Trump’s Foreign Policy Crises Deepen as Global Pressure Mounts

7 Sep 2026 · 27 min · 11 chapters

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In short

The host argues that Trump’s foreign-policy approach is escalating global crises while his domestic actions worsen economic and health conditions. He claims Trump’s social media behavior (AI memes, stock-trading posts) reflects instability and undermines diplomacy, and he criticizes special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for meeting Putin and Zelensky without proper authority.

Guests

No podcast guests are identified in the transcript (it appears to be a solo monologue with multiple ad reads).

Key claims

Kim Jong-un and Putin are emboldened; Iran is escalating with new anti-ship ballistic missiles and broader targeting rules; CENTCOM allegedly mishandled tanker strikes; Trump praises Germany’s AfD; Trump’s energy/oil numbers are misleading; rural hospitals close and farmers face bankruptcy; “mystery” frozen beef harms ranchers.

Notable examples

Strait of Hormuz/Gulf of Oman threats; alleged aircraft-carrier warning shot; Gaza drone strike killing a child; AfD election win; Trump “New America” meme; promised gasoline below $2.

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Trump's Psychotic Meltdown

1:29 to 1:56

Explore Trump's erratic behavior and its implications on global politics.

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Trump's Psychotic Meltdown

2:59 to 4:50

Explore Trump's erratic behavior and its implications on global politics.

“Donald Trump's psychotic meltdown has reached a new low.”

Trump's Dangerous Policies

4:50 to 7:07

Delve into the impact of Trump's policies on the economy and healthcare.

“It's like, what the hell are you even talking about.”

Iran's Escalating Threats

7:07 to 10:04

Discuss Iran's military capabilities and threats towards U.S. interests.

“But this is what Donald Trump wants to do.”

Global Political Landscape

10:04 to 14:00

Analyze the shifting global political dynamics and Trump's influence.

“But we do have somebody who's on the golf course with Natalie.”

US-Iran Tensions and Trump's Foreign Policy

14:00 to 15:11

Discusses the escalating tensions between the US and Iran, including military actions and Trump's political strategy.

“The problem is, if we do, we know we're going to kill 200, 300 U.S.”

Trump's Political Strategy and Public Perception

15:12 to 17:06

Analyzes Trump's support for far-right parties in Europe and the implications for international relations.

“Remember I covered this like a year ago?”

North Korea's Military Developments

17:07 to 19:28

Examines Kim Jong-un's recent military statements and the state of US-North Korea relations.

“Dumb and dumber, Whitcoff and Kushner in this photo right here as well.”

Congress and the Epstein Files

19:29 to 20:38

Explores Congress's handling of the Epstein files and the political implications for the midterms.

“They are the Epstein class that they warned about.”

Trade Wars and Its Impact on American Farmers

20:39 to 22:20

Discusses the effects of Trump's trade wars on farmers and rural voters in the US.

“And then you have MAGA Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain in leadership there admitting that Trump's trade war will absolutely cause pain to her constituents in Michigan, but they deserve it.”
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Trump's Economic Promises for 2024

22:21 to 25:04

Analyzes Trump's promises regarding energy prices and their feasibility.

“Then she lies also and like, well, Canada tariffs our farmers so much when it comes.”
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2:59Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's psychotic meltdown has reached a new low. Yesterday, he posted over 100 times on his social media handle throughout the day. Then he had the White House reposted. And there are posts like this, but I don't just want to talk about it as Donald Trump is having a meltdown. Look at what a psychotic lunatic he is. Look at what a vile piece of trash he is, which is true. But I want to talk about the alarming events taking place here in the United States and across the world while we have this lunatic in the Oval Office or now in Bedminster with Natalie behaving this way. Because we've seen people like Kim Jong-un make very dangerous statements over the past 24 hours about further increasing his nuclear arsenal.

3:57Ben Meiselas:We've seen Putin laughing in the face of the so-called US Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff, Donald Trump's scumbag real estate friend from Manhattan, and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's loser son-in-law, who for reasons that are entirely unlawful are our Special Envoys to Russia and Ukraine, people who are quite literally the worst diplomats and not diplomats at all. where the hell is Marco Rubio? You have, by the way, I'm no Marco Rubio fan, but that's a job for the secretary of state to meet with Putin, not for, uh, Whitcoff and Kushner. And then you saw what happened when they met with Zelensky. They were like, Donald Trump is trying to do a business deal with you and Putin and do a win-win business deal.

4:50Ben Meiselas:It's like, what the hell are you even talking about. And you have all of these issues emerging and just getting worse. And this is what Donald Trump is posting. I mean, posts like this, New Mexico, oh, I'm changing the name. We're going to call it New America, everybody. And you had the governor of New Mexico say, basically, idiot. It was called New Mexico before the United States existed. Stop it. The people in New Mexico and across this country are suffering because of your failures. Diesel and gas are at record highs. People can't afford anything right now. Our economy is in shambles. We're in this catastrophic and never-ending war, and you're out there posting memes like this.

5:35Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump posted an AI meme of himself stock trading, stock trading Intel and other stocks and saying, I'm doing this for the American people. He did 21 ,000 stock trades in 2025 alone. Two months ago, he did 1 ,000 stock trades in a month. He's creating the dips with his catastrophic policies, then appears to be inside trading on his own dips and making huge amounts of money while the American people suffer. More posts from him on changing the name of New Mexico to New America. I mean, again, while he's doing this, real people are struggling having their healthcare ripped away from them right now.

6:21Ben Meiselas:Rural hospitals are closing. Farmers are going bankrupt. The highest farmer bankruptcy in American history right now. Trump's undercutting our ranchers by bringing in mystery foreign frozen beef for 25 % less than what our ranchers are able to charge. and no one even knows what the hell this mystery foreign beef is, especially when we know that Argentinian beef already had a ton of health problems. And don't even get me started on all of the health issues that are now spreading quite literally throughout the United States, from measles outbreaks to contaminations to other viruses and illnesses as a result of the Trump regime's failures.

7:08Ben Meiselas:But this is what Donald Trump wants to do. Post memes of, look at me, take a marker in this AI meme and change Lake of Ontario to Lake of America. Oh, I'm really owning you, Prime Minister Carney. Then he posts these bizarre AI cartoons of himself knocking over Prime Minister Carney on the ice in this hockey meme. I would like to see you even try to skate, Donald for a minute. You will fall on your fat ass. Prime Minister Carney actually played hockey. He was actually athletic, unlike you who still post the stolen valor image of yourself from a military academy because of your bad behavior that your father sent you to that academy, and you pretend that you were actually in the military when you dodged the draft over five times, but don't worry.

8:02Ben Meiselas:He also posts AI memes of himself as a four-star general. He's also post AI memes of himself like on the Game of Thrones. Give them nightmares. Look at me. I got these give them nightmare robots behind. He's posting these bizarre images of robots. Oh, and don't even get me started on the posts about Iran. This is like his normal AI slop routine as he escalates and Iran strikes back and doesn't submit, Donald Trump's going to do the AI swap, everybody. That's going to show the Ayatollah. That's going to show the IRGC. Every world leader, everyone looks at this guy like an absolute clown. By the way, when Kushner and Witkoff were in Ukraine, you had Germany, France, and the UK send their representatives there, and Zelensky needed them to be there just because Witkoff and Kushner are dumb and they're also clearly doing the bidding of Putin.

9:04Ben Meiselas:Like they said as much, we're bringing Putin's aspirations here. We're trying to do a win-win that Putin will really like. Okay. That's what you're repeating. It's very bizarre. AI images. Bye-bye, Karg. Iran is a failing nation. Look at me use an American hammer and I'll hit Iran with the American hammer. I'll post a photo of the Strait of Hormuz and I'll say new U.S. territory. That'll show Iran. Meanwhile, Iran has demonstrated its ability to use new ballistic missiles, these anti-ship ballistics. It sent a warning shot with its new secret weapon over the weekend. I'm going to do a video about this.

9:43Ben Meiselas:Check it out in about 90 minutes. Iran's new secret weapon, I'm going to call the video. They've got this new Kasem anti-ship ballistic missile. They also have their castle breaker missile, the ballistic that changed directions in the middle of the air. Normally, the ballistic would go to point A to point B, and that was it. Now their new missiles can go to point A, and as it's going to be, zigzag around and avoid the U.S. interceptors. But then again, the U.S. is out of interceptors. Pac-3 interceptors, buh-bye. Thad interceptors, buh-bye. But we do have somebody who's on the golf course with Natalie.

10:23Ben Meiselas:He's posting some memes, everybody. Look at the Space Force meme. That's scary. He's also posting these photos of himself golfing. Yeah. Americans who have to decide, what am I going to even do for my next page? How am I going to make it? How am I going to support my kids? How am I going to survive next month? Donald Trump's posting photos of himself golfing everybody and saying what a great golfer he is and that Mar-a-Lago club is considered by everyone to be the best in the world than more posts of himself stock trading intel. What a piece of shit. And excuse me, you know I don't like to curse, but when I look at this guy, When I look at his behavior, I don't view it from the perspective of Democrat, Republican, Independent.

11:12If I just saw anybody behaving this way, I would say 5150, involuntary hold,

11:19Ben Meiselas:psychiatric ward, straight jacket, for real, for real. The pundits that come out right now, right before the midterms, oh, what should we do about the political messaging here? Political messaging. This guy is a psychotic lunatic sexual predator. This guy is a felon and a war criminal. What are we talking about? This guy is posting shit like this every damn day. What are we talking about? While the rest of the world is moving on and you have a whole new global order forming with the U.S. being weak as hell and the American people suffering, he's posting Debbie Dingbat? Oh, Debbie Dingbat? Upon his death, I gave Congressman John Dingle the royal sendoff, maxed out.

12:04Ben Meiselas:His wife, Debbie Dingbat, called me and thanked me profusely while crying uncontrollably. Debbie Dingbat? What are you? No offense to second grade bullies, because Trump behaves far worse than second grade bullies. But what's this behavior? Deranged AI images of himself and Joe Biden, deranged AI images of him and Hulk Hogan, posting AI slop of United States Space Force attire that looks like the exact uniforms the Nazis wore in Germany in World War II, the Hitler aesthetic, posting the moon is ours, weird posts of himself and George Washington, lying about 18 million barrels per day, exiting the Strait of Hormuz.

12:48Ben Meiselas:By the way, Donald Trump's own energy secretary went on the weekend shows and said it was 9 million barrels a day. And he's like, why would we even lie about it? It's 9 million barrels a day. Why would you lie? Because you're liars. You are scumbag liars. That's who you are. And you lie about everything. And this is Trump lying to manipulate the markets. That's why. 18 million barrels per day. No. By the way, 9 million barrels per day is not even accurate. I believe it's more like 5 or 6 million barrels per day. And I'll talk about this in a little bit also on the next video that I do, but I want to address it on this video.

13:24Ben Meiselas:One of Iran's new plans, as announced by one of its top military guys, Motion Rezi, is that they're now going to consider any ship that enters, not just through the Strait of Hormuz, but outside of the Gulf of Oman, right outside the Arabian Sea, right at the point where the US has their blockade, that if you kind of even go into the Gulf of Oman area, you will be subject to Iranian strikes right now. And Iran says, look, we can easily strike a U.S. aircraft carrier right now. The problem is, if we do, we know we're going to kill 200, 300 U.S. service members right away, which will then potentially bring support to Trump before the midterms or potentially rally Americans behind the catastrophic war, but we can easily shoot one of these aircraft carriers if we want to.

14:20Ben Meiselas:And they sent a warning shot over the weekend to show how easy it would be for them to do it. They shot it right over the aircraft carrier in order to say, if we wanted to hit you, we could hit you. And by the way, that's being covered up by CENTCOM right now as well. But CENTCOM makes the stupid move of striking three Iranian oil tankers. Only two actually had oil on board over the weekend. Then Iran shoots six ships. You shoot three ships, USNCOM. We shoot six ships. Donald Trump also posting his praise for the far-right extremist party in Germany, the AFD party. They had a win in one of the state elections in Germany over the weekend, and Donald Trump sending his praise to the AFD.

15:10Ben Meiselas:Remember what Donald Trump's plan was as it relates to Europe. They did a world plan. Remember I covered this like a year ago? And their plan with Europe is destroy the European Union and support the political parties that are aligned closer with Putin and Russia and try to wipe out the European Union. They set it in writing in the Trump foreign policy plan before this year started. And this was part of their plan all along. People continuing to mock Donald Trump for his new brunette hairstyle. Just for me, I was dying his hair brunette now for Natalie. And then as I noted before, the White House is posting this slop also.

15:54Ben Meiselas:The White House posting Green Lantern memes. In brightest days, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worships evil beware of my power. You're the evil. You, you are the biggest cancer on earth right now. Listen, this is the video that they posted in the White House. I'm just going to show you five seconds of it so you can see for yourself. Let's play it.

16:25Ben Meiselas:And here comes Natalie. This is a real photo, I kid you not, of Natalie Hart. I don't know what she's doing there, but this is a real photo of her and Donald Trump's golfing, Natalie was following him. This is real video of Donald Trump golfing in Benminster while posting all of this. You'll see Natalie for yourself. Let's play this clip.

16:48Golf shot. Get in the hole. Nice shot, boss.

17:02Ben Meiselas:you'll see in this photo also over here natalie harp is next to donald trump this weekend she's behind him in this photo look carefully where's natalie there's look behind his cap you can see him right there what a mess he's just a slob right he's just a slob and you saw what dc looks like how awful dc you saw what the reflecting pool looks like right now here's a video of what the reflecting pool looks like as of this weekend in dc here play this clip

17:46Ben Meiselas:This was Donald Trump yesterday at Bedminster posing with MAGA radio host Michael Savage. Look how horrible he looks over here. You can see for yourself. Let's play it.

18:00shorter than you, so I'm wearing a hat. It's okay. I like this okay.

18:13Ben Meiselas:Dumb and dumber, Whitcoff and Kushner in this photo right here as well. As I noted, Kim Jong-un said North Korea's new 5 ,000 ton destroyer, the Kang-Khan as they call it, will become part of its nuclear response system as Pyongyang expands its naval forces. At the ship's commissioning in Wonsan, Kim said, the time has come for us to exercise our sovereignty at sea and underwater and warned that North Korea could deliver annihilating retaliatory strikes. But Donald, didn't you say you were going to meet him? Didn't you say he's your friend? Didn't you attack South Korea and said that you and Kim Jong-un were so close, they are laughing in this guy's face.

18:57Ben Meiselas:Also, while Donald Trump's out there memeing or whatever the hell he's doing, you have Netanyahu giving further strikes in Gaza City. More people killed there. Since the so-called ceasefire last October, there's been thousands who have been killed in Gaza. Over here, you can see Israel killing five-year-old Wafa Yusuf Akilah and her father on Sunday in drone strikes on their vehicle. See a photo of her right here. And while all of this is going on, let's not be distracted. The Trump regime is still covering up child sex trafficking rings. They are the cabal. They are the Epstein class that they warned about.

19:33Ben Meiselas:It is them, Ro Khanna, on why MAGA Mike Johnson is sending all Congress home again and recessing. Watch for yourself. Let's play it. He does not want a vote on the Epstein issue of releasing the rest of the files. And he does not want to vote on ending the war in Iran. You know, Jack, I was shocked by seeing a poll that GBAO did. According to them, independent voters are voting this midterm. Most of the voters, the issue that they care most about, more than health care costs, more than cost of living, are the Epstein files. And the reason they care about it is because it goes to the corruption in this government, and they are sick of that corruption.

20:19Johnson's seen the same polls. He doesn't want Epstein becoming the issue heading into the midterms, and he doesn't want votes on the Iran war becoming the issue heading into the midterms. And of course, Thomas Massey and I have done both of those things. We introduced the first War Powers Resolution to prevent us from getting into Iran. And then soon after that, we introduced the Epstein Transparency Act.

20:41Ben Meiselas:And then you have MAGA Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain in leadership there admitting that Trump's trade war will absolutely cause pain to her constituents in Michigan, but they deserve it. A small price to pay to make America great again is to pay a lot more money and to have crappy lives and to let Donald Trump loot and plunder. That's what it means to be America strong. This is real. Magna Republican Congresswoman McClain, play it. Number two, we have to level the playing field, like I said earlier. Canada, since the 1990s, has had tax and tariffs on our dairy farmers at 250%. Listen, we don't want - I think that's a sliding scale, right?

21:24That only kicks in at a certain level. a trading war with Canada. We want a trading partner with Canada. So I applaud the president for actually trying to level the playing field. But it comes with a bit of pain, and you think voters will understand that? It absolutely does. But at the end of the day, I trust that President Trump is not going to do anything to hurt the American people long term. But because we've had these poor trading policies, and I might remind you that we are at a 60 billion dollar deficit right now with Canada. What's the matter with trying to level those long-term and getting the tariffs that Canada is charging us lower?

22:06I applaud the president for doing that, for trying to level the playing field.

22:10Ben Meiselas:And then she says, all of the farmers I speak to, she says in Michigan and elsewhere, they are happy that we are escalating trade wars against Canada. That's what she says. They tell me that this is amazing. Then she lies also and like, well, Canada tariffs our farmers so much when it comes. No, they don't. It's just, it's, it's just, just stop the lies. Just stop it. Nobody wants this trade war against Canada, except you psychopaths, except you crazy, like literally legitimate, you're lunatics. You are crazy, evil humans who are literally just here to cause destruction. Like you are terrible, demonic people.

22:46Ben Meiselas:Like we just have to be real with what it is. Play this clip. Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report said of your party's prospects in the midterms, Republicans should brace themselves. The outcomes could be bad, really bad or truly horrible. What he was zeroing in on are the tariffs and the fuel and fertilizer costs that are hitting rural voters. I know out in North Dakota, Senator Kevin Cramer said farm country, serious trouble for Trump. Are rural voters in Michigan also serious trouble? I've had the opportunity to be in the district and talk to the rural voters. Right. We have a lot of farmers in our communities.

23:23And what the farmers are excited about and actually applaud the president for is actually standing up to Canada and try and level the playing field with the tariff.

23:34Ben Meiselas:And of course, let's not forget what Donald Trump's promise was in 2024. Gasoline below$2, he promised in 2024. Play this clip. My plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months of taking office. It will be an economic revival of our country like no one has ever seen before. Energy was what caused our problem initially. Energy is going to bring us back. That means we're going down and getting gasoline below$2 a gallon. Bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares and housing costs. And electricity prices, half. He was going to cut them in half, he said, in 2024.

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24:25Ben Meiselas:They're way higher. Here, play this clip. Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half within market down. with and you can get very angry at me if we don't do it within 12 months your energy prices will be cut in half my plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months of taking office number one your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half and that's my pledge all over the country beyond farmers that's my pledge all over the country if you vote for me I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months. Well, there you have it, everybody.

25:05Ben Meiselas:Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. I think it's important that we don't just say psychotic melt, that we need to talk about what's going on generally as well, though. While he's doing that, this is what's happening at home. This is what's happening abroad. This is what weakness looks like. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you. Shout out Midas Mighty. pre-order WTF America right now. We appreciate you.

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