Trump Has Disaster Presidents’ Day Over State of Union Boycott

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2:27Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a terrible President's Day, the President's Day he deserves as he's finding out that the boycott of his State of the Union coming up next week, it is growing. We're hearing from more Democrats saying they are absolutely not, not attending this State of the Union. Midas Touch got the exclusive right here of Democratic Congress member Dr. Ami Barra. He writes, Donald Trump continues to run roughshod over the Constitution, display utter disregard for Congress, and openly engage in corruption to enrich himself and tarnish the country I love. I will not give him the dignity of having my presence at the State of the Union.

3:14Ben Meiselas:In less than 48 hours, the Midas Touch Network is going to announce our counter-programming to the State of the Union, and we will be featuring senators and Congress members who will be boycotting the State of the Union. I can't wait to make that announcement. Make sure you subscribe. Help us hit 6 million subscribers. I'm going to show you more about what Dr. Ami Barra had to say in just a moment. But I also want to talk about internationally, we're seeing real presidents, real leaders stand up to Donald Trump like President Zelensky of Ukraine. Here's what he just posted on President's Day. And I should note Donald Trump has yet to post any message on President's Day as of the recording of this video.

3:58Ben Meiselas:I mean, he did say Nicole Parker, formerly of the FBI, is doing a great job explaining on Fox News the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Others also working so hard with so much expertise and knowledge. Hopefully there will be a positive result, he says. What president talks like that? Hopefully there will be a positive result. didn't y 'all like kidnap a guy named Carlos who was a delivery driver who had like nothing to do with this at all and then parade him in front of cameras this is like the most sloppy and despicable FBI not to mention of course that y 'all are covering up the child sex trafficking and by the way new reporting out there this is what I've been saying the entire time on the Midas Dutch network as well suggests that there are now over 50 terabytes of documents in the Epstein files and only, what, 1 % to 2 % has been produced.

4:53Ben Meiselas:So remember how people have been saying, well, they produced half of the documents. Imagine what's in that other half that they're still hiding, right? They produced redacted documents, but there's 3 million unredacted documents, and then there's a whole, another data set of 3 million documents. There may be 100 million documents, 150 million documents. And what researchers were doing and analyzing this is they looked through a lot of the communications which seem to indicate 50 terabytes, 50 terabytes of documents. And maybe a fraction of that has been produced, but I digress. Okay. Going back to what I was saying about Zelensky, here's Zelensky's post this morning.

5:34Ben Meiselas:He goes, when you want to get a real president, president of Ukraine, when you want to get compromises from people who are under attack and who are not aggressors, what do you give them? They don't trust anybody. They don't trust to anybody because we had a Budapest memorandum that was security guarantees. We gave up our nuclear and other weapons, a lot of aircraft, dozens of jets. We gave them up and received security guarantees of sovereignty and independence. Just so you remember what he's talking about, 1994, Ukraine enters into the Budapest memorandum. They give up their nuclear arsenal. They had one of the biggest nuclear arsenals out there.

6:09Ben Meiselas:They give up their weapons. And then there was supposed to be security guarantees. The United States, the UK were members of this. Russia was a member of this. And the entire Budapest memorandum was obviously violated. Zelensky goes on to say, in the end, we don't have those weapons and we don't have security guarantees. Nobody saved our independence. It's true. And that's why it's understandable. Our people have no trust. They don't live in a fantasy world. They are realistic and they have lost a lot, their families, their houses, their way of life. That's why people have to see what the security guarantees look like.

6:42Ben Meiselas:What if Russia comes? Many of them are asking. What if they come? They're asking. What will happen when they come? Because they are sure that Russia will come again and they will simply say, no, we will not run away. We will just want to hear what it means. What is the price? What do the security guarantees mean from the world, from the United States? What do they actually mean? And our American friends, they are preparing security guarantees, But they're saying first, swap your territories and then we'll talk about security guarantees. We will not give up our territories. We're not ready for compromise.

7:12Ben Meiselas:What kind of compromise are we ready for? Not for the compromise that gives Russia the opportunity to recover quickly and come again and occupy us. That is an important thing. First, we want security guarantees. Second, we can talk about the compromise and the stuff like that. This is how we see the priorities. But in any case, security guarantees will work only after a vote in Congress. So what is there to be afraid of? I don't understand. We can sign the document on security guarantees for Ukraine with the leaders. It will be a strong signal for the people. But let's do this in the right order is essentially what Zelensky is saying.

7:47Ben Meiselas:Let me go back to the boycott letter that was exclusively published by Dr. Ami Bera here on the Midas Touch Network. Here's how he puts it, too. I just like to see people standing up to this regime on President's Day as well. And I'm going to show you Senator Ossoff's speech in a moment, too, which was, I thought, absolutely incredible. Here's what Dr. Ami Barra writes, an exclusive on the Midas Touch. As a senior member of the House of Representatives, I feel an obligation to attend the State of the Union out of respect for the president as they outline their vision for the country. But this year, I feel different.

8:21Ben Meiselas:After watching President Trump run roughshod over the Constitution, display utter disregard for Congress, and openly engage in corruption as he and his family use the office to enrich themselves and tarnish this country I love, I will not give him the dignity of having my presence at the State of the Union. Donald Trump is a troll. As such, I expect him to use this annual event at our nation's capitol, a building I hold sacred, to troll both my Democratic and Republican colleagues. I expect him to intentionally make outrageous and inflammatory statements that will make Democrats furious and rise in protest.

8:54Ben Meiselas:I expect him to make outright lies and exaggerations, boastfully talk about his brilliance, and stare down my Republican colleagues until they stand applaud feverishly and demonstrate their fealty to this malignant narcissist. I would urge my colleagues and friends on both sides of the aisle not to fall for his traps or feed his massive ego. Remember, we are the first branch of government. We represent the people of this great nation. We work for our constituents, not a maleficent autocrat. And by the way, we had a congresswoman AOC tell us that she was going to not be attending last week. Our D.C.

9:30Ben Meiselas:Bureau chief Pablo Manriquez was there. Here's what he had to say. Here's what she had to tell Pablo just to just to remind you here. Play this clip.

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11:17Ben Meiselas:Now, while Donald Trump is really not saying much on President's Day, other than praising the FBI's investigation into the Guthrie kidnapping. That was his one message today. Hope they do well. Good luck, folks. It's not exactly reassuring. Let me show you somebody who certainly looks very presidential, who's running for re-election in a Senate seat in Georgia, Senator Ossoff. He gave an incredible speech on President's Day this morning. You're really going to see this many other places. Hat tip for Rupert for getting it. Let's show you what he said here. Incredible speech here at Playless Clip.

11:57Donald Trump:First, I will affirm what you can all clearly see. You can see it, right? Our nation is afflicted and in crisis. Americans losing insurance in the middle of chemo, hospitals closing down services to fund tax cuts for the very wealthiest people masked federal agents profiling brutalizing and killing american citizens and maybe amidst all the cruelty and the chaos you start to feel a little doubt and you start to wonder whether our republic can survive it A government transformed into a tool of one man's vengeance and enrichment. A spiritually broken president who digs the moral pit deeper and deeper.

13:06Donald Trump:But Pastor Proverbs says, whoever digs a pit.

13:16Whoever digs a pit will fall into it.

13:22Donald Trump:And scriptures full of kings brought low by their own arrogance. Ahab surrounded himself with 400 yes-men, false prophets paid to affirm the king's delusions. And those delusions led him to his defeat. And among today's false prophets are the election deniers, who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Now hear me when I say this. they tell a lie so absurd and therefore so debasing to tell that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.

14:13Ben Meiselas:And just to show you the priorities, what is the Trump regime doing today on President's Day? Well, you had Marco Rubio is in Hungary. So that's where Marco Rubio is spending his time right here. You have Russian TV, Russian propaganda, reposting Rubio. Rubio's campaigning for Viktor Orban, the authoritarian Putin bootlicker leader of Hungary right now, who's trailing significantly in the polls. But this is what the U.S. is trying to do. U.S. is trying to prop up right wing Putin extremist Putin backing candidates and destroy democracies in Europe. That's the stated goal of these treasonous, traitorous, fascist Trump regime people.

14:55Ben Meiselas:And here he is. Here's Rubio. Right. Rubio, you know, he went in Buda. He went to Munich and he was like, we're going to stand with our European allies. No, you're not. This guy's a clown. This guy's a fascist clown. And he's a Putin bootlicker is who he is. Here's what Russian TV quotes him as saying. We're entering the golden era of relations between our countries, Rubio says in Hungary. I don't think it's any mystery and shouldn't be a mystery to anyone here how the president feels about you, Rubio told Viktor Orban. At the end of the day, we are still human. We are still people. So the U.S.

15:28Ben Meiselas:interfering in European elections to try to prop up Putin proxies. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, Hungary holds elections in two months and the U.S. Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. As you can see, Russian state media loves it. Now, finally, I'll just share this with you as well. What else is the Trump regime focused on? Well, the new health department chatbot advises the public on the best foods to insert into their rectum, recommending bananas and cucumbers is what the chatbot says. RFK Jr. has a new chatbot on the Department of Health website, and it's advising the public on the best foods to insert into their rectum.

16:12Ben Meiselas:Oh, I'll give you one more, two more data of points because I want to arm you with the right information heading into on President's Day too. So there's an AI company called Anthropic, which runs the Claude system, and that's used a lot in the military. And it's also, you know, it's also has a lot of business uses as well. They want to limit the government's use of it to spy on Americans and to allow military weapons to shoot without like commands. So they want to place some limitations on their AI. And as a result, Axios is reporting exclusively this morning that Pete Hegseth is close to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the company now as a supply chain risk, meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S.

16:56Ben Meiselas:military has to cut ties with the company, as senior Pentagon officials telling Axios. The senior officials said it will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle and we're going to pay the price for forcing our hand like this. and the reason it talks about is that Anthropic and Pentagon have held months of conversations and they want to limit its use for spying on people, spying on Americans. And Hegseth wants it to be able to spy on Americans. That should tell you everything right there. Wait, there you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks everybody for watching and happy president today.

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