Trump Spirals on Disaster Saturday as Missiles Hit

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0:43Ben Meiselas:Come on! and lots of areas in Ukraine was knocked out for hours and hours and hours. And Donald Trump's response is, you just got to let them fight. Let them fight it out. Donald Trump went from, I will bring peace in 24 hours to let them fight it out. By the way, here's what Donald Trump looked like in the Oval Office before he left to go to Mar-a-Lago this weekend, while we now see what's taking place in international affairs in Ukraine. Take a look at Donald Trump. Remember on the left when he was making fun of disabled persons and that's how he ran the campaign? Well, the tables have turned, Donald.

1:21Ben Meiselas:And before Donald left, this was actually Donald Trump before he left. He was in the White House. He was like passing out, sleeping. None of the corporate news covered it. Of course, we cover it here on the Midas Touch Network. And then when Donald Trump was in Mar-a-Lago today, here's what he posted this morning. He goes, I'm recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars currently being sent to money sucking insurance companies in order to save the bad health care provided by Obamacare. Then he puts this in caps, be sent directly to the people so that they can purchase their own much better health care and have money left over.

2:01Ben Meiselas:In other words, take from the big bad insurance companies, give it to the people and terminate per dollar spent the worst health care anywhere in the world, Obamacare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the filibuster exclamation point. And Donald Trump will be like, you see, this is what my plan is. We're going to eliminate all insurance companies, give people a few thousand dollars and then we're all good. Hey, Donald, we remember. What was it? Five months ago, when Doge existed, or no one talks about Doge anymore, remember the Doge dividend checks? Everybody was going to get$5 ,000. Remember, was it a month ago?

2:44Ben Meiselas:The tariff rebate checks were bringing in so much money, trillions of dollars, that everybody's going to get a tariff rebate check. Lie after lie after lie. It's just fraud from a two-bit con artist. As Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says, this is unsurprisingly nonsensical. Is he suggesting we just eliminate health insurance, get rid of everybody's insurance altogether, and then give people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis, they just go bankrupt because they can't afford the procedure? He is so deeply unserious. That's why we are shut down and America knows it.

3:25Ben Meiselas:And here's what he was doing last night. He was walking out with like his hands looking actually like freaking Frankenstein around Mar-a-Lago, like yelling at people. It was such a bizarre sight to see. And then he has people like this there at Mar-a-Lago. I don't even know what the hell was going on at Mar-a-Lago last night. You had women who were dressed like this. I kid you not, this is a real photo. This is different from what happened last weekend when they had the half-naked women in the martini glasses. This is what's going on right now. And by the way, Democrats made a very serious offer, one that probably frustrated a lot of Democrats at first to these MAGA Republicans, but they called their bluff when it comes to the government shutdown.

4:10Ben Meiselas:Democrats said, look, we want the Affordable Care Act subsidies to be permanently extended because we need Americans to be able to afford their health insurance. If you extended the tax cuts for the billionaires permanently, so should the subsidies for the affordable care. But the Democrats said, look, let's do a one year extension on the subsidies and then let's publicly come up with a bipartisan commission and then let's offer solutions to the American people. Then let's have a vote on a date certain next year. By the way, good timing in the sense that it would take place right before the midterm elections so Americans can see which side as serious about a health care plan.

4:51Ben Meiselas:But let's not force Americans to lose their health care coverage right now. And then all of the MAGA Republicans, though, in response to Democrats, just say, do a one year ACA subsidy extension, one year extension of these Affordable Care Act subsidies. Republicans were like, nope, we're never going to do that. Why would we do that at all? That's ridiculous. I mean, here's Lindsey Graham saying, and I just want you to hear it for yourself so you know what I'm talking about. Here, play this clip. Can we ask you about this new Democrat offer? What do you make of the one-year ACA? Terrible, horrible.

5:26I'm not going to keep giving taxpayer dollars to the five largest healthcare insurance companies under Obamacare to get the government open.

5:37Ben Meiselas:And then here's another MAGA Republican senator saying it. So again, you can hear it for yourself. Let's play this clip right here. Senator, it's great to see you. Great to have you on the show tonight. tonight. Let me ask you, will you accept this terrific offer by Chuck Schumer tonight? No, Laura, that's a non-starter. What Chuck Schumer is asking us to do is to give$25 billion to criminals every year and$35 billion to insurance companies every year. That's what it's costing American taxpayers right now to partially fund Obamacare. So that's a non-starter. And that's why here we are setting, should we break the filibuster or not?

6:15I think that's the conversation that Republicans should be having right now.

6:19Ben Meiselas:Okay, so that's the position of these MAGAs right now, while Americans are terrified that they're going to be losing their healthcare. And right now, we're living in a period where Americans can't afford things, okay? I mean, Americans go to the grocery store and the supermarket and they see the groceries are unaffordable. Americans can't afford their rent right now. Everything's going up. Inflation is surging as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. And Donald Trump's message before he left to go to Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayer dime again, that we're paying for all of those stupid trips, is that affordability is a con job.

6:57Ben Meiselas:He goes, it's all one big con. It's not real. Affordability is a con. Just so you could hear him in his own words. Here's what he said. Here, play this clip. Hey, that's a big number because Walmart's respected. I mean, Walmart is Walmart And, you know, they're giving you prices. So that would mean that the whole series of pricing and costs, you know, the groceries and everything else. It was a con job. It was a con job. Affordability, they call it, was a con job by the by the Democrats. The Democrats are good at a few things, cheating on elections and conning people with facts that aren't true.

7:33It was 25 percent. Walmart just announced it two days ago. 25 percent cheaper this year will be cheaper to have Thanksgiving than it was a year ago under Sleepy Joe Biden.

7:46Ben Meiselas:And then, by the way, you know, you have the Trump regime filing emergency motions to block the stat payments to the beneficiaries and then they brag about it. Let me just read to you what Attorney General Pam Bondi said last night. Within hours to go before the TRO compliance clock runs and the First Circuit waiting to deny immediate relief until a minute ago, we have filed an emergency stay application in the Supreme Court requesting immediate relief. Just so you know what that means, she's saying we rushed to the Supreme Court to block the payments of SNAP to the beneficiaries because the regime doesn't want people to get SNAP benefits.

8:30Ben Meiselas:The United States government, our taxpayer dollars,$40 billion just went to Argentina. $40 billion. By the way, it's like$37 billion to pay for the entire Affordable Care Act for an entire year. But$40 billion we sent to Argentina. And the SNAP benefits would be for the next month or so would be like, what,$5 or$6 billion. And that money exists in a temporary fund. And we have more than enough money to fund SNAP right now. fun snap. I mean, the Trump regime did what, a trillion dollar military budget, 173 additional billion dollars to the ICE Gestapo. By the way, here's what J.D. Vance said, just so you could hear it in your own words, when he was attacking the courts, the lower courts, for ordering the Trump regime pay people the snap benefits.

9:19Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. Look, Jackie, it's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government. Of course, then we can fund SNAP and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we can't have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation. We're trying to keep as much turned on. We're trying to keep as much going as possible. The president and the entire administration are working on that, but we're not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge.

9:54We're going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law, of course, but also to actually make the government work for people in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.

10:05Ben Meiselas:Now, I find this interesting as well. And it's so important that we have accurate, credible media diets right now because there's so much disinformation from the Trump regime. You remember when J.D. Vance said that he hoped that his Hindu wife converts to Christianity and then this sparked this massive debate. And why would you say that? I mean, you want your wife to, the whole thing is very, very, is a strange comment. Well, only 4 % of right-wing of like the coverage came from right-wing media on this. So it just shows you that like the right-wing media is always going to cover up for MAGA and they always want to just give MAGA's base the kind of red meat that just pisses them off, but they don't want to ever look critically at their own people.

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12:41Ben Meiselas:Thank you, Ground News. By the way, I started this video by showing you the latest Russia attack, drone attack, ballistic missile attack on Ukraine, killing at least six. Remember what Donald Trump's statement about Ukraine is now? When he was asked, hey, you promised that you would stop the war in Ukraine by Russia. On day one, Trump's response was, I'm just being sarcastic. Here, play this clip. I'm not understating the complexity of all this, but as a candidate, you said you would have this war settled in 24 hours. Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that. I would, what I really mean is I'd like to - And then what Donald Trump now says is not only was he joking, LOL, LMAO, like he finds that funny that you said you were going to end a war on day one.

13:31Ben Meiselas:And now you acted like that was a standup comedy routine. Like what a sick human being you are. Now he goes, let them fight. I think that they should fight is what he says. It doesn't affect us in the United States, he says. He's like, the way I talk to Xi Jinping doesn't affect them. So it doesn't affect us. Let them fight. Hey, Donald, you idiot. Let me be very clear what's going on in China. There's a reason why China is supporting Russia and that they have a deal to get the Russian oil and why there's more that's going on there. If you just read your freaking intelligence briefs, you would know the support that China is giving to Russia as you are out here saying, let them fight.

14:11Ben Meiselas:Let them fight. So idiotic. Here, play this clip of Donald Trump saying, let them fight. Here, play this clip. Work together to see if we can get something done. We agree that the sides are locked in fighting and sometimes you have to let them fight, I guess. Crazy. But he's going to help us and we're going to work together when you agree. There's not a lot more we can do. He's been buying oil from Russia for a long time. It takes care of a big part of China. And, you know, I can say India's been very good on that front. But we didn't really discuss the, we discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished.

14:55You know, it doesn't affect China. It doesn't affect us.

14:58Ben Meiselas:You know, and meanwhile, you have all these mega sycophants like Nancy Mace. This is a real post from Nancy Mace. I have to tell you, last night I had the most incredible conversation with the president. I've never been more proud. I told him, I love you. I told him I love him. America loves you. We love you. I mean, these MAGA people are the most pathetic people imaginable. And I want to share this with you as well. So right now in military bases across the country, guess what they're selling? They're selling Trump wine at military bases and Trump cider. He's forcing military bases to sell Trump products.

15:40Ben Meiselas:At the same time, over two dozen, the New York Times did a good report on this, of our top generals and admirals have been fired, demoted, pushed aside, put on leave by freaking war criminal Pete Hegseth, a former Weekend Fox host who's now leading the Defense Department. He fired two dozen of our top people, including a leader at Central Command, the former head of the Navy SEALs for promoting diversity got pushed out. The freaking head of the Navy SEALs got pushed out. And instead, the big initiatives by Hegseth and Trump are bring Trump apple cider or cider and Trump wine into military bases.

16:25Ben Meiselas:I mean, can you get more pathetic than that? Actually, you can. Because Fox did a whole special where they gave their Patriot Awards. And here's Sean Hannity with his face dyed orange, giving Melania Trump the Patriot of the Year Award. And by the way, you know how Trump says, well, the stock market's doing good. The stock market's doing good. First off, the stock market is not the American people. All the economists talk about this K-shaped economy, K, because one line goes up and one line goes all the way down. And billionaires are doing well, while the American people are in a recession, a great recession, or perhaps even a depression right now, based on what, over a million jobs lost in the first three, three and a half quarters.

17:09Ben Meiselas:Worse, basically as bad as the great recession, worse than any other time since then. I mean, we have right now, I mean, recession and manufacturing. Trump screwed over the farmers. I mean, it's absolutely horrific. But this past week, you saw a major drop in the stock market as well. Very volatile, especially as AI stocks plunged. You had what OpenAI saying that they want the United States government to serve as a backstop for their debt and guarantee the debt and also to fund all of their expansion. Seriously? Seriously, while the American people are starving to death, while the Trump regime is blocking SNAP payments and ripping away people's health care, and where the Republicans look at an offer, just extend the ACA subsidies for one year.

17:57Ben Meiselas:And Republicans say that's a non-starter, while Donald Trump in the morning is making these idiotic posts about, let's just get rid of, let's just give people a few thousand dollars, and then they'll be great. Let me give you the actual idea what we should do, Donald idiot. Let me explain it for you and spell it out. We should have universal health care in the United States. It should be free. Instead of having a$1 trillion budget for freaking military and supporting that defense industrial complex, it doesn't need to be$1 trillion, okay? It could probably be about$500 to$600 billion. Instead of rich people putting their money in tax havens and giving them, what, 100 % deductions on private jets and all of these tax benefits for yachts and private jets.

18:43Ben Meiselas:Make them pay their fair share. And you know what? Make them pay a little bit more if they're billionaires. Make them pay a little bit more. Then guess what? All Americans can have freaking healthcare for free like all the other countries. By the way, including Argentina, who we just bailed out for$40 billion. Despicable Trump regime. Despicable. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. And thank you for watching.

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