The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Suffers Bad at Home During Monday Middle East Trip

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump going to the Middle East and giving an odd speech in Israel’s Knesset while Americans are suffering at home from his failed policies. Get 20% OFF your DeleteMe plan! Go to https://JoinDeleteMe.com/MEIDAS and enter code: MEIDAS at checkout! 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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Watch what went down here, play this clip. Somehow can relate to him. I've known him for many years and I've seen it over over again. To get you to Chavez-Odhawn to Ombudsier, to him out of Ollum. Then let's expel this Knesset member. Please expel this Knesset member. Please expel the Knesset Kassif. Please expel Knesset member Kassif out of the hall.

Please expel in immediate. Then Donald Trump met with Egypt's president, and he spoke there. Egypt's leader, Donald Trump praised him for Egypt being essentially a better place than governors in the United States. States and Egypt being better than the U.S. What a horrific thing to say overseas here play this clip. We're in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend is right here, the president, also the general, you know?

Sometimes I call him, usually I call him the general, because he's both, and he's good at both, and they've done a fantastic job, and they have very little crime, you know, because they don't play games. That's why. They don't play games like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing. But they don't have crime. I ask about crime and they almost don't even know what I'm talking about. So it's a great tribute to this man. He's done a fantastic job in bringing this country together. And while Donald Trump was in the Middle East, he was meeting with people like one of the leaders of the United Arab Emirates. You see here Donald Trump shaking his hand very bizarrely, and then saying, this guy, he's got a lot of cash. It should be noted, the United Arab

Emirates gave Donald Trump's family business about $2 billion, and then Trump handed over secret semiconductor chip technology to the United Arab Emirates. Just watch this weird interaction as Trump looks at one of the heads of the UAE delegation and says, they got a lot of cash. They got a lot of cash. Again, how bizarre here play this clip. Then Donald Trump continued to praise Egypt, said Egypt is doing very well. They have no crime. I guess Egypt is the model for what Donald Trump wants to turn the United States and to watch Donald Trump next to the leader of Egypt here play this clip.

There's a lot of respect, and I think you'll see some tremendous progress, both in the Middle East, This country is doing very well. It has good leadership. It's about leadership. And it's really nice when you say, how is your crime situation? And they like don't even know what you're talking about. What do you mean crime?

We don't have crime. Because if he has crime, he puts it out very quickly. Some people think that's not nice, but I think it's great. Because people don't want to be mugged and smashed and they don't want to be stupid people. They have a place that is, is doing very well. We're very proud of him, because we knew each other from the beginning.

The first time I met, it was in a hotel, and I was going to meet him, and then Hillary Clinton was following me. Remember? Hillary Clinton, and he liked me so much, he never even got to see Hillary. He saw it for about two seconds, but he didn't really want to waste a lot of time. He knew what was going to happen. But that was the first time we met, and we had a very good chemistry together and it continues till today so i want to thank while that was taking place you had donald trump's cabinet members saying really false and horrible things about the no kings protests which are scheduled for october 18th they are really terrified about these peaceful protests which will be the largest mass mobilization in the history of the united states treasury secretary scott besant for

example says that the no kings protest means no paychecks no kings equals no paychecks just like just straight up dictator propaganda no kings no paycheck here play this clip it's in fact they are waiting for this no kings protest you know no kings means no paychecks no paychecks and no government and maria i i think the the dirty secret here for why this is dragged on for so long is the democratic friends in the mainstream media have been downplaying the shutdown. And this is getting serious. It's starting to affect the real economy. It's starting to affect people's lives. Then just so you see that this was the message being pushed again, I did a whole video on this this weekend. This is the message being pushed on Monday. You had the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says, you know, Maria, he's on

Fox. He goes, he's on state regime media. He goes, there's no Kings protest, Maria. It's really It's all part of Antifa. It's all part of Antifa. As our friend Matt Goert says, the administration's target isn't Antifa. It is dissent. Here play this clip. But again, the No King's protest, Maria,

really frustrating. I mean, this is part of Antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it. But yeah, Democrats want to wait for a big rally of a No King's protest. When the bottom line is, who's running the show in the Senate? Chuck Schumer's not running the show.

No King's protesters or organizers are running the show. Is AOC threat in a primary against Chuck Schumer? Is she running the show? But you need a strong leader in the Senate to take control and make decisions. And Chuck Schumer is blown in the breeze. He has no power, no authority, because he's given it up to his primary opponent, potentially in AOC, or to the no king's protest organizers. And it's shameful.

And, as millions of Americans are having their health care ripped away, as millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, unsure if they'll be able to pay their rent, can't afford education, can't afford a basic quality of standard of living at all right now. Treasury Secretary Sean Duffy, sorry, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a new initiative that they're very much focused on.

We are going to have long-term stays on the South Pole of the Moon to extract the fission power there. Okay, Sean, okay. Sure, sure, sure, Jan. Play this clip. But explain the moon why you believe you can, and the United States can beat China back to the moon. You say you want to start a base on the moon?

Yeah, we do. So first off, we go back, we're going to go back at the first part of next year for astronauts going out to the moon. and around it and coming back, right? That's the first time in a 54 years. We will have done that. That's Artemis II. Artemis 3, a little over a year, a year and a half after that,

we're going back to the moon and going to land. At the south pole of the moon, you have ice. Ice is water, ice is oxygen, ice is life. So if we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put in fission power, and we think we can have long-term stays on the South Pole of the Moon.

While that was taking place, you had Maga Mike Johnson this morning, and Maga Mike was asked by reporters, why do you keep having the Republican Congress members stay away from Washington, D.C., and just go on vacation. Watch what Maga Mike says, let's play it. This week, it will have been a month since the House has been out. Why are you keeping the House out if you have a lot of other work to do? Are you saying that you can't work on appropriations and other things?

while the government is shut down. And what do you say to Republicans in your own conference who say, who are critical of this strategy of keeping the house? I've heard a criticism from, I think, three members on our conference call. And since our conference calls leak and they're always spun, that's the fact. You can poll individual House Republicans, maybe you should. And 98.7% of them will tell you that this is the right thing.

Why? It's what you just said is the opposite of what I've said. We are working on appropriations. work has been done in earnest. The next package of bills is being prepared. Appropriators are talking not just Republicans and Democrats, but across the aisle on that. And we can move all that forward. Right now, the House Republicans, I don't know what the Democrats are doing, but the House Republicans have been very busy. They're doing some of their best work in the district, helping their constituents navigate this crisis that's been created by Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. The Schumer shut down

it causes real pain for real people, veterans, the elderly, people who rely upon these services, our rural hospitals that have been struggling. Our members are out helping them to access the rural hospital fund that we created and that the president signed in law on July 4th that no Democrats assisted on. Chuck Schumer wants to take those funds away. They're trying to make sure that the rural hospitals can access them because they know that this effort is underway. And so our members are doing very productive work. We're in constant communication with them and we are ready to come back and continue the work in our committees and everything on the House floor. We will return to legislative session as soon as the Democrats come to their senses and open the government.

That is a necessity so that the work can continue and the people, the members of Congress can do their jobs. And that's what we will do. That's our commitment. It always has been. This has to stop. We're on day 13. This should end tomorrow. The Democrats in the Senate's next opportunity to end this, to change this and vote yes and reopen the government will be tomorrow. And I pray that they will do the right thing.

And then we'll all get together and have our partisan disputes and discussions on all the issues that remain on the table for the end of the year. We're doing our work behind the scenes. We're preparing for that moment and we can't wait for it to happen. So the question is for the Democrats. When will Congress get going again? And I hope they answer it affirmatively. Thanks so much.

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yet alone negotiate with Democrats, have no contact. Just a very Trumpian way of dealing with things. And it's why we're here as people's health care premiums are about to rise to levels that is just going to make it so people don't have health care at all. So a reporter asked the question that I've been saying right over and over again to Maga Mike, which is, so do you support repealing Obamacare?

What's your health care plan? If you don't want to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies now and you said you're working on a plan, what is that plan? And watch this word salad by Maga Mike. To me, this is probably the most important, important clip about what's going on with the government shutdown because the Republicans have no plan. They just want to rip away people's health care. If they could come up with a plan that's

better than Obamacare, by the way, I support personally, me, I support universal health care. I think it should be free to every American. I think health care is a human right that Americans should have. Americans pay enough taxes as it is. It should be free. And I think you should tax really rich people, more money to make sure we all afford health care. That's my view. Separately, there's Obamacare. Keep the prices a little bit lower with Affordable Care Act subsidies. Still, the prices are not low. It's still a problem, but people have health care and you could subsidize it.

So what's your plan? Come up with something. Watch what Maga Mike says. He's upset that John McCain saved the Affordable Care Act in 2017. That's what he says here. Here, play this clip. President Obama, you've been very critical in recent days of Obamacare. Some of your members have called for repealing it.

Do you support repealing Obama Care? What's your health care plan? We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. You remember that John McCain famously did the thumbs down, and effectively by one-vote margin, the whole effort was defeated. It's a great frustration of mine, and has always been of President Trump's. And we know that American health care needs dramatic reform.

Let's just state it simply, Obamacare failed the American people. It was promised to be a great success to make health care more affordable. It's done exactly the opposite. And it has been pointed out by everyone that since Obamacare was created in 2010 premiums, the cost of health care have risen exponentially. It's skyrocketed to the point where it's no longer affordable for so many Americans. And the access to care has been reduced and the quality of care in some regions of the country has been reduced. We have to have to reverse all of that. And we have plans to do it.

The Republican Party is the party that has plans to fix it. Can we completely repeal and replace Obamacare? Many of us are skeptical about that now because the roots are so deep. It was really sinister the way, in my view, the way it was created. I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself. I think the people who drafted that, the architects of it, knew that it would not be sustainable because their objective was ultimately a single-payer system. They wanted full government control of health care.

That's a terrifying prospect for those of us who believe in low-cost, high-quality care. And so we have lots of ideas on how to fix it, but it is very, very complicated. It involves a big percentage of the U.S. economy. Health care is entwined with somewhere, I think it's 15% of the U.S. economy is the health care system. And you can't just rip it out at the roots and start over it. It's a very, very complicated series of measures and steps that you have to take to fix it. Now, it takes a long time to build consensus in a legislative body to do those kinds of things. And we have lots of plans on the table. We have whole caucuses who work on this around the

clock all the time. When I was the chair of the Republican Study Committee, which is the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, back in the hundred and, let's see, was that the 117th Congress? We drafted a book this thick. We worked on it for almost a year. And we had a prescription for how to lower cost of care, make the quality higher and make accessibility greater. And so we have formulated all these ideas. But we've got to build a consensus to do that. And we were in the process of that.

And then a reporter asks Mag and Mike, you know, with these mass layoffs of government employees that Donald Trump is doing, he's not just furlowing federal employees. He's using the shutdown to fire federal employees. So now they're firing all of these people who are working at special education services. what's your response to the fact that that's who you're firing first special education services here play this clip thank you mr speaker we know the president for with mass layoff so we're also learning there were significant cuts to staff the special education services are you comfortable with those cuts i haven't i haven't seen the specifics of that and i don't know i do know that each of the cabinet secretaries were asked to be to assist omb to determine what the most essential programs are and and what the priorities are for the policies and all of that. And I've been so busy on all this. I've not had a chance to dig into the details of each division and how it's happened.

I know that HHS, for example, has cut some programs, but they were effectively all agencies in a triage situation. Because remember, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats turned off the funding for all these things that everybody cares about. And so the executive branch, the Office of Management Budget, has to determine what are the most efficient and effective programs. It's a difficult task. one that they relish. They don't want to do it. Listen to the president's own words and Russ Votes

own words and everybody who's involved. They want the government to be opened. They're begging Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. That's how to make all this stop. They want this to end immediately and they wanted it to end before it started. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant continued to go on Fox this morning and he says, you know, the Chinese have turned our soybean farmers into pawns. Well, it's because you declared a trade war against them and you now have a failed trade war here play this clip and look for yesterday was national farmers day this administration wants to do something for farmers you know China has chosen to decouple the on the ag side which just tells you you know the other thing that the president trump and everyone in the cabinet

is working on is food security but the chinese have unfortunately turned our soybean farmers into pawns they're trying to manipulate them and our farmers overwhelmingly backed President Trump. They know that he has their back, and we can't implement the programs. We want to stabilize the farmers' finances. We want to use the Farm Credit Bureau to give them the credit for next year's plannings,

but they want to cater to the radical left. Yeah. As I call them, the two guys from Brooklyn, the Schumers and Jeffries, they don't care about the farmers. All they care about are their jobs. I read the other day. Just reprehensible behavior by Donald Trump here

while he's in front of the Israeli Nesit, attacking former President Biden and former President Obama. It should be noted that Donald Trump had previously told Netanyahu do not do any deals at all with Hamas. Do not do peace deals until the election is over. Trump was one of the people who meddled and said

it would be a winning issue for me if there was not resolution. So do not help Biden in any way. way, which potentially prolong the atrocities taking place in Gaza. But here's Donald Trump in front of the Israeli Nesit, play this clip. I would say November 5th was a time that we became really hot. But once you go back, a couple of years, if I were in charge and the country was doing what they, nobody was going to ask me to speak.

Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak. I guarantee you that. And if they did, he would have turned them down, I promise you. He didn't speak. He didn't speak and he didn't speak well. But all of the countries in the Middle East, it could have, what we're doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden.

It was, there was a hatred toward Israel. It was an absolute hatred. And then finally, you have Donald Trump shaking hands here with Vladimir Putin's buddy, Victor Orban. And you can see what great friends they are. right here, and this is not something that is helpful in terms of peace in Ukraine. But let's play a little bit right here. Let's play it.

There you have it, folks. That's what's going on this Monday morning. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack at Midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add three episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at Midasplus.com.