Chapter 1: What did Donald Trump say about the Nobel Peace Prize and Greenland?
Donald Trump sends no MLK Day message, breaking a 40-year tradition of MLK proclamations on MLK Day. But Donald Trump did send another proclamation, a proclamation letter to the Prime Minister of Norway, saying that because Trump didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize, that he is now even further
uh desiring to invade greenland and take it over no more mr nice guy he says you didn't give me the nobel peace prize so now i don't care about peace it's one of the most deranged even by trump standards proclamations that people were like can you validate the source and yes the prime minister of norway and the prime minister of sweden indeed confirmed that that was sent and received.
Also sent and received, Donald Trump inviting Vladimir Putin from Russia, Lukashenko from Belarus, and other dictators to join what he's referring to as a board of peace. Now, already, most of the European nations have rejected this board of peace scheme by Donald Trump. It's obviously a direct threat to NATO to try to bring
nato down to create his own alliance with putin and belarusians who's going to want to be on a board of peace with them and as part of a scheme where you give donald trump a billion dollars he takes the billion dollars from the countries in order to join this board of peace and he puts it in a qatari bank account or an account like that and then he takes it for himself that's part of the plan here and when we delve deeper into what's going on in venezuela with delce rodriguez who he's propped up the authoritarian leader former vp in the maduro regime
You know, Trump is selling some Venezuelan oil to his right wing buddies, then taking the proceeds and putting it into a Qatari bank account that he controls. That's the height of corruption as the CIA leaders were there in Venezuela, just laughing it up.
with delce rodriguez and trump has a love for authoritarians because trump is a wannabe authoritarian with all of this news taking place where you talked about donald trump's betrayal as well of the protesters in iran trump said i got your back protesters go out there we've got you if any protester gets killed the u.s will go in guns a blazing well now donald trump says Guess what I did?
I stopped 800 additional protesters from getting hung by the Ayatollah. I greatly respect the Ayatollah for doing that. That's what you meant that you would come in guns a blazing. So we talk about Iran, but we should also talk about nearby in Syria.
where Donald Trump has, you know, propped up there, the authoritarian former ISIS leader, Al Jalani, who now goes by Al-Sharah, but he's, Al Jalani, I mean, he was the ISIS leader. There's a $25 million bounty on this guy's head, but he's the guy who came into the White House, right? Donald Trump loved this guy. He sprayed cologne on him, started sniffing him, saying how great looking he was,
how good looking he was it was so utterly bizarre well now what the syrian forces have done is they've basically slaughtered the kurdish forces in the north who were fighting alongside the united states against isis for all of those years because isis is now the leader of syria and they've destroyed and killed our kurdish allies there and now you have people like lindsey graham saying oh
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Chapter 2: How is Trump attempting to create a 'Board of Peace' with authoritarian leaders?
We'll cover that and more here on the Midas Touch podcast. Great to see everybody. And it is a day of reflection, Brett and Jordy, on MLK Day.
It is a day of reflection. And, you know, I hope more than just, you know, I know a lot of people out there are going to be quoting Martin Luther King Jr. And especially get all these like Republicans who go against everything that every single thing that he stands for, quoting him just blatantly. totally not self-aware whatsoever.
But I hope that all of us could commit ourselves to action, actionable items, things that we could actually do to uphold his values and everything he fought for. And that's what I hope to do here at the Midas Touch Network. It's so great to see everybody. It's so great to see your brothers.
It's so great to see everybody here watching, whether you're watching live on YouTube or whether you're listening on a podcast app like an Apple podcast or a Spotify. Great to be here with everybody. Yeah, I mean, every single day gets crazier and crazier. We're dealing with a complete and total lawless regime right now. And I've said this before and I'll say it again.
The United States is the bad guys right now. And I know it's not us, it's not our listeners, it's not most of the country who does not support this crap, but it is the leader of this country. It is Donald Trump and it is all of his enablers and all of them are to blame for this.
And the fact that when Donald Trump sends a statement and we see statements like the one that was first reported out by that PBS NewsHour reporter last night where Donald Trump was saying that he's done with peace now because Norway didn't give him the Nobel Peace Prize
by the way countries the country doesn't give a Nobel Peace Prize it's an independent award by by a board not the country but saying because he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize now he's done with peace and he's going to invade Greenland and all this other crazy stuff the fact that when the president of the United States writes things like that or says things like that most people are like ah this is more clickbait oh this is a lie this this can't be real this is a satire post no
This is real life. This is the moment that we are living in, and we're not going to sugarcoat it here. We got a lot to get into. First, I got to toss it over to Jordi. Jordi, what's the latest?
ben brett brothers what's going on guys might as mighty great to see y'all great to be with you guys tonight i'm excited to get into tonight's show real quick top of the show we are so close to six million subscribers so please if you're watching right now i know we have a lot of folks in the live stream or if you're listening the next day please subscribe to the youtube channel totally free let's hit six million
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's abandonment of Kurdish allies in Syria?
Think about this Trump regime over the past year and think about all the problems that we have right now in our country. They're all created by Trump. They're all fabricated by Trump. He makes up everything. Did anybody before Donald Trump say, you know what the biggest thing on my mind is right now? Greenland, it's Greenland. We got to do something about Greenland.
We got to do something about Canada, folks. We got to do something about these. Nobody, nobody in their right mind thought any of these things. The biggest thing on people's minds are they want to be able to live. They want to be able to afford things. They want to be able to pay for their health care. They don't want to be harassed by their own government.
And this regime right now views it as their job, as Ben said, to be predators and to prey on everybody, whether it's American citizens or whether it is our
european allies or anybody in the entire world these are freaking predators man and this is why they act like predators and they even own up to being predators and they do it all to distract from all of these things they do it to distract from the fact that income inequality is at record highs, that people are suffering and they can't afford the basics in this country.
They do it to distract from the Epstein files, and we'll get more into the Epstein files later in this episode. It's cover-up after cover-up after cover-up, and it is just this ridiculous aggression against the American people and against the entire world. And that's why when we started the show, I said, we are the bad guys. And I am urging, honestly, I know we have a lot of
Canadian viewers, Canadian listeners. I know we have a lot of European viewers and listeners. First, I apologize. I don't know what else I could say. I apologize, and I am urging all of these countries to treat us like the threat that we are at this point, honestly, and do whatever you can. Pull out all the stops. We won't take it personally. I promise we won't take it personally.
If you need to boycott the World Cup that's gonna be here in LA, it would be sad. I thought it was cool that we're gonna have the World Cup here in the United States. You gotta boycott that, do it. Apply whatever pressure you can right now, because now is not the time for appeasement. And we've seen appeasement and what that looks like throughout history.
And what's the point of studying history if you are not going to learn from it? What we've seen thus far here in the United States is a bunch of Neville Chamberlains who are letting Donald Trump get away and do with whatever the hell he wants.
And I think Europe took a posture early on that was like, okay, we'll humor the guy, we'll, you know, we'll give him, you know, these sort of things that don't really mean anything, but we'll just appease the guy and he'll go away. But as you see, the more you give him, the more he takes. This message came right after he stole Maria Machado's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Chapter 4: Why is the threat to indict journalists significant?
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee does. So, you know, and then it's like, I will no longer support peace. Like, just what a weird thing to say. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China. And why do they have a right of ownership anyway?
Chapter 5: What recent actions has Trump taken against media and protests?
There are no written documents. It's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago. But we had boats land there also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding. And now NATO should do something for the United States. The world is not secure unless we have a complete and total control of Greenland. Thank you.
Then at the same time, he invites Putin to join a, quote, peace board, Lukashenko to join a, quote, peace board. And you know what Donald Trump was responding to? This was the message from the prime minister of Norway and Alexander Stubb, the prime minister of Finland. This is what they wrote to him. Dear Mr. President, dear Donald.
regarding transatlantic relations regarding greenland gaza ukraine and your tariff announcement yesterday you know our position on these issues however we believe that we should all work to calm the situation and de-escalate so much is happening around us and we need to stand together
we propose a call with you later today with both of us or individually please give us a hint as to what you prefer best regards alex and jonas that's alexander stube and then that's jonas store finland and norway respectively that's what donald trump responded to that message with i mean that's utterly i mean it's deranged it's predatorial it's you know
At this point, NATO itself is just a fiction that exists purely because the NATO members think hopefully we can just try to get past this. There'll be another American president.
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Chapter 6: What is the Trump DOJ's stance on the Epstein files?
What are we going to do? Or it exists to protect the other NATO members from Donald Trump. This is what they're talking about on Russian TV. Hat tip to Julia Davis. She monitors all this Russian TV stuff. And this is the...
through line on russian tv from from like their sean hannity's and jesse waters america is delivering a catastrophic blow to nato it absolutely benefits us russian tv praises trump's attacks on greenland putin loves this right now that that the us has given russia more than it ever wanted or could ever dream about in such a short period of time
Let's pause there for a moment, because I think it is important that we also talk about not just what's going on in Iran, not just what's going on in Venezuela, what also is going on in Syria. But the through line of this all is that Trump loves the authoritarians in Venezuela. Delcy Rodriguez is his preference. way more than Machado, the opposition pro-democracy leader.
He hates the democracy leader. He's embarrassed, humiliated her, made her grovel. That's what he wanted Zelensky to do. Well, he made the Venezuela's opposition leader do that. But Zelensky realized, if I do that, I lose. I lose all power. I show weakness, I'm done. Machado's done. Don't you for a second think that Machado's gonna get the respect now of the Venezuelan people after doing this.
No way, no how. He's destroyed everything she built to get the Nobel Peace Prize, and she destroyed it by thinking that's the right strategy. And he likes Delcy. Delcy helps him transfer oil money as tribute to a Qatari bank account. And that's where Trump wants the Board of Peace money to go to, to Qatari bank accounts for Donald Trump.
And how do we not talk about this being the height of an impeachable offense?
what are we what are we doing he's making the money for himself it's not even corruption it's straight out the highest form of criminality and betrayal that could exist from the president of the united states and then you have people like lindsey graham who foam at the mouth and lindsey graham you know when it comes to you know his threats about the ayatollah or when it comes to you know
his own view that Donald Trump is somehow getting rid of Maduro, not just extending the regime. Who even knows what Lindsey Graham thinks? He's like, we're coming for you, Ayatollah. We're coming from you. Donald Trump didn't come from the Ayatollah. Trump, the ultimate betrayal to these protesters, Trump said, go out there. I got your back.
There were mass casualties anywhere on the low end from three to 4000 and maybe as high as 20,000 of these protesters were killed by the Ayatollah. And then Trump said, I have a great deal of respect that the Ayatollah is not going to hang 800 people. So Trump went from we're going in guns a blazing to I have a great deal of respect for the Ayatollah not hanging 800 people.
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Chapter 7: What are the consequences of Trump's foreign policy decisions?
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Chapter 8: How are Virginia Democrats pushing back against extremism?
doesn't it show you how pathetic the supreme court is that they just let donald trump's unlawful tariffs just stay but that's why our whole legal system i say this as someone who's a law professor just like completely broken no ruling we don't get rulings on the tariffs it takes a year while the unlawful tariffs are in place for you to get any remedy and the status quo is preserved utterly ridiculous but any event trump's hook is that there's an emergency a threat
facing the country, right? And Trump's threats are Canada's bringing fentanyl and Mexico is bringing this and this country is threatening us with all these, you know, I mean, Mexico is bringing the precursor to fentanyl, not Canada. But that's Trump's hook for all of the tariffs. But so what's the emergency, Besson?
The Heikert's decision. What is the national emergency that justifies these new slate of tariffs?
The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency. It is a strategic decision by the president. This is a geopolitical decision. And he is able to use the economic might of the U.S. to avoid a hot war. So why wouldn't we do that? Same thing.
He's just saying the law and there's no laws. That's what he's saying. Right there. What are you talking about, dude? And he does it in this, like, arrogant way. Why wouldn't he do that? Because there's laws, man. Because there's laws. There's laws.
We have NATO. We have a structure to protect all this stuff. All the things that you're saying are complete and total lies. You have China coming out and making statements. Beijing's like, don't invoke our name for your justification to try to seize this. Meanwhile, you have the United States, in effect, justifying China to take Taiwan, Russia to take Ukraine.
This goes far beyond even just Greenland. This is an issue of global importance, obviously, but there's ramifications that extend even far beyond this moment. And one of the things that I hate what these people say, and it wasn't in that clip, but I think it was in that interview with Besant, is they'll go like, You know, this is just what happens when you're the hottest country ever.
When you're so, we're so hot right now. We're hot. We're so hot. It's like, shut up. Shut the hell up. Shut the hell up. The United States right now is hated, hated by the world, hated by the world. And it's your fault. And you know better, Scott Besson. These people all know better and they are all collaborators.
I don't want to give Besson any sort of street cred here. Doesn't he constantly get into fights with members of Trump's cabinet? Didn't he punch Elon or get punched by- Elon.
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