Donald Trump gives a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office, announcing tariffs on basically every country in the world and fawning over Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the free world is uniting and fighting back against the United States. All the while, Republicans are seeking to gut safety net programs for the working class as they prepare to give billionaires trillions in tax cuts. Plus, another Trump quid pro quo? Ben and Brett break it all down. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Watch Ben’s interview with President Biden: https://youtu.be/TJfOAjUleTc Deals from our sponsors! Remi: Save your smile and your bank account with Remi! Get up to 50% off your custom-fit mouth guard at https://ShopRemi.com/MEIDAS today! Marley Spoon: For up to 27 free meals, head to https://MarleySpoon.com/offer/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS Uplift: Elevate your workspace and energize your year with Uplift Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/meidas for a special offer exclusive to our audience. Leaf Home Solutions: Schedule your free inspection and get up to 30% off your entire purchase at https://leaffilter.com/MEIDAS 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
Chapter 1: What did Trump announce in his recent press conference?
We've got a our economy locally in the long run we're already seeing inflation starting to surge let's just take a look at everything he's saying let's break it all down so donald trump is asked about rising prices the recent inflation numbers not good here's what donald trump says let's play it mr president because of these tariffs who do you think voters should hold responsible
Oh, I think what's going to go up is jobs are going to go up and prices could go up somewhat short term, but prices will also go down. And I think the farmers are going to be helped by this very much.
Prices will go up short term, but then they also will go down and farmers will be helped by this. I mean, if you know anything about Trump's recent history of tariffs, the farmers got absolutely screwed. There had to be subsidies paid to the farmers because it led to foreign countries not buying America. It's exactly what we're going to see again.
We're already seeing farmers being screwed, not just in the form of Donald Trump's tariffs and the harm that that's causing, but by Donald Trump's destruction of government entities that help support farmers who voted for Donald Trump. I guess the leopards are eating their faces or they're effing around and finding out right now. Here, Donald Trump talks about prices going up.
It just may be a short term disturbance is what they say. Play this clip.
They'll do it without tariffs, and therefore prices won't go up. There could be some short-term disturbance, but long-term, it's going to make our country a fortune.
So Americans should prepare for some short-term pain?
No, you said that. I didn't say that.
But what if the prices go up?
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Chapter 2: How are Trump's economic policies affecting farmers?
Yeah, and I'm sure that'll be great for the farmers as well to not be able to have a public weather service to alert them of issues and stuff.
Just all of this is going to have such massive effects because he is making these cuts and doing these purges, A, obviously without any regard to the rule of law or anything like that, but also with just complete disregard to the effects they're going to have on actual people's lives and on the country. And we're going to be feeling the rippling effects
of this, I think, for decades and decades and decades to come.
Yeah, you mentioned, for example, the Weather Service, because that's handled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the NOAA, which is one of the things that Elon Musk and Donald Trump also gutted and attacked. But NOAA also does things like
you know if you're by the great lakes you know they tell you if the conditions are safe for you to go out in the water or are you going to potentially drown like is it safe to be out there and these are government workers who work very hard every day at kind of thankless jobs that just quietly in the background are saving people's lives and making our lives all better.
And these are the people who are being attacked every day by the Trump authoritarian regime and their state-run regime media with Fox and with X and all of these other platforms. Now, let's pull up those budget numbers because this is what this debate and switch here is that what Republicans want to do is give people like Elon Musk and billionaires a $4.5 trillion tax cut. They want to run out.
This isn't about fiscal responsibility. This isn't saving money. It's just making sure that the billionaires and the richest of the billionaires don't have to pay taxes. So what they're doing is they're saying, look, we saved you $8 million here. We saved you $30 million here. We saved you $9 million here, which is like 0.00001%.
Like even if you took the entire USAID and gutted it, I think it would be less than 1% of everything. If you gutted the whole thing, if you said we're just shutting it down, I think it would be less than like 1%. So while that's happening, they're saying $4.5 trillion that basically goes to the deca-millionaires, the billionaires, and the deca-billionaires. So they're hoping to fake people out.
And it's, you know, by and large, with a large part of our population, it's working while they're picking your pockets, basically. And then they go, oh, but guess what? Gulf of Mexico is now Gulf of America. America, yeah. And while all of this is going on, they're also attacking our assets.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the new Republican budget resolution?
covering Russian media and what the Russian oligarchs are saying. Laughing Kremlin insiders say Trump has given Putin the green light to expand the war. And what this article says is that basically, you know,
The thing holding Putin back was the belief that if he expanded the war and used more weapons on Ukraine, the US would continue to fund Ukraine and would continue to build the coalition that would then attack Russia. But that Russia has basically been given a green light if they want to, to just wipe, you know, just demolish it.
And it talks about how that's sent European leaders into a complete panic. Although I you know, I think the the part of me, though, Brett, that is just kind of wondering here is that, you know, this was obvious that this was going to be the outcome. Right.
Like like if you knew and followed Trump's relationship with Russia and everything that this shouldn't all of a sudden come as like a whoa, he's doing that. He wanted to do it the first time. He was held back, and now there's no one to hold him back. And Trump's weak, but Putin's going to go and do the things that we think he's going to do.
Yeah. And watching this press conference, the one on Ukraine and Russia that Trump held yesterday, I couldn't help but be reminded of Donald Trump in Helsinki saying that he trusted Vladimir Putin more than he trusted our own intelligence agencies. And just like back then, this is a very much a history repeats itself moment, although this is possibly even worse.
Donald Trump, quite literally everything he said, whether it was that Russia should join the G7 or the lies about how the invasion, which he blames on Ukraine, began, that was all quite literally word for word Kremlin propaganda. 100% of it was straight from the mouth of Vladimir Putin. So much so that in her confirmation hearing, and I'm sure everybody knows
knows by now that tulsi gabbard has been confirmed as dni as the director of national intelligence she was asked to disavow those very same statements and was basically forced to during those hearings that donald trump then repeated verbatim from the oval office it's just such an absolute disgrace and such a abdication of our duty as the united states of america and
retreating from all the promises that we have made to our allies. Why should anybody ever trust the United States of America's word? If there was one thing in the past that you could trust, it was that the United States would stand by its word, that we would uphold our values. And if we told you that we would offer you protection, if you did X, Y, and Z, that we would be there to do that.
Now we're in a space, though, where I was looking through all the comments from the Ukrainians yesterday. My heart was breaking as they were speaking about the cowardice of Donald Trump, speaking about the betrayal of the United States of America for their country. Remember, they had to back in the day. meet a big list of preconditions for the United States to offer this kind of support to NATO.
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Chapter 4: Did USAID interfere in the U.S. and Indian elections?
Russia, China to some extent, like Donald Trump attacks Mexico and Canada, and really, they're just kind of in a holding pattern as they're trying to figure out which alliances they're going to form with America now being this pariah state. So you have that going on. You have the federal judiciary, and then you have what's growing is, despite corporate media trying to, again,
as we're experiencing this lie to us and gaslight us and, you know, pretend that, you know, oh, things are just fine and normal. And this is just crazy. You know, politics is crazy. No, no, no. This is a coup. This is authoritarianism. It's here, it's not will it be here.
And people are being pushed to a point where I think especially as the weather starts getting a little better, you'll start also seeing as naturally happens in movements like this. I think you're gonna start to see the scale and scope of protests get larger, especially as a lot of the things that we're seeing The impact isn't going to be felt the day after or even a week after.
But when you start adding up the economic data and you start seeing inflation go up, up, up, up, up in the wrong way, Trump will always make the wrong decisions in response to those things and make the things worse. You're going to see all this showing up, the Canadian boycott, the tariffs, the instability. You're going to see that. Yeah, the stock market's up.
The level of instability in the market right now It's like the wild, wild west of just up days, down days, up, you know. And I think I saw the small business index has never been more volatile in the history of it, you know, than it is right now. And you know what? It's like every day Trump wakes up and talks about tariffing this, tariffing that, tariffing this, tariffing that.
what he set a deadline for Hamas, that if Hamas doesn't return all of the hostages, he's going to unleash hell on Saturday, which, by the way, is a holy day for the Jews in Israel as well. But that's the day Trump picked because he goes, why else? I'll just make it on a Saturday.
But you've already just said no matter what, you're going to ethnically cleanse Palestine and you're going to force the people out and you're not going to let them ever return and go back. So you've made a ceasefire less stable. You've placed the hostages' lives at risk.
You've disincentivized the counterparty to the negotiation of cooperating because even once they cooperate, you say you're going to do the same thing you're going to do if they don't cooperate. So that's the status of where we're at there, Brett.
Yeah, no, it's chaos every day. People are going to get screwed as the world unites against us. But, you know, I think one of the interesting things is to see this, if you want to use the word resistance, resistance forming that's not just in Europe, but also amongst kind of governors in the United States. We are seeing kind of prosecutors.
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