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The video I showed at the outset is Venezuela's dictator, Nicholas Maduro, trying to show military strength in response to the United States sending seven warships, a nuclear submarine, and a P8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft right off the shores of Venezuela. You have MAGA Republican Congress member Carlos Jimenez of Florida, who threw his own people under the bus, many of whom have been deported back to Venezuela or to other areas who were otherwise given legal status in the United States. He now posts our prayers are with the courageous men and women of our armed forces as they approach the coast of Venezuela. As noted, seven American warships, one nuclear submarine, one reconnaissance aircraft. On the other hand, Venezuela, led by the dictator Nicolas Maduro, said, says he's mobilizing 4.5 million militiamen and deploying 15,000 troops to Venezuela's border with Colombia and throughout Venezuela as well. Maduro also says that he's sending various drones and warships to patrol the coastline there. So you take a look at what Donald Trump looks like. We reported how Donald Trump did not make any public appearances since Wednesday. Um, he purportedly went golfing yesterday, but you take a look at him here. He looked very sickly and frail. He normally speaks to the press. It's unclear if he had a bandage on his hand. There was definitely some makeup on there. As you know, Donald Trump has this severe discoloration on his hands. His ankles are swollen. The chief propagandist of the White House, Caroline Levitt, says that it's just because he shakes a lot of hands and that it's nothing serious at all, though many speculate it could be very serious cardiovascular and or liver and or kidney issues. So you have Donald Trump purportedly golfing, but I guess to show that he's not sickly, he posts these Q and on memes throughout the night into the morning. He's posting QAnon memes like this. An actual post by Donald Trump. The world will soon understand nothing can stop what is coming. And it is an AI image of himself with the Q+ on his hands. Do you take a look at his left hand if you're looking at the screen on your right? Um, that's QAnon. That's a death cult. Which says that Donald Trump seizes dictatorial power and conducts public executions of the deep state in Washington. DC literally. He's posting QAnon death cult memes. He's posting weird AI images of himself wearing SWAT team uniforms. Weird images of himself with the American flag on his face, disgracing our flag and saying, I won big in 2020, the election that he lost. Folks, there is nothing normal about this. Oh, by the way, this photo of Queen Elizabeth surfaced before her death. If you zoom in on her hands right there, um, it's the same discoloration, though. Many people say that, you know, when you get older, that's something that you see. But Donald Trump tries to claim that it's just because he shakes a lot of hands. What else has Donald Trump been posting? Well, he's bragging that the Trump regime canceled $4.9 billion in what he calls American last foreign aid using pocket rescission. In other words, food, medicine. America's soft power to the rest of the world has been now essentially totally eliminated by Donald Trump. Usaid, effectively gone. Usaid, in addition to the fact that it was doing good work, really good work, keeping people alive, trying to stop HIV transmission to kids in Africa, giving food to starving populations to live, medication around the world, humanitarian aid, things that were really important. America's soft power is once our biggest strength. But also right now, with USAID gone, I mean, it's just also the cruelty of how many people have died. I mean, when history's written, I think the number will be tens of millions of people starved to death, died, contracted AIDS because of Trump regime precipitously taking away medication from. How cruel can you be? And this guy wants a Nobel Peace Prize. He. You have blood on your hands. You have blood on your hands from usaid. You have blood on your hands in Ukraine. You have blood on your hands in Gaza. You have blood on your hands. And you have discoloration blotches on your hand as well. And gigantic inflamed cankles as well. And you look incredibly sickly. Do you remember when the New York Times wrote all those articles speculating that President Biden had Parkinson's when he didn't? Article after article after article. But I just don't seem to see really anyone other than the Midas Touch Network and some independent media talking about that. Well, that's just me. By the way, here's some footage that CNN got of Marco Rubio. They did a good montage here where Marco Rubio defended USAID before he went full maga here. Let's play this clip. We don't have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interests. That's why we give foreign aid. Now, obviously there's a component to foreign aid that's humanitarian in scope, and that's important too. I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti Americanism, anti American terrorism if the United States of America was the reason why they're even alive today. Anybody who tells you that we can slash foreign aid and that will bring us to balance is lying to you. Foreign aid is less than 1% of our budget. It's just not true. Now this story's not getting enough attention. I want to bring it to your attention as a result. Senator Tammy Duckworth Worth Post the following A new level of cruel Donald Trump is illegally withholding childcare grants for parents in college, forcing them into an impossible choice drop out or take on more debt. I'm demanding an investigation. These funds that Congress already approved must be released. Here's how Donald Trump is treating families with children who are trying to educate themselves at college. So in Tammy Duckworth's letter, she writes to the United States Government Accountability Office. I write to request that the Government Accountability Office investigate whether the Trump administration's decision to place on hold childcare access means parents in school CCA and PIs grants is in compliance with the Impoundment Control Act. Established by Congress in 1998, this program is the only federal program dedicated solely to providing child care assistance for low income students in post secondary settings. Nearly 4 million college students are parents of dependent children, representing more than one in five undergraduates, or 22% of all undergraduates in the United States. Parenting students struggle to pay for child care on top of the growing cost of tuitions, fees, course materials, housing, food and other expenses, access to affordable child care is one of the most important supports that can help parenting students succeed in college. Congress has long recognized the utility of supporting the participation of low income parents in post secondary education by ensuring affordable and convenient, convenient campus based child care services, and has consistently voted on a bipartisan basis to appropriate millions of dollars in funding for this program each year. But despite a long history of bipartisan support, the Trump administration called for the elimination of this program in the 2026 budget. Further, the US Department of Education, which typically opens applications for these grants in May and closes them at the end of July each year, and typically issues notices to advise applicants and awardees about potential delays or changes to the program, has yet to even announce this year's applications. Institutions that have reached out to the Education Department for more information have Been reportedly met with vague ANSWERS. With the 2025, 2026 academic year quickly approaching and no clear indication regarding the state of this program, thousands of parents are now forced to make a difficult decision of whether or not to enroll in school without knowing if they will be able to afford childcare services. So that's an issue. Just think about it. There's thousands of other issues like that that's happening every day. I don't care what political party you're from, Republican, Democrat, independent group, Green. Whatever your thing is, this is not right. Why would we, why would our government affirmatively inflict pain on low income parents who are trying to get their undergraduate degree? Unless you're trying to inflict cruelty. And cruelty is the point where you just want to help your oligarchs and cause pain and suffering with everybody else. That's what's happening, happening right there. And that repeats itself over and over again. The Department of Education cutting free lunches, cutting programs for disabled persons, but making sure that 6 million student loan borrowers are now in default. And by way of their default now their credit is getting screwed and they're not going to be able to rent or buy homes or get cars or participate in our economy. Six million people like that are in default now and are screwed. And that's going to trickle down to all other aspects of our economy. You go to other areas. US Farmers are getting screwed by Donald Trump's trade war against the world. Fertilizers can't be afforded and farmers can't find clients because clients like other countries or the clients are retaliating against the United States and saying, we're gonna go to Australia, we're gonna go to Brazil, we're gonna go to Canada, we're not gonna buy in America. So farmers are getting screwed right now. Now, by the way, you don't believe me. MAGA Republican Congress member Dan Bacon admits that the people of Nebraska and Iowa are currently suffering through a recession. Right now, farmers are being crippled. Here, play this clip. And so what we're seeing is basically a recession economy in Nebraska and Iowa right now and tariff wars do not help. And finally, I want to give a hat tip to my friend Medi Hassan and his great company Zetio. And I want to highlight his article because he says the following. Why aren't Democrats capitalizing on the scandal of the summer? Peter Roth Pletz writes, Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption. If you were to lab engineer a scandal that hurts the president and the gop, this is exactly what you would concoct Listen to this. On August 6th, Tom Artium Alexandrovich, a big wig in Israel's cybersecurity apparatus, was arrested in Las Vegas alongside seven other men during an FBI back sting for allegedly trying to canoodle with an undercover agent posing as a 15 year old child. A 15 year old disabled child. He promptly paid his 10,000 bail and jetted home to Israel. The State Department has denied that the Trump administration intervened on Alexandrovich's behalf, but the denial appears increasingly implausible. Court records indicate Alexandrovich, who reportedly told police he thought he was chatting with an 18 year old, was charged with luring or attempting to lure a child to engage in sexual conduct, a felony carrying some 10 years in prison upon conviction. Given the severity of the crime, the fact that he, especially as a foreign national, was released without stringent bail conditions, including GPS monitoring and travel restrictions, is highly unusual. Last week, Acting U.S. attorney for Nevada Segal Chatta, a far right anti Palestinian Trump appointee who was born in Israel, asserted on social media the individual who fled our country should have had his passport seized by state authorities. He must return immediately to face justice. Chada further claimed to have spoken with Pam Bondi about the matter and that America's top cop was outraged. But despite the moral indignation, seemingly nothing has been done to extradite Alexandrovich. The Israeli official just skipped a skill schedule court hearing this past Wednesday. The President could loudly publicly demand that Netanyahu return Alexandrovich tomorrow, but he hasn't. Isn't that curious? If you were to lab engineer a scandal like this to hurt Trump, this is exactly what would be concocted. Just consider the buzzwords at play. But just consider the the setting aside concocting, I mean what the hell's going on there? That's where I say to regardless of your political party, that's wrong. And again you, you, you want to take a look at what that United States attorney said. So just when that article says, you know, far right anti Palestinian United States attorney, I think I have some posts by her right here. Let me pull it up so you can see what the types of things that she said. Here are her posts. There are 2 million terrorists in Gaza. Leary was in the homes are part of this. It's not just those carrying rifles. The so called uninvolved civilians are not uninvolved at all. Oh, 33,000 Palestinians have been killed. Well that's too bad. They would have had zero Palestinians killed if they would have released hostages on October 8th, they want to live by the sword. They can die by the die by the sword. Then it goes on to say what's another one that she wrote? There were two, there are 2 million, there are. She goes, there are no such things as innocent civilians in Gaza. She's the the way Trump has Haba running as the United States Attorney in New Jersey, he has this person running in Nevada, just so you have a sense of who that is. So I wanted to highlight things here as well that you probably haven't heard in other places. So hopefully I succeeded in that. Hit subscribe let's get 6 million subscribers. Become a member of our YouTube channel. It helps so much when you become you click join. You can gift memberships to people. That's helpful. And check out Midasplus.com as well. Me I-A S P L U S.com what else did I want to say? Oh, we're launching Midas Canada today with Charlie Angus. Midas Canada is officially launching. Just search The Charlie Angus YouTube channel Charlie Angus Midas Canada and subscribe there. 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Episode: Trump Panics as His Condition Worsens as War Is Imminent
Date: August 31, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers discuss a rapidly escalating geopolitical crisis between the United States and Venezuela, the worsening health and erratic public behavior of Donald Trump, the Trump regime’s elimination of crucial humanitarian aid, and a cascade of domestic policy cruelties including the withholding of child care grants for college students. They round out the episode by highlighting underreported scandals within the Trump administration and their broader implications for democracy, human rights, and America’s global standing.
Timestamp: 01:59 – 04:30
Notable Quote:
“A very sickly and weak Donald Trump wants to play GI Joe yet again, forcing the United States on the brink of yet another war, this time with Venezuela.”
– Ben Meiselas (02:00)
Timestamp: 04:31 – 08:10
Notable Quote:
“He’s posting QAnon death cult memes... which says that Donald Trump seizes dictatorial power and conducts public executions of the deep state.”
– Ben Meiselas (06:25)
Timestamp: 08:11 – 11:00
Notable Quote:
“When history’s written, I think the number will be tens of millions of people starved to death, died, contracted AIDS because of Trump regime precipitously taking away medication... How cruel can you be? And this guy wants a Nobel Peace Prize.”
– Ben Meiselas (09:40)
Timestamp: 11:01 – 14:45
Notable Quote:
“Why would our government affirmatively inflict pain on low income parents who are trying to get their undergraduate degree? Unless you’re trying to inflict cruelty... and cruelty is the point.”
– Ben Meiselas (13:40)
Timestamp: 14:46 – 16:10
Notable Quote:
“What we’re seeing is basically a recession economy in Nebraska and Iowa right now, and tariff wars do not help.”
— Dan Bacon, played by the brothers (15:30)
Timestamp: 16:11 – 18:50
Notable Quote:
“If you were to lab engineer a scandal to hurt Trump, this is exactly what you would concoct… Just consider the buzzwords at play. But just consider the setting aside concocting—I mean, what the hell’s going on there?”
– Ben Meiselas (17:40)
Timestamp: 18:51 – 19:45
Notable Quote:
“There are no such things as innocent civilians in Gaza.”
– Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Nevada (18:53)
On the contrast between Trump and Biden's media treatment:
“Do you remember when the New York Times wrote all those articles speculating that President Biden had Parkinson’s when he didn’t?... I just don't seem to see really anyone other than the Midas Touch Network and some independent media talking about [Trump’s health].”
– Ben Meiselas (08:10)
On the cruelty of current government policy:
“Department of Education cutting free lunches, cutting programs for disabled persons, but making sure that 6 million student loan borrowers are now in default... that's going to trickle down to all other aspects of our economy.”
– Ben Meiselas (14:20)
On underreported scandals:
“Hopefully I succeeded in highlighting things here as well that you probably haven't heard in other places.”
– Ben Meiselas (19:50)
This episode offers a rapid-fire but deeply informed critique of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies—highlighting not just the political spectacle but the material and human costs. With their signature mix of righteous indignation and brotherly banter, the Meiselas brothers shine a light on stories ignored or misrepresented by mainstream outlets, making the case for vigilance, empathy, and collective action in the face of escalating authoritarianism and cruelty.