The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Panics as Troops Turn Against Him in War!!!

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump panicking as US troops are letting it be known they don’t want to die in the Iran war with no clear objectives and at the request of foreign powers. 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 The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show 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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Not only has his 48-hour ultimatum to Iran been rejected, but American troops are now expressing how angry they are at Donald Trump and his regime. You are aware, based on our prior reporting, that Iran said it will not give up control over the strait of her moves in 48 hours. after Donald Trump threatened war crimes against Iran, that he would blow up all of the energy, civilian infrastructure if Iran didn't give up the strait of her moves. Now we're hearing from U.S. troops. Here's what U.S. troops are saying behind the scenes, and we already knew that morale was very low,

especially amongst the Navy members of the USS Gerald Ford and the Abraham Lincoln. Now we're hearing those being sent on this Marine Expeditionary Force that are likely, being sent to Iran to invade the Karg Island are absolutely livid. Their families are obviously incredibly worried. Nobody knows what the goals and objectives are. And Donald Trump just rants and raves like a lunatic on social media. U.S. troops in the Iran conflict are increasingly uneasy, citing stress, safety concerns, and unclear goals. Some describe a lack of planning with one official warning, a ground operation would be an absolute disaster. Many troops are questioning the purpose of the war in the first place, with some saying, quote, we do not want to die for Israel. We do not want to be

political pawns. This comes from a recent report by Huffington Post. And in the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has been calling lots of different reporters, many reporters in Israel. For example, he called Israel's Channel 13. And here's what he stated about his recent ultimatum against Iran and the Strait of Hermoos. You'll find out soon what's going to happen. You're going to find out soon. It's going to be very good. Total decimation of Iran. It's going to work out very good. They've been very bad. Very bad for 47 years. Iran. Now they're going to go. get their comeuppance. And then Donald Trump attacked NATO on this phone call with Naria Krause of Channel 13 in Israel. They're not doing anything. It is too bad, too bad. Israel, of course,

is very supportive in a wide-scale attack on Iran's energy facilities. They've announced this on Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation. Benjamin Netanyahu said, anything we do, we do, we do, together with the United States, even if that means blowing up the civilian energy infrastructure in Iran. Iran has responded, you do that. We'll go after the desalination facilities and energy infrastructure in the surrounding Arab nations that have American military bases on them. Iran's foreign minister, Araghi, put out the following message on his social media platform yesterday. The Strait of Hermuz is not closed. Ships hesitate because insurers fear the war of choice you initiated, not Iran.

No insurer and no Iranian will be swayed by more threats. Try respect. Freedom of navigation cannot exist without freedom of trade. Respect both or expect neither. Then you have the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. core spokesperson mocking Donald Trump in English saying, hey, Trump, you're fired. You're familiar with this sentence? Thank you for your attention to this matter. They are mocking the United States. Never before, at least in my lifetime and the lifetime of my parents and grandparents, or I think ever,

has the United States been mocked and laughed at in this way as Donald Trump goes on social media, ranting and raving like a lunatic. Here, play with this IRGC spokesperson just said. Here, let's play this clip. Eteram, you are fired. You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter, the central headquarters of Qatam Olympia.

Now, Donald Trump's been going on social media to mock Prime Minister Kierre Starmer, and Donald Trump's also been going on social media to rant and rave about the, Save America Act. And he continues to talk about, like, genital mutilation. And that's what Donald Trump's big word right now is mutilization, everybody. And we need to stop mutilization.

Donald Trump says, I don't think we should make any deal with crazy country destroying radical left Democrats unless and until they vote with Republicans to pass the Save America Act. It's far more important than anything else we're doing in the Senate. Donald Trump then says that he's going to send ice into all of the airports starting today because of no transgender mutilization, and that's why he's sending ICE agents. Democrats have said, look, we're happy to fund TSA. We want to fund TSA.

Democrats have introduced a lot of bills to make sure all the airports are funded, but Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to make sure that ICE agents wear masks, that ICE agents do not have to follow due process requirements of the Constitution, and that ICE agents can appear at polling stations, and that ICE agents don't have to identify themselves. Those are non-negotiables to the Republicans, and those are the non-negotiables for Democrats to further fund ICE. My personal view, speaking for myself,

I want to see ICE and Border Patrol completely abolished, But Donald Trump, just admitting in that message that I just posted, that he will not agree to any deal unless something about gender mutilation. Again, we're out of war. Americans can't afford things right now. This is a disastrous war that looks like it's about to escalate even more with Donald Trump sending troops that appear to be ready for a ground invasion. And this is the type of stuff that he is out there posting right now. American officials are telling its allies or I guess former allies that the U.S. will likely be forced to launch this ground operation to capture Karg Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Pretty soon. This was published in the I-24 latest news edition. Trump tells Channel 14 he expects to come to Jerusalem in April to receive the Israel Prize.

So Donald Trump bragging about that, that's what he called up Channel 14 to say. visit if finalized would make a major symbolic moment for Donald Trump. Really, the Israel Prize? What are we even talking about here? Now, Hannah Brandt, a reporter from News Nation, asked Donald Trump what he thinks of Iran's foreign minister saying they won't be swayed by Donald Trump's threats and Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to which Donald Trump said, okay, let's see whether or not he's right. we're doing like corny movie lines.

This is life or death stuff. And this is how Donald Trump is behaving. So from that contingent of 4,500 U.S. sailors and Marines heading to the Middle East, Washington Post is saying that this Israeli official, who appears to be on notice that Trump is preparing this invasion of the Karg Islands, says about our Marines here in the United States, those Marines are. are not coming for decoration. There's a reason that they are coming here,

that this operation, this ground invasion of Iran, could take a few weeks. That's what they're saying. Here's an interesting article from the Atlantic, which Faitoogh's news explains, but this is from the Atlantic about what the U.S. troops would face in an invasion of Karg Island. Sure, the U.S. troops may well take Karg Island,

only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, and petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support. Because if you think about it, Kareg is far, 140 miles from American assets in Kuwait City, very close to Iran's coast. And most people who know anything about military logistics say this will obviously be, a disaster will be throwing our Marines into a meat grinder. By the way, the same way Putin does that in Ukraine. It's important to note as well, the CEO of Saudi Arabia's Aramco, the world's largest oil

company, has now withdrawn from a major energy conference in Houston, which was supposed to start today, as the situation in the Middle East threatens to escalate further. The conference was set for today when Trump's ultimatum expires and a few hours. No doubt that the Middle East is on edge for reprisals from such an attack. And one of the things to focus on as well, as Faitoog's news puts it, and we've been talking about it, is you've got to watch what's happening in the Red Sea. The Houthis have not yet gotten involved in this war, and I think they've deliberately have held back waiting for Iran's signal to shut down the Red Sea the way the Persian Gulf right now is at a stand,

at this moment. And again, Donald Trump is spending his time attacking Reza Pavlavi, the son of the Shah, calling him a loser prince, according to reporting by the New Yorker. Trump is attacking NATO at the same time. And you have the head of Iran's parliament, M.B. Galabaf posting the following. Alongside military bases, those financial entities that finance the U.S. military budget are legitimate. legitimate targets. U.S. Treasury bonds are soaked in Iranians' blood. Purchase them and you purchase a strike on your headquarters and assets. We monitor your portfolios. This is your final notice. A few other points that we need to focus on as well. Number one, that Patriot Missile, well, the strike in Bahrain that took place early in the war. Remember March 9th, there was a major

blast 10 days into the war where 32 people were injured, including children, some very seriously injured in Bahrain, and this was blamed on Iran. Well, what seems to have happened, and Reuters is reporting it, and it's not being denied by our Department of Defense anymore, is that a Patriot missile interceptor shooting down an Iranian drone was actually what was responsible for this a strike on Bahrain, should also be noted that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutt is saying that the alliance cannot confirm Israel's claim that the missiles targeting Diego Garcia were of Iranian origin, were of Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles. So begs the question, whose missiles were it, and why can't that be confirmed? More data coming out, more information coming out, a great report from the

York Times on this, how Netanyahu and Trump embraced this report by the Mossad saying that if there were initial strikes against Iran, it would trigger a popular uprising against the Ayatollah and people would reclaim Iran for democracy. The opposite is what's transpired. I mean, take a look right here, what happened yesterday. And again, these are the types of scenes that we're seeing in Iran right now, where the pro-democracy protesters were out in January, and Trump promised to help him but threw him under the bus, and they got massacred. Here you're seeing pro-Iatola, pro-IrGC, pro-Islamic Republic mourners outside in the city of Kashan, and they're out there to bury IRGC spokesman Ali Muhammad Naini, who was killed this past weekend in Yashan. And, you're out there to bury IRC spokesman.

U.S. Israeli strikes. Look at the amount of people who are there right now. Look, the American people don't support this war. 66% view this as a war of choice right now. Donald Trump was spending the weekend golfing. You see his cars arriving at the West Palm Beach Golf Club over the weekend. That's what Trump was spending his time doing. And meanwhile, you had people in the Trump regime or close proximity to it like Lindsey Graham saying, of course we should evade the Karg Island. We did Iwo Jima. Let's do the Kargoyle. This is easy for us. Here's what Lindsay Graham had to say. Let's play this clip. Literated and they're running out of money. So here's what I tell President Trump, keep it up for a few more weeks. Take Karg Island where all of the resources they have

to British oil, control that island. Let this regime down a vine. Is this going to, though, take Karg Island? Is it going to involve U.S. troops on the ground? Let me just read you something from the Atlantic does an assessment on that. They say U.S. troops may well take Kargai and we believe their ability to do so, but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support. The result could be a grinding war of attrition.

They talk about how far away they would be from resupply. I'm sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback, and this has been amazing military operation. God bless the fallen. But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground. I trust the Marines, not that guy. I trust DOD. We got two Marine.

expeditionary units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima. We can do this. The Marines, my money is always on the Marines. I don't know if you take the island or you blockade the island, but I know this. The day we control that island, this regime, this terrorist regime, has been weakened. It will die on a vine. Meanwhile, you have Benjamin Netanyahu giving interviews. And here he's saying, whatever we do, we do in partnership with the United States regarding striking the energy infrastructure of Iran. Let's play this clip. Over night, President Trump said that if in 48 hours the Iranians don't open the Strait of Hormuz, that there will be strikes against the power grids in Iran.

Will you participate in those strikes? And what do you think should happen next in this campaign? I think President Trump knows exactly what he's doing. And whatever we do, we do together and as far as possible in confidence. And somehow Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes that we're doing jiu-jitsu to Iran and Russia by removing these sanctions on them and allowing Iran and Russia to make billions of dollars selling their oil in the global oil market. That's us showing strength. He said, it's us doing jujitsu. Here is what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said. Let's play it. Why is the U.S. helping to fund a country that it's currently at war with, Mr. Secretary.

Again, Kristen, why don't we have good facts here? That Iranian oil was always going to be sold to the Chinese. It was going to be sold at a discount. So which is better, Kristen? The seven, the, which is better if they were, if oil prices spiked to $150 and they were getting 70% of that or oil prices below 100. It's better to have them where they are now. And to be clear, we had always planned for this contingency.

About 140 million barrels are out on the water. In essence, we are jiu-jitsuing the Iranians. We're using their own oil against them. We have a much better line of sight, to be clear, a treasury, when this oil goes to, if it goes to Indonesia, if it goes to Japan, if it goes to Korea, we have a much better line of sight and are able to block accounts that the oil goes into. When it goes into China, it completely gets recycled. To be clear, that $14 billion number is grossly overstated.

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