The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump's Day Gets Even Worse….

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on a rapidly escalating series of developments confronting Donald Trump, including reports of an MQ-1 being destroyed, another tanker apparently struck by a mine in the Strait of Hormuz, additional damage to substations along the East-West pipeline, and JD Vance facing boos during an appearance in Kansas. Meiselas breaks down the latest developments and what they mean as the crisis continues to intensify. Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://fatty15.com/meidas and using code: MEIDAS at checkout. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube 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 Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show 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 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. This is a breaking news alert. Trump's day just got even worse. Moments ago, the IRGC announced that yet another supertanker in the Strait of Hormuz exploded after hitting a mine in the Strait of Hormuz. The supertanker was called the Algea, and it entered into that restricted area south of the Strait of Hormuz, despite prior warnings. according to the statement just issued by the IRGC, the tanker struck a naval mine and exploded with crews unable to contain the fire as flames are engulfing the vessel. The vessel is now completely destroyed. The IRGC reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and under its control and that the mines have not been swept, despite the Trump regime's lies to the converse.

Also, we are now learning that the IRGC was also able to shoot down an American MQ1 drone over the sky of the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, this isn't Groundhogs Day, yet another MQ1 was destroyed, and Iran has been able to destroy billions of dollars' worth of these MQ1s and MQ9s and other drones. And this follows last week where multiple unmanned submers. of drones and unmanned submarine-like drones and also MQ1s, the air drones were able to be struck down by Iran. This is the third MQ1 drone that was shot down by Iran in the past week alone. And more photos are now coming out of Saudi Arabia, the satellite footage over here. We're seeing yet another Saudi East-West pipeline pumping station that was damaged in the recent

attacks. This is a different photo from what I previously showed you. This is a different area. So the attack on the East West pipeline was not merely just kind of one pumping station. Multiple pumping stations have been destroyed. There's really no way the East West pipeline is going to be able to move crude again for a number of weeks. And that usually moves about five to seven million barrels of oil every single day from the east to the west right there. Now, Iran's President Poschkian just gave a speech where he looked at Donald Trump in the cameras and says, fight like a man, you coward. This is coming from Iran's president, Peschkian, who just wrapped up a very successful trip

to the Bricks block where he and other Bricks nation leaders talked about more cooperation with each other. saw him photographed with President Xi Jinping of China, with Prime Minister Modi of India. He also met with the leaders of the UAE of Abu Dhabi, of course, also meeting with Putin. President Poseshkin of Iran challenged Donald Trump. If you think that you want to take us on, then bring your military in. Let's go and fight. If you want war, fight man to man.

stop shooting civilian cargo tankers, stop bombing schools and hospitals and infrastructure, stop having CENTCOM brag about blocking 100 civilian cargo ships when this provides food and medicine and other supplies to the people of Iran. And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, we're learning about the U.S. jet fuel price search. Again, we've been talking about diesel, of course, surge. We've been talking about the price of gas surging. You know that by now. Let's not forget about jet fuel. And so when the crude is taken, it goes into these refineries. And the refineries then are producing, right? The gas and the diesel and the jet fuel and all of these things. Well, U.S. jet fuel has now surged to $4.43 a gallon, up 96% since the war began. And 61% in the last. 10 weeks, with a 10% rise in the past week alone. As a direct result, consumer U.S. airline fares

jumped 23% year-over-year in August, with most of the recent crude oil rally not even yet in the data. And by now, you know it's only going to go up even more with the Houthis controlling the Red Sea, Iran continuing to control the Strait of Hormuz, the East-West pipeline being shut down. And again, we talked earlier today as well about the Joliet facility, the refinery, that Exxon Refinery in Illinois. That was shut down as well. It had some technical power outage. We saw the black smoke flaring there.

Awfully interesting timing that a refinery in Illinois just all of a sudden started flaring all this black smoke and shut down with all of this taking place. Hmm. I wonder what could have happened there. Well, with the Trump regime, they'll just. continue to cover up everything. And meanwhile, with all of the news that I just reported on there, we learned that the Netanyahu regime just bombed a Doctors Without Border Bus today in Gaza, a bus operated by the Doctors

Without Borders, carrying 10 humanitarian workers was damaged in Gaza Strip when an Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle that was two meters away. That's what we're learning it over there. as the day gets worse. J.D. Vance, vice president, was in Kansas. He was supporting Roger Marshall. Roger Marshall's the current MAGA Republican senator there. He used to be an OBGYN, an obstetrician gyne gynecologist.

And the New York Times recently did an expose, how he filed over 700 lawsuits against his patients. He did wage garnishments. He destroyed people's credit if they owed $100 or, thousand bucks, but even 100 bucks, 150 bucks for operations, he would sue all of his patients. And he's, of course, been a Trump bootlicker. He loves the tariffs against the world that have harmed the people of Kansas. I showed you over the weekend the Kansas State Fair debate that he had with Adam Hamilton,

who's a pastor, and somebody who I thought gave an incredible debate performance. Let me show you over here as J.D. Vance got booed during this speech that he gave in Kansas. And J.D. Vance's speech was basically saying, you know, Adam Hamilton, he may be a pastor, but he's not really, really, he's not a real Christian. The real Christians are the ones who rip away your health care and sue the patients. That's what Jesus would have won. Again, J.D. Vance is just such an utter fraud. Here, play this clip. Oh, I see. I see we have a guy who was protesting. Sir, you know, the last time, the last time I gave a speech and we had a guy who was interrupting, he had the common courtesy to bring a Mexican flag so we knew where he stood.

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slash Midas and using code Midas at checkout. Once again, that's 15% off their 90-day subscription starter kit by going to fatty15.com slash Midas and using code Midas at checkout. And notice J.D. Vance is like, you know, there was that other protester during the Republican convention, at least he had the Mexican flag. Remember I reported that that was all a setup and that that wasn't even a real protester at the Republican midterm convention. Lots of people who were there were saying like the guy was clearly, you know, appeared to be an actor or someone who was in on what was going on there. Then you had J.D. Vance implying that the protester

that was at this Kansas event is gay. He was actually represent. representative of the organization and that's why he was unhappy. He's saying that Adam Hamilton's church supported a pride march or supported a group believing that all humans are created equal, whether you're gay, straight, trans, whatever. And that J.D. Vance is saying, nope, Jesus would not like trans people. Jesus doesn't like gay people. By the way, J.D. Vance thought he was gay in high school. Go read J.D. Vance's, don't read his book, but he believed he was gay and then his mom his mama his mama papa his mama papa his mama papa mama mama papa um did like gay conversion therapy or told him he's not gay and he's

not gay i'm not gay then he was anti trump and he's like i'm not not anti trump mama papa here play this clip for what adam hamilton did he made sure that his church was a key financial sponsor of something called pride fest in kansas city he took He too, that was the, our little protester friend. He was actually a representative of that organization. That's why it was unhappy. He took the donations from his. Then J.D. Vans said, you know, when you start putting American homes into the hands of

American citizens and you take out the immigrants, that's why we're seeing home prices drop. J.D., I'm not sure what world you're living in right now. Home prices are not dropping right now, okay? And mortgage rates are over 7%. The 10-year treasury yield is over 5%. the third year is approaching 6%. People can't afford homes, JD. Here, play this clip. Millions of people who should never been here to begin with, as they've exited our country, we've started to see finally some pressures on pricing come down in the United States of America.

Remember, under Joe Biden, the cost of a median priced home more than doubled. In four years, the price of a home doubled under Joe Biden. But now for the first time in five years, rents are falling, especially by the way in the cities and the towns where you see the biggest drop in illegal immigration. The reason is simple. When you start putting American homes into the hands of American citizens rather than illegal immigrants, you see that price start to come down and that's what we've got to keep doing. And then J.D. Vance has his own take on Christianity. He's like, Adam Hamilton, not a real Christian, not a real Christian. That's radical left-wing, If you want to be a real Christian, you've got to rip away people's health care.

You got to put immigrants in little dog cages. Remember the reporting I did earlier today that the independent federal watchdog, the inspector general within the Department of Homeland Security, the government entity, said that the Department of Homeland Security was putting immigrants in little dog cages so that they can reflect on their behavior issues. I mean, how sick is that? That's how, according to J.D. Vance, Real Christians put human beings into little dog cages.

Rip away their health care and sue them. I'm J.D. Vans. You're playing this clip. So let's refute Democrat pastor Adam Hamilton. Thinks it's a sin to be white and a sin to raise cattle and eat meat. But he's okay with supporting groups that spit on God-fearing Americans and mock everything that we hold dear. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not Christianity. That is left-wing radicalism dressed in.

the skin suit of our religion. Let's send it packing in November. So utterly ridiculous. Meanwhile, Ansarala, the Houthis continue to advance east. They're encircling Taiz city, and you see them moving east right now, Saudi Arabia on the ropes. They're begging the Netanyahu regime for help. So you have the commander of Sencom Brad Cooper, you have Netanyahu's military officials meeting with MBS in Saudi Arabia to try to try to figure out a plan to slaughter the Houthis. That's what's going on now. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $7 million. Thanks, everybody. Before you go, our book, WTF America, is available for pre-order now. It's the story of

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