Trump Has Catastrophic AM as He Gets Abandoned in Davos

22 Jan 2026 · 21 min · 10 chapters

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Episode Title

Trump Has Catastrophic AM as He Gets Abandoned in Davos

Episode Overview In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses a disastrous Thursday for Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump’s physical state and plummeting approval ratings are highlighted, as well as his interactions with authoritarian leaders he considers allies.

Key Themes and Discussions

Trump's Physical Deterioration

  • Description of Trump’s Condition:
  • Ben describes Trump as "literally rotting away" during his speech, emphasizing the state of his hands, which appeared bruised and discolored.
  • Trump reportedly left his speech to apply makeup on his left hand, which had deteriorated further during the meeting.
  • Public Reactions:
  • The episode features commentary on how Trump's condition has raised concerns and ridicule among observers.

The "Board of Peace"

  • Composition of the Group:
  • Meiselas critiques Trump's self-styled "Board of Peace," noting it comprises authoritarian regimes rather than traditional U.S. allies, including countries like Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
  • Claims of Peace:
  • Trump inaccurately claims that eight wars have been settled in the Middle East under his leadership, contrasting with ongoing violence in regions like Gaza.

Disparagement of Allies

  • Comments on NATO:
  • Trump questions NATO's support and effectiveness, prompting Ben to counter these claims with historical references to NATO allies' sacrifices.
  • Misrepresentation of Agreements:
  • Discussion on Trump's assertions regarding agreements with Denmark and Greenland, with officials denying any discussions about land deals.

Polling and Public Perception

  • Analysis of Polls:
  • Ben reviews a recent Times-Siena poll indicating Trump's negative approval ratings across various issues, highlighting significant voter disapproval.
  • Trump's Response:
  • Trump threatens legal action against the New York Times over perceived inaccuracies in their polling, showcasing his ongoing grievance with media narratives.

Inhumane Actions by ICE

  • Child Abduction Incident:
  • A shocking narrative is presented where a five-year-old child was used as bait by ICE to detain his father, reflecting the cruelty of current immigration policies.

Contrast with Political Opponents

  • Gavin Newsom's Speech:
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom's address at Davos is discussed, where he criticized Trump and highlighted the absurdity of Trump's statements.
  • Jack Smith's Testimony:
  • Special Counsel Jack Smith's ongoing testimony is noted, with emphasis on the legal actions taken against Trump for criminal activities.

Conclusion Ben concludes with a call to action for listeners to engage with the podcast and support its growth, emphasizing the importance of holding leaders accountable and advocating for democracy.

Key Takeaways

  • Trump's physical and mental condition is becoming a focal point of concern and ridicule.
  • His relationships with authoritarian leaders present a stark contrast to traditional U.S. alliances.
  • Trump's disconnection from reality is evident in his claims about international peace and his continued grievances with media and polling.
  • Ongoing legal scrutiny of Trump raises significant implications for his political future.

Call to Action Listeners are encouraged to subscribe to all MeidasTouch Network podcasts and follow the brothers' ongoing commentary on current events.

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Chapters

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Trump's Catastrophic Morning

2:26 to 4:51

Discussion on Trump's deteriorating physical condition and controversial 'Board of Peace' speech.

“Donald Trump is having a catastrophic morning.”

Trump's Claims of Peace

4:51 to 7:36

Analyzing Trump's false claims about peace in the Middle East amidst ongoing conflicts.

“You want to look at the news literally yesterday in Gaza, three journalists were killed in Gaza, including a cameraman who worked with CBS.”

Trump's NATO Disparagement

7:36 to 10:48

Examining Trump's disparaging remarks about NATO and his controversial statements.

“States for Donald Trump, the freaking president of the United States to disparage them.”

Gavin Newsom's Response

10:48 to 13:25

Gavin Newsom addresses absurdities in Trump's comments at the World Economic Forum.

“He's been making post after post about this.”

Ongoing Rants and Rave

13:25 to 14:00

Discussion on Trump's continued rants about acquiring Greenland and other topics.

“We covered it live here on the Midas Touch Network.”

Reflections on Trump and Irony

14:00 to 15:00

Discussion on the irony surrounding Trump and his portrayal in media.

“So I put a mirror up to Trump and Trumpism in all caps.”

Trump's Greenland Remarks

15:00 to 16:02

Analysis of Trump's bizarre comments regarding Greenland and national security.

“Because the GDP of Greenland is like$3.3 billion, but people are valuing Greenland of between 50 billion and almost a trillion.”

Jack Smith's Testimony on Accountability

16:02 to 16:48

Overview of Jack Smith's testimony and his stance on prosecuting Trump.

“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity.”

White House Controversies

16:48 to 17:48

Discussion about the White House's handling of protests and AI misuse.

“So the White House just arrested the individuals who were part of the group protesting at the church in St.”

Health Concerns for Trump

17:48 to 18:44

Examination of questions regarding Trump's health and cognitive abilities.

“Mag and Mike Johnson running away from the press right now and being asked questions about Donald Trump's physical and cognitive deterioration before our eyes.”
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2:29Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a catastrophic morning. He is quite literally rotting away and physically deteriorating before our eyes. You know how his right hand used to be the one that was bruised and discolored, and he's had to cover it up with makeup? Well, Donald Trump gave a speech earlier. He stayed back in Davos, Switzerland, to meet with a group he's calling his Board of Peace, which is now just made up of authoritarian regimes and none of America's traditional allies and no NATO countries. Well, during Donald Trump's board of peace speech, his left hand looked even worse than his right hand previously looked bruised and discolored and grotesque.

3:11Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump had to leave at one point to go and apply makeup. It got so bad. and he returned 15 minutes later. The Telegraph has a before and after photo of what it looked like when it was bruised and discolored, and then when he covered up his left hand with the makeup. Take a look at this group of people who surrounded Donald Trump that comprise what he's referring to as his board of peace, it's mostly authoritarian regimes, none of our NATO allies. You have Belarus and you have Morocco and you have Kazakhstan and Egypt and Kosovo and Pakistan and Qatar and Indonesia. And also Vladimir Putin said that Russia will be joining as well.

3:53Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump as an initiation fee into his board of peace takes$1 billion from you. And then he puts it in a Qatari bank account for himself. Now, the White House chief propagandist Caroline Levitt said that Donald Trump's left hand looked that way because he hit his hand during the meeting that he was holding. She says, at the Board of Peace event today in Davos, Donald Trump hit his hand in the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise. Okay, so the right hand looked that way because you said he was shaking so many hands. And now the left hand looks that way, you're saying, because he hit it into a table and it caused it to look that way?

4:36Ben Meiselas:Yeah, I'm not buying that at all. Now, while Donald Trump was with his so-called board of peace, which should probably be called his board of authoritarians, Donald Trump says that we've established peace in the Middle East now and eight wars have been settled and everything is amazing. You want to look at the news literally yesterday in Gaza, three journalists were killed in Gaza, including a cameraman who worked with CBS. Israeli fire strikes journalists and children of one of Gaza's deadliest days since the ceasefire. There are wars going on across the world right now that Donald Trump has contributed to and made far worse.

5:19Ben Meiselas:Here's what Donald Trump said about we have peace right now. Here, play this clip. We have peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was possible. We've settled eight wars, and I believe another one's coming pretty soon. You know what that is? The one that I thought was going to be an easy one. It turned out to be probably the most. And by the way, just take a look at the logo for Donald Trump's Board of Peace. as FITUX Network explains. The Board of Peace logo appears to just be AI-generated slop. By the way, you know how yesterday Donald Trump claimed that he made a deal with Denmark and Greenland and that it was going to be an infinite deal and it was going to be so amazing for the United States of America?

6:04Ben Meiselas:Well, it's not what Danish officials say or Greenlandic officials say, just more lies from Donald Trump, just pretending that they gave him land to call part of the United States of America. Danish officials told Jim Scuto that there have been no direct discussions between Denmark and the U.S. about the possibility of granting the U.S. sovereign parcels of land. And a NATO spokesperson said that Mark Rutt, the secretary general of NATO, did not discuss it with Trump on Wednesday. And my sources in Denmark say the exact same thing, that there was no deal, no discussion over any parts of Greenland being taken over by the United States, and that Donald Trump is just making all of this up.

6:51Ben Meiselas:By the way, while Donald Trump has, he's still in Davos right now, he spoke to state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And here's what he had to say about NATO. Just disparaging our NATO alliance this morning. He said, NATO's never really there for us when we need it. They've never been there. Sure, maybe they claim to be there in Afghanistan, but no NATO countries were there on the front lines. What are you talking about? They were all there on the front lines. The only time Article 5 has ever been invoked was by the United States. And you know how you attack Denmark and Greenland all the time?

7:27Ben Meiselas:The Danish troops had the most deaths per capita of any other country in the world. Our NATO allies in Europe, in the UK and elsewhere died fighting on the front lines with the United States for Donald Trump, the freaking president of the United States to disparage them. Here's what Donald Trump said. Here play this clip. I think, but I've always said, will they be there if we haven't needed them? And that's really the ultimate test. And I'm not sure of that. I know that we would have been there or we would be there, but will they be there? and let's hope that that never happens we've never needed them we have never really asked anything of them you know they'll say they sent some troops to afghanistan or this or that and they did they stayed a little back a little off the front lines but uh we uh we've been very good to europe and to many other countries and you know now under my administration that began because we had a very successful first term that began then, but it has to be a two-way street.

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10:43Ben Meiselas:They will be held fully responsible for all of their radical left lies and wrongdoing. He's been making post after post about this. Then he did another post. Something has to be done about fake polls. They have me in the low 40s. The real polls are great right now. The New York Times suffer from a major case of Trump derangement syndrome. I'm calling them out with lawsuits that I have filed, which is making its way through courts. They have to pay a price for fake and fraudulent news. So he's threatening to sue the New York Times for the New York Times Siena poll as his hand is rotting away, as he's covering it up by applying makeup to his left.

11:24Ben Meiselas:This is what the president of the United States is doing. This is so horribly humiliating. Let's take a look at the New York Times Siena poll right now. Donald Trump's net approval, negative 16 points. And on every issue other than just the border between US and Mexico, he's net negative. Even there, he's only plus three. Managing the federal government, negative 14 points. Venezuela, negative 13. Immigration in general, negative 17 points. Handling of the economy, negative 18. Relationships with other countries, negative 19. Handling of the Epstein files, negative 44 points. The war between Russia and Ukraine, it should be Russia's invasion of Ukraine, negative 24 points.

12:06Ben Meiselas:The cost of living, negative 29 points. Israel, Palestine, negative 17 points. And by the way, I mean, this comes This one brought tears to my eyes as Trump's ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo used a five-year-old little boy as bait to kidnap his father. when this five-year-old boy by the name of Liam Conejo Ramos was leaving preschool. He was abducted by an ICE officer. It's caught on tape and then used as bait to get the father to come out of the house. And then the ICE Gestapo kidnapped the father and Liam and sent him to a detention center, disappeared them to Texas. And you can see the little boy right here with his winter hat being kidnapped and abducted by Donald Trump's goons.

13:02Ben Meiselas:It is so utterly, utterly despicable. While Donald Trump was still in Davos, remember I did a video on it this morning, Donald Trump blocked California Governor Gavin Newsom from giving a speech at the U.S. House, the U.S. pavilion area in Davos because Trump was too scared of Newsom giving a speech. Well, Newsom got to finally speak at the World Economic Forum. And here's what he had to say. We covered it live here on the Midas Touch Network. Let's play it right here. But you've got to point out the absurdity. You've got to put a mirror up to this. This is madness. You see what he's saying about European leaders, you talking down to people, talking past people.

13:45I mean, look, the comments he made yesterday, we're not even discussing because you're discussing all the other comments about windmills or whatever else is happening. We talked about Somalia's community. This is not normal. It's a deviation of normalcy. We've got to call it out. So I put a mirror up to Trump and Trumpism in all caps. And it was ironic because Pravda, Fox News in America, others, they got offended by it. They said, well, where's his mother to wash his mouth out with soap? I said, where the hell have you been? You've never said a word about Trump dressing up. It's the Pope tweeting out and cosplaying on the world stage.

14:22And so the Treasury Secretary talked about a Barbie doll. It was as if he was reading a diary and had just broken up with someone. I mean, that was the Secretary of Treasury using valuable time yesterday on the world stage. Some sexual, thank you for not sharing that on the official White House account. We're deeply in their head. I think the affordability agenda appears to be, I'm living rent-free in the Trump administration's head.

14:49Ben Meiselas:And again, while Newsom was saying that, you had Donald Trump continuing to talk about acquiring Greenland, And again, ranting and raving like a total lunatic here. Play this clip. Because the GDP of Greenland is like$3.3 billion, but people are valuing Greenland of between 50 billion and almost a trillion. So what are you willing to pay for Greenland? Well, I'm not going to have to pay anything. We're going to have total access to Greenland. We're going to have all military access that we want. We're going to be able to put what we need on Greenland because we want it. We're talking about national security and international security.

15:22So we're going to not have to pay anything other than the fact that we are building the Golden Dome. And the Golden Dome is going to be something that's going to be very amazing.

15:32Ben Meiselas:It'll be Israel times probably 100. Two other developments that I want to talk about this morning. Special counsel Jack Smith is testifying. That testimony is ongoing right now. Let me just show you a small portion of it. Let's play it. As I testify before the committee today, I want to be clear. I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including the decision to bring charges against President Trump. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or a Republican.

16:22No one, no one should be above the law in this country, and the law required that he be held to account, so that is what I did. to have done otherwise on the facts of these cases would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and as a public servant of which I had no intention of doing.

16:44Ben Meiselas:Now contrast the law and order of special counsel Jack Smith to what the White House is currently doing. So the White House just arrested the individuals who were part of the group protesting at the church in St. Paul and they're trying to prosecute Don Lemon as well. But the White House posted what appears to be an AI image of one of the leaders of the protest at the church, Nekima Levy Armstrong. You had Secretary Kristi Noem posted a photo of Armstrong on her social media account, on Kristi Noem's social media account, and saying she is being charged with a federal crime under 18 USC section 241.

17:29Ben Meiselas:Religious freedom is the bedrock of the United States. And then the White House seems to have posted an AI image of her crying, of Armstrong crying, which again, incredible misconduct. And I think Armstrong's lawyers are going to bring that up right away to the federal judge. I'll leave you with this. Mag and Mike Johnson running away from the press right now and being asked questions about Donald Trump's physical and cognitive deterioration before our eyes. Watch as Eric Michael Garcia asks Megamike this question here. Play this clip.

18:10Ben Meiselas:I think that'd be, I think it'd be a reckless decision on their part. The president mistakenly called Greenland, Iceland. His speech is slurred. He's got bruises on its hands, are you at all worried about the president's health or his decline at all? Is this a serious question? This president sleeps about three hours a night. He outworks everybody in this building by a factor of two or three. And yes, as part of that board of peace, I shouldn't even call it, it's the phony board of authority, the access of evil. This is what they were showing people at the World Economic Forum. They're calling it New Gaza.

18:43Ben Meiselas:So while his journalists and innocent people are continuing to be killed in Gaza, they're showing new Gaza is what they're calling it. Trump and his authoritarian access of evil. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million. Thanks for watching, everybody.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s awful Thursday in Davos as he was physically deteriorating during a meeting with his board of authoritarians and as his approval has plummeted even lower.

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