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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Panics and Issues Full Surrender!

24 May 2026

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Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump surrendering to Iran?

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Donald Trump waving the white flag of surrender to Iran. I'm sure you're seeing AI viral videos like this one circulating online. Donald Trump said he was not going to end this catastrophic war in Iran unless there was unconditional surrender. Well, Donald Trump just got unconditional surrender. He did an unconditional surrender to Iran. giving Iran everything they wanted.

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Donald Trump announced that there was a deal that was very close to being formed on Saturday. And now that we're seeing what this deal looks like, it is a total surrender by the weak and pathetic Donald Trump and his weak and pathetic regime. It shows what a good deal former President Obama's JCPOA was.

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And for all the MAGA's and Republicans who had always been attacking Obama's deal with Iran, that non-nuclear deal, Trump just did a deal that is 100 times, maybe 1,000 times worse.

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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Trump's unconditional surrender?

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I want to dig into what went down. You know, this weekend started with Donald Trump saying, I am not going to attend my son Don Jr. 's wedding. I like my son, he said. I've known him for a long time, but I don't think I need to be there. Also, Donald Trump saying that he was not going to go to Bedminster this weekend to play golf. He stayed in the White House. which was unusual.

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And then he announced earlier yesterday that there was a deal in principle that was reached with Iran. Now you may be saying, didn't he announced this like 60 days ago or something? Yeah, but Donald Trump is a total con artist, but this time they are super serious about it.

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And so Donald Trump made a social media post that then lots of Donald Trump's allies in the Republican party said, wow, this is terrible.

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Donald Trump's former Secretary of State Pompeo attacked it. Ted Cruz attacked it. So many people on the right wing were attacking it. And Donald Trump, of course, has his MAGA troll army that was trying to push back on that. Steve Chung, Donald Trump's communication director, was making post after post last night as well. It's like, Donald Trump's still working. It's 8 p.m.

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Donald Trump's still working. It's 9.30 p.m. He's a one of one. Look how hard he's working. And then there was that bizarre shooting that took place at the White House while Donald Trump was getting absolutely demolished. on social media and elsewhere about how bad his deal was. Then there was this shooting and there was apparently 30 shots fired at the White House.

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And then people like, what the heck's going on there? And then when people went back to focusing on, okay, what is going on? They said, wow, this is the worst deal ever. Also, I guess for Donald Trump to soothe himself, he posted, thank you, President Erdogan, the president of Turkey. Trump is the leader of the... Trump is the leader the world has been awaiting for centuries.

Chapter 3: How does Trump's recent deal compare to Obama's JCPOA?

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He doesn't just talk about strength, he embodies it. Donald Trump attributed that quote to President Erdogan of Turkey, and then Donald Trump deleted it because Erdogan's foreign minister told the United States, take that down. Erdogan never said those words. Stop making things up. And then Donald Trump, back down once again. The caveman, the taco. Always chickening out. Always caving.

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He was never a negotiator to begin with. Always, always a pathetic loser his entire life who bankrupted things.

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Now, here's what Donald Trump posted yesterday. I am in the Oval Office at the White House. We had a very good call with. And then he lists all of these leaders in the Middle East. Notably, Doesn't talk about consulting Congress. How about the House? How about the Senate? How about war powers authorization? No, he just lists all of these Middle East leaders and princes and Middle East royalty.

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And then Donald Trump says, we talked about this. peace deal, this memorandum of understanding pertaining to peace. An agreement has largely been negotiated subject to finalization between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and the various other countries as listed. Separately, I had a call with Netanyahu of Israel, which likewise went very well.

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You know, it didn't go very well. And you know, Donald Trump lies about everything. Final aspects and details of the deal are currently being discussed. and will be announced shortly. In addition to many other elements of the agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened. Thank you for your attention to this matter. That was Donald Trump's post. Let me show you the post of Abrahim Al-Fikar.

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He is the Iran official military spokesperson who shared this AI-generated image of Donald Trump bowing before Supreme Leader Khomeini, Monjaba, and kissing his feet right there or Ayatollah Khomeini and kissing his feet. So what is the actual deal as we know it as of now? Here's the Iranian deal so far. $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets. will be released.

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The US blockade of Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, that will end. Iran will allow passage through the Strait of Hormuz, but remain in control of the Strait. It will all be subject to its discretion. Iran's nuclear program will not in any way be part of this agreement at all. Basically, it's all of Iran's demands, each one of them Donald Trump caved to.

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And the issue over nuclear material, Iran says, well, let's deal with that 30 days from now or 60 days from now. But first we want that 25 billion. We want our security guarantees. Then we'll open up the Strait of Hormuz. You'll end the blockade. And then we'll maybe do a negotiation 30 to 60 days later on nuclear material. But we're not going to even make any promises there.

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And Donald Trump was like, bet, let's do it right now. Now, Iran rejects Donald Trump or anybody in the Trump regime's claim that the Hormuz Strait will be opened, like totally opened and not under Iran's control. Iran made it very clear it will remain under Iranian management, with Iran retaining exclusive permanent authority over the Strait of Hormuz, the timing, the method, the permits.

Chapter 4: What criticisms are being leveled at Trump's Iran deal?

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It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's tweets are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the United States. And they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements. In other words, Donald Trump's negotiators, when they're speaking with the Iranian negotiators, say, look,

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Here's the deal, Trump's caving to you. He's gonna go on social media and make up a bunch of lies. He's gotta work with like Barack Ravid and state regime media CBS and state regime media Fox and other American corporate media. Like let him lie, he's gonna do his lie. But we know at the end of the day, Here are the terms, America's surrendering, and that's what's going to be the end of the deal.

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We're gonna give you $25 billion. Remember when they would mock former President Obama and be like, the JCPOA, it gave them a billion dollars in cash. Well, you're giving them $25 billion right now. One of the things that Iran is also saying, they told Jeremy Shea Hill and others,

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is that Israel is currently undertaking its final and extensive efforts, applying considerable pressure to disrupt the formation of this agreement. Now you have Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's former Secretary of State, posted the following. The deal being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman, Robert Malley, Ben Rhodes playbook.

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Pay the IRGC to build a weapon of mass destruction program and terrorize the world. Not remotely, America. First, it's straightforward. Open the dam straight. Deny Iran access to money. Take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region. Overdue. Let's go.

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to which Stephen Chung, Donald Trump's communications director, responded to Pompeo, Mike Pompeo has no idea what the fuck he's talking about. He should shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals. He's not read into anything that's happening. So how would he know? I don't know, maybe because Pakistan is a mediator.

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All of the other Arab nations were on calls with Donald Trump and they know what the deal is and that's where this information is coming from. I don't know, maybe that, by the way, this is Trump's communication director, this weird guy, Steven Chung. This is how he talks. I mean, these people are such, profane fricking losers, all of them.

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Ted Cruz, you don't get much more MAGA Republican right now than Ted Cruz, who Donald Trump called his wife ugly and said his dad killed JFK. Here's what Ted Cruz posted. I'm deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran deal being pushed by some voices in the administration. Trump's decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of essential term.

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If the result of all of that is to be an Iranian regime still run by the Islamists who chant death to America now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium and develop nuclear weapons and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then the outcome would be a disastrous mistake. The details are still coming out and I pray the early reports are wrong.

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