Trump has Panic Attack as his Event is Total Failure

8 Dec 2025 · 22 min · 11 chapters

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In short

The host argues Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Awards event was a “total failure” and uses it to criticize Trump’s mental state and policy record, claiming rising layoffs, higher deficits, escalating wars (Ukraine, Gaza, Congo, Thailand/Cambodia), and racist/anti-refugee actions. The episode also claims Trump is steering media consolidation (Netflix–Warner) toward MAGA propaganda and attacks his “peace plan” as surrender to Russia.

Guest backgrounds

No guests are interviewed. The host references other people (e.g., editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski; “Jeff” during a clip) but they are not presented as guests.

Key claims

layoffs could exceed Great Recession/COVID levels; Trump’s deficit and borrowing costs are rising; Trump’s “tariff dividend” is a con; Trump’s peace proposal was Putin’s; Trump’s refugee policy favors only white South Africans; Trump’s NATO/Europe strategy undermines alliances.

Notable examples

Kennedy Center ratings/streaming comments; “gold paint” remark; tariff dividend clip; Zelensky “hasn’t read it” claim; cited audio about a surrender plan; references to AFD/Reform Party; Netflix–Warner merger discussion.

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Trump's Disastrous Kennedy Center Event

1:16 to 2:03

Discussion on the failure of Trump's Kennedy Center event amidst national issues.

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Trump's Disastrous Kennedy Center Event

3:07 to 3:29

Discussion on the failure of Trump's Kennedy Center event amidst national issues.

“That's a real picture of Donald Trump at this bizarre Kennedy Center award thing that he decided to host last night.”

Economic Crisis and Trump's Response

3:29 to 6:05

Analysis of job layoffs under Biden's administration and Trump's distractions.

“Donald Trump was like, yeah, you can't look at the ratings though now with streaming.”

Trump's Deteriorating Mental State

6:05 to 8:13

Insights into Trump's mental capacity and bizarre comments during the event.

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Trump's Controversial Claims on Tariffs

8:13 to 11:41

Examining Trump's statements about tariffs and their implications for the economy.

“He wants you to know about gold in paint versus real gold, everybody.”

Ridiculous Questions and Trump’s Responses

11:41 to 14:00

A look at absurd questions directed at Trump and his offbeat replies.

“And then, of course, Donald Trump has to attack Ukrainian President Zelensky and says, I'm disappointed that Zelensky didn't read our peace plan.”

Trump's Thoughts on Music and Media

14:00 to 15:24

Discussion surrounding Donald Trump's quirky music preferences and his views on media consolidation.

“And then you just get ridiculous questions like, in your opinion, Donald, what makes a song great?”

Trump's Views on NATO and Foreign Policy

15:24 to 17:08

Analysis of Trump's controversial statements regarding NATO and America's foreign policy.

“So he's going to get involved in issues over antitrust and merger approvals to steer things to create state regime propaganda.”

Public Opinion on Refugees and Trump's Policies

17:08 to 19:16

Examination of public sentiment regarding refugee policies and Trump's divisive approach.

“At home, the State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all of the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the deep staters and put America first.”

Critique of Trump's Involvement in Global Conflicts

19:16 to 21:01

A critical look at Trump's actions and statements related to global conflicts and diplomatic relations.

“He's made up that there's a fake white genocide in South Africa.”
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21:01 to 21:57

Encouragement for listeners to subscribe and support the podcast's growth.

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3:16Ben Meiselas:Looking good there, Donald. That's a real picture of Donald Trump at this bizarre Kennedy Center award thing that he decided to host last night. It was an utter failure. Donald Trump was like, yeah, you can't look at the ratings though now with streaming. But let's talk about what was actually happening in the country while Donald Trump was doing this bizarre event. We learned yesterday that U.S. layoffs are now officially on track to exceed the amount of layoffs during the great financial crises in recent history. So more than the Great Recession, potentially more than COVID, we've already lost 1.1 million jobs, up 54 % from the prior year under former President Biden.

4:04Ben Meiselas:And that number may get close to$2 million before the year closes and the appropriate adjustments are made with tons of upward revisions that we've seen coming. So as prices are surging, as Americans are having their health care ripped away from them by this Trump regime, as Americans can't afford housing, what's Donald Trump doing again after giving himself a fake FIFA peace prize? At the same time, we are seeing an acceleration of war in Congo, an acceleration of war in Thailand and Cambodia, an acceleration of war in Ukraine from Russia's unlawful invasion, an acceleration and a continuation of the killings in Gaza.

4:55Ben Meiselas:While all of this is happening, Donald Trump says he's going to host a Kennedy Center Awards where he fired the entire board, made his own MAGA weirdos part of this board, and gave out medals to Sylvester Stallone and members of the band Kiss. This thing was freaking weird. And the timing of it, while the American people are suffering, is something that is a sight to behold or that we don't want to behold. But we must expose what's going on. While we're at it, let me just remind you, the Midas Touch Network YouTube channel is under attack by the Trump regime. They and state regime media known as Fox, I'm sure you've heard the stories and you've seen their posts.

5:43Ben Meiselas:They want to shut us down. They're going after us. They want us destroyed. They're going after our hosts. We're on our way to 6 million subscribers on this YouTube channel. We are leading independent media in exposing Trump and in views. We get more views than Fox and all cable news combined pretty much at this point. So please, if you can, subscribe. You may think you're subscribed, but you're not. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. I'm sorry for taking time out of the video to explain that, but it's really important to grow this channel to keep exposing Trump. So please hit subscribe if you can.

6:20Ben Meiselas:So here Donald Trump at this bizarre Kennedy Center event. As we all know that Donald Trump's mental capacity is deteriorating, that could be an understatement. Lakembi, anybody? Lakembi? Here's what Donald Trump says. He's got a good memory. Here, play this clip.

6:56Ben Meiselas:You have a good memory? What are you talking about? You have the worst memory imaginable. Then Donald Trump knows that like no one's watching this thing. So he's like, ratings are a very complicated thing because of streaming right now. Here, play this clip. What are you people watching in those days? What are you expecting, Mr. President, in terms of ratings for this year's Kennedy Central August? I think it's going to be. Ratings are complicated now because you have streaming in and on and everything else. But I think it'll do very big. I mean, just look, just based on what you see right here.

7:31If you came here last year, you saw a line that was about one-tenth this size. You weren't even here last year, right? I was here. Mr. President, Mr. President.

7:40Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump talks about the things that I know it's very pressing concerns to all Americans. And Donald Trump, who's basically painted the Oval Office gold, he wants you to know that the thing about gold, no imitations. You can't just use gold paint, he says. I'm not sure if that was a pressing issue that you've been focused on. but I'm just letting you know, you need real gold, okay? You can't use gold in paint. That's what Donald Trump wants you to know right now as we approach 2026, as the world is on fire with wars, as people in America can't afford things. He wants you to know about gold in paint versus real gold, everybody.

8:16Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. But they had to fake gold. You know, the one thing about gold, you can never imitate real gold. They've tried to do it for years. Paint, gold, paint. Gold paint never works. You got to go for the real 24 karat gold. Yes. Then Donald Trump has asked this ridiculous question there. Even the whole framing of this question is kind of ridiculous. The reporter goes, some Republicans have expressed concern that if you're going to give tariff rebate checks to the people with all the money that's been brought in from tariffs, instead of paying down the debt, how would you respond to this?

8:53Ben Meiselas:Donald. Okay. Before I play you this clip, Donald Trump ain't giving anybody tariff rebate checks. Okay. By the way, in the National Defense Authorization Act, they've removed any reference to affordable housing. They removed helping service members get coverage for IVF. Okay. Where they're removing IVF coverage for service members, they ain't giving you$2 ,000. Okay. Let's be very clear. Just like the 5 ,000 Doge dividend checks when scam artist, fraudster, Ponzi schemer Donald Trump said that, we haven't taken in all that much money from tariffs either. We haven't. We've taken in what? 200 billion, 300 billion from tariffs.

9:34Ben Meiselas:But guess what's increasing? Our deficit year over year. The deficit's increasing at a far higher rate right now than under former President Biden. Federal spending is up significantly despite all the disastrous things that Doge did. The federal government is still spending more. And guess what else? Trillions of dollars in debt are being added by Donald Trump. And the Treasury Department wants to brag that the Treasury yields are up on the 10 and 30 year Treasury notes. Yeah, that's a bad thing. Okay. That means the cost of borrowing is higher. It's not something to brag about. All right. Now with that as prelude, let me show you Donald Trump here saying that, you know, we're going to try to both pay down the debt and give people tariff rebate checks.

10:24Ben Meiselas:No, you're a con artist. You're a scammer. You're going to increase the debt and not give people the tariff rebate checks. Here, play this clip. Some Republicans have expressed concern about using the tariffs, the revenue for a dividend, saying we should be paying down the national debt. Well, we will. I agree with him on that. But I also think that, you know, we're making so much money with tariffs that we'll also be able to make a nice dividend to middle-income people. We're talking about middle-income and lower-income people. We're not talking about dividends to rich people. But there's so much money being made from the tariffs, and countries that were taking advantage of us for many, many years are not taking advantage of us anymore.

11:03We're taking in tremendous amounts of money from countries that we were losing lots of money to. And you know what? They're okay with it. They're not complaining. They're not complaining about the tariffs and rather not have them. But they're not saying there's anything wrong. And the big thing is in the court, we have tremendous flexibility with the current system. It's unbelievable for national security. I've ended eight wars largely because of trade or because of tariffs. If we go the other tariff route and there are other routes we can go, but it won't give you the same pure national security as this one.

11:38This one is swift and very powerful.

11:41Ben Meiselas:And then, of course, Donald Trump has to attack Ukrainian President Zelensky and says, I'm disappointed that Zelensky didn't read our peace plan. Donald was in a peace plan and he read it. It was a plan of surrender that you and Putin came up with that was laundered through Whitkoff and Kushner and presented to Zelensky. It was Putin's plan. We have the audio recordings, thanks to Bloomberg of Witkov speaking to Yuri Yushikov and Kirill Dmitriev from Russia saying, here's the surrender plan. Go and give it to your boy Zelensky. That's what went down. I'm paraphrasing a little, but that's what went down on the phone call.

12:31Ben Meiselas:Okay. And by the way, I've been covering this a lot. I'll just mention it again, that the United States official national security strategy document that talks about all of the future national security priorities under the Trump regime talks about dismantling the European Union, removing the perception of NATO as a permanent expanding organization and propping up right wing groups with the Trump regime calls the patriotic European movements, which means Russian and Putin-backed groups like the AFD in Germany, the Reform Party in the UK, and groups like that that are right-wing extremist groups that support Putin.

13:12Ben Meiselas:Here's Donald Trump attacking Zelensky. Play this clip. What's your next step in Russia and Ukraine talks after last week's negotiations? So we've been speaking to President Putin, and we've been speaking to Ukrainian leaders, including Zelensky, President Zelensky. And I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal. That was as of a few hours ago. His people love it, but he hasn't. Russia's fine with it. Russia, I guess, would rather have the whole country when you think of it. But Russia is, I believe, fine with it. But I'm not sure that Zelensky is fine with it.

13:53His people love it. But he hasn't read it. So someday you'll explain that one to me, Jeff.

14:00Ben Meiselas:I don't have an explanation, sir. And then you just get ridiculous questions like, in your opinion, Donald, what makes a song great? What the hell are we even talking? What are we doing here, folks? What makes a song great? Here, play this clip right here. There's no question about it. It could be a problem. Mr. President, you mentioned some of your favorite songs. In your opinion, what makes a song great? Well, it's something that has to be soft and soothing to your ear. I like some songs that other people don't like, you know, it's why they have, you ever hear the expression, that's why they have menus in restaurants.

14:35We're all different. We all know different things. Otherwise you just serve one meal and that would be it. But I like, I love country music. And we have, hey, we have the king of country music tonight. That's another one.

14:47Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump is asked about the merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers. And Donald Trump says he wants to get involved in it. Look, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski says, I don't care if the deal isn't approved on antitrust grounds. Media company consolidation is a crime inflicted on America, just like Citizens United. But if it is done to steer this deal to his pal Ellison to create an even worse situation, that would be yet another travesty because that is what is going on here. That's what Trump wants to make sure that he creates a MAGA media. So he's going to get involved in issues over antitrust and merger approvals to steer things to create state regime propaganda.

15:36Ben Meiselas:By the way, another reason we need you to subscribe here to this YouTube channel right now so we can keep getting out the truth before they try to take us out. So you saw the clip of should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers, right? We played that clip. Should they be allowed to buy Warner Brothers? Well, that's the question. They have a very big market share. And when they have Warner Brothers, you know, that share goes up a lot. So I don't know. That's going to be for some economists to tell. And also, and I'll be involved in that decision too. They have a very big market share. Did he make any guarantees to you about the merger if they do merge?

16:12No, not at all. He came up. He was in the Oval Office last week. I have a lot of respect for him. He's a great person. But he's done one of the greatest jobs in the history of movies and other things. He's got a lot of interesting things happening aside from what you're talking about. But it is a big market share. There's no question about it. It could be a problem. Mr. President, you met.

16:35Ben Meiselas:Okay, now I'll share with you. And I just want you to know, like, this is the stuff that we were covering back in 2023 when we had a much smaller audience again. That's why we need you to subscribe because we were calling out what Trump's NATO plan was. We were showing you the videos that he was making and no one was taking it seriously. You were taking it seriously. But corporate news wasn't there. Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden stutters or whatever they were doing. But this is Trump, March 16, 2023. This is a video we extensively covered on the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip. At home, the State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all of the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the deep staters and put America first.

17:24We have to put America first. Finally, we have to finish the process we began under my administration of fundamentally re-evaluating NATO's purpose and NATO's mission. Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat. But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. it's probably more than anything else ourselves and some of the horrible USA hating people that represent us.

18:06Ben Meiselas:Now, I just want to give you these additional data points right now. Let me give you two data points. Data point number one, we have young voters right now running away from Donald Trump. Trump's net approval amongst young people right now is like negative 60%. It's like negative six, like the worst ever. Now, on this other question, the U.S. should accept refugees from a variety of countries. 53 % of Americans believe Americans should accept refugees from a variety of countries. The idea of not accepting any refugees, 19 % of Americans say they support the idea of not accepting any refugees at all.

18:49Ben Meiselas:Okay. Now, only accept white South African refugees. That's the current policy of the Trump regime. Only 3 % of Americans support only except white South Africans. Okay. That means 97 % of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's policy regarding refugees abroad because Trump's policy is just white South Africans because Donald Trump has made up falsely, of course, because he's a liar. He's a con artist. He's a scammer. He's a sexual abuser. He's a horrible human being. He's a scumbag. He just keeps going on, right? He's made up that there's a fake white genocide in South Africa. And on that basis, the U.S.

19:29Ben Meiselas:did not attend the G20. And so a great day for South Africa hosting the G20 with President Ramaphosa showing up. And then Trump said, I'm not inviting the South African President Ramaphosa to the United States when the United States host the G20 next year. You know how pathetic and small and racist you look, Donald? You know how ridiculous you look and how ridiculous it looks when you give yourself fake peace prizes and then we see Thailand and Cambodia who started this war under your regime, continuing to go out war when you promised that there was a peace deal. There's not even a cease fire.

20:08Ben Meiselas:You know, at the same time you claim that Congo and Rwanda entered into a peace deal. You You know what's currently going on in Congo right now? M23, Rwanda-back group, although Rwanda denies involvement, they're invading Congo. Congo's at war with Rwanda. Thailand's at war with Cambodia. Russia invaded Ukraine. And every week, there's like 2 ,000 drone strikes and missile strikes combined. That's what's happening. That's the reality. Things are much worse under this pathetic, weak regime. And then they have the audacity to say that Europe is not an American ally in this document. We're going to bring back the Monroe Doctrine with America asserting its spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere.

20:53Ben Meiselas:And just even the way the U.S. refers to Canada in that document as though it's like a vassal state. Despicable. Despicable. All right. One more time. Subscribe. Help us get to six million. We need your help to get to six million. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump having a panic attack as his big Kennedy Center event on Sunday night was a total failure and the ratings were pathetic and Meiselas highlights what was happening in the United States and across the world while Trump was hosting this failed event.

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