The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Loses It in Disaster Briefing With GOP Over Invasion

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disaster briefing with the GOP at the Kennedy Center over the invasion of Venezuela. Order now at https://drinkwillies.com and use code MEIDAS for 20% off of your first order + free shipping on orders over $95 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump just had a disastrous briefing with Republicans in Congress on the invasion of Venezuela. Donald Trump held this disastrous briefing at the Kennedy Center. Just take a look at what Donald Trump looked like during this briefing. I mean, these are real photos, not AI. This is how he was behaving. This is completely and utterly humiliating for the United States. Donald Trump was explaining why he invaded Venezuela and said, you know, the thing about Maduro is that he tried to imitate my dance a little bit, and I didn't like the way Maduro was dancing.

Now, the New York Times, the journal, and others reported that one of the main reasons for this invasion was actually, this is what, as all these good sources are saying, that Donald Trump was upset at Maduro's dancing and that he thought that the dancing was trying to outshine Trump's dance. And here, play this clip. And, you know, he's a violent guy. He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit. But he's a violent guy.

Then Donald Trump says to the Republicans in Congress who are there at the Kennedy Center that he will be meeting with all of the oil companies. And he says, you know what we're going to be discussing, right? Drill Baby Drill in Venezuela. Here, play this clip. Well, 14 companies. I'm meeting with them all. I'm also meeting with oil companies. Let's go. You know what that's about. We've got a lot of oil to drill, which is going to bring down oil prices even further. But now, one of the important things to point out is that Donald Trump is also discussing that the American taxpayers will subsidize this. It could be as much as $100 billion of taxpayer dollars subsidizing oil companies to go into Venezuela. It the oil companies don't want to spend their own capital expenditures there. They don't think

it's a wise investment. So the taxpayers, according to Donald Trump, may be footing the bill. Donald Trump then starts talking about cognitive exams, and he goes, I'm the only president to pass a cognitive exam. Let's show you this clip right here. I believe in it. I'm the only one that took a cognitive test. I do matter. It's the worst. Then Donald Trump asks the Republicans sitting there, why don't the American? people like what we're doing. He says, all of our policies are great. What the hell is going on in the mind of the public? Because we have all of the right policies. Trump says, first of all of the hell are your policies other than destroying the American economy, destroying the lives of 99.9%

of Americans, getting into wars everywhere and behaving like an under maniac. Here, play this clip. But they say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So you're all brilliant people. Most of you are in this business longer than me. That makes me smarter than you because look where I am, right? No, it doesn't. But I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because we have the right policy. They don't.

They have horrible policy. They do stick together. They're violent. They're vicious. You know, they're vicious people. Then Donald Trump says that he's upset at his staff more than the New York Times. for reports about his deteriorating health and slowing down. He goes, why'd my staff only say

that I did one thing in this day when I've did lots of things in this day? So I'm more mad at my staff than the New York Times. Here, play this clip. My people gave out a report. He had lunch. They show a report lunch with somebody. And they did a story, Donald Trump is slowing down.

He only had lunch. And then he went back up and he said, that's malfeasance who ever did. Right? No, it's terrible. I was actually more angry with my people than I was with the New York Times. But they wrote a story. And it takes you a period of time to recover from these hits. And it's almost no matter what you do, but you have to keep a positive eye. But we have a fake press. Now, as Donald Trump is briefing the Republicans in Congress, not the full Congress. By the way, he says he briefed the oil companies first, briefing the Republicans at the Kennedy Center, which he's vandalized and calls the Trump Kennedy Center. Donald Trump then continues to talk about cognitive exams and that every president needs to take one. Here, play this clip. We should give everybody like these competency tests, right? The cognitive, they call it cognitive.

You know, I'm the only president that went for cognatives. I think every president and vice president should be forced to take cognitive exams, mental tests, like, uh... Then as Aaron Rupert says, checking in on the president, here play this clip. I want to really, yeah, but she gets it, and, uh, huh, huh. Next, Donald Trump says, uh, that, uh, he, he, he, he phrases this as a joke. He goes, maybe we should just cancel the elections. He goes, why do we even have to run against Democrats?

Why do we even have to run against these people? I won't say cancel the election, because if I do, everyone will say he's a dictator. He's a dictator. Then Donald Trump randomly says nobody is worse than Obama? Just starts going after Obama? Here, play this clip. We had the worst president, did the worst job, they had the worst policy. We have to even run against these people.

Now, I won't say cancel the election. They should cancel the election because the fake news will say, He wants the elections cancel. He's a dictator. They always called me a dictator. Nobody's worse than Obama. And again, in this speech that was, I guess, supposed to be about invading Venezuela. Donald Trump starts, again, talking about Maduro's dancing versus his dancing.

Then he goes, you know, I'm a good dancer. The people like to see me dance. And my wife tells me that I shouldn't dance. And she says, would FDR be dancing? I mean, FDR at polio and was confined to a wheelchair, Donald. But what are you talking about here play this clip? She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right? She said, it's so unpresidential.

I said, but I did become president. Somebody, she hates when I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance. Darling, it's not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me. And I said, there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know. Because he was an elegant fellow, even as a Democrat, right?

He was the attack by Japan. You know, he was quite elegant. But he wouldn't be doing this. But nor would too many others. But she said, darling, please. The weightlifting is terrible. And I have to say this, the dancing. they really like she said they don't like it they're just being nice to you i said that's not right

the place goes crazy they're screaming dance please but the weightlifting but no the girl gets up hmm and you see i want to be more but i have somebody watch it i want to be more of usuf i want to really yeah but she gets it and uh huh huh huh and you get something and uh huh Ah, dropped the thing, walks off the stage crying, her mother's crying, or father's. Hey, are you tired of waking up hungover and worrying about what happened last night? Now you could have fun and relax without any of their regrets

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The latest reports that they're actually paramilitary groups loyal to Delsey Rodriguez, who is in the Maduro regime, authoritarian, who's now leading Venezuela. It's just another authoritarian. It's Delsey. Donald Trump threw under the bus, Maria Karina Machado, the opposition leader. And so, but here's in Donald Trump's world.

Everybody right now in Venezuela is cheering when actually people are very scared in Venezuela. They don't know what's really happening. They don't know who's in control right now. And I think even the Venezuelan community in South Florida is like, I thought you were going to put Maria Karina to Machado, not someone else from the Maduro regime. How are we supposed to return to Venezuela

if the Maduro regime through Dulci Rodriguez is still basically running the show? Here, play this clip. So we can't let them forget that we did such a great job on the border. By the way, Venezuela, everyone, they're marching in the streets, they love it, except in New York.

I mean, where they find these people? These people, they're not like, these people are a mess. I know it's not nice to say that. These people are a mess. Where do they find these people? They're the worst-looking people I've ever seen. They've got hats that are all frayed and all that looks like it.

They're all paid. They don't even know what they're talking. When the people, the reporters don't interview them because they know that it's, you know, the reporters, the press is so anti. It's hard to believe the press could be so anti. Because it's all common sense. You know, it's not we're a conservative, we're concerned, whatever. Then Donald Trump attacks the press,

randomly, play this clip. It's not even conservative, it's common sense. But the press has no credibility whatsoever. Think of it, I got 97% bad stories on one network, 93% on the other, and I won in a landslide. You know what that means? The press has no credibility. That's all it means.

And we gotta keep it that way, so I don't talk too much. Trump says he loves just seeing how good the soldiers look in D.C., he says, I just think they look really good. Here, play this clip. And I don't know about you, but to me, those soldiers standing there look so good. I'm not going to feel safe walking down the street without them. I don't think you would either. Even though, you know, we took out so many criminals, I just feel better.

To me, they're beautiful. I look at these soldiers and you feel safe. You feel safe. I don't think if we took them out, even if the crime wasn't much, it would definitely be more. We did a great job in Chicago. Trump continues to go on and say that he's reducing drug prices by a thousand percent. And he goes, he goes, the way you could do the math, it's two ways. You could either say they're down 90 percent or they're down 1,000 percent.

I don't know. It's not, you can't have something down 1,000 percent or down anything more than 100 percent. But actually, drug prices are going up. And 350 drug prices went up this year versus 250 drug prices that went up last. year and drug prices are going up about the rate of inflation which continues to go up play this clip from 10 to 20 or 30 and ours would go from 13 down to meaning 130 down to 20 or 30 so it's a huge drop for us now to when depending on the way you calculated it could be thousands of percent down it could also be 90 percent and 80 percent you know there's two ways of calculate i don't know if you

You know, they said, Donald Trump exaggerate. Now, there are two ways of calculating it, but calculated at 80, 90%, but the other way is more accurate, like 900%, because that's what it really is. Then Donald Trump randomly says that Senator Tim Scott, Trump asks, he's a straight guy, right? He's a straight guy, play this clip.

Tim Scott, who's a great guy, great, wonderful guy, South Carolina, straight guy, right? He is a good guy, good person. He said, Trump then says that he's the king because he sells bowings. I'm the king. I sell Boeing's play this clip. The big problem with it. I'm the king.

I have sold more Boeing than any human being on earth. They gave me a award, salesman of the year. I said, what about salesman in the history of Boeing? I've sold more Boeing planes than any man in history by, by four, probably over a thousand. Over a thousand planes. I said, that's the good news. But why should they wait three, four years to get a plane? They should build them, get them immediately.

The F-35. He talks about checking a tariff shelf. Play this clip. What do you think? We just don't know where it came from. I said, check the tariff shelf. Sir, that tariff doesn't start until September. He said, no, no.

It started about a month and a half ago. Check it. Comes back 25 minutes later. Sir, you're right. I came from tariffs. This never happened to us before. Where we find plus 39 billion. not million plus 39 billion they were missing and then he says he likes religious people because they're

honest but some religious people are an honest play this clip religious i like that he's a religious person i like that i like religious people it usually means they're more honest sometimes it doesn't happen that way i've had some real religious ones that did numbers on me and i said i'm going to get them someday they got me by surprise but it's usually good. Okay, right? And his name is Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson. And then finally, while Donald Trump was doing this, he then called, he then called Joe Scarborough. And here's what he said about invading the difference between invading Venezuela versus Iraq. Here, play this clip. He asked him. So, Mr. President, when you say, quote, we're going to run everything, it obviously

causes deep concerns because of the disaster in Iraq. The president's response, Joe, the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn't keep the oil. We're going to keep the oil. And to underline his point, Trump said his comments, we're no longer on background and said in 2016, I said we should have kept the oil. It caused a lot of controversy. Well, we should have kept the oil, the president said. And we're going to rebuild their broken down oil facilities. and this time we're going to keep the oil.

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