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A very frantic Donald Trump is trying to post his way out of the disaster he has created for his regime as his plans continue to backfire. He was posting last night around midnight attacks against msnbc, calling it Ms. Dnc. Today he was posting attacks on former President Biden. He was making random posts, Make America great again with exclamation points. He was lying and saying inflation is down. I've solved the problem. Make America great again. Everybody is happy. There's jobs for everyone. People are living their best lives now. Literally as the data comes in that prices are higher, like try to get a cup of coffee. I mean, it's projected to be like 59% higher as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs in some places. Take a look at housing right now. Mortgage rates crossing what, 7% could even potentially hit 8% soon. And of course, most bankers right now and most economists believe we're either already in a recession, we're heading for a recession. The question is, what's the contraction of the economy going to be? Negative 3%, negative 2%. Is the contraction going to hit in a quarter later? What's going to happen there? But Donald Trump just keeps on posting over and over again. And by the way, the White House posted this image as one individual noted, I can't believe this is real, but it is. It's a photo of minors with their faces covered after a hard day's work of labor. And this is the type of jobs that Donald Trump is saying he wants to see more jobs like this. And look, a big shout out to minors. Let me be very, very clear. Hard working Americans who deserve to be treated with absolute respect. They deserve to be paid more, frankly. But let's talk about higher paying jobs for people like this. We know that factories are closing right now. We should be giving our American workers the absolute best. It's just an odd image of the Trump regime to continue posting images of like coal workers as the pinnacle of what they want to see the American economy look like. As the American economy was evolving to have higher paying jobs under former President Biden, to bring everybody up. As former President Biden said, a job is about dignity. Yet Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue to attack that. Also, when you're going through Donald Trump's posts on his social media platform, this is a real ad. As you're scrolling through Donald Trump's posts, it's Matt Gates with an Ivermectin tablet. I'm not trying to say if they think he looks like a horse or what. The point, they didn't want you to have Ivermectin, but you can still get it here. That's what they're promoting on Trump's social media platform, which last year, what, lost close to 400 million and only earned like what, three and a half, $4 million in revenue? Yeah. So your local Boba restaurant or Starbucks restaurant or Starbucks or local restaurant makes more money, earns more revenue and certainly more profit than Trump media does then Trump randomly pros post. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is great. She's so great. This is the attack on former President Biden. Sleepy Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States, has allowed millions and millions of criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers and people released from prisons and mental institutions. Wow. Hannibal Lecter this. Blah, blah, blah. You know, if you want to look at the deportation numbers, former President Biden, this time last year, this month, deported more people than Donald Trump and more people actually that had criminal records with Donald Trump. So you may be saying that's odd. Donald Trump says the opposite. Well, Donald Trump lies about everything. And you may go, well, that's odd. I didn't really hear former President Biden talk about it that much. Yeah, because they went through the process. They had competent people, they had immigration judges who went about a process. And then there were deportations that were handled pursuant to due process and pursuant to the law. And it just happened. Donald Trump wants to torture people. He wants to do it fascist Apprentice style. Right. As I've said, this regime, in addition to being the rug pull Ponzi scheme regime, it's like a weird version of the Apprentice meets Kim Jong Un. That's what these CAB meetings look like. Everything's a show. But they're not actually competent in the underlying execution of what their plans are. Remember, Donald Trump said there were going to be millions of people deported on day one. Well, that's not what happened. But what he did do is he picked 90% like innocent people without criminal records at all. No criminal records here, no criminal records in their home country. And then he sent them to concentration camps in El Salvador so he could feel like a tough guy. And then when the Supreme Court says, what the hell are you doing? Nine to zero, return to Brago. Garcia, why are you doing this? Oh, that's not what they said. I won and we can't do anything. The leader of El Salvador says there's nothing we can do. This is a terrorist. Ms. 13 member. Well, Donald, your immigration judge in 2019 created the protected status for Abrego Garcia. 2019. I know you have all these cognitive issues now for a long time, but you were in office in 2019. Oh, then Donald Trump makes this post. You see, it's frantic this morning. Post, post, post, post, post, post, post. Starting last night around midnight, he goes, everyone knows that Harvard has lost its way. They hired from New York, Bill D and Chicago L'Oreal at ridiculously high salaries. Two of the worst and most. And he puts this again, incompetent people, radical left fools, inept women. I mean, you just go, go and read. I'm not going to read the whole freaking thing because it' by a psycho. Like it's written by a madman. Like a lunatic. A deranged, demented person. Imagine if somebody who you worked with, someone you knew in your life, somebody who was part of a social club, wrote like that and sent you messages. You'd be like, yo, this person is a little bit, you know, not a little bit. I mean, and this person is dangerous right here.
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Ben Miceli
And just think about what he's doing already this morning. I mean, attacking America's leading educational institutions, lying about the economy and saying things are great. You know, Donald, people can look at their 401ks and their pensions. People who are living paycheck to paycheck know it's not going great right now. You know that people who are losing their jobs in states like Ohio as, as factories are, they know you've lied to them. And so you could keep the Ponzi scheme rug pull going. But, but people are aware of like what is happening. And I understand that you've got state regime media known as Fox and you've got corporate news to do your bidding, but we've got the Midas Touch network right now, okay? And we get more viewers than all of them. And by the way, Everybody go to Midasplus.com. that's our substack sign up because we're trying to get to a million subscribers on that substack. It's now the fastest growing substack in the world. Take a look at this right here. They're all, all of the people in Trump's or a lot of the people, I shouldn't say, a lot of the people in Trump's cabinet and Trump's senior staff are dyeing their hair the way Trump does. They also wear these Trump pins with Trump's face on it. You take a look right here. This is Dr. Oz. As we said on the Midas Touch account, the Trump hair dye job is deeply, deeply disturbing. And just in case you were confused, just to go back to the last slide I showed you about why he's attacking Harvard Because Harvard said, no, we're not going to become a vassal institution of the Trump regime. No, we're not going to let the Trump regime take over our admissions process and force us to get rid of any form of diversity at Harvard. No, we're not going to let you tell us who we can hire. The Trump regime wanted to. This is true. They wanted to audit the political views of the faculty and the students at Harvard and they wanted to look and have everybody's political views laid out. Really? That seems like the most communist central planning, fascist, authoritarian thing in the world. Oh, by the way, this morning the Wall Street Journal did this incredible expose on Ellen. So right. The Republicans were the party of family values. Rah, rah, rah. Also, we pledge allegiance to Elon Musk. This is from the Wall Street Journal, folks. Rupert Murdoch's paper, the Wall Street Journal. Here's what it says. The tactics Elon Mus to manage his legion of babies and their mothers. So this was Ashley sank, Ashley St. Clair on the COVID That's her with her baby. Romulus I think is the baby's name. And Elon Musk offered her apparently $15 million and $100,000 a month in support in exchange for her silence about the child, who they named Romulus after a historical figure who murdered his brother. Similar agreements had been negotiated with other mothers of Musk's children because Elon Musk wanted to reach legion level status before the apocalypse. So Elon wanted to have a camp where all of his mothers and his legions, he calls them his legions, the babies. And he finds the woman on Twitter, according to this article, and then has the legions live in a compound. And then there was another story in the Wall Street Journal about a crypto reporter named Tiffany Fong who was approached by Musk and asked if he can, if she can have his baby and she could have a legion family values. These are the people who are engaged in a hostile takeover of our country, who are defaming our veterans, who are lying and saying, these people have been fired for cause, for not doing a good job. They're stripping away their dignity. And then these creeps are going on Twitter and using their accounts to try to impregnate women and create legions with their oligarchical money. These are real sickos. These are real freaking sickos, folks. Moving on, the governor of California, Governor Newsom, just filed a bombshell lawsuit against the Trump regime for the Trump regime's tariffs. This is similar to these other lawsuits that's just based on, but it's being brought by the governor of California. In California. Now, Newsom versus Trump. And this lawsuit relates to. Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally impose tariffs as Trump's asserting war authority powers to tariff the world. The power to tariff is in Congress. You have to pass laws on these things. But Trump is saying, I'm a wartime president. We're at war against Venezuela. We're at war. This is. Trump says he's declaring a national emergency because of war with all of these countries. So with Canada, with Australia, with Europe, without. With our allies. So that's why. That's why Trump says that he has the ability to go around Congress, even though if you take, if you look at, like, Australia, there's. There's a surplus with Australia. I mean, none of this makes sense at all other than Trump is deranged, dangerous. He wants to break all of the institutions, break America's prominence as the leader of the world economy, and he wants to suck up to Putin. You can see headlines like this as well. US Vehicle supply is falling amid tariff fear. So what's the Trump regime talking about? What's their central message today? Ding, ding, ding. You guessed it. They're talking about transgender people in sports. And today there was a big announcement by the Trump Department of Justice that because Maine has two transgender athletes, they are suing Maine. They tried to get rid of all of the funding for Maine's public schools because Maine said, look, we're following the law. Law, stop bullying the two transgender people who are in. Who are in Maine. There's two. Stop bullying them. And then the Trump regime tried to get rid of all federal funding to public schools. So, like, 172,000 kids who would get their lunches in the state of Maine would get that taken away because Trump wants to bully two transgender kids in the state of Maine. So the state of Maine got the initial attempt by the Trump regime to steal all of the funding away blocked. So there's an injunction there. So today, the DOJ coming with force and suing the state of Maine. Here's Pam Bondi talking about it this morning in her press conference. Let's play it.
Pam Bondi
I haven't heard Janet Mills comment. Governor Mills said it's only a couple trans athletes. Well, I think those are boys who identify as girls wanting to beat girls in girls sports. Well, if one young woman is in jeopardy, one, that's enough for us to be standing up here. One. No boy will be undressing in a girl's locker room. No boy will be walking in a woman's restroom. And no boy, when we're finished with this, will be beating young girls in sports. These young women have many of them have trained, what, since you were in elementary school for your sport? Riley, when did you start swimming?
Ben Miceli
Four years old.
Pam Bondi
Four years old. They have trained their entire lives. Some of them have lost scholarships, they have lost regionals, they have lost state because of boys. I don't care if it's one, I don't care if it's two. I don't care if it's 100. It's going to stop and it's going to stop in every single state.
Ben Miceli
So there you have it, folks. That's the update for now. I'll keep you posted throughout the day. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Release Date: April 16, 2025
Host: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Episode Focus: An in-depth analysis and critique of former President Donald Trump's recent actions and statements amid economic challenges and political controversies.
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers delve into the chaotic aftermath of former President Donald Trump's latest moves. They dissect his frantic social media activity, economic claims, and the broader implications for American democracy.
Ben Miceli opens the discussion by highlighting Trump's incessant posting attempts to mitigate backlash from ongoing policy failures:
Frantic Posting:
"[00:52] Donald Trump is trying to post his way out of the disaster he has created for his regime as his plans continue to backfire."
Attacks on Media and Political Figures:
"[00:52] He was posting last night around midnight attacks against MSNBC, calling it 'Ms. DNC. Today he was posting attacks on former President Biden."
Ben emphasizes the dissonance between Trump's optimistic proclamations and the stark economic data:
Ben provides a critical overview of the current economic landscape, countering Trump's narrative with factual data:
Housing Market Concerns:
"[00:52] Mortgage rates crossing what, 7% could even potentially hit 8% soon."
Recession Fears:
"[00:52] Most bankers and economists believe we're either already in a recession or heading for one, with contractions projected between negative 2% to 3%."
Despite these indicators, Trump continues his aggressive social media campaign, disregarding economic realities.
Ben addresses Trump's portrayal of American jobs, contrasting it with the reality of factory closures and the need for better-paying jobs:
Undermining American Workers:
"[00:52] Donald Trump is showing images of minors with their faces covered after a hard day's work, trying to depict this as the ideal American job."
Support for Higher-Paying Jobs:
"[00:52] We should be giving our American workers the absolute best, advocating for higher-paying jobs that respect and uplift hardworking Americans."
The discussion shifts to Trump's attempts to influence educational policies and media narratives:
Harvard's Resistance:
"[09:00] Trump is attacking Harvard for not becoming a 'vassal institution' of his regime, resisting attempts to control admissions and enforce diversity policies."
Media Exposés on Elon Musk:
"[09:00] The Wall Street Journal exposed Elon Musk's controversial tactics in managing his personal relationships and family planning, labeling them as oligarchical and manipulative."
Ben elaborates on the legal confrontations between Trump and state authorities, particularly focusing on Governor Gavin Newsom of California:
California vs. Trump Tariffs:
"[09:00] Governor Newsom filed a lawsuit against Trump's regime over unilateral tariff impositions, arguing that tariff powers lie with Congress, not the President."
Implications for Global Relations:
"[09:00] Trump's declaration of a national emergency to justify tariffs is seen as an overreach of power, jeopardizing America's economic standing and alliances."
A significant portion of the episode covers the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Maine concerning transgender athletes in public schools:
Ben criticizes the DOJ's stance as an overextension of power aimed at bullying transgender individuals, highlighting the disproportionate response to a minimal number of cases in Maine.
Ben wraps up the episode by reinforcing the network's commitment to truth and urging listeners to support their platform:
Ben Miceli on Economic Realities vs. Trump's Claims:
"Make America great again. Everybody is happy. There's jobs for everyone. People are living their best lives now." ([00:52])
Ben Miceli on Trump's Leadership Style:
"It's like a weird version of the Apprentice meets Kim Jong Un." ([00:52])
Pam Bondi on Transgender Athletes in Sports:
"No boy will be undressing in a girl's locker room... It's going to stop and it's going to stop in every single state." ([15:32])
Contradiction Between Trump's Narratives and Economic Data: The podcast underscores the disparity between Trump's optimistic social media posts and the challenging economic indicators facing the nation.
Critique of Trump's Influence on Institutions: The Meiselas brothers highlight Trump's attempts to control educational institutions and media narratives, portraying them as authoritarian maneuvers.
Legal and Policy Battles: The ongoing legal disputes over tariff policies and transgender athlete participation signify broader conflicts between Trump's followers and state authorities.
Advocacy for Higher Standards and Integrity: Throughout the episode, there's a strong emphasis on advocating for honest leadership, respect for hardworking Americans, and the protection of individual dignity.
This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast offers a comprehensive critique of Donald Trump's recent actions and their implications for America's socio-political and economic landscape. Through detailed analysis and impactful discussions, the Meiselas brothers aim to inform and engage their audience on pressing national issues.