The MeidasTouch Podcast - Yikes! MAGA Mike Gets Torn to Shreds by His Own Party

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on GOP Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson losing all control of his party as they turn against his budget bill and which could cause MAGA Mike his job as Speaker. DeleteMe: Get 20% OFF your DeleteMe plan! Go to https://JoinDeleteMe.com/MEIDAS and enter code: MEIDAS at checkout! 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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If you or someone you know has concerns about gambling, visit connectsontario.ca. No, Maga Mike, it's all falling apart. No, Maga Mike, the Republican Speaker of the House is getting betrayed, not just by Elon Musk, but from others in his own party. Even MAGA Republican Congress members who voted for the disastrous budget bill, now that Elon Musk is saying he's against it, you've got these MAGA Republican Congress members saying that they're against it too. As I said, no, MAGA Mike Johnson. Take a look at MAGA Republican Congress member Scott Perry,

who voted for the disastrous budget bill, now coming out against it. After Elon Musk posts, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination," MAGA Republican Congressmember Scott Perry goes. So at Elon Musk is right to call out the House leadership.

I wish I had a nickel for every time the Freedom Caucus sounded the alarm and nobody listened, only to find out the hard way. We were right all along We expect massive improvements from the Senate before it gets back to the house, dude You voted for this. Why wouldn't you make the improvements? You're from the Freedom Caucus Why the Freedom Caucus vote for this to give it back to the Senate to then make the cuts that you're supposed to make? What in the world is going on? You voted for this, as we said. Is this you?

You voted for it. Then you have MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul, who's always come out against this disastrous bill. He goes, I agree with Elon. We have both seen the massive wasted government spending and we know another $5 trillion in debt is a huge mistake. Then you have Rand Paul say some of us are trying to stop Congress making America bankrupt in response to what Elon Musk said then you have

Magar Republican Senator Mike Lee who calls himself at Based Mike Lee the dude calls himself based I don't really know what based fully means but I would imagine the least base thing is calling yourself based So in response to Elon Musk coming out against this. Mike Lee goes, federal spending has become excessive. The resulting inflation harms Americans and weaponizes government. The Senate can make this bill better. It must now do so. Marjorie Taylor Greene. No, Mike. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene too. No. Anyway, that's like, I saw that on TikTok where they go no, make it annoying. So I'll stop doing it. But anyway, Magna Republican Congressmember

Marjorie Taylor Greene goes full transparency. I didn't know I did not know about this section on pages 278 and 279 of the budget bill that strips the states of their right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years. I am adamantly opposed to this and it is a violation of states' rights and I would have voted no if I had known this was in there. We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free reign and tying states hands is potentially dangerous. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate. When the budget comes back to the House for approval after the Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it." Our editor in chief Ron Filipkowski goes, apparently Marge, and I guess Scott Perry also, didn't read the bill before

they voted on it. And just to remind you what Elon Musk was saying all day yesterday, he goes, "'I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.'" This massive, outrageous, pork-field congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it. You know you did wrong, you know it. It will massively increase the already gigantic

budget deficit to $ point five trillion dollars and burdened American citizens with crushingly unsustainable math or Unsustainable debt to which mega Republican Thomas Massey said he's right Elon Musk is right to which Elon Musk says simple math man simple math and then Elon Musk says fire these math man, simple math. And then Elon Musk says, fire these Republicans, get rid of these Republicans. He goes, in November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people. And it was in response to this guy, Matt Van Swal,

saying, okay, let me get this straight. Here's what the GOP is doing. And Musk is saying, fire the GOP, get rid of them. And then Elon Musk reposts this account, SMX. The truth sets a man free and Elon Musk has fearlessly spoken about it or yeah fearlessly spoken about it. Okay, so now let me show you Maga Mike. Should I show you Botox Maga Mike first or non-Botox Maga Mike first? Let me show you about a few weeks ago. This is actually late March 2025.

Botox Maga Mike was on the Mike Levin show. Mike Levin talks like that on Fox. That's how that's my impression of Mike Levin and Botox Maga Mike Johnson. Just look at this guy's face here, it's crazy looking. Maga Mike Johnson says, should I do it with the, you know, Elon Musk has really figured this all out.

His algorithm has made our budget bill perfect. You know, he's so good, Elon. Watch Botox, Maga Mike, he prays and glazed Elon only for Elon to say, F you, Maga Mike, he prays and glazed Elon only for Elon to say F you Mag and Mike play this clip. We wanted to pass a resolution that would effectively free spending so that the administration can continue its incredible work through Doge and through the other efforts of the administration to go in and root out the fraud, waste and abuse that we've been trying to target in Congress for decades. But we haven't been able to get to it because we didn't have the algorithms that Elon has. We didn't have the access to all the data and the funding. And so now the game has changed.

So we needed to hold the line and what we're doing right now so that when we get to the next fiscal year, FY26, which we will begin work on immediately now that this is done, we'll be able to incorporate all those savings and all the new transformational kinds of policies the administration is working with us to bring about. So this bill effectively does freeze funding, except that what you said, it adds a little to defense. That's what Pete Hegseth said he needed, the Department of Defense, some flexibility and $6 billion additional for the immediate needs, and it reduces non-defense discretionary spending by about $13 billion. So overall a $7 billion savings to the American people and Mark, we are just getting started.

That was Botox Maga Mike right there. Let me show you non-Botox Maga Mike Johnson here. This is Maga Mike Johnson. Let's play this clip right here. Maga Mike Johnson crediting Elon's magical algorithms and the Doge cuts for helping make this budget great that Elon now says he hates. Play this clip. And the beauty of what Doge has been able to do, the reason it's so revolutionary is because Elon cracked the code. He had access. All the stars aligned. We had a president who was bold enough to do it. We had somebody with Elon's talent and capability to come in and have his magic algorithms running through the data to find

all these irregularities. And these are things that have been hidden from Congress, right? We've been trying to do our oversight responsibility, but the bureaucracy was hiding these things. And so this changes the way government works. And Elon's exactly right. The Doge effort will go on long beyond his tenure as a temporary assistant in all this because it's changing the way people look at this. And the oversight's a really important component and that's gonna be a permanent part of government now.

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So he's obviously an intelligent person, but I think my good friends got it wrong here, play this clip. Let me, let me say this. It's, it's very disappointing. Okay. I've come to consider here play this clip. There's massive outrageous pork-filled congressional spendyville is disgusting abomination shame on those who voted for it You know you did wrong, you know it Tell us how you really feel leaves the way and then pulls the pin on the grenade. Yeah You know, it's just so odd too. It's like These MAGA Republicans are like, you know offense to like second graders or third graders, but are you my friend? Are you my friend? I like you. I know like you. You're my friend. You're my friend. Just the behavior there is just

so utterly odd. I want to show you this. Mark Caputo posted the following. Musk's decision to trash Donald Trump's budget bill came after failing to win favorable treatment in four instances. EV tax credits for Tesla, extended White House employment status, Starlink at the FAA, an ally leading NASA got removed as one of Donald Trump's, or Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA. None of it happened. So they threw Musk under the bus, Musk threw them under the bus, and now you have a mega civil war.

You also just have other mega Republicans coming out saying they're not supporting this thing. Here we've got mega Republican Rick Scott from Florida play this clip. So Senator, would you say without any changes at its current composition, would you vote no? Oh, absolutely. I don't know. There is this this bill doesn't have it.

I have it. If there's if if they brought to the floor right now, there's not a there's not a chance it will get the the 51 votes it needs. Here we've got Magga Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. Play the clip. Can you see yourself voting for this big, beautiful bill at all? Not not in the current structure. No. Yeah, I refuse to vote for something that's

going to actually increase the deficits exacerbate the problem from the current situation again we shouldn't be talking about this right now we should have been doing all the work like you say the multi-step process we'd already have the border funding we'd have defense we'd have eight hundred fifty billion dollars of real savings banked already plus we could have extended current tax law, take a tax light increase off the table. We could have had all that done, but unfortunately decisions were made to do one big beautiful bill. It's not beautiful, I'm sorry. It's not a big beautiful bill. That's called rhetoric. There's one thing that...

Here we've got MAGA Republican Rand Paul saying, my objection is not about the tax cuts. It's that this is going to add $5 trillion to the deficit. Here, play this clip right here. I want to get you to address the two things we just heard from OMB director Russ Vogt and one made by the president. First of all, they argue the big beautiful bill puts in place growth measures that you're not accounting for. I've been around this game for a while. You have as well. They argue the big beautiful bill puts in place growth measures that you're not accounting for.

I've been around this game for a while. You have as well. I do know that growth is something that every administration counts on to offset their spending. But do you not think the president has a point with deregulation and tax cuts that we could see real growth that actually helps not jack up the deficit as is accounted for? I actually do and this is where I think the president and I are talking past each other. I accept the growth arguments. I actually accept that cutting taxes can grow revenue. I believe

it happened under Reagan. I believe it happened under the first Trump term and I supported the tax cuts in the first term. I still support them. I support making them permanent and I do believe they will bring in more revenue than the CBO projects. My objection to the bill isn't about the tax cuts and it isn't about those calculations. My objection to the bill is they're going to raise the debt ceiling more than they ever have, $5 trillion, and that this will be the largest increase in the debt ceiling ever. And if the Republicans all vote for it, the Republicans will own the debt. They will lose their high moral ground. We will no longer be the party that can they look at the Democrats?

They're the ones, you know, voicing the debt on our country. We're drowning to see a debt caused by Democrats, which has largely been true. But I think now they vote for this. So if they separate out the debt ceiling, I could be for the bill. And then you have the Senate majority leader, John Thune, MAGA Republican, John Thune. He's like, I hope Elon comes to a different conclusion here.

I hope Elon figures this all out and he likes us again. Maybe Elon wants to be our friend again. We like Elon as friend. Here, play this clip. But nevertheless, we have a job to do, the American people elected us to do, we have an agenda that everybody campaigned on, most notably the President of the United States, and we're going to deliver on that agenda. And the legislation as passed by the House can be approved here in the Senate, can be strengthened in the Senate in a number of ways, and we intend to do that. But when it's all said and done, we will send it back to the House and hope that they can pass it and put it on the President's desk.

And as I said, it does everything that we set out to do. Modernizes our military, secures our border, extends tax relief and makes permanent tax relief that will lead to economic growth and better jobs in this country and makes America energy dominant, coupled with the biggest spending reduction in American history.

Those are our agenda items and that's what we campaign on. That's what we're gonna do. Such utterly weird behavior, but under the bus you go, Botox, Maga Mike and Maga Mike or whatever Mike we see. Weirdo. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram at MidasTouch and help us blow past 1 million followers.