The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Returns Wrecked After Ohio Debacle…

Episode Date: October 4, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s exhausted return from his disastrous speech at an Ohio high school gym and breaks down the Trump’s stunning collapse as his latest trip comes to an end. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Visit https://meidasplus.com for more!

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I've never seen anything like it. The depths of the oddity, and that's saying a lot for Donald Trump. Anyway, he left Dayton, Ohio. He arrived back in Washington, D.C., slumped over, struggling to walk around 11, 15 p.m. You can see him here now, arriving back in the office. But I just want to reflect on a moment, just like what went down at that Dayton High School gym, He did this event at a high school gym. I know there are different camera angles.

So sometimes it looks like there's more people there or it sounds louder than it really is. Can I just show you from an angle of like what it really looked like at this low energy event as he talks about the story of the snake and the snake let him in? And he said to the woman, how you let the snake. And just listen to this.

Here, play this clip. You know your bite of poisons. and now I'm going to die. Shut up! Silly woman, said the reptile with a grin, you knew damn well. Now, Donald Trump and Vivek Ramoswami and this whole MAGA Republican thing in Ohio

just getting utterly mocked and trolled right now. Like, did you see this one right here as Vivek picks up clown Donald Trump? Here, play this clip. I'm going to pick you up. Oh, you're heavy. Because what really went down was when Vivek picked up the child and the child was too heavy for Vivek. I mean, this whole Maga Republican clown show right here as we approach the midterms themselves,

I mean, it's absolutely a sight to behold. Watch Vivek trying to behold this child and he can't hold him. Here, play this clip. I'll pick you out. There you go. Whoa. Big guy. So no wonder we're seeing polling data like this. The latest New York Times, Siena poll, showing Democrats, leading by seven points in Alaska, and the Senate race there, six points in Texas, three in Ohio. Kansas is tied. Republicans up one in Iowa, but it's pretty much a dead heap.

I think Josh Turrick is actually going to pull that ahead. I mean, just look at the messaging from these MAGA Republicans. I mean, you have this Lorraine resident Brenda White. right, big data center proponent, major supporter next to MAGA Republican Senator John Houston, holding up a sign, data center. We love data centers. I mean, the Democratic candidate, former Senator Sherrod Brown, is like the main thing he's talking about it, his campaign is what aligns with what Americans are saying, which is like

no data centers in our backyard. Like, we stop it. And then the Trump regime's like, well, we're going to call it SI. They're not data centers. They're super intelligence centers. What in the hell? By the way, did you see when John Euston the Mago-Republican senator from Ohio started to speak and Donald Trump fell asleep standing up?

Watch what happens here and play this clip. Come to fruition if we didn't have a made in America, America First policy to go along with it. And so now we're- Then Donald Trump told the crowd in Ohio. Again, that's that small high school. You saw what it looked like in the previous video, right? Just to be clear what we're looking like. I'm not trying to like exaggerate it.

You saw that angle, what it looked like. But Donald Trump's like, we need data centers everywhere. And anyone who doesn't like data centers is probably hired by China. And it's a sci-op. Here, play this clip. Historic action to ensure that big tech data centers

benefit local communities. We want them, look, there's so much money to be made for Ohio. You can't just turn them off. They'll go to China. China is, you know, A lot of people think it's sort of a PR attack by China. It could be, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not such a believer in that, but it probably is a little truth to it. But they don't want to see us. We're beating China. Then he spent the rest of his time bragging about how he loves aspirin. He loves to take aspirin. That's what he wanted the people of Ohio to know. That's his closing message to the voters of Ohio.

He loves aspirin. Here, play this clip. And just yesterday, Bear, I love Bear aspirin. I take an aspirin a day. I don't know if it works, but psychologically, I need it. It thins a hell out of your blood, I guess. I don't know if it works or not, but I've been doing it for a long time. And here I am making speeches.

Oh, and by the way, then this happened at the event at the high school gym in Ohio, as someone was calling Donald Trump out, let's play it. Why don't you tell people that's rude? You rape this. Oh, and then this, you can see the crowd clearly was not feeling it. You got a beat her. Well, you got a beat her. You got your central casting.

You're going to do it. What a great reputation. You have good luck. And Eric Conroy from the first district representatives, Warren Davidson, Warren. Do business, all right? Did we do that, folks? Number one, Ohio. But all we did could not have come to fruition if we didn't have a made in America, America

First policy to go along with it. And so now we're seeing auto manufacturers move some of their jobs back from overseas to Ohio. moving their jobs from overseas to Ohio. We see aviation companies moving their jobs back to Ohio. You know what happened in Ohio this week was the president? We had the lowest unemployment rate in the history of Ohio. And these folks tell my family had to leave Ohio because there wasn't any place to go to work when I was growing up. But I stayed. I fought for the state. And I'll just say this. I never wanted Ohio to be a place for your children and grandchildren. We're going to take care of you. We're going to take care of.

We're going to take care of. 17 years ago. When Brock and St. Obama betrayed that he betrayed you. These people got terrible. They worked off their whole lives. They got treated. Many of them passed away. But they got treated so badly. But I'm working with John and Burney and Vivek and everybody. We're going to get Delphi taking care of. We're going to get your benefits back. Right. Let's take a look at prices since the start of the year. European natural gas up 165% heating oil, up 112% gasoline up 105%. Brent crude up 68%, U.S. crude up 58%, coal up 38%. Midwest gasoline inventory has fallen to its lowest levels in history. The price of diesel continues to hit record highs. Even notwithstanding the fact that the Trump regime pressured Europe, to release 100 million barrels from Mid-Straget Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Trump regime released 40 million barrels

from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It really hasn't even made a dent in the surging price of diesel and gas right now. And so the Trump regime is dealing with that. But look, they've got their propaganda media networks. With all of this going on, I just want to show you what this Trump propaganda network RSPN looks like. This is what they were saying at the event that we all watched, which was like,

objectively the most psychotic event ever. And I'll just show you as they're like, Western civilization was about to die. And Donald Trump saved Western civilization. Like these people are, these people are absolute freaking lunatics. Like these are psycho people. Here play this clip.

He's the leader of the free world. Western civilization was about to fall. If Kamala Harris or Joe Biden got back or if Hillary Clinton got into office, we would have lost our country. Borders would have been wide open. Illegal immigrants would have been pouring in. Inflation would have skyrocketed taxes. Everything would have become so unaffordable that the everyday American would have looked around and said,

this isn't the country I grew up in. I don't know how else to describe them. I'm sorry if, you know, like, I just, I watch that and I'm like, what the hell are we talking about? And then I'll show you over here as they just continue the kind of, just ridiculous propaganda. Here, play this clip. And President Trump's a businessman. and he knows if we have control of the House and Senate, we can pass legislation to make America profitable. And that's the whole point. To get the $5,000 check is to prove to you, prove to Americans that we are a profitable country.

We can generate revenue in this country. Tariffs are generating revenue. And it's not a bribe. It's not just random handing out free stuff. In the real world, Iran continues to strike tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. another tanker hit. I count about 8 to 10 tankers in the Strait of Rmoo struck by the IRGC. In the past three to four days, Iran is escalating. I'm going to, well, because the U.S. has threatened, we're going to obliterate Iran, and Iran sees what's happening. I'll do a video on it this morning, but the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier has retreated from the blockade. It's in Phuket right now in Thailand.

And so the George H.W. Bush and there's another Navy ship with it as well that's in Phuket. So that's left one aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz. The impenetrable blockade is one aircraft carrier. The USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading here from San Diego, along with an amphibious assault group is coming here as well. But that's not going to get here until mid-November. I'll do a whole other video on that later about the U.S. not having munitions. I mean, we know we don't have the interceptors. We don't have the Patriots.

Now we're down to one aircraft carrier in the region. The Trump regime not only engaging in malicious, despicable war crimes. They're also incompetent, and they also are unable to execute a plan. It's a plan that's horrific and should never have taken place in the first place. And they've mangled the catastrophic plan. Keep looking at what's happening in the region as well. On Sorala, the Houthis, they've advanced on Taiz's city. they're making a major offensive.

We've seen Saudi Arabia strike Sana, the capital of the Houthis. The Houthis were able to strike in Saudi Arabia, Yanbu, the West Coast Port City over there. Strike Riyadh. It's interesting. The Saudi Defense Ministry is like, oh, everything's good. No issues here. No problems at all. Everything's amazing, which reminded me of what Treasury Secretary Besson told Axios yesterday, told

Mike Allen. When Mike Allen asked him a good question, he said, So, you know, he said, look, you said Treasury Secretary Besson that you're the House and the House wins and you will get the U.S. bond market under control. But Treasury yields have basically been on a vertical up since you said that you have not gotten control of the Treasury yields. I mean, the 30 years approaching 6%. Heck, the 10 year may hit 6%. I mean, the way things are going. Mortgage rates, 30-year fix, 7.5% are around there. interest rates continuing to go up as well. So watch what Besson says. I mean, this guy is literally, and again, I forgot who said this, but I agree with it. He's like a will. He's like Will Ferrell.

It's like watching Ron Burgundy. And Ron Burgundy is much smart on us, but I'm like, what are you even talking about here play this clip? Last month you told the markets, I am the house now. They bet against you at their peril. Do you regret saying I am the house now? No, because look, the health doesn't win every hand. the house plays the percentages. And, you know, like, look, that I, maybe they hurt some fragile egos on Wall Street that I always had respect for the market. And, you know, I always tried to look and think, like, what's the move after the move that, you know, if you have an ego, you lose a lot of money. But the market slapped back?

No, it didn't. How did it slat back? The rates went up, but oil went up. that, you know, I could say, okay, yes, yesterday we had the, you know, we had the first full allocation since we have expanded our treasury buybacks and rates collapse. They, you know, there's nothing causal there. It was coincident. The Financial Times, probably your favorite paper, said Bessent fails to break fever in U.S.

bond market. What did you learn from that? Well, I learned that the Financial Times is anti-American, anti-business. And, you know, they, they have a fever. They're constantly trying to create a problem for the U.S. But let's leave that disgrace publication on London aside. Now as Donald Trump heads back, lethargic, rotting, deteriorating, decaying, I mean, clearly, rapidly, cognitively deteriorating before our eyes.

Just showing you some of these new young Democrats. Democratic Senator Ossov, many people put him as a future presidential contender. He's got the Senate race of. course where he's surging ahead. He's been ahead for a while. Listen to what he had to say play this glim. And I don't know if you saw this now. The money that they took from you when they doubled your health insurance premiums, the money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes to give yet another tax break to their corporate donors and the wealthiest people in the country, they're taking that money to buy corrupt

taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president who's now staring at this midterm election recognizing that accountability for his corruption and misdeeds is coming. Or how about Democratic candidate Dr. El-Sayed? Here's what he had to say when in his latest campaigning in Michigan, let's play it. How do we do it? It starts with getting money out of politics. And it also means that we've got to hold politicians who do double duty accountable.

I just want to talk about the revolving door. You all know what the revolving door is? Mike Rogers knows the revolving door. Because he was chair of intelligence, which is the closest he's ever come to the word intelligence. It was a chair of intelligence in the house. And then he moved to Florida after he retired advising the very same corporations that he was regulating just a year before. You know how much money he made? $14 million.

$14 million. He bought a mansion in two yachts. I don't know. Yeah. Who needs... Who needs... Who needs... Mike had a yacht and then Rogers had a yacht.

All right? It wasn't enough to have one yacht for Mike Rogers. He had a... Mike had to have a yacht and Rogers had a yacht. All right. And the reality of it is this. He's now trying to come right back. So what does he do about the very...

same corporations and and these some of these corporations did some shady stuff man one of these corporations called telephonica it was helping nicholas maduro of venezuela spy on his own people mike rogers took a contract with a corporation that allegedly rewarded him for every piece of nuclear material he sold in saudi arabia i'm just saying that's corruption that's how the system works. So we need public servants who aren't trying to walk through the revolving door twice, three times. We need public servants who are committed to the service of the public, who aren't trying to make a buck off of their time in public service. And it starts with getting money out of politics. Or how about Senator Slotkin, Senator from Michigan, who obviously wants Dr.

Abdul al-Sayed to be her colleague over there. Here's what she had to say, let's play it. I just want to say very quickly that Donald Trump is the most successful, corrupt leader in the history of the world. And, you know, many, many years ago, I served in Iraq, and Saddam Hussein would, like, spit out his tea at the amount of money that Donald Trump has stolen from his own people. And the reason why we focus so hard on flipping the House and flipping the Senate is because then we can do three. things. Number one, actually pass laws and legislation that help people put more money in their pockets, help them raise their kids in a way that they feel proud of. Number two, it allows us to hold people accountable who have stolen taxpayer dollars. And then number three, another important one, it's not as sexy, but it allows us to frankly Trump-proof the government so that no other person can

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