The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Voters Turn Against Him as His Approval Crashes

Episode Date: February 23, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Trump voters turning against their former dear leader over his horrible actions since taking office. Rocket Money: Let Rocket Money reach your financial goals faster by going to https://rocketmoney.com/meidastouch 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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after being fired by Donald Trump while working at the IRS. I want you to watch this. Do you make the Trump administration's actions? I, um, I thought that he was, I, I did support him. I was a Trump supporter. Um, you know, when he talks about government waste and all that, um, yes, I'm, I'm behind it. Uh, I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that, that needs fixing. Uh, and, and that's part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government actually, um, to, to help change, help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know. And I thought that I thought

that someone with like his business acumen would have come in with a fine tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people's lives for no reason. Right now, this individual, you heard him say that he thought that because Donald Trump's a good businessman, that Donald Trump would go in there with a scalpel and not a chainsaw and fix things. Donald Trump was never a good businessman. We tried to tell you that here over and over again on the Midas Touch Network. He bankrupted his casinos. He bankrupted most of the companies he touched and owned bankruptcy after bankruptcy. And then companies that he lent his name to did horrible and many of them went out of business. Now, just look at his most recent company. Just take the most recent

company, Trump Media, which lost $400 million last year and only earned $3.6 million in revenue. So in terms of that guy in Philadelphia, you know, a Philly cheesesteak restaurant probably does more revenue than Trump Media in a year. I'd be willing to take a bet on that. And Trump lost $400 million last year. And by the way, when you go through Donald Trump's financials, you take a look at it. This is what he filed. This isn't me saying this. This is what Trump filed. There's a section because when you're a public company, you have to list all of your bankruptcies and you have to list all of your businesses that went out of business and failed. It's acies and you have to list all of your businesses that went out of

business and failed. It's a requirement if you have a publicly traded company. So here it is, February 14th, 2025. Just take a read at this. I'll show you the screenshot. I'm not going to go through the whole thing now, but it lists Trump Plaza, Trump Hotels and Casinos, TMTG, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Bankruptcy. Then it lists all of his businesses that failed right here. This is his filing. Trump Shuttles, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgages, Trump University, Trump Stakes. Just go through it.

He failed in everything. All right, back to this guy right here. Here's the Trump supporter, now former IRS worker. Here he talks about how he got fired and what went down. Here, play this clip. Tell me what happened today. So, I mean, I went in at my normal time. When I arrived there, you know, everybody was in a very downtrodden mood. And when I went to my computer, you know, everybody was having some technical issues. Like none of our computers were really loading up either the programs that we needed to operate or like teams. My story is the teams. You know, that's kind of how I figured

out that we were getting fired today was when I went in I logged into teams and I sent you the photo of of what I saw when I went to log in and that's when I left my cubicle and I went around to everybody else I work with I'm like hey what's what's your teams look like some were having having trouble. Some were able to log in. It was very, very chaotic. I mean, there was no organization to it at all. And basically, we just sat around for the rest of the day. I mean, talk about government efficiency.

We literally sat there and did nothing all day long while we waited for our fate. So, again, we got our email saying that we were fired after sitting around all day long while we waited for our fate. So again, we got our email saying that we were fired after sitting around all day knowing we were fired. And then we turned in our equipment about an hour or so later, and then we were escorted out of the building. You ever check your bank statement and realize you've been paying for something you don't even use? Yeah, that was me. Signed up for a free trial, forgot about it, and boom, I was getting charged every month. Turns out 85% of people have at least one subscription

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get abolished, like the Department of Education. Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress must decide. Then obviously somebody got to his ear after the Columbus dispatch. Again, support your local journalism for this reason. The Columbus dispatch wrote about it. And then Congressman Troy Balderson responded to the Columbus dispatch. I fully support Trump's agenda to rein in bloated federal government and put America

first. Now it's time for Congress to act. It's up to us on Capitol Hill to make permanent his executive actions, ensuring continuity in public policy from one administration to the next. Continuity? He's literally ripping apart America. America hates this right now. Donald Trump's approval is plummeting. Democrats, generic Democrats versus generic Republicans in Congress. Democrats are up like plus 12, plus 15 right now. If an election were to be held, Elon Musk's approval is in like the low 30s. When you go to Republican districts, by the way, people at these town halls, Republicans, are letting their legislators, their representatives know, what the hell are you doing?

You're giving Elon Musk access to our private data. You're letting Elon Musk and these billionaires gain access to our medical files and our tax records and our social security information and have access to the Treasury Department's transaction payment system. And you're firing all these veterans and you're like destroying the lives of veterans. I'm doing a whole other video of disabled veterans who have just had their lives gutted by the Trump administration. People are pissed.

Here's a Trump voter realizing that Trump is pro-Russia and regretting the decision to vote for Donald Trump. This guy goes, supporting Trump was not a popular thing that many of my friends and family members, when I told my friends and family members, but I did it nevertheless. If Trump really said that Ukraine started the war, I feel deeply ashamed for my naivety. I strongly assume that most decent people feel the same way. Yes, he really did say

that Ukraine was responsible. And he said that he trusts Vladimir Putin and he called Zelensky a dictator this past week. Here's another one from WTOP News. This FEMA civil servant and disabled veteran voted for Trump. Now he's out of a job. Quote, this American veteran told WTOP, care of Steve Inskeep, quote, I voted for Donald Trump, but this is not what I was expecting. We didn't think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug. The man said he was a Trump voter. He was fired by a White House whose officials have assumed and said in TV interviews that federal employees are almost all far left. He was dismissed as part of a widespread purge. Yet

the forum email reads, the agency finds based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest. The government blames his firing on him. WTOP says it reviewed his positive evaluations as a leader. The man and his wife accepted that the U.S. needs to save money, but assumed that as a veteran of long service, he would be safe. They're calling their reps in Congress, so he thought it would happen to other people, not him. By the way, military veterans make up, I mean, 25% of the newly hired workforce in the government as of 2023. Veterans make up somewhere between 30 plus percent of people who are in the

government. Let me show you this. This is from Georgia's 7th congressional district right here. This is MAGA Republican Representative Rich McCormick comparing his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions. He calls them January 6th insurrections. These are Republicans in a Republican district saying, why are you giving Muscar stuff? Here, play this clip. Tyranny is rising in the White House and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know, rather the people would like to know what you congressmen and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the white house I'm not going to give you my best foghorn, lankhorn response to that.

But what I was... You can go ahead and sit down. Thank you. The, uh, when you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with Republicans when Biden was elected. The funny thing is, the funny thing is, the funny thing is you're sitting here and a lot of you would probably say those January 6s who are yelling just as loud as you, who are upset just like you. More stories again of leopards eating faces. Supporting Trump was not. Here's another one.

Sorry. Another day, another MAGA voter betrayed by the felons she voted for. MAGA federal worker from North Virginia shocked that the fat felonious leopard ate his face. He's also a disabled veteran. That didn't mean shit whatsoever. I'll say it again. We told you so. Trump voter, disabled military veteran, value member at FEMA fired.

And Horb, how about this one? I didn't know my daughter-in-law would be targeted. A Missouri woman who voted for Trump now says she is ashamed to be an American after her daughter-in-law, a Mexican immigrant who had been in the U.S. for nearly 20 years, was deported. Shirley Stiegel told Associated Press that while she supported Trump's campaign promises to deport more criminal immigrants, she did not think her son's wife fell into that category. We told you so. Here's someone else who says, I voted for Trump. I don't like what's happening. My aunt also voted for Trump, but lost her government job.

I'm on social security and I'm now nervous about that being taken away. I want a better America, but my groceries are still high and people are losing their jobs. I didn't sign up for this and I did not vote for Musk. I feel my freedom is being taken away. I'm not happy. A lot of Americans are not happy. It's why Donald Trump's approval rating is sinking.

It's why people are pissed right now. America is a pressure cooker as a result of what Donald Trump has done and what a con artist and utter fraud he is. I want you to make sure you're subscribed to this network, though, because I think in the coming weeks and months especially, I think you're going to see big, growing, peaceful protests, and we'll be with you there every step of the way.

So hit subscribe, help us get to 5 million subscribers. We appreciate you so much, Midas Mighty. We appreciate all that local journalism as well. They did a great job digging up some of those stories. So thanks to them too. Hit subscribe here. We appreciate you. Can't get enough Midas?

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