The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Loses Control at Disaster Presser with UK PM

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the disaster press conference between Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as part of Trump’s embarassing state visit. Trade: Get 50% off your one-month trial at https://drinktrade.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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or go to explorevolvo.com. Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference with Prime Minister Kierre Starmer as part of Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom. Donald Trump was speaking about Russia and says, the whole Russia situation, not really a big threat to the United States or to the United Kingdom or Europe. And maybe I'll have some good news in a few weeks. Here play this clip. But the Russia situation, I hope we're going to have some good news for you.

up. But again, it doesn't affect the United States. And he, look, it doesn't so much affect you. Of course, you are a lot closer to the scene than we are. We have a whole ocean separating us. But then Donald Trump continues with his lies about the United States bringing in $17 trillion in investments in eight months. Quite literally, none of this is true at all. He just makes up the number $17 trillion. Let's play it. 17 trillion dollars, and this is in during an eight-month period, being invested in the country, which is not only a record, but if you compare $17 trillion to the last year of the Biden administration, they did $250 billion. They didn't do $1 trillion for the four-year period. We did $17 trillion of investment coming in. a lot of it's because of tariffs, and a lot of it's for a lot of other reasons, but there's never

been anything like it. It's an economic superstar. That's what's become mismanaged and badly handled for a long period of time, but it's not badly handled anymore. So that's a record. And remember, that's up until eight months. We have another few months to go, and that number is going to get significantly higher, especially if we went a certain case that we're waiting to hear. Donald Trump is then asked a very good question by a reporter about the U.K. ambassador to the United States, Lord Mandelson, who was fired by the U.K. government. He was removed from his position because his letters to Jeffrey Epstein in that birthday book from 2003 for Epstein's 50th birthday were revealed. And then Bloomberg had additional information about Lord Mandelson, emailing Epstein

and just saying nice things to Epstein and being just helpful and protective of Epstein, very similar to Donald Trump. And so the reporter asks Donald Trump, like, well, how do you, how do you feel about that? And watch the response here, play this clip. To scare him and impose sanctions. And finally, if I may, the elephant in the room, Lord Mandelson, he is no longer the ambassador. Do you have some sympathy with him that he lost his job over historic links to Jeffrey Epstein? Thank you very much, sir. I don't know him, actually. I had heard that, and I think maybe the Prime Minister would be better speaking of that. There was a choice that he made, and I don't know. What is your answer to that?

Well, I mean, it's very straightforward. Some information came to light last week, which wasn't available when he was appointed, and I made a decision about it. And that's very clear. On the... Okay, so Donald says he does not know who that is. Yes, you do, Donald. Like, y'all knew each other pretty well. The White House official account back on May 8th, 2025, posted the following.

Lord Peter Mandelson, British ambassador to the U.S., you've done what you said you would. You've been true to your word. He hung out with you in the Oval Office. Not once, but I believe on multiple occasions. And you knew him well. Aren't you all part of that crew back in the day two with Jeffrey Epstein? As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media account, either it's dementia or he's trying to distance himself from another Jeffrey Epstein friend who participated in the birthday book with him. Either way, not great.

Then Donald Trump continues to lie at this press conference. What else is new? And Trump said that in the 2020 election where he lost by over 7 million votes, he said, we won in 2020. big then he said we've already solved inflation we've solved prices we've solved everything you've solved nothing it's all false here play this clip then you see all the information that's come out we won in 2020 big and i said let's run we got to run because i saw what was happening and the worst thing that i saw was all of these people you know we've already solved inflation we've solved prices oil is way down energy is way down the united states by the way by the way

FCC Commissioner, why don't we ban Fox for putting this on? Should we ban Trump speech right now? What else should we ban FCC Commissioner? Anyway, then Donald Trump struggles to say Azerbaijan, and he's like, Azerbaijan. And then he believes that there was a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Albania. I think he means Armenia. So that's great to the people in Armenia that Donald Trump doesn't even know what

your country is, or what the hell even happened? Here, play this clip. That one's not settled. To think that we settled, uh, Aberbayjan and Albania as an example, it was going on for years. It was never going to be settled. If you remember, the prime minister and the presidents, they were there for many years. They said, when they were in my office, we settled. And they started off at both sides of the oval office so far away. I didn't know you could be so far away. And as we were together for an hour, they kept getting closer, closer. And by the time we finished, we all hugged each other. Then Donald Trump attacks the idea of wind energy. Let's play it. Thank you, Chuck. I would like to say that we inherited the worst inflation in the

history of our country. We had inflation, the likes of which we've really never said. They say 48 years. And I'll accept that, but I really don't. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country. And we had a expression that I used a lot, drill baby drill. And as you know, we brought fuel way down, prices way down. And we don't do wind because wind is a disaster. It's a very expensive joke, frankly. And we got our energy prices way down. That brought the inflation way down. And now we have very little inflation. And we have a very, very strong economy. So that was very important. Drill baby drill. And you have a great asset here. And we spoke. about it. It's called the North Sea. The North Sea oil is phenomenal. And I hope, because I love

this country, you know, my mother was born in Scotland and the Hebrides, Stornoway. That's Syria, Scotland. We were talking about it. And I want this country to do well. And you have great assets that you're going to start using, I believe, under this prime minister. As the morning start to cool down, my coffee routine shifts, cozy mugs in the crisp air, refreshing iced coffee in the afternoons. And no matter the season, trade has me covered. They recommend beans I'll love, roast them to order, and deliver them right to my door. Trade is the number one coffee destination in the U.S. with over 50 top roasters across the country. They even have a special cold brew collection with 15 roasters, so every glass comes

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And they're like, you have to donate to Charlie Kirk now, Jimmy Kimmel. You have to donate to his family and you have to issue public apologies. Jimmy Kimmel didn't say anything wrong, in my opinion at all. He described how MAGA was spending the weekend, trying to make sure that the shooter who came from a MAGA Republican gun-toting family would not be connected with them. as MAGA pushed a narrative that he was a leftist. That's what MAGA wanted to push. Jimmy Kimmel was just literally stating a fact. He didn't even say anything negative about Charlie Kirk.

He could have actually told the truth about Charlie Kirk's past and all of the hateful things Charlie Kirk said about black people, gay people, trans people, about executing former president Biden, about how the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and should not exist. The horrible things Charlie Kirk said about Martin Luther King, the horrible things Charlie Kirk says about migrants, Jimmy Kimmel didn't say any of that. Could have. Here, play this clip of Trump saying why Kimmel was fired. Play this clip.

On a separate issue, free speech, your vice president, Vance, said that free speech is under attack in the UK. Do you agree with him? And Prime Minister, we saw the dismissal of a very well-known chat show host in America last night, Mr. Kimmel. Is free speech more under attack in Britain or America? Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings. And they should have fired him a long time ago.

So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent. Then Marjorie Taylor Green's boyfriend asked Donald Trump about the fake auto pen scandal that they go. they go, Biden was using the auto pen. Therefore, anything Biden signed via an auto pen should be disqualified. Here, play this clip. And my question to you, President Trump, is there any update on the auto pen? Yeah, it's just gotten worse from their standpoint. He, uh, the people that used it and one, in particular, one person was never told by Biden to do it. Then Donald Trump brags about how TikTok is there's going to be an American subsidiary of really rich people,

really rich Americans, good rich people, he says to keep saying that good, really rich people are going to potentially have ownership in an American subsidiary of TikTok. I'm not sure how this addresses any of people's national security worries of TikTok and the findings there. If China controls the algorithm and controls the IP, that was the issue that there. the Senate was concerned with. So now you're just giving your friends a sweetheart deal to own a subsidiary of TikTok in the US,

but not addressing the security concerns that the Senate on a bipartisan basis pushed here, play this clip. Doc has tremendous value. The United States has that value in its hand because we're the ones that have to approve it. I specifically get the right to approve it. The people that are investing it are among the

greatest investors in the world, the biggest, the richest, and they'll do a great job. And we're doing it in conjunction with China. But we are getting, the United States is getting a tremendous fee plus. I call it a fee plus for just making the deal. And I don't want to throw that out the window. I can say this, that you'll have a lot of very unhappy youth. And I use TikTok very legitimately, very straight, just statements every day. I do little statement, short statements. Sir, make it short, please. And TikTok. Jack, we call them. It was pretty good. Did a good job for me, I guess.

But, no, I'd rather reap the benefits. I mean, the kind of money we're talking about is very substantial. And it'll be owned by all American investors and, you know, the best investors and, you know, very rich people and companies are going to be owning it. Very, very straight, very legitimate countries, companies, and really companies that love America. So they're going to be owning it. It's a big thing. And on a much bigger scale, and probably that's why we were able to get that,

but on a much bigger scale, we're pretty close to a deal. We may do an extension with China, but it's an extension based on the same terms that we have right now, which are pretty good terms. Thank you. There's two other portions of this meeting that took place between Kier Starrmer and Trump, I want to highlight. Donald Trump bragging about the disastrous budget bill,

which has hurt so many American lives, play this clip. Aspect of the bill, I go with the big, beautiful, bill, the great, big, beautiful bill. We got so much a largest bill ever passed in the history of our country. In fact, so big that we really don't have to pass too much anymore. We can just do this for four years, implement. And I like to implement because the bills are wonderful, but you have to implement. And then again, Donald Trump bragging that there is no inflation. Let me show you that. I have a great process going. And inflation is virtually non-existent. As you know, we're taking in trillions of dollars from tariffs and they've been so incredible for our country, so incredible.

We're keeping our companies happy. We're keeping them solid and sane and they're very, very thrilled at what's happened. They can't even, actually, they can't even believe it. There you have it. When I say it was a disaster, I think this video showed what you come up with another word to describe whatever. that is, but it was absolutely a disaster. Oh, by the way, shout out to our friends over at Snapstream. Snapstream is a software that allows us to kind of capture these clips on the various news networks. If you ever wanted to know, like, how our team does it. They use Snapstream. I'm

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