Trump Has 12:30 AM Meltdown and Fears His Death

Summary

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The MeidasTouch Podcast: “Trump Has 12:30 AM Meltdown and Fears His Death”

Date: July 11, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas

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Episode Overview

This episode zeroes in on what the Meiselas brothers call a “deeply disturbing” night of social media meltdowns from Donald Trump, in which he expresses fear of assassination by Iran, threatens military action, and showcases erratic behavior from the White House. The hosts dissect Trump’s messages, escalating US-Iran tensions, implications for global stability, and the shocking judicial developments regarding the Proud Boys. The show's signature mix of legal insight, pointed political critique, and irreverent banter is on full display.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s Midnight Meltdown and Threats Against Iran

• Ben opens by recounting Trump’s 12:30 am posts, where Trump alleges Iran wants to assassinate him. He responds by threatening overwhelming retaliation:
  • Quote: “1000 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow should the Iranian government act on its threat ... In this case, me. Orders have already been given and the US military is ready ... to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran. Praise be to Allah. Donald Trump says exclamation point. Praise be to Allah.” — Ben, reading Trump’s post [03:33]
• The hosts express alarm at Trump’s instability and the danger of weaponizing presidential power out of personal paranoia.

2. The White House, Erdogan, and Bizarre Online Behavior

• Trump posted strange footage of himself with Turkey’s President Erdogan, who appeared to be shepherding Trump around as if acting as a caretaker.
• Trump also shared images with various “shades of white,” purportedly illustrating his plans to redecorate the White House.
• Quote: “Folks, we have a truly, actually psychotic thing in the White House making these posts.” — Ben [04:20]

3. Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and US Military Maneuvers

• The group analyzes the escalating military presence near Iran: two US aircraft carrier groups are positioned within 200-250 km of Iran’s coast [05:32].
• Trump has demanded Iran publicly declare they don’t intend to control the Strait of Hormuz or risk “dire” consequences.
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is accused of inflaming Trump’s paranoia by warning him, possibly intentionally, that Iranian leaders are targeting him.
• US Central Command (CENTCOM) and state media reports are critiqued as “propaganda,” with the hosts noting most shipping traffic is now routed through Iran-controlled channels.
  • Memorable Data Point: Before the Iran war, daily vessel passages were 120-150; now as low as 22, almost all through Iranian routes [08:55].

4. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Crisis

• The hosts dive deeply into the depleted US strategic oil reserves, noting that the Trump administration had been emptying reserves to keep fuel prices down, but is now only “14-16 million barrels away from tank bottom” [09:55].
  • This depletion has removed a crucial economic buffer, setting the stage for fuel shocks in wartime.
• Quote: “The oil shock, it won’t be able to do so easily again.” — Ben [10:00]
• Viewers are walked through oil pricing dynamics and the “crack spread” between crude and refined product prices.

5. Trump Administration Turmoil: Cash Patel

• The episode covers turmoil within the Trump regime, focusing on FBI Director Cash Patel—allegedly about to be fired for neglecting duties amid leadership crisis fueled by Iran threats and his personal spending scandals.
  • Patel was reportedly intercepted as he tried to fly to Chicago for personal reasons during a supposed assassination threat against Trump [11:39].
• Color Commentary: Tales of Patel’s taxpayer-funded extravagances and Gulfstream flights.

6. Justice Undermined: Dismissal of Proud Boys Case

• Shocking news: a federal judge has allowed the Trump-led DOJ to dismiss seditious conspiracy charges against the Proud Boys.
  • After initial pardons and commuted sentences, Trump’s DOJ wiped their records as they still appealed the verdict.
• The hosts warn that this not only erases accountability for January 6th–related crimes but also enables insurrectionists to sue the government for damages—potentially costing taxpayers millions [14:06].
  • Quote: “The Justice Department’s most significant case against the far right extremist group the Proud Boys has officially been erased.” — Ben [13:36]

7. Militarization and Paranoia at the White House

• Trump is described as building “a fence around the White House,” constructing bunkers and drone ports, and essentially transforming it into a military fortress.
  • Quote: “He ain’t leaving. He’s going to sit there paranoid, fearing that Iran’s going to kill him or this person or that person.” [16:10]
• The co-hosts argue these moves are aimed at consolidating power and hint at Trump’s planning for indefinite rule.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Trump’s mindset: “Donald Trump was having a meltdown at 12:30am ... This is deeply disturbing.” — Ben [02:00]
• On the dismissal of the Proud Boys case: “These are the good people. Not on both sides. These are the good guys. ... And now they have a full path to sue, make hundreds of millions of dollars, which the Trump regime will probably pay them.” — Ben [14:14]
• On Trump’s endgame: “He’s building a drone port in the East Wing. ... He’s turning the White House into a military facility preparing to not leave.” — Co-host [15:44]
• Final assessment: “That’s what he’s doing right now. That’s what’s going on. That’s what the receipts that I’ve just showed you say.” — Ben [16:19]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Trump's Meltdown and Threats: [02:00]–[05:36]
• Strait of Hormuz and Shipping Crisis: [05:36]–[09:05]
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve Analysis: [09:40]–[11:19]
• Cash Patel’s Controversies: [11:19]–[12:54]
• Proud Boys Case Dismissal: [13:24]–[15:44]
• Fortifying the White House: [15:44]–[16:19]

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This episode encapsulates the MeidasTouch brothers’ urgent warning and critique of the Trump regime’s instability, militarization, judicial subversion, and the dangerous consequences of his personal paranoia transformed into national policy. The tone is combative, irreverent, and unapologetic in defense of democratic norms.

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Transcript

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[Ben (Podcast Host)]

Donald Trump was having a meltdown at 12:30am Ranting and raving that he was going to die and that Iran was going to kill him. And that if Iran did indeed kill him, that he had 1,000 missiles trained on Iran to destroy the entire Iranian civilization. Donald Trump was also posting weird videos of himself and Turkey President Erdogan, where it looked like Erdogan was Donald Trump's caretaker. Clutching Donald Trump, trying to help Donald Trump walk. Trump also made numerous deranged posts about the White House and the columns that he wants to renovate. He posted random photos of different shades of white to show that this is how he was going to change what the White House looks like. Let me show you what went down, folks. This is deeply disturbing. Donald Trump posted and then reposted and then reposted again at 12:30am after posting it earlier. The following message. 1000 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow should the Iranian government act on its threat pronounced in many corners of the globe to assassinate or attempt to assassinate the sitting President of the United States of America. In this case, me. Orders have already been given and the US Military is ready, willing and able for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran. Praise be to Allah. Donald Trump says exclamation point. Praise be to Allah. And it's signed, President Donald J. Trump. Folks, we have a truly, actually psychotic thing in the White House making these posts. At 12:30am earlier in the day, Donald Trump called New York Post and said, I hope y' all miss me. I hope you will all miss me if Iran kills me. And then Donald Trump went on to again say how he has missiles trained on Iran and will destroy the civilization if he is killed. I've left instructions, just literally bomb them at levels never seen before if they kill me. Now, some U.S. officials said they were concerned that Netanyahu and other Israel officials told Donald Trump that. That Iranian leaders want to kill him. Now, I'm sure Donald Trump saw some of the mourners, I shouldn't say some millions of mourners at Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral, both in Iran and Iraq. There were indeed lots of signs that said kill Trump and that had photos of Donald Trump. And of course you all saw they burned the Donald Trump Lego float in effigy. And that clearly has terrified Trump. But our intelligence officers know how frail, fragile and emotionally unstable Donald Trump is. And they were worried that Netanyahu was going to tell Donald Trump, iran wants to kill you and that that would make Donald Trump get emotionally unhinged. Although everything makes Donald Trump emotionally unhinged. And so now as a result, we

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have two US aircraft carrier groups about

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

250 kilometers and another one 200 kilometers. The Abraham Lincoln I believe is 250.

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The George H.W. bush is 220 right around there or

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so from the coast of Iran. And Donald Trump has demanded that Iran announced to the world that Iran does

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not want to control the Strait of

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Hormuz by later today or Donald Trump says the consequences will be dire. The Trump regime leaked to Barack Ravid earlier in the day yesterday that they are demanding that Iran tell everybody in a public statement we are sorry and we will not be controlling the Strait of Hormuz any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Mike Brock, Ravi literally said, you know, that the Trump administration is demanding Iran issue a public statement acknowledging the Strait of Hormuz is open and committing to stop firing on commercial ships.

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Didn't CENTCOM say the day before claim

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

Iranian state media claims that transit through the Strait of Hormuz is only permitted through routes designated by Iran. Truth, Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz, says U.S. cENTCOM.

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Since early May, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the successful transit of more than 800 commercial vessels and 300, 380 million

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

barrels of crude oil through the vital international trade corridor. I mean, look, we know that Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz. The US Lost the war against Iran that it should never have been involved in with Netanyahu that began back in February. Iran has controlled its IRGC route. The US has tried to open up this alternative southern route, as it's called by Oman. And Iran has struck the tankers that have used that route and warned them not to use that route. Most of the ships then use the IRGC route. In the past 48 hours, it's basically been all of the routes by Iran

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and there's basically not been a lot

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

of traffic at all going through the Strait of Hormuz. The few ships that are leaving are going through the Iran route, no longer the Oman route.

[Co-host or Guest Analyst]

And still you have CENTCOM doing all of this propaganda, calling up state regime media, Fox. And so Fox was even like, yeah, we got a call from U.S. naval Forces, CENTCOM, and they're saying the southern

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

route, that's the route closer to Oman that Trump wants to open up, that Iran has not allowed to really be opened up. And they've struck those ships that the US has tried to push through that after the MoU, the memorandum of Understanding was entered into.

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And even Fox, you can see the marine traffic data that we've been showing

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you every single day on the Midas

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Touch network on state regime media, Fox right here. And they're like, yeah, I that's what CENTCOM wants us to say. But yesterday, 22 ships crossed the strait.

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

Most went through the Iran route.

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And you can see it on the marine traffic that they're using the Iran route. Also, before Donald Trump and Netanyahu's catastrophic war in Iran, there were about 120 to 150 ships every year.

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120, 150 ships. The other day it was 22 ships. And they all went through the Iran route. And as we bit. Look, first let me play you this

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clip and then we'll talk about it.

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

Let's play it.

[U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Spokesperson]

U.S. naval Forces Central Command says that southern route remains open and has been expanded. The other routes, according to the US are not protected. Yesterday, 22 ships crossed the Strait. Only one of them traveled that Omani route. Most of them are electing to travel the route designated by Iran.

[Co-host or Guest Analyst]

And one of the main things that we've been saying is if you take a look right here, I mean, look at this graph. This looked familiar. Trita Parsi posted it. But we've been posting graphics like this all along. There are many reasons why another war with Iran would be foolish.

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

This is one of them. Look at the US strategic petroleum reserves today compared to February 2026. This is what Trump used to keep gas prices low. The oil shock, it won't be able

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to do so easily again. Now, y' all probably thought, hey, Ben, you're a little bit of a Strategic Petroleum Reserve geek. You kept on talking about it every day for the past several weeks. Well, that's because I saw what was coming and that's why I was alerting everybody, because the Strategic Petroleum Reserves right now are now, what, 16, 15, 14 million barrels away from hitting tank bottom, in which case there's a catastrophic outcome that results. It keeps getting lower. This was part of the plan by the Trump regime to lower the price of crude by unloading the Strategic Petroleum Reserve into the world market. They were also short trading crude, WTI and Brent. But remember how I've been dorking out over the crack spread, the delta or difference between the crude price and the refinery price in the 3, 2, 1 crack spread situation, which was like $65 per barrel in the crack SP, which was record highs.

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Yeah.

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That's why you see right now, gas prices are going up at the pump, because the price of crude, it's a different marketplace from the refinery price, which is ultimately the money you're paying when you fill up for gas or when you fill up for diesel or when there's jet fuel being fueled up by airplanes.

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And it's like Donald Trump's just learning

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these concepts in his idiotic regime is. And I'm like, come on, can we just Have. Shouldn't it be a Democrat or Republican thing? I just want to see some intelligent people. Speaking of, of intelligent people, I'll tell you who's not an intelligent person. Cash Patel. By the way, even Cash Patel is

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

basically on the verge of being fired

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by the Trump regime. He was pulled off the tarmac as he was about to fly to Chicago to see his girlfriend perform at like

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

a parking lot there.

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She's performing at some parking lot over there. And the Trump regime is like, hey, don't you see Iran's trying to kill Donald Trump. You're the FBI, FBI Director. You're leaving to go to Chicago to see your girlfriend perform, like in a

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

parking lot there, and you're going on

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the private jet and you're just embarrassing us. Don't you see what Iran's about to do to Donald Trump? You're the FBI director. You gotta stay here with them. And also Ms. Now has done some fantastic reporting on all of the, like, BMW fleet that Cash Patel has done and the Gulfstream jets and all of the money that has been spent on Cash Patel and, and his lavish lifestyle that he's been funding through the taxpayer dollars. And Chuck Grassley, MAGA Republican in the Senate, was questioning him. And so the Trump machine plucked him off the tarmac and said, get the hell back here. It's possible Cash Patel gets fired very, very soon. But then again, this is the Trump regime. So let me underscore, while Donald Trump

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is rotting alone, believing he's going to

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get killed from Iran, and he's also posting weird AI images of himself with a revolver, which he says that Erdogan, Erdogan did as a gift to world

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leaders, give him revolvers.

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But Donald Trump's posting this weird photo of himself with a revolver. So while Donald Trump's posting that while the reflecting pool, this is a photo yesterday, is still Ninja Turtle green, but it's now also combined with ash and

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

sludge and all that other stuff from the fireworks. It looks grotesque.

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By the way. While all of that's going on, Donald Trump's there in the Oval Office and just got news that the federal judge in Washington D.C. has allowed Trump's corrupt and disgusting DOJ to officially dismiss the charges against the Proud Boys for seditious conspiracy. The Justice Department's most significant case against the far right extremist group the Proud Boys has officially been erased. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly granted the Trump regime's motion to dismiss. Remember, the Trump regime filed, Trump first

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

pardoned them and then Trump went again

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and then said not Only am I going to give these guys pardons and commute their sentences. Not only that, I want their case dismissed. Because now that their case is dismissed, they can now file a lawsuit against the federal government for hundreds of millions of dollars, which they're going to do. And your taxpayer dollars are going to go to pay these January 6th insurrectionists who were convict convicted in a federal court unanimously by federal juries for seditious conspiracy and other charges. But the Trump regime says, we're gonna pardon you, commute your sentences, and we're gonna dismiss the charges so that they never happened at all. And treated as though you were never even convicted because they still had their. If you're like, well, how could they even do that? Weren't they convicted? Yes, but they were still appealing to the Supreme Court. So because the judgment technically was not final, as they were appealing to the Supreme Court court, Donald Trump stepped in and said, no, let's just wipe out everything from the record. Just purge the record. These are good people. Not on both sides. These are the good guys. Remember how Trump used to be like, there are good people on both sides? No, the actual good people, Trump says, the bad people. The bad people, Trump says are the good people. And so they've got the case totally dismissed. It's totally off their record. And now they have a full path to sue, make hundreds of millions of dollars, which the Trump regime will probably pay them. And that's what Donald Trump is doing. And I think part of it, too, is Trump want. You see what he wants, though? He wants his own army. He's building a fence around the White House.

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He's building out the bunker.

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You see what he's building a drone port in the East Wing. He's turning it into a. He's turning the White House into a military facility preparing to not leave the Oval Office. He's surrounding it with permanent fencing right now. He's pardoning the. Not just pardoning, dismissing the case to build up his proud boy, oath keeper army.

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Is it obvious to you what he's doing?

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Do I need to spell it out anymore?

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What the heck he's doing?

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He ain't leaving. He ain't leaving. He's going to sit there paranoid, fearing that Iran's going to kill him or this person or that person.

[Ben (Podcast Host)]

That's what he's doing right now. That's what's going on. That's what the receipts that I've just showed you say. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thank you so much for watching. Let's get to 7 million. 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.