The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Quickly Unravels as Catastrophe Approaches

Episode Date: May 3, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump rapidly declining in all respects as his trade deals fail to materialize and all his plans backfire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And Donald Trump says that he is OK with a recession. He'd be fine with it. He doesn't care. Here, play this clip. And that's my question. Remember this long term. Is it OK in the short term to have a recession? Look, yes, everything's OK. What we are, I said, this is a transition period. I think we're going

to do fantastic. As former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says, post this image from CNN, which is now finally reporting on this, the last boats without crippling tariffs from China are arriving to the U.S. The countdown to shortages and higher prices has begun. No, it's begun three weeks ago, CNN. But as Pete Buttigieg says, this isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president. How long have we been talking about freight volumes and trucking volumes and showing you photos of the ports here on the Midas Touch network. As Senator Bernie Sanders told me, sometimes the most important issues are what news isn't talking about. That's why I talk about these things here over and over again, because we can follow the data where these things are headed so it doesn't hit us like a shock. That's why we report on this stuff weeks in advance on the Midas Touch Network.

We also learned yesterday that the Trump administration will not renew Biden era grants worthker says, I do not understand why mental health programs are being defunded by President Trump when every school shooting is blamed on mental health by MAGA Republicans. I just want you to think about that. Every time there's a school shooting, the MAGA Republicans say it's not because of the guns, it's because of mental health. Okay, well, now you're defunding mental health services to schools. Cruelty is the point, folks. This shouldn't be a political issue. I'm just giving you the data points. I'm not speculating what they're doing. I'm reading you statements that the Trump MAGA regime is confirming. Oh,

another post by Donald Trump. Oh, he's doing the cartoon image of himself right now. Oh, what's he saying in this post? Oh, that he ended inflation and made America affordable again. Wow, I guess it must be done. So it's been said it must be done. Donald Trump says that he promised Americans that he would rapidly drive the prices down. And he says promise kept on this image that he posts. White House delivering emergency price relief for American families and they defeated the cost of living crisis. Folks, mission accomplice, the cost of living crisis has been defeated. Donald Trump, thank you.

Thank you for doing that. Yes, I go to get my gas prices, $1.98. Egg prices down 87%. Whoa, you told me that? My MAGA mush brain says, okay, Donald. Donald, I understand you have MAGA mush brain cult followers who watch Fox. The rest of us, we can go to stores. We can see it. We know that prices are not going down. We know housing is less affordable, not more affordable. We see what you're doing to the economy. It's not good. It's very bad. Oh, Charlie Kirk, someone who's in Donald Trump's inner circle, also potentially saying that more firings are coming at the CIA. We'll see about that.

Um, one thing over here to Ryan Cummings, uh, uh, said, did an added analysis. Oh my God. I think Garrett is correct. Garrett Golden goes, oh man, I think someone is showing the president, the RBOB charts and telling him that that's the price of gasoline. POTUS's team is showing him the cost of wholesale unfinished gasoline, which does not include the cost of oxygenates, ethanol, and all distribution marketing costs, and telling him this is the price of gasoline you are paying at the pump. So I guess the same way Donald Trump's people told him that he won at the Supreme Court with the Brego Garcia, nine to zero, that he won and he does not have to facilitate the return when the order was the exact opposite. I guess they're telling Donald Trump that the

price of gas at the pump is $1.98 because they're showing him the cost of without oxygenates. That's really what they're doing. By the way, what day are we on? Day 21, 22, 23. No trade deals. No deal Donald. That's his nickname. Now we're learning that Japan, an ally of the United States, should be easy to make a deal with Japan since Trump made a deal with Japan in 2018. Trump made the Japan deal in 2018, and now he hates his own deal. The same way Trump made the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, the USMCA, and he hates that. He goes, whoever made this deal is the stupidest. You made the deal with Japan. You made the deal with Canada and Mexico, so you're the stupid one. Japan is preparing to use its role as America's largest creditor, holds $1.1 trillion in treasuries as leverage in Trump trade talks.

This as Timu halts shipping direct from China as the de minimis tariff loophole is cut off and you will now see if you were to buy at Timu or any of these stores in China, 145% basically added to the cost. So Timu is just saying, all right, we're not going to send anything to the United States anymore. By the way, when I think about Timu now, I think about Timu Trump in Australia, Peter Dutton in Australia, the leader of the Liberal Party there, which is their right-wing party. Peter Dutton, the Trump effect is real in Australia, as Anthony Albanese soaring ahead, the Labour Party doing well in Australia. That's their Liberal Party there. It's confusing. The other left party is the Labour Party.

On his way potentially to another three-year term there. Shout out, Midas Down Under, Midas Mate. Tell me which one you like better. More Donald Trump posting that the price of gasoline is $1.98 and egg prices are down, which is a lie. J.D. Vance saying Russia's war in Ukraine is not going to end anytime soon. Where Donald Trump said earlier in the week that it was a joke when he said that there would be peace in 24 hours. He said in a Donald Trump way, I was joking. I was joking. I know. And it's only the fake news that took me seriously. Your fake news. If you thought I really meant there would be peace, only the fake news. You're so dishonest. I was joking about making peace in 24 hours.

Now, J.D. Vance saying it's not going to end anytime soon. OK, OK, J.D. OK, J.D. Also, a new poll from The Hill. Majority of U.S. Latino voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Really? I mean, the Venezuelans for Trump aren't happy that he's deporting family members back to Maduro and sending Venezuelans to concentration camps in El Salvador when he said he got you back. The Cubans for Trump, you're unhappy that Donald Trump is taking away family members and sending them back to the Castro regime, sending them back to Cuba, separating mothers in Miami who are still breastfeeding their children to be homeless in Cuba. Even taking away temporary protected status from 500,000 Latinos. He told you he wasn't going to do that, right?

You thought it was only the criminals. He thinks you're criminal. He thinks you're the criminal. We told you. We't going to do that, right? You thought it was only the criminals. He thinks you're criminal. He thinks you're the criminal. We told you. We tried to warn you. Okay? But don't get me wrong. Trump's been focused on making deals this week.

Not deals that benefit America. Don Jr. starting the Executive Branch Club, $500,000 to join his exclusive club called the Executive Branch. Imagine if Hunter Biden did that. Donald Trump making a deal with Qatar to have a new Trump resort in Qatar. UAE's minister met with Donald Trump. Trump gave them some AI chip exemptions. And Abu Dhabi then agreed to use Trump's crypto as part of their transactions. All in a week. All in a week.

Oh, and by the way, while Donald Trump was gutting mental health services at schools, gutting PBS and NPR, he was focused on spending $92 million, maybe even more, to throw himself a military-themed parade in Washington, D.C. in the coming months where he wants to have 6,000 soldiers, 50 helicopters, fighter jets, as he stands there like a Kim Jong-un-style dictator as troops march in front of him. Can we talk about that he's posting AI images of himself dressed as the Pope? This is an unwell individual, but I don't want to use that as a way for him to duck accountability. Let's just call him what he is. He's a vile piece of trash. He's a felon. He's a fraud. He's a criminal. He's a sexual abuser. He's trash. I have zero respect for him. Period. Full stop. Zero. You shouldn't either. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.

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