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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Gets Nightmare News as World Elections Crush Him

19 May 2025

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the massive international repudiation against Donald Trump and MAGA in recent foreign elections as Trump continues to spiral in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4.717 - 31.007 Ben Meiselas

The Trump effect is real all across the world. We're seeing the MAGA Trump aligned candidates getting upset by the pro-democracy candidates. On Sunday, we saw this take place in Romania and Poland. And over the past few weeks, we saw the Trump and MAGA-aligned candidates get upset in Canada and Australia.

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31.167 - 62.443 Ben Meiselas

Also, I think that it is not a coincidence that Pope Leo was someone who was very critical of Trump's position on, or I should just call it torture, of migrants with J.D. Vance and that the Vatican... elevated a new pope, signaling, I think, the belief that with Trump in charge, America is on the decline such that an American pope could be selected. Let's break all of this down.

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62.864 - 82.536 Ben Meiselas

I want to also talk about Donald Trump's unhinged responses throughout the day. But I think this post nicely sums everything up. They lost in Canada, they lost in Australia, Romania, and Poland. And I think we're going to be seeing more of this throughout the world.

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82.616 - 102.044 Ben Meiselas

And again, if you looked at the results in Romania and you compared it to what was projected just a few days ago, or especially even earlier in the month, where the far right-wing candidate there, Simeon, George Simeon, was expected to go on and win, and he actually won the

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102.344 - 126.372 Ben Meiselas

The first round, no one had really predicted that there would be this type of commanding victory for the pro-democracy, pro-EU centrist candidate, Nikusha Dan, going on to beat the MAGA-aligned Simeon. You go to Poland, we reported on this before as well, the liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski,

126.892 - 160.652 Ben Meiselas

went on to beat the MAGA Republican-aligned candidate, Karola Nowrocki, in the first round of the presidential elections in Poland. June 1st will be the second round there. Let me just show you the respective celebrations very quickly. Here in Romania, the mayor of Bucharest, the next leader of Romania. Here he is. You'll see him right here. Nicosia, Dan, here he is right here. Let's play it.

168.228 - 175.113 Ben Meiselas

And here we see in Poland, Trzaskowski, the centrist. Let's play the crowd right there.

175.133 - 180.057 Unknown Speaker

Let's play it.

180.277 - 198.191 Ben Meiselas

Now, in addition to just these elections, one of the things we're seeing as well is the world recognize how much of a bad negotiator Donald Trump is and how weak he is and how Donald Trump has just been capitulating and or announcing fake deals.

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