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Fatigued Trump Is Cracking as Pressure Grows

Mon, 05 May 2025

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump cracking under the intense pressure as he gets more deranged by the day. 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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Chapter 1: Why does Trump appear fatigued and beaten down?

0.089 - 28.8 Ben Meiselas

He looks beaten down. He looks utterly fatigued as he panic posts throughout the day in his dumpster fire of a presidency. The worst ever post after post oddity after oddity. Dangerous, vile trash after dangerous, vile trash posts like this yesterday. Rebuild and open Alcatraz. For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat criminal offenders.

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Chapter 2: What are Trump's recent bizarre statements about Alcatraz?

29.061 - 56.007 Ben Meiselas

The dregs of society then goes on to say, this is why today I'm directing the Bureau of Prisons together with the Department of Justice, FBI, Homeland Security to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt prison. Alcatraz. That's what he's talking about. You know, Donald Trump waste, fraud and abuse that Alcatraz was something that was overly expensive and really wasn't doing anything good.

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56.027 - 77.0 Ben Meiselas

That's why it was shut down. It's part of the national park system right now. What are you doing? Talking about opening up Alcatraz. Oh, and then Donald Trump is posting photos of Alcatraz right now. Then Donald Trump posts the following. The movie tariffs. on foreign movie production. That's what Donald Trump's thinking about. I don't even know how that would work.

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Chapter 3: How does Trump view the American movie industry?

79.241 - 100.772 Ben Meiselas

When it arrives on the ship, when the movie arrives on the ship, Donald, he goes, the movie industry in America is dying. That's all in caps, a very fast death. Our other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States, Hollywood, and many other areas within the USA are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other nations.

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100.872 - 129.453 Ben Meiselas

And therefore, a national security threat, he says. It is in addition to everything else messaging and propaganda. Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands. We want movies made in America again.

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Chapter 4: What are Trump's plans for tariffs on foreign movies?

129.493 - 147.685 Ben Meiselas

In other words, if you make a movie, in another country 100 tariff i was how's that gonna even work when the director shows up uh back into the united states you're gonna tariff the director what in the world is this guy doing um and then you have howard lutnik um who some people refer to as nutlik

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148.365 - 172.689 Ben Meiselas

Here's why he goes, we're on it, as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, who coined the name Nutlick, says, because of course he is. Donald Trump then posts, it is time for Howie Kurtz to retire. Every woke anchor in the business, people that no one watched from CNN, MSD and others are plastered all over his show. with all really negative and fake statements.

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173.029 - 192.622 Ben Meiselas

And then I am weakly defended by Howie and his group, although Ben Dominick has been strong. The case Howie makes for me is so pathetic that it would be a lot better if he didn't say anything at all anyway. That's the way it is. Also on Trump's social media platform, lots of advertisements for Trump knives these days.

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192.682 - 213.258 Ben Meiselas

Everywhere you look there, there's a Trump knife for sale with Trump's name on it. Donald Trump then posts late last night, I don't need to have Karl Rove of Fox News tell me what to do. That guy's a total loser who's been wrong about almost everything. Now, of course, this follows Donald Trump posting AI images of himself as the Pope,

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213.678 - 239.366 Ben Meiselas

deeply offending the Catholic community and just anybody who has a shred of decency, regardless of if you're Catholic or even regardless of your religious. It's like, what the hell are you doing, Donald? And then earlier today, the official White House account posted the following Donald Trump AI that looks nothing like him with bulging muscles and the red Sith lightsaber.

240.006 - 267.385 Ben Meiselas

And then they go happy May 4th to all, including radical left lunatics who want to, to, to, they say to all over again, fighting hard to, to bring Sith Lords, murderers and drug Lords, dangerous prisoners and gang members to the U S Hey, Donald, you know, you have the red Sith lightsaber right there. So then Donald Trump took a flight back from vacationing again on the taxpayer dime, right?

267.445 - 291.44 Ben Meiselas

Donald Trump was in Mar-a-Lago partying it up, lavish parties. There was an RNC spring retreat at Mar-a-Lago. So Donald Trump double dip in, triple dip in, quadruple dip in while he's doing deals with Qatar for Trump resorts, while the Abu Dhabi fund is using Trump's crypto to As you have Don Jr.

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doing clubs that are called the executive branch, $500,000 a member to join the executive branch with Dave Sachs, the crypto czar. You have Donald Trump doing lavish parties at Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayer dime where Trump's staff is. is being housed. And then you now have the RNC spring retreat. So they're paying Donald Trump as well. A massive, massive grift going on there. So Trump vacations.

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He comes back to Washington, D.C. And he spends his time on the flight back, like attacking reporters, specifically the Wall Street Journal, because the Wall Street Journal's reporting on the failure of Trump's trade war against the world. So here Donald Trump looks at the Wall Street Journal reporter and goes, you're rotten. You're a rotten person. Your newspaper is rotten.

Chapter 5: Why is Trump attacking the Wall Street Journal?

405.812 - 418.56 Ben Meiselas

What are these little girls doing? You take your two dolls, you take your five pencils, and you shut up, little girls. That's what Donald Trump's been saying over and over again. Here he is saying it on the flight last night. Play the clip.

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419.741 - 441.452 Donald Trump

All I'm saying is that a young lady in 10-year-old girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn't need $37. She could be very happy with two or three or four or five. Let's not waste a lot of time on stupid questions. What else?

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442.858 - 450.804 Ben Meiselas

And just so you see, I'm not making it up, but this is a talking point he repeats over and over again. Here he was on the Kristen Welker interview saying it as well. Play this clip.

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451.025 - 471.441 Reporter

Talk about the tariffs. And I want to ask you about something you said this week. Got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting. You said, quote, I'm going to quote what you said. Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up?

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471.701 - 493.275 Donald Trump

No, I think a tariff is going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich. But you said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up? I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.

493.295 - 497.718 Donald Trump

We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.

498.038 - 504.861 Reporter

When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves?

505.782 - 512.565 Donald Trump

No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they don't need to have $30. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.

513.725 - 517.727 Reporter

But you're basically saying there could be some supply shortages because of the tariffs.

Chapter 6: What are Trump's controversial views on toy prices for children?

663.142 - 664.443 Reporter

A military parade? Yeah, sure.

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664.483 - 666.225 Donald Trump

Okay. We're gonna celebrate our military.

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666.265 - 667.846 Reporter

We have the greatest military in the world.

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667.866 - 683.275 Donald Trump

What's the price tag? peanuts compared to the value of doing it. We have the greatest missiles in the world. We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we're going to celebrate it.

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683.595 - 703.747 Ben Meiselas

And lastly, I could keep going on, but you get the point. Here's Donald Trump telling Kristen Welker that he doesn't know if he needs to even follow the Constitution anymore. He goes, I don't even know if it applies to me is the reality. I don't know. And I don't think I need to follow any due process. Play this clip.

704.227 - 710.612 Reporter

Your Secretary of State says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree, Mr. President? I don't know.

710.632 - 731.629 Donald Trump

I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. Well, the Fifth Amendment says- I don't know. It seems- It might say that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or two million or three million trials. We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on earth. Some of the worst, most dangerous people on earth.

732.13 - 737.154 Donald Trump

And I was elected to get them the hell out of here. And the courts are holding me from doing it. But...

Chapter 7: How do tariffs impact American consumers according to Trump?

738.975 - 744.439 Reporter

Even given those numbers that you're talking about, don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?

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744.519 - 760.829 Donald Trump

I don't know. I have to respond by saying again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation.

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761.11 - 769.935 Reporter

Is anyone in your administration right now in contact with El Salvador about returning Abrego Garcia to the United States? I don't know.

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769.975 - 772.756 Donald Trump

You'd have to ask the Attorney General that question.

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773.337 - 793.708 Ben Meiselas

Now, there's a bunch of other clips that I played yesterday. Go back and watch my recap video. But let me just summarize some of them for you right now. I don't want to hear his voice anymore. He told Kristen Welker that he will demand Canada become a 51st state if he meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. He says he wants to conquer it. He wants to take it over.

794.028 - 822.106 Ben Meiselas

and he will tell Carney that he wants Canada to be his. He doesn't rule out invading Greenland. There may be a military invasion of Greenland, he says. He attacks the courts over and over again. He goes on to say that he's fine attacking his political enemies. He then goes on to, what else does he talk about? Attacking specific people from his past administration, etc.

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And then he talks about how he wants to make a big ballroom. He wants to build a big ballroom in the White House. That's one of his focuses as well. I don't need to play any more of his clips. It's the most deranged, demented thing imaginable. But you get the point right there. I've got a lot of other great videos coming this morning. Check those out. And thanks for watching.

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