Trump’s Rapid Health Decline on Display as he Struggles on Trip

13 Oct 2025 · 19 min · 6 chapters

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The episode argues that Donald Trump is experiencing a rapid health decline and that his behavior over the past 48 hours (after a Walter Reed hospital visit) shows “glaring red flags.” It claims his hospital work was likely vascular/cognitive-related, citing “advanced imaging” timing and speculation about ischemic/mini-stroke issues. Key examples include: not recognizing Politico reporter Dasha Burns on Air Force One; struggling with an umbrella; bizarre statements about walking from Qatar to Iran “in one second”; and repeatedly discussing whether he will “get into heaven,” including tying ending the Ukraine war to heaven. It also alleges Trump’s “$17 trillion” claims are false, and contrasts his golf-course behavior with national economic/healthcare problems.

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Trump's Mental Health Red Flags

0:00 to 0:26

Discussion on Donald Trump's recent behavior indicating mental decline.

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Trump's Mental Health Red Flags

0:56 to 2:12

Discussion on Donald Trump's recent behavior indicating mental decline.

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Trump's Mental Health Red Flags

2:20 to 2:49

Discussion on Donald Trump's recent behavior indicating mental decline.

Trump's Mental Health Red Flags

10:27 to 14:02

Discussion on Donald Trump's recent behavior indicating mental decline.

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Trump's Health and Lies Unveiled

14:02 to 18:00

Discuss the inconsistencies in Trump's health claims and his visit to Walter Reed.

“Six hundred billion dollars from EU firms, six hundred billion dollars from Saudi Arabia, one trillion dollars in vague corporate pledges.”

Trump's Health and Lies Unveiled

18:01 to 18:21

Discuss the inconsistencies in Trump's health claims and his visit to Walter Reed.

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2:56Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump does not remember who is the president. He's weirdly shouting, quote, do something likely at the clouds. His mental issues are very bad. That's what California Governor Gavin Newsom is saying. And I couldn't agree more. Donald Trump's behavior, even over the past 48 hours since he had that hospital visit to Walter Reed, have showed more glaring red flags. We've analyzed the report before. It talked about advanced imaging taking place. Now, you would only do advanced imaging within a six-month period of your last visit if there are some serious issues. We've speculated ischemic-related, vascular-related, cognitive related, potentially mini stroke related, again, mere speculation.

3:45Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump's behavior has only intensified that speculation. And let me just give you a few data points. So one of the reporters who Donald Trump knows very well, he's very close with her. Her name is Dasha Burns. She speaks to Donald Trump on a regular basis. Donald Trump recognizes her. She's in the Oval Office a lot and she travels with him. So Donald Trump, when he was on Air Force One, was asked a question by her about tariffs with China. And then Donald Trump didn't recognize who she was, even though they spoke a few days ago. And she's like, it's me. It's Dasha. We know each other.

4:25Ben Meiselas:You want to go and ask Caroline Levitt about me? I mean, we just spoke. Just give you the data here. So here's what she posted about four days ago, Dasha Burns, Politico reporter, just got off the phone with Trump. What he said about how he's feeling after announcing a peace deal between Israel and Hamas. And again, I think it's important that we frame this as a ceasefire, not a peace deal. Peace, we'll have to see if it happens. It's a ceasefire. We all want the ceasefire to hold. But Donald Trump, again, has not said what phase two or three is. We know what phase one is. What's phase two and three?

5:02Ben Meiselas:Because when Trump was asked about a two-state solution. He didn't even know what that meant. Anyway, that's for another video. So here's when Dasha Burns asks Donald Trump a question. He goes, who are you with? Who are you? Who are you? Here, play this clip.

5:32everything political it's been so wrong about everything let's get somebody else to ask some questions you mind is that all right and then dasha says it's me

5:46Ben Meiselas:Dasha you want to go and ask Caroline Levitt who I am here watch but she then says after that here play this clip thank you very much sir talk to Caroline I'd chill vouch for him. Thank you. Thanks, President. Thank you. My first time on the plane. Now, Donald Trump, while he was getting on Air Force One yesterday, didn't know what to do with an umbrella. We know he struggles a lot with umbrellas, doesn't know how to close the umbrella, just kind of leaves it in the door. It's another data point from yesterday. Just play this clip for you. Let's play it. Over to the Middle East. We're going to be covering this historic visit throughout the night and tomorrow.

6:27We expect that the hostages, 20 of them still alive, their releases could be coming within hours and certainly through the overnight hours. We'll have those reports for you here on Fox. The president giving a thumbs up as he boards Air Force One en route to a trip that many say could not have happened.

7:07Ben Meiselas:Again, I'm just going to go by the last 24 hours, right? Donald Trump claimed that you can walk from Qatar to Iran in just like a few seconds, that it's right there across the border. That's not the case. I'll just show you a map right over here, not a one second walk. I'll show you another view of it just so you can see. Anyway, here's what Donald Trump said again, that it's a one-second walk. Play this clip. Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar. You can walk in in one second. You go boom, boom, and now you're in Qatar. And it should be noted that California Governor Gavin Newsom was responding to Donald Trump's post where he said that the Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6th.

7:55Ben Meiselas:2021, when Donald Trump was in office, then Donald Trump said, what a scam. Do something. What's the scam? What do you mean do something? You were in office on January 6th, 2021. You controlled the FBI on that period of time. And so what the hell are you even talking about there, by the way? So here, then Donald Trump talks about not getting into heaven. and you know he's having lots of conversations about will he get into heaven or will he not get into heaven this is not the first time he's had that conversation again but very very bizarre times and geez what what the hell you think is in these epstein files here play this clip right here you had talked a couple weeks ago you were doing an interview and you talked about how you hope to end the war in ukraine because it might help you get into heaven how does how does this help does this help i mean you know i'm being a little cute i don't think there's anything gonna get me in heaven okay i really don't i think i think i'm not maybe heaven bound i may be in heaven right now as we fly an air force one i'm not sure i i'm gonna be able to make heaven but i've made life a lot better for a lot of people and you know as an example had the had the election of 2020 not been rigged you would have millions of people living just in russia ukraine alone now i think this is really important for me to bring this up.

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9:59Ben Meiselas:They've already helped many members of the Midas Touch community, and they can help you too. Don't get duped by brokers who are pushing the plans that pay them the biggest kickbacks. And don't wait until December to figure out your plan for next year. Call chapter today at 82 Medicare. That's 82 Medicare and get honest advice today. Give them a call and let me know how it goes in the comments below. I know the Midas Mighty have been very happy with the results. You know, and then yesterday, Donald Trump was driving around his golf course, of course, paid for by the taxpayers. And he was there with his granddaughter.

10:41Ben Meiselas:I just want you to watch what we're seeing here. We're in a government shutdown. Americans are getting their healthcare taken away. People are suffering, living paycheck to paycheck, psychologically tortured, most credit card delinquencies in recent history, worst housing market since 1995, highest jobless claims since the Great Recession, construction recession, manufacturing recession, tourism, great recession right now. Farmers are in farmageddon. They're going bankrupt. People are struggling. But Donald Trump is driving around his golf course with his rich friends there. And he's saying, your taxes are coming down.

11:23Ben Meiselas:You're like, hey, your taxes are coming down. Again, watch. This is someone who's deeply, deeply unwell. Play this clip. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Your taxes are coming down. See, everyone's happy, honey. That's awesome. You've done a good job. Run through the nine halls. Then in terms of what the social media messaging looks like, it's like squiggly figures or like whatever, like doodles. We are doubling down. We see you. We hear you. But thanks to the government shutdown, we are doubling down. OMG, I can't believe the White House posted this. We heard your feedback. Then again, he's just posting weird images of Democratic leaders wearing sombreros.

12:17Ben Meiselas:Very strange behavior. He's posting photographs of triumphant arches. That's his new obsession after a golden ballroom. He wants to build a triumphant arch in Washington, D.C. Dude, we just want health care. 20 million Americans are about to be kicked off healthcare and you gave$20 billion to bail out Argentina instead of help 20 million Americans who are about to lose their healthcare or have their premium skyrocket because of the removal of the ACA subsidies. And that's, you're posting triumphant arches. CNN, finally, after we've been reporting on this, what now? Every single day for the past four months saying Donald Trump keeps lying about$17 trillion.

13:03Ben Meiselas:So Trump gets up there and he's like, I brought in$17 trillion. It's actually$18 trillion now. So CNN did a fact check of Donald Trump saying$17 trillion over and over again. A reminder, Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme was$62 billion or$63 billion. Donald Trump's is$18 trillion because he keeps saying we have all this money when you actually go through. And they asked Trump, so where do you get this number from? It's like 1 trillion from Qatar. Qatar's annual GDP is$166 billion. How are they giving us$1 trillion if they're overall, they're giving us their entire GDP for 10 years. UAE is giving us, he says,$1.4 trillion.

13:49Ben Meiselas:Their entire GDP, like$440 billion. So what, they're giving us four years of their entire GDP? Of course they're not. One trillion dollars from Japan? But Japan's just giving us a check for one trillion dollars? Again, just weird lies too. Six hundred billion dollars from EU firms, six hundred billion dollars from Saudi Arabia, one trillion dollars in vague corporate pledges. Even when you go through Donald Trump's con, it equals 8.8 trillion dollars. And again, this isn't like a minor fraud. It's not like, oh, he misspoke. I mean, you say you have$18 trillion and you don't have even$1 trillion and you just lie all of the time.

14:31Ben Meiselas:Now, we all know about Donald Trump's visit to Walter Reed. His former doctor, Ronnie Jackson, right before the visit said it was actually to deal with follow-up for his vascular issues. Trump has the serious venous insufficiency chronic venous insufficiency. And here's what Ronnie Jackson said it was about. Play this clip. They took him up there. They were just doing some stuff. They were doing some venous, some follow-up on his venous issue. He had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. So there was a vascular study that was done. They were just looking at follow-up that was recommended last time he had the annual physical done.

15:12That follow-up was being done. He got his vaccines that he's due right now, especially with some of his upcoming travels. He got all of his travel vaccines updated.

15:22Ben Meiselas:But then Donald Trump said something different. He says it's about cognitive. He took cognitive exams and he aced it. And then he says that he's more fit than Obama and Biden. You know, weird lies. Very weird, weird behavior and weird lies. But here, play this clip. I wanted to change gears really quickly and ask you, you're going to Walter Reed tomorrow are you what are you having done do you how are you feeling uh i'm meeting with the troops and i'm also going to do a sort of semi-annual physical which i do and uh i think i'm in great shape but i'll let you know but uh i know i have no difficulty thus far is there wood around here no difficulty physically i feel very good mentally i feel very good you know i did about six seven months ago i do physicals i like to when i'm around i i like to check always early always be early it's a lesson for a lot of people but i also did a cognitive exam which is always very risky because if i didn't do well you'd be the first to be blaring it and i had a perfect score and one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score i had a perfect a perfect score.

16:34I got the highest score. And that made me feel good. When they asked, would I like to do one? I said, yeah. I said, did Obama do it? No. Did Bush do it? No. Did Biden do it? I definitely did. Biden wouldn't have gotten the first three questions right. No, Biden didn't do it. Biden should have done it. I'm actually a person that believes that if you're president, you should do a cognitive exam. But the last time I took a cognitive exam and it was a perfect score. The doctors announced it. And by the way, not the easiest test. The first few questions are pretty easy. Once you get into the middle, it gets a little trickier.

17:14And there aren't a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right, I can guarantee you. You're putting me in a difficult spot now.

17:22Ben Meiselas:So again, I think California Governor Gavin Newsom's right to point out what we observe, what we're observing with our eyes, right? But that's where we're at. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks so much for watching.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas shows how Donald Trump’s declining health has surfaced again in a major way on his trip to the Middle East and Meiselas shows how even California Governor Gavin Newsom is raising major red flags. 

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