The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Spirals on Disaster Saturday as Missiles Hit

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s awful Saturday as he creates major problems in the United States and accross the world and as Russian missiles strike Ukraine. Go to https://Ground.News/MTN to cut through misinformation, critically analyze the news shaping our lives and hold the media accountable. Save 40% off unlimited access to Ground News with my link or scan the QR code on screen. 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 The Influence Continuum: 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 Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let them fight it out. Donald Trump went from, I will bring peace in 24 hours to let them fight it out. By the way, here's what Donald Trump looked like in the Oval Office before he left to go to Mar-a-Lago this weekend, while we now see what's taking place in international affairs in Ukraine. take a look at Donald Trump. Remember on the left when he was making fun of disabled persons and that's how he ran the campaign? Well, the tables have turned Donald. And before Donald left, this was actually Donald Trump before he left. He was in the White House. He was like passing out sleeping. None of the corporate news covered it. Of course, we cover it here on the Midas Touch network.

And then when Donald Trump was in Mar-a-Lago today, here's what he posted this morning. He goes, I'm recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies in order to save the bad health care provided by Obamacare, and he puts this in caps, be sent directly to the people so that they can purchase their own much better health care and have money left over. In other words, take from the big bad insurance companies, give it to the people, and terminate per dollar spend. the worst health care anywhere in the world, Obamacare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the filibuster exclamation point. And Donald Trump will be like, you see, this is what my plan is. We're going to eliminate all insurance companies, give people a few thousand dollars, and then we're all good.

Hey, Donald, we remember, what was it? Five months ago when Doge existed or no one talks about Doge anymore. Remember the Doge dividend checks? was going to get $5,000. Remember, was it a month ago? The tariff rebate checks were bringing in so much money, trillions of dollars, that everybody's going to get a tariff rebate check. Lie after lie after lie.

It's just fraud from a two-bit con artist. As Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says, this is unsurprisingly nonsensical. Is he suggesting we just eliminate health insurance? get rid of everybody's insurance altogether and then give people a few thousand dollars instead and then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt because they can't afford the procedure he is so deeply unsurious

that's why we are shut down and America knows it and here's what he was doing last night he was walking out with like his hands looking actually like like freaking Frankenstein around Mara Lago like yelling at people It was such a bizarre sight to see. And then he has people like this there at Mar-a-Lago. I don't even know what the hell was going on at Mar-a-Lago last night.

You had women who were dressed like this. I kid you not, this is a real photo. This is different from what happened last weekend when they had the half-naked women in the martini glasses. This is what's going on right now. And by the way, Democrats made a very serious offer, one that probably frustrated a lot of Democrats at first to these MAGA Republicans, but they called their bluff when it comes to the government shutdown. Democrat said, look, we want the Affordable Care Act subsidies to be permanently extended because we need Americans to be able to afford their health insurance. If you extended

the tax cuts for the billionaires permanently, so should the subsidies for the affordable care. But the Democrats said, look, let's do a one-year extension on the subsidies. And then let's publicly come up with a bipartisan commission and then let's offer solutions to the American people. Then let's have a vote on a date certain next year. By the way, good timing in the sense that it would take place right before the midterm elections so Americans can see which side is serious about a health care plan. But let's not force Americans to lose their health care coverage right now. And then all of the MAGRA Republicans, though in response to Democrats, Just say, do a one-year ACA subsidy extension, one-year extension of these Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Republicans were like, nope, we're never going to do that. Why would we do that at all? That's ridiculous. I mean, here's Lindsey Graham saying, and I just want you to hear it for yourself so you know what I'm talking about. Here, play this clip. Senator Graham, can we ask you about this new Democrat offer? What do you make up the one-year ACA? Terrible, horrible.

I'm not going to keep giving taxpayer dollars. to the five largest health care insurance companies under Obamacare to get the government open. And then here's another MAGA Republican Senator saying it. So again, you can hear it for yourself. Let's play this clip right here. Senator, it's great to see you. Great to have you on the show tonight. Let me ask you, will you accept this terrific offer by Chuck Schumer tonight?

No, Lord, that's a non-starter. What Chuck Schumer is asking us to do is to give $25 billion to criminals every year. and $35 billion to insurance companies every year. That's what it's costing American taxpayers right now to partially fund Obamacare. So that's a non-starter. And that's why here we are setting, should we break the filibuster or not?

I think that's the conversation that Republicans should be having right now. Okay, so that's the position of these MAGAs right now, while Americans are terrified that they're going to be losing their health care. And right now we're living in a period where Americans can't afford things, okay? I mean, Americans go to the grocery store and they need to supermarket and they see

the groceries are unaffordable. Americans can't afford their rent right now. Everything's going up. Inflation is surging as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. And Donald Trump's message before he left to go to Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayer dime again that we're paying for all of those stupid trips is that affordability is a con job. He goes, it's all one big con. It's not real.

Affordability's a con. Just so you could hear him in his own words. Here's what he said. Here, play this clip. That's a big number because Walmart's respected. I mean, Walmart is Walmart. And, you know, they're giving you prices. So that would mean that the whole series of pricing and costs, you know, the groceries

and everything else, it was a con job. It was a con job. Affordability, they call it, was a con job by the Democrats. The Democrats are good at a few things, cheating on elections and conning people with facts that are true. It was 25 percent. Walmart just announced it two days ago. 25 percent cheaper this year will be cheaper to have Thanksgiving than it was a year ago under Sleepy Joe Biden. And then by the way, you know, you have the Trump regime filing emergency motions to block the stat payments to the beneficiaries. and then they brag about it.

Let me just read to you what Attorney General Pam Bondi said last night. Within hours to go before the TRO compliance clock runs and the First Circuit waiting to deny immediate relief until a minute ago, we have filed an emergency stay application in the Supreme Court requesting immediate relief. Just so you know what that means, she's saying we rush to the Supreme Court to block the payments of SNAP to the beneficiaries because they the regime doesn't want people to get SNAP benefits. The United States government just our taxpayer dollars, 40 billion dollars just went to Argentina. 40 billion dollars. By the way, it's like 37 billion dollars to pay for the

entire Affordable Care Act for an entire year. But 40 billion we sent to Argentina and the snap benefits would be for the next month or so would be like what? or six billion dollars and that money exists in a temporary fund and we have more than enough money to fund snap right now fund snap i mean the trump regime did what a trillion dollar military budget 173 additional billion dollars to the ice gestapo by the way here's what jd van said just so you could hear it in your own words when he was attacking the courts the lower courts for ordering the trump regime pay people the snap benefits here play this clip look jackey it's an absurd rule because you have a federal judge effectively telling us

what we have to do in the midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we can't have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation. We're trying to keep as much turned on,

we're trying to keep as much going as possible. The president and the entire administration are working on that, but we're not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge. We're going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law, of course, but also to actually make the government work for people in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown. I find this interesting as well, and it's so important that we have accurate, credible media diets right now because there's so much disinformation from the Trump regime. You remember when J.D. Van said,

that he hoped that his Hindu wife converts to Christianity and then this sparked this massive debate and why would you say that? I mean, you want, you're wanting your wife. The whole thing is very, very, it's a strange comment. Well, only 4% of right wing of like the coverage came from right wing media on this. So it just shows you that like the right wing media

is always going to cover up for MAGA and they always want to just, Give MAGA's base the kind of red meat that just pisses them off, but they don't want to ever look critically at their own people. So people ask me all the time, Ben, how do you stay up to date on the news all the time on the Midas Touch network? You cover a lot. You do YouTube videos like 20 times a day.

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Thank you, ground news. By the way, I started this video by showing you the latest Russia attack drone. attack, ballistic missile attack on Ukraine, killing at least six. Remember what Donald Trump's statement about Ukraine is now? When he was asked, hey, you promised that you would stop the war in Ukraine by Russia. On day one, Trump's response was, I'm just being sarcastic. Here, play this clip. I'm not understating the complexity of all this.

But as a candidate, you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours. Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said. that I would, what I really mean is that like, and then what Donald Trump now says is not only was he joking, L-O-L-L-M-A-O, like he finds that funny, that you said you were going to end a war on day one, and now you acted like that was a stand-up comedy routine, like what a sick human being you are. Now he goes, let them fight. I think that they should fight, is what he says.

It doesn't affect us in the United States, he says. He's like, the way I talk to Xi Jinping doesn't affect them. so it doesn't affect us let them fight hey Donald you idiot let me be very clear what's going on in China there's a reason why China is supporting Russia and that they have a deal to get the Russian oil and why there's more that's going on there if you just read your freaking intelligence briefs you would know the support that China is giving to Russia as you are out here saying let them fight let them fight so idiotic here play this clip of Donald Trump saying let them fight here play this clip.

Work together to see if we can get something done. We agree the sides are, you know, locked in and fighting. And sometimes you have to let him fight, I guess. Crazy. But he's going to help us and we're going to work together when you're great. This has got a lot more we can do. You know, he's been buying oil from Russia for a long time. It takes care of a big part of China.

And, you know, like I can say, India has been very good at that. front but we didn't really discuss the we discussed working together to see if we could get that war finish you know it doesn't affect china it doesn't affect us you know and meanwhile you have all these maga sycophants like nancy mace this is a real post from nancy mace i have to tell you last night i had the most incredible conversation with the president i've never been more proud i told him i love you i told him i love him america loves you we love you i mean these maga people are the most pathetic people imaginable. And I want to share this with you as well.

So right now in military bases across the country, guess what they're selling? They're selling Trump wine at military bases and Trump cider. He's forcing military bases to sell Trump products. At the same time, over two dozen, New York Times did a good report on this, of our top generals and admirals have been fired, demoted, pushed aside, put on leave by freaking war criminal Pete Hegseth, a former weekend Fox host who's now leading the defense

department. He fired two dozen of our top people, including a leader at Central Command, the former head of the Navy SEALs for promoting diversity got pushed out. The freaking head of the Navy SEALs got pushed out. and instead the big initiatives by hegsith and trump are bring trump apple cider or cider and trump wine into military bases i mean can you get more pathetic than that actually you can because fox did a whole special where they gave their patriot awards and here's sean hannity with his face dyed orange giving a Melania Trump the Patriot of the Year award. And by the way, you know how Trump says,

well, the stock market's doing good. The stock market's doing good. First off, the stock market is not the American people. All the economists talk about this K-shaped economy, K because one line goes up and one line goes all the way down. And billionaires are doing well while the American people are in a recession, a great recession, or perhaps even a depression right now based on over a million jobs lost in the first three, three and a half quarters, worse, basically as bad as the Great Recession, worse than any other time since then. I mean, we have the right now, I mean, recession and manufacturing, Trump screwed over the farmers. I mean, it's absolutely horrific.

But this past week, you saw a major drop in the stock market as well, very volatile, especially as AI stocks plunged. You had what open AI saying that they want the United States. States government to serve as a backstop for their debt and guarantee the debt and also to fund all of their expansion. Seriously, that's the while the American people are starving to death, while the Trump regime is blocking snap payments and ripping away people's health care and where the Republicans look at an offer, just extend the ACA subsidies for one year.

And Republicans say that's a non-starter while Donald Trump in the morning is making these idiotic posts about let's just get rid of every let's just give people a few thousand dollars and then they'll and then they'll be great let me give you the actual idea what we should do donald idiot let me explain it for you and spell it out we should have universal health care in the united states it should be free instead of having a one trillion dollar uh budget for freaking military um and supporting that defense industrial complex doesn't need to be one trillion dollars okay could probably be about five to $600 billion. Instead of rich people putting their money in tax havens and giving them, what, 100% deductions

on private jets and all of these tax benefits for yachts and private jets, make them pay their fair share. And you know what? Make them pay a little bit more if they're billionaires. Make it pay a little bit more. Then guess what? All Americans can have freaking health care for free like all the other countries. By the way, including Argentina, who we just bailed out for $40 billion.

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