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Midas
Furious world leaders are lining up to condemn, to isolate, to freeze out, to ditch Donald Trump and his despicable regime. Utter weakness is what furious world leaders see with Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran. They're calling out his war crimes and his despicable behavior, but also then not just tacoing, you know, Trump always chickens out, but just outright surrendering to Iran. And then Donald Trump's like, well, I never agree to Iran's 10 point framework. It's like, yes, you did. You literally made a post saying, I agree to Iran's 10 point framework, which is an utter surrender and total capitulation by Donald Trump and the United States. It is perhaps the single worst foreign policy event in American history, I think, by far. Take a Look at the UK's New Statesman magazine. And as this Count Chris Wiki says, it's not pulling punches at all. Take a look the Fall How Donald Trump, Trump Destroyed the American Empire by John Gray. And it talks about how the United States as a superpower or even a major influential power with authority in the world is all but destroyed as a result of Donald Trump and his despicable regime. We're seeing world leaders call out Donald Trump and we're also seeing the world leaders who are Trump sycophants falling. In a little bit, I'll talk about the election. Just a few days away in Hungary, Viktor Orban gave a speech as JD Vance was leaving his trip to try to influence the election to get Orban elected in Hungary as part of a plan between Trump and Putin to prop up Orban. You had people there at the latest rally of Orban saying, go home, Russian, Go home, Russian. I'll show you that in a moment. Then in Canada, you had their opposition leader, Pierre Poliev, who lost his writing but still kept his position as the opposition leader for the Conservative Party. He just got humiliated in Parliament. I'll tell you what happened. And I think Poliev may be resigning. He was a Maple Maga Trump sycophant. What's up, Maple Midas? I see you. And utter humiliation and downfall for Pierre Poliev. And it looks like Prime Minister Carney is on his way to form a majority government, standing up strongly against Donald Trump and not backing down. But let's talk to France. Let's turn to France for a moment, where French President Emmanuel Macron put out the following statement after Donald Trump and Netanyahu said, oh, Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire deal between Donald Trump and Iran. No way was that a part of the deal. Here's what French President Emmanuel Macron wrote or said. I expressed my hope that the ceasefire will be fully respected by each of the belligerents across all areas of the confrontation, including in Lebanon. This is a necessary condition for the ceasefire to be credible and lasting. Calling out Donald Trump and Netanyahu for saying that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire when it was literally written into the ceasefire agreement. We saw the mediator, Pakistan's Prime Minister Sharif, even saying it wasn't. It was always part of Iran's ten point plan. Also, you have the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, posting the following. Just today, Netanyahu launched his harshest attacks against Lebanon since the offensive began. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. It's time to speak clearly. Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire. The international community must condemn this new violation of international law. The European Union must suspend its association agreement with Israel, and there must be no impunity for these criminal acts. Now, we also learned how the Trump, Trump regime tried to threaten Pope Leo the 14th this morning. I'm going to do a whole video on that. But they brought the main ambassador from the Vatican into the Pentagon where Trump regime officials basically threatened what some interpreted as an assassination threat against the Pope, saying, we will do to you what the Avignon Papacy did in the 14th century where the Pope was killed. When the French leaders brought the Papacy into Avignon and basically killed the Pope, they threatened Pope Leo XIV for speaking out strongly against the Trump regime's imperialist conquest tactics and saying they're going to obliterate civilizations. Pope Leo the 14th not backing down, canceling all trips to the United States and continuing to speak out strongly against Donald Trump and his regime. Now, as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and others see utter weakness in Donald Trump and his regime, they're trying to basically break Donald Trump's cease fire because they're saying you basically surrender to Iran and you've made Iran into a world power right now and you've left all of our countries vulnerable. What the hell did we give you all these pay for play and quid pro quo schemes for? We invested in your crypto, we gave you all this money, we built Trump buildings. You were supposed to give us a security umbrella. Donald, what the hell have you been doing? You just destroyed our countries and our future. And so you saw UAE fighter jet strike an Iranian infrastructure facility yesterday to try to basically break the cease fire. And so you're seeing other countries now say, wow, we're not protected by the U.S. we're going to take things into our own hand and try to interfere with the ceasefire. But let's face it, it's a ceasefire in name only at this point. And so with the lack of US Leadership, you had Prime Minister Starmer take a trip to Saudi Arabia. You'll see right here. Saudi Crown Prince MBS held meeting with UK Prime Minister Starmer in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Starmer is in the Gulf to try to one, pursue UK interests regarding the Strait of Hormuz, which is still effectively shut down for any allies of the United States, Right? I mean, zero tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, even when the war was taking place, there was about five to 10 tankers that would pass through the Strait of Hormuz. To be clear, there was about four ships that passed through the Strait of Hormuz, but cargo with Iranian flags, flagships, no tankers. And so, you know, no crude is getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. So, you know, Trump's doing his social media posts, right? Trump's, like all US Ships, aircraft and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry and anything else that's appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy will remain in place and around Iran until such time as the real agreement reached is fully compliant with if for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the shooting starts. This is what Donald Trump was writing at midnight last night. Then the shooting starts, bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed a long time ago and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary, no nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz will be open and safe. In the meantime, our great military is loading up and resting, looking forward, actually to its next conquest. So Donald Trump's talking about the United States military looking forward to its next conquest. Hey, Donald, you may want to read the 10 point plan that you agreed to that Iran has, has been talking about for many weeks right now. Because they control the Strait of Hormuz, they're allowed to enrich uranium. That's what it says in the ten point plan. They get full reparations. America has to abandon all of its military bases in the Middle East. America gives permanent security guarantees to Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, the Shiite militia groups in Iraq, and of course the Iranians, among other recognizes that Iran controls rate of Hormuz and Iran doesn't get rid of any ballistic missiles or Shahid drones and it could enrich its Uran. That's what you agreed to, Donald. And so While you have this utter lack of seriousness and you go and you tweet, world leaders are like, we're done with the United States. More on that in just a moment.
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Midas
I wanted to turn to Canada. What's up mapl Midas we see you Midas Canada Shout out. We're so fortunate to have be the number one podcast right now in Canada. Thanks to all the great mapl Midas out there. But yesterday, a horrible day for Pierre Poliev. First his communications director, Katie Merrifeld resigned. That was a sign of what was to come. And then a Conservative Member of Parliament, Marilyn Gladue crossed the floor. And so she that means she was a Conservative. Now she became a Liberal. So she joined Prime Minister Carney's Liberal party. And what that basically means here. Here's our statement by the way. Proud to be the newest member of our new Liberal government. And that basically means that the Liberals now have 171seats. There's going to be a by election for Monday, safe seats for the Liberals, where they expect to win, basically guaranteeing a Liberal majority government. This essentially means Prime Minister Carney will be Canada's prime minister until 2029. No one's going to be able to trigger a federal election until then. So that gives Mark Carney the stability that he needs now and the votes that he needs to put forward the agenda that he's always wanted. The people of Canada like that. Prime Minister Carney has stood up firmly to Donald Trump. And whether it's Prime Minister Sanchez of Spain, Prime Minister Carney, whether it's Anthony Albanese in his election where he beat Dutton, and you look around the world standing up to Donald Trump strongly and standing up to him without equivocation and speaking with moral clarity, that is being rewarded by people because that's where the people are at. Contrast that to what was going on in Hungary, where Trump sycophant Viktor Orban, as I said at the outset of the video, is a few days away from basically losing the power he's held for a very long period of time. He's a Putin puppet. He's there to try to destroy the European Union. He's being propped up right now by Trump and Putin. And Victor Orban has been campaigning at this point with J.D. vance and Marco Rubio. And Donald Trump's doing all he can to help Orban. But the people of Hungary, when they see that, that makes Orban even more unpopular because they know this is a fascist influence operation. And the people of Hungary want to be aligned closer to Europe. They want to not be Putin puppets. They see the war crimes being committed by the United States and Putin. They don't want a part of the war crimes. They don't want a part of that genocide. And they want to stand up and stand up against this and stand with the European Union. So here you had Viktor Orban. He's part of the Fidesz party. That's his party that he leads. He was giving a speech. I'll show you what happened yesterday. This was right after, mind you, J.D. vance leaves and the people of Hungary start chanting, go home, you Russian. Go home, you Russian. Watch what happens right here. Play this clip.
Keir Starmer
Peace.
Midas
Yeah. And the Taiza Party, which is the opposition party, the Pro Democracy party, led by Peter Magyar, they are expected to win this election. Coming up Sunday, April 12, 2026. Of course, we will be covering it here on the Midas Touch Network. Now, let me just share with you this Bloomberg article right here, Trump's Iran war leaves the US Looking weakened to adversaries and weakened around the world. And it talks about how this has bolstered China and Russia while squandering American strengths. So people are looking at this and they're saying, never has America looked weaker. You have Donald Trump now attacking NATO. I mean, he's always been attacking NATO. Let's face it. What's Donald Trump saying? They wouldn't give me Greenland, so I'm done with NATO. And Donald Trump's like, I'm taking my bases out of NATO countries. He's whining like a petulant little baby because he said NATO didn't give him Greenland and he needed Greenland really badly. I mean, how pathetic can you be? NATO, you weren't there for us when we wanted to commit all these. When we were committing these war crimes in Iran.
Interviewer/Reporter
Where were you? Where were you?
Midas
NATO's like, we're a defensive organization that has ruled. We don't just invade countries and commit war crimes. Okay, so NATO has been weakened, basically just exists in name only right now because of Trump continues to threaten and say, I'm not going to stand by NATO. This has emboldened Putin. All the Middle east countries are looking at this, and they feel that completely let down by the United States. I mean, you have Saudi Arabia and the uae. By the way, have you seen this video in Japan where they're, like, trying to. Where they explain what taco means. Trump always chickens out. Here, play this clip. Officials cited mockery of Trump in Russian and Chinese state media as evidence how his handling of the war will likely be perceived by those regimes. The taco meme that Trump always chickens out is not just an amusing political attack by his domestic opponents, but now a geopolitical conclusion of America's enemies. And people are just saying, this is who he is. And then you have all these nations around the world saying, wow, this guy is pathetic. This guy is weak. This guy is an absolute loser. And here you had Donald Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt. Here's what she said. Okay, we're going to continue. We'll consider withdrawing from NATO. Here, play this clip on NATO.
Caroline Levitt
I'll take your question.
Interviewer/Reporter
Thank you, Caroline.
Midas
On NATO, can you tell me, the United States still considering withdrawing from NATO?
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Is that still a possibility?
Caroline Levitt
It's something the President has discussed, and I think it's something the President will be discussing in a couple of hours with Secretary General Ruta. And perhaps you'll hear directly from the president following that meeting later this afternoon.
Midas
And then you have, you know, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutty, he's very weak. He was on state, regime, media and he was doing other media rounds yesterday and he was asked, he was on CNN also, and he was asked about, so who controls the Strait of Hormuz? Here, play this clip.
Interviewer/Reporter
So the Strait of Hormuz, obviously that's been a real crisis for so many in Europe. I read that in Italy they even have school by zoom because of the gas crisis in Italy right now, almost as if it's Covid era. And other European countries have been hit hard. Are the Strait of Hormuz open as far as you can tell?
Keir Starmer
Well, of course we have to see over the next couple of days what happens.
Interviewer/Reporter
But as of now, I mean, well,
Keir Starmer
I don't have the intelligence now at my fingertips to give you that answer. But I think over the next couple of days we will know. And it is absolutely true that for the Europeans, but also for the Asians, look at Japan, look at Korea, look at Australia and other countries like Thailand and the Philippines, they get huge volumes in terms of their oil and gas, etc. Through the Strait of Hormuz. So for them, it's crucial. It's crucial for Europeans. And this is why Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, brought together this coalition, making sure that answering the questions what, where and when, when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, we can act collectively.
Midas
You see like how weak that looks right now. I mean, it's really, I mean, this guy's been really pathetic lately. And here's what he also said.
Keir Starmer
Let's play this clip for their own defense. So a stronger Europe and a stronger NATO.
Interviewer/Reporter
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the President is weighing punishing some NATO allies for not being helpful to the US And Israel during the war. Quote, the proposal would involve moving US Troops out of NATO member countries deemed unhelpful to the Iran war effort and station them in countries that were more supportive of the US Military campaign. Did the President talk about that at all today?
Keir Starmer
Again, it was very frank. It was a very open discussion. He clearly told me what he thought of what happened over the last couple of weeks.
Interviewer/Reporter
Some countries specifically said, you can't use our bases. You can't even fly over airspace. Spain, France.
Keir Starmer
Yeah, but listen, the large majority, including France, of European nations has been doing what they committed before they would do in a case like this. So Europe as a platform of power projection for the United States was in full play over the last six weeks. And yes, it is true not all European nations lived up to those commitments and I totally understand that he is disappointed about it.
Midas
Well, there you have it folks. Great work, Prime Minister Carney. Big things happening in Canada. Big things happening for people who stand up against Trump and his regime. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers, members and thanks for watching.
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Date: April 9, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett & Jordy Meiselas
This episode centers on mounting global condemnation of Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran ceasefire, an event widely criticized as catastrophic for American foreign policy and global stability. The Meiselas brothers analyze reactions from world leaders, expose fractures in alliances, and discuss how pro-Trump figures and regimes are facing backlash and political setbacks across the globe. The episode also covers how world governments and major media outlets frame America’s severely diminished influence and explores notable shifts in Canada and Hungary, along with the unraveling of the ceasefire's practical effects in the Middle East.
On Global Condemnation (00:47):
“It is perhaps the single worst foreign policy event in American history, I think, by far.” — Midas
On Macron’s Statement (04:00):
“I expressed my hope that the ceasefire will be fully respected by each of the belligerents...including in Lebanon. This is a necessary condition for the ceasefire to be credible and lasting.” — Emmanuel Macron
On UAE & Saudi Outrage (07:06):
“What the hell did we give you all these pay for play and quid pro quo schemes for?...You just destroyed our countries and our future.” — Midas
On Canadian Shift (11:58):
“Standing up to Donald Trump strongly and...without equivocation...is being rewarded by people because that's where the people are at.” — Midas
On NATO (13:35):
“They wouldn’t give me Greenland, so I’m done with NATO.” — Midas paraphrasing Trump
On the ‘TACO’ Meme (15:57): “The taco meme that Trump always chickens out is not just an amusing political attack...but now a geopolitical conclusion of America’s enemies.” — Midas
This summary captures the spirit, urgency, and unmistakable banter of the Meiselas brothers while providing detailed context for listeners who missed the episode. For deeper dives on the referenced stories and breaking updates, follow the MeidasTouch channels and join the ongoing conversation with the #MeidasMighty community.