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About that moment in the Oval Office where Donald Trump stared at President Zelensky of Ukraine. He looked at him and he says, you don't have the card, Zelensky. You don't have the cards. And Zelensky looked at him like, how dare you. And Zelensky stood up to the bully right in Oval Office in front of the world. And we all got to see just how utterly pathetic Donald Trump is and what a Putin pawn, what a Putin puppet Donald Trump is. So now I see this meme circulating right now after Ukraine just executed one of the most brilliant military maneuvers in the history of humankind. Here's the meme of Donald Trump going, you don't have the cards. Now you don't have the cards. And Zelensky saying, how about now? Trump never has the cards. Zelensky has the cards. And what Trump is doing is giving other leaders throughout the world the cards. As Donald Trump reveals his tell that he's a weak, pathetic taco, Trump always chickens out. Here's this image as well. Posted by Anonymous Zelensky didn't have any cards. Yeah, that aged well, Donald Trump. I want to highlight how world leaders are just either ignoring Trump, treating him like the pathetic, vile piece of trash that he is, outmaneuvering him. You know, Donald Trump and his regime, whether it was Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State of others, they came in and said they don't want America as a hegemonic power anymore. They said they see a multipolar world. And in their vision of the world, you have the United States, China and Russia as the big multipolar powers. They were really underestimating these things because the United states, in just 130 plus days under the Trump regime, not only has lost its hegemonic status, lost its superpower status, but has become the weakest in the multipolar world. And you're forgetting also the European Union, Donald and Marco Rubio, who's stepping up and actually supporting Zelensky as part of the coalition of the willing. You're forgetting Canada and Australia. You're forgetting the Commonwealth nations who are stepping up right now as well. So I want to just share with you some of these important data points as you see a week and neuter Donald Trump, where President Zelensky didn't even have to tell Donald Trump, nor why should he, about this special operation, Operation Spiderweb in Russia, where Ukraine sent these drones deep into the heart of Russia, knocked out 30% of Russia's strategic air force, about 41 of the flagship military planes in operation by Russia destroyed. And just take a look at how this operation was executed in these cargo containers. You had all of these drones that were loaded. Ukraine sent their own people deep into Russia who then contracted with Russian truck drivers to bring the car who didn't even know what was in the cargo containers. They were told it was something else. They brought the cargo right by these military bases of Russia. Then right when the operation, this was planned for about a year and a year plus at this point, and right on cue, electronically, these retrofitted cargo boxes open up, the drones go out and bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, destroy the Russian airplanes. You see him right there. A brilliant operation. As President Zelensky says today, a brilliant operation was carried out on enemy territory, targeting only military objectives, specifically the equipment used to strike Ukraine. Russia suffered significant losses, entirely justified and deserved the preparation took over a year and a half. Planning, organization, every detail was perfectly executed. It can be said with confidence that this was an absolutely unique operation. What's most interesting, and this can now be stated publicly, is that the office of our operation on Russian territory was located directly next to FSB headquarters in one of their regions. In total, 117 drones were used in the operation, with a corresponding number of drone operators involved. 34% of the strategic cruise missile carriers stationed at air bases were hit. Our people operated across several Russian regions in three different time zones. And the people who assisted us were withdrawn from Russian territory before the operation. They are now safe. It is genuinely satisfying when something I authorized a year and six months ago comes to fruition and deprives Russians of over 40 units of strategic aviation. We will continue this work. Even before this operation was carried out, we had intelligence indicating that Russia was preparing another massive strike. It is very important for all our people not to ignore the air raid alerts. A powerful message from President Zelensky. Ilya Ponmorenko from the Kyiv Independent goes, never, never, ever underestimate Ukraine. Pasiprenian writes, I think it goes without saying that today's Ukrainian strikes against Russian air forces are impressive and devastating. While the exact scale of damage will likely be confirmed with satellite footage over the coming days, it is quite likely a considerable portion of Russians strategic bombers. You see this image right here of Zelensky holding up a taco to Donald Trump's face? Gotta love that AI meme right there. Take a look at this map. As Richard Woodrop says, I'm not even joking. This is a live map of the Ukrainian drones heading towards Moscow right now. Ukraine didn't need to go and get Trump's approval or permission. If you tell Donald Trump, he'd probably tell Putin what a non factor Donald Trump is. Let's talk about what the European Union is saying. They're not going to just let Donald Trump bully them by raising these steel tariffs from 25 to 50%. You raise the steel tariffs to 50%, you vile piece of trash Donald Trump. You're effectively creating an embargo. So the EU saying get ready for countermeasures, you vile piece of trash over your steel tariffs. The European Commission said over the weekend that Europe was prepared to retaliate against Donald Trump's plan to double tariffs on important steel and aluminum, raising the prospects of an escalating trade fight between the two world's largest economies. Trump's announcement on Friday that he would increase the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to 50% from 25 intensifies his global trade war. And it came just hours after he accused Trump China violating an agreement with the US to mutually roll back levies and trade restrictions to critical minerals. The European Commission said it strongly regrets Trump's plan to increase tariffs, adding it undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution. This decision adds further uncertainty to the global economy and increases costs for consumers and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, a European Commission spokesperson said, adding that the European Union is prepared to impose countermeasures. The spokesperson noted that the European Union had paused its countermeasures to create space for negotiations. But of course, Donald Trump blows up these negotiations time and time again. Donald Trump's attack on universities is something that is a major topic of foreign countries. We're seeing, for example, in India, where they have close to 200,000 students in the United States and universities. They're pissed at the way their students are being treated in Canada. Frankly, throughout the world, students are being treated so horrifically by Trump. The countries where these students come from are getting absolutely livid. It should be noted that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's daughter goes to Harvard, one of the international students caught in Trump's standoff there. Where Donald Trump is not allowing foreign students to go to Harvard, there is litigation around that the daughter of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney could be barred from returning to Harvard University in the fall thanks to this ongoing standoff. Cleo Carney, who grew up in London while her father was the governor of the bank of England, just finished her freshman year at the embattled Cambridge based institution. She's one of nearly seven international students whose time at Harvard could come to an end after dog killer cosplayer Kristi Noem is revoking the status of foreign students. That case, of course, is being litigated in the courts right now. I want to point out as well what's going on in the relations between China and Latin America. Latin American countries are siding with China right now over the United States, as Bloomberg Law reports in the TIT for tat trade war between US And China, Latin America overwhelmingly siding with Beijing. Calls for closer economic ties with China are growing louder in the region, particularly In Mexico, the U.S. s number one trade partner, according to Lat and Pulse, a monthly survey conducted by Atlas intel for Bloomberg News. Nearly two thirds of Mexicans survivors surveyed in May said their country should do more business with China, far more than those calling for tighter economic relations with the US As Donald Trump rattles the global economy with on and off again tariffs, the Taco Trump always chickens out Africom chief warns China attempting to replicate the US Assistant As Washington pulls out General Michael Langley warning comes amid the Pentagon's rebalancing of priorities. So as the Pentagon pulls out and the State Department pulls out from Africa, China's replicating what the US Built with US Aid. China is attempting to replicate every type of thing the US Military does to build and maintain relationships on the continent, according to the top US Military officials there. They're trying to replicate what we do best in our international military education and training program. And then they also said they're going to increase security and training in a number of countries, general Michael Langley, head of US Africa Command, told reporters today. So yes, they're stepping it up and trying to replicate every type of thing, whether it be advice and assist type training and specialized military domains or anything, putting on exercises like they did in Tanzania this fall. Langley was speaking from Nairobi, Kenya, as the US Wrapped up its participation in the African Chiefs of Defense Conference attended by representatives from more than 30 African nations there amid drastic US cuts to civilian aid programs. Langley said he had a message for the leaders of African militaries. America does not want to do more for Africa, but to help Africa do more for itself. I guess that's one way to spin it. Also, Beijing focusing on building relationships with Caribbean nations. So you see all of these efforts being made by China also to establish strong relationships in the Caribbean who were traditionally close and tied with the United States of America. The Trump regime claimed they were going to do 90 deals in 90 days. Thus far, they've done zero deals deals in 90 days. The deal with the United Kingdom was not a deal. It was a memorandum of understanding which literally said this is not a binding deal. If anything, all it did was help the position of Rolls Royce and Jaguar and Land Rover over American car manufacturers. They got a better discount. And then it wasn't. There was no deal with China by the United States. There was a consensus where the United States caved to China and rolled back its tariffs 145% to 30%. So now over the weekend, you had Howard Lutnick, basically after promising all of these trade deals, he went back to look, the deals that we're going to do, we're just going to make up the number and we're going to set our own tariffs against the countries. That's going to be what we call deals. So in other words, no deals. Here's what Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick had to, had to say, play the clip.
Political Commentator 2
The President understands the power of our economy. He said it over and over again. We are the consumer of the world. We are the consumer of Chinese goods. If we don't open our markets to them, their economy is in really, really tough shape. So I think I love having all of this power in the President's hands. He knows how to wield it correctly for the benefit of the American worker.
Political Commentator 1
Okay, quickly, because we got to go. The 90 day pause on the major tariffs is due to expire at the beginning of July. You got a lot of deals to get done. Will the President extend that pause?
Political Commentator 2
I think we're going to get a lot, a lot of deals done. I think they're all being set up. We could sign lots of deals now, but I think we're trying to make them better and better and better. And as the President said, or he'll just set rates and it'll set the terms of the deal. So I don't see today that an extension is coming. In fact, I think that's the deadline. And the President's just going to determine what rates people have. If they can't get a deal done, President Trump is going to determine what deal there's going to be.
Political Commentator 1
Okay, so of course, discourse like that, rattling and pissing off the world. And it's just a sad thing to see that after the United States wanted a multipolar system with Trump removing the United States as a superpower, to see the United States as basically an incredibly weak and feeble pole in the multipleity because of Trump being a taco. Trump always chickens out. He's just weak. Just a weak, pathetic, vile individual in the world. Just knows that he's too cowardly to do anything. It's embarrassing stuff to watch. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas plus substack for ad. Free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast Summary
Episode: Furious World Leaders Shred Trump in New Order
Release Date: June 2, 2025
In this episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas delve deep into the geopolitical landscape shaped by recent actions and statements from former President Donald Trump. The discussion highlights Ukraine's strategic military maneuvers, the diminishing influence of the United States on the global stage, the rising tensions with the European Union, the impact on international education, China's expanding influence in Latin America and Africa, and the shortcomings of Trump's promised trade deals. Below is a detailed breakdown of the key topics covered.
The podcast opens with an in-depth analysis of Ukraine's recent Operation Spiderweb, a clandestine mission that significantly impacted Russia's strategic air force.
Operation Execution: The operation involved 117 drones meticulously deployed across several Russian regions. These drones successfully destroyed 34% of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers (Timestamp: [05:30]).
"Operation Spiderweb in Russia...knocked out 30% of Russia's strategic air force, about 41 of the flagship military planes in operation by Russia destroyed." – Political Commentator 1 ([02:30])
Planning and Secrecy: The mission was planned over a year and a half, showcasing Ukraine's commitment and strategic prowess.
"The operation was carried out on enemy territory, targeting only military objectives...every detail was perfectly executed." – Political Commentator 1 ([07:10])
Global Perception: President Zelensky's leadership and the successful operation have elevated Ukraine's standing on the world stage, contrasting sharply with Donald Trump's diminishing influence.
"Never, never, ever underestimate Ukraine." – Ilya Ponmorenko, Kyiv Independent ([10:45])
The hosts discuss the portrayal of Donald Trump as a weakened figure in international politics, often mocked through memes and public opinion.
Oval Office Encounter: A significant moment where Trump dismissed President Zelensky by saying, "You don't have the cards," was highlighted as a demonstration of his perceived weakness.
"Donald Trump is giving other leaders the cards. He's a weak, pathetic taco." – Political Commentator 1 ([03:15])
Meme Culture: The episode references viral memes depicting Zelensky triumphantly holding a taco to Trump's face, symbolizing Ukraine's upper hand.
"Here's this image right here of Zelensky holding up a taco to Donald Trump's face." – Political Commentator 1 ([12:00])
Global Response: World leaders and nations are increasingly sidelining Trump, recognizing his inability to assert the United States as a dominant superpower.
"The United States...has become the weakest in the multipolar world." – Political Commentator 1 ([09:50])
A significant portion of the discussion centers on the escalating trade tensions between the European Union and the United States, exacerbated by Trump's tariff policies.
Tariff Increases: Trump announced an increase in tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%, intensifying the global trade war.
"Trump's plan to increase tariffs undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution." – European Commission Spokesperson ([10:15])
EU's Retaliation: The European Union has signaled readiness to impose countermeasures, threatening an embargo that could further strain economic relations.
"Europe is prepared to impose countermeasures...get ready for an escalating trade fight." – Political Commentator 1 ([11:40])
Impact on Consumers and Businesses: Both sides face increased costs, adding uncertainty to the global economy.
"This decision adds further uncertainty to the global economy and increases costs for consumers and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic." – European Commission Spokesperson ([10:45])
Trump's policies have had unintended repercussions on international students, causing friction between countries and educational institutions.
University Relations: Countries like India and Canada are expressing outrage over the treatment of their students in US and Canadian universities.
"Students are being treated horribly by Trump, and countries are getting absolutely livid." – Political Commentator 1 ([13:20])
Case of Cleo Carney: The daughter of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faces potential barriers in continuing her education at Harvard, highlighting the personal impacts of these policies.
"Cleo Carney...could be barred from returning to Harvard University in the fall." – Political Commentator 1 ([14:10])
The podcast examines China's strategic moves to strengthen its foothold in regions traditionally dominated by the United States.
Latin America Alignment: Surveys indicate a growing preference among Latin American countries, especially Mexico, to deepen economic ties with China over the US.
"Nearly two-thirds of Mexicans surveyed said their country should do more business with China." – Lat Pulse Survey, Bloomberg News ([16:05])
African Military Relations: China is replicating US military training and relationships in Africa, expanding its influence as the US reduces its presence.
"China is attempting to replicate every type of thing the US Military does to build and maintain relationships on the continent." – General Michael Langley, US Africa Command ([17:30])
Caribbean Partnerships: Efforts to establish strong relations with Caribbean nations are part of China's broader strategy to counter US influence.
"Beijing focusing on building relationships with Caribbean nations...traditionally close with the US." – Political Commentator 1 ([18:00])
A critical analysis of Trump's unfulfilled promises to secure trade deals, highlighting the administration's inability to deliver tangible results.
Broken Promises: Trump's claim of securing "90 deals in 90 days" has not materialized, undermining his credibility.
"They were going to do 90 deals in 90 days. Thus far, they've done zero deals." – Political Commentator 1 ([19:10])
Howard Lutnick's Admission: Trump's Commerce Secretary acknowledged the lack of substantial deals, shifting from negotiations to unilateral tariff settings.
"If they can't get a deal done, President Trump is going to determine what deal there's going to be." – Howard Lutnick ([15:50])
Economic Implications: The failure to secure favorable trade agreements has led to increased tariffs and uncertainty in global markets.
"The deals that we're going to do, we're just going to make up the number and set our own tariffs against the countries." – Howard Lutnick ([20:00])
The podcast highlights the US military's strategic recalibrations and how China is responding to maintain its global presence.
Pentagon's Rebalancing: The US is reducing its military and civilian aid in Africa, prompting China to step in and fill the void.
"The Pentagon's rebalancing of priorities...China is stepping it up and trying to replicate every type of thing." – Political Commentator 1 ([17:50])
General Michael Langley's Insights: Emphasizing that China aims to build and sustain military relationships in Africa through training and security initiatives.
"China is attempting to replicate every type of thing the US Military does to build and maintain relationships on the continent." – General Michael Langley ([18:30])
The episode concludes with a reflection on how Trump's policies and leadership have contributed to the weakening of the United States' position as a global superpower.
Multipolar World Shift: The US is now viewed as one of several major powers rather than the uncontested leader, a scenario that aligns with global desires for a multipolar world.
"They see a multipolar world...the United States...has become the weakest in the multipolar world." – Political Commentator 1 ([15:40])
Embarrassment on the Global Stage: Trump's inability to forge meaningful trade deals and assert US dominance is seen as embarrassing and detrimental to America's standing.
"It's embarrassing stuff to watch...he's just weak." – Political Commentator 1 ([16:20])
Notable Quotes:
"Never, never, ever underestimate Ukraine." – Ilya Ponmorenko, Kyiv Independent ([10:45])
"Trump's plan to increase tariffs undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution." – European Commission Spokesperson ([10:15])
"The President understands the power of our economy...for the benefit of the American worker." – Howard Lutnick ([14:55])
"China is attempting to replicate every type of thing the US Military does to build and maintain relationships on the continent." – General Michael Langley ([17:30])
Conclusion
This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast provides a comprehensive overview of the shifting dynamics in global politics, emphasizing Ukraine's resilience and strategic excellence, the declining influence of Donald Trump, and China's aggressive expansion in traditionally US-dominated regions. The hosts effectively combine insightful analysis with compelling evidence, making it a valuable listen for those interested in understanding the current geopolitical climate.