In short
The host criticizes Donald Trump’s recent public appearances and messaging, arguing chaos and economic strain are worsening while Trump and allies behave irresponsibly. They also allege U.S.-China “30 for 30” trade language is “word salad” and not a real deal, and they connect diesel/gas price surges to potential U.S. policy (a possible diesel export ban) and to Russia/Ukraine refinery damage.
Guest backgrounds
No guests are interviewed or named in the transcript.
Key claims
Trump is “addled” at a Chicago golf event, including an alleged crotch-grab and “pedo protector” jeers; Trump is “begging” Xi for U.S. military equipment; Xi allegedly urged Taiwan and Japan policy changes; “non-serious” traumatic brain injuries to Marines are being covered up after an Iranian strike; diesel export ban would raise fuel prices.
Notable examples
U.S.-China Board of Trade “30 for 30” framework; Trump/Xi social media posts; Venezuela protests for Maria Machado; Basra Iraq protests over Iranian flight access; NBC/CENTCOM dispute over Marines’ TBIs.
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Chapters
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0:31 to 0:56
Discussing Trump's chaotic appearance at a golf tournament and public reactions.
“Well, when you're with Farmers, it's kind of inevitable.”
Trump's Recent Public Appearances
2:24 to 6:04
Discussing Trump's chaotic appearance at a golf tournament and public reactions.
“In Chicago, he appointed himself honorary chairman while the American people are suffering.”
U.S.-China Relations and Trade Issues
6:08 to 14:00
Analyzing the recent U.S.-China trade framework and Trump's involvement.
“While again, throughout the day, Donald Trump was posting things like his hemisphere.”
Trump's Diesel Blame Game
14:00 to 14:33
Discussion on Trump's claims regarding diesel prices and Russia's role.
“And then he blames the surging price of diesel on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which he said that he was going to solve in 24 hours.”
Venezuelan Protests for Democracy
14:33 to 15:40
Overview of protests in Venezuela calling for democratic change.
“I said, you got to take it easier in the refineries.”
Brazil's Political Climate
15:40 to 16:40
Examination of political unrest and support for President Lula in Brazil.
“You have people filling the streets in Brazil for President Lula.”
Iraq's Protests and Iranian Influence
16:40 to 18:09
Discussion on protests in Iraq related to Iranian flights and US involvement.
“And then in Basra, Iraq, there were protests against the Trump regime's collusion with Iraq to prevent Iranian planes from landing in Iraq.”
Trump's Cover-Up of Military Injuries
18:09 to 21:03
Critique of the Trump administration's handling of military injuries related to Iranian attacks.
“We did the report on it in real time on September 15th.”
Transcript
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2:21Ben Meiselas:Stamps.com code podcast. A decrepit, rotting, and clearly addled Donald Trump was wandering aimlessly yesterday around the President's Club Golf Tournament. Did you see that? In Chicago, he appointed himself honorary chairman while the American people are suffering. This is what he was doing on the taxpayer dime. I think I heard fans screaming and shouting at him and saying, pedo protector. And then there was a moment where Donald Trump looked like he literally grabbed the crotch of a golf player. I'll show you those things in just a moment. The day before that, he was booed at a Tennessee college football game.
3:05Ben Meiselas:Then he returned to Washington, D.C., where gas prices and diesel continued to surge to record highs. You had the price of oil opening up at around$106 a barrel. You had the treasury yields continuing to surge. So Donald Trump tried to frantically leak to Barack Ravid over at Axios. Actually, you know how I said when the markets closed on Friday that we were going to obliterate Iran after the midterms? Well, actually, we expect that there's going to be real productive discussions this week in New York. And hey, there may be a deal this week. Well, the market's not getting fooled anymore by that.
3:49Ben Meiselas:So then, I kid you not, at around midnight last night, you had the United States Trade Representative official account release this. Today, Ambassador Greer issued a statement following the announcement of recommendations by the U.S.-China Board of Trade to facilitate balanced, non-sensitive trade between the two largest economies in the world. I know you might be saying, Ben, what do you mean he grabbed a golf player's crotch and somebody shouted at him, pedo protector words. I'm going to get there. I'm going to get there. But I wanted to show you that the trade representative official account posted this at like midnight, like 1110 this was posted.
4:33Ben Meiselas:This is what they write. The United States and China have reached an understanding on the following terms of reference for the 30 for 30 framework to be operationalized by the U.S.-China Board of Trade. Folks, we did it. Mission accomplished. There's going to be a understanding for terms of reference for 30 to 30 operation. It's all BS. This is just the language of con artists and fraudsters. What the hell does this? A 30 for 30? What is this? Like a ESPN documentary? What are we even talking about here? It goes, previously, the United States and China agreed to establish a government to government, US-China Board of Trade.
5:17Ben Meiselas:The two sides also agreed that the initial focus of the Board of Trade is to be on a dialogue to consider lists of mutually agreed upon important goods totaling roughly$30 billion on each side. The two sides further agreed to work expeditiously to identify certain goods for inclusion in a 30 for 30 frame. You're just saying made up words right now. What the hell did that even mean? I mean, I'm a lawyer, right? I mean, I've litigated very complex. This is just a bunch of word salad that makes no sense at all. Then it goes, the deputies of the U.S. and the Chinese principals have taken the lead in developing proposed lists of products for inclusion in the 30 for 30 framework for consideration by the principals with support from staff, folks, mission accomplished.
6:04Ben Meiselas:30 for 30 institutionalizing frameworks of memorandums of hypothetical future operationalized communications. These aren't deals, folks. This is just raw, unadulterated fraud. While again, throughout the day, Donald Trump was posting things like his hemisphere. His hemisphere. Do you know what a lunatic you look like and are? His hemisphere with the sexual predator looking over a globe like that. A freaking felon, a sicko looking over the globe like that. I mean, then he posted nonstop these weird photos of him and President Xi of China post after post after, did like 20 posts in a row of himself and Xi.
6:51Ben Meiselas:Folks, if I did 20 posts in a row of me and my incredible daughter 20 times in a row, you'd be like, hey man, you know, I appreciate it, but maybe just one post, maybe two posts. And then did you see like 20 to 20 posts of anything? It's a lunatic behavior. Then did you see this? Dan Scavino, Donald Trump's top White House deputy. This is a real post that he made. It's AI, but this is an actual post he made of himself. And is that supposed to be Eric Trump in the background? They're all popping moet, moet, and they're drinking champagne. My pronunciation there is great. They're drinking champagne and they're partying and living it up while the American people literally can't afford food right now, while there's diesel shortages starting to spread throughout this country.
7:43Ben Meiselas:And by the way, in the world, you look at Australia, you look at France, you look at Europe, the whole world is suffering. And this is what they're doing. This is what top White House deputies are posting right now. And meanwhile, we learned from, was it some of Donald Trump's top cabinet officials, they said that Donald Trump was begging Xi Jinping to buy U.S. military equipment. I mean, are you that idiotic, Donald? They have their own military equipment. And by the way, the F-35 parts are in the hands of China right now. You beg Xi Jinping to buy military equipment. And we also learned from sources behind the scenes that Xi Jinping was not only telling Donald Trump not to give the military package promise to Taiwan, that$14 billion military package, but also to move further away from Japan and not have the kind of traditional alliances that US had had with Japan in the past several decades right there.
8:44Ben Meiselas:All right, I'll get back to the point that I said that I was going to show you. So here you have Donald Trump overheating at the President's Cup. And it looks like he was exhausted and sweating. Here, you can see this for yourself. Let's play this clip.
9:02Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump appears to have grabbed the crotch of one of the golfers right there. I mean, you can see for yourself, if I'm not seeing this accurately, you could tell me here, play this clip.
9:21Ben Meiselas:just so you can see it again I'll play the clip one more time so you can see that I believe that's actually what happened play this clip and then you'll hear somebody yell either like pedo protector or you're a pedo or words to those effect you can hear it for yourself let's play this clip
9:52Ben Meiselas:And just to see how lost and unpresidential he is, just look at him just like, I don't just, there's the adult drifting around while he gets yelled at by a producer at the golf course trying to tell him where to stand. He's like, oh, do I stand here? Do I stand here? Where do I stand? Here, watch this for yourself. Let's play this clip. We talked about the veterans, Scotty Scheffler. It was Jackson Koivin in his first President's Cup appearance. So President Trump there being guided to some of these shots as they will unveil some of these trophies. We've seen President Trump at the center of so many of...
10:29Ben Meiselas:While all of this is going down, Iran was able to capture another unmanned submersive drone. Ansarallah, the Houthis, have been able to strike more targets in Saudi Arabia. After Saudi Arabia hit in Thais in Yemen, killing a lot of civilians, The Riyadh schools are closed right now, as it's believed that Ansarabla has been able to successfully escalate in that area as well. I shared with you reports earlier in the day as well, yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal reported on Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ambassador to Greece, allegedly basically told the leadership in Greece, do you see how the government in Romania disbanded?
11:17Ben Meiselas:Well, we were a part of that. They didn't want to buy and give us certain deals in the United States. So we worked with certain parties to collapse the Romanian government, which was actually a government that stood up against Putin. We helped collapse that and put in a more pro-Putin government. We can do that to any government that we want. And then you had Donald Trump's former top lawyer who lost the defamation case that E. E. Jean Carroll brought against Trump after E. Jean Carroll previously defeated Donald Trump in a case where he was found liable for sexually assaulting her. But in the defamation case, Trump was hit with a verdict for like$85,$90 million or a number close to that with interest that's like over$100, I believe, in my opinion.
12:03Ben Meiselas:In any event, Alina Haba married this Turkish billionaire and you had like these oligarchs at the wedding. And it was a whole bizarre scene as well over there. And then while Donald Trump was at the golf course, addled, rotting, like all alone, like doesn't he like just look weak? He was asked about what's your view on the export ban on diesel? And here's what he says here. Play this clip. So what about an export ban on diesel? Well, we're thinking about it very seriously. That can oftentimes lead to a little bit of an increase on gasoline for cars. So we're looking at it very seriously. We may do it.
12:45The big problem is the refineries in Russia.
12:48Ben Meiselas:I mean, you're thinking about it very seriously. What does that even mean? You're thinking about it seriously. The words that just come out of his mouth are just words, just stupid words because he's a con artist. I did a video where I detailed why an export ban on diesel would lower the surprise of diesel, lower the supply of diesel because it's a ban. And if the U.S. is responsible for 20 % of diesel exports in the world, it'll cause the price of diesel to rise because a barrel of oil is converted into gas and diesel. It would actually slow down the production of refineries here that produce gas and diesel, so it would cause the price of gas to rise by cutting off the supply there.
13:31Ben Meiselas:And perhaps there There may be a short-term drop in the United States in some regions on diesel, but it will very quickly cause the price of gas and diesel to reach even higher levels very quickly, which they're heading in that direction. But he's considering it very seriously, everybody. He's considering it very powerfully and very seriously. And we control the Strait of Hormuz, yet the price of diesel and gas is surging. The guy is such a freaking fraud. And then he blames the surging price of diesel on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which he said that he was going to solve in 24 hours. Remember, here's what he said here.
14:13Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. The big problem is the refineries in Russia are being blown up. This isn't really a Middle Eastern problem. This is more of a Russia problem that Ukraine and Russia are going at it. And Ukraine is blowing up diesel refineries in Russia because they do a lot of the refining. So this one's an interesting one indeed. And I spoke to President Zelensky. I said, you got to take it easier in the refineries. What did he say? He said, well, we'll probably do that. Okay. And meanwhile, in Venezuela, from Caracas to all different areas, there were protests wanting Machado, Maria Machado to come back.
14:57Ben Meiselas:I'll just show you what some of these protests look like in Venezuela. So you can see for yourself. Let's play it. What we want is freedom. What we want is democracy. What we want is a new president. So brothers, this is the list. Where is the opposition of Valenciana? Where is Maria
15:30Ben Meiselas:Here are more protests in the streets of various cities in Venezuela right here, demanding the return of Maria Machado and protesting against Delcy. Let's play this clip.
15:58Ben Meiselas:You have people filling the streets in Brazil for President Lula. The elections are coming up there. You can see for yourself what that looked like.
16:19Ben Meiselas:More from President Lula's speech. You can see what the crowds in Brazil look like. And obviously, Donald Trump's trying to prop up Jair Bolsonaro's kid, who's the kind of the Trump party in Brazil. Here, play this clip. I did a provisional measure, ending with the bets in Brazil. you.
16:43Ben Meiselas:And then in Basra, Iraq, there were protests against the Trump regime's collusion with Iraq to prevent Iranian planes from landing in Iraq. Let me show you some of these Basra protests you can see for yourself over here.
17:09AYBELLA! MAH KULNNA WOLN NAKUL, NAHN OMM TENTEMY ILLIH CERBALAH, WOTENTEMY ILLIH A SHURAH, WOTENTEMY ILLIH SHI-AR, WELLA AQRU IKRARAL AHBID. NAHN OMM TENTEMY ILLIH ABDILLAH HUSSEYM, WLETHY YAKULL, LA WALLAH, LA AKURU LAKUM IKRARAL AHBID.
17:45Ben Meiselas:And then one of the Iraqi tribal sheikhs in Basra says that the Iraqi government has been given a 48-hour ultimatum to stop halting Iranian flights into Iraq, or else the Basra airports would be filled with people shutting down all flights into Basra. Here, I'll show this to you so you can watch it here, play this clip.
18:27Ben Meiselas:I'll talk about this in the next video I did as well, but we also learned that about, remember we reported on this in real time, but NBC has confirmed it now, that a tanker that had at least eight Marines aboard it was struck about two weeks ago, I think it was on September 5th, and eight Marines suffered traumatic brain injuries on this tanker, totally covered up by the Trump regime as part of the efforts to get these tankers to go through the southern Oman route of the Strait of Hormuz and the IRGC. Iran's been striking these tankers. Go back. We did the report on it in real time on September 15th.
19:08Ben Meiselas:And we said, look, this tanker was hit. We believe there were Marines aboard it. Iran was saying that was the case. CENTCOM denied it. Well, NBC is saying that absolutely happened. And now the Trump regime is saying they were non-serious traumatic brain injuries. Non-serious traumatic brain injuries is not a real thing. Traumatic brain injury. It's traumatic. Okay. When I was a litigator, I handled cases for people who suffered traumatic brain injuries. It's debilitating and serious. And the fact that the Trump regime is saying traumatic brain injury once again is not serious. By the way, Trump said the same thing in 2020.
19:50Ben Meiselas:People don't remember this, but after Donald Trump killed Soleimani in Iraq, Iran struck the US air bases in Iraq. And there were hundreds of service members in 2020, US service members who were seriously injured with traumatic brain injury. And the whole thing was covered up. They said, oh, it's minor headaches because Trump hates our troops. Trump thinks our troops are suckers and losers. And so they claimed in 2020, go back and look at it, those traumatic brain injuries were minor injuries. And so I've been saying this over and over again, you've been watching and I've been saying, I've been observing these Iranian military strikes that have destroyed all of these bases.
20:29Ben Meiselas:And for a period of time, we had a lot of service members on these bases and these containerized barracks. And I'm seeing the Shahi drones and some of the Iranian ballistics strike the area. And I'm saying, okay, those people in the surrounding area have all suffered TBIs. Clearly, they all suffered traumatic. So I believe that we'll find out that there were thousands, thousands of US service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries that are being covered up. Thousands is the number. We learned about these eight on board this tanker, but to me, it further proves my thesis that if you're saying these are non-serious injuries and that people are and the service members are back back to back on duty no i mean this is a very serious traumatic brain injury and so i think there's a deeper cover-up going on well that's what i got right now i'll be doing more videos throughout the morning check back every 90 minutes or so of course a new video here in the minus touch note thanks for watching we appreciate you we're grateful for you oh can you do me a favor if you haven't ordered it yet, can you pre-order WTF America, The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy?
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