Trump Blindsided as It Gets Worse

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is watching as MAGA dies. After all, Donald Trump killed MAGA. He betrayed his base. He screwed over the entire country, but he screwed over MAGA a lot as well. And we're hearing statements like the following. I'm 21. I'm going to college here in Fayetteville. Voted for the first time in 2024. Straight Republican. I plan to vote Democratic this year, at least against Tom Cotton and Sarah Huckabee. This war in Iran is a betrayal, not a broken promise. A broken promise is HW saying no new taxes. This is a betrayal of no more foreign wars. Americans are dead on behalf of Israel. The Republicans have completely F themselves and they deserve everything coming their way and they aren't even sorry for it.

0:52Ben Meiselas:My friends keep saying the Doyle thing that I just need to deal with it because Dems are worse, but that's bullshit. That doesn't work on me anymore. Or how about this furious MAGA caller abandoning Donald Trump over the catastrophic war, inflation and broken campaign promises calling into the Megyn Kelly wrap up show. So listen to this. Let's play it. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been getting what seems like a handful of callers every single day who are totally disillusioned by someone. In many cases, they say they voted for Donald Trump. Thanks for taking my call. I voted for Donald Trump.

1:30And I got to be honest with you and tell you, you know, we didn't get a wall. We didn't get to lock up Hillary. We didn't get to drain the swamp. We didn't get affordable health care. We didn't get to eliminate the national debt with Doge. Remember, we were looking. And they only raised it from$36 trillion to$40 trillion. Okay? We didn't get the Epstein files accountability. I think Pam Bondi probably got fired because she released some of them and wasn't supposed to. We didn't get a Doge check of$5 ,000. We didn't get a$2 ,000 tariff check. Okay? We didn't get lower interest rates. We didn't get nothing but lied to.

2:08And like I said, I voted for the guy. But this guy is the big, he should be selling used 67 Cadillac Coupe de Ville at some used car lot because all we've gotten is garbage. Iran, Iran, Iran. Okay. The price of oil comes down. His big buddies are the rich buy. Price of oil goes up because we bomb them. They sell, sell, sell. The whole thing is a sham. Well, he's selling watch. Could you imagine if Barack Obama was selling watches, sneakers and all kinds of stuff? We'd be going nuts. I'm sorry. I would never vote for this man again. And you know what? Sometimes things got to get worse before they get better.

2:48But there is no America first with President Trump. I'm sorry. Thanks for the thanks for taking my call. it was just raw yeah yes and i think that sentiment right there that that things have to get worse before they get better so from his perspective voting for democrats is going to make things worse but he's going to do it anyway because he's so angry at trump and he feels like trump has to feel some pain another woman called in recently and said the exact same thing yeah that that is you're seeing 50 of 55 percent of people strongly quote-unquote strongly disapprove. That is euphemistic for how those people feel about him.

3:29Ben Meiselas:Strongly disapprove is being generous. Then you had yesterday Ken Paxton's recorded meeting where he said that Donald Trump screwed over the entire Republican Party with the Republican midterm convention and that Donald Trump is a drag on Paxton's polling numbers as well as Republicans across the country. Here's what Paxton said. Here, play it. Do you feel like, man, all these guys know these players in the tournament. But do you feel like he's a little bit of a drag? So to be honest with you, the numbers didn't get, so we did that in convention, I thought it was our numbers, everybody's in the job.

4:12By now, yeah, not good. I wish there was something to do that turned out. That would help the announcement. No.

4:21Ben Meiselas:And then Scott Jennings on CNN said, I wish Paxton would have just kept that to himself. Here, let's play this clip. I was not happy with this comment today from Ken Paxton. Even if he thinks he was being honest, sometimes keep it to yourself and say, we're grateful for everyone's support. We even have the MAGA Republican extremist senator from West Virginia, their former governor, Senator Jim Justice. Again, deep red West Virginia breaking with Donald Trump on ice. Quote, you're dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years. I don't know that we need to be doing that.

4:58Ben Meiselas:To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit you're doing something wrong. The rats are fleeing the sinking ship. I mean, you've got MAGA Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, calling Donald Trump out for renaming AI SI and saying that they aren't data centers. They are SI centers, super intelligent centers, and we're going to put them all in your backyard. This is what Ron DeSantis posted yesterday. Super intelligence factories equal surveillance centers. This is after Donald Trump was saying, oh, the data centers are so big and beautiful. I know real estate and I'm going to put data centers everywhere.

5:43Ben Meiselas:If you want to get rich, you need data centers. Ron DeSantis, again, he's an extremist. He's a bad person, but he's clearly positioning himself against the J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Trump, and that regime, especially heading into 2028. I find that notable. And then not only that, he held a press conference where he went after the data centers, which is a major part of Donald Trump and the kind of Trump regime's policy right now is data centers everywhere. And DeSantis called him out for it. Here, I'll just play a short clip because I'm not going to play a long clip of DeSantis. Just play a short clip right here.

6:24I agree with that. You know, the thing about the data centers is there's not really a big economic impact once they're created. Like, yeah, if it's constructed, people can make some money doing that. Obviously, there There may be some jobs that can go. But once it's done, it employs like a half dozen people. And, you know, these tech companies will likely bring in foreigners to do that on some visa. They're not going to hire from your local community. It's just not what they do. So, you know, from that, I think a lot of these communities are not supporting the construction in their area when they go before these boards now because they're thinking like, OK, it's sucking a lot of resources.

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8:15Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, the New York Times ran this story. Hispanic voters on the Texas border have soured on Trump. Not sure why you would have went to this guy in the first place, but okay. In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the New York Times headlines. They did a good report, but like the headline, complicating the party's chances in November. I mean, Donald Trump put their family members in concentration camps. I mean, Donald Trump destroyed their small businesses. I mean, Donald Trump literally tortured these people.

8:56Ben Meiselas:It's complicated. This is one of the things that I think about is important. I often get asked, hey, Ben, what's the political messaging going into the midterms? And I go, I'm not a political messaging guy. I'll get to that story in just a moment. I go, I'm not a political messaging guy. I say, what has been your lived experience right now. If you've lived these past two years and you believe that this is the golden age, there's no political message I have for you. I just think what we all have to realize is that Donald Trump and this Epstein class oligarchy, they are out to destroy your lives and to steal from you and to torture and inflict pain.

9:36Ben Meiselas:They can't satiate their desire for more money, for more material things, even when they have enough money for hundreds of generations. I mean, the amount of wealth they have is insane. They want to see you suffer and they want to cover up child sex trafficking and they want to get involved in these never-ending wars where just as they're covering up child sex trafficking, when they get involved in these never-ending wars, who are the first people they're killing? The children, the little girls in Manab, the elementary school in Iran, then the sports hall where the little children and the girls were playing volleyball, in Lemaire, where the United States tested out these new tungsten mistles that dropped these pellets and killed the little children.

10:30Ben Meiselas:And the Trump regime, you saw Hegseth, and they were like, this is what Isaiah, the book of Isaiah told us to do. Ooh, I mean, these are some real sick, these are some sick, sick, sick people. Sorry, I digressed. I just wanted to get that off my chest. This New York Times article highlights people like Jessica Cantu, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, who cast her first ballot in 2024 for Donald Trump. Two years later, her brother was deported. She feels angry and betrayed. Ariel Salinas, who owns a construction company in McAllen, Texas, can no longer reliably find laborers for her work crews.

11:13Ben Meiselas:He blames the president's immigration policies for his financial headaches. Luis Cabrera, a pastor who once mobilized his congregation in Harlingen, Texas, to vote for Republican candidates like Trump, is now trying to keep Hispanic evangelicals from giving up on voting altogether. And again, it highlights these stories, dozens of interviews across the border in Texas of Hispanics who actually voted for Donald Trump. And they talk about, quote, they betrayed me. They turned their back on us. Nobody cares about us here. I can see that clearly now. I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after the bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists and killers.

12:04Ben Meiselas:This was an individual who was in a small coffee shop she runs. And she was saying that she thought of her six children who range from ages six to 12. Of course, I want streets to be safe, but she didn't expect that Trump was going to not go after the criminals, that Trump was going to take people who were here on asylum, people on temporary protected status, people who were children, people who were here for generations, who were here for a long time, paying taxes, building businesses. Your world truly does go upside down because now it's not just hurting you. It's hurting your parents. It's hurting your children.

12:44Ben Meiselas:It's hurting your grandchildren. I started to hate this person's head. I started holding resentment and grudges, especially from those people that I rallied with for Trump. We feel betrayed. And I think it's important that you know this about Trump too. He picks on people who he thinks are weak. It's why he always goes after children and he goes after people who were here on temporary protected status and people who were here for asylum. It's too hard for him to go after the criminals. So he's going after people who are pursuing the American dream because Trump hates the American dream. So you've got that.

13:26Ben Meiselas:I mean, there are more stories coming in as well. And you take a look at some of the latest polling data over here from South Dakota, the independent candidate, Brian Bangs. He's leading the MAGA Republican candidate 51 % to 42%. You take a look at the latest Marist polling over here. Abdul El-Sayed leads Mike Rogers in Michigan, 51 % to 44%. In the governor's race, the Democratic candidate Jocelyn Benson leads 53 % to 41 % over the MAGA Republican congressman extremist over there. And again, one of the things that we're seeing too is mortgage rates now approaching 8%. Treasury yield, the third year approaching 6%, the 10-year yield note, the worst performance since 1994.

14:21Ben Meiselas:That's pushing all of these lending prices up. Inflation continues to surge. And what did we see yesterday? The Trump regime changes the formula for inflation. They changed the PCE formula and they made it so that it would be reduced by 20 to 30 or perhaps even 40 basis points versus what the inflation number actually was. Like, we came in 30 basis points lower than expected. Yeah, because you changed the formula. And then once everybody realized they changed the formula, they were like, really? And this is what the Trump regime does on absolutely everything right here. And so I could keep on going, but you get the point.

15:04Ben Meiselas:Oh, you heard about the story? The MAGA festival featuring Kid Rock was canceled over poor VIP ticket sales. The conservative political event that featured Kid Rock in Kentucky. Eric Dieters, the organizer, said, I'm never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to do this event again. It previously drew big crowds and now they couldn't even sell more than like two VIP tickets. There you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching, y 'all.