Chapter 1: What is the significance of the People's State of the Union?
The Midas Touch YouTube channel is about to hit 6 million subscribers. We are just 200 subscribers away, and it is an honor that we will be able to, in very short order, share that moment with each of you. It's why we wanted to start this episode about five minutes earlier than our normal start time, just so we can build up that subscriber count. And as the show starts on its usual time,
We should be right around that 6 million subscriber number. And folks, we've got a lot to discuss on this episode as the Midas Touch hits 6 million YouTube subscribers. So you have Donald Trump currently, as we speak, attacking the Midas Touch network for working with MoveOn to lead the State of the Union official boycott.
The People's State of the Union, which will be streaming right here on the Midas Touch YouTube channel, we have about 40 members of Congress, senators, and members from the House of Representatives who will be giving speeches themselves. They'll also be bringing special guests with them.
This has never happened in the history of the United States before, and it is an honor and a privilege to be able to share that with this community and to lead kind of a real, intelligent, humanity-facing conversation State of the Union that we're calling the People's State of the Union.
And shout out to the great folks at MoveOn for helping us and all of the senators and members from the House of Representatives who are attending our event. We are so grateful for all of you. Donald Trump's been having psychotic meltdowns throughout the weekend and throughout the day as the United States Supreme Court struck down his tariffs against the world under IEPA.
so after the supreme court ruled against donald trump what did he do he unlawfully invokes another law the united states trade act of 1974 which is not applicable and trump then imposes a new set of 15 tariffs on the entire world and he says the supreme court said i won They gave me more power, he says. No, they didn't. He's deranged and demented, and now he's crashing our economy.
Remember when you had Pam Bondi saying, the Dow, the Dow is 50,000, so I don't need to talk about covering up a child sex trafficking ring. The Dow is crashing today. It's about about 48,000 right now, not good. So I guess that means maybe the DOJ can take child sex trafficking seriously right now.
And we're seeing the ramifications internationally, not in response to the Supreme Court ruling against Trump, but Trump's response. of now imposing these 15% tariffs on the entire world and attacking other countries as well. So you have the European Union Parliament stopped ratifying its trade deal, or it's a fake trade deal with the United States.
India's trade delegation was supposed to meet with the United States trade delegation this week. They canceled their visit separately. In France, they are now banning the U.S. ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, from meeting with any French officials. It's unrelated to the Supreme Court ruling. It's just Kushner started attacking domestic policy in France. France summoned Kushner.
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Chapter 2: How is Donald Trump's approval rating affecting his political strategies?
You are the reason that independent media continues to grow and continues to thrive. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jordy. Congrats, buddy. How's it going?
What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? Congrats to y'all. Congrats to the Midas Mighty. I say this every time we hit another milestone here. This is truly an egoless movement, right? This isn't about Ben, Brett, or Jordy. Yes, we are the ones on the stream right now, but it is this community. It is the Midas Mighty.
that is the cornerstone that is the foundation that is the very essence of this pro-democracy movement so congrats to you guys man because without y'all this is not possible and even beyond that without y'all you know this megaphone here to get these pro-democracy messages and causes and just continue to spread the truth with facts data and receipts none of that none of that is possible
without you guys so thank you guys so much for being in this fight with us every step of the way every single day congrats to you guys this is so amazing and now we have a we have a bigger megaphone now to spread the truth to spread these pro-democracy ideals all thanks to y'all so thank you for being here today i am so excited to get into today's show on a light on a light note here i guess i don't have to shave my head anymore i know that was the big bet that if we didn't reach it within the 30 days and
We're about eight days before that. I will say this, though. I do have a bunch of grays coming in on the side. I think I was a little stressed out, to be honest. But here we are.
Can I just say, Jordy, I was a little worried when you made that your goal. You made that the thing, right? The stakes. That if we didn't hit six million, that you would shave your head. And I was...
i was worried about it because for me as the older brother that would almost encourage me to do the opposite to start an unfollow campaign specifically to make you shave your head but then you told me that behind thankfully our followers aren't as mean as i am and thank you guys so much man this is this means the world benji where do you start off big bro
You know, when we build a platform like this, it's not just about the number, right? The number is meaningless. It's what you do with the number, right? How do you amplify pro-democracy content? Who do you amplify? What do you discuss? How do you discuss it, right?
And it's also when you think about what we're doing tomorrow by being the main distributor of the biggest boycott of the State of the Union in history. This is historical in nature, right? We're sending a statement as well that you can't normalize fascism.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's new tariffs on the economy?
That you, as the President of the United States, are going to do that? Demean the women's hockey team in that way? Have the FBI director chugging beers? Like, it's just despicable stuff.
It's really, really, really a disgrace for them to just do this, politicize this, behave in this sort of way, the way they're behaving. And I'm just trying to picture like James Comey going to the Olympics and pounding beers with people while there are all these serious things happening. while he's covering up these heinous, heinous, heinous crimes. Just the visuals are absolutely appalling.
It's so utterly unprofessional. And the entire Trump regime, like the entire apparatus at the FBI, the comms team over there, was so holier than thou throughout this entire weekend where they kept like yelling at the press for saying that Kash Patel was in Milan and that he was going to be attending these Olympic Games.
And they'd be like, how dare you fake news for reporting that cash Patel was hanging out with the Olympic team. Take it back, take it back. And they would send all of these messages, just whining like little babies. And then sure enough, the photos start coming out and each photo, each video is worse than the next that we see and shows that that's exactly what cash Patel is doing.
But this is the behavior of the Epstein class, right? This is the same sort of behavior we see of Howard Lutnik. When Lutnik says, I never went there. I never, not me. Me, that guy was disgusting. The second I saw him, I was like, I'm disgusted. I'm not gonna speak to him.
And then it's like, okay, well, we just found out that you went to the island, that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to hire your nanny, even though he doesn't have kids, and that your nanny's resumes were being sent over to Jeffrey Epstein. That's kind of bizarre. As more and more comes out every single day, we're learning more and more about
the business relationships you also had with Jeffrey Epstein that extended far beyond the point when he was originally found to have done a lot of the heinous acts that he has already done. And so you just look worse and worse when you deny, deny, deny, deny, and then the truth comes out. And that's what we keep seeing.
And just like, if we just even look at the past like week of this incompetent, disgraceful administration, I think this photo here sums it up. I've labeled this on my computer, cosplay montage. And this is a little, these are images of people in the Trump regime. And I think this really sums it up.
And for our audio listeners, it's an image of Kash Patel chugging a beer in the locker room while he's, you know, he's got his fake, well, it's not a fake gold medal, but he's got the gold medal that the players put around his neck. I guess he could put that next to Donald Trump's FIFA Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize that Machado gave him. Then you have Pete Hexeth lifting weights.
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Chapter 4: How are Trump's actions impacting international relations?
Ben, I got to say, you know what we got to do now? We got to put the 6 million into action. And so I'm expecting all 6 million of you to show up tomorrow.
Do you think we can get 6 million watching live?
I don't know. Listen, I just want everybody possible to show up for this thing and show your support for this People's State of the Union. Like Ben said earlier, it's a historic event. This has never happened before. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of lawmakers who are going to be not attending the State of the Union, and they're going to be attending our event.
that we're putting on with MoveOn, and it's going to be at the National Mall in DC, and we're going to be streaming it live right here on this network, right here on this YouTube channel. And the link is up right now. If you wanted to go to it, it's on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Midas Touch. You go there, you'll see the link to the stream for the People's State of the Union.
You could set your reminders right now. Please tell a friend, share it with people. Let's really make a statement here, folks, because I think we have a real opportunity right now to show where the energy of this country actually is.
All right. We will take our first quick break of the show. 16,000 subscribers here. Oh, by the way, while you're all here, check out store.midastouch.com. Get that Midas.
It's all over the place, Brett. Don't worry about it.
I know. Six million subscribers, not 16,000 subscribers.
Sorry, 16,000 subscribers here watching live. I see. 16,000 people watching live is what I meant to say. And also go to store.MidasTouch.com, check out the Midas Touch gear, and also check out our sub stack as well. We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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Chapter 5: What reactions did the U.S. Women's Olympic hockey team have to Trump?
I think you're starting to get a little worried, I think.
have the gray speak for themselves on the side but shout out to the midas mighty man this is you guys are just just the best thank you benji where to next big brother look as we were hitting six million subscribers today and then also we're coordinating the people's state of the union which is the
the biggest boycott in the history of the United States for the State of the Union. We have so many senators and members of Congress who are attending. New senators and new members of Congress announced today that they'll be attending, like Congressmember Garcia and Senator Gallego and others announcing today. I also have my midterm this week that I give out to the law class that I teach.
And so I'm also doing my midterm review today and I'm holding office hours while all of these calls are going down. And so there was just so many things happening all at once. And so big shout out to all my students as well at USC.
undergrad at the law program though who are studying right now for those midterms you're all going to do great so i told them i would give them a shout out as well all right let's take a look at some of the polling numbers right now for donald trump the worst in history the worst in history. And the way Harry Enten delivers this right here, I mean, by the way, just look at the CNN poll.
As you can see, Donald Trump's support with independence plummeting. His support with independence right now is at 26%. And by the way, That's the same approval he has with Latino voters, with voters under the age of 40, and with most demographic groups is right at the 26% mark. Lots of people are like, well, Donald Trump's bottom is like 36 or 35. No, no, no, no, no.
This is heading into the 20s right now. And as Donald Trump now imposes this new tariff regime on the entire world, which caused the markets to tumble today, things are gonna get worse for Donald Trump and unfortunately worse for the country. But I think people are seeing what's going on. And by the way, go back and watch videos of Donald Trump.
And we showed some of these earlier in the day as well in some of the videos I did. Before his casinos went bankrupt, He would say, we've never been better. It's the same shtick. The casinos have never been healthier. They've never been greater. The biggest casinos that there are, we are in such a magnificent position. And then bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. This is what this guy does.
It's why we focus... on his background and his past, right? I mean, he is a sexual predator, right? Here's someone who has been found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's someone who has bankrupted entity after entity after entity. And he's a fraud. He tricks people. He's a con man.
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Chapter 6: What recent events have unfolded related to Jeffrey Epstein?
He's a Ponzi schemer. This is what he's done his entire life. He's got a shtick. I don't know why it works. It doesn't make any sense to me why people buy it when he keeps on, Jordi, to your point, being a fricking loser and bankrupting everything, everything, everything over and over and over again and defrauding people over and over and over again.
By the way, to me, you know, people could go bankrupt. That doesn't make you whatever. But like when you defraud people and you're a con man and you repeat the shtick over and then you take from people over and over and over again, well, then...
I don't know what attribute is kind of worse than that, than leeching off of people like that and stealing from people and then having these entities go bankrupt while you enrich yourself at the expense of people. And he's doing it now with the United States. I mean, look, this is a felon. Why is he doing this? Because he's a felon. That's why. He should be in prison.
If you look internationally, President Yoon of South Korea, their insurrectionist former president in prison for the rest of their life. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, in prison for 27 years. That's where Trump should be. That's where he belongs. And that's why we're here. But people are seeing it now, finally. Let's take a look at what Harry Enten had to say on CNN about just how weak Donald Trump is.
Let's play this clip.
numbers, but talk about what is driving this drop for the president. What is driving this drop? I said record was the name of the game when it came to this segment, right? Talking about the lowest Trump has ever been going into the State of the Union, the lowest that any president has been this century going into a State of the Union at this point in their presidency.
It is also the weakest that Donald Trump has ever been with independence. Look at this drop. We've been talking about it the past few months. At this point, a year ago, Donald Trump was at minus 13 points. Look at this, minus 47 points among independents, the lowest Donald Trump has ever been in Either of his two terms as president with independents, that is driving these numbers.
When you're 47 points underwater with independents, that's the name of the game. You can't be above water overall. And that's why Donald Trump is near record lows overall and the lowest he's ever been going into a State of the Union address. Quite a message on the eve of this big moment. Thank you, Harry.
Thank you. John? Those numbers with independents just eye-popping there.
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Chapter 7: How are Trump's comments about Iran being received?
Just give me one more year and you'll see it. So it went from when he was running, I will make it better on day one. Then when day one happened, just give it a few, fourth quarter's our quarter, right? And, you know, otherwise it's Biden's fault. But if there's good results, it's mine. If it's a bad result, it's Biden. Okay. And now what they're saying is I need one more year.
Here, play this clip.
That's because of tariffs. And we're gonna keep it going the same way. And you're gonna start to see the results in a year from now when all those factories start that are under construction right now, you see all the construction numbers.
Look, when I was a litigator, I faced off against some of the biggest Ponzi schemers out there. There was a case I worked on called the MedCap cases out here, a billion dollar Ponzi scheme out here where I worked with the SEC as counsel for their receiver in a case called Tom Seaman versus MedCap or SEC versus MedCap. Let me just tell you what Ponzi schemers say. Just give me a little more time.
I got this. I got this. I got this. While they rob Peter to pay Paul. Like, I need a little more time. Just give me more time. Give me more time. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. And then they blame everybody. I need a little more time. I need a little more. It's the same stuff at a macro level. And also the rest of the world is seeing it.
I mean, whether it's Canada, the European Union, whether you go to Brazil, whether it's Australia, UK, you name it, people in Asia, they're seeing what's going on. They're seeing how pathetic it is. And they've been forming trade alliances that cut the US out. Trump's psychotic. He's demented. They see it. Like we can't deal with it. We literally can't deal with that. That is not normal.
And by the way, that's why we can't normalize the State of the Union. That's why we're doing the People's State of the Union. We can't normalize this behavior. We can't normalize someone who's covering up a pedo rig. Can't do it. Can't do it. We'll take our last quick break of the show. A reminder. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. It's already starting, folks.
It's already starting. 7 million subscribers.
Do we need a new end card? Does the end card say 6 million when we run that one? I got to check with the team.
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Chapter 8: What are the predictions for Trump's future political influence?
To do all the things that Donald Trump is doing. It's very obvious. It's good to see, uh, that the leaders in Denmark and Greenland are speaking out against this that are speaking out unequivocally because it's very clear what Donald Trump is doing.
But this is the problem when you have an actual psychopath in the oval office and enablers who enable the psychopath to be psychopathic and to be crazy on everybody. I mean, this is the end result. This is the only natural result of all of this. And it's why everybody needs to actually stand up. against this maniac.
Absolutely. And it's why I always say this is why we need adults in the room. We need serious people in government. My biggest fear for the future of this country is basically how our allies will see us post the Trump presidency, right?
My biggest fear is trying to figure out where we stand as a country, but as we stand as an image sort of to the world of what our values are, of who our leaders are, of what people expect that they can get from a relationship with this country on a consistent basis. I really worry for not just us here, but future generations, right? We all have kids as the brothers here.
And even if it's not our kids specifically, I just worry about the future generations of children that are growing up in America. Because if we don't have strong allies and we truly isolate ourselves from the world, I think we've all learned throughout studying history what that could do and what that does do.
me it's a terrifying prospect when countries can no longer depend on us the us to to actually live up to our end of the bargain and that's what's been so disheartening for me with the trump presidency with the trump regime right now is i i truly can't see a vision where the image of the united states gets fully repaired on a global stage and it's terrifying you want me to
give you the answer remember that adam sandler movie where it is like the fast forward button click what was it called click click yeah first movie i cried are you ready for the click journey the saddest movie well 11 or 12 started hysterically crying in the theater Okay, well, I'll give you the click ending right now, okay? It already happened, Jordy. In Trump, that stuff's already happened.
While I feel like I've aged in dog years under this Trump regime, as most people have in this short period of time, it's done, Jordy. Like, it's over. There is no America leader of the world. There will be future presidents who will try to get back into a multilateral world order. They will not be trusted. America will not be a leader ever again. Period. It's done. It's done.
We can hope that a future president restores some dignity but that maybe takes us back from negative 100 to negative 20, but the rest of the world's moved on. And their view is, okay, we've got to deal with this person for the next four years and that's good. But this country, America, United States, is susceptible to this again. This exists in that country.
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