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Political Commentator
That's what happens when you have an incredibly weak president like Donald Trump right there. More drone and ballistic missile strikes. They're hitting the Sumi region in Ukraine. Didn't Donald Trump say he was going to set up a tri lat, a trilateral meeting between Zelinsky himself and Putin? Oh, that didn't happen. Didn't Donald Trump say that there was going to be a ceasefire or else there would be serious ramifications for Putin? Oh, that didn't happen. Donald Trump just handed Putin the biggest propaganda win in recent Russian history. Didn't Donald Trump promise that there was going to be an agreement? That there could be security guarantees? NATO like security guarantees where European forces and NATO like forces can go into Ukraine and protect it. Oh wait, that didn't happen. You mean to tell me that Donald Trump lies about everything? So utterly pathetic. Now as you see what's going on there in Ukraine and Sumi, we also have a situation where the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just laid off is just firing 40% of our intelligence officers handing Putin another victory. Just think about that. 40% of our intelligence officers are now going to be fired The DNI just gutting its entire step. Why would we need national intelligence people? I wonder why? And again, this is just so normalized in terms of how corporate media covers this. Well, we the people are pissed. We the people are pissed that things are far less affordable, that our economy is in the dumpster monster right now. While the Trump regime and corporate news tries to gaslight us like, oh, everything's going great, everything. There's no more inflation. We know that we are suffering. It is obvious what is taking place. This is J.D. vance and Pete Hegseth leaving Union Station yesterday, which they set up like a command center in Fallujah. Like it looked like they were mapping out a war. You had like Stephen Miller with like his veins popping out of his head. Just watch though, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth, these total vile clowns walking out of Union Station to booze. Let these idiots know how you feel about them. Show them zero respect. Here, play this clip and take a look at Stephen Miller there with zero pocket there to take a look. Stephen Miller just starts screaming and he's like, you know, wow, we're going after these people. We're gonna go and grab them. These 90 year old hippies. These 90 year old white hippies. The hell are you talking about? That's 90 year old white hippies. Listen to what Miller says. This looks like it's out of truly like idiocracy. Here, play this clip.
Protester/Activist
So we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies and all you go home and take a nap and because we're all over 90 years old and we're going to get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens.
Political Commentator
Of Washington D.C. if you want to take a look at what's going on in Washington D.C. let's take a look at some of those old white hippies. Here, play this clip. A hat tip to Amanda Moore for capturing this. Here, play this clip.
Protester/Activist
Bestie, show your face. Yeah, y' all got like whole tickets. Be real proud of your job if you can't show your face, sweetie. Armor the fascist unite.
Political Commentator
Then more. Stephen Miller yesterday just freaking out and losing it. What'd you think was going to happen, Trump regime? That we the people were just going to let your idiotic fascist march just stomp on? We the people. No, we're gonna fight back against you idiots. Here, play this clip.
Protester/Activist
And the voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots, they have no connection to the city. They have no families. They're raising the city, they have no one that they're sending to school in the city. They have no jobs in the city. They have no connections with this community at all. But they're the ones who've been advocating for the 1%, the criminals, the killers, the rapists, the drug dealers. And I'm glad they're here today because me, Pete, and the Vice president all going to leave here. And inspired by them, we're going to add thousands more resources to this city to get the criminals and the gang members out of here.
Political Commentator
Just look at this scene right now. Here. Zoom in. You've got J.D. vance, you've got Exit, you've got Stephen Miller with no pocket square surrounded by military officers in the freaking train station in Washington D.C. they're not even going to the area areas where crime is higher in Washington D.C. they're going to tourist attractions so they could play G.I. joe and G.I. jane. It is so weird and dangerous and odd and anti American. But this is what the Trump regime is all about. And meanwhile, the red cities and red states where crime is actually at its highest and no National Guard there. Well, why would you actually send the National Guard to places where there's real crime? Just do performative displ of fascism. Nothing says Trump like performative displays of fascism. The new Washington Post poll that just came out yesterday says 79% of D.C. residents oppose Trump's takeover of D.C. police and the dispatching of National Guard. 80% of black D.C. residents, 60%, 67% of Hispanic D.C. residents oppose it. And then over 61% say the biggest threat in Washington D.C. to public safety is not homicides or crime, it's Donald Trump's Gestapo. As they have these military trucks riding around, disappearing people, beating people. Utterly disgusting. Speaking about utterly disgusting. More fascist tactics from the Trump regime. So Trump installed this lackey, this guy named Bill Pulte, to run an organization called fhfa. And then they. And then also he appointed it, which is the Federal Housing and Finance Agency. And then Bill Pulte also appointed himself as the chair of Fannie Mae. So they have access to, like, mortgage documents there. And when they. What they do is they look through the mortgage documents and they try to find against their political opponents. Is there anything that they. That years ago that they may have said this, and it's actually slightly off, whatever it is. They take their political opponents. Mortgage, mortgages. They did this with Senator Schiff and then they look at him and they go, oh, you've committed mortgage fraud. Then they refer you to the DOJ for prosecution. And then they say, that you need to resign and leave. So they did this with one of the governors of the. The chairman, the Federal Reserve governors. And here's the letter right here that they then send this, like, special letter where they go after people and say, oh, we're gonna do a criminal referral of, you know, anybody who Don Trump doesn't like. And it was a lady over here, Locke, commit one of the. Governor. Governor Locke. And so Trump goes after her. I mean, it's just so utterly despicable. Bill Pulte did that with Schiff. He's doing it with Locke. And it's just the way they weaponize all of these agencies to go after all of their political opponents. You know, I'm just looking at other signs in the economy right now that are causing me concern, just so you know. I mean, as we know, inflation is surging right now. Prices across the board are way up a. Up. Up. Just other things, too. I mean, like daycare costs right now are entirely unaffordable. Energy costs are becoming entirely unaffordable as well. You know, between Bitcoin and AI, it's sucking up so much energy. And Donald Trump has destroyed all sources of energy other than, like, coal. And we need alternative sources of energy right now. But you'll tell you what, Donald Trump cares mostly about Donald Trump. We learned yesterday Trump bought more than $100 million in bonds since January, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and things that he has direct say over. So Donald Trump's net worth has now increased by about $4 billion since taking office because he's literally using the White House as a freaking grift machine right now, shaking down foreign countries and corporations and then putting his money in places where he knows he's going to benefit as a result of his policies. We need someone who's going to stand up against this, this conduct by the regime. And I gotta give Credit To California Gov. Gavin Newsom, one of the people standing up to this fascist Trump regime right now. And I gotta love these memes that are circulating around right now in these videos. Have you, have you seen stuff like this? Like Governor Newsom riding an alligator with machine guns and an American flag. Here, play this clip from Dusk Till.
Protester/Activist
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Political Commentator
That stuff is totally getting under the skin of the Trump regime. Also, Newsom's just daily trolling of Donald Trump. He calls Trump tiny hands, low IQ. He calls J.D. vance just dance. And he calls all the Fox host names and the Fox hosts Absolutely hate it. Watch this meltdown. I'm going to do a whole other video on it. But so check back in about 90 minutes or so. But watch Hannity's just total meltdown here. Play this clip. I have a point. Results matter. A new performative, confrontational style. Maybe it wins your points with the loony radical base in your party, but America is not going to vote for that record. And you know, at this point Fox and Russian state regime media are basically one in the same Russian TV which is Russian state regime media is just, they're posting direct, direct verbatim quotes from Just Dance Vance where it goes. J.D. vance describes the real Vladimir Putin. He soft spoken in a certain way. He's very deliberate. He's very carefully fundamentally he's a person who looks out for the interests of Russia. The way Magas talk about Putin is, I mean obviously, well, way nicer than Zelinsky but like significantly nicer than Democrats. For Maga Republicans Democrats are and scum need to get rid of them. They use Nazi like language and it's intentional. But Vladimir Putin soft spoken, spoken, articulate, interesting. As our editor in chief Ron Philip Koski writes, Russian state media post the Vance clip because what he is saying is exactly what they want Americans to hear. If you, if you poll Americans right now about their view on this economy, only 38% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's handling of this economy. There are more bankruptcies right now than there was during the pandemic. More companies have gone bankrupt right now, large, small, medium sized companies. The most bankruptcies in modern history. That's another worrying data point. The fact that Meta, which is Zuckerberg's company, just did a hiring freeze. Palantir, that AI company stock is down like 20%. I've been saying now over and over again it feels like we're in this AI bubble taking place. There's this pump and dump market right now that does not feel terrible tethered to the reality of what's actually taking place in our country. And if you look at the economy, the fundamentals are very, very weak. We heard from the Federal Reserve earlier yesterday that an unanchoring of their warnings is occurring. In other words, they've been warning that Trump's tariffs are going to cause massive harm to the economy and that it could have a material impact on their inflation projections. Well, I think one of the important things just to remind you of is that because Donald Trump, Taco Trump always chickened out, the true impacts of his disastrous tariffs were not immediately felt a Lot of corporations, they loaded up, they front loaded inventory and anticipation. That's one thing that took place. But also Trump kept on pausing, pausing, pausing. Now the tariffs are in effect and they are absolutely crushing businesses both in terms of the cost, because it's a tax on American companies, and also just the overall uncertainty in this climate. Businesses don't know what to do. It's why you have this massive bankruptcy situation taking place. More bankruptcies now since the pandemic. But Donald Trump's posting things like this. Just idiotic stuff. Trump goes, um, any state that has built and relied on windmills and solar for power are seeing record breaking increases. And electricity and energy costs, the scam of the century. We will not approve wind or farmer destroying solar. The days of stupidity are over in the United States. MAGA is one of the stupidest errors of American history. An era and an error. I mean, having this Trump regime run things. What are we talking about here? The rest of the world is using diversified energy sources creates jobs, it's needed and necessary based on the energy demand. And America's just going back to coal. Like, what the hell are we even doing here? And a lot of the reasons why we're seeing energy costs surge right now is because Trump is gutting all of the alternative energy sources right now because he doesn't like windmills. He goes, I don't like windmills. That's weird. That's not okay. Hey, we should not be okay with this behavior. We have a madman, felon, sexual abuser, criminal running things, who's bankrupted most of his companies in the past. He's bankrupted casino after casino, all that stupid crap he attached his name to in the past. Bankrupt, bankrupt. Out of business, out of business. He's doing it with our country. It should be so obvious. And it pisses me off when they were just weak people who have the resources to, to call him out, who just let him get away with it. But not here at the Midas Touch Network. We will continue to call out this crap each and every day. Keep checking back every 90 minutes for new video content here on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you so much for watching and have a wonderful day. Thanks for watching. Be sure to add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast for new updates every single day.
Date: August 21, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
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This episode centers on the hosts’ ferocious critique of the Trump administration and its latest actions—both domestic and international—describing the regime’s policies as destructive, fascistic, and self-serving. The Meiselas brothers blend passionate political analysis with their trademark humor and candor, focusing on the current crisis in Ukraine, attacks on American democratic institutions, rampant corruption, and the public’s reaction to Trump and his allies’ performative authoritarianism.
[01:27 – 03:40]
“Didn’t Donald Trump say that there was going to be a ceasefire or else there would be serious ramifications for Putin? Oh, that didn’t happen. Donald Trump just handed Putin the biggest propaganda win in recent Russian history.”
— Political Commentator, [01:38]
[03:40 – 06:11]
“What’d you think was going to happen, Trump regime? That we the people were just going to let your idiotic fascist march just stomp on? No, we’re gonna fight back against you idiots.”
— Political Commentator, [05:19]
[06:11 – 09:00]
“They look through the mortgage documents and they try to find … is there anything … slightly off, whatever it is. They take their political opponents’ mortgages … [and say] you’ve committed mortgage fraud … Then they refer you to the DOJ for prosecution.”
— Political Commentator, [06:49]
[09:00 – 11:00]
“Donald Trump has destroyed all sources of energy other than, like, coal…”
— Political Commentator, [10:14]
“Donald Trump’s net worth has now increased by about $4 billion since taking office because he’s literally using the White House as a freaking grift machine right now.”
— Political Commentator, [10:41]
[11:00 – 12:20]
“Newsom’s just daily trolling of Donald Trump. He calls Trump tiny hands, low IQ.”
— Political Commentator, [11:59]
[12:21 – 14:15]
“For MAGA Republicans … Democrats … are scum, need to get rid of them. They use Nazi-like language … But Vladimir Putin—soft-spoken, articulate, interesting.”
— Political Commentator, [12:56]
[14:15 – episode end]
“America’s just going back to coal. Like, what the hell are we even doing here?”
— Political Commentator, [15:01]
“We have a madman, felon, sexual abuser, criminal running things, who’s bankrupted most of his companies in the past. He’s doing it with our country.”
— Political Commentator, [15:25]
This episode exemplifies the MeidasTouch podcast’s blend of vigorous pro-democracy advocacy, news breakdowns, and biting political satire, all designed to equip listeners with critical perspectives and inspire ongoing resistance.