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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/10/26

10 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What actions is Trump taking regarding the ceasefire with Iran?

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Donald Trump is spiraling as he tries to break the ceasefire that he purported to enter into when he agreed to all of Iran's terms of surrender. Donald Trump agreed to Iran's 10-point negotiating framework. And now Donald Trump says there must have been a miscommunication because maybe Iran doesn't know English that well.

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Maybe their negotiators didn't realize what we were saying, because even though Donald Trump posted that I've agreed to Iran's 10 point framework as a suitable place to have these negotiations, I actually don't agree with any of those terms. And I'm going to now claim that Iran agreed to our framework. Now, Iran was clearly prepared for this and they still control the straight of Hormuz.

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So they're like, okay, well, you posted Donald Trump that you agreed to our framework. We've made it public and very clear what our negotiating framework is. But if ultimately you don't want to abide by the terms, that's fine. I mean, we control the Strait of Hormuz, and we're not gonna let any tankers through. And that's exactly what's happening right now. Iran's not letting any tankers through.

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They've let some cargo ships through, but by and large, no tankers have been able to get through the Strait of Hormuz. We're seeing the price of oil surge once again, over $101 per barrel, and that's gonna just keep on rising. But Iran's made it very clear, The new normal, as Iran sees it, is they control the Strait of Hormuz. They get $2 million per ship.

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They become a massive regional power in the area, if not a global power. They're expecting full reparations from the United States and Israel for the invasion of Iran. They're also expecting long-term security guarantees for themselves, for Hezbollah. for the Houthis and for Shiite groups in Iraq, because that's part of the stipulation that was in the 10-point negotiating framework.

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Also, they expect to enrich uranium because that was in the framework. And also, they expect for all sanctions to be lifted against them, both United Nations resolutions against them, sanctions against them, anything. because that's what Trump agreed to.

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And so I guess Donald Trump's plan is to do what he did his whole life, enter into agreements, then break them and say, you know, I'm not going to follow them. But the reality is, is you don't have the cards right now, as someone once said. They have the cards in the sense of they control the straight of her moves. And so now Donald Trump's tactics are just putting on social media.

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There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait. They better not be, and if they are, they better stop now. Oh, you're gonna post it on social media, and that's gonna do the trick, and when that doesn't work, Donald Trump then threatens NATO and Europe that they better go right now, NATO and Europe, and they better go to the Strait of Hormuz immediately.

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And if they don't go to the Strait of Hormuz, they're gonna be in big trouble and I don't just want commitments, they better send their ships. And NATO members and European countries are like, yeah, we're not doing that. We're gonna do negotiations with Iran like ourselves. So like European countries, NATO countries,

Chapter 2: What are the implications of Melania Trump's press conference?

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It'll reconstitute as something, you know, probably more deranged. Let's not get it twisted. This thing is fragmented beyond repair at this point. And it seems as you hear Donald Trump speak about all these various things, maybe he like doesn't understand the structure of the Iranian government and the various facets of the Iranian government.

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Like you had Trump the other day when he was trying to refute the story. He posted a statement by the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran and was saying how this was like the official story. This was what everyone needs to focus on, this statement." And that statement, by the way, also mentioned the 10 points.

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But what Donald Trump was so angry about was the fact that CNN and us and The New York Times and all these organizations were reporting on an additional statement,

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you know, like in addition to that statement, a statement from the Islamic Republic's Supreme National Security Council, which that statement that they released was much more like the United States surrendered, this is a massive victory over the United States, you know, it was much more of a spike the football sort of statement.

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And if anything, the Islamic Republic's Supreme National Council has more authority than the And Donald Trump tried to pretend like all these news organizations were putting forward a fake statement when they were not. They were just putting forward a statement from a different facet of the Iranian government. And so right now there is zero trust between any of the parties here.

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And frankly, why should there be? When I look at the situation, of course, I'm happy that there is a ceasefire. I hope the ceasefire lasts forever. I hope this war ends. I hope our brave men and women who are overseas right now get home. That doesn't look like what's happening, however. And Donald Trump has made the United States weaker in this process.

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And he's made like Iran, he's turned Iran into like a global superpower at this point. They control the region right now. They control the Strait of Hormuz. As we are currently reporting this, we still see a massive buildup of US fighter jets in the Middle East who seem prepared to start back up this war any moment. Iran continues to say that they're ready to start this war up at any moment.

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Israel keeps saying that they're ready to start this war up at any moment, even though they never stopped. They've been bombing Lebanon relentlessly ever since this so-called ceasefire even occurred.

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And we have Iranian state media, as of this moment, also saying that they're not even sending any Iranian negotiators to Pakistan like the United States is sending, saying, quote, Iran has no plans to attend peace talks in Islamabad, with the American side until a ceasefire is established in Lebanon. So we're getting so many mixed signals from everybody.

Chapter 3: How is the economic data affecting perceptions of the Trump administration?

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I see them in the chat. If Trump was going to agree to the 10-point plan, like literally, my genuine question is, what was the point

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of any of this right if we're going off the numbers that that we have been reporting like the united states has been reporting about casualties and losses of of american servicemen during this time period we got 13 u.s troops killed over this another 300 injured and again that that's the reports that we have here from our own intel that it could be different than that What was the point of this?

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1570.18 - 1593.183 Brett

So he could bomb an elementary school in Iran? What was the point? So he could give Iran complete control over the Strait of Hormuz? What was the plan? For me, it's as simple as putting it in that framework and that statement. What did we get out of this? Endless chaos, dead servicemen, wounded servicemen. We're bombing civilians. We're losing our credibility on the world stage.

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Donald Trump further goes down this dementia riddled behavior that the Republican Party, as we know it right now, just has to completely align itself with like he's some great leader. Like this is getting out. It's already out of control. It's getting so much worse than I could have ever imagined. the Republican Party is okay with American troops dying and getting over 300 of them injured?

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Are you kidding me? Like, I just try to contextualize it too, is if this was any other president, the outrage collectively on both sides would be gigantic, and rightfully so. So for me, the question is just so simple, is why can't Republicans condemn this behavior by Donald Trump? He literally got at least, as we know it, 13 American servicemen killed. To me, that is absolutely disqualifying.

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And what did we get out of this?

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i i couldn't tell you and i'm genuinely asking you brothers and the viewers here and the listeners what did we get from this like this two and a half three week stretch over here aside from endless chaos and ruining our reputation even further yeah it was a little longer than that it was over end of february but points well taken but i'll tell you who benefited a lot russia china they benefited iran

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they benefited. North Korea, that access benefited. I'll tell you who didn't benefit. Donald Trump, the United States. I'll tell you who else didn't benefit. I mean, you have NATO is suffering massively. Basically, NATO exists in name only. I mean, there's this charade going on pretending that

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you know nato's still around and strong but i mean watching the secretary general of nato mark rutte go around and saying you know what i don't know anything anymore i don't know yes don but donald we must see but it's like the worst guy for the moment right now i mean so you know this is a massive moment it's really a disgrace i mean putin couldn't be doing any better right now i mean putin's gotten way more money sanctions have been removed um and so that access

Chapter 4: What are the reactions to Trump's claims about the Iran deal?

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They're supposed to be in prison because he is a serial fraudster now doing it on a global scale in the midst of one of the most dangerous situations in history.

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And the hard part about, you know, the hard pill to swallow is when you have so much of daddy's money and his lawyers and he's bankrolled by all of this engine, you're viewed, not what he's not, but as this great businessman. That's the con of it all. He should be in jail. There's no doubt about it. He's the world's biggest fraudster.

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2233.165 - 2250.845 Brett

Everyone knows his relationships with the contractors, Brett, to your point exactly. But he gets away with it and he skates away with it because of the country's foundational, you know, just issue here. It's like when you have endless money and all of these connections, you just continue to get away with this stuff. But at least we're here to call it out and hold his feet to the fire.

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Yeah, I mean, as you would say, Jordy, in his previous fraud life as a disgraced fake business person who bankrupted all of the things. He would lean on the fact that he inherited huge amounts of wealth and he would use that and wield that to harass and torture and lie and then things would go bankrupt and then he would do a new scheme and that was his whole life.

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Scheme after scheme after scheme, you know, and now having the keys to 250 years of American history and broadly speaking, the power that the U.S. developed, you know, and what a post-World War II world looked like with NATO and the United Nations is headquartered in New York for a reason, right? I mean, U.S. deemed the leader of the world basically.

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you know, as the main global superpower with other powers rising and Trump trading on all of that goodwill from history, that the U.S. were the ones who rallied the world to stop Hitler and the Nazis, right? That's the lore. of the United States and constructed this in very sophisticatedly a post-World War II structure.

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And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to act like this post-World War II structure was great for everybody, far from it. But the power itself is an undeniable aspect of it. And Trump is using that and abusing that as an abuser and destroying that. When you see posts like that, Iran's doing a very poor job. I mean, who even talks like this?

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What's fascinating is I saw earlier today Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom, like finally kind of giving public speeches where he really calls out Donald Trump in kind of clear and unequivocal terms, saying, I'm fed up with Donald Trump and people like that because it's people like him and Putin are making the world suffer.

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people suffer because of that behavior and it's finally call him out by name and say it the same way prime minister kearney previously called him out by name right there's a reason why prime minister kearney is about to get a majority government in canada because he stood up to donald trump and by and large hasn't backed down

Chapter 5: How does Trump's behavior impact international relations?

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But what was Trump's response to attack NATO, just to continuously attack NATO, to continue to threaten that he was going to leave NATO, to say that NATO was weak, that they're not helping out. And it's also a part of this, like these mixed messages. I don't need help. I don't need NATO's help. It's too late for your help. Please help me, NATO. Please, I need you.

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We don't need the Strait of Hormuz. We don't even use it. It's a Europe problem. They'll have to deal with it. It'll all open up by itself. Oh, why won't anyone help Europe, NATO? Please send your warships right now. We really need it. All the messaging is all over the place. The guy is flailing. And I know some people throw out like this madman theory, like, oh, he's just so unhinged.

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that the enemy, they don't even know what he's going to do next. No, it doesn't project strength in the slightest bit. It projects overwhelming weakness. That is what the United States of America is projecting right now under Donald Trump.

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Yeah. One of the things we're learning about, one of the things we're learning about too, and we'll talk about this when we come back from a quick break, Ambassador Paolo Zampolli, the guy who introduced Donald Trump to Melania, he ran a modeling agency and he would have these girls and women from Eastern Europe come in. He'd you know, work with them on coming into the United States.

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They need to hold these parties at the Kit Kat Club. And they are, he's gonna be deposed by the House Oversight Committee. And so when we talk about Melania in a little bit, I just wanted to get that point out that a lot of that can be, you know, it's possible that she and Paolo Zampolli, We're talking about that, that that news was going to be breaking.

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And that may be some one of the reasons that Melania went public. Don't worry, we're going to talk about Melania in a moment. But I got to show you some clips right now, though, that I think frame these issues. First, I want to show Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Let's show you Starmer and what he had to say about Donald Trump. Let's play.

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I'm fed up. with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy. Businesses' bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.

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Finally, he said, finally, by name, right? Just don't. That's what you got to do. I bet you the people in the UK will reward him from going in that direction. And rightfully so, now is not a time to acquit, but you gotta stand up to this guy. You gotta stand up.

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And far from countries taking Donald Trump's social media posts and Donald Trump's message to Mark Rutte that Europe and NATO needs to send their ships immediately into the Strait of Hormuz or else, nobody's listening to that. And then Donald Trump flails and he makes those posts. I'm really disappointed in what Iran is doing. I mean, you're disappointing.

Chapter 6: What are the consequences of the ceasefire violations in Lebanon?

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The weirdest dude on the planet. What a bizarre thing to say. What a bizarre way to say it. I'm just watching him like, what are you talking about, man? We're talking about war here. You have an agreement with your wife not to jump out of planes. Does it happen that often that you need an agreement with her to not do that? What are we talking about here?

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Two, the Trump administration has lost and never had any sort of moral authority to be projecting morality or like the United States is better than Iran in this situation or any of that. And to me, I hate that. Because I think, you know, the United States has done its share of horrific things, do not get me wrong. But I think our leaders at least try to put forward an image of moral authority.

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And you had Caroline Leavitt yesterday, you know, saying things, speaking about the moral authority of the Trump regime and saying, listen, well, all these people, you know, in Iran, they just go dead.

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to america death to america death to america well you know how dare they say that we're here and we're there for freedom and blah blah blah but trump is saying we're going to exterminate your entire civilization so once you have a president of the united states saying that all of a sudden any of your other kind of arguments that you're trying to make about moral authority and to say that the united states wants what's best for the people those are out the window

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you've just totally tossed that. And to me, that's a hard thing to grapple with, I would say, as an American. And just think about what this is all based on in the beginning too, right? Donald Trump said, This was about regime change.

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He said this was about getting rid of all the people who were oppressing the people in Iran and that the Iranians were gonna be able to take to the streets and the US would have their back. And this would be a great moment. Democracy is coming to Iran, right? That was the messaging in the beginning. Now Trump just goes, oh, we actually changed the regime. Everything's great.

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Regime change is done, done. Best of luck. Everything is awesome. Good luck to the Iranian people. Oh, and we might blow up your entire country and all your infrastructure, all your power, all your water, everything. So good luck. See you later. And the only thing that's changed has been that they moved from the Ayatollah to Ayatollah Jr. And everyone else is still in their positions of power.

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It's the same regime. And it's what we've seen in Venezuela, right? It's the same exact pattern that we've seen everywhere. And I guess I could mention this quickly as well. If you look at Venezuela and what's going on in Venezuela right now, it's utter chaos because Trump claimed to have taken out the Maduro regime when he did not.

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He got rid of Maduro at the top, but left in the entire other power structure around Maduro. So even just today, we were seeing hundreds of Venezuelan public sector workers and pensioners marching in Caracas, demanding higher wages. and pension increases amid the severe inflation there. They're getting hunger level pay.

Chapter 7: What is the significance of the 10-point plan in the negotiations?

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I did it. Well, we all want congressional hearings. We all would like that. Okay. But wouldn't the first witnesses be like, I don't know, like Trump and you? Like wouldn't you be at the top of the list? Is that her way of trying to like counter the fact that the House may be wanting to subpoena her?

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I mean, if Hillary Clinton had to have her deposition taken and she's not in the files and doesn't have like no connection at all, don't you think Melania – should be who's in the emails. But also you have Melania saying that.

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But do you remember when Donald Trump, or I'm sure you remember, although a lot more of this was happening before his catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, his invasion took place. Here was Donald Trump calling it all one big hoax. It was all a hoax. Here's what he said. Let's play it.

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4256.227 - 4278.55 Donald Trump

And it's just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax as it pertains to the Republicans now. No, no, I call it the Epstein hoax. It takes a lot of time and effort. Instead of talking about the great achievements, we've had a great gentleman yesterday, as you know, went on CNBC and he made the statement that Trump may go down as the greatest president of all in the United States.

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4278.65 - 4301.014 Donald Trump

And instead of talking about the things we've achieved, we've had tremendous achievement. They're wasting their time with a guy who obviously had some very serious problems, who died three, four years ago. I'd rather talk about the success we have with the economy, the best we've ever had, and all of the things we've done, including the Middle East.

4301.034 - 4302.455 Ben

That's no way to talk about your best friend.

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Brennan Jardy.

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I'm just saying there's no way to talk about your best friend. I mean, you know, it's demeaning. Donald Trump, you and Jeff, you know, you guys hung out. Epstein said you guys were the best friends. You bragged about each other. The whole thing's so nuts. And I truly don't understand... what the hell Melania was thinking with that. What was she trying to achieve?

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If it was getting rid of photos of her and Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, she knows it's gonna do the opposite. Everyone right now just keeps posting every picture of Ghislaine Maxwell and Melania Trump. Everyone right now is reposting all the emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and Melania Trump. And now everybody is just wondering what's the next shoe to drop? What's coming? Why is she doing this?

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