MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/31/26

25:30MeidasTouch:The Iran has butchered and killed over the regime's 47-year reign of terror. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So Iran's embassy responds, let me correct you. The brave soldiers of Iran are hitting seriously the idiot, unreasonable regime of the USA. And then Iran's spokesperson held a press conference, and let's play what he said moments ago. We have had no direct negotiations with America so far. Since the last round of negotiations until now, the U.S. demands have been very excessive, unrealistic and illogical. The meetings that Pakistan has with neighboring countries are, well, A framework they themselves have established.

26:18We have not participated in this framework. Can it be allowed that Iran and Iranians be in a position of confronting the illegal aggression of America and the Zionist regime to use the available capabilities on the soil of regional countries while our armed forces remain silent? The duty of every authority demands that it respond to such cases. Now, Brett and Jordy, I want to get your take on that. But for those listening on audio, he's speaking inside a room that frankly looks more advanced and more comfortable than the press room that's at the White House. And that was a translator speaking.

26:59He doesn't have a British accent.

27:01MeidasTouch:Yeah, Chris, it was a translator. However, though, to paint a picture for audio listeners, he's in a big, nice looking kind of room. There are people, reporters who are taking notes. He's not like hiding in a cave or like running away from anything. Like they're there in a room like that. And as he was there, Iran's parliament was deliberating a bill to impose fees on the Strait of Hormuz. And they took a vote. That was a foregone conclusion what the outcome was going to be. But they took a vote to approve a bill to levy fees on the Strait of Hormuz transit for about$2 million for any ship that passes.

27:41MeidasTouch:It imposes a toll system in rails. It bans the passage of U.S. and Israeli vessels through the strait, asserts Iran's sovereignty over the strategic waterway, bans any countries that imposes unilateral sanctions against Iran. And guess who's working with them? Oman. Oman is slated to help shape the legal framework. Remember Oman, the foreign minister who Trump picked as the mediator between the discussions between Trump and Iran? Trump picked this guy in Oman who said that they reached a deal in principle. And then that night, Donald Trump and Netanyahu bombed Iran after they said there was a deal.

28:18MeidasTouch:That's who's working with Iran to build a legal framework for Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz. So I just want, like, to me, that knowledge is important. You may not like that knowledge. That may bug it. That's the truth about what's happening right now, though. For sure. And that's why anytime I see these news headlines out there are just parroting what Donald Trump says, like when he said yesterday that they gave me a tribute, a beautiful gift. He keeps saying this every week now. It's like we're on repeat. It's Groundhog Day, right? Donald Trump, they gave me a tribute, a beautiful tribute.

28:51They gave me a tribute. It's 20 ships passing. Immediately, we were like, is he talking about the 20 Pakistani flagged ships that have nothing to do with the United States. And he was, but that didn't stop some publications. And by the way, I don't want to trash all their report. They've done a lot of incredible reporting, but I saw the New York Times run a headline on this that said something like, Trump says he got 20 ships through the Strait of Wormuz. I'm like, why? Don't be a stenographer. Is that true or is it not true? As of now, that's certainly not true. You can't look at the situation right now and not see that Obviously, the United States of America, Trump has gotten rid of the Ayatollah and some high up people in the Iranian regime.

29:34But it's tough to look at the situation right now and not see that Iran has actually kind of become more essential to the region and has kind of expanded as a world power as a result of Donald Trump's actions here, which is the complete opposite reaction you want when you're trying to destroy a regime. I mean, you can even look at just like the data like this. Iran is now earning, this is from The Economist, Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on February 28th. It may be pummeled on the battlefield, but the regime is winning the energy war.

30:14And they understand that this energy war and the war of this economic battle that's playing right now is perhaps the single most important war that they could wage. It's asymmetrical warfare in that way because they have control over all these resources and all of these pathways for the resources to go through that affect not just the United States, but affect countries all over the world. And we're seeing now countries overseas are limiting the amount of gas and oil that people could use. Prices are skyrocketing everywhere. And all of this flows through the supply chain, goes through the wholesalers, through the supply chain, and it ends up in everyday goods that we all pay.

30:55It's frankly, probably the top driver in general of inflation. And we already saw inflation ticking up in the last inflation report, which was before the war began. Now we're going to see in the future, this number just begin to go up and skyrocket. People are seeing it in their mortgage rates, which are now nearing like 7%. Everything goes up when energy prices go up. And Donald Trump has caused this entirely by himself. One of the things that I think I noticed in the things that he's saying, you know, reading kind of between the lines of these deranged posts, for example, I'll pull up the post that Ben read this morning.

31:32I think when Donald Trump is bullshitting about, you know, there's a new regime, a more reasonable regime. First off, him and the people in the administration, they keep saying opposite things. So while Donald Trump was saying there's a new, more reasonable regime in charge, you had Marco Rubio on TV going, these people are psychopathic. These people are insane. You can't, you can't deal with these people. And even getting pressed by the reporters on that. Wait, but did you know that Donald Trump just tweeted that these people are reasonable and things are going great? They're not on the same page because Trump's just lying.

32:05They're all just lying about everything. But I think in Trump's lies, reading between the lines, this is my opinion, I think that Donald Trump is hedging the entire thing because I think he understands, even if he doesn't want to admit it, that this is not going well. And so Trump wants to try to figure out any way that he could kind of claim a victory throughout all of this. And so that's why you see regime change. Oh, we already did regime change. Mission accomplished, right? Oh, we blew their shit up. We destroyed them. They're completely obliterated. You didn't. But it almost seems like he wants to kind of plant all these little seeds.

32:42So at some point when things are getting really bad, he could be like, oh, we did it done. Mission accomplished. You know, have another George Bush moment, which he's had like, you know, basically every single day at this point, we've set out to do everything that we've already planned on doing. What are you talking about? This is a massive success. I mean, our leaders couldn't be more ill-equipped to guide us through this. Like name me one person in the regime, in the Trump regime that you actually take seriously enough, who hasn't totally and utterly debased themselves, that you'd be like, okay, I'm confident that they'll guide us through this.

33:13When your ego meets reality, you get catastrophe, right? That's what we're seeing, especially with Trump. These oil prices are skyrocketing. Our troops are dying. I mean, it's pure chaos. And now to our earlier point, what are they saying that the goal of this entire war is? It's to reopen the straighter form use. I mean, what do we even do? Ben, what are we even doing here? And my question to you is, do you see any light here at the end of this tunnel? Because for me, again, I just keep seeing this getting worse. No, there's no light at the end of the tunnel. And in fact, there's no comp. Brett, you mentioned, you know, like George W.

33:48Bush or like the neocons.

33:51MeidasTouch:Like I hear that, But like, this is not even like, there's no comp to it. Like those people were still following like a plan, a bad plan, a dastardly plan, but they were following a plan, not the whims of a psychotic, malignant, narcissistic maniac who's on Air Force One showing photos of Corinthian columns and talking about building underground bunkers and then giving a speech at a Miami financial conference and telling the people that they're going to be doing. in the audience, they could ask him about sex because he's open to be answering any questions or like telling reporters from state regime media like Dana Perino, remember when we had lunch together?

34:35MeidasTouch:Are you just as beautiful as the day I met? Like we're dealing with an actual maniac. Like we're not dealing with a neocon. That's like, you know, on the scale of like acidic to basic, you know, and let's just say neocons are the most, I don't know, is that a good example, But on a scale of one to 10, if like, you know, like a neocon is like a 10, we're on a different scale. OK, Donald Trump is a nuclear con. It's a con artist. It's a con job. Right. The whole thing is one fugazi, all of it. And what Iran is saying is they recognize that this guy's all bluff, all bark. You know, he's now tapping into, you know, basically the way he had daddy bail him out his entire life when his casinos were going bankrupt.

35:21MeidasTouch:But then daddy couldn't even bankrupt him. Right. The taxpayers and the American people. Donald Trump goes to destroy our lives. I need two hundred billion dollars. Let's take the special forces behind the scenes. And in front of the scenes, there is massive panic taking place. And my headlines highlighting that are not hyperbolic. We can see it in the actual behavior and the franticness that is all over the place right here. And when we come back from our first break, one of the things I want to talk about, though, is, you know, all of Donald Trump's emolument clause violations, these quid pro quos, these pay for play that has made him kind of personally indebted to these Middle East nations because they've invested in him personally and his businesses.

36:06MeidasTouch:You know, we're learning more and more that basically his benefactors, right, like the people who pay him and his family, because that's what the Middle East thought they were. But they're, you know, they're coming back and they're saying, you ain't effing leaving. You ain't effing leaving until you put your troops on the ground. What the eff do you think you're doing? You think you're just, uh-uh, sorry. We will bankrupt the eff out of you. You better believe behind the scenes that whether it's MBS, whether it's the leader of UAE, whether it's the Emir of Qatar, the Al-Thanid, they're behind the scenes saying, what, you think we gave you that plane for the hell of it?

36:44MeidasTouch:No, no, you are putting your American troops on the effing ground. You ain't leaving. We will expose it all. And so because he's compromised, that now has real ramifications on our troops and on our country. We'll talk about that and more when we come back from our first quick break. That was a long segment, but an important long segment. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. And if you can, subscribe to Scott McFarlane's YouTube channel already on its way to 150 ,000 subscribers in a very short period of time. So subscribe to McFarlane, go to at Scott McFarlane news on YouTube.

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41:13Let'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 Bert that was some really good reads there Bretster uh real quick going back to the beginning of the show Ben uh no regrets it always reminds me of of the the scene from where the millers where the kid goes no regerts and it also reminds me about every time I hear the word apparently I think of the word like the apparently kid it's like apparently that brings me back to my guys working for talk shows we were talking about we were talking about comps and there's no comp to this but but you guys brought up the actual the comp the comp is what we're seeing now this entire situation it's just like covid right this is a slow motion of a train wreck with the same conductor at the helm crashing it once again i mean there that that is in itself the perfect comp of what we're seeing now because it's just it's just crazy you can't trust any of the information coming out of the trump regime right now.

42:13It is beyond anything in the realm of normalcy, what we're witnessing. That's a great point. I mean, the comp is Trump. What I should have said, Jordy, thanks for the correction, is there's no other comp outside of Donald Trump. And so it's a comp, and in many ways, even worse than I think the past Trump comp. But that's one of the reasons

42:35MeidasTouch:that I would always focus my reporting on Donald Trump's loser past, not his successful past, because he never had a successful class. He ran most of his companies into the ground and bankrupted them and screwed the contractors and screwed his creditors and screwed everybody. And he would basically kind of take their money. He would do well and everybody else would get screwed and he would go bankrupt. Then he would do it again. He'd go bankrupt. Then he would do it again. And he had this miraculous ability. And I don't mean that in a positive way to continue to find new marks and con people and then develop the con and grow the con while his businesses and his all the other things that he touches fail.

43:16MeidasTouch:Even the things that he's tried to build while in office, right, which by all accounts should do well just based on your proximity to the office, like his social media platform and his meme coins and his Bitcoin, like all that stuff has not been successful. In fact, in most cases, they've been like utter, utter, utter grotesque failures. And so we're seeing that, Jordy, as the comp, happen again right here. And again, when you look at his past and his comp, right, the fact that he was Epstein's close friend and that he covers up the Epstein files and that Mar-a-Lago was used as one of the grounds where Epstein recruited underage girls like Virginia Giuffre and Donald Trump being found liable for sexual assault and the Epstein class being predators on little girls.

44:07MeidasTouch:And if you think about all of that and then you go, okay, well, who's being targeted a lot by some of the initial strikes and continuing strikes by the United States in the war, right? A little girl school, right? So as they're covering up the Epstein files where little girls were the victims, they're in Iran killing little girls in elementary schools. We learned about another event on the first day of the war at a gymnasium in another area of Iran where dozens were killed, dozens of children were killed, which again, by all accounts, seems to also be United States weapons who killed them there.

44:41MeidasTouch:BBC did a whole report on that, which I covered. So the comp is you look at these people's past. I mean, you look at someone like a Hegseth, right? Hegseth wasn't able to run a nonprofit group successfully. He was pushed out because of his behavior and his failing and all of his personal disgusting things. He was pushed out of that. He's the guy who's leading the Defense Department. He's the guy who's in everything they talk about, we're going to loiter over Iran and rain down death. And even Donald Trump's post, they're war crimes. What he's saying he's going to do, I might quote, what does he say in that post?

45:21MeidasTouch:He's like, you know, after our nice little trip, you know, we may just blow up the desalination facilities and the electrical grids and all of that and then say bye-bye. Like, you're a sicko. Like, those are actual war crimes. You're going to blow up the desalination facilities, what, and just kill the people who won't be able to access water? You're going to kill 90 million people? I mean, you're saying that. That's what it means. And Iran goes to its people. You see? You see what they're saying, right? I mean, when Donald Trump says, I'm going to blow up your electrical grids and all these things.

45:52MeidasTouch:I mean, what the U.S. and Israel target Tehran University. They blow up the schools. So then Iran responds and says to all of the American schools in Qatar, all right, we're bombing you next. And then the American schools get evacuated, right? The American military bases in the Middle East are evacuated. Did you know that, that 13 American military bases in the Middle East have been totally abandoned? Could you imagine if that happened under Biden, 13 abandoned. All Donald Trump had to do was look at the way warfare was being fought in Ukraine and in Russia as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, right?

46:29MeidasTouch:It was clear that in 2025 and 2026, the war of the future was drones, interceptor drones, FPV drone swarms, Iran Shaheeds, strategic ballistic missiles. That's how these things were being fought. And so the U.S. was focused on its interceptors, like its THAAD and Patriot systems. Just think about this. Iran shoots fireworks into the sky, draws out 100 UAE interceptors, each one costing$2 to$5 million. Just say each interceptor is around$5 million, dollars, right? $500 million being spent shooting Iranian fireworks while then Iran works with one of its Shiite militia groups in Iraq, whether it's in the city of Erbil or they work with Hezbollah, you know, into Israel, or they work with other Shiite groups, other militia groups, you know, in other locations.

47:26MeidasTouch:Give them the FPV drones and then do drone swarms and start blowing up other assets. And just think about it. If you've compelled the UAE to spend$500 million of interceptors and you drew out that weaponry, that's a win for you as well if you're Iran. The U.S. has depleted three to seven years or maybe nine years of its interceptor reserves. The U.S. has also went through a huge portion of its Tomahawk missiles at this point. The Israel's chief of staff of the IDF is saying we're on the verge of total collapse right now. Said it public. The IDF chief of staff said we're on the, our military is on the verge of collapse right now.

48:12MeidasTouch:And, you know, and you're seeing, and Iran's listening to this. No offense to me, okay? And I mean this with respect as I'm about to insult myself. If I know these things, they know these things. Okay. If we're aware of these things, they're aware of these things as well. And it's clearly happening also in plain view and anybody can see it. You know, as I mentioned before the break, as I was saying, you know, these emolument clause violations, and in case you're just confused, our Constitution has something called the emolument clause, which, and there's also a bunch of bribery laws as well, which basically says you can't take gifts from foreign entities as quid pro quo.

48:54MeidasTouch:It's against the law. But Donald Trump, using the Supreme Court's ruling of absolute immunity, says all of these things are for national security and in our interest. The plane to Donald Trump, national security, the golden ballroom, national security, because Trump says I'm building a bunker underneath and it's a national security ballroom, right? So that's what he invokes for everything because he goes, well, I'll just get immunity if I say it's all under my Article 2 nationals. I'm here to defend national security. But in any event, we have an emolument clause violation. We have a clause because we don't want people to take gifts from foreign nations.

49:32MeidasTouch:Why? Because you can then be compromised. So Donald Trump's taken personal gifts. I mean, in the form of investments, right? The UAE invested in World Liberty Financial and Saudi Arabia's built Trump properties and Qatar's given Donald Trump jets. And all these countries have done those things. Why? Because they knew that they were doing pay for play quid pro quo. That was their goal and objective. So when you pay, the other side's got to play. When you do a quid pro quo, you're supposed to give us a security umbrella. So why would Qatar give a$500 million plane? Well, if you're going to give us Patriot and Thad interceptors and protect us and do all of these things to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, that seems like a good investment for 500.

50:17MeidasTouch:We'll give this guy a stupid plane. He wants a stupid plane. We'll give him a stupid plane. He's supposed to protect us. But then when you don't protect them, who becomes the victims? America, American troops. So one of the things that we're learning right now, and we probably knew this before even having to read about it, the Associated Press reports the United Arab Emirates, supported by Bahrain and Kuwait, is pushing hard for the U.S. president to order a ground invasion of Iran. as officials from any Gulf allies of the United States, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE have conveyed in private conversations, they don't want the ongoing military operations to end until there are significant changes in the Iranian leadership or there's a dramatic shift in Iran's behavior, diplomatic officials told the Associated Press.

51:06MeidasTouch:And trust me, that diplomatic official is saying it very diplomatically. You better believe behind the scenes, shit is going down, right? There's no doubt that they are saying, you mother, you effer, we gave you all of these things. We can crush you. We'll break your businesses. You know, your children, we will just like, I'm telling you, they are obviously saying, you can't leave us after all of this. You're going to leave us. We'll go join Iran then. How about that? You want to do that? We'll join Iran and we'll join Russia. That'll be the alliance. And so they're doing that in response right now.

51:42MeidasTouch:And we'll talk a little bit about Russia soon and what they're doing. But by the way, during a press conference today, and we'll show maybe these clips in a little bit too, Caroline Levitt's like, I think that actually the Arab nations are going to have to pay for this war. Unless the objective, and it may be this, to really help Russia develop the strongest alliance ever, to really build the Russia-China alliance into the strongest power by, if that's the objective, okay, that's what you're doing because that's the result of all of this, right? Occam's razor, that's the outcome to all of this stuff.

52:21But I'll leave it to you to

52:24MeidasTouch:decide ultimately if that's the, because if that's the intent, they're executing on that plan for sure, Brett. Yeah, they'd be executing that perfectly if that's the intent. And hey, it may be. But I think ultimately, this is one of the issues with having not even zero credibility, but negative credibility. Nobody takes you seriously. It's the issue with, like Ben said, violating the Emoluments Clause. It's the reason we have all of these rules, because you get leveraged very quickly. You're able to be pitted against basically your own a country's interests. And the issue that we're running into right now is that truly Trump's only two moves right now are basically to cut bait and try to claim some BS victory and get out, or alternatively, his other move is to escalate.

53:09And it seems like a lot of these forces right now are pushing him to escalate. It seems like his instincts are to continue to escalate. And obviously, that continues to put our troops in harm's way. It continues to risk lives abroad, at home. It continues to royal markets, keep the volatility going. And it's just his total inability to have any credibility has just been so damaging in the propaganda aspect of this war as well, because Donald Trump's just been getting hammered day in and day out by the Iranian regime's propaganda. And the truth is, you want to be able to say, oh, it's like Baghdad Bob or something, and that it's bullshit and that they're obviously lying and they're making things up to smear the United States and the president.

53:56But a lot of these things are just undeniable, the things that they're saying, because Donald Trump is the Baghdad Bob in this situation. Caroline Levitt is the Baghdad Bob in this situation. And you don't have to rely on Midas Touch on us to say that. There was even one of the senior editors of the Wall Street Journal making that exact point last week. I believe we read that to you. But that's why you get responses from Iran that look like this. Caroline Levitt today, and we may play these clips shortly. We'll see how Ben's feeling. But Caroline Levitt said earlier that we're on this four to six week estimated timeline.

54:29We've always been on that timeline. Remember in the beginning, Donald Trump was like, it's going to take a few days. And then it gradually got longer and longer and longer. Caroline Levitt said, we're on day 30 today. So you do the math on how much longer the Pentagon needs to fully achieve its objectives. First of all, we still don't really know the objectives. The objectives are constantly shifting space. You are constantly moving the goalposts here on a whim. And you're not even telling. Rubio says something different than Besant, says something different than Trump. And here you have that Iranian propaganda, the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting.

55:01They said, mocking Caroline Levitt saying, so the war will probably last another 10 years. Sorry, not war, operation. They're mocking Trump because he has no credibility here. because Trump goes like the other day, right? We're at a war. Oh, I shouldn't say war. They don't like when I say war. It's an operation. If I said war, if I say war, I got to get approval for it because that would be unconstitutional. They say this stuff out loud. We see this comment from Mohammed Goluboff, the Speaker of Parliament, who recently posted this. This is about Trump's, the threats that we're seeing from the Trump administration.

55:37And Goluboff said, Iran's enemies pass off their wishes as, quote, news while simultaneously threatening our nation. They are dead wrong. If they strike once, they'll get hit several times back. The people of Iran, God willing, under the guidance of the supreme leader of the revolution, will make the enemy regret its actions and attain their rightful rights. So you could see here how Trump's statements, how Trump's escalations, how Trump's threats that we're going to commit war crimes against you. This is only emboldening them. And it's also allowing these people who are by no means good people, the people, the Speaker of Iranian Parliament, to have kind of a moral upper hand here in the war as they speak to their people.

56:21And they say, you think we're bad. Donald Trump wants to starve you. Donald Trump wants you to not have water. Donald Trump is blowing up your buildings and blowing up your schools. It continues to make these threats. It's putting us on a really bad path right now. And it's making the United States really just seem completely rudderless, looking like we have no idea what the hell we're doing. And I think it's kind of because we are right now and we don't know what the hell we're doing. It really feels like Trump's only move is escalation. I don't want it to be. I'm not hoping that's the case. In fact, I hope this resolves itself in the best way that it can.

56:59But it really seems like he has backed himself into a corner and the only way for him to i don't know come out of this quote unquote a winner in his mind is to escalate is to escalate and uh in his terms annihilate like that that's the framework of these magas especially trump and the trump regime that's how he thinks he could win and it's just it shouldn't even be viewed in those terms for me it's the smugness of everyone in the trump regime, Vance, Trump himself, Caroline Levitt, in giving their responses to the press. Like, Brett, can you please bring up that Caroline Levitt, the image that we showed before?

57:36I just want to read it one more time for our audio listeners. And basically the gist of that, as Brett pulls that up, is the reporters ask her, they said, hey, how much longer, right? How much longer? And she responds with something to the effect of, we're on day 30. We said four to six weeks. You can describe it. I got rid of it at this point. No, it's fine. It's fine. But that was essentially the gist of that. We're on day 30, four to six weeks. You do the math. That was her response to the reporter. I think it's a pretty legitimate question, right? Considering the fact that Donald Trump and folks in his cabinet have claimed that we've already won the war.

58:09So, okay, how much longer? Sounds like she gave a definitive declaration of a timeframe, in my opinion. Four to six weeks. We're on day 30. You do the math, reporter. Okay. Seven times six, 42. We have 12 more days then. And every single reporter should be holding her feet to the fire when we're not out of there in 12 days. I know it sounds arbitrary or whatnot, but to me, it's that serious. It's this constant smugness from everyone involved in Trump's circle when the American people want answers, especially answers to a series of how much longer is this war going to go on? How many more troops are going to have to die?

58:48Her response, day 34 to six weeks, you do the math. It just makes me want to scream. That's just where I said there's no comp. And Jordi, you corrected me and said the comp is kind of Donald Trump with those deranged press conferences during COVID.

59:04MeidasTouch:By Easter, we'll bend the curve. The cases are going away like a miracle. Inject yourself with this and do that and all of those things. But we're used to in the past, even if we disagreed with the president, you know, a president holding a speech with actual smart people, you know, and conveying the information and the data that even if there was some spin in there, we would generally try to, you know, believe and that it was also usually in, you know, with other presidents filled with compassion and actual patriotism and like leveling with the American people, not always, Let me be very clear.

59:44MeidasTouch:But this is some next level like maniac dictator behavior right here, where the thing that is also very scary about this is that because Trump lies about everything and creates this information, I wouldn't even say decay, but just the destruction of information that the American people don't fully know what's coming. And like, when you see it the way we see it, and you know where this is heading, and you know what 2026 looks like, 2027 looks like, and perhaps even most frightening beyond what this is shaping up to be, right? And we'll talk a little bit about Russia planting its flag even firmer in Cuba.

1:00:32MeidasTouch:And I think about the Cuba missile crisis and what a big deal that was when I grew up, right? And I didn't grow up during the Cuba missile crisis, but as my parents taught me about it, I would see movies about it. And just the other day, yesterday on Sunday, the Russia ship's like, we're going through your blockade. And Trump's like, come on through. And after him and Rubio and everyone were like, nobody gets through. And Putin's like, yeah, I'm going to get through right there. And we're going to deliver our supplies to Cuba. And then Trump's like, okay, okay, you can come in. And then the press is like, so can Mexico come in and can Colombia and other countries, you know, ones that were actually allied with the United States, can they help Cuba out?

1:01:16MeidasTouch:No, no, we're not going to let them happen. So just Putin on a case by case basis. So you're going to release the sanctions against Russia, invite the Russian Duma to the Capitol and the State Department while Russia supplies its weapons and information to Iran to help defeat the United States in the war. Then you're going to let their ship just go right through the blockade and then defeat the whole purpose of you doing it, which will, if anything, I mean, if you're saying you want regime change in Cuba or whatever the hell you're going to do, you think that makes sense to then allow Russia to work with Cuba.

1:01:52MeidasTouch:So is what you actually want in Cuba to basically be a, all of the things we were worried about in the Cuban Missile Crisis that was viewed as a positive that the US stood up to Russia back then, you're just going to let them take it over? Which, don't get me wrong, we already know that Cuba is funded by Russia and all of the support. But you create this humanitarian crisis, which is horrible. You make the people suffer in Cuba, which is a crime against humanity, which I'm not supportive at all about anything in the way this Trump regime has treated Cuba. I think it's disgusting. But then at the end, you talk tough and then Russia just goes, we're coming in.

1:02:31MeidasTouch:We're going to be the heroes. We're going to be the one to say, okay, come on in. You can do that. What the hell is that? And it just makes you look utterly pathetic. You add all this stuff up. We'll talk about it more after the break, but it's like, can anybody with moral clarity just explain what the hell is going on? We can. We're trying. We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show. A quick reminder, hit subscribe, help us get to 7 million subscribers. Subscribe to Scott McFarlane's YouTube channel, at Scott McFarlane News. Subscribe there. Also, make sure you subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio podcast.

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1:08:22She's such a freaking rock star, man. Here's what President Zelensky posted on his social media. Here's what he's saying publicly. He goes, look, when I travel outside of Ukraine, I get daily intelligence updates online. This morning, I was briefed that U.S. military facilities in the Middle East and the Gulf region were photographed by Russian satellites in the interest of Iran. On March 24th, They imaged the U.S.-U.K. joint military facility on Diego Garcia. They also captured pictures of Kuwait International Airport, the infrastructure at the Greater Bergen Oil Airfield. On March 25th, they took pictures of the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, the Sheba Oil and Gas Field in Saudi Arabia, an air base in Qatar and Turkey, all imaged on March 26th.

1:09:08There are no Ukrainian facilities on this list, but who is helping whom when sanctions are lifted from an aggressor that earns daily revenue and provides intelligence for strikes against American, Middle East, UK and US, UK bases and so on.

1:09:23MeidasTouch:Listen to this line by Zelensky. When surveillance is carried out over facilities in Ukraine, we always understand that they must be protected since plans are in motion to destroy them. Energy and water infrastructure, military facilities, and so on. Everyone knows that repeated reconnaissance indicates preparations for strikes. How can sanctions be eased if this This is what the Russians are doing. There must be pressure on the aggressor and lifting sanctions is certainly not pressure. It looks strange. Sanctions are being lifted while the aggressor is providing intelligence to strike facilities, including those of the countries that are discussing or have already lifted sanctions.

1:10:15MeidasTouch:He uses that word particularly. That looks strange. And what he's saying is, in my opinion, like that looks like you're working to hurt your own military. It's the only logical explanation when you lift the sanctions and reward the party that is working with the country you're in war against. You're literally, like, could you imagine in World War II, if you had FDR or Truman go, you know what? We're going to lift some sanctions on Germany. How can we help Germany make more money in World War II, right? We're going to help Hitler and Mussolini. We're going to really work with them right now because we're doing jujitsu on them, right?

1:11:01MeidasTouch:That's what Treasury Secretary very Scott businesses. That's why Zelensky says, it looks strange. Like, what the hell are you doing? Zelensky also took a tour. He met in Kuwait. He met in United Arab Emirates, in Qatar, and Saudi Arabia ended deals with all of them to provide Ukrainian interceptor drones, Ukrainian drones, other technologies. And the message being sent, whether it's directly or indirectly is that, think about it, the American security umbrella ain't working. The Ukrainian security umbrella is needed, right? That's the message that's being sent. And while all of that's taking place, as I mentioned before the break, you had Russian Duma members, photographs of them with MAGA Republican Congress members during the war in Iran where Russia's helping Iran.

1:11:57MeidasTouch:You have MAGA Republican Congress members and MAGA State Department officials having the Russian Duma, sanctioned Russian Duma members over to the United States, greeting them like heroes while Donald Trump still attacks Zelensky and still attacks Ukraine and still takes Russia's side throughout all of this. Think about that. We've done a good job not showing clips on this one because I don't want to hear Donald Trump's voice frankly on this episode. Um, but let's hear just for a second, bear with me. This is the photo for those on audio. It's of MAGA Republican Congress members with the top Russian Duma members.

1:12:36MeidasTouch:They're taking photos. They posted it. They're bragging about it. And they're like, well, we're doing peace. Russia is trying to kill America. What are you talking about? You're doing peace. Are you the dumbest people ever? What are you doing? You know, if that's truly what you think is happening, that you're doing peace talks, then you're the dumbest people ever. Unless the explanation is that you want to actually help Russia destroy American military bases with Iran and kill Americans. Because that's what they're helping. It's really bad. And Ben, I don't even think this part got enough attention that Anna Paulina Luna, who is in there, she's a Congresswoman.

1:13:11Not only did they meet, but Anna Paulina Luna gave these sanctioned Russian officials a tour of the United States capital the other day. Like I personally gave them the tour, a VIP tour, a VIP tour that she personally gave them through the United States Capitol. Speaking about like, you know, in the past, you had to use a Trojan horse to get the enemies in the building. Here you got memory, Republican members of Congress is going to walk right in. It's all yours. Sanctioned Russian members, sanctioned Russian officials. It's like, it's like treasonous, honestly. It's that's my, you know, in my opinion.

1:13:46Yeah. I mean, and that's why with all this,

1:13:49MeidasTouch:you know, how like Iran has their cluster munitions, right? With Trump's cluster munitions of disinformation and distraction, and there's so much news everywhere. It's like they invite, what more do you need me to say? Russia, Russia, Russia. Yeah. I know when Trump says that people are like afraid, Ooh, we cover that. He's going to sue us because Russia, Russia, they invited the Russians over. They let the Russians through their so-called blockade. They removed the sanctions against the Russians. They know that the Russians are giving surveillance to Iran to strike American military bases so successfully they're able to target the crown jewel of our air force and our strato tankers and all of these things.

1:14:35MeidasTouch:And Donald Trump still takes Putin's side over Zelensky with all of this. And it's like, it's as simple as that. Just that's what's happening. I'm not even, I'm not sharing with you my opinion. I'm just telling you the facts of what's actually happening. Caroline Levitt held a press conference today. And one of the members of the press asked her and they said, hey, so the president insists he's negotiating with Iran and that they've agreed to his 15 points. They disagree with it. So what do you say when Iran's people say that this is not happening at all? What's your response, Caroline? Here, play this clip.

1:15:10Just to follow up, because Americans are sort of seeing these conflicting messages between the United States and Iran. I know the president insists that negotiations are underway. As you just mentioned, he's also said that Iran has agreed to most of the 15 points. We just heard from Iran, again, they're saying no negotiations are taking place. They're calling the proposal excessive, unrealistic. So how do you square that? How do you explain that discrepancy between the two. I think the American people are smart enough not to take the word of a terrorist regime that has chanted death to America for 47 years at their word.

1:15:42And I hope the journalists in this room are wise enough not to take an Iranian regime that has repeatedly lied about our country, about our values, about everyone in this room, frankly, for nearly five decades. So I think the American public are smart enough to understand that.

1:15:58MeidasTouch:Who controls the Strait of Hormuz right now. Does Iran continue to shoot ballistic missiles, Shahid drones, drone swarms at its Arab nation neighbors where there are American military interests in response to the United States and Israel strikes in Iran and Iran issues evacuation orders to the areas that it's going to strike, then strikes those areas with a degree of frequency? Is Iran doing that while you claim their military has been totally obliterated? Is their parliament meeting on a regular basis? Are these pro-democracy protesters out on the street demanding regime change in Iran like you promised was going to take place in the first 48 hours?

1:16:48MeidasTouch:And that was beginning to happen in January until you betrayed everybody, all the protesters, and threw them under the bus and didn't even have assets in the areas and told them to protest and got a lot of them killed. I can observe what's happening out there. Have our equipment, has our equipment been destroyed in many of these military bases? Every night do I see Iran continuing to rain ballistic missiles, cluster munitions into Iran? Have the Houthis joined the war right now? I can evaluate what's actually happening. And I understand in a war, there's propaganda here and there's propaganda there, but I can tell you what's actually happening on the ground.

1:17:33MeidasTouch:And talking about the top call and the kettle black, right? It's like, well, look, I've seen, they've lied so many times. The Trump regime has consistently, their word is zero. And now you have the foreign minister of Oman, who was the handpicked mediator by the U.S. working with Iran to help them build their toll plan in order to control the Strait of Hormuz. That's one of the things that's happening. So then she's also asked, who's paying for the cost of this war, Caroline? Will the Arab countries step up? The Arab countries who have stepped up to pay for America's security umbrella, only for America to go to war with Israel against Iran without consulting the Arab nations.

1:18:20MeidasTouch:Who's gonna pay for this war, Donald? Here, play this clip. Jonathan. Thanks a lot, Caroline. Two questions regarding the financial cost of the war. Back during the Persian Gulf War, 1990, 1991, Arab countries paid for the vast majority of the cost of the war, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE. Who's paying for the cost of this war? Will those Arab countries step up to do just that? Well, I think it's something the president would be quite interested in calling them to do. I won't get ahead of him on that, but certainly it's an idea that I know that he has and something that I think you'll hear more from him on.

1:18:57Right after Mexico pays for the wall, the Arab countries are going to pay for Trump and Israel's war. That's what's exactly what's going to happen. Imagine just having the gall to start a war without even consulting anybody cause damage and terror to countries. Let's be real. They're paying the price for this war right now. Their countries are getting bombed for helping the United States. Then demanding or asking or hoping that they pay your bills. The whole thing is so perverse. They have no shame. That's Trump's past, Jordy. Exactly. They have no shame. They have no shame. They are kidding themselves and they are incredibly smug every step of the way.

1:19:43It is absolutely pathetic. That is just the baseline word. They are pathetic individuals, all of them. And it just so happens that these specific pathetic individuals are the top leaders, quote unquote, leaders in our government at this time. and they are bringing all of us collectively down with them. And I just want to pull my frigging hair out watching all of this. Ah, again, ah. Like I'm audibly screaming throughout this episode because that's just the emotion that's coming out of me right now. And it has been all day. One more clip then, Jordy. Why was the administration okay with sending Russia?

1:20:22Why was the administration okay with Russia sending its oil to Cuba

1:20:26MeidasTouch:and not other nations? right? You said that you were embargoing Cuba. There was an executive order that says anybody who dare bring oil into Cuba will face the wrath of the United States. You and Rubio have said over and over again, the goal is to basically starve Cuba, which in my view is a crime against humanity as well. But now you let Russia in. What's the end game of this? If you were going to let countries And why not let allies of the United States and deliver it in order to, you know, maybe encourage better relations with Cuba? You know, even though I think they realize that you're the one starving them.

1:21:08MeidasTouch:But why not we give aid or or why not allow Mexico to give aid or Colombia like they tried to when you stop them from doing it? Play the clip. I'll take a few more. Thank you. You listed the described humanitarian reasons for allowing that oil tanker to reach Cuba. Just to clarify, why was the administration okay with Russia sending that oil to Cuba and not other nations? Look, it was a decision. It'll continue to be made on a case-by-case basis for humanitarian reasons or otherwise, but there's been no firm change in our sanctions policy. President Scheinbaum of Mexico also said that Mexico is exploring different ways to restart some of those shipments to Cuba.

1:21:50Is the administration okay with that at this time? Again, no change in our sanction policy. We still reserve the right to seize vessels if it's legally applicable that are headed towards Cuba and not violate the United States sanction policy. But, of course, the president and the administration also reserve the right to waive those seizures on a case-by-case basis. And to clarify, just any more Russian oil tankers going to be allowed to reach Cuba at this time? I know you say case by case, but for the case of Russia, is it pretty much green light right now? No, that's not what I said. It's a case by case basis.

1:22:21MeidasTouch:Vicious, a vicious lie. I mean, just when you watch that, if you don't cringe, if that doesn't make you angry, go, what the hell is this? Well, then I guess you're in the 33 % to support Donald Trump. I mean, his approval dropped in the latest UMass Amherst, YouGov poll to 33%. I mean, I think it will be in the 20s soon. Net negative 25 on immigration, net negative 31 on jobs, negative 36 on tariffs, negative 47 on inflation. And this number is going to continue to go lower. It'll be in the 20s soon. But how you watch that, and go, oh, that makes sense to me. All of the lies, all of the attack on allies, all of the trade wars against the world, all of the gutting of the government and the State Department, all of that, right, created the perfect foundation, if you will, and it's screwed up to say it this way, that when he instigated this disastrous war in Iran for it just all to break.

1:23:27The ticking time, like you couldn't have set in motion a more catastrophic way to

1:23:38MeidasTouch:approach everything that's been built in America. And the part that is tough for me in the moment when I report on what's happening day to day, even when things are grim and horrible and tragic, it's, you know, I don't want to say it's easy, but like, you know, you're in the, you're in the game, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're focused, right? You're, you're doing it. Muscle memory takes over and you're reporting on what's happening. The, the difficult part is when you study it the way we all do, and you see what's coming in the future, the way I was warning about this then in 20, you know, and then when people are like, oh, you're being hyperbolic.

1:24:23MeidasTouch:That's not going to happen. Look at the headline, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, really, really? After all of these things happening? And again, not because I'm a great predictor, because I'm just listening and watching and observing what's happening. Not because there's some Notre Dame's future predictions. What do you mean all hell breaks loose, Ben? Are you watching the news? Are you watching what's going on? Hell is breaking loose. If you don't think this is hell breaking loose, then there's no terminology for that in general. Then there isn't because this is the depths of depravity of anti-American.

1:25:04MeidasTouch:This whole thing is taking America down. I'm not trying to scare people. It's just what is happening every single day. Two points, Brett and Jordy, then I'll throw to you. Shout out, no Kings protest, over 8 million. I think the number was closer to 9 million. Midas touch distributed footage again. You know, the whole day we did coverage. It's always been a priority of us to do that. Then at the beginning, I talked about Congress abandoning the ship, right? While all of this is going with everything I'm talking about happening, MAGA Republicans gaveled out. They're on a two week vacation right now.

1:25:35MeidasTouch:It's not some both sides, you know, oh, everybody left. Okay. Democrats have tried to fund TSA over and over and over again, nine times. Finally, the Senate agreed and then the House said, nope, we're going to block that. So Donald Trump did an unlawful executive order funding the TSA. No one's really going to challenge that it's unlawful because we want the TSA to be funded, but it's not a lawful order. You can't do it by executive order, but we all want the TSA to be funded. So it's like, all right, just let the TSA be funded, which Trump should have done from the outset. But regardless, it's like the Republicans did it.

1:26:06MeidasTouch:I'm not saying that because like, oh, I don't like the Republicans. So they did it. They want ICE to be able to wear masks and torture people and not do warrants. And Democrats are like, you've got your money, ICE. We don't need to give you more. We do want to fund TSA and FEMA and all the other things. And the Republicans are like, nope, unless you let us do the ICE torture part, then we're not going to do it. And can we add just bullying transgender people into this? And it's like, what does that have to do? and just let's bully transgender people. Let's throw that in there. And it's like, okay, y 'all are a bunch of morons and you're evil and you're just, and you're causing this.

1:26:44MeidasTouch:Like, it's so obvious. I wanted to point it out at the end of the episode. Yeah, well said. And I just want to give a shout out to the No King Spokes as well. You know, everybody who, whether you were on the ground, you know, in your city, in your town, whether you were watching our stream at home, whether you were in bed or retweeting content or reposting content and sharing content, whatever your role was, I want to thank you for being out there. I do think those No Kings rallies are so important. And I think they're also crucial because they are a check on this Trump regime's unhinged propaganda because they rely on their lies and media outlets and their influencers to regurgitate their lies.

1:27:32One of their biggest lies are that, you know, they are this big movement that is unstoppable and that there are no, there's nobody out there who challenges this. Everybody loves it. You had Trump. I won't play the clip, but the other day on the plane, Trump called all Democrats terrorists. Like how screwed up, how offensive is that? And do you remember the news cycle? I'm sure you do. When Hillary Clinton referred to a small portion of Trump voters as a basket of deplorables. And that was like every day, every, they still talk about it to this day. Donald Trump, and she was right by the way. Dude, she was so, she, Hillary was right.

1:28:10Hillary was right. She could have, she should have and could have went further. Donald Trump calls Democrats terrorists doesn't even make like a headline. Just think about that. But when you have people out there, when you have patriotic people, people who love this country, people who love their families getting out, taking the streets, peacefully protesting, delivering, rousing, inspiring speeches, speaking to all of the things that a majority of Americans care about. It neutralizes all of that line of attack from the Trump regime. It also shows that there are more of us than there are of them, and it shows a strength in numbers.

1:28:47Let's be real, we're heading towards a midterm year, and I think it acts to excite people and say, listen, they're going to try to throw whatever they can at us this time. We know that, but we have all of these people behind us. We're going to do everything that we can to ensure that that does not happen. I think that's powerful. I think that's powerful. And I love the images. And Jordy, speaking of the images, I have a photo of you here as well. I got a flash for let's go. You know, watch it. Pittsburgh, man. Shout out Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh had an unbelievable turnout. I mean, I was expecting it, but like when you're actually there and in person, and you just see everyone.

1:29:22And to be - Hold on, question, question. Were you trying to look exactly like the guy with a sign meme? You know, you guys know that meme? Because you look like, now I can write anything on your sign. You've given me a tool now. It's possible, but dude, I'm serious. I'm not just saying this. The energy there was so incredible. And to your point exactly, Brad, it was like this whole mentality of strength in numbers to its core, to like the very essence of it. because i saw signs about everything i saw signs around the epstein files releasing the epstein files to affordability to getting ice the heck out of power it's it was really incredible to see and what were the motivating factors for people to get down there and it was all again around this central ethos of pro-democracy bringing people together bringing the energy that we're going to need every step of the way to take back our country in a peaceful peaceful yet energized way.

1:30:19So it was shout out everyone at the No Kings in Pittsburgh. Shout out to everyone at No Kings across the country or across the world. Y 'all are the greatest. Like no, no, no ends if buts about it. Like it was, it was, it was awesome. I want to thank everybody so much for watching. We covered a lot on this episode. I hope you appreciate the comprehensive nature of these updates. We do spend a lot of time to make sure that you leave this episode knowing everything that's going on, the good, the bad, the ugly. And unfortunately, right now in this current moment, it's ugly, but we'll persevere. We'll get out of it.

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1:32:06MeidasTouch:and congratulations to partners he posted it publicly so we congratulate him and Congratulations to you, Aaron. Aaron had a baby girl, for those wondering. But yeah, he hasn't skipped a beat on the reports. He's like in the hospital with the hairnet, like breaking news. Like, dude, you can take off, man. I promise. I promise. Thanks, everybody, for watching. We appreciate you. Stay in the fight. We've got this, Jordy. Take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty is standing strong.

1:32:39Against the fascists we sing our song We will get it right whenever we go

1:33:06Thank you.