The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump's Health Sparks New Questions as Iran Turns Up Pressure

Episode Date: August 1, 2026

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And Iran is continuing to utilize its psychological profile on this cognitively deteriorating thing in the Oval Office in order to get the upper hand. Let me show you some concrete examples where Iran has been implementing psychological tactics and creating a feedback loop in order to test these things out on Donald Trump to escalate the torment, to escalate the fear and the terror. So Iran enlisted a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, other PhDs to study Donald Trump's demented pathology. Remember, drop site reported on this back in mid-June right around the time where Donald Trump's, said he was doing the memorandum of understanding, which didn't last very long, and he would on and off again say, we're going to escalate and then we're going to make a deal, which is

basically what he continues to do right now. Iran diagnosed Donald Trump with severe mental illness. I don't think they actually needed a massive team of psychiatrists to diagnose him with that, although our media here and people here in the United States are afraid to say that. I also don't want that to be a kind of crutch for Donald Trump to avoid liability, avoid the Hague. But look, I think in my opinion, it seems pretty obvious that he has severe malignant narcissism. And with his rapidly deteriorating cognitive and physical condition, in my opinion, I think there is real mental issues there that are deeply, deeply, severe. So what Iran did, though, which was advanced, is they wanted to test out how you can

basically torment him in this psychological state. And so this kind of on again, off again, you know, seesaw of, I'm going to blow the F&S out of them. Oh, they're very nice and I want to make a deal. Iran knows that that's Donald Trump's kind of demented personality, but they're doing things to kind of play on that. And when Donald Trump kind of ramps it up with the rhetoric, Iran will do certain things. So like the other day, people are like, Iran did a surprise attack in Jordan and no one saw it coming. Well, there's a war going on. I mean, I know Donald Trump likes to pretend that there are like rules to this, where Donald Trump strikes first, then Iran responds, then Donald Trump strikes. And so here, Iran responded, but then Iran hit Jordan as Donald Trump

was, you know, out there saying, I'm going to blow up their bridges. Ron's like, okay, let me take out some more, some more U.S. equipment in the Moffick-S. base in Jordan. I'm going to send a message that we are not afraid of you. I get to that also. also in a moment. But one of the things that Iran recently did is Iran has a great team of hackers. They're called Handala. And they were actually some of the original hackers who got into Ahud Barak's emails. And actually, they released the original batch of Epstein files. Did you know that? Hamdala, Iran's hackers, they went right into Ahuduq's emails, saw all of these connections with Epstein. and were really one of the first to, this was like a year and a half ago, we were reporting on this drop site reported,

and other people reported on it as well. But they dumped out all these Epstein files before the actual Epstein files were released, like a year in advance. That's what Handala did. So what Hadala obviously did in most, you know, you don't need experts to tell you this is they likely hacked into Minnesota's water system. Why Minnesota? because they know that Donald Trump hates Minnesota. So what Iran wanted to test out is we're going to hack into Minnesota, and maybe we'll focus on other blue states and blue cities that Donald Trump hates,

and we'll start building wedges between Donald Trump and the city, and within the intelligence agencies themselves. We don't even have to really, like, disable the water systems per se, but we'll hack into them, we'll leave some breadcrumbs to show it was Handala, to show it was Iran, and then we'll watch Donald Trump attack the state or attack the Blue City. It's precisely what happened, right? The New York Times article, USC's Iran as likely behind a cyber attack on Minnesota water systems. Investigators caution that the investigation is preliminary, but according to U.S. and state officials, they believe it was Iran. Local officials reported that the well and treatment plant in at least one city was temporarily offline on Monday.

But all indications were that this was Iranian hackers who were behind this. Now, remember what we were just talking about. And Caroline Bueno PhD, she points this out. One of the things that Iran did in targeting Minnesota was to show that Donald Trump would attack Minnesota. and not blame Iran for the hack. And so at Camp David, right as Donald Trump was like, we're going to blow the F&S out of Iran and we're going to escalate, right? He leaked to CBS that U.S. is going to escalate.

He leaked to the Wall Street Journal. U.S. is going to escalate. Well, he was asked about the reporting that Iran hacked into Minnesota's water system, and it's a big deal. And Donald Trump's response was, nah, it's Minnesota. I blame it on Minnesota. they're so grossly incompetent. So I want you to think about this.

Iran's psychiatrist, psychologist, PhDs, they came together. They sculpted up, this, I'm giving you my opinion, but all the data points. Point to this. Go after Minnesota, watch Donald Trump attack Minnesota, and so you get a compounding impact for a relatively minor hack, still a serious hack, but get Trump to attack the Blue City. and create this division and build these wedges within the United States. Watch Donald Trump's response when he was asked about Minnesota. Let's play it.

Yeah, I just want to mention that we heard in Minnesota, there was a cyber attack, and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. There was a cyber attack of 30 water plants, and I would blame it on Minnesota and the government, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, oh, it was Iran. Iran should be so lucky.

Iran's got bigger problems than wanted to go to government. And so Iran is aware, like we're aware here, right? So we're aware here. Iran's aware that the U.S. Thad interceptors and Patriot Interceptors, stockpiles, have been depleted. I mean, we are at a kind of a very, we are crisis mode when it comes to these interceptors. And so one of the things that Iran will do is, first, I believe they're sending decoy ballistics as well in order to draw out these thads and to draw out the PAC 3, the Patriot Interceptors. Sometimes I think they send decoy drones as well.

We don't even need to have like the actual, you know, bombs on them. Just send them over and draw out each thad $12.5 million. $12.5 million. Each pack three, $4.5 million. So even if, like, the U.S. brags, we struck down an Iranian Shaheed,

okay, with $50 million. Okay. Think about what we could have used $50 million with here. And so one of the things that Iran does, right? Almost like a, like a mosquito, right?

That just, you know, but a mosquito. with malaria and you know it's a deadly mosquito. You know, look, the U.S. military is big. We, you know, even, I mean, Trump is incompetent, grossly incompetent. You can't deny the U.S. military is big. So think about these Iranian ballistics and Shahid's as like mosquitoes with malaria. Pol, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, pull, poke, draw out the thads, draw out the

Patriot, the interceptors. And you just do that and you spread them all out. And then you actually, you know, Iran has these missiles that are able to avoid him and you're able to actually hit these bases. And Iran, let's be clear, Iran has hit a lot of these bases very, very, very freaking hard. But they do it also to kind of torment Trump. It's like, you know, and he's out there, you know, like swatting all around. And they're getting in his freaking head about what do I do?

What do I do? Even state regime media Fox is reporting. Look, the Pentagon is confronting a growing reality after months of, fighting in Iran. America stockpiles of defense interceptors are shrinking so much we're in crisis mode. Military planners are weighing, can we even, is it even possible to escalate for more than a day or two more at this point based on how grossly incompetent this war has been mishandled? Iran strategy. This is what state regime media says. I agree with them. Target U.S. bases force them to deplete its advanced missile defense interceptors

and then leave them more vulnerable for other attacks. Treata Parsi explains the following. As news came that Trump was striking Iran in retaliation for the Iranian surprise strikes in Jordan this past week, Zedio published my piece explaining the likely logic behind Iran's attack why Iran expected Trump to retaliate and they're not deterred.

They're not afraid of Donald Trump. As I call Donald Trump now, reflecting pool boy, they're not afraid of reflecting pool boy who's going to go, oh, it's the vandals, oh, it's the this, that. You know, they're not afraid of that. In fact, they want to draw out the crazy. The more they can draw out the crazy and get Donald Trump to break, their team of psychiatrists are like fist bump, yeah. That's what we want to do.

He blamed Minnesota, yeah, right? And then they can get him to be like, I'm going to blow the F and S out of you. I mean, just think, you know, just think about like an argument with someone that you may be having, right? And you're like, you see, be like, come on, come on. And then finally, like, you know,

have you ever been an argument with someone? And then they break and they're like, just shut the F up. Just shut the F up, right? That's what Iran, they're doing a version of that. And so Iran knows that he was going to react like that, but they want him just to be frazzled. This episode is sponsored by Irish.

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so you can feel confident and refreshed. And they've combined this with the death threats on him. All over Iran. and he knows this. They've put the billboards of kill Trump all over the billboards of Iran. I mean, they've got freaking built. They got some crazy billboards with freaking people choking and suffocate. I mean, they know exactly what he fears.

They know that they know the type of death that he fears. And they're doing the photos and the videos of it. And they are freaking in his head. I'll give you the data points right now as well. When Donald Trump called state regime media Fox this week, I'm gonna beat the effing shit out of blah, blah, blah. You want that? You're like, this is the president of the United States?

Or is this like a awful drunk at the local pub who needs to go to prison, right? Who start, you know, you know, just think that's how Trump's like. He's like the, it's ironic because he says he doesn't drink, but he's like the local drunk, rah, rah, rah, rah, right? And it's fraseling him. Watch for it again what he told Trainkst over in State regime, Media, Fox.

Let's watch it. Yeah, guys, good morning. President Trump reacting to that Iranian attack on U.S. forces overnight in Jordan. President Trump tells Fox News about Iran. We are going to beat the effing S out of them. He went on to say, we'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating.

So clearly the United States is going to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack. He says U.S. forces had just minutes to shoot down these incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. The president's- And then you'll remember with all of these death threats. I mean, everywhere they go, Iran's like, we're going to kill him. We're going to, you know, that's what Iran says. Remember when Donald Trump was at the NATO summit. He's like, I'm number one on their death list.

I'm number one on their kill list. Yeah. And this is when Iran, you know, that's when Iran, Iran looks at, you know, when these, when the team of psychiatrists is like, yeah, we're in this guy's effing head. We're in, because they know he's not a stable human. They know he's not a stable human. Watch him at NATO.

Here, let's play this clip right here. No, I'm number one on the kill list for Iran. They're lovely people. I'm number one. So I don't know. I can't tell you that, but I don't really care because I'm doing my job and I'm doing it. I hope better than anybody's ever done it because we have a country that's hot. And then they almost have him in like, you know, like, when you identify with your captor, right?

There's that like where Trump is identifying with their torment. So like when Trump was at Camp David, Trump was like, you know, I'm losing faith in them. They lie. They misrepresent. they hurt my feelings. They're hurting my feelings in the woman. Trump who lies about everything. Trump who killed their freaking Ayatola, right?

Trump who freaking killed, you know, their other lead negotiator, Ali LaRanjani. I mean, they killed all their people. Trump's like, but they're being mean to me. And again, Iran's like, got it. We've got this guy freaking flailing. We got the U.S. president like a freaking local drunk. Here play this clip.

I think that you can reach a deal with Iran, given that you talked about how they're loyal they are. I'm losing faith in them because they do lie and they do misrepresent. Well, the other day, the five missiles were shot. And then Trump, again, this is where he identifies, you know, with the captor. And he's like, he's like, I give him credit. They're strong. They're strong people. This is what he's strong people.

And you know where Iran learned. I'm not going to play this. I'll play this clip, but I'm not going to play the other one. Iran learned this from the Houthis. When the Houthis were employing this strategy on Donald Trump back in May 2025 and Trump surrendered to the Houthis, remember back in May on our aircraft carriers, it was like another F-35, another helicopter or another F-35 fell into the water. It was at F-15, you know, another fighter jet fell into the water. You know, I was like, I don't know. I think the Houthis are shooting. I don't believe the stories that these planes and helicopters. just keep falling into the ocean at the same time, Hegzith and Waltz were on those signal chats,

kind of talking. Just can you think about that? You don't think Iran was in those signal chats that Hegzith and Waltz and all those people were on. Iran is so damn sophisticated. Of course they were on those signal chats. They knew and they were given the information to the Houthis. Of course they were, in my opinion.

First, I'll play this clip. of Donald Trump saying, I give them credit, then I'll tell you the hoot these year plane. Well, you never know. Look, I mean, most people would have given up by them, you know, they've got no Navy, they've got no Air Force. Most people would have given up, they have it. So I give them credit for that. I mean, they're known as being tough. They're tough. And you can see other examples of the Iranian negotiators and leadership just getting in Donald Trump's head. So when Donald Trump was at Camp David, he was like, and when I speak to these Iranian negotiators. It's like they want to talk about nuclear for seven hours. I'm like, let's just

do it in five minutes. And then we do it for like an hour or two. And then I'm like, we talked about nuclear. And then they're like, we didn't talk about nuclear. And I'm just like, why do these guys say we didn't talk about nuclear? We talked about nuclear, man. Here, let's just play that. Before I play the clip, though, yeah, you're talking about nuclear material. That's going to take more than five to ten minutes, you idiot. And what's course, it's going to take hours. It may take days. It may take years.

You think the JCPOA was done five minutes, five minutes, or do you think they were pretty diligent, you know, when talking about, I don't know, uranium enrichment? Here, play this clip. But they'll make a deal. As an example, we'll talk about nuclear. And we'll be in there talking about nuclear for seven hours. I say, why is it, what do you need seven?

You can take 10 minutes. You have five minutes you should solve. But seven hours. And then they'll go out and I'll say they discuss nuclear. And they'll go out and they'll say, we never discussed nuclear. And I'll say, why? What do they say? You know, so, you know, you get a headline last night.

It'll be like, Trump is going to escalate Wall Street Journal. Trump has given the kill orders, CBS. Trump is going to invade, you know, it's going to be 12 days of, brutal warfare. Okay, and then what does Iran do? What does Iran do? Strikes a bunch of tankers in the straight-of-ormuz, right? Thinking about it, Trump's like, I'm going to fucking destroy you and blow you up and make you surrender.

And what did Iran do last night? Straight-a-o-p-o-p-p-stray-a-moos. Took out, multi-min, it's not like that, but took out one tanker, took out another tanker. Other ones, you know, they tried to use the, the U.S. try to get these tankers to use the Oman route because, I don't know, I guess they're under the deranged delusion that when Trump threatens Iran, they're going to be scared. Okay, you could use the Oman route. Iran's like, no, you got to use the IRGC route.

Not going to let you use the Oman route. And so Trump destroys those tankers. And then would he leak to the Wall Street Journal? If there's progress in the diplomatic track, maybe I won't do the strikes anymore. Maybe if we make some progress in the diplomacy, I won't do stride. And so Iran's like, yeah, gotcha, gotcha. We need to escalate and continue to draw out the ballistics. And what we need to do, because the only language that Trump knows is like, you know,

the only appreciates is just getting the shit beat out, get, you know, beating them up, beating them down, threatening them, coercing him, twisting them, putting the screws in, right? Drop in the hammer. putting, right? That's what they're doing. That's what they're doing. To him directly, making it very deeply personal.

And, you know, he ain't sleeping, obviously, right? You know, he ain't sleeping. Well, he sleeps during the day, but at night when he's alone, what do you think is going through his head? That coward. That pathetic fool. That sexual predator.

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