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Set the stage of this disastrous press conference that Donald Trump had in the United Arab Emirates. He's sitting there in a royal palace with an authoritarian regime and he's attacking the United States court system and talking about how he wants to get rid of migrants in the United States. And he's using the United Arab Emirates royal palace as the backdrop for it in Abu Dhabi. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Because I built hundreds of miles of wall which we didn't have in the first election because I hadn't started that yet. But we will soon have a very safe country. We're getting people out. We need help from the courts. The courts are trying to think that they're, they're taking privilege that they shouldn't have. That was not what the election was all about. The election was they want, they want people that shouldn't be there, people that are criminals in many cases. They want them out. They want them out. We're going to get them out fast.
Political Commentator
That's what you are talking about. They're attacking our court system. And then while Donald Trump was with the royal family in the United Arab Emirates, he was saying the word groceries is such an interesting word. You know, it's an old fashioned word. Groceries. Groceries. While Americans are suffering, you are in a palace with a royal family begging for personal gifts for you, acting like you don't know the word groceries. Here, play this clip means jobs because.
Donald Trump
To me the most important jobs I want jobs. And we have costs are way down. Groceries, where they have a term, grocery, it's an old term, but it means basically what you're buying. Food. It's pretty accurate term, but it's an old fashioned sound. But groceries are down, costs are down, eggs are down. They were, first week they were hitting me with eggs were up 200% and now they're down to a number that is amazing, down 97, 98% from where they were. And everybody, they said, you won't have eggs for Easter. Well, we had, everybody had eggs for Easter at a very reasonable price at the White House. We had our little Easter egg roll and we had hundreds of thousands of eggs purchased. They said you have to go out and buy plastic eggs. That didn't work out.
Political Commentator
So it is not a surprise when we saw the University of Michigan, consumer expectations are showing that right now consumers have the lowest expectations, are more miserable essentially than ever in the United States history and believe that inflation is going to be the highest essentially ever because of crap like this and because of his reckless behavior. I mean, here Donald Trump then says, well, we're going to, we're still working on deals with 150 countries and my tariffs against the world, but if they don't agree to deals, then I'm just going to impose the deals myself. That's not a deal, Donald. If you're just imposing it because you're unable to negotiate things with anybody because no one wants to do business with you. And what you did with China is not a deal, you just capitulated. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
We just reached a fantastic trade deal, as you know, with the United Kingdom, which was wonderful. And we have another big one that we just reached with China. China deals, a very big deal. It's in the process of continuing to be formed, but they wanted to make that deal very badly. And we have at the same time 150 countries that want to make a deal, but you're not able to see that many countries. So at a certain point over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out essentially telling people it would be very fair, but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business in the United States. So essentially be paying to be doing business in The United States, I guess you could say they could appeal it, but for the most part, I think we're going to be very fair, but it's not. It's not possible to meet the number of people that want to see us. And. But this was. Coming to UAE was very important. Coming to Saudi Arabia and Qatar was very important to me because of personal relationships that I had, maybe more than anything else.
Political Commentator
Yeah. And other countries don't want to look like what happened in the United Kingdom either, where there wasn't a deal at all, where it was actually just a benefit to Jaguar and Land Rover and Rolls Royce. I was like, what was this? What is this? What is this thing right here? And then here, Donald Trump says, you know, just in his own kind of just like cognitive, declining, stewing in whatever the hell he's wearing, he's just like, there's never been anything like what's happening in us. Never in the history. There's never been anything like. Like actually never been anything like this. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
And they. I say, just build your plant inside the United States and you have no tariffs. And that's exactly what they're doing. And that's what many, many companies are doing, the auto companies, all of them. There's never been anything like what's happening right now to the United States. I can tell you nothing. There's never been anything like it. We're at a level that no country has seen. I don't believe we have. I mean, every time I meet, I. And I usually increase it by about a trillion dollars because we get news of another investment. But we're probably in the $12 to $13 trillion range of investments.
Political Commentator
And if by there's never been anything like this, you mean like the biggest disaster ever, the biggest manufactured economic crisis. Sure, sure, Donald. By the way, that follows Donald Trump leaving Qatar. And when Donald Trump was in Qatar, this, he was saying to the troops in Qatar in Doha, lying about the 2020 election, saying that he won the 2020 election, which he didn't, and then talking about how he wants to potentially run again in 2028 and be a dictator, and he's doing it in front of our freaking troops. Here, play this clip right here because.
Donald Trump
As you know, we won three elections. Okay. And some people want us to do a fourth. I don't know. We'll have to think about that. You saw the new, the new hat, the hottest hat is it says Trump, 2028. We're driving the left crazy. When you see that we didn't need that Hat but it was. It's been an amazing period of time.
Political Commentator
Now, I just wanted to see, by the way, how this trip was being covered by sources on the quote, left, right and center. And so the research tool I use for this is something called Ground News. Let me just show you how it's being reported generally out there. Trump's Mideast trip splashes out on deals and diplomacy, but is quiet on human rights. Now, this is why I love ground news, because I can actually get like, okay, how's the left, center and right? And they're all covering it wrong. That's what my research tool tells me. He's not splashing out on deals. He's failing on deals. These are fake deals. You're not making a $1.2 trillion deal with Qatar when the GDP annually is $200 billion. Okay. And yes, he is quiet on human rights. If by quiet you mean he's complicit with the regime that's funding Hamas and complicit with another regime that was funding Al Qaeda in terms of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, you are complicit in terrorism is what we're trying to say here. So let's use the language accurately. Is, by the way, it's why I use the research tool, because I'm like, okay, I know. Here's what I'm reporting on Midas Touch. What the heck are they reporting there? I use their feature called Blind Spot, by the way, which tells me, am I missing anything? Oh, just a quick shout out to Ground News, who's a sponsor of ours. And if you want to use the research tools that I use, go to Ground News slash MTN or scan the QR code right here. We're giving our viewers 40% off. Ground News is top tier vantage plan, which will get you unlimited access to everything I've shown you and more. One more time, ground.news/mtn. Ground News is subscriber funded so they don't rely on ads that could also introduce bias subscribing. Supports our channel and their independent team working to keep the media transparent. Wanted to show you the research tools that I'm using here. Also, let's talk about what Donald Trump was doing in Qatar as well. Here. Donald Trump's again just like just ranting and raving and he like looks like literally an orange green color. Here, Play this clip time a third time.
Donald Trump
Now that was 968 rallies ago. Can you believe that? We did 968 rouses another hat says 968. I said, what the hell does that mean? That's the number of rallies. I said, you have to be kidding. But from the very beginning, and we played Lee's song and it was the Walk On. And then for the last inauguration, I had every, all the big singers, they wanted to do a song for me and they wanted to have me walk onto their song. And my people. Oh, that would be nice. That would be nice. And when I heard about it, we were all set. We had a lot of them. And I heard about it. I said, I'm not switch. Are you kidding me? I'm not switching. So we stick with Lee. But there's. Nobody could have done better than Lee. And he's been so loyal and so great. And it's been really about nine years of that stuff. And, you know, we had really, honestly, we had three unbelievable campaigns and it's been, it's been an honor.
Political Commentator
And here, Donald Trump kind of like mocks France in this speech. Let's play it, remember, for World War.
Donald Trump
I, because we won that war, too. But think of it. I'm calling now. We love France, right? But I think we did a little more to win the war than France did. Do we agree? You know, I don't want to be a wise guy, but when Hitler made his speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn't exactly ideal. And I called up the President, Macron. Good guy. By the way, Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans. Oh, that's wonderful. No, we don't take credit for what we do. And I said, what the hell. Every country I've spoken to in the last week is celebrating the war, but us, isn't that terrible? So we're going to be doing holidays, but I said it has to be a working holiday because, you know, you can only do so many of them. We have a lot of holidays. I'm not so sure we should have them. And you don't have to go to work. Our country has to go to work.
Political Commentator
Donald Trump in Qatar talking about Pete Buttigieg riding a bike. That was occupying Donald Trump's attention, apparently. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
Tree comes down also, by the way. It's so intense. I mean, you see these trees being knocked down like, like they're being sawed down by a top of the line timberman, like, like, you know who. Sean Duffy. Do you know that? Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department who's working right now in the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head. And he goes bicycling to work. He takes a bicycle to work. Can you believe he said he's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What? And they say he's going to run for president? I don't see it. Who knows, right? But I don't see it. But when I look at what they've done is so horrible. What they have done and the work they did do. They wasted billions of dollars in trying to hook up air systems to copper, and they tried to hook up copper to glass, and the glass doesn't work with the copper. And they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs. And when they put it all together, they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working. And we're going to be giving out a brand new system. It's very important. We'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is, but we have a lot of.
Political Commentator
Donald Trump lies and says that speaking in Qatar. And he claims that 100% of ISIS is gone now, which again is just simply, just like a simply false dance, just a false statement.
Donald Trump
Play this clip, can finish it off right now, sir. I said, well, I don't know, that's a lot. It's, you know, it's a lot of people. Well, these people are not good people, sir. These are not good people. You'll feel better about it. Well, they're not good people, but they're people, aren't they? And he goes, I said, you know what, why don't you buzz them for a little while and maybe after a day or two of buzzing them, they'll surrender. They don't know about surrendering, sir. Well, maybe they'll raise the white flag. They don't have a white flag, sir. I said, well, give it a shot anyway. He said, all we're going to do is take a couple of bullet holes in our wings. You guys know about that, right? And I said, well, let's give it a shot. And he calls up, says, let me do the job, sir. I said, all right, do the job. And we defeated 100% of the ISIS caliphate in just a very short little period of time. Totally different from what I was told in Washington D.C. by a bunch of frickin losers, okay? Losers.
Political Commentator
Donald Trump claims that we were losing $1 trillion to China and now we're not losing it because he had a trade embargo with China for 30 days, which is entirely false.
Donald Trump
Let's play the clip fund is just pay off debt. We're making. We're making a lot of money. We had, we had a situation six months ago. We were losing $5 billion a day on trade. Now we're making money on trade. Don't forget we were losing a trillion dollars to China. So we essentially went cold turkey with China for a period of a month. Therefore, we weren't losing a trillion dollars. You know, I think that's pretty simple. Scott. Right. Scott did a great job over there. They made a deal. They have great relationships with China.
Political Commentator
You might hear Donald Trump is with the United Arab Emirates royal family and he thinks that the Olympics are going to be in Queens, which are in Los Angeles. And Queens is not very close to Los Angeles. And I mean, just, just look at him. He can't even hold a conversation with these people. Like, he can't even, he can't even speak in sentences. He doesn't even know where he is. Here, play this clip to our airline.
Donald Trump
And finally, Mr. President, we just signed also the naming rights of the New York City Football Club by. Oh, good. And we are spending over $800 million. So I know the area where I.
Political Commentator
It's right next to city.
Donald Trump
I grew up in Queens. I know the area very well.
Political Commentator
Right next to Citi Field.
Donald Trump
Oh, that's great. That's where they used to fix the cars. A lot of other things got fixed there. A lot of things. That's a great site. So how many people that hold 25,500. Is that primarily for soccer and yeah, they'll do concerts there. Will they be using that in the Olympics? It will be available to be used. It's prime, you know, for some of the games. I mean, Queens, you know, it's going out to the Met, but it's prime.
Political Commentator
It'll be a state of the art stadium.
Donald Trump
You'll consider.
Political Commentator
And here's one more clip from that trip. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
I'm just thinking we have a president of the United States doing the selling. You think? Do you think Biden would be doing it? I don't think so, but it's so important. I think I have to be a cheerleader for our country. That's why our country is doing so well. And it's people like this. Appreciate it. Great job at Cleveland Clinic. Say hello to Larry.
Political Commentator
I mean, can you get any more bizarre than that? Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. What a disaster. Love this video. Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram @midas touch and help us blow past 1 million followers. Sam.
The MeidasTouch Podcast: "Trump Holds Disaster Presser as Trip Implodes" - Summary
Release Date: May 17, 2025
In this episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, the Meiselas brothers—Ben, Brett, and Jordy—delve into former President Donald Trump's recent press conference held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The discussion centers around the controversial statements made by Trump, the implications of his actions on U.S. international relations, and the broader impact on American democracy. The episode combines sharp political analysis with the brothers' characteristic humor and engaging banter, providing listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the unfolding political drama.
Context of Trump's UAE Press Conference
The episode begins with an analysis of the setting of Trump's press conference in Abu Dhabi's royal palace. The Political Commentator sets the stage by highlighting the incongruity of Trump, an American politician, addressing critical domestic issues like the U.S. court system and immigration while surrounded by an authoritarian regime.
"He's sitting there in a royal palace with an authoritarian regime and he's attacking the United States court system and talking about how he wants to get rid of migrants in the United States." ([01:28])
Critique of Trump's Claims on Border Security and Courts
Trump boasts about building "hundreds of miles of wall" and criticizes the U.S. court system for allegedly overstepping its bounds. The Meiselas brothers scrutinize these claims, questioning the feasibility and authenticity of his assertions.
"Because I built hundreds of miles of wall which we didn't have in the first election because I hadn't started that yet... We're going to get them out fast." ([01:56])
Economic Assertions and Trade Deals
Trump discusses supposed trade deals with the UK and China, claiming significant economic benefits. The Political Commentator challenges these statements, pointing out inconsistencies and the unrealistic nature of some of Trump's economic claims.
"We just reached a fantastic trade deal, as you know, with the United Kingdom, which was wonderful... But it's not. It's not possible to meet the number of people that want to see us." ([04:38])
Furthermore, Trump's assertion of eliminating a "$1 trillion loss to China" through a short-term trade embargo is debunked.
"We were losing $1 trillion to China and now we're not losing it because he had a trade embargo with China for 30 days, which is entirely false." ([14:42])
Manipulation of Public Perception and Media
The podcast examines how Trump's rhetoric aims to manipulate public perception regarding economic stability and national security, juxtaposing his grandiose claims with the actual state of affairs as interpreted by independent sources like Ground News.
"Trump's Mideast trip splashes out on deals and diplomacy, but is quiet on human rights... he's not making a $1.2 trillion deal with Qatar when the GDP annually is $200 billion." ([08:03])
Trump's Election Integrity and Future Political Aspirations
Addressing Trump's unfounded claims of winning multiple elections beyond 2020, the brothers discuss the potential implications of his statements on democratic norms and the integrity of future elections.
"We won three elections. Okay. And some people want us to do a fourth. I don't know. We'll have to think about that." ([07:39])
International Relations and Complicity in Terrorism
The discussion moves to Trump's remarks that imply complicity with regimes funding terrorist organizations like Hamas and Al-Qaeda, raising concerns about U.S. foreign policy direction under Trump's influence.
"If by quiet you mean he's complicit with the regime that's funding Hamas and complicit with another regime that was funding Al Qaeda... Yeah, you are complicit in terrorism." ([05:48])
Public and Media Reaction
The podcast touches upon the polarized reception of Trump's statements across different media outlets and political spectrums, emphasizing the role of media bias and the importance of independent research tools like Ground News.
"That's why I use the research tool, because I'm like, okay, I know. Here's what I'm reporting on Midas Touch. What the heck are they reporting there?" ([08:03])
Donald Trump on Economic Achievements:
"We're making a lot of money. We had a situation six months ago. We were losing $5 billion a day on trade. Now we're making money on trade." ([14:54])
Political Commentator on Consumer Sentiment:
"Consumers have the lowest expectations, are more miserable essentially than ever in the United States history and believe that inflation is going to be the highest essentially ever because of crap like this." ([03:46])
Donald Trump on International Deals:
"But we have to do it in front of our troops." ([07:39])
The Meiselas brothers provide a critical examination of Trump's press conference, highlighting the dissonance between his rhetoric and the realities of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. They question the authenticity of Trump's claims, particularly regarding economic gains and trade deals, and underscore the potential dangers of undermining democratic institutions through divisive rhetoric.
The podcast also emphasizes the importance of media literacy, encouraging listeners to utilize unbiased research tools like Ground News to discern factual reporting from biased narratives. This approach aligns with The MeidasTouch Podcast's mission to support democracy through informed and transparent discussions.
The episode concludes with the Meiselas brothers reiterating the significance of holding public figures accountable for their statements and actions. They advocate for a vigilant and informed citizenry that can discern truth from misinformation, thereby strengthening democratic foundations. The discussion serves as a reminder of the ongoing challenges to American democracy and the need for continued support and engagement from its citizens.
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