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Chapter 1: What recent claims did Donald Trump make about Iran and military action?
Donald Trump proclaims we are going to invade Karg Island in any minute. Then Donald Trump proclaims we have a deal with Iran. Then Donald Trump proclaims the stock market that he's manipulating loves his deal. Then Donald Trump proclaims he loves inflation. He loves every aspect of inflation. It's all part of the plan.
we learned that donald trump needed 22 specialists and doctors for his physical i think we all intuitively knew that when we saw his behavior and his cognitive and physical decline before us inflation despite donald trump loving it is not beloved by the american people the producer price index is surging the consumer price index is surging the american people are suffering
as inflation continues to rise.
Chapter 2: How did the stock market react to Trump's announcements?
And then the Trump regime has handled the World Cup just about how we thought they would, banning Somalian referees, preventing fans from African countries from showing up, and just...
behaving so horribly in front of the world i mean even russia and qatar didn't do anything like the united states is doing in such contrast to what we see in mexico in canada it's just it's really pathetic to watch but we're going to break down all this and more on the midas touch podcast i'm ben myself is joined by brett and jordy and so quite the swing from donald trump saying an invasion of karg island is imminent to now we have a deal
and then iran said we don't really know about this we haven't really approved it yet although then as the day progressed they said well we're actually contemplating it now israel says we're not a signatory to this deal we're going to keep on attacking lebanon and then israel tried to mischaracterize the terms of the kind of purported deal that's taking place more of more of that going on brothers and mightiest mighty
A whole lot of that, a whole lot of whiplash today, as we've been accustomed to, though. I mean, if you've been following this, it's been whiplash the entire time.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's statements on inflation?
Trump says something, then he takes it back. Iran denies it. Israel denies it. It's been this tit for tat, weird back and forth the entire time, which is what makes it so hard to cover. But, you know, that's why we try to break through the noise and figure out what is actually happening. Brothers, great to be here as always. Great to be here with you, Midas Mighty.
And I want to give a shout out to the Midas Mighty up top and thank everybody for the incredible birthday wishes. My birthday was yesterday. So many of you reached out and DMs and
and tweets and blue sky posts and throughout all the above and so i just want to say thank you thank you so much i had an absolute great day capped off by that incredible new york knicks win a a it's just happened something like apolitical you know to focus on a little bit that brings everybody together There aren't a lot of moments like that in 2026. And so I think that's pretty cool.
It's actually fascinating looking through kind of the Twitter feed yesterday and seeing people of all kind of political backgrounds, you know, excited about the game. Like I saw, you know, everyone from people we all know to like Erica Kirk and people being like, holy crap, that's, you know,
And when you see that, you're like, oh, yes, there was a world before all this where people actually watched cultural events together and weren't in this disastrous world created by Donald Trump of this gaslighting and this endless war and chaos that we're experiencing every single day. But, hey, that's what we're here to combat. That's what we're here to dig ourselves out of.
Jordi, it's great to see you. What's the latest? Great to see you, brothers. Great to see you, Midas. Mighty Brett, I think that world you're referring to is 2015. Great world. Great world indeed. Benji, where are we starting off today, big bro? Although, Brett, I think one group of people that it didn't bring together were San Antonio Spurs fans.
So I just want to empathize and just say, hey, being a Knick fan for all your life, when they haven't won since 1973. You could just let Nick fans just have a moment. Just let us have this. Let us have this one little moment. But as you said, Brett, there was a time, I think, when people could come together more as Americans or sports fans and just enjoy things in a non-political way.
And Donald Trump ruined all of that. I mean, he quite literally ruined it by going to game three.
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Chapter 4: How has the Trump administration handled the FIFA World Cup situation?
his whole behavior there is symbolic of his behavior generally right the way he shows up they have to shut down the joyous watch parties that are taking place outside the non-political joyous watch parties he makes it inconvenient for everybody they have to set up basically as i think brett as you said i guess they did build the wall they had to like build like a fortress around madison square garden they shut down five blocks and two avenues and then
the trump oligarchy shows up and they get preferential treatment right they cut the line and you see jared kushner and the whole crew they just walk right in while nick fans have to wait then he goes to the game and then what does he do he stuffs his face with like burgers and fries and hot dogs. Dude probably ate like three burgers, two pieces of pizza, hot dogs.
He throws the trash on the floor. Like a very hungry caterpillar. Right, he throws on the floor. And then, symbolic of everything, then he falls asleep. doesn't even enjoy the game after destroying the experience for so many people. Then he leaves seven minutes early and then the Knicks lose.
If that's not a metaphor or a symbolism of what this guy does, and you could branch this out as we talk about this episode, he wants to inject himself into sporting events and cultural moments because those things are not about him.
That's why on national holidays and that's why on big sporting events, he wants it to be about him even when and often does make everybody's life miserable about things. I mean, even basic things like commemorating D-Day, they turn into a, we're going to attack our European allies and blame them for invasion of immigrants. It's like, come on, what are you doing?
Whenever there's a Memorial Day or you name the holiday, he always starts off with some just nasty post about his political enemies and this and that and he always wants to make it about himself and even when there are protests about him right he wants to have his military parades you know around the same time or whatever it is you know and we see that time and time again and that's why
He also wants to turn Washington DC, the White House, the symbols of our democracy into like some Trumpian dystopian junkyard. And as we head into this weekend where he wants to do this UFC fight and this and that and the claw and it's like,
sponsored by crypto and by all these corporations and then he does deals with right-wing oligarchs and if you want to watch the fight you have to pay like subscription fees to streaming services and then you know uh the ufc is responsible for the press list and they're the ones, they're selling million-dollar tickets for right-wing oligarchs if they want access to him. It's just very Trumpian.
He wants to suck the lifeblood out of it. And when we talk in this episode a little bit later about the World Cup, for example, as well, you know, just... You will want the government to have a very light touch to no touch on things like this. Support it, but stay out, government. This isn't your role. Let sports be sports.
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Chapter 5: What confusion surrounds the alleged deal between Trump and Iran?
I'm a soccer. This is just soccer. Really? Because you sure as hell politicized all of this. And now when you're being called out for what's going on in America, you're just like, ah, nothing I can do, nothing I... Yeah, there is something you can do. You could show leadership and character and say, okay, then no refs get to ref if we don't get this ref.
We don't get to be racist against Somalians in FIFA if FIFA truly cares. Or you say, you know what? You do this, America will never be chosen again to host. It's in such contrast to what we're seeing in Mexico, what we're seeing in Canada,
you know in mexico they've got the mariachis they've got the greeting the teams hugging them you know going out and you see the the mexican people partying with the teams and you know i see the south korean fans doing keg stands with the mexican fan like there's a real pride in being the host and using sports as a tool of love and camaraderie and bringing people together.
And I contrast that with like the U.S. treating the Uzbekistan team like they're like absolute criminals doing cavity searches of the Senegalese team. And it's just, you know, Look, people love soccer and FIFA and not the organization. They love watching the game and the love of the game. That will always exist.
But it certainly leaves a very bad taste in your mouth to see all of this blatant kind of racism and hatred over there. and then also to see a warmongering regime as a host nation in this situation. And it's like there's responsibilities that come with the host nation in order to bring people together. And so I want to say that at the top.
And then I want to just talk about what's transpired over the past, you know, what, six, seven hours. I mean, you wake up in the morning and Donald Trump post the United States will be hitting Iran, whose Navy Air Force radar and aircraft and all the forms of defense are gone.
very hard tonight at some point we'll take karg island just like venezuela it's working brilliantly in venezuela donald j trump so you have that going on and then quite literally four and a half hours later he then posts well he says that the the attack is imminent he calls up state regime media fox tells them the attack is imminent and then he says based on the fact that the discussions with the islamic republic of iran have been brought to the highest level
of iranian leadership and approved i have as president of the united states canceled the schedule strikes and bombings against iran this evening discussions and final points have been in both concept in great detail approved by all parties involved including the us israel saudi arabia uae qatar turkey pakistan bahrain kuwait jordan egypt and others
the naval blockade will remain in full force in effect until this transaction is finalized time and place of the signing to be announced then israel went to their media net yahoo and others said we never heard about this we're not a part of this deal which is you know obviously contradictory to what trump says a senior israeli official told channel 12 they're not aware they don't know what trump is talking about iran at first said we're not really sure what he's talking about but there was a draft agreement going around
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Chapter 6: What are the economic concerns highlighted in this episode?
explain how the American people certainly don't love the inflation and what's happening in their houses, if they're able to even afford rent at this point, or their apartments, if they're able to afford rent or shelter at this point. And then we should talk more about what's happening generally across this country right now. We'll take a look at Congress. We'll take a look at what's happening
as Midas Touch Network has a presence, not just on Capitol Hill, but shout out to Luke Riddell, who's the new Midas Touch Network White House correspondent. So we have someone in the White House now who's going to be pressing Caroline Levitt and asking the questions that you want answered there. I thought it was important that we actually have somebody there because I think
Sometimes there are some reporters who ask good questions, but sometimes more frequently not. And so we need to press Caroline and ask the questions that you want answered. So we're there. Anyway, let's take our first quick break of the show. Reminder, subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast on audio. You may think you're subscribed on audio, double check.
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Chapter 7: How is climate change impacting the upcoming World Cup?
And then he tried to backtrack on it. So you can't say you're 99% towards the deal, except for uranium enrichment, except for the nuclear issue, except for what to do about who controls the Strait of Hormuz. That's not very close at all. That's the whole sticking point of the whole thing.
Can we also just talk about, again, how out of touch he is when he just continues to talk about the stock market in these meetings, where he's like, the stock market's up again, so the stock market going. The stats something like the wealthiest 10% of American households hold roughly like 93% of the US stock market. He's just spitting in the face of the average American.
Plus, isn't it revealing that he talks about close to a deal and in the next breath, his comment is always, the stock market's going up, oil's coming down.
he always ties the two together which i think shows you the real kind of reasoning behind these comments and you got joe kern saying we're close to a deal on cnbc well you think about it though the guy is a prolific i don't mean this in a positive way stock trader i mean This is an exaggeration, right?
We went through, it was 3,800 trades in Q1 of this year, where yes, he traded stocks his first year of this term, but not this way. As soon as the war started, I mean, this guy was, you know, the Charlie Sheen character in the movie Wall Street. It's like, this is what I was like, so the guy was doing, you know, he's like,
buy buy buy sell sell sell sell you know and he would have the ceos of these companies whose companies he was buying and selling i mean for a fraud carn artist felon bankrupt you're like trump this is like rubbing it like like a genie you know like uh what do you call you magic lamp i mean like you you think you're so i mean here's a guy who's been a business loser his entire life with daddy's money you know would screw everything up
And now, you know, he brings the companies in or he does a tweet and the market rises. I mean, for someone like that, and I mean this in the worst possible way, like this is what he lives for. This is exhilarating market manipulation. It's like quite literally what he does. And so 3800 trades means nine minutes a trade. So that means he's thinking about this all the damn time.
Like he's looking at these shifts. And so he knows when he's down. He knows when he's up. He knows how to make it back up. He knows how to buy the dip. He knows when to sell at the peak. And he reveals it right there that he's like in the market. Here's the thing. If indeed you truly believe
that Iran is an existential threat to the lives of the American people and yourself and the world, if you truly believe that, what does the market have to do with anything?
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Chapter 8: What criticisms are directed at Trump's approach to international relations?
And if you truly believe that Iran poses an imminent nuclear threat, then why gamify any of this? Because they're not an imminent threat. And we know they're not. We know what the security apparatus in the United States said. They're not an imminent nuclear threat. This was all a Trump Netanyahu lie. Trump thought this would be easy. Keep saying Venezuela. He thought he'd go in there and...
He'd get to spray cologne on the Ayatollah and they'd be joint venture partners together like Delcy. Maybe he can invite the, I kid you not in Trump's mind, maybe I can invite the Ayatollah over to the Oval. I could spray my Trump perfume. I'll smell him a little bit. Maybe he's handsome. Maybe he's a handsome guy. I mean, that's how Trump treats the leader of Syria, right?
I mean, I think Trump figured that that's what it was gonna be. You know, Trump would beam himself into the Iranian TVs with Bibi. Hey, we're here. You know us, we're great. People are like, yeah, the people who were doing genocide in Palestine and Lebanon. No, no, we don't want that. Stay away.
And oh, the people who promised us that they were going to be here in January, who screwed everybody up. Yeah, no, stay away. And so he operates from that. It's deeply dangerous. It's deeply disconnected. And here we are. I think, by the way, if you look at... And it's horrible to even to make these connections, but I'll say two things.
Number one, if you look at JP Morgan's assessment of the market, they literally said that right around June 10th, June 11th, the war would resolve. Go back and read their report. I remember reading about it last month and month half. They said, you know, right around then it'll become unsustainable financially and then Trump will stop the war. And Trump reads that stuff. And by the way,
What they were saying was happening in terms of the oil markets reaching a point where the reserves were going to be fully kind of tapped and tank bottom and the bond markets and the stock markets and all of like, we were right on teetering on the edge of like calamity. And they said that.
Another point though, just so you know, I think that the Elon Musk IPO was kind of a part of this and how Iran used that as leverage. Did you note that on Iranian state TV today, one of the things they mentioned was that they were going to be targeting Elon Musk's facilities? And it was within an hour after that, that Trump announced this.
And I can envision, and again, I'm giving you my opinion, and I don't think this is the only factor, but I think it's part of a totality of factors. I can imagine a circumstance where Iran says this, because as they said, we're going to go after all Elon Musk businesses in the Middle East, and we're going to make sure we destroy them right away, if anything else.
Strange comment, right, to target. I mean, don't get me wrong. Elon Musk is a prominent American figure who's very much involved in in a lot of the bad stuff that's happening in our country. But them mentioning it right before the IPO tells me that they knew that was a leverage point for Donald also. And so you put these factors and these are factors that you're like, wow.
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