MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the massive international repudiation against Donald Trump and MAGA in recent foreign elections as Trump continues to spiral in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the Trump effect in global elections?
The Trump effect is real all across the world. We're seeing the MAGA Trump aligned candidates getting upset by the pro-democracy candidates. On Sunday, we saw this take place in Romania and Poland. And over the past few weeks, we saw the Trump and MAGA-aligned candidates get upset in Canada and Australia.
Chapter 2: How did recent elections in Romania and Poland impact Trump?
Also, I think that it is not a coincidence that Pope Leo was someone who was very critical of Trump's position on, or I should just call it torture, of migrants with J.D. Vance and that the Vatican... elevated a new pope, signaling, I think, the belief that with Trump in charge, America is on the decline such that an American pope could be selected. Let's break all of this down.
I want to also talk about Donald Trump's unhinged responses throughout the day. But I think this post nicely sums everything up. They lost in Canada, they lost in Australia, Romania, and Poland. And I think we're going to be seeing more of this throughout the world.
Chapter 3: What are Trump's responses to international election results?
And again, if you looked at the results in Romania and you compared it to what was projected just a few days ago, or especially even earlier in the month, where the far right-wing candidate there, Simeon, George Simeon, was expected to go on and win, and he actually won the
The first round, no one had really predicted that there would be this type of commanding victory for the pro-democracy, pro-EU centrist candidate, Nikusha Dan, going on to beat the MAGA-aligned Simeon. You go to Poland, we reported on this before as well, the liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski,
went on to beat the MAGA Republican-aligned candidate, Karola Nowrocki, in the first round of the presidential elections in Poland. June 1st will be the second round there. Let me just show you the respective celebrations very quickly. Here in Romania, the mayor of Bucharest, the next leader of Romania. Here he is. You'll see him right here. Nicosia, Dan, here he is right here. Let's play it.
And here we see in Poland, Trzaskowski, the centrist. Let's play the crowd right there.
Let's play it.
Now, in addition to just these elections, one of the things we're seeing as well is the world recognize how much of a bad negotiator Donald Trump is and how weak he is and how Donald Trump has just been capitulating and or announcing fake deals.
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Chapter 4: How is the world viewing Trump's negotiation tactics?
When Donald Trump got outmaneuvered by China, that was a watershed moment where Trump claimed he had a deal with China last week after meetings in Switzerland, but obviously there wasn't a deal. They reached a consensus where the United States completely caved and withdrew and 145% tariffs that Trump said was going to make America so rich and moved it to 30%.
Also, you dig into the fine print of, not even the fine print, just the big print of Trump's purported deal with the UK. Not a real deal at all. It actually says it's not an actual binding deal, but what it would do is give significant advantages to Jaguar, Land Rover, and Rolls-Royce over American car manufacturers. So the whole world is seeing that.
Chapter 5: What does Moody's downgrade mean for the U.S. economy?
Also, Moody's, the credit agency, downgraded the U.S. credit score for the first time in Moody's history since 1917. The world sees all of that. And right now, China-U.S. trade truce That's how Bloomberg calls it. More like capitulation by the U.S. prompts all of these other nations to consider tougher tactics against Donald Trump. Quote, Now,
Right before the markets open this morning, we see that the Treasury futures are in a steep decline after Moody's cut the U.S. credit rating. Bonds getting drilled right now, as Spencer Akimian puts it, at the open. 4.53% is the 10-year yield. Is that going to hit a five-handle soon? That's what I'm gonna be focusing on. When I say five-handle, I mean 5%.
And this is gonna impact everything from causing mortgage rates to skyrocket. It's gonna make it very difficult for the United States to refinance its debt. And this disastrous budget deal, or this budget bill, rather, that Trump is pushing through. It's going to add about $6 trillion to the deficit.
Chapter 6: How does Trump's behavior reflect his leadership style?
And it just last night, very late last night, was approved by the Budget Committee on a vote of 17 to 16 with those four previous no votes abstaining and just not voting. But it passed the Budget Committee by one vote. It now goes through the next steps. But we're seeing as well
the markets, at least the futures, which is when I'm recording this, showing a steep decline as well on the news of Moody's downgrading the United States credit. Now, this would be something, this would be a time where you'd want real leadership, right? Nope, not from Donald Trump.
All throughout yesterday, he was posting weird memes of himself holding swords that he reposted from QAnon death cult accounts like SpiritualStreetFighter17. That account says, I support QAnon is basically what it says. So Trump keeps reposting QAnon death cult stuff. He also was posting weird videos of himself holding
I guess he was so self-conscious of the fact that Bruce Springsteen was mocking him or criticizing him for the disaster he's caused to Americans. Trump was posting weird AI images of himself playing fake music in front of a fake crowd. Very bizarre behavior indeed. And then Donald Trump was posting calls for military tribunals to put former President President Obama on military tribunals.
Also repost from those QAnon accounts. I mean, look, this is a demented sicko, a vile piece of trash, a felon, a fraud, a sexual abuser who behaves like a maniac. You know, would you be like, oh, my God, Jeffrey Dahmer? He's eating people. He's a mass murderer. Well, he's a disgusting, vile murderer. That's who he is. When you look at Donald Trump, he is a criminal, felon, fraud, bankruptor.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Trump's actions on American politics?
He behaves as such. There's a reason that people like Donald Trump should be locked up in prison for the rest of their lives, in my opinion, and not running a country. We're seeing the effects of this right now.
And then surrounding themselves with other violent, despicable individuals like the Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who's worth basically a billion dollars, who previously lived in a... This is how weird these people are. in a real world, a real life version of the Pink Barbie mansion. That's where he lived.
And here he was doing the morning shows yesterday, blaming former President Biden for the reason that Donald Trump was taking bribes from Qatar. Play the clip.
It sends the wrong message. It sends the wrong message and raises concerns ethically, raises concerns constitutionally and about security. Why is it appropriate for the president to accept a $400 million jet from Qatar?
Well, it's not the president accepted. It would be the United States government. And Senator Mullins said this weekend that the talks had actually begun under the Biden administration. So, Kristen, what I can tell you is I think this is a... off-ramp for many in the media not to acknowledge what an incredible trip this was.
President Trump has brought back trillions of investments in the United States. Every stop we made, the enthusiasm in Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, in the United Arab Emirates to invest in the United States. that they want to push more and more the funds here. And if we go back to your initial question on the Moody's downgrade, who cares? Qatar doesn't. Saudi doesn't. UAE doesn't.
They're all pushing money in. They've made 10-year investment plans. So this administration, we're doing peace deals, trade deals, and tax deals.
Now, also on the morning shows, though, you had a former vice president, Mike Pence, who was actually very critical of Donald Trump taking gifts from Saudi Arabia, which supported 9-11, Qatar, which supports Hamas. Here's what Pence had to say yesterday, play this clip.
Going to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar to use as a temporary Air Force One. He said he'll eventually donate that to his presidential library. Do you think President Trump should accept a military aircraft from Qatar?
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