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Are absolutely furious at Donald Trump. From the President of Mexico to the Prime Minister of Australia to the Prime Minister of Japan to Zelinsky in Ukraine to the Pope, I could keep going on. But Donald Trump has betrayed all of our allies over and over again. And we saw not only did Japan cancel a meeting at the White House that was supposed to take place this week regarding defense spending and defense coordination, both Japan and Australia intentionally and very abruptly decided not to show up at NATO because they thought if they showed up at NATO, they would be extorted by the United States to try to manipulate and tamper with the their own goals and objectives regarding their defense spending. I just want to go through what has gone down with world leaders. First, let me show you what Pope Leo XIV posted regarding Ukraine. Right. In the absence of the United States being the leader of the free world, Pope Leo XIV is stepping up. He writes the following. He wrote it originally in Ukrainian and then he translated it in English. I express my closeness to martyred Ukraine, to the children, to the young people, the elderly, and especially to families who mourn their loved ones. I share your sorrow for the prisoners and victims of this senseless war. The faith of your people is now being put to a difficult test. Believing does not mean having all the answers, but trusting that God is with us and gives us his grace, that he will speak the final word and that life will triumph over over death. Look, whether you're religious or not religious, I still think that that's a powerful message delivered in a way that Donald Trump would never deliver a message in support of Ukraine. One of the reasons that the world is absolutely furious at Donald Trump as well is his fake and bogus mineral deal with Ukraine. Remember when he was talking about the mineral deal? The mineral deal, as our editor in chief Ron Philip Koski explains. So we go through all of this drama, the imaginations and posturing with Trump and Vance at White House with Zelinsky to get this big minerals deal done. Then as soon as the ink is dry, weak, dumbass. Donald Trump lets the Russians seize Ukraine's most valuable deposits of rare earth minerals while withholding Patriot batteries. And of course the corporate news in the United States. Rather spend the entire weekend and every day talking about Mandami, the New York City mayor candidate who's very popular for talking about trying to make things more affordable. Right? The the split screen of as our media is attacking Mandami but then praising Jeff Bezos absurd and offensive wedding in Venice. What our media and while our media was not covering the disastrous budget bill, but our media was not really covering this with any degree of significance. And if it did, it's a headline like the following from the New York Times. Russia Seizes Key Lithium Field In Challenge for US Ukraine Minerals Deal In Challenge for US Ukraine Minerals Deal As Michael Weiss correctly puts it, if this agreement were serious, the US Would do something about helping Ukraine recapture the field or we would have provided Ukraine with the Patriot missiles we were supposed to underlying the deal. But but I guess where a lot of our weapons and missiles are going to was to protect Israel while Donald Trump threatens and extorts the Israeli courts not to prosecute Benjamin Netanyahu or delay the prosecution or else Trump Says he will withhold military equipment to Israel. The United States depleted 15 to 20% of its THAAD missile interceptor stockpiles during the 11 day Israel Iran conflict. Those costs exceeding 800 million, it'll probably be closer to 2 billion when all is said and done. And you know, whatever what our allies are realizing as well, how pathetic and how Donald Trump doesn't understand any geopolitical maneuvering, right? I mean Iran is allied with China, Russia, North Korea, right. And Donald Trump, you know, I mean, by the way, probably may be intentional, right, in the sense that all of this helped Russia because Russia gets its shahed drones that it uses against Ukraine from Iran. So when Donald Trump is encouraging China to now buy cheap oil from Iran, ultimately Iran gets that money and then builds drones that go to Russia to attack Ukraine. And here are some of the developments that we're learning about as well. China will help Russia build a new seaport and naval base on Lake Dunes Love in temporarily occupied Crimea. Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine says and as Jane Keefe puts it, and surely China will be helping Russia develop the trillions of Ukraine's rare earth minerals that Russia is now capturing, the one Trump just agreed to jointly exploit. Trump will never stand up to his Kremlin grandma. So do you see what happened here? Trump did the rare earth minerals deal, promised he would provide Patriot missiles, did not help Ukraine, allowed Russia to take one of the largest lithium deposits in Ukraine. Now Donald Trump does nothing about it. Russia has it and Russia is now working with China and Iran against the United States and our NATO allies. At the same time, we're learning more information that Iran's nuclear facilities were not destroyed. Two data points there that we we just learned. Data point one, there was surveillance done of Iranian leadership and audio that was intercepted where we where top Iranian officials were shocked at how little damage the United States strikes did. This was reported with a high degree of confidence by our intelligence officers and also as Jennifer Griffin from Fox News reports, new satellite images from Fordeau show activity near the bombed ventilation shafts. A Maxar collected new high resolution satellite imagery today that reveals ongoing activity at and near the ventilation shafts and holes caused by last week's strikes on the 4 DOE Fuel Enrichment Complex in Iran. On today's imagery, an excavator and several personnel are positioned immediately next to the northern shaft on the ridge above the underground complex. The crane appears to be operating at the entrance to the shaft hole. Several additional vehicles are also seen below the ridge and are parked along the access path that was built to access the site. In the link provided below, you can download several images from today which provide an overview of the complex. And you can see right there they're putting it back up, back to normal and operational as well. Let me share with you this video of President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico slapping back at Donald Trump after Donald Trump has place sanctions on certain Mexico banks. President Sheinbaum says without any evidence whatsoever, and President Sheinbaum says Mexico will not be a pinata for the United States. Here's what she says. Play this clip right here.
Claudia Sheinbaum
Second, Mexico does not subordinate to anyone. We are a free, sovereign and independent country. We coordinate, we collaborate. We've said it many times, but we do not subordinate ourselves. Mexico is a great country and the relationship with the United States is one of equals, not of subordination.
Political Commentator
As equals.
Claudia Sheinbaum
We are not anyone's. Mexico is respected. And that is the position we have taken with President Trump, which has taken the Secretary of Economy with the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Finance with the Secretary of the treasury of the United States. So we collaborate, we coordinate, and there's also a lot of collaboration and coordination. But in this particular case.
Political Commentator
Well, there must be proof.
Claudia Sheinbaum
If there is no evidence, then how will it be supported in a process like this? So that is very important and we will continue requesting the evidence as in other cases where information has not been sent. So that is our position. The Ministry of Finance with the National Banking and securities Commission in communication, also with the bank of Mexico, and they will do everything necessary to maintain our financial system. They are very small banks, it must be said in Tamasuch. And the Mexican financial system is very solid, very strong. Mexico has many actions against money laundering. Now, to finish this point, we move on.
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You know, and you may say, well, what is she doing? What's going on behind the scenes? Well, also Claudia Sheinbaum is looking more now to China, looking more to Europe, looking more to others other than the United States as it paves its way in the future.
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Similarly, you had, as I mentioned at the outset, Prime Minister Ashiba of Japan. He skipped the NATO summit, as did Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia. In Japan, there are elections coming up in its upper chamber where the Liberal Democratic Party, which is led by Prime Minister Sheba, is expected to take some heavy losses regarding, you know, the way it initially seemed to appease Donald Trump. The people of Japan don't like that at all what I'm hearing. And Prime Minister Sheba's government canceled a meeting with the Trump regime on defense spending that was supposed to take place this week. And they also refused to show up at NATO after Donald Trump, like a coward, abandoned the G7 summit when he was supposed to meet there with a Sheba, with Anthony Albanese, with Prime Minister Modi of, of India. Um, Trump bailed on, on those meetings. You know, I'll show you what Donald Trump said yesterday, though. He referred to Prime Minister Ashiba as Mr. Japan. And Donald Trump said, you know, look, if we don't do a trade deal with Japan, I'm just going to send a letter to Mr. Japan and I'm going to say, hey, Mr. Japan, you get 25% tariffs. Mr. Japan, Mr. Japanese. The leader of Japan is named Mr. Japan. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
And then I helped China. I helped China. So by reducing it. We still don't know, we don't have.
Political Analyst
The clarity on what you're going to.
Donald Trump
Do with these expiration of these pauses. July 9th. No, I think I thought I just swapped with China. I thought I just said it. You ready? You're going to send letters. I'm going to send letters. That's the end of the trade deal. I could send one to Japan. Dear Mr. Japan, here's the story. You're going to pay a 25% tariff on your cars. You know, so we give Japan no cars. They won't take our cars.
Political Commentator
Here's the thing. There was a trade deal with Japan that Donald Trump previously did in his first term. We've done this before. And so the fact that we couldn't do a deal with Japan or we couldn't do a deal yet with India, or we couldn't do a deal yet with Europe or we couldn't do a deal yet really with anybody at all, the UK Deal is not really a trade deal. The UK Deal was. It dealt with automobiles and aeronautics and it said that the three UK Jaguar, Land Rover, and I forget one other UK Automobile company, that they would get preferential treatment basically over American car manufacturers. So utterly ridiculous. Let's take a look at what President Zelensky has been saying. Zelensky said, our institutions are working on the synchronization of the European and Ukrainian sanctions. We are also fully aligning the European sanctions package targeting the regime in Iran, which includes numerous individuals, companies and entities not only involved in military production and external terrorism schemes against neighboring countries in the region, but also in internal repression within Iran itself. It is one of the most brutal regimes in the world. No surprise that Putin found common ground with it. Right? Zelensky is trying to remind Donald Trump, hey, hello. You just struck Iran. Don't you realize that Iran and Putin are allied? But Zelensky, of course, Trump knows that's why he did what seems to largely be a symbolic attack on Iran that did not take out its facilities. So that Donald Trump can claim to be a tough guy while helping Benjamin Netanyahu out in Netanyahu's criminal trial. It didn't matter whether it was effective or not. It was a way to help Netanyahu. You see what happened here. It was a way to help Netanyahu out in his criminal prosecution. Trump would want to look tough here by taking those images for his Instagram of like the tough guy. And it helps Putin, right, because Iran keeps its weapons. Iran's trade with China increases, Iran gets richer and, and Russia gets the benefit of that. That's what went down. And you think I put the pieces together. I mean, you could do the research yourself, but I think I make a compelling case right there. Zelinsky says global sanctions against Russia must now be one of the top priorities. They are a real tool for limiting Russian strategic capabilities. And then President Zelinsky also points out that night long air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine. 477 drones were in our skies, most of them Russian Iranian shaheds, along with 60 missiles of various types. The Russians were targeting everything that sustains life. A residential building in Smyla was also hit and a child was injured. Emergency services are responding wherever they're needed. Tragically, while repelling the attack, our F16 pilot, Maxim Utmeko died today. He destroyed seven aerial targets. My condolences to him and his family. Moscow will not stop as long as it has the capability to launch massive strikes. Just this week alone, there have been more than 114 missiles, over 1270 drones and nearly 1,100 glide bombs. Putin long ago decided he would keep waging war despite the world's call for peace. Let me show you this hopeful note right here where over a hundred thousand people showed up for the LGBTQ pride parade in Hungary after the Trump aligned authoritarian Viktor Orban bandit in Hungary and said that he would basically attack and torture and harm the people if they showed up to be there for the pride parade. Just watch how beautiful this is. Play this clip. And finally let me share with you what my friend, former Member of Parliament Charlie Angus had to say about Donald Trump. Right here, here. Play the clip.
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Well, this is so true. I mean, he came to the G7amoment when world leaders came together to try and sort of put some stability in a destabilized world. Instead, we got Donald Trump who blew the whole thing up and then scrammed out of Canada before you had to confront President Zelensky. Then he went to NATO in Brussels. Again, another key point where the European allies were trying to secure with the world some level of stability with the increasing violence we are seeing in Israel, Gaza, Iran, the situation with Russia. And Donald Trump came in and lit gasoline all over the place and then walked out. So in those, what you saw in between those two pivotal international summits was that Canada said, well, wait a minute, we've got to find a future. And it's not with this guy and it's not with the United States. You know, we have American officials hosting meetings claiming that Canada is some kind of terrorist haven. They're saying that we're sending massive gangs of El Salvadorians over the Canadian border. I mean, I'm sorry you've ever visit Canada. Could you show us where we have our El Salvadorian gangs? I mean, I think what next they're going to find weapons of mass destruction in a bunker in some nice leafy suburb in Canada. The language that Trump is using against Canada is actually having a hugely detrimental effect on American businesses because Canadians are pulling out. Canadians are not traveling there. So I don't know what Prime Minister Carney will do in response to this latest temper tantrum by President Tacko. Certainly when we see that he's throwing around issues like non existent threats like dairy, it's, it's more of his bad theater. But we've seen the show so many times, we know the punchlines. It's not funny, nobody gets upset. So I think Canada is just going to have to do what it's going to do. We'll probably have to go back pound for pound, dollar for dollar in trade retaliations as we watch the American economy get weaker and more unsure because who is going to invest right now? Who's going to start moving product for the American economy when Donald Trump is blowing things up every chance he can get?
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Podcast Summary: The MeidasTouch Podcast – "Furious World Leaders Stick a Dagger in Trump for Quitting"
Release Date: June 30, 2025
Introduction
In this compelling episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas delve deep into the international backlash against former President Donald Trump following his abrupt departure from the political scene. The episode, titled "Furious World Leaders Stick a Dagger in Trump for Quitting," explores the intricate web of geopolitical tensions, broken alliances, and the ensuing ramifications on global stability. Through insightful analysis and sharp commentary, the brothers illuminate how Trump's actions have reshaped diplomatic relations and influenced global power dynamics.
Global Backlash Against Donald Trump
The episode opens with a fervent discussion about the widespread anger among world leaders towards Donald Trump. The Political Commentator (01:56) emphasizes the breadth of Trump’s fallout, citing reactions from diverse leaders:
This widespread disapproval stems from Trump's perceived betrayal of allies and mishandling of international agreements, particularly concerning defense and economic collaborations.
The Controversial Mineral Deal with Ukraine
A significant portion of the discussion centers on Trump's contentious mineral deal with Ukraine. The Political Commentator (02:30) critiques the agreement, highlighting its failure and detrimental impacts:
The deal, intended to bolster Ukraine's defense capabilities, instead resulted in Russia gaining access to critical rare earth minerals. This move not only weakened Ukraine’s position but also inadvertently strengthened Russia and its allies, including China and Iran.
Ron Philip Koski, the editor-in-chief, provides further insights into the fallout:
The lack of follow-through on defensive support undermined trust and showcased Trump's inability to commit to international defense strategies effectively.
Impact on International Alliances and NATO
The episode delves into how Trump's actions have strained relationships within NATO and among key allies. The Political Commentator (10:26) discusses the repercussions of Japan and Australia withdrawing from the NATO summit:
These withdrawals signify a rift within NATO, as allies become wary of relying on the United States for consistent leadership and support. The ensuing instability threatens the cohesion and effectiveness of the alliance in addressing global security challenges.
Condemnation from Pope Leo XIV
Highlighting Trump's isolation, the episode references a poignant statement from Pope Leo XIV regarding Ukraine. The Political Commentator (03:20) quotes the Pope:
This declaration underscores the moral divide between Trump’s administration and global humanitarian leaders, emphasizing a lack of unified support for Ukraine amidst ongoing conflicts.
Media's Role and Public Perception
The hosts critique the media's inconsistent coverage of significant political events. The Political Commentator (09:00) points out:
This selective reporting not only skews public perception but also diverts attention from pressing issues like the disastrous budget bill and ineffective foreign policies, further eroding trust in both the media and political leadership.
Economic and Military Consequences
The discussion shifts to the economic and military implications of Trump's decisions. The Political Commentator (17:30) elaborates on the depletion of missile stockpiles:
This significant reduction in defense resources highlights the precarious state of the U.S. military readiness, exacerbated by Trump's erratic foreign policy maneuvers.
Claudia Sheinbaum's Stance and Mexico's Response
The episode features a critical analysis of Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum's response to Trump's sanctions. At 09:56, Sheinbaum asserts:
Her firm stance signifies a shift towards greater autonomy, distancing Mexico from U.S. influence and seeking stronger ties with other global powers like China and Europe. This realignment further diminishes Trump's leverage over traditional allies.
Trade Disputes and Future Implications
Trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan receive substantial attention. The Political Commentator (15:38) discusses Trump’s threats:
This aggressive posture not only disrupts established trade relations but also invites retaliation, as seen in the potential for Canada to respond with trade compensations. The unresolved trade disputes reflect a broader uncertainty in global economic partnerships post-Trump.
Ukraine's Ongoing Struggle and International Support
Returning focus to Ukraine, the Political Commentator (19:20) highlights President Zelensky's efforts:
Despite Trump's inadequate support, Ukraine continues to seek international assistance to counter Russian aggression. The persistent air raids and loss of lives emphasize the dire situation and the need for cohesive global intervention.
Positive Developments Amidst Turmoil
Amidst the bleak geopolitical landscape, the episode shares a hopeful moment from Hungary's LGBTQ pride parade. The Political Commentator (20:37) remarks:
This display of solidarity and resilience signifies the enduring spirit of communities striving for equality and acceptance despite oppressive political climates.
Conclusion and Reflections
In wrapping up, the hosts reflect on the stark contrasts between Trump’s divisive strategies and the collaborative efforts of global leaders striving for stability and progress. The Political Commentator (22:44) summarizes:
This concluding insight encapsulates the episode’s central theme: Trump's departure has left a void, fostering both challenges and opportunities for redefined international relationships and strengthened global alliances.
Notable Quotes
Political Commentator (05:00): “Trump lets the Russians seize Ukraine's most valuable deposits of rare earth minerals while withholding Patriot batteries.”
Claudia Sheinbaum (09:56): “Mexico does not subordinate to anyone. We are a free, sovereign and independent country.”
President Zelensky (19:20): “Global sanctions against Russia must now be one of the top priorities. They are a real tool for limiting Russian strategic capabilities.”
Political Analyst Charlie Angus (20:37): “Donald Trump came in and lit gasoline all over the place and then walked out.”
Final Thoughts
This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast offers a thorough examination of the international repercussions following Donald Trump's exit from the political arena. By dissecting multifaceted geopolitical issues and presenting diverse perspectives, Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas provide listeners with a nuanced understanding of the current global landscape. The detailed analysis underscores the intricate interplay between national actions and international relations, highlighting the enduring impact of leadership decisions on worldwide stability and cooperation.