Sickly Trump Gets Smothered by Bad News with No Escape

7 Aug 2025 · 17 min · 7 chapters

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In short

The hosts criticize Donald Trump’s health, competence, and alleged fascist tactics, then link them to broader government dysfunction. They also discuss alleged ICE/“Gestapo” recruitment and migrant raids, vaccine/mRNA research funding cuts, federal court filing hacks, airline/FAA system failures, and Epstein files release pressure. They add examples like a U.S. flight standstill, Ohio River water-level changes for J.D. Vance’s birthday, and claims about nuclear reactors on the moon.

Guest backgrounds

No guests are named; the episode is presented as a monologue/segment by the host (Ryan Reynolds appears only in ad reads).

Key claims

Trump is “sickly” and unpopular; his administration is breaking institutions; mRNA vaccine research funding is being revoked; Epstein files should be released; Europe will be excluded from any Trump-Putin meeting.

Notable examples

United Airlines grounding due to load-calculation failure; court system hacked; “no undergraduate degree required” ICE recruitment post; Giuffre family statement urging survivor testimony; Vance kayaking water-level adjustment.

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Chapters

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Trump's Struggles and Weakness

1:54 to 2:17

Discussing Trump's recent press conference and his decline in popularity.

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Trump's Struggles and Weakness

2:31 to 6:18

Discussing Trump's recent press conference and his decline in popularity.

“That's Donald Trump trying to act like a tough guy.”

Systemic Failures Under Trump's Regime

6:18 to 7:41

Reviewing various systemic failures and their implications on governance.

“system failure affecting aircraft load calculations.”

The Epstein Files and Political Distraction

7:41 to 9:48

Exploring the urgency of releasing Epstein files amidst political distractions.

“They made this post yesterday to recruit ICE agents.”

Ridiculous Proposals and Political Absurdities

9:48 to 14:00

Critique of outlandish political proposals and their implications for society.

“The family of Virginia Giuffre issued a statement to MSNBC about the reported meeting.”

Trump's Misleading Water Claims

14:00 to 15:06

Explore Trump's exaggerated claims about California water management and its implications.

“So Donald Trump could say, look, everybody, I turned on the faucet.”

Trump's Misleading Water Claims

16:20 to 16:44

Explore Trump's exaggerated claims about California water management and its implications.

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2:31Ben Meiselas:That's Donald Trump trying to act like a tough guy. They call that Operation Trojan Horse. Donald Trump and his ICE agent Gestapo attacking people of Los Angeles, migrants and citizens alike. If they look Latino, Donald Trump is attacking them, putting his agents in the back of Penske trucks to disappear people into concentration camps. Donald Trump's not a tough guy. He is sickly. He is weak and he is deeply unpopular. And he's just trying to mask how deeply unpopular he is by ratcheting up the fascism. Folks, yesterday, Donald Trump held a disastrous press conference where he showed how sickly and weak he is.

3:15Ben Meiselas:He didn't even know the people who were standing with him or standing behind him. This is a staple of Donald Trump's press conferences. He can't even understand the questions that are being asked to him. And then he's like, where is so-and-so? And it turns out that they're literally right next to him. So here, Donald Trump's like, where is Besant? Where is Lutnik? Where are these people? And he's like, oh, you're right next to me here. Watch this. Thanks as well to Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant and Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, for being here, wherever you may be. Oh, there you are.

3:51Hello, fellas. I missed you.

3:53Ben Meiselas:And then yesterday, Donald Trump, he can't even understand the questions that are being asked. A reporter wants to know why his regime is cutting off funding for vaccines, for vaccine research, like the mRNA vaccine, given that Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed, as they called it during the first Trump term, funded mRNA. And that's like what Donald Trump was bragging about. But now, Donald Trump's Health Department Secretary, who wants to make us unhealthy, RFK Jr., saying, uh-uh, we ain't funding mRNA. We ain't funding any vaccines. We're going to revoke all of the funding for critical vaccine research.

4:34Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's like, what? What's the question? I'm not really sure what you're saying here. Play this clip. You were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard. Now your health secretary is pulling back all the funding for research. He's saying that the risks outweigh the benefits, which puts him at odds with the entire medical community and with you. What is going on? Research on what? Into mRNA Well, we're going to look at that. We're talking about it. And they're doing a very good job. And, you know, that is a past with Operation Warp Speed was whether you're Republican or Democrat, considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country.

5:16the efficiency the the way it was done the distribution everything about it was has been amazing but you know that was uh now a long time ago and we're on to other things but we are speaking about it we have meetings about it in uh tomorrow actually tomorrow 12 o 'clock and we'll determine we're looking for other answers to other problems to other sicknesses of diseases. And I think we're doing really well. Yes.

5:46Ben Meiselas:And folks from Donald Trump being a broken human being, and we just have to call him out, right? I mean, like what, two days ago, he was walking on the roof of the white house and saying, I buy all of this. I've bought everything. This is my money pointing to the white house and Washington DC, and then saying he wanted to build nuclear weapons on the roof of the white house. I mean, that story just fades away, not here at the Midas Touch Network, but he's a broken human being and he's breaking all of our institutions. Another issue at the FAA, United Airlines halted all US departures yesterday due to a nationwide system failure affecting aircraft load calculations.

6:30Ben Meiselas:I was supposed to meet up with Michael Popok in Los Angeles. His flight was canceled too. The disruptions led to a complete standstill with all flights grounded and no takeoff takeoffs or movements expected until the issue is resolved. We're seeing systemic failures just like that, whether it's at the FAA, whether it's at the weather service, whether it's with FEMA, because the Trump regime is breaking these things. Oh, look, folks, the federal court filing system was hacked. And now all the information about confidential informants and other classified or confidential information Well, that may be leaked to whoever these hackers are.

7:11Ben Meiselas:So no wonder among independents in a generic ballot polling, Democrats are now pulling ahead of Republicans, 37 % Democrats, 27 % Republicans. When it comes to independents, the America party actually has 20%, other 15 % based on this new poll at USA polling. Also in a generic poll, Democrats are almost 10 points ahead of Republicans going into the midterms. But just take a look at this post by Donald Trump's Gestapo, the Homeland Security. They made this post yesterday to recruit ICE agents. It says, serve your country, defend your culture, no undergraduate degree required. So no undergraduate degree required.

7:58Ben Meiselas:Defend your culture, they're saying. How much do you want to bet we find out in the future that they're recruiting the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and all of those right-wing extremist front groups, all those people who wore those masks? And those are some of the Gestapo out there engaging in these violent raids, beating and brutalizing migrant and citizen alike, throwing people into concentration camps. Utterly, utterly disgusting. Now, folks, the family of Virginia Giuffre was also responding to what Donald Trump was doing yesterday. Donald Trump was going to have, although then the Trump regime denied it, an emergency meeting.

8:41Ben Meiselas:Trump, J.D. Vance and people at his DOJ, how do they further cover up the Epstein files? I mean, you take a look at this poll right here that MSNBC put up. Should the Epstein files be released? MAGA Republicans, 82 % say yes. Republicans, 83 % say yes. Frankly, I don't know the difference anymore between a MAGA Republican and a Republican. Independents, 86 % say yes. Democrats, 90 % say yes. So I know Donald Trump wants to distract us and focus on all of these other things. Oh, Donald Trump's going to do a grand jury and indict former President Obama. Ooh, Donald Trump found burn bags and secret spaces that show in 2016 Hillary Clinton was bad.

9:24Ben Meiselas:No, we're not falling for that. Just release the Epstein files. You want me to release Ghislaine Maxwell? Should I meet with her? We can see what Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. Let's interview her in Tallahassee and then give her immunity and move her to a minimum security facility and then waive the fact that she shouldn't be in a minimum security facility in Texas because she is a convicted sex trafficker. So she's not allowed to be there. Is that what you want? No. Release the freaking Epstein files. So Trump holds an emergency meeting. He denies that it takes place. The family of Virginia Giuffre issued a statement to MSNBC about the reported meeting.

10:01Ben Meiselas:Quote, we understand that Vice President J.D. Vance will hold a strategy session this evening at his residence with administration officials. Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of the convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify. As Virginia Robert Jouffre's siblings, we offer to represent her in her stead, and we hope the administration takes our call to action Seriously, any information that may be released by the government should take into account the survivors who wish to remain anonymous for their safety and well-being.

10:45Ben Meiselas:They should be consulted. First, we reiterate that Ghislaine Maxwell should have remained in a maximum security prison and does not deserve the luxuries currently afforded to her. So what's the Trump regime doing? What are their surrogates doing? You have Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary out there saying, we're going to bring nuclear reactors to the moon. Nuclear reactors to the moon, everybody. Here, play this clip. We do have some solar, but if you want sustainable life on the moon, you need an energy source. So we're going to bring fission to the moon's surface to power our base. It makes complete sense.

11:21Now, some might say, well, the launch is somewhat complicated, right? These are not active. They're not live when we launch them into space. We can do it safely. By the way, we have submarines and aircraft carriers that operate on nuclear energy as well. But this is a key component. If we're going to get to the moon and then get to the Mars, we're going to have to figure this technology out. And again, we have to beat the Russians, the Chinese, I think, to get to the moon first. If you lead in space, you lead on Earth.

11:47Ben Meiselas:No, Duffy, we don't want nuclear reactors on the moon. What are you talking about? We just want affordable groceries, affordable housing. We just want normalcy here. We want a functioning government. We want everybody to have health care. We want everybody to have their social security protected. That's what we want. We don't want, we want to tax the rich, tax the oligarchs. That's what we want. Oh, and then you've got this guy, Congress member McCormick, who's like, look, Donald Trump, he is a victim of discrimination. They're discriminating against Donald Trump for not getting, because they're not giving him a Nobel Peace Prize.

12:23Ben Meiselas:It's discrimination. They're discriminating against Donald. Discrimination? The hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip. What he did with the Abraham Accords literally deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. And it shows you how jaded that system is and how liberal it is and how much they discriminate against him specifically. But he's been extremely effective at brokering peace. And then I'll do a whole other video on it as well. But yesterday, Donald Trump Trump said that there were great productive conversations between his real estate buddy, who he's made the main liaison to Russia, Steve Whitcoff and Vladimir Putin.

13:00Ben Meiselas:Then Trump said that he might be meeting with Putin in the coming weeks, that he will not be allowing Europe to attend the meeting between Trump and Putin. It's like a big victory for Putin. Trump's going to wait another few weeks to see about sanctioning Putin. Remember, that was like two weeks back in March or April. and then 50 days about two months ago. But now a few more weeks, we'll see where it's at with Putin. Then Donald Trump claims that first it's a meeting with Trump and Putin. Then he'll allow Zelensky to be there. But Europe can't be there. Well, why? Because Donald Trump wants him and Putin to gang up on Zelensky.

13:36Ben Meiselas:Isn't it obvious what's taking place right there? And meanwhile, Russia's out there just basically mocking the crap out of Donald Trump and his regime. Also, We learned, right, let them eat cake. Another moment right here. J.D. Vance had the Army Corps of Engineers raise the water level of an Ohio River so he could improve the kayaking conditions for his birthday outing. The Guardian broke that story. The same Army Corps of Engineers that released water in central or northern California from reservoirs, two billion gallons into nearby farmland areas, nowhere near Southern California back in January after the fires were 100 % contained.

14:21Ben Meiselas:So Donald Trump could say, look, everybody, I turned on the faucet. I put out the fires. Meanwhile, the water that was poured out of those reservoirs is nowhere even near being connected to Southern California. Just so Trump says, there's a little switch and it's on the California-Canada border because Trump thinks that Canada border is California. And I turned on the spigot. And look what I did, everybody. So utterly, utterly pathetic, folks. We're going to cover this in more depth. Make sure you're checking back every 90 minutes this morning, or every 90 minutes today. We'll be posting new videos for you, of course, here on the Midas Touch Network.

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