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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Melania’s Dark Past Surfaces as Donald Outed in Photos

14 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Mr. Prime Minister, shall we start now? Let's start, and let's start properly. What do you mean? Let's start everything. Are you sure? Let's start clothes, let's start equipment, let's start equipment. I mean, all outdoor sports and free time. Now I understand. Maybe you understand numbers better. Putkesport is now even below 60%. So... Exactly. Putkesport.fi. Jääkiekon nuorten MM-kisat.

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26. joulukuuta alkaen TV5 ja HBO Maxilla. Fortum presents Olavi Baari playing his favorite instrument. Hmm, beautiful. But let's add a little energy. Meissä kaikissa on sitä pohjoismaista energiaa. Rohkeutta tarttua toimeen ja sisua kehittyä. Mihin ikinä ryhdytkään, Fortum tuo energiaa ja osaamista arkeesi. Fortum.

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Melania Trump's dark past is surfacing as well as Donald Trump tries to hide his dark past. When Donald Trump met Melania purportedly in 1998, what was Donald Trump doing around that time? He was gallivanting around. That's one way to put it. with Epstein and with a lot of the photos that we saw released from the Democrats in the House Oversight Committee. It was some disgusting stuff.

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And we know the grotesque and disgusting stuff that Donald Trump and Epstein were getting into and what they were doing with their modeling agencies. It was horrific, horrific stuff. So around this time in 1998, Donald Trump meets Melania. Where do they meet? They meet, just according to Melania's version of events, at a location called the Kit Kat Club. It's kind of a grimy club.

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In Manhattan, Melania likes to refer to as this glamorous place where editors and models were all mingling and there was camaraderie in the air. Now, I mean, the Kit Kat Club in New York was like a gross club. And this guy, Paolo Zampolli, who's now a United States ambassador, it's like a top government official appointed by Donald Trump, At that time, he ran modeling agencies.

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That's what he called them, modeling agencies that would bring younger Eastern European women or girls or from Eastern Europe to the United States. And then he would throw these parties where they would be introduced or they would meet wealthy people and wealthy men, powerful men in the United States. And so on this evening in 1998, Donald Trump met Melania,

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And, you know, you could even just take a look at Melania's book where she talks about, I met him in the camaraderie and he was with another girl and I met him and it was we saw each other. It was the whole thing. Take a look at Melania's background, though. So if you look at what her biography used to say before it was uncovered that she was lying, she's a liar. It said the following.

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Born on April 26, 1970 in Slovenia, Melania Naus began her modeling career at the age of 16. At the age of 18, she signed with a modeling agency in Milan. Which one? What's the name of the modeling agency in Milan? Let's hear it.

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After obtaining a degree in design and architecture at the university in Slovenia, Melania was jetting between photo shoots in Paris and Milan, finally settling in New York in 1996. Well, Melania Trump actually never earned a university degree in architecture. She dropped out of college after her freshman year, according to her biographers.

Chapter 2: What dark past of Melania Trump is being revealed?

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It was Epstein. It was Casablanca. You know, those are the guys that Donald Trump were hanging out with at the time. Okay. So with that as background, let's fast forward to this week because there were some very strange things happening. And one of the strange things that happened is during this Christmas party, Donald Trump, refer to his son Barron in a very weird way.

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Chapter 3: How did Donald Trump's past impact his relationship with Melania?

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Not our son together. He referred to Barron as her child. It's Melania's child. So it was very strange. I know it's gonna be a great, I know that it's gonna be great for children because Melania loves children. She has a wonderful boy. She's proud of her boy. Isn't he your boy also? Very question mark, very strange thing to say. Here, play this clip.

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Well, I just heard about that for the first time. The only thing I can tell you, I know one thing for sure, Mr. Speaker, it's going to be great. It's going to be great for children. OK, I don't know what it is she's doing, but I know it's going to be great for children because she loves children and she's got a wonderful boy and she's very proud of her boy.

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but she loves children, and if she puts it out, it'll be maybe unanimous again, or whatever that was, but very close, unanimous again. I wanna thank you.

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Hey, Brett here. Allow me to interrupt for just one minute because I have major news that isn't getting nearly enough attention, and this may just be the biggest issue of our time. According to the Energy Information Administration, household electricity prices have risen 13% since Donald Trump took office, and experts say that this is just the beginning if current policies continue.

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As you all know, we've been doing these segments about the climate in our reports because, frankly, this is an issue that isn't getting talked about nearly enough. Across the country, climate pressures and the explosive growth of energy-hungry data centers are straining the grid, driving up rates, and hitting families hard.

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The New York Times reports that rural Republicans in deep red Georgia and Virginia are now voting for Democrats for the first time because their electric bills keep climbing while their elected officials greenlight these massive AI data centers without any local input.

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These facilities require staggering amounts of power and water, and under Trump, the strategy has been to just accelerate data center expansion while simultaneously taking a sledgehammer to clean energy projects. That combination, growing demand and shrinking supply, pushes the costs directly onto consumers.

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Utilities are racing to build expensive new infrastructure from nuclear projects to new transmission lines, and they're passing all those costs on through higher monthly bills to the people. Communities are pushing back, though, in Arizona and Indiana. Citizen pressure forced Amazon and Google to abandon data center plans. Great job speaking out.

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In Georgia, voters flipped long-held Republican utility seats because they connect the dots between politics, climate policy, and their skyrocketing bills. But here's the main point. This issue is about to define national politics. Electricity is becoming the new price of eggs, if you will. And if leaders, regardless of political party, don't confront the impact of climate change,

Chapter 4: Where did Donald Trump and Melania first meet?

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corporate subsidies, and unchecked AI expansion on household energy costs, this problem will only get worse. This is a crisis that is hiding in plain sight. We all see it with our own eyes, and it demands far more attention right now. So do this for me quickly.

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Let me know your thoughts on AI data centers, on the climate, on your electricity bills, and so on below, and let's continue to make noise. Okay, Ben, back to you. Now, you also know that when she was pregnant and Barron was born, Donald Trump was having an affair, it seems, with multiple women as well. Stormy Daniels, I think after right when Barron was born, and Susan McDougal, Karen McDougal.

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McDougal, and other people. And there are photos of them all together. Trump, Melania, McDougal, while they were all together. Did you see how Melania was looking at him as well there? Like, look at here. Melania is then absolutely stone-faced here, as Aaron Rupert writes, as Trump talks about how sad Steve Scalise's wife was when he got shot, but not many wives would be crying.

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I went to the hospital and they actually thought he wasn't going to make it. His wife was devastated. She was crying. I tell the story. I found out that night you have a wife that loves you dearly. I know many wives would not even be crying. Your wife, your wife was absolutely a mess. She was crying. She was inconsolable, Steve. So we found that out, but he made it. And then he went.

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And then he starts talking about a Republican Congress member, and he's mocking the Somalian community. I want you to watch her face right here. Play this clip.

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And Tom is very friendly with the Somalians. You know, he's doing a great job. He's a big fan. He's a big fan of Somalia. He said, please correct that. Thank you, Tom, very much. Thank you. He's a great guy. He's done a fantastic job, and we really appreciate it.

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So that brings me to Melania's Christmas book that she was reading. And here was the headline, Melania Trump mocked after struggling to read Christmas book to six kids. Now, The story is that she was this great model, although other than the nudes, if you're a great model, what'd you model in? I don't know, question mark. That she speaks five languages.

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Have you heard her speak five languages ever? I mean, I assume she speaks her native tongue. She doesn't speak English all that well. What are the other languages that she speaks? Seriously, have you ever heard her speak any of those? I don't know. I haven't heard her speak these other languages.

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And I just think that as the Trump regime is attacking all of these migrants, I don't think we should be mocking, you know, it says Melania Trump mocked after struggling to read Christmas book to six kids. We should never mock people who are trying to learn English. You know, it's a hard language and I get it. We should never mock people, never mock the way people speak.

Chapter 5: What discrepancies exist in Melania Trump's biography?

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I guess I'm sort of, I'm still stunned by the fact that you chose her to be your son's godmother, right? Over my sister. Over your own sister. Over my sister. And now all of this is happening. I mean, what... What do you have to say to her? I think what I would have to say to Caroline is just because you went to a Catholic school doesn't make you a good Catholic. You know, you're a mother.

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You are a mother now, and you should know how would you feel if you were in my shoes, you know? How would you feel if somebody did this to you? Because at the end of the day, nobody's above the law. You know, it could happen to anybody. So I... I can't wrap my mind around it. And hopefully there's a logical explanation for all of this. I mean, this is just a picture of you.

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Obviously we blurred your son's face out, but it's you and Caroline. Yes. Little pool party in Atkinson, yes. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. I'm trying to understand and have faith that there's some logical explanation behind any of this, but there isn't. I'm not the first. I'm surely not going to be the last. There's thousands of women and families and children being separated daily.

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Where does it end? When does it stop?

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And finally, I just want to remind you about Melania's plagiarism of Michelle Obama, just so that you can remember that at the Republican National Convention, Melania just like literally ripped off, word for word, Melania ripped off, word for word, Michelle's speech here. I'll play this clip.

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My parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life.

Chapter 6: What was Melania's career before marrying Donald Trump?

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That your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise. That you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.

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And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values and to pass them on to the next generation because we want our children and all children in this nation to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

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There you have it, folks. You can take this however you want to take it, but I think that after we get the Epstein files, I think that there should be some attention paid to some of these questions. These are questions, opinions, First Amendment opinions and questions, right? We should all have them. We should all have them. I think there are a lot of attention needs to be turned there.

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