In short
The episode argues Donald Trump is in crisis and escalating political and legal wrongdoing, highlighted by late-night posts/emails, pardons of convicted fraudsters, and reactions to inflation/healthcare affordability and ACA subsidy politics. It also claims Trump’s platform is advertising ICE and discusses newly released Epstein-related photos and alleged sexual content.
Guests
No guests are named in the transcript; it primarily features the host and plays clips from media figures (e.g., Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingraham, Mike Johnson, Harry Enten).
Key claims
Trump is “melting down” at 1 a.m.; his actions include extortion-like threats toward Indiana; he pardoned David Gentile (linked to a $1.6B Ponzi scheme); he allegedly helps normalize corruption via media; and he downplays affordability while inflation and job losses rise.
Notable examples
Indiana Senate “primaried” post; AI-like Trump email asking a “60 second confidential interview”; Gentile victims speaking after the pardon; ICE ad “$50,000 signing bonus”; GAO report alleging fraudulent ACA subsidy applications; AP-NORC and Fox polls showing low healthcare approval; Epstein estate photo release (19 of 95,000) and alleged items in images.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's 1 AM Meltdown Overview
0:45 to 3:16
Insights into Donald Trump's erratic behavior during a late-night meltdown.
“in the morning and Donald Trump was having a meltdown.”
Trump's Late Night Posts Analysis
3:17 to 4:32
An examination of Trump's controversial posts and their implications.
“Trump, most important president in maybe 100 years.”
Pardons and Their Implications
4:33 to 7:18
Discussion on Trump's pardons and their impact on victims of fraud.
“By the way, I noticed as I was scrolling through his social media platform late last night and this morning, there are ads every other post essentially for ICE.”
Media Response to Trump's Claims
7:19 to 8:35
Analysis of media reactions to Trump's assertions regarding the economy.
“So Trump is pardoning human traffickers, the biggest Ponzi scheme fraudsters that they are, the biggest drug traffickers that there are in the world.”
Healthcare Opinions and Poll Results
8:36 to 14:04
Review of public sentiment on healthcare and Trump's standing.
“People are frustrated with certain food items.”
Obamacare Subsidies: Public Opinion and Political Impact
14:04 to 14:36
Learn about the strong public support for extending Obamacare subsidies and the political implications for Republicans.
“What do voters say they want to see there?”
Trump's Response to Health Insurance Premiums
14:37 to 15:38
Discover Donald Trump's controversial remarks regarding the impending rise in health insurance premiums for millions.
“This is just awful politics for Republicans.”
Trump's Meltdown: A Dramatic Rhetoric
15:39 to 15:51
Hear Trump's dramatic language describing the current political climate and his stance on healthcare.
Transcript
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0:52Ben Meiselas:Post after post on social media, email after email, each one more desperate than the next. Let me tell you what he was doing on a day where those disgusting photos of him and Epstein, along with the courageous survivors and others, were released by Democrats in the House Oversight Committee. Donald Trump is not handling it well, by the way, he claimed in the Oval Office. I know nothing about Epstein. I know nothing about it. Those photos beg to differ, Donald. So here's what he was posting at 1 a.m. And before sharing it with you, just a reminder, hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers.
1:34Ben Meiselas:You may think you're subscribed to this YouTube channel, but you may not actually be. And you know we're under attack from this regime. So hit subscribe. Here's what Donald Trump was posting at 1 a.m. He goes, Republicans in the Indiana State Senate who voted against a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives should be ashamed of themselves. Headed by a total loser named Rod Bray, every one of these people should be primaried and I will be there to help! Indiana, which I won big, is the only state in the union to do this! What do you mean? Voted against a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives?
2:15Ben Meiselas:I mean, He's just outright talking about rigging the midterms. And by the way, you see the post from the lieutenant governor of Indiana, who is like now as a result of the fact that the Indiana state senators didn't deliver for Donald Trump. Trump said that he would defund our state and not give us emergency aid and not fund the highways. And he'd go after all of the federal funding owed to Indiana. Yeah, that's called extortion. That's called a crime. And in normal times, these types of crimes would lead to a criminal, a felon, a sexual abuser like Donald Trump getting moved the hell out of the Oval Office and impeached.
2:55Ben Meiselas:But with a corporate media environment that tries to normalize this behavior and the MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate who have forfeited their role under Article One, we're in a different situation. But that will be changing soon, as I believe there will be a blue tsunami of massive proportions coming in 2026. What's Donald Trump also posting super late last night? Trump, most important president in maybe 100 years. Most important in the sense of destroying the United States, maybe. Then Donald Trump posted this late at night. Trump's rollback of energy regulation is an affordability bullseye.
3:39Ben Meiselas:Oh, yes, Donald. All of the Americans are feeling that affordability bullseye. Yes, Donald. Everyone feels exactly like you've said, like it's a golden age. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Donald Trump has destroyed the United States economy. Inflation is surging. Jobless claims are up 54 % year over year, about 1.2 million job losses this year already. And again, in normal times, this would be front page news every single day. But that's why you have the Midas Touch Network because we bring you the facts, we bring you the truth. And again, that's why we need you to subscribe and help us hit 6 million subscribers.
4:20Ben Meiselas:Oh, and as war is raging across the world, Never have we been closer to the brink, being on the brink of a world war. Perhaps we're already in one right now. It's not being called that. Donald Trump goes, Trump, peacemaker in chief. By the way, I noticed as I was scrolling through his social media platform late last night and this morning, there are ads every other post essentially for ICE. Join ICE today, 50 ,000 signing bonus. So as ICE is going around terrorizing and torturing the American people, disappearing people to concentration camps, by the way, including the mother of Caroline Levitt's nephew, is ICE paying Donald Trump's social media platform massive amounts of money to advertise on Trump's failing social media platform?
5:14Ben Meiselas:We're going to dig into that on the Midas Touch Network because it seems that they're certainly advertising and they must be paying the Trump regime a lot. So then Donald Trump was sending these emails late last night as well and into the morning. This is a real email that Donald Trump sent. This is an AI. I'm not making it up. This is a real email. Are you seriously ignoring me is the subject line. Then you open it up and it says, I am President Donald J. Trump. Exclamation point. I haven't heard back in so long. Please take a look. Let's talk. I've been messaging you privately, but you haven't answered yet.
5:54Ben Meiselas:Are you seriously ignoring me? I thought we were closer than that. Respond to Trump. My team set up a 60 second confidential interview so I can hear directly from you, my most loyal supporter, but I can only keep this secure poll open until 11.59 p.m. tonight. Nobody else will see your answers. This is just between us. Then he sent another one. Do you see the meltdown that I'm talking about here? Then he posts, Dear Ben, I'm thinking of having you over at the White House soon. Would you come? Fireside chat with Trump. No, I wouldn't. Now, while all of this is taking place and Donald Trump is not sleeping, We know from his cabinet he never sleeps, apparently, which is a sign of Alzheimer's and dementia, in my opinion.
6:45Ben Meiselas:One of the people who also can't sleep, or a group of people who can't sleep, are the victims of David Gentile's fraud. David Gentile was involved in a$1.6 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes. He had a fake private equity company. He was a predator. He was a sicko. He was a fraud. He's a felon. He was convicted of these crimes. And Donald Trump just pardoned him, pardoned him a few weeks back. But you're hearing now from the victims who have been re-victimized by Donald Trump pardoning this fraud. So Trump is pardoning human traffickers, the biggest Ponzi scheme fraudsters that they are, the biggest drug traffickers that there are in the world.
7:34Ben Meiselas:El Chapo's best bud, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, would stick that cocaine up the gringo's nose and kill him. Sentenced to 45 years in prison for bringing 500 tons, I mean, massive amounts of drugs into the United States. But for the Trump regime, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, because there's no individual and no regime more corrupt than Trump and his despicable regime. But, you know, they have state regime media the way North Korea has regime media and Russia has regime media. We have Fox regime media. And then they have Maria Bartiroma, who's just a total clown.
8:17Ben Meiselas:She used to. Did she have. Was she ever serious 20 years ago? I don't remember. But whatever the hell this shtick is, is so pathetic. And she's like, when Donald Trump says affordability is a hoax, it is a hoax. Everyone's doing good. People are doing much better. This is way better than Biden. Here, play this clip. People are frustrated with housing and the price of homes. People are frustrated with certain food items. But there are a number of things that President Trump has already been incredibly successful doing. So when he says this affordability issue is a hoax, he's right. He's basically talking about how the Democrats have taken this word affordability and used it as their calling card for the 2026 elections.
9:00They think that these Democrat wins that we just saw in Miami, in New York City, in other places like New Jersey, we shouldn't be surprised that the Democrats won those races. These are all blue states and cities. So it's no surprise there. What is a surprise is that after all of these years, the Republicans keep getting rolled over by the Democrats messaging. I got to tell you, I don't think that people really feel as bad as the Democrats are talking about. The economy is doing well. There's 18 trillion dollars of new investment that have come into this country.
9:31Ben Meiselas:Do you see the gaslight? And then you have Laura Ingraham with Mike Johnson, with MAGA Mike Johnson. And they say the same thing here. Play this clip. How do you avoid getting blamed for this? The same kind of thing happened in the shutdown in October. We all know what they promised on Obamacare. It was all a lie at the time I fought against it, morning, noon, and night, three hours a day on the radio. So they were lying then. And we knew they were lying because the numbers didn't add up. But now the left is blaming you and Republicans. It's your fault. Yeah, of course. It's a total fiction. The mainstream media, of course, parrots the talking points of Chuck Schumer and the Democrats.
10:14But the way we defeat that is with the simple truth, the facts. The Government Accountability Office just came out with a new report this past week, Laura, and it is astounding. Just for example, over the last two years, they submitted 24, two dozen, totally fraudulent applications for these Unaffordable Care Act subsidies. Okay, 23 out of 24 were approved. There were no Social Security numbers provided, no verification of income or even citizenship. ship. Okay. Of course not. Right. This, the tens of thousands of dollars paid to each one of those, to the insurance companies for people that do not exist.
10:47Okay.
10:48Ben Meiselas:Now I want to remind me, it's so ridiculous. We all like the level of like, they think we're stupid. They think we're dumb. Okay. We know inflation. We, we know inflation is surging. Things are more expensive. How do we know we go out? People can't afford the same Christmas presents or holiday presents if they can afford it at all. People are living paycheck to paycheck. If they're lucky enough to have a paycheck to paycheck, and they're being psychologically tortured along the way. People can't afford homes. People are getting laid off and the billionaires are getting richer while Americans are getting screwed.
11:17Ben Meiselas:That's what's happening in the real world. You can't cast lightest. That's what's happening in the real world. By the way, those pictures of Donald Trump with the young girls with their faces redacted or young ladies, it's unclear their age. They look very young, but with the redactions, you just don't know. But these Epstein survivors or other young girls in these photos that were part of the Epstein estate photos. 95 ,000 photos. Only a small group have been released so far, 19. And Trump's like all over them with these little girls and young people. There are Trump condoms. I'm huge with Donald Trump's face on it in Epstein's photo book.
11:56Ben Meiselas:There is, so next to the photos of Trump with young girls, Trump on an airplane with a young girl or lady. Trump condoms, I'm huge. There's also extreme restraints. Pussy pumps is what it's called, a pussy pump. I don't know what this complete shibari thing is, but it looks like a young girl who's bound and gagged up. There's this latex glove sexual thing, which I don't know what that's used, nor do I think I want to know. There's the jawbreaker gag. There's terms and conditions and disclaimer of warranty, failure to follow the instructions on this gag, can lead in serious injury and death. The hell is going on?
12:44Ben Meiselas:That's not a smoking gun enough for you? That's not a smoking gun enough for you? Here's what Harry Enten says is how the American people feel about Donald Trump and Mag and Mike talking about healthcare. Play this clip. We talk about healthcare. Yeah. What do Americans say? How do Americans rate the president right now on the issue of health care? Just flat out awful. In fact, it's the worst of his major issues. I mean, just take a look here. This is according to the new APNORC poll. 29%. He doesn't even reach 30 % on it. Approve of the job. I was looking back at all the APNORC polls. This ties for his lowest rating ever in either term one or term two.
13:24Disapprove more than double. 69%. Runs 40 points higher than the approval. That is gosh darn awful. It's horrendous. And when you look at Republicans, even 39 % of Republicans, of Republicans say they disapprove. When we're talking about two-fifths of the Republican base saying they disapprove of Donald Trump on a particular issue, you know that the American people are against him. And I should point out this 29 % is no outlier. I was looking at the Fox News poll. That was sub-35 % as well. The bottom line is Americans very much dislike Donald Trump and health care. It is no wonder he's taking a more conciliatory tone.
14:03All right. The immediate issue at hand is the extension of these Obamacare subsidies. They expire within three weeks. What do voters say they want to see there? Extend it. They want to see him extended. I mean, this once again, what are we talking about here? We're talking about a clear majority. The American public say they want those expiring ACA subsidies extended compared to just 30 percent who say let him expire. Again, we're talking double, more than double on the extend side versus the let expire. And even 45 percent of Republicans on my little note there say that they should be extended.
14:36Again, we're talking about an issue that unites Democrats and cracks the Republican base right down the middle. This is just awful politics for Republicans.
14:47Ben Meiselas:And finally, here's what Donald Trump said. his message to the 24 million Americans who will see their health insurance premiums about to skyrocket. Let's play it. At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up? I don't make it sound so bad because, you know, obviously you're a, you know, a synchrofan for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans. Let me just say something. The Republicans, I think I can speak for Tom and most other people. I think what most Republicans want to see is what I want to see.
15:32And I leave it to them and hopefully they're going to put great legislation on this desk right here.
15:38Ben Meiselas:What a horrific regime. What a horrific regime. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. What evil people. What an evil person he is. What an evil regime. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching.
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