In short
The episode argues that Donald Trump is cheating and trying to evade scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein, while Russia/ Iran attacks continue and U.S. leadership is weak. It also criticizes Trump’s trade, nuclear, Gaza, and immigration positions, and highlights alleged GOP election interference.
Guests
No named guests appear in the transcript. The host is Ryan Reynolds (ad read for Mint Mobile), and the episode repeatedly references the “Midas Touch research team” as the source of claims and footage.
Key claims
Trump’s caddy allegedly drops a ball to help his score; Trump “shut down” the Epstein investigation and sought immunity for Ghislaine Maxwell; Trump avoids Epstein questions by playing music; Trump’s EU/ tariff and Iran comments are framed as cover-ups or failures; Democrats are portrayed as more motivated for midterms.
Notable examples
Iranian Shahed drones striking Ukraine’s Sumi city administration building; a drone shot down near Odessa; Trump golfing at Turnberry/Scotland; Trump/ Ivanka/ Epstein-related photos; Trump asked about Epstein while convoy plays “Memories”; Mike Johnson endorsing redistricting/gerrymandering in Texas.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Scandalous Golfing in Scotland
0:35 to 2:18
Discussion on Trump's activities in Scotland amidst global crises.
“That's what's happening in the real world right there.”
The Epstein Connection
2:18 to 3:49
Exploring Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and the implications of those connections.
“He was there to promote the opening of one of his new courses there.”
Trump's Image and Behavior
3:49 to 5:20
Analyzing Trump's recent public appearance and his responses to media questions.
“Now, more images of Donald Trump, disgusting images are emerging, like this photo right here of Ivanka sitting on his lap in his bed, hugging him, giving him a kiss.”
Economic Policies and International Relations
5:20 to 6:58
Discussion on Trump's economic policies and their impact on international relations.
“Mr Trump, can you escape the Jeffrey Epstein crisis?”
Ukraine's Defense and Leadership
6:58 to 9:00
Highlighting Ukraine's defense efforts and leadership compared to Trump.
“Donald Trump claims that Japan is giving the United States$550 billion and the U.S.”
Global Leadership vs. Trump's Actions
9:00 to 14:00
Contrasting global leadership efforts with Trump's controversial actions and statements.
“So we're not going to allow that to happen.”
Ukraine's European Integration Progress
14:00 to 14:48
Learn about Ukraine and Moldova's progress toward European integration and anti-corruption efforts.
“a detailed discussion about Ukraine's path to European integration.”
MAGA Republican Tactics Exposed
14:48 to 15:43
Explore the tactics of MAGA Republicans in gerrymandering and midterm elections.
“We're going to attack Obama for Russia, Russia, Russia, and Obama engaged in treason.”
Fascism in American Politics
15:43 to 16:43
Discuss the rise of fascism in American politics, focusing on Trump and his supporters.
“So the Democrats in other states are like, okay, well, if you're going to do it, we'll do it.”
Trump's Regime Compared to Russia
16:43 to 16:55
Hear a strong condemnation of Trump's regime compared to authoritarian governance.
“You have Donald Trump, felon, sexual predator, fraud, you know, despicable, vile piece of trash that he is.”
Transcript
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0:35Ben Meiselas:That's what's happening in the real world right there. Russia striking the Ukrainian city of Sumi's city administration building in the middle of the day using Iranian Shahi drones. While Donald Trump is in Scotland to promote his own personal golf courses in Turnberry or in Aberdeen to enrich himself. As Donald Trump was caught on camera cheating while playing golf as his caddy dropped the golf ball so he can get a better score. The Midas Touch research team was the group that was able to find that footage. As Donald Trump was spending the weekend further trying to cover up his dark past connections with Jeffrey Epstein, in the real world, America has never been weaker.
1:18Ben Meiselas:And Russia and our enemies are trying to exploit that weakness. That's why I start these videos by pointing out what else is happening outside of the Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein cover-up stuff. Now, here's the beautiful coastal city of Odessa this past weekend under attack. You'll see the Shahid drone sent from Iran to Russia being knocked out of the sky by Ukraine and falling into the water. Here, play this clip. Now, folks, Ukraine is fighting back as well. Ukraine was able to get its drones into St. Petersburg without being hit by the Russian defenses. Here, play this clip.
2:09Ben Meiselas:Now, while that was taking place, Donald Trump was driving around in a golf cart over the weekend, having his caddy help him cheat at his golf course in Turnberry. He was there to promote the opening of one of his new courses there. This is what the Midas Touch research team was able to dig up. I'll do a whole other video of this in about 90 minutes. So check back on our YouTube feed in like less than 90 minutes. I'm going to show you Donald Trump's entire history of cheating on golf and using golf courses to bury his first wife and to spread 9-11 conspiracies. So you want to see that video, but here's Donald Trump approaching the ball.
2:45Ben Meiselas:You'll see how his caddy just throws it on the ground. Like this is what they do all the time. He's a cheater and everything here. Play this clip.
3:03Ben Meiselas:Now, as we posted on the Midas touch social media accounts, whatever the hell is in those Epstein files about Trump is so bad. He's called them a hoax, accused Obama of treason, shut down the Epstein investigation, recessed Congress to prevent a vote on releasing the files and rushed his criminal attorney to prison to offer Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who's serving a 20 or sex trafficking sentence, an immunity deal, while MAGA Mike Johnson and others are like, oh, I think she may be credible. I think she may be credible. Here's an image that I saw as post on the Midas Touch account.
3:40Ben Meiselas:On the left, you have Donald Trump playing golf. I will get to the bottom of the Epstein situation. On the right, you had OJ Simpson. I will find out who the real killers are. Now, more images of Donald Trump, disgusting images are emerging, like this photo right here of Ivanka sitting on his lap in his bed, hugging him, giving him a kiss. This is a really gross photo we dug up on the Midas Touch network of Donald Trump. The previous photo we showed you was of Donald Trump, Ivanka, Eric, Jeffrey Epstein, and one of their other very creepy model management friends who they would throw these just despicable pageants with under age girls.
4:27Ben Meiselas:Here's Donald Trump. He was sitting next to Ursula von der Leyen of the European Union, the European Union Commission president. And Donald Trump was asked, hey, so you're saying that there's a deal with the EU right now for 15 percent tariffs on EU goods coming into the United States. Are you just announcing this to try to cover up for Epstein? Here, play this clip. It was part of the rush to get this deal done. So look at Jeffrey Epstein's story. Oh, you got to be kidding with that. No, had nothing to do with it. Only you would think that that had nothing to do with it. Now, here's a footage of Donald Trump while he was golfing.
5:04Ben Meiselas:He was asked by Sky News reporters why he was running away from the Epstein situation. And he literally runs away in his golf cart and starts blasting music. I guess that's his safe space. Here, play this clip. Are you enjoying the Scottish hospitality? There were Sky News questions, sure. Mr Trump, can you escape the Jeffrey Epstein crisis? Maybe that's why we heard this. What's that song? I don't know, it's very famous though. It's from a musical? Yeah. Memories. Music boomed out from the convoy of golf carts, drowning out the surrounding sound. Take a look at this graphic. Donald Trump would refer to all accomplished women as nasty.
5:51Hillary Clinton, he would say nasty woman. AOC says nasty woman. Kamala Harris, he calls her a nasty woman.
5:58Ben Meiselas:Ghislaine Maxwell, though, Donald Trump wishes her well. By the way, did you see what Donald Trump looked like? Take a look at the photo of Donald Trump from yesterday and what he looked like. Totally disheveled, sickly looking, in fact. And he was in a very bad mood, the reporter said. You look like you're in a very bad mood, Donald. A few things I want to point out as well. The effective tariff rate by the United States against the rest of the world right now is about 18%. That means America is taxing itself 18 % to import foreign products. And that's going to start again, showing up on the inflation data like it already is.
6:36Ben Meiselas:We've seen right now there are disputes and I was one of the first people to report this five days ago. And finally, it's getting a lot more attention now because I read foreign newspapers. So I was sharing with you, what was it, four days ago, how Japan was saying there was no binding agreement with the United States. And so there is no binding trade deal between Japan and the United States. The terms are unclear what they are. Donald Trump claims that Japan is giving the United States$550 billion and the U.S. is going to take 90 % of the profits from that investment. Japan says there's no such deal and has a, there's like, no, it's just the normal investments that we made anyway.
7:12I mean, Japan invested$770 billion in the United States from 2018 to 2013, 2018 to 2023. They're one of the biggest direct foreign investments in the United States in general. Let me show you this poll as well from CNN, SSRS. I think this is a big deal. Right now, as of July 2025, in terms of the percentage of a party that's extremely motivated to show up at the midterms, Democrats, 72 % say they're extremely motivated. 50 % of Republicans. And to me, that's one of the biggest stats that I think you need to focus on.
7:47Ben Meiselas:In 2022, in the midterms, the Republicans were 48 % and Democrats were 44%. And now it's just overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats. As part of this press conference with Ursula von der Leyen, EU president, EU commission president, Donald Trump continued to whine about Iran wanting to enrich uranium. Hey, but Donald, didn't you tell us all that you obliterated the nuclear site? So what do you have to even worry about? Oh, wait, you didn't obliterate Iran's nuclear sites. Iran is stronger than ever. They're giving more Shahid drones to Russia than ever before. Iran's still able to make a nuclear weapon.
8:28These strikes were a total failure because Donald Trump used his own instincts over the military is what it said. And here he is whining about Iran. Play this clip. Iran was beaten up very badly for good reason. We cannot have them have a nuclear weapon, but they still talk about enrichment. I mean, who would do that? You just come out of something that's so bad and they talk about, we want to continue enrichment. Who would say that? How stupid can you be to say that? So we're not going to allow that to happen. We're not allowing that to happen. Did you talk about more aid into Gaza? Will I do more aid?
9:10Did you talk to the US?
9:11Ben Meiselas:The US is gonna do more aid for Gaza. And here Donald Trump is when he's asked about the starvation and people suffering in Gaza. Donald Trump's response is that he should be thanked and that people need to be thanking Donald and not enough people are thanking him and he's upset. More people should be thanking him, he says. Here, play this clip. Should Israel be doing more to allow food into Gaza? Say it. Should Israel be doing more to allow food into Gaza? that what did she say if israel should israel be doing more to allow food in the gaza well you know we gave 60 million dollars two weeks ago and nobody even acknowledged it for food and it's terrible you know you really at least want to have somebody say thank you no other country gave anything.
9:59We gave$60 million two weeks ago for food, for Gaza. And nobody acknowledged it. Nobody talks about it. And it makes you feel a little bad when you do that. And, you know, you have other countries not giving anything. None of the European countries, by the way, gave. I mean, nobody gave but us. And nobody said, gee, thank you very much. And it would be nice to have at least a thank you. And I took a lot of heat. You know, when When I when I do that, a lot of people aren't happy about that because they say, well, why are we doing it and nobody else? But I think we had a humanitarian reason for doing it.
10:37What's going to happen? I don't know. I can tell you that Hamas, as I said, would happen at the end. You know, we've gotten back a lot of hostages, a tremendous number of hostages, most of them. Now we have dead hostages and the mothers want them back. And we have to want thanking you for what? But you said you would end the war in Gaza in 24 hours.
11:01Ben Meiselas:You reached out to, there was what? There was Palestinians for Trump. I didn't even know why that existed. Muslims for Trump, even though there was a Muslim ban. And you've made the situation far worse in Gaza. You promised there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That didn't happen. There's a war between Thailand and Cambodia right now. There was a war between India and Pakistan after a terrorist attack against India. The world's a far less stable place right now. And you don't get credit for wars stopping that started that should never have started in the first place. And if you think you're going to be running away from your dark past, the number one trend across social media today was hashtag pedo president, hashtag Epstein Trump files.
11:50Ben Meiselas:And while Donald Trump's out there just making a total buffoon of himself in the United States of America, cheating on golf, covering up the Epstein files, you know, supporting people convicted of sex trafficking like Ghislaine Maxwell, as Donald Trump's out here with ICE in the United States, disappearing Americans. I always like when Donald Trump's like, we've shut down the borders. Zero people are crossing. We deserve a medal. You know where there's also zero border crossings, Donald? In North Korea, because people don't want to go there. People don't want to come into the United States right now.
12:25Vegas is absolutely getting shellacked. Vegas is getting destroyed. So Donald Trump went from destroying Atlantic City in the early 1990s, and now he came back to destroy Las Vegas. He's absolutely killing it right now in a bad way. And what? We're seeing many states that are suffering right now across the country. Our allies are basically figuring out ways to cut America out of any trade deals. And so they're kind of appeasing Donald Trump while working with each other to isolate the United States. The dollar's never been weaker before. But let me just share with you what actual leadership is.
13:04This is what Zelensky posted yesterday. I had a productive and substantive conversation with the president of France. We discussed Ukraine's key defense needs, first and foremost, strengthening our air defense. We need reliable protection against Russia and missile drones.
13:19Ben Meiselas:We talked about the supply of additional missiles and systems, anti-drone and anti-missile systems. We also discussed that length of financing of Ukrainian drone production of all types. France is ready to help us with this. We will work together. We spoke about the training of Ukrainian pilots on Mirage jets. We highly appreciate that France will continue training, which will allow us to prepare even more pilots. I informed about the outcome of a third meeting with the Russian side in Istanbul. We managed to agree on a new prisoner exchange. We are awaiting our response to a proposal to hold a meeting at the highest level by the end of August.
13:55Representatives from Europe must be certainly present at this meeting. We had a detailed discussion about Ukraine's path to European integration. We agreed to work on finding solutions that will allow the first negotiation cluster to be opened as soon as possible. It is important that Ukraine and Moldova continue to move forward in sync. We also discussed the work of Ukraine's anti-corruption infrastructure, which is fully operational. The presidential bill guarantees the independence and effectiveness of anti-corruption bodies and prevents Russian influence on them.
14:28Ben Meiselas:Thank you, France, for your support and willingness to help. That's what world leadership looks like as what Donald Trump is posting memes of former President Obama's face, like placed on OJ Simpson's face in the Ford Bronco car chase and saying, oh, we're going after Obama. We're going to attack Obama for Russia, Russia, Russia, and Obama engaged in treason. Let me just leave you with this clip right here so you see how nefarious these MAGA's are, these MAGA Republicans. Here's MAGA Republican Mike Johnson. So the MAGA's are trying to rig the midterm elections by removing all Democrats from Texas rather than do an emergency legislative session in Texas to come up with emergency aid to build systems and help people from dying.
15:22what they're doing in Texas is they're going to try to get rid of all the Democratic congressional districts and try to gerrymander them unlawfully, believing that it'll take four years before the Supreme Court ever does anything about it, but just to try to help the MAGAs keep control of the House of Representatives, just purely fascism, purely illegal. So the Democrats in other states are like, okay, well, if you're going to do it, we'll do it. But then MAGA Mike Johnson's like, nope, you're not going to be able to do it in California and New York because your constitutions require you to follow the law.
15:57But in Texas, they ain't going to follow the law. So that's what we're going to do. Just watch him say that. Here, play this clip. Your life was so simple in the first term, but much simpler in the first term, less responsibility. Real quick, are you for the redistricting that the president's pushing for in Texas and Ohio? Because in response, the Democrats say, we're going to do it to you in New York and California? California has a problem. They've got to amend their state constitution, as I understand the law out there to do it. Look, we have to fight for every inch of ground in the country.
16:26We're in an era of small margins, as you said, because of gerrymandering and redistricting. But they have to follow the law. I'm convinced the red states will, and we will probably have a few more seats out of that. And of course, that's good news for me. Absolutely. Speaker, it's unadulterated fascism. It's Russia-style fascism. You have Donald Trump, felon, sexual predator, fraud, you know, despicable, vile piece of trash that he is. And I'm not afraid to call him out like this. Running a fascist regime, disappearing people off the streets in the United States, ripping apart families while his little fascist stooge goons like MAGA Mike Johnson are like, yes, boss.
17:06Yes, boss. What do you want us to do, boss? You want us to cover up sex trafficking, boss? GOP guardians of pedos. GOP guardians of pedos. GOP guardians of pedos. That's who they are. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching. You might as merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more all at store.midastouch.com.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s pathetic visit to Scotland where he was caught cheating at golf and covering up his dark past and Meiselas compares it with Ukraine where drone and ballistic strikes are daily occurrence as Trump’s weakness is clear.
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