The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Just Can’t Stop It…

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s overnight ranting and posts about Xi Jinping as gas and diesel prices surge and Americans struggle to make ends meet. Meiselas contrasts Trump...’s behavior with former President Joe Biden watching tv and having ice cream with his daughter Ashley, and breaks down the widening gap between Trump’s sick online obsessions and the crises facing the country. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Visit https://meidasplus.com for more!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 W-T-F Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic on social media all yesterday evening into the night, posting photos of himself and Xi Jinping over and over and over again. We got it. You love Xi Jinping, you love Putin, you love Kim Jong-un, it's weird. The American people are struggling with surging diesel and gas prices. mortgage rates, 30-year fixed at 7.5%. People can't afford homes, but you want us all to know you love Xi Jinping. Got it.
Starting point is 00:00:35 So he posts photos like this, and then he has the text above it. President Trump gets younger. You want to like date the guy? What are you trying to tell us? It's very bizarre. More photos of himself in Xi Jinping. Then he posts this bizarre portrait of himself that looks like his mugshot photo. And Trump writes,
Starting point is 00:00:55 this man is our national security. No, this thing, this creature is the thing that has destroyed the United States of America. This thing is a sexual predator. This thing is a felon. This thing is a despicable, vile, piece of trash, loser, bankruptor, fraud. He then posts this photo of himself. It goes like this super intelligence. Well, I mean, you're an idiot.
Starting point is 00:01:28 And what you're bragging when you went to Ohio, we're going to put SI centers in everybody's backyard if you want to be rich. And don't you dare talk negatively about SI centers? No, no, not data centers. We're renaming it to SI centers because that'll do the trick. Or are you part of some Chinese sciop? Are you a Chinese sci-op? Oh, yeah, I have been posting photos of myself and Xi Jinping all night,
Starting point is 00:01:57 but it is you who is the Chinese sci-op because you don't want data centers in your backyard. Then he posts these creepy photos of himself, and I guess he's saying this is Greenland. Hello, Greenland, he says, sexual predator in the photo. Hello, Greenland, hello. So weird. Then he posts a photo of Antarctica. with penguins wearing American sweaters, and it's him looking at, I don't know, glaciers or mountains.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Greenland, no, Antarctica, more photos of him and she. And then he kept on doing post after post over these protests in Washington, D.C., around the Triumphal Arch and some of the other D.C. protests we've seen in recent days. And then Donald Trump's like, do these people not have jobs? they're peacefully protesting.
Starting point is 00:02:51 I don't know. What's your people aren't allowed to protest the fact that you want to put up triumphal arches and waste taxpayer money on all of this crap? Could we show normal behavior, by the way? So former President Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, she posted this photo of herself on Instagram, watching 60 Minutes last night with former President Biden. and she wrote 60 Minutes and Ice Cream.
Starting point is 00:03:20 And what was on 60 Minutes was Republican Senator from North Carolina, Tom Tillis, who was featured and he said, I think Christy Nome and Pete Higsef are probably the poster children for men and women who should never have the authority they've been granted. So it was a segment featuring Tillis to which Christy Noam, whose title now is Special Envoy to the Shield of America. Special Envoy to the Shield, and that's the Trump regime's efforts to interfere with elections in South America, as they did yesterday with the Brazil election and as they've done in so many elections, the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime, CIA, Mossad, Trump regime, working to put their puppet dictators into power in the first round of the Brazil election, by the way, Lula came in. second, it's like 47% to 45%, Fabio Bolsonaro, Jaya Bolsonaro's son came in first place.
Starting point is 00:04:27 There are two rounds, so we'll have to see what happens in the upcoming round. But to install Bolsonaro again, you know, I think would be very, very dangerous, would be an understatement. But the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime's massad, they've been interfering at all of these elections. Brazil has opened up a formal federal inquiry in Brazil into the Trump. Trump regime election interference there and manipulation with the vote. In any event, Christine Home responded to Tillis. Tillis attacks me because I was effective. That's why he's attacking me.
Starting point is 00:05:01 All right. These people, just shut up. Just shut up, Christine Home. I mean, you're a war criminal. You deserve, in my opinion, to be tried in the Hague. I'm giving you my opinion protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. You have blood on your hands. And one of the things that she was ranting and raving about yesterday also was the New York Times story. Five byline alert, Christine Ome's agency gave her donor a lucrative contract just before she left. The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day document show.
Starting point is 00:05:43 In the last hours of Christine Ome's tenure as the Homeland Security, secretary, the New York Times writes, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse. And look, folks, here's an undisputed fact. Federal spending under the Trump regime is up significantly from where it was under former President Biden. You never got your doge $5,000 dividend check you were promised.
Starting point is 00:06:16 You never got your tariff rebate check that you're a promise. No one's ever going to get the $5,000 check. He says you'll get if you vote Republican. He's just a lifelong fraud. Also, when he says he brought in $21 trillion, all a fraud, he didn't even bring in a trillion dollars. It's all made up. If he brought in $21 trillion, then why is it that the debt increased to over $40 trillion?
Starting point is 00:06:44 Trump's responsible for over 30% of the national debt, and it keeps on going up and up and up. What's actually happening is because foreign countries and companies are unloading their bonds, because the U.S. Treasury bonds are becoming increasingly worthless as the U.S. becomes more unstable. The amount of interest that we have to pay in order to service the debt becomes around $1.35 or $1.4 trillion a year, just to pay interest on the notes that are being sold. That's what we mean when we talk about. The treasury yields increasing. Also, as Donald Trump held that deranged speech in Ohio this weekend at that high school gym,
Starting point is 00:07:30 remember that, it should be noted. This is what was reported right before, a gut punch in Ohio, nearly 1,400 laid off at a truck factory just days before Trump rally. The layoffs occurring just three days before Trump showed up and did that rally at the high school on Saturday were large enough to basically race an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio area. Trump is an absolute sicko. No wonder people took turns kicking the Trump float in Seattle over the weekend here. This is what was going on this weekend in Seattle. Play this clip.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Also a siding of Special Counsel Jack Smith this weekend. He was at the Power to the People concert. You see him over here walking around, just with the beer in his hand, looking relaxed. Nothing that the Trump regime is saying is phasing him. I want to highlight two other things quickly for us right now. This weekend, Treasury Secretary Besson's interview with Axios was released. Remember when Treasury Secretary Bessent was bragging in early September when he was trying to manipulate the bond market? He said, I'm the house now.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Bet against me if you want. And then he came up with like this bond buyback scheme where he was going to spend $6 billion to buy 30-year treasury bonds. And that was going to bring down the 30-year yield. Since he did that, the 30-year yield has been like a vertical lineup. Not good at all. I mean, it's approaching 6%. The bond market is awful right now, and the bond auctions are terrible. Just to remind you, this is what he said in early September,
Starting point is 00:09:29 where he said, I'm the House now. You can bet against me if you want. Play this clip. And whenever people say, oh, well, Treasury Secretary is taking a risk, it's my dream. I have asymmetric information. I am the House now. So, right?
Starting point is 00:09:49 So when we intervene with the Japanese yen, I have pretty good insight into what the Japanese, what the banker of Japan's going to do, what Japanese policymakers are going to do. And you can bet against me if you want. So we talk about... And then his interview that was released this weekend on Axios, he was asked, so what'd you mean by that?
Starting point is 00:10:19 And then Besson's like, I can't control the bond markets. I didn't say that I can control them. I could just encourage. Okay, man, you're just a loser. The same thing with your economic outcast, ooh, economic outcast. But then you are now working on deals with Russia who brags about their relationship with Iran. You are working on deals with China that brags about their connections with them. Economic outcast, economic.
Starting point is 00:10:45 It's always projection and confession. The U.S. has economically outcasted itself. But here's what Besson now says. I can't control the bond markets. Okay? Here play this clip. And like I said, that I can't control the bond market. What I can do is try to get people to slow down and think.
Starting point is 00:11:05 Because my job in the financial markets for 30 years was to be outside the door, ear to the door when policy was being made, sometimes with myself over the transom, and think, like, what policymakers going to do, should do, can do. And now that I'm in the room, and what I meant by I in the house, is that I have superior information. Like, people could ask, you know, obviously the Japanese would have liked for us to intervene in the yen at some point any time since January. Why did we do it then?
Starting point is 00:11:40 And people should sit back and ask themselves that rather than, oh, we intervene in the year. You know, it's like when we talk about the catastrophic escalation in the war in Ukraine, and I've been showing you some of those Russian drone strikes on the Kiev Northern Bridge. And I've been showing you a lot of the infrastructure strikes that have been hit recently by Russia. And also Ukraine's responding hitting logistical centers and hitting a lot of areas in Russia from Moscow refineries to St. Petersburg to. 900 kilometers away in Samara also. If in Siberia, there's potential pneumonic plague outbreak over there. We're monitoring that. A lab worker died of the plague that she was handling, and there are other people who are showing symptoms, and there's a quarantine happening there in Siberia. But I just remember, as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski says, this is the guy Trump who's promising $5,000
Starting point is 00:12:38 checks if Republicans win the midterms. Here, play this clue. It would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I do. How would you do that? I know Zelensky very well. I'll end that war between those two countries in 24 hours. It won't even take that long. I will get the war ended. I'll stop all of those lives from being wasted and lost. And there'll be no more bombing of Ukraine. There'll be no more bombing of Ukraine. there'll be no more bombing of Russia, and everybody will be happy. It can be negotiated, I think, within 24 hours.
Starting point is 00:13:15 It really has to be done from the office of the president, and you have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to each one of them, which I won't reveal now, which will guarantee that this war will. And then you have, want to give a shout out to the weekend show and the on Sunday show as well, having some great guests. I'll do another video on the weekend show. They had Dr. Bandi Lee again
Starting point is 00:13:41 who described Donald Trump's cognitive and mental decline, his malignant narcissism, how that plays into everything. But on the Sunday show with Jack Coutculella, Angie Nixon, shout out Angie Nixon from she's running for the Senate seat in Florida, Representative Nixon State. She's running for the United States Senate seat, and she's incredible. Here's what she said about, J.D. Vance here. Play this clip right here. And for him to just launch personal attacks illustrates that they're afraid. They're afraid that I'm going to win. They are afraid because they know Ashley Moody is just a horrible campaigner.
Starting point is 00:14:19 She does not talk to anyone. She's afraid. She knows there's $10 million that she stole. And so she knows people are pissed off about her. And so he came to help boosts. turn, but he actually helped boost me. Listen, I will take that. Thank you. Thank you so much, J.D. Vans.
Starting point is 00:14:43 And please, also, again, I'm going to ask, like I asked the other day on another podcast, please tell me what eyeliner you use. Oh, okay. I think that's a great idea. Yeah. That's a great idea that they say, JD Vans and be helpful. His eyes are beautiful. His eyes look so beautiful.
Starting point is 00:15:00 They pop. They do pop. And speaking of pop, you have powerful indeed. Let me know what you think. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Oh, have you got your copy of WTF America? There's an audio book. I read it with my brothers.
Starting point is 00:15:15 The audio is me, Brett and Jury. We alternate chapters. Get the e-book or the hardcover book or get the audio. We'll put a link in the description as well. Or you can Google WTF America and get it that way. Thanks, everybody. Appreciate you. Thanks for watching.
Starting point is 00:15:31 Before you go, our book, WTF America is available. for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code, or click the link in the description. Let's do this. Thanks.

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