Trump Sneaks Out of WH as Shutdown Disaster Grows

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0:26Ben Meiselas:I wrote a little song to remind you. Choice Hotels gets you more of the experiences you value. The Cambria Hotel's got it all. A rooftop bar, have a ball. Bring a date, your squad, or even your mom. Book direct at choicehotels.com. Donald Trump just snuck out of the White House to go play golf. His public calendar said that he had no public events scheduled, but the press caught him actually sneaking out of the White House to go golfing. We wrote about it this morning on the Midas Touch website. He was seen by a Los Angeles Times reporter sneaking out of the South Lawn area. The press was unable to actually see Donald Trump board the motorcade because the Secret Service was basically hiding him.

1:13Ben Meiselas:The motorcade departed at 9.57 a.m. Again, despite it not being disclosed on his public agenda, he obviously didn't want the optics of being seen golfing. during this government shutdown that he caused. He was also not seen exiting his vehicle when he arrived at his golf club. And again, he's clearly hiding from the press right here. This, as Donald Trump continues to post AI memes of himself and Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, as the Grim Reaper, that's the AI images of himself and Vogt as the Grim Reaper, holding bags of money, ostensibly stealing money from the taxpayers, taking away your health care, forcing you to be psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck in this disastrous Trump economy as everything is more expensive.

2:07Ben Meiselas:So while Donald Trump went golfing for the day, he sent his surrogates out. So you have the MAGA Republican senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst, and she was talking about how her farmers are absolutely suffering right now. But Donald Trump alone is the person who can fix the suffering that Donald Trump alone has created. Make that make sense. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Ernst. Here's what she had to say. Play this clip. As a member of the Agriculture Committee from Iowa, I just want to get your reaction to President Trump considering$10 billion in aid to assist American farmers due to these tariff tensions.

2:47Obviously, a lot of farmers in your state. What do you make of this? Yes, absolutely. Unfortunately, our farmers do need that assistance. They don't like it. They do consider it welfare. They want trade, not aid. And so we really need to see some of these new markets opening up around the globe. We need to see additional domestic consumption of our commodities like soybeans and corn. China is just not budging on this. And unfortunately, we've lost a lot of soybean contracts due to these elongated negotiations. But if there's anybody that can make a deal, it's President Trump. So we'll continue to hope for the best and we'll help our farmers where and how we can.

3:35Yeah. And again, hopefully we can save taxpayer dollars by getting the government reopened.

3:39Ben Meiselas:Oh, and Donald Trump's been sending all of his surrogates out while he's been playing golf. bringing back all of the old classic MAGA hits like your children are all becoming transgender because of the Democrats. Transgender everywhere, everybody. Let's just create a boogeyman in order to bully marginalized communities while Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans take away the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which basically takes away your health care plan. They gut and destroy Medicaid and they cut into your Medicare. Here's MAGA Republican Congress member Burchett this morning talking about the issues that I know are deeply pressing to all American people.

4:22Ben Meiselas:I'm being sarcastic, of course. Here play this clip. The Congress needs to outlaw this type of activity and it's really just a way to move kids' young minds. And the one thing we found out during COVID, we started looking over kids' shoulders at what their teachers, what they're getting from their schools. And these young Americans, these young children, we ought to have more control over are soaking this stuff up. And that's why you're seeing the explosion of transgender and all this. And to me, ma 'am, it's demonic. I'm a believer. I know you're a believer, but I believe this is from the pits of hell.

4:57And I thank you for being a working mom and you're a good mama. So thank you. I totally agree. It's good versus evil. And this is kids Netflix. And I'm thrilled to hear that you're going to call some of these guys before Congress to get some answers. Okay.

5:09Ben Meiselas:And then you have MAGA Mike Johnson, who was asked by Fox to their credit, at least Fox asked him, they said, look, lots of Americans are actually scared, MAGA Mike, because they're either on Medicare, Medicaid, or on an Affordable Care Act plan. And if those subsidies expire, a family that say is paying$300 a month is going to have to start paying about$900 a month. A family that's paying$8 ,000 a year is going to have to start paying about$24 ,000 a year, even if their overall income is about$85 ,000. So how are families making$65 ,000 a year to$85 ,000 a year going to be paying for their health insurance without the Affordable Care Act subsidies, where their insurance is now $24 ,000 a year, so more than a quarter, almost half of all of their annual income or so will be going to health care?

5:59Ben Meiselas:You realize that's unsustainable, Maga Mike, right? Here, play this clip. Morning in the Wall Street Journal, she talks about Republicans, healthcare, the policy and the messaging. Do you agree with her that the Republicans are weak, vulnerable on healthcare policy at this moment when a lot of Americans are saying they are worried about the high prices, but there's just very little discussion about why the prices are so high? Exactly, we're all concerned about that, but if they look at the facts, Republicans are the ones that are solving the problem. In the big, beautiful bill, when we put the reforms in for Medicaid, what we've done is brought down the premiums and we have eliminated the fraud, waste and abuse.

6:39The CBO is the analyst that just put that out August 25th. Go look it up. And they said the CBO is not a Republican group. They're the neutral arbiters here. And they say the Republicans are right, because what we did was save one hundred and eighty five billion dollars of waste and abuse in the program with our reforms. and we're going to get 2.3 ineligible recipients off of that. That's those illegal aliens. That's the young, able-bodied men who are siphoning resources. But what about people who are not on Medicaid, people who are either on the Obama exchanges or are worried they're going to lose their employee-sponsored health insurance?

7:12Yes, we have a lot of reforms that we need to push through, but the answer is not to grow government and further subsidize insurance companies, which is exactly what those subsidies do. It doesn't help bring premiums down. We've got to do it for the people, not for the insurance companies. That's a pretty important decision. Sir, thank you for your time. Appreciate you coming on. I don't know, what are you getting, like three hours of sleep a night?

7:33Ben Meiselas:Oh, and while Donald Trump's out there golfing while the government is shut down, while the American people are suffering, while it seems like Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are actually giddy about the shutdown because this is their way to inflict pain on the American people and to really own the libs by shutting down the government and making people suffer. We also have been reporting that Donald Trump's spiritual advisor, Yep, Donald Trump's top spiritual advisor, a guy by the name of Robert Morris, pled guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl. Doesn't it seem like everybody who Donald Trump hangs out with abuses little girls?

8:10Ben Meiselas:I mean, doesn't it kind of seem that there's a lot of people in that inner circle that is doing that right next to Donald Trump? Well, in any event, when you're friends with Donald Trump, guess what you get? like Epstein, the sweetheart deal. So Robert Morris will only be doing six months in jail for sexually abusing a 12 year old girl. Look, Americans are absolutely pissed at what's going on right now. You look at all of the polls that are taking one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine polls, national polls, including very right wing leaning pollsters like Rasmussen. And overwhelmingly in all of these polls, from a margin of 11 to 25, Americans are blaming Republicans and Donald Trump for the government shutdown, as they should.

8:59Ben Meiselas:They caused the shutdown. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in a government system, which depends on talking to the other side, reaching consensus and agreement, they said, we refuse to speak to Democrats. Do not talk to Democrats. You don't need to speak to Democrats at all, let alone negotiate. Don't talk to them. The White House put out an official statement, what was it, a week and a half ago, in response to reporters saying, hey, we're approaching the shutdown. Democrats really want to address the healthcare crisis in America because Americans are about to lose their Affordable Care Act subsidies, which means tens of millions of Americans will lose their health care and potentially die or go medically bankrupt or both in the process.

9:46Ben Meiselas:So what's your response? Remember what the White House said? Go fuck yourself was a direct quote. I'm not being hyperbolic. And you know, I don't like cursing on this show. But the direct quote from the White House was go go F yourself. Just so I can show you here was the video of Donald Trump from what was this three weeks ago? Three weeks ago, Donald Trump said, we don't need to speak with Democrats at all. No, we'll just push the CR ourselves. All we need is Republicans. He goes, I've told the Republicans, don't talk to the Democrats. Here, let's just watch this clip. How does President Trump deal with the government?

10:21Well, we have to get Republican votes. If we do, we have the majority. So we have to get - But don't you have to get 60, don't you? No, we're going to do a probably continuing resolution or we're going to do something. So we're going to do something that - Here's the problem. The Democrats have they're sick. There's something wrong with them. Schumer is, you know, at the end of the rope, he's he's going to be defeated in the next election. If you gave them every dream right now, every dream that they've you know, they want to give away money to this and that and that destroy the country. If you gave them every dream, they would not vote for it.

10:59That's how I told don't even bother. Don't even bother dealing with them. We will get it through because the Republicans are sticking together for the first time in a long time. Look, we got the big, I got the big, the great, big, beautiful.

11:12Ben Meiselas:And then you have MAGA Republican cabinet members like Lee Zeldin out there. As I said, they're giddy about this, like they're enjoying the shutdown. They're enjoying the suffering. Here you have Lee Zeldin saying, look, Democrats, if you don't agree to just do whatever we want without us compromising with you at all, which is actually helping the American people because Republican constituents are on Affordable Care Act plans and Medicaid and Medicare also. So, I mean, I understand they're so detached from reality because they live in Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago world with all the rich oligarch right-wing billionaires.

11:50Ben Meiselas:But like American people, right-wing, left-wing, center, like depend on these plans. But anyway, you'll see like they're giddy. Like here's Lee Zeldin, Trump's cabinet member, EPA head. And he's like, oh, we're going to make the sombreros bigger. You don't want us to make the AI sombreros bigger. Donald Trump keeps posting AI images of Democratic leader Jeffries wearing sombreros. And I've been liking, I don't know what you think. I've actually been liking Democratic leader Jeffries' responses lately. He's like, it's weird. Like, OK, you know, it's weird that you're doing that. But let's go meet in front of the American people with the cameras on anywhere, anytime, any place and let's show the American people what's going on.

12:34Ben Meiselas:You're lying Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans by saying we Democrats are fighting for billions or trillions or anything of dollars for health care to go to unlawful migrants or undocumented migrants. Medicare, Medicaid money, ACA subsidies, they don't go to undocumented migrants. So just stop lying about that. By the way, if you want to speak the truth about EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment Act, about do our hospitals demand your paperwork, whether you're a citizen or not, in an emergency room setting where people could die, there's a law going back to Ronald Reagan that says emergency room physicians treat people who arrive at the emergency room, then we should probably pay them.

13:19Ben Meiselas:Don't you think we should pay the doctors after they provide a medical service? So if you want to have that conversation, right? We could have like a legitimate adult conversation, but stop saying that Democrats trying to fund billions of dollars or trillions of dollars for unlawful migrants. That's not true. And by the way, the American people aren't buying it. You know who else isn't buying it? Republicans. The latest YouGov poll shows that only 22 % of Republicans, Republicans only 22 percent of Republicans believe that Democrats are actually wanting unlawful migrants to go and get health care.

13:56Ben Meiselas:And that's what this shutdown is about. So just think about that. Anyway, here's Lee Zeldin being deeply unserious. Play this clip. And you know, well, when making these decisions, you analyze authorities, legal risk. Yes. And then you make decisions. And it is a door that is opened by Democrats continuing this shutdown. Yes. Not only are the sombreros going to grow 10 feet higher on President Trump's social media accounts. But the powers of these agency heads administering the president's agenda and directives, it only gets easier. All right, you're doing a bang-off job. Thank you, Larry. Lee Zeldin, thank you.

14:30Ben Meiselas:So then the MAGA Republicans post images of the DNC donkey logo wearing a sombrero. They find that funny. So the DNC responds with the RNC elephant logo saying, pedophile protectors. Let me just share with you this moment, though. Here's the moment where the MAGA Republicans decided that they were going on a paid vacation this weekend. And then this whole week, not just this weekend, all week. MAGA Republicans are saying that they're not working. MAGA Mike Johnson ordered the House of Representatives closed next week. vacation he said during a shutdown they're going on a paid vacation just think about how wild that is how how how just disappointing and dangerous and and evil that is here play this clip of what went down on the house floor let's play it the chair lays before the house of communication

15:26the speaker's rooms washington dc october 3rd 2025 i hereby designate the period from tuesday October 7th, 2025 through Monday, October 13th, 2025 as a district work period under clause 13 of rule one. Signed sincerely, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

15:50Ben Meiselas:And then finally, we know that Donald Trump's main focus here right now is golden ballroom, more gold in the White House,$1 Donald Trump coin with his face on it, even though it's illegal to have coins with your face on it if you're still alive in the United States Treasury. And nobody's asking for this, but Donald Trump is pushing dollar coins with his face, putting his face on American currency. UFC matches on the White House lawn, being driven around in golden carriages in the United Kingdom. I mean, how utterly ridiculous is all of this when I show it to you? By the way, here's what Hakeem Jeffrey says.

16:33Ben Meiselas:He goes, look, at the end of the day, we're fighting for Democrats. We're fighting for Republicans. We're fighting for independents. We're fighting for human beings. If you're on a health care plan, we are fighting for the American people right now. And the American people know what's going to happen if their Affordable Care ARAC subsidies are removed. And if their Medicaid's taken away, if their Medicare is gutted. Anyway, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million. Have a good day. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more.

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