In short
The host argues Donald Trump is panicking and acting inconsistently on foreign policy, especially regarding Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, and U.S. security in Washington, D.C., while allegedly amplifying pro-Russian and authoritarian talking points.
Guest backgrounds
No guests are named or interviewed in the provided transcript.
Key claims
Trump posts that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia; the Alaska summit was humiliating because Putin mocked Trump; Trump’s “24 hours” peace promises were lies or sarcasm; Trump’s “no war, only peace” contrasts with alleged support for Gaza takeover; Trump’s D.C. crime claims are disputed by studies showing low crime where National Guard is deployed.
Notable examples
Posts targeting Nicole Wallace; “typhoid Mary” remark; “buy Gaza/own Gaza” references; claims about “concentration camps” funding; Pew approval poll numbers; Rubio and Chris Murphy clips criticizing the Alaska meeting.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOAuthoritarian Regimes and Military Forces
0:00 to 0:45
Discussion on the appearance of military forces in authoritarian regimes and their implications.
“That's what the streets look like in authoritarian regimes.”
Trump's Actions Amidst Global Tensions
0:45 to 1:45
Analysis of Trump's actions and statements as tensions rise with Ukraine and Russia.
“Here's what Donald Trump is posting right now.”
Trump's Social Media Rants
1:45 to 3:00
Examination of Trump's posts regarding Ukraine and various individuals, highlighting his rhetoric.
“Donald Trump also posts the following about our friend Nicole Wallace.”
Trump's Fundraising Tactics
3:00 to 4:30
Discussion about Trump's fundraising emails and how he appeals to supporters.
“This is what his supporters are getting.”
Trump's Claims and Criticism of Media
4:30 to 6:00
Critique of Trump's claims regarding media portrayal and his own political positioning.
“Just like our now secure southern border, zero illegals in the last three months.”
Violence and Human Rights Concerns
6:00 to 7:30
Discussion of the violence and human rights issues related to Trump's policies and statements.
“And the atrocities that are taking place there every day, as Donald Trump says, we're just going to take it.”
Trump's Foreign Policy Stances
7:30 to 8:50
Analysis of Trump's statements about global conflicts and his contradictory positions.
“What's the plan if Putin doesn't agree to a ceasefire?”
Perception of Trump in Polls
8:50 to 10:10
Exploration of public opinion polls and their implications for Trump’s approval ratings.
“Putin made you look so stupid and made our country look so stupid.”
Critique of Trump's Leadership
10:10 to 12:00
Discussion on Trump's leadership style and public perception compared to his actions.
“You're bragging that Putin says you're hot like a pistol.”
Reactions to Trump and Political Figures
12:00 to 14:01
Responses from political figures regarding Trump's statements and actions in recent events.
“Then Donald Trump randomly posted Bella, B-E-L-A, to which Governor Newsom responded.”
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Trump's Failed Diplomatic Meeting
14:01 to 15:40
Analysis of Trump's meeting regarding Ukraine and its implications.
“We'll see them again tomorrow in person along with our allies in Europe.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:12Ben Meiselas:That's what the streets look like in authoritarian regimes. That's in Belgrade, Serbia. You have the pro-Putin Vucic regime sending military forces, the same types of military forces that Donald Trump's putting in Washington, D.C. and this Putin-backed regime was sending the forces against college students and people living in Belgrade who are fighting for democracy. What's Donald Trump doing while that's taking place? Right before Donald Trump is set to meet with President Zelensky and the coalition of the willing of European leaders at the White House today who are joining Zelensky, shoulder to shoulder, to stand up to the Trump regime after the humiliating display that Donald Trump put on in Alaska, where he literally had American troops on their knees, rolling out a red carpet for Putin in Alaska, who was laughing the entire time.
1:08Ben Meiselas:Here's what Donald Trump is posting right now. Some random photo of a woman that says, Ukraine must be willing to lose some territory to Russia. Otherwise, the longer the war goes on, they will keep losing even more land, exclamation point. You are spewing Russian propaganda talking points and saying that Ukraine needs to give up Donbass to Vladimir Putin for what? Ukraine's been able to stand up bravely against the invasion by the war criminal Vladimir Putin. But Donald Trump sees himself shoulder to shoulder with the war criminal. Donald Trump also posts the following about our friend Nicole Wallace.
1:53Ben Meiselas:is that a i'm not even sure what this is on her nose that he writes but he goes typhoid mary nicole wallace nicole wallace is afraid of losing her job get her a wambulance this is what donald trump is posting right now what a pathetic individual then he writes president zelinski of ukraine can end the war with russia almost immediately if he wants to or he can continue to fight. Remember how it started? No getting back Obama given Crimea 12 years ago without a shot being fired and no going into NATO by Ukraine. Some things never change. You said you were going to end the war in 24 hours. You said you knew Zelensky well and you knew Putin and this would be easy, Donald.
2:42Ben Meiselas:That's what you ran on. But no, you lied over and over again to your supporters. So now you send desperate emails like the one you sent last night where you said in the subject line, don't blow it. Your platinum membership is about to expire. What a fraud you are. Just think about that. This is what his supporters are getting. He goes, it's President Trump. I just saw your membership status update and I was surprised. You were right there about to lock in your Trump platinum membership, but I'm seeing it's incomplete. Six hour extension. but lucky for you, I'm a generous man, and I really want you to join the club.
3:20Ben Meiselas:I told my team, give Ben one more chance. You've still got a shot, but not for long. Complete membership. And then he asks for your money, for the money from his supporters. Join the club. Isn't that his whole fraud, his whole life? Don't you want to be at Mar-a-Lago? I'm here fighting for you. You're throwing everybody under the bus other than yourself and the oligarch billionaires. It's absolutely despicable. Oh, then Donald Trump, you want to talk about a whambulance, Donald? This is what he's posting. It's been like post after post after post. It's been so utterly pathetic. He writes, the fake news has been saying for three days that I suffered a major defeat by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major summit in the United States.
4:09Ben Meiselas:Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the U.S. And the fake news knows this. It was a major point of contention. If we had the summit elsewhere, the Democrat-run and controlled media would have said, what a terrible thing that was. These people are sick. They even want crime in D.C. and other blue cities throughout the country. But don't worry, I won't let that happen. Just like our now secure southern border, zero illegals in the last three months. Our cities will be secure and safe, and D.C. will lead the way. Actually, there was a study that was just done that shows that where the National Guard is, like the Lincoln Memorial and Logan Circle and Foggy Bottom, are the areas where there's not a lot of crime.
4:54Ben Meiselas:In addition to the fact that crime is at a 30-year low, and the crime is far higher in districts like where MAGA Mike Johnson is from, Red states, red cities have far higher crime, but it's all performative. One of the things we're also seeing as well is a plan to create over a thousand new concentration camps in the United States, just like Alligator Alcatraz. And that's where our taxpayer money is going. Not to your health care, not to your education, no, to a thousand concentration camps that are funded by the disastrous budget bill where atrocities against humanity will be taking place as they are right now at Alligator Alcatraz, where the people are dying and suffering and getting killed.
5:44Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump says the following in this post. No war, only peace. And he's holding a dove. No war, only peace. Hmm. Well, here is what's going on in Gaza City right now. Here, play this clip.
6:22Ben Meiselas:And the atrocities that are taking place there every day, as Donald Trump says, we're just going to take it. This is ours. It belongs to me. I'm going to build oceanfront property and build real estate, enabling Netanyahu there. Here's what Donald Trump said. Remember when he said this with the king of Jordan, King Abdullah. Here, play this clip. Would buy Gaza. And today you just said we're not going to buy Gaza. We're not going to have to buy. We're going to have Gaza. We don't have to buy. There's nothing to buy. We will have Gaza. What is that? No reason to buy. There is nothing to buy. It's Gaza.
7:00It's a war-torn area. We're going to take it. We're going to hold it. We're going to cherish it.
7:05Ben Meiselas:And remember Donald Trump, what he now says about Ukraine, that he never actually really meant that he would bring peace in 24 hours, that he was just being sarcastic. 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. and I think I'll be successful. What's the plan if Putin doesn't agree to a ceasefire?
7:42Bad news for this world because so many people are dying, but I think he's going to agree. I really do. I think I know him pretty well and I think he's going to agree.
7:53Ben Meiselas:Oh, I get it. You're a stand-up comedian. Ha ha ha ha ha. You said that you would bring peace to Gaza, peace in Ukraine, lower prices, make housing affordable. Stand up, everybody. You're a funny Donald. Great work. You're such a comedian. While people suffer, really funny. Such an utterly despicable, vile human he is. He then posts the following. The very unattractive, both inside and out, Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said Putin got everything he wanted. Actually, nobody got anything too soon but getting close. Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made Russian president look good in coming to America.
8:34Ben Meiselas:Actually, it was very hard for President Putin to do so. This war can be ended now, but stupid people like Chris Murphy, John Bolton, and others make it much harder to do. Oh, got it. It's not like you're the one in charge who said you would solve this in 24 hours. Putin was there with Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister, wearing a USSR shirt, laughing and mocking you and our troops. Putin made you look so stupid and made our country look so stupid. The world would be laughing at us right now if it wasn't so serious. The utter betrayal that you've given to the free world. You are absolutely pathetic.
9:12Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump posts the following. Do the great American flags I put up in front of both entrances of the White House look fantastic or what? Wow, what a difference. No, just make things more affordable. Start with some of what your promises were. Stop your disastrous trade war against the world. Then Donald Trump goes, one year ago, the United States was an almost dead country. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, the envy of all. What a difference the president makes. Quite the opposite. Wall Street Journal economists said that this was their quote under the end of the Biden term.
9:47Ben Meiselas:American economy is the envy of the world. A Goldilocks economy just right. And now you've ruin that. A new world order is being formed with the United States being one of the weaker poles in a multipolar system. But go on, Donald. I mean, you'll just brag that Vladimir Putin said that you're so hot like a pistol. You're bragging that Putin says you're hot like a pistol. I mean, the way you've treated Zelensky versus the way you've treated Putin just shows that you just are a wannabe dictator like a Putin and just how you look up to these fascists. Here's what Donald Trump says. Even Putin told me we're so hot, we're hot like a pistol.
10:30Ben Meiselas:You're bragging that Putin is playing you and he's playing you in the most obvious ways and you fall for that flattery. Here play this clip. I love seeing this country be great again. And Vladimir said just a little while ago, he said, I've never seen anybody do so much so fast. He said, your country is like hot as a pistol. And a year ago, he thought it was dead. Everybody thought it was dead. More whining by Donald Trump. Fake news. How do the American people feel about Donald Trump? The new Pew Research poll, which has Donald Trump's overall approval at 38 % shows that his net approvals, all negatives amongst every group, negative 68 % for blacks, negative 43 % Hispanics, negative 5 % for white people, negative 33 % for 18 to 29 year olds because you've destroyed their future, negative 31 % to 30 to 49 year olds, same thing, 50 to 64, that number's now rising to 9%, 65 plus negative 9%.
11:34Ben Meiselas:Amongst women, your approval is negative 28%, men negative 13%. There you were golfing again this weekend, more on the taxpayer dime, just vacationing. Here's the photo published by the White House of Trump, Witkoff, and Rubio talking to Zelensky. When you zoom in and you see the faces, you can see the other disgust and disdain they have for Zelensky versus how they treated Putin. Then Donald Trump randomly posted Bella, B-E-L-A, to which Governor Newsom responded. Donald Tiny Hands has written his autobiography this morning. Unfortunately, low IQ. He spelled it wrong, beta. Soon you will be fired, beta, because of my perfect beautiful maps.
12:18Ben Meiselas:Then Governor Newsom, to mock and troll Trump, posts photos like this of himself with muscles bulging, although that looks more like Newsom than Trump's posts of himself. Ukrainian intelligence officers are saying the Americans are being unbelievably aggressive in trying to force Ukraine to surrender right now. I've reported on this before, but Donald Trump has demanded National Guard from other red states come into Washington, D.C. So South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, providing additional National Guard troops to go into Washington, D.C. and be in the areas where there's not crime. The governor of Vermont rejected the demand that that take place.
13:04Ben Meiselas:Finally, let me just show you this back to back. This is Marco Rubio saying that there was never any expectation that a deal would be made in Alaska with Putin. That's quite literally what the expectation was, because you and Donald Trump said that if there wasn't a ceasefire deal reached with Putin, that then there would be sanctions on Putin. And now you're saying there shouldn't be a ceasefire, but Ukraine needs to give up Donbass and Zeprishia and give up all of its land to Russia just just because. Here play this clip of Rubio. I did President Trump's meeting with Putin and with no ceasefire.
13:43And what does Putin want? 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. It'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.
14:09Ben Meiselas:And then you saw Donald Trump crying about Chris Murphy. Here's what Chris Murphy said earlier today. Let's play it. I just heard my conversation with Secretary Rubio. We specifically started talking about the fact that President Trump initially said he wanted a ceasefire agreement. Now he wants a broader peace deal. Secretary Rubio defending that approach, basically saying the Russians wouldn't agree to a ceasefire. Do you think that it's the right strategy to now focus on that broader peace deal? That meeting was a disaster. It was an embarrassment for the United States. It was a failure. Putin got everything he wanted.
14:44I mean, first of all, he wanted that photo op, right? He wanted to be absolved of his war crimes in front of the world. He was invited to the United States. War criminals are not normally invited to the United States of America. He is intentionally murdering civilians. He's kidnapping children. And now he got to stand next to the president of the United States, legitimized in the view of the world. Second, he didn't have to give up anything, nothing. Right. President Trump said he wanted a ceasefire. It appears the ceasefire wasn't even seriously discussed. And then third, there's no consequences.
15:16Trump said, if I don't get a ceasefire, Putin's going to pay a price. And then he walked out of that meeting saying, I didn't get a ceasefire. I didn't get a peace deal. And I'm not even considering sanctions. You heard Secretary Rubio downplay sanctions. And so Putin walks away with his photo op with zero commitments made and zero consequences. What a great day for Russia.
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From the publisher
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s fatal betrayal of the United States alliances and our democracy which is all backfiring in his face as the war continues across the world and European countries are arriving with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine to stand up to Trump and Putin.
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