Trump Suffers Birthday Disaster with Total Crash Out

13 Jun 2026 · 18 min · 7 chapters

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In short

The episode is a political commentary claiming Donald Trump’s birthday plans around the Kennedy Center “backfired” as his name was removed after a court-ordered deadline. The host alleges Trump violated court orders by building scaffolding to “cover up” the removal, citing a Kennedy Center executive director’s declaration that thunderstorms delayed work until early June 13. It also claims the White House UFC event could be dangerous due to projected storms/tornado warnings and mentions a reported pilot complaint about unusually bright UFC lighting. The episode further discusses alleged “Trump and Steen” island controversy in Albania, protests, and claims Iran involvement via statements attributed to Albanian PM Edi Rama. Key examples: Kennedy Center signage scaffolding; UFC lighting near Reagan National; Albania island takeover protests.

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Trump's Birthday Disaster

0:30 to 1:21

A discussion about Donald Trump's recent public humiliation and the symbolic significance of his actions ahead of his birthday.

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Trump's Birthday Disaster

1:30 to 6:10

A discussion about Donald Trump's recent public humiliation and the symbolic significance of his actions ahead of his birthday.

“Donald Trump is facing sudden disaster, utter humiliation before the entire world.”

Iran Negotiations and Trump's Influence

6:10 to 10:58

Analyzing Trump's potential deal with Iran and the implications for U.S. foreign policy.

“He's now putting out statements accusing Iran of doing this.”

UFC and Safety Concerns

10:58 to 14:00

Discussion on the safety concerns raised by a UFC event being held at the White House.

“You can see how this will add up very quickly, hundreds of billions of dollars being given to Iran at the end of this.”

Trump's Focus Amidst National Struggles

14:00 to 14:48

Discussion on Trump's priorities versus the struggles of Americans.

“And then again, going back to the symbolism of this all, I'll leave you with this.”

Trump's Focus vs. Public Issues

14:48 to 15:00

Contrasting Trump's focus on regilding statues with the struggles of the American public.

“We're getting the statues regilded right now.”

Trump's Focus vs. Public Issues

15:25 to 15:47

Contrasting Trump's focus on regilding statues with the struggles of the American public.

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1:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is facing sudden disaster, utter humiliation before the entire world. A day before his birthday, his plan to build the scaffolding in front of the Kennedy Center so he could put drapes over the removal of his name utterly backfired. All it has demonstrated is the symbolism that all this regime knows how to do is cover up everything. A cover up in plain sight in the dark of the night, building a scaffolding to try to hide the removal of his name, vandalizing the Kennedy Center in the dark of the night, violating court orders. Is there any more symbolic thing than that? Actually, there is because there are massive storms projected for tomorrow during the UFC fight at the White House.

2:23Ben Meiselas:There's even a tornado warning in the area. Lightning is expected with thunderstorms, of course. There are steel cages. It's going to be over 90 degrees. This is a recipe for disaster right there. And speaking of just the symbolism of it all, Donald Trump had to violate a court order because the court said by 1159, take your name off that damn Kennedy Center. And Trump had to build the scaffolding. Then he lied to the court and said, look, the reason that this took so long was because of the thunderstorms. That's why it took us so long, really, because it only took you a few hours or less to actually put your name on the thing in the first place.

3:07Ben Meiselas:No, it took long because you were building the scaffolding in order to hide the removal because you are such a pathetic human being. I kid you not. In a court filing, Team Trump said thunderstorms caused the Kennedy Center to violate the court order and fail to remove Trump's name by the 1159 p.m. deadline. The filing doesn't explain why they waited till the last minute to do the job. Isn't that just, again, perfectly symbolic of the failure of this falling and collapsing regime? Here, this was the declaration. Declaration of Charles Matthew Matt, Matt in quotes, Flacca. In accordance with the provisions of 28 USC, I, Charles Matthew Flacca, state as follows.

3:51Ben Meiselas:I currently serve as the executive director and chief operating officer of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In this capacity, I exercise operational authority over all institutional departments, managing complex integration of both trust and federal functions, including all elements of the center's physical footprint. The matters set forth in this declaration are true and correct from my own personal knowledge and from information made available to me in the course of my official duties. I make this declaration to explain why defendants, meaning Trump and the regime, need additional time to submit compliance declaration required by the court's order.

4:27Ben Meiselas:work to remove physical signage from the Kennedy Center front portico signage purporting to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump is ongoing. That work was delayed earlier today, June 12th, due to thunderstorms, which presented safety concerns to workers completing the compliance task. I expect the work to conclude in the early hours of the morning on June 13th, 2026. Look, there were thunderstorms, but we saw the workers up there on the scaffolding. You waited until the last minute and you built this scaffolding so you can put the drapes over it versus just going using the crane to take it down in the first place.

5:07Ben Meiselas:That's what really went down. But all again, this highlighted is how pathetic Donald Trump is on his 80th birthday. Then they confirmed that they've now removed Trump's name from the building. But you see what it looks like right now. It's a literal cover-up, just like the Epstein files. It's a literal cover-up in plain view. I mean, the entire world is laughing at him. Oh, and then you have Jared Kushner and Ivanka's plan to create that Trump and Steen island blowing up as the Albanian people are like, don't take over our island, Kushner and Ivanka. We don't want you to do some weird right-wing olig.

5:47Ben Meiselas:We don't know what you're going to do in there. Stay the hell out. We don't want you there. There were massive protests. They had to change the environmental laws, as you know, to allow Ivanka and Jared to take over this island. By the way, it's now putting Albania's ascension to the European Union in jeopardy. And their prime minister, Eddie Rama, who colluded with Kushner and Ivanka. He's now putting out statements accusing Iran of doing this. That's where they're going with this. You must be an idiot to deny the active involvement of a hostile country, the only hostile country the Republic of Albania has.

6:28Ben Meiselas:It is the Communist Republic of Iran. You must be an idiot to say that Iran has no involvement when the spokesperson for the Iranian government himself, writes clearly, Rama out in Albanian. You're saying that Iran is responsible for the Albanian protests because Jared Kushner and Ivanka took over an environmentally protected island and they wanted to turn it into the Trump and Steen island. And the people of Albania are like, don't do it. That was Iran's fault. Oh yeah, it was definitely, definitely Iran's fault. I mean, All of Trump's allies like this are people that these are the most pathetic human beings.

7:09Ben Meiselas:As I noted at the outset, the most likely place in the USA to see a tornado tomorrow, as Ryan Hall explains, is around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. It's a level one risk for tornadoes, but a significant chance that there will be thunderstorms and lightning and rain during this UFC match. I want to talk briefly, though, as well, because Donald Trump is so thirsty now and so desperate to do this deal with Iran. And, I mean, he's basically giving Iran everything that they want. Let me be very clear where I stand. We should never have been in this catastrophic war in the first place.

7:46Ben Meiselas:It was unlawful. You had Trump and Netanyahu going into this. They've caused absolute disaster. Netanyahu is committing a genocide in Palestine and in Lebanon, and that needs to be stopped immediately. So I just want to be very clear about my position. Um, Donald Trump, though, Netanyahu went in braggadocious and bravo where we're going to make them submit. And Donald Trump's basically given Iran, you know, everything. And, but here's, here's some news right out of Iran though. So the Iranian negotiators had to enlist a psychologist in order to tailor diplomatic communications in discussions with Trump, because in Iran, they quite literally view Donald Trump as being psychologically ill.

8:26Ben Meiselas:Like they've diagnosed him as actually being mentally ill and mentally unfit. So they enlisted a team of psychologists and psychiatrists in order just to be able to kind of communicate with his perceived mental state. They view him as like a as a declining and deteriorating mentally ill patient. And that's how they have to like treat it very clinically because of his, you know, perceived mental illness, basically. OK, so where do we stand right now? Pakistani officials say that Iran U.S. agreement will be signed electronically on Sunday. Aragchi implied, the foreign minister of Iran, that this was the case in a lengthy interview for Iran State TV yesterday.

9:13Ben Meiselas:There's not going to be an in-person component. Iran, they don't want to send their people to stand next to J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Now, to be clear, I shouldn't really call this a deal. It is a framework to negotiate a deal at a later time and then to have discussions about the nuclear file, Iran's nuclear program, maybe in 60 days or maybe later. But in the meantime, Iran gets all of these funds. And so remember, you had Donald Trump attacking former President Obama. Oh, my God, bags of cash. And there wasn't any bags of cash, right? I mean, former President Obama in getting the JCPOA, the non-nuclear deal with Iran done during Obama's second year in office, second term in office, unfroze$1.8 billion of Iranian money from decades back.

10:08Ben Meiselas:That was part of it. But it was this comprehensive multilateral deal that was absolutely working. It was a tough negotiated deal. Donald Trump now has basically worked with the United Arab Emirates, who have already given Iran$3 billion,$10 billion, $12 billion more is expected. Also, we're now learning Qatar is coming in, and Qatar has proposed a$12 billion package for Iran as well. $6 billion would come from releasing Iran's frozen funds in Qatar, while another$6 billion would be provided as a loan or credit line. Sure, it's probably going to be a loan that will be forgiven right away, but they're going to call it a loan.

10:50Ben Meiselas:So you have another$12 billion there. You have, what,$30 billion from the United Arab Emirates. You can see how this will add up very quickly, hundreds of billions of dollars being given to Iran at the end of this. We talked yesterday about the United Arab Emirates giving this money. Now we know Qatar is as well. Iran's foreign ministry said that we're not going to geneva we're not doing like this signing thing um and i'll just say this right now you have all of maga just like what in the world is going on with this regime you had joe rogan saying you know going back to the cover-up theme of this video he's like where's the epstein files what the hell is even going on here play this clip right here well sometimes it's like you just get fed up you like where the are these epstein files yeah who the is this why is this redacted where is who the killed jfk right like come out with it what the who killed charlie kirk for real yeah like what is that why is that story so clouded and mystery and why did they pave over the ground right after the the shooting what the is going on there see now you're making me in a bad mood that's but that it's easy to do then you have scott mcfarland from the midas touch network with an exclusive scoop that aaron parnas from the midas touch network broke about this ufc and this is again, talking about symbolism.

12:13Ben Meiselas:The UFC ring, which has all of these like neon lights and lights going everywhere, it's making it very difficult for pilots to see. Scott McFarlane broke down the exclusive reporting at the Midas Touch Network. Here's what McFarlane said. A commercial airline pilot near Reagan National Airport earlier this week reported a safety concern or safety incident from a lighting incident, potentially from the UFC construction site and display on the White House South Lawn. That's the reporting according to Aaron Parnas and Midas Touch Network. The pilot, under the condition of anonymity, described the incident as being much brighter by orders of magnitude than the type of light safety incidents that are caused by those laser pointers, which have been a menace to commercial airline pilots nationwide, multiple times more powerful than the light distraction, the disorientation that can be caused by a laser pointer.

13:07The commercial airline pilot has submitted a report, a complaint about the incident with the FAA and with NASA, according to Aaron Pardis's reporting. Request for comment from the FAA was not immediately returned, though the FAA's press office tends to be a business hour weekday operation, according to an outgoing message from the FAA. But this does raise questions about just how safe this very novel construction site is. We've never seen anything like the UFC claw that's been constructed on the White House South Lawn. There have been questions about whether it could do damage to the White House grounds and whether it was lawful.

13:46There was a lawsuit that challenged it but failed earlier in the week. This is the latest question or concern about the White House UFC event, which weather permitting, a big asterisk, weather permitting, goes off Sunday night here in Washington.

14:02Ben Meiselas:And then again, going back to the symbolism of this all, I'll leave you with this. This is a real post from Donald Trump. This is what he's focused on right now. While the American people are suffering, living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck, being psychologically tortured by this regime, can't afford a home, can't afford rent. here's what donald trump posts re-guilding of the massive arts of war sculptures located between the lincoln memorial and the site of the triumphal arch rapidly continues the sculptures will be fully re-guilded by july 3rd the photos below were taken from our country the gilder studio has flown gilders from around the country to perform this work folks i know this was top of your mind.

14:49Ben Meiselas:We're getting the statues regilded right now. We did it. Mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Keep the pressure up. Keep the pressure up. We got this.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas repots on Donald Trump’s birthday plans backfiring as everything is going wrong and he is facing utter ridicule before the world.

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