Trump Loses It as MeidasTouch Humiliates Him!!

25 Feb 2026 · 22 min · 12 chapters

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Episode Summary: Trump Loses It as MeidasTouch Humiliates Him!!

Podcast Title

The MeidasTouch Podcast

Hosts

Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas

Episode Overview In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses how the MeidasTouch People's State of the Union overshadowed and ultimately humiliated Donald Trump's State of the Union address. The hosts reflect on the contrasting viewership, audience engagement, and the political implications surrounding both events.

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Key Takeaways

MeidasTouch vs. Trump

  • Viewership Metrics:
  • The People's State of the Union achieved over 2 million views shortly after its conclusion, outpacing Trump's event significantly.
  • Comparatively, Trump's State of the Union was criticized for its lack of attendance and energy.
  • Audience Reaction:
  • The atmosphere at the People's State of the Union was vibrant, contrasting starkly with the "empty seats" reported during Trump's speech.
  • The MeidasTouch Network aimed to counter Trump's "low-energy" presentation with a more engaging format.

Media Commentary

  • Criticism of Established Media:
  • The MeidasTouch hosts claim to have eclipsed traditional media outlets, particularly Fox News, in terms of viewership.
  • Ben Meiselas highlights the perceived failures of Fox News and other corporate media in covering political events.

Notable Exchanges

  • Debate with Geraldo Rivera:
  • Host Adam Mockler participated in a heated discussion with Geraldo Rivera on News Nation, defending the decision to boycott Trump's State of the Union.
  • Mockler articulated that unprecedented moments require unprecedented responses, framing the boycott as a response to Trump's behavior rather than a rejection of the institution itself.
  • Responses from Democrats:
  • Several Congress members who spoke at the People's State of the Union expressed their frustration with Trump’s policies, emphasizing the impact on everyday Americans.
  • Congresswoman Summer Lee and Senator Rubén Gallego highlighted issues such as healthcare, economic inequality, and accountability.

Political Commentary

  • Critique of Trump's Policies:
  • The podcast emphasizes that Trump's administration has made the country "sicker, poorer, and less secure."
  • Hosts pointed out the failures of Trump's economic policies, including tariffs that have adversely affected American families.
  • Call to Action:
  • The episode culminates with a rallying cry for viewers to engage with pro-democracy initiatives and support the MidasTouch merchandise as a form of activism.

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Notable Moments

  • MAGA Hecklers Encounter:
  • Joy Reid's powerful rebuttal to MAGA hecklers, asserting the importance of truth and accountability.
  • Mockler's Evisceration of Cuomo:
  • Adam Mockler's pointed critiques of Chris Cuomo's arguments, including a commitment to hearing the truth over listening to Trump.

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Conclusion This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast serves as a spirited critique of Donald Trump and his supporters, positioning the MeidasTouch Network as a vital alternative in political discourse. With humor and insight, the Meiselas brothers continue to engage their audience in pivotal discussions about democracy and accountability.

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Additional Resources

  • For more episodes and updates, visit the [MeidasTouch Network](https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast).
  • Explore other podcasts under the MeidasTouch umbrella to stay informed on various political topics.

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Chapters

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Trump's State of the Union Analysis

2:01 to 3:16

Analyzing Trump's State of the Union and the People's State of the Union response.

“When the killer's identity is about to be revealed.”

Midas Touch vs. Fox News

3:16 to 5:10

Midas Touch Network's viewership compared to Fox News during the events.

“We hit over 2 million views right after the People's State of the Union concluded.”

Debate Highlights with Geraldo Rivera

5:10 to 7:00

Key moments from the debate between Adam Mockler and Geraldo Rivera.

“Every corporate news lost to Midas Touch.”

Midas Touch's Impact on Media

7:00 to 8:15

Discussing Midas Touch Network's influence on media narratives.

“I think that that is disrespect disguised as being hip.”

Congresswoman Summer Lee's Speech

8:15 to 10:40

Congresswoman Summer Lee speaks at the People's State of the Union.

“hang Mike Pence, because of his election fraud lies.”

Challenges Facing Communities

10:40 to 14:00

Addressing the struggles of communities in light of political decisions.

“The Democrats decided they're not going to listen.”

The Impact of Political Abandonment

14:00 to 15:06

Discover the shared struggles of communities abandoned by politicians.

“Bondi must be held accountable for that.”

Critique of Trump's Leadership

15:06 to 16:22

Learn about the negative consequences of Trump's policies on Americans.

“They want to call that the State of the Union.”

Voices from the People's State of the Union

16:22 to 17:40

Hear powerful remarks from Congress members regarding accountability and justice.

“The single most powerful moment tonight is going to be when Donald Trump has to look up at the gallery of the U.S.”

Governor Spanberger's Rebuttal Highlights

17:40 to 18:42

Understand the key questions posed by Governor Spanberger to the American people.

“you, the American people watching at home, three questions.”
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GOP's Distraction Tactics

18:42 to 19:47

Explore how the GOP is diverting attention from critical issues facing Americans.

“And Republicans in Congress, they remain unwilling to assert their constitutional authority to stop him.”

MidasTouch Call to Action

19:47 to 20:41

Join the MidasTouch movement and support pro-democracy efforts.

“you can keep talking about that and you can let the adults try to talk about healthcare and housing and treating people with dignity and equality.”
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2:34Ben Meiselas:Aw, where did everybody go, Donald? They weren't at the State of the Union. They were at the People State of the Union. Your low-energy fascist fest was the worst State of the Union in American history. Oh, and it dragged along so long. What was it? An hour and 41 minutes, the longest in history, the most boring in history, universally pandas just being absolutely horrible in every regards. Look at all those empty seats. Yeah, Donald Trump was panicking. So is the MAGA Republican establishment. So is state regime media. The Midas Touch Network led all news in terms of views yesterday with the counterprogramming people state of the union.

3:16Ben Meiselas:We hit over 2 million views right after the People's State of the Union concluded. That number, of course, continued to rise thereafter. In addition to just the view count, there was a huge, massive crowd that was there at the People's State of the Union on the National Mall. You could see the Capitol building in the background. And, you know, Midas Touch easily beat state regime media, which calls itself Fox and Digital Views. It wasn't even close. Throughout the entire night, Midas Touch destroyed state regime media known as Fox in view. So you had people like Jesse Waters before the State of the Union aired or the People's State of the Union aired, and they were competing and Midas Touch easily destroyed Fox.

4:00Ben Meiselas:You had Jesse Waters, who no doubt is jealous of the Midas Touch Network. Jesse Waters' mom is a huge Midas Touch fan. She's probably watching this right now. How are you doing? And she warned Jesse Waters about going down this rabbit hole of being a fascist propagandist. But, you know, sadly, you know, he's Jesse Waters. It is what it is. But here's what Jesse Waters said about the Midas Touch Network. People State of the Union goes, no one's going to watch that. Guess what? Let's look at the side-by-side comparison, Jesse. We beat you. We beat you big, Jesse. Here, play this clip.

4:36Donald Trump:The chamber's starting to fill up, and the big question tonight, what's it going to be like in there, given the fact that a record-setting 73 congressional Democrats have decided to bail on this speech tonight? They won't be there, and a couple dozen of them having a competing event over on the National Mall tonight. They are dubbing the People's State of the Union, Jesse. We'll send it back to you.

4:56Ben Meiselas:And no one's watching that. Absolutely no one's watching that. You're going to have. You know, people, some of the members of Congress were falling asleep during Donald Trump's people state of union. Not only did the Midas Touch Network beat Fox State regime media, we beat other corporate news. Every corporate news lost to Midas Touch. Then so funny, I'm not sure if you caught this, but Midas Touch Network host Adam Mockler was then on the Chris Cuomo show, News Nation and Geraldo Rivera, who's also, I think, still a Fox host, was on there as well. And Geraldo tried to like yell at Mockler and like say, well, why are you why are you and Midas Touch Network boycotting?

5:37Ben Meiselas:It's so disrespectful. Watch as Mockler just destroys Geraldo Rivera. I don't think I've ever thought I'd have to use that sentence. Watch as the Midas Touch Network Gen Z host destroys Geraldo Rivera. That's what happened here. Watch this. Let's play it. I don't get, Adam. What is the sell on? I don't even want you to listen to the president of the

6:03Donald Trump:United States as he presents his concerns to the United States people and the Congress.

6:11Ben Meiselas:How do you sell that to people? It's very charitable to say that Donald Trump would be listing his concerns to the American people and not just airing out his grievances and lying for two to three hours. Here's my response. Unprecedented moments demand unprecedented responses. The tariffs that Donald Trump put on, those have been unprecedented. The way that ICE has deployed to cities across the country, unprecedented. Trump's war against the Supreme Court that he just started, very unprecedented. I mean, he called for the arrest of the governor of my state, J.B. Pritzker. So if you're going to argue that Democrats are doing something unprecedented, then that's just not convincing to me.

6:46Ben Meiselas:I think that Democrats shining a light on people like the Epstein victims or people who lost their health care or some of the small businesses that were ruined by said tariffs is a good use of time. It's a good use of the attention of the American people.

7:00Donald Trump:Geraldo, how do you see it? I think that that is disrespect disguised as being hip. I think that there are two days a year when we support the president regardless of his party. One is when he is inaugurated. The other is during the State of the Union address, when, as the Constitution requires, he gives you, he or hopefully one day she, gives you what the state of the republic is. And to suggest that because a president lies, you're going to boycott the state of the union. Really? When the president lies, what president? The Republican? The Democrat? You know, don't politicians bend facts constantly, particularly when they're addressing big crowds?

7:52Donald Trump:I think that it is rude and violates the plurus unum out of many one. It is in the Constitution. We all should stand together and celebrate our institutions.

8:06Ben Meiselas:Give me a break. You're going to cite the Constitution and the peaceful transfer of power, the inauguration, as something that we should respect when we're about to listen to the president, who was the first person to break that peaceful transfer of power after people were chanting, hang Mike Pence, because of his election fraud lies. And about four years ago at the State of the Union, Marjorie Taylor Greene heckled Joe Biden when he was speaking about his deceased son, Beau Biden. So the Republicans have brought us down to new depths day by day by day. So it is only it is only the Republicans.

8:37Ben Meiselas:Yes, Donald. It is only the Republicans. Has the President Clinton was in the Joe Biden post an AI

8:43Donald Trump:photo when he delivered the state of the. Wait a second. Do you remember an AI photo of Obama as a gorilla? President Clinton. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. President Clinton. Hold on. I can't. President Clinton. President Clinton was in the midst of impeachment when he delivered the State of the Union. So according to Midas Touch, why was President Clinton allowed to speak? What what bigger anchor could he have around his neck than impeachment?

9:13Ben Meiselas:And then more of angry Chris Cuomo, angry Geraldo Rivera getting absolutely destroyed again by Adam Mockler. Mockler destroyed Cuomo like he eviscerated Cuomo. He ripped Cuomo to shred. I just say that also because those words bother Cuomo so much. Like, why is everything destroyed? Why is everything eviscerate. He destroyed Cuomo. He brutalized Cuomo. Here, watch this clip. You probably won't see it anywhere other than on the Midas Touch Network, because I'm not really sure how many people are watching Cuomo and News Nation. Here, play this clip. Nobody's saying that Trump isn't allowed to speak, but we're saying that we don't have to listen to Trump when he's speaking.

10:02Ben Meiselas:Nobody's saying he's not allowed to speak. We're just saying we don't have to listen. And it's a little bit different what Clinton did than Donald Trump deploying ice to cities, killing U.S. citizens, calling for the arrest of people. And again, spare me like the Constitution when Donald Trump was the one who stepped all over it repeatedly five years ago. So are you are you wait a second, buddy?

10:22Donald Trump:Are you are you the one who gets to decide you get to decide who we should listen to and who we should not listen to? No, 40, 40 senators, 50 senators.

10:31Ben Meiselas:What is your life experience? 50 Democratic representatives. What is your life experience? I'm not the one deciding. The Democrats did. The Democrats decided they're not going to listen. You are deciding. The American people did. You're having your party. Five minutes, five minutes after the Midas touch stream started, there were 100 ,000 people watching the waiting screen. The waiting screen had 100 ,000 people watching. I mean, how many people watch your show? Not as many as that. People want to know the truth.

10:58Donald Trump:Fox News dwarfs your audience. Does that mean we should all listen and agree to what's being said on Fox News? I'm just giving you the numbers, buddy.

11:07Ben Meiselas:I'm just giving you the numbers. All right. Going back to the people's state of the union right here. We had some MAGA hecklers who were trying to go after our host, Joy Reid and Katie Fang. Watch what Joy Reid did. She made minced meat out of the MAGA hecklers. Here, play this clip.

11:34Donald Trump:All right, everybody. One note. We just want to do sort of one housekeeping note. Attention, all MAGA trolls. And with apologies to the pastor who gave the invocation, Your bullshit is not welcome here.

11:52Donald Trump:And to paraphrase one of my favorite actors in the world, Robert De Niro, I'm going to slightly paraphrase him. Fuck y 'all. We're here to hear the truth and to hear from impacted people, not to see or hear from you. So go back and pay attention to your orange line friend.

12:13Ben Meiselas:Okay, so you could have tuned into the People's State of the Union, or if you wanted to see Donald Trump's Petto Island cabinet in action, you could have watched the actual State of the Union. You had like Howard Lutnick, big fan of Epstein's Petto Island, right? He brings his children there after saying he never saw Epstein after 2005. He brought other kids' children there. They talked about nannies together, even though Epstein didn't never had children. I'm not sure why he would need a nanny. I don't know if nannies, the code word that the Epstein class uses, they're nannies. But anyway, watch Howard Lutnick walk around and everyone's like grossed out by this guy.

12:49Ben Meiselas:Play this clip.

13:05Ben Meiselas:All right, enough of that. Let's go back to the people state of the union. Congresswoman Summer Lee. Here she was speaking at the People's State of the Union. Midas Touch, move on. Let's play it.

13:38Donald Trump:field and deliver justice no matter how much money you have to your name. That's why earlier today I announced that I'll be introducing articles of impeachment against Pam Bondi. Trump's DOJ continues to obstruct justice and refusing to comply with our subpoena to release the full unredacted Epstein files. Bondi must be held accountable for that. And let's not forget it was Trump who said it first, release the fouls. So we'll keep that call up no matter what. Because where I come from in Western Pennsylvania, we know what it means to be abandoned by politicians who make big promises and lie and deliver nothing.

14:21Donald Trump:We know what it's like when the factories close, when the hospitals cut services, when the schools can't afford to teach, when the corporations are given permission to poison our water, our air, and our communities without consequences. And we know that no matter what language you speak, what zip code you live We all feel that pain and we are all being squeezed by the same rigged system. So when Trump points the fingers at immigrants, our trans kids, our protesters, our journalists understand what he's doing. He's trying to make sure we never point the finger where it belongs, at the billionaires and the corporations looting our economy, robbing our people and buying our democracy right from address.

14:57Donald Trump:But here's the truth.

14:59Ben Meiselas:Ruben Gallego, Senator Gallego. Here's what he had to say at the People's State of the Union. Let's play it.

15:06Donald Trump:But let's be clear what's happening there. They want to call that the State of the Union. It is the state of denial. Because what's going to happen under that Capitol is a bunch of lies, lies that Donald Trump, the Republicans are going to tell us about how great this country is doing right now. But what is true, what is happening right now is that Donald Trump, the Republicans have made this country sicker, poorer, and less secure. Sicker, poorer, and less secure. How did it start? As soon as they got in there, what did they do? They went, they cut Medicaid, and they cut food stamps. Millions of Americans right now are without health care.

15:47Donald Trump:The poorest of our country are trying to figure out how to make ends meet and how to pay for that grocery bill because they needed an extra billion dollars for their billionaire friends. And when they had whatever money they had left over, then they used it to hire the most amount of ICE agents to have the massive amount of deportations we have now that are also targeting U.S. citizens, racial profiling Americans, arresting Latino veterans and telling them you are not part of this country and make them prove that they're Americans when nobody asked to prove our citizenship when they were sending us to war for this country.

16:22Donald Trump:Sick.

16:22Ben Meiselas:Congress member Garcia, let's play it.

16:26Donald Trump:The single most powerful moment tonight is going to be when Donald Trump has to look up at the gallery of the U.S. House and see the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein looking straight back at him, demanding justice, demanding truth, and demanding accountability.

16:56Ben Meiselas:Over here, we have Congress member Kassar. Let's play it right here.

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17:00Donald Trump:He steals from working Americans to give to the rich. Donald Trump doesn't owe us a two-hour rambling speech. He owes the American people their money back.

17:10Ben Meiselas:And by the way, wasn't abigail spanberger's uh rebuttal incredible governor spanberger governor of virginia a plus rebuttal here are the three questions that she asked to the american people

17:25Donald Trump:let's play it tonight as we watched our nation's lawmakers gather for a joint session of congress we did not hear the truth from our president so let's speak plainly and honestly and let me ask you, the American people watching at home, three questions. Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is the president working to keep Americans safe both at home and abroad? Is the president working for you?

18:00Ben Meiselas:More from Governor Spanberger here. Let's play it.

18:03Donald Trump:And I know these same conversations are being had all across this country. Because since this president took office last year, his reckless trade policies have forced American families to pay more than$1 ,700 each in tariff costs. Small businesses have suffered. Farmers have suffered. Some losing entire markets. Everyday Americans are paying the price. And even though the Supreme Court struck these tariffs down four days ago, the damage to us, the American people, has already been done. Meanwhile, the president is planning for new tariffs, another massive tax hike on you and your family. And Republicans in Congress, they remain unwilling to assert their constitutional authority to stop him.

18:57Donald Trump:They're making your life harder. They're making your life more expensive. They're even making it more difficult to see a doctor.

19:06Ben Meiselas:And I guess this is how the GOP was trying to attack us this evening. CoolFlex GOP. They do an AI image of someone with blue hair. I will be watching the progressive state of the union tonight. Yeah, GOP. I mean, you find that funny. I don't know. I mean, more people watched us than you. Do you GOP, you know, while the American people are trying to find solutions to their life and as American people are suffering, post images like that, GOP, keep it up. Keep your weirdo talk about like penises and vaginas and bathrooms, you know, you can keep talking about that and you can let the adults try to talk about healthcare and housing and treating people with dignity and equality.

20:00Ben Meiselas:And we could talk about affordability and healthcare and our alliances and stopping masked ICE and border patrol agents, terrorizing and torture people. Go for it, GOP. Cool, man. You guys are really cool. You guys are like three years old. No offense to three-year-olds. Okay, guys, you're doing AI images of people with blue hair. Oh, stupid bunch of idiots. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. 7 million. We're already past 6 million. I got to remember 7 million, 7 million. Thanks everybody for watching. New Midas merch. Head to store.midastouch.com today and get yourself the best pro-democracy gear and show your support.

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