MeidasTouch host Brett Meiselas reports and Donald Trump disastrous first cabinet meeting in which Trump often appeared confused as he spouted lie after lie and turned questions over to Elon Musk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's first cabinet meeting?
This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. Mirror, mirror on the wall. That was Donald Trump apparently talking about himself during his first cabinet meeting of his new term. Donald Trump was joined by his puppet master, Elon Musk, who led much of the meeting, which was completely bizarre, full of lies.
And at times, Donald Trump didn't even seem to acknowledge that he is actually the president. My name is Brett Mycelis with Midas Touch. I'm going to walk you through the lowlights and fact check it all. But first, remember to hit subscribe and help us get to 5 million subscribers. The meeting began with a prayer where they thanked God for President Trump. Just completely bizarre stuff.
Watch this.
Father, we thank you for this awesome privilege, Father, to be in your presence. God, thank you that you've allowed us to see this day. The Bible says that your mercies are new every morning. And Father God, we give you the glory and the honor. Thank you, God, for President Trump, Father, for appointing us. Father God, thank you for anointing us to do this job.
Trump then didn't even seem to know that he is president right now. And he said that while egg prices are a disaster and are really high now, they were low with him.
Eggs are a disaster. The secretary of agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mind boggling what's happened, how low they were with us and how high they are now. But I think we can do something about it, Madam Secretary, and I think you're going to do a fantastic job in that position.
Trump was then asked about consumer confidence, which is absolutely plummeting right now. People are very unhappy with the Trump economy and how he is handling it, or probably the lack of how he is handling it right now. Trump then argued that confidence was high after the election. I mean, when Biden was still president. Play the clip.
I've seen consumer confidence this week have a sharp drop from last month, the biggest dip in, I believe, three years. Why is that, your assessment, why is that the case, and is there anything you can do?
Well, I think that consumer confidence, if you look at confidence in the nation, it had the biggest increase in the history of the chart. It went up 42 points in a period of, like, days after the election, since the election. So since the election, the confidence in our nation... including right track, wrong track.
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Chapter 2: Why did Trump's cabinet meeting start with a prayer?
And the New York Times reports that the top five biggest cuts that Doge claimed to have put forward, they've now been removed from their website because they were all fraudulent claims. They were just completely made up. factual errors.
And while they're causing all this chaos under the guise of cutting the deficit, they are currently pushing through this budget bill in Congress that would add $19 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. $19 trillion with a T.
So even if NPR's data is somehow wrong by 100x, and even if Doge somehow found a lot more savings since that report came out, it's still not even a dent in what the Trump GOP tax plan is about to cause. And also they could give $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to the richest Americans.
And you don't have to believe me, here are the deficit numbers as listed in the GOP resolution that passed last night. Take a look at this. And by the way, all these Republican politicians and influencers are now lying about the resolution, saying that they've ended tax on tips, tax on social security, tax on overtime. just a flat out lie.
And you could see these posts like this one by Republican Representative Ana Paulina Luna. It got fact checked on Twitter of all places. It says on the bottom of the fact check, quote, House resolution does not include provisions for no tax on tips or no tax on overtime. It's a budget resolution setting fiscal targets, not a tax or labor law.
And Trump's proposals on tips and unmentioned overtime would require separate legislation. Also, to reiterate what was just said in that note, this is just a resolution providing the framework of the budget. The bill itself has not been passed. They are literally making up benefits for the working class out of thin air so that they could push forward these tax cuts for the rich.
It's absolutely abhorrent. Well, back to the cabinet meeting Trump threatened Canada again by calling them the 51st state. Watch this.
We don't need that lumber. What do we need that lumber for? When you look at the... We subsidize them $200 billion a year. Without us, Canada can't make it. You know, Canada relies on us 95%. We rely on them 4%. Big difference. And I say Canada should be our 51st state. There's no tariffs, no nothing. And I say that we give them military protection. They have a very small military.
They spend very little money on military or NATO. They're just about last. in terms of payment, because they say, why should we spend on military? That's a tremendous cost. Most nations can't afford to even think about it. Why should we spend on military? The United States protects us. And I would say that's largely true. We protect Canada, but it's not fair.
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Chapter 3: How did Trump address the issue of rising egg prices?
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