The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump running back to Mar-A-Lago for another vacation after a disastrous week. Thanks to Rubbish: For 35% off your order, head to RubbishHome.com and use code: MEIDAS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm gonna recap them right now. Number one,, you tank the stock market and the entire American economy. Number two, you falsely claim Honda was building a new plant in Indiana to try to cover up for the fact that you tank the stock market and the entire American economy. Number three, you flip-flopped on tariffs. Again, both Canada and Mexico stood up to you, and you backed down, and now you have a new deadline for the tariffs, April 2nd, and you're super serious this time. Number four, you suggested that the stranded astronauts could fall in love. Then you flew to Florida to go golf after you sent a message to Hamas saying, shalom Hamas, and that all hell was going to break loose if they didn't release the hostages, which you threatened to do back on February 10th, and then which you threatened to do before that on January 7th. You're all bark, no bite, Donald, and everybody knows how pathetic

and weak you are and how in any given moment you're going to change your mind. Tariffs today, tariffs tomorrow. You panic and you fold like the coward that you are. Here's a very simple graph. Donald, if you're playing along at home, you make stupid decisions. Something really bad happens. You then convince your followers that the problem is now magically solved. Then you reverse your decision and then you rinse and then repeat. Donald, is that one not

good for you? You want me to show you another graphic? Take a look at this one. Here you are saying, I'm adding tariffs. Then your supporters go, this will create jobs. Then you say, I'm removing tariffs. And then your supporters go, art of the deal. Then you say, I'm removing tariffs. And then your supporters go, art of the deal. Then you say, I'm adding tariffs. Then your supporters go, this will create jobs. Then you say, I'm removing tariffs. And then your supporters go, art of the deal. Like, here is your press secretary, your propagandist, Caroline Levitt says, remember everybody, you know, Donald Trump may be crashing the economy. He may be threatening these tariffs, imposing the tariffs, then withdrawing the tariffs

when the economy is crashing. And in response to the Atlanta Federal Reserve now saying we're headed to negative 3% GDP growth in quarter one, when if Donald Trump literally did nothing, we would be at three to 4 percent actual growth in quarter one. And she goes, that's all part of the deal. That's the art of the deal. Here's your propaganda saying that play this clip. But you asked why President Trump wants to make a deal. I would remind you he's the master of the art of the deal.

He is America's dealmaker in chief. And I guess they figure if she just repeats that over and over again, you know, the MAGA people will buy it. Oh, that must be part of the art of the deal. Here she is saying it again on Hannity. This is major news. I know everyone wants to talk about tariffs. Bad, bad, bad. No. Why don't people understand the president is a never ending negotiator? He's a never ending negotiator. It's the art of the deal. But also, the president has proven, as he did in his first terms, that tariffs can bring good-paying jobs back here to the United States of America.

They protect critical industries here at home. And President Trump is serious when he says he wants to make America the manufacturing superpower of the world. So utterly pathetic. But what's probably more pathetic is this scene right here of the MAGA Republican members of Congress hovering over you, casting out demons and evil spirits in the Oval Office. I can't make this up. By the way, Donald Trump's approval is absolutely tanking right now. And one of the groups where it's tanking the most, Gen Z and young voters, Trump's approval with people ages 18 to 34, it's about 70% disapproval at this time. And that's sinking very, very, very quick. At this point in time in his presidency, Trump's like the least

popular of any president basically ever, other than maybe himself during the first administration. Let me show you this right here. This is Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine. Here he's speaking in front of a serious group about foreign relations, and he's asked, well, what about Donald Trump's promise that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours? And tell us about that, Keith Kellogg. By the way, Keith Kellogg was once a pretty proud military guy. He was someone who was taken seriously. Let me show you how Trump be clowns people like this and how, just look at this person. He's a defeated man now. Just watch this stupidity as the audience laughs at him,

not with him. Here, play this clip. No, but remember what President Trump said. He actually talked about the potential of getting territory back from the Russians. He said that. That's a public comment from him. So pardon, but he didn't say it's almost like, you know, he's remember the president said he was going to end the war in 24 hours. We didn't say what day. And just to give you a flashback here, remember when Donald Trump says he was going to end the war in 24 hours? Remember when he said this here?

Play the clip. The night I won, and I called two people. You know who the two people are? Putin, right? You know who Putin is? And Zelensky. And I'd say, we're going to meet. We're going to meet. And I guarantee I could work that out. I guarantee. I know exactly what I'd say, by the way. I know exactly. I tell one guy this, and I tell one guy that, and I say, you better make a deal. We would have a deal made in 24 hours.

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pounding Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I'm strongly considering large-scale banking sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached. Ooh, you put it in capital letters, Donald, to Russia and Ukraine. Get to the table right now before it's too late. Thank you. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski explains, Ukraine is pounding Russia on the battlefield. Russia is pounding civilian targets in Ukraine and infrastructure indiscriminately. Trump has made it easier for Russia to do that because of the actions he has taken. Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours, but all he does is these capital letter posts. One of the actions he has taken. Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours, but all he does is these capital letter posts. One of the things that Donald Trump did do, though, like the coward that he is,

is he shut off the United States giving intelligence to Ukraine about Russian attacks. This is causing Ukrainians to die as Russian drone swarms and missiles are more easily able to find their target. By the way, Maxar Technologies, one of the people who were providing GPS to the Ukrainians, they admit that this is what Trump and Pete Hegseth, the former Fox host, demanded. Maxar's statement on media reports regarding access rights to Maxer imagery. Maxer has contracts with the U.S. government and dozens of allied and partner nations around the world to provide satellite imagery and other geospatial data. Each customer makes their own decisions on how they use and share the data. One of those contracts is GEGD,

the Global Enhanced Geo-International Delivery Program, a U.S. government program that provides access to commercial satellite imagery that has been tasked and collected by U.S. government. The U.S. government has temporarily suspended Ukrainian accounts in GEGD. We take our contractual commitments very seriously. There is no change to the way we support our other customers, nor their programs or contracts. Max, you have blood on your hands too in doing this. I understand you take your contractual obligations seriously. How about you take your humanity obligations

seriously because you are causing the deaths of Ukrainians. And of course, I understand you're being ordered to do so by Donald Trump, but it is absolutely despicable. As Jay and Keeve explains as well, none of us wanted to put this story out there, but it seems like it's happening as well. Many are saying that the United States is actually helping Russians with intelligence against Ukraine. At the same time, the United States is stopping Ukraine from getting intelligence. A suspicious pattern alarming the Ukrainian military.

A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia's long-range strikes have been aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies to Russia right now. Absolutely, absolutely despicable. Let's take a look at what's going on on the home front as well. The Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says inflation expectations are rising, driven by tariffs. Yesterday, there was a brutal jobs report. The jobs report came in under what the expectations were. And the report only went through February 15, so it didn't include all those government jobs that were lost as well. I think that the next jobs report is going to be absolutely devastating.

We're seeing headlines like this, this from the New York Times. It says how President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Just weeks into Mr. Trump's term, the outlook is gloomier. Trump's policies have shaken a one solid economic outlook. Economic forecasts have deteriorated in recent weeks, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves, and immigration roundups. That's from the New York Times. Now let me show you the Wall Street Journal, right-leaning. Tariff war risks sinking the world into new Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce warns. The world economy

could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. So right-leaning paper, Wall Street Journal, citing right-le leaning group, International Chamber of Commerce. From Reuters, Trump wants to kill $52.7 billion in the semiconductor industry subsidy. And just take a look at what they're saying on Fox, Fox Business, Maria Bartiroma, saying, yep, we're heading into a recession, but it's Biden's recession. Play this clip. That's, by the way, that's why I said earlier it would be Biden's recession. Play this clip. And you have Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant, saying, yes, you're feeling pain and suffering. But he goes, that's just detox. That's a detox period. And here Scott

Besant is as well, talking about how really Americans don't want access to cheap goods. Americans shouldn't get cheap goods. Here he is at the Economic Club of New York saying, no, no, no, Americans don't want cheap goods. Play this clip. Could we be seeing that this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure. And look, there's going to be a natural adjustment as we move away from public spending to private spending. The market and the economy have just become hooked and we've become addicted to this government spending. And there's going to be a spending, and there's going to be a detox period. There's going to be a detox period.

I mean, these billionaires, and Scott Besson's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. I mean, they're so utterly disconnected from what we the people are experiencing. It's so utterly despicable. Let me just go to Canada for one more second. Shout out to our Canadian followers and supporters.

In Canada, you have a major shift in the election polling data there. Now, the Liberal Party, with the handoff from Prime Minister Trudeau to either Mark Carney, as one of the people who's running, or to anybody else in the liberal party who's running. 41% is where the liberal party's polling, five points ahead of the conservatives. This would be the best result for the liberal party since the 2000 elections. I mean, very impressive stuff right there. But while all of this is happening, where's Donald Trump? Donald Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago hanging with the crypto bros and bragging about the money he made got all the transaction fees on it. So he made a lot of money off of it. So utterly pathetic. I mean, this was someone who's not a good businessman. He's someone who's destroyed most of the businesses he's touched. And he's doing

that with the economy right now. Then he runs and hides in Mar-a-Lago like the piece of trash that he is. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.