind of just like cognitive declining stewing in whatever the hell he's wearing he's just like there's never been anything like what's happening in the u.s never in the history there's never been anything like like actually never been anything like this here play this clip and they i said just build your plant inside the united states and you have no tariffs. And that's exactly what they're doing. And that's what many, many companies are doing. The auto companies, all of them. There's never been anything like what's happening right now to the United States.

I can tell you nothing. There's never been anything like it. We're at a level that no country has seen, I don't believe. We have, I mean, every time I meet, I usually increase it by about a trillion dollars because we get news of another investment. But we're probably in the $12 to $13 trillion range of investments. If by there's never been anything like this, you mean like the biggest disaster ever, the biggest manufactured economic crisis? Sure. Sure, Donald. By the way, that follows Donald Trump leaving Qatar. And when Donald Trump was in Qatar, he was saying to the troops in Qatar, in Doha, lying about the 2020 election, saying that he won the 2020 election, which he didn't, and then talking about how he wants to potentially run again in 2028 and be a dictator.

And he's doing it in front of our freaking troops. Here, play this clip right here. Because as you know, we won three elections, okay? And some people want us to do a fourth. I don't know. We'll have to think about that. You saw the new the new hat. The hottest hat is it says Trump 2028. We're driving the left crazy when you see we didn't need that hat. But it was it's been an amazing period of time. Now, I just wanted to see, by the way, how this trip was being covered by sources on the quote left, right and center. And so the research tool I use for this is something called Ground News. Let me just show you how it's being reported generally out there. Trump's Mideast trip splashes

out on deals and diplomacy, but is quiet on human rights. Now, this is why I love ground news because I can actually get like, okay, how's the left, center, and right? And they're all covering it wrong. That's what my research tool tells me. He's not splashing out on deals. He's failing on deals. These are fake deals. You're not making a $1.2 trillion deal with Qatar when the GDP annually is $200 billion. And yes, he is quiet on human rights. If by quiet, you mean he's complicit with the regime that's funding Hamas and complicit with another regime that was funding Al Qaeda in terms of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, you are complicit in terrorism is what we're trying to say here. So let's use the language accurately. By the way, it's why I use the research tool because I'm like, okay, I know here's what I'm reporting

on Midas Touch. What the heck are they reporting there? I use their feature called Blind Spot, by the way, which tells me, am I missing anything? Oh, just a quick shout out to Ground News, who's a sponsor of ours. And if you want to use the research tools that I use, go to ground.news.mtn or scan the QR code right here. We're giving our viewers 40% off Ground News' top-tier Vantage plan, which will get you unlimited access to everything I've shown you and more. One more time, ground.news.mtn. Ground News is subscriber-funded, so they don't rely on ads. That could also introduce bias. Subscribing supports our channel and their independent team working to keep the media transparent. Just wanted to show you the research tools that I'm using

here. Also, let's talk about what Donald Trump was doing in Qatar as well. Here, Donald Trump's, again, just like ranting and raving, and he looks like literally an orange-green color. Here, play this clip. Time a third a third time now that was 968 rallies ago can you believe that we did 968 roses another hat says 968 i said what the hell does that mean that's the number of rallies i said you have to be kidding but from the very beginning and we played lee's song and it was the walk-on And then for the last inauguration, I had every all the big singers. They wanted to do a song for me and they wanted to have me walk on to their song. And my people, oh, that would be nice. I'd be nice. And when I heard about it, we were all set. We had a

lot of them. And I heard about it. I said, I'm not switch. Are you kidding me? I'm not switching. So we stick with Lee. But there's nobody could have done better than Lee. And he's been so loyal and so great. And it's been really about nine years of that stuff. And, you know, we had really honestly, we had three unbelievable campaigns. And it's been it's been an honor. And here Donald Trump kind of like mocks France in this speech. Let's play it. Remember, for World War I, because we won that war too. But think of it, I'm calling. Now, we love France, right?

But I think we did a little more to win the war than France did. Do we agree? You know, I don't want to be a wise guy. But when Hitler made his speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn't exactly ideal. And I called up the president, Macron, good guy, by the way. Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans. Oh, that's wonderful.

No, we don't take credit for what we do. And I said, what the hell? Every country I've spoken to in the last week is celebrating the war, but us. Isn't that terrible? So we're going to be doing holidays. But I said, it has to be a working holiday because, you know, you can only do so many of them. We have a lot of holidays. I'm not so sure we should have them and you don't have to go to work.

Our country has to go to work. Our country has to go to work. Donald Trump in Qatar talking about Pete Buttigieg riding a bike that was occupying Donald Trump's attention, apparently. Let's play it. Tree comes down also, by the way. It's so intense. I mean, you see these trees being knocked down like they're being sawed down

by a top of the line timberman. Like, you know who? Sean Duffy. Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the transportation department who's working right now in the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years. And Pete Buttigieg was the head. And he goes bicycle into work. He takes a bicycle to work. Can you believe he's he's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work? And they say he's going to run

for president. I don't see it. Who knows, right? But I don't see it. But when I look at what they've done, it's so horrible what they've done and the work they did do. They wasted billions of dollars in trying to hook up air systems to copper and they tried to hook up air systems to to copper. And they tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn't work with the copper. And they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs. And when they put it all together, they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working. And we're going to be given out a brand new system.

It's very important that we'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is, but we have a lot of... Donald Trump lies and says that, speaking in Qatar, and he claims that 100% of ISIS is gone now, which again is just simply, just like a simply false statement, it's just a false statement, play this clip.

You can finish it off right now, sir. I said, well, I don't know. That's a lot. It's, you know, it's a lot of people. Well, these people are not good now, sir. I said, well, I don't know. That's a lot. It's, you know, it's a lot of people. Well, these people are not good people, sir. These are not good people. You'll feel better about it. Well, they're not good people, but they're people, aren't they? And he goes, I said, you know what? Why don't you buzz them for a little while? And maybe after a day or two of buzzing them, they'll surrender. They don't know about surrendering, sir. Well, maybe they'll raise the white flag. They don't have a white flag, sir. I said, well, give it a

shot anyway. He said, all we're going to do is take a couple of bullet holes in our wings. You guys know about that, right? And I said, well, let's give it a shot. And he calls up and says, let me do the job, sir. I said, all right, do the job. And we defeated 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate in just a very short little period of time. Totally different from what I was told in Washington, D.C. by a bunch of frickin losers. OK, losers. Donald Trump claims that we were losing one trillion dollars to China and now we're not losing it because he had a trade embargo with China for 30 days, which is entirely false.

Let's play the clip. Fund is just pay off debt. We're making a lot of money. We had a situation six months ago, we were losing $5 billion a day on trade. Now we're making money on trade. Don't forget, we were losing a trillion dollars to China. So we essentially went cold turkey with China for a period of a month.

Therefore, we weren't losing a trillion dollars. You know, I think that's pretty simple, Scott, right? Scott did a great job over there. They made a deal. They have great relationships with China. Here, Donald Trump is with the United Arab Emirates royal family. And he thinks that the Olympics are going to be in Queens, which are in Los Angeles. And Queens is not very close to Los Angeles. And I mean, just look at him.

He can't even hold a conversation with these people. He can't even speak in sentences. He doesn't even know where he is. Here, play this clip. To our airline. And finally, Mr. President, we just signed also the naming rights of the New York City Football Club by Etihad. Oh, good. And we are spending over $800 million.

So where is it? It's in Queens. I know the area well. It's right next to City Field. I grew up in Queens. I know the area well. It's right next to Cityfield. I grew up in Queens. I know the area very well. Right next to Cityfield. Oh, that's great. That's where they used to fix the cars.

A lot of other things got fixed there. A lot of things. That's a great site. So how many people are in that hall? 25,000. 25,000. Is it primarily for soccer? It's for soccer.

And they'll do concerts there. Will they be using that in the Olympics? It will be available to be used. Yeah, because it's prime for some of the games. I mean, Queens. It's going out to the Met, but it's prime. It'll be a state-of-the-art stadium. You can see it.

And here's one more clip from that trip. Let's play it. I'm just thinking, we have a president of the United States doing the selling. You think Biden would be doing it? I don't think so. But it's so important. I think I have to be a cheerleader for our country.

That's why our country is doing so well. And it's people like this that we appreciate. A Great job at Cleveland Clinic. Say hello to Larry. I mean, can you get any more bizarre than that? Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 1 million followers.