In this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the mounting chaos surrounding the Trump regime. Reports indicate a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the verge of being ousted amid new scandalous leaks. Meanwhile, Trump tanks global markets with reckless economic policies and launches another attack on the Federal Reserve Chair—just as his promised tariff “deals” continue to unravel with U.S. allies. Harvard fires back at the Trump administration with a new lawsuit. We also cover the death of Pope Francis, as well as yet another weekend of massive global protests against Trump’s authoritarian rule. Ben, Brett and Jordy discuss all that and more! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors! Vessi: Take the first step toward adventure with Vessi. Visit vessi.com/MEIDAS to keep your travels comfortable and dry. Explore confidently and enjoy 15% off your first pair at checkout! Climate Bank: Visit climatefirstbank.com/meidas to learn more Remi: Save your smile and your bank account with Remi! Get up to 50% off your custom-fit mouth guard at ShopRemi.com/MEIDAS today! One Skin: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code: MEIDAS at oneskin.co #oneskinpod Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the current state of the US economy under Trump’s administration?
Donald Trump continues to tank the economy, defy Supreme Court orders, make deranged all-cap posts all day, lose in a reckless trade war against the world that he initiated, cover up his Secretary of Defense text messaging war plans to his wife, break the US bond market, cause tourists to avoid the United States like the plague, promote a health department that's actually pro-plague, betray our alliances, crash the dollar,
empower China and capitulate to Russia and brag about Trump Gaza. Do you feel great? Say thank you. All the while Donald Trump just goes and golfs wearing these bizarre Gulf of America hats on the taxpayer dollar. We've got a lot to discuss on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben My cell is joined by Brett and Geordie. I want to wish everybody a happy Easter at the outset.
Of course, I also want to recognize some tragic news today that Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88. So our hearts and thoughts and prayers go out to, of course, the Vatican himself, everybody who's practicing and everybody in general.
you know he did a lot to advance the cause of um human rights and to stand up for uh people who have less means and so i was sad news to wake up to certainly happy easter to everybody it's good to be here everybody listening here on apple podcast and spotify everybody watching us live always good to be here with the midas touch network to deliver you the latest and greatest news well not too great i guess because donald trump continues to crash the economy and just send the world
into total chaos, and he refuses, as always, to take any responsibility for his actions, just continues to try to deflect blame to other people. But guess what, brothers? Guess what, Midas Mighty? The people are rising up, and it was incredible to see these protests over the weekend. Once again, these 50-51 protests.
I want to first start off this episode by giving a huge shout out to all the organizers of these events who did such a fantastic job of bringing folks together. I saw people not only in the big cities, but all the towns across America. I saw people not only in the towns across America, but in these cities and towns across the entire world.
It was truly an incredible show of solidarity and shout out to everybody who was out there, including, by the way, the Midas Mighty. I'd be remiss if I did not shout you guys out. We saw all the Midas Touch signs out there, which was so great to see.
We'll get into some of this more a little later, but so awesome to hear about all the reports of all the Midas Touch listeners out there on the ground. Jordy, what's the latest?
That is just the coolest. For the audio listeners, Brett was showing some protest signs, and
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Chapter 5: How are protests shaping the public’s response to Trump’s leadership?
Well, in terms of the Department of Defense, a senior official working there who's close to Hegseth describes the situation as, quote, a complete and utter meltdown taking place. So Hegseth's core team is chief of staff, senior advisor, deputy chief of staff, deputy secretary, chief of staff.
They were all fired on Friday or pushed out as Hegseth and others, I guess, were accusing them of leaking information. And these are like Hegseth's people. They deny it. I think that Some of them are threatening litigation against Hegseth for the way in which they were fired. You have a spokesperson who was the top spokesperson at the Department of Defense.
Again, like a friend of Hegseth, a guy by the name of John Elliott. He came out with an op-ed for Politico basically saying that Hegseth needs to go.
And that was before we learned that Hegseth was involved in having other classified communications on signal text message threads with his wife, who doesn't work at the Department of Defense, his brother, who he got a job at the Department of Defense. But why is he having communications with them, his personal lawyer?
And also, if you go back with Hegseth, his whole shtick, remember, during the confirmation hearings
was he would say you know when it would be people who would accuse him of doing horrific things right you know accusations of sexual assault accusations of drinking on the job i mean i mean the worst of the worst accusations out there credible accusations what would he say he would go these were all disgruntled former people And it was like, dude, your mom wrote a letter also.
And your mom said that you were like incompetent in her letter and that you have abusive personalities towards women and the way you treat people. Like we read the mom's letter. Remember then the mom went on state regime media, Fox, and she was like, I didn't really mean what I said at the time. There was just such a mountain of evidence.
I mean, then the fact that this guy had never led like a military command before. He has no experience working at the Pentagon. I mean, the organizations that he led, these two organizations, you know, smaller nonprofits. He got pushed out because of the way he handled things. This is the guy you make the Secretary of Defense.
So again, it was not a shock to learn that he was involved in more inappropriate conduct. But also the way the White House is handling it just shows you, again, the lack of competence. Foreign countries must be looking at this and going like, what? What the hell is going on here?
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