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That's code budgetonarch.com Donald Trump is facing sudden disaster. Utter humiliation before the entire world a day before his birthday. His plan to build the scaffolding in front of the Kennedy center so he could put drapes over the removal of his name utterly backfired. All it has demonstrated is the symbolism that all this regime knows how to do is cover up everything. A cover up in plain sight, in the dark of the building, a scaffolding to try to hide the removal of his name. Vandalizing the Kennedy center in the dark of the night, violating court orders. Is there any more symbolic thing than that? Actually, there is, because there are massive storms projected for tomorrow during the UFC fight at the White House. There's even a tornado warning in the area. Lightning is expected with thunderstorms. Of course, there are steel cages. It's gonna be over 90 degrees. This is a recipe for disaster right there. And speaking of just the symbolism of it all, Donald Trump had to violate a court order because the Court said by 11:59, take your name off that damn Kennedy Center. And Trump had to build the scaffolding. Then he lied to the court and said, look, the reason that this took so long was because of the thunderstorms. That's why it took us so long, really, because it only took you a few hours or less to actually put your name on the thing in the first place. No, it took long because you were building the scaffolding in order to hide the removal because you are such a pathetic human being. I kid you not. In a court filing, Team Trump said thunderstorms caused the Kennedy center to violate the court order and fail to remove Trump's name by the 11:59pm deadline. The filing doesn't explain why they waited till the last minute to do the job. Isn't that just again perfect? Perfectly symbolic of the failure of this falling and collapsing regime. Here, this was the declaration. Declaration of Charles Matthew Matt. Matt in quotes Flocka in accordance with the provisions of 28 USC, I, Charles Matthew Flocka, state as follows. I currently serve as the executive director and chief operating officer of the John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts. In this capacity, I exercise operational authority overall institutional departments managing complex integration of both trust and federal functions, including all elements of the Center's physical footprint. The matter set forth in this declaration are true and correct. From my own personal knowledge and from information made available to me in the course of my official duties, I make this declaration to explain why defendants meaning Trump and the regime need additional time to submit compliance declaration required by the court's order. Work to remove physical signage from the Kennedy center front portico. Signage purporting to rename the Kennedy center after President Trump is ongoing. That work was delayed earlier today, June 12, due to thunderstorms which presented safety concerns to workers completing the compliance task. I expect the work to conclude in the early hours of the morning on June 13, 2026. Look, there were thunderstorms, but we saw the workers up there on the scaffolding. You waited until the last minute and you built this scaffolding so you can put the drapes over it versus just going using the crane to take it down in the first place. That's what really went down. But all again, this highlighted is how pathetic Donald Trump is on his 80th birthday. Then they confirmed that they've now removed Trump's name from the building. But you see what it looks like right now? It's a literal cover up, just like the Epstein files. It's a literal cover up in plain view. I mean, the entire world is laughing at him. Oh, and then you have Jared Kushner and Ivanka's plan to create that Trumpenstein island blowing up. As the Albanian people are like, don't take over our island, Kushner and Ivanka, we don't want you to do some weird right wing oligarch. We don't know what you're gonna do in there. Stay the hell out. We don't want you there. There were massive protests. They had to change the environmental laws, as you know, to allow Ivanka and Jared to take over this island. By the way, it's now putting Albania's ascension to the European Union in jeopardy. And their prime minister, Edi Rama, who colluded with Kushner and Ivanka, he's now putting out statements accusing Iran. Accusing Iran of doing this. That's where they're going with this. You must be an idiot to deny the active involvement of a hostile country. The only hostile country the Republic of Albania has it is the Communist Republic of Iran. You must be an idiot to say that Iran has no involvement when the spokesperson for the Iranian government himself writes clearly, Rama out in Albanian. You're saying that Iran is responsible for the Albanian protests because Jared Kushner and Ivanka took over an environmentally protected island and they wanted to turn it into the Trumpenstein island. And the people of Albania are like, don't do it. That was Iran's fault. Oh, yeah, it was definitely, definitely Iran's fault. I mean, all of Trump's allies like this are people that. These are the most pathetic human beings. As I noted at the outset, the most likely place in the USA to see a tornado tomorrow, as Ryan hall explains, is around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. It's a level one risk for tornadoes, but a significant chance that there will be thunderstorms and lightning and rain during this UFC match. I want to talk briefly, though, as well, because Donald Trump is so thirsty now and so desperate to do this deal with Iran, and, I mean, he's basically given Iran everything that they want. Let me be very clear where I stand. We should never have been in this catastrophic war in the first place. It was unlawful. You had Trump and Netanyahu going into this. They've caused absolute disaster. Netanyahu is committing a genocide in Palestine and in Lebanon, and that needs to be stopped immediately. So I just want to be very clear about my position. Donald Trump, though, and Netanyahu, went in braggadocious and revived. We're going to make them submit. And Donald Trump's basically given Iran everything. But here's some news right out of Iran, though. So the Iranian negotiators had to enlist a psychologist in order to tailor diplomatic communications in discussions with Trump, because in Iran, they quite literally view Donald Trump as being psychologically ill. Like, they've diagnosed him as actually being mentally ill and mentally unfit. So they enlisted a team of psychologists and psychiatrists in order just to be able to kind of communicate with his perceived mental state. They view him as a declining and deteriorating mentally ill patient. And that's how they have to, like, treat it very clinically because of his, you know, perceived mental illness, basically. Okay, so where, where do we stand right now? Pakistani officials say that Iran US agreement will be signed electronically on Sunday. Iraqi implied the foreign minister of Iran that this was the case in a lengthy interview for Iran State TV yesterday. There's not going to be an in person component. Iran, they don't want to send their people to stand next to JD Vansen and Donald Trump. Now to be clear, I shouldn't really call this a deal. It is a framework to negotiate a deal at a later time and then to have discussions about the nuclear file, Iran's nuclear program, maybe in 60 days or maybe later. But in the meantime, Iran gets all of these funds. And so remember you had Donald Trump attacking former President Obama. Oh my God, he bags of cash when there wasn't any bags of cash, right? I mean former President Obama in getting the JCPOA, the non nuclear deal with Iran done during Obama's second year in office, second term in office, unfroze $1.8 billion of Iranian money from decades back. That was part of it. But it was this comprehensive multilateral deal that was absolutely working. It was a tough negotiated deal. Donald Trump now has basically worked with the United Arab Emirates who have already given Iran $3 billion, $10 billion, $12 billion more is expected. Also we're now learning Qatar is coming in and Qatar has proposed a $12 billion package for Iran as well. Six billion would come from releasing Iran's frozen funds in Qatar while another 6 billion would be provided as a loan or credit line. Sure, it's probably going to be a loan that will be forgiven. Are going to call it a loan. So you have another 12 billion there. You have, you know what, 30 billion from the United Arab Emirates. You can see how this will add up very quickly. Hundreds of billions of dollars being given to Iran at the end of this. We talked yesterday about the United Arab Emirates giving this money. Now we know Qatar is as well. Iran's Foreign Ministry said that we're not going to Geneva, we're not doing like this signing thing. And I'll just say this right now, you have all of MAGA just like, what in the world is going on with this regime? You had Joe Rogan saying, you know, going back to the COVID up theme of this video, he's like, where's the Epstein files? What the hell is even going on here? Play this clip right here.
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Well, sometimes it's like you just get fed up. You're like, where the fuck are these Epstein files? Yeah, who the fuck is this? Why is this redacted? Where is it. Who the fuck killed jfk?
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Right?
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Like, come out with it. What the fuck? Who fucking killed Charlie Kirk?
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For real?
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Yeah, like, what is that? Why is that fudgeing story so clouded in mystery? And why do they pave over the fucking ground right after the shooting? What the fuck is going on there?
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See, now you're making me in a bad mood.
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But that it's easy to do.
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Then you have Scott McFarland from the Midas Touch Network with an exclusive scoop that Aaron Parnas from the Midas Touch Network broke about this ufc. And this is again talking about symbolism, the UFC ring, which has all of these like neon lights and lights going everywhere. It's making it very difficult for pilots to see. Scott McFarland broke down the exclusive reporting at the Midas Touch network. Here's what McFarland said.
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Let's play it A commercial airline pilot near Reagan National Airport earlier this week reported a safety concern or safety incident from a lighting incident potentially from the UFC construction site and display on the White House South Lawn. That's the reporting, according to Aaron Parnas and Midas Touch Network. The pilot, under the condition of anonymity, described the incident as being much brighter by orders of magnitude than the type of light safety incidents that are caused by those laser pointers which have been a menace to commercial airline pilots nationwide. Multiple times more powerful than the light distraction, the disorientation that can be caused by a laser pointer. The commercial airline pilot has submitted a report a complaint about the incident with the FAA and with NASA, according to Aaron Parnas reporting. Request for comment from the FAA was not immediately returned, though the FAA's press office tends to be a business hour weekday operation, according to an outgoing message from the faa. But this does raise questions about just how safe this very novel construction site is. We've never seen anything like the UFC claw that's been constructed on the White House south floor. There have been questions about whether it could do damage to the White House grounds and whether it was lawful. There was a lawsuit that challenged it but failed earlier in the week. This is the latest question or concern about the White House UFC event, which, weather permitting, a big asterisk, Weather permitting goes off Sunday night here in Washington.
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And then again, going back to the symbolism of this all, I'll leave you with this. This is a real post from Donald Trump. This is what he's focused on right now. While the American people are suffering living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck, being psychologically tortured by this regime. Can't afford a home, can't afford rent. Here's what Donald Trump posts re gilding of the massive Arts of War sculptures located between the Lincoln Memorial and the site of the Triumphal Arch rapidly continues the the sculptures will be fully re gilded by July 3rd. The photos below were taken from our country. The Gilder Studio has flown gilders from around the country to perform this work. Folks, I know this was top of your mind. We're getting the statues re gilded right now. We did it. Mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Keep the pressure up. Keep the pressure up. We got this new Midas merch drop. Check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs, T shirts, hats, sweatshirts and more, all@store.midas touch.com.
Date: June 13, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode dives into a tumultuous week for Donald Trump, detailing a string of public humiliations culminating on the eve of his 80th birthday. The Meiselas brothers dissect the failed cover-up of Trump’s name removal from the Kennedy Center, international setbacks involving Jared Kushner and Ivanka in Albania, the controversy around Trump’s Iran negotiations, and the chaotic build-up to a UFC event at the White House. The conversation is laced with characteristic brotherly banter, sharp political critique, and pointed humor, preserving their unapologetically pro-democracy stance.
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Mixing sharp political analysis with sarcastic, brotherly humor, the podcast pulls no punches in highlighting both the gravity and absurdity of recent Trump-related events. The hosts maintain a conversational style, punctuated by direct quotes, laughter, and incredulity—making the episode both informative and entertaining for listeners seeking both substance and satire.