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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 4/16/2026

16 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent actions has Donald Trump taken against the Pope?

0.031 - 27.926 Ben Meiselas

pope leo xiv striking back against donald trump as donald trump has attacked the pope he's mocked the catholic church he's done ai images of himself as jesus he's continued to do things like defund catholic charities he's taken money millions of dollars away from the archdiocese in Miami. We'll talk about Pope Leo XIV's speech that he gave in Cameroon.

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And Pope Leo XIV isn't holding back right now, but this is the fight that Donald Trump and MAGA decided that they want to pick. They're going to go all in on attacking the

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Chapter 2: How has Donald Trump responded to Epstein survivors?

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uh catholic church right now and attacking uh the pope you have this disastrous press conference i showed a little bit of there at the outset of donald trump uh on the white house lawn he's heading to uh las vegas right now to pretend the economy's booming and everybody's doing great Later today, we'll bring you the speech that he gives there.

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But Donald Trump on the White House lawn disparaging Epstein survivors, basically saying, you know, he calls them the victims. or whatever. That's how he referred to the survivors, the victims or whatever.

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Chapter 3: What is the current status of the ceasefire negotiations with Iran?

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That's, by the way, how Donald Trump feels about the survivors. There is whatever. He doesn't believe them. He attacks them frequently. He disparages them frequently.

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Chapter 4: What legal challenges is Donald Trump facing regarding his ballroom project?

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We'll talk about that. You also have Donald Trump saying that he's not sure if the ceasefire with Iran is going to be extended. He's also said he doesn't know what Iran's going to do there. We'll cover that.

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Chapter 5: What were the main points discussed during the congressional testimony of Mike Waltz?

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Also, Donald Trump's ballroom has been halted yet again by a federal district court judge. We'll talk about this order by Judge Leon. Judge ordered that all of the above ground work should be halted. And Donald Trump can continue building whatever bunker or whatever is happening underneath. But anything that went down above ground, the ballroom itself will be halted.

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Chapter 6: How are rising gas prices affecting public opinion on Trump's administration?

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Donald Trump's flipping out about that. Donald Trump made a post moments ago, which we'll pull up in just a little bit as well, where Donald Trump said,

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the whole ballroom is actually not a ballroom this is all for my safety and security the ballroom is a way to protect me from drones and ballistic missiles and that's why we're doing the ballroom we'll cover that we have some hearings on capitol hill

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you had mike walls donald trump's ambassador to the united nations testifying he was cross-examined cross-examined by democrats and republicans in the senate about donald trump's genocide war crime threats and execution there too show you what mike walls responded in a little bit you had rfk jr testifying today We'll go through some of that testimony.

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Chapter 7: What implications does the World Cup boycott have for the U.S. economy?

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Apparently, there was a story in the New York Post that he would cut off raccoons' penises, and he would study the penises of dead raccoons. But this is just such a bizarre regime right here.

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in any event he testified and he was asked a lot of questions about his anti-vax stance and some of the horrible statements that he made and he just denies that he makes them even though there's like actual audio of him making statements we'll cover that um and then we're learning more about again these purported negotiations between the united states and iran

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Donald Trump continues to say they're going great, amazing, they're heading on the right track. But when you actually see what Iran's saying, it doesn't seem to be going in that direction.

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Chapter 8: What are the potential consequences of Trump's foreign policy decisions?

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But set aside what Iran's saying, what's Europe saying, what are nations and what's the rest of the world saying who are either observing these negotiations or speaking with the parties to determine what's going on? Well, Europe and Middle East nations believe that

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248.482 - 273.877 Ben Meiselas

at a minimum it will potentially take six months for the united states and iran to reach any type of significant deal this isn't happening overnight so again if you think about the trajectory of covid Right. Remember, we said that this kind of follows how Donald Trump dealt with COVID during his first term, like a miracle. It's all going to go away.

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Bend the curve and then kind of just ignored it and pretend that everything's great and he's doing a great job. Remember, he said he gave himself an A, like he did an amazing job with COVID and have a scale of one to ten with COVID. Remember, he said he gave himself an 11. So if you think about six months from now as well, right, we're pretty much gonna be heading into next year, right?

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We're gonna start heading into 2027 soon. And, you know, I think that Donald Trump's plan is just to drag this along. And what I think is important which is already becoming an issue, but, you know, we have to really pay attention to it. I mean, like Europe, for example, and Asia running out of jet fuel. I mean, there's going to be serious food shortages already.

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We're seeing that in certain locations, but Food shortages could potentially start to sweep throughout the entire world, and that could create real serious issues and panic, so we're focused there. Prices continuing to rise, and when Donald Trump was asked

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uh in the white house lawn today about high gas prices right now and what he uh what his view is are they gonna go down anytime soon donald trump's like nope the prices are good i mean the prices are you know great stock market's amazing he says so you know i think i think we've done our job

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the parallels between this moment and covid are just so obvious right so let's go through what went down i showed you that first clip right there when donald trump was asked do you believe there should be a public hearing for more of these epstein survivors let's just play that clip again and let's uh let's do a fresh start of the episode now that the mic's working let's play that clip again jeremy

376.495 - 386.194 Donald Trump

The First Lady last week called on Congress to further look into and uncover the truth on the Epstein files, the Epstein saga.

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Do you believe that there should be a public hearing for more of these Epstein survivors? I'm okay with it. I think we've had a lot of public hearings. I'm okay with it. But I understand that the... Women didn't want to go under oath. That's what I heard, that the women, the victims or whatever, they refused to go under oath, which was a little surprising.

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