The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump STUNT BACKFIRES in His FACE, LOSING IT

Episode Date: June 18, 2024

On today's episode, we delve into the latest on Trump’s latest scam at a “Black church” in Detroit, which was filled with white MAGA supporters. We expose Trump’s attempts to deceive with a rented venue and discuss his far-right event featuring the "White Boy Summer" flag. We also highlight President Biden's steady leadership, marked by more good economic data and falling crime rates. The MAGA media ramps up its deception as they grow more desperate. Plus, a star-studded Biden fundraiser and new Biden ads targeting Trump. Ben and Brett bring you the latest! Deals from our sponsors! AeroPress: Go to https://aeropress.com/meidas and be sure to use code MEIDAS at checkout to save 20%! Beam: Get put to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://shopbeam.com/meidas and use code MEIDAS HumanN SuperBeets: Find out how you can get a free 30-day supply on bundles of new SuperBeets Heart Chews Advanced and save 15% for a limited time only by going to https://SUPERBEETSRADIO.COM, promo code MEIDAS. MDHearing: To get our $297-when-you-buy-a-pair offer, including a fee charger, head to https://ShopMDHearing.com and use code MEIDAS 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 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson 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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and the black congregants were actually not there. In fact, there were people there wearing their MAGA hats in a place of worship, chanting the name of Donald Trump in a place of worship. It was an awful sight to watch, but that didn't stop people like Kellyanne Conway and others in Trump's campaign from pushing out, get this, that there were 8,000 people there. That's what they were telling the media. And then the media, of course, just bought hook, line, and sinker. Donald Trump is there with the black community in Detroit. But here's the thing that's giving me a ton of hope. The people are starting to get it. And the people are very ticked off at what Trump's doing, at what corporate media is doing.

And I think that people power right now is what's actually fueling truthful information getting out there. We'll expose this whole black church stunt, so offensive that Donald Trump and the campaign engaged him. But Donald Trump then left that stunt, basically crossed the street or right around the corner. There was another event hosted by the far right wing group Turning Points, where right before Donald Trump spoke, that's what they were doing there. They had a big banner that said, White Boy Summer. See it right there. That's one of the things that preceded Donald Trump's speech. And look, if you know anything about this Turning Points group, you know that they believe that Martin Luther King Day should be

abolished. They believe that black people shouldn't be pilots. And on a daily basis, or at least a consistent basis, they make heinous racist comments. That's where Donald Trump is, where Donald Trump was speaking after leaving the black church stunt. Also, by the way, that church has a very interesting past. It's embroiled in litigation. The current pastor was accused of squatting there and other parishioners sued. It's one of these things that's just embroiled in litigation. It's so very Trumpy. Meanwhile, you have President Biden overseeing a steady ship in America, right? No all caps messages on Father's Day, calling people lunatics, good economic data, crime across the country at record lows, unemployment at record lows wages are up stock market hitting record highs we'll go through

some of that data and i think it's just important to reflect on that it's why right-wing media propaganda media by fox and even corporate media and then also uh sinlair, which owns all these local media stations, just pushing out in an unprecedented fashion, just lies, lies about President Biden, straight up manipulated footage, lies about getting bribes that was actually laundered from Russian spies and spies from China to MAGA Republican politicians to try to overthrow our democracy and put right there on the front page of the New York Post, stuff like that. And they're just escalating that every single day. They take these clips of President Biden walking, and then they stop the clip right before, and then they make some point about it. Or we'll have President Biden who's talking to a skydiver

at the G7 summit, but then they'll cut out the skydiver to make it look like President Biden's talking to nobody. And in a very, very, perhaps one of the most successful G7 summits ever, from the perspective of supporting Ukraine, solidifying our relationships, rather than report on the data, you have the New York Post make posts like, President Biden embarrasses the United States are just false. They have meander in chief because Donald Trump gets on stage and talks about fictitious conversations with fictitious murderous cannibals for movies and how much he loves Hannibal Lecter and talks about cognitive exams all the time. So the New York Post has to kick it to overdrive and talk about it. Here's the thing. President Biden, we've seen him speak. We know his speeches.

The guy rides bikes. Could you imagine Donald Trump ever riding a bike? President Biden's fit. He's riding a bike. Sure, he's 81 years old. I get that. But in terms of his mental faculties, in terms of his ability to make sharp decisions, the way MAGA and corporate media is trying to undermine him, it's just really something I think unprecedented in our country. We'll break it all down here on the Midas Touch podcast.

I'm Ben Mycelis, joined by Brett. Jordy couldn't be here today. He's on father responsibilities. But Brett, how are you doing? Doing great. Doing really, really great. You know, it's interesting to watch these right-wing networks kick into overdrive with all that stuff. But, you know, as they say, check the scoreboard, right? And when you check the scoreboard, you see a whole host of accomplishments from Biden, from the administration that have been passed in the last few years. And that's with all of this GOP obstruction that we've seen with just such bad faith actors. And by the way, a lot of that also done in a bipartisan way, getting past some of the most historic legislation that we've had in the modern history of this country. And you just have now

this relentless drumbeat every single day of one or two stories that come from, whether it's the New York Post or any one of these Murdoch properties. When you have the Sinclair networks pumping out this propaganda day in and day out, it's never been so vicious. I was actually speaking with somebody today and they asked me, what do you think is kind of the biggest difference in media coverage in 2024 versus the 2020 election? And I was saying just that, the speed at which these lies spread and the speed at which you need to combat the lies has never been greater than it is today. And I think every single day

now we are seeing this stuff come out. And I think everybody out there, this community, is pushing back on the lies in a very quick way. And I think that's important. But still, they spread. They certainly do damage. I think you also see that everything is projection from all these folks, right? So when they're pushing these specific narratives, it's because Donald Trump just rambled about being electrocuted or being eaten by sharks for a few minutes and they're worried about that. It's because Donald Trump just had a meeting with CEOs to basically try to bribe them into supporting him where they all left less likely to support him than when they went in saying that he was meandering, saying that he

was having a lot of trouble sticking to a coherent thought. So they project and they try to turn on the opponents. That's how they operate. But I think all of you out here have done a great job of calling this stuff out. Ben, I particularly liked a video that you did today, calling out all these various stunts and going through the whole history of all these stunts that we've exposed here at the Midas Touch Network and that other folks out there have exposed, just showing kind of how fraudulent this entire MAGA operation has become or has always been, but how it is especially ramped up right now. And we'll get into all that, but we all have to remain vigilant against all this because it's easy to fall for it, quite frankly, because it's pumped out so far and wide.

And when you look at even the Murdoch properties, you have Fox owning a variety of different properties to hit people at different times. You have the Wall Street Journal where they get to speak about things from a business perspective that has some gravitas behind it. It gives it an air of this is legitimate. You have the New York Post, which is a tabloid but is a newspaper whole host of other operations too around the world, and it's all pushing the same garbage out every single second of every single day. Look, the weakness of authoritarians and wannabe authoritarians, which to some degree sometimes enables them to do what they do, is they're oftenopaths. And when they're sociopaths, you are able to predict certain patterns in their behavior and call it out in advance if you study the behavior, which is what we do here on the Midas Touch Network and what our editorial team does. Also, when you study very greedy people, when you look at what the incentive

structure is for the billionaire class that wants to be oligarchs, you realize that they're just inspired by greed and you're able to predict their moves. And so when we compile these data models that we make here, we're able to predict fairly quickly the behavior in advance so that we have our editorial team trained on what to look for. One of the things we told our editorial team to focus on, people like Asin and others who work for us, is look at the crowd right away. Let us know the composition of the crowd at this purported black church in Detroit. Because what we actually knew when you take away all of the false media narratives that are out there, what you know is that Trump's not doing actual outreach to black and brown

communities. In fact, they would talk all about how they were opening up Hispanic outreach centers across the country. And so you take a look at it, they're shutting down all of them. They're shutting down one in Milwaukee, they're shutting down one in Pence. Basically, all of these Hispanic outreach centers, which the media spent so much time covering when they were purportedly being opened as part of Trump's push for this narrative of outreach, they are shutting down. You don't really see anywhere near the coverage once they're shut down. It's very similar to Trump's litigation strategy, right? He realizes when you file the lawsuit, you get all the coverage. But oftentimes when the lawsuit gets dismissed, the media pays less attention to it. And that's

where we have to focus on as well. Also, when you just focus on the polling data of statistically material sample sizes with black voters, for example, because lots of the polls don't actually have statistically significant amounts. What happens is these polling companies just extrapolate based on their own models, which are driven by the narratives of what they think the black support is. So if they call a thousand people and speak to two black people, because the model of the poll has certain overall projections kind of built into it, the models of just the amount of voters they see going Democrat and Republican. But those assumptions, I think, are incorrect. They will try to extrapolate based on a very, very, very small

sample size. But when you see, for example, a statistically significant one like this Yahoo poll, it's like amongst registered Black voters, you're talking about what, like 10% of support for Donald Trump. Less than 10% among registered voters. And so when you still have 10%, that's still amongst a broad population of tens of millions of people. There will still be a significant number of people, but that doesn't mean that you should extrapolate. If you could put together a group of a few hundred people together, that that has some broader statistical significance. They'll always then lie about the size of the crowds. And they're doing all of this because they're not actually doing any of the real outreach or any of the things that campaigns do. Instead, they go from scam to scam. They're like scam hoppers.

They go to scam to scam. They then try to have the basically earned media, have the media cover these events, and they don't then pay for it. So then the broader question, too, of one of their biggest scams and stunts that also the media buys into is the money. And we know that Trump lies about money all the time. We know that Trump lies about money all the time. We know that Trump lies about numbers all the time. So if it's under 10,000 people in Wildwood, New Jersey, the Trump campaign says 107,000 people.

If there's less than 3,000 people in the Bronx, a city of millions and millions of people, all you can get out is less than a high school football game of people to show up for you at the Bronx, but they'll go and say 25,000. If you look at this crowd that's there in Detroit, in this purported church, there's not 8,000 people here. So the fact that the Trump campaign is saying these things, you're not stenographers for the Trump campaign if you are the media. Your headlines should reflect the lie and also how offensive the lie is. Because I can assure you that if any other candidate pulled a stunt where they faked talking to a black church, they faked it and it was exposed, that would be a major scandal. But because the media is so invested, look at the photo right there.

That's in a black church. And also, this is a little thing for me as well. But also, when I speak to my friends who belong to black churches, you know, one of the things they tell me all the time too, the chanting of Trump's name in there. You don't chant a politician's name in a place of worship. You don't wear, you don't dress up like that to church. You don't show up with the hats. You don't show up in MAGA gear to a church. But could you imagine if any other politician did that? But because Trump doesn't have the actual funds that he claims he does you actually look at the charts of the reservations for ads of who's buying out the time. You have the Biden campaign has bought almost all of it.

Look at this. Look at this chart. You want to explain the chart? Yeah, the chart is how many – basically what campaigns are able to do is they're able to pre-reserve time on the air. So you could do that as soon as you start getting money, you could reserve spots on all the networks. And so the Biden campaign has already reserved a ton of space on television for their ads, especially ramping up around September and then into October. You could see if you're looking at the chart, and if not, I'll describe it to you. You see the Biden campaign right now, their ad spend increasing

over the Trump campaign. And then there's not a lot of reservations currently in this chart, although I'm sure that this has probably been updated since then. And then in October, you see a massive spike in Biden ad spending. And by the way, it's not just Biden ad spending that you have to consider here. It's the fact that those slots are going to already be reserved. So by the time the Trump campaign does get their money in order to reserve these slots, a lot of them can very well be booked up because this stuff is booked up well in advance. It's one of the important things about raising money early in the kind of political ecosystem that we have right now. And it's also one of the things about having a smart group of people behind the campaign who understand how to plan

these things ahead of time because inventory is a finite resource. And whether it's ads on television, whether it's billboard space, there could only be so many political ads. There could only be so many billboards that are actually put up around the country. So that advantage is absolutely huge. And I think it's going to be part of the reason also, especially just as people are focusing in, why kind of post-convention and in those final months, I think we'll really see a massive shift in a lot of kind of where we see polls and whatnot once we see this kind of ad blitz and the full court press of everything going on that happens with campaigns. Look, Trump had no Black senior White House staff, right? No Black members in his cabinet. Just think about how Donald Trump was running when he had the opportunity,

what he was doing. Think about what President Biden's done in terms of diverse judges, diverse White House staff, a very diverse cabinet. Think about the actual actions that were taken. But what Donald Trump does and what the scam is, because the media doesn't call it out also, is Donald Trump will say unemployment rates among black Americans was always at its lowest when Trump was in office and there was never better time economically for black Americans. It's just straight up false. It's 100% false, but they repeat that over and over again. Donald Trump will go to Detroit and say, look, I saved the auto industry and look at all the factories that I opened up. He didn't. He didn't.

He lost jobs. Donald Trump's policies, especially his tariffs, would actually cause severe harm. Donald Trump promised factories were going to be opening up. He didn't do it. He lied about infrastructure. He lied about healthcare. We could actually just look at the data. But Trump is focused on the stunts. And one of the things Donald Trump did that our team focused on right away too, is while the church itself was pretty much filled with white people, white MAGA people. Donald Trump brought on stage with him and around him some of the same black MAGA supporters who follow Trump around the country.

So the same black lady, Michaela Montgomery, who was the one at the Chick-fil-A with Donald Trump, and she was there at Palm Beach. She's also there at the church. And then they basically repackage her appearances to say, look, this is showing that black women support Donald Trump. She works for the Republican Party. She's quite literally a MAGA operative who goes around doing this. And corporate media doesn't call this out at all. Look, one of the reports, though, from Russ McNamara, a local reporter who was there, and thankfully you have some good local reporting, said of the eight black Trump voters I talked to, eight of the eight black Trump voters

I talked to, just one was from Detroit and zero were congregants. Just think about that. And then just think about he's got the MAGA supporters wearing this, the white MAGA supporters wearing the shirts, blacks for Trump. I mean, this stuff is so utterly, utterly offensive. And look, I can show you the types of things he says there, but I think what I want to pivot to is talking about when he crossed the street and then spoke at the event that's literally run by- By the white nationalist. Yeah. It's run by the white nationalist group where they had signs, white boy summer. I mean, they have the white, they take out the white boy summer banner before Donald Trump speaks. And then when Donald Trump

does speak, what does he talk about? He talks about the dementia test again. He goes around the country talking about fake conversations he's having with fictional murderers, Hannibal Lecter and praising Al Capone. And he goes around talking about how he'd rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks. And he goes around talking about things like that. And then he goes, so what have I told you? I passed the cognitive exam. You know who should take it? You know who should take the cognitive. First off, who talks about cognitive exams like this all of the time? It is so unhinged and weird. Let me just show you here when he talks about this cognitive test, he calls his doctor Ronnie Johnson instead of Ronnie Jackson while bragging about the cognitive test that was administered by Ronnie Jackson,

who was also accused of running a pill mill in the White House where you had like the date rape drug being given out and you had like ketamine being given out and you had fentanyl. They have fentanyl patches. They were giving out fentanyl patches in the White House en masse. Anyway, here, while Trump was in office, which gets like no attention today, other than on the Midas Touch Network, which actually covers, get this, the news. Here's what Donald Trump said about the cognitive test when he crossed the street and spoke after the white boy's summer chant took place.

I think you should take a cognitive test like I did. I took a cognitive test and I aced it. Dr. Ronnie, Dr. Ronnie Johnson. Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson, congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor. They clapped for that. That's an applause line that you took and you took a test for dementia patients. That's the Republican platform. And then but when corporate media covers it, they go, he rolled out his economic plans. No, he didn't. He talked about dementia tests and fake imaginary conversations.

He's not rolling out any plans. I study all of these speeches. I watch them from beginning to end. I watch every single one of them. He spends the entire time rambling, meandering, praising the January 6th insurrectionists when he does, and he calls them heroic and hostages. When he does talk about immigration, he doesn't set forth a policy. He brags about killing the bipartisan bill. And then he says, you know, you heard of the word caravans? I came up with the name caravan. I'm good with words. I'm good with names. I came up with caravans.

It would probably be more coherent, Ben, but I bet you could probably freestyle a Trump speech. You could be his understudy at one of these if he needed to drop out. I think you know all the beats by now. It's sad, but it's actually true that I could give you the one hour speech from beginning to end. So if the teleprompter breaks, I know exactly where he's going to go with all. Well, I mean, I know how his mind gets there. So it's like, okay, he's doing the Hannibal Lecter. It's either Hannibal Lecter story or Al Capone. He praises the late great Al Capone, the mobster who killed people, who he goes, didn't even get as indicted as much as me. Or he goes Hannibal Lecter. It's like, are you going to

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It's part of your charm. I'm not going to get in the way of your process. You know, the way there are different kind of phases of the moon, I think people who are acquainted with the Midas Touch Network find that there are different phases of my presentation as we get through the month. But look, not a month goes by without Donald Trump pulling another stunt. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention though, all of the stunts we've called him out on so far. I did a whole other video on that because in addition to kind of doing this fake Detroit black church stunt, we talked about how Donald Trump did

this bodega stunt where he claimed he was there and being cheered on by people in this like bodega in New York city, but it was actually the Young Republican Club. And we pointed that out when Donald Trump went to the Chick-fil-A and the Republican operative gave him a hug. And he tried to use that to say, look, I have a lot of black support. I went to a Chick-fil-A and one black lady gave me a hug. We're like, well, she's a MAGA operative. Like she works for Charlie Kirk or she worked for Charlie Kirk, the same person who put on the event that had the banner that says, White Boy Summer.

Look, Donald Trump goes to Michigan, goes into a non-union shop, pays him $25,000 to pretend it's a union shop, gives non-union workers signs that say, Union Workers for Trump, and then goes around the country saying he spoke to union workers signs that say union workers for Trump and then goes around the country saying he spoke to union workers. And then the corporate media is like, Donald Trump makes appeal to union workers about bringing their jobs back. What the jobs that Trump lost, the infrastructure projects Donald Trump promised and didn't happen. Like, look, I don't, I'm not asking for the media to be pro Biden at all. I just want them to be pro facts. I want them to not be pro Trump propaganda.

Just literally report that these things are lies because we bring the receipts that they are lies. Even we do, we've showed how Donald Trump, like one of the common things he does is because he doesn't actually support firefighters. I mean, he says words that sound semi-supportive, but he doesn't do things that are helpful for unions. He doesn't do things that are actually helpful for the wages of firefighters or the wages of police officers. And look, I know he's got support from police unions because sometimes the rhetoric he uses, but I've been seeing a lot more police unions also supporting Democratic candidates. Trump's not actually helping. If you're a member of the

union, he's not helping you make money. But one of the things that he does, which is part of his scams, is he brings them pizza. So he shows up at the fire department with like a box that clearly looks empty, or he'll have somebody bring the pizza like an hour before it gets stale. He'll then like take the box and like shake it up. So if there even is pizza in there, no, it's not something that you could even eat. But then it's like, oh, look, he's being compassionate and he's giving pizza to the fire department. It's like when he goes to Puerto Rico and throws like toilet paper at people. Like that's his view of people.

Give them pizza. Give them crumbs. Throw toilet paper at them versus doing what the job is, which actually requires moves and making systemic deals and things that are supposed to happen, like infrastructure projects that invest more in the fire department to help with their wages versus giving them a slice of pizza. I think it's also important that the pro-democracy community, though, recognize that these propaganda tactics work, that the photo shoots send these messages, and the fact that Trump's policies harm populations, but he's able to script an event where the media makes him look sympathetic

has an effect that is intended by Donald Trump, but it's equally important that we call it out. I could go through all these other stunts. He claimed he was meeting with union workers one day before the trial, and he said he was meeting with, and the media pushed out, Trump meets with black union worker. And first off, the guy worked with George Santos. He wore like a hat that said like, union worker, I'm an American worker. Well, it's like, who wears a hat that says I'm an American worker? Also, he's not black. He identifies as an Indian American, but that was pushed out. Trump meets with black union worker. You mean the Indian American who was George Santos' right hand? What are you talking about? So anyway, I wanted to hit those things to just remind people. And then of course, Trump saying 107,000 people in this location, 20 million people in this location. And then he goes out and

he repeats that as though that's a fact when it's not. I want to show you that in a moment. Let me just show you Trump on stage though, at this turning point event where they had the white boy summer flag. Just think about it. Could you imagine that we have a leader of a political party who went and faked speaking to a black congregants at a church and then goes to an event where they have a white boy summer flag and they toss out white boy summer hats and people clap at that? Like, dude, this is humiliating for the United States of America that this even exists. Then Trump goes on stage. I showed you the other one where he brags about passing a cognitive exam.

And here he is glitching. And as he glitch, he glitches. He doesn't know what he's saying. So he randomly goes, Mike Lindell, Mike Lindell's over there. Here, watch this. Let's play. And in particular, oh, and remember this. Oh, wait a minute. Mike Lindell, over there. Here, watch this. Let's play. And in particular, oh, and remember this. Oh, wait a minute.

Mike Lindell, please stand up. Okay. Then he just randomly screams China and the crowd cheers about it. Here, play this clip. And you know who owns the car plants being built in Mexico? China!

Yeah, why are they even cheering for that? That's a, China! I mean, why are you? A lot of cheers for that line. It should also be noted that really for the first time in recent history, the American economy has grown faster than China's economy. Like President Biden has, just think about these stats. And again, this is what's so wild about corporate media wanting fascism and wanting the authoritarianism. President Biden's

broken open, the way President Biden's managed to utilize America's strategic oil reserves to sell high, bring down the market, buy low, make tens of billions in profits, and then prevent the OPEC cartel from raising the prices so that currently gas prices are low and they are being against all efforts by OPEC to try to inflate it to $100 plus per barrel. Biden broke OPEC. Biden also helped to break China, where Donald Trump had a dumb trade war that didn't work at all with inflationary tariffs, which actually harm American corporations at the end and harm American business because Trump doesn't know what the heck he's doing.

President Biden's managed to build an economy in America that's growing quicker than China's economy. Just think about the stats like that. But Donald Trump goes and he speaks and he goes, in New Jersey, there was 107,000 people. In Alabama, 68,000. 73,000. Just picks numbers with sevens here. And you can see him like when he's talking about like Alabama to 73,000.

We'll just watch him in action. Play this clip. And I said to our great first lady, I called her. And we had a big crowd that evening. You know what? We had 107,000 people in New Jersey two weeks ago. 107,000 people. Matt Gaetz was there. Matt Gaetz was there. We had 68,000 in Alabama, 73,000 in Texas. We have the biggest crowds in the history of politics. That tells you they like what we're saying.

That's the point at the end where he goes, that tells you they like what we are saying. That's the scam. That's the admission. are big crowds and big polls, people must like what we are saying. So then you build a narrative around inevitability and the conquest by a strong man over weak man. That's the whole campaign. If they had actual money, you would have events inside locations with air conditioning. You wouldn't be complaining that the mic or the teleprompter keeps on breaking. You would buy ads. You would not be shutting down your actual outreach. Quite literally, the whole thing, the whole campaign is rooted in the idea that you have

right-wing propaganda like Fox, which is the National Enquirer playbook from 2016 on steroids times a million. Beyond, no. Right? So that's the play right there, exactly what Trump did with the National Enquirer. Now you've got Murdoch's billion, billion, billion dollar empire. You've got Sinclair. You've got this whole oligarchy class that wants to control him. And they believe that he's easy to manipulate and that he's going to lower their taxes. And then you've got corporate media that just repeats what he says. So that's what he's doing here. But just take a look at this too. President Biden ever said this at a speech. If he ever said any of this at a speech, you would be like, there are actually serious issues. But Trump's, I'm not even going to play for you. I'll play for you one more. Trump talking about going home where you have a shower, like as though that's a novel concept. You ever go into a new home where you have a shower? Usually something that's in a new home. I'm just going to put it out there.

Usually a new home has a shower where the water doesn't come out of the showerhead. I take it. What showers are these that he's referring to? I've never had this issue. Let's play the clip. Let's show you. You ever go into a new home where you have a shower where the water doesn't come out of the showerhead?

They put a restrictor on. I took all the restrictors off. I took them off. I've had the experience. I take a shower. I want that beautiful head of hair to be nice and wet. Lather. I want it to be lathered beautifully. And I get this best stuff you can buy and I dump it all over. And then I turn on the water and the damn water drips out. I can't get this stuff out of my hair. It's a horrible thing.

Now it's terrible. You turn on the sink and the faucet you turn it and no water practically no water comes so you leave your hands under there you're trying to get the water well i revoked all of that stuff i don't even know what he's talking about honestly i don't know what he's talking about also removing the flow restrictor often results in kind of a very strange operation of the shower itself and i gotta i i anyway i'm not going to actually give what he's saying any credence but he's just breaking up and talking but think about that this that's why though there needs to be such a pushback with the propaganda that like that comes from murdoch that comes from all these entities because when you compare

whatever the hell that was that we just listened to, and I legitimately could not even tell you what that was, and you compare it to the record of this past administration, I mean, could you imagine if President Biden did not accomplish nearly everything? It's such a stellar record that I cannot even imagine what it would be like right now if he did not bring back the economy after COVID, if we did not have record jobs, real wages, outpacing inflation, record manufacturing growth, record new business development, uniting NATO, expanding NATO, supporting Ukraine, the most green energy investments ever, the biggest changes to prescription drug prices ever, the biggest changes to prescription drug prices ever, capping the cost of insulin, record oil production destroying OPEC,

veterans benefits with the PACT Act, infrastructure, COVID, chips, judicial appointments, gun safety, student loan debt. You could go through, and there's probably dozens more that I could go through. But imagine without that record. But all these entities, they need to push back against that. And they need to be telling people on a constant basis that your life is terrible. That is their job. And they want to do that because to your point, they know that Donald Trump is a puppet, just like world leaders know that Donald Trump is a puppet. And they know that he will do for them whatever they want. And in this case, it is lower taxes. Save them billions of dollars. That's what they don't have to register as a Republican, as a Trump super PAC at the end of the day, because that's how they behave every day. I couldn't agree more with you there. And

I said I wasn't going to play this other one, but I think I have to show this other one right here. Because when Donald Trump talks about foreign policy, he often does it with noises. He often goes, and I looked at the tanks and I looked at the planes and it was like a beep, a bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, to describe what he considers to be the problem with army tanks. And he does this thing again, where the same way he tells these stories about batteries, and this is the story about getting electrocuted versus eaten by shark and how the battery would electrocute you. Here, he's talking about, this is his foreign policy. I want you to think about that. This is Trump's describing his foreign policy and military experience right here when he

says the problem with army tanks. This is part of his platform. And he goes around the country and says things like this. Let's play this clip. They want to make them now electric so that when you go into enemy territory and you obliterate the enemy and you knock down and those tanks are firing. You do it in a environmentally friendly way. The problem with the army tanks, like cars and like trucks, the problem is that you would have to bring a battery pack along.

You're going to pull it like a little wagon, like a child pulls a wagon. So they want to build a army tank. But, you know, the battery is very big and very heavy, much heavier than a thing called diesel, much heavier than diesel fuel. And you got to see this tank. It's like a wagon. And there's a big thing that is pulling in the back. And even with that, it doesn't go far and lots of bad things happen. Like it doesn't take cold weather very well. And it's really bad in heat. Yeah. I have no clue what he's talking about. And military experts have no clue what he's talking about. Military newbies have no clue what he's talking about. People who are taking an undergrad course on military stuff don't know what he's talking about. People who aren't doing that have no clue what he's talking about. But he speaks in

this MAGA language that that crowd is cheering and booing to basically the equivalent of noises. He's not saying anything sensical. And the real thing there is that that is very – it's very dangerous. He's a weapon of mass humiliation. He's a weapon of mass manipulation to be manipulated. That's not somebody who should be anywhere near weapons. By the way, he's a convicted felon. Do we know that? He's not allowed to be near he's a convicted felon. Do we know that? He's not allowed to be near weapons

as a convicted felon. But the Republican Party wants the person who's banned from weapons to have nuclear weapons. They want someone who has been adjudicated to have engaged in sexual assault. They want someone who makes posts like this on Father's Day? Take a look at the comparison. President Biden goes, happy Father's Day, right? Happy Father's Day to all the dads, pops, and father figures who have shown us guidance, encouragement, and unconditional love. Donald Trump's post in all caps, happy Father's Day to all, including the radical left degenerates that are rapidly bringing the United States of America into third world nation status with their many attempts at trying to influence our sacred court systems into breaking to their very sick and dangerous will. We need strength and loyalty

to our country and its wonderful constitution. Everything will be on full display come November 5th, 2024, the most important day in the history of our country. Make America great again, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, one sentence. Okay. Again, if there was someone who just wrote that in the company that you work for, big company, medium-sized, small nonprofit, social club, whatever, you'd be like, okay, this person can't lead that. This person needs serious help. That's probably the most normal post Trump's made in the past year. I'm not joking. And that's really deranged and unhinged stuff. And then his supporters like Laura Loomer, who believe that the weather's being manipulated to

harm him. And she chained herself to, back when Twitter wasn't owned by Elon Musk, she chained herself to the Twitter office and compared the fact that her disinformation was blocked on Twitter to being a victim of the Holocaust. That's a MAGA supporter. And she's like, look at the Father's Day message, everybody. What are we talking about? This is not normal behavior by human beings. And I go back to this point, Brett, that this is not political. Stop viewing this even through some political prism of Republicans do all caps and they talk about battery packs and not being eaten by sharks and being electrocuted. And that's the Republican. And Democrats, it shouldn't be this way.

It should just be that objectively leaders behave like rational adults and people who are not equipped or don't have the faculties to be leaders or who support terrorists or who root for our enemies and want to harm our allies don't get anywhere near the proximity of power. It's not a political position right there. I want to talk more about that. I want to also talk about some new polling data, some economic data, but let's take our last break of the show. Before doing it, I want to remind everybody, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Brett and I will do an after show after this, and Brett and I will talk about

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only by going to superbeatsradio.com, promo code MITUS. That's super, B E T S radio.com promo code Midas, M E I D A S. Good ad reads there, Brett. Not quite like the Popak with the glasses. He matches the glasses with his ad read. Yeah. It's definitely really good ad reads there. Thanks, man. I always appreciate the Popakian glasses. Maybe I need to uh donning some accessories uh in my reads to try to keep up you know i i hear you some good economic data uh brett and some good overall data about the direction the country is heading in and here's the thing i want to say too about that i'm just going to be reading you and brett's just going to be going over what the objective data is. That's it. Look, I certainly understand and appreciate that there is a lot that still needs to happen. And to act like everything is great, knowing though that people are struggling and that some people have to work multiple jobs and

they're not getting paid the wages that they deserve, it is disheartening to know that that exists. And I think it's a reality that that exists. I think we also have to recognize, though, that it is the policies of MAGA Republicans to allow the CEOs of the companies to make hundreds of percent times more, hundreds times more than what the workers who are putting in hard work are making. That it's MAGA policies that want to break and destroy unions fighting for fair wages. That it's the MAGA policies that want to bring back child labor, right? It's the MAGA policies that want to reduce even a minimum wage to less versus having a living wage.

And so I know we can be disenchanted, but with the levers that President Biden is able to pull and able to achieve, he's done very good work. A lot more work needs to be done. But I also understand that there are counter forces working against that too. And that's just a reality. We have to understand directionally where that's coming from. Brett, take it away. Yeah. And also, you know, we have to understand that and remember that we're coming, we're still coming out of the single worst pandemic that we've had in a generation. It is one of the most disruptive events in our entire history, and it's not a normal thing.

When you have an event like that, when a crisis hits, this is something I know I say often on the show, but when a crisis hits, you want steady leadership in place for that crisis to handle it. This isn't hypothetical because we've seen how Donald Trump handles a crisis. He got to ride Obama's coattails, quite frankly, for the first few years of his presidency. If you look at the economic trajectory during the Trump presidency, it follows the same exact path as the Obama presidency. Then COVID hit and he was caught completely flat-footed. He tried to do what he does with everything, which is deny that it exists, call it a hoax, deny that it's a problem, say it's never going to come here. He tried to fudge the numbers.

He tried to do everything possible that he could, but he couldn't escape reality in this situation. And so what happened? Our country was devastated. I mean, during the Trump presidency, we couldn't get toilet paper, okay? Let's remember what a Donald Trump presidency meant. We couldn't buy toilet paper at the store. There was not enough toilet paper. And so we saw how Donald Trump handled a crisis. It was a disaster. And then President Biden came in and we saw how he Trump handled a crisis. It was a disaster. And then President Biden came in and we saw how he handled that same crisis of COVID. And he dug us out of that hole, quite frankly. I mean, it was a total disaster that he inherited, the complete opposite,

quite frankly, of what Trump inherited. And so here we are a few years later, we've seen the impact of inflation that happened, quite frankly, as a result of COVID, disrupting supply chains, of Donald Trump's very poor response to everything that was going on. And we've seen the actions that have been put in place to try to reverse these trends. And we've seen a lot of positive trends lately. We reported on the last show how month-over-month inflation last month was at 0%, a great indicator. And I know one of the biggest things for folks out there is that prices have been high. That's something that a lot of people struggle with. And prices are high, quite frankly, across the entire world. Now, I'm glad that the United States is number one in the world in the G7 for getting inflation

under control, literally number one. So that's a metric that I think is important. And we also at the same time have to understand that high prices certainly hurt people and we shouldn't act like they do not exist. But also we need to acknowledge that a lot of these prices are now coming down and are coming down in a very substantial way. And I want to highlight one in particular right here, which is the data surrounding gas prices. I think this is important and it's something that kind of all of you out there, as you drive down the street, this is something everybody notices, right? Everybody notices when the gas prices are high. Everybody notices when the signs change because most people use their cars and a lot of people have gas cars and they notice this stuff.

And so first I want to show you these couple charts. We have this chart from economic analyst Steven Ratner, and he says that in May, an average gallon of gas was equivalent to 12% of the average hourly wage, roughly seven minutes of work. That data is exactly in line with where prices were in May 2019. GasBuddy also saying something incredibly similar with the data, saying the affordability of gasoline today is better than it was in 2018. So the affordability today, thanks to higher wages and the costs coming down, is better today than it was in 2018 under Trump and is close to 2019. Historically, current gas prices are about at average affordability, meaning that Americans are spending about the same percentage of the income on gasoline today as historic norms.

And the gas buddy guy, whose name is Patrick DeHaan, I'm sure you've seen Gas Buddy online. They track the national prices of a gallon of gas. And he provided an update today as well, saying that he is now revising his expectation lower for the average national gasoline price this summer to $3.45 a gallon, potentially leading to a summer gasoline bill that's $4.32 billion lower than expected. So we're seeing a lot of positive developments there on the economic front. And I think this is going to make things a lot easier, hopefully, for folks out there who are struggling. Bringing down costs, I think, needs to be a top priority of the administration. I think they've done a lot of things across prescription drug caps and things like that, including a cap that I think actually kicks in the beginning of

next year to cap senior citizens' prescription drug prices at around $2,000 to mitigate these costs that we've seen and to bring us back on track after this disaster of COVID and Trump's just utter disastrous mishandling of it. I know it's not quite the economy, but it's another subject that gets talked about a lot by the media, especially if you're watching things like Fox and right-wing media, but all media, and rightfully so in a lot of respects, although it's certainly exaggerated on the right-wing networks for political reasons, but that's the issue of crime. What a lot of these networks don't tell you is that the crime wave, so-called crime wave in this country, happened during the Trump administration.

Crime spiked during the Trump administration. And you could potentially blame COVID for it, right? You could blame a lot of other kind of civil unrest that was happening as a result of Trump's policies. You could blame the treatment of everything we were seeing under the Trump administration. But it's undeniable that crime rose during the Trump administration. And we've since seen a steady decline. And now we are back to levels that look much more like 2019. When you look at this, and the statistics back this up, I'm showing a graph right now for those watching. This is the murders in New York City, you see the ending of that Trump crime wave, as those levels come back down, you see that violent crime dropped by more than 15% in the United States for

the first three months of 2024. These are statistics that were released recently by the FBI. Murders fell 26.4%. Sexual assault decreased by 25.7%. Aggravated assault decreased by 12.5%. Per the data, robberies fell by 17.8%. And there's been a steady decline on this. And we should also notice that with the internet, with local news, with cable news, with everything out there, there's this constant push that we're in an era right now of increased crime and historic crime. But the facts just don't bear that out. And I found this chart earlier today that I thought was a super powerful way of seeing that, that we have been even during the spike in crime during the end of the Trump administration, we've still this entire time

been in a record low period of crime. I mean, look at this chart and look at the crime as you see in the 90s, way, way up, and look at that steady decrease going down into the 2000s and look to where we are today. It is night and day. It's not even remotely close to what it used to be. And we should all acknowledge, in so many of these situations, I think we got to acknowledge reality, right, Ben? It's important that we could look at data, we could view it objectively, and then if you want to solve these issues, you could have discussions with various political parties, with independents, with people, try to figure out solutions to these problems. But obviously, all these stats are always just manipulated and used in very devious ways for political purposes.

They're misleading people on purpose in order to try to push specific narratives. It's something that we just continue to see over and over again. But if you're armed with the data, you could push back on that and you could see that things aren't as bad as the right ones to make it out to be, as MAGA wants you to think, as Fox wants you to think, because they want you to think everything's terrible. But I got to say, whenever I go out, whether it's to a baseball game, whether it's to a movie, whether it's to brunch, whether it's just walking around town, I see people out enjoying their lives. I see people happy. I see people celebrating. It's like a completely different world than if you log on to some social media apps and you see the kinds of things people are saying. And it's sometimes hard to kind of juxtapose the two a lot of people who are living on their phones and are only receiving information that way. And like I've been saying this whole episode,

it's designed specifically to make you feel bad. It's designed specifically to make it so you don't believe your own eyes and you don't believe your own ears. It's like when Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's been attacking the economy over and over again and attacking the Biden administration, she posts a photo of her receipt for the dinner that she had. And she spent seven hundred and twenty one dollars on a dinner and then writes on the receipt, vote Trump. And then she writes no tax on tips. And now look, if we want to have an intelligent adult conversation about whether the tips of certain service workers should be non-taxable, we should have a broader conversation to see if this is actually another Trump and MAGA Republican broader kind of tax avoidance scheme. Because remember the policy that Trump was actually

pushing for when he was in office to allow the owners to claw back the tips from the workers. The actual policy that Trump had in place was to steal the tips from the workers. The actual policy that Trump had in place was to steal the tips from the workers when Trump was in office. When Trump was in office, he could have pushed for a policy like that, but he didn't. So if you think about in Trump's own world and the world of people who want to avoid paying taxes, as Trump has done his entire life avoiding paying taxes, well, if you characterize everything as tips and you make a broad definition of that, there's a way for business owners then to potentially avoid paying any taxes at all. Think about what their plans are. It's also entirely inconsistent with the MAGA Republicans' ferocious effort to block student debt relief when they were saying that's unfair to a certain group. It's unfair that you forgive certain student debt because it's unfair to the rest of Americans was their argument. And meanwhile, you had all of the PPP loans going to

MAGA Republicans. You see it right there. You see it right there. What the Trump plan was, was actually to steal the tips. So they go out and they just say whatever the heck they want. Then they do PPP loans, which benefit them. And then they forgive that. And then when you- And then let me just say, all these things that Trump does are actual inflationary policies. These are actual policies that directly contribute to inflation in the country. What do you think eliminating an income tax and putting massive tariffs on all goods in the United States would do? We would look like Argentina, quite frankly, in this country if we did something like that. All of

Donald Trump's policies, and that's why they love the guy down in Argentina, it would turn America's economy into Argentina's. Our inflation would look like theirs, hundreds of percent on every single item. It's the direct end result of all of these MAGA policies. And it's, once again, not a hypothetical thing. You could see these things implemented in other countries. You could see exactly the end result. It's the same thing that would happen here. Look, the reality is we should all be so grateful that President Biden won in 2020 because where inflation would be today, as Donald Trump's policy would, I know what his policy would have been. He would have seized control over the Fed, which by the way, he wants to do anyway, to prevent the Fed from raising interest rates in order to try to deal with Trump's inflationary

measures that caused the inflation. Trump would also then go and do what he does in all of his businesses. He has a historical pattern. He'd lie and say that the inflation numbers weren't real and that this was all part of some deep state conspiracy and that the numbers actually aren't there. He would make it much, much worse and compound it. And we would be in a very different world right now. I mean, look, he added about $8 trillion to America's debt. He's responsible for over 25% to 30% of all debt in the history of our country. He ran the country the way he runs his businesses that most of them have gone bankrupt. And that's what he was doing with our country. His trade war, his tariffs inflationary, the tax cuts without being able to pay for it, inflationary, the way

he went about the PPP program and the types of people who were benefited, the lack of oversight, the massive printing of money and the way he dealt with COVID, ultrainflation. All those things was what caused the inflation. The way Donald Trump inherited a great economy from Obama and then tanked it, President Biden inherited the tanked economy and then grew it. Then in typical kind of MAGA or right-wing Republican fashion, they spend the whole time then blaming the person who's trying to fix it. And these are complicated issues. I get it. And sometimes it's very easy when there are complicated problems that exist to just name call and blame people and not give people data and to exploit the complexity of the situation. But what it takes to be an adult leader, a responsible person, is to make tough decisions, to have to explain it to the public,

to engage in tough measures guided by principles that you know may result in people attacking you for it, but it's the right thing to do. And ultimately, that to me is what President Biden's been doing. He made the tough decisions to turn around an atrocious, atrocious situation that was handed over by Donald Trump. We'll talk more about the event that we went to, the fundraiser for President Biden that we covered, that the campaign was doing, and we covered the event. And I saw Biden there. Biden gave a great speech. He looked great, talked great, he was funny. And to see the headline from the New York Post, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be let off stage by Obama at Megabucks LA fundraiser. That didn't happen.

That's just false. We were there. Didn't happen. Not at all. They take a frame where former President Obama puts his arm around president Biden as a show of like compassion and like, and we have it right here. Like I'll just, just show you, show you right there. They're getting a round of applause. President Biden's looking at the audience. He's walking off. He's waving, he's waving right now with former President Obama. They're waving at people.

And what you'll see in a moment is former President Obama puts his kind of arm behind President Biden as a show of compassion and respect. And then they walk out together. And that becomes their main story right here. You'll be able to see it right now. So you can kind of see for yourself the full context of it. Then they walk out together and they a situation where there's no winning ever, right? Biden can't walk off stage anymore without it being like Biden walks off stage in some sort of emergency situation. It's a right-wing conspiracy if Biden leaves the stage at the end of the event. Also, Biden can't stand still at the Juneteenth event. Biden wasn't dancing

around. He was standing watching the performances. And they said Biden freezes up because he was standing and watching the performances. So he can't stand still. He can't move. He can't bend down either because if he bends down, that's a whole other conspiracy. He can't speak to somebody because then they'll crop the frame and make it look like he's speaking to nobody and wandered off. It's the viciousness of the propaganda and it's pushed out with such force by Fox and by all these Murdoch properties and then by all the Sinclair properties. And Judd Legume and Aaron Ruppar have done incredible exposes on public notice, their sub stack, which I recommend you check out, talking about the way Sinclair operates, and we've had a Suri Crow on

our network who used to work at a Sinclair affiliate and who left in protest of all these various methods that Sinclair was using. And it's just a very devious thing that they do. They put out, they look like local news, and they have the names of recognizable stations. So it could be your local CBS station. It could be your local Fox station. It could be your local ABC station. It could be any number of stations, right? What you don't know is that they're all owned by the same group who put out national messages that all these groups that they demand that their hosts read. And they are pure propaganda posts that they give them to read. And so here's a smattering of some of the headlines that were put up on the local news websites about the Juneteenth event,

when Biden was literally just watching performances on the White House lawn. Biden appears to freeze slur words during White House Juneteenth event. And this was put together by Judd lagoon and aaron rupar and you could see here all the various channels right it looks it's the illusion of choice you know i'm sure you've heard that term before the illusion of choice you see here fox 11 news uh cbs 6 news nbc news 4 cbs klew a k pick 4 okay you have all these uh different networks and you're like oh but it but it's an NBC channel. Oh, but it's a CBS channel. Oh, it's a Fox channel. No, they're all owned by Sinclair and that's where

they get their auditors. That's why all of these are the same story. And then they also get handed down, like I was saying, for their reporters to read certain headlines that push certain narratives. And so here we see here, this is a bit about the man behind the attacks, who was behind the Sinclair articles. And so this report says how all four Sinclair articles attacking Biden's age this month were written by Jackson Walker, a member of Sinclair's rapid response team. Walker was hired by Sinclair less than two months after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2023. And if you look at Jackson Walker's behavior on social media, you'll see where his beliefs lie. He retweets people like libs of TikTok who are incredibly anti-LGBTQ. And here we have up here a retweet of such a

just disgusting tweet from libs of TikTok that this Jackson Walker had reposted. But and then you could see all the various other kind of stories that this individual is pushing out through the Sinclair Rapid Response Arm. U.S. Oil and Gas Association accuses leftists of hypocrisy. Stefanik files misconduct complaint against judge in Trump trial. And you just see how the propaganda spreads. So it's so much worse than even any one of these players. It's so much bigger than that. Fox, I was going over all the entities that Murdoch owns earlier, right? You know what Fox also owns? Fox also owns TMZ. And so people could think they're not being political, but they're looking at celebrity gossip, right? They're not political. I'm just checking out what's going on in the

celebrity world, right? And they feed in a clip of Biden that's edited the same way that all these other clips are edited. It's how they push the propaganda. And it's so pervasive. It's so everywhere. And I view that as one of the things that we are all pushing back against here. It's that machine, which is so toxic, which is so damaging to the country. And there's truly not much else we could do about it other than while they flood the zone with BS, we need to flood the zone with truth constantly. And we need to be constantly vigilant and always looking out for these deceptions. And that's why in order to our team here at Midas Touch is always very

quickly to be getting on every single story and making sure we find out the truth. If we see a clip that looks deceptive, we say, let's figure out the context of that clip. I bet it looks different than the way they're portraying it. He's going to this church. Well, let's look at the composition of this crowd and see what really happened there. Oh, he says that there's 100,000 people there. Let's look at what the capacity of that audience was said by the town spokesperson just days ago and see if there's even a possibility that that's true. And that's how we get to the bottom, just simple fact-finding, asking questions, and not buying these BS narratives that, quite frankly, look exactly like the BS narratives being pushed by Trump and the National Enquirer in the previous elections.

Look, the great news is, as we're getting closer to the election, the amount of people who are watching this network. More people are watching this network than Fox or CNN on digital or MSNBC. And because this audience is not passive or just hate watching or are just putting it in the background, but that we're all engaged together in our support of our democracy, I think that is something that these other networks don't have. And yeah, Fox may fill the people with hate or rage, but hate or rage can never compete with love and compassion and the truth. And so when we're armed with the facts together and we can put forward a positive vision for our country where we could support each other and try to come up with bipartisan solutions

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