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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
We have a lot to discuss today on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. The day began with Iran announcing it was suspending all talks with Donald Trump. Iran alleged multiple examples of ceasefire violations from the Trump regime striking Iranian assets in the Strait of Hormuz. to Israel further invading Lebanon.
Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred in Iran's nuclear talks with Trump?
Donald Trump then responded that Israel invading Lebanon is just a glitch and that we're actually super close to doing a deal. Over the weekend, Donald Trump also gave an interview with Lara Trump where he said that the IRGC, Iran's military leadership, They're very moderate. So that's why Donald Trump said that he didn't destroy their military because of what a moderate force they are.
We'll show you that. Also, Congress is now returning after yet another vacation or just maga Mike shutting down Congress as the Democrats were introducing a war powers resolution in the House, which was set to pass. So now Maga Mike's delay tactic is now over. The House is returning.
And one of the first things that we learned is that the $1.8 billion slush fund that Donald Trump is trying to push through to January 6th insurrectionist seems like it's going to be blocked. For now is what the language that Donald Trump and Magna source, it'll be blocked for now. We'll talk about what's going on there.
We'll also talk about what's happening with the Freedom Concert that Donald Trump wanted to put on, the Trump Freedom 250th Anniversary Concert. You know, this should have just been a very easy thing to execute, like just don't make it partisan and weird, like just bring in musical acts.
Congress already set up a nonpartisan group back in 2016 that was responsible for the entertainment and the nonpartisan celebration of our country. But Donald Trump had to create his own organization to compete with the nonpartisan one. And Trump's organization was called Freedom 250, and nobody knew how this thing was funded. And then according to all of these musical acts,
Donald Trump deceived them and made it seem like they were performing for the nonpartisan American 250 fair. Then when they found out it was a Trump event, they didn't want any part of it. So then Donald Trump just canceled the whole damn event and revealed what this was all about Donald. And he said that he's holding a mega rally. And so now the 250th anniversary celebration
is a deranged Trump MAGA rally, where he'll probably get up there and then just start making those weird noises, and Americans are sick and tired of this. Speaking of sick and tired, Donald Trump released his physical late Friday night at around 11 p.m., or I should say, a document purporting to be said physical exam. It has so much red light... red flags all over it.
It's just one glaring red light of a document. And then after releasing that so-called report, Donald Trump proceeded to make social media post after social media post, each one more deranged than the next post of himself
dunking over Governor Hochul, posts of drone ports, posts of him kissing flags, some of the strangest behavior imaginable as the American people are just like, dude, we're suffering out here, man. We just want our health care. We just want to be able to afford rent at this point. What are you doing? And then also something special. It's happening in Georgia. Did you see that event?
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Chapter 3: How did Congress respond to Trump's controversial slush fund?
Doing well, Jordi. And great to see the Midas Mighty. Thank you to everybody watching us live. Thank you to everybody for listening to us, if you're listening to us on audio platforms. And if you're not, go ahead and check us out. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, be there. I cannot believe it's June already. Where the hell did all the time go this year? It's truly blowing my mind.
I know we take it one day at a time here at the Midas Touch Network. I know all of you do, too, because these days, could be crazy, but the accumulation of the days, it certainly feels like time flies. We're keeping track of everything that's going on.
You know, I got to say, I am, I'm pretty bummed about this America 250 thing, because it should have been something that we should all be able to celebrate as Americans. And Donald Trump just got his stink all over it the same way that he gets a stink all over everything. He has an ability to kind of glom onto things. and just destroy them.
And he does this with celebrities who even show him an ounce of, like, respect. Like, he will then glom onto them, attach himself to them, attach his stink to them. And he does it with events like this that should be apolitical, nonpartisan events. As I said online about this event, you can't take a dump in the punch bowl and then expect people to still drink it.
And that's exactly what Donald Trump is doing. Why are these Democrats? Why are they out there? They don't want to celebrate America's 250. No, I think people do want to celebrate. And I think people do want to have a ceremony that, you know, if we had more things to celebrate at this moment, but you are making it the Donald Trump party. You are making it like your own birthday party.
that's the issue you're putting your face on money everything you're doing you're putting your your picture in front of the department of justice you're putting your picture on the department of labor building everything you are doing is for yourself because you are a narcissist of the highest order and you don't give a damn about this country that's the issue that people have it's because you don't love this country you just love yourself donald trump we got a lot to discuss i know we got to get into it but first got to check in with geordie geordie what's the latest
What's up, brothers? What's up, mightiest mighty? Excited to get into tonight's show. Ben, you said something that was very astute earlier. You quite often do that. Don't make it partisan and weird. Well, Donald Trump is the expert at making things partisan and weird. It's a real bummer that we're here with this 250th anniversary celebration as to where Donald Trump has taken his event.
It just thanks Brett, because I agree with you. It's something that we should be able to celebrate.
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Chapter 4: What happened to Trump's Freedom 250 concert event?
But right now, I get the feeling and the vibes on the ground that people aren't like too psyched to celebrate, especially us here in America. So let's, you know, take a deep breath here. Excited to get into today's show, Benji. I know we have a lot to cover. Where do you want to start us off?
Brothers, remember when we were growing up and we would watch a cartoon and sometimes the evil power that the supervillain would have would be energy drain, right? They would suck the life force out of other people, right? That was part of their supervillain power. And that seems to be what Donald Trump does here over and over again. You know, when he kind of puts his arm around you,
he basically takes your valor away from you he takes your accomplishments away from you and he makes it all about him brett as you said he stinks up everything by having to make everything trump this trump that and quite literally putting his name on things like the kennedy center Dude, that doesn't belong to you.
It's a living, breathing memorial for a former president who was assassinated, and it is an important landmark in Washington, D.C. Don't call it the Trump-Kennedy Center.
again fortunately at the end of last week a court blocked him from doing that and said rip your name down but that's so symbolic of what he does he runs around puts his name on everything and just frankly ruined so many things that people just want to live their lives and people want to form real bonds and real connections and sometimes people just want to go to a sporting event
and they don't want him to be there and make it weird. Sometimes people just want to go to a concert and not have it to be a political thing. And what Donald Trump was doing with this Freedom 250 thing by replacing America 250 is he wanted all of these artists, from the time period that Donald Trump has like frozen himself in time, like the late 80s, early 90s.
And he wanted to throw himself this event and use the performers to make himself look tough and to make this a MAGA event. And the performers were like, no, we don't want that. And then he started posting that these are third rate performers, the very performers that he invited to the event. He then started attacking.
he said yeah these are third rate these people aren't good anyway i'm gonna make it a mega rally me i'm like elvis i'm the one who brings the crowds let's make this about me so i'm going to throw a mega rally which was always going to be a mega rally from the outset what's notable as well is it's not just the freedom 250 thing It's also this UFC thing.
I mean, even like UFC fans are looking at it and going, first off, it's dangerous that you're having this event outside in June in a swampy Washington, D.C. with bugs, with the excessive heat. I mean, look, I don't want to quote Joe Rogan on a lot of things, but Rogan was like, could you imagine if you forced bugs
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's recent health report?
What's happening is just a glitch. israel's invasion of lebanon just a glitch everybody it's looking good it's looking good donald trump tells abc a little glitch i spoke to hezbollah myself trump said i talked to hezbollah i talked to bb we are good right here you want to know what benjamin netanyahu is saying we know what he said We can hear what he said today.
Benjamin Netanyahu said, nothing changes after my call with Donald Trump. We are continuing our mission, which I call the invasion in Beirut, in southern Lebanon. He goes in parallel, the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon. And if you look from the time when Donald Trump first told Iran a few months back, we're going to blow you into the stone ages.
We're going to destroy your civilization. He set the deadline. Then Donald Trump declared ceasefire by adopting all the terms of Iran. Remember that? He reposted Foreign Minister Araghchi's terms. One of those terms was that the ceasefire applies. to Lebanon. That's a big deal for Iran.
And what Israel did, knowing that, well, we can't just go and attack Iran because that'll be an obvious violation of the ceasefire. Israel said, you know what? We're going to go after Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, so we will increase and escalate Lebanon. So when things were supposed to be toned down, ceasefire. Look at the definition of a ceasefire. It's supposed to be toned down.
netanyahu escalates in lebanon in beirut uh past the latani river i mean he goes into areas that they really never even occupied before saying oh this is because we're going after hezbollah this is because we're going after hezbollah well you've killed like 3 000 people and most of the people are not hezbollah
and don't gaslight me and say oh they're all they're not i see the people who are being killed we're reporting about it on a daily basis little children mothers medics hospitals and so you say you're going after hezbollah but we see you're killing so many people and you're demolishing buildings and city blocks and you've only escalated that so
As Netanyahu's been taken to the media, especially over the past 48 hours, 72 hours, we're going into Tyre or an Arabic Sir. We're going into Daya, another area in the suburbs of Beirut. We're going into there. And then you had Smutrich and Ben-Gavir and all of these far-right extremists in the Netanyahu regime saying, we're taking 100% of it. We're taking 100% of Gaza.
We're taking 100% of Lebanon. And then the United States starts striking over the weekend targets in Iran. They start hitting areas in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran responds, retaliates, strikes Kuwait Air Base that's jointly run by the United States and Kuwait. We also learn, while the United States continues to cover it up, five service members of the United States and contractors
although since it's being covered up, I don't know the exact ratio of service members to contractors, and it may be more than five, were injured when Iran responded and retaliated after U.S. strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Chapter 6: What key political events are happening in Georgia?
And so it took them a long time to get out of the caves. And that's why it's taking so long. And Barak Ravid said, they're stuck in the caves. It's like, dude, I see their parliament. Their parliament made awards to the Iranian women athletes today. I could follow what their parliament is doing on a day-to-day basis, in addition to discussing matters of war and peace.
Have you thought, though, that their cave Wi-Fi may have improved dramatically over the past 24 hours? That's a possibility. Some of the propaganda that is shoveled through people like Barack Reviewed, is so offensive to anybody with the brain. That is one of the stories right there that came out over the weekend where I was like, that's what we're really running with.
And Barak Ravid ran it like Ben said he does with all of his tweets with like four siren emojis that, oh, we've just learned what the holdup is on the negotiations, folks. In fact, they are looking through the deal. However, They're in caves and they live in caves. And so they have to actually use like a carrier pigeon in order to get this. And the carrier pigeon couldn't get into the cave.
And so it was this whole big thing. And they're waiting to try to figure out how to get these messages out. It's like we see them all the time. They're going to other countries. They're making deals with other countries. They're speaking on social media all the time. They're making videos. They're very much visible. They're walking through the streets.
We see them walking through the streets in a lot of these videos. And yes, I'm sure they have some extra precautions in place to protect their safety since the United States keeps killing their leaders, but they very much are able to communicate. That's not the issue.
But one of the big issues right now is a lot of these stenographers in the media who are laundering all of these just BS talking points, in my opinion, to manipulate the markets and to spread this fake news. Now, it's just really stunning. I just want to show this one more time because it really, really blows my mind that you could get away with it.
i mean if you had any other job and were this wrong would you get away with it i'm showing right now the list of stories going from may all the way back to march deal possible by tuesday deal on the way trump says deal done by sunday trump says iran war will be over very soon we've been seeing headlines like this on an almost daily basis it feels like and they're all coming from the same people and at what point do you go hmm
Maybe the US officials who are the sources who are telling me these things because they are trying to fight a propaganda war, maybe I am being used. Maybe the information they are giving me is not exactly on the up and up, but they don't care because they get their clicks, they get their scoops. And one of the other things that Donald Trump always does
And Jordy, I know you mentioned this on the show so many times before, just like with COVID, he would say, if you don't test, then there's no cases, right? Well, that's Donald Trump's philosophy to everything. If there's ever bad news for Trump, he thinks he could just ignore it, right?
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Chapter 7: What are the broader implications of Trump's foreign policy actions?
They act like he's losing weight. I mean, just when you compare his last annual physical to this one, he gained 14 pounds, but he's not 238 anyway. The last physical was 224, okay? Dude's not 224. Dude's at least 300. They're very close. You know what's just so amazing, though?
Like, honestly, like, this is really an incredible feat, that Donald Trump, somehow, every report seems to just be one or two pounds below the obese level. Just, it's miraculous how close he gets, but not over that level. I mean, it's... They say his hands with all of those marks consistent with handshakes.
Yeah. Lots of handshakes.
Both hands like this. I mean, when you read this thing, you're like, you all just think that we are just stupid. You know, and that's Trump's and MAGA's whole MO, right? They think we're stupid.
Chapter 8: How does Trump's behavior reflect on his leadership style?
And when it comes to the Epstein file cover up, Look, we have the influencers holding up a little binder. It says Epstein Files. Here's the Epstein Files. Remember Trump's first term with the healthcare plan when he did the interview with Leslie Stahl at 60 Minutes? And he literally had a binder that was 500 pages that were all blank.
And then his propagandist was like, look, here's the plan that we've got. And then Leslie Stahl opened it and she's like, yeah, this is all blank. pages, like everything's a stunt, everything's a scheme, everything's a fraud, like quite literally all of my healthcare plan, but please promise not to open it until you go home and open it.
Everybody, we all know that we have a most favored nations provision in our healthcare system. That's why you're paying far less on drugs than you're ever pharmaceutical drugs than you've ever paid in your life. You're like, that's not even true. You can't say we have a most favored nations provision.
What that would mean is that if the medication is $1 in Canada or $1 in Sweden, most favored nations mean that same medication is $1 in the United States. It's not. And Trump Rx or whatever the hell you're calling it,
that's not most favored nations all you're literally doing is copying and pasting the existing generic prices that a lot of pharmaceutical companies are forced to match anyway because the generics are just as good or that the pharmaceutical companies are offering direct to consumer anyway and you're slapping trump rx on it i mean people know that that's not fixing health care people know you've ripped away
healthcare from millions of Americans by making the Obamacare premiums incredibly expensive, unreachable by not renewing the subsidies, by attacking Medicaid. More of that kicks in after the midterm elections because one of the schemes they did is a lot of the Medicaid cuts don't kick in until after the midterms. They go, Democrats did it. You had it before, and then the Democrats won.
Look at it. And it's just stop with the lying. Just stop with it. Level with the people. Let's have informed, intelligent conversation. And going back to this theme, this should be nonpartisan what I'm saying. I don't believe I've said anything thus far on the show that reflects you should vote for this person. You should vote for that person.
I'm just saying we need a restoration of normalcy, democracy, empathy, love. We need to take care of people. We need to uplift marginalized communities, not punch down. We need to be there for each other.
need to make sure people have jobs with dignity damn it or if you're working a job and you're working hard or working you should be able to afford a home it shouldn't be out of reach from you you shouldn't have to worry is a data center going to pop up right next to my home and make my electricity prices go up even more than they all are already is there going to be unregulated ai that's going to take my job why are my children and my grandchildren
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