In short
The host argues Donald Trump is spreading disinformation and undermining peace claims while authoritarian-style tactics spread abroad. It links Trump’s alleged false claims during a Brown University shooting, alleged “fake ceasefires” worldwide, and alleged pro-Russia/pro-ISIS misrepresentations in Syria to mass protests in Budapest against Viktor Orbán.
Guest backgrounds
No guests are identified in the provided transcript; it appears to be a solo host segment with calls to subscribe and ad reads.
Key claims
Trump falsely posted the Brown University shooter was in custody; gun-control rollbacks helped mass shootings; Trump exaggerates or fabricates ceasefires (Gaza, Thailand/Cambodia, Congo/Rwanda, Ukraine); Syria ambush blame was misattributed to ISIS rather than people tied to Ahmed al-Shara’s government.
Notable examples
Budapest protests over Orban’s “child pedo prostitution ring” claims; UN votes where the US allegedly voted against protecting humanitarian workers and Chernobyl cooperation; Trump’s “spraying perfume” clip involving Syrian leader Ahmed al-Shara; Providence mayor warning about misinformation.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOProtests in Budapest and Trump's Disinformation
2:21 to 4:14
Discussion on mass protests in Hungary and Trump's misleading statements during a shooting.
“Mass protests in Budapest, Hungary against Viktor Orban, Donald Trump's buddy.”
Gun Control and Political Accountability
4:14 to 5:25
Exploration of gun control laws in the U.S. and the impact of political decisions.
“When there was actual gun control that former President Bill Clinton put in place regarding these weapons of war, mass shootings were down.”
International Authoritarianism and Trump's Foreign Policy
5:25 to 7:39
Analysis of authoritarian movements and Trump's approach to international conflicts.
“By the way, that's what we do every day here on the Midas Touch Network on this YouTube channel.”
False Claims of Peace by Trump
7:39 to 9:21
Debunking Trump's assertions about ceasefires and peace negotiations globally.
“And he has FIFA award him like some fake peace prize two weeks ago, which was so utterly weird and pathetic.”
Misleading Claims in Syria and U.S. Military Actions
9:21 to 12:20
Examination of misinformation surrounding U.S. actions and conflicts in Syria.
“Donald Trump says he negotiated peace there.”
Trump's Disinformation and International Relations
12:20 to 14:00
Continuation of the discussion on Trump's misleading statements and their implications.
“So it was someone within the actual government that, you know, the one that Trump is coddling up to because Trump goes, oh, you're so handsome.”
Trump's Controversial Behavior with Leaders
14:00 to 19:24
Discussion around Donald Trump's unprofessional behavior and its implications.
“So what we'll do is just take that, Joe, put it in.”
Transcript
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2:32Mass protests in Budapest, Hungary against Viktor Orban, Donald Trump's buddy. We're seeing an international movement of pro-democracy against these despots like Orban and Donald Trump. I'll talk about what went down there in Budapest in just a moment, but I want to talk about what Donald Trump was doing while those protests were taking place. And as there was yet another mass shooting here in the United States, this time at Brown University, where a shooter who, as of this recording, has yet to be captured, he went into an economics study group for their finals and just started opening fire right there.
3:18Donald Trump then started going on social media to spread disinformation that the individual, that the shooter, that this terrorist was in custody, and that was false. While there was still an active shooting, Donald Trump was posting, I guess he was getting his information from incorrect sources on the internet, and Trump lied and said that he was briefed on the matter and said that the shooter is in custody, which was entirely false. And then Donald Trump had to say, actually, the shooter is still on the loose. And then he blamed the university and other sources for why he was posting that. But no, you said that you were brief, Donald.
4:00You're the president of the United States. You're not supposed to be some internet troll making up things about school shootings to say that the shooter was in custody when they're not. And I just want to say this right now. When there was actual gun control that former President Bill Clinton put in place regarding these weapons of war, mass shootings were down. The ban for these weapons of war expired under George W. Bush, and the right-wing Supreme Court has gutted any type of gun control, common sense gun control, which 70 to 80 percent of Americans agree with, and we're seeing the consequences of this now.
4:46Certainly, you can say that mental health plays a component in it as well, which MAGA Republicans also want to defund, but let's not ignore that there's something that makes America different than anywhere else in the world where there also is mental health issues. And it is the proliferation of guns and this culture that fetishizes guns here in the United States, where you have MAGA Republican Congress members wearing AR pins instead of American flag pins around Congress. And I think it's despicable. We shouldn't stand for it. We shouldn't normalize We need to call it out. By the way, that's what we do every day here on the Midas Touch Network on this YouTube channel.
5:29Double check that you're subscribed to our YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not be subscribed. So please hit subscribe right now. By the way, you saw Donald Trump on that airplane, these weird photos of him from the back as he's tweeting out or posting out all this disinformation about the shootings. Let me reference what took place in that beginning of the video, those mass protests in Budapest. What's happening in Hungary is their authoritarian, their Putin bootlicker, Viktor Orban, he's up for re-election, coming up pretty soon, and he's expected to lose that election.
6:06And the pro-democracy forces there, the pro-European forces are expected to win. The centrist party is expected to win. They have their own Epstein scandal, basically, in Budapest.
6:16Ben Meiselas:The way Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in America are involved in a PPP, pedo protection program, after pretending that they're the tough ones who are going to go after the traffickers, they end up being the ones who are covering it all up because, well, their potential involvement in a lot of this stuff as well. Well, in Hungary, they use those same types of talking points with their authoritarians, Orban, that he's against human trafficking and he's going to get the sex traffickers and all of that. But under Orban, their juvenile prison system has basically been turned into a child pedo prostitution ring and a abuse ring.
6:57Ben Meiselas:And so that was exposed right there out of Budapest. That's what's led to these somber mass protests right there. And so I just find it fascinating that you have these authoritarians in the United States and in Hungary using the same playbook to weaponize the abuse of real victims while they themselves are the abusers and they're both being exposed at the same time. Now, this also comes at a time where there are wars across the world right now as Donald Trump, you know, borrows a line from 1984. War is peace. And he goes, I'm the peace president. Give me peace this, peace that. I want Nobel Peace Prizes.
7:40Ben Meiselas:And he has FIFA award him like some fake peace prize two weeks ago, which was so utterly weird and pathetic. All of Donald Trump's claims of ceasefires have been utterly fake. There's no ceasefire in Gaza. Israel and Hamas never signed any document at all. Israel never agreed to a two-state solution. Hamas never agreed to disarm. We've seen IDF killing innocent Palestinians every single day since the fake ceasefire deal, which our media here claim was a peace plan, was announced. No, it absolutely wasn't. And then yesterday we saw Israel strike at what they claim to be a leader of Hamas without telling the United States.
8:21Ben Meiselas:There's an active war going on right now, right there, every single day. You go to Thailand and Cambodia, where war is raging after Donald Trump posted, what, two days ago that he got the ceasefire back on track. First, he took credit for a ceasefire two months ago, when actually the U.S. had nothing to do with it. It was China and Malaysia that were involved in it. but Trump wanted credit for it without even understanding the dynamics between Thailand and Cambodia. Trump just wanted to be told that he did peace there. He actually made things worse. We've seen dozens of people in Thailand killed, probably three or four times that amount, maybe more of Cambodians killed just over the past few days as the ceasefire has broken apart.
9:09Ben Meiselas:By the way, two days ago, Donald Trump said he spoke with the leader of Thailand and Cambodia, And they agreed to the ceasefire again. Then Thailand had to put out a statement and say, uh-uh, there's no ceasefire right now. There's an active war taking place. Same thing as you look at Congo and Rwanda. Donald Trump says he negotiated peace there. Nope. You have the M23 Rwandan affiliated group in Congo. There's a raging war there every day. Donald Trump says that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. And that's entirely false. We know that the war there right now is as bad as it's ever been.
9:45Ben Meiselas:Russia escalating its attacks on civilian and commercial infrastructure. I mean, just in the 24, 48 hours attacking in Odessa and that oblast region right there. You did have Ukraine score a massive victory though, with its drone army pushing back against Russia's most elite air force unit, but war is raging on there as Donald Trump is allied with Putin and is trying to force Zelensky into a surrender. And just take a look at the United States votes in the United Nations just over the past 48 hours. The United States was the only country to take this vote. The United Nations just voted 153 to one on a resolution ensuring the safety and security of humanitarian workers and UN personnel across the globe.
10:40Ben Meiselas:The only country voting against it, the United States, 153 to one. Russia abstained, but the US was the only country to vote against protecting UN humanitarian aid across the globe. Then a day before that, the U.S. joined with Cuba, China, Russia, and Belarus to vote against strengthening international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate, and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster caused by Russia because Donald Trump is pro-Russia and he is a Putin bootlicker. Then I bring us to what's going on in Syria, where Trump and his regime falsely claimed at first that it was ISIS that engaged in this ambush against United States forces in the Palmyra region in Syria.
11:39Ben Meiselas:But then actually it turned out that it was people very close with the current STG, the Syrian transitional government under Jolani, Jolani, former leader of Al Qaeda, who's now goes by a different name, Ahmed Al Shara. He's the president of Syria. He leads the STG, the Syrian transitional government. Well, his right hand is someone named Abu Jabbar Sufyan, Abu Jabbar Sufyan. And Abu Jabbar's lieutenant was the guy who ambushed the U.S. forces and killed the U.S. forces. So it was someone within the actual government that, you know, the one that Trump is coddling up to because Trump goes, oh, you're so handsome.
12:28Ben Meiselas:Can I spray you with perfume? Remember what Donald Trump, remember how humiliating it was? We had the former leader of Al Qaeda, who's now the leader of Syria in the Oval Office. You remember how Donald Trump treated Zelensky and treats our European allies, who I guess aren't our allies anymore, and how evil he treats them in the Oval Office. But remember what he did when it came to Ahmed al-Shara, who went by Jolani when there was like a 10 to$20 million bounty on his head because he was the leader of Al Qaeda. Well, it's actually people close to that government that were involved in this ambush and the United States, again, lied about that.
13:07Ben Meiselas:So you just think about what I just shared with you. You have Trump spreading disinformation about the shooter in Rhode Island at Brown University saying that the shooter was captured, not captured. Donald Trump claiming all of these ceasefires when they're actually don't exist at all. And I've given you the facts and the exact evidence receipts. We come with receipts here at the Midas touch. That's why make sure you're subscribed because you're not hearing this stuff really anywhere else. So we're giving you the receipts and the facts. Then you have Trump saying, oh, it was some rogue ISIS people.
13:36Ben Meiselas:And those were the people who killed the American forces in Syria. No, it was actually people very close to the government, the guy who you were spraying with cologne. Just to remind you, here is when Donald Trump sprayed the guy with cologne. Here, play this clip.
13:57This is the best fragrance. Come here. I have one here, sir. Okay. So what we'll do is just take that, Joe, put it in. And then the other one is your wife. How many ones? One or what? One or what? You guys said never know.
14:19Ben Meiselas:And this is Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, when she was on this New York post a show with Miranda Devine, who's the host of this podcast. And then Caroline Levitt's like, yeah, Donald Trump, he goes around spraying people with perfume. He sprayed the leader with perfume. That's so funny. This stuff isn't funny, folks. This is life or death. This is war and peace. This is famine or feeding people. This is the real world. And these clowns, these amateurs, these evil, malicious, dumb, you know what? I mean, the way they conduct themselves to me, it's just so unprofessional and gross and weird.
15:02Ben Meiselas:I mean, just watch Caroline Levitt here play this clip. The president went, the Syrian president came in and President Trump sprayed perfume all over him. And I just wondered, like, did he smell? No. Let me tell you, that happens all the time, not just with the Syrian president, but I've seen it with other foreign leaders. I've seen it with members of our cabinet, myself. He has a cologne and a perfume. Yes. He's just showing off his wonderful scents. He's very generous. Right. Then you had to have the mayor in Providence. You had to have the mayor in Rhode Island right here, Providence, Rhode Island, say, you know, there's a lot of misinformation out there.
15:47Ben Meiselas:Listen to what we're saying, not the disinformation. He's referring to Trump, that the president of the United States is the one spreading lies about a school shooting. Here, play this clip. As I mentioned at the press briefing before this, I'll reiterate right now. In this day and age, there is a lot of misinformation that can spread as it pertains to official updates regarding the shelter in place or any future announcements. Please follow the city of Providence official social media channels. We've also put out updates through our 311 system, but the city of Providence on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram will be updating throughout the evening.
16:28If that did not come from an official channel, then it is not official. Right now, the shelter in place is the same as it had been earlier, and it remains the same.
16:36Ben Meiselas:And then they spread lies about everything. Look at the RFK Jr. effect. As of Tuesday, 1 ,912 cases of measles that have been reported. In 2025, guess the increase in measles cases because this is a spreader. This is a super spreader regime. The regime that promised you COVID would go away in 24 hours and lied about it and told you to inject yourself with freaking horse tranquilizers or whatever the hell they said, or inject yourself with bleach or whatever the lies were. We now have a 14 ,608 % increase in measles cases, a 14 ,000 % increase. But folks, Donald Trump is focused on very important things as well.
17:30Ben Meiselas:His big announcement over this weekend, I'm not sure if you heard it, that Donald Trump will be seizing control of all of the public golf courses in Washington, D.C. The three main public golf courses in Washington, D.C., Trump wants to make him Trump golf courses. So he just put a notice out saying that the golf courses are in default. He wants to appoint himself as the leader of the golf courses so that him and his rich oligarch friends can party in the golden ballroom and then golf at the Trump golf courses that he wants to take over in Washington, D.C. While the American people are living paycheck to paycheck, if they're lucky enough to even be getting a paycheck right now, being psychologically tortured by what this Trump regime is doing, while Americans can't afford homes, can't afford to pay rent, while prices are surging everywhere, while you have job losses up 54 % year over year, meaning about 1.2 million jobs have been lost thus far.
18:36Ben Meiselas:Pretty much this, we're at levels of Great Recession job losses. What Donald Trump is doing is posting disinformation about school shootings with people in custody when they're not in custody. You could have killed people as a result of that. And he's out there talking about taking over golf courses. How utterly horrific, disgusting, and evil is this? Folks, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. We appreciate your support. We're in this together. Let's push back against this regime. Thanks for watching.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump panicking as protests are spreading against authoritarians like him around the world and in response all he does is spread more lies as his approval sinks even lower.
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