The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s Entire Life Gets Ruined as No One Is Afraid

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s scare tactics backfiring as people here in the United States and abroad see him for the pathetic and weak wannabe dictator that he is. 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

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. There you have peaceful protests in Los Angeles, not what the media is showing you, but of course Donald Trump federalizing the National Guard, sending ICE in, provoking the situation and making it worse. And then you're seeing, and have to see LAPD on horseback mounting the sidewalk, pushing the press back. You see images like this here, play this clip. And then you're hearing these horrible stories about ICE taking their vehicles and just crashing into innocent people, trying to racially profile people and claim that they're not citizens. I mean, literally a mother and what, like her three-year-old son. Take a look at what happened to this lady and her little kid.

Look at her kid right there. She describes what went down. Play this clip. And she tried coming out, we came out, and right as, they didn't even fucking try like pulling it over. They literally crashed up the car. Crashed the front, they crashed the back.

They kept ramming this side, where you guys can see my kid's car seat on this side, and they kept ramming onto that side. And then they're like, oh, you can leave now. What was Donald Trump doing yesterday? What was Donald Trump focused on when we also learned that the Middle East was on the verge of a massive war with Israel apparently being poised to strike Iran, Iran then being poised to strike American military bases in the Middle East.

Donald Trump, as part of his bizarre arrangement with Melania, went to Les Mis. Just look at how Donald Trump was holding Melania's hand, or I should say thumb, as we said on the Midas Touch account. Can you feel the love? Our editor-in-chief Ron Filipk, goes, it's Bonnie and Clyde without the passion, fashion sense, physical courage, or the decency to rob people face to face. Zoom in on the hand right there. They got booed, by the way, when they went to the Kennedy Center to watch Les Mis. Take a look at them walking out right there. When they were on the red carpet, Donald Trump was asked about the possibility

of Israel striking Iran and then Iran striking United States military bases in the Middle East. Iran activated its National Guard. It made all these posts. We're ready for war. We're ready to go. And by the way, everybody knows that Donald Trump's a chicken. Trump always chickens.

And everyone knows that Trump's a coward. So Trump's cowardice is creating a void. And chaos is being filled basically by these new power structures that are being created. Here's how Donald Trump responded, to play this video, when asked about the dangers posed by Iran. And he's like, well, I guess it's a dangerous place.

Watch how pathetic this is Trump on the red carpet while there's a military crisis taking place. Yes, a question from Newsmax. Could you provide an update on Iran? We're hearing reports that US personnel are being moved out of the region within striking distance. Well, they are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place and we'll see what happens. But they are been, we've given notice to move out and we'll see what happens.

Is there anything that could be done to dial the temperature down in the region? They can't have a nuclear weapon. Very simply. They can't have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to allow that. And then next, Donald Trump is asked, do you identify more with Jean Valjean or Javar from Les Mis? And then Donald Trump pretends that he's seen Les Mis. Clearly, Donald Trump doesn't know the plot of Les Mis. But he goes, that's a tough one. I don't know which character I am here play this clip. Question on the musical, have you seen the musical before and do you identify more with

Jean Valjean or Javert? That's a tough one, that last part of that question. That's tough I think. You better answer that one honey, I don't know. I've seen it, we've seen it a number of times, It's fantastic. I thought it was just about our first choice. That's what we got. And we have others coming. Other great ones are coming. Then Donald Trump says that if it wasn't for me, LA would be burned down by now. Play this clip. People are wealthy. The country is getting back to strength again. That's what I care about. And we're going to have a safe country.

We're not going to have what would have happened in Los Angeles. Remember, if I wasn't there, if I didn't act quickly on that Los Angeles would be burning to the ground right now. Okay, well let's take a listen to what the LAPD chief has to say because he disputes Trump's claim and he goes, we definitely did not need the National Guard at all.

We never even came close to getting to the point where we had to call in the National Guard, play this clip. No, we were not in a position to request the National Guard. We have a protocol that we work up through. First, we bring in all internal resources to bear on the issue, whatever it is. Then we mobilize the department or part of the department to be able to get everybody out there dealing with the issue. If we don't have the capacity at that point to be able to

do that then through the sheriff we request mutual aid and we get our law enforcement partners from police departments and sheriff's department throughout the Southern California region to assist us in doing what it is we need to do. We're at that level now and we're nowhere near a level where we would be reaching out to the governor for national guard at this stage. And my hope is that things are going in the right direction now and that we wouldn't have had to have done that or we won't either. That's notable to hear you say that you're actually nowhere near that stage.

And by the way, it should also be noted that LAPD sent out a press release a few days back, Thursday, Friday, saying these protests were peaceful, thanking the organizers. And that's when Donald Trump escalated things. He's always been looking for an excuse to try to take away blue states rights. He's jealous of Gavin Newsom. And by the way, isn't California Governor Gavin Newsom just completely outmaneuvering Trump? So Trump federalizes the National Guard, sends in the Marines. We have more military in California now than we do in Iraq and Syria. And they're just kind of sitting there inside buildings, by the way, which is actually harmful to our overall national security. And by federalizing the National Guard There's wildfires right now taking place in San Bernardino where the National Guard actually needs to be utilized But they're being pulled away from that only like a hundred or so are actually operationalized and they're standing like just security guards in front of a federal building not even know what the hell they're doing and

Here the LAPD chief says yeah, we really don't know what they're doing. We don't know why. This is the LAPD chief. That's why I want to play this to you. I want to bring you the receipts so you don't just take my word for it. The LAPD chief is like, yeah, we don't really know what the hell their role is. Like, I don't know what the National Guard and Marines are doing. Play this clip. Of the National Guard and of the Marines. I mean, if someone's watching, I think they would think if anyone should know, it should be you. Why do you think you don't know what they are doing and what they are supposed to do?

Well, this is, yeah, this is, yeah, this is unprecedented. I feel comfortable in knowing what their stated purpose is, their mission, as I said, to protect federal employees and facilities. But as far as the scope of their responsibilities or their abilities relative to arrest or dealing in a municipal environment, that's not something that they do every day, certainly. What their training is, we're not sure of that, either on the Army or the Marines,

as it relates to crowd management, crowd control in an urban environment. So a lot of questions that we'll still be asking, but you know, our role is very clear to us is to keep the peace and to allow people who are protesting peacefully to do so. Is there a clear line of communication between the LAPD and the Pentagon about this? Not with the Pentagon, but with the, there's a general who's been assigned here, General Sherman. We have had our folks in conversations that he's been involved in, in calls. I still want to be able to clarify things further.

So as I mentioned, Iran's basically saying we're ready for war, we're ready in response to the news that Israel was about to strike. Sources familiar with US assessments and intelligence said that there was some evidence that Iranian backed paramilitary groups in Iraq who were recently provided ballistic missiles and additional precision munitions by Iran, as well as other militia groups in the region were preparing to attack US bases and interest in the Middle East, according to Al Arabia. Abu Ala Al-Wallali, the commander of the Qatib Sayyid al-Shuhada, an Iranian-backed paramilitary group operating in Iraq, released

the statement earlier today vowing to attack the US assets. But you have, don't worry folks, don't worry, because you have Kristine Ohm, the self-acclaimed, self-proclessed, professed rather, dog killer and cosplayer dressing up in her different outfits. I don't know, is she gonna be dressed up as cowgirl, Kristine Ohm? Is she gonna be dressed up as a military girl

or whatever, military woman? I mean, Governor Newsom just mocks her right here and basically goes, their entire world is driven by fiction. So is it any surprise to you that the United States image has declined in many nations amid zero to low confidence in Donald Trump Pew research just came out with the poll yesterday Showing how countries feel about Trump low confidence in Trump in most countries surveyed in terms of no confidence for example 77% of Canada has no confidence

62% of UK no confidence 63% in Greece, 60% in Poland, 68% in Italy has no confidence, 77% in Netherlands, 78% in France, 80% of people in Spain have no confidence in Trump, Germany 81% no confidence, 85% of people in Sweden have no confidence, 61% in Japan, 67% in South Korea, 77% in Australia, 91% of people in Mexico have zero confidence in Donald Trump. Now we also learned yesterday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Donald Trump will likely extend the pause on his tariffs past the July 90-day deadline. Remember Donald Trump said 90 deals in 90 days. He's done zero deals in 90 days.

The UK thing he did was not a deal. It literally says on the memorandum of understanding this is not a binding deal and the tariffs, the levies are still in place. There hasn't been any change. And it was a memorandum of understanding saying this is not a binding deal. What happened with China was not a deal. It was a consensus where the United States brought its tariffs down from 145% to 30%. China brought its tariffs down from 125% to 10%, then the United States brought

it back up to 55%. So right now, the United States is currently taxing its own people 55% from goods coming in from China, while China is taxing its own people only 10%. And then the US desperately sent its trade representative, Jameson Greer, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, and its Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to London and then before that to Switzerland because China was cutting off the United States' rare earth minerals. But here's Besant now saying that Trump will likely extend the pause in his tariffs past the July 90 deadline.

Let's play this clip. He gave an answer that was frankly all over the place and difficult to understand. We're less than a month away from Liberation Day part two. Very few of the trade deals have been announced yet. I think most people in Congress and around the world would like to know what's going on. Should America be preparing for Liberation Day 2.0? Should we plan, what do we plan for January, July 9th and July 2nd? I would say, as I have repeatedly said, that there are 18 important trading partners.

We are working toward deals on those. And it is highly likely that those countries that are negotiating or trading blocks, as in the case of the EU who are negotiating in good faith, we will roll the date forward to continue the good faith negotiations. If someone is not negotiating, then we will not. So as Justin Wolfer says, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson just announced the new deal making

plan 90 deals in 90 days just became 18 deals and as long as he started talking within 90 days he'll grant as many extensions as he wants on each of these 18 deals. So that kind of feels like a non-deadline that he can't fail to meet. These are concepts of deals and concepts of plans. Look, even the Wall Street Journal headline says, Trump has no Chinese trade strategy. Washington and Beijing stage a tactical retreat that shows China's leverage. And as further evidence of China's leverage, China imposed a six-month expiration on the consensus, not even a deal, whereby China reserves the right in six months to stop sending its rare earth minerals to the United States, showing actually who holds the cards and who capitulated.

It's utterly embarrassing. Let me read this to you as well. So for all of the MAGA people out there who try to justify their cruelty on the basis of religion, let me just read from you this portion of Leviticus if I can. And I don't know whether you're religious or not religious. I'm just reading this because also MAGA always wants to quote scripture. So all right MAGA, let me just read this to you Maga. You might want to read this. When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native born.

Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Whether you're religious or you're not religious, just treat people with respect, treat people with dignity. Don't bully people, don't punch down, stop the cruelty. And we as humans need to stop gamifying politics so that we somehow justify this cruelty. We should never justify this cruelty. And we in the pro-democracy community should never equivocate in our support of basic humanity. We should never hedge. We should never worry that we're on the wrong side

of the issue. We should never hesitate. It pains me when I see LGBTQ people, when I see trans people, when I see minorities and marginalized communities get bullied, when I hear MAGA people attack DEI, attack diversity as though it's a weakness. Diversity is a strength. America is a melting pot. That's what makes America strong and we need to always stand for our fellow human beings. We should want to live peacefully. We should want to embrace humanity. We should want to help people up, not push people down. We should not be so greedy where you have these billionaires who want five, ten private jets,

twenty private jets where they're literally stealing the money in a disastrous budget bill from the people who need it the most. I mean, how are people who are making less than $50,000 giving $1,000 to people who make more than $4.2 million so that the people who make more than 4.2 million dollars so that the people who make more than 4.2 million dollars can save an extra $424,000 in their taxes. Why do they need the extra $424,000? The people who are making $4.2 million dollars will be fine without that. The people who are making under $50,000 will not be fine without that $1,000. Living paycheck to paycheck is a form of psychological torture.

We need to, whether you're just Democrats or just human beings, make sure we have everybody in the United States able to earn wages with dignity. We need to make sure that everybody can afford to buy a home. Housing affordability should be one of the most important issues that we focus on and not have people fear that they're not gonna be able to pay their rent or they're going to miss a mortgage payment. We should have healthcare for all.

We should loudly and proudly be fine with saying, tax the rich. Nothing that I said there should be controversial at all. And I'm sorry for preaching at the end of this video, but there's no reason that you should equivocate from any of those things that I just said. That's what being a good human being is all about. That's what I think. That's my opinion. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. Thank you so much for watching. Love this video? Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram at MidasTouch and help us blow past 1 million followers.