The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s Nightmare Returns as Mass Protests Are Back

Episode Date: April 19, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the 50501 mass protests that will be taking place again today against Trump’s actions. Betterhelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/MEIDAS today to get 10% off your first month. 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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The protests are not going away, Donald. They're just going to keep on growing and growing. Shout out to 5051 organizing more mass protests today. There's expected to be over 400 protests scheduled across the United States, also protests in Mexico and in Europe as well. We will be covering them all throughout the day. In addition, there's expected to be over 525 broader events in connection with 5051 being run by We The People Dissent, a 5051 affiliate listing all of these events. So the movement continues. And of course, this follows the massive hands-off protests that took place earlier in April when you added up all of the towns and cities where those protests took place. There were several million people, by some estimates, about 5 million people protesting. When you added up all of the protests, big protests in Chicago, big protests in Boston, big protests in Salt Lake City. And one of the things we're seeing too is with that momentum

running parallel, we've seen the fight the oligarchy tour by Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC. And we've seen Democrats going into red districts and purple districts and just speaking to people about issues that are not being covered enough that need to, that people are suffering from. We have to talk about education. We have to talk about education. We have to talk about healthcare. We have to talk about the oligarchs taking all these tax cuts for themselves while screwing over others. We have to talk about wages.

There's gotta be not just a living wage. There's gotta be a wage with dignity. And right now, there's a minimum of minimum wages while the billionaires get richer and richer. We need to talk about why it is that in the richest country in the world, right? The richest country in the world, people struggle to get healthcare. Those are the types of issues that are on people's mind. And of course, the fact that the Trump regime is disappearing human beings without

due process and sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador and then just saying, oopsies, there's nothing I can do about it. I want to share with you some of the sites of these protests, but I think it's important to note the very significant drop in Donald Trump's polling as well, and in the Republican polling as well. And to me, though, that speaks to people getting out there, talking to your neighbors, your friends, your colleagues, and letting them know about these protests. I want to talk about where these protests are as well today.

And I hope you will attend if you can, or if you can't attend because you're unable to just let people know about them if there's protests nearby let me just show you Donald Trump's polling data recently it's really really bad it kind of looks like his signature going on a downward angle at this point if you ask Americans is the economy getting worse? Most Americans by significant margin say it's worse or much worse now than under former President Biden. If you look at the Trump regime, their polling when it comes to handling of the economy, it is far worse than the first Trump administration.

The economy, even though I thought it should never be viewed as a strong suit for Republicans and Trump, that's really how it always was. But here as G. Elliot Morris, the great pollster, writes, Trump's job approval rating on the economy is now at an all-time low, even worse than during COVID-19. Opinion on his handling of inflation is at negative 18 on average. He has now lost the GOP's single best political asset of the last decade. And it should never have been because the Democrats of the 52 million jobs that have been created over the past three decades, they've been created by Democrats. 50 million of those created by Democrats.

And Trump was the only president other than Herbert Hoover, I called Trump pervert Hoover because he's a sexual abuser, who lost jobs in his term. You take a look at some of these other issues. Trump is underwater on the economy, negative 9.3%. On trade, negative 15.2%. On inflation and cost of living negative 17.5 percent. If you look at the data here, while it does show that he's above water on the issue of immigration by plus four point seven, when you actually dig into the issue and you talk

about deporting people who have been here for 10 years with no criminal record or kidnapping people and sending them to El Salvador concentration camps. Trump is very unpopular when you talk about comprehensive immigration, the type that, frankly, Democrats support and former President Biden supports. Americans in a vacuum are okay with deportations. They're okay with borders. So am I. The issue is kidnapping people without due process, throwing them to concentration camps,

recklessly rounding up migrants, destroying the economy of people here working and contributing and providing no process at all and going after people without criminal history. I don't like that. And neither do the American people when you really break down the issues. If you just take a weighted average also of these polls involving Donald Trump, even if you add all of these right wing, like Rasmussen, where Trump has 51% disapproval from Rasmussen, which is like as pro-Trump

as you can get right now, you still have 51.6% of Americans disapproving of him. Then when you go into some of the cross tabs in month three of the second term, under 100 days, Trump's average approval rating is under 40% among the following groups. Black people, people ages 18 to 29. Black people only support 23% support. Ages 18 to 29, Trump only has 34%. Independence, 37%. Moderates, 37%. Women, 39%. Latinos, 39%. And when you go to ages 30 to 44, 41%. White college grad, 41%. Urban, 41%.

And houses, 50K household incomes, 42%. College grads, 42% approval. All underwater there. Here's the Rasmussen poll showing that Donald Trump, 51% disapprove. And as Adam Carlson says, I think the argument that D should talk about immigration, that D, that Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration because Trump and Republicans currently poll better on it off its base. I get the logic, but when you go through asking people, do you agree you should deport immigration because Trump and Republicans currently pull better on it off its base. I get the logic, but when you go through asking people, do you agree you should deport undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years? That has negative 37%

approval. Deport undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens by birth, negative 36%. Deport undocumented immigrants who have not broken laws in the U.S. except for immigration laws. Negative 18% deport immigrants who are in the U.S. living illegally back even if they've lived here for a number of years, have jobs and no criminal record. Negative 14%. So you go through all of these issues and Trump's policies of like revoking temporary protected status is not popular. All right, let's talk more about the protests. But I wanted to show you that the protests are working.

People are, it's forcing people not just to take to the streets, but now it has this, it's a solve for the first mover problem where lots of people go, wait a minute, is this normal? Is this normal? No, it's not normal. Oh, got it. And then you start paying attention to what's going on. Here's how Newsweek reports it.

List of cities hosting nationwide anti-drug protests on Saturday, April 19th. A wave of protests is set to sweep across all 50 states on Saturday, April 19th, organized by the grassroots group 5051 in opposition to Trump's policies and executive orders. Organizers cite concerns over civil liberties, judicial independence, and what they describe as authoritarian overreach. The group 5051 also organized protests like the Not My President's Day event in February. The global hands-off demonstration on April 15th has become a fixture of the national resistance. April 19th is expected to span the entire country.

And these protests continue to grow. And one of the things 50-51 is focused on is really trying to get that 3.5% of the U.S. population to show up and get out there, and hopefully more than that. But they understand that it's growing it protest by protest by protest. And I've always said, I expect there to be a democracy summer. So you take a look at where these protests are, and you should all check out the 5051 website as well to see if there's a protest near you. You spell it out, 50-F-I-F-T-Y, F-I-F-T-Y. So it's 50-50-dot-1, 50-50-dot-1.

And then you go and check it out. They're everywhere, these protests. Montgomery, Alabama, to Maui, Hawaii, to Lexington, Kentucky, to Quincy, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to Rutherford County, North Carolina. There's the locations and all these other cities and towns. So search the one nearest you if you wanted to go out there today. And let me just read. Here's a map so you can see on the map what it looks like. This is being called the People Dissent event.

And you can see on the map right there where all of the protests are going to be. Virtually everywhere you can see right there. And let me just share this with you as well. This was from April 5th. This is what it looked like in Chicago. Let's play this clip. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Let's talk about numbers.

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this. I know that they don't want to air any of it. That's why the Midas Touch Network has become the main destination for these protests. And it is an honor to be able to share the data with you, share the protests with you, let you know how you can attend, and for us to uplift the real heroes right now, which are those organizers and those showing up to these events. It's an honor for us to play a part in that. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe, and let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more all at store.midastouch.com.