In short
Calls for Donald Trump’s impeachment immediately after his return from a “disastrous” China trip; broader claims about U.S. weakness abroad, economic impacts, and escalating tensions with Iran/Strait of Hormuz, plus political polling about Latino voters.
Guests (named)
None. The episode mainly uses clips and commentary from C-SPAN callers, CNN’s Harry Enten, and a MAGA Republican member on C-SPAN (Mike Hardopolis is named in transcript). It also references Marco Rubio, Alkencloss (Democratic member), and Iran’s foreign minister Aragchi via clips.
Key claims
Trump’s China trip harmed U.S. interests (lost deals, wiped out ~$2T wealth); Putin will make deals with Xi; Trump is weak on China and NATO; possible renewed U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran; Trump trades stocks (Palantir) while praising them; Latino support has collapsed (CNN: 28% approval, -18 points).
Notable examples
“Impeach 8647” written in grass at Bedminster; C-SPAN callers citing lies/war/gas prices; C-SPAN congressman blaming Biden for inflation and Keystone; Iranian “can’t trust Americans” remarks; Strait of Hormuz vessel traffic “largely absent.”
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 Return and Impeachment Calls
5:10 to 6:10
Discussion on Trump's return from China and calls for his impeachment.
“the United States and say that America is a nation in decline.”
Disastrous Trip and C-SPAN Reactions
6:10 to 8:00
Exploration of Trump's China trip and reactions from former supporters.
“he brought with him about$2 trillion, not in the positive direction, as Donald Trump would say, in the negative direction.”
Trump's Decline and Public Perception
8:00 to 8:52
Key insights into how Trump's actions have led to a decline in public support.
“Picked a kinetic war with Iran this year, lost it.”
Global Impact of Trump's Policies
8:52 to 11:05
Analysis of Trump's foreign policies and their repercussions on global relations.
“So he's attacking Poland now, of all places.”
Latino Voter Shift Against Trump
11:05 to 14:00
Discussion on the significant decline in support from Latino voters for Trump.
“So the most important issue right now is the question of trust.”
Decline of Trump's Support Among Latino Voters
14:00 to 15:30
Explore the significant drop in Donald Trump's approval ratings among Latino voters and its implications.
“He won a record share for a Republican presidential nominee.”
Congressman Responds to Voter Concerns
15:30 to 18:23
Listen to a congressman's responses regarding gas prices and the economy amidst voter criticism.
“Then you had MAGA Republican Congress member Hardopolis.”
Debate on Energy Policy and Geopolitical Threats
18:23 to 20:24
Discuss the implications of U.S. energy production and the geopolitical threats posed by Iran.
“We'll go to Roger Lawrenceville, Georgia, an independent.”
Calls for Trump's Impeachment
20:24 to 20:53
Examine the public's growing calls for the impeachment of Donald Trump and the political landscape around it.
“One more time, let's show that what went up in New Jersey.”
Transcript
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3:14Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump arrived back to the United States after his disastrous trip to China and he was instantly greeted by calls for his impeachment right next to his Bedminster New Jersey golf course somebody put in the grass 8647 on it and said impeach 8647 impeach Donald Trump right now And it's intended for Donald Trump to see it right as he's flying over his golf course. Now, Donald Trump's trip to China was an absolute disaster. I've been covering it all week. I'll get to that in a second. But the phone lines at C-SPAN have been flooded as former Trump supporters are calling in saying, we regret our vote.
3:56Ben Meiselas:We need to get this guy out of here. We need to impeach him immediately. Watch this moment where the C-SPAN host asked the caller, So what was it that made you finally break with Trump? Here, let's watch this clip. Robert, when you said you drank the Kool-Aid, what was it about President Trump that appealed to you initially? And what was it that made you break with him? I mean, just seeing the lies. He put us in a war. All Donald Trump wants right now is for clean face. He wants the Strait of Hormuz open. Guess what? But before he went there, it was open. And the gas prices were beautiful. I mean, everything this man touches.
4:40He's putting up gold statues of himself. I mean, when are people going to wake up? Now, I drank the Kool-Aid. How did I drink the Kool-Aid? I can't even answer that. I don't know if it was those stupid rallies I went to. Those stupid, look it. I got rid of my Make America Great Again hat, okay? I got rid of that. I can't even believe I wore that hat. So that's where I'm at.
5:31Ben Meiselas:the United States and say that America is a nation in decline. Here's what Donald Trump said here. Play this clip. Destroying our country and we have to stop. And, you know, President Xi said something yesterday. He talked about and he wasn't referring to the last 15 months. He talked about America is a nation in decline. And I said, you're right. But he wasn't talking about because he said what you've done in 14, 15 months is. a miracle. Really? That's what you're saying? That you allowed Xi Jinping to attack the United States and you told them you agreed with it also? When Donald Trump returned to the United States, he brought with him about$2 trillion, not in the positive direction, as Donald Trump would say, in the negative direction.
6:19Ben Meiselas:Positive in the negative direction. Donald Trump wiped out$2 trillion of wealth from the stock market as he was unable to make any deals and as he made the United States look utterly pathetic. Also, we are learning that Vladimir Putin will be heading to China to actually make real deals with Xi Jinping on May 19th and May 20th. As soon as Donald Trump left, Vladimir Putin said he's going to be showing up and he will be there in China. Now, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump's secretary of state. He's like boasting that China, he's like, China's doing what I would be doing. They want to be the dominant power.
7:00Ben Meiselas:I get it. I get why they did that. I get why they did that. Yeah, Marco Rubio, you and your despicable regime were so weak and pathetic and were utterly outplayed by China. Here, play this clip. And China now dominates that market. So I always said it, and I always said it when I was in the Senate. China's doing what I would do if I were Chinese, and now we're a Chinese leader. They They are trying to dominate the world and all these key industries of the future. We may not like it, but that's what they're going to do because they're acting in their best interest. We have to act in our best interest.
7:29I'm the secretary of state of the United States. And before that, as you pointed out, a senator for the United States.
7:33Ben Meiselas:And by the way, here's how Democratic Congress member Alkencloss describes it. And I fully agree with what he's saying right here. Here, let's play this clip. This is the first time since World War Two where a president has been in a room and it wasn't clear who the most powerful person in that room was. And that is a statement about how badly this president has mishandled his strategic calculations. He picked a trade war with China last year, lost it. Picked a kinetic war with Iran this year, lost it. And now his loss of power and prestige has been evident by the fact that he is in a room with a bunch of tech titans and Xi Jinping, and arguably all of them actually have more power and influence than he does over the grand current events that are dictating American life right now.
8:19Ben Meiselas:Now, Foreign Minister Aragchi of Iran, who had been at the BRICS meeting, the big Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa organization, which has lots of other members as well, which is supposed to be like the alternative to NATO as Donald Trump destroys NATO, as Donald Trump also announced that he would be withdrawing 4 ,000 troops that were being deployed to Poland, a model ally of the United States, because the same way Donald Trump attacked Germany, he's attacking Poland. He's attacking NATO countries. He's attacking countries that are close to Russia to help Vladimir Putin, because Trump's a Putin bootlicker.
8:56Ben Meiselas:So he's attacking Poland now, of all places. At the BRICS meeting, as that concluded, in India, as Donald Trump alienates our relationship with India, you had Foreign Minister Iraq to Iran post the following message. Americans are told that they must absorb rocket in costs of war, of this war of choice on Iran. Put aside the gas price hike and the stock market bubble, real pain begins when U.S. debt and mortgage rates start to jump. Auto loan delinquencies are already at 30-year highs. This was all avoidable. You look at the 10-year treasury yields at 4.55%. That's the highest in what, 15, 16, 17 years.
9:41The 30-year yield, it's about 5%.
9:44Ben Meiselas:30-year-olds, over 5%. And the two-year yield is at 4%. That is not looking good. So what's Donald Trump doing? What's his regime doing? Well, according to the New York Times, citing two Middle Eastern officials, the US and Israel are preparing to possibly resume combat operations against Iran, possibly under a new name as early as next week. Per the New York Times report, options for targeting include what one official called more aggressive strikes against both military and infrastructure targets. Additionally, another option on the table is to use special forces to go in and extract highly enriched uranium from inside Iran.
10:23Ben Meiselas:However, per the report, this would need thousands of supporting troops and numerous other support elements to succeed. And the risks of such an operation are extremely high. But Donald Trump is an incredibly reckless and desperate and pathetic human being, and he has found himself in an escalatory trap. So we will see what happens there. Merchant vessel traffic in the area of the Strait of Hormuz continues to be largely absent over the last 24 hours. Less than five vessels were visible, transiting inbound or outbound, and all were using the Iranian traffic separation scheme. Now I'll show you what Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi had to say after the BRICS meeting about how we can't trust the Americans at all.
11:07Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. So the most important issue right now is the question of trust. We cannot trust Americans at all. So everything should be exact. Everything should be defined very clearly before we can conclude the deal. And it is obvious that those things they have not been able to achieve militarily, they cannot achieve on negotiation table. Unless there is a win-win solution achieved.
11:46So the current negotiation is suffering from the lack of trust. Or another problem is, as I said, contradictory messages, which has made us reluctant about the real intentions of Americans in these negotiations. We are in doubt about their seriousness, but the moment we feel that they are serious and they are ready for a fair and balanced deal, we certainly proceed in the course of negotiations.
12:22Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump's out there stock trading. We talked yesterday about Donald Trump making over 3 ,800 trades in the first quarter alone, making hundreds of millions of dollars in trades in the first quarter. Nvidia stock, Palantir stock, companies that he talks about all of the time. He bought individual stocks. We also learn now Trump bought shares of Palantir technology weeks before publicly praising the stock on Truth Social. The record showed Trump purchased between roughly$247 ,000 to$630 ,000 of Palantir stock in early 2026, including multiple buys in March. He later promoted the company in an April Truth Social post during a sharp sell-off of the tech stocks.
13:11Ben Meiselas:Also, we saw a massive amount of buying activity right around the war. But Energy Secretary Chris Wright from the Trump regime says, just wait, maybe the end of the summer will open up the straight-up from Moose. We'll see. Hear a play this clip. Of course, demand is growing too. price mechanism right now is going to is going to reduce the growth of of LNG this year. But that's a temporary interruption. Traffic will be flowing through the Straits of Hormuz, you know, as soon as we can, but certainly sometime this summer at latest. Now, speaking about voters who want him out, Harry Enten just talked about Latino voters.
13:50Ben Meiselas:This is Harry Enten over at CNN. Let's play this clip. Yeah, where are we now? What a different world. Oy vey, if I'm the president of the United States, because just take a look here. OK, Latino voters on Trump. He won a record share for a Republican presidential nominee. Forty six percent of that vote going all the way back since we had the advent of exit polls back in 1972. And look at where he is today. His job approval rating in an average of CNN polls this year, 28 percent. That is an 18 point drop. The bottom has completely fallen out when it comes to Donald Trump and Latino voters. He won record numbers of them back in 2024, and they have abandoned him with the utmost just dislike of what he is doing so far.
14:34Just 28 percent, a drop of 18 points. Now, among Latinos, it was Latino men who were driving this movement toward him in 2024. Where are they now? Yeah, you think that this movement is a lot. What about Latino men? Oh, my goodness gracious. OK, Latino male voters in the 2024 election versus Kamala Harris. Look at this. Trump won him by 10 points. Look at the net approval rating now, minus 41 points. That is a movement of 51 points, a shift away from the president of the United States. Latino male voters supercharged that record performance that Donald Trump had with Latino voters. And they, like Latino women, Latinas, are moving against the president of the United States, minus 41 points.
15:17Again, the bottom has just completely fallen out. And of course, when you look across that political map, there are so many races that will be involving a lot of Latino voters. And when you see numbers like this, I just go, oh, if I am a Republican running for Congress.
15:32Ben Meiselas:Then you had MAGA Republican Congress member Hardopolis. He was on C-SPAN. And here's what went down. Play this clip. We'll go to D in New York. Independent. You're talking with the congressman. Go ahead. Yeah. Hi, Mr. Congressman, Mr. Mike. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Mr. Congressman, I'd like to ask you, what did the president gain from China with Xi Jinping? Did he gain anything? And secondly, when the president came into office, he said he was going to make things lower for the American people. The economy was going to be gas-bust. It was not going to be above$3. I'm paying more than$5 for a gallon right now.
16:10And thirdly, Mr. Congressman, when the president came into office, Americans were respected around the world. I just came from Europe. In Europe, we are disrespected. A guy spat in my face in Luxembourg because of our actions around the world. America is no longer respected. And let me ask you a third question. Why is the president building a golden statue of himself and acting like he's Jesus Christ on the world's face, putting up portraits, acting as if though he's Christ? Okay, Danielle, jump in. We'll have the congressman respond. Well, let's just talk about gas prices first. Now, before this conflict with Iran, as everyone knows, gas prices were coming down.
16:50We're producing a heck of a lot more oil than we were in years past. We also know during the Biden years, this is, again, put this in perspective, we had the ability to build the Keystone Pipeline. They killed it. They also took about 40 percent of the strategic oil reserve out during the Biden years. And so gas prices were down. Of course, during this conflict right now, they are up. But that's why we need to win this conflict to make sure it's not just a straight up or moves, but all sea lanes are open. But I would point to a couple of things that the viewer might have forgotten. We had 9 % inflation.
17:20It's under 3 % today. If you owe more than half the American public owns a 401k, the stock market is at record levels, meaning your retirement fund is a heck of a lot better off. We are seeing massive investment in the United States like never before. I think the number is up to like$18 trillion. So, yes, we are going through a tough time on gas prices. I'll readily admit that. But in the long term, what are we doing? We're offsetting some of that with the new oil productions that's going to come out of Venezuela and the increased oil production that's coming out of the United States today. Just to give some perspective to the viewer, because I can see he's not the biggest fan of the president, is that we used to produce a little bit less than 9 million barrels a day in America.
17:59Today, we produce almost 14 million barrels a day. Things are changing. I want to be less reliant in the Middle East. I want to have it where we have more friends. That's why the relationship with Venezuela is going to be very important. Because as you know, the largest oil reserve in the world is not in the Middle East. It's actually in Venezuela. This is from the New York Times, an interesting piece about Asia's dependence on the Middle East.
18:20Ben Meiselas:And another clip of Hardopolis on C-SPAN. Let's play this clip right here. We'll go to Roger Lawrenceville, Georgia, an independent. Good morning. Morning, Roger. You're smart. Good morning. I know you're a smart guy, former educator. Why do you guys continue to parrot Trump's crazy Fox News talking points when I know you have to know right from wrong? There's just no way. Give us an example, Roger. Give us a specific example. For example, the nine percent inflation under Biden. You know, that was covid. Like, come on. Gas prices. Presidents don't affect gas prices unless they're stupid enough to start a war in the Middle East.
19:03OK, so Trump, Biden, neither one of them controlled it. It had to do with starting wars. And that's why we're dealing with these gas prices. And, you know, your own intelligence said there was no way they were close to a nuclear weapon. But yet you come on TV and you say the same thing. And you guys only find a spine when you're saying you're going to retire. Come on. I know you have to know better. Well, let's get a response. Congressman Herodopoulos. Well, it's always nice to have strong opinions. They might not be backed up with fact, but this actually has some strong opinions. Look, all I can say is gas prices went down dramatically because we're producing more oil.
19:37We're creating those new opportunities around the world. Venezuela is going to help us in the long term. But the threat of Iran is real. And you don't have to listen to me or President Trump, Roger. Listen to people like the senator from Connecticut. The Democrat, Murphy, was talking about this very issue just a few months ago. People on MSNBC were saying the president wasn't tough enough on Iran. Now they're switching lanes. It's called politics. We really believe that a nuclear Iran is a true threat. They obviously were trying to upgrade their uranium to create a weapon. And they've been lying for years now as we found out that they have the ability to fire missiles over 2000 miles away.
20:13I consider that a major threat where it's a short term challenge, but it'll be a long term success for America and the world if we take these folks out of the ability to project power.
20:24Ben Meiselas:One more time, let's show that what went up in New Jersey. Impeach, it says 86-47. Impeach right as Donald Trump's landing by his New Jersey golf course. That's what he will see. We'll keep you posted every step of the way, folks. But American people want Donald Trump out. They want this guy impeached. They want him done. They want him removed. 25th Amendment. Impeach him. Get him out. hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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