On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” has arrived—and it’s an economic disaster. His sweeping global tariffs tank the markets and trigger mass layoffs, with job cuts now soaring to pandemic-era levels. As the fallout spreads, even some Republicans are breaking ranks and blasting Trump’s reckless economic agenda, while his inner circle scrambles to defend the indefensible. Trump, meanwhile, fires key members of his National Security team—not over misconduct, but because far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer told him to. Around the globe, world leaders are hitting back with retaliatory measures, and in Wisconsin, a major win for democracy offers a glimmer of hope. Ben, Brett, and Jordy break it all down! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors! DeleteMe: Get 20% OFF your DeleteMe plan! Go to https://JoinDeleteMe.com/MEIDAS and enter code: MEIDAS at checkout Hiya Health: Go to https://HiyaHealth.com/meidas to receive 50% off your first order! Dose: Save 30% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/MEIDAS or entering MEIDAS at checkout. iRestore: Reverse hair loss with @iRestorelaser Get $625 OFF with the code: MEIDAS at https://iRestoreLaser.com/MEIDAS #irestorepod 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: How did Trump's economic policies lead to a market crash?
One of the biggest market crashes in history happened today. Trump did that. We saw one of the biggest job cut numbers in a single month today. About 275,000 jobs were cut. We got those numbers, by the way, more than in March 2020 when COVID hit. Also, Trump was in office then, not surprisingly. Yes, Trump did that. Trump tariffed every country in the world.
Donald Trump also tariffed an island near Antarctica that has only penguins and not humans. He also tariffed an area where the only occupants is a single American military base. So both dangerous, destructive and stupid all at once.
causing this crash to the american markets speaking about dangerous and stupid and destructive national security advisor mike walls we learned not surprisingly was doing more of those signal text threads where he was text messaging war plans also apparently our national security advising apparatus uses gmail to send classified information and state secrets. We're learning about that as well.
But that news, I guess, is getting a little buried under the stock market crash that's taking place. Also, Laura Loomer, 9-11 conspiracy theorist, she went to the White House, had a big meeting with Donald Trump while the markets were crashing. Did it result in Mike Walls being fired? No, just some other National Security Council people who were probably actually competent.
Trump took Laura Loomer's advice and fired them. With all of this chaos going on, there was also elections this week. Big election for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court seat. The Democratic-aligned candidate, Judge Susan Crawford, beat Brad Schimel, the Magadoge candidate, who was funded by tens of millions of dollars from Elon Musk. We've got a lot to discuss.
And while all of this is going down, folks, Donald Trump, is he posting anything of comfort? No, the arsonist is mocking the people. Here's what Donald Trump posted. All in caps with exclamation points, of course. The operation is over. The patient lived and is healing. The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better, and more resilient than ever before.
Make America great again, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation As George Conway said, he's virtually psychotic. I think we could remove the word virtually and just say psychotic. Our foreign policy, our economic policy, everything we do is being run by a malignant, narcissistic, sociopathic psycho. who wants to cause destruction and is causing devastation to our country.
We've got a lot to discuss on this day that will live in infamy in the history of the United States. No, it's not liberation day as Donald Trump psychotically calls it. It is annihilation day, great depression day. Donald Trump has done to the United States what he has done to his own companies over and over again. bankrupting it in record time.
Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, we indeed have a lot to discuss.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election?
European Union, they're very tough, very, very tough traders. You know, you think of European Union, very friendly. They rip us off. It's so sad to see. It's so pathetic. Thirty nine percent. We're going to charge them 20 percent. So we're charging them essentially half. Vietnam, great negotiators, great people. They like me. I like them. The problem is they charge us 90 percent.
We're going to charge them 46 percent tariff. Taiwan, where they make, they took all of our computer chips and semiconductors. We used to be the king, right? We were everything. We had all of it. Now we have almost none of it except the biggest company is coming in. They're going to have, we're going to end up with almost 40%. Lee Zeldin's working to get their approvals. Thank you.
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Chapter 3: How is Trump's rhetoric affecting national security and foreign relations?
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is very wrong and it is just what we're a few months now into donald trump's disastrous administration and we are already seeing a seismic shift so i think a lot of these people who have been leaning into like maga talking point trying to shift to the right also i think they're going to have a lot of egg on their face you know if they don't already because people are going to be sick of this stuff so quickly how do i know well because they already are sick of this stuff
And like I said earlier, this stuff is always very cyclical, right? There's a cyclical power at play where people vote one way, they go, oh shit, we shouldn't have done that. Vote the other way, go, oh shit, this maybe could be better. And then vote the other way. And it just ping pongs back and forth. Now we're seeing a shift though right now that's quicker than we've ever seen before.
And so first I want to highlight Judge Susan Crawford in Wisconsin. Judge Susan Crawford, she defeated the MAGA judge candidate, Brad Schimel.
this was a race that maga donald trump elon musk their entire media ecosystem all of their influencers they all went all in on this race elon musk spent like more money than anybody else combined musk was handing out checks to people he literally gave a few people million dollar checks like doing these to me, very obviously illegal schemes in the state to try to influence the election.
But guess what? It failed. In fact, I think it backfired because there were some Republican initiatives that actually performed better than Brad Schimel did in the race on the same ballot. So I think Elon Musk actually had, if you want to talk about Doge, the most inefficient investments on the
moked in this race even worse than he probably would have if elon musk never even stepped foot in that state or spoke about this election once so that's a big deal it's a big deal that in wisconsin we see judge crawford winning it was something like 55.1 to 44.9 something around that those are very very very very sizable margins so now all these sort of illegal gerrymandering tricks that these mega republicans wanted to pull in wisconsin
That's over. It could help Democrats in the House coming up. That's a big, big, big deal. This is a big, big, big deal that this happened. And I want to show you, speaking of the political wins, let me show you what that looks like when you lay it out on a map. Here's a map. I'm going to pull it up. I'll just describe it for the folks listening.
It's a map of the shift in the margins from the 2024 presidential vote in places in Wisconsin compared to the vote just now in this race for Supreme Court in Wisconsin. You could see every one of these blue arrows is shifting. The way they do it is they do blue arrows shifting to the left to show that it's getting more democratic. This is statewide on this map.
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