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Political Commentator / Host
Donald Trump's health is collapsing. I mean, just look at him right here. His mental and physical health and complete paranoia has taken over during the war and Iraq. Iran knows it. Iran is making videos playing on Donald Trump's paranoia to try to taunt and haunt and mock him. I want to give you some examples of Donald Trump physically and mentally deteriorating before our eyes and specifically talking about how he fears he's going to get hit by a drone and how he needs an underground bunker immediately. Do you remember about what nine months or so ago, I was saying the real reason that he was building this ballroom, Remember what I said? I said the ballroom is but a shed. And what the real thing that he's doing is he's building a bunker underneath because he is terrified of the people and he is terrified of everything that was back then. Donald Trump used those exact words, that it was a shed, the ballroom, in order to cover up what was really taking place. A massive military installation now aboard Air Force One. As Donald Trump was heading back from his taxpayer funded vacation, yet again in his safe space in Florida, he talked about what the real reason is that he's building a ballroom. He's like, it's gonna have windows that are gonna prevent drones and we can go underneath and this way nobody can get me. So as America right now is been hoisted into this unlawful war by Donald Trump, this is what he's talking about, the ballroom bunker underneath as well, to protect him from getting hit by drones. Here's what he says. The military building underneath is massive. He goes, and this stupid lawsuit exposed. What I was really doing, the ballroom is a shed. Here's what he said aboard Air Force One. Let's play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
There's not one dime of government money going into the ballroom. Now the military is building a, a big complex under the ballroom which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom and that's under construction and we're doing very well. So we're ahead of schedule. That's part of it. The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what's being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing. The glass on the windows, you see the big windows, the glass is extremely thick. It's high grade, bulletproof glass. So all of the windows are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote, gee, some of the windows are fake. We have no fake windows. They said they talked about a stairway in the south. We don't have a stairway in the South. That was replaced a long time ago.
Political Commentator / Host
Now there were some additional clips of Air Force One where he then tried to be like, well, can we just talk about the ballroom right now? Now I just think it's easier if we just talk a lot about this and we don't talk about the war. Because for Donald Trump talking about the Ballroom is like a safe space for him, Right? He knows this war is catastrophic, and he's in denial about just how bad it is. So he's like, could we talk about, like, the Corinthian columns, everybody? And again, this is someone with deep paranoia who's in a deep state, in my opinion, of cognitive and physical deterioration. Let's play this clip as he go, I just want to do this now. I thought it would be easier. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
Here's another one. Excuse me, wait. I thought I'd do this now because it's easier. I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this, but I'm fighting wars and other things. But this is very important because this is going to be with us for a long time, and it's going to be, I think it'll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. It's his highest level. Same height, exact height of. Not higher. Same height as the White House. Exactly the same height. And if you look, you have the White House over here, you have this, and that's a duplicate of the wall, so it pays total homage to the White House, which is, I think, very important.
Political Commentator / Host
And then Donald Trump says that about this war. He goes, everybody's saying thank you to me. Everybody is so grateful for me here. Let's play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
The weapon, they'd use it immediately. I think she's probably a little bit softer on that issue, but that's okay. Some people are. Most people are. Most people are saying, thank you very much for doing what you did. They are decimated right now.
Political Commentator / Host
I just want to remind you as well that before Donald Trump left to go to Florida, when he held his last cabinet meeting, he kept on bragging about cognitive exams again and passed another cognitive exam, everybody. Another cognitive exam, everybody, here, play this clip.
Donald Trump (self)
I'll say it right now. I say it because no press never reports it. I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it three times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me, but it's a cognitive test. Starts off with an easy question, and by the time you get to the middle, gets tougher by the time you get to the end. Very few people can answer those questions. They get very tough mathematical equations, things. I took it three times. I aced it all three times in front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are. Who they are. And I was told, when I went in, they said, doc, Ronnie told me this. My Current doctors are fantastic doctors. They said, well, if you take it, you know, it's Walter Reed. It's essentially a public hospital, and if you do badly, it's probably going to get out. But I aced it.
Donald Trump (clips)
I got them all right.
Donald Trump (self)
And one doctor said, I've never seen anybody get them all right. I've been doing the test for 20 years. I want people, I would love to see anybody that's a president or a vice president or anybody that has any chance of being a president, I would like to see them take a cognitive test.
Political Commentator / Host
And by the way, as I mentioned, you know, the Iranians are seeing Donald Trump physically deteriorate in the videos that they've been making of him. They've been doing, like, the Iranian propaganda. People are, like, doing videos to taunt and mock him. And they always have his hand, like, bandaged up or they have his hand being discolored. More on that in a moment. I'll share with you just what they're doing to taunt and mock him as he physically and mentally deteriorates before our eyes. But a reporter asks him, hey, Donald, are you still considering putting boots on the ground? And would you do that without even going to Congress? And then Donald Trump compares his catastrophic war in Iran to the ballroom. He goes, we're ahead of schedule in Iran. Like the ballroom here, play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
Are you considering still putting boots on the ground?
Political Commentator / Host
And would you do that without going to conflict?
Donald Trump (clips)
I just have lots of alternatives. We have tremendous numbers of ships over there. We don't need them all because of, you know, the power. Look, the. I would say we're just like, we're ahead of schedule on the, the ballroom in a much bigger way. We're ahead of schedule with Iran. We're weeks ahead of schedule. If you would have said that in three days, we were going to knock out 158 ships, their entire navy, which we did. We knocked out their entire Air force. We knocked out most of their missiles. That's why you see missile attacks. But they're down to. They're sputtering. And we have a group. It's really a new regime. It's a new group of people, people that we've never dealt with before that are acting very reasonable. It is truly regime change.
Political Commentator / Host
And then he's like, everybody's talking about how beautiful the ballroom is. It's so beautiful here. Let's play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
But I think we have it automatically. I did something today. We just got these in from the architects. A lot of people are talking about how beautiful the ballrooms were. 150 years they've wanted to build a ballroom at the White House and other presidents have wanted it. When we have dignitaries coming, like President Xi of China or anybody else, we have very small rooms. They're not big enough to handle the kind of capacity that you need.
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Political Commentator / Host
And then Donald Trump says, we've already had regime change in Iran and I'm speaking with the new leaders and they're so reasonable and they really like me. Are you having conversations in your head? You're not speaking with the new Iranian leadership. They keep on mocking you because you're not talking to them. And yes, you probably doing this to manipulate the market as well. But you're not manipulating market. Everybody recognizes that. You just lie about everything. Everything. Every word out of your mouth is like you are not having conversations with the new Iranian leadership. What do you mean you think they're reasonable people? Like are you out of your Damn mind. The answer is yes, he is out of his damn mind, quite literally. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
But we've had regime change. You look already, because the one regime was decimated, destroyed. They're all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we're dealing with different people than anybody's dealt with before. It's a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change. And frankly, they've been very reasonable. So I think we've had regime change, but you can't do much better than that. The regime that was really bad, really evil was the first one that was done. The second was appointed and they're gone. They're all dead, other than one who may have a little life. And then they're really in the third group and the third group of people that seem to be much more reasonable. It truly is regime change. And regime change is an imperative. But I think we have it automatically. I did something today.
Political Commentator / Host
And then he goes again. He talks about the Corinthian columns and this is so Corinthian. What the hell, the hell is this guy talking about? Play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
And that porch will be magnificent. Looking in between the columns. They no longer. We took the stairs out that were on the south side and really replaced them with these stairs. So you have an open porch and you have the closed porch under the columns overlooking the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. Monument, Monument. So that's great. This is a view of the columns as they are going to be made. They're going to be hand carved and they're beautiful. Top of the line. They'll be Corinthian, which is considered the best, most beautiful by far.
Political Commentator / Host
Now, as Donald Trump's support has completely crashed with the Hispanic population. All time lows. This approval is like 27%, 25%. It's dropped like, like 60 points or something. Like what? Record breaking. He's like, the Hispanics love me more than. No, they don't. They absolutely don't. Play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. And now I'm doing even better with the Hispanic population. And that's bad for them. They always had it, now they don't have it anymore. These are people.
Political Commentator / Host
And then in his paranoia, he says the Democrats are sick. He says the Democrats are the terrorists. They're sick and the Democrats are like terrorists. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
They should terminate the filibuster and they should vote. That's what I think. Look, I think the Senate is playing, playing too soft. The Republicans are wonderful people, but we're dealing with very sick individuals. The Democratic Democrats are sick. There's something wrong. They're like terrorists. We have to protect our country. We have to protect our border. We have to protect our wall. It was up to them. They'd open up the wall. They'd let millions of people pour into our country again. And we've all been through that.
Political Commentator / Host
Then finally, Donald Trump says the Iranians have agreed. They're going to give up their nuclear weapons. They're going to give up their nuclear dust, they're going to give up everything. You're not even talking to them. They're not talking to you. You're making this all up. You know, again, I don't know if these are just delusions in your mind, if this is manipulating the market, which I think is the main reason why you're doing this, but I also think you're delusional. They're not Speed. They've already talked about their non negotiables. They will not talk about anything that reduces their ballistic missile capability. They will not talk about anything unless the United States agrees to full reparations for the war. They will not agree to anything unless they get to keep control of the Strait of Hormuz and charge a toll. They will not talk at all unless the US Gives firm guarantees that they, Hezbollah, the Shiite militias in Iraq and others will never be targeted by the US And Israel again. And the US And Israel need to get off all the military bases in the Middle East. Those are non negotiable. But, but you can keep on pretending that you're having a conversation with them. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
You very much for doing what you did. They are decimated right now. They're going to give up nuclear weapons. They're going to give us the nuclear death. They're going to do everything that we want to do. And you know what? They're going to go on and maybe have a great, a great country again. But if they don't do that, they're not going to have a country. They're not even going to have a country.
Political Commentator / Host
And then just so you can all see, Iranian state media and Iranian propagandists are seeing Donald Trump's fear and they're making videos about his fear. And they're, you know, basically, you know, saying, look how scared he is in order to mock him. Here's one such video that they're doing, these AI generated videos, and here's one of them where they portray him as sweaty and panicking, playing this Clip. Say I'm not a pedophile.
Donald Trump (clips)
I'm not a pedophile.
Political Commentator / Host
Liar. Say I wasn't on Epstein's Island.
Donald Trump (self)
I wasn't on Epstein's Island.
Political Commentator / Host
Liar. Say I don't worship baal.
Donald Trump (clips)
I don't worship Bell. Liar.
Political Commentator / Host
And here it is where they don't seem intimidated at all, but they always portray him as sweating and scared. Play this clip.
Donald Trump (clips)
It.
Political Commentator / Host
And then here they have him trying to like eat like the Middle Eastern food here, play this clip. And then here was their latest animation where they try to portray Donald Trump as being scared. Here, play this clip. And so tactically they see in him someone who is cognitively physically deteriorating. And they're directing these videos in order to, you know, in order to try to share and expose what they view as kind of his weakness and his failings. They're talking about, I just want to show you what they're doing generally there, what's going viral on the Internet. So you can also see what they're sharing and how he looks, how he's perceived outside of his cult here in the United States. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers and thanks everybody for watching. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad free videos and custom emojis. By becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Lets keep growing together.
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Date: March 30, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas (MeidasTouch Network)
Episode Theme:
A sharp, humor-laced examination of Donald Trump’s visible decline in health and mentality during the ongoing conflict with Iran, as well as the growing paranoia and erraticism allegedly overtaking his White House. The brothers critique Trump’s focus on his Mar-a-Lago ballroom (and supposed underground bunker), mock his self-praise, showcase international reactions, and scrutinize propaganda targeting Trump’s perceived weakness.
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect Donald Trump’s recent public appearances and statements, highlighting an apparent deterioration in his physical and mental health amidst the Iran war. They draw connections between Trump’s bunker obsession, accusations of paranoia, his bizarre war communications, and international mockery. Through a mix of Trump’s own words and critical commentary, the brothers aim to expose what they see as the dangerous consequences of Trump’s instability for American democracy and global affairs.
Trump reveals that his much-discussed ballroom is actually a cover for an underground military complex, allegedly built for protection from drones.
The hosts suggest this shows deep paranoia and note that Trump is consumed with fear of being targeted, overtaking his ability to govern rationally.
Notable Quote
Trump is quoted discussing the construction in great (and odd) detail, often diverting from discussion of war itself to talk about interior design and security features of this ballroom.
Trump (04:30):
“There’s not one dime of government money going into the ballroom. Now the military is building a, a big complex under the ballroom... It’s... for what’s being built under the military, including from drones and any other thing. The glass... is extremely thick. It’s high grade, bulletproof glass. All of the windows are bulletproof.”
The hosts point to Trump’s repeated boasts about passing cognitive assessments as proof of his insecurity regarding his mental faculties.
Trump (07:33):
“I’m the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it three times. It’s actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn’t hard for me... I aced it all three times in front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are.”
The brothers note recurring evidence, also picked up by foreign adversaries, of Trump’s physical decline (e.g., hand bandages, discoloration)—frequently mocked by Iranian propagandists.
Trump conflates his Iran offensive with the ballroom construction, measuring “success” in both using phrases like “ahead of schedule.”
Claims mass destruction of Iranian military capacities, unverified regime change, and personal credit for global shifts.
Trump (09:38):
“We’re ahead of schedule on the ballroom... we’re ahead of schedule with Iran. In three days, we were going to knock out 158 ships, their entire navy, which we did. ...It is truly regime change.”
Host (12:39):
“You’re not having conversations with the new Iranian leadership. ...Every word out of your mouth is like you are not having conversations with the new Iranian leadership... Are you out of your damn mind? The answer is yes.”
Trump continues to fixate on the aesthetics of his ballroom, referencing architectural features like Corinthian columns and implying the White House lacks his level of grandeur.
Trump (14:30):
“They’re going to be hand carved and they’re beautiful. Top of the line. They’ll be Corinthian, which is considered the best, most beautiful by far.”
Trump insists his support among Hispanic voters is stronger than ever—even as polls show dramatic decline.
Trump (15:34):
“Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. And now I’m doing even better. ...Now they don’t have it anymore. These are people.”
The hosts counter with data showing Trump’s support actually at record lows—“like 25-27%.”
Trump accuses Democrats of being “sick,” likening them to terrorists.
Trump (15:56):
“We’re dealing with very sick individuals. The Democrats are sick. There’s something wrong. They’re like terrorists. We have to protect our country.”
Trump claims Iran will surrender nuclear ambitions and do as requested, contradicting actual Iranian statements and geopolitical realities.
Trump (17:28):
“They’re going to give up nuclear weapons. They’re going to give us the nuclear dust. They’re going to do everything that we want to do. ...If they don’t do that, they’re not going to have a country.”
Hosts emphasize these are delusions, calling out Trump for “pretending” to have negotiations which are not occurring by Iran’s own account.
The brothers discuss Iranian state media circulating AI-generated videos showing Trump as frail, sweating, and panicking—underscoring how adversaries actively exploit Trump’s image of weakness.
Host (19:31): “So tactically, they see in him someone who is cognitively, physically deteriorating. ...They’re directing these videos in order to share and expose what they view as kind of his weakness and his failings.”
Host (02:21):
“The real thing that he’s doing is he’s building a bunker underneath because he is terrified of the people and he is terrified of everything.”
Trump (04:30):
“The military is building a massive complex under the ballroom... The glass on the windows, you see the big windows, the glass is extremely thick. It's high grade, bulletproof glass.”
Trump (07:33):
“I took [the cognitive test] three times. It’s actually a very hard test for a lot of people. ...I aced it all three times in front of numerous doctors that I have no idea who they are.”
Host (12:39):
“You are not having conversations with the new Iranian leadership. ...Are you out of your damn mind? The answer is yes, he is out of his damn mind, quite literally.”
Trump (15:34):
“Look at how I did with the Hispanic population. And now I'm doing even better with the Hispanic population.”
Trump (15:56):
“The Democrats are sick. There’s something wrong. They’re like terrorists.”
Host (19:31):
“They’re directing these videos in order to, you know, in order to try to share and expose what they view as his weakness and failings.”
The episode is brash, critical, and liberally laced with the brothers’ signature comedic banter. They use Trump’s own words as “evidence,” offer sarcastic asides, but also aim to deliver a sobering message about the dangers of instability at the top—and how the world is reacting.
The MeidasTouch Podcast’s episode illustrates their unique blend of humor, analysis, and political activism, keeping listeners informed on the gravity of domestic and international developments, while also highlighting the importance of holding leaders—especially Donald Trump—accountable for their words and actions, particularly amidst crises. The brothers urge listeners to stay informed, get involved, and support independent journalism.