Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's press conference in the Oval Office?
We have a lot to discuss on today's Midas Touch podcast. We'll give you the latest update on Donald Trump's phony ceasefire. Iran responded to Donald Trump's demand that Iran surrender. Trump ignored Iran's 10-point framework once again. Iran responded, agree to our 10-point framework. Then Donald Trump said, Iran's response is totally unacceptable. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
And then today at a press conference that involved a crisis over male sperm count, this press conference was super creepy with RFK Jr. and female politicians. Donald Trump said it was a genius move to have Iran close the Strait of Hormuz.
didn't obama and biden think about it because now it's made america greater because now everyone needs american oil so this was the plan the whole time give iran control over the straight from who's also at the press conference donald trump was sleeping uh when he wasn't talking he was sleeping and then the white house put out a statement after the midas touch network said yeah he's sleeping and they go he's blinking
Stop being spreading fake news. He's blinking. He's not sleeping. We'll cover that. Also, everything Donald Trump does, he makes just incredibly weird. I mean, the Indiana College football team was at the White House today. Donald Trump didn't even know the name of the coach of the team. And then Trump started talking about the ballroom and how
handsome some of the men were and how the fact that they're good looking makes Trump not like them because he doesn't like good looking. It just made the whole thing so damn weird. Just can we get through one thing where you don't behave like an actual lunatic? You know, and with all the drama, chaos, devastation taking place in the United States.
It was good to see the people of Hungary rejoice as it was finally the swearing in and inauguration of Peter Magyar. And after making it official that Viktor Orban, one of Trump's friends and fellow authoritarians was finally kind of expelled and pushed out just to see the sheer joy of people in Hungary in front of the parliament building in Budapest gave, I don't know about you, it gave me hope.
And I'm like, all right, a few years, that's going to be us. And hopefully sooner. But There is a future without authoritarians, and we will to get through this. Also, we've been hearing about Golden Ballroom, this and Triumphal Arch, that now one of Donald Trump's big grifts and oddities is the reflecting pool.
At the end of last week, he drove his motorcade through a reflecting pool that already suffers from cracks caused by the fact that DC is a swamp. And so Donald Trump's solution to all of this is to paint
the reflecting pool which already has algae and cracking issues and leak issues donald trump's plan is drive the motorcade over it and then he called in his pool guy i'm not making that trump called in his pool guy gave his pool guy a no bid contract where there's like a four to five million dollar profit margin apparently in this no bid contract for trump's own pool guy to paint it bright blue
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Chapter 2: What lawsuit is challenging Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool?
expedite anybody's visa process quicker than existing process these that exist. And the DOJ had to admit it because if it was some super special expediting process, guess what you would need? I don't know, a little something called a law. So you have Donald Trump saying I brought an 18 to 21 trillion dollars. Well, you didn't do that.
You have Donald Trump saying that I'm going to bring in five trillion with this. And it just turns out that everything is like, you know, we're just going to paint a little bit and then we're going to pretend everything is great. Right. We're going to build three casinos right next to each other in Atlantic City. We'll paint it all gold and we'll give it all of these you know, lavish names.
And then at the end of the day, it's like, so are you going to run the business? No, we're not going to run the business bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. And that's what we're seeing over and over again. And so what does Donald Trump, you know, doing or not doing as it relates to the Strait of Hormuz, he's like frozen there. He thinks he's going to social media post and do some branding.
That's going to get him out of this, you know, okay. Project freedom, Project Freedom Plus, Epic Fury's over. All right, all right, guys, I'm gonna unleash hell. If you don't do this in 24 hours, I'm gonna unleash this. And Iran's like, you realize that you're just a ranting, raving lunatic. Like, we're not the Republican Party, we're Iran.
Like, we know that every time you've set these deadlines, you don't follow through. You then change the deadlines over and over again. I mean, what... April 8th, 2026, Donald Trump posted, the United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be very productive regime change. There will be no enrichment of uranium.
And the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried nuclear dust. It is now and has been under very exacting satellite surveillance space force. Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are and will be talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points already have been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Remember in early to mid-March, we were telling you what was really happening. Remember at the Midas Touch Network, we said, look, Iran has a 10-point framework. They've been very clear what their non-negotiables and red lines are. Iran views that they've won this war because all of the Trump regime's objectives have not been met.
Regime change, removing the nuclear material, removing the Iranians' proxies, you know, installing a Trump puppet, none of it was achieved. And so Iran's like, why would we agree to things that you weren't able to achieve during the war?
And when Donald Trump would threaten, I'm going to go and blow up all of your bridges and annihilate you and blow you out to the Stone Age and bomb you to the Stone Age and blow you up to all these things. He doesn't do it, and then he extends the deadline. And this weekend, we just saw another example of that. End of last week, Trump goes, oh, they're really serious this time.
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Chapter 3: How is Trump responding to escalating tensions with Iran?
Okay, let's just agree at a very basic level to some basic points. Okay, we will agree that the Strait of Hormuz can go, can be opened through an Iranian controlled route, but you gotta remove sanctions. You've got to recognize our control over the Strait of Hormuz. You gotta be willing to pay reparations. Why don't we start there, Donald? Let's keep it basic.
And then Donald Trump's like, I don't like that plan. I don't like that plan. I'm really angry at that. Okay, well, what are you gonna do about it? You're either gonna have to escalate this war
and drag america back into open hostilities which would cause a global depression that's your where you're out of munitions even though you claim that's not true we know trump's out of munitions and the united states is out of munitions or you have to make concessions with iran i don't know what this other
plan is where you post social media posts but it's like you want to paint it blue and think it's all going to go away that's the best example so donald trump is asked at this press conference today um about you know the straight of her moves what's the status and trump says actually if you come to think about it losing the straight of her moves to iran is quote genius and
because countries are buying all of their oil from Texas now. So it's all amazing. This is great, everybody. This was the goal from the outset. He literally says that. Here, play this clip.
What's happening is when this first, when people heard about losing hormones, they said, oh, this is, It's genius.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of consumer sentiment in the current economy?
They're finding other locations. And some of those people, I spoke to them, companies and countries, some of those people are going to continue to go to Texas. They like it better. They said it's an extra 45 minutes. They like it better. And it's sort of amazing, you know, it found its way. So a lot of people thought oil would go to $250, $300. It's not. I mean, today it's at less than $100.
Think of that. Now... When this ends, you're going to see it drop like a rock.
There was so much wrong with what he said. But when he goes, they like Texas better. It was like the difference between like a McDonald's and a burger. It's 45 minutes away.
Chapter 5: What updates are there about the situation in Ukraine?
It's just a little bit longer, but it's a little bit better. How could the president of the United States even say such a thing, right? I mean, it shows zero understanding of the way international oil markets work. Now you're framing losing the Strait of Hormuz as a victory. And then, you know, Trump's sycophants be like, yeah, that's what we wanted the whole time.
The win was none of the things that we said, give Iran the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, Obama was so weak to think that Obama stopped Iran from developing nuclear weapons and Iran didn't control the Strait of Hormuz. What are you doing, Obama? And then Donald Trump calls the proposal from Iran over here. And Iran's proposal is we control the Strait of Hormuz. There's
no regime change, remove the sanctions against us, ceasefire in Lebanon as well. And Trump said, this is unacceptable. And Trump says, I have a plan though. My plan is so genius. We've already won with my plan. Here's what Trump says. Let's play the clip of Trump saying, calls the proposal from Iran unacceptable and says, a lot of people say, well, does he have a plan? Yeah, of course I do.
Narrator, he has no plan. Let me look for this one. All right. Take a look at that. But Brett and Jordy, I'll let you respond to all of that.
As Brett looks for that clip, I just wanted to say this just to start. First off, Ben, you are so right. The reflecting pool is the perfect microcosm of Trump's entire presidency, his entire existence. It's short-term thinking, short-term perceived glitz and glam. Think the Ponzi scheme stock market. Think Trump media. Think Liberation Day. Think Operation Epic Fury, go on and on, right?
Like this huge splash moment to make all the magas go, ooh, nah.
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Chapter 6: How is Trump handling criticism from Senator Mark Kelly?
But there's no substance behind these moves. And there's legitimately no thinking behind these moves, like long-term thinking. And worst of all, all of the moves are in the sole purpose of serving one person and making one person look good. At least that's the attempt with these things.
Donald Trump, without any care for the repercussions or the actual tangible impacts of these moves for the American people at large.
people are feeling it i mean like literally every day just one example is the gas prices right now i mean they are simply outrageous i don't know how americans are doing it it it is crazy and then not to get into more you know even more serious topics like our dead soldiers 13 dead american soldiers off of this war of choice by donald trump it is ridiculous donald trump in my opinion is the single most anti-american president we have ever had in this country
Every move, every single one is in the interest of him and him alone. And how could this make me, Donald Trump, look good? Instead of trying to find the interest of the American people and making long-term impacts for the American citizens at large. There is none of that thinking that ever goes into any of this from Donald Trump.
it's also like you know there's no consistency in anything trump does so like and trump always tries to say oh i'm always under budget i'm always ahead of schedule and under budget and like with the reflecting pool it's already the price has already jumped up 88 percent uh to 13.1 a million dollars and it has that 20 profit margin that ben was talking about
to a contractor Trump hand-picked with a no-bid contract. And this is the same guy who's going after Jerome Powell, saying that he went over budget with the Federal Reserve Building. And meanwhile, remember, he's also talking about the ballroom, which he said is going to cost $0 to taxpayers.
now they're demanding a billion dollars from taxpayers there's just no consistency with anything he does it's all one fraud layered on top of another fraud layered on top of another fraud and he uses any of those other inconsistencies to attack his own political enemies and try to threaten them i got the clip that ben was calling for before let me play it right now can you tell us anything about that proposal and what if any it was just unacceptable
You know, a lot of people said, well, does he have a plan? Yeah, of course they do. I have the best plan ever. Iran has been defeated militarily. Totally. I have a little left. They probably built up during this period of time. We'll knock that out in about a day. But I have a plan. You know, it is a very simple plan. I don't know why you don't say it like it is.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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Chapter 7: What unusual remarks did Trump make about the Indiana football team?
in order to kind of neutralize and push back against Donald Trump's right-wing media manipulation that exists. And you see the power of this thing where he'll call up this reporter, that reporter, and they will move markets. They will create this phony narrative of, okay, Iran's moving close. And actually a source tells us this about the Ayatollah.
And now a source tells us that none of it is actually ending up to be true. And then Iran gets out its messages where it's like this was Iran's reaction to Donald Trump saying that he was upset at how Iran responded to Donald Trump's demand that Iran surrender. This is what Iran told their state media. We just saw the reaction of the so-called president of the United States to Iran's response.
It doesn't matter at all. No one in Iran drafts plans to please Trump. The negotiation team should only draft plans for the rights of the Iranian nation. And if Trump is not satisfied with it, that is naturally better. Trump generally does not like reality. That is why he keeps on losing to Iran. We'll take our first quick break of the show.
When we come back, I want to talk to you about Hegseth now threatening Senator Mark Kelly yet again for pointing out that the United States is significantly depleted in terms of our munitions, the Patriot system, the THAAD system, other interceptor systems and missile capabilities. I want to talk more about the Trump regime's trying to do Putin's bidding when it comes to Zelensky.
I want to talk about what's going on in Hungary. I want to talk more about this bizarre press conference that went on today. A lot of other topics we'll cover here on this episode. Let's take our first quick break of the show. A reminder, subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel and subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio wherever you get your audio podcasts.
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Chapter 8: How does the podcast analyze Trump's approach to leadership and decision-making?
He closes his eyes and then just starts sleeping, and then he'll get startled and he'll wake up. This goes on for a long time. I mean, I cut it after 15 seconds because you get the point. I'm not going to show you Trump sleep for two minutes straight, but he sleeps. And by the way, it's okay. Clearly, you're very tired. We all saw you sleeping. You did it. But what does the White House say?
Rapid response. The rapid response account goes and makes a post He was blinking, you absolute moron. So responding to someone posting a Reuters photo and a Reuters video of him sleeping, he's sleeping. And the White House calls the person posting it a moron
The funny thing is, so this is someone who works with Reuters who posted the image here, and they didn't even mention that Trump was sleeping in the caption at all. This is just a photo of Trump, and it says, U.S. President Donald Trump attends a maternal health event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States, May 11th, 2026. Reuters, Evelyn Hochstein.
That's all they wrote. They tell on themselves. They tell on themselves. And here's the thing. They called it maternal health.
and then donald trump spent most of it ranting and raving about the war and how he it's brilliant to shut down these straight of hormones but the focus actually wasn't on the maternal aspect of it it was focused on men's sperm and they kept on talking about how do we help men's sperm and that it's because liberals that the sperm is not as strong and you know and you have these
female politicians behind him you know who are like these Republican female politicians and you know and like it looks right out of The Handmaid's Tale and they're like laughing at this as like creepy RFK Jr who sleeps with raccoon penises like he cuts off raccoon penises and sleeps with it and you know someone who what he kept the diary of all the people who he cheated on his wife
before, before his wife allegedly died by suicide. And then Epstein wrote about that in his emails and wrote oopsie about that or words to, or words to that effect. You know, I mean, you have RFK Jr., you know, who's engaged in some of the most, you know, just violent, disgusting acts.
You know, he's out there, you know, you know, talking about sperm and it's a sperm, it's a sperm press conference here. Just play this clip of what RFK Jr. was like.
The fertility crisis for women began in 2007. For men in 1970, men had twice the sperm count as our teenagers do today. This is an existential crisis for our country. We had a series of presidents that were trying to discourage childbirth and motherhood in this country. We now have a president that is trying to encourage it. And I want to thank you again for your leadership.
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