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Donald Trump
I never had the privilege of going to his island.
Commentator
You heard that right. Donald Trump just said he never had the privilege of attending Epstein Island. This was a disaster. Press conference between Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kiera Starmer. Donald Trump was asked lots of questions about Jeffrey Epstein and oh, Donald Trump made it worse, even worse than saying that he didn't have the privilege of going to Epstein Island. Let me just show you the full response to the question he was was asked where he talks about not having the privilege. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
That was it. I'm glad I did, if you want to know the truth. And by the way, I never went to the island. And Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island. But Larry Summers, I hear went there. He was the head of Harvard and many other people that are very big people, nobody ever talks about them. I never had the privilege of going to his island and I did turn it down. But a lot of people in Palm beach were invited to his island. In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn't want to go to his island. Yeah.
Commentator
Then Donald Trump was asked if his if he was briefed that his name appeared in the Epstein files by the Attorney General and didn't by law the Attorney General have to tell him? And isn't it true that Attorney General Pam Bondi told him in May? And then Donald Trump's like, yeah, well, it's All a hoax. And the prior administration, they. They put things in files so you can't trust them anyway. Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
You have said that you have not been briefed on the Epstein files, but. Or your name has not appeared in the Epstein files. But doesn't the AG have to tell you if your name. Well, I haven't been overly interested in it. You know, it's something. It's a hoax that's been built up way beyond proportion. I can say this. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by Biden and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the auto pen. Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it. The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files. I was running against somebody that ran the files. If they had something, they would have released. Now, they can easily put something in the files that's a phony. Like as an example, Christopher Steele, a person you know well, happens to be from your country. But Christopher Steele, as an example, wrote a book, a dossier. We call it the Fake News dossier. And the whole thing was a fake. The whole thing was a fake. They can put things in the file that are fake, but those files were run by bad, sick people. If they had anything, why didn't they use it? When I was killing Joe and that he gave out because he was 25 points down. And then I got somebody new. Nobody even knew anything about it. She was a horrible vice president. She was a border czar, but she never went to the border. She never once called a border patrol agent to find out. I wouldn't. But she. She was the border czar. Her name was Kamala. Nobody knows. Her last name was Harris, but nobody.
Commentator
And it got even worse than that. Donald Trump was asked, are you considering pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell? And before he said, you know, I really don't know. And, you know, now he's really just leaning into it. He's like, well, I am allowed to give her a pardon. This is what he's saying. Next to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Care Starmer here. Play this clip different.
Donald Trump
Maybe it's not. I don't know, but maybe it's slightly different. Mr. President ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. Is that something you would ever consider? And why? Pardon for who? For Ghislaine Maxwell. Well, I'm allowed to give her a pardon. But I, Nobody's approached me with it. Nobody's asked me about it. It's in the news about that, that aspect of it. But right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it.
Commentator
So, Mr. President, then Donald Trump says that actually the COVID up of the Epstein files is a winning issue for him. He says, he says this is a great issue. And Epstein helps his poll numbers. He says, he goes, he's doing much better because of all of his Epstein connections. Here, listen to what he says. Here, play this.
Donald Trump
I just don't. When you, you know, when you talk about files, I just keep going back and other people too. Even the enemy says this thing is not correct because if we had it, we would have used it on the guy. It's a bad issue. They say it's a good issue for Trump. Do you know that my poll numbers are up four and a half points since this ridiculous Epstein stuff? My poll numbers have gone up four and a half points because people don't buy it, okay? People don't buy it. And he's gone. And we want to focus on trade deals. I want to focus on the deal we just made with the European Union, which is the biggest trade deal in history. It's the biggest deal, I think, in history, not just trade deal. So if they would have had something, they would have used it. People keep writing stories like the time he threw him out of Mar? A. Can you settle that?
Commentator
Then Donald Trump claims that the reason he was no longer friends with Jeffrey Epstein is because Jeffrey Epstein took the, quote, help that Donald Trump had hired, that Epstein stole Trump's help. Now this contradicts the story that Trump and Maga had told where they were like, Trump got rid of Epstein because he realized Epstein was a pervert and kicked him out. Well, now Trump saying that Epstein took his help, whatever that means, and that's what really upset Donald Trump and that's why they stopped talking. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
People keep telling stories about the time he threw him out of Mar? A Lago. Can you settle that? What was it about? What caused the breach? That's such old history. Very easy to explain, but I don't want to waste your time by explaining it. But for years I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't talk because he did something that was inappropriate. He hired help. And I said, don't ever do that again. He stole people that work for me. I said, don't ever do that again. He did it again and I threw him out of the place. Persona non grata. I threw him out and that was it. I'm glad I did. If you want to know the truth.
Commentator
Then Donald Trump says that Epstein was a very controversial guy. So if Epstein was controversial, then why would Trump draw controversial drawings? Also calling a sex trafficker controversial. I'm not really sure that that's the right word there, Donald, and I'm not sure how that's related to the birthday card that you sent him on his 50th birthday. And a controversial drawing.
Donald Trump
What?
Commentator
Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
And also, you know, Epstein was always a very controversial guy. I was at a very high position, you know, pretty much all my life. In all fairness, I've been, I've been doing this for a long time at the top show on television. I had the number one bestsellers. I had everything right. And I was a very successful business guy. He was a very controversial. Who would do a controversial drawing? Now, with that being said, they say there were many letters done by many people and many big people, you know, big successful people. But I just, I just don't. When you, you know, when you talk about files, I just keep going back and other people, too. Even the enemy says this thing is not correct because if we had it, we would have used it on the guy. It's.
Commentator
But then Donald Trump says he doesn't do drawings and he never draws women. Play this clip for the election.
Donald Trump
Yeah.
Keir Starmer
The drawing that was Assumption, the.
Donald Trump
Wall Street Journal report. I don't do drawings. I'm not a drawing person. I don't do drawings. Sometimes he would say, would you do a building and I'll draw four lines and a little roof, you know, for a charity stuff. But, but I'm not a drawing person. I don't do drawings of women. That I can tell you. They say there's a drawing of a woman and I don't do drawings of women.
Commentator
We previously showed you all of the drawings that Donald Trump has made before. Donald Trump then continues to talk about how he never went to the island, but he believes Bill Clinton was there 28 times. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
That was it. I'm glad I did, if you want to know the truth. And by the way, I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island, but Larry Summers, I hear, went there. He was the head of Harvard and many other people that are very big people. Nobody ever talks about them. I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down, but a lot of people in Palm beach were invited to his island in One of my very good moments. I turned it down. I didn't want to go to his island.
Commentator
Yeah, I guess where they get into some sort of substance in their conversation, if you want to call it that. Actually, I don't call it that at all. Donald Trump says that Keir Starmer will not be banning Truth Social, Donald Trump's failing social media platform. And Kiera Starm was like, we won't ban it, Donald. We won't. The whole thing is so freaking weird. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
I don't like it. I don't like it. Successful social media sites, there are new powers here to censor your site. State mandates to censor my site. You mean truth. Truth is that. Well, I don't think he's going to censor myself because I say only good things. Will you please uncensor my site?
Keir Starmer
Yeah, we're not, we're not censoring anyone. We've got some measures which are there to protect children in particular from sites like suicide sites. We've had too many cases in the United Kingdom of young children taking their own lives. And when you look through their social media, they've been accessing sites which talk about suicide and, you know, encouraging, if you like, children down that road. And that is what we want to stop. Nothing about censoring free speech, but this, this country is a proud free speech in this country, has been for a very long time. We're very, very proud of it. We will protect it forever. But at the same time, I personally feel very strongly that we should protect our young teenagers, and that's what it usually is from things like suicide sites. I don't see that as a free speech issue. I see that as a child protection.
Donald Trump
We actually passed a bill in Congress headed up by my wife, actually, which was to pull bad stuff out having to do with children because it is a problem, but I cannot imagine.
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Commentator
So a reporter that asked Donald Trump if he expects there to be any rate cuts. And Donald Trump doesn't understand what a rate cut is. So Trump goes, what do you mean.
Donald Trump
Like a tax cut?
Commentator
No, like a rate cut. Like interest rates. Do you expect there to be an interest rate cut? Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Yes, a rate cut. Meaning? Meaning a tax cut. No, no, no.
Commentator
You expect the Fed because.
Donald Trump
Oh, I think he has to. You had 11 cuts. You know, in Europe, they had 11 cuts. In other places they had 10 or 11 cuts and we had none. But I'm not going to say anything bad. You know, we're doing so well even without the rate cut. With the rate cut, it would be better. It affects our housing a little bit. Look, we should be three points lower. Each point is $360 billion. Can you imagine that? That's big numbers. Each point, one point of cut is the equivalent of $360 billion in savings. That's big stuff. You know, those are big numbers. In the US Everything's big. He should cut. A smart person would cut. You know, he leaves very soon, so it's like one of those things. But I'll miss him greatly.
Commentator
I mean, he definitely looks pretty cognitively addled here as well. Then Donald Trump is asked about Vladimir Putin and what's happening there. You said you would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. Are there going to be any more talks between the United States and Russia? Donald. And Donald's like, I'm not interested in talking anymore. He was mean to me. He said, he sounds so nice on the phone. But then he kills people. He was mean. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
But every time I think it's going to end, he kills people. Could a meeting help? And are you considering. I don't know. I'm not, you know, I'm not so interested in talking anymore. He's. He talks. We have such nice conversations, such respectful and nice conversations. And then people die. The following night in a. With a missile going into a town and hitting, I mean, recently, I guess, the nursing home, but they hit other things. Whatever they hit, people die. So I don't know we'll see what happens to.
Commentator
A reporter says, but you told everybody during your campaign that Putin respects you. So it sounds like you're saying he doesn't respect you. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Very bad. Mr. President with EU deal. Last night, you talked during the campaign.
Keir Starmer
About President Putin respecting you and not helping have a relationship with him. Do you still feel that way, that.
Donald Trump
He respects you, considering the conversations you've had that have been really nice? Yeah, I've always gotten along with President Putin. I have had a great relationship with him. And he went through the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax too. You know, I mean, it was. We used to talk about it. We used to say, you know, it's too bad we really can't do anything between our country, because if we did, they say, oh, it's, you know, look, I was tough on Putin because I was the one that closed up Nord Stream and Biden came along and opened it up. I was very tough on Putin in one way, but we got along very well. And I never, you know, I never really thought this would happen. I thought we'd be able to negotiate something and maybe that'll still happen, but it's very late down the process, so I'm disappointed. And, you know, the funny thing is that their economy isn't that big and it's having a hard time right now, but it's a relatively small economy. A strong military, but strong economy. And it used to be a strong economy, now it's not. He's going through a lot economically. It's not easy, but it's pretty small, you know, compared to that magnificent size of that land. The land is massive. It's got, I guess, nine time zones or something. It's a massive piece of land. Russia could be so rich, it could be so rich, it could be thriving like practically no other country. And they're holding that back because we can't. He wants to do trade deals with us. He talks about it all the time. He wanted to. And I envision that a lot of trade with Russia. They have a lot of valuable things. When you talk about rare earth, they have serious rare earth, right. They have just about every form you can have. So, you know, Russia could be such so rich right now. Instead, they spend all their money on war. They spend everything on war and killing people. And it doesn't make sense to me. I thought he would want to end this thing quickly. I really felt it was going to end. But every time I think it's going to end, he kills people. Could a meeting help?
Keir Starmer
And are you considering?
Donald Trump
I don't know.
Commentator
I'm not, you know, Next, Donald Trump says it's going to, he'll figure out what to do with Russia maybe in 10 to 12 days. So he went from two weeks to he needed 50 days and now he's saying 10 to 12 days. He's just a fraud. Trump's just a fraud. He's just a liar. He's making up numbers. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
Earlier you said that you were going to change the deadline from. Yeah, I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today. There's no reason in waiting. There's no reason in waiting. It's 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made.
Commentator
Then Donald Trump is asked how, why he doesn't like windmills, but King Charles likes windmills. And here's what Donald Trump says. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
King Charles, who you are a great friend of, is a big fan of projects, as you call them. Is he wrong? So King Charles is an environmentalist, I will tell you. And I say that in a positive way, not a negative way. And every time I've met with him, he talked about the environment, how important it is, and I'm all for it. I think that's great. You know, King Charles more than anything else loves the country. But I got to know him very well. He truly is an environmentalist. He wants clean air, clean water, you know, all of the things that we all want.
Commentator
And then Donald Trump just starts ranting and raving about windmills and how they kill eagles and how he says, look, if you look out my window, they're in there in Turnberry in Scotland. He's like, if you look out my window right now, Donald Trump's like, you see how ugly those, those windmills are? And you go to Aberdeen, they're so ugly and they kill the birds. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
The most expensive form of energy and it destroys the beauty of your fields and your plains and your, and your waterways. And look, look out there. There's no windmills, but if you look in another direction, you see windmills. If, when we go to Aberdeen, you'll see some of the ugliest windmills you've ever seen. They're the height of a 50 story building and you can take a thousand times more energy out of a hole in the ground. This big. This big. It's called oil and gas. And you have it there, the North Sea this big that nobody would even see. You can take a thousand times More power because the wind is intermittent. It doesn't work. It's extremely expensive. All the windmills are made in China. They used to be Germany and China. Now they're mostly in China. They all come out of China. They say that the blades, which are carbon fiber, you can't bury. Oh, okay, you can't bury. What are you going to do? Dump them in the ocean someplace? Because they only last a certain period of time. And remember, a windmill has a life of eight years, especially when they're out in the salty sea and they start to rot and to rust. You're going to have to replace them. It's very hard to replace them. Wind needs massive subsidy. And you are paying in Scotland and in UK and all over the place where they have massive subsidies to have these ugly monsters all over the place. So I've restricted windmills in the United States. Now a couple we have, you know, this. The poor stupid people at the beginning, they approve them so they have their full approvals. But I've restricted windmills in the United States because they also kill all your birds. You know, they wipe out. You know, it's interesting. If you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years, and yet windmills knock out hundreds of them. They don't do anything. You explain that.
Commentator
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The MeidasTouch Podcast Summary
Episode: Trump Crumbles in Disaster Press Brief with UK PM
Release Date: July 28, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Description: In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect a tumultuous press conference featuring former President Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer. The discussion navigates through Trump's controversial remarks on Jeffrey Epstein, his stance on social media censorship, economic policies, relations with Russia, and his vehement opposition to wind energy projects.
The episode begins with an overview of Donald Trump's disastrous press conference alongside UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The hosts set the stage by highlighting the gravity of Trump's remarks and the ensuing fallout.
A significant portion of the press conference centered around Trump's denials of any association with Jeffrey Epstein.
Denial of Association:
Comparison with Bill Clinton:
Impact on Poll Numbers:
Trump addressed the subject of social media platforms, particularly focusing on his platform, Truth Social.
Opposition to Censorship:
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Response:
The discussion shifts to Trump's comments on economic policies, specifically interest rate cuts.
Confusion Over Rate Cuts:
Proposal for Savings:
Trump delves into his relationship with Vladimir Putin and his views on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Disillusionment with Talks:
Economical Critique of Russia:
Potential for Trade Deals:
A considerable segment of the press conference was dedicated to Trump's criticism of wind energy, contrasting his views with those of King Charles.
Critique of Windmills:
Environmental and Economic Arguments:
Impact on Wildlife:
The Meiselas brothers conclude the episode by critiquing Trump's performance during the press conference. They highlight the inconsistencies and lack of coherence in his responses, portraying him as lacking substance and clarity on critical issues.
Donald Trump on Epstein:
Trump on Social Media Censorship:
Trump on Economic Rate Cuts:
Trump on Russia and Putin:
Trump on Windmills:
The episode underscores the ongoing controversies surrounding Donald Trump, particularly his handling of sensitive issues like his association with Jeffrey Epstein, his economic policies, and environmental stances. The Meiselas brothers critically analyze Trump's rhetoric, pointing out inconsistencies and the potential implications of his statements on public opinion and policy. The discussion reflects deep skepticism about Trump's credibility and his ability to effectively address national and international concerns.
Listeners who missed the episode can stay updated by subscribing to The MeidasTouch Podcast, available every Tuesday and Friday morning, with live video streams every Monday and Thursday night on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel.