On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the escalating chaos inside the Trump regime as we pass the 100 day mark. From disturbing new moments of Donald Trump’s cognitive decline to Democratic lawmakers openly questioning his mental fitness, the alarm bells are ringing louder than ever. We cover the (unsurprising) admission from Trump’s own trade rep that there have been zero trade talks with China—despite Trump’s repeated lies—and dig into the latest signs of economic collapse as the U.S. suffers negative GDP growth under his failed leadership. Plus, we dive into the turmoil inside Trump’s cabinet with the sudden exit of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and expose the dangerous rise of propaganda as the Trump White House replaces real press briefings with MAGA influencer theatrics. Ben, Brett and Jordy break it all down. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors! VIIA: If you’re 21+, try VIIA! For 15% off AND a free gift with your first order go to https://viia.co/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS! #viiapartner Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar per month trial at https://shopify.com/meidas MUD/WTR: Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% OFF your @MUDWTR by going to https://mudwtr.com/meidas #mudwtrpod Graza: Go to https://Graza.co and use code: MEIDAS to get 10% off your Graza Starter Kit and get to cookin’ your next chef quality meal! Zbiotics: Head to https://Zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the major failings of Donald Trump's first 100 days in office?
Let's talk about some letters F. Donald Trump gets an F for the first 100 days. F on the economy. F on foreign affairs. F on national security. F on basic professionalism and confidence. F on everything. We'll talk about that. Let's talk about some C's today, like cognitive decline. C for cognitive decline. It's on full display today. with Donald Trump. It's accelerating.
Corporate news doesn't want to talk about it. We'll talk about it here on the Midas Touch Network. Another C, Donald Trump's cabinet disaster. Have you seen this cabinet meeting? It was Kim Jong-un meets the worst season of The Apprentice. That was too bad. It could never even be released. Let's talk about the collaborators. The collaborators like state regime media Fox and this new group,
that the Trump regime is cultivating. They call them the new media and they have a whole room from them in the White House. It looks like a bad SNL skit. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about another. See the courts, what's going on there standing up against Donald Trump. A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas ruled that Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful.
And I think we got to talk about change. C for change. What are Democrats doing to bring about change and fighting back? We hosted on the Midas Touch Network a town hall with four governors. It was an incredible event that we held earlier this week. Many of you attended. We'll show some clips of that and more. And Brett and Jordi, welcome to the Midas Touch Podcast.
There's another C I should talk about as well, which is central planning. As you look at what the Trump regime is doing, it looks like Soviet-style central planning with the exemptions where oligarchs show up, try to pass loyalty and purity tests to the party to get their exemptions while we, the people, suffer. It's just odd. You have the U.S.
behaving like the USSR or how China used to behave, and now you have China behaving the way the USA behaves. used to behave. And then you have Howard Lutnick and all of Donald Trump's advisors saying, we want to bring the low paying manufacturing jobs back to the US. And China's like, why would you want to do that? We're trying to get your economy and bring your jobs to China.
All of this and more on the Midas Touch podcast today.
What's up, Ben? What's up, Jordy? What's up, Midas, Mighty, everybody watching and listening. Oh my gosh, it's been an absolutely bizarre week to say the least, another week of chaos. And we're in a place right now where just the objective data is so horrific by every single metric. Ben, you already did the letters. I'm not gonna go through the letters again.
But on all the letters that Ben mentioned, everything is so horrific that they just need to start. They just lie. They just lie about everything. They didn't start lying. They've been lying about everything, but they just literally make up things. The economy is terrible. They say it's great. Prices are up. They say prices are down. The sky is blue. They say the sky is green.
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Chapter 2: What evidence is there of Donald Trump's cognitive decline?
Chapter 3: How is Trump’s trade policy affecting the economy and relations with China?
And thank you to everybody who submitted your incredible questions. I hope that you got a chance to actually be aired and speak directly to the governor. I thought that was super cool, a way to get the Midas Mighty directly in touch with some of the people leading our nation. Jordi, good to see you. How are you doing over there?
I'm doing great. I'm excited to dive into the show. But Benji, I just want to echo Brett's sentiments there, man. Great job moderating that town hall. Midas Mighty, thank you all for submitting questions. They were fantastic questions. The governors absolutely loved it. We're going to have to do that more. That's it. We're going to have to do more. The response was overwhelming.
Thank you all so much for tuning in. I'm excited to get into the show tonight. Benji, where do you want to start us off?
Well, thanks for everybody to subscribing to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. That's where we took a lot of those video questions from our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, does an incredible job there at MidasPlus.com. So just to plug at the beginning of the show, go to MidasPlus.com and hit subscribe. Brett, you talk about all of the lies. Let's just talk about a few.
Donald Trump saying that gas is now down to $1.89, that it's never been lower. That's just objectively false. It's in the mid threes and higher in many places in the country. Donald Trump says that egg prices are down 87%, the lowest it's ever been. That is false. Egg prices are up. Donald Trump says that he's already done 200 deals with countries, 200 of them,
Not true, not even 200 countries that exist in the world. Donald Trump claims that he's spoken with Xi Jinping and that they were making progress. Totally false. And China has said, why would we ever deal with you all?
We don't even know who to even communicate with because it seems that the Treasury Secretary, the Commerce Secretary, whatever Peter Navarro is, and everybody else are fighting with each other and saying,
a ton of different things and then you have the economy contracting our economy is shrinking the first quarter gdp results are in uh they were uh negative point three percent and uh we'll see what happens next quarter but donald trump was already blaming former president biden at that debacle of a cabinet meeting and in the oval office for next quarter's results should be noted that donald trump took credit
When Donald Trump was not in office for former President Biden's economy, he said this was the Trump economy back in 2024 and that the markets were doing great because of Donald Trump, not because of the person actually in charge. And now on April 30th, Donald Trump said this is the Biden market. This is the Biden economy. This has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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Chapter 4: What happened during Donald Trump's ABC interview and why is it significant?
Yeah, I agree, by the way. I'm pretty sure he thinks the Declaration of Independence is the Constitution. But everything he does, anytime he answers a question, it's just like he's the kid who has to give the presentation on his book report, but he didn't read the book. He's like, oh, the Declaration of Independence.
You know, it's like when you declare, you know, and he could have just said independence and he would have been more accurate with his answer. But, you know, it's like a declaration of, I don't know, unity and family.
The Declaration of Independence. How do you even answer the question that way? But by the way, what we'll show you in a little bit, Donald Trump goes on NewsNation, Stephen A. Smith, who for some reason is on NewsNation and talks about politics now, he's the sportscaster. He asked Donald Trump, hey, what is your administration doing with Harvard? Are you attacking Harvard?
Are you going after Harvard? And Donald Trump responds with Harlem and talking about black voters in Harlem when the questions about Harvard. I want to talk about that. And I'm glad that Democrats are bringing this up. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries brought it up to me. Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman reacted to my interview with Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Fox.
The Fox hosts got all pissed about it that we brought this up. I want to talk about that and more. I want to take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody to subscribe to this YouTube channel. We're on our way.
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Chapter 5: What does the controversy over the MS-13 tattoo on Abrego Garcia's knuckles reveal about Trump's understanding?
Bet you he was a source, a reporter. I bet you he was a leaker. But take a look at the cabinet. Here's what Howard Lutnick's been saying all day. You know, Donald Trump's the greatest dealmaker. They all like to use the hands right to act like they know it. He's the greatest dealmaker that there ever was. Let the dealmaker cook. Here, play this clip.
The best line I could say is, let the greatest dealmaker cook. make his deals, right? When you don't bet on Donald Trump, you're making a mistake. He understands. He's got great people around him. Let him work through the process of getting a better deal from everybody else in the world. We're going to do it smart. We're going to do it thoughtfully.
We don't want to raise the price of these things like little toys on the shelf. Why would we want to do that? We love Americans. But let him build pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, steel, autos. Come on, let the guy build America back and trust him. Jordy, wasn't that like...
Just let little Billy play soccer, okay? Can you just let him play his sport? He just wants to participate.
And by the way – By the way, how about the juxtaposition, if you will, between former President Biden, never bet against America, and Mr. Nutlick over here, never bet against Trump? Yeah. It couldn't be more clear who these folks are rooting for. And it's not America in the case of Nutlick. It's not. It's to line his own frigging pockets.
Isn't that right there just a demonstration of like just the privilege? Just the way he even does his voice. Just let him do what he wants to do. Just let him do it. If he wants to do 100, just let him do it, okay? This guy, 145% of the tariffs, let him do it, okay? He wants to tariff the penguins. This guy's a genius. Just do not question it.
Just let it happen. You think he wants to raise the price of toys? I'm watching this. I'm like, what the hell is going on here?
And he does because Donald Trump literally said in the Oval Office in another meeting, he's like, why would kids need 30 toys? It'll be two toys and it'll be more expensive. Who cares if their toys are more? Give him the two toys. Even Rupert Murdoch's New York Post front page was Donald Trump saying, this is a direct quote.
For our audio listeners, I'm showing the New York Post front page that quotes Donald Trump saying, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So when I talk about Soviet style central planning, like this is what they used to say there. You could have one doll per person and you have to live here and that
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Chapter 6: How are the hosts reacting to corporate media's coverage of Trump's issues?
Chapter 7: How did the Democratic governor town hall engage the audience and what was its impact?
Dude, you've been in there now for 100 days. This is clearly your economy. This was your disastrous trade war against the world, which somehow also included penguins with a made-up formula for these tariffs using the deficit as a metric. I don't even know what you're doing. And now we are living the pain of Donald Trump's policies.
Also, Donald, if tariffs are working so well and we're getting so rich, then why are you trying to do trade deals to get rid of them if they're working so well? Also, if they're working so well, why are you extorting and threatening businesses and saying it's a political hostile act for them to list the additional cost of goods and products to the consumer on their websites caused by tariffs?
I thought you said this was all great and this would not be the case. So that doesn't really seem consistent and logical to me, but none of it does. I want to be clear when we go through this next topic. and talk about Donald Trump's accelerating cognitive decline.
It's important that we address it, but also acknowledge that Donald Trump should never, ever be able to use it as a way to avoid accountability, because in his mind, he's going to go there eventually. Maybe in a year, two years, three years, four years, the information will be, well, the reason why it all went down is because Donald Trump had all of these cognitive issues.
And the press focused all of this attention on former President Biden. And for years, that's what they always wanted to try. Right now, more than ever, that's what they want to talk about over and over and over again. but it's staring us in the face what's going on with Donald Trump. I just wanna take what's happened just over the past few days. Can we just take a look at some of these examples?
Like earlier, when Donald Trump held a press conference at a national prayer breakfast, and he said that the Philadelphia Eagles were here yesterday when they were here on Monday, not yesterday.
Let's play this clip. I had Ohio State here, and I had yesterday the Philadelphia Eagles here.
so they took up a little more room than gary i got very good at this then donald trump is talking about how he got palestinians to vote for him and muslims to vote for him and he tells this bizarre story about imams talking about do you want to die and i talked about virgins and just listen to what he's saying here play this clip imams who i got to know in michigan i loved them they were great by the way
They said, we don't want to die. I said, you want to die? They said, we don't want to die. They said, what about the 38 virgins? They say, that's nonsense. We don't know anything about it. And we won the state of Michigan speaker by a tremendous and we had tremendous support.
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Chapter 8: What role do sponsors and promotions play in supporting the MeidasTouch podcast?
Well, I say this. We had riots in Harlem, and frankly, if you look at what's gone on, and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard. They happened to be on my side. You know, I got a very high black vote. You know that. Very, very high black vote. It was a very great compliment to me. I did criminal justice reform.
I did opportunity zones for... One of the greatest economic deals ever for the black and Hispanic community. I got tremendous. They agree with what I'm doing with respect to Harvard.
Harvard gets... The people in Harlem powerfully support what Donald Trump is doing
in harvard that's how he tried that's how he tried to fix it and then he starts talking about black voters by the way trump's support amongst black voters now is like 14 percent donald trump's entire attack on harvard like its main premise is to get rid of diversity and to get rid of black history and to like literally go after black people who attend harvard
and he brings up he brings up harlem like can you all imagine if former president biden was did did any of this any of it i guarantee you it would be front page on the new york times and then the next 20 pages thereafter how do i know this because i've seen what they did when when biden was in charge but whatever i won't that's a whole rabbit hole that you can go down donald trump's the one in charge right now we should be talking about what we are seeing but
You have this kleptocracy, right? You have Donald Trump with all of these clips that we showed you. And then we have the cabinet. We got people like Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, Scott Besant, the treasury secretary. You have Susan Wiles, his chief of staff. You have Mike Walls, not in the cabinet, but national security advisor who was fired today.
and then moved to become the ambassador to the United Nations because Donald Trump didn't want to hand a win to Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who was accidentally pulled into the signal chat of classified war plans by Mike Walls. So in order to not hand a win to the reporter.
Trump waited until day 101 to fire Walls and then made Walls the ambassador to the United Nations. By the way, he still has to get confirmed for that. And I think these senators are going to have a question or two to ask about him about that and the 20 other signal chats that he set up and also his Venmo that was publicly listed, which included all these other reporters. Because I
Bet you he was a source, a reporter. I bet you he was a leaker. But take a look at the cabinet. Here's what Howard Lutnick's been saying all day. You know, Donald Trump's the greatest dealmaker. They all like to use the hands right to act like they know it. He's the greatest dealmaker that there ever was. Let the dealmaker cook. Here, play this clip.
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