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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Furious World Leaders Ghost Trump after He Loses War!!!!

18 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: Why are world leaders ghosting Donald Trump?

0.031 - 26.601 Ben Meiselas

Furious world leaders are ghosting Donald Trump. They are cutting him out and disinviting him from critical meetings. We saw in France a meeting that was led by French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the UK. and 50 other nations, and they specifically refused to invite Donald Trump in the United States to send a message, get the hell out of here.

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26.962 - 38.762 Ben Meiselas

The United States is not our friend anymore. We do not want you to meet here. You are a bunch of war criminals. Also in attendance and leading this meeting, you had the German chancellor,

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Chapter 2: What critical meetings is Trump being excluded from?

38.742 - 57.392 Ben Meiselas

uh frederick merits and you had georgia maloney the prime minister of italy rallying 50 countries to come up with strategies regarding the middle east yesterday as donald trump was ranting and raving like a lunatic and again defrauding the world and manipulating the markets in the united states that he

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had reached this grand bargain, this amazing deal with Iran where they're opening up the Strait of Hormuz and American military will work hand in glove with the Iranian military, quite literally hand in glove, and together they will collect the nuclear dust from the Iranian facilities and they will

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capture the uranium and bring it back to the United States and the Strait of Hormuz is open to everybody and the US will be controlling it. And this is a major victory and Iran has agreed that it will never ever again fund Hezbollah or any of its proxy groups. Donald Trump says Iran's agreed to everything, they've totally surrendered. It was all false.

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The European and Gulf states have previously said they don't think that there's any real meaningful material deal that can be ironed out for the next six months or so. Donald Trump lying about this deal in totality. And in Europe, they were talking about, OK, what can we really do here?

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Rallying 50 nations from across the world, not just European nation, Asian countries, African countries, Central America, South America.

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other european countries um focusing on what they can do together now that the united states is basically not america first it is america alone and america's become this like pariah bizarre regime so that's what you have happening uh in europe right now at the same time in beijing in china you had major meetings between uh leaders uh from the middle east

147.282 - 168.379 Ben Meiselas

you know, whether it was the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, and you had European leaders like French president, like Prime Minister Sanchez, rather, of Spain meeting with Xi Jinping and Beijing talking about ways that it will now be a stable, or how it wants to assert itself as a stabilizing force in the Middle East.

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and how it will be a stable, a more stabilizing force in Europe than the United States. You have these kind of massive, massive seismic power ships happening. And Donald Trump, too dumb to even realize in his MAGA base, you know, too much in the cult to realize that America has lost all of its hard and soft power across the world right now. So One other meeting I should talk about as well.

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You had the Finland president, Alexander Stubbe. He was meeting in Canada with Prime Minister Carney. Prime Minister Carney just was able to get a majority government, the Liberal Party in Canada, has established a majority government.

Chapter 3: How are European leaders responding to Trump's actions?

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And we've been talking about this here a lot on the Midas Touch Network. how Prime Minister Carney has been uniting trans-Pacific relationships with transatlantic relationships, in other words, Asia, with Europe, bringing them together for free trade and security agreements.

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And so it's not a coincidence that you have these Asian meetings happening without the U.S., European meetings happening without the U.S., and then you had the Canadian meeting happening with Stube, who is very popular throughout Europe as well, meeting with Carney. All of this is interconnected, and the U.S.

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all alone, while Donald Trump was at a Turning Point USA weird event, like kissing Erica Kirk's ear and being weird and coming out to weird pyrotechnics and just spewing nonsense and talking about things that haven't even happened with Iran, while Iran's parliament leader, MB Galibaf, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards, like, look, Look, everybody, we control the Strait of Bermuda.

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Like, what are these idiots talking about? Let's bring some receipts. Here's the president of Finland, Alexander Stubb. Here's what he has to say about America going it alone. Play this clip. I think at the end of the day, the United States will find themselves in quite a lonely place. I mean, I'm the most pro-American president in Europe. I'm an avid transatlanticist.

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I want the relationship to work, but I fully also realize that, you know, with certain patterns of behavior, there is gonna be a feeling of, okay, if you treat me like that, I don't feel very good about it. And we can see that with European states, we can see it with Gulf states and many others.

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So I hope that it's in the interest of the United States if it wants to continue to be one of the world hegemons to have close friends and allies. Then you had over here, Stoltenberg of Norway. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip. My country, Norway, is bordering Russia. Just on the other side of our land border, we see the highest concentration of nuclear weapons in the world.

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Missiles, submarines, bombers. And these weapons are not directed at Norway. They are directed at the United States. But Norway helps the U.S. to monitor, to track the submarines, to share intelligence, and to give you early warning and to tell exactly what the Russians are doing.

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This is part of the U.S. homeland defense provided by a NATO ally, Norway.

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And there are many other similar examples. So the U.S. is safer with a strong NATO, and therefore I expect and believe that the U.S. will continue to be committed to NATO.

Chapter 4: What is the significance of the meeting in France with 50 nations?

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It's time to make laundry day the best day of the week. Meanwhile, the meeting I refer to in China, Al Jazeera talks about it here, play this clip.

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High-stakes diplomacy in Beijing. President Xi Jinping met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khaled bin Zayed, deepening ties with a Gulf partner. They pledged greater cooperation in technology, energy, and trade as the war in Iran disrupts global oil and gas flows. Historic changes are unfolding in ways never seen before. Human society faces a choice between peace and war, unity or confrontation.

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Hours later, Xi welcomed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

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Chapter 5: What strategies are being developed regarding the Middle East?

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Both called for the defense of multilateralism in what they described as an increasingly unstable world. Sanchez urged China to play a bigger role in resolving global conflicts, including in Iran. I find it very difficult to imagine any other interlocutors, apart from China, that could resolve the situation.

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He is among the world leaders hoping Beijing will use its close ties with Tehran to push for further talks and prevent further escalation. Officials say China is doing what it can to restore peace. Wang Yi spoke to Pakistan's foreign minister on Monday after negotiations in Islamabad failed and is hosting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week.

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Beijing has denied allegations that it supplied Iran with weapons and condemned the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.

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721.494 - 722.335 Volodymyr Zelensky

This is dangerous.

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This is a dangerous and irresponsible act. China believes only a comprehensive ceasefire can fundamentally ease tensions.

731.528 - 757.671 Ben Meiselas

Now, while all of that was taking place, you had Treasury Secretary Scott Besant continuing to extend the lifting of sanctions against Russia. In the dark of night, on Friday night, Besant extended the revocation of sanctions against Russian oil, allowing Russia to continue to sell its oil, extending the removal of those sanctions. You know, again, just

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Delivering more gifts to Vladimir Putin right now because Donald Trump is indeed a Putin bootlicker. So you had that taking place. And meanwhile, you had his colleague, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, attacking Canada and saying, oh, Canada sucks. How dare Canada not purchase F-35s and just trying to wait us out and not entering into deals with us? How dare Canada? Really?

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I mean, Donald Trump's been threatening to turn it into the 51st state. He's declared a trade war and Canada's being smart, but you can see how this is getting under Letnick's skin. Here, play this clip.

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The time is on our side because the pressures on the U.S. are only going to increase over time.

Chapter 6: How is China positioning itself in global diplomacy?

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Basically, you guys are in political trouble. The longer they wait, the better a deal you're going to have to do.

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802.741 - 805.164 Volodymyr Zelensky

Good for them. That is like the worst strategy I've ever heard.

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805.224 - 835.799 Ben Meiselas

They suck. Look, we are a $30 trillion economy. We are the consumer of the world. Carney has a problem with us. He gets on a plane and he goes to China. Does he think the Chinese economy is going to buy his stuff? China is entirely an export-driven economy. So what do you do? He came back and said, oh, we'll take their electric cars. I mean... Is this nuts? Well, this is taking place.

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You have Zelensky, Ukraine, going to the Middle East as well, making critical deals and security deals with the Middle East. He was actually at the end of last week in the Netherlands, and he signed a long-term defense cooperation in the Netherlands. Here, let's play this clip right here. Or rather, you have Zelensky in the Netherlands. You could see him over there.

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And here's what Zelensky had to say. Let's play this clip.

883.683 - 913.967 Volodymyr Zelensky

It's important that pressure on Russia continues, sanctions and all other restrictions. But it's just as important that Russia is held accountable for this aggression legally and practice. And that Russian war criminals do not enjoy normal life, normal life, but face fair sentences. This is necessary, just as it was necessary after the Second World War.

913.947 - 942.553 Volodymyr Zelensky

And this is what we are doing here in Europe. Here in the Netherlands, we are working to launch the tribunal for Russia's aggression against Ukraine. And I thank you for your help. We are working to ensure that the international legal system is formed and uncompromising toward Russian war criminals. Please support this. And please remember, all freedoms are ours.

942.77 - 958.787 Volodymyr Zelensky

Fragile without the most basic freedom freedom from ruins Without basic security and when those who start wars feel no accountability So do not let Russia go unpunished

960.421 - 977.613 Ben Meiselas

Now, contrast that to what was going on in the White House, where you had King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. They visited the White House just to try to see if there could be any semblance of normalcy there. And hint, hint, there wasn't. You could play this clip right here.

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