The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Wakes Up to Nightmare as Bottom Falls Out

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump waking up to disastrous news as his approval plummets based on his horrible policies and massive public failures. Quince: Go to https://Quince.com/meidas for FREE shipping on your order and 365-day returns. 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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polling numbers ever in history of presidential polling. Approval rating, 40%. Disapproval, 59%. Just look at these cross tabs. When you look at his support in the black community, only 14% of black people support Donald Trump. Hispanic support, only 14% of black people support Donald Trump. Hispanic support, only 27% of Hispanic people now support Donald Trump. Negative 45%, only 29% of Asian people support Donald Trump. How about those young people, Donald, who are listening to the podcast? Do they support you anymore? Nope, only 36% support amongst people ages 18 to 29. That's negative 27%. You're 27% underwater there. But you may say, hey, Ben, that's just Pew research.

I'm sure Fox is saying something different. Not really. Donald Trump's approval based on the new Fox poll is the lowest in modern presidential history for the Fox poll. It is less than his first administration. Trump regime to approval 44 percent. Compare this to former President Biden. At the same time, Biden was 54 percent. Former President Obama was 62 percent. Former President Bush was 63 percent. How about on the economy in the Fox News poll? Let's put news in quotes. Only 38 percent of Americans

approve of Donald Trump's handling of the economy under the Fox poll. And Fox was showing these graphics over and over again yesterday. Yes, Donald, your nightmare is here. Those protests that you're scared of, they're only going to get bigger. The crowds for the events by AOC, Bernie, and other Democrats who are doing town halls and big speeches, those are going to get bigger, Donald. Ooh, I can't wait for a summer of democracy, Donald, as we've been predicting here on the Midas Touch Network. Oh, this was a question that was asked on that Fox News and Quotes poll. In general, do you think imposing tariffs or fees on products imported from other countries makes the products you buy more or less expensive? 72% of people say more, only 7% of people say less. That's bad for you, Donald.

That means that even people in your own MAGA base know you're a liar because wherever you go right now, you're hearing the word tariff, tariff, tariff, and people know it's screwing their lives. You may claim that the price of eggs is down 93% and the egg price and grocery prices are so low. The problem that you say is that it's too low, but most Americans don't, all Americans, unless you're lying, don't think that's true because we go to the grocery store. Unlike you who thinks the word groceries is a cool word, right? Donald goes, have you heard the word groceries? It's like an old fashioned word.

No, groceries is not an old fashioned word. It's a word and you're making things worse. By the way, like one of the people who works at the Midas Touch Network, Jeremy, he gets emails like this. I'm sure you get emails like this. This is from Guitar Center. This is what companies are sending out right now. And these should be three alarm fire SOS right now.

This is the subject from Guitar Center. Lock in up to 30% before tariffs hit. Hey, Jeremy, we wanted to give you a heads up that prices on gear across the board are about to rise due to new tariffs. If you've been thinking about upgrading your setup or adding new gear, now is the best time to buy before the price increases hit. We're seeing that for cars and basically everything else. Also, freight, the freight industry, the shipping industry, the trucking industry right now is getting crushed. And there's like a 14-day lag time where then we're going to see the scarcity. Lots of companies prepared for the worst, not all.

And they bought a lot of goods in bulk. But now they're running out of supply. And so we're about to just start running out of important things on the shelf. So remember with COVID where people couldn't find toilet paper or this or that. Get ready for that again. So Donald, you think we're pissed off now? Just you wait in 14 days, you idiot. Here's what we're learning about. So the CEOs of three of the nation's biggest retailers, Walmart, Target, and Home Depot,

by the way, a lot of these people, Trump supporters, privately warned him that his tariff and trade policy could disrupt supply chains, raise prices, and empty shelves, according to sources familiar with the meeting. The big box CEOs flat out told Trump the prices aren't going up. They're steady right now, but they will go up. And this wasn't about food, but he was told that shelves will just be empty, an administration official familiar with the meeting told Axios. Another official briefed on the meeting said the CEOs told Trump the disruptions will become noticeable in about two weeks time. Craig Fuller, who runs a freight

analysis company, data company, here's what he's been saying. Year over year trucking activity out of Los Angeles, now down 23%. It will likely drop to 50% in the coming weeks if there isn't a trade war resolution. Massive layoffs coming to the West Coast trucking sector. And it's not just the West Coast. This story is being repeated across the country. Craig Fuller repeats this story right here. Spoke to a Michigan truck driver yesterday. He normally hauls auto parts from Michigan to Kansas. He hasn't had a load now for two weeks. He is getting worried. Industrial trucking is already in a recession. 80% of the trucking industry voted for Trump, but they will be among the first victims of the trade war.

And one of the things that Donald Trump is also doing is creating massive instability, massive volatility. If you are a CFO or someone planning at a company, how do you know what Donald Trump is going to do next, right? Yesterday, it seemed, or two days ago, it seemed like Donald Trump was going to walk back the 145% tariffs on China. It seemed like Donald Trump was going to walk back the auto tariffs against the world and against Canada. And then today, when Donald Trump was speaking about Canada, for example, he said 51st state, he wants to annex Canada.

He said that Canada would not exist if it wasn't for the United States. He made comments that it's up to China if they want the 145% tariffs removed, that he's not going to unilaterally reduce the tariffs, just going back on what he said. And then he was asked questions like, your policies like disappearing human beings to concentration camps and your attacks on the sovereignty of Canada, Europe, and elsewhere are causing nations and causing people to boycott American products and tourism. Hey, Donald, does that bother you? For example, that there's a steep drop in international tourism. Donald Trump goes, not a big deal here. Play this clip. There's been a steep drop off

in international travel to the United States. It was down 12 percent last month, down even more from Western Europe. Why do you think that there are fewer people suddenly who want to travel to the United States? Well, that could be a little net. There's a little nationalism there, I guess, perhaps. It's not a big deal. But, deal, but with the dollar being where it is, because not a big deal. Goldman Sachs is predicting that's going to be a $90 billion hit to the American economy. Doesn't this give you the vibes of COVID when Donald Trump was like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Justin Jeff bleaching to your veins. This is all you got to do is just pretend it's not going to be

that bad. And then what does he do? He attacked Fauci during COVID. And now who's this fall guy? Jerome Powell is Fauci 2.0. And just like during COVID, he attacks China. That's what he's literally repeating the same playbook over and over again. Then Donald Trump says Canada would cease to exist without American support. Play this clip. It doesn't make sense. If we needed something, that would be a different subject. So I'm working well with Canada. We're doing very well. We're working on a deal. We'll see what happens. But again, you know, why representing this country? Why are we spending $200 billion to support and subsidize another country? Because if they didn't have us and if we didn't spend that money, as Trudeau told me, they would cease to exist. He said that to me.

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And I don't want that to be an out for him. So I don't want to emphasize the fact that he may be showing symptoms of dementia. I'm not, you know, a medical professional, although I know people in my life who have dementia or had dementia. So it certainly resembles those. But I don't want to give him an out because he's a vile, despicable person who will try to use that as an out as he gets more desperate as people rise up. Watch, he's going to say, oh, I'm just, I wasn't mentally right. He'll go there down the line to try to protect himself when he's being held accountable. Just bookmark this. But here he's like, I'm suing the law firm of Perkins Coie for their egregious and unlawful

conduct. No, you're not. They're suing you for your egregious and unlawful conduct. No, you're not. They're suing you for your egregious and unconstitutional executive order. And the Trump DOJ lawyer who went to the hearing yesterday got eviscerated by the federal judge for your unconstitutional conduct. By the way, then Donald Trump yesterday was, remember how he started the day? He was wandering around the North lawn of the White House? And then the media was like, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? He's like, I'm building a 100 foot pole, a flagpole, a beautiful, big American flagpole.

That's what I'm going to be doing. So that's what he spent time doing yesterday, destroying and wrecking the American economy, talking about building a beautiful 100-foot flagpole. Oh, and by the way, doing a pump and dump to his dollar sign Trump meme coin where he made this email post about if you want to meet Donald Trump in person, the people who hold the most Trump meme coins can get to meet with him. Just show us your crypto wallet to see how much Trump meme coins you do. That caused Trump's meme coin to rise 71% right away like that before dropping again. Trump using literally

access to the White House to pump the meme coin. And by the way, our economy right now looks like one gigantic pump and dump meme coin, right? Three days ago, there was that private meeting among Scott Besant, the treasury secretary, and all the bankers where they were told that Donald Trump was going to deescalate with China and that they were going to walk back some of their tariffs. That caused the markets to rise. The rest of us didn't get that information. It was done in private so lots of people keep getting rich on the market tanking and they ain't the regular folk they're the oligarchs and the billionaires who are getting special privilege access as donald trump is freaking

manipulating uh the markets only for donald trump today to say yesterday to say something basically different and then pump and dump uh Trump meme coin, or at least that's what it looked like. Also, to see Donald Trump attack Zelensky again yesterday. Donald Trump made this vile post, and he was like, how dare President Zelensky talk to the Wall Street Journal about never giving up Crimea? Why is Zelensky doing that? And again, Trump just spent the whole day parroting Putin talking points. Meanwhile, what happened yesterday in Ukraine, Putin launched a missile after ballistic missile at Kiev, causing mass casualties while Donald Trump and his regime were in the Oval Office. Again, attacking Zelensky, making posts attacking Zelensky. It was an utterly despicable

and disgusting sight to watch indeed. Also, you had the auto, big auto manufacturing lobbying groups all united, which is pretty rare. They sent Donald Trump a letter believing Trump was going to walk back the auto tariffs. Trump indicated. Trump regime people indicated he may do that only for Trump in the press conference to say he was thinking about raising the tariffs against Canada. It's pure and utter chaos in the Trump regime. You've got Steve Bannon, one of Trump's advisors, attacking Elon Musk. You've got Elon Musk getting into fights with Scott Bessant. Steve Bannon saying Musk should be audited. You've got Musk calling Scott Bessant out, Bessant calling Musk out. And by the way, at its most basic function, isn't government supposed

to deal with protection and safety, not engaging in cruel destruction of people's lives. But yesterday, we also learned that Trump denied emergency relief to Kentucky for flooding assistance, red state. They denied disaster relief for Arkansas and other red states as well. And we previously talked about how they denied emergency relief in North Carolina and Georgia as well. It's just cruelty, cruelty, cruelty, cruelty right here. We're going to cover this every step of the way, folks. We're not going to let any of this go and make sure that you're up to date. Make sure you hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thank you so much for watching. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.midastouch.com. All 100% USA union made.