Chapter 1: What are the implications of Trump's actions regarding the war in Iran?
Donald Trump's unlawful war against Iran is spiraling out of control. Utter chaos has engulfed the Gulf. The Middle East is on fire. Going into today, the markets were absolutely crashing internationally and here in the United States. The price of oil was going up dramatically, almost hitting $120 per barrel.
The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P were crashing like almost circuit breaker crash was expected for the day. So what did Donald Trump do to manipulate the markets? He started calling up reporters and saying the war is pretty much complete.
that the war is going to go away like a miracle it's all just going to disappear and everything is going great so on the news that donald trump was going to taco that trump always chickens out all of a sudden we saw the price of oil dramatically decrease we saw the stocks rebound and what was going to be A disastrous day on the market. And I mean a disaster.
All of a sudden looked like, well, things were okay. And you may have been saying, what happened? Well, it was Donald Trump and his regime manipulating the market. Then we learned more. Donald Trump had a conversation on the phone with Putin today, and Donald Trump credited Putin with coming up with a plan for the United States, how to end the war in Iran that Donald Trump started.
That's very odd. Well, not for Donald Trump. While Donald Trump also talked about removing sanctions on Putin and Putin's ability to sell oil to the rest of the world. The Trump regime has already removed sanctions that now allow Russia to sell their oil to India. but Trump is considering removing sanctions on Russia to sell oil elsewhere.
This war has been a massive boom for Putin as the United States needs Zelensky's help and is begging Zelensky for help to stop these Iranian Shahid drones and ballistic missiles that Zelensky has worked to stop in Ukraine.
so we are propping up putin while begging zielinski for help which is like a worst case scenario but that's typical trump now as we're recording this live as the news sets in which shouldn't be a shocker that this war is not ending soon we're now seeing the markets fluctuate in the opposite direction we're seeing the price per barrel of oil now shoot up close to that 100 per barrel mark
We're seeing the futures markets starting to look really bad yet again. This is Donald Trump manipulating the markets, in my opinion. It's fairly obvious what's taking place. Then, before we went live, Donald Trump held a deranged press conference where he said that Iran potentially stole United States Tomahawk missiles and then used the Tomahawks on itself
to kill 150 children in the elementary school in iran and 185 people total and then when reporters pressed him and said you realize that nobody is saying that other than you like you're making this up i mean it was an american tomahawk that crashed into this elementary school with American, it says Made in America on it. We can see that it's tomahawks. We see the crater marks.
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Chapter 2: How is Trump manipulating the markets during the conflict?
Then yesterday you had Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, not rule out a draft for the American people sending your children to war. And that's about a good summation of what's went down today. We're going to get into it. We're going to show you the receipts. We're going to show you the facts right now.
But folks, it is an incredibly sad thing, and I'll bring in Brett and Jordy when I say this, to see what this Trump authoritarian regime has done to our country.
internationally here our reputation is shattered frankly it's irreparable irreparable harm has been caused and when i'm watching whether it's hegseth or rubio or trump or caroline levitt the way we once looked at like baghdad bob you know and these characters from these authoritarian regimes with zero credibility and their behavior
Our people right now in the United States who are in charge of this, although in charge is not how they're behaving, are way worse than that. And I see this behavior and I'm just like, this is sad. This behavior is sickening and that this is the United States of America right now. It is sick and disgusting and it needs to be reported as such. Brett and Jordy, good to see you.
Good to see you too, Ben. Good to see you, Jordy. Good to see everybody who's tuning in right now live on the Midas Touch YouTube channel and everybody who is listening to this on the Midas Touch audio podcast. Great to be here. A whole lot to discuss. You know, lying is bad enough during times of relative peace. Lying is bad enough
when it's about inconsequential things that don't really matter. But when it comes to moments of war, when it comes to moments of life or death, those lies just become so heinous. And the lies that we are seeing right now from the Trump White House, I want to be clear, none of this is surprising at all. This is what Trump does about literally everything.
But the lies we are seeing right now out of Trump and this White House and all of these sycophants around Donald Trump in Congress are just so despicable that they make the Bush administration and the lies that they put out there to bring us into the Iraq war, they make them look like honest brokers. That's how bad these people are right now. They're just so egregious.
The things that they are trying to defend are just indefensible, like the bombing of those children in the school in Iran and the constant lying about it despite all evidence to the contrary. All these kind of mixed messages they're giving the American people. Trump was basically earlier today saying,
basically that he was going to surrender, and then in the next breath, he'd say that this war is going to go as long as it takes, and it could take a really long time. You don't know what to believe. Unfortunately, it's impossible to trust anything that's coming right now from the Trump regime. I mean, as always, but like I said, it's heightened right now.
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Chapter 3: What happened during Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin?
Anywhere you get your podcasts, it's totally free. Just search the Midas Touch podcast and will pop up, hit that subscribe button. It's really helpful. Look, I'm very excited to get into tonight's show. The situation is a political and strategic nightmare for the Trump regime. First off, it just completely undermines Trump's core brand, right?
This idea of strength and this America first efficiency. I mean, Trump campaigned
on ending forever wars instead you know it looks like he's gotten us in another one with literally zero clear exit strategy aside from him just saying yeah i think we're wrapping up you can't trust what the guy is saying instead of a pro-democracy uprising in iran because there was no plan or or thought really put into this the strikes unify the iranian public against the us this makes any sort of long-term victory just
impossible and puts our troops at risk, puts our embassies at risk and our citizens here in the states at risk. And also what you can't overstate here is the economic shock of it all with the surging oil prices, the disruption to the global trade routes. The immediate inflationary pressure on the American consumer is being felt now more than ever.
And the Trump economy is being dragged down by a war of his choice while the American people are suffering the consequences. And I'm not saying this to be hyperbolic, but it's obvious this is going to get really, really bad, Ben. Yeah, I don't like any propaganda. So let me be clear there. But the Trump propaganda is also just so bad.
Like it is infantile in its execution and formulation that it's like you can't even do propaganda, right? Like you're trying to do what the authoritarian regimes do, but you're also bad at that. bad at everything right now.
You know, whether they're posting videos of, like, Grand Theft Auto or NFL linebackers, like, tackling people videos and mixing it with war footage, you know, or they were showing what, like,
know the different like cartoons i'm like what in the world are you doing and then like the music artists call them out and like stop stealing my songs and the directors of the movies like stop using me for like war propaganda like what are you even you know doing right here right so I'll tell you how I experienced today's news because I taught today.
So there was about an hour and a half where I was out teaching my class at USC. And so before I taught my class, the markets were tanking and it looked like it was going to be a very grim day economically for this country, perhaps one of the worst out there. Then I leave the class, I go out and I'm like, huh, What's going on? The markets are going up. The price of oil is going down.
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Chapter 4: What are the consequences of Trump's leadership on the Iranian people?
Use the Strait of Hormuz. And I'm thinking to myself, it's market manipulation. The war is still raging. There's no sign of this stopping. How tragic, how horrific, how despicable that we have a regime that would do this. And how do people keep falling for this? Brett and Jordy.
Like you said, the propaganda is so stupid and so basic that you'd think anybody with half a brain cell would be able to see through exactly what is going on. But Trump, in the same few sentences, dance every which way around the same exact issue. And then he allows kind of everyone to hear the sound bite that they want to hear.
He did this a lot during the campaign too, when it came to issues like abortion and other kind of controversial issues out there. But you had basically in the same speech today, Trump saying the war is very complete. Then he said the war will be a short-term excursion. Then he said the war will continue until the enemy is decisively defeated.
Then he said the war has actually already been won in a lot of ways.
ways then he said we haven't won enough then he said we will go forward more determined than ever until we achieve ultimate victory it was just this that this that just dancing every which way around the issue meanwhile like you were saying Ben this has been a boon to Vladimir Putin and Russia they cannot have gotten more out of this I mean they have to be salivating right now
out of every move Donald Trump did by increasing the price of oil with Donald Trump's war, with the easing of the sanctions, which is now going to make Russia much richer for the first time in a long time. They've been begging for these sanctions
to be released and now donald trump is handing it to them at the same time where they while they are helping iran to target american troops i mean talk about traitorous and meanwhile one of the biggest things to me that is crushing me right now just not even on any sort of political level whatsoever but just on a human level is what a betrayal this has been to the Iranian people.
If you remember, everybody, what did Donald Trump say? It was kind of like about January, I believe. Donald Trump told the Iranian people, now's your time. Take to the streets. The United States has your back. Go protest. Overthrow the regime. We got you. We got you. What happens?
They're in the streets, more take to the streets, tens of thousands get slaughtered by the regime, and Donald Trump does absolutely nothing. Now, flash forward to months later, Donald Trump is bombing Iran basically indiscriminately. Donald Trump bombed a school, and he is refusing to take credit for bombing the school right now, but all intelligence points to that exact fact.
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Chapter 5: How has the Trump regime's propaganda affected public perception?
Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors, man. Links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links. Use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next, big bro? You know, let's talk about this right now. I'm going to show what Trump was saying in just a little bit, but...
I'm just reflecting on how his family is behaving right now while so many Americans are scared and rightfully so as Americans are suffering right now from the psychological torture that this regime is inflicting. One of the stories that the Wall Street Journal exclusively broke this morning is that Donald Trump's kids and Eric Trump and others are now in the drone business.
and that they are now behind a startup that will be making drones for the Pentagon right now. Trump's son's back new drone company targeting Pentagon sales is called Powerus, and it says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone technology to sell it to the US military. So here's my question. I'm just asking questions, right? So when we asked Zelensky,
for help to shoot down the shahid drones you may be saying well isn't that inconsistent everything's inconsistent with this regime though of donald trump then helping putin And if Putin is targeting our soldiers by giving Iran the coordinates and Trump is taking away the sanctions against Russia to sell its oil, but then we're getting help from Ukraine.
So how do you kind of put this all together? Well, again, I'm just asking questions. Are we taking the Ukrainian technology holding over their head support so they can help the Trump family make money, right? Once we learn that technology, it then gets utilized by this startup which now does the contracts with the Pentagon.
The Trump family gets enriched instead of the Ukrainian drone companies because we're getting their IP and tech. And then we're helping Russia get richer by removing sanctions. And we're holding this over Zelensky's head.
seem to remember a uh political party and a guy who was running for president who made a big stink about uh an individual a son of the president who was doing business in ukraine and but they made up a whole lot of stories about about that guy and held a whole lot of hearings about that guy but they now want to actually enrich themselves off the ukrainian people and this is okay
Take the drone technology from Ukraine while then releasing Russia from sanctions, while Russia targets Ukraine. american helps iran target american soldiers and while donald trump helps china against taiwan while china is also providing support to iran just think about that uh trump's granddaughter kai yesterday posted a video i brought my secret service to air one
It's an expensive grocery store in Los Angeles. And she like buys stuff at Air One and like tries the sushi. Like, oh, this sushi is gross. And what I pay for it, $25 for the, I'm gonna have to file for bankruptcy. It's like actually what she says. So that's what she's posting. You had Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump's daughter, right? Kai's a granddaughter, Tiffany Trump, the day the war begins.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest developments in the Epstein files related to Trump?
What do you mean by soon? And remember, earlier today, Trump said, we're basically complete. We're basically done. So a reporter seeks clarification. What did you mean when you told that to CBS? Let's play it. Yeah, please. Thank you, Mr. President. On Iran, you called it an excursion. You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over? Are you talking about days?
No, but soon. I think soon. Okay, and with respect to— Very soon. Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, there are two levels of leadership, and even actually, as it turns out, more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about.
So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective. Yeah, just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean that people haven't heard of it. Their foreign minister is the same foreign minister. Their national security advisors, their same national security advisor. Their head of their parliament is the head of their parliament.
Their new Ayatollah is just the son of the old Ayatollah, who's more extreme than his dad was. Did you kill a lot of people who were in leadership positions? Yes. Is the leadership structure and the continuity of it in place? It still is. Does Iran still have the capabilities to shoot at the Arab neighbors that where American interests are? They do.
So let's, again, just stick with the facts here. That's all. That's all I want to do on this show. By the way, you've seen in recent days, too, like these talking points. And it's like I have... You know, Iraq war PTSD from hearing all of these talking points over and over and over again, I can't believe that they use the same comments to try to do people and that people believe this stuff.
But you see these people one by one going on TV, these Republicans and people within the Trump administration, and they go, well, of course we're going to win. Of course, this is going to be a success. We have far more firepower than they do. They don't stand a chance. I heard that in Iraq. I've heard that with Afghanistan. That's what they said. during Vietnam.
They've said this during every single war that the United States has went into that has been a complete and utter disaster. Yet they use the same freaking lines every time they send American troops out there to die. And I'm sick of it. Here's the thing, though. Wait, one sec, Ben.
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Chapter 7: What are the potential outcomes of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East?
Just wait until he does the banner thing. I say that not being funny at all. He's going to do the mission accomplished banner thing. He does it every day, though, at this point, right? Yeah, fair, fair. But just wait till the photo op itself. Just wait, because it's coming. It's absolutely coming. Right. But to me, Brett, I hear you of the similarities, but to me, it's the difference...
of degrees that are so vast that at least with Iraq, and I'm not necessarily saying this is a better thing, at least they tried to present it with intelligent people who worked hard to pretend they were building a coalition. There was months and months and months of selling that to the American people. You know, like right now, this is like out of a stupid comic book.
Like it's not even done at a level that bears any like intelligent thinking. And, you know, and I'm watching, I'm like, this is just stupid. This is, that's what I said earlier in the show, like, I don't like propaganda. That's an AI image of the mission accomplished in the background. We're mocking that he's declaring mission accomplished, just so you know. But he said those things essentially.
But again, I don't like propaganda in general. I detest it, but this is like, this is like F-level propaganda. You're like, what? What are you talking about? Then he bragged about speaking with Putin. I mean, just think about it.
If American president Putin is out there right now trying to kill Americans, Putin's sworn enemy, the United States of America, Putin is working to destroy our country, all of Europe. other than, I suppose, Orban, you know, and trying to destroy Ukraine, which I consider part of Europe, of course. He hates us. He literally wants to see America dead.
But Donald Trump's like, yeah, I had a good call. Good call with the guy today. We had a good call with him. And by the way, the way we found out about this was from the Kremlin originally. So when the reporter was asking Trump, it was for confirmation about what the Kremlin published. Watch for yourself. Let's play it. you approve of Iran's new supreme leader?
And secondly, can you tell us more about your call with Russian President Vladimir Putin today? What did you discuss? Yes, I had a very good call with President Putin. We had a lot of people on the line from our side, from his side. We were talking about Ukraine, which is just a never ending fight. And when Look, there's tremendous hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky.
They can't seem to get it together. But I think it was a positive call on that subject. And we obviously talked then about the Middle East. And he wants to. I said, you could be more helpful by getting the Ukraine-Russia war over with. That would be more helpful. But we had a very good talk, and he wants to be very constructive. That was really a Helsinki kind of moment for me.
Like, if that were a first-term Trump comment, that would be fantastic.
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