The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Voters TURN AGAINST HIM over LATEST DECISION

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump voters getting pissed that Elon Musk is serving as a Co-President to Donald Trump. Naked Wines: To get 6 Bottles of Wine for $39.99 and join the Naked Wines community, Head to https://NakedWines.com/MEIDAS and use code: MEIDAS Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch 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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government agencies called Doge, where he says he's going to get rid of two or three trillion dollars in government spending. A lot of that goes to Social Security, Medicare, and social service nets that people rely on to actually live. And people are saying, can we get a mulligan here? We didn't really mean to vote for Donald Trump. We don't really want this. This is what you voted for. And it was clear that Elon Musk was going to basically run the show and serve as a co-president, intermingling potentially his business interests with government affairs. And what I believe, in my opinion, is all my opinion, to be the ultimate conflict of interest here. So here's the article from Mediaite. Trump voters and focus groups slam Elon Musk's growing influence. I didn't vote for him.

Voters in a focus group who have supported President-elect Donald Trump universally said the incoming president's close relationship with Musk is not a good thing. You think? Axios teamed up with Engageus Sago for a focus group of 14 swing state voters who all voted for Trump in 2016, some of whom swung back his way for the 2024 election. The report published on Friday revealed none of the voters, zero for 14, were willing to call Musk's relationship to Donald Trump a positive thing. Musk endorsed Trump and was a major supporter of his campaign. Pause there.

The biggest supporter, hundreds of millions of dollars went to a PAC that supported Donald Trump. Elon Musk was pretty much in charge of running all of the voter outreach. Elon Musk was giving raffles, or he said job opportunities, a million dollars a day for people who would sign up basically to vote for Donald Trump, to register to vote for Donald Trump. Oh, but by the way, I know Republicans really wanted to stop Democrats from helping give people water who have to wait on crazy long lines so that they can vote because a lot of red states are voter suppressed states. But I digress. Trump announced that Musk will lead what he's calling the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, which is meant to look at cutting back on government waste.

Pause there for a second. So Donald Trump by fiat, like a dictator, is creating a fake government agency that never existed before called Doge. It is based on the meme coin, the scammy meme coin with the same scammy meme coin logo that I think it's believed that Elon Musk had or has or once had or has an interest in Doge. So there's already, in my opinion, a conflict of interest attendant to the relationship right there. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are leading this thing. And when you go on Twitter, which is now X, it has a gray checkmark signifying it is an official government account, even though it's not an official government account, but they are masquerading like it is to, what, rule over the people, to cut important safety social nets that

lots of Americans actually rely on. It goes on to say in this article, of the 14 swing state voters polled through two online panels, 12 of them were familiar with Musk being an advisor to Trump. Five called it a bad thing, while seven did not know how to respond. But none would describe this relationship as good. All 14 voters supported Trump in 2016 and then swung to Joe Biden in 2020. In 2024, five swung back to Trump. Another five backed Harris.

And another four voted for a third party. I think it'll favor his Tesla company and he'll get the majority of the breaks. And just by throwing a couple of hundred million dollars on Trump's campaign, they're going to look the other way, says George L. out of Phoenix, Arizona. Pierre D. out of Las Vegas, Nevada said, Musk's very good at business, but not someone who earned a single vote. He's very good, obviously, at business, but I didn't elect him. I didn't vote for him, the voters said, questioning what Musk's agenda will be. Quote, there's nothing in my opinion in Elon Musk's history that shows that he's got the best interest of the country or its citizens in mind. According to Axios, the five who called

the Musk-Trump relationship bad are a mix of 2024 Trump voters, Harris voters, and third-party voters. The group also gave their opinions on another controversial advisor to Trump. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the once-independent presidential candidate, has been tapped by Trump to serve as his Health and Human Services Secretary, stirring up backlash due to Kennedy's longtime criticism of various vaccines. How about the fact that he also said that he wants to do a moratorium on studying infectious diseases? Only one out of the 14 voters described Kennedy's association with Trump as a good thing. Well, okay, you 14 Trump voters, what were you doing? Where were you?

Because during the campaign, if you watch Trump's speeches, Trump would say, Robert F. Kennedy, I'm going to make him in charge of health, I'm going to make him in charge of health. I'm going to make him in charge of women. Women, you're going to be forced to be protected by Robert Kennedy. And then Donald Trump said, Elon's going to run things. Elon's going to run things. So much so that Governor Walz made the comment that Elon Musk's is Donald Trump's actual running mate, not J.D. Vance. And Governor Walz referred to Elon Musk as a dipshit for his behavior. Remember when Governor Walz said this? Here, play the clip.

And that's not a joke. But look, I'm not going to waste all the time I'm in. I'm going to talk about his running mate. His running mate, Elon Musk. Seriously. Seriously. Where is Senator Vance after he got asked the simplest question in the world at the debate, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

And after two weeks, he finally said, no, he didn't. That's where he's been spending his time. But that's it. So look, Elon's on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipshit on these things. You know it. All right, be honest with me for a second. Have you ever stood in the wine aisle staring at rows and rows of bottles, completely clueless about what to pick?

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all those right wing kind of anti-Zelensky memes. You know, Musk is around Donald Trump like 24-7 now. He was with Donald Trump when Trump spoke to the House Republicans. He got a standing ovation right there. And, you know, one of the messages also that's being sent, in my opinion, is that because Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions of dollars, potentially billions of dollars now on election, which, by the way, was made possible thanks to the Citizens United decision, which destroyed bipartisan campaign finance reform by saying that corporations are people and have a First Amendment right to contribute unlimited funds in campaigns, you know, without any types of safeguards or checks or balances. That decision was, what,

12, 15 years ago. The message is sent to all of these kind of magas out there that, you know, if you want Musk to support your campaign, just go along with it. You got to give him everything, you know. And by the way, when Musk then wins these elections, it's a loop, if you will, because then the value of his stocks go up and he makes more money by getting the people he wants to be put in place elected. And by being on phone calls with foreign leaders, the message is clear that you got to do deals with him or else. Here's an article that came out of the New Republic, which was also reported by NBC. They claim that Elon Musk is pissing off everyone on Trump's team because he's behaving like

the co-president. He's taking credit for Trump's team because he's behaving like the co-president. He's taking credit for Trump's win. He's bragging how it was his PAC and X, which was Twitter, that allowed Trump to win and that Trump should be indebted to him. It should also be noted, of course, that Elon Musk had previously said that there will be hardship and turmoil that we will face if Trump wins, when they start slashing and taking away all of the, you know, slashing $2 trillion from the budget. And now we're seeing economists, some are predicting even a better chance of recession than this, but at least a 75% chance of a recession now. But this is what Elon Musk warned about. He said, I'm going to inflict

hardship on you. You're going to have hardship. You're going to face a ton of hardship. Now, here are just some reactions on Reddit to all of this right now. They're saying, oh, but these voters all did vote for Elon Musk. They all knew. This game of Fox didn't tell me doesn't make it any better. You went out of your way not to do your homework. Your vote, your doge, your face, your leopard. Don't worry if anyone can save the low and middle class. It's two narcissistic billionaires. It's not like Donald Trump literally lives in a penthouse with golden toilet bowls. That's a man of the people right there.

Their goal is to abolish the middle class and create worker drones that can be ruthlessly abused, just like they had in their boyhood in South Africa, this one individual says. Other people are saying, that's what I don't understand when people say that electing the former guy is a repudiation of the elites. This is a billionaire who lives in a penthouse decked with golden toilets. Like, what are you talking about? It's in large part due to Donald representing a shaking up of the system, which he has done and will do to even more disastrous effect. He's constantly attacking our institutions, government, healthcare, the border, and attacking everything. So the Democratic Party has to defend institutions, and it's a strategy that leads many to actually vote for him and against their own interests. You see the Doge account right there.

And also Elon Musk posted that he's only looking to have people who work 80 hours a week for this Doge, for this made-up government agency. They have to apply through X. They have to apply through Twitter. They have to have verified accounts if they want access to these government jobs. And that's where they're being told to apply to for a made-up government job. That's something that doesn't exist. So, again, this is a leopard's eating face moment. But Trump voters are regretting that Elon Musk is serving as a co-president, an unelected co-president who has his own interest at heart.

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