In this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the latest chaos in MAGA world. Republicans are openly saying veterans should be fired from the federal government—yes, you read that right. Trump’s latest press conference spiraled into a mess of threats against NATO, incoherent rambling, and yet another delay of his doomed tariff plan. Meanwhile, the stock market took a disastrous nosedive, rattled by Trump's reckless policies, and his administration is bracing for a potentially ugly jobs report on Friday. We also give our take on Trump's joint address to Congress—spoiler alert: it was filled with lies and grievance—and discuss a federal judge's scorching rebuke of Trump’s attempts to rule like a king. All that and more on today’s episode—tune in! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Watch Ben’s interview with President Biden: https://youtu.be/TJfOAjUleTc Deals from our sponsors! L-Nutra ProLon: Right now, ProLon is offering The MeidasTouch Podcast listeners 15% OFF off their 5-day nutrition program. Go to https://ProlonLife.com/MEIDAS Oracle: Go to https://oracle.com/meidas and see if your company qualifies for this special offer. Magic Spoon: Save $5 off your next order when you go to https://magicspoon.com/meidas OneSkin: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code: MEIDAS at https://oneskin.co #oneskinpod 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 chaos is unfolding in MAGA world?
As Donald Trump is crashing the markets here in the United States and crashing our overall economy, as Donald Trump is capitulating on these trade wars that he's initiating with Canada and Mexico and then pausing and saying, I need 30 more days. The MAGA Republican proxies of Donald Trump are on the hill. Attacking our veterans today.
Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Brandon Gill on veterans getting fired by Trump and Doge. Let's play it.
To assure veterans that their services will not be interrupted by these cuts.
Well, first of all, I want to go back to that. The problem with the Social Security is that they're not communicating with other agencies that are sending out checks. That's what they've identified. But as it relates to the VA, I'd like to remind people that nobody in the United States has a right by God to have a job at taxpayer expense at the federal government, myself included.
Chapter 2: Why are veterans being targeted by Republicans?
But my children and our grandchildren do have a birthright to inherit a country that is not bankrupt.
There's a twofer right there attacking Social Security and our veterans in under 30 seconds. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick from Georgia defending Doge and Trump firing veterans. Let's play it.
Congressman, should Doge be firing veterans?
I think there's going to be layoffs in every business and government. And sometimes those people will be veterans. If the job is not necessary or if there's a requirement, veterans have been laid off since the beginning of hirings. And that's every administration, by the way. So, yeah, there's going to be some layoffs. That's the way every business and every government process has been.
Only when necessary.
MAGA has perfected the reverse Oprah. Layoffs for you, layoffs for you, firing you, firing you. Here is Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, on veterans who have been fired from their government jobs. Here's what she just said. Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration can do to at least help salvage their lives.
Well, as you know, we care about veterans tremendously. I mean, that's something the president has always cared about. Anybody in blue, anybody that serves this country. But at the same time, we have taxpayer dollars. We have a fiscal responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work. That doesn't mean that we forget our veterans by any means.
We are going to care for them in the right way. But perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment or not willing to come to work. And we can't you know, I wouldn't take money from you and pay somebody and say, sorry, you know, they're not going to come to work. It's just not acceptable.
The official message from the White House to veterans, you are not fit for your job and you are not fit to show up to work. You may have sacrificed your lives for the country, then sacrificed it again to work for the government. But as Donald Trump says, you ain't fit, so you're fired. That's the message from the Trump administration.
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Chapter 3: How are Trump's trade policies affecting the economy?
I know Zelensky very well. I'll end that war between those two countries in 24 hours. It won't even take that long. I will get the war ended. I'll stop all of those lives from being wasted and lost.
Let's bring my brother Brett in. Brett, how are you doing, sir? I wanted to start off with all of those receipts. Why? Because facts matter. Fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. That's how you have to deal with this climate, I think.
Yeah, you got to show the receipts. You got to show that this is the things that they are saying. I am just so appalled. when I hear all those statements by these Republicans about our veterans, about our federal workers. And before I get started on this, Jordy is out on daddy duty. We all miss Jordy dearly, and he will be back next episode, don't you worry.
But I've never in the history of living in this country have heard politicians speak with such disdain towards the citizens of this country and towards the hardworking of federal workers of this country and towards veterans. These were always positions that were revered. These were always a pathway to living the American dream.
And to hear Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, say that these federal workers don't deserve their paychecks. It's Marjorie Taylor Greene who doesn't deserve her paycheck. She is the useless one.
These federal workers work hard and do the tough jobs of our government, in many cases, even choosing to go into public service rather than going into into the private system in order to actually help our government in a way for far less pay. They deserve our respect. They deserve our admiration. And this push that I continue to hear, like we have the jobs report coming out on Friday morning.
The Trump administration is already trying to get ahead of this. They are terrified about what these job numbers are going to be. And I've seen a lot of these people in the Trump administration and in the Republicans in Congress who are already saying things like, well, they should release a report that they should take out anything to do with government workers.
Government workers don't count as jobs. They don't count as people. They don't count as... In what world do those not count as jobs? What are you saying? And I think this is the whole problem When people say our government needs to be run like a business, it's got to be run like a business. That's why we need Donald Trump.
First off, if that's your businessman that you want to put in charge of this business, you have put the world's worst businessman in charge. And you're right. He is running it like a terrible businessman, which is absolutely terrible for our country. The government has a different purpose than a business. It's not about maximizing shareholder value. It exists to serve citizens equitably.
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Chapter 4: What was the federal judge's ruling against Trump?
Let me read this for you. Federal Judge Beryl Howell just came out with a powerful ruling finding that the firing of the National Labor Relations Board member, Gwynne Wilcox, was illegal. This is what she says about Donald Trump in her order. She's a Washington DC federal judge.
She goes, a president who touts an image of himself as a king or a dictator, perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article 2 of the US Constitution. In our constitutional order, the president is tasked to be a conscientious custodian of the law, albeit an energetic one,
to take care of effectuating his enumerated duties, including the laws enacted by Congress and as interpreted by the judiciary. A powerful ruling there as Donald Trump continues to lose in the courts.
He also lost in a 5-4 decision in the United States Supreme Court, which ordered that $2 billion, which was already appropriated by Congress to USAID and extended by these continuing resolutions by the... Republican Congress who can't pass a freaking budget because they can't even do anything right at all, even pass their own budget. The Supreme Court ordered that $2 billion go to USAID.
And it was interesting because the three liberal justices were joined by Justice Amy Cohen, Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts. And now all of the kind of right wing influencer spear, as well as a lot of the MAGA leaders are saying Amy Coney Barrett, by the way, she was instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade. They're saying she was a DEI hire, a DEI hire, wah, wah, wah.
because she ruled that money appropriated by congress should go to where the money was appropriated to go and that elon musk an unelected bureaucrat although donald trump said during that horrible joint session the days of unelected bureaucrats are gone
You literally have a billionaire who has access to your social security data, your medical records, your tax records, who's basically unilaterally gutted key programs, destroyed the lives in such a cruel manner as well. of hardworking Americans, many veterans, the spouses of veterans. But according to Donald Trump, the days of unelected bureaucrats are gone. Snap the hell out of it, America.
Stop living in right-wing frameworks where they want to rage bait you into talking about shit that doesn't matter to your life. Your money is being impacted. You're living probably... in a situation right now that is far worse than when Biden wasn't on.
Ask yourself, are you better off right now with chaotic posts every day, with the markets crashing, and then Donald Trump saying, well, what do I do? I guess I'm going to
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Chapter 5: Why is Donald Trump attacking NATO?
Notably, I think Fox stopped covering at this point, which is interesting, when Doocy asked a lot of these questions.
They cut away.
They cut away, yeah. from NATO. But here it is saying, are you considering, you know, changes in how America deals with NATO? Let's play this clip.
President Trump, on Peter's question, are you going to make that policy, U.S. policy that the U.S. wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay?
Well, I think it's common sense, right? If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them. No, I'm not going to defend them. I got into a lot of heat when I said that.
You said, oh, he's violating NATO. Also, during that Oval Office press conference, Donald Trump made a statement saying that he doesn't believe that the NATO allies would actually help the United States if the United States needed their help. I mean, quite literally, NATO has helped the United States and stood with the United States when the United States has gone to war over and over again.
The Canadians have bravely fought with the United States historically, as well as all of these NATO countries. So
trump has no historical perspective either um and his obsequiousness to putin and his attacks on nato are just so obvious and ridiculous and causing major disruption to our alliances but donald trump also says that um look short-term disruptions to our economy that's to be expected and farmers you're gonna you're gonna love it right everybody short-term disruptions yay
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trump's tariff delays?
The first administration, and I think we'll do even better now, but this is something that we have to do. There'll always be a little short-term interruption. I don't think it's going to be big, but the countries and companies that have been ripping us aren't particularly happy with what I'm doing. But the United States will be very happy. And, you know, our farmers are going to be very happy.
And again, there'll be disruption. But in the end, I said it before with China, we signed an unbelievable deal with China, $50 billion in purchases, and we're doing great.
by the way for our audio listeners he's standing by like a stupid poster board that says gulf of america i mean because right everybody that's what you really wanted google to change gulf of mexico to gulf of america while he makes things way more expensive makes housing less affordable tanks our markets arbitrarily and capriciously wakes up and says, you're tariffed, you're tariffed.
I'm giving you a tariff. Oops, I changed my mind. I changed my mind. I mean, literally Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada did nothing. They just stood up to Donald Trump to make Trump even change his mind other than powerfully push back. It wasn't like they gave any concessions to Donald Trump. Trump on his own imposed this trade war, and then Trump first took away the auto tariffs.
Then Donald Trump said that things that are covered by the USMCA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, would not be subject to the tariffs until April 2nd, although energy, I don't think Donald Trump realizes, which is one of the major forms of trade between US and And Canada, for example, that's not part of the USMCA. So I don't think Trump realizes that.
First, he started with auto, then said USMCA. And so he was asked about this conversation that he had with the big three auto manufacturers who were probably saying, dude, what the hell are you doing? You're going to make us all go bankrupt. So what Trump did is said, 30-day extension, 30-day extension on the tariffs, which he already extended once before.
We've already gone through this gong show routine before, over and over again, but I'll play this clip.
On the auto tariffs that you were talking about, I know yesterday you spoke with the big three. Did you tell them that no more exemptions were on the way? And what was their reaction?
I told them, that's it. This was a short-term deal. And they came back to me yesterday. They said, could we have some help on the tariffs because of the speed? And I said, look, I'm going to do it. But that's it. Don't come back to me after the second April 2nd. I don't want to hear from you after April 2nd. We're not going to be doing it anymore. I want to help them.
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