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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Panics as He Goes Silent After SOTU

25 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: Why is Trump silent after his State of the Union speech?

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Donald Trump has gone completely silent after that disastrous State of the Union he gave last night. Low energy, low ratings. Most people were watching the People's State of the Union by the Midas Touch Network. Over 2 million views the Midas Touch Network received for the People's State of the Union.

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19.589 - 38.351 Ben Meiselas

Towards the end of Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, he looked lethargic, tired, unwell. He was clinging on to that podium for dear life, it looked like. His hand was discolored. He was physically and mentally rotting before our eyes. It was incoherent. He couldn't string together sentences.

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Chapter 2: What were the reactions to Trump's performance during the SOTU?

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So no statements from Donald Trump since the State of the Union. The one thing he posted before the State of the Union, because he takes zero accountability for anything, was, The Democrat shutdown is killing the blue states. That was his message heading into the State of the Union. No social media posts since then.

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Now, he did send his cabinet sycophants to make their rounds on state regime media and to go on other corporate news. So, for example, you had Pam Bondi, his attorney general, once again bragging about the Dow. She's doubling down on that. And she goes, the economy is booming because of Donald Trump.

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Now, this morning, we also learned that on January 4th of this past year, Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's deputy attorney general, sent a memo to FBI agents telling them to

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Chapter 3: How did the Midas Touch Network's coverage compare to Trump's SOTU?

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flag and not produce those FBI 302 reports, the interviews with Epstein victims and survivors. And we know that there are some interviews with survivors who have made accusations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted them when they were minors. And those documents are being, those accusations, those 302s are being withheld. And now we know that there was a memo sent specifically to withhold 302s.

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So Pam Bondi, she goes on State Regime Media and she's like, this was a great State of the Union. Everything is amazing. And she said, that's why the economy is just crushing it right now. Everybody's thriving, she says. Here, play this clip.

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Oh, yeah. These are the kinds of things they want to say he's racist. He really just loves Americans and is trying to protect families.

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144.4 - 173.412 Ainsley Earhardt

Ainsley, as you know, he loves America. President Trump has made America safe again, and that's what he's doing. And in turn, that makes Americans feel safe to go to work, to have jobs, to be able to go to church, to be able to function in our country and be safe. And that's what's driving our economy. Donald Trump making America safe. And that's why our economy is at a record high.

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We all know that.

Chapter 4: What accusations are being made against Trump post-SOTU?

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And it's safe. And, you know, we also had last night there Andy Wolf. And I've gotten to be very close with his mom, Melody. And you know something else, Ainsley, you'll appreciate this, what President Trump said, what's very different. We are a praying administration. I love that. We all are. Our cabinet prayed before we went out there last night. We prayed for the president.

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We prayed for Congress. We prayed for the country. And that's because of Donald Trump. And that's what's making America safe.

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But here is what Lisa Rubin, who's an attorney, here's what she just told MSNOW about that January 4th memo that I just referenced. Here, play this clip.

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Berger, Lisa, you are all over this.

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Chapter 5: What role do Trump's cabinet members play in his absence?

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What are you learning now?

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Well, Ana, this morning I was looking to see whether the Department of Justice posted any new documents this morning regarding the alleged victim that we reported on yesterday. We thought maybe our reporting and that of NPR and an independent journalist named Roger Sullenberger might have changed what they were willing to post.

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I didn't find any new documents about the woman who accused both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 or 14 years old back in the 1980s. But what I did find absolutely stunned me. And that's a January 4th, 2026 memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch. I just want to situate the date for you and our viewers.

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December 19th was the congressionally mandated date for compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And yet on January 4th, Deputy Attorney General Blanch is writing a nine page memo to people at the department who were charged with doing the first-level review of documents for production.

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Chapter 6: How are Trump's supporters responding to criticisms of his leadership?

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And one of the things that the deputy attorney general instructs them to do in this memo is once they determine that something is responsive to one of the nine categories that Congress mandates they need files for,

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He says there are some types of documents that we want you to particularly flag or tag while you're going through them in the electronic database, and one of them is something called a 302. Barrett knows this well as a former federal prosecutor, but a 302 is the form that the FBI uses to memorialize interviews.

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That's the exact kind of document that we reported yesterday was missing with respect to this particular case.

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303.595 - 326.599 Ben Meiselas

So then you had other Trump sycophants making their rounds on state regime media as Donald Trump went silent. You have, for example, Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan chairs the House Judiciary Committee. It's interesting. In a little bit this morning, I'm going to do a video on this Senate confirmation hearing of this Casey Means, who Donald Trump wants to be the next

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Surgeon General, and she has an inactive medical license. Since her residency, she hasn't actually had a license to practice medicine. And she's kind of been selling people all of these like quack and kind of scammy stuff. And that's who he wants to have as the Surgeon General.

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I mentioned that here as it relates to Jim Jordan, just because he chairs the Judiciary Committee and he's not a licensed lawyer.

Chapter 7: What economic issues are being highlighted following the SOTU?

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Never took the bar exam to begin with. To me, this just kind of is very typical of MAGA. It's like, just find the licensed lawyer to be on the Judiciary Committee. Find someone who actually has a medical license to be the surgeon, at a bare minimum, right? Can we talk about, anyway. So here's what Jim Jordan had to say. And they have like Kevin McCarthy on this panel as well.

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And they're like, oh, that speech was just the greatest. That state of the union could not be any better. Here, play this clip.

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First, give us your sense of the president's speech last night. It was apple pie. I mean, he won Congressional Medals of Freedom, Congressional Medals of Honor, Olympic gold medals, Purple Heart. It was as apple pie and patriotic as I've ever seen. The only one that compares, and Kevin and I have been to a lot of these, last night I think was the best one I've ever been to.

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But you go back a few years ago when the first lady gave Rush the Medal of Freedom. That was a special night as well. But last night I thought was even better. I mean, the hockey team there, it was just, it was as apple pie as you get.

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And I always say we made- And then you had people who have for years tried to pretend that they're like moderates. You have Senator Thune, who's the Senate majority leader from South Dakota. And he's asked a question by state regime media. And they're like, so, We go in a war with Iran?

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And he's like, well, we're going to have to defend our interests here because a nuclear Iran is something that is going to be horrible for the United States. Didn't you all say last June that you totally obliterated everything? Isn't that what you sold us? Everything was obliterated. We don't have to worry ever again about Iran getting nuclear weapons. It just seems like every six months,

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They go back to Iran's about to annihilate us with nuclear weapons and we need to go to war again when the American people like just give me health care. I just want health care. I want to be able to live here. Right.

Chapter 8: What future implications could Trump's silence have on his political career?

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I mean, I want a good education. I want to be able to afford a home. I want to be able to afford things. Stop pretending that everything's affordable and things are great and inflation has been solved and the economy is booming. It isn't.

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Just stop it and then you're gonna go to war to do a wag the dog moment and try to distract from your coverup of the Epstein files and how horrible the economy is? That's what the regime's doing here. Play this clip of Thune.

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The ominous leader Thune. And folks are wondering after this briefing, are we going to war?

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I don't know the answer to that, Aisha. I think that the president is preparing us to defend America's vital national security interests, both in that region and here at home. I mean, we cannot abide, we cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. He made that clear in a speech last night. I think that's something, I hope at least, that a big majority of Americans agree with.

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But we have vital interests in that region, and obviously the capabilities that the Iranians have to hit a lot of our allies in the region is something that we have to be well attuned to as well. I think the president is pursuing peace through strength by ensuring that America has the right assets in the right places at the right time, if necessary. Hopefully it won't be necessary.

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