The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Instantly Terrified as No Kings Protests Erupt

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump and Republican Governors losing all control and panicking as 2100 peaceful No Kings Protests take the nation by storm as Americans are fed up with the attacks on America by Trump and the GOP. BrainFM: Unlock your brain's full potential! Try brain.fm FREE for 30 days when you go to https://brain.fm/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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protests and they want to try to escalate matters by sending in the National Guard, by threatening harm to the protesters, because they're hoping to provoke incidents so that they can try to justify their fascist tactics across the country and in the various states. Look how terrified these MAGA Republicans are. You have Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina saying, South Carolina's law enforcement will not tolerate lawless behavior associated with this weekend's nationwide planned protest, the No Kings protest. Have a nice weekend!

Exclamation point. Like, who talks like that? Who talks like that? You should encourage and want to inspire people to have their First Amendment rights. Peacefully, of course, as our editor in chief Ron Filipkowski goes, lots of threats from the tough guys today. Or how about these signs on the fencing in front of Bunker Boys White House right now?

These are the signs in front of the White House as they put up gates so that protesters can't get close to the White House. They don't want to interrupt Donald Trump's dictator parade. It says, the sign says, fence jumpers will be prosecuted. And apparently it's a recycled sign from Lollapalooza. So then of course, Florida's MAGA Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who MAGA doesn't even like because he's not Trumpy enough for MAGA. But Ron DeSantis goes on this show and he's in the past two days, he's basically encouraging

people to drive their vehicles through protesters and kill them. And he's like in Florida, we protect people who drive their vehicles through protesters and run over people. This is how terrified they are of the peaceful protest. This is the type of scare tactics they use. Listen to what DeSantis has to say. And we also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you,

you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself in Florida. You know, because they're terrified of this. Look at what's going on in Los Angeles, California. Here are some of the protesters dancing at the LA protests here play this clip

So you have governor de santas of Florida you saw at the beginning you have governor DeSantis of Florida. You saw at the beginning you have Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina. Here you have Governor Greg Abbott deploying thousands of Texas National Guard troops across Texas in preparation for the No Kings protest. Play this clip. Governor Greg Abbott is doubling down on his promise to send out Texas National Guard troops ahead of the no Kings protests across the state. Fox four's Paige Elliburger live in Dallas,

where there are multiple demonstrations planned for this weekend. Paige. Brandon Lauren, good morning. Thousands of Texas National Guard troops will be deployed this weekend. It's a similar move we've seen taken by President Donald Trump in California during anti-ice protests in the Los Angeles area. Governor Greg Abbott says he supports the president's decision to deploy troops and is doing so here in Texas as a

precaution. With dozens of protests against the Trump administration's handling of immigration scheduled across the state this weekend, the governor went on Fox News to defend his reasoning for using state force. There were protests without any property being damaged or anybody being hurt. And people are free to protest if they don't harm anything. However, because of the possibility, because the size of the crowds could grow large, because things could get out of control, we want to make sure that we have the assets in place where we were going to be able to quickly respond. I've been deploying 5,000 National Guard troops as well as 2,000 state troopers to monitor protests tomorrow.

It is unclear exactly how many will go where. At least eight protests are scheduled here in the Dallas area for tomorrow, organizers reminding demonstrators to remain peaceful. And again, I just think about overwhelmingly the protests are peaceful and they're joyous and there's music and there's dancing here. This is the enormous peaceful protest that we saw pretty much throughout Los Angeles. Most of it looked like this. Play this clip. I found this interesting. You had the San Antonio police chief, McManus and the San

Antonio mayor Nirenberg were saying that they were never even informed by governor Abbott about the deployment of the national guard who just rolled in to their city here. Play this clip. Mayor, why not get ahead of this? I asked the chief earlier because he says if they get deployed the guards, then he'll reach out. You know, why not be ahead of it? Be asked the chief earlier because he says if they get deployed the guards then he'll reach out you know why not be ahead of it be proactive say hey I mean I I'm not gonna speak for the chief but I'll give him credit we weren't given this information we had to go look for it and so we're gonna try to stay as coordinated as possible you know I I think we have great law enforcement at

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County you are going to jail. If you flee arrest, you're going to go to jail tired because we are going to run you down and put you in jail. If you try to mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave, in our county, you're most likely going to get run over and dragged across the street. If you spit on us, you're going to the hospital and in jail. If you hit one of us, you're going to the hospital and jail and most likely get bitten by one of our big beautiful dogs that we have here. If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your

family where to collect your remains at Because we will kill you graveyard dead. We're not gonna play This has got to stop and again what they're trying to do here is escalate. They want to provoke protesters They're trying to inspire violence so that they could engage in Exactly what they're saying they want to utilize their fascist playbook. They want people to play into that. So they're intentionally being provocative and escalating things. Here's again, Maggot Republican Governor Ron DeSantis

going on Fox and showing how scared he is of the no Kings protests. About 1800 of them are planned, including more than 75 they're claiming in Florida itself. And that's the same day Trump is planning the military parade in DC, Flag Day, Army's 250th anniversary celebration, which in and of itself, that's driving the left crazy. They hate any display of patriotism or celebrating of the military. They if anything goes wrong. County sheriffs will be there as well.

We have our state law enforcement on standby. They'll be ready to go, whether it's the highway patrol, whether it's Florida Department of Law Enforcement. And then we do have National Guard who will be ready. But I got to tell you, we've dealt with this pretty effectively in the past. I mean, one of the things they're doing in Los Angeles. Yes, you see the looting, you see all that. They also just take over streets. Look, if you don't have a permit to take over streets, you can't just interrupt traffic. The Hamas people tried to do this when they were doing that a year or so ago.

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federalized in Los Angeles. Watch Maxine Waters right here, looking at these National Guard troops as they're like peaceful protest out there. It's like, what the hell are you doing? What are these weapons of war that you have? Here, play this clip. Yeah, I'm done.

What are you gonna do? You gonna shoot some kid who's afraid of you and run? You gonna shoot an election official? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight. I don't know why you're in my city. The governor was not contacted. Take a look at this large immigration protest. Peaceful outside of the FanFest at the College World Series in Omaha.

Not blocking traffic. Peaceful, drums and chants. Take a look right here. No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. No hate, no fear.

Immigrants are welcome here. No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here. And of course we see Donald Trump trying to provoke things as well. Trump this week saying, when they spit, we hit. When the protesters spit, we're gonna hit him. Here, play this clip. When they spit at people, you know, they spit.

That's their new thing. They spit at worse. You know what they throw at them, right? And when that happens, I have a little statement. They say, they spit, we hit. And I told them, nobody's gonna spit on our police officers. Nobody's gonna spit on our military. Or Donald Trump saying that anybody who protests

will be met with heavy force. He's not saying if you're like a violent protester. He goes, if you protest his military parade, you will be met with violent force, play this clip. Celebrating big on Saturday, we're gonna have a lot of, and if there's any protests that once they come out, they will be met with very big force. By the way, for those people that want to protest, they're gonna be met with very big force. And I haven't even heard about a protest, but you know, this is people that hate our country, but they will be met

with very heavy force. And then Donald Trump basically saying that there's going to be no time limit to when the National Guard will leave Los Angeles or other places in the country, whatever he wants. Play this clip. National Guard be in California indefinitely. How long will they be there until you think that this is a risk? Until there's no danger. It's easy. Look, it's common sense. You asked me that question. When there's no danger, they'll leave. You would have had a horrible situation had I not sent them, and horrible. You'd be reporting on a lot of death and a lot of destruction that's not going to take place. I think if you look, every night it got less and less. They were met with very strong force, the bad people, the bad sick people that do what

they do. But these are paid people in many cases, not in all cases, but in many cases. And they really are, they're agitators. Now contrast that to what Governor Newsom has said about the peaceful protests. Here, play this clip. He said be stubbornly peaceful. Play this clip. Can we once and for all just dispense with this notion that this is all about going after

dangerous criminals? Two days ago in Oxnard, California, there were ICE agents running through strawberry fields. People that have been working those fields for over 20 years. I met with a 12 year old boy whose mom and dad were detained. He was left with nobody sitting there weeping and crying tears pouring down his face. Now today, just today in Los Angeles reports are coming back that caregivers babysitters entrusted with children and toddlers in parks in Los Angeles had ICE agents rush on them in unmarked cars and take these children from the caregivers, detaining these babysitters. Imagine being a parent of one of those children and getting a call about what just happened.

Any parent should be outraged, but all of us should be outraged by that cruelty, by that conduct by the Trump administration. Tomorrow, he is going to have a birthday, a vulgar display of weakness. And millions of people, I imagine millions of people are going to get out and protest. I ask you if you're filled with rage, as I am, by what is going on in the militarization of great American cities, that when you're out protesting, you do it peacefully. Do not play in to Donald Trump. What he wants is chaos.

That's the reaction that he hopes to get from us from this cruelty. Let's not give him what he wants. Let's exercise our constitutionally protected rights, but let's do it peacefully. And again, contrast that to what they're doing in Texas, where they've deployed national guard troops to San Antonio and other places. Again, trying to provoke violence. Play this clip. One by one, Texas national guard troops were seen arriving in San Antonio. Part of the contingent, Governor Greg Abbott deployed to counter the growing protests across the state.

Who's state? Who's state? Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown San Antonio yesterday demanding an end to ICE raids. When you see some of the operations that have been happening across the country in here in San Antonio, is that why you're out here? It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. I'm at the point where I don't even want to eat because whoever, all my people who are getting picked up, and it's sickening. The nationwide protests are being driven partly

by what President Trump has called his administration's aggressive immigration policy. The goal is to arrest nearly 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day. Videos on social media show ICE agents detaining several men in Dallas shortly after their immigration hearings were dismissed. In San Antonio, children and their families were zip-tied at the federal courthouse. In Omaha, Nebraska, more than 70 migrants were taken into custody at a neat packing plant, including several family members of supervisor Stephanie Favilla.

It looks on everybody's faces. It was just scared. And near Oxnard, California, federal agents chasing migrants working in the fields. The intended effect is to cause fear. Immigration attorney Jonathan Ryan says the stepped up enforcement is unprecedented. Many people are finding their lives upending because they can't go out, they can't take their kids to school.

It is causing real terror. Homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. We've seen under this last week, some operations that have been working to bring in criminals that have been out on our streets for far too long. Our HSI and ICE individuals have been out conducting operations with our government partners. We are expecting a court ruling from California very soon on whether the National Guard and the Marines can act as civil law enforcement for the planned protests on Saturday. You may remember President Trump sent in the National Guard

against the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom. There you have it. MAGA is absolutely terrified. And just think about that clip I showed you of DeSantis, where he's encouraging people to run over the protesters. You heard him in his own words. Crazy stuff. Anyway, hit subscribe.

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