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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Leaves DC in Disgrace as Protests Erupt

01 May 2026

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Chapter 1: Why did Donald Trump leave Washington D.C. in disgrace?

0.031 - 13.587 Ben Meiselas

Donald Trump just left Washington, D.C. in disgrace. He held a bizarre press conference outside of the White House on the White House lawn where he was swatting away bees and saying the bees are very vicious.

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Chapter 2: What happened during Trump's bizarre press conference?

13.747 - 33.138 Ben Meiselas

It was quite strange. But what he seemed very nervous about was the fact that protests erupting right by the White House spontaneously today on May Day with these May Day protests We've seen protests, big protests, right outside of the White House while Trump was giving this press conference.

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33.579 - 62.764 Ben Meiselas

And then while Donald Trump departed from the press conference he was giving on the White House lawn, we saw protesters giving Donald Trump the middle finger as he left. to go to Florida on the taxpayer dime to once again golf. And maybe he's going to go watch that PGA tour at his Doral Golf Club in Miami, where no one has attended. Remember, we reported yesterday that literally no one showed up.

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63.104 - 75.406 Ben Meiselas

No one was at the 18th hole. at Donald Trump's Doral Golf Club with that PGA tournament. And not many of the top players showed up either. But anyway, back to the White House. You see the protesters out here.

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Chapter 3: What were the May Day protests happening near the White House?

75.746 - 94.531 Ben Meiselas

You see them giving Donald Trump the middle finger. That's Marine One, Donald Trump's helicopter leaving, where he's going to go on Air Force One and then go to Florida. Here are some still images of Donald Trump swatting. That's how he swats the bees with his hands right there. And he goes, these bees are very vicious. These bees are very vicious.

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94.571 - 116.074 Ben Meiselas

And one of the things to note as well with all of these bees swarming him is that Melania Trump had been touting that she built a gigantic beehive in order to basically harvest all of this honey. And so there are bees everywhere right now while he's doing the press conference. And he's smacking the bees while getting protested.

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116.094 - 130.177 Ben Meiselas

I'm just going to show you this moment where the bees were all over his face and he was like swatting them. And that, again, is related to the new beehive initiative that they're building at the White House in order to get all of this honey, apparently. That's Melania's initiative.

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130.197 - 137.008 Donald Trump

Here, just play this clip.

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136.988 - 162.571 Ben Meiselas

And then on a more serious note, Donald Trump was crashing out on the White House lawn, and Donald Trump said regarding the new Iranian proposal that may or may not actually be a real thing, probably not a real thing. Remember, Barack Ravid, Donald Trump's stenographer at Axios this morning, reported, Iran sent Donald Trump a new proposal and he was going to be looking at it.

162.831 - 172.16 Ben Meiselas

And I was like, yep, it's market manipulation Friday. It's Donald Trump's chief outside propagandist, Barack Ravid over at Axios doing what he does every Friday.

Chapter 4: How did protesters react to Trump's departure?

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And so Donald Trump, I think, responds to the fake deal from Iran by saying, yeah, I don't think it's serious at all. I'm not satisfied with it. We'll see what happens. I'm not satisfied with their deal. Okay. We think this is all, it's like in his fictitious deranged world. Here, play this clip.

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190.229 - 205.016 Donald Trump

So they want to make a deal, but I'm not satisfied with it. So we'll see what happens. Iran wants to make a deal. because they have no military left, essentially, and they want to make a deal, but I'm not satisfied with it.

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Chapter 5: What is the significance of Trump's golf trip to Florida?

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Then Donald Trump claims, very strangely, that right now we don't have a munitions problem that all of our generals and all of our admirals are warning about. Like, all of our top military brass are saying that America has expended about 50% of our munitions in this catastrophic war in Iran. But according to Donald Trump, the...

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perpetual liar, we actually have double the inventory right now, double the munitions. We've magically, in the past 60 days since the wars began, we've increased our munitions. This guy lies about everything. Every word, sound, syllable, mm, ah, is all a damn lie. Sure, Donald, we've increased our munitions. Makes a lot of sense right here. Here, play this clip.

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There was some reporting this week that because of all the firepower required for epic fury, that there are people in the White House who are starting to worry about our inventory of bombs and missiles.

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264.594 - 285.711 Donald Trump

Are you worried? No, no. more than we've ever had actually because all over the world we have inventory and we can take that if we need it but all over the world we have tremendous amounts of inventory the best for instance we're stocked and locked and loaded right now we have more than double what we had when this started

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285.691 - 301.54 Donald Trump

But, you know, we're all over the world with many, many different countries, many different places all backed up. Now, what happened is Biden came in like a stupid fool and he did. He gave a lot of what we had.

301.52 - 328.27 Donald Trump

to ukraine and the 350 billion dollars they spent we don't do that everybody has to pay the european union pays us but biden didn't get money he got nothing got nothing but he gave a lot of the inventory away now relatively speaking it's not that but but it was a lot of inventory he gave it to ukraine uh we filled it up but we have inventory from all over the world

328.25 - 351.52 Ben Meiselas

And it should be noted that everything that Donald Trump does is projection and confession, because I think the reality is that he was briefed on the fact that Iran has increased their weapons since the war began because they make it much cheaper. Their Shahid drones take $20,000 to make and sometimes less. They're also making lots of dummy drones. Their weapons are actually cheaper.

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So perhaps that's what he was talking about anyway. Back to the White House lawn where Donald Trump is getting... He's afraid of being stung by bees, apparently. Donald Trump then says regarding congressional authorization of the war, because the 60 days are basically up and he requires congressional authorization for the war. Frankly, he required congressional authorization from the outset.

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Donald Trump's like, yeah, I don't really need to do that. He goes, the Strait of Hormuz is flawless right now. It's a flawless Strait. A flawless Strait? Dude, what are you even talking about? Here, play this clip.

Chapter 6: What did Trump say about the Iranian proposal?

586.818 - 589.14 Ben Meiselas

OK, you're playing this clip right here.

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589.12 - 605.087 Unknown

That was a vicious beat.

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605.067 - 619.225 Donald Trump

I know everything about it. Yeah, I have great respect. Are you from Pakistan? I have great respect for Pakistan and for the field marshal and for the prime minister. Yeah, I know that.

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619.245 - 646.498 Ben Meiselas

Great for Pakistan. You guys, great for Pakistan. Then Donald Trump brags about his tariffs on Europe, new tariffs on Europe, 25%, right? We're back in the tariff loop. He's already declared the war won. And now we're in tariff loop, but the war is won, but the war is also not won. It's won for the purpose of not needing congressional authorization, apparently. But the guy makes zero sense.

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And now we're talking about tariffs again. Here, play this clip.

649.782 - 670.483 Donald Trump

We raised the tariffs on cars coming in from the European Union because the European Union was not adhering to the trade deal we have. So based on that, now, when they build their plants, of which we're spending, they're spending over $100 billion, all countries, not just the Union. And when those plants open, there won't be any tariffs.

670.503 - 694.927 Donald Trump

But we raised the tariffs because they were not, as usual, they were not adhering to the agreement that we have. We have a trade deal with the European Union. They were not adhering to it. So I raised the tariffs on cars and trucks to 25%. That's billions of dollars coming into the United States and it forces them to move their factory production much faster.

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Donald Trump also makes another stunning admission here as well, saying that he's not happy with the Kurds of Iraq because we sent them all of these weapons and they refused to invade Iran. And that was part of Trump's plan. He goes, they just stole our weapons. So now Trump admitting that he's armed the Kurds. that will create diplomatic issues. Great admission, Donald. Here, play this clip.

718.38 - 737.193 Unknown

Mr. President, you said you send weapons to help Iranian demonstrators. Some sort of crime. These weapons are in Sulaymaniyah, in Iraqi Kurdistan. Do you confirm that? And as you said, they will... pay a big price.

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