The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump in Panic Mode as Military Swarms DC

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump preparing an order to militarize and federalize Washington, D.C., as his presidency continues to collapse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a coffee and discover Vegas-level excitement with Bed-MGM Casino. Now introducing our hottest exclusive, Friends, The One with Multi-Drop. Your favorite classic television show is being reimagined in your new favorite casino game, featuring iconic images from the show. Spin our new exclusive because we are not on a break. Play Friends, The One with Multidrop exclusively at BetMGM Casino. Want even more options? Pull up a seat and check out a wide variety of table games from Blackjack to

poker. Or head over to the arcade for nostalgic casino thrills. Download the BetMGM Ontario app today. You don't want to miss out. 19 plus to wager. Ontario only. Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact ConX Ontario at 1866-531-260 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BedMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Well, here we go again, but with all of the guard rails removed and Donald Trump being granted absolute immunity by the right-wing United States Supreme Court. Those images I showed you there are from June of 2020 when Donald Trump sent the National Guard to stand in formation on the Lincoln Memorial as a show of four. following the murder of George Floyd back in 2020. Donald Trump will now be doing that

throughout Washington, D.C. In moments he will be making this announcement where it is believed he will be deploying at least 1,000 National Guard troops, potentially Marines and other military turning the Washington, D.C. area into a militarized zone. making it look like Kim Jong-un's North Korea, making it look like Russia, a horrific site is about to unfold there. It should be noted that when you actually look at the stats, crime is down in Washington, D.C., significantly.

Violent crime, down 26%. Homicides down 12%. Assaults with dangerous weapons, down 20%. The violent crimes, significantly less in Washington, then red states if you look at violent crimes per 1,000 people in DC it's about 3.8 people becoming the victim of a violent crime per 1,000 but if you go to maga mike johnson's louisiana that's 6.2 lindsay graham south carolina 4.7 marco rubio's florida 3.8

gregg abbott's texas 4.06 tommy tubberville alabama 4.04 the red states have significantly more violent crime than blue states, but this is Donald Trump's fascist dystopian view of the United States of America. And speaking of that fascist dystopian view, I was trying to remember where I saw the ice formations of the Trump Gestapo who are doing Operation Trojan horse in these Penske trucks, and they all like huddle in 30 of them, and then they jump out and start attacking migrants and citizens alike. If you have brown skin, they come after you, attack you, and put you in concentration camps. But I remember it was like, it was the Patriot Front, the White Supremicist Group, the Patriot Front. They did this tactic. I saw months ago and before

that. Here's the Patriot Front doing it. The White Supremis Group, here's how they do it, play this clip. And now look at what Trump's Gestapo ICE is doing. I truly wonder, and we're trying to get the data, we'll look into it, how much Patriot Front, Oathkeepers, proud boys, and other white supremacist groups are now the same masked people that we see in Trump's ICE Gestapo, disappearing people in America, and sending him into concentration camps across the country. Here, play this clip of.

just so you can compare what ICE is doing at an Operation Trojan horse. Here, play this clip. Yeah. So yesterday also Donald Trump continues to have this infatuation with the White House roof. I reported on Saturday how the White House press pool said that Donald Trump was going to go on the roof, but then Secret Service basically stopped him and said, no, he's not going on the roof, but the press was waiting to see. He was going to go on the roof and speak to the press again like he did earlier in the week. Remember, he went on the roof and he started talking about putting nuclear weapons on the roof

and then pointing around to Washington, D.C. in the White House and says, this is my money. I bought this, everybody. My money. This is my money. I paid for all of this. Like barely got any attention on corporate news. Of course, we covered here at the Midas Touch Network. And on Saturday, he wanted to go on the roof again. And here he is spotted.

He went to a residence nearby to look at the roof. He's infatuated with the roof. To look at the roof of the White House. You see him right here on this video. You could play the B-roll guys. Trump spotted looking onto the White House roof from a residence window. Of course, you probably have seen my other report. Don Jr. made this post of Donald Trump throwing a green penis at WMB.

basketball players below that's a meme the the republicans think this is funny like a they think this is humor uh when donald trump and his family are posting memes of donald trump throwing green penises at uh a wmba female basketball players that that's that's the family everybody they're you you just don't understand humor might as touch me that's not funny there there's real serious issues you know there are atrocities being committed in gaza right now and Donald Trump promised he would bring peace in 24 hours. There are atrocities being committed by Russia in Ukraine, and Donald Trump promised peace in 24 hours. And now he's freaking meeting with Putin in Alaska on this upcoming Friday while sending National Guard troops into Washington, D.C.

And having a federalized takeover at D.C. I'm just sorry, you know, I fail to see the humor in this and the stand-up comedy as our economy is being harmed. as human beings are being disappeared, as the world is far less safe, as I see thousands of people, millions of people dying internationally, sorry, I just, I don't find any of this behavior funny or endearing at all. Should be noted, one of the things that Donald Trump announced as well over the weekend with the company Navidia and AMD, the semiconductor AI companies, Trump announced. announce that Navidia and AMD will pay the United States government 15% of their revenues

from chip sales in China in order to get exemptions to be able to do business in China. I mean, if you want to talk about central planning, if you want to talk about a merger of fascism and communism, Donald Trump is now going company by company to extort them and shake them down for them to get exemptions directly to him. It's a pay for play scheme, a U.S. company paying the government for a license. So if you're rich, if you're a billionaire, maybe you get it, but you have to pledge loyalty to Donald Trump. Again, how utterly despicable is that? Oh, I'm going to do a whole other video on this. So check back in like 90 minutes or depending on when you're watching this. Take a look back at the Midas Touch feed.

So there was a major meeting achieving an area in Kent in the United Kingdom where our former European allies, because Donald Trump pushed them away, came together to basically call out Trump's envoy to Russia, Steve Whitkoff. Whitkoff claimed that Russia was going to give back territory to Ukraine. No such deal was made. Whitkoff just like either lied or misinterpreted what Putin said. Putin said that he wanted all of Ukraine's territory and basically wanted a surrender and as a stipulation to meeting with Donald Trump, which then Donald Trump agreed to meet in Alaska with Putin after that. And then Whitkoff had to be like, oopsies, maybe I didn't hear what Putin was saying. Actually, Putin wants to take all of Ukraine's territory, not actually give territory back.

Yeah, that's kind of a big mistake, idiot. And I also want you all to know, I'll talk about this more in the video I'm about to do. In Russian history classes, they teach that Alaska belongs to Russia. So when Putin's doing this in Alaska, he's also doing it symbolically to send the message that Alaska is his. I just want you to be very clear that that's what's happening. We also learned more horrific news in Gaza for Al Jazeera journalists. killed and an Israeli air strike in Gaza. It's like so many Al Jazeera reporters have been killed in Gaza based on these

air strikes. And most of these Al Jazeera reporters had posthumous messages ready to go, predicting their deaths. I mean, how morbid, how morbid indeed. Shout out to all of our friends in Columbus, deep red Columbus, Ohio. protesters lined up from High Street from Worthington to Columbus. They made an eight mile long human chain out there in Ohio to protest ICE, to protest Trump's fascism. So what's up to all the mightest, mighty out in Columbus and throughout Ohio?

Finally, let me just go over this report with you from Goldman Sachs. Still a very early analysis of the tariff effects through June of. 2025 so we're still missing two months of data in terms of who's eating the tariffs how's it working foreign exporters are absorbing about 14 percent of u.s tariffs u.s companies ate about 64 percent where u.s. consumers ate 22 percent protected u.s companies also raise prices consumers will see big price increases through the fall so what happened was and this is Goldman Sachs data. They're not like a liberal organization. It's Goldman Sachs data. And Goldman Sachs said, look, these corporations, they were able to bring a lot of inventory in

early. They were able to do their best to not pass on to consumers, but still 22% of the costs got passed on to consumers. But now companies have no choice because the companies are going bankrupt. So we're going to start to see more like 30, 40, 50, we're already seeing it, 60, 70, 80% being passed on to consumers, so I won't be surprised if we're going to see four or five percent inflation coming up in the next six months. It's just going to steadily increase. That's the way this is headed, folks. And as Donald Trump is there scared, shriveled, weak, sickly, he's putting those National

Guard troops in Washington, D.C. After the announcements made today, I'm going to give another report on it. We'll talk more about it. Hit subscribe, let's stay up to date on all of the news. Check out our substack also, Midasplus.com. Thank you all so much for watching. Have a good one. Can't get enough Midas?

Check out the Midas Plus substack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at Midasplus.com.