Trump Loses It at Midnight and Calls Cabinet Meeting

18 Feb 2026 · 18 min · 6 chapters

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Trump Loses It at Midnight and Calls Cabinet Meeting

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Episode Overview In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses former President Donald Trump's frantic midnight emergency cabinet meeting, prompted by his alarming drop in poll numbers and the Republican Party's bleak prospects for the upcoming midterms. The episode is characterized by a blend of serious political commentary and humorous brotherly banter, consistent with the podcast's style.

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Key Points

  1. Trump's Midnight Meeting
  2. Emergency Cabinet Meeting: Trump called an urgent meeting at the Capitol Hill Club to address his plummeting approval ratings.
  3. Poll Results:
  4. Trump's disapproval rating hit 60%.
  5. Approval on immigration reached a net negative of 17%.
  6. Economic approval was down 23%.
  7. Desperation Tactics: Despite the dire situation, Trump resorted to posting QAnon memes on social media during the meeting.
  1. Social Media Posts
  2. Trump shared a meme stating he would "shut it down," which was interpreted as a reference to his past government shutdowns.
  3. He also made comments regarding “crooked elections,” continuing his trend of questioning election integrity without evidence.
  1. Pollster Insights
  2. Trump's pollster, Fabrizio, indicated that Trump's situation was dire, leading to discussions on strategies to mitigate the damage ahead of the midterms.
  1. Allegations Against Trump
  2. Meiselas highlighted ongoing allegations against Trump related to sexual misconduct and his associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
  3. References were made to a recent report from the UN Human Rights Council that outlined systemic abuses linked to Epstein and the need for further investigations into such crimes.
  1. Response to Current Events
  2. The podcast also touched on various political and social issues, including the economy, healthcare, and recent actions by Trump regime officials.
  3. Discussions included a recent rise in company prices attributed to tariffs and inflation.
  1. Calls to Action
  2. Meiselas encouraged listeners to subscribe to their YouTube channel, aiming to increase their subscriber count to 6 million.

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Discussion Highlights

  • Brotherly Banter: The Meiselas brothers infuse humor into serious discussions, making complex political commentary accessible and engaging.
  • Political Analysis: In-depth critiques of Trump's methods and the GOP's strategy demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of the current political landscape.
  • Moral Responsibility: The episode emphasizes the importance of accountability for political figures and the impact of their actions on democracy.

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Conclusion This episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast provides a compelling mix of political analysis and comedic relief, focusing on Trump's recent actions and their implications for the Republican Party. The Meiselas brothers continue to engage their audience with humor while addressing serious issues affecting American democracy.

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Trump's Midnight Meltdown

0:49 to 2:44

Discussion on Trump's emergency cabinet meeting and his response to poor polling.

“He called an emergency meeting on Capitol Hill at the Capitol Hill Club with his cabinet and other top officials and former campaign aides.”

Trump's Tactics and the 2020 Election

2:44 to 4:52

Analysis of Trump's behavior and strategies following negative poll results.

“And this is what you're posting at like midnight right now after your emergency meeting.”

The Epstein Files and Their Implications

4:52 to 7:18

Examination of the Epstein files and the allegations against Trump.

“You had Bannon and Epstein and others part of the Epstein class talking about you behind your back back then saying the 25th Amendment needed to be invoked.”

Witness Statements and Allegations

7:18 to 10:56

Review of witness statements and allegations against Trump related to Epstein.

“So what we've seen, the redacted stuff is not even close to the worst stuff.”

Current Events and Administration Actions

10:56 to 14:01

Discussion about current events and actions taken by the Trump administration.

“By the way, additional data emerging as well.”

The Break is Over: Price Increases and Political Violence

14:01 to 14:49

Discussion on rising prices due to tariffs and labor costs, alongside political violence under the Trump regime.

“Higher tariffs, labor and health insurance costs have pushed many businesses to raise prices.”
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0:48Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was having a meltdown late last night. He called an emergency meeting on Capitol Hill at the Capitol Hill Club with his cabinet and other top officials and former campaign aides. They're looking at the midterms now, which is fast approaching, and they are expecting a complete wipeout in the midterms that they expect the Democrats to destroy him in the House and the Senate, ripping away any shred of power that Donald Trump has left. They were looking at the latest Roidos Ipsos poll, which shows Donald Trump's disapproval hitting 60 percent. Trump's approval on immigration being a net negative 17 percent.

1:28Ben Meiselas:That's an all time low. Donald Trump's approval on the economy net negative 23 percent and his approval falling fast among men. They can't stop the bleeding. They don't know what to do. Trump had his pollsters there, Fabrizio, saying you are screwed right now and they are trying to figure this out. So what does Donald Trump do? He goes to his old toolkit and he starts posting QAnon memes late last night. That's right. Around midnight. This is what Donald Trump posted from this emergency meeting. This is the lesson that Donald Trump learned. It is a photo of himself like this looking ominously in this meme.

2:11Ben Meiselas:And he goes, I will be the one to shut it down. And then the post says, people that doubted will soon see. Great clip, friend. I will be the one to shut it down. Well, we are in a partial government shutdown. We previously were in the longest government shutdown in history. You are the one to shut it down. And also, if you mean shutting down the American economy, shutting down America's power, shutting down America's dignity. Well done, Donald, you succeeded. And this is what you're posting at like midnight right now after your emergency meeting. Also, Donald Trump posted this late last night as well.

2:53Ben Meiselas:He goes, crooked elections cannot be allowed in the USA, President DJT. So the lesson as his pollsters, Fabrizio and others are telling him you are screwed is he's going to call the elections crooked. Same old playbook by Donald Trump, the leader of the Epstein class, the leader of the cabal while he covers up a child sex trafficking ring. We don't forget about that. We're going to cover it every single damn episode. By the way, make sure you hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. Basically 30 ,000 subscribers away from hitting that. So help us get to 6 million subscribers. Donald Trump also posts Dan Bongino had John Sullivan on his show today.

3:38Ben Meiselas:And Solomon made an interesting prediction that Trump will soon unveil evidence that foreign powers meddled in the 2020 election, which will result in John Thune ultimately caving on the filibuster and the Save America Act will get passed. These are Donald Trump's delusions of delusions because he is a desperate and pathetic individual. I wonder, Donald, is part of your plan to have Maduro in exchange for a deal? Say that Venezuela was involved with secret Italian CIA satellites in China in order to overthrow the 2020 election because you can't handle the fact that you lost by millions of votes to former President Joe Biden.

4:22Ben Meiselas:Here we are in 2026 as Americans are psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck. If they're lucky enough to have a paycheck, they're getting their health care ripped away from them. You're covering up the Epstein files, covering up a child sex trafficking ring. We're in a jobs recession. Manufacturing is crashing. The rich are getting richer. Everybody else is getting absolutely screwed. And you're talking about the 2020 elections. Grow the hell up. Seriously, stop freaking whining. So that was Donald Trump's result of the emergency meeting that he held. You know, you also have people right now going back to like Steve Bannon's text messages with Epstein, where they were saying back in 2019 and 2018 that the 25th Amendment needed to be invoked against Donald Trump back then.

5:12Ben Meiselas:That's right, Donald. You had Bannon and Epstein and others part of the Epstein class talking about you behind your back back then saying the 25th Amendment needed to be invoked. You have Marjorie Taylor Greene posting the thread. Steve Bannon went to jail for Trump. I was there. But back on January 1st, 2019, he was texting with Epstein about the 25th Amendment and Donald Trump needing to have the 25th Amendment invoked against him. You even have Mike Flynn, one of the biggest MAGA sycophants, saying the White House, or at least the DOJ, needs to come out and say what they plan on doing with this information.

5:50Ben Meiselas:I remember all of the 25th Amendment talk back in the first term. It was really ugly. And if Bannon and Epstein were behind it, Bannon needs to be brought in for questioning. It was Trump's inner circle who was saying that the 25th Amendment needed to be invoked against Donald Trump then. But speaking about the Epstein files, I'll just set the scene for you. You've got Donald Trump calling emergency meeting at the Capitol Club. He's got all of his cabinet people, his bolsters there. Donald Trump leaves the meeting. He leaves, gets all the data and starts posting QAnon memes about himself. And then he, by the way, after learning about the Reuters Ipsos poll, where his approval or his disapproval is 60%, Donald Trump then gets the following report as well.

6:39Ben Meiselas:Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a global criminal enterprise that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council has said. And so the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed a panel of experts and the experts say that the crimes that they've reviewed thus far, that we've all reviewed, that we've talked about here on the Midas Touch Network in the Epstein files, and only a small fraction of the files have actually been released. About two to 5 % have been released.

7:17Ben Meiselas:There's about 50 terabytes that are still being hidden. And that's where the worst stuff is. I want you to think about it. They're still hiding the worst stuff. So what we've seen, the redacted stuff is not even close to the worst stuff. I just want you to remember that. The expert said the crimes outlined in the documents released by the Justice Department were committed against a background of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, and extreme misogyny. The crimes they said showed a commodification and a dehumanization of girls and women. So grave is the scale nature, systemic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, the experts for the United Nations says.

8:12Ben Meiselas:These experts said the allegations require an independent, thorough, and impartial investigation and said inquiries should also be launched into how it was possible for such crimes to be committed for so long. We know that there's at least over 1 ,200 victims, 1 ,200 victims. So utterly disgusting. And by the way, you may have seen a video that I did recently where a reporter came on and they were like, there's no allegations against Donald Trump in the files. And I very quickly, you saw, I very quickly pushed back. I said, of course there are allegations. And by the way, Donald Trump's been found civilly liable of sexual abuse.

8:54Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's on videotape saying that he grabs women by their vaginas because he's rich and he lets you get away with it. He's there saying he inspects girls in beauty pageants because when you're the owner of a beauty pageant, you get to do that is what he said. He says that saying those things are locker room talk and that it's courageous to say those things. I mean, this is, you know, we, there are allegations like this in the files. Just to remind you all, this is a declaration, a witness sworn penalty of perjury declaration, Tiffany Doe, that's the pseudonym, dated June 18th, 2026. I personally witnessed defendant Trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to disappear like the 12-year-old female blank and that he was capable of having the whole family killed.

9:44Ben Meiselas:After leaving the employment of Mr. Epstein in the year 2000, I was personally threatened by Mr. Epstein that I would be killed and my family killed as well. If I ever disclosed any of the physical and sexual abuse of minor females that I personally witnessed by Mr. Epstein and any other guests, I am coming forward to the truthfulness of the physical and sexual abuse that I personally witnessed of minor females at the hands of Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein, including the plaintiff during the time of my employment from the years 1990 to 2000 for Epstein. I swear to these facts under penalty of perjury.

10:22Ben Meiselas:Someone who worked for Epstein for 10 years submitting a sworn affidavit. Or there were separate allegations that said that Jane Doe stated Epstein introduced her to Trump, who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis, which is subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out. And by the way, the allegation was sufficient to trigger further FBI inquiry, which then just stopped all of a sudden. Or how about this? Another Jane Doe remembers Epstein introduced her to Trump saying, this is a good one, huh? And Trump responded, yes. By the way, additional data emerging as well.

10:58Ben Meiselas:So not only was Howard Lutnick at Epstein's Island in business deals with Epstein, receiving gifts from Epstein and donations from Epstein. And after Lutnick lied and said he never did it and he brought his children to the island. Well, Howard Lutnick's sister, Eddie Lutnick, was a founding citizen, as it was called, of Terra Mar, the nonprofit organization established and run by Ghislaine Maxwell. This was a message October 13, 2012, from Eddie Lutnick. Check out Terra Mar Project and protect the high seas. Check it out, everybody. This is what Eddie Lutnick wrote back then. And by the way, Ghislaine Maxwell, when she was allowed and too polite society, even though she was engaged in child sex trafficking.

11:49Ben Meiselas:She spoke at the United Nations. She spoke at the UN about Tara Marr. I mean, we have video of her speaking. I represent civil society. I represent civil society. This was her speech in 2014 and the United Nations. Here, play this clip.

12:08Donald Trump:First of all, Your Excellencies, Presidents, Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I just would like to thank you so much, and it's such an honor to be here.

12:20Donald Trump:I'm here representing civil society. My passion for the ocean, for those of you, there's a slideshow going up there, so you don't just have to hear me. You can see the pictures as well. It started when I was a little girl. I grew up watching Jacques Cousteau on TV and became mesmerized with the oceans. It led to me becoming a deep-worker, submersible pilot, And ultimately, on one of my first dives, where I went down expecting to see a fish, I switched on the lights at the bottom of the ocean and saw a plastic hanger.

12:48Ben Meiselas:And throughout the day as well, you had Trump regime officials just posting deranged, of course, deranged things. RFK Jr. and Kid Rock were posting photos of themselves drinking milk. I've teamed up with Kid Rock to deliver the simple message to the American people. get active, eat real food. And they're running around with their shirts off and doing sit-ups and saunas or whatever the hell this is. What the hell is even going on there? I'm going to do another video this morning on the failed peace discussions, whatever you want to call them, that are taking place in Geneva as Trump and Putin tried to force on Zelensky a demand to give up Donbass.

13:34Ben Meiselas:And Zelensky, of course, wouldn't budge and brought in the UK and France as well to be by his side and brought in Europe to be by his side. Wall Street Journal is also reporting the following. Companies big and small saying they're raising prices early this year, pointing a finger at tariffs after holding the line on prices for a month. Companies have begun a new round of increases, in some cases by high single digit percentage points. The article's called, The Break is Over. Companies are jacking up prices again. Higher tariffs, labor and health insurance costs have pushed many businesses to raise prices.

14:11Ben Meiselas:And today, or I should say yesterday, Hegseth announced another attack on fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, as well as in the Pacific. 11 more people were murdered by the Trump regime, which are additional crimes against humanity, bringing the total to more than 140 dead. As Amnesty International USA explains, this murder spree is unconscionable and illegal. Congress must do more to rein in this administration's lawless actions. You think, you think, you think. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks so much for watching.

14:53Donald Trump:Rinse knows that greatness takes time, but so does laundry. So Rinse will take your laundry and hand deliver it to your door expertly cleaned. And you can take the time pursuing your passions. Time once spent sorting and waiting, folding and queuing, now spent challenging and innovating and pushing your way to greatness. So pick up the Irish flute or those calligraphy pens or that daunting Beef Wellington recipe card and leave the laundry to us. Rinse. It's time to be great. Thank you.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing it at midnight as he calls an emergency cabinet meeting to address his collapsing poll numbers and the collapsing prospects of Republicans for the midterms as results of his utter failures.

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