The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump LOSES HIS MIND as Criminal Trial NEARS END

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

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I got married this weekend. It was my birthday this weekend. I want to thank you all for sharing your well wishes with me and my wife. We're so grateful for all of you. So I took a little break this weekend, but I got some of these videos of Donald Trump's speeches, one at an NRA convention in Dallas, another one in Minnesota before that. And these speeches are so unhinged as Donald Trump approaches what may be the last week of this Manhattan criminal trial. I mean, Donald Trump is so cognitively impaired at this point. He's not making sense at all. When he is saying words, it's very bizarre. I mean, his stump speech now consists of sounds, garbled words, him talking about how his body is better than Biden's body, or most recently him talking over this weekend how he says that he has a better body than former President Obama. He said that Dr. Ronny Jackson told him

that you are a better physical specimen than former President Obama. I mean, this is just insanity. It's madness. It's madness. This is what Donald Trump said here. Play this clip. Doctor, very talented doctor too.

You know, he's got a lot of things on his resume. He was a great doctor. He was a great admiral. And now he's a great congressman. And before I introduce him, I just want to say when he was the doctor at the White House, they asked him, who's healthier? Who's a better physical specimen? Is it Trump or is it Obama? And he said, it's not even close. It's Donald Trump. Not even close. I said, I love this guy. Dr. Ronny Jackson, your congressman, great congressman from Texas.

Then Donald Trump, after saying how he was told he's a better physical specimen than former President Obama, which obviously is the most absurd thing to say, Donald Trump then talks about in a speech, I love junk food. I love junk food. Here, play this clip. Then he had to louse it up. You know what he did? He said, and he'd lived for 200 years, except he likes junk food. So he might only live to 110. Can you believe? I do like junk food. Who doesn't? Then he talks about how he got Tic Tacs because that's something that's normally spoken about in these speeches, how he got Tic Tacs. Here, play this clip. It's out there because this is okay. I just got this today. Somebody handed it to me. So we're not as a joke. I said, anybody have any Tic Tacs? And the guy said,

yeah, I have one. Look at the size of that sucker. Donald Trump then talks to the chair of the NRA about ponies and says, like, you've got a great pony. Here, play this clip. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, you have a lot of spirit in this room. You know, you're sitting on a wild pony. Chairman, you're sitting on a wild pony. You got to pull that pony. You got to get it going. Trump brought back for his speeches over the past few days, that thing he does where he tells the story about a woman who is weightlifting and he makes those noises and Trump's like,

I'm trying to weightlift. Coincidentally, as Michael Cohen is getting ready to testify again, that's the origin of Cohen coining the name Von Schitzenpanz was when Donald Trump would make this noise at speeches, and Cohen coined it on political beatdown last December. Here, play this clip, though, of Donald Trump from the past few days. Play this clip. Mom, I don't know, Mom. This is a heavy sucker. Oh, Mom, I can't do it. Boom. Donald Trump then talks about how he wants to withhold the power and beauty of the Second Amendment. As I said, he's just saying

garbled words. Play this. I will fully uphold our great but very under-seized Second Amendment. We're going to withhold the powers and the beauty of our Second Amendment. We need our Second Amendment probably more than we've ever needed it before. It's under-seized. Tomorrow I go to Texas. I go to Dallas and I'm speaking before the NRA and there's a rumor that they're going to give me their full endorsement. So that's a nice endorsement to get. That's a rumor. I don't know anything. I don't know. I don't know. Don't say it. It's only a rumor. Here he can't read the teleprompter correctly. So he says, yes. Oh yes. Says Donald Trump quickly, quickly says Donald Trump. Here, play this clip. Yes. Oh yes. and quickly says president trump yes oh yes and quickly then some flies approach donald trump's face and he talks about how he doesn't like flies and so as he's attacking rfk jr these

flies come to his face i don't like flies here play this clip and all of new england actually he's a disaster he's radical left. RFK Jr. is radical left. He reminds me of this fly that's driving me crazy up here. This fly is brutal. I don't like flies. In one of Donald Trump's speeches, he says that one of the reasons that he would make a better president than President Biden is because Trump says he won 31 golf championships. Here, play this clip. I played golf for a long time. I won a lot of golf.

31 club championships. Can you believe it? And he challenged me to a golf. But in the speech that Donald Trump gave before that, he says he won 29 golf championships. Play the clip. All disinformation. His biggest disinformation. He's a non athlete.

Okay. I'm a very good golfer. I'm a very good golfer. I really am. One 29 3029 club championships. That's a lot. 29 club championships. And he can't play.

And he said the other day, it's all disinformation. I'll play Trump anytime. I'll give him three a side. He's going to give me three a side. In any event, Donald Trump's just lying. He cheats at golf. He has his own properties award him championships so that he could feel like a winner. And then he holds up his own trophies that the Trump hotels award him. I mean, you don't get more pathetic than that. Oh, you do. Like calling the January 6th insurrectionist hostages to eerie QAnon music. That's part of Donald Trump's speech where he calls the insurrectionist hostages as eerie QAnon music plays. Let me show you this. Play the clip. But when people who love our country protest on January 6th in Washington,

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The freaking place is falling down. I notice it keeps tilting further left. Like too many other things what a crappy contractor this was by the way president biden then said uh at one of at a town hall that biden held this weekend um biden was like president biden was like you know donald trump is a he's a know, Donald Trump is a, he's a loser. He's not a good loser. He's a bad loser.

Here, play this clip. My opponent's not a good loser, but he is a loser. Speaking of Donald Trump being a bad loser, Donald Trump's already coming up with all of the excuses why he can't debate. He's already saying that he wants to do these other debates which aren't being offered. I've agreed to a Fox debate. I've agreed to this debate. They're not even on the table. And then Donald Trump's also saying that I'm going to make sure I drug test President Biden before we debate.

I'm not going to do this unless we drug test and play this clip. No, I have fake tappers. They said, I just want to debate this guy. But, you know, and I'm going to demand a drug test, too, by the way. I am. No, I really am. I don't want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite.

I said, is that Joe up there, a beautiful rope? And by the end of the evening, he's like, well, it was exhausted, right? Now we're going to demand a drug test. Then Donald Trump says that he expects that President Biden will be on drugs during the debate, and that's why he will perform well. Play this clip. Can't find his way off the stage. Can't put two sentences together, although he has agreed to debate. So I don't know, maybe they know something. He's going to be so jacked up for those debates. You watch. You are such a good debater. You must be on performance enhancing drugs, said nobody other than Donald Trump. As

I've said, Trump ain't debating. We know his pathology. I think one of the reasons Donald Trump accepted the CNN debate in June is Donald Trump realizes that there's a good chance or a high probability of chance that he's going to be convicted in Manhattan. He wants to use a debate as one either a reason why he can't debate or use a debate as a way to try to not get locked up. So that's how Donald Trump is using his cases in connection with his campaign. But anyway, Trump ain't debating. I mean, I would be very surprised if he does. And you already see the excuses. This is what he says about it and everything. He says, I'm going to do this. I mean, I would be very surprised if he does. And you already see the excuses.

This is what he says about it and everything. He's, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. He gets the headlines, right? He's going to do it. And then he doesn't do it. And then he blames that it's rigged or there's a conspiracy or these are radical lefties. It's all crap, right? I mean, why the media, corporate media just gives him a pass for this crap is beyond me, but that's what they do. Can we compare this though to President Biden's speech in Morehouse College? Incredible speech. Let me show you this portion right here of President Biden's speech at Morehouse. Let me show it to you. Well, let's be clear. What happens to you and your family when old ghosts and new garments seize power? Extremists come for the freedoms you thought belonged to you and everyone.

Today in Georgia, they won't allow water to be available to you while you wait in line to vote in an election. What in the hell is that all about? I'm serious. Think about it. And then the constant attacks on black election workers who count your vote. Insurrectionists who storm the Capitol with Confederate flags are called patriots by some. Not in my house. Black police officers, Black veterans protecting the Capitol were called another word, as you recall. They also say out loud, these other groups, immigrants poison the blood of our country. Like the grand wizard and fascist said in the past, but you know and I know,

we all bleed the same color. In America, we're all created equal. Extremists close the doors of opportunity, strike down affirmative action, attack the values of diversity, equality, and inclusion. I never thought when I was graduating in 1968, as Your Honor, he just was, we talked about, I never thought I'd be in a president time when there's a national effort to ban books, not to write history, but to erase history. They don't see you in the future of America, but they're wrong. To me, we make history, not erase it. We know black history is American history. Many of you graduates don't know me, but check my record. You know what I'm saying. I mean from my gut. That's what a president sounds like, right? I mean, that's what a president,

let me show you this one right here. Here's another clip of it. Play this clip. But it's not easy. I know four years ago, as some of your speakers have already mentioned, it felt like one of those Saturdays. The pandemic robbed you of so much. Some of you lost loved ones, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, who aren't able to be here to celebrate with you today. You missed your high school graduation. You started college just as George Floyd was murdered, and there was a reckoning on race. It's natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy? If black men are being killed in the street, what is democracy?

Betrayal of broken promises still leave black communities behind. What is democracy? You have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot. Most of all, what does it mean, as we've heard before, to be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn't love him back in equal measure? When I sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, in front of the fireplace across from my desk, I have two busts, one of Dr. King and one of Bobby Kennedy. I often find myself looking at those busts, making decisions.

Ask myself, are we living up to what we say we are as a nation? To end racism and poverty? To deliver jobs and justice? To restore our leadership in the world? So you can judge for yourself the difference between President Biden and Donald Trump. Judge for yourself. But you have the data. You have the facts. You have what they did over the past weekend.

And we'll keep you posted of what's going to happen in the criminal trial today. We'll keep you posted. Have a great one. Thank you so much for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 3 million subscribers together. Thank you. And thank you for the wedding wishes and the birthday wishes. It means the world to me. Thank you. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.