Trump Spirals as Christmas Blows Up in His Face

25 Dec 2025 · 16 min · 6 chapters

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In short

The episode argues that Donald Trump is “melting down” around Christmas and ties it to alleged government noncompliance in the Epstein case. It claims the DOJ confirmed “over a million” missing Epstein-related documents from SDNY, after the hosts’ reporting, and argues the government likely has “5 to 10 million” records not produced. It highlights Trump’s Christmas Eve phone calls with children in Palm Beach, including remarks about “clean, beautiful coal,” “tracking Santa,” and praising states he says he “won,” plus comments about “high IQ” children and a “Pinball Wizard” reference. It cites Nielsen ratings for the Kennedy Center Honors (2.65M viewers, down 35% YoY).

Guests

none named in the transcript; it mentions Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia and Ro Khanna, but they are not interviewed.

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Trump's Christmas Meltdown

1:24 to 2:27

Discussion on Trump's reaction during Christmas and missing documents.

“It really began a long time ago, actually.”

Trump's Christmas Message

2:27 to 4:00

Analyzing Trump's Christmas message and its implications.

“of you for supporting that editorial team.”

Calls with Children

4:00 to 5:31

Discussion on Trump's calls with children and his behavior.

“At the White House, Donald Trump just couldn't behave normal.”

Inappropriate Remarks to Kids

5:31 to 7:44

Highlighting Trump's strange comments during children's calls.

“While Donald Trump was taking these calls from children, he said that we track Santa.”

Trump's Ratings and Impact

7:44 to 9:12

Review of Trump's declining ratings and media coverage.

“For me, I probably most want a Kindle this year.”

Missing Epstein Documents

9:12 to 13:32

Exploration of the missing documents related to the Epstein case.

“He recognized our reporting here on the Midas Touch network that broke open the story about the missing one million Epstein records.”
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1:23Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a massive meltdown on Christmas. It really began on Christmas Eve. It really began a long time ago, actually. But the Trump regime is now confessing, and I'll do a whole video on this soon, that there's actually over a million documents that are still missing from the Epstein file production. Remember what we reported yesterday morning here on the Midas Touch Network? We said that they were hiding at least a million documents out of the Southern District of New York. After we called them out and exposed it right here on the Midas Touch Network, the Trump regime through the DOJ confirmed that they were indeed concealing it.

2:01Ben Meiselas:They said they just found a million documents and now it's going to take many more weeks to go through. Well, I'm glad we had that impact reporting. A reminder, make sure you hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers here. You may think you're subscribed, but you're not subscribed. So please double check. Now, Donald Trump is part of this meltdown as he had to confess to these missing documents, which they now have to turn over. Thanks to the great editorial team here at Midas Touch and all of you for supporting that editorial team. Here's what Donald Trump posted yesterday. This was his Christmas message.

2:33Ben Meiselas:Merry Christmas to all, including the radical left scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our country, but are failing badly. We no longer have open borders, men and women's sports, transgender for everyone, or weak law enforcement. What we do have is a record stock market in 401ks, lowest crime number in decades, no inflation, he says, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected. Tariffs have given us trillions of dollars in growth and prosperity and the strongest national security we have ever had. We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God bless America, DJT.

3:11Ben Meiselas:We've never been respected less. There's never been a more dangerous time in the world other than since right before World War II and World War I. The United States has basically all but destroyed NATO and its alliances with Europe, with Canada, with Australia, and others. People are not prospering right now. Maybe Trump's right-wing oligarch billionaire friends are, but most Americans are struggling. He hasn't defeated inflation. You all know when you go to stores and you leave your home or even when you shop from home, that prices are far more expensive. He's destroyed manufacturing. He's destroyed the lives of farmers.

3:47Ben Meiselas:He's ripped away healthcare from 20 plus million Americans. And here he's spiking the football like America's doing great. I mean, this is such a horrific message, but I'll tell you what's more of a horrific message. At the White House, Donald Trump just couldn't behave normal. There's so many people are like, why can't you just behave like a normal person? Actually, not at the White House, in Palm Beach, which for all purposes, he's turned into the White House. Donald Trump was doing calls with little girls and little children. And he was asked about how he would get these calls. I'll just show you what he says here.

4:23Ben Meiselas:He goes, you sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Here, play this clip. How are you? I'm fine. You sound so beautiful and cute. How old are you? I'm eight. Wow. So smart. You sound so smart. Really, Donald? Really? And then Donald Trump says, where a kid says to him, I don't want coal in my stockings. Donald Trump says, oh, but I love clean, beautiful coal. Don't you want clean, beautiful coal? As him and Menta says, Trump wants children to know it's okay to get coal for Christmas. Here play this clip. What would you like Santa to bring?

5:07Not coal. Not coal. No, you don't want coal. Well, coal is, you mean clean, beautiful coal. I had to do that. I'm sorry. No, coal is clean and beautiful. Please remember that at all costs. But you don't want clean, beautiful coal, right? No. What would you like?

5:28Ben Meiselas:Yeah, and just what an unstable person here. While Donald Trump was taking these calls from children, he said that we track Santa. We want to make sure he's good and that he's not infiltrated and that he's not infiltrating our country with a bad Santa. Infiltrating again? Why can't you just behave normally on any day? This guy is unstable. He's deranged. He's physically declining. He's cognitively declining. Let's play this clip right here. Santa is a very good person. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a band Santa. So we found out that Santa is good.

6:08Santa loves you. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election. So I love Oklahoma. Don't ever leave Oklahoma.

6:18Ben Meiselas:Okay. And then when people would call in from different states, they'd be like, oh, I'm from Pennsylvania or this state. He would go, Pennsylvania. Great. We won Pennsylvania. We won Pennsylvania big. It was a landslide. It wasn't a landslide. And this is what you're speaking to children about. I mean, like he's literally unable to have a normal conversation with anyone, yet alone children. Here, play this clip. Hi, how are you? Thank you. Hi, Christmas, Mom. This is Crill. Hi, Crill. I'm from Pennsylvania. Right, I know. Pennsylvania is great. We won Pennsylvania. Actually three times, but we won Pennsylvania.

7:00We won it in a landslide. So I love Pennsylvania.

7:08Ben Meiselas:So Santa right now is in Copenhagen. Like this next child says they want a pinball machine and Donald Trump turns it completely weird and creepy. Here, play this clip. No pinball machine. No pinball. Pinball machine. That's great. You know Elton John? He did Pinball Wizard. We'll have to send you a copy of Pinball Wizard. Well, that sounds great, actually. So Santa's not gonna let you down. Santa is a good Santa. And then a child says that they want a Kindle, and then Donald Trump makes some weird statement about we need more high IQ individuals in this country. Let's play this clip. clip clip.

7:48For me, I probably most want a Kindle this year. You want what? A Kindle. Oh, wow. That's pretty good. You must be a high IQ person. We need more high IQ people in the country. So we definitely need more high IQ.

8:12Ben Meiselas:So get really bizarre behavior right there. We also got the ratings in from that Donald Trump Kennedy Center honors event, a all-time ratings low, just like Donald Trump's poll numbers, all-time low for a president. His ratings for the CBS Kennedy honors, all-time low. The preliminary Nielsen data shows only 2.65 million viewers tuned into the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1 million in 2024. a stunning 35 % year over year collapse. That's kind of a number that we're hearing, right? 35, 40 % collapse on everything. Or when it comes to prices like energy prices, a 15 to 20 % rise in energy prices.

9:01Ben Meiselas:Healthcare cost rises are going to be with the Affordable Care Act subsidies going away. That's going to be double, triple, quadruple. Really bad stuff right there. I want to thank Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. He recognized our reporting here on the Midas Touch network that broke open the story about the missing one million Epstein records. Garcia wrote, new media and organizations like Midas Touch are now critical to holding the administration accountable. Their reporting is making an impact. And he was responding to my post where I said, after our reporting, the DOJ just said it found over 1 million new documents from the SDNY.

9:47Ben Meiselas:This was the post from the DOJ where they say the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have now informed the DOJ that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Epstein case. Surprise. A day after I pointed it out that that existed, they go, oh, I guess they found it all of a sudden. Let's be very clear. They knew about this for a very long time. The email that I referenced was from 2020, where the SDNY lawyers in 2020 talked about 1.2 million records, records, not documents. So it could be far more actual documents or pages, depending on how records documents are defined.

10:28Ben Meiselas:And that was in 2020. And that was on just one hard drive. And that was just in the Epstein matter, not the Ghislaine matter, and not the Southern District of Florida matter. So there could potentially be, and I suggested based on my experience litigating massive document production cases, my views, there's probably five to 10 million records out there that have not been produced. It never made sense to me when they just said a few hundred thousand records, but check back in in 90 minutes. I'm going to do an entirely new video just on the Trump confession that there are these million documents.

11:06Ben Meiselas:And Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna said, okay, there's no more files. Case closed. Six months later, after Thomas Massey and my Epstein Transparency Act, there are now a million more files out there. Should also be noted, we've talked about this before, that the Trump White House has now taken over the DOJ social media account and is basically trolling on the DOJ account of reporters who point these things out and calling people names like dopes. As Thomas Massey said, DOJ did break the law by making illegal redactions and by missing the deadline. By the way, who's controlling the DOJ X account on Christmas Eve and using words like dope to refer to reporters?

11:51Ben Meiselas:I want to highlight, I like to highlight things that aren't getting enough attention as well. You want me to prove to you how the DOJ knew about these documents? Let me explain to you one of the ways. I mean, we know that they knew because they had it in the 2020 email. But if you look at this docket number, document 813, filed November 26, 2025, to Judge Engelmeyer. Judge Engelmeyer was one of the judges who the Trump regime requested release the grand jury transcripts. I did a lot of videos on how Judge Engelmeyer, remember back in the, I did videos in real time. Judge Engelmeyer was smart. He's a very smart guy in general, but he then requested that the DOJ respond and provide all of the categories of documents that it's aware of and that it's going to produce.

12:41Ben Meiselas:So I have a list here of what the DOJ claims it was going to produce and how they get this list. They clearly talked to the SDNY lawyers who told them that we have these documents and we have these records. So let me just go through this and what they have here. You'll see it says judicial processes obtained, financial records, travel records, grand jury subpoenas, records obtained from government agencies, school records, search warrant returns, immigration records, records relating to online purchases, postal and courier records, materials produced by the estate, driver's license. This one's a key one.

13:13Ben Meiselas:reports and notes of interviews of third parties and victims and certain communications relating to the same. So we know those documents have not been turned over. They've listed that those documents are in their possession and we don't have them. So those need to be produced. That's part of the violation of the law. And if you go back through a document, you got to dig in the weeds the way we do at the Midas Touch Network, document 813. So do me a favor, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. We appreciate you. We'll keep posting today. Thanks and have a 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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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump spiraling out of control on Christmas Eve and Christmas as every scandal involving him blows up in his face and the American people are sickened by his behavior.

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