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Podcast Episode Summary: All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Goes Missing on World Stage!!
Podcast Overview Podcast Title: The MeidasTouch Podcast Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas Episode Release: Every Tuesday and Friday morning Episode Format: A blend of comedy, brotherly banter, and political commentary
Episode Description In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses the global chaos emerging in the absence of Donald Trump following a problematic State of the Union address. He highlights how various world leaders, sensing Trump's weakness, are taking aggressive actions that could have serious implications for global security.
Key Discussion Points
- Trump's Absence and Perceived Weakness
- Trump has been absent from the media spotlight following his State of the Union address.
- Ben argues that this absence has revealed a perception of weakness internationally.
- Global Events and Reactions
- North Korea: Kim Jong-un announces plans to expand nuclear forces, with no significant response from Trump’s administration.
- China: Military drone operations over Taiwan increase, rehearsing for potential invasions, again with little to no response from the U.S.
- Cuba: A U.S. boat allegedly opens fire on Cuban border guards, resulting in casualties; the U.S. government fails to address this serious incident adequately.
- U.S. Foreign Policy Critique
- Ben critiques Trump’s administration for its failure to adequately address these international crises, questioning what a proactive response would look like under previous administrations.
- He highlights the echoes of past rhetoric where Republican media would criticize Democratic leaders for perceived weaknesses.
- Iran Tensions
- Discussion on escalating tensions with Iran, citing potential plans for U.S. intervention.
- Lindsey Graham's comments reflect a hardline approach, which contrasts the previous promises made by Trump to support Iranian protesters.
- Ukraine Conflict
- The U.S. abstains from a UN resolution calling for peace in Ukraine, raising questions about American commitment to global stability.
- Ben points out the troubling implications of the U.S. not actively supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression.
- Critique of U.S. Political Landscape
- Ben notes the stark contrast in global investor confidence, with U.S. markets trailing behind others.
- He discusses election fraud allegations in Hungary as part of a broader commentary on authoritarianism and the similarities with American political maneuvering.
Key Takeaways
- The episode emphasizes the theme of perceived U.S. weakness on the global stage during Trump's absence.
- There is a call for accountability, questioning why mainstream media has not addressed these significant international developments.
- Ben offers a critical view of the current administration's foreign policy and its implications for democracy and global stability.
Final Thoughts
- The MeidasTouch Podcast aims to engage listeners with pressing political issues while infusing humor and brotherly banter.
- The episode closes with a plea for listeners to subscribe and support independent media.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Global Absence and Its Implications
0:24 to 1:24
Discussing Trump's lack of response to ongoing international crises.
“since that disastrous State of the Union that he gave.”
Cuba, North Korea, and Trump's Weakness
1:24 to 4:06
Examining incidents involving Cuba and North Korea, highlighting Trump's inaction.
“at least 23 times since August over Taiwan as it uses these drone operations to apparently rehearse a possible invasion.”
Iran's Protests and U.S. Promises
4:06 to 6:12
Reviewing Trump's unfulfilled commitments to Iranian protesters amidst unrest.
“That's like what their current thinking and plan is.”
Russia's Continued Aggression in Ukraine
6:12 to 8:00
Analyzing the ongoing war in Ukraine and U.S. foreign policy stance.
“And now we're talking about war with Iran.”
U.S. Isolation and Economic Decline
10:02 to 14:00
Discussing America's declining global influence and economic performance.
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U.S. Stock Market Performance Under Trump
14:00 to 14:44
Explore how the U.S. stock market ranks internationally during Trump's presidency.
“If you look at the performance, say, of the S &P 500 and you compare it to the markets of other countries, or if you look at the overall U.S.”
Signs of Hope in Hungary's Politics
14:44 to 15:41
Learn about the pro-democracy movement in Hungary and its polling lead.
“you look at Hungary right now, not the fact that it's currently being run by the Orban regime, a Putin bootlicker, a MAGA of Hungary, right, for the past 15 years.”
Orban's Tactics and Allegations of Election Fraud
15:41 to 17:06
Discuss Orban's political maneuvers and allegations of election misconduct.
“Medaille, widely seen as the country's most reliable pollster.”
Global Tensions and U.S. Leadership
17:06 to 18:31
Examine current global conflicts and the perceived inaction of U.S. leadership.
“party members photocopied signature collection sheets and accidentally submitted the copies to the National Election Office.”
Media Coverage of International Events
18:31 to 18:58
Critique the media's focus on significant global events and leadership responses.
“Don't you think, though, that the leader of the United States should be talking about this?”
Transcript
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0:23Ben Meiselas:All hell has been breaking loose across the world and Donald Trump has been missing in action. He really hasn't even surfaced. since that disastrous State of the Union that he gave. He reeks of weakness and world leaders see this. I mean, you take a look at what's happening in North Korea right now. Kim Jong-un announcing yesterday that North Korea has a prospective plan to strengthen its national nuclear force, and it's going to focus on projects to increase the number of nuclear weapons and expand nuclear operational means and space for use. So no comment in response by Donald Trump's State Department or Donald Trump's Department of Defense or anybody in Donald Trump's regime.
1:02Ben Meiselas:Could you imagine if that happened, what I just said during former President Biden or former President Obama's administration, how right-wing propaganda media would just say, oh my God, it's World War III. Look how weak you are. That's just another day in Donald Trump's weak America. In addition, we're now learning that China has flown large military drone operations at least 23 times since August over Taiwan as it uses these drone operations to apparently rehearse a possible invasion. No real comments from the State Department there. No real comments from Donald Trump or the Department of Defense.
1:43Ben Meiselas:Utter and total weakness by the Trump regime. Also, yesterday, even though the Trump regime didn't address this in any material way, the Cuban embassy announced that a Florida registered speedboat entered Cuban waters earlier yesterday morning and allegedly opened fire on Cuban border guards who approached it, injuring the commander of the Cuban vessel. Cuba says that four people on a U.S. boat were killed and six others aboard it were injured during the confrontation. And Cuba says that the individuals who opened fire against the Cuban Coast Guards were there to, quote, infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism.
2:28Ben Meiselas:And they also claim that these 10 passengers had a history of being against the Cuban regime and that they were basically sent there from the United States, whether it was on direct orders or otherwise. And Cuba has detained the individuals on that boat who were not killed. You have Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, saying, I don't really know what's going on here. And you had J.D. Vance yesterday saying, I don't really know what's going on here. I mean, you would think that would be a pretty big international incident. I don't know. Call me old school or old fashioned. But isn't that kind of a thing that a president of the United States would address?
3:08Ben Meiselas:Can we just pause here for a moment at what I just covered in a very short period of time? Kim Jong-un announcing increasing their nuclear arsenal, not do they have a nuclear arsenal, increasing it and increasing weapons production. China flying drones over Taiwan to rehearse for an invasion. Cuba killing six people or so on a fishing boat. Four people were killed, six others aboard it were injured on a fishing boat. That's just all happened in a pretty short period of time. Also, the United States is apparently getting closer to invading Iran. The way it's being reported, though, is since there's no one else that wants to be an ally of the United States now other than Israel, what Trump wants is for Israel to strike first, then have Iran retaliate and attack Israel.
4:04Ben Meiselas:And then the Trump regime goes in. That's like what their current thinking and plan is. Although Lindsey Graham is saying anything short of total regime change and total annihilation of the Ayatollah and everybody in Iran is unacceptable. And I just want to say this, though. Didn't this Trump regime promise the protesters in Iran go out there, protest? We got your back. If Iran shoots a single protester, the U.S. is going in guns a-blazing and will make sure that nobody gets killed, then there's different reporting on how many people were massacred by the Ayatollah. It could be as high as 30 ,000 to 40 ,000.
4:46Ben Meiselas:On the low end, 5 ,000, 10 ,000. There's a media blackout there, so it's hard to know for sure. But here's what Lindsey Graham's posting. If media reports are true, that there is a consideration of allowing Iran to have very small enrichment of uranium for face saving purposes. Screw that. This regime is made up of religious Nazis that are the largest state sponsor of terrorism. The regime has American blood on its hands and they have killed over 30 ,000 of their citizens simply because they demand the end of their oppression. So you see Lindsey Graham is using the 30 ,000 number of the 30 ,000 massacre of people in Iran.
5:23Ben Meiselas:Well, I think that's accurate. I think that's the number. But Donald Trump told the protesters to go out there. Donald Trump said, go out there. I got your back, then didn't have their back. Again, think about if Biden did that or Obama did that or George W. Bush did that. This would be outrage. I mean, right? This would be the impeachment, 25th Amendment, you name it. this would be outrageous. But our corporate news gives Donald Trump a pass, not here on the Midas Touch Network. Okay, now pause again. What are we talking about again that I just talked about in this episode? North Korea expanding its nuclear arsenal.
6:01Ben Meiselas:Cuba killing four people, injuring six off a boat from the United States that they claim was there to what, attack or invade Cuba. talked about the Chinese drones over Taiwan. And now we're talking about war with Iran. By the way, in the past, what is it, 24, 48 hours, it was the four-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And in the United Nations, there was a resolution, a resolution that said, we need to have lasting, comprehensive, and just peace in Ukraine and calling out Russia for its invasion. It was just a resolution to say we need peace in Ukraine, right? Do you think the United States supported that resolution?
6:47Ben Meiselas:No. What Russia voted against it, the United States and China abstained. The United States cannot even clearly articulate that it wants peace in Ukraine while Donald Trump and his regime are out there claiming that they're focused on a peace deal. No, they're not. They want to bleed Ukraine dry of its resources, and they want to help Putin in every way possible. As Putin has promised Donald Trump a$12 trillion economic deal when Russia's GDP is$2 trillion a year. But, you know, Donald Trump's a Putin bootlicker. He's got the photo of Putin right there in the West Wing above the photo of his grandchildren.
7:32Ben Meiselas:That's who Donald Trump is. And so this is what's going on in the world already. And last night, more ballistic missiles, Shahid drones from Iran attacking Ukraine, more explosions in Kharkiv, in Kiev, in Zepresia. By the way, if you also look at over the past four years, how many Russians were killed in its invasion of Ukraine, here's how Michael Weiss describes it. Our model suggests that Russian casualties are now between 1.1 million and 1.4 million, of whom 230 ,000 to 430 ,000 Russians are dead. That would mean one in 25 Russian men between the ages of 18 and 49 may have been killed or severely wounded since the start of Russia's invasion.
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10:07Ben Meiselas:In the past 24 hours or so as well, in the United Nations, you had Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia. And he says, so you know that the Russians are not interested in peace. The Russian ambassador to the United Nations goes, I am Ukrainian. I am more Ukrainian than, and then he points to the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations. He goes, I'm more Ukrainian than Mariana Betza. And then Mariana Betza responds, how dare you? Just so you can see what's actually happening in the world. I know not a lot of people play clips of what's happening in the United Nations. We do that here on the Midas Touch Network.
10:55Ben Meiselas:First, I'm going to show you Russia's ambassador to the United Nations. It's translated obviously into English. Here play this clip.
11:03Donald Trump:To speak formally, I'm a Ukrainian and I have a strange last name. Some is difficult to find it even in Ukraine. It is from the Zaporozhye Kazakhs. My father is a pure Ukrainian, was a pure Ukrainian, as was my mother from the Kazakhs and from the
11:27Ben Meiselas:And here's Ukraine's foreign affairs minister, also ambassador to the United Nations, Mariana Betsa. Here's her response to Russia's ambassador to the United Nations. Here, play this If it's formally, I'm a Ukrainian. My father is a Ukrainian. And my mother too. It's more than you, Pani Betsa.
12:14Donald Trump:aggression, terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and also genocide. And third, entire statement by Mr. Nebenza is a vivid example of manipulation, disinformation, and Russian propaganda.
12:28Ben Meiselas:Now, President Zelensky of Ukraine responded that he is grateful to each of the 107 countries that stood with Ukraine in defense of life at the United Nations, the United States not being one of them. The General Assembly adopted our resolution in support of lasting peace with clear calls for a full ceasefire and the return of our people. The United States cannot even support that resolution. These are the right and necessary steps, and we will keep working actively to achieve peace together with our partners. Now, you also are aware that Prime Minister Carney's been traveling the world. He's been meeting with world leaders, connecting the Trans-Pacific Partnerships with the transatlantic partnerships.
13:15Ben Meiselas:One of the way I've described it as, remember growing up when you would play connect the dots in like a coloring book? Basically, there's connecting the dots happening right now, and the dots are being connected in such a way that the United States is being cut out. And the rest of the world growing at a pace, economy, stock markets, bigger than the United States, right? Donald Trump and his regime want to brag about the Dow. The Dow is 50 ,000. But in reality, as the Financial Times discusses, wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump's America.
13:55Ben Meiselas:U.S. stocks trail the rest of the world by the widest margins in decades. If you look at the performance, say, of the S &P 500 and you compare it to the markets of other countries, or if you look at the overall U.S. stock market versus the stock market of other countries, stock market returns under Donald Trump, since his term began, ranks 21 out of 23 developed markets. America's not number one or two or five or seven or 12 or 15 of 23 developed markets. The U.S. is 21 of 23. Yet Donald Trump is bragging about that as though that's the art of the deal. World stock markets are absolutely trouncing the United States.
14:43Ben Meiselas:But I'll leave us with some signs of hope. And the signs of hope? you look at Hungary right now, not the fact that it's currently being run by the Orban regime, a Putin bootlicker, a MAGA of Hungary, right, for the past 15 years. But if you look at the election that's coming up in April, you can see that the Taiza party is leading the Fidesz party. The Faytez is Orban. The Taissa is a party run by Peter Maziar, and he actually used to be part of Orban's party and left and started a pro-democracy, as part of this pro-democracy party. But in this new poll, there's a 55 to 35 lead for Peter Maziar's Taissa over Orban's Faytez, enough for a super majority of the pro-democracy and parliament.
15:40Ben Meiselas:The survey was conducted by Medaille, widely seen as the country's most reliable pollster. That's big news. So in response, what is Orban doing? Well, now Viktor Orban is saying that Hungary is going to deploy troops and increase security around key energy facilities because it's basically saying that Ukraine is threatening to invade Hungary.
16:09Ben Meiselas:Orban is trying to rile up the people of Hungary to act like Zelensky is going to invade them. As Jay and Keeve says, now that he's imploding in the polls ahead of elections, Hungary's Russian-backed Orban regime tries to convince voters that Ukraine is about to invade. Is this how Orban plans to cancel elections? That's the strategy right there. And you want to see right out of the MAGA playbook as well, Peter Meizjar, he's the guy who's the main opposition leader, the pro-democracy leader in Hungary. Here's what he says. He alleges that Orbán's party, may as well call him MAGA, is illegally collecting personal data on prospective voters.
16:52Ben Meiselas:Sound familiar? The data could be used by activists to knock on their doors and mobilize them on election day as Orbán struggles to energize his base. Magyar says, Fidesz has begun committing election fraud. In one constituency, party members photocopied signature collection sheets and accidentally submitted the copies to the National Election Office. According to the regulations, retaining the personal data of signatories is prohibited. Donald Trump invading Fulton County and taking the signatures and taking the data, right? Does it sound familiar? In several constituencies, they are also conducting unlawful signature collection in hospital schools and workplaces.
17:30Ben Meiselas:Phaidez candidates are also using municipal and state resources for their campaigns in a prohibited manner. So when I start off and say all hell is breaking loose, just to recap very quickly, you have Kim Jong-un, we're building our nuclear weapons. China flying massive military drones over Taiwan. Cuba shooting a boat that was heading towards it with 10 people on board, four killed, six injured. They're now detained, saying they came from the U.S., claiming that these were terrorists who are coming to terrorize Cuba, is the allegation. War with Iran, we're very close right there. You've got Donald Trump and the United States abstaining from a vote to declare peace in Ukraine.
18:20Ben Meiselas:You've got Viktor Orban claiming that Zelensky is going to invade. You've got the United Nations meeting that I described right there. That's what's happening in the world. Don't you think, though, that the leader of the United States should be talking about this? Do you think our corporate news should be talking about any of this? Is this interesting to anybody? Hello? I mean, not saying, look, some people covered Cuba, for example. But did you hear anyone talk about Kim Jong-un at all? Anyone talking about China flying drones over time? Anyone talk about any of this stuff? Anyway, hit subscribe.
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