The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Loses It as General Strike Spreads

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing it over news that a General Strike is gaining momentum and spreading and has essentially shut down Minnesota businesses today. Head to https://zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. 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 Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats 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

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looking right now in Minneapolis and St. Paul, by the way, where it's like negative 16 degrees Fahrenheit and the people are out there protesting the ICE regime calling in sick, engaging in this general strike, or we should turn our attention to what's taking place in New York City. Solidarity with the nurses there, 15,000 nurses out there every day. They've been there nine plus days already. We've seen the New York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani. We've seen Senator Bernie Sanders show solidarity with those striking nurses and all they're saying is we want a fair wage for the job that we're doing. You have these hospital executives and CEOs making $20, 30 million a year and they can't even provide the most basics for nurses who are on the front lines. And then you've got the workers in Minnesota saying

there's lots of Fortune 500 companies in this state and you want to treat us like this Trump regime. You just think we're cogs in your wheel where you're going to going to take our money, what, put it in Katari bank accounts to build yourself golden arches and golden ballrooms. I mean, look what Donald Trump was posting this morning. More photos of golden arches that he wants to build in Washington, D.C., while he rips away the health care of tens of millions of Americans, not extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies, continuing to cover up a child sex trafficking ring as he continues to make it more difficult. difficult for people to afford their rent or purchase a home.

This is what he's posting. Rendering of golden arches with AI slop. We don't want golden arches, Donald. The American people just want to be able to live a life with dignity to support our families and not be invaded by ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo. It's pretty damn freaking simple, Donald. Our friends over at Migrant Insider are covering the, uh, the general strike right now.

Take a look at this map right here. You see other locations where this general strike is taking place. And we've seen those massive no-kings protests, of course. I think those no-kings protests get bigger and bigger and bigger. But I think it's time that we start to see. I think it was well past time that we start talking about a general strike. And we start talking about what else can we the people do in order to stand up to this regime and make sure they feel our power as they try to hoist authoritarianism across this

nation in the demented image of the dictator with no close. Donald Trump. So again, solidarity with the nurses in New York City also and everybody involved in this general strike. Now, Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic this morning as well, making social media posts like this. record cold wave expected to hit 40 states rarely seen anything like it before. Could the environmental insurrectionists please explain whatever happened to global warming? Well, you see, Donald, first off, you're just calling everybody insurrectionists these days. And you know how you want to conquer Greenland and annex it and take it over? And you know how you say, well, it's because there's a lot of melting of the ice in the North Pole area.

there's going to be lots of new shipping routes around Greenland. Do you realize that when you say that, you're recognizing the impact of global warming right there and that that impact is causing severe and catastrophic weather issues in the United States as well? Just because it is cold doesn't mean that global warming doesn't exist. But again, Donald Trump is a demented idiot, and he should be nowhere near the Oval Office. But thanks to this MAGA infrastructure of individuals who also think it's a good idea to cover up child sex trafficking rings. You have these demented individuals who are leading the United States. And by the way, Donald Trump's trip to Davos, we know how humiliating it was.

But when he left and he trashed the United Kingdom, you know the uproar in the UK right now? Our UK followers know, and Midas touch stands in solidarity with the UK. You know, we have Midas Canada. I was saying that we're going to do Midas Australia next. think we should do Midas UK and definitely Midas Europe immediately as well because Donald Trump said that our NATO allies didn't help us at all in any war. They never made any sacrifice for the United States in Afghanistan. So you know how Donald Trump calls American troops who die suckers and losers? Donald Trump called the UK soldiers over 400 who died in Afghanistan

suckers and losers. He called the Danish troops who died in Afghanistan, suckers and losers. He called the Danish troops who died in Afghanistan, suckers and losers, Canadian, French, I could go on. Europe, NATO sent so many soldiers to fight alongside the United States of America on the front lines when America was the only nation to invoke Article 5, and Trump has called those troops, suckers and losers, saying they weren't really on the front lines with us. They didn't help the United States. Anyone, any leader across the world who does not stand up to Donald Trump while he does that, you will lose your elections.

I mean, take a look at what's going on right now in Denmark, where their right-wing party that was more sympathetic to Donald Trump at first, you know, they're now losing ground to the more liberal party there as well. Or just setting aside the political conventions of liberal and conservative or whatever, you either stand up to Donald Trump right now or you kiss the gangster ring and you will lose in your states unless your country or state wants to become a Putin bootlicker, which is what Donald Trump is. is it, by the way, this morning, you have Steve Witkoff, and you have Jared Kushner, bootlicking. They're in Russia. They're meeting with Vladimir Putin, as Putin now has said that he's joining Donald Trump's Board of Peace, which is a board of authoritarians, which no member from NATO's on. No democracies are a part of it. It's like Trump, Uzbekistan, Belarus with Lukashenko, Orban's Hungary, and Putin.

But Putin's like, I will give you billions of dollars for your board, Donald. but you just need to unfreeze my funds, which are not your funds, that I just unfreeze the funds from Russia that were frozen because of the invasion of Ukraine. And then I'll give you billions of dollars to that Qatari bank account of yours, Donald. And we could all rant about how elections are fraudulent. Come on, Donald. That's what Putin's saying right now. And then Donald goes, what a great trip to Davos it was. So many things accomplished, including the framework of a deal with NATO on Greenland. Also the Board of Peace.

Wow, make America great again. There's no framework of a deal with Denmark on Greenland. The Premier of Greenland, here's what he had to say. No one even knows what you're talking about. You've made this up. There's no aspect of that's said true.

Here's what the Premier of Greenland says. Let's play this clip. First of all, nobody else than Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark have the mandate to make deals or agreements about Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark without us. That's not going to happen.

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Remember to head to zbiotics.com slash mitus and use the code midas at checkout for 15% off. And then more ranting and raving by Donald Trump. Here he goes, in Pennsylvania. during the 2020 election. There was over 400,000 election errors alone, direct switches of votes from one candidates to another. And folks, he's reposting account called the skiff, some Q&ON account. He's still whining about losing the 2020 election. All of these cases were litigated in court you lost,

and lots of your lawyers lost their licenses because they're making things up. And our Supreme Court, unlike the Brazilian Supreme Court, which through their insurrection as president, in Bolsonaro into prison for 20 plus years, our Supreme Court in the United States is freaking pathetic and does not represent the people, which is why there needs to be serious Supreme Court reform in our country.

And they gave Trump absolute immunity. In Brazil, insurrectionist president in prison essentially for the rest of his adult life, 20 plus years in the United States, absolute immunity. That's why we have a broken system that we need to rebuild. Speaking of that broken system, that fascist system right here, the Trump regime held a press conference today about kidnapping Liam Canejo Ramos, the five-year-old, who was wearing that blue teddy hat who was kidnapped and then used as bait to lure out his father

and then both were sent to concentration camps in El Paso, Texas. Well, Greg Bevino, Donald Trump's head of border, the head of the border control, border patrol, held a press conference today. And he said, Liam's doing great. He goes, Liam, it's like the best thing for him. He's in the least restrictive setting. I don't think it gets any better than that. That's what Trump's Nazis, SS border patrol them with Gestapo.

Because in my opinion, they engage in tactics like that. Kidnapping children. In my opinion, killing people. In my opinion, supporting, aiding and abetting the killing of people. 30 people died in detention centers last year or more. Seven or eight have already died this year. Here's what Greg Vivino says about Liam. He goes, it's doing great.

Here, play this clip. So the child. is in the least restrictive setting with a family member. I don't think it gets any better than that. And as far as the care, the best care that I've seen is ICE U.S. Border Patrol and the way we treat those illegal aliens that come across the border. Then you have DHS spokesperson, Trisha McLaughlin, and she said, the little boy was abandoned by his own father.

When we kidnapped the boy and then brought the boy to the house, the dad didn't come out and abandoned the child. So it's actually the father's fault that we kidnapped his son. Here, play this clue. This little boy was abandoned by his own father. His own father was being approached by ICE agents when he darted, ran, and abandoned the child. Our law enforcement in these frigid temperatures stayed with the child, tried to bring him into custody with the mother who actually would not take the child into custody, which is so sad, so horrific. Our law enforcement officers actually were taking care of the child, brought him.

to McDonald's were another ice and border patrol person was holding this press conference and was asked so does the father of Liam have a criminal record is there was there crimes that were committed here well we don't know we don't know the answer is what he says play this clip does the father actually have a criminal record and if so what charges was he arrested i will have to get back to you with any of this in-depth criminal history but he was in the united states illegally and i believe he'd been ordered removed. I'm from the AP your press people do have my contact information. And what's the son's legal status and immigration history? The family came across as a family unit illegally a few years back. I can't get the date off top of my head. Can you tell us anything

about ICE of interactions with mother as well as her legal status in immigration history? We have not encountered the mother as at this time. And then you have JD Vance, this evil shape shifter who, who changed his identities multiple times throughout his life, says, you know what, I got to hand it to all, you know, he calls the people who are striking and he calls the people who are out there protesting against ICE, sex traffickers, because that's what authoritarian do. You're domestic terrorists, your sex traffickers. That's the language that's being used by this evil regime. And J.D. Vance is like, I got to hand it to them. It's very cold out there. And they're committed to this bit, you know, you got all of these sex offender criminal aliens are.

standing outside, you're calling the peaceful protesters in Minnesota from Minneapolis and St. Paul in other areas, criminal alien sex offenders, the same way they call anybody who disagrees with them domestic terrorists here, play this clip. It is really cold outside. And you know, we in the Trump administration's want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of commitment to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside a negative 40 degree temperatures and attack the vice president of the united states but man they are committed to the i want to hear from somebody who's outside right now protesting in negative 16 negative 20 degree fahrenheit let's play this clip this person saying we're

stronger than them by this clip why did you want to be out here this morning i mean it's negative 20 there are other days to protest you wanted to be out here this morning why was that important to you We're stronger than them, and I think being out here on a cold morning like this really shows that. I hope they get frostbite. We are strong and we are together. You cannot divide us. We love our neighbors. We love our community.

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