The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Throws Tantrum as Bad News Grows

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

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It was a video. He was calling it Trump Gaza. And it was an AI video where they had golden statues of Trump. And Elon Musk was on the beaches in Gaza throwing up money in the air. And then after committing genocide, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were at the Trump Gaza hotel together in this AI that they created. And then here on the Gaza beach, there are these bearded men with big chests. And well, you can judge for yourself that Trump actually posted that. So when I go and show you that photo of him, what he looks like without his orange plaster on his face, I mean, like what the hell is going on here?

Then let's go to that cabinet meeting that took place yesterday, which Donald Trump essentially had Elon Musk lead, where Elon Musk's like, I'm going to be making mistakes a lot, you know, like we made a mistake about Ebola and then we fired the Ebola people. I mean, I'm like watching this. I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about? I mean, as they're firing central government workers, government workers, veterans, spouses of veterans, people who have just sacrificed in general for us working for the government, and then lied and said they were firing people for cause, for performance reasons when it was not based on performance reasons.

Here, take a look at this. This is from the cabinet meeting. Here is Donald Trump blaming the rising costs of everything and like egg prices on the administration. But Trump's like pretending that he's not the president and he's attacking a phantom administration. Here, play this clip. His eggs are a disaster. The secretary of agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mind-boggling what's happened, how low they were with us and how high they are now. But I think we can do something about it, Madam Secretary. I think you're going to do a fantastic job in that position.

Then Kim Jong-un style, Donald Trump assembles this kind of cabinet of the most spineless men, a few women, but mostly men, and the most spineless men a few women but mostly men and the most spineless people and he goes let the cabinet speak raise your hand right now if you are unhappy with elon here just watch this clip you could ask me or elon go ahead please thank you mr president thank you mr musk um i just wanted to ask you ask you that President Trump put out a truth social today saying that everybody in the cabinet was happy with you. I just wondered if you had heard otherwise, if you had heard anything about members of the cabinet who weren't happy with the way things were going. And if so, what are you doing to address any dissatisfaction? Let the cabinet speak just for a second.

Anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, well, throw him out of here. Anybody unhappy? I have a lot of respect for Elon and that he's doing this and And some disagree a little bit, but I will tell you, for the most part, I think everyone's not only happy, they're thrilled. This is like some North Korea stuff right here. Elon Musk would make multiple posts yesterday where he would mock the federal workers who were fired and celebrate their terminations. It's ghoulish behavior. But back to that cabinet meeting here, Elon Musk, this is where he says, I'm going to make mistakes, you know, like Ebola. I will sometimes fire Ebola people, but it's okay.

We will just sometimes, you know, fire people who do nuclear weapons, you know. Here, play this clip. And I should say, also, we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we'll fix it very quickly. So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola. Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention.

So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately and there was no interruption. But we do need to move quickly if we're to achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction in financial year 2026. It requires saving $4 billion per day every day from now through the end of September. But we can do it and we will do it. Well, that's my Elon Musk impression right there. Tell me what you think. As our friend Greg Sargent says, another mistake they made was firing USAID people who oversee contracts like the one that supplies life-saving treatments for kids who are suffering from extreme malnutrition or on the edge of starvation. It should be noted as well, though, that last night, right before a deadline where federal governments ordered the Trump administration

to have to make the payments to USAID contractors, John Roberts, Chief Justice of the MAGA Republican right-wing Supreme Court, jumped in and blocked the order compelling Trump to fund USAID. The Supreme Court over and over again has blood on their hands. How many kids, how many people are going to die because of the cruelty of having their funding ripped away? basically changed the law to stop the separation of church and state. The same Supreme Court that basically celebrates AR-15s by schools, that gutted climate change legislation, that gutted voting rights. Chief Justice John Roberts said, we're going to temporarily stop this order requiring the funding to USAID. Here, Donald Trump says this country has gotten

that America's bloated, fat and disgusting. Play this clip. I have a question back on these cuts to the federal workforce. You mentioned you're interested in doing another round of this email. When would you like to see that? What would be the deadline? And this time, would it be mandatory? I think Elon wants to. And I think it's a good idea because, you know, those people, as I said before, they run the bubble. You got a lot of people that have not responded. So we're trying to figure out, do they exist? Who are they?

And it's possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired. And if that happened, that's OK, because that's what we're trying to do. This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. I think we had the worst president in the history of our country. He just left office. I think he's a disgrace, what he's done to our country by allowing millions of people to come into our country like that. And all of the other things, the inflation, which he caused because of energy and stupid spending, to spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars on the Green News scam, a total scam.

Donald, are you looking in the mirror? Is that what you're referring to? Then they had conspiracy theorist RFK Jr., who's the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He then talks about how there are that the measles outbreak right now, which has killed somebody in Texas. This is like one of the biggest measles outbreak in recent time because people aren't getting vaccinated for measles. RFK Jr. at this cabinet meeting was like, this is normal. This is what usually happens. There's measles outbreaks like this all the time. There is not. Here, play this clip.

Bobby, do you want to speak on that? We are following the measles epidemic every day. I think there's 124 people who have contracted measles at this point in Gaines County, Texas. Mainly, we're told in the Mennonite community there are two people who have died but they were watching it and there are about 20 people hospitalized mainly for quarantine we're watching it we put out a post on it yesterday and we're going to continue to follow it incidentally there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country last year for 16. so it's not unusual we have measles outbreaks every year you sound a little under the weather yourself right now

i just i have a permanently bad throat then donald Donald Trump insults Canada and says, Canada can't subsist or exist as a nation without America. Play this clip. It's not fair for us to be supporting Canada. And if we don't support them, they don't subsist as a nation. Boy, people are pissed in Canada. That boycott of all things American in Canada is still going strong, and it'll start showing in our economy. The older I get, the more I find myself wanting to be more intentional about the way I live,

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attend. So here she talks about, though, how federal workers need to get real jobs. They don't deserve their paychecks. They don't, they don't, they're not really working real jobs, she says. Play this clip. You can protest all you want outside of departments of this government. You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you. You're protecting the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. By the way, they're consuming taxpayer dollars. Those jobs are paid for by the

American tax people who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will. Again, when did it become so normal to just insult hardworking Americans? I don't get it. I mean, what? Just because you're not on TV, that doesn't what? That means that someone who works at our national parks is not good enough for MAGA? The person who works in the Department of Education or Department of Labor or Department of Agriculture or USAID or the people who work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or whatever government entity, what? Because why? They don't get on TV,

so they're not glamorous. That means they're not real workers. I mean, who talks about human beings in that way? Oh, MAGA. The same MAGA that is shaking down President Zelensky of Ukraine for a rare earth mineral deal. So we've been covering on the Midas Touch Network all of Donald Trump's fake deals, right, where Donald Trump said that he got this great deal with Canada to avoid the initial tariffs Donald Trump threatened. But then he says he's bringing tariffs in a few days anyway against Canada. But remember the deal where Canada said, OK, Donald, we will put whatever it was, you know, a billion dollars in border security and we'll give you a fentanyl czar. There was already the border security deal in place under former President Biden and a fentanyl czar, whatever they were calling it. There's really no fentanyl coming from Canada to the United States,

10 pounds or something like over the whole year. There's not a lot of fentanyl coming in at all. And then the deal with Mexico, the fake deal, where Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, is like, OK, Donald, we'll put 10,000 troops at the border. And Trump's like, deal, look what I have achieved. There were already 15,000 troops at the border. 15,000 is more than 10,000. Then Donald Trump made the fake deals with like Colombia and Panama and so on and so forth. So now, so Donald Trump was like shaking down Zelensky for this rare earth mineral deal where the rare earth minerals from Ukraine would be shared with the United States with no security guarantees. But here's what we know about the deal now. Ilya Pomerenko from the Kiev Independent

says it perfectly. It's like a fake deal. So essentially, the rare earth agreement is just a memorandum on how the U.S. and Ukraine are intended to invest in Ukraine's mining industry and mineral resources and jointly get profits at some point. There's 0% certainty on whether this will ever be a real big thing. The document doesn't even require parliamentary ratification at this moment. Now, Donald Trump will declare a grandiose victory as soon as Zelensky signs this in front of cameras in D.C. And essentially, that's it.

Pomerantz goes on to say, this is all so grotesquely dumb and so surreally opposite to basic human morality that one can't believe it's even real. It motivates many to try to look for a second agenda, to try to read between the lines and make it to a far larger truth. But I'm afraid the answer is very simple. Maga Mike Johnson on CNN is being asked here. This was a good question by Caitlin Collins. She asked Maga Mike Johnson, so if you're saying that Doge is finding all of these fraud and abuse, then why would you

support a continuing resolution to keep the government funded with fraud and abuse? Here, play this clip. Certainly an absurd notion, but they're standing by that. How long would that CR go, do you believe? Well, we haven't negotiated that yet. But if it's a CR, it may be an entire year-long CR with some anomalies on it. You know how all this works. But it's not what we prefer.

We would like to do individual appropriations bills. But it takes both parties to negotiate that. And right now, the Democrats are trying to, it looks like, trying to set up a government shutdown. We can't allow that to happen. And we won't. Well, you just talked about how important the work that Elon Musk is doing is. If you pass a continuing resolution, won't that just refund all the programs that he says he's cutting that are full of waste, fraud, and abuse? No, look, that's why I say you add anomalies to a CR. You can increase some spending. You can decrease some spending. You can add language

that says, for example, the dramatic changes that have been made to USAID would be reflected in the ongoing spending. It would be a clean CR, mostly, I think, but with some of those changes to adapt to the new realities here. And the new reality is less government, more efficiency, better return for the taxpayers. And I think that's something everybody should welcome. Should be noted that the doge amongst the American people is like the number one entity that Americans want to see abolished by far. Oh yes, then there's a new proposal that was released yesterday by a MAGA Republican Congress member, Wilson, to make Donald Trump the first and only living current or former president to be featured on

currency. They want to put him on a $250 bill. And they said it's the most valuable currency. And they said he's the most valuable president. That's what the MAGA Republican Congress members are spending their time to as Elon Musk and his team raid your private information, gain access to your social security tax records, medical information, as they gut our government services, as our markets are so volatile right now, as Donald Trump is posting about Trump, Gaza, and having America join in access of evil of Russia, of North Korea, Belarus, to oppose United Nations resolutions, condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. What are we talking about here, folks?

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