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22:00MeidasTouch:So then Zelensky though, comes in with all of Europe, the coalition of the willing to push back on Donald Trump and to then lay down what not just Ukraine's position is, but all of Europe and making the point, Europe, Ukraine are one. So do not just pick off Ukraine. That ain't the way it happened. You're dealing with France and Italy and the UK and Germany and Finland and the entire EU. That's who you're dealing with here, Donald, because Donald, they know that Donald Trump doesn't respect, despite all of the courage and heroism, Ukraine. So they all came together. So then you had Germany's chancellor, Frederick Merz, and he's there and he's like, they're letting him know, Donald, there's no deal unless Putin agrees to a ceasefire.

22:48MeidasTouch:Zelensky agrees to a ceasefire. You want to end this war? It's easy. Have Putin agree to a ceasefire. Then we talk. Phase one, ceasefire. Here, watch this. This is Germany Chancellor Fredrik Merz. Let's play it. Last Friday, but now the way is open for complicated negotiations. And to be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire, the latest from the next meeting on. I can't imagine that the next meeting would took place without a ceasefire. So let's work on that. And let's try to put pressure on Russia because the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are undertaking today are depending on at least a ceasefire from the beginning of the serious negotiations from next step on.

23:36So I would like to emphasize this aspect and would like to see a ceasefire from the next meeting, which should be a trilateral meeting wherever it takes place. Well, we're going to let the president go over and talk to the president and we'll see how that works out and if we can do that i will say and again i say it in the six wars that i've settled i haven't had a ceasefire we just got into negotiations and they uh one of the wars was as you know and the congo was 30 years 31 years long uh another one that we settled last week with two great countries was 35 years going on and we had no ceasefires.

24:18So if we can do the ceasefire, great. And if we don't do a ceasefire, because many other points were given to us, many, many points were given to us, great points.

24:28MeidasTouch:You're not listening, Donald, idiot. I mean, he's like an idiot. I mean, that's like watching him. It's like actually watching just like a profoundly dumb and dangerous person in a room with very smart people. No, the chancellor of Germany said the meeting's not going to take place unless there's a ceasefire. And Donald Trump goes, well, we're going to let the president speak to the president. No, no, that meeting doesn't happen unless Putin agrees to a ceasefire. Are you listening? And then Donald Trump makes up, this is a new thing, that he stopped six wars. Six wars. He goes that he stopped.

25:03MeidasTouch:He didn't. And he's like, oh, India and Pakistan, I stopped that. No, you didn't. You absolutely had nothing to do with it. I stopped Thailand and Cambodia. No, No, you didn't. I dangled trade in front of them and then they just stopped the war. No, you didn't. You didn't do any of this stuff. And that's what he wants credit for. You said that you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. That's what you said. You said it would be an easy thing for you to do. Even before you got into office, it was that easy. You failed. You said you would end the war in Gaza in 24 hours. You failed. Things are far worse right now.

25:38MeidasTouch:The atrocities continue you to mount there and in Ukraine. You failed. You're a failure. And now you said that if Putin didn't agree to a ceasefire, then there would be severe consequences. Now there's not severe consequences. So you're just a clown. I mean, you're just a buffoon. And Brett, to your point, now you have the people who are actually fighting for democracy in there. They're employing the same tactics, like trying to manipulate him in the right direction, unlike Putin doing it in the wrong direction. But I'm just here as an American watching our idiot, watching this idiot, this dangerous, profoundly stupid human being who's humiliating my country.

26:21MeidasTouch:And then it also pains me that there's a portion of the population that looks at this and still thinks that this makes sense and that this represents them and they like it. And I'm thinking, dude, this is the worst. He made our troops bend the knee and kneel for Vladimir Putin. What are you talking about? Yeah, I still, like I said before, I still cannot believe that image of our troops on their knees rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin. This is something that's just not going to get out of my head. But, you know, I guess if I could say, you know, one silver lining, one good thing about today's meeting, I'm happy that we saw all of Europe there together showing a united front with Zelensky.

27:01I thought that was important to see. And I hope that there are developments that can come out of this united front and showing the world just kind of how differently Europe is treating the situation from Donald Trump, from Vladimir Putin. And hopefully we could see some progress here because I do definitely want to see this Ukrainian invasion, this invasion of Ukraine by Russia. And there's too much bloodshed. There's too much catastrophe happening every single day. The images are not shown enough, I would say, on the legacy news. People are not realizing the devastation that is going on in Ukraine on a daily basis.

27:40And by the way, recently as well, anytime Donald Trump has, you know, like right as they were going to do those talks between Trump and Putin the other day, what did Putin do just to mock Donald Trump? Ramped up the attacks on Ukraine right at the same time to show that side by side. I want this to end. I'm hoping that Europe is able to push the ball forward here, and we'll see what happens here. But it's certainly not going to be because of Donald Trump, that's for sure.

28:08MeidasTouch:I just want you to think he has all those leaders in Europe right there. He makes them wait for 40 minutes. So he takes a phone call from Vladimir Putin. While there, you had to take that phone call right then and there and leave the European allies to speak to Putin? Again, speak to him another day. Speak to him tomorrow. Speak to him later. 45 minutes, 40 minutes on the phone with Putin. Jeez. The United States of America. Did you see that Russian tanks are flying American flags now in Ukraine? They're flying American flags next to Russian flags on Russian tanks because that's the message that Donald Trump is sending.

28:49MeidasTouch:Weakness. Weakness masquerading as strength. When we come back, I want to talk more about that, how you have people like California Governor Gavin Newsom and others now punching back, calling Donald Trump out for his weakness. And you're seeing how the media can't get their mind around the fact that someone's mocking Donald Trump using Trump's style. It literally exposes everything. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the music festivals. I mean, the protest. I mean, the music festivals. We'll talk about that. That's the code word right now being used because a lot of social media algorithms are censoring the word protest, not on YouTube, but some others are.

29:26MeidasTouch:So for now, we can call them protests. By the way, just think about how crazy that is, just for one second, that people are being forced to refer to the protests that are going on across the country against the Trump regime as music festivals so that they are not censored by the algorithms of big tech social media apps who are in bed with Donald Trump. It's really, it's just, We gloss over it quickly because you all know what we're talking about, but that's chilling. Let's take our first quick break of the show. A reminder, please become a member of our YouTube channel right now. It goes a long way to help the growth of this independent media network.

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34:07MeidasTouch:Welcome back. Welcome back to the Midas Touch Network. Thank you to our sponsors. Discount codes are in the description below. Before just moving on from the disastrous Trump-Putin Alaska meeting and then what took place today in the White House, I do just want to show you how the Trump regime is trying to spin this. I mean, so weak, so sheepish. You have Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. He was trying to say all weekend that nobody ever said that a deal was going to be made in Alaska. No one said that that was the purpose of that meeting is what he tries to claim when clearly the whole purpose of it was to try to get a ceasefire.

34:46MeidasTouch:That's what everybody was saying the goal was, what Trump was saying the goal was, or there would be severe consequences. Now they just move the benchmarks back and say, yeah, no one ever actually said that. Here, play this clip of Rubio. I did President Trump's meeting with Putin and with no ceasefire. And what does Putin want? Well, yeah, well, a couple of things. First of all, if you recall, there's no way you can have a meeting like that. And we never said there was going to be a deal coming out of the meeting because the Ukrainians are not there. This is a war between two countries, not America.

35:17It's Ukraine and Russia. We met with the Russian side. We've spoken repeatedly with the Ukrainian side. We'll see them again tomorrow in person, along with our allies in Europe. So I do think some progress was made in that talk. That's what they do with everything, right, though, Brett?

35:30MeidasTouch:I mean, that's what they talk about that meeting. That's what they say when it comes to that they were going to do 90 deals in 90 days, right? We never said that. We never said 90 deals in 90 days. Trump just sent a letter and those were deals. We've done deals with everybody. OK, well, let's just talk about the countries that you're claiming that there are deals with. any paperwork we can look at? Is there anything in writing per chance? No, no. What is it? Trump did a social media post. Oh, got it. So the deal is the social media post or letters that he's sending out. It's quite literally every single issue is like this.

36:09MeidasTouch:And it's just so bizarre with such open and obvious fraud. And you have people like Marco Rubio, who once upon a time, many, many, many a year ago was a somewhat serious human being who now is out there doing this crap like for Donald Trump, like just for a total idiot who's like, it just makes it makes no sense. I can't even grapple like we all saw what went down in Alaska. How could anyone normalize that? You know, and then before that, what even happened in the Kennedy Center? How can anyone normalize that? When you've got Donald Trump walking on the roof of the White House and talking about building nuclear weapons on the roof and saying he owns DC and pointing around, like, how can anybody normalize this behavior?

36:52MeidasTouch:And you see this, this MAGA cult, just do it every single day. I'll show you in contrast, you know, and it's like, you know, you look at these democratic politicians and these up and coming leaders, people like democratic Congress member Jason Crow, right? Just to give you his background, he's from Colorado six congressional district. Here's a guy who got he's an army ranger. He completed three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and major battles, the Battle of Samoa, awarded a Bronze Star Medal. I mean, this is the on the other hand, on the one hand, you've got like Rubio and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

37:36MeidasTouch:And on the other hand, you got guys like Jason Crow, Congress member. Here's how he talked about what went down in Alaska. Just let me give it to you from the perspective of someone from our armed forces here to play this clip. But compare that to what this administration has done, which has relieved almost all pressure. Like, look at what happened on Friday. U.S. military personnel in uniform literally were on their hands and knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century. Somebody who is kidnapped and is holding prisoner tens of thousands of Ukrainian children.

38:11Somebody who started this whole war. This bullsides-ism that the administration is engaging in, that bullsides need to come to the table and negotiate. Ukraine is the victim. They are the victim. They didn't start this war. Russia did. And somehow we keep on acting like Vladimir Putin deserves to be brought out into the open like any other head of state. This is a historic embarrassment and defeat for U.S. foreign policy.

38:36MeidasTouch:And by the way, I give her credit, Italian prime minister Georgia Maloney, when she was there in front of Trump, she said, let's be clear here. All of us, we're on the side of Ukraine. I just want to be very clear. This is a this is a basic issue. We support Ukraine in Europe. We don't know what the hell you're doing. Watch Italian Prime Minister Maloney here play this.

39:24kind of peace. I'm happy that we will discuss about that. I'm happy that we will begin from a proposal, which is the, let's say, Article 5 model, which was Italian at the beginning. So we are always ready to bring our proposals for peace, for dialogue. It's something we have to build together to guarantee peace and to defend the security of our nation. So thank you, Mr. president for hosting us.

39:51MeidasTouch:Let me give you some behind the scenes of what's taking place as well. You heard Prime Minister Maloney say Article 5 guarantees. That's in the treaty that established NATO that says an attack on one is an attack on all. And really the main time it's ever been invoked was when the United States was attacked on 9-11 and everybody came to the side of the United States of America and formed a coalition then, a coalition of the willing. And then America turned all of that goodwill into badwill by invading Iraq and having a very problematic situation there. To say the least for Donald Trump, here's what's happening.

40:31MeidasTouch:Behind the scenes, Donald Trump and his team are telling Ukraine, America will give you Article 5-like guarantees with Putin. America will be the one that does it. And of course, Ukraine and Europe go, you're not, Donald Trump, you haven't even affirmed Article 5 with respect to NATO. And your statements have basically been, would you honor Article 5 if NATO was attacked? And we've shown you clips before on the Midas Touch podcast where Donald Trump says, I don't know, I don't know if they pay their fair share or if they pay. So Donald Trump would not provide security guarantees to Ukraine in an Article 5 style.

41:15MeidasTouch:That's what Donald Trump and his regime are referring to it as. So Europe needs to be integrally involved. And that's what they're saying when they go, we need to make sure there are real lasting security guarantees, real, meaning we don't trust what you're saying. They're Donald Trump. On the other hand, there's been a security assessment done by the British Intelligence Service and many others, which they say that if the United States doesn't provide Ukraine with any weapons and the U.S. tries to just totally drain Ukraine and sanctions aren't accelerated against Russia, then Russia would take about four years to four and a half years for it to be able to take over the Donbass region at the current pace.

42:01MeidasTouch:But Russia would lose about 300 ,000 to 500 ,000 Russians would die with over 1.9 million casualties in order for Russia just to be able to take the remaining parts of Donbass if the US totally backed out, didn't accelerate sanctions, and didn't help at all. So with the battle happening behind the scenes, just to give everybody a sense of what's taking place, is Russia wants it now because then Russia could jump into that land and then use that to get closer to Kyiv, basically without giving any concessions. On the other hand, what Europe, our NATO allies want to do as much as possible, it's just try to get this thing past a Trump regime into a new administration that will help Ukraine and push back.

42:49MeidasTouch:So that's the tension happening behind the scenes. When Russia uses the language. We're not going to agree to anything unless it addresses the root causes of the war. That's Russian propaganda for the existence of Ukraine and NATO forced us to invade Ukraine. So the root cause, eliminating the root cause means the genocide of Ukraine. So that's the language. And that's all these chess moves happening behind the scenes. I just wanted to break it down for everybody. And Trump's idea of peace, and I put peace in the biggest quotes imaginable, is that Ukraine surrenders. Trump's idea of peace is that we finish this up quickly so that Donald Trump could go and make a post and say, okay, everybody, give me that Nobel Peace Prize right now.

43:39And he's not thinking at all whatsoever about the future of Ukraine's existence. So you see all the Europeans around Donald Trump, and they're saying, I agree, We all want peace here, right? We all want peace, okay? Noted, right? But we need to do this in a way that secures the future of Ukraine, that secures security for Ukraine, that has the backing of not just Donald Trump's word, which doesn't mean shit, but has the backing of all of Europe and that we're all going to be in this together and we're all going to stand there. And when we are able to end this, we are going to prevent Vladimir Putin and Russia from trying this again or from pushing closer to Kiev.

44:22That's what Europe's trying to ensure while Donald Trump is just trying to get this done as quick as possible, no matter at the expense to Ukraine, no matter the expense of Ukrainian lives, just so he could make that all caps post and say, give me the Nobel Peace Prize. That's all he gives a damn about.

44:37MeidasTouch:Yeah, I mean, imagine a totalitarian regime, the Trump regime, wanting a Nobel Peace Prize for promoting the imperial genocide ambitions of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, while Donald Trump is so thirsty that he's literally reaching out to the Nobel Peace Prize board demanding that he be included in it. And by the way, if you want to know, like, well, where is Pete Hegseth? Like, what's Hegseth doing today? Well, Pete Hegseth has been posting photos or videos of himself doing pull-ups, and they're not even, like, real pull-ups. My athlete friend, who's a professional athlete, texted me. He goes, this dude's supposed to be an ex-Marine.

45:20MeidasTouch:There's no way. Inside World 2, this whole administration, this is my professional athlete friend from Canada, this whole administration is a bunch of fakes. even playing the tough guy role. They're a bunch of fakes. This is what we, it's just a, it just looks, it's just humiliating. It's every day. These people continue to bring shame to the United States of America. So I'm glad we've got people like governor Gavin Newsom pushing back. And as he pushes back, you know, it's like, uh, it's like the wicked witch of the West or whatever, like I'm melting. I'm, you know, to watch these magas saying that they've been so hurt.

45:56MeidasTouch:And how could you come after us? And it's so inappropriate what you're posting right here. And then on Fox, they're just like, oh my God, this guy's a governor. And the governor of the state is out here saying and putting all caps. This is highly unprofessional. You talk about Donald Trump's spin out. First off, Newsom is mocking Trump. The whole thing is parody to mock the behavior of Donald Trump, which they don't ever acknowledge. Number one, they're okay with Donald Trump. They're cult leader. They wear such cult blinders that they're okay with the guy saying, I hate Taylor Swift or making posts about like nuclear war through all caps, like ranting and raving lunatic stuff that every single day, Donald Trump posts 30, 40 of the most insane things.

46:44MeidasTouch:QAnon posts about the storm is coming weird, inappropriate beams every day. Randomly, Trump will post his face in Elvis and say, I'm Elvis, everybody, like just weird behavior. Let me show you. This is a Fox host, Trey Gallagher, responding to Donald Trump, to California Governor Gavin Newsom's post. Let's watch this one first. Gavin Newsom, meantime, posting this on X, Liz, using all capitals, of course, trying to mock Trump, use Trump style, has been doing this for a while now. He says, quoting Trump, Trump just fled the podium with Putin. No questions, nothing. Total low energy. The man looked like he'd just eaten three buckets of KFC with Vlad.

47:24Admit it, Donny J. You're terrified because this was the worst week of your life because of me, Gavin C. Newsom. I think he's trying to be funny. I think, I mean, I don't know what he's trying to do, but it comes across as childish. And what are, you're the governor of the biggest state in the union. What are you doing? Honestly, I feel like he's trying so hard to be Trump, but he's coming off like Kanye West. He seems absolutely insane.

47:51MeidasTouch:Okay, we'll talk about that. How about this one, Brett? Let's show the one from earlier today. Let's play this one. We'll go to a quick commercial break. When we get back, this is truly one of the most astonishing clips from Fox that you will see. And it is them imploding, absolutely melting down over Gavin Newsom's tweets, which they find very unserious and inappropriate, everybody. I mean, anybody who would have the audacity to send these all caps tweets and these bizarre AI images, they are unhinged folks. And it's very just unbecoming of somebody who's in a position of power. All right. Well, everybody, make sure you become a member.

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52:13MeidasTouch:Welcome back. Welcome back. Thank you to our sponsors. Discount code in the description below. Brett, I wanted to show that clip now of Dana Perino, Fox host here's what she had to say about California governor Gavin Newsom's social media trolling and bullying of Donald Trump let's play the thing is or the debate the other thing for me is that for the last week Gavin Newsom and why am I giving him advice you have to stop it with the Twitter thing I don't know where his wife is if I were his wife I would say what you are making a fool of yourself. Stop it. Do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing it yourself, put the phone away and start over.

52:56And he's got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little bit more serious.

53:02MeidasTouch:One more I want to show everybody. How are these real human beings? How are these real human beings? Maria Bartiroma and MAGA Republican Congress member ISA. Here they go after Newsom as well. Let's play it. Well, Governor Newsom fired off a Trump style tweet yesterday saying saying this. Donald Trump, the lowest polling president in recent history. This is your second to last warning. The next one is the last one. Stand down now or California will counter strike legally to destroy your illegal crooked maps in red states. Press conference coming hosted by America's favorite governor, Gavin Newsom.

53:38Final warning next. You won't like it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Is he is he joking? Is this a joke? Well, you know, the ultimate in false statement, Trump's low approval rating, it couldn't be higher. I know. But from a more practical standpoint, look, in some states, the voters have allowed politicians to draw their own line. In California, the voters made a decision that it was going to be done by an independent commission. And he's trying to override that so we can go back to having politicians draw lines for themselves. All right. We will leave it there. Congressman, it's great to see you this morning.

54:15Thank you so much. Brett, it's just unbelievable. But it shows you the effectiveness of Newsom's strategy here. Newsom is doing something that we really haven't seen too many politicians on the Democratic side of things do in a long time, and that's cutting through the noise. Donald Trump has normalized these all caps tweets, these deranged tweets, and the media doesn't speak about it ever. They act like it's normal. They never bring it up. The only place I ever see do daily reports on Donald Trump's social media posts, I think is Midas Touch, where Ben basically does it every single morning. And they're all crazy.

54:47And like Ben said earlier, he uplifts literal like QAnon accounts, the craziest stuff, executing his political opponents, things that are just totally sick, deranged, criminal, you name it. And so Gavin Newsom is giving Donald Trump and all the MAGA people a taste of their own medicine. He is posting just like Donald Trump through all these issues, just mocking Trump ruthlessly in all of these posts. And I could pull up some of the posts although I know a lot of you have seen them. And you can see them right here, Newsom mocking Trump's posts as low energy because it didn't have enough caps. You see the AI Newsom images that folks are posting.

55:24A lot of now, folks are making their own Gavin Newsom style posts of AI images of him holding an American flag. And you saw Gavin Newsom's press office post this image of of him with Hulk Hogan as an angel and Tucker Carlson. And it looks like Kid Rock surrounding him like one of those weird culty pictures Donald Trump posts. And it's just rapid fire every single day, these all caps posts. And you see Fox, the Republican members of Congress, Republican politicians in general, MAGA propaganda supporters on the internet, they simply do not know what to do. It's like they are getting a mirror reflected back at them and they do not like what they see and they don't know how to handle it.

56:08And so we are seeing in real time right now, the cognitive dissonance. And we are seeing in real time, if you were to say this sort of alternate reality of what if the Democrats had a politician who posted as crazy as Donald Trump, what if the Democrats had somebody, would they be okay with this? Would they be okay with that sort of language or that sort of style. And we're seeing in real time that the answer is no, that they view Donald Trump as the separate thing. I don't even think a lot of these people realize what they are even saying. Like Dana Perino said that very straight. She truly like did not understand the bit that Newsom is doing.

56:44I mean, someone should take his phone away. He is quite unhinged there. And this is just really crazy stuff. This is very unbecoming of somebody who who is in such a high office and somebody who's seeking higher office. How you could say that when Donald Trump is your guy is just absolutely baffling to me. But it really shows you that these people truly are in a cult and they are very deep in the cult. That is cult behavior that we are seeing ramped all the way up. And Newsom's strategy right here is working brilliantly. Anytime you see Fox respond like that, that's a huge win for Gavin Newsom.

57:21He just exposed them and their hypocrisy. Anytime you see these MAGA people try to clap back at Gavin Newsom, that's a huge win for Gavin Newsom. And he has really turned the whole thing on their heads. And he's really kind of taken the wind out of the sails of a lot of these kind of MAGA propagandists who have been used to fighting on this social media battlefield that has been very uneven. It's been, it's been very uneven because you have Donald Trump with his all caps posts and these MAGA people who say whatever the heck they want, no matter how inappropriate it is. And then you had people on the Democratic side and elsewhere just kind of playing it nice and not saying we can't stoop to his level.

58:00When they go low, we go high. We're not going to do that sort of thing. And now Gavin Newsom is like, all right, bet. This is the game you want to play. I'm in game on. And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're not allowed to do this. There's a reason it's breaking through. Newsom has gotten millions and millions and millions, maybe in the billions at this point of just impressions from his posts right now. He has really emerged as a true kind of opposition leader right now that a lot of people have been looking for. And it's all because of this aggressive style, because he's backing up his words with action.

58:33He's pushing through this redistricting plan that requires the consent of the people in a ballot initiative in order to change the maps in California. And the trolling aspect of it, what he's doing on digital is absolutely brilliant to witness.

58:47MeidasTouch:Look, I'll give you an example. Donald Trump over the weekend randomly posted the word Bella, B-E-L-A, no explanation why, just wrote Bella, to which Governor Newsom responds. Donald Tiny Hands has written his autobiography this morning. Unfortunately, low IQ. He spelled it wrong. Beta, beta. Soon you will be a fired beta because of my perfect, beautiful maps. Thank you for your attention to this matter. GCN, or this is what he refers to J.D. Vance as Just Dance Vance. Not even J.D. Just Dance Vance can save Trump from the disastrous maps war he has started. Not even his eyeliner lines look as pretty as California map lines.

59:31MeidasTouch:He will fail as he always does, sad. And I, the peacetime governor, our nation's favorite, will save America once again. Many are now calling Gavin Christopher Columbus Newsom because of the maps. Thank you for your attention to this matter, GCN. I mean, it's just Christopher Columbus Newsom as well. It's just post after post like that. So I want to give a hat tip there to Governor Newsom and his whole entire social media team for those posts. Let's just talk about the D.C. protests right now. All weekend, we saw protests in D.C. We saw protests across the country again. It was not getting much coverage, but we saw protests in Los Angeles.

1:00:10MeidasTouch:We saw protests in Denver. And by the way, you know where there was 500 ,000 people protesting? In Tel Aviv, the protests in Israel growing even bigger by the day against the Netanyahu regime. Everyone's told to believe that, oh, attacking in America by the regime, if you attack Netanyahu or criticize Netanyahu, that makes you anti-Semitic? Absolutely not. I mean, Netanyahu's committing atrocities in Gaza, and he should be called out for the Trumpian dictator that he is. And people out there in Tel Aviv are taken to the streets. 500 ,000 people who are out there. That's a huge freaking number, especially in a country the size of Israel.

1:00:52MeidasTouch:But let me just show you some of the protests in Washington, D.C. Let's take a look at what they look like.

1:01:03MeidasTouch:then they went to the white house they were in front of the white house as well donald trump was golfing on the taxpayer dime this weekend more golfing for donald trump i think it's important to point out in washington dc as well this is a good article from the washington post they tracked where trump's gestapo forces are patrolling in washington spoiler alert they're not where the crime is. And so it should be noted just from the outset that crime in Washington, D.C. is at a 30 year low. The crime in D.C. is significantly less than, say, the crime in Mike Johnson's congressional district as well, or in areas like Ohio, South Carolina, West Virginia.

1:01:44MeidasTouch:These are red states that have sent their National Guard to Washington, D.C. Their cities, their communities have far higher crime rates than Washington, D.C., or Los Angeles. You can go through most red states, and it's like that as well. Red states tend to have the highest crime, the highest poverty, the lowest education, the poorest. They're the poorest states. They're the most dependent states on federal government aid to keep them alive. And then they go around and they attack, and then they attack blue states. But we're seeing like where the National Guard and like the militarized ICE forces like marching at like the Lincoln Memorial or like Foggy Bottom or like Logan Circle where like people are having like their morning matchas, like they're out there attacking like Uber Eats or whatever, the Grubhub, you know, people on mopeds.

1:02:41MeidasTouch:And then when people in the community are out there saying like, dude, you're ruining our cities. Like what the hell are you, why are you attacking this person on the moped? Who's just like trying to do a delivery to like support himself and his family. Like no, like I'm not even saying this jokingly, like this is really happening. The Trump Gestapo goes, the liberals ruined everything. We're going after the liberals. We're going after the liberals. I did a whole video on that. I don't need to replay that video here. Go back and watch the series I do every morning. I call it all hell breaks loose because all hell is breaking loose in the streets.

1:03:13MeidasTouch:I also showed another video where Trump's Gestapo, these ICE agents talked about how much they liked the Proud Boys. I showed other ones where they gave like the, like a white power, like white supremacist, you know, signals like intentionally as well. And you just see these Trump Gestapo people kidnapping people off the streets who are just like minding their own business and, you know, just trying to make an honor, just an honest day's living and just like work. Citizens, migrants, doesn't matter. I mean, if you have brown skin, you're being targeted by Trump's Gestapo. And I've been focusing on those videos every single day to bring you what's really happening in the street.

1:03:55MeidasTouch:So it's no surprise, Brett, that you have Trump's approval at an all-time low. Negative 38, his approval rating is only 38 % in Pew. But then you go to the specific cross tabs amongst every group, he's underwater. Negative 68 % in the black community, negative 43 % in the Hispanic community, negative 5 % in the white community, 18 to 29-year-olds, negative 33%. 33%, 30 to 49-year-olds, negative 31%, 50 to 64-year-olds, negative 9%, 65 plus, negative 9%, negative 28 amongst women, negative 13 among men. I mean, deeply, deeply unpopular. And if you heard in Daryl Issa's clip that we played before, Daryl Issa was like, what are you talking about?

1:04:46MeidasTouch:He's surging in the polls. He's never been more popular. He's quite literally the least popular politician in presidential history at this time. Yeah. The fact is if Trump didn't have this giant propaganda arm behind him of these networks like Fox and these social media propagandists and whatnot, everybody would understand just how unpopular he is. But I think people get propagandized online, even people who aren't supporters of him, into thinking that he has more popularity than he has, which is why I think it is important to remind people that his approval rating is literally in the thirties.

1:05:20His approval at this point is basically just the MAGA Trump base, just the cultists. Like that's basically where we are at, where he is at. So don't let him fool you into thinking that he is more popular than he is. That's also what I think is so brilliant about Newsom strategy of calling him out because for whatever reason, psychologically, that strategy works at getting people to realize what the hell is going on and realize absolutely how crazy it is, not the cultists, but other people in the country who are seeing that and are in on the joke. And we're seeing just day by day, these constant overreaches of Trump and what he's doing with his government.

1:05:56And we're seeing him right now trying to rig these midterms for 2026 in real time. And so I think we all need to just be watching exactly what Donald Trump is doing. I think we need to be watching what he's doing with these mail-in ballots when he's making these threats to put this unconstitutional executive order forward where he says he's going to be getting rid of mail-in voting. By the way, mail-in voting has historically actually helped Republicans far more than it helped Democrats, just like historically speaking. But Donald Trump had his talk with Vladimir Putin. Now he wants to go through with that.

1:06:28You're seeing the redistricting efforts in Texas, which is why Newsom's fighting back. You're seeing all this desperation because Donald Trump and the Republicans know they have the data. They realize how unpopular they are. They realize that right now we are speeding towards new elections, and they know that they are set up right now to get blown away. And they are trying to either stop the bleeding or they are trying to steal the elections. I want to remind you that all these moves that we are seeing, everything, the troops on the street, the redistricting plan, everything else I was just speaking about, it does not come from a place of strength.

1:07:05It comes from a place of weakness. And Trump, his entire regime, and this Republican Party have never looked weaker. When you see those people on the streets patrolling safe blocks in Washington, D.C., tackling Uber drivers and Grubhub drivers and saying things like, oh, it's the liberals who made the city bad, you realize just how much of a joke these people are. These people do not deserve an iota of power. They do not deserve any of it. And so everybody needs to stay in this fight. And as we head towards these midterms, we need to continue to push back. We need to continue to uplift the voices who are doing a good job at pushing back against this regime.

1:07:45And we need to keep our heads high and we need to continue to fight.

1:07:50MeidasTouch:Why in the world, to your point, are we ceding our power to these losers? and gave them authority that was undeserved and let them bully and let them behave in such amateurish and immature and unprofessional ways. I've said so long, what's always baffled me about all of this is how this behavior has been socialized by corporate news into Democrats versus Republicans and blue states versus red states. And they just normalize the behavior When at the end of the day, this behavior is a lot of times just good versus evil facts versus lies, like unprofessional behavior versus professional behavior, acting like an adult and a good role model and acting like a, like a baby, a child, no offense to babies and childs, but like this, it just, it's just weirdo behavior.

1:08:52MeidasTouch:and we've given, I don't mean you or me, but like have given these people who don't deserve to be anywhere near the proximity of power, you know, the keys to the kingdom. And it's like, the hell is even going on here? And I hope one of the things that Midas Touch has been able to do has been able to provide a blueprint to just show you can fight back, you can punch back, you can be strong, you can call. It's okay to call out this behavior and say, no, these posts by Donald Trump are not normal. Yes, we're watching Donald Trump go on roofs and talk about nuclear weapons and walk in zigzags. There's probably something wrong with him.

1:09:31MeidasTouch:We could call it out. I mean, this guy's clearly cognitively dysfunctional. I mean, we're seeing it, in my opinion, we're seeing it in front of our eyes. I mean, this guy's saying the most deranged things. He's attacking our allies. Stop reporting that he's doing deals when he's not, when he's sending letters to people. Those aren't deals. Show me the piece of paper where there actually is a deal. Stop reporting on our economy like things are fine and that there's no inflation when we know inflation is really killing American people and causing so much pain. Just restore facts and honesty and normalcy.

1:10:07MeidasTouch:That's what I'm looking for here. That's what I want Midas Touch legacy to be is that we keep on just fighting to say, here's what's happening. And it's not just going to be here in America. We're going to be launching Midas Canada. Then we're going to go to Australia. I'm talking to people in New Zealand. I'm talking to people in the UK. I'm talking to people in Europe. I'm talking to people in Mexico and Central America and South America. I'm talking to people in Africa. We're going to start building pro-democracy networks across the world. And we're going to merge them and build them together so that we're all speaking about freedom and we're all speaking about honesty and integrity and we're joining forces together because together we're stronger.

1:10:51MeidasTouch:And that's one of the messages I want to bring as well. Reminder to everybody, the Midas Touch Network will be in Omaha, Nebraska this weekend. We hope you can join us. Adam Mockler will be the host and he will be joined by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Congressmember Maxwell Frost. The seats are running out, so make sure if you want to attend, go to won'tbackdowntour.com. That's won'tbackdowntour.com. We hope to see you in Omaha, Nebraska. Reserve your seat before it gets totally filled. So check that out. Become a member of our YouTube page. Subscribe. Become a member. You can give memberships to as many people as possible.

1:11:32MeidasTouch:Do that. Then let me leave by reminding everybody as well. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. I'm going to remind us all every episode. I'm not going to forget about Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. So tomorrow, or if you're listening to this on Tuesday, today, the Epstein files are supposed to be released to the House Oversight Committee as Democrats were able to outmaneuver Republicans to get those files released. We'll see what happens, of course, but I don't believe that the full files in an unredacted fashion are going to be released, but we will keep you posted every step of the way. You've got MAGA Republicans already positioning their cover up right now and working hard on that.

1:12:15MeidasTouch:But we'll bring you the facts here on the Midas Touch Network as soon as that gets released. And don't worry, I'm sure you see we keep on doing videos about Epstein on a daily basis still, just as we've been doing that for about the last five years here on the Midas Touch Network. So thank you, everybody, for watching. We appreciate you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers with your support. Great episode. We miss Jordy, but he'll be back on the next one. Thanks, everybody. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty standing strong.

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