The MeidasTouch Podcast - Weak Trump Cracks Under Pressure as War Starts

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump cracking under the pressure of war and economic calamity that he caused in his disastrous presidency. Thanks to Rocket Money! Download the Rocket Money app and enter our show name The MeidasTouch Podcast in the survey so they know we sent you! 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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here at home. Main Street is suffering. He's manipulating the markets on an almost daily basis. And what has he been talking about? What has he been focused on? Well, he announced that the U.S. is going to start to call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf. So this was a major, major announcement that he wanted to make before he traveled to the Middle East to meet with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and other countries who are doing personal deals with Donald Trump, enriching Donald Trump while we, the people, suffer. Donald Trump is also announcing that he has appointed Rudy Giuliani's kid, Andrew Giuliani, as the executive director of the president's task force on the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Donald Trump was having a press conference about the 2026 FIFA World Cup while India and Pakistan went to war with each other, with India striking inside the Kashmir region in areas controlled by

Pakistan. The first time that's taken place in several decades, the ceasefire there is now over. And when Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, finally addressed the war now between India and Pakistan, they said, you know, we just hope that it resolves quickly. We hope that it goes away soon and that it resolves quickly. So they spent the past four years attacking former President Biden and everything. But now with them, it's, ah, you know, we just hope maybe the war goes away quickly. You know, they'll just deal with it. By the way, the Trump regime is hiding casualty numbers from a real war that's taking place right now between the United States and the Houthis in Yemen. The Trump regime is not calling it a real war because they don't want to get congressional approval. But for all purposes, there's a real war and

they've decided not to provide any data of what's really going on there. And of course, you know, from all of our prior reporting and the reporting by The Atlantic and others, that Pete Hegsa and Mike Walls, they were having all of these communications about Yemen on their text message threads, where they invited a reporter. We know that there have been dozens of other signal chats that they've engaged in with sensitive classified information uh who knows what the China government Chinese government has what adversaries have what the Houthis have on the United States right now let me take you right now inside India'sndtv here's how they describe operation sindoor let's play this clip i am told that operation sindoor is only in its first phase right now there could be more

attacks there could be more attacks against pakistani targets now as i mentioned at the outset of this video another f-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost at the Red Sea after it suffered an arrestment failure while trying to land. Two aviators were ejected with minor injuries. This is the second jet loss from the carrier in just over a week. For people familiar with the matter, told CNN, the way we get this, by the way, is from sources inside because the Trump regime is not transparent with any of this data. The Department of Defense, though, was talking about this yesterday. Secretary of Defense,

we are leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns, no more climate change obsessions, no more emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in dresses. We are done with that shit. That's from the official Department of Defense account. And as I mentioned in the Intercept report, the U.S. government is keeping American casualty numbers for the undeclared war on Yemen secret. This is not normal, not one bit. As Don Winslow said, boy, don't you just feel safer under Donald Trump? Israel bombing Gaza and now saying that they're going to just take it all over and move every person from Gaza away. Israel bombing Yemen, India bombing Pakistan, U.S. bombing Yemen. And of course, the war rages on between Russia and Ukraine with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine saying,

look, we're here for an unconditional ceasefire, but Russia just wants to exterminate us. This is the quote, no wars president. That's what Donald Trump claims he is. Also, does it make you feel more comfortable to know that in Newark, the air traffic controllers are now on traumatic stress leave because of the firings that have taken place and the fact that these systems shut down and the radar shut down and air traffic controllers? We're telling CNN, do not fly into Newark. It is dangerous. It is dangerous. And there were hours and hours of delays in Newark taking place. You've got the measles cases across the country. There's 935 reported cases, but who the heck knows how many there really are because we're not getting any good data. Oh, by the way, this is the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, talking about how, yeah, it's very scary. Scary job, scary things, very scary. Here, play this clip. Again, not ideal at all. Frightening for sure. But is the system safe today? Yes. But I go out

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ain't buying it. Mr. Whiskey Leaks is what they are calling him. What's the United States doing as well? Well, apparently spying on our NATO allies. A new article by the Wall Street Journal just came out, talks about how the United States has ordered our intelligence agencies to step up the spying on Greenland to underscore the seriousness of Donald Trump annexing it and using military force to seize the island from Denmark, our NATO ally. You heard what I just said there. Donald Trump is trying to go to war with Denmark, our NATO ally. NATO may have to invoke its self-defense obligations against the United States. Classified messages are asking United States intelligence agencies, whose tools include

surveillance satellites, communication intercepts, and spies on the ground to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island. Front page of The Guardian right now. This should be on the front page of American media, but it's not. Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says. Didn't Donald Trump promise the Muslims for Trump or the Palestinians for Trump that he was going to bring peace to Gaza? Didn't Donald Trump say that? But quite the opposite. Donald Trump posts memes of himself and Netanyahu building resorts in Gaza.

And Donald Trump has said that he wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and just send them places because it's a great real estate deal for him, is what Donald Trump says. This was Donald Trump responding to the news about the war between India and Pakistan. Let's play it. Any questions for Steve? No, it's a shame. We just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval. Just heard about it. I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They've been fighting for a long time. You know, they've been fighting for many, many decades and centuries, actually, if you really think about it. No, I just hope it ends very quickly. And just as you heard Donald Trump say right there that he hoped it ends quickly.

This is what Rubio said. I echo President's comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski says, so we went from everything bad that happened in the world from 2021 to 2024 being Biden's fault to hopefully this ends quickly as our 2025 foreign policy, hopefully it ends quickly. Another data point I want to report as well. As I've said to you before, Donald Trump's a fraud, a sexual abuser. Donald Trump is a felon. He's a criminal.

He's a bankruptor, not a builder. So, by the way, seeing Donald Trump sit there next to Prime Minister Carney, an actual successful banker who ran the Bank of Canada, ran the Bank of England. He's a central banker who knows what he's doing. And Donald Trump saying things like, we don't need Canada. We don't trade with Canada. We don't have a trading relationship with Canada. Bud, bud, it's our biggest trading partner, you idiot. And you've destroyed that. You've created trade wars against China. But Trump doesn't give a shit. Excuse my language. Trump wants to enrich himself, right? That's why he does the deal with

Qatar for himself, builds resorts in Qatar. That's why Donald Trump does the deals with the UAE to use the Trump crypto. And then you have the crypto supporters in the Senate building exemptions so Donald Trump can go do deals with his own Trump meme coin stuff. This is the Trump crypto, the Trump meme coins. From the 58, only 58 crypto wallets made millions on Trump's meme coin, 764,000 have lost money data shows. Yeah, so 58 wallets have made over 10 million each from Trump's meme coin, totaling 1.1 billion in profits,

blockchain analytics said. But 764,000 wallets, mostly smallholders, have lost money on Trump, according to the firm. When do you realize that you are all the mark? You are the mark. Isn't it just so utterly obvious? One piece of final news to report that I find humorous. Corey Bauman, this guy who was running

for Cincinnati mayor, who is J.D. Vance's half-brother, got absolutely trounced in round one of the elections for the Cincinnati mayor. The candidate, Aftab Perivel, just like destroyed him, like beat him by like, what is it, like 70% of the vote or something. It wasn't even close. After J.D. Vance's endorsement of his brother or half-brother. Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you so much for watching. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to

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