The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Holds Disaster Presser in Oval as Markets Tank

Episode Date: October 11, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump having a meltdown in the Oval Office during a press conference as the markets tanked when he announced more tariffs on China. Protect your home with 50% off a new SimpliSafe system, plus a free indoor security camera, when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring. Just visit https://SIMPLISAFE.COM/MEIDAS 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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Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office as the markets are absolutely tanking and the after markets are absolutely tanking as well. This says Donald Trump just announced on his social media platform another 100% tariffs on China escalating things there as Donald Trump has been totally outplayed and outmaneuvered by Xi Jinping. The NASDAQ dropped 3.5% today or about negative 820 points. If you take a look right here at just the way the market looked all red, all bad. So what is Donald Trump doing during this disastrous press conference? Well, lying, of course, Donald Trump claims that we just cracked $18 trillion in commitments and investments. Well, if we just cracked 18,

trillion dollars then why is the market tanking on your imposition of another 100% tariffs on China here let's play this clip so we have at this moment I think we just cracked 18 trillion in commitments and investments in our country as an example the last administration was far less than one trillion for four years we're at plus 18 trillion for eight months. There's never been anything like it in history in any country, anywhere in the world. So next up, Donald Trump claims

during this press conference where he has a pharmaceutical company there as well that pharmaceutical prices are now dropping 100%, 600%, 1,000%. He's just making up numbers where drug prices can't drop that amount because then that would mean

the pharmaceutical companies are paying us. In other words, more lies play this clip and we actually did and I was so proud of myself we called the news conference I announced it it was one-eighth of one percent one-eighth of one percent now drug prices are going to be going down 100 percent 400 percent 600 percent a thousand percent in some cases but for one-eighth of a cent Bobby think of that I was so proud because for 28 years nobody had done it and now it's uh i think back to that i said i shouldn't have had that news conference but it's just true i was the only one that did it but it was not very much and now

we're going to get in some cases a thousand percent reduction this is going to have a huge impact on everything from social security to medicare to medicate anything where they're buying any prescription drugs it's going to have an incredible impact it's going to lower itself greatly Donald Trump then says that he's focusing right now on laying off the Democratic agencies and the Democratic governmental employees, whatever that means. He goes, the agencies and people the Democrats like, that's who we're firing now during the government shutdown. Again, completely pathetic behavior and in normal times, impeachable and or 25th Amendment time play this clip. Mr. President, Russell votes said the reductions in force have begun related to this shutdown. How many layoffs have you authorized for this first round and from which agencies?

And it would be Democrat-oriented because we figure, you know, they started this thing, so they should be Democrat-oriented. It'll be a lot, and we'll announce the numbers over the next couple of days, but it'll be a lot of people, all because of the Democrats. I mean, they want to give one and a half trillion dollars to people that came into the country illegally. more important than that because we all have a big heart we want people to be taken care of but you know we have zero people coming in you know that glenn right it's that's a pretty impressive number even for a successful governor but we've had for the last four months zero people coming in illegally they're coming in but they're coming in legally they're coming in through a process that's really a really good process right now because we want people to come in but they have to come in

legally so what we're doing is as uh as these different groups come do we're going to we're to make a determination. Do we want them a lot? And I must tell you, a lot of them happen to be Democrat oriented. These are people that the Democrats wanted, that in many cases were not appropriate. We fought them at the time, and it was ultimately signed in. And some of these people, these are largely people that the Democrats want. Many of them will be fired. Yes, please, behind. Donald Trump, though, starts to chicken out a little bit. after imposing these additional 100% tariffs on China via social media post. He's asked, so are you going to cancel your meeting with Xi Jinping after your message?

And he's like, no, I haven't canceled it yet. Here, play this clip. So. Well, that's good, China, if I could. Just want to confirm, have you canceled your meeting with President Xi? No, I haven't canceled. But I don't know that we're going to have it. But I'm going to be there regardless.

So I would assume we might have it. But, you know, they hit the world with something. that really is not anything that people are going to do. And it's, it was shocking. I can tell you, Howard and I and Todd, we all, we all, Scott, we were all speaking about it before. And it was, we said, where did that come from? It was just, that was out of the blue, right?

Out of the blue, they came up with this whole import, export concept, and nobody, nobody knew anything about it. More rambling by Donald Trump about solving eight wars. He calls them eight transactions. He says he resolved eight transactions. Again, everything the guy says is a lie. Here play this clip. I made eight deals, transactions of wars.

One was 31 years going on. 10 million people were killed. One was 34 years. One was 36, 37. One was 10. One was just starting. Two were just starting, actually. But they were well on their way.

in the case of India and Pakistan seven planes were shot down it was a bad one and I did it largely through trade I mean that one numerous of them I talked tariffs I said look if you're going to do that we're going to put very big tariffs on your country

and they were both great they stopped fighting and they were two nuclear power so you know they're all big they're every one of them big you take a look at the Congo you take a look at the Congo in Rwanda 10 million people killed over a long period of time that that went solved.

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Are you talking about yourself who inherited so much money from your father, but then bankrupted most of your companies, but then had NBC pretend you were a great business man on The Apprentice. Here, play this clip. And the governor's an incompetent guy. He's a guy that was thrown out of his family business like a dog, and I know his family very well. and now he's a governor.

And when I watch him trying to say that it's okay, we have crime under control. I lost 4,000 people over a very short period of time. Donald Trump then says he's happy about ICE agents targeting people inside the courthouse.

Let's play it. Thank you. Mr. President, on China. Yeah, please. On immigration, ICE are making arrests, targeted arrests at courthouses in New York City and around the country.

They're arresting criminals. That's right. Yeah. Go ahead. about it. I'm happy about it. I want them to arrest criminals. And if you take a look at D.C., Trump then says that Portland is a war zone, and he just describes images of Portland that are not even real. Play this clip. And then he gets up and talks about how it's not a problem, or Portland, Oregon. I mean, every time I look at that place, the place is burning down. There's fires all over the place.

When a store owner, there are very few of them left. But when a store owner rebuilds a store, they build it out of plywood and they don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up because they know it's going to be ripped down and then I hear how wonderful it is. It's not wonderful. It's a disaster. He describes Portland as almost an insurrection

because he wants to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law, play this clip. That's almost an insurrection in that place. So we put our people in there. Regarding AstraZeneca, that's the pharmaceutical company CEO who's there. Trump just starts to make up numbers and goes, They're investing $50 billion here, play this clip.

Furthermore, AstraZeneca will invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years for research and development of new drugs and to onshore manufacturing facilities across the country. He then goes and says that oil is down to record lows, that it's going to be lower than $2 a gallon soon. Well, didn't you say there was already lower than $2 a gallon? And he says, prices on everything are way. As my brother, Brett, wrote, I can't believe this country made the stupidest person a dictator.

Play this clip. In our quest to lower drug prices for all Americans, you know, prices have come way down. We've gotten prices way down for groceries, for oil, especially. Today, we broke $60, $60 barrel. We think the oil is going to be under $2 a gallon very soon. That's about 70% lower than what it was just a year ago. So that's a big thing. And when the oil comes down, everything comes down.

It's pretty beautiful to watch. More lies by Donald Trump about reducing prescription drug prices by amounts that are impossible. 100, 200, 200, 700, here play this clip. A big part of the company presidents have promised for years to lower the cost of health care. But my administration is actually the first to do it and do it substantially. Do it at numbers that nobody thought, even I thought, were not possible when you think of it. If you got a 1%, 2%, 5%, that's good, you did a good job. We're talking about 100, 200, 300, 300, 700, 700,

in some cases, some big, big numbers. And the largest drug companies in the world are working with us to make this a reality. And so I look forward to being at your opening of that incredible facility. And then, of course, Dr. Oz, who has the position in our government for reasons that are entirely a parody if it wasn't actually the reality we live in. He then talks about reducing drug prices, 650%. Let's play it. Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively,

and that's over here on this line. The president highlighted 650%. They're significant discounts, and these are medications. We just picked the ones for lung disease and one for metabolic syndrome, diabetes, but there are others that are included. We have most...

And then more Donald Trump saying an example of one particular drug that's hot, inhalers are hot. Inhalers are hot, everybody. Inhalers, they're hot. Here, play this clip. That's true, actually. That heavily reduced most favored nation's cost. Americans can expect discounts.

And as I said, it could be in many cases way over 100%. And as an example, one particular drug that's hot, very hot, 654%. on inhalers, COPD, and asthma as well as certain diabetics medications, they're going to be averaging about 654 percent reduction in price. You believe that one? The Democrats will say, well, you should have gotten more. It's crazy. In addition, all medication. There you have it, folks. That's what Donald Trump was doing as he tanked the markets on his social media post. We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Dutch Network. Hit subscribe. get to six million things for watching want to stay plugged in become a subscriber to our

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