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Podcast Host / Commentator
Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous press conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer as part of Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom. Donald Trump was speaking about Russia and says the whole Russia situation not really a big threat to the United States or to the United Kingdom or Europe. And maybe I'll have some good news in a few weeks. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
But the Russia situation, I hope we're going to have some good news for you coming up. But again, it doesn't affect the United States. And he look, it doesn't so much affect you. Of course you are a lot closer to the scene than we are. We have a whole ocean separating us.
Podcast Host / Commentator
But then Donald Trump continues with his lies about the United states bringing in $17 trillion in investments in eight months. Quite literally none of this is true at all. He just makes up the number $17 trillion.
Donald Trump
Let's play it $17 trillion. And this is in during an eight month period being invested in the country, which is not only a record, but if you compare $17 trillion to the last year of the Biden administration, they did $250 billion. They didn't do $1 trillion for the four year period. We did $17 trillion of investment coming in. A lot of it's because of tariffs and a lot of it's for a lot of other reasons. But there's Never been anything like it. It's an economic superstar. That's what's become. It was mismanaged and badly handled for a long period of time, but it's not badly handled anymore. So that's a record. And remember, that's up until eight months. We have another few months to go and that number is going to get significantly higher, especially if we win a certain case that we're waiting to hear.
Podcast Host / Commentator
Donald Trump is then asked a very good question by a reporter about the UK Ambassador to the United States, Lord Mandelson, who was fired by the UK Government. He was removed from his position because his letters to Jeffrey Epstein in that birthday book from, from 2003 for Epstein's 50th birthday were revealed. And then Bloomberg had additional information about Lord Mandelson emailing Epstein and just saying nice things to Epstein and being just helpful and protective of Epstein, very similar to Donald Trump. And so the reporter asks Donald Trump, like, well, how do you feel about that? And watch the response here. Play this clip. Scare him and impose sanctions. And finally, if I may, the elephant and the room.
Donald Trump
Lord Mandelson, he is no longer the ambassador. Do you have some sympathy with him that he lost his job over historic links to Jeffrey Epstein? Thank you very much. I don't know him, actually. I had heard that and I think maybe the Prime Minister would be better. Speaking of that, that was a choice that he made and I don't know. What is your answer to that? Well, I mean, it's very straightforward. Some information came to light last week which wasn't available when he was appointed. And I made a decision about it. And that's very clear on the.
Podcast Host / Commentator
Okay, so Donald says he does not know who that is. Yes, you do. Donald, like y' all knew each other pretty well. The White House official account back on May 8, 2025, posted the following. Lord Peter Mendelsohn, British ambassador to the U.S. you've done what you said you would. You've been true to your word. He hung out with you in the Oval Office. Not once, but I believe on multiple occasions. And you knew him well. Weren't you all part of that crew back in the day, too, with Jeffrey Epstein? As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media account, either it's dementia or he's trying to distance himself from another Jeffrey Epstein friend who participated in the birthday book with him. Either way, not great. Then Donald Trump continues to lie at this press conference. What else is new? And Trump said that in the 2020 election where he lost by over 7 million votes. He said, we won in 2020 big. Then he said, we've already solved inflation, we've solved prices. We've solved everything. You've solved nothing. It's all false. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
And you see all the information that's come out. We won in 2020 big. And I said, let's run. We got to run. Because I saw what was happening. And the worst thing that I saw was all of these people, you know, we've already solved inflation, we solved prices. Oil is way down, energy down in the United States.
Podcast Host / Commentator
By the way, calling FCC commissioner. Why don't we ban FOX for putting this on? Should we ban Trump's speech right now? What. What else should we ban? FCC commissioner? Anyway, then Donald Trump struggles to say Azerbaijan. And he's like, Azerbaijan. And then he believes that there was a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Albania. I think he means Armenia. So that's great. To the people in Armenia that Donald Trump doesn't even know what your country is or what the hell even happened here. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
That. That one's not settled. To think that we settled Aber Baijan and Albania as an example. It was going on for years, was never going to be settled. If you remember the prime minister and the president, they were there for many years. They said when they were in my office, we settled. And they started off at both sides of the Oval Office. So far away. I didn't know you could be so far away. And as we were together for an hour, they kept getting closer, closer. And by the time we finished, we all hugged each other.
Podcast Host / Commentator
Then Donald Trump attacks the idea of wind energy. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
Thank you, Jack. I would like to say that we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. We had inflation the likes of which we've really never said. They say 48 years. And I'll. I'll accept that, but I really don't. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country. And we had a expression that I used a lot. Drill, baby, drill. And as you know, we brought fuel way down, prices way down. And we don't do wind because wind is a disaster. It's a very expensive joke, frankly. And we got our energy prices way down. That brought the inflation way down. And now we have very little inflation and we have a very, very strong economy. So that was very important. Drill, baby, drill. And you have a great asset here. And we spoke about it. It's called the North Sea. The North Sea. Oil is phenomenal. And I hope, because I love this country, you know, my mother was born in Scotland and the Hebrides, Stornoway. That's serious Scotland. We were talking about it. And I want this country to do well. And you have great assets that you're going to start using, I believe, under this prime minister. Thank that.
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Podcast Host / Commentator
Donald Trump was asked a question by a reporter about free speech knowing that Trump regime threatened broadcasters with their licenses if they wouldn't get rid of Kimmel, both expressly and implied intimidation. Also a lot of these companies that carry the affiliates are far right wing companies as well. And they're like you have to donate to Charlie Kirk now Jimmy Kimmel. You have to donate to his family and you have to issue public apologies. Jimmy Kimmel didn't say anything wrong in my opinion at all that he described how MAGA was spending the weekend trying to make make sure that the shooter who came from a MAGA Republican gun toting family would not be connected with them as MAGA pushed a narrative that he was a leftist. That's what MAGA wanted to push. Jimmy Kimmel was just literally stating a fact. He didn't even say anything negative about Charlie Kirk. He could have actually told the truth about Charlie Kirk's past And all of the hateful things Charlie Kirk said about black people, gay people, trans people, about executing former President Biden, about how the Civil Rights act was a mistake and should not exist, the horrible things Charlie Kirk said about Martin Luther King, the horrible things Charlie Kirk says about migrants. Jimmy Kimmel didn't say any of that could have. Here, play this clip of Trump saying why Kimmel was fired. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
And on a separate issue, free speech, your Vice President Vance said that free speech is under attack in the UK do you agree with him? And Prime Minister, we saw the dismissal of a very well known chat show host in America last night. Mr. Kimmel, is free speech more under attack in Britain or America? Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent.
Podcast Host / Commentator
Then Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend asked Donald Trump about the a fake auto pen scandal that they go, they go, Biden was using the auto pen. Therefore anything Biden signed via an auto pen should be disqualified. Here, play this clip. And my question to you, President Trump, is there any update on the auto pen?
Donald Trump
Yeah, she's gotten worse from their standpoint, he, the people that used it and one in particular, one person was never told by Biden to do it.
Podcast Host / Commentator
Then Donald Trump brags about how TikTok is. There's going to be an American subsidiary of really rich people, really rich Americans, good rich people. He keeps saying that good, really rich people are going to potentially have ownership in an American subsidiary of TikTok. I'm not sure how this addresses any of people's national, the Senate's national security worries of TikTok in the findings there. If China controls the algorithm and controls the ip, that was the issue that the Senate was concerned with. So now you're just giving your friends a sweetheart deal to own a subsidiary of TikTok in the US but not addressing the security concerns that the Senate on a bipartisan basis pushed here.
Donald Trump
Play this clip has tremendous value. The United States has that value in its hand because we're the ones that have to approve it. I specifically get the right to approve it. The people that are investing it are among the greatest investors in the world, the biggest, the richest, and they'll do a great job. And we're doing it in conjunction with China but we are getting, the United States is getting a tremendous fee plus, I call it a fee plus for just making the deal. And I don't want to throw that out the window. I can say this, that you have a lot of very unhappy youth. And I use TikTok very legitimately, very straight, just statements. Every day I did little statements, short statements. Sir, make it short, please. And TikTok Jack, we called him, it was pretty good. Did a good job for me, I guess. But no, I'd rather reap the benefits. I mean, the kind of money we're talking about is very substantial and it'll be owned by all American investors and, you know, the best investors and the, you know, very rich people and companies are going to be owning it. Very, very straight, very legitimate countries, companies and really companies that love America. So they're going to be owning it. So it's a big thing and on a much bigger scale. And probably that's why we were able to get that. But on a much bigger scale. We're pretty close to a deal. We may do an extension with China, but it's an extension based on the same terms that we have right now, which are pretty good terms. And my thank you.
Podcast Host / Commentator
There's two other portions of this meeting that took place between Keir Starmer and Trump. I want to highlight Donald Trump bragging about the disastrous budget bill which has hurt so many American lives.
Donald Trump
Play this clip aspect of the bill. I was in the, I call it the big beautiful bill. The great big beautiful bill. We got so much, the largest bill ever passed in the history of our country. In fact, so big that we really don't have to pass too much anymore. We can, can just do this for four years. Implement, you know, I like to implement because the bills are wonderful, but you have to implement. But.
Podcast Host / Commentator
And then again, Donald Trump bragging that there is no inflation.
Donald Trump
Let me show you that great process going. And inflation is virtually nonexistent. As you know, we, we're taking in trillions of dollars from tariffs. And they've been so incredible for our country, so incredible. We're keeping our companies happy. We're keeping them solid and sane. And they're very, very thrilled at what's happened. They can't even actually, they can't even believe it.
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And we, there you have it. When I say it was a disaster, I think this video showed what you come up with another word to describe whatever that is. But it was absolutely a disaster. Oh, by the way, shout out to our friends over at Snapstream, Snapstream is a software that allows us to kind of capture these clips on the various news networks. So if you ever want to know like how our team does it, they use Snapstream. I'm throwing a link below for Snapstream. You can go and check it out in the description. Reach out to them. Sell it. Tell them Midas Touch send you if you're interested in using that. It's really more geared towards businesses, but there may be other uses as well. But reach out to them at Snapstream. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million the truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth over lies collection@store.midas touch.com All 100% USA Union made.
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Episode: Trump Loses Control at Disaster Presser with UK PM
Date: September 18, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this lively and incisive episode, the MeidasTouch brothers break down former President Donald Trump’s chaotic and controversial joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer during Trump's state visit to the UK. The hosts expertly dissect Trump’s misleading statements, factual errors, and inflammatory rhetoric, while also highlighting the significance (and absurdity) of several key moments. The episode maintains the signature MeidasTouch approach—a mix of sharp political analysis and brotherly banter, with an unapologetic defense of democracy.
[00:58 - 01:39]
“But the Russia situation, I hope we're going to have some good news for you coming up. But again, it doesn't affect the United States. And he look, it doesn't so much affect you. Of course you are a lot closer to the scene than we are. We have a whole ocean separating us.”
[01:39 - 02:58]
“$17 trillion. And this is in during an eight month period being invested in the country, which is not only a record, but if you compare $17 trillion to the last year of the Biden administration, they did $250 billion...”
[02:58 - 04:23]
“I don't know him, actually. I had heard that and I think maybe the Prime Minister would be better. Speaking of that, that was a choice that he made and I don't know. What is your answer to that?”
“Yes, you do. Donald, like y'all knew each other pretty well... either it's dementia or he's trying to distance himself from another Jeffrey Epstein friend…”
[04:23 - 05:48]
“We won in 2020 big. And I said, let's run. We got to run. Because I saw what was happening. And … we've already solved inflation, we solved prices. Oil is way down, energy down in the United States.”
[05:48 - 06:58]
"To think that we settled Aber Baijan and Albania as an example. It was going on for years, was never going to be settled... And as we were together for an hour, they kept getting closer, closer. And by the time we finished, we all hugged each other."
[06:58 - 08:11]
“We don't do wind because wind is a disaster. It's a very expensive joke, frankly. And we got our energy prices way down. That brought the inflation way down. And now we have very little inflation and we have a very, very strong economy. So that was very important. Drill, baby, drill.”
[09:27 - 11:31]
“Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person... He was fired for lack of talent.”
[11:31 - 12:03]
[12:03 - 14:17]
“People that are investing it are among the greatest investors in the world, the biggest, the richest, and they'll do a great job... companies that love America.”
[14:17 - 14:49]
“The great big beautiful bill. We got so much, the largest bill ever passed in the history of our country. In fact, so big that we really don't have to pass too much anymore.”
[14:49 - 15:20]
“...it doesn't so much affect you. Of course you are a lot closer to the scene than we are. We have a whole ocean separating us.”
– Donald Trump
“$17 trillion ... in an eight month period.”
– Donald Trump
“I don't know him, actually.”
– Donald Trump
“We don't do wind because wind is a disaster. It's a very expensive joke, frankly.”
– Donald Trump
“Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else... not a talented person.”
– Donald Trump
“among the greatest investors in the world, the biggest, the richest...companies that love America.”
– Donald Trump
“Great big beautiful bill ... so big that we really don't have to pass too much anymore.”
– Donald Trump
True to their style, the MeidasTouch brothers approach Trump’s performance as uniquely disastrous, blending sharp factual corrections, sarcasm, and a heavy dose of incredulity. They stress the danger and absurdity of Trump's misinformation, his casual approach to international threats, and his ongoing attack on basic facts and democratic norms.
In sum, the episode serves as both a real-time fact-check and a comedic roast of a press conference that, in the hosts’ words, was “absolutely a disaster” and a revealing lens into Trump’s ongoing disconnect from reality and responsibility.