The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Limps Out as it Goes Down...

Episode Date: October 7, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump appearing to struggle to walk as he leaves for Texas and avoids questions about 30-year fixed mortgage rates reaching 7.45%. Meiselas also breaks down reports of another tanker struck off Qatar and the mounting crises unfolding around Trump. Chapter compares every Medicare plan nationwide for free to recommend coverage based on your doctors, prescriptions, and budget. Call 82-MEDICARE or visit https://chapter.com/mtn  Paid Partnership Disclaimer: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. 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! 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump was limping out of the White House. He appeared to have some sort of brace or device on his leg. He's heading to San Antonio, Texas, where even the MAGA Republican extremist governor, Greg Abbott, does not want to be seen on stage with Donald Trump. Donald Trump stopped for a brief press conference. He was asked questions about mortgage rates being the highest in recent history, the 30-year fixed mortgage hitting around 7.5 percent.

I think it's 7.45%, to be exact, on its way to 8%. The 10-year Treasury yield hit a new record high as Treasury Secretary Besson's plan of doing bond buybacks has backfired in his face. Another tanker has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz right off the coast of Qatar. That happened as Donald Trump was walking out of the White House, and more tankers have been struck in the strait of Hormuz.

moves in the past week by Iran since the war began February 28th. With all of that as background, Donald Trump refused to answer a very basic question from the press. Mortgage rates are the highest they've ever been in years. What's your response? He walks away. Here, play this clip. Now take a look at him walking away over here to Marine One. I'll show you what it looks like now as he gets off Marine One. He's with Tate. Ted Cruz, by the way, and he called Ted Cruz's wife during the 2015-2016 campaign. Very ugly. He said Ted Cruz's father killed JFK. But there they are walking together. One of the only friends Donald Trump has left, I suppose. They're meant for each other.

Look over here, though, at Donald Trump's leg. Look at him limp. He's struggling to walk. He's rotting away before our eyes. I've been commenting on the cognitive and physical deterioration. Now, as Donald Trump was heading out, he also had a little. held an Oval Office press conference before he headed out to Texas, and he was asked if he's going to be speaking to Putin about the potential spread of the mnemonic plague in Siberia, and also Russia's been increasing its strikes in Kiev and throughout Ukraine. One of the recent Garen-4 drone strikes by Putin in Kiev

had a Garen-4 with Putin's image on it to taunt the civilians. There have been numerous people killed. in Ukraine in the past 24 hours. I'll do a whole other report on that, but a lot of people have been killed in Ukraine. Donald Trump said that he's gonna speak to Putin, wish him a happy birthday. Then he says to the press,

you're gonna wish him a happy birthday too? Here, play this clip. Have you spoken with Putin yet? Have you spoken with Vladimir Putin yet? I have a call set up. Today is his birthday. Today is Vladimir Putin's birthday. I'm sure you're gonna celebrate this.

You're gonna celebrate this birthday? Now I have a call set up. I will be in Texas. Donald Trump, before heading out to Texas, then also said, I settled eight wars and another one is coming. Here, play this clip. I said, wow, what an honor.

I settled eight wars, another one is coming. And Trump says that without him, the world would have been totally obliterated. There would have been total obliteration. The world wouldn't even exist if he didn't stop these wars. Let's play this clip. Not only should he get it for this year, but there's never been any

in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves him. I did. I settled eight wars. And I've stopped maybe the total obliteration of the world because Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. And Donald Trump says, again, what a deranged, sick, vile piece of trash he is. He says, I had my shot if I wanted to hurt Hillary Clinton, Obama, Barack Obama, Biden.

I can hurt them. I can still hurt them. Lots of people said, heard him, Donald, heard him. Here, play this clip. I've had my shot and still do at Biden, at Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. And I've had plenty of people say, let's go get them. And I said, no, you can't do that to the presidency. And then Donald Trump's like, you know what?

Maybe I'll still do it. I can do whatever the hell I want. Here, play this clip. I certainly, even to this moment, I have, I can do whatever I want, if I want. They've done some very bad things. You just mentioned it. It was just mentioned in the form of a question.

What they did, very illegal, what they did, many illegal things. But I view the presidency as a very sacred position, very sacred position, very important, very sacred. A position where it has to be treated properly. They talk about the word impeachment, which is a very seldom used word. And he keeps on saying this. He goes, I can do very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I can do very bad things to Joe Biden. I could do very bad things to, I mean,

what a sick, what a sick vile piece of trash he is, hey, here playing this clip. With that being said, I could have done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could have done very bad things to Barack of San Obama. I thought it was inappropriate to do so. because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect.

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by calling Chapter Today at 82 Medicare. That's 82 Medicare. By the way, in the background, you have Michael Dell and his wife right there. You see them. It seems that Donald Trump has Dell show up at the Oval Office, like once a month now to talk about the same thing over and over again.

Corporations can donate. to the Trump accounts. They call them Trump accounts for kids. So kids are forced to basically acquire stock in the companies that the Trump oligarchs want them to acquire in order to inflate their stock prices. Got it. A reporter asked Donald Trump. So the Democrats want to impeach you, you're afraid they're going to impeach you. You keep on saying, what are they going to impeach you for? Here, play this clip. You started telling midterm voters, that Democrats win control of Congress, they will impeach you. For what? They don't know because they were asked that question that two, I saw two congressmen and the senator so far,

asked that question. They said, well, President Trump has created the greatest economy. When you see the real economy, what's happening with factories being built all over the country. Then in a very creepy manner, Donald Trump's like these young children. I guess you can use the term, but if you call adults children, you get in trouble for that. The hell are you talking about here, play this clip? Nobody's ever seen these young children. They are children.

I guess I can use that term. You have to be careful. Sometimes you call somebody your child who's about six months too old to be called. You suffer the wrath of the press. But these young, beautiful children, they're going to be watching their accounts. They're going to be seeing what's going on.

He's asked about the plague and the potential spread in Russia of the mnemonic plague. Let's play it. Trump is the plague. Is the plague in Russia a bio weapon? Well, we don't think so. We're gonna find that soon enough, but we don't think so.

And if you listen to them, it's under control. People have said that before about other things. So we hope it is very sophisticated, very smart. And they're saying it's very much under control. So we hope not, Peter. He's asked if there's any similarities between the pneumonic plague and what he's seeing now in Russia, versus what he saw in China with COVID-19.

Here play this clip. Are you getting the same vibe right now from Russia that he got from China at the start of COVID? Well, China didn't say much and Russia's not saying much either, but they do say they have it very much under control. Now, news is coming out as well that the Trump regime has asked the Pentagon

to develop options for potential new strikes on Iran as Donald Trump is getting more desperate. As you all know, gas and diesel prices continue to surge. Despite Donald Trump's fraud and Hengs, it's fraud, we actually don't control these straight of Hormuz. Shocker. I've been doing a lot of reporting how even to have a tanker carry your crude out of these trade of Hormuz, it's $1.35 to $1.5 million a day. Whereas before the war, it was $30,000 a day to hire a tanker and load it up with crude per day. And so that's adding $33 a barrel to the price of crude.

more over here you have Pete Hegsith, so as they're coming up with a war plan, Pete Hegsitts like, he's in San Diego for the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln is back in San Diego. Remember how the Midas Touch Network and others were reporting how low morale was. There was about six or seven Marines and sailors who attempted suicide. The conditions were so bad. We've heard from all of the family members about how bad it was. And this is what he's doing here, play this clip. You know, you made the enemy the way that you did.

You know, you made a arrangement, you guys were central to an arrangement we made with the Iranian Navy before this conflict. We decided to share the ocean with the Iranian Navy. They got the bottom half. More from Hegsith over here, who says, you know, the folks in the media tried to act like there were problems with this tanker. There was problems with this. aircraft carrier. That's not the case. It's never been better. Fake news here. Play this clip right here. And there were a few folks in the media who tried to turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of a symbol, a symbol of dysfunction, or a symbol of low morale, or a symbol of a failed

mission. And what I look out at right here, and when I talk to your leadership and I have had a chance to talk to a number of you. I know it's the exact opposite. Yeah, and there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. He'll be speaking in San Antonio. No governor, Greg Abbott, who doesn't want to be seen in the Trump on stage. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you. Thanks for watching, everybody. 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. You know,

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