MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 8/1/25

25:38I think the reality is the story goes far deeper than any of us know. And Michael Wolff, that story that we heard is probably just the tip of the iceberg as to what actually happened here.

25:51MeidasTouch:And when we come back, I want to talk about the inflation data, exceeding expectations, how Trump and Caroline Levitt are pretending that there is no inflation. I think they're saying that because they're destroying the data on inflation, the consumer price index data that determines inflation, how they're talking about building this ballroom in the White House that they say is going to happen right away. I want to explain to you why it's a big deal and why it's important that we actually care about that and why a lawsuit needs to be immediately filed to block that ballroom at the White House.

26:26MeidasTouch:It's a violation of the emoluments clause, but I want to dig deeper. I want to talk about what's happening in Ukraine, right? I mean, Putin strikes on Ukraine, intensifying another horrific night last night. At least six dead, a six-year-old kid died, 300 Shahid drones, dozens of ballistic missiles, terrorizing people in Ukraine. And Donald Trump now says, I never really meant I was going to bring peace. I was just being sarcastic about it. I never. Do we have that clip? Before we before I go to break, let me just show you Donald Trump saying, of course, I never meant what I said. It was a J.K.

27:06MeidasTouch:L.O.L. Here play this clip. I'm not understating the complexity of all this, but as a candidate, you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours. Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that. What I really mean is I'd like to get it settled. What you really meant is that you're a freaking fraud and that you're a liar. And to do that, there were issues of war and peace, poverty and prosperity. And Donald, oh, it's just a joke. I didn't really mean it. And by the way, that's what he's going to say when it turns out that Japan's not going to actually give$550 billion because there's no real deal.

27:46MeidasTouch:European Union's not going to give$750 billion, and South Korea is not going to give$450 billion because it's all a fake. It's all a fraud. And then when he's cornered, he goes, it was all a joke, JK, LOL. All right, we'll talk about that and more when we come back from our first break. A reminder, if you could become a member of our YouTube channel, it goes a huge way to help grow this independent media platform. We've grown with no outside investors, and we've grown thanks to you. So it's easy. You just hit join. You can gift memberships to as many people as you want here on YouTube. So become a member today, gift memberships.

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32:44MeidasTouch:You know, I've had a few conversations with higher political people. I'll just leave it at that. Who have asked me if I think this Trump ballroom issue is a big issue that should be confronted. There's a lot to confront, right? I mean, you have Trump's cover up of Epstein. You have Donald Trump's disastrous trade war against the world. You have Donald Trump disappearing human beings, migrants and citizens alike, frankly, throwing people into concentration camps like alligator Alcatraz. Donald Trump implementing Project 2025 and destroying the government, like Donald Trump gutting FEMA and Donald Trump gutting the weather services.

33:21MeidasTouch:You've got Donald Trump attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve. You've got inflation surging. You have jobless claims, 75 % higher at this time this year than it was last year. Just think about that. That's a Pretty significant stat right there. So do we focus on the ballroom? Is it a big deal? I say you do. I mean, I say you still focus on everything else as well, but building a$200 million gold ballroom wrecking the East wing of the White House without congressional approval is yet another way that Donald Trump is just destroying norms. That house belongs to us, right? Donald Trump is like a dog who likes to piss on everything, right?

34:08MeidasTouch:He pees on things, and that's how he sees himself as like an animal. He loves to mark. Don't mark on my fucking house. Don't mark on my house. You know what I mean? That's the people's house right there. And I think it's a very serious issue that I actually care about a freaking ton because, and to me, it doesn't make it better that it's going, it's coming from donors. To me, that actually makes it worse. Trump says, oh, well, I'm going to contribute to it. I doubt it. Maybe I'll do a very small amount, but I don't want the East wing of the white house to be brought to you by Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or some other oligarch.

34:53MeidasTouch:And to me, if you do that, that becomes a violation of the emoluments clause, because now Donald Trump, in my view, is building a monument to himself, Trump Hall, in the people's house, brought to you by whichever billionaires are going to be buying it. If you were to do a construction, and we're showing it for our audio listeners, you see this gaudy gold ballroom right there. It will change the way the White House looks. I don't want to change the way the White House. If you want to throw a big event for world leaders and you think that there's not enough space or as Donald Trump said today, people have to slop around in a tent.

35:33MeidasTouch:Well, we're not like Qatar. We're not Saudi Arabia. We don't have kings and queens and princes and princesses in the United States of America. So you eat in a normal dining room or or you get to eat outside in a tent, or you go to some other place, do it in the Capitol building, or whatever the hell you want to do it. But you think about a place also like a Qatar, which Donald Trump idolizes. I mean, the entire Qatari GDP is like$140 billion, right? The entire GDP of the United Arab Emirates is$440 billion, not trillion, billion dollars. That's not insignificant, but it's not. California, if it was a country, would have a GDP, the fourth largest in the world at about$4.5 trillion.

36:21MeidasTouch:So let's be clear about those numbers here. But I don't want to see, again, the East Wing brought to you by Bezos. That's ridiculous. And to me, you're now building a monument to Trump in the people's house. He's marking, he's peeing on the people's House, as I see it, and brought to you by Bezos. And now those people are basically, in my view, quid pro quo bribing Trump because they want to have their names on the people's house. No, what you should have to do is you should go to Congress, that's the law, and you should authorize a major renovation and let Congress do it. And let's see if that's what the American people want to see right now, with inflation surging, with people losing their jobs, with people struggling to afford a home more like rent.

37:09MeidasTouch:That's the priority. So I absolutely think it is a big deal. And I think you need to message it the way I do, not because it's a good message, but because it's the right thing. I don't want Trump peeing on my house. Yeah. The biggest thing for me too, are just like the kind of optics and the time that he's doing it right now in terms of exactly what you were saying. Americans are struggling right now across the country. They're being told that they need to accept higher prices. They're being told, A, that they should just suck it up and handle inflation. In one breath, in the next breath, they're being told that inflation doesn't exist.

37:47As they go to the grocery store, as they go to any store and see that prices are going higher and higher, as they're getting rid of all these people from the United States government, as they've gutted key programs that people rely upon as they get rid of things like direct file, which was a free service that allowed people to file their taxes so that they didn't have to pay one of these conglomerates to file their taxes. In the midst of doing all of that, to be doing this extension of the White House so that you could throw up your little dictator parties, that's the part that makes me uncomfortable with it.

38:26And of course, the fact that Trump likens himself to these dictators, And you know that he views this as what they do, Ben, in Saudi Arabia and these other countries, as you were saying. So those are the things that bother me the most. And then, like, as you dig into, you know, what's the thing that the Trump administration and these Republicans have been saying over and over and over again, right? We've got to bring down costs, right? We've got to bring down costs. We're fiscal conservatives. We're fiscal hawks. Like, how many times do they have to say that and then do the complete opposite before anybody calls them out on this?

38:57Why are we still accepting this framing? as they spend so recklessly, more recklessly than any Democrats who they accuse of reckless spending. And I'm certainly not saying the Democrats are perfect here by any means, but the Republicans always go way, way, way further with spending when Democrats historically have actually reined in the deficit. And you look at charts like this of Doge and you see that the United States of America is actually spending more now than they did last year. So not only did Doge, Elon Musk, Trump and the entire regime cripple our medical research, cut cost-effective foreign aid programs, get rid of direct file, remove all of these programs.

39:36But they're actually spending more money in the midst of all that. They're spending more, which is just something that I think the American people will look at and go, I cannot accept that. It is just not okay. 1 ,000%. It's why that phrase that people use sometimes, well, I'm fiscally conservative, but socially liberal. It's like, I don't think you know what that means anymore because that's not a thing being, I'm a fiscal conservative. Shut up. No, you're not. You just like voting for Trump. Ben, the gaslighting on inflation is just crazy. It's absolutely insane because if you hear chief propagandist Caroline Levitt speak and Donald Trump speak, they'll act like the issue solved.

40:20It doesn't exist. Meanwhile, people are going to the grocery store. They're going shopping. They see the prices in real life. So something's not matching up between what Trump and Levitt are trying to sell to the American people and what people are actually feeling with their wallets. And then lastly, the ballroom by Bezos is such a perfect analogy here, Ben, because that's exactly what's happening. And it shouldn't surprise anybody. Remember, the Wi-Fi at the White House, the Wi-Fi is brought to you by Elon Musk and Starlink. Yeah. Not enough people are talking about that, if you remember. Who proved that thing, by the way?

40:54That's absolutely insane. And I know it's been lauded by cybersecurity experts as like, hey, this isn't a good thing that's going on here, Ben.

41:04MeidasTouch:Let me show this. This is Caroline Levitt from her press conference earlier in the day, where she says, the same so-called experts who claim tariffs would spike inflation, they're wrong. There's no inflation at all. Here, play this clip. The same so-called experts claimed that President Trump's tariffs would spike inflation and hurt American consumers. But consumer spending growth just accelerated and inflation remains right on track. For the past five straight months, core inflation has come in below market expectation and remains in line with the Fed's 2 % inflation target target. Pause. She reads like a third grader doing a bad book report.

41:42It's actually this that like the cadence is very North Korean style in general. I mean, she'll make Katie McEnany blush the way she's reporting. This is insane.

41:50MeidasTouch:Then you have Donald Trump saying, inflation, I've already taken care of it. Prices are way down. Groceries, everything. It's all so cheap right now. Here's what Donald Trump said in the recent interview he did. It almost feels like an unforced error. You know, if you think inflation, I've already taken care of. Prices are way down for everything. Groceries, everything. Yeah, it isn't. It just isn't. That's just not true. And if you look, Spencer came in and posted this, I think of the Folgers tub of coffee that it used to be$12.99 a month ago. Right now it's$19.72. To me, that markup right there is pretty much the markup that I see across the board when I'm in an actual grocery store.

42:36MeidasTouch:If I show up in a supermarket or a convenience store or whatever, I'm seeing prices look like that. And I'm going, wow, that got much higher. And you look at the inflation report from today, and you had inflation jump to 2.6 % in June, its highest level since February. and core PCE inflation, excluding food and energy, ticked up to 2.8%. And again, I'm not trying to be conspiratorial here, so feel free to push back at me. It feels much higher than that, especially when we know you have an effective tariff rate across the world right now, when you kind of blend all the different tariffs that are out there of about 18%.

43:20MeidasTouch:That's an 18 % national sales tax effectively. We know from companies, Some of them were able to eat while they had inventory already stored in anticipation of this. They could eat some of it themselves. But now we're really seeing like Ford, for example, profits wiped out by tariffs. They reported a net loss of$20 million last quarter compared with$1.8 billion in net income a year ago after being hit by more than$800 million from Trump's tariffs. And some place like Ford, they could have factories in the United States, but they have to still import their parts from Mexico and Canada and elsewhere.

44:03MeidasTouch:So they're the ones getting hit with the tariff. And even though these trade deals are fake when it comes to what another country is investing in the United States, like Japan is supposed to invest$550 billion, according to Trump. Japan says, no, we have no binding agreement, but we'll be okay now with the 15 % tariff. Why? Because it's American companies being taxed and being passed on to the consumers, and Japan knows it's never going to give the$550 billion. Same thing with Europe. Europe's like, I guess we can deal with the 15 % for now. Trump's like, but now you owe us$750 billion that you're going to give us as the signing bonus, the same way Japan and Europe's like, yeah.

44:50Plus, there are these court cases going on right now that could just end all the tariffs entirely. And I also think you'll get a lot of people who will say, but inflation was higher under Biden. Inflation was very high under Biden. And I concede that fact 100%. I think the difference here, though, is, and I know the internet doesn't like nuance. I know a lot of people out there don't like nuance. But you have to remember, how did Donald Trump's term end? Why was inflation so low when his first term finished? Because there was a global pandemic and the world was shut down. That's why oil was like a negative per barrel.

45:28That's why everything was so low, because the entire world shut down. And why did things spike so high after the pandemic? It wasn't because of Joe Biden. It was because of how screwed up all the global supply chains were hit by the COVID pandemic. And it was by the way that Donald Trump printed money during his administration. And so you had these kind of time bombs that were set up from the Trump administration that went off during the Biden administration. Biden bared the brunt and the political cost of Trump's inflation. Let's bear it. And you know what? I get it. The buck stops with the president.

46:08the buck stops the person in charge, right? So you say, okay, what did President Biden do at that point? Well, I'll tell you what he didn't do. He didn't say that it didn't exist. Like Donald Trump says, President Biden said multiple times, prices are way too high. And that's why we're passing the Inflation Reduction Act. Prices are way too high. And that's why we're doing X, Y, Z, this, that, and the other. He's constantly said that. I think he was penalized for saying that when Donald Trump gets rewarded for just making shit up. Donald Trump just says, oh, there's no inflation. And like, we're supposed to believe him.

46:42We see inflation going up now. And it's not because of a global crisis. Well, I guess it is, but this is a global crisis of Donald Trump's own making. Trump is once again, causing the inflation. It is an unforced inflationary period because of Donald Trump's actions. And so I think those are very different scenarios that we are looking at right now, not to mention the fact that as you go through President Biden's term, as you reach the end of the term, what did you see? You saw inflation going back down to that 2 % mark, which is the mark that is healthy inflation in the economy, the Fed target.

47:20It was going right to there. And then Trump came in with his liquidation day tariffs that he did and reversed the entire trend. It didn't have to be like this. It's all of Donald Trump's making right now. He bears the responsibility. And I think, as I've said in this show before, what happened with Trump in 2020 during that election and that part of his presidency was Trump ran into what I call the reality deficit, which is that his lies can not outrun the truth of what people were actually feeling in their lives. Trump was saying that COVID was a hoax, that it wouldn't hit our shores, that it wasn't that bad.

47:59And people were looking around and they were watching their family members and their friends die. And Trump was saying it was a democratic hoax. Well, now you have Donald Trump once again, lying as he always does, about something that affects people very personally, the cost of living, their ability to put food on the table for their family, their ability to afford housing. And people know when they go out there and go to the stores, that the reality of their unique situations is not lining up with what Trump is saying. And I think when you put those together, you notice that reality deficit. I think that is exactly why we're seeing Trump's approval right now at the lowest ratings of any president at this point in their presidency in history.

48:43Exactly, Brett. And it really just goes to show you the biggest difference between leaders and pretenders. President Biden, leader, buck stops with him. There's inflation. What are we going to do? We're going to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. We're going to try and mitigate what people are feeling. What we're not going to do, Donald Trump, is pretend that inflation just doesn't exist. The same exact way you pretended COVID doesn't exist. The same way it's impacting real people, real families, real Americans. Americans, by the way, who voted for you, Donald Trump, you pretender. He's the biggest pretender.

49:17And that's why it's so important to have adults in the room and a steady hand on the wheel. And what we're seeing with Donald Trump, I mean, could you imagine if Joe Biden answered the question saying inflation, that doesn't exist. They'd call him senile. They'd write all reports. Tapper would write a whole nother chapter of his book. It's absolutely insane what we're seeing from Donald Trump. It shows you the difference in how Democrats and Republicans are graded, right, Jordy? Yes. Yes. And the gaslighting of corporate media on how they treat the two different parties. It's absolutely insane.

49:49MeidasTouch:Here's the, I see on a lot of these shows where they have like the debates where they're not really debates. They're just shouting mass matches, but the rhetorical trick that the magas all try to use when speaking with like the liberal is what do you want to see in the deal? How would you have done the deal better? Let me just tell you how you answer that question. When the mat, well, cause they, cause you know, you have a short period of time. Well, how would you have done the deal different with South Korea? You would have done a better deal with Japan? Yeah, I would have. How would you have done it?

50:18MeidasTouch:Well, I would have started with a deal, like a piece of paper, holding up a piece of paper. And then - That looks like Trump's deals though. What I would put though, wait, wait, wait. What I would put on the piece of paper is terms. So I would have one, two, three, four, five, six. And now it doesn't look like what Trump's deal. When it was blank, it would look like one of his deals. And then I would have signatures because I'd want it to be binding because that's the way contracts work. And I'd want there to be a signatory on behalf of the United States and a signatory, the authorized representative on the counterparty.

50:50MeidasTouch:I call me old fashioned here. But when I think of deals, I think of binding deals that are on pieces of paper that contain terms. The very fact that that issue is not being called out, I've done a deal. Look at my social media posts. Like, look at his other social media posts that he's been making. So in between making posts of himself saying that Obama should be tried for treason and in between posting become the storm is coming like QAnon slogans and saying that he should declare martial law against blue states. he'll post, I've done a deal with South Korea and they're going to give me$450 billion.

51:35MeidasTouch:And then the media is like a bombshell deal. South Korea is doing it. And I'm like, the first thing I see when he posts that, I go, let me just Google. I go, I'm pretty sure the GDP of South Korea is under 2 trillion. Let me Google it. Okay. It's 1.1 trillion. Okay. 450 billions, 24 % of the GDP. So you're telling me South Korea is going to give a signing bonus to the United States without any piece of paper, without their own legislature approving it, to give away 25 % of their GDP and ask for nothing in return? And then major news media in the US writes, what a deal. I'm like, it's not a deal.

52:18MeidasTouch:It's not real. It's all a lie. It's all fake. And then you and then you want to prove me wrong, then show me the freaking piece of paper. Show me the paper. And then I'll say, oh, the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement, that was a real deal. It was over a thousand pages long. The prior trade deal with Japan, that's a real deal. I can see it. So stop gaslighting, stop lying and corporate news, stop writing that he did deals. He's done zero deals in 90 days. Zero. In fact, he's done negative. He's done negative deals. What he's done is worse than a deal. He's done fraud. He's created fraudulent concepts of deals that will end up screwing over American companies.

53:05MeidasTouch:Because if you interpret the ambiguity in favor of whoever, it's always the other country now getting a lower tariff than say four debts. So we'll talk about that and more when we come back. I want to show though what Caroline Levitt said and what Trump said, begging, begging today for a Nobel Peace Prize. Donald Trump has resolved six wars in six months. He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. We'll talk about that and more. A reminder, become a member of our YouTube page. We don't have outside investors. That's the way to help us grow. So if you can hit subscribe, we'd appreciate it greatly and become a member today.

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58:41MeidasTouch:Let's talk about Caroline Levitt saying that Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. She's begging for him to get a Nobel Peace Prize. And she claims that Donald Trump resolved six wars in six months. She goes, Israel and Iran, Serbia and Kosovo. She says, Donald Trump stopped the war between Serbia and Kosovo, Rwanda and Congo, India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia. And am I missing one here? Just play the clip of what of what she says. On the peace front, President Trump helped deliver an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries were engaged in a deadly conflict that had displaced more than 300 ,000 people until President Trump stepped in to put an end to it.

59:35The president spoke directly on the phone with the acting prime minister of Thailand and the prime minister of Cambodia to inform both leaders that unless they brought their conflict to an end, there would be no trade discussions or agreements with the United States. Almost immediately afterward, a peace was brokered that will save thousands of lives and allowed for trade negotiations with these countries to resume, and they have. The president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia.

1:00:11This means President Trump has brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office. It's well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What? Pause. That's the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen. That's literally like the most embarrassing clip I've ever seen. One, once again, I'm not saying this to be rude, like she can't read. She's reading like in a tone of a third grader that's giving a really bad book report. I know I said that earlier, but also even the tone, it's very North Korean style. Like this is just straight out of something that you'd see from North Korea.

1:00:46This is chief propagandist officer. It is embarrassing. It is beneath the presidency. It's beneath all of us here. She's begging for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Like, just stop. That's weird. Our dear leader, Donald Trump, having secured peace in this conference. I shouldn't say. And then on Thursday, Donald Trump rescued a kitten out of a tree. It was maybe too young for it, but there was the movie,

1:01:14MeidasTouch:those movies in like the nineties of like the future fascist worlds. Like I think one was like judge dread with Sylvester Stallone. The other was demolition man with, Oh, who is the actor in demolition man? I forget. And then there was starship troopers like that. And it was like kind of like bad acting, like kind of C-list acting, but the movies had pretty cool special effects for those. And Wesley Snipes. Yeah, Wesley Snipes. And that's how the screen would pop on. It would be a woman like Caroline Levin who would talk just like that. And now that's actually the reality. Donald Trump here on the Midas Touch Podcast.

1:01:50I'm going to make a rule. I think we all need to stick to this rule. It should be the Nobel Committee. If you're listening, I need you to listen to this rule. If somebody asks for a Nobel Peace Prize, instant disqualification. Instantly disqualified. you never can even be considered if in fact if somebody like a bb netanyahu like tries to go on so i've submitted your uh request to be the no they are they're disqualified they get

1:02:16MeidasTouch:anyone who benjamin netanyahu who nominates is immediately you should be rejected right away immediately yeah anything netanyahu puts him in immediate that that's a sign right away that this probably not the person who you want to be considered at all for this and then just the nerve after doing Netanyahu on giving Nobel peace prizes is to make this episode go full circle is like Lawrence Taylor running uh children's sports league okay like not the people who should be your not vouching for vouching for you in those things not it also shows just like the complete way this man's mind has totally and utterly devolved so that obviously comes from Trump hey Carolyn when you get up there tomorrow you know make the pitch for me to win the Nobel peace he says on a social media platform like yeah he does i just want to paint the picture trump's just laying in bed at night i know sorry ugly thought and he's going you know what nobel peace prize i got to remind caroline tomorrow talk about me winning the nobel pre-spot not not thinking about hey how can i solve inflation hey what can we do to help the american people no i need to win the nobel peace prize and we need to make the case for it tomorrow look and the fact I think you're doing this as well after.

1:03:28Just let's take one action that Donald Trump took alone. Strip away everything else and let's focus on what he did with USAID. Donald Trump gutting USAID, Doge, Elon Musk. They are going to be responsible, according to reports, for something around 14 million deaths over the next few years. 14 million. as our spending continues to increase. It was not a big part of our budget. And 14 million people are going to be dead because of what Donald Trump did, and he has the nerve to ask for the Nobel Peace Prize.

1:04:05MeidasTouch:He lists six wars that he had nothing to do with stopping also, just like his fake trade deals. You've had India and Pakistan. There's no trade deal with India right now. So how could you have dangled trade in India to stop the war between India and Pakistan. When in fact, Donald Trump's post was at last night, basically says India is a failed nation and says, I could care. I mean, just think about this. Like one of the things you would try to do, knowing that India is actually developing pretty quickly and their economy is growing. Like, why would you want to push them closer strategically to China and to Russia, right?

1:04:47MeidasTouch:Like you, like, you know, you could be suspicious of their intentions. They're part of the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. But wouldn't you want to try to bring them over to you, especially, you know, where, you know, like in the past, like Apple would want to build manufacturing plants in India. That's actually helpful to American consumers. But Donald Trump's like, Apple, if you build in India, I'm coming after you. So India is pissed about that. But they're super pissed about Donald Trump claiming he was the one who made the peace deal. You had nothing to do with it. Stop saying that.

1:05:21MeidasTouch:And Donald Trump posted last night, pulled it up one more time. He goes, I don't care what India does with Russia. Just stop there. I don't care what India does with Russia. Why wouldn't you care? You should care one way or another. I mean, that should be something you care about. Why? Because you're the president of the United States and India has nuclear weapons and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. So you should care about that relationship. Go on. They can take their dead economies down together for all I care. India's economy isn't dead. We have done very little business with India. That's not true.

1:05:57MeidasTouch:Their tariffs are too high. That might be true. Among the highest in the world. Likewise, Russia and the US do almost no business together. That's true because we've sanctioned them. But you've removed some of those sanctions from the banks and you've allowed a lot of trade to take place. Let's keep it that way. Okay. And tell Medvedev, the failed former president of Russia, who thinks he's still president to watch his words. He's entering very dangerous territory. Why would you even write about Medvedev? Like if he is a failed president, which I agree he is, and he's a bit of a, why even give him the platform to show you're thinking about him and why not actually put the blame word.

1:06:39MeidasTouch:It really is with Putin. But why conflate India in that conversation when it should be relatively easy to do a trade deal with India? That's a win-win for the United States and India. India wanted to do it. Modi was ready to do a normal deal, but Donald Trump wants these fake deals that hurt the sovereignty of the nation. And Modi realizes that if I look weak to Donald Trump, I could start facing opposition here in India when it's issues that hinge upon our sovereignty. So you have Donald Trump doing that. You have Donald Trump making up these fake deals. But the peace that Donald Trump promised was that he would bring peace to Gaza in 24 hours.

1:07:21MeidasTouch:I remember Palestinians for Trump, you all remember? He would go to Michigan and he'd go to all these places and he would make the promise, I will stop the war. Okay, well, you've made it 100 times worse. And in fact, you've said you'll let Bibi, you go, I'll let Bibi do whatever he wants to do. The atrocities happening right now in Gaza are absolutely horrific. And Donald Trump's response is, Bibi can do whatever he wants, let Bibi make a decision. In fact, when Canada recognized the existence of the Palestinian state this past week, Donald Trump's like, well, I guess we can't do trade deals with Canada now because Canada recognizes the existence of a Palestinian state.

1:08:03MeidasTouch:Donald Trump's social media shitposts. That means no trade deal with Canada. Wow. Canada's just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a trade deal with them. Oh, Canada, you can't do a deal with this guy. What does that have to even do with the trading relationship? Number one. So you're just going to keep going back using whatever condition that you want to impose and say, oh, well, now that you recognize the existence of the Palestinian state, then that's how I feel. And then Trump raises the tariff on Canada to 35 % from 25 % effective August 1st because Canada stood up for itself and Canada defended its sovereignty.

1:08:43MeidasTouch:So Trump announced today, well, now it's 35%. You can't do a deal with this maniac right here. Now, the other war that Donald Trump promised to solve in 24 hours, I showed you the clip earlier where Donald Trump now says it was a joke. It was an LOL. He was being sarcastic because he said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. He did not do that. And each night, it seems like it's worse than the next with ballistic missiles and Shahid drones provided by Iran, raiding down on Kiev and Sumy and so many other cities in Ukraine. You know, if you've been noticing, I start the videos in the morning often with the latest attack in Ukraine.

1:09:25MeidasTouch:And I started for a specific reason, because this is real life. This is the real world. Okay. This is war and peace. This is life and death stuff. And you know, this idea that Donald Trump is this troll who can say what he wants. That's BS. That's total. I'm building a ballroom. I'm building a ballroom. Look at my trade deals, a trillion dollars. What didn't Donald Trump say he brought back already, like$17 trillion from the Middle East with countries whose entire GDPs were like$150 billion? Just no. Just call it out forcefully, fearlessly, and say, no, this is not okay. Oh, it's sarcastic. Do you notice, though, when you put the pressure on Donald Trump and he finally runs into the wall on the issue, like we've seen with the Epstein files, like we've seen with, you know, what with his fake promises about ending the war in Ukraine.

1:10:28MeidasTouch:You see what he does? He eventually either goes, it was all a joke. You shouldn't take me seriously. Of course, I was being sarcastic. Or he starts admitting to things and folding to things as the Ponzi scheme runs its course. Let me show you. This is the lawyer for Epstein victims speaking right here. And the lawyer says, this is a big deal what Donald Trump said. This is if the victims have been fighting to find out were the girls sex trafficked for Mar-a-Lago? And Donald Trump now says the little girls were stolen from Mar-a-Lago. Listen to what the lawyer says himself for the victims. Let's play.

1:11:08We know that Virginia worked at the spa and she was one of the ones that Epstein used in his sex trafficking scheme that he traded her to various different high profile individuals around the world. That has never been publicly admitted before. And she had to fight during her litigation because they were claiming that she was lying about all of that. We now know from the words of the president himself that Virginia was right all along and that she was trafficked out of Mar-a-Lago. Yeah, the late Virginia Jew-free.

1:11:42MeidasTouch:And that's who we need to hear from right now. We need to hear from the victims. What do they have to say? And many of them died by suicide as a result of the travesty that they went through. And that's what we want to get to the truth of. We want the truth in general, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Don't tell me there's a trade deal, but there's no paperwork. I don't want Donald Trump building freaking ballrooms at all, but also while inflation is increasing, while we're ruining any relationship with our allies, while he guts the government, while people are being disappeared off the street.

1:12:23MeidasTouch:Talking about ballrooms in the White House, we should be outraged. And there's a reason, too, in the latest Gallup poll, not only is Donald Trump's approval in the 30s, but now more people identify as Democrat than Republicans. Since in 2024, Republicans went down five points in the same poll. Back in 2024, it was 48 percent people identifying as Republican, less people, 43 percent identifying as Democrat. Right now, more people identify as Democrat than Republican, but more than Democrat or Republican, I try to identify as human being who cares about other human beings and who tries to get at the truth, who makes mistakes, tries to admit them when they happen, but who tries tirelessly to get at the truth and to provide people with accurate data, to be empathetic, to treat other human beings with dignity.

1:13:22MeidasTouch:We're all here in this world for a short period of time to try to minimize suffering, to stop suffering, to help where we can. And when I see what MAGA is doing, which has become the Republican Party, when I see what Trump is doing, it's reprehensible. And now they want to cheat and rig the midterms. They want to gerrymander Texas to remove all the Democratic seats so that they can try to cheat in the midterms. It's important that our voices are heard now more than ever. You share the show, you share the facts, you share the truth. This isn't an echo chamber here. We are reaching people. I know for a fact, I see the data that we are reaching people who may otherwise not have voted or people who would otherwise vote for Republicans or MAGA.

1:14:08MeidasTouch:We're building a coalition in the United States and throughout the world of pro-democracy, of empathy, of logic, of love, the facts of common sense. And that's what we're going to keep on doing and continuing to try to do here at the Midas Touch Network. So that's what I got. Brad, anything less from you? Well said, Ben. I think that's a great way to wrap it up. And I think as we look, whether it's things that are happening across the world, like the horrifying images that continue to come out of Gaza, the starvation that we're hearing about out of Gaza, the horrifying stuff Russia is doing to Ukraine, what our own government is also doing with USAID and the results of that, as we reported on in this episode, what's going on with the Epstein victims and Trump's basically his FU to the Epstein victims, what's happened with Trump's own victims over the years.

1:14:55You know, I think whatever the issue is, I think it's just upon all of us to speak out and try to right these wrongs and do our best to at least bring a light. You know, we may not have, you know, billions of dollars. We may not have the weight of government behind us and the ability to do grandiose things like that. But we have microphones and we all have a voice. And so let's try to use that voice. As a reminder, immediately following this, if you're watching live, we're going to do a premiere of this one-hour special. Digging in, Max from UNFTR, who's one of our incredible new contributors.

1:15:29I know all of you who have seen him, love him. He's doing a one-hour expose on Trump's crypto connections, the crypto cabal, the crypto scams. Make sure that you check it out. It is a really good, really well-researched, incredible piece. I'll leave the link to that.

1:15:45MeidasTouch:Oh, Brad, two things I want to mention as well. Adam Mockler is hosting the Move On event on August 3rd on Sunday. I know I think that it's at this point all the – I think it may have been fully booked, but everybody should check it out. won'tbackdowntour.com. Midas Touch is the media sponsor with MoveOn, Senator Chris Murphy, Senator Chris Murphy, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Ansari, and our very own Adam Mockler will be there. It's a Midas Touch event with MoveOn. Go to won'tbackdowntour.com. And also we're on the road right now. Oh, it's August 3rd. If you want to attend, it's in Phoenix.

1:16:24MeidasTouch:I'm sure all the people in Phoenix spread the word. And then we're on tour with the AFL-CIO bus tour as well, building stronger relationships and reaching out to other unions. And AFL-CIO is highlighting the great work of unions across the country. Let me show you this great moment right here from the AFL-CIO's recent tour. They'll be taking stops soon in Iowa, but they've been basically everywhere on the East Coast. Take a look at this clip right here. This is Jonathan from Local 23. Here he was in North Carolina. Let's play this clip. What's disgusting? Union busting. Hi, I'm Jonathan and I'm affiliated with the Local 23.

1:17:05I'm here working with the union because I feel like it's important. The union fights for contracts and for you to get more money at your job and better treatment. And a lot of people can't afford healthcare. So the union fights for that. The union fights for a lot. The union is for the worker. The union is not for the big business like Wells Fargo. The CEO makes$31 million. That's outrageous. I mean, come on now. Give the people some of that money.

1:17:35MeidasTouch:There you have it, Brett, Jordy. Jordy, you want to take us out? Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty is standing strong.

1:17:49Against the fascists, we sing our song. We will get it right whenever...

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