Trump Spirals at 12:35 AM as his Life Collapses!!

Summary

The MeidasTouch Podcast

Episode: Trump Spirals at 12:35 AM as his Life Collapses!!
Date: May 31, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on Donald Trump’s late-night social media meltdown, his physical and cognitive health claims, bizarre online behavior, and comments surrounding Iran and international affairs. The hosts dissect Trump’s increasingly erratic online presence and discuss the implications for U.S. democracy, emphasizing the dangerous normalization of such conduct by a former president.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s Late-Night Social Media Tirade

Timestamps: 03:03–10:00

• The hosts open by highlighting Donald Trump’s frantic social media activity at 12:35 AM, where he posted over 100 times in a manic burst.
• Trump’s self-assessment: Trump claims, “The results of my physical examination… were extremely good,” but the hosts note that making such posts in the middle of the night is itself evidence of instability.
  • Quote: “This post by you shows that your health is not extremely good. This very post is evidence that there’s something seriously wrong with you.” (03:37)
• Trump further brags about scoring “a perfect 30 out of 30” on a cognitive test, repeatedly, misunderstanding the purpose of the exam.
  • Quote: “No, it’s not an extreme intelligence test. It’s not an IQ test. It’s literally a screening for dementia that you’re not supposed to take over and over again.” (04:08)
• Trump attacks E. Jean Carroll (the woman he was found liable of sexually assaulting), disparaging her with more accusations and conspiracy claims.
  • Commentary: The hosts stress that this is extreme behavior for a former or sitting President.

2. Bizarre Image Posts & Erratic Claims

Timestamps: 08:50–12:00

• The episode details a flood of AI-generated or heavily manipulated images Trump posted: himself with Xi Jinping, kissing the flag, AI health “report cards,” and outlandish White House “drone port” renderings.
• Notable is the strange fixation on “drone ports, sniper ports,” and an AI image of himself peering over Greenland.
• Trump attacks the Pope and posts racist dog-whistle images.
  • Analysis: “It’s not exactly… it shouldn’t be a difficult task right there. But then Trump attacks them all… then he posts these weird images that are obviously dog whistles.” (09:45)
• The hosts draw attention to how these posts further alienate and destabilize.

3. Iran, Market Manipulation, and Global Affairs

Timestamps: 12:00–15:09

• Trump claims to have obliterated Iran’s military, while at other times contradicting these assertions in interviews.
• He allegedly seeks a deal with Iran, but is fixated on negotiations for uranium, according to Axios’s Barak Ravid.
  • Quote: “He’s a destroyer, not a builder. He’s a relentless harasser. The one thing that he does is he just overwhelms you with this harassment that I’m showing you in these posts.” (13:21)
• The hosts mock the administration's excuses (e.g., Iranian negotiators “are in caves”), contrasting with massive Tehran celebrations.

4. Cover-ups and Consequences

Timestamps: 15:09–18:37

• The show delves into recent military incidents: MQ9 Reaper drones shot down by Iran, U.S. strikes, and alleged cover-ups of American casualties.
• The Trump administration, according to the hosts, avoids admitting these incidents and relies on media manipulation instead.
• Trump's “deluge of non-stop toxicity” is likened to psychological warfare.

5. Trump Family Banter & Delusions of Grandeur

Timestamps: 18:37–20:06

• Trump appeared on an interview (with Lara or Eric Trump), discussing the “ballroom” with features like “drone ports” and “sniper ports.”
  • Notable Moment: A boastful exchange about “the gene” for building, with Trump saying Eric “has the gene, the way Trump has a gene for building.”
  • Quote: “Eric Trump is a really good builder. He has the gene. Yep. He has a gene that… That I have. I have my gene, and Eric really has it.” (19:40)
• The hosts ridicule these family dynamics by highlighting the absurdity and ego on display.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Trump’s late-night posting:
  “This is supposed to be the President of the United States at midnight… attacking a woman who he sexually assaulted on social media and harassing her.” (05:23)

• On the cognitive test claims:
  “It’s a dementia screening man… You’re not supposed to take it over and over again.” (04:23)

• On negotiating with Iran:
  “He’s never been able to negotiate anything his whole damn life. He’s a destroyer, not a builder.” (13:18)

• On hosting the Trump family:
  “Eric Trump is a really good builder. He has the gene… He’s fantastic builder. He looked at this, understood it immediately.” (19:40)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:03: Breakdown of Trump’s late-night health and cognitive test posts
• 05:23: Trump’s attacks on E. Jean Carroll
• 08:50: Flood of AI-generated images and attacks on various figures
• 12:00: Discussion of contradictions in Iran policy and negotiations
• 13:21: Host analysis of Trump’s harassment tactics
• 15:09: Coverage of MQ9 drone incidents and military cover-ups
• 18:37: Trump family interview on ballrooms, drone ports, and the “gene”
• 19:40: Trump’s claim about Eric Trump inheriting the “builder gene”

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Tone and Style

The Meiselas brothers blend incredulity, legal expertise, and biting satire as they dissect the wild online activity and dangerous implications of Trump’s behavior. Their commentary alternates between sarcastic disbelief, serious concern for democratic norms, and sharp mockery of Trump’s delusions of grandeur and inconsistent storytelling.

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Summary

This episode delivers a scathing critique of Donald Trump’s latest late-night spiral, examining the breadth of his unhinged social media behavior, bizarre boasts, and troubling foreign policy contradictions. The MeidasTouch hosts use a combination of legal analysis, humor, and deep concern to warn about the normalization of presidential misconduct and the urgent need for accountability and vigilance in American democracy.

Transcript

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[Podcast Commentator / Analyst]

spiraling out of control at 12:35am in the morning. He was making social media post after post about his physical condition. This followed that disastrous interview with his daughter in law Lara Trump, where he looked like he was going to collapse at any moment, both physically and cognitively at 12:35am in the morning. Here's what Donald Trump posted the results of my physical examination taken at Walter Reed Medical center in just released were extremely good. Pause right there. This post by you shows that your health is not extremely good. This very post is evidence that there's something seriously wrong with you. Donald Trump goes on to write, unlike other US Presidents, none of whom have ever taken an improved highly difficulty cognitive test, I've scored a perfect 30 out of 30 considered extreme intelligence. No, it's not an extreme intelligence test. It's not an IQ test. It's literally a screening for dementia that you're not supposed to take over and over again. Maybe your supposed to take it once, but it's the same exam that you take over and over again. Then he goes, are the Democrats really surprised? In fact, this is my fourth such test. All perfect or 120 correct answers out of 120 questions as well. It said 30 out of 30 on that fabricated or what I'm in my opinion believe to be a fabricated report because there was so many red flags on that report in my opinion. Then Trump goes, it's very rare that anyone gets a perfect score, especially when achieved four times in a row. It's the same exam. It's a dementia screening man. It's a dementia screening man. Aaron Rupar posted this video that shows all of Donald Trump's post that he was making all throughout the night. I'll show you right now so you can just visually see it. It was post after post about 100 or so posts that he was making that are like this. And then he attacks EG and Carol yet again at like midnight. He's attacking Eugene Carroll, the woman who he was found to have sexually assaulted. I mean, folks, we can't normalize this behavior. This is supposed to be. The President of the United States at midnight, is attacking a woman who he sexually assaulted on social media and harassing her. Here's what he writes. Eugene Carroll has accused seven men in the past of sexually assaulting or raping her. Not one police report exists on any of these incidents. And as you know, he ordered the Justice Department and FBI to criminally investigate her, involving the case where she won, where a jury found in her favor and found Trump liable for sexual assault, which was upheld on appeal by the Second Circuit Court of Appeal. Then late last night, Donald Trump's posting photos of himself and Xi Jinping talking about ballrooms. And he goes, see, they have a ballroom. It's called the Great hall of China. China. It's very large and beautiful. Why do people fight me for having something even better? Democrats are crazy. Then he posts a AI image of himself, like kissing the flag. He does more graphics about his physical exam, and it says, vitals excellent. Cognitive, excellent. Lab results, excellent. Cholesterol. Cardiac lipids, excellent. This is what he's posting all throughout the night. Then he attacks the Pope. He attacks Pope Leo xiv. Again, par for the course. This guy always attacks the Pope. Someone should explain to the Pope that the mayor of Chicago is useless and that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Donald J. Trump. And then you saw that interview with Donald Trump and Lara Trump where Trump said that he did not take out the Iranian military. He says, I like the Iranian military. He says, they're moderate people. People. And a lot of people think in war you're supposed to go after the military of the other side. Nope. I keep them around because they're the moderates. You're saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are the moderates. What about your posts where you were saying that you obliterated the military? Wasn't that your MAGA talking point, that you destroyed them? I mean, this was your post. The fake news media is crazy. You're just plain corrupt. The United States has completely destroyed Iran's military, including their entire Navy and Air Force and everything else. Their leadership is dead. The Strait of Hormuz will soon will soon be open and the empty ships are rushing to the United States to load up. But if you listen to the fake news, we're losing. That was April 11, 2026. And I'm sure I could find for you mid March posts and statements that are the same. But you get the point. April 11, 2026. And then when he was doing an Interview with his daughter in law. He's doing an interview with his daughter in law on regime media. I even the words I'm uttering right now are so damn crazy. And this is what he says about leaving Iran's military intact. Here, play this clip.

[Interviewee / Clip Speaker (possibly Eric Trump or related figure)]

Their navy is totally gone 100%. Their Air Force is totally gone 100%. Their military, we've sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat, somewhat moderate. They have other people that aren't moderate. We've taken them out. We've taken different forms of leadership out. We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that because mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody and then you have a country that's, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild. You look at what happened with and

[Podcast Commentator / Analyst]

folks, if you thought he was done there posting late at night, no. He posts that same image, that AI image of himself looking like a creep kind of peering over at Greenland. Hello, Greenland. He posts that after the attack on the Pope. He then writes drone port. He posts a weird AI images of all these different drones on the White House roof. The drone port on the roof of the White House ballroom. It's an AI image with drone port. What? Why? Drone port, Drone port. Attacking pope, attacking a lady who you were found liable of sexually assaulting. What are you doing? What are we doing here? Then he posts this weird image straight out of some authoritarian C movie with his finger pointing at you. He then posts about Rosie o', Donnell, the five stages of Trump derangement Syndrome, and then uses AI images of her at the end. He posts this weird photo of himself and Geor Washington riding horses together. He posts an image and says this is crap that Obama had in the Reflecting Pool. He posts a image of a statute in Columbus Circle and then says Biden Trump. He posts a weird AI image of the White House with a golden dome over it and says the golden dome of the White House. He posts the Mount Rushmore with his face on it. He posts an AI image of Trump Peace Prize. He then attacks all of the Republican Congress members, the small group who had a spine when it came to releasing the Epstein files. And then he has an AI image of like Massie and Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. And look, I'm not saying these are courageous people generally saying they did the right thing when it came to the Epstein files, okay? As anybody should. It's exposing a child sex trafficking ring. Shouldn't be a. It's not exactly. It shouldn't be a difficult task right there. But then Trump attacks them all. Get in, loser. We're going losing because they wanted to release the Epstein files. What Then he's posting these weird image that are obviously dog whistles. It's like a white family, you know, from like the 1950s. Billions were spent to convince you this is evil. Who's spending billions to convince anyone that that's, that that's evil? What's evil is that you're using it in a way that's obviously a dog whistle to racism. Oh, I wasn't being racism. I was just posting that image. Now we know what you're doing. Posting weird photos of himself and George Washington next to each other. This is what. Oh, and then late last night again right around 10pm East coast time. So right before he started posting all that deranged stuff, Barack Ravid from Axios at it again. Barack Ravid goes. Trump wants the deal and believes it will be signed soon with Iran. But he's interested in strengthening several clauses that are particularly important to him, mainly regarding the enriched uranium in Iran's possession, two senior U.S. officials said. So he couldn't get a deal with Iran since they keep on rejecting him. So his plan is, let me ask for more. That'll be a great negotiation. This guy's never been able to negotiate anything his whole damn life. He's a destroyer, not a builder. He's a relentless harasser. The one thing that he does is he just overwhelms you with this harassment that I'm showing you in these posts. It's that behavior, it's that deluge of non stop toxicity where lots of humans respond by saying, you know what, enough. What do you want me to give you? Just can you stop it? But that's why you have to stand up to it. You have to push back, you have to fight back. He goes, this is Barack. Ravid says Trump's request has opened another round of exchanges of drafts and comments between the parties, which may last several days. Oh, interesting, Barack. Ah, several days. You'll manipulate the market. We're so close. We're so close. More market manipulation. More 3,800 stock trades by Donald Trump in the first quarter. I'm sure he's stock trading right now. Barack Ravid goes. The US Official said Trump was told it would take around three days before the Iranians get back with a response. They're literally in caves and they're not using email. The senior administration official said, Ah, that's why we haven't been able to do a deal since early March when Trump said we were about to do a deal. The Iranians are in caves. They're cavemen. They're cave people, everybody. Do we have the footage right here of the parades last night that were in Tehran Square? Yeah. Pull up the B roll of this. The Iranians were celebrating around their new fast boats that they use in the Strait of Hormuz, which they've been used to effectively control the Strait of Hormuz and not allow any of the tankers to pass. Oh, my God, they're in caves. Look at the cave people right there. Wow. No, they're in Tehran Square. Every night, hundreds of thousands of people have been showing up in Tehran Square across Iran. Didn't Trump and Netanyahu say what was going to happen immediately was it was going to crash and they were going to say, trump, Netanyahu, Please give us your Trump and Netanyahu puppet. That's what we really want, a Trump and Netanyahu puppet in Iraq. Barack Ravid goes on to say there will be a deal. The imminence of it, we'll see. We're willing to wait so the President gets what he asks for. It could be a week, it could be less, it could be more. At the turn of the week, we hope to have something a senior administration official. Ooh, very detailed right there.

[Podcast Host / Interviewer]

Wow.

[Podcast Commentator / Analyst]

There's more of the same right there. That senior American official said that Trump was told it could take about three days because they're hiding in caves. But there will be a deal. How close? We'll wait and see. We'll find out the riddle next time on the next episode of Market Manipulation. So utterly pathetic. So you want to see what the leaders here you have the Foreign Ministry spokesperson with the IRGC spokesperson. Here's their post. Field and diplomacy side by side for one nation, for one country, for one goal, ready for any situation. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, if you make me armor clad for the play of blades, if you gird my waist for the making of peace, to whatever you show me of hot and cold, I am receptive from reconciliation to battle. Come with whatever you have of sword and cup, for in both of these I have a full hand. Oh. We have Foreign Minister Aragchi meeting with the Foreign Minister of Oman. In very productive call with the Foreign Minister of Oman. We expressed Iran's solidarity with Oman in the face of any threat. We discussed Hormuz and its future administration in line with our sovereign responsibilities and international law. We welcome consultation with all Neighboring states. Aha. The cave people. They're in caves, I suppose. Or Ahmed Vahidi took over the role from Ali Larajani, who's now become one of the most powerful figures within the Iranian regime, according to Western intelligence sources. And someone less compromising than Laranjani. If I know Ali Laranjani, if I know Foreign Minister Aragchi, if I know about MB Golubov, the parliament leader, if I know about Abraham Azizi, I can go down and list for you all. I know who all of these people are. I know who their underlings are. I know who their underlings are. I know how their parliament works. I know how their committees and commissions work. I shouldn't know more than you know. Then the Trump regime know. Yeah. I mean, what are we doing here? What are we doing here? And I'll tell you what we're doing here. More MQ9 Reaper drones being shot out of the sky by Iran. The United States will break the ceasefire, but then go, we didn't break the ceasefire. They'll attack a location near the Strait in Hormuz like happened 48 hours ago. And then they'll go, that wasn't offensive. That was defensive. Then Iran responds, strikes a Kuwaiti air base. Five Americans are injured, service members and contractors. The Trump regime covers up. There's no statement that five Americans have been injured into Kuwaiti airport with a direct strike by Iran in response to the US Breaking the ceasefire and attacking the straight Americans. We just don't talk about that. Multiple MQ9 reapers shot down. That gets covered up. But you got Barack Ravid and Donald Trump and Trump posting at 12:35am all of that deranged stuff. And then Donald Trump talking to Lara Trump about the ballroom. Drone ports, sniper ports. Play this clip.

[Interviewee / Clip Speaker (possibly Eric Trump or related figure)]

Ground floor of the ballroom. This will be the kitchen floor.

[Podcast Host / Interviewer]

Oh, the kitchen.

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And then the floor above.

[Interviewee / Clip Speaker (possibly Eric Trump or related figure)]

There'll be one above. And then you have the drone ports, and you have the sniper ports, and you have everything above.

[Podcast Host / Interviewer]

Wow.

[Interviewee / Clip Speaker (possibly Eric Trump or related figure)]

One unified unit. Yeah, we can't wait to see. It's gonna be great. I love to watch it. So this room.

[Podcast Commentator / Analyst]

And finally, he concludes with saying that Eric Trump has the gene, the way Trump has a gene for building. This is the guy who's leading the United States. This should not be a political thing. What I just showed you here in this video should. Nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. Like, this is a crazy human. This is a psycho. I mean, I don't know how to describe it. I'm not trying to, like, be I'm not trying to be hyperbolic or inflammatory. What the hell is this? What is it? Seriously, what the hell is this? Play this clip.

[Interviewee / Clip Speaker (possibly Eric Trump or related figure)]

Pretty good, fellas, huh?

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Well, the best part is this is

[Podcast Host / Interviewer]

what you used to do.

[Interviewee / Clip Speaker (possibly Eric Trump or related figure)]

This is what I did. I did this better than anybody. Although you. You're. You're a man is very good, Eric. I have to say, Eric Trump is a really good builder. He has the gene. Yep. He has a gene that. That I have. I have my gene, and Eric really has it. He's done a great job. He's fantastic builder. He looked at this, understood it immediately.

[Podcast Commentator / Analyst]

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