The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Loses It at Disaster Meeting with Australia PM

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s awful meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese. Prizepicks: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! 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

Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanyisi. Let me show you what went down. Donald Trump, again, just looking sickly. It's very bizarre. He started talking about the haircuts of the members of the press who were asking him questions. Here, play this clip. President Trump, a question to both of you, if you don't mind. I love his haircut. I'm going to try that. No, I love it. Good. So as we all know, and then this reporter asked him a very good question. I mean, she said, why aren't you providing the tomahawks to Ukraine?

Why aren't you supporting Lindsey Graham and other Republicans in the Senate and who are trying to impose these serious sanctions against Putin and label Putin a terrorist? Watch how Donald Trump treats this female reporter. Again, it's really disgusting stuff. Here, play this clip. done such an amazing job on the Ukrainian children who worked up by Russia. Would you support Senator Lindsey Graham's bill to declare Russia a terror state? And you have within your power, you're the most powerful man on earth. Why don't you just enable Ukraine to finish this war tomorrow?

Well, if you know anything about what you were talking about, you'd be able, you do. I don't think you do, really. I don't think you do because it's a little more complicated than that. But it sounds easy. We're in the process of trying to make a deal. If we make a deal, that's great. And if we don't make a deal, it'll be a lot of people are going to be paying a big price. President Trump, so a question to both of you, you know. I mean, Trump is totally unhinged. This was a very, very strange press conference. A reporter then asked Donald Trump, you know, what's your response to the Prime Minister of Australia saying that there's a trade imbalance. with Australia, that's significantly in the United States' favor.

I mean, the U.S. has a massive trade surplus. So why are you hitting your friend and ally Australia with these tariffs? And then Donald Trump just starts rambling about airplanes. You have to buy our airplanes. It's very strange. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, the prime minister mentioned that there's a trade imbalance that's very heavily in America's favor.

why does America slap such heavy tariffs on a friend and how well we do yeah well we do in some cases we do in many cases because we've been treated unfairly but actually the tariffs are very light the one thing is you buy a lot of airplanes so that helps because you buy a lot of the beautiful bowings the best of the bowings Boeing and by the way Boeing is really doing well they have lots of orders and they're really doing a great job they make a great plane but uh Australia, because of its location, which is great, but one of the things dictated by that location is you have to order a lot of airplanes. So I guess we have that advantage. They need a lot of airplanes in Australia. And that gives us a little bit of an...

Another reporter from Australia than asked Donald Trump. So would you consider lifting the tariffs ever for Australia? I mean, given all the facts and data, which shows that there's a trade surplus, Australia is a friend. Why would you... Why would you... Why would you... do this. And then Donald Trump just goes on this weird rant and rave that he always does about he solved eight wars and he's going to solve nine wars. Soon he just makes up numbers and I've created all of this piece and I'm great. He doesn't answer the question. And I mean, here's the thing when you watch this into all of our Australian viewers, the Midas Mates or the Midas down under. I mean, you see how, I mean, this is just a individual who's so unhinged and untethered from reality.

real threat to Australia, a real threat to the world. Here, play this clip. President, if you create surplus that the U.S. enjoys with Australia, would you consider lifting the tariffs that you've imposed on Australia? And can you give us any details about the critical? Yeah, well, the tariffs have been amazing because, you know, tariffs have been really a reason that I was able to settle almost all of the, you know, I've settled eight wars in eight months. Not bad. I have one more to go. It's Russia, Ukraine, and I think we'll get there, but it's turned out to be nasty because you have two leaders that truly hate each other, you know? You can't have it all. They hate each other beyond all else. And it makes it actually

a little bit difficult. But of the eight deals, I would say because of tariffs, four or five of them were settled. It's an amazing thing, the power of tariffs in terms of our country. But tariffs have always been used against us. We never used them against anywhere else. And now you have a precedent that for national security reasons and other reasons is using them, and we've become a very rich nation again and a very secure nation again, but we've also become a nation that used that power of tariffs and the power of trade to settle five of the eight wars that I said. I settled eight. I'm very proud of that. Nobody else has settled one.

I don't think there's been an American president that settled one. I think there probably hasn't been outside of the two countries involved, or however many are at war. I don't think there's ever been an outside country. that settled the war period. So I settled eight in eight months. I'm proud of that. Now, in the meantime, I'm running a country

that's right now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We were dead. A year and a half ago, we were a dead country. Now we're the hottest country in the world, economically and otherwise. So, but I will say this, Australia pays very low tariffs, very, very low tariffs.

In fact, Australia pays among the lowest tariffs. Donald Trump has then asked a question about this, ceasefire. It's not a peace deal. It's a ceasefire in the Middle East, which Israel and Hamas never signed. I just want to emphasize that. And it seems to be collapsing. I mean, almost 40 Palestinians have been killed. Hamas has reasserted control. Israel has continued to shell and strike southern Gaza, also hitting Lebanon as well. Netanyahu doesn't support a two-state solution. Trump doesn't support a two-state solution. So what are we even talking about?

out here. And then Donald Trump is like, Hamas, they need to behave. They need to behave, behave themselves here. Watch this clip here. Let's play it. The Middle East. And now it's all, I mean, we have a little situation relatively with Hamas. And that will be taken care of very quickly if they don't straighten it out themselves because you're in violation of their agreement. This episode is brought to you by prize picks. You and I make decisions every day, but on Prize picks, being right can get you paid. Don't miss any of the excitement this football season on prize picks where it's good to be right. Not going to lie, I've been cleaning up pretty well on prize picks this year. This week I'm looking at the board and selecting Patrick Mahomes for more

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That's code Midas to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Price Picks. It's good to be right. Donald Trump is asked about soybeans and the fact that our soybean farmers are all going bankrupt. recall Trump gave $40 billion of our taxpayer money to Australia while our farmers are experiencing farm again. It's also our construction workers, our manufacturing workers. Frankly, all Americans are suffering, but Argentina is getting a $40 billion bailout while 20 million Americans are about to lose their health care. You know, they've got universal health coverage in Argentina while our health care here in the United States is being ripped away from so many. So Trump's asked about

soybeans and he goes, you know, I want them to buy soybeans. You know, I used to speak to Xi Jinping all of the time. Biden never called Xi Jinping. Biden never did Biden. This. Well, Donald, when former President Biden was the president, China was buying our soybeans at a significantly high rate. 60% of the sales of our soybean farmers were being sent to China under Biden, but not under you because of your failed trade war against the world. Here play this clip. Korea, China, and I will have a really fair and really great trade deal together. I want them to buy soybeans. They stopped buying our soybeans because they thought that was punishment. And it is punishment to our farmers, but we're not going to allow that to happen

because I made a great trade deal with China, a $50 billion trade deal, and they were great about it. They were doing everything that they were supposed to do. And then when Biden came in, you know, I used to call presidency all the time to say, thank you or you're not buying enough. In other words, they were supposed to buy. Biden, do you think Biden never called him? I don't think Biden never called him. You think Biden lied awake at night thinking about trade with China? Then Donald Trump is asked, why did it take you nine months to meet with Prime Minister Albanyi?

He didn't meet with him at the G7 meeting in Canada, although Donald Trump left early and fled that thing immediately and didn't really meet with anyone. He blew off meetings with Modi from India and so many other world leaders who are expecting to meet with him. And then one of the things the reporter says as well is it because, You don't like Ambassador Rudd. You don't like, he said, the former prime minister as well of the Labor Party there. You don't like that he said negative things about you.

And then you'll see how unhinged Donald Trump becomes here. Play this clip. Go ahead. There's been concerned in Australia that it's taken nine months to get this meeting. Have you had any concerns with this administration with the stance on Palestine, climate change, or even things the ambassador said about you in the past. I don't know anything about him. If you said bad, then maybe he'll like to apologize. I wrote, I know, did an ambassador say something bad about him? Don't tell me. Where is he? Is he still

working for you? Yeah, yeah. Do you said bad? Before I took this position, Mr. President. I don't like you either. I don't, and I probably never will. Go ahead. behind you, President. Then Donald Trump says that the war on Ukraine, Russia's war on Ukraine doesn't affect the United States in any way. Here, play this clip. Believable, it's a bloodbath. It's the worst since the Second World War, the worst number of people. And, you know, it doesn't affect us in any way. We don't pay anything because now they pay us for the weapons that they get. The NATO is paying us for the weapons, as you know. It doesn't affect, I guess you could say that's a positive thing. They pay us.

but I'm not interested in that. I did straighten it out. Then Donald Trump says that he doesn't think that Ukraine can win the war against Russia. He goes, they could still win, but I don't think they're going to win. Let me show you this clip right here. Mr. President, on the war that you haven't solved yet,

Ukraine, Russia's situation, have you now locked in a meeting? And can you explain just a few weeks ago at Umbay you said that Ukraine could possibly win the war and territory? Well, they could still win it. I don't think they would. will, but they could still win it. I never said they would win it. I said they could win. Anything can happen. You know, war is a very strange thing. Next, Donald Trump has asked a question about

China potentially taking over Taiwan and then Donald Trump and whether the Australia, UK, U.S., the Alkis alliance is important in order to be a check against China's potential territorial ambitions and taking over Taiwan, to which Donald Trump says, you know, I don't think August will be needed for that. Yes, Taiwan is the apple of Xi Jinping's eye, which is the same expression that Donald Trump uses to talk about Ukraine being the apple of Putin's eye. It's a weird phrasing. Here play this clip. Mr. President, yeah, your Secretary of War, Pete Hanzeth, in his Shangra last speech in, I think it was made, warned about the potential likelihood or threat of President Xi ordering an invasion of Taiwan. 2027 is also the year that fleet base west is

going to start rotating those US and UK submarines. Do you see Walker as a deterrent for China in the Indo-Pacific? Yeah, I do. I think it is, but I don't think we're going to need it. I think we'll be just fine with China. China doesn't want to do that. First of all, the United States is the strongest military power in the world by far.

It's not even close. Not even close. We have the best equipment. We have the best of everything. And nobody's going to mess with that. And I don't see that at all with President Xi. I think we're going to get along very well as it pertains to Taiwan. And that doesn't mean it's not the apple of his eye, because probably it is. But I don't see anything happening. We have a very good trade relationship. We're going to have a very good. I think when we leave South Korea, it could be wrong. But I think we'll end up with a very strong trade deal. Both of us will be I don't see that happening now. And Donald Trump trashes the former Biden administration. This is what Donald Trump loves to do on the world stage. Trash the former administrations in front of our international allies, or I should say former international allies. Here, play this clip.

He was an incompetent president. We had an incompetent president, but you don't have that anymore. Then Donald Trump says that he thinks that China is in trouble and that they're not going to make it. He thinks China's not going to make it. It's all projection, by the way. The United States is in deep trouble right now. Structurally, America is pedestal by pedestal, legs of the pedestal.

It's cracking our economy. It's brick by brick by brick right now is what we're seeing. And actually, China's economy is doing great. China's found alternative markets outside of the United States to import from. But this is Donald Trump, projection. here play this clip almost like saying we don't want to do business with you but it's probably nicer saying you're going to pay 158 157 percent tariff is a nicer way of saying that we don't want to do business with you and if they don't do business with us I think China's in big trouble

I'll be honest with you I think China is I don't know that they even make it I really do I believe that they're in big trouble and I don't want them to be in big trouble I want them to do great I want them to thrive, but we have to thrive together. It's a two-way street. I think... Then Donald Trump goes on this rant again. Look what I've done. I've made peace in the Middle East.

For the first time ever, there's peace in the Middle East, everybody, because I say it's peace in the Middle East, therefore it's peace in the Middle East. Here play this clip. You just alluded to the violence in the Middle East. What steps is the administration taking to maintain the ceasefire? Well, a lot of steps, and right now it's in the hands of others. You know, we have 59 countries that agree to the deal.

We have a peace in the Middle East for the first time ever. We made a deal with Hamas that, you know, they're going to be very good. They're going to behave. They're going to be nice. And if they're not, we're going to go and we're going to eradicate them if we have to. They'll be eradicated. And they know that. So they went in.

They went in. And I don't believe it was a leadership. But they had some rebellion in there among themselves. And they killed some people, you know, pretty a lot of people. But this is a violent group. You know, you probably noticed over the last hundred years. This is a very violent group of people. And they got very rambunctious, and they did things that they shouldn't be doing.

And if they keep doing it, then we're going to go in and straighten it out, and it'll happen very quickly and pretty violently, unfortunately. And look, there's not peace in the Middle East. Bodies of 57 Palestinians brought to Gaza hospitals in the past 27 hours, Gaza Health Ministry says the humanitarian aid being blocked by Israel, Hamas asserting, reasserting control over Gaza, strikes on southern Gaza, Israel says because they said the Palestinians violated the ceasefire. As I mentioned, there were strikes in Lebanon.

I mean, in terms of the death count close to 40 Palestinians have died that we know of, right around 40. and so I don't really see how this is even being called a ceasefire when Biden was able to get 83% of the hostages return. Trump did get some hostages return, which is something that should be applauded, right? I mean, getting the remaining hostages back is great. The idea of a ceasefire, in theory, is a good thing. But when you don't say you support a two-state solution or a free Palestine living next to a free Israel side-by-side peacefully, When you don't require Hamas to disarm, when you don't require Israel to recognize a two-state solution, I'm not really sure what we're even talking about here at all.

So you have that. And then, by the way, in the background of all of this, we learned today that the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service and their military intelligence services have significantly scaled back intelligence sharing with the United States due to ongoing concerns. about the reliability and political ships fearing that sensitive information provided to the United States could end up with China or Russia or the United States who could use it to harm our allies. We just know that because that's being announced publicly, but I believe that's what's taking place in Canada and Europe and Australia and elsewhere right now, but tell me what you think as well. I'll leave you with this one point right here. Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's press secretary, chief propagandist, posted the following. This is her text message with a reporter

from the Huffington Post, who she refers to as a left-wing hack. So the reporter says, is the president aware of the significance of Budapest? In 1994, Russia promised in Budapest not to invade Ukraine if it gave up the nuclear weapons it inherited when the Soviet Union dissolved. Does he not see why Ukraine might object to that site as a, meeting point between Donald Trump and Putin, given the history. Who suggested Budapest was the question by this reporter, thanks. And then Caroline Levitt, who's the White House press secretary, the chief propagandist, her response is, your mom did. And then the reporter says, is this funny to you? And then she goes, it's funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal. You are a far left

hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media. This is all that's wrong with this regime. These are amateur losers, baby, no offense to babies, behavior. It's gross. Who the hell behaves like this? These are sick, disgusting, vile, immature human beings. These are serious freaking issues of life or death. And you see why America is the laughing stock for the world, why the world is both horrified and mocking what the United States has become weaker than ever before under this despicable, vile, grotesque Trump regime. Let me know what you think. And subscribe.

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