Trump's latest meltdown hits new authoritarian lows—and the week is just getting started. On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the madness: Trump’s so-called “economic plan” includes rationing dolls for little girls, jacking up prices, and telling working families to “shut up.” He floated imaginary trade deals, demanded tariffs on Hollywood movies, posted a bizarre AI image of himself as the Pope, and called for reopening Alcatraz. Oh, and he partied with the Proud Boys at Mar-a-Lago, questioned if he has to uphold the Constitution, and proposed gutting 20% of four-star generals. Meanwhile, a huge pro-democracy win in Australia where the Labor Party crushed it—ALBOWS UP, mates. Buckle up—Ben, Brett and Jordy discuss it all. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors! Climate First Bank: Visit https://climatefirstbank.com/meidas to learn more Vessi: Visit https://vessi.com/meidas now for 15% off your first pair at checkout and start exploring with confidence. Zbiotics: Head to https://Zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Miracle Made: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 piece towel set and save over 40% OFF! 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What controversial statements did Trump make recently?
Let them eat cake. Donald Trump's central planning department is now saying that little girls should only get two dolls, not 35 dolls and only a couple of pencils, not 250 pencils. These are actual words that Donald Trump repeated over and over again in the past 48 hours. Also, no deals.
Donald is saying because he hasn't been able to secure any deals as part of his disastrous trade war, he may just start to make up his own deals. in his mind and declare what the tariffs are going to be for each country? Isn't that what you did already that got us into this mess in the first place? Okay, Donald. Donald Trump also posted an AI image of himself as a pope.
He called for reopening Alcatraz. He called for tariffing movies produced overseas. He hung out with the leader of the Proud Boys at Mar-a-Lago, Enrique Tarrio. He says he doesn't know if the Constitution applies to him. He doesn't think migrants should have trials. Oh, and they're cutting, what, 20% of the four-star generals? Oh, and the week has just begun. Also...
Elbows up a big victory for the Labor Party in Australia, which is their left-leaning liberal party there. The Trump-backed MAGA party over there, which is their liberal party, their conservative right-wing party is called the Liberal Party, led by Peter Dutton, had a humiliating defeat on Saturday.
The Labor Party had a massive, massive victory, a huge repudiation of Trump and MAGA because the Peter Dutton party liberal candidate, which again is their right-wing party, was Timu Trump.
They're like the Maple Maga Pierre Poliev and the way Pierre Poliev in Canada lost his seat, lost his riding, although he basically shook someone down, a conservative in Alberta, to then take that person's riding. Same thing here with Peter Dutton, who lost his own seat in Dixon. And there the right wing party had a massive defeat. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy. We've got a lot to discuss.
A lot has happened over the past 24 to 48 hours. And it looks like Donald Trump spiraling out of control just continues to accelerate. It was funny, but I saw some of the comments and they were like, Ben, when you say total meltdown. We always think that's clickbait and you're exaggerating, but you're right. It is a total meltdown. I go, what else do you want me to call what this is?
I'm just literally observing what I'm seeing right now. I don't know what else to call it.
Hey, listen, if we're making videos about like Mitt Romney speaking about like his views on tax policy and we were like Romney goes psycho, I totally get it. If you guys are like, come on now, come on. But like literally this guy goes psycho and has meltdowns every single day. Like let's not act like what we are seeing is normal stuff. You will own less and be happy.
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Chapter 2: What are Trump's claims about his economic policies?
Also, Donald, and that's going to cost, what, probably around $100 million or more. We previously reported how Donald Trump has been on a personal deal making, not in terms of the country. Donald Trump is building resorts in Qatar right now. Also, we learned earlier, New York Post exclusive exclusive that Qatar gave Donald Trump and the American military support.
their big jet for Donald Trump to build a new Air Force One with gold walls in it. So it shouldn't be surprising why federal spending is actually significantly higher right now under Donald Trump than it was under former President Biden. All Doge did was take your data, take your Social Security information. take your medical records, take your IRS file and did nothing to cut costs at all.
They're actually going to cause a massive amount of money to be added to our deficit in the short term, probably 130 to 200 billion. based on what they've done. But then when you factor in the tax revenues that won't be collected and the dismantling and inefficiencies in federal government that they've caused, I would guess that it will probably be in the trillions.
Let's get into some of what I talked about at the outset of this show. Here was Donald Trump in this interview with Kristen Welker, which was supposed to be the 100 day interview. And Donald Trump's on Meet the Press. And Donald Trump is asked, so are you OK with recession? Are you OK? And Donald Trump's like, yeah, yeah. Here, play the clip.
And that's my question. Long term. Is it OK in the short term to have a recession?
Yeah.
It's a transition. Yes, that's what he ran on. I will do a transition day period. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay with everything. What does it even mean? You're okay with everything? Here, Donald Trump tells Kristen Walker about the military parade. He goes, this is going to be great for us. This is going to be great. Here, let's play this clip.
The president also told me that next month he's planning a military parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army that also falls on his 79th birthday.
We're going to have a big, beautiful parade.
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Chapter 3: How did the Labor Party win in Australia impact politics?
That's what doesn't even make the news at all, or maybe buried in page 18 and gets a tiny paragraph and then no one talks about it again. No one's talking about that Don Jr. has created a club called the Executive Branch.
For $500,000 per membership with David Sachs, the crypto czar, and they're throwing parties at the Willard Hotel where they're just flaunting this club, which presumably is access to the crypto czar and the executive branch. Donald Trump's deal in Qatar for resorts to be made there. The Abu Dhabi fund spending, what, billions and billions of dollars using the Trump-aligned crypto.
Trump selling meme coins, heck, earlier today. Just today, Donald Trump posted about his meme coin dinner. If you have the most Trump meme coins, you get to meet with you get to meet with Donald Trump. I could go on. I mean, I could spend 10 shows.
Not to mention, like the fact that the other stuff that's happening directly in the White House, even these executive orders against these law firms are like a protection racket that we are seeing right now. You know, they actually did a great report on 60 Minutes last night about this, where they had an attorney speak about this. And it was a John Kecker. Is that how you say his name, Ben?
We had on the show. We had him on.
Yeah. And he said that this is the definition of bribery, what we are seeing right now, the definition of bribery, what Donald Trump is doing with these law firms by making them give him these basically in-kind bribes. pro bono work to the sum of hundreds of millions of dollars, also scaring them off with his legal schemes against them.
I mean, we're witnessing the single most brazenly corrupt criminal administration in history just doing things every single day that would have been months worth of coverage if not like historic, like major headlines in your history books growing up, but it's just a daily occurrence, sometimes like 10 times a day. And that's part of their strategy, right?
It just do so much that you overwhelm the system, whether it's the media system, the courts, whatever it is, try to throw so much at everybody that you just confuse everybody to going, oh, maybe this isn't so psycho. Maybe this is normal. No, this is psycho stuff that we're seeing.
But what they didn't account for, Brett, in this administration is this community, is the pro-democracy community, the Midas Mighty, independent media really putting their flag in the ground and saying, uh-uh, we know how to report on this shit and we're going to do it every single day. And we're going to meet the moment every single day and call this stuff out, right?
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