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27:18MeidasTouch:And then he also brings people down like in Congress or others who always claim to be like, no, I'm moderate and I'm this and I'm that. And then they become this way as well. And once you're there, it's hard to dig yourself out of that, right? So now when anytime people think about, okay, this Olympic team, are we going to remember the accomplishments of their great win? Or are we going to say, well, wasn't that the time where they attacked the women's team and Kash Patel was there with it, right? And then it becomes about Donald and about cash. And to me, that also, Jordy, sums up MAGA right there in a nutshell.

27:54MeidasTouch:So I think a good lesson, though, heading into the State of the Union is Donald Trump has never been less popular. His poll numbers are absolutely crashing. And whether it's because of Donald Trump causing massive damage to our economy, the PCE inflation numbers from Friday show inflation is surging. The GDP numbers came in at like 1.4 percent, quarter four after the Trump regime promised it would come in at three or five percent or even higher. You had those numbers coming in the cover-up of the Epstein files, Donald Trump saying that he's been vindicated for, you know, the fact that he's ripped away healthcare from people, that prices are going up, up, up, you know, you name it.

28:41MeidasTouch:People are not buying the propaganda anymore. And I also think the question is, or an important thing to recognize is, again, with these 6 million subscribers, you know, with the growth of this network and the 9 billion views, I think we've also been pushing back against that propaganda every single day. It's why there are videos here 90 minutes every day, substantive videos that go over facts and specifics. And it's not us ranting and raving about all these things. It's fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, receipt, receipt, receipt, evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence, and empowering people with the truth throughout the entire day.

29:21MeidasTouch:So let's just talk though briefly about Donald Trump alluding to his bad polls. This was from earlier this morning when Donald Trump was speaking at an event that was supposed to honor angel families at the White House, families that lost loved ones. What was Donald Trump doing and saying? He goes, it amazes me that there's not more support out there. Here, play this clip. It just amazes me that there's not more support out there. It's just, We actually have a silent support. I think it's silent. I think that's how I won. I got probably 85 million votes. They say 78 million, 79 million. They cheated in this election, too.

30:01It was just too big to rig. Too big to rig. Here's what Donald Trump says also about the polling and the fact that he says all of the polls are fake. Here, play this clip. Polls are tough. You know, when you get a fake poll, I get them today. I saw one today that I'm at 40 percent, 40 percent. I'm not at 40 percent. I'm at much higher than that. I mean, I'd love to run against anybody. The real polls say you kill everybody. It wouldn't even be close. But you go through the fake polls, you go through the fake stories. And I said, you know, it was good because this is really a much more powerful term than I would have had if I had run, because it was just one of those things.

30:44There would be nothing to compare it to. And then when you think about the deranged things that he's saying throughout this, he talks about Mamdani shoveling snow, and then he's having a conversation with women in the audience who has bad eyes, and he says he fixed her eyes. Well, here, play this clip. Why would we do this? And they walk in, nobody even asked for, like, do you have an identification? Do you have an ID? It's so crazy, you know the mayor of New York and and he's a very nice person I'm I met him, but he's his ideology is not not too good but We're having a massive snowstorm right now, and I heard that He's asked people to come out and help shovel the snow Okay, so you get a shovel and you start shoveling right?

31:34What the hell you're not gonna help too much, but you can help and hello darling. How are you? No, a break behind you look my friend, right? Are you okay? Yes, you are you okay? Are you okay?

31:50Good good are your eyes, okay? I Gave her money to get her eyes fixed a lot of money to get her eyes fixed that doctor ripped me off, but that's okay And when do you go?

32:08They said the Greek cause you have two parties. Well, you get them done. It's a pretty, it's an operation, but it's 100%. You know, it's great. It's Wednesday. Good. You're going to have 20-20 vision. She's almost blind, cataracts. She's almost blind. And with one operation, that'll take a very short period of time. Hope you have a good doctor. He's an expensive doctor. Top of the line, right? Riveting stuff. Riveting, riveting stuff. Well, we just hit 6 million subscribers. Thanks to all of you. We're grateful for all of you for helping us hit 6 million. Ben, I got to say, you know what we got to do now?

32:52We got to put the 6 million into action. And so I'm expecting all 6 million of you to show up tomorrow. Do you think we can get 6 million watching live? Ooh. I don't know. I don't know. Listen, I just want everybody possible to show up for this thing and show your support for this People's State of the Union. Like Ben said earlier, it's a historic event. This has never happened before. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of lawmakers who are going to be not attending the State of the Union, and they're going to be attending our event that we're putting on with Move On, and it's going to be at the National Mall in D.C., and we're going to be streaming it live right here on this network, right here on this YouTube channel.

33:34And the link is up right now. If you wanted to go to it, it's on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Midas Touch. You go there, you'll see the link to the stream for the People's State of the Union. You could set your reminders right now. Please tell a friend, share it with people. Let's really make a statement here, folks, because I think we have a real opportunity right now to show where the energy of this country actually is. All right. We will take our first quick break of the show. 16 ,000 subscribers here. Oh, by the way, while you're all here, check out store.midastouch.com. Get that Midas here.

34:07It's all over the place, Brett. Don't worry about it. I know. Six million subscribers, not 16 ,000 subscribers. Sorry, 16 ,000 subscribers here watching live. I see. 16 ,000 people watching live is what I meant to say. And then also go to store.midastouch.com, check out the Midas Touch gear, and also check out our sub stack as well. We'll be right back after our first quick break. Thanks to HomeServe for sponsoring this episode. Owning a home is amazing until it's not. One minute you're sipping coffee and the next you're ankle deep in water from a burst pipe. Repairs don't care about timing and they definitely don't care about your budget.

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37:56Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio, use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you some good products, some great offerings right there. Definitely check it out. I am so grateful, Midas Mighty, that I do not have to shave my head because I was reminded in the chat, Brett, every single episode, despite me no longer saying it after the first two weeks of February, that I put that bet into the world. I think you're starting to get a little worried, I think. The Gray speak for themselves on the side of them.

38:25But shout out to the Midas Mighty, man. This is You guys are just the best. Thank you. Benji, where to next, big bro? So, look, as we were hitting 6 million subscribers today, and then also we're coordinating the People's State of the Union, which is the biggest boycott in the history of the United States for the State of the Union. We have so many senators and members of Congress who are attending. New senators and new members of Congress announced today that they'll be attending, like Congress Member Garcia and Senator Gallego and others announcing today. I also have my midterm this week that I give out to the law class that I teach.

39:02And so I'm also doing my midterm review today and I'm holding office hours while all of these calls are going down. And so there was just so many things happening all at once. And so big shout out to all my students as well at USC undergrad at the law program though, who are studying right now for those midterms, you're all going to do great. So I told him I would give him a shout out as well. All right. Let's take a look at some of the polling numbers right now for Donald Trump. The worst in history, the worst in history. And the way Harry Enten delivers this right here. I mean, by the way, just look at the CNN poll.

39:45As you can see, Donald Trump's support with independence plummeting. His support with independents right now is at 26%. And by the way, that's the same approval he has with Latino voters, with voters under the age of 40, and with most demographic groups is right at that 26 % mark.

40:08MeidasTouch:Lots of people are like, well, Donald Trump's bottom is like 36 or 35. No, no, no, no, no. This is heading into the 20s right now. And as Donald Trump now imposes this new tariff regime on the entire world, which caused the markets to tumble today, things are going to get worse for Donald Trump and unfortunately worse for the country. But I think people are seeing what's going on. By the way, go back and watch videos of Donald Trump. And we showed some of these earlier in the day as well in some of the videos I did. Before his casinos went bankrupt, he would say, we've never been better. It's the same shtick.

40:47MeidasTouch:The casinos have never been healthier. They've never been greater. The biggest casinos that there are, we are in such a magnificent position. And then bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. This is what this guy does. It's why we focus on his background and his past, right? I mean, he is a sexual predator, right? Here's someone who has been found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's someone who has bankrupted entity after entity after entity. And he's a fraud. He tricks people. He's a con man. He's a Ponzi schemer. This is what he's done his entire life. He's got a shtick. I don't know why it works.

41:25MeidasTouch:It doesn't make any sense to me why people buy it when he keeps on Geordi, to your point, being a fricking loser and bankrupting everything, everything, everything over and over and over again and defrauding people over and over and over again. By the way, to me, people could go bankrupt. That doesn't make you whatever. But when you defraud people and you're a con man and you repeat the shtick over and then you take from people over and over and over again, well, then I don't know what attribute is kind of worse than that, than leeching off of people like that and stealing from people and then having these entities go bankrupt while you enrich yourself at the expense of people.

42:04MeidasTouch:And he's doing it now with the United States. I mean, look, this is a felon. Why is he doing this? Because he's a felon. That's why. He should be in prison. If you look internationally, President Yoon of South Korea, their insurrectionist former president in prison for the rest of their life, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, in prison for 27 years. That's where Trump should be. That's where he belongs. And that's why we're here. But people are seeing it now, finally. Let's take a look at what Harry Enten had to say on CNN about just how weak Donald Trump is. Let's play this clip. But talk about what is driving this drop for the president.

42:43What is driving this drop? I said record was the name of the game when it came to this segment, right? Talking about the lowest Trump has ever been going into the State of the Union, the lowest that any president has been this century going into a state of the union at this point in their presidency. It is also the weakest that Donald Trump has ever been with independents. Look at this drop. We've been talking about it the past few months. At this point, a year ago, Donald Trump was at minus 13 points. Look at this. Minus 47 points among independents. The lowest Donald Trump has ever been in either of his two terms as president with independence.

43:20That is driving these numbers. When you're 47 points underwater with independence, that's the name of the game. You can't be above water overall. And that's why Donald Trump is near record lows overall and the lowest he's ever been going into a State of the Union address. Quite a message on the eve of this big moment. Thank you, Harry. Thank you. John? Those numbers with independence just eye popping there. See, like CNN gets a lot of it. But they got it so right with Mr. Harry and that guy, dude. A-plus. Great work, Harry. Per usual. My goat. So funny how much you love the guy. I love the whole, it's a whole like presentation.

43:57You like the shtick, the routine. It's just him. He's just unapologetically him. It's just because we're all from New York and you appreciate the accent. Exactly. So look, after Donald Trump was handed that massive loss by the United States Supreme Court on Friday, a six to three decision, striking down his tariffs against the world. He held that press conference. I'm not going to show that many clips here because I'm sure you've seen them all. First off, that new lighting in the White House is also just awful. They do everything awful. And I'm not going to just spend that much time talking about the lighting, but this looks like horrible.

44:31I don't even know how to describe what this looks like. But anyway, so he then announces right after he gets that major L from the Supreme Court, that he's now going to be enacting all these other tariffs that are going to be bigger than the tariffs that were just struck down. So here he is when he says, effective immediately, all national security tariffs under Section 232 and existing 301 remain in place. And now I'm ordering an additional 10 % tariffs under Section 122. Here, let's play this clip. Today, I will sign an order to impose a 10 % global tariff under Section 122 over and above our normal tariffs already being charged.

45:12And we're also initiating several Section 301 and other investigations to protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies. And then less than 24 hours later, about 12 hours later, He then posts that he's now raising that number from 10 % to 15%, and 15 % is the cap under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. But let's just pull up for a second the Trade Act of 1974, Section 122. As Peter Berezin explains, Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, on which Trump is now basing these 15 % tariffs, it just does not apply in the current macro environment. A balance of payment deficits is required.

46:04That's not the same as a trade deficit.

46:07MeidasTouch:You cannot have a balance of payments if you have a flexible exchange rate as the U.S. currently does. Also, didn't Donald Trump say that he has brought in$17 trillion or$21 trillion? So if you've brought in$21 trillion, by the way, we know that's false, but that's what he's saying. How are you claiming that there is a balance of payments crisis if you're saying everybody's just giving you this money? Right. So Donald Trump's own statements rebut his invocation of Section 122. And Donald Trump's own DOJ lawyers argued in front of the Court of International Trade, the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court when they were asked, why are you relying on IEPA, this emergency provision versus Section 122?

47:00MeidasTouch:Trump's own lawyers said it doesn't apply. They said we're trying to deal with emergencies relating to trade deficits and Section 122 deals with balance of payment deficits. So Trump's own lawyers said that they cannot invoke Section 122. And what does Donald Trump do? He invokes Section 122. Trump's lesson about the Supreme Court striking down the tariffs against the world is that it took them 14 months to do it. So all he has to do in his mind is, let me find some hook that's unlawful. I'm going to do it. I'll get sued. Then I'll appeal. I'll ask for stays. I'll lie to the courts about the reasons that I want these days.

47:46MeidasTouch:I'll say it's okay. If ultimately we get ruled against by the Supreme Court, we'll do tariff refunds, which now they're saying they're not going to do. So they lied to all the courts by saying they want to stay because they said they would issue refunds if they lose. So you have nothing to worry about by issuing the stay. That was one of the big lies that they told them. And so Trump's views, okay, I'll just do it anyway. Then it'll go to the Supreme Court in 2027. I'll lose. but then I got it for another however long. Now, this specific statute also, section 122, says that the tariffs can only remain in place for 150 days.

48:23MeidasTouch:But what's Trump going to do? When 150 days are up, he's going to go, I invoke it again, rather than go to Congress. So it doesn't apply. It's limited to 150 days. But Trump's very lesson from this is to double down on his crimes. And now he's stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the American people and refuses to return it. But again, this is in keeping with Donald Trump's life. You've unlawfully taxed American companies, which passed it on to consumers, to the tune of $200 billion. You have to return it. Give us our money back. What are you doing? And now they're saying they're not going to do that?

49:04MeidasTouch:Do we have the clip, Brett, of Treasury Secretary Scott Besant when he was on CNN over the weekend? And Dana Bash, to her credit, asked the question, look, the big question that Americans want to know now that you lost is, will you be doing refunds? Will you be returning the money? Watch what Besant says. Let's play. Question. Will you refund the roughly one hundred thirty four billion dollars in revenue taken by these emergency tariffs? Well, Dana, that's not the big question. Let's just level set here. What the Supreme Court did was a very narrow reading of the president's authority under the IEPA tariffs.

49:46We have other tariff authorities which have been functioning. Section 232 tariffs, Section 301 tariffs. And, Dana, when you say it's a big question, that's bad framing because the Supreme Court didn't even address that. The Supreme Court remanded it down to a lower court. And, you know, we will follow what they say, but that could be weeks or months when we hear them. So the Supreme Court did not address refunds. Sure. They didn't address refunds. That is clearly going to be up to you, which is why it is. No, no, no, Dana, it is not up to me. Not you. Not you. It is not up to the administration.

50:23It is up to the lower court. Let's just be clear on that. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy. It is up to them. And she asked a good question initially, but then she bought that framing. Okay. It's up to, no, no, no, no. It's up to you. If you're

50:35MeidasTouch:going to unlawfully withhold the refunds and then force the courts to order you, anybody who read the opinion, it's very clear. If the authority was unlawful in the first place, you owe the refunds. you stole the money. It's like, if you're found guilty of stealing the money and you still have the money, do they really need to say you need to give it back? Of course you need to give it back. What are you talking about, Brett and Jordy? Yeah, this is why you don't impose illegal tariffs to begin with. This is why you shouldn't even go down this path. But I think what we're seeing is in the words of Donald Trump, you don't have the cards, Donald.

51:15You don't have the cards, Scott Besson, you're losing all the cards. You tried this illegal maneuver because you are weak leaders, because you are bad at your jobs. If you're simply good at your job, the thing that you would do is you'd be like, you know, I could just do this the right way because I'm so influential and everybody listens to me. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to go to Congress. We're going to codify these tariffs and I will show all of them. They want to try to stop me. Guess what? I'm going to get these passed through Congress. But Donald Trump is a paper tiger and Donald Trump is a lot weaker than he's letting on.

51:46And I think one of the things that this situation has showed everybody is how weak Donald Trump truly is. And this is something that I've heard Governor Gavin Newsom say quite a bit since the ruling, that it has showed his weakness on a global scale. And it is so true right now because now you have all these other countries out there that don't have trade agreements that have been ratified with the United States, but have been going back and forth with the U.S. And now they kind of have no incentive at all to come to the table with Donald Trump, especially with the terms that Trump is demanding.

52:17Trump totally tried to, you know, Trump totally overplayed his hand and now his bluff has backfired because he doesn't actually have the legal authority to do what he's been threatening to do with all of these countries. So if I were these countries, I'd just be like, okay, you want to do this stupid tariffs for 150 days? We're just going to chill back, okay? We're just going to wait this thing out and we know that this is all going to blow away because you don't have the authority. You don't have the cards, Donald. Sorry. And it seems like Scott Bessett and this administration's posture right now is basically we stole all of this money.

52:49And yes, it's money from American businesses, even though they try to say it's from all these other countries. We stole all of this money and we're not going to give it back. But if you want it back, you're going to have to sue us for it. And we're going to drag out these lawsuits for years and years and years. And we're going to make it as painful as possible for you to get your money back. And we're already starting to see these lawsuits. I think Costco filed a lawsuit already. They already had a lawsuit going. We learned FedEx earlier. FedEx filed a lawsuit against the administration seeking a full refund of their tariffs after the Supreme Court ruling.

53:24And we're going to see a whole lot more of this. And this is going to be something that the Trump regime is going to have to deal with. This is going to be something that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who pretends this is not his responsibility at all, this is going to be something that's going to start occupying a whole lot of his time. And if the crazy thing is, to me, the Supreme Court did Donald Trump and all of these Republicans the biggest favor imaginable. Like if he were even a little bit smart, he would try to chalk it up as like, I tried, I tried my best with the tariffs, but I guess they won't let me.

53:59So no tariffs, let the markets go up, let everybody actually celebrate the fact that there's free trade back here, but he can't control himself because he is a wrecking ball. He is a destructive force, and all he knows is how to destroy, not to build. And his goal is just to burn this country and the world down with him. And that's what we're seeing right now. We're seeing an unhinged maniac out there who just simply cannot control himself, who will always err on the side of wrecking everything that comes in his way. It's a complete and total disgrace. I could guarantee you all these Republican senators and Congress people, I guarantee you they were celebrating the Supreme Court's decision.

54:40I bet they were so happy about it. And you could tell that they want nothing to do with this because even just today, Speaker Mike Johnson was asked, you know, so why don't you guys put a bill on the floor? You know, put a bill on the floor, codify these tariffs. Speaker Johnson was like, yeah, you know, I don't think there's an appetite. I don't think there's an appetite in the caucus right now. Well, why not? These are so popular. If you stand by them, then stand by them and put the bill on the floor. But the fact is they're weak. They know the American people don't like this. They know their approvals are crashing, and they just don't give a shit at this point.

55:14And shame on the Supreme Court, by the way, for giving Donald Trump this immunity in that prior ruling, which is kind of allowing Donald Trump to do whatever the hell he wants, even in the face of these rulings. It's a complete disgrace, But it's all showing right now how weak Trump is and how weak this entire party is. The House of Cards is collapsing right now before our eyes. They're just all so dishonest, too. And they just lie with impunity. Like, if their mouth is moving, they are lying. That's just ultimately what it comes down to. There's no substance behind anything that they say because ultimately they don't work for the American people as they pretend to, right?

55:48They go out there, they wave their American flag. I love this country, man. It's all farce. they they genuinely don't love the country they they don't they care about one person who they refer to often as daddy it's weird it's donald trump that's what so i wish i was kidding that's what these republicans do so they go out there they lie they do his bidding and even when he makes mistakes that are costly to the american people they try and spin it into a positive they try and cover for the guy instead of trying to figure out what's best for the american person For me, that's just inexcusable. And as we look back in five, 10 years and sort of have a postmortem on all of this, I hope we get to that point where we can, honestly, and pro-democracy ideals and values truly went out.

56:33I think we'll look back and just be like, man, how cowardly was that whole entire party? Literally, an entire party of cowards. It's absolutely pathetic. It truly is. And it blows my mind that we're here, honestly, as a country. And there are still so many people within this country that support and kind of cheer these folks on. But that just goes to show you how strong the propaganda is out there. And so, you know, as we reflect back into this episode, I'm so happy that we reached this milestone of 6 million subscribers, again, to amplify our megaphone here, to bring truth with facts, data, receipts, and clips, and show it to the masses and bring it to the world.

57:12When I say we, I'm not referring to me, Brett and Ben here. I'm saying we, this community of 6 million and growing rapidly, you guys have the ability to go and talk to your circles, your family, your coworkers and whatnot, and show them the facts, data, and receipts. And so thank you guys for showing up again. I'm so stoked. 6 million. Let's go, Ben. Yeah, look, though, the market was horrible today. Setting aside that, the kind of systemic issues that we see, I mean, the market today was what? The Dow was down like 800 points. It's at 48 ,000. And all of the various indices were indexes were doing really bad.

57:49But like we're in a jobs recession right now. We're in a manufacturing recession right now. Inflation's rising and the GDP number came in at like 1.4%. And if you look at it, the economy is just slowing down. And what Trump's done to it, remember when former President Biden left, it was called a Goldilocks economy. It was just right. It said it was the envy of the world. He spent a lot of time trying to deal with the damage caused by Trump won and all of the debt that Trump won left. And then finally, it was at a place where it's like, OK, we're going to get out of this. If Trump did nothing at all, he could have taken credit for it.

58:27MeidasTouch:That's the wild thing. He could have spiked the football. He could have played golf and he could have acted like a genius if he literally just did nothing, like nothing at all. And just let Biden's economy roll. And then he could have said, look what I'm doing, everybody. I fixed it. I did everything. He could have actually, but he took it and then he broke it. And now, like the Ponzi schemer that he is, when he held that press conference on Friday, he's now saying, well, look, the economy, you'll start seeing the results a year from now. Just give me one more year and you'll see it. So it went from when he was running, I will make it better on day one.

59:05MeidasTouch:Then when day one happened, just give it a few times. Fourth quarter's our quarter, right? Right. And, you know, otherwise it's Biden's fault. But if there's good results, it's mine. If it's a bad result, it's Biden. OK. And now what they're saying is I need one more year. Here, play this clip. That's because of tariffs. And we're going to keep it going the same way. And you're going to start to see the results in a year from now when all those factories start that are under construction right now. You see all the construction numbers. Look, when I was a litigator, I faced off against some of the biggest Ponzi schemers out there.

59:39There was a case I worked on called the Medcap cases out here, billion-dollar Ponzi scheme out here where I worked with the SEC as counsel for their receiver in a case called Tom Seaman versus Medcap or SEC versus Medcap. Let me just tell you, like what Ponzi schemers say, just give me a little more time. I got this. I got this. I got this. While they rob Peter to pay Paul. Like, I need a little more time. Just give me more time. Give me more time. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. Then they blame everybody. I need a little more time. I need a little more. It's the same stuff at a macro level.

1:00:14Also, the rest of the world is seeing it. Whether it's Canada, the European Union,

1:00:20MeidasTouch:whether you go to Brazil, whether it's Australia, UK, you name it, people, Asia, they're seeing what's going on. They're seeing how pathetic it is. They've been forming trade alliances that cut the US out because Trump's psychotic. He's demented. They see it. We can't deal with it. We literally can't deal with that. That is not normal. And by the way, that's why we can't normalize the state of the union. That's why we're doing the people's state of the union. We can't normalize this behavior. We can't normalize someone who's covering up a pedo ring. Can't do it. Can't do it. We'll take our last quick break of the show.

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1:06:21Benji, I think that made sense. Where to next? With all of this chaos going on here in the United States, It's also Trump directs that chaos abroad. He's posting messages like this about Greenland yet again. He said, working with the fantastic governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick and not being taken care of there. It's on the way, President DJT, to which the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, then responds, I want to thank all of the doctors, nurses, and medical providers who have reached out interested in donating medical services for this mission.

1:07:07Once we get everything in place, we would love to welcome all those interested in helping. That is what America First charity looks like. Thank you, Mr. President. So Landry is the governor of Louisiana, which ranks about the worst in just about every category on standard of living and education and mortality rate and health care and jobs and quality of life. You name it. Like Louisiana is the worst under Landry. The Trump regime and Republicans have ripped away people's health care in the United States, and they've treated health care as though it's not a human right, which it should be a human right here.

1:07:46In Greenland, they have universal health care. They don't want this. And in Greenland, they view these statements, I think rightfully so, as a kind of a Trojan horse, if you will, for an invasion of Greenland. This is the type of language that Putin uses about places that he invades, like Ukraine. Oh, we need to build hospitals there. This is a humanitarian mission. That's why we need to take over Donbass and Donetsk and all these areas, because we need to bring them health. It is the sicko mind of predators and authoritarians to say, we're helping you. You're sick. You need help, right? That's what Trump was saying about Minnesota.

1:08:28MeidasTouch:You need us. You're not safe. We're trying to help you. People are like, get these masked ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo out. No, no, no. We're trying to help you. We're trying to keep you safe. What are you talking about? We're trying to stop the pedos. We're trying to stop them while they cover up the pedo sex trafficking. This is what these sickos, the Epstein class does. And also it doesn't help, or I think it shows their intentions, that there was a nuclear submarine that had to surface over the past few days off the coast of Greenland because one of America's soldiers on the submarine almost died.

1:09:05MeidasTouch:And in Greenland, they had to save the life of this soldier in the submarine. So it turns out an American nuke submarine was right outside Nuke in Greenland, their capital, right as the king of Denmark was there visiting. So this was a revelation to, wait a minute, you're talking about sending these ships and your nuclear submarine had to surface. We just saved the live. And now you're saying you want to send ships to help us. We don't need help. And the premier of Greenland, John's Frederick Nielsen, then posted the following on Facebook. It will be a no thank you from here. Trump's idea of sending an American hospital ship to Greenland has been noted.

1:09:47MeidasTouch:However, we have public health care systems where treatment is free for citizens. This is a deliberate choice and a fundamental part of our society. This is not the case in the United States. We're seeing a doctor comes at a cost. We are always open to dialogue and cooperation, including with the United States, but please speak with us instead of making more or less random statements on social media. Thumbs up emoji. That's my favorite. Dialogue and cooperation require respect for the fact that decisions about our country are made here at home. And then there's a photo of Jeans Friedrich Nielsen, the premier of Greenland, along with the minister of health.

1:10:24MeidasTouch:Brett and Jordy, deranged, deranged stuff right there. deranged, embarrassing, dangerous. As you said, this is such a Putin-esque tactic. And I just want to emphasize just again, just how provocative of a move it is that the United States had a nuclear submarine that close to Denmark, where when a member of the United States military got sick, that Denmark cared for them on Greenland. And Donald Trump took that, and then he made it this kind of opposite land where the United States actually has to help Greenland, even as Greenland was helping the United States. Not to mention the fact that the hospital ships that the U.S.

1:11:01has, both of them are currently incapacitated. Both of them are currently in for repairs, so they can't even go there at all. And the Wall Street Journal also followed up and asked the Pentagon, asked people, so was there an actual order made for these hospital ships to go to Greenland? Nope, nothing. Just Donald Trump made it up. And Jeff Landry in Louisiana, they just are continuing to perpetuate these lies, all while they have these nuclear submarines, apparently, right off the coast of Greenland. If you're an ally of the United States or formerly an ally, how could you possibly look at the US right now as the good guys?

1:11:34How could you possibly think that anything that the United States is doing is in good faith, especially as Donald Trump uses Vladimir Putin's talking points for annexing territory, for taking over places like Ukraine or Crimea in Ukraine, using the same exact language as Putin as justification to do all the things that Donald Trump is doing. It's very obvious. It's good to see that the leaders in Denmark and Greenland are speaking out against this and are speaking out unequivocally because it's very clear what Donald Trump is doing. But this is the problem when you have an actual psychopath in the Oval Office and enablers who enable the psychopath to be psychopaths.

1:12:14and to be crazy on everybody. I mean, this is the end result. This is the only natural result of all of this. And it's why everybody needs to actually stand up against this maniac. Absolutely. And it's why I always say this is why we need adults in the room. We need serious people in government. My biggest fear for the future of this country is basically how our allies will see us post the Trump presidency, right? My biggest fear is trying to figure out where we stand as a country, but as we stand as an image sort of to the world of what our values are, of who our leaders are, of what people expect that they can get from a relationship with this country on a consistent basis.

1:13:03I really worry for not just us here, but future generations, right? We all have kids as the brothers here. And even if it's not our kids specifically, I just worry about the future generations of children that are growing up in America. Because if we don't have strong allies and we truly isolate ourselves from the world, I think we've all learned throughout studying history what that could do and what that does do. To me, it's a terrifying prospect when countries can no longer depend on us, the US, to actually live up to our end of the bargain. And that's what's been so disheartening for me with the Trump presidency, with the Trump regime right now, is I truly can't see a vision where the image of the United States gets fully repaired on a global stage.

1:13:55And it's terrifying. You want me to give you the answer? Remember that Adam Sandler movie where he has like the fast forward button? Click. What was it called? Click. Click, yeah. First movie I cried at. Are you ready for the click journey? Oh my God, click was so sad. It was like the saddest movie. We're 12. 11 or 12 started hysterically crying in the theater. Okay. Well, I'll give you the click ending right now. Okay. It already happened, Jordy. In Trump, that stuff's already happened. While I feel like I've aged in dog years under this Trump regime, as most people have in this short period of time, it's done, Jordy.

1:14:28MeidasTouch:Like it's over. There is no America leader of the world. Okay. There will be future presidents who will try to get back into a multilateral world order. They will not be trusted. America will not be a leader ever again. Period. It's done. It's done. Okay? There is no, like, we can hope that a future president restores some dignity, but that maybe takes us back from negative 100 to negative 20. The rest of the world's moved on. And their view is, okay, we've got to deal with this person for the next four years, and that's good. But this country, America, United States, is susceptible to this again.

1:15:25MeidasTouch:This exists in that country. So until there's some sort of massive constitutional reform, court reform, right, like our constitution needs to be rethought. I'm not going to be able to solve that problem in the next nine minutes on this show. But the Constitution was based on good faith, norms, traditions, and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. It's a contract concept that I teach in law school. But our contract, I mean, our Constitution is a contract. And it's not all that long. It's one of the incredible things when I teach constitutional law in law schools. It's not that big.

1:16:13MeidasTouch:The First Amendment, not that long. The Second Amendment, just a sentence or two, right? The Fourth Amendment of unreasonable searches and seizures. You go through the various amendments, the Tenth Amendment on states' rights. You go through these constitutional provisions, and they're based, though, on the good faith that people go along with these things. And the moment the Supreme Court makes a rule in absolute immunity, when even royalty in the UK doesn't get absolute immunity, and our Constitution was a reaction against kings, an objection to it, until we abolish absolute immunity, until we here find ways to abolish this concept of this unitary executive who can do whatever they want without checking about.

1:17:08MeidasTouch:No country is going to think that America can ever be a long-term partner. So they've moved on. Click. That's it. It's done. And this is what Trump's done his entire life. And I don't mean to paint a picture that's so bleak to end it, but I'm just being real. And look, the United States can play a role in a broader multilateral system, and future presidents can try to get back into some of these organizations, sure. But until there is systemic reform here in our country and wholesale abolition of certain types of doctrines here that have really harmed us, no one's going to view us as a reliable partner.

1:17:49MeidasTouch:This is what Trump's done with his casinos and his entities, and he did it with the United States. I think a future president can restore some dignity, but not ever get back America stand ever again, Jordy. And I hate to - I think I'm just gonna say I think I think there's a really um some good analysis I also don't think you've ever actually seen the movie click I just don't know how that tied into the movie at all but but I really appreciated the movie it fast forward like the analogy so you know I guess Florida no sense I click you said the word click a couple times okay first off I've seen click it involves the guy he's an architect I've seen it he works at the place and then he wants to like rise and take the elevator to the penthouse basically and he wants to get there so he gets the remote control he fast forwards it and then he fast forwards so quickly he misses his children all right spoiler alert yes jesus come on man you're ruining the movie for everybody spoiler movie so my point about click was i'm fast forwarding right but that's what i'm saying there's i'm not going to get into it So, all right.

1:18:57Pretend I didn't do that. Just rewind, pause, delete, control, alt, delete. All right. But in all seriousness, let me show you what Steve Witkoff, nice transition there. What Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to everything who has no diplomatic experience. He's been going on state regime media.

1:19:15MeidasTouch:And here's what he says. This is his message to Iran, right? as Donald Trump's threatening to attack and invade Iran. The message from the envoy, Whitcoff, is why won't you capitulate? We have so many ships. Why don't you capitulate already? Here, play this clip. I know that we have red lines here from the U.S. How about over with Iran? The president asked me that this morning, and he's, I don't want to use the word frustrated. It's almost because he understands he's got plenty of alternatives. But it's curious. He's curious as to why they haven't. I don't want to use the word capitulated, but why they haven't capitulated.

1:19:55Why under this sort of pressure with the amount of sea power, naval power that we have over there, why they haven't come to us and said, we profess that we don't want to be we don't want a weapon. So here's what we're prepared to do. And yet it's hard to to sort of get them to that place. Great. I mean, it's the stupidest negotiation I've ever, by the way, is everybody, has everyone seen the con yet? Okay. Is there, are you noticing the con? Remember months ago when they did the other attacks on Iran and. Obliterated. What was that? Totally obliterated. Total, total obliteration, right? That was the phrase that Donald Trump, we totally obliterated Iran's nuclear program.

1:20:31We have set them back years, if not decades. They are never, ever going to be close to getting a nuclear weapon ever again. And now you have Whitcoff going on TV and they're running the same playbook where they go. It's the same thing. And they've been doing this, by the way, for decades. I think the Daily Show did an excellent montage with Netanyahu about this, where they go, Iran is just a week away. Iran is just a week away from getting a nuclear weapon. So we have to act now. Just a week away. Just a week away. We're just weeks away. They constantly use the same propaganda. And then they try to go, oh, you don't want us to go to war with this country.

1:21:07Then you're anti-American. You support terrorism. They start, you know, running all. That's the playbook they run every time. But Donald Trump said totally obliterated that those were the terms used. Now they're saying a week away. You can't have it both ways. They were either lying then or lying now or lying both times, which is probably the reality in this situation. And I'm sick of being gaslighted by these people into getting into all of these foreign entanglements into getting in all of these wars. I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous. There's a lot of reporting now that the U.S. isn't even prepared for action in Iran.

1:21:43You have generals speaking out, then you have Donald Trump disputing the reports that have been well-sourced and in a variety of publications about this very issue. You could tell Donald Trump has been kind of very hesitant about this one. Trump wants to do something that's sort of like quick and get out, But it seems like if Donald Trump does actually get involved in Iran this time, it's going to be a more prolonged war. And they are predicting that American troops are going to have to be on the ground and that American troops could die in a war in Iran. And so this is the situation that Trump is once again getting us into using the same playbook, by the way, that Republicans have used for decades and decades and decades to get us into wars.

1:22:24But probably not with this low a popularity as Donald Trump is right now. right? When Bush got us into Iraq and all of those, you know, forever wars, at least he had like an 80 % approval rating at the time. He spent a lot of time kind of conditioning people for it, putting out messaging. Donald Trump just is trying to do this just on a whim, and he's already unpopular to begin with. Nobody in the United States wants this. It seems completely reckless, but like I said, Donald Trump is a destructive individual, and he will do anything he can to destroy. He doesn't know how to build. This is the only thing he knows how to do.

1:23:00Oh, absolutely. I want to, I mean, a few things. Number one, Brett, about the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, what he's privately telling people is America doesn't have any allies right now to help with Iran, right? It's just America and Israel. That's it. No one else wants to give us their bases. It's a lack of support from allies. That's a big deal in a situation like this. And one of the things also that we're seeing, you know, the U.S. attacking the European Union now because the European Union in their defense directive, like their big kind of national security policy paper, says that they want to now buy European military equipment first.

1:23:45Right. The U.S. has been attacking Europe. They've been threatening to invade European countries or territories of European countries. they've been saying, the United States, the Trump regime saying, stop being dependent on the US. Stop it. Cut it out. You've been too dependent on us. All right. So Europe's like, all right, great. So we're going to buy Europe first, right? There's buy America first in America, buy US first. Europe's like, we'll do the same. Got it. We'll focus on European military equipment first, right? Like the Gripen in Sweden over the F-35, you know, or the French military air defense systems over the US patriot systems, right?

1:24:26I mean, there's, you know, okay, you know, especially as Donald Trump talks about building in kill switches into American military equipment. So then the ambassador to the European Union posts, you can't do that. We are not okay. It is unacceptable for you to have a European preference. Really? Because that's kind of, You've been attacking Europe and now they're done with you. And so now you're attacking the European Union for having a Europe preference over military equipment. It's that type of stuff over and over again. As I mentioned at the outset, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's dad, who's the ambassador to France.

1:25:03For those who don't know Charles Kushner's story, he pled guilty to multiple felony counts of tax evasion and witness tampering. Which witness did he tamper? His brother-in-law, his wife's brother. And how did he do it? He hired prostitutes in order to set up his brother-in-law to blackmail his brother-in-law who was cooperating with the feds to testify against him in order to destroy his brother-in-law's marriage with prostitutes. And he was caught doing that. He was pardoned by Don, it's Epstein class stuff, right? He was pardoned by Trump in 2020, and he became the ambassador to France. He and the U.S.

1:25:42embassy in France have made numerous statements recently attacking French domestic policy, saying that we expect you to stop leftist extremism. And in France, they're like, you don't lecture us on how we deal with things here in France, okay? You're the ambassador. Stop. You don't dictate our policy. You understand?

1:26:02MeidasTouch:We're going to handle it. We take things seriously here. Stop it. and they summoned Kushner. And guess what? Kushner didn't show. As an ambassador, you have to show when you get summoned. That's part of the diplomatic dance that you do. Didn't show. It's the second time he did it. So now in France, they ban him. But all the US ambassadors to these countries attack the countries. I mean, the ambassador to Canada goes in there and mocks Canadians every day. And by the way, he's attacked Midas Canada as well. But you look at throughout, that's what these ambassadors uh are you know are doing all right there we covered so many topics there i think that we covered a lot of topics um i want to thank everybody so much we hit six million subscribers on this live i could probably keep speaking for a half hour more an hour more but everybody stay on live till we get seven million folks stay live till we get seven million Thank you, everybody, sincerely for having us reach and blow past this milestone.

1:27:05Thank you for 9 billion views. I think I'm prouder about the 9 billion views because that just shows we're punching way above our weight class. That's more views than most channels out there. So truly incredible. And I'm so excited for our event tomorrow. Like I said, let's make a massive, massive statement at the People's State of the Union We have dozens and dozens of lawmakers attending. We have federal employees who've been affected by the Trump regime. So many other special guests are going to be there. It's at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and we're streaming it right here at youtube.com slash Midas Touch.

1:27:45And you could go to the link right now, and you could set your reminders right now. And we'll keep reminding you tomorrow. Don't worry, but set your reminders. Send it to a friend. Let everybody know on whatever social media platforms you use, whether it's Blue Sky or Threads or X or Facebook or whatever. Let's blow this up. Let's make this big. I love that Donald Trump is already sending panicked emails about this event out to his supporters. We're already getting in his head. And I think if we blow this out of the water, it will absolutely torture him. And it will be for a good reason. We'll be showing people power right here at the Midas Touch Network and on the National Mall.

1:28:21So I look forward to it. Tomorrow's a big day, folks. Today was a historic day. Tomorrow's a historic day. And it's all because of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. From the bottom of our hearts. We really, really, really appreciate it. Jordy? Wait, one sec. I just, I still can't get over the fact that we hit six million on the stream, on the live show. Yeah. How it coincided with the start of the show. It's very, it's... You know how I did it though, Jordy? How'd you do it, Ben? Did you start the show five minutes early?

1:28:48MeidasTouch:Click, click, click. Okay. There you go. Hey. You guys are the greatest. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty is standing strong.

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