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Visit t mobile.com it was 1am in the morning and Donald Trump was having a meltdown. His behavior so utterly demented. Post after post on social media, email after email, each one more desperate than the next. Let me tell you what he was doing on a day where those disgusting photos of him and Epstein, along with the courageous survivors and others, were released by Democrats in the House Oversight Committee. Donald Trump is not handling it well by the way he claimed in the Oval Office. I know nothing about Epstein. I know nothing about it. Those photos beg to differ. Donald. So here's what he was posting at 1am and before sharing it with you. Just a reminder, hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed to this YouTube channel, but you may not actually be. And you know, we're under attack from this regime. So hit subscribe. Here's what Donald Trump was posting at 1am he goes Republicans in the Indiana State Senate who voted against a majority in the U.S. house of Representatives should be ashamed of themselves. Headed by a total loser named Rod Bray. Every one of these people should be primaried and I will be there to help. Exclamation point. Indiana, which I won big, is the only state in the union to do this. Exclamation point. We mean voted against a majority in the US House of Representatives. I mean, he's just outright talking about rigging the midterms. And by the way, you see the post from the Lieutenant governor of Indiana who is like now, as a result of the fact that the Indiana state senators didn't deliver for Donald Trump, Trump said that he would defund our state and not give us emergency aid and not fund the highways and he'd go after all of the federal funding owed to Indiana. Yeah, that's called extortion. That's called a crime. And in normal times, these types of crimes would lead to a criminal, a felon, a sexual abuser, like Donald getting moved the hell out of the Oval Office and impeached. But with a corporate media environment that tries to normalize this behavior. And the maga, Republicans in the House and Senate who have forfeited their role under Article 1 were in a different situation. But that will be changing soon, as I believe there will be a blue tsunami of massive proportions coming in 2026. What's Donald Trump also posting super late last night? Trump most important president in maybe 100 years. Most important in the sense of destroying the United States. Maybe then Donald Trump posted this late at night. Trump's rollback of energy regulation is an affordability bullseye. Oh, yes, Donald. All of the Americans are feeling that affordability bullseye. Yes, Donald. Everyone feels exactly like you've said, like it's a golden age. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Don destroyed the United States economy. Inflation is surging. Jobless claims are up 54% year over year. About 1.2 million job losses this year already. And again, in normal times, this would be front page news every single day. But that's why you have the Midas Touch network. Because we bring you the facts, we bring you the truth. And again, that's why we need you to subscribe and help us hit 6 million subscribers. Oh, and as war is raging across the world, never have we we've been closer to the brink. Being on the brink of a world war. Perhaps we already in one right now. It was not being called that. Donald Trump goes Trump peacemaker in chief. By the way, I noticed as I was scrolling through his social media platform late last night and this morning there are ads. Every other post essentially for ICE. Join ICE today. 50,000 signing bonus. So as ICE is going around terrorizing and torturing the American American people, disappearing people to concentration camps, by the way, including the mother of Caroline Levitt's nephew. Is ICE paying Donald Trump's social media platform massive amounts of money to advertise on Trump's failing social media platform? We're going to dig into that on the Midas Touch network because it seems that they're certainly advertising and they must be paying the Trump regime a lot. So then Donald Trump was sending these emails late last night as well and into the morning. This is a real email that Donald Trump said, this is an AI. I'm not making it up. This is a real email. Are you seriously ignoring me? Is the subject line. Then you open it up and it says I am President Donald J. Trump, exclamation point. I haven't heard back in so long. Please take a look. Let's talk. I've been messaging you privately, but you haven't answered yet. Are you seriously ignoring me? I thought we were closer than that. Respond to Trump. My team set up a 60 second confidential interview so I can hear directly from you, my most loyal supporter. But I can only keep this secure poll open until 11:59pm tonight. Nobody else will see your answers. This is just between us. Then he sent another one. Do you see the meltdown that I'm talking about here? Then he posts. Dear Ben, I'm thinking of having you over at the White House soon. Would you come fireside chat with Trump? No, I wouldn't. Now while all of this is taking place and Donald Trump is not sleeping, we know from his cabinet, he never sleeps, apparently, which is a sign of Alzheimer's and dementia in my opinion. One of the people who also can sleep, or a group of people who can sleep, are the victims of David Gentiles fraud. David Gentile was involved in a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes. He had a fake private equity company. He was a predator, he was a sicko, he was a fraud, he's a felon. He was convicted of these crimes and Donald Trump just pardoned him. Pardoned him a few weeks back. But you're hearing now. From the victims who have been re victimized by Donald Trump pardoning this frau. So Trump is pardoning human traffickers, the biggest Ponzi scheme fraudsters that they are, the biggest drug traffickers that there are in the world. El Chapo's best bud, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras had stick that cocaine up the gringo's nose and kill him. Sentenced to 45 years in prison for bringing 500 tons, I mean, massive amounts of drugs into the United States. But for the Trump regime, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon, pardon. Because there's no individual and no regime more corrupt than Trump and his despicable regime. But you know, they have state regime media the way North Korea has regime media and Russia has regime media. We have Fox regime media. And then they have Maria Bartiroma who's just a total clown. She used to. Did she have, Was she ever serious 20 years ago, I don't remember. But whatever the hell this shtick is is so pathetic. And she's. When Donald Trump says affordability is a hoax, it is a hoax. Everyone's doing good. People are doing much better. This is way better than Biden here. Play this clip.
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People are frustrated with housing and the price of homes. People are frustrated with certain food items. But there are a number of things that President Trump has already been incredibly successful doing. So when he says this affordability issue is a hoax, he's right. He's basically talking about how the Democrats, Democrats have taken this word affordability and used it as their calling card for the 2026 elections. They think that these Democrat wins that we just saw in Miami, in New York City, in other places like New Jersey, we shouldn't be surprised that the Democrats won those races. These are all blue states and cities. So it's no surprise there. What is a surprise is that after all of these years, the Republicans keep getting rolled over by the Democrats messaging. I got to tell you, I don't think that people really feel as bad as the Democrats are talking about. The economy is doing well. There's $18 trillion of new investment that have come into this country.
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Do you see the gaslighting? Then you have Laura Ingraham with Mike Johnson with maga, Mike Johnson, and they say the same thing here. Play this clip.
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How do you avoid getting blamed for this? The same kind of thing happened in the shutdown in October. We all know what they promised on Obamacare. It was all a lie at the time. I fought against it morning, noon and night, three hours a day on the radio. So they were lying Then and we knew they were lying cuz the numbers didn't add up. But now the left is blaming you and Republicans. It's your fault. Yeah, of course it's a total fiction. The mainstream media of course parrots the talking points of Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. But the way we defeat that is with the simple truth, the facts. The Government Accountability Office just came out with a new report this past week, Laura, and it is astounding. Just for example, over the last two years they submitted 24 two dozen totally fraudulent applications for these unaffordable Care act subsidies. Okay? 23 out of 24 were approved. There were no Social Security numbers provided, no verification of income or even citizenship. Okay? Of course not. Right? This tens of thousands of dollars paid to each one of those, to the insurance companies for people that do not exist.
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Okay, now I want to remind me, it's so ridiculous. We all the level of like they think we're stupid, they think we're dumb. Okay? We know inflation, we, we know inflation is surging. Things are more expensive. How do we know? We go out. People can't afford the same Christmas presents or holiday presents if they can afford it at all. People are living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to have a paycheck to paycheck and they're being psychologically tortured along the way. People can't afford homes. People are getting laid off and the billionaires are getting richer while Americans are getting screwed. That's what's happening in the real world. You can't gaslight us. That's what's happening in the real world. By the way, those pictures of Donald Trump with the young girls with their faces redacted or young ladies, it's unclear their age. They look very young, but with the redactions you just don't know. But these Epstein survivors or other young girls in these photos that were part of the Epstein Estate photos. 95,000 photos. Only a small group have been released so far. 19. And Trump's like all over them with these little girls and young people. There are Trump condoms. I'm huge with Donald Trump's face on it. In Epstein's photo book, there is so next to the photos of Trump with young girls. Trump on an airplane with a young girl or lady Trump condoms. I'm huge. There's also extreme restraints. Pussy pumps is what it's called a pussy pump. I don't know what this complete shibari thing is, but it looks like a young girl who's bound and gagged up. There's this latex glove sexual thing, which I don't know what that's used, nor do I think I want to know. There's the jawbreaker gag. There's terms and conditions and disclaimer of warranty. Failure to follow the instructions on this gag can lead in serious injury and death. The hell is going on? That's not a smoking gun enough for you? That's not a smoking gun enough for you. Here's what Harry Entin says is how the American people feel about Donald Trump and maga. Mike, talking about health care. Play this clip.
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We talk about health care. Yeah. What do Americans say? How do Americans rate the president right now on the issue of health care? Just flat out awful. In fact, it's the worst of his major issues. I mean, just take a look here. This is according to the new AP new 29%. He doesn't even reach 30% on it. Approve of the job. I was looking back at all the AP Nework polls. This ties for his lowest rating ever in either term one or term two. Disapproved more than double. 69% runs 40 points higher than the approval. That is gosh darn awful. It's horrendous. And when you look at Republicans, even 39% of Republicans of Republicans say they disapprove. When we're talking about 2/5 of the Republican base saying they disapprove of Donald Trump in a particular issue, you know that the American people are against him. And I should point out this 29% is no outlier. I was looking at the Fox News poll that was sub 35% as well. The bottom line is Americans very much dislike Donald Trump and health care. It is no wonder he's taking a more conciliatory tone. All right, the immediate issue at hand is the extension of these Obamacare subsidies. They expire within three weeks. What do voters say they want to see there? Extend it. They want to see him extend it. I mean this once again, what are we talking about here? We're talking about a clear majority. The American public say they want those expiring ACA subsidies extended compared to just 30% who say let them expire again. We're talking double, more than double on the extent side versus the let expire. And even 45% of Republicans, on my little note there, say that they should be extended again. We're talking about an issue that unites Democrats and cracks the Republican base right down the middle. This is just awful politics for Republicans.
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And finally, here's what Donald Trump said, his message to the 24 million Americans who will see their health insurance premiums about to skyrocket. Let's play it.
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At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up? Don't make it sound so bad because, you know, obviously you're a, you know, Synco fan for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans. Let me just say something. The Republicans, I think I can speak for Tom and most of the people, I think what most Republicans want to see is what I want to see. And I leave it to them. And hopefully they're going to put great legislation on this desk right here.
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In this episode, the Meiselas brothers break down the latest developments in Donald Trump’s tumultuous week, focusing on his unhinged 1:00 AM social media outburst. They connect Trump’s meltdown to the release of incriminating photos tying him to Jeffrey Epstein, analyze the broader media landscape’s response, and dissect Republicans' ongoing attempts at gaslighting economic issues. The trio weaves in their trademark humor and urgent advocacy for democracy, offering facts, biting commentary, and sharply critical analysis of Trump and his allies.
Trigger:
Trump’s outburst comes after the House Oversight Committee releases damning Epstein-related photos involving Trump and several unnamed young women.
Trump’s Posts:
Trump’s Late-Night Emails:
Focus on David Gentile:
Recently pardoned by Trump after running a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme preying on retirees and fixed-income Americans.
Pattern:
Trump also pardoned human traffickers, major drug traffickers like Honduras's ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, and others.
Quote (Ben, 07:55):
“No individual and no regime more corrupt than Trump and his despicable regime.”
Bartiromo claims “affordability is a hoax,” asserting Trump was “incredibly successful”—which Ben ridicules by pointing to data showing most feel the opposite.
Clip (Maria Bartiromo, 09:20):
“When he says this affordability issue is a hoax, he’s right.”
Laura Ingraham’s segment with Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to mislead on the Affordable Care Act and health subsidies.
Hosts expose deliberate misinformation about the economy and healthcare.
This episode delivers an urgent, fact-loaded account of Trump’s spiraling public behavior, his regime’s systemic corruption, and the dangerous realities being downplayed or obfuscated by right-wing media. The brothers expertly blend data, biting humor, and direct advocacy, making the case for pro-democracy action ahead of 2026. For those who haven’t listened, this episode provides a damning indictment of Trump’s character, a reality check on economic conditions, and a call to arms for the rising “blue tsunami”.