On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the latest chaos surrounding Donald Trump as markets continue to crash due to his tariffs with the S&P 500 officially hits correction territory—while Trump administration officials bizarrely calls it the “best 50 days ever.” We dive into Trump’s unhinged meeting with a NATO leader, where he threatened to again annex Greenland and Canada. Meanwhile, the EU and Canada are pushing back hard against Trump’s escalating threats. Plus, Trump is walking back some of his biggest initiatives. And Schumer caves on the House GOP Continuing Resolution. Ben and Brett break down all this and more. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Watch Ben’s interview with President Biden: https://youtu.be/TJfOAjUleTc Deals from our sponsors! Quip: Get 20% OFF sitewide plus a FREE Travel Case and Countertop Stand at https://getquip.com/MEIDAS Qualia: Go to https://qualialife.com/meidas for up to 50% off and use code: MEIDAS at checkout for an additional 15% off. 3 Day Blinds: For their buy-one-get-one 50% off deal, head to https://3dayblinds.com/meidas Prizepicks: Download the PrizePicks app today https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS and get $50 instantly when you play $5! 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 are the key issues discussed in this episode?
Waking up in the Trump regime, it's like idiocracy, fascist groundhog day. You wake up, Trump makes a stupid offensive post, the markets tank, he then hosts some world leader, he says the most offensive things, then you rinse and repeat. So you wake up in the morning and Donald Trump posts the following, the US doesn't have free trade, we have stupid trade. The entire world is ripping us off.
Then he posts this. The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world, it was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% tariff on whiskey. If this tariff is not removed immediately, the US will shortly place a 200% tariff.
on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU-represented countries. This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the U.S. Oh, Donald, tell me about all of those champagne businesses in the U.S. You know where champagne comes from? I think not. Then he posts, the globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are saying or doing.
They are owned by the polluted media. thinking of the European Union. Now, Trump says this as the leader of NATO, Mark Rutt, was set to come into the Oval Office. The markets then tank over Donald Trump's statements. Mark Rutt, the NATO Secretary General, comes in to the Oval Office, and Donald Trump, in the presence of the leader of NATO, talks about conquering Canada and annexing Canada.
Watch it.
And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state, it would be one of the great states anyway. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the U.S. Just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago.
And it makes no sense. It's so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping O Canada, the national anthem. I love it. I think it's great. Keep it. But it'll be for the state, one of our greatest states. Maybe our greatest state.
guy's literally a psychopath. I mean, just listening to him speak, his lack of a thought process, and again, declaring, in my view, not trade war on Canada, but actual war. Then Donald Trump's advisors start showing up one by one on the various propaganda shows to say, oh, he's so good He's the greatest dealmaker in the history. So Trump's energy secretary, Chris Wright, goes first.
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Chapter 2: What controversial statements did Trump make recently?
And so I think that's when Donald Trump demands loyalty from people like NATO. I think he is demanding that they follow him into these horrific plans. And he's trying to bully them. He's trying to bully our allies every single day. It's tariffs on, tariffs off. Oh, now we're going to do this 200% tariff. This is what he woke up and did this morning.
200% tariff on all alcohol, all liquor and wine and champagne coming from the EU. That was his big plan, which then sent the markets into another nosedive. It's just one erratic move after one erratic move.
Well, now Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations. The act was last used during World War II to detain Japanese Americans and to put Japanese Americans into concentration camps. This wartime law of 1789 would allow Donald Trump to detain or deport people here, and citizens if he believes they are enemies to the nation.
And this follows the Guantanamo Bay plan by Donald Trump falling apart. Remember, they said they were going to put 30,000 people in Guantanamo Bay. They ended up putting about 178 people there who were actually not from any violent gangs at all. They put nonviolent people there, and then they couldn't even keep, like,
the basics of the infrastructure they're going and then tried to hide it and bring everybody back to the United States after putting those really expensive military planes on display for the kind of propaganda movie style photo ops.
Just think about this as an example of the waste of Doge and the waste of what the government is doing.
They spent all this money and time sending migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay, a military prison, which should not exist in the first place, but sending them to a military prison where the most suspected, most violent terrorists, basically, people on the terrorist watch, these are the people who are down there, to Guantanamo Bay, sending migrants alongside them.
And even at the peak of Guantanamo Bay, in I believe around 2003, Guantanamo came after the 9-11 attacks, even at its peak, it held about 650 detainees. Currently, as of right now, basically, there's around 15 detainees, 15 terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay.
And Donald Trump advertised, Donald Trump announced that he wanted to have 30,000 people in this area that at its peak was only able to handle 650 and was currently handling 15. They spent all this money. Remember, there were all those reports about the military planes, which cost way more also than the planes that they were originally flying.
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Chapter 3: How are international relations being affected by Trump's policies?
what's going on in the trump regime he posted every day on midasplus.com go to midasplus.com you can subscribe there for free although we'd love for you to become a paid subscriber to help this network grow but go check it out if you like it you can then become a paid subscriber but that's midasplus.com let's talk about what else has been going on so you have howard lutnik
who has really to me become one of the breakout clowns of the trump administration i mean this guy makes a snake oil salesman look dignified there's nothing that this guy won't say or do
you know and and you know i'm not trying to mock the sham wow guy back in the day or some of those infomercials you know they did their hustle back in the 90s or whenever that was but howard lutnik is basically doing the same stuff but we're gonna do trump cards and everybody's gonna be so rich it's not a wow it's not a shammy it's a sham wow it's a trump card you know and that's what i'm watching i'm like what in the hell is this and it's why i think it's refreshing that we all go
This is not normal. This is not normal. And then you go to your neighbor. This is not normal. And then they tell their neighbor, this is not normal. Let me just show you the evidence as I would.
Back in the day when I was a litigator presenting cases to the jury, let me show you first exhibit A, Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary, saying, why are we even doing business with Canada in the first place? We don't need them. Here, play this clip.
Why are we doing all this business in Canada if they're not respectful, if they're not thankful, and they don't want to do it? What does he want them to do?
Why? Because they're our ally? Because that's the way trade works? Because they fought in wars with us before? Those are reasons, Brett.
Yeah, and this whole notion that Ukraine needs to apologize, Canada needs to apologize, they should be more respectful, it's so dystopian and Orwellian and just the opposite of reality. It's like, here we are as the United States of America under Trump punching Canada in the face, just sucker punching them for no reason. And then we're like, say thank you, say thank you, say thank you.
When you see also just the phrasing that Trump uses online, you see this continued. And by the way, I want to be clear, this is the language of an abuser, textbook abuser language that Donald Trump is using. And so, you know, let me go through those tweets or those truth social posts from Trump that we brought up quickly at the top. Because it speaks to this exact issue.
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Chapter 4: What impact are Trump's tariffs having on the economy?
who again spread lies about the spread of measles while measles is now spreading and he acts like, whatever, measles parties and horrific things like that, spreading lies and disinformation.
hurt and kill when you're so cruelly attacking veterans, attacking veteran affairs, attacking the spouses of military members while you're firing hardworking government workers and saying that you're firing them for performance-related reasons as you are destroying people's pensions and their 401ks as doge run by Elon Musk who's too chicken shit
to go under oath in front of Congress to testify about what he's doing, right? Why doesn't he testify? Oh, he's scared. And why don't you, Congress member Edwards, say that he should testify? Isn't the role of Congress oversight? Isn't that what you're supposed to do? No. Look the people in the eyes and tell them You're the person who's screwing their lives. Tell them. Tell them.
I understand why they're angry. And to the Democrats out there, listen to the people. Listen to what they are saying. If you do what Senator Bernie Sanders does, we'll cover your town halls. But Democrats too, just because you're a Democrat don't mean that I'm just going to Show your stuff. You don't get a Democrat pass on the Midas Dutch network. Listen to the people.
People are pissed at what is happening right now. Doge going through their private information, their private data, their medical records, their social security information. You can't support that. No one should be okay with funding that at all.
Yeah, no, it's a total disgrace. And as you said, we're in a moment where we need fighters. And that's why I think it gets really disheartening for people when we see things like Senator Chuck Schumer out there, the Democratic minority leader in the US Senate, come out and say that now he is going to vote for the CR because the CR wouldn't be as bad as a government shutdown.
The United States Congress right now has very few tools that they are able to use, the Democrats in Congress against the Republican Party. This right here was one of them. And I think one of the most kind of painful things about this also was the sort of head fake yesterday when he came out and he said that he was going to oppose this bill and that the Democratic Party was united in opposition.
like don't don't lie to the people right if if you're going to fight fight um but it's almost worse to do what he did here which is lead people on say that they were going to basically play this game of chicken with the republican party ideally force them to take out the bad things in this continuing resolution remain united on a plan to keep the government open for 30 days as democrats he basically made that whole thing up
and just decided to cave today and opened up the caucus to do the same if they so choose so we'll see how the vote goes the vote is scheduled for for friday but now that schumer is saying that i think it changes the calculation from what we saw yesterday but you know we need people right now who are built for this moment we need people who are who are fighters right now
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Chapter 5: How is Trump's administration responding to the economic situation?
That's not what your job is. I run it. What are you like? Like an intern? Congress has become us intern, right? I mean, what, what, what are they, what is he doing? Like he's, he's, he's, you know, by the way, That's not how I would even treat my – I would treat my interns far better. than how he described his internship for Elon Musk, right? He's like, what, getting Elon Musk his coffee?
I mean, that's what a co-equal branch of our government has become, as Elon Musk and Donald Trump do product placement, selling Tesla vehicles in front of the White House, and Trump has a piece of paper listing the cost of the different Teslas, and Trump reads off what the Teslas cost so he can help Elon Musk, and then he and Hannity go, we bought Teslas, because Elon needs us right now.
Where do these people come from? Where do these people come from? And we as Americans more than ever right now need to just say enough, enough, enough. We should have said it before, but I'm heartened by the fact that this network is growing. That tells me, yeah, look, it's great to beat Rogan. It's great to beat Fox. Sure. That's not why we're doing it.
And as I've said before, this is not a spike the football moment for us. People are suffering right now. This is a time where all of us need to gather together, grow together, fight back together. Let's use this platform to highlight things that corporate media would never highlight. Let's do the things that you've always wanted to see corporate media do, but they've been too scared to do.
And so that's our commitment to you every day, every hour, every minute together. Brett, anything else you want to say?
Well said, Ben. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.
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