The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s 1 A.M. Meltdown as Global Crises Spiral

Episode Date: September 12, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's late-night posting spree as major geopolitical developments unfold around the world. Meiselas covers Trump's unusual posts about George Washington and AI imagery while the Iran war disrupts global energy routes, Houthi forces make major gains around the Bab el-Mandeb, Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline is shut following a drone attack, and BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi amid a rapidly changing global landscape. 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. Donald Trump was having an absolute meltdown at 1 a.m. in the morning, while the world is literally on fire, and I'm talking about the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia burning and now shut down and that carries five.

to seven million barrels of oil a day, as the Houthis were able to conquer all of Western Yemen and control the Bob El Mondeb Strait, controlling all the surrounding islands by Western Yemen. Donald Trump was posting AI images of columns in the White House. Donald Trump at 1 a.m. was posting videos of the United States invasion of Venezuela. Trump was posting, I am calling on the Smithsonian Institution to honor. the life and legacy of George Washington with a five-year exhibition. I'm calling on the Smithsonian to erect a 30-foot colossus statue of the father of our country outside the museum to replace the so-called infinity sculpture that stands there today.

That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America. Then he went on to post, I'm asking the Smithsonian install the 11-foot-foot wall. Washington statute that was featured at the recent Freedom 250 Grand Prix race in the museum's flag hall. So he wants an 11-foot-1. He wants a 30-foot statue. And again, you have gas and diesel prices surging on Friday. The consumer price index inflation surged higher than even was expected and people expected to go high core CPE increase the day before that. The producer price index inflation measure was higher than expected. And this is what Donald Trump is doing while the United States is in full retreat on the world stage. As the American people have had their health care

ripped away, people are suffering. This is what Donald Trump is doing. Oh, yeah. And of course, he's reposting his fraudulent promise that if you vote Republican, he's going to give you a $5,000 Trump dividend check. Just ignore the fact that every time he said this, he's lied before. and that every time he says anything, he lies, like the $5,000 doge dividend check or the $2,000 tariff rebates. And he's promised he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours because he's got this relationship

with Putin and Zelensky that it would just be so easy. He promised no more never-ending wars. He promised electricity prices would be down 50%. He promised gas prices would be $2 a gallon. He lies about absolutely everything. But he says a $5,000. Trump dividend check will be given to all adults. Remember, he was like, I like the adults. I like the adults. He says, this is based on the pure success that we have experience that we've brought in so much money.

We don't know what to do with it. So we need to issue a dividend. Really, is that why our debt is now over $40 trillion and you're responsible for over 30% of all of that debt? Is that why our deficit continues to expand. Federal spending is up despite doge gutting all of our critical departments and agencies within the government. And now every day, it seems like there's five different food recalls taking place as our country is sicker than ever. And again, while Donald Trump is involved in this deranged and weak behavior, you see what's going on throughout the world. As I note before, the Houthis have been able to take control of all of Western Yemen and the Bob Elmandab Strait. They've taken over the Hanish Islands. They've taken over

Param Islands. They're now moving east. The Saudi-backed PLC forces. They are in retreat, heading to Marib. The Houthis are now moving east towards Marib as well and further south. The question is, will the Houthis on Sarala move further southeast toward Aden, the remaining stronghold of the Saudi-backed government and the UAE-backed government, that kind of clothees-backed government, that kind of there as well. In any event, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, basically out to the Arabian Sea. Sure, you have the United States doing like blockade there with the aircraft carriers, but Iran has pounded the logistics in Bahrain so bad that, again, you're going to see these aircraft carriers that are there, the George H.W. Bush, and now the

George Washington aircraft carriers are also going to struggle to get supplies and food. I'm sure we're going to start hearing more and more and more from the families of Marines and sailors on those ships that they're not getting the supplies because it has to come all the way from Diego Garcia at this point. Yeah, Donald Trump, rather than posting all of these deranged memes, you may have wanted to focus on, I don't know, a little bit, something called logistics when you got involved in a catastrophic war that you shouldn't have been involved in at all. And then you have the Houthis now essentially controlling the Red Sea with their firm control

of the Bob Elmondab Strait. Notably, the Bob Elmondeb Strait is closer in distance, both sides of that straight than the Strait of Hormuz. And so when the Houthis are right there, you know, and they could set up right to buy Dubob, right by Mocha, right by the paramilins, these tankers, if they're going to go by, have to go right past the coast where the Houthis can set up and they don't even need that sophisticated radar in order to be able to strike. these ships. So you have the Houthis controlling the Red Sea. You have Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz. And then Saudi Arabia shut down its east-west pipeline after they claimed that the Iraqi resistance was able to destroy the east-west pipeline. We're seeing the fires

spread throughout the east-west pipeline. Saudi Arabia had to shut it down. The Iraqi resistance is part of the access of resistance, which is allied with Iran. and the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia transports five to seven million barrels of oil today. So just think about this. Let's just assume optimistically in the Strait of Hormuz, you now have 10 tankers a day. Let's be optimistic.

And let's say six to seven million barrels get out a day. I think it's less than that. But six to seven million barrels. That's like 30% of what existed before the catastrophic war. Okay. Now you have the East West Pipeline. line being shut down. And now you have the Houthis controlling the Red Sea. And so if they want to shut down transport there, not just of Saudi tankers in general, they'll be able to do that also.

And so I know we're, right, you know, we're talking about $6 a gallon of diesel. We're talking about we're approaching $5 a gallon for gas. That may be when we look ahead about what's happening, right, same way Donald Trump with COVID said, like a miracle, it's all going to weigh, things are going to be amazing, it's going to get better. Like, just think about we're on that Trump fraud, two-week lie trajectory like we've seen before. It's going to go away, like a miracle. If this keeps heading in the direction, we can be seeing $8 a gallon, $9 a gallon, gas shortages, gas lines. That's where Donald Trump is bringing us to right now. And I'm trying to call it out and we're giving you the step by step of what's happening here, and I'm not trying to be an alarmist. I'm just trying to be

a realist with you of what's happening while this lunatic is out there at 1 a.m. making these deranged posts. And take a look at what else is happening in the international sphere as well. You have the big bricks meeting taking place in New Delhi, India, right? The BRICS nations are meeting. Far from being alienated or isolated. Iran has been greeted as a major member of BRICS right now, and they have a very prominent role at this BRICS summit in New Delhi, India. You can see the president of Iran, President Poschkian, getting a hero's greeting when he arrived in New Delhi. You see him prominently featured here in the so-called family photo, standing next to Putin and Modi and Ramaphosa and some of the other BRICS leaders. Xi Jinping's expected to be there soon.

Now, one of the main topics is moving away from the dollar, moving away from the petra dollar, not being reliant on the U.S. financial system. This, as Trump has demonstrated that the U.S. is unreliable, unpredictable, chaotic, deranged like Donald Trump, and weak like Donald Trump. So the world is seeing it. Now, Bricks is asserting itself like never before. You know, these Bricks meetings, I mean, were not taken before. or as being in the same league as like a NATO meeting or a G7 meeting or a G20 meeting by any stretch of the imagination.

The BRICS nations may try to deny that before, but I think they would recognize that. But right now you're seeing the rise, the ascendancy of BRICS, and they're talking about changing currency. You've got Putin's envoy, Kareel Dmitria, remember who Wittkov said, Kareil, we are going to always talk about this day

of this meeting when I met Putin again, when I'm here with Putin, when we retire. Carrille, it's Carill Dimitria, who's met with Whitkoff and Kushner in Miami, who helped draft the plan of surrender for Ukraine that was given to Whitkoff and Kushner. Demetriyav said, today, this is what he said

yesterday at Bricks. We will announce an agreement on Bricks pay. In fact, a payment system for BRICS countries. Iran's president, Peseseschian, talking about how the new development bank must become the principal engine for financing infrastructure and energy in member countries. Iran's foreign minister Araghi talks about how it's important to develop closer economic

bonds and ties and move away from the dollar in a U.S. sanctions regime. So far from being isolated, Iran has actually a more integrated role on the world stage. I'm going to do another video on this today with Midas Touch chief economist Justin Wolfers that I want you to watch. And I'll do one with him tomorrow as well. But remember, Treasury Secretary Besson's like, we're going to alienate, we're going to isolate economic outcast. That was one of things he called D-Day. Economic D-Day, economic outcast.

Iran is shunned. No, they're not. They're not shunned. Objectively, you said that you were going to do all these sanctions on China and this country and that country. And all you did was sanction one branch of like an Egyptian bank. and then you re-sanctioned Iranian Airlines after you wrote a deranged op-ed besant in the Financial Times. Then two weeks later said the Financial Times is anti-American, even though you chose that as the place to write your op-ed announcing your economic D-Day. But then you didn't do the economic D-Day.

And then you ran away from China. You ran away from it. You ran away from all these countries that you were threatening. And they all viewed you as absolutely weak. And Iran and all these countries at Bricks are talking about doing more business with Iran. That's what's happening right now. And again, while all of this is going on, Donald Trump called into one of his deranged right-wing radio shows and he started to attack Canada. Canada needs to be a state.

If they were a state, I'd have no problem. Donald Trump uses the same language towards Canada that Putin uses towards Ukraine. Okay. The way Donald Trump talks about Canada is the language of. of war. It's not even just trade war. It's war war. And I know that Donald Trump's a deranged lunatic. He's a sexual predator. He's a deviant. He's a felon. He's a horrible scumbag. He's a piece of trash. So stiff. And he's demented. And he's psychot. All true. But nonetheless, he's in the White House. He may be having a meltdown, but he's having a meltdown in the

freaking Oval Office and in the White House. And when he uses the language of war, he uses language of invading Canada. That's why Canada goes elbow up. That's why you heard the speech like you did for former Prime Minister Kretion, right? You've heard this because Trump's using war language right now. Here's what Trump said yesterday during his belt. And then he calls into a radio station, play this clip. Hold up there. I know you could have. I know. So then with all this good stuff going on, what the hell got up Canada's butt? What's the matter with these people? Well, look, Canada's ripped us off for many years. They're the hardest people to do business with.

They think they're entitled. They should be a state. If they were a state, we'd have no problem. I'd let their automobile companies stay there. But we're taking their automobile companies, a lot of the companies, because they put tariffs on them. When you put tariffs, now they played the tariff game. He then says that New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is unattractive inside and out,

that she's a sick woman. No, first off, the way he speaks about women is just so deranged. He's a sick, vile predator, sexual predator scumbag. Don't normalize him. Call him out for what he is. Here, play this clip. The New York Times is saying maggot, maggots Hagerman. She's a sick woman.

She's a sick. She's unattractive both inside and out. And I say it, I couldn't care less. She's an unattractive person. But, you know, well, they- And then he goes on to say, The reason that he's tariffing Canadian bombardier jets is because one of his rich friends told them to do it because his rich friend likes Gulf Streams and is getting screwed over. He says by Bombardier.

So that's why he tariff Bombardier. Here play this clip. Let you sell a Gulf Stream jet. Golf Stream makes their best private jet. They wouldn't let a Gulf Stream jet be sold because they have Bombardier. That's a competitor to the Gulf Stream. Good plane. But they wouldn't let Gulf Stream sell in Texas.

for like nine years. And I heard about it by accident. I said, what do you mean? Because a friend of mine couldn't buy a Gulfstream in Canada because of some rule that they had. And I said, well, wait a minute. We let them buy Bombardier. So I immediately put a huge tariff. And then finally, I showed you this clip yesterday, but I want to end with it because it's so deranged. Then you have Pete Hegsef, our scumbag war criminal secretary of defense who says that from the scripture, He goes, the scripture says, the world will always have war and rumors of war. And when it matters, most people need to fight wars and say, send me. I don't know what the hell scripture you're talking about, but this is some really demented

stuff. And with Hegsseth behaving that way and Trump behaving that way, no wonder the world is done with the United States. And also, no wonder you're seeing all of these developments. rapidly now happen in the Middle East because the U.S. lost the catastrophic war against Iran that we shouldn't have been involved in at all. But the U.S. is weak. The U.S. is so weak and pathetic. And so there will be this massive shift taking place of power structures that's rapidly happening that we need to pay attention to. Here's what Hegson says. Here, play this clip.

We will finish this fight. But we also know, as the scripture says, the world will always have war and rumors of war. And so the fight goes on. And so we raise up a new generation of strong, brave warriors who will say, when it matters most, send me. And then Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson says, what happened in Yemen is a sign that the patience of the Yemeni people has run out. It cannot be viewed unilaterally. And the unjust blockade of several years must not be ignored. The United States has been the biggest interfering party and the cause of disruption in any dialogue and peaceful resolution process.

The United States by accusing Iran is seeking to destabilize the situation and create chaos among Islamic countries. And then the other message from Iran, countries in the region must be held accountable for the damage and harms they have inflicted upon. We will not forget the past, and we have seriously raised our demands in every meeting, and we will continue to do so, raising their demands, far from feeling like they're going to collapse or that they're on the ropes. They know they won. objectively, they won, and they are upping the ante. I'm going to speak to Professor Morandi about that also, about what's really going on right now in Iran. But that's what you have at 1am, unstable, Trump.

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