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Lucky for you, Shopify built the best converting checkout on the planet like the just one tapping ridiculously fast acting sky high sales stacking champion. That's the good stuff right there. So if your business is in it to win it, win with Shopify. Start your free trial today@shopify.com win. Donald Trump is panicking as he sets his own death trap. And tragically, he is dragging the United States right into it. Covid comes to mind when Trump would say, like a miracle, it's going to go away. It'll never reach our shores. We're going to have zero cases, we're going to bend the curve. He would say, actually inject yourself with bleach. And actually when the summer comes, it's going to get so hot that kills the COVID It was lie after lie. That's what we're seeing right now. As Donald Trump says, well, look, the pressure in the Iranian oil pipelines is such that the entire country is going to explode. Look, the naval blockade is working so effectively that Iran is about to combust from within. It's lie after lie after lie. And Iran is currently right now preparing for everything and anything, including an escalation. When you study what's going on behind the scenes there as we are here in the Midas Touch network, to the extent the United States tries to engage in a ground invasion, Iran is prepared to unleash something that it has not even done yet before in the war with respect to all of its Arab nations neighbors that will intentionally plunge the entire world into a massive global depression. And Donald Trump knows this. So while he tries to act like, oh, we've won the War. I'm just trying to run up the margins. When you actually look at the document that Donald Trump submitted to Congress where he said, well, we're no longer in open hostilities anymore, such that I don't need war power, authorization from Congress, because we're technically no longer even in a war. We're in the ceasefire and things are fine. If you look at what he says, this, this is the letter that he sent to Congress on Friday. Despite the success of United States operations against the Iranian regime and continued efforts to secure a lasting peace, the threat posed by Iran to the United States and our armed forces remain significant. Accordingly, the Department of War continues to update its force posture and continues the blockade, basically. And so that's what he's sending to Congress. Okay, now, do you think this is scaring or Iran in any material way? It is not Iran. Through their various social media accounts, they were posting the following last night. Everyone knows this is what they were writing to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen. Everyone knows that you and your pedophile boss lost the war. And those pathetic noises you make come from pain, not victory. You lost both on the battlefield and in cyberspace, you idiot. And that's what they're saying to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant when Besant posted yesterday. It's very difficult for rats in a sewer pipe to know what's going on in the outside world. Some color for the Iranian leadership as they literally sit in the dark. The United States has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz. There is hard currency, that is US Dollar shortage, food and gasoline rationing are in place. The entire international community has turned against you. The blockade will continue until There is pre February 27th freedom of navigation. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. I wonder what happened on February 27 that led to the Strait of Hormuz being closed. Maybe it was because you and Netanyahu, the Trump regime and Netanyahu went alone and invaded Iran. Maybe that's one of the things that could happen. Okay, if the United States has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz, Besson, then why don't you bring in the USS Abraham Lincoln or the George H.W. bush or I know now the Gerald Ford is headed back to the United states after over 300 days, deployed the longest in naval history. But why won't you bring in the minesweepers and any of our aircraft carriers and our ships, and why don't you escort all the ships in the Strait of Hormuz, all the cargo ships and tankers if you're so confident we control The Strait of Hormuz. Oh, wait a minute. Because we don't. Iran does. And everything out of this despicable Trump regime is an utter lie. Other Iranian social media accounts are posting. As a smart treasury secretary, make sure to visit a gas station to get the prices before tweeting. Now, it is less than 1 cent US dollar per liter in Iran. In the United States, the average gas price, about $4.60, and it's continuing to rise. Meanwhile, the oil companies in the United States are warning Donald Trump, we are about to face a massive, massive crisis of epic proportions. Not just with the price being elevated as it is right now, but this situation in the Strait of Hormuz. You know, we're tapping into reserves, we're getting into, you know, other ways to try to cycle through other crude production, but we're about to have a serious catastrophe that's taking place. So what's Donald Trump do? Well, Donald Trump held a deranged series of speeches in Florida. One at the villages where he was making weird noises like the whole thing was very weird. I'm not exaggerating, like, like, what the hell are we watching there? Then he held another event nearby at a Palm beach club that was even stranger. Where he was, he's like, the United States Navy. We've become pirates. We make all this money being the pirates of the sea, where we take over Iranian cargo ships and we steal their cargo like pirates. Look, the United States Navy is the most powerful navy in the history of the world. We shouldn't be bragging about being pirates. The pirates were not the good guys, you idiot. Our navy and the projection of strength was something that was the envy of the world. Now, you idiot, and your despicable, tyrannical, dumb ass regime is bragging about being pirates. I mean, when I heard this, you know, it plays also right into what Iran has been calling you out as. It's not a good thing to be pirates and Iran is using it to mock you. Yeah, I guess we're pirates. I guess we're Jack Sparrow. It's the dumbest thing I've ever read. Just, I mean, ever saw. You saw Donald Trump yesterday in Florida saying it. Just so you know, I'm not making this up. Here's Donald Trump saying we're pirates. Here, play this clip.
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And there was no response. Turn your ship around. Evacuate your engine room immediately. And you see all these guys running out of there. Now they're five miles away in one shot into the engine room. Blew up the engine room. The ship stopped. They used tugboats and then we landed on top of it, on top of everything else. We then land on top of it and we took over the ship, we took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We're like pirates. We're sort of like pirates, but we're not playing games because, you know, for 47 years, Iran has been pushing everybody around. They're the bullies.
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And it gets dumber than that. I mean, last night, Donald Trump making post after post after post. He's posting himself with Uno cards, not the flex you think it is. And he goes, I have all the cards. Yes, Donald Trump, you have the UNO cards in the sense that Uno, you're going at UNO alone right now with nobody else. Then Donald Trump posts, I guess, with Netanyahu, dos. Then you have Donald Trump posting this awful photoshopped image of his face on Mount Rushmore. He keeps on posting these weird AI bizarre images of the Washington D.C. reflecting pool. And he shows what he claims to be reflecting pools when Obama was in office that looked dirty. He's like, look at this Reflecting photo taken September 29, 2012. Coming soon. This is what our country was before and after Trump, exclamation point. Then he posts this bizarre photo of himself. This is what he actually thinks he looks like with his shirt off. And JD Vance and Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum. And I don't, I truly don't know who this lady is supposed to be who's in a bikini with these. I mean, this is some deranged stuff. For those on audio, I'm describing a AI image of Donald Trump, Vance, Rubio and Burgum with their shirts off in the reflecting pool with a woman wearing a bikini. And that's what Donald Trump is posting in addition to QAnon posts after QAnon post. I mean, the entire world is looking at this and saying what German Chancellor Frederick Merz is saying, which is the United States is, has utterly humiliated itself and anybody who supports this crap. I mean, this is a humiliation ritual of epic proportions that the President of the United States is behaving like a deranged lunatic on 4chan. But I guess that's what Donald Trump is. A deranged lunatic of 4chan, bringing his cult followers through this deranged 4chan dystopian world. And the rest of us who's actually are the silent majority who just want to get on with our life, you know, are seeing this. We're not non consensual Participants in Donald Trump's sicko reality show. Meanwhile, the United states is removing 5,000 of its troops from the U.S. german Air Force base in Germany because Donald Trump doesn't like that Germany's chancellor Frederick Merz is calling out Donald Trump. It's so bizarre. And then throughout the dangerous. And then also yesterday, Donald Trump, during this speech that he gave at the Forum Club at night in Palm beach, he's like, look, you know, I'm just so busy every day. I'd love to go and see the zero people showing up at the PGA tournament at Doral. Did you see that? I'm going to do another video of that for you today. There are no fans. Zero, zip. Okay? Like 12 fans at the Doral Miami Golf Club utter humiliation ritual for Donald Trump. He's destroyed the pga. He's destroyed the live golf tournament, I might add, because Saudi Arabia is no longer, longer funding it because Donald Trump gave up the security umbrella in the Middle east and Saudi Arabia's attack and they've pulled back all of their non essential investments, including live also as a way to retaliate against Donald Trump for screwing the security umbrella there. But then Donald Trump gave this speech in Palm beach and he's like, I don't know what's even going on with this PGA tournament, by the way, where no one's showing up. I've been too busy. The Iranians, they just, they keep on calling me every day, just Iranians are calling me nonstop. And I'm like, yo, I don't want to make a deal. I'm too busy to make a deal. Here's what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip,
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you know, so you'll be all very happy. And you know, it's right now I own Doral. And right now we have a tournament. I'm so busy. And we have the big Cadillac Championship going on, all the great players, the PGA Tour and they're there. And yesterday somebody came up, said, sir, the tournament is great. I said, what tournament are you talking about? I'm so busy with the Iranians calling, trying to make a good deal or we're not going to let that happen. But got to make a bad, they've got to make a bad deal. But if they make a deal at all, because frankly, maybe we're better off not making a deal at all. Do you want to know the truth? Because we can't let this thing go on. Been going on too long. But under the leadership of.
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So he's saying that we're pirates. He's saying he's too busy to make a deal. Again, utterly deranged and delusional. He's making weird noises. Here's the video of himself making weird noises.
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Come on, darling. The mother's screaming like, darling, I love you, darling. Mom, I can't do it.
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And then the fan fiction, his stenographer, Barack Ravid of Axios, who just spews out whatever the hell Donald Trump wants as part of this ridiculous and completely non believable propaganda campaign in the United States. Barack Ravid goes, what's next? There are options. Do we want to go and just bomb them completely and finish them off for good or do we want to try to make a deal? Those are the options. We want to finish them off for good. Yeah. You realize that you tried to finish them off for good. Regime change. You're going to bomb them to hell. You bombed bridges, you killed little elementary school girls, you genocidal war criminal, you. You disgusting, vile, this disgusting, vile regime of your yours. And you didn't achieve your objectives, you didn't get what you wanted in war. And now you're just there frozen with this so called naval blockade as Iran is mocking you each and every day as you think that you're gonna, what, make social media posts and that's gonna. Oh my God, did Donald Trump do a social media post of him in the reflecting pool? Oh my gosh. I think I'm gonna have to give up right now. I think we're gonna have. Donald Trump was confronted by members of the press yesterday before he flew to Florida and said, you're aware, right, that your buddies in Pakistan opened up several land routes for Iran to bring their crude and other supplies to get around your blockade. Like, are you okay with that? Kept like, yeah, I love Pakistan. Of course, of course. That's amazing. I mean, this guy is an idiot. Okay, but here's what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
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That is a vicious bee. I know everything about it. Yeah, I have great respect. I use her back ascent. I have great respect for Pakistan and for the field Marshal and for the Prime Minister. Yeah, I know.
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And then Donald Trump says, actually the good news is since the war began, guess what? The United States, we have double our munitions now. We've gained munitions since the war. You know, it's one of those things that again, Donald Trump will say things like, last Sunday, we are going to blow up Iran by doing the naval blockade because the oil pipe pressure and that doesn't happen. It's like, yeah, that's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. He just says a lot of words. None of it matters. That's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. And here Donald Trump saying, we've doubled our munitions. We all know America has half as much munitions and in some cases less when it comes to some of our critical munitions. And by the way, the air bases in the Middle east were significantly damaged by Iran. A new CNN report shows that most of our bases there utterly destroyed and others barely fixable, but mostly obliterated, all covered up by Donald Trump and centcom. And now the real damage is being discussed. But, oh, and then the Trump regime claims what it was only $25 billion expended in war. And Foreign Minister Aragchi of Iran, I mean, you're not fooling anybody with this crap. Foreign Minister Aragchi posted after Donald Trump claimed that this war. Donald Trump's Undersecretary of Defense who testified in Congress said, yeah, this war cost us $25 billion. Iran's foreign minister Arag goes, the Pentagon's lying. Netanyahu's gamble has directly cost America $100 billion so far, four times what is claimed. Indirect cost for US taxpayers are far higher. Monthly bill for each American household is $500 and rising fast. And that doesn't even include Donald Trump's tariffs against the world. But here's Donald Trump, President of the United States. Pains me to say that, saying that we have double our munitions now. Double our munitions? What are you talking. We didn't double our munitions since the war. These lies are not just obvious. They're just the dumbest lies ever. And they're just utterly humiliating to the United States. Here, play this clip.
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There was a report this week that because of all the firepower required for epic fury, that there are people in the White House who are starting to worry about our inventory of bombs and missiles. Are you worried? No, no. We have more than we've ever had, actually, because all over the world we have inventory, and we can take that if we need it. But all over the world, we have tremendous amounts of inventory, the best. For instance, we're stock and locked and loaded right now. We have more than double what we had when this started. But, you know, we're all over the world. We're in many, many different countries, many different places, all backed up. Now, what happened is Biden came in like a stupid fool, and he did. He gave a lot of what we had to Ukraine and 300, 150 billion dollars they spent we don't do that. Everybody has to pay. The European Union pays us. But Biden didn't get money. He got nothing. Got nothing. But he gave a lot of the inventory away. Now, relatively speaking, it's not that, but it was a lot of inventory. He gave it to Ukraine. We filled it up. But we have inventory from all over the world.
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And so that's the statement coming out of Donald Trump. Here are the types of statements coming out of Iran with President Pezeshkian and they also the Iranian social media accounts are also posting videos like this of President Possesskian. Dear Americans, you can find the name of Dr. Pezeshkian, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the list of online doctor directories. Yes, we are different. Dr. Possesskian is a highly experienced medical specialist with over 30 years of expertise in cardiovascular surgery. He's a heart surgeon, particularly in heart valve repair and pediatric cardiac procedures, and has worked as a professor of surgery at Tabriz University and medical sciences. That's the president of Iran, who then posted the following on International Workers Day. In my teenage years, I have worked as a laborer. I have partaken of the blessed bread of this noble profession and take pride in it. I know that being a worker means nobility, patience, dignity, standing firm against hardships and building a better future for those we love. As I had promised, I issued the order to shut down the contracting companies. So you have him posting that while Donald Trump's posting weird AI images of himself with women in bikinis with his male cabinet members. Very, very bizarre. And finally, as I mentioned at the outset, Donald Trump walking into this death trap. Here is Professor Morandi. Professor Morandi is a well known professor in Iran, speaks very good English, by the way, and he talks about the trap ready to go that Trump will be walking right into if Trump chooses escalation. Here, play this clip.
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If the United States starts targeting Iranian leaders and the Israeli regime as well, this Epstein coalition, as I like calling it, I like to call it, and then alongside that, they start, start targeting Iran's critical infrastructure like power stations and so on, then these Arab leaders and their elites around them, they'll be targeted too. And then their critical infrastructure will be targeted. And that will be at a time, and this is, I think, very important, that we are nearing the hot season in the Persian Gulf region and in the Arabian Peninsula. So the month of May is a transition month. By the end of May, it gets very hot. And in middle May, in the middle of May, it is getting hot. And then the sandstorms and the humidity and all that you combine that becomes very difficult to anyone, for anyone to work in these countries unless there's, you know, electricity, unless, unless they have the ability to stay cool. If they lose their electrical power plants, it is going to be very difficult for the, I don't know, 50, 60, I don't know how many American troops are there now because they brought in a lot of equipment for ground attack. So there may also be extra troops. But the tens of thousands of American troops stationed there, it's going to be much more difficult for them.
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Episode Title: Trump is Scared and Walks Directly into Fatal Trap!!
Date: May 2, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers critically examine Donald Trump’s handling of the ongoing Iran crisis, unpacking his public statements, the administration’s narrative, and the global ramifications. Combining their signature brotherly banter and sharp political analysis, they expose what they regard as a spiral of incompetence and self-inflicted traps by Trump’s regime. Key themes include disinformation, escalating international tensions, and the dangerous spectacle of US leadership.
Empty Golf Events: Trump boasts about the PGA event at Doral, but Ben notes the lack of spectators and attributes the collapse of the event (and Saudi-funded LIV Golf) to Trump’s mishandling of Middle Eastern alliances (12:00–12:35).
Pakistan Opens Land Routes: Hosts discuss the undermining of the US blockade as Pakistan opens land supply routes to Iran—Trump’s reaction is flippant and out-of-touch (15:38).
Munitions “Double” Lie: Trump claims US has “double” the munitions since the war; Ben counters with evidence of depleted and damaged stockpiles and destroyed airbases (16:00–19:00).
Cost of War Dispute: While the Trump administration cites a $25B price tag, Iran estimates $100B cost, escalating per-household costs for Americans (19:15).
Prof. Morandi’s Warning: The episode concludes with Iranian professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi outlining the “trap” set for US forces: any attacks on Iranian infrastructure will result in US and Arab allied critical infrastructure being targeted. With imminent extreme weather, the vulnerability of tens of thousands of US troops is highlighted (21:10–22:56).
In Summary:
The episode delivers a scathing, comedic, and in-depth breakdown of how the Trump administration’s Iran policies have veered off course—trapping the US in strategic blunders, global embarrassment, and increasing risks for American interests. Through news analysis, quote pulls, and expert guest commentary, the MeidasTouch Podcast presents a vivid portrait of leadership unraveling in real time.