Transcript of MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 6/2/26 New

We have a lot to discuss today on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. The day began with Iran announcing it was suspending all talks with Donald Trump. Iran alleged multiple examples of ceasefire violations from the Trump regime striking Iranian assets in the Strait of Hormuz to Israel further invading Lebanon. Donald Trump then responded that Israel invading Lebanon is just a glitch and that we're actually super close to doing a deal. Over the weekend, Donald Trump also gave an interview with Lara Trump where he said that the IRGC, Iran's military leadership, they're very moderate. So that's why Donald Trump said that he didn't destroy their military because of what a moderate force they are. We'll show you that. Also, Congress is now returning after yet another vacation, or just MAGA Mike shutting down Congress as the Democrats were introducing a war powers resolution in the House, which was set to pass. So now MAGA Mike's delay tactic is now over. The House is returning, and one of the first things that we learned is that the $1.8 billion slush fund that Donald Trump is trying to push through to January 6th insurrectionists seems like it's going to be blocked for now, is what the language that Donald Trump, uh, and MAGA sources—

it'll be blocked for now.

We'll talk about what's going on there.

We'll also talk about what's happening with the Freedom Concert that Donald Trump wanted to put on, the Trump Freedom 250th Anniversary Concert. You know, this should have just been a very easy thing to execute, like just don't make it partisan and weird, like just bring in musical acts.

Congress already set up a nonpartisan group back in 2016 that was responsible for the entertainment and the nonpartisan celebration of our country. But Donald Trump had to create his own organization.

Organization to compete with the nonpartisan one.

And Trump's organization was called Freedom 250, and nobody knew how this thing was funded.

And then according to all of these musical acts, Donald Trump deceived them and made it seem like they were performing for the nonpartisan American 250 Fair. Then when they found out it was a Trump event, they didn't want any part of it. So then Donald Trump just canceled the whole damn event and revealed what this was all about. Donald, And he said that he's holding a MAGA rally. And so now the 250th anniversary celebration is a deranged Trump MAGA rally where he'll probably get up there and then just start making those weird noises. And Americans are sick and tired of this. Speaking of sick and tired, Donald Trump released his physical late Friday night at around 11:00 PM, or I should say a document purporting to be said physical exam. It has so much red light, red, red flags all over it. It's just one glaring red light of a document. And then after releasing that so-called report, Donald Trump proceeded to make social media post after social media post, each one more deranged than the next post of himself Dunking over Governor Hochul, posts of drone ports, posts of him kissing flags, some of the strangest behavior imaginable as the American people are just like, dude, we're suffering out here, man.

We just want our healthcare. We just want to be able to afford rent at this point. What are you doing? And then also something special. It's happening in Georgia. Did you see that event? Senator Ossoff's reelection campaign. Where he joined forces with the Democratic governor candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta. That looked presidential. That looked Obama-esque running the first time. There's energy in that room. We'll just say that. We've got a lot to discuss on this episode of the Midas Touch podcast. I got Brett, I got Jordy. The brothers are here. Brett and Jordy, how are you doing?

Doing well, Ben. Doing well, Jordy. And great to see the Midas Mighty. Thank you to everybody watching us live. Thank you to everybody for listening to us. If you're listening to us on audio platforms and if you're not, go ahead and check us out. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, be there. I cannot believe it's June already. Where the hell did all the time go this year? It's truly blowing my mind. You know, I know we take it one day at a time here at the Midas Touch Network. I know all of you do too, because these days could be crazy. But the accumulation of the days, it certainly feels like time Time flies. Um, we're keeping track of everything that's going on. You know, I gotta say, I am— I'm pretty bummed about this, uh, America 250 thing because it should have been something that we should all be able to celebrate as Americans, and Donald Trump just got his stink all over it the same way that he gets a stink all over everything. He has an ability to kind of glom onto things and just destroy them, and he does this with celebrities who even show him an ounce of, like, respect.

Like, he will then glom onto them, attach himself to them, attach sting to them. And he does it with events like this that should be apolitical, nonpartisan events. As I said online about this event, you can't take a dump in the punch bowl and then expect people to still drink it. And that's exactly what Donald Trump is doing.

Why are these Democrats—

why are they out there? They don't want to celebrate America's 250. No, I think people do want to celebrate. And I think people do want to have a ceremony that, you know, if we had more things to celebrate at this moment. But you are making it the Donald Trump Party. You are making it like your own birthday party. That's the issue. You're putting your face on money. Everything you're doing, you're putting your, your picture in front of the Department of Justice. You're putting your picture on the Department of Labor building. Everything you are doing is for yourself because you are a narcissist of the highest order and you don't give a damn about this country. That's the issue that people have. It's because you don't love this country. You just love yourself, Donald Trump. We got a lot to discuss. I know we got to get into it. But first, got to check in with Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest?

What's up, brothers?

What's up, Midas Mighty? Excited to get into tonight's show. Ben, you said something that was very astute earlier. You quite often do that. Don't make it partisan and weird. Well, Donald Trump is the expert at making things partisan and weird. It's a real bummer that we're here with this 250th anniversary celebration as to where Donald Trump has taken his event.

I—

it just— thanks, Brett, because I agree with you. It's something that we should be able to celebrate, but right now I get the feeling and the vibes on the ground that people aren't like too psyched to celebrate, uh, especially us here in America. So let's, you know, take a deep breath here. Excited to get into today's show, Benji. I know we have a lot to cover. Where do you want to start us off, brothers?

Remember when we were growing up and we would watch a cartoon and sometimes the evil power that the supervillain would have would be energy drain, right? They would suck the life force out of other people, right? That was part of their supervillain power. And that seems to be what Donald Trump does here over and over again. You know, when he kind of puts his arm around you, he basically takes your valor away from you. He takes your accomplishments away from you and he makes it all about him.

Brett, as you said, he stinks up everything by having to make everything Trump this, Trump that, and quite literally putting his name on things like the Kennedy Center. Dude, that doesn't belong to you. It's a living, breathing memorial for a former president who was assassinated, and it is an important landmark in Washington, D.C.

Don't call it the Trump Kennedy Center. And Again, fortunately, at the end of last week, a court blocked him from doing that and said, rip your name down.

But that's so symbolic of what he does. He runs around, puts his name on everything, and just frankly, frankly ruins so many things that people just want to live their lives and people want to form real bonds and real connections. And sometimes people just want to go to a sporting event and they don't want him to be there and make it weird. Sometimes people just want to go to a concert and not have it to be a political thing.

And what Donald Trump was doing with this Freedom 250 thing by replacing America 250 is he wanted all of these artists from the time period that Donald Trump has, like, frozen himself in time, like the late '80s, early '90s.

And he wanted to throw himself this event and use the performers to make himself look tough and to make this a MAGA event. And the performers were like, no, we don't want that. And then he started posting that these are third-rate performers. The very performers that he invited to the event, he then started attacking and he said, these are third-rate, these people aren't good anyway. I'm going to make it a MAGA rally. Me, I'm like Elvis. I'm the one who brings the crowds. Let's make this about me. So I'm going to throw a MAGA rally, which was always going to be a MAGA rally from the outset. What's notable as well is it's not just the Freedom 250 thing. It's also this UFC thing. I mean, even like UFC fans are looking at it and going, first off, it's dangerous that you're having this event outside in June in a swampy Washington, D.C. with bugs, with the excessive heat. I mean, look, I don't want to quote Joe Rogan on a lot of things, but Rogan was like, Could you imagine if you forced basketball players, you know, like the Knicks, Spurs, to be playing outside versus inside in an air-conditioned arena?

You know, this is an athletic endeavor and you shouldn't be putting it outside for your own weird delusional fantasies. And the fact that Dana White goes along with it and Dana White's like, I'm not being political here. If any president asked me to do UFC fights at the White House, tore up the West Wing, tore up the East Wing, tore up the Rose Garden, started putting up grotesque straw. I wouldn't do it. The point is, no one else would ask you to do it because you're complicit in this fascist propaganda that the American people are sick and tired of. I saw a CNN poll talk about today that only 9% of Americans actually approve of Donald Trump putting his name on things right now. Only 22% of Americans approve of Donald Trump putting his name on things even after his term. Why? Setting aside how horrible of a human being Donald Trump is, the American people are focused on issues that they are feeling every damn day. And as we say, people are living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck. They've already been psychologically tortured by the policies of this regime, whether it's ICE raids in their communities, whether it's Trump's tariffs against the world causing inflation to rise, whether it's a jobs recession that we are in, whether it's the fact that people can't afford housing, people can't afford their rent.

That's what people are suffering. So when you have that and then you look over and say, okay, what are you doing to fight for me? Right? I mean, look, we all know, for example, in Canada, the Canadian economy, as a result of Donald Trump's trade wars against Canada, is suffering. But I think the Canadian people people look at Prime Minister Carney and go, you know what, that's a serious man. That's a serious person who every day is out there fighting for us and addressing us honestly.

He's talking about that the economy is struggling.

He's saying that this is what's needed to bring Canada into the next decades of growth. So we can rally behind someone who's focused on us, even if there's a struggle here in the United States. There's that struggle. But people look to see what Donald Trump is doing, and it's Like, whoa, you did 3,800 stock trades of companies where you interact with their CEOs in the Oval Office during the first quarter alone of 2026. A new stock trade every 9 minutes.

Whoa.

A company that your kids are affiliated with just got a $600 million loan, which raised the valuation of those companies by by billions of dollars and their government loans that were given to them. Whoa, Ukraine is offering to do these drone deals with you, give you these top cutting-edge drones, drone interceptors, and technology. You're refusing to even talk to Zelensky about it, but your kids' drone companies appear to be getting preferential treatment over established technologies that are out there. Whoa, you're doing crypto deals with Middle East countries. Whoa, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who have personal business dealings in the region are out there pitching real estate proposals to Iran. And their pitch is a $300 billion investment fund to Iran to build real estate and hotels out there. And it's like people who are self-interested in the outcomes.

All right.

Why is Kushner involved?

Whoa.

You keep telling us that there are these deals. With Iran. Yet every damn day, a day goes by and it's demonstrated to just be part of this market manipulation. You know, we got this graphic and we'll show you it on B-roll of Trump's communications with that Barak Revid guy of Axios starting in March, going to May. And for those on audio, it is 2 or 3 dozen headlines. Trump to Axios, we're right around the corner from a deal. Trump to Axios, they're about to surrender. Trump to Axios, they will surrender soon. We're just finishing up the final touches. And then Barack Ravida of Axios does like 3 alarms, 3 alarm sirens. We got breaking news. We got breaking news. It's right around the corner. And they're, I mean, they do it today. I mean, on the very same day earlier where Iran announced it was suspending talks with the United States, Donald Trump and Barak Ravid do it again. Donald Trump and ABC do it again. It's right around the corner. What's happening is just a glitch. Israel's invasion of Lebanon, just a glitch, everybody. It's looking good. It's looking good. Donald Trump tells ABC, a little glitch.

I spoke to Hezbollah myself, Trump said. I talked to Hezbollah. I talked to Bibi. We are good right here. You want to know what Benjamin Netanyahu is saying? We know what he said. We can hear what he said today. Benjamin Netanyahu said nothing changes after my call with Donald Trump. We are continuing our mission, which I call the invasion in Beirut, in southern Lebanon. He goes, in parallel, the IDF will continue to operate as planned.

In southern Lebanon.

And if you look from the time when Donald Trump first told Iran a few months back, we're going to blow you into the stone ages, we're going to destroy your civilization. He set the deadline. Then Donald Trump declared ceasefire by adopting all the terms of Iran. Remember that he reposted Foreign Minister Araghchi's terms. One of those terms was that the ceasefire applies to Lebanon. That's a big deal for Iran.

And what Israel did, knowing that, well, we can't just go and attack Iran because that'll be an obvious violation of the ceasefire.

Israel said, you know what, we're going to go after Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. So we will increase and escalate Lebanon. So when things were supposed to be toned down, ceasefire, Look at the definition of a ceasefire. It's supposed to be toned down. Netanyahu escalates in Lebanon, in Beirut, past the Litani River. I mean, he goes into areas that they really never even occupied before, saying, oh, this is because we're going after Hezbollah. This is because we're going after Hezbollah. Well, you've killed like 3,000 people and most of the people are not Hezbollah. And don't gaslight me and say, oh, they're all— they're not. I see the people who are being killed. We're reporting about it on a daily basis. Little children, mothers, medics, hospitals. And so you say you're going after Hezbollah, but we see you're killing so many people and you're demolishing buildings and city blocks and you've only escalated that. So as Netanyahu's been taken to the media, especially over the past 48 hours, 72 hours. We're going into Tire, or in Arabic, Sir. We're going into Daya, another area in the suburbs of Beirut. We're going into there. And then you had Smootrich and Ben-Gvir and all of these far-right extremists in the Netanyahu regime saying, we're taking 100% of it.

We're taking 100% of Gaza. We're taking 100% of Lebanon. And then the United States starts striking over the weekend. Targets in Iran. They start hitting areas in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responds, retaliates, strikes Kuwait Air Base that's jointly run by the United States and Kuwait. We also learn, while the United States continues to cover it up, 5 service members of the United States and contractors, although since it's being covered up, I don't know the exact ratio of service members to contractors, and it may be more than 5. Were injured when Iran responded and retaliated after U.S.

strikes in the Strait of Hormuz. And then when Hegseth was asked about it on his return from this trip to Asia, where he threw Taiwan under the bus and he started attacking Europe in these speeches—

we're not helping you, Europe, we're not helping you, Europe—

he refused to answer what's the status of those injured service members and contractors in Kuwait.

That continues to be covered up, and it continues to be covered up that Iran when it responded to the US strikes, knocked out like 5 MQ-9 Reapers, 2 or 3 MQ-1s. And Iran also hit some cargo and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. And like, none of this was being reported really. And this is like where I started getting some comments, Brett. People were like, hey, Ben, is this really happening? Like, why are your headlines that these amount of drones and these amount of boats and these amount of people were injured. I just don't hear this anywhere else. And then today it was acknowledged that this is what was actually happening. And then even when Iran said, we're done talking with you because you're violating the ceasefire over and over again, what does Trump do? Trump says, we're good. We've actually— the talks are advancing rapidly. He goes on CNBC. Why? Because it covers the market.. And he tells CNBC, no, things are going good. Don't listen to what you're hearing. And then CNBC just stenographically just does this, the stenographer, and then they post it. And so that's kind of the status of where we are.

And I'll just show one clip before turning it back to you, Bret. When he did this weird interview with his daughter-in-law, and just think about the dynamic. He's on a regime media. His daughter-in-law is the host interviewing him.. And Trump says that he kept the IRGC military around because he says the IRGC are the moderates. Here, let me show you what he said.

Let's play.

Their Navy is totally gone, 100%. Their Air Force is totally gone, 100%. Their military, we've sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat, uh, somewhat moderate. They have other people that aren't moderate. We've taken them out. We've taken different forms of leadership out. We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that because mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody and then you have a country that's, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild.

Guy who said we've obliterated their military speaks to his daughter-in-law in a softball interview, okay, and says we kept their whole military intact because the IRGC, he says, are the moderates. They also said that the reason it's taking so long— this is what they—

so one of the things that Barak Rabbidi talked about this weekend: Iranians are cavemen, did you know that?

And they are cave dwellers.

And so it took them a long time to get out of the caves, and that's why it's taking so long.

And Barak Rabbidi said they're, they're stuck in the caves. It's like, dude, I see their parliament. Their parliament made awards to the Iranian women athletes today. Like, I could follow what their parliament is doing on a day-to-day basis. And in addition to discussing matters of war and peace, have you thought, though, that their cave Wi-Fi may have improved dramatically over the past 24 hours?

You know, that's a possibility. Some of the propaganda that is shoveled through people like Barak Ravid is so offensive to anybody with a brain. That is one of the stories right there that came out over the weekend where I was like, that's what we're really running with. And Barak Ravid ran it like Ben said he does with all of his tweets, with like 4 siren emojis that, oh, we've just learned what the holdup is on the negotiations, folks. In fact, they are looking through the deal. However, they're in caves and they live in caves, and so they have to actually use like a carrier pigeon in order to get this. And the carrier pigeon couldn't get into the cave, and so it was this whole big thing, and they're waiting to try to figure out how to get these messages out. It's like, we see them all the time. They're going to other countries, they're making deals with other countries, they're speaking on social media all the time, they're making videos, they're, they're very much visible, they're walking through the streets. We see them walking through the streets in a lot of these videos. And yes, I'm sure they have some extra precautions in place to protect their safety since the United States keeps killing their leaders, but they very much are able to communicate.

That's not the issue. But one of the big issues right now is a lot of these, uh, stenographers in the media who are laundering all of these just BS talking points, in my opinion, to manipulate the markets and to spread this fake news. Now it's just really stunning. I just want to show this one more time because it really, really blows my mind that you could get away with get away with it. I mean, if you had any other job and were this wrong, would you get away with it? I'm showing right now the list of stories going from May all the way back to March. Deal possible by Tuesday. Deal on the way. Trump says deal done by Sunday. Trump says Iran war will be over very soon. We've been seeing headlines like this on an almost daily basis, it feels like, and they're all coming from the same people. And at what point do you go, hmm, maybe the US officials who are the sources who are telling me these things because they are trying to fight a propaganda or maybe I am being used. Maybe the information they are giving me is not exactly on the up and up, but they don't care because they get their clicks, they get their scoops.

And one of the other things that Donald Trump always does— and Jordy, I know you mentioned this on the show so many times before— just like with COVID he would say if you don't test, then there's no cases, right? Well, that's Donald Trump's philosophy to everything. If there's ever bad news for Trump, he thinks he could just ignore ignore it, right? If he's done this with the storms, you got storms in Texas, storms in South Carolina, wherever the storms are, what does Donald Trump do? He just pretends it doesn't happen. He doesn't send FEMA, he dismantles FEMA, he doesn't send help, he just doesn't even acknowledge it. And Trump has done this with the soldiers who have died in combat. Trump has done this with the soldiers who are injured in combat. And we saw it quite directly last week when Donald Trump had that very mysterious doctor's appointment and he was in the same hospital, Walter Reed, where our injured service members were, and he did not even say hello to them. He did not even check up on them. You are the commander in chief. That is quite literally the least you can do.

But checking up on them acknowledges that their injuries are real, that this is real, and that it happened under his watch. And oh, he cannot do that. Donald Trump cannot do that because he lives by manipulating reality, by trying to present with a false version of reality. And he wants to try to present right now that everything is going great. And when he's called out on it, he either disregards the question or he tries in a very sick way to compare it to other, to other wars where he goes, well, in this war we lost 10,000 people and in this war we lost 100,000 people. So 13, I get a kick out of only 13. It's really, really just the sickness that we are seeing right now coming from the White House. And it is inexplicable. And the fact that you also have these people pushing back, right, these media figures who, when you say, oh, another deal, bullshit. Oh, it's right around the corner. Oh, it's going to be signed by morning. And they get all defensive when you call them out. They go, I'm just reporting the facts. No, you're not. At this point, I'm sorry, you are just absolutely not.

And we're not going to fall for the same scam scam every single time. I don't know why the markets perpetually fall for the scam. I guess there are financial, uh, interests in mind there. But if anything, the latest stuff that we saw from Iran was a ramping up. They said that they were going to close other straits in addition to the Strait of Hormuz. They said that they were going to increase their posture against the United States, against Israel. They said if Israel does continue attacks in Lebanon, that they were going to strike, uh, parts of Israel. They were doing evacuation orders in Israel. And it seems like there is a constant effort, whether it's by Israeli leadership or whether it's by people in the Trump administration or the media, to keep this thing going, to ensure that this just never ends and that there's constant war. And it's just the whole thing is just twisted and it's sick. And it's also just so blatant. It's so obvious.

1000%. But you nailed that. So I just want to go back to something earlier that Ben was talking about. I know it might sound this sounds silly, but I just want to talk and reflect again on that UFC fight being outside in D.C. over the summer. I mean, it's just, again, so perfectly Trumpian, right? He doesn't care. Trump doesn't care about the fighters. This isn't about the fighters. It's not even about the UFC. It's about one person and one person only. And that's Donald Trump. I'm asking our audience here. I'm sure, I'm sure you guys know, like, do you guys know when the fight's happening? Right. So the UFC fight is happening on June 14th. Do you know what also happens on June 14th? Donald Trump's birthday. The oldest serving president in US history, by the way. This is the type of stuff like that kings would do, right? Like to have people like fight in front of them. Dana White saying this isn't political, just give me a break. I'm Dana, like you're literally kneeling down, ignoring the safety of your own fighters to appease one person. Like I wouldn't be surprised if Dana White himself doesn't sing happy birthday to Trump during this broadcast.

It's going to be such a MAGA glaze fest. And just like this, another humiliation ritual that this country has to sort of collectively go through together because Donald Trump's ego continues to get in the way. It's really, it's just pathetic and gross. But that's the theme. That's what you see time and time again. I know it might sound like a little thing, but it's just such, you know, a reflection of the larger picture here that Donald Trump can't help but make things about himself. And the second you call folks out on that, like, whoa, what do you mean? What are you talking about? This This is— everyone wants this. Who asked for this? No one asked for this.

Well, that's for this.

Well said. Well said, Jordy. And I want to add two things. First, I just want to go back to that Lara Trump interview for just a quick second, because is Fox— do they do this on purpose? Let me pull up the screenshot for a second. Did you guys— was this your feeling when you were watching the thing? Why do they always shoot it so it looks like the interviewer is a giant and that Trump looks like a miniature human being? Are you looking at this? They always film it in like this Lord of the Rings style way. Like, I, I, I used to work on the Warner Brothers lot, uh, out here in, uh, in Burbank, California. And on the lot they have an exhibition where you could do this forced perspective where you sit in one chair and someone sits in another chair. And it's how they shot the practical effects of Lord of the Rings. And it shows you how somebody looks very tiny and someone looks like a giant. Fox kind of does that in all these interviews, and I don't know why. Lara Trump looks like a giant. Uh, secondly, um, if you were in any other country on vacation and you turned on the television and you saw the leader of that country being interviewed on the kind of biggest cable news channel that that country had by his own daughter-in-law with the same last name asking him softball questions, you would say Oh, this is, uh, we— this is a dictatorship.

This is a tinpot dictatorship. This is very obvious what's going on here. This is embarrassing. Thank God my country is not like that. And you would have every right to believe that and think that way. Well, that is what is happening in the United States. We're just supposed to accept this like it's a normal thing that Lara Trump is doing these bizarre softball interviews with Donald Trump?

It's great. You're so right. By the way, I thought you were about to take that somewhere else where that still applies. Imagine if you were in any other country and you turned on the TV and the leader of that country was watching people like fight to the almost death in front of you where it's like bloody and gory and all that stuff is happening right in front of the president of that. Wouldn't you be like, this is a little weird?

Yeah, it's like Gladiator vibes.

It's a little, it's a little odd. Imagine if you were in Russia and it was like, okay, interview Vladimir Putin is— I don't know his actual daughter-in-law's name, but Svetlana Putin, you know, you'd be like, this is insane. This is like, does anyone else seeing this? You all know what is going on in your country? Like, that's what's happening here, folks.

It's Borat level of craziness.

It is beyond— truthfully, Borat couldn't capture the level of craziness that we're— this is Borat on steroids, actually. But also remember during the campaign, what Donald Trump said he wanted to do was create a UFC league where the UFC fighters basically fight to the death against migrants.

And during the campaign, I would call this out and I would say, hello, corporate news, local news. Do you hear that? He's saying he wants a UFC fight league where the fighters kill migrants and you're going to report on the rally as though Donald Trump gave a pitch on affordability. Maybe you want to look back and say this person is a freaking lunatic. And cover that. Maybe you want to do your freaking job.

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Links in description of both YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, before I toss it back to you, quick thing. I know you love these. My back is killing me. I'm in like a dad's basketball game every Sunday, some pickup pickup b-ball that I've been getting into. I may have taken yesterday just a little bit too seriously and played a little bit too hard.

My back—

classic myself, straight, by the way, the bad back.

Yeah, it is, it runs in the family. But hey, I'll be okay. I'll do some stretches tonight, don't worry, Ben.

I know Ben went like 3 months doing, uh, podcasts and, uh, hot takes on a pillow on his knees. Y'all remember that? Everyone watching, like, like, that just shows you the dedication. And I would watch Ben in between when Jordy and I, you know, when Jordy and I would speak and I would put Jordy or me full screen and I would see Ben on the little, 'cause I'm able to see every, you know, the brothers while someone's full screen. And I would see Ben in the bottom corner in excruciating pain and then build up the courage to then go, "And in other news," da da da da da. And it was one of the craziest things to watch.

When I did, when I got my job, my wisdom teeth pulled out though.

That was wild too. 2 hours after the wisdom teeth.

Yeah, what did I say to you?

I said Ben is getting his wisdom teeth out, and I go, Ben, you're like, you're gonna be out of commission for at least 24 hours of videos. Like, what are you gonna do? And he's like, now I'll, now I'll do the next video. And I was like, are you out?

Ben went live like fresh off of Novocaine, like, and today's news about it was you didn't even acknowledge acknowledge it for a little bit.

You just— we're just like, I guess Ben speaks like this now. And we have a very respectful audience.

It lives on our channel.

It's there.

It's there somewhere. Let's pull up that photo of Lara Trump and Donald where she looks gigantic and he looks like a little, very tiny individual right there. You see them kind of right there. If you look at the back, you have Donald Trump also in that painting where it is him with his, you know, fist up. And that's kind of like—

like, that's like a very weird thing to have in the White House.

Like, like, the whole framing of this photo is shot also.

And it just reminds me of that photo. I guess that's depicting the alleged assassination attempt in Butler.

And then I think about the physical exam that was released where they said, uh, you know, Donald Trump's extremities look fine except for on his ear he has, uh, a scratch consistent with a gunshot.

It's like, okay, look, let's be real.

If you got shot in the face with an AR-15, you don't—

you don't have a scratch. It's not having a little scratch on your ear is not consistent with an AR-15 bullet, you know, to the face.

Then they're like, his legs look just slightly swollen. They're like, and he's—

what does he think?

Like, he's experiencing weight loss.

They act like he's losing weight. I mean, just when you compare his last annual physical to this one, he gained 14 pounds, but he's not 238 anyway.

The last physical was 224. Okay, dude's not 224. Dude's at least 300 pounds.

They're very close.

You know what's just so amazing though? Like, honestly, like, This is really an incredible feat that Donald Trump somehow every report seems to just be 1 or 2 pounds below the obese level. Just it's miraculous how close he gets, but not over that level.

I mean, they say his hands with all of those marks consistent with handshakes.

Yeah, it's both hands like this.

I mean, when you read this thing, you're like, you all just think that we are stupid, you know? And that's Trump's and MAGA's whole MO. No, right. They think we're stupid. And when it comes to the Epstein file cover-up, look, we look, we have the influencers holding up a little binder. It says Epstein files. Here's the Epstein files.

Remember Trump's first term with the health care plan when he did the interview with Leslie Stahl at 60 Minutes and he literally had a binder that was 500 pages with that were all blank. And then his propagandist was like, look, Here's the plan that we've got. And then Lesley Stahl opened it and she's like, yeah, this is all blank pages.

Like, everything's a stunt. Everything's a scheme. Everything's a fraud.

Like, quite literally all my healthcare plan. But please promise not to open it until you go home and open it.

Everybody, we all know that we have a most favored nations provision in our healthcare system.

That's why you're paying far less on drugs drugs than you're ever— pharmaceutical drugs than you've ever paid in your life. You're like, that's not even true. You can't say we have a most favored nations provision. What that would mean is that if the medication is $1 in Canada or $1 in Sweden, most favored nations mean that same medication's $1 in the United States. It's not. And TrumpRx or whatever the hell you're calling it, that's not most favored nations. All you're literally doing is copying and pasting the existing generic prices that a lot of pharmaceutical companies are forced to match anyway because the generics are just as good, or that the pharmaceutical companies are offering direct-to-consumer anyway. And you're slapping Trump Rx on it. I mean, people know that that's not fixing healthcare. People know you've ripped away healthcare from millions of Americans by making the Obamacare premiums, uh, incredibly expensive, unreachable by not renewing the subsidies, by attacking Medicaid.

And more of that kicks in after the midterm elections because one of the schemes they did is a lot of the Medicaid cuts don't kick in until after the midterms.

They go, look, the Democrats did it.

You had it before and then the Democrats won. You know, look at it. And it's just stop with the lying. Just stop with it. Level with the people. Let's have informed, intelligent conversation. And going back to this this theme. This should be nonpartisan, what I'm saying. I don't believe I've said anything thus far on the show that reflects a, you should vote for this person, you should vote for that person.

This can—

that's—

I'm just saying we need a restoration of normalcy, democracy, empathy, love. We need to take care of people. We need to uplift marginalized communities, not punch down. We need to be there.

Care for each other.

We need to make sure people have jobs with dignity, damn it. Where if you're working a job and you're working hard, working, you should be able to afford a home. It shouldn't be out of reach from you. You shouldn't have to worry, is a data center going to pop up right next to my home and make my electricity prices go up even more than they all are already? Is there going to be unregulated AI that's going to take my job? Why are my children and my my grandchildren unable to be able to afford anything that I was able to afford growing up? Why can't I afford anything? Where's my future? You know, this— these are the things that Americans are thinking about. And everything with this Trump regime is scam after scam. So they bring in their scam artists over the weekend.

It's like clockwork.

They got National Economic Adviser Kevin Hassett. They've got Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett.

They go on their offensive.

And these two people are just the biggest liars. It's truthfully like they get off online, like they almost deep down have this weird enjoyment, a pleasure, if you will, after these interviews just to see how deceptive they can actually be. I mean, Kevin Hassett, you watch him, he's like, well, well, actually, we're— I would say we're doing good. Our Treasury Secretary, Scott Listen, um, actually lots of people say we're in a bad situation, but I don't think— things are actually going great. First, let me show you Kevin Hassett. And Kevin Hassett says, look, when you tell me Americans are in— are feeling like they're in the dumps right now, no, no, no, that's just— it's the Consumer Sentiment Survey of University of Michigan. That's partisan. The, you know, everybody knows that the Consumer Sentiment Survey is all Democratic-based. And so it's the Democrats who are upset, but the Republicans are thriving.

Here's what he says. Let's play that first.

So on balance, real incomes, real wages are going up.

But are you saying Americans are not hurting?

I mean, we're hearing that not just—

I mean, a whole bunch of different economic indicators, but just talking to people. I mean, people seem anxious and uneasy. Crazy about the economy, don't they?

Well, look, in the end, people look at their wallets and they decide how to vote. And if they look at their wallets and look at how much money they have after, you know, the increase in prices, they're going to find that they have a lot more money. And the one other thing I can say is that the Consumer Sentiment Index that was cited is a Michigan survey that's extremely partisan.

We talked—

I talked about this on TV last week, that basically When Joe Biden was there, the Democrats of the survey, they were euphoric. Their, their index was way above 100% during stagflation. Right now it's the lowest on record, something like 30%. And so when you say that American consumers are really down in the dumps, what it is is Democrats are in the dumps. Republicans have actually stayed around 80% on that survey all the way through.

What about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant saying things don't seem that bad?

What are you talking about? It's not that bad.

Here's what he says.

Let's Another way to phrase it, Maria, though, is many people have said to me, are you surprised that the market's gone up on bad news? And I said, you know, I don't think the news is that bad. I think the news is bad. The quality of the reporting, the anti-Americanism, the anti— the people are so anti-President Trump, anti-this administration that I have perfectly ace symmetrical information. And I know we have something— Iranian Navy, their Air Force, the 80, 90% of their missile factories, they are done in their launch facilities. You know, I, I know 50% of the military is not getting paid. Police aren't reporting to the stations. I mean, if you were to look at a lot of these major news outlets and especially the newspapers who now like putting opinion on the front page rather than facts. You would think we are losing. This is a wipeout. We wipe them out. So no, I'm not surprised because again, the information that I have that, you know, we're looking through this.

Okay, a few points there. You say that you have asymmetrical information, meaning you have information that we don't have. And your asymmetrical info is what you said tells us that we've wiped out Iran, despite the fact that the symmetrical information that we have is Donald Trump's own words with his niece in a softball interview saying we did not wipe out the military because he says the military are the moderates. We also know the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Under the control of the IRGC, and we can see the leadership of Iran. We can see what's actually happening there.

We can see that they're responding in Kuwait. But also, the fact that you brag about your asymmetrical information is also why the American people are so concerned about your regime doing all this insider stock trading off of your asymmetrical information that other people don't have.

Also, there shouldn't be asymmetrical information.

There should be symmetrical because political should be symmetric with the people that— with your constituents, which you represent.

You shouldn't be siloing and hiding things.

And so what you're saying is, is that you have super secret asymmetric information that conflicts with what we see. And under your view, everything is incredible while it appears to the rest of us that you all are manipulating the markets every damn day. And then when we hear from the president of the United States, who's supposed to be the leader, who's supposed to let us know what's going on, for better or for worse, He's there with his niece bragging about how the ballroom is actually a military installation and that it is a drone port and that actually the ballroom is the biggest drone port ever constructed so that the White House is now literally going to be a military installation with drones swarming all around it. So Donald Trump tells his niece, let's play it.

This will be the kitchen floor.

Oh, the kitchen.

And then the floor, but there we want to above, and then you have the drone ports and you have the sniper ports and you have everything above.

Wow.

One unified unit.

Yeah, it's really—

we can't wait to see.

It's going to be great.

I love to watch it.

Well, you got to give it to her. That's some hard-hitting, hard-hitting journalism, you know. She, she, you know, respect to Lara. I mean, she was like, I know this is my father-in-law, but I'm gonna grill him.

She's no BS, man. She's no BS.

No, no, cuts right to the point.

That was, that was, that was impressive stuff. And then you have the MAGA propaganda machine. You'll have Congresswoman Sherri Briggs, and she'll just be like, like, like, like, like, like, what do we do? What are we talking? Just trust Trump. Just listen to him. Okay. There's nothing that we shouldn't be doing anything in Congress.

This is what they say here.

Play this clip. Do you think that the Iran war, if it continues, if we don't see that decrease in gas prices and other prices, that that is going to overshadow battle the midterms? You know, obviously I want to make sure that we maintain the majority. But the bottom line is, as it has been from the beginning, Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. And the president is putting America first. And it's not about politics. This is about the security of our nation. And the hypocrisy is overwhelming. It's okay for a Democrat for the president to try to address the issues in Iran, but it's not okay for President Trump or having the Republican majority to try to address this is complete hypocrisy. We have to put America first. And as I've said before, if you don't love this country, get out.

The least well-said thing. MAGA Republican Congressmember Riley Moore. Here's what he had to say. Let's play it.

But if we want a quick deal, you can get a quick deal. But we want a great deal. And that's what the president the president is currently working on. He's putting together a great deal. And this is a two-step process. Step one is opening up the straits. We'll remove the naval blockade if the straits are open. Then you're going to move to step two in this process, where, look, if there's no dust, there's no dollars. The dollars can start to flow if the nuclear dust starts to get removed. And the administration, smartly— President Trump is going to have his hand on that dial to be able to turn that up or turn that down in terms of those dollars based on the amount of nuclear dust that we're able to get back from them. So, of course, this is another masterstroke by the president who's ended multiple conflicts in his term here as president. And I think this is going to be another one that's going to go down in the history books as one of the great—

I also don't— I mean, obviously it's ridiculous. Masterstroke. Yes, he closed down the Strait of Hormuz.

Masterstroke.

And now we're negotiating to open something that was previously open.

Um, a masterful move. And now the IRGC has entrenched their power more than— masterful. Iran has solidified its power in— masterful stroke. China now provides a stronger security umbrella in the region than the United States and is demonstrating to be a more reliable ally around the— masterful. You've destroyed our alliance with NATO. Perfect execution.

Okay.

Just my little pet peeve also, though, is I don't even understand the slogan where they say, what is it?

No dust, no dough, or no dust, no money, or whatever it is.

Isn't the slogan backwards? If there is no dust, doesn't that— the precondition where— yes, money. Don't they get the money when the dust goes away? And if they keep the dust, then they don't get the money. The slogan doesn't even make sense.

They give the dust away when you no longer have dust.

Then you get the—

we'll give you billions of dollars.

That's— that's—

that's—

but that's what— that's what he's saying. Their whole plan is once you get away the dust, then we pay you billions of dollars. And then they floated the idea this weekend that it was a $300 billion investment fund in addition to $24 billion in direct assistance and sanctions relief to Iran. And here's what I believe went down. This is my assessment, having just been deeply entrenched in everything that's going on, both the Iranian negotiating team and the United States negotiating team. It seems that Rubio, Vance, Whitkopf, Kushner, working with Araghchi in Iran and M.B.

Ghalibaf, along with Pakistan mediators, did indeed come up with a memorandum of understanding where the first step is the U.S. gives $24 billion in sanction relief to Iran that would somehow be disguised so it doesn't look like a direct payment. The Strait of Hormuz becomes open.

There's a 60-day period of nuclear discussions about a deal that resembles the Obama nuclear deal, but probably a little bit weaker in terms of the multilateral kind of control constructs that were put there.

That seemed to be the deal in principle that was going up to the Ayatollah and going up to Trump. I think you had on the Iranian side some IRGC hardliners who didn't love that deal and didn't trust Trump, but were willing to let it happen.

And then you had Netanyahu and the neocons and war hawks who hated that deal here. And so it seemed that you then had the neocons and Netanyahu undermine the MOU that seemed like it was going to be passed.

Then Donald Trump started saying, we're not, we don't have a deal yet.

In fact, I'm going to add tougher terms.

I need to do more things.

To which then the IRGC went to the political people in Iran like Araghchi and MB Golabaf, and they were like, see, we told you they weren't going to do this. Like we told you. And that firmed up a little bit more of the IRGC saying, this is why you can never trust them in the first place. And look, Netanyahu's going— look what Netanyahu's doing. While we're trying to do this ceasefire with Lebanon being a major pillar of it, Netanyahu's escalated in Lebanon since the original ceasefire thing has been announced. And Netanyahu's been—

if you've been paying attention, every day now he's been saying, we're going more into Lebanon, we're doing this into Lebanon, we're going to this into Lebanon, you know.

And he's doing that because he knows he can't do a direct attack on Iran right now.. But he also knows that by escalating in Lebanon creates the conditions where there can never actually be a deal to begin with. And that's where we are right now. And no, we don't just trust Donald Trump. He's been saying— you go back to this graphic— he's been saying since like the first week of March that there is a deal that's about to happen. And Barack Ravid has been publishing this. Every other day or every day. Scoop, this is a deal. Scoop, here we are. Scoop, it's really happening this time. Scoop, it's for real.

That's happening.

And what this really just looks like, it's the same loop that we saw with COVID right? Except fortunately with COVID Donald Trump got voted out. And then you know what happened? Biden had to take over. He had to put out the fire created by the arsonist. And you know what happened? The fire destroys things and things get messy and things get bad when you actually have to perform the surgery and do the hard work. That's what happens when you have to do it. So yes, under Biden, the first 2 years inflation surged. Yes, under Biden, you had to deal with the fallout of a very bad situation, but you fix it. And if you look at the end of the Biden term, you realize, whoa, we were heading down to 2% inflation. Whoa, we ended up getting out of a recession when everybody said it 100% chance of a recession. Wow, we created all of these manufacturing jobs, and that's what was being handled to Donald Trump. And yes, you want to know why those semiconductor stocks in the United States are doing good right now? Why? You see, because of the CHIPS Act that Biden brought here, recognizing America's semiconductor industry didn't have the appropriate investments.

So we invested heavily in semiconductors.

And then imagine if throughout that process And not to go there, but if Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary under Biden, was going on TV going, you think this inflation's bad? That's just— and like with her smile— that's just bad headlines.

It's just bad.

It's just fake news. Bad headlines. That's because Republicans are unhappy. They're unhappy people. The rest of us know that everything is awesome and we are loving it. It is so insane. It is such a caricature and it is so offensive. And it's— and you should be offended when Scott Bessant says things like that. And when Kevin Hassett says things like that, they are mocking you. And it is just honestly just the worst. They are the worst people.

If Scott Bessant can drink like a full water bottle on live TV without it dribbling from his mouth, I'll give him $100. Maybe let's give that Botox a little bit of a break there, buddy. Scott Bessant, I'm glad you in your Barbie dream house that you live in and the folks of your your uber wealthy. Look, I'm glad you guys are doing great. Americans aren't at large. They're not. Kevin Hassett too, man. He just gets up there with like such like this shit-eating grin. And I know it might sound like I'm attacking these people because of like how they look. I am, right? These people are freaks and they're getting off, literally getting off on lying to the American people, trying to tell them that everything is awesome. It is evil, vile stuff. Everyone, and I mean everyone in this Trump regime, just moves with this certain smugness about them. They think they're like such hot shit and they're really just awful human beings. It might surprise people. Like, I'm not a political person. I think we all kind of know this, but I like to think my superpower here is identifying like good people versus like bad people.

And it just feels like everyone in this Trump regime is just genuinely a bad person that's telling people to put your head in the sand and accept the life that you live while I get to go out and party and continue to make more money. It is such horrific stuff that continues to play out. And like, Scott, Kevin Hassett, every time he's on TV, he just has this smirk about him and it's just such an annoying, dweebish smirk while he's actively lying to you. And like, so much in corporate media frustrates me. Nothing frustrates me more than when people won't push back on him like hard enough. Please just get the facts. He's on there for 2 minutes. You're just going to let him spread that shit like you're just going to let him do that. You're going to let him walk all over you. That's what you want. While Americans are— we can't pay for our own gas bills anymore because of this damn war. It's insane to me and it just frustrates me to no end.

Yeah. Let's take our last quick break of the show. When we come back, I want to discuss hope because I saw hope in Georgia. I see hope in Donald Trump's rapidly declining poll numbers, historic lows. I see hope in the American people saying enough. I see hope in the fact that even Donald Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund has been seemingly shut down by Congress. I see hope in the fact that there's a war powers resolution that may be voted on in the next 24 to 48 hours.

I see hope. I see signs of hope that Trump has lost the culture. He's— I see athletes, celebrities, musicians, CEOs feeling like they can finally speak out against this regime in ways that even seem louder than the first term right now. I see hope that we all held the line together when it was hardest to do. And now we're seeing some other people say, you know what, we need to join this fight.

I see hope.

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Cheers. Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors, links in description, both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. There's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. I'm just gonna say one more time, the level of Botox that appears Scott Bessinon is nearing dangerous levels. I'm just gonna say, like, from my perspective, it's getting a little bit out of hand. Benji, where to next?

Where to? I mean, I'm not going to go through the hundreds of deranged social media posts that Donald Trump where he was talking about drone ports over the weekend, where he was saying that he has the greatest health ever, dunking over Governor Hochul, which is just very bizarre. Of course, all these posts about reflecting pools, and then he'll be like, "Hussein Obama, Trump." One that stood out to me though is an AI image of the Republicans who supported the release of the Epstein files. And so it's Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Donald Trump posts, uh, "Get in, loser, we're going losing," with a photo of them. And the commonality that they all had was that they supported the release of the Epstein files, and Donald Trump just viciously attacking the people who, one, support the release of the Epstein files, and two, would, uh, are against the catastrophic war, uh, in Iran.

It's pretty wild how insistent he is with those things, right? Like, he's taken, you know, all that money that he asked for donations for in those emails and everything. He's putting all of that and all of his kind of political capital behind something that all share this common denominator, which is all these people who voted for the release of the Epstein files. He's pushing them to be ousted, and he's succeeding, um, in many, if not most, if not all of these cases, as we saw with people like Thomas Massie. And the fact that, like, you know, these voters who go out there don't make— don't put two and two together there, or maybe do put two and two together but just don't seem to care that they are supporting somebody who is so obviously, uh, pushing back against, um, you know, the whole thing right now. It's just like you're supporting a predator. Like, you realize that, right? Like, you're supporting somebody who is protecting the most heinous, heinous child sex trafficker, like, in history. And is doing it out in the open and is essentially laughing at you while you do it. You pretended to care about this issue for so long.

You pretended to care about this for a while, and the second it actually became a reality where you could do something about it, all of a sudden, uh, you took the side of the guy who was the guy's best friend, uh, for many years and is the guy who has the ability to release information on it and instead chose to cover it up.

Yeah, and just saying it slightly more succinctly too is if you want justice for the survivors, uh, you are persona non grata in MAGA. That's, that's it. You, you actually— you're the poison if you want justice for the survivors. That, I mean, that, that's the only conclusion that I could draw, especially with what happened with Massey.

Well, look at what happened with Pam Bondi, right, the former attorney general. She is supposed to testify on Friday. Can we all agree, regardless of what political party you're from, Pam Bondi's clearly the central figure figure in the Epstein files. Let's just— I will call it before— it is a cover-up of a child sex trafficking ring, but just say in the Epstein files investigation and document production, right? She's the central figure. She's the main person behind it. Now clearly we want to know, well, what happened, right? So she was subpoenaed to show up for a deposition, and then she shows And the MAGA Republicans at Donald Trump's order, this is not a disputed fact, say she's not going to testify under oath. She's not going to testify in front of a video camera. She will simply give an informal interview and she will be represented by a Justice Department lawyer who's the number 3 person at the DOJ. And every time you ask a question to Pam Bondi about Donald Trump and Trump's communications about the Epstein files and Trump's relationship with Epstein, there will be an objection by Trump's DOJ that any communication with Donald Trump is off limits because it's privileged.

That's what they say, that it is a privileged communication that nobody's allowed to know about. Any communications. Now, if that doesn't bother you to the core, you really don't have a threshold for being bothered about anything. And it's fine. I mean, you know, it's not fine, but you belong to a very weird cult that covers up child sex trafficking.

That's just—

that's, that's who you are.

Don't try to be holier than thou.

That's, that's, that's who you are.

That's your, your life's work is, is that. And I think that just needs to be called out. And, you know, I know, okay, well, now we get to Monday and that story from Friday feels to be, yeah, that was just a Friday thing.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

That's a covering up of child sex trafficking thing. And the thing is, you know, I spoke to Keisha Lance Bottoms today. And we'll show you, we'll talk a little bit about Georgia in a moment.

And she said, you know, what she sees in Georgia is a—

she's a great candidate, by the way, she's a great individual, and her daughter was incredible introducing her. She used the term, uh, a quiet determination that exists among the people of Georgia who love and cherish democracy and freedom and truth.

And I said to her, I said, I agree, it's a quiet determination. I said, but Or we could say a silent majority. But I said, actually, people are really pissed right now. And I said, I actually think what's quiet about it is that corporate news isn't giving it a microphone. And if you just watch corporate news, they bounce from Trump distraction to Trump distraction every day. But the people, the consumers of the information, The individuals who are the people feeling the consequences, which are pissed, are actually quite loud about it. And they understand this moment, the hustle that's actually taking— the cover-ups that are taking place. They understand that, that what is actually happening in this moment's being covered up. They know people aren't forgetting about the Epstein class and the Epstein file cover-up, or they're not forgetting that Donald Trump promised to deal with Iran 95 days or whatever it was, 85 days ago. They're not forgetting that Donald Trump promised $5,000 Doge dividend checks and then tariff rebate checks. People aren't forgetting that Trump promised that he was going to slash electricity prices and gas prices by 50%, or that the Russian war against Ukraine would be resolved in 24 hours.

People don't— for people know that they've been lied to and defrauded.

Donald Trump said tariffs against the world would not cause inflation. Inflation by the end of this year will be close to 5%, if not higher than 5%.

That's not me being hyperbolic. Just follow the trends. It increases 0.2% every month, we're at 3.6%. So add 0.2 to 0.3% month over month, and you pretty much get close to 5% by the end of this year. So by the end of next year, on this current trajectory where we don't seem to be, uh, heading away from, it's not a shocker. Just do the math that if you add 0.2% for another 12 months, you could add 6.5 to 7% or 8% inflation by the time the 20— more 8.5% inflation by the time the 2028 election comes around. And it's also this slow burn, this slow torture, this slow fraud as Donald Trump and the regime say, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. But what's happening is not fine. The data suggests It's not fine. But then we hit this day where everybody's like, oh shit, today's bad day. And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was an accumulation of many a bad day that you all pretending wasn't such. And it was. And now the consumer is in a situation where what we're going to have to do massive bailouts and mass That's where this is heading.

I don't want to be seemingly an alarmist, but these are the times to accurately ring the alarms that need to be rung. And that's what we do here on the Midas Touch Network. Uh, we'll talk domestic.

Let me just talk briefly internationally as well, and we'll do a quick, uh, quick weave.

So Pakistan's Prime Minister Sharif along with the Field Marshal of Pakistan, uh, Munir.

They're the lead negotiators, right, between the United States and Iran.

Now, in the background, what we need to pay attention to is the role that China is playing in all of this, because what's really happening, as you've heard me saying now for a very long time, that the security architecture, not just in the Middle East but across the world— we're seeing the U.S. security architecture, U.S. security umbrella being replaced by China at a pace that Xi Jinping can never even dream about. But he has the same, uh, proverb or the same, you know, view that many a leader has, which is you don't interrupt the enemy or the other side when they're out there making a mistake. You just, you, you, you let it, you let it happen. And so Pakistan is out there saying that the undeniable leader of the world is China. Here's Pakistan saying it this morning.

Ladies and gentlemen, under the Under the most dynamic and visionary leadership of President Xi Jinping, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, provided jobs to millions of people. China in terms of economic power is second to none. China, in terms of military power, is at par with the most powerful nation in this world. Yet President Xi Jinping's philosophy promoting peace and his vision to resolve the most Dangers, conflicts through dialog and diplomacy is something which makes President Xi Jinping not only a towering figure, but one of the most respected leaders in this world in this day and age.

Pay attention to what's happening internationally. Pay attention to the fact that China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, recently met with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney. Pay attention to the fact that Prime Minister Carney is signaling that he's about to buy triple the amount of Swedish Gripens from Saab over the F-35s from the United States. Pay attention to all of these security arrangements taking place where United States defense manufacturers are not getting the deals that were frankly layups for them to get. Pay attention to the alliances that are being formed internationally that exclude the United States. And as Donald Trump will attack NATO, as Donald Trump attacks the security architecture that the US built other countries are like, okay, we get it. It's very different 2026 than 2025. 2025 was a year of appeasement for Donald Trump where all these nations thought, okay, I— let's see if we can shift his mindset. 2026 has been surgical and strategic of mid-power nations recognizing they need to join forces to collectively form a superpower. And you have the other major powers, whether it's China solidifying its relationship through the BRICS, and the US seems to be doing everything to weaken its international standing as it behaves as a predatory hegemon in the Western Hemisphere.

We had Mexico's President Sheinbaum recently standing up and saying in the most powerful speech yet that Trump needs to stay the hell out of Mexico. We've seen these international speeches in the Shangri-La in Singapore of each of these defense ministers giving very powerful speeches talking about a new world order. But then I'll end on the domestic front with a speech that to me was very reminiscent of some of the first speeches that I heard of former President Barack Obama. These speeches, this speech by Senator Ossoff over the weekend, and we brought it live here on the Midas Touch Network. It's one of the great things about this platform that you've all helped us build is that we can shine a light on things that aren't getting live streamed in other places. We can bring it live. Boy, was it compelling. And I've showed it multiple times, so I'm not going to replay the whole speech. But let me play two moments. First, Senator Ossoff talking about how Donald Trump spent his entire Saturday complaining on the internet. Let's play this clip.

Now, many of you are here because you recognize the urgency of opposition to this unprecedented corruption and incompetence. And you recognize the stakes of these midterm elections. Elections when Georgia's voice will be decisive once again. His presidency crumbling. Donald spent Saturday complaining on the internet. Listen to this. 6 hours, 52 posts.

Posts.

The president attacked the pope. He posted his own face on Mount Rushmore and a made-up Trump Peace Prize. He announced 3 times America's back, and he assured an increasingly concerned public he's in excellent health. And when not posting, he's been trying to rob us.

And now I will show you Asaf saying, and Donald Trump wants to put his face on money.

Let's play this one.

He's trying to put his face on the money. Did you see that? He's building a monument to himself. But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he's gone. Because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Mic drop. Powerful, powerful. And what he does great is he connects the Trump behavior, the daily grift, the corruption, the criminality to the shared experience of 99% of America who's suffering under this regime. And when I watched that speech, you know, I said, you know, that's as powerful as any speech I've heard in a very, very, very long time. And I know as people are looking to the 2028 election, and I know that he's got to contend with 2026 first. There's an important governor's race in Georgia also. There's a lot of politics, a lot of things that need to fall into line here. And, you know, I don't like horse race politics, so I'm not going to get into this person or that person. You know, I'll simply say that, uh, an electric speech like that is something that, uh, you know, is, is, is a defining moment. And I think that, uh, that was a defining moment. And I think we'll see more of those. So I'll just leave it at that. Brett, I'll toss it to you.

Well said. And I think, you know, Republicans are taking notice of what's happening in Georgia. And I've seen, you know, stories now that Republicans are worried that Georgia is heading in the same direction as Virginia in terms of becoming a much safer state for Democrats. It's becoming a lot bluer. There's a lot of really great organization happening on the ground there and just really incredibly strong candidates from people like Bottoms to people like Ossoff. And Warnock. These are really kind of top-tier candidates out there. And to see Ossoff out there making the case for his reelection and making the case specifically honing in on this corruption angle, which is obviously ripe with content to speak about. And it's something that a lot of people are worried to speak about because they think, well, if I talk about corruption, how am I going to talk about kind of kitchen table issues? But what Ossoff does so brilliantly is he connects the two because they are related. Related, and you need to connect the two. And he, he takes it from point A to B to C and does it in a way that's passionate, does it in a way that's inspiring.

He is a really good orator. He is very good at kind of basking in the moment and allowing there to be pauses and silence and letting the crowd really feel the gravity of what he's saying. He is really somebody that I think everybody should be watching. I know we're getting ahead of ourselves with the 2028 stuff, but you should really be watching for 2028. He's like way low on the list or not even on a lot of these lists of potential candidates. But I think he has proven himself in a, in a historically tough state to succeed in. And he's a guy who doesn't have a lot of the baggage or any of the baggage that a lot of the other candidates have. Someone who's charismatic. He's certainly somebody to watch as we head into 2026 and as we head into this next major election cycle, for sure.

You know, I want to thank everybody here as we approach 10 billion views. That's made possible because of you viewing this and listening to this. And I want you all to know, and I know you know this, just how grateful we are to have you be here with us on this journey. I reflect back on the horrors that we all felt after the election, where it felt hopeless. And every day we tried to dig out from underneath together, step by step by step, even when we would do a puppy bowl instead of show the inauguration, uh, when we would, uh, continue to bring on these voices of musical acts who were protesting against the Trump regime when lots of others were were bending the knee, when we brought on courageous voices and amplified them using our platform, when so many people were betraying you. And now to see the pendulum really starting to swing back towards democracy and freedom, it feels like a generationally defining moment that we're in. I'm not saying by any means means we should be getting arrogant or cocky or overconfident about this moment. Far from it. We need to work harder now more than ever to get out the truth.

But I do want to acknowledge that the hard work is working, that what we've all done together is not for naught. We are doing something history-defining together, and we are doing it as a team, as a community. And that is something that I want you to be proud of after you watch this episode or listen to this episode, because you are making a big difference. You are making a huge impact when you're out there and you're sharing the truth with others.

You may not get the daily thanks and acknowledgement you deserve, but I want you to hear me in front of this community that's about to hit 10 billion views, that each one of those views is made possible because of you.

Thank you. And on that, Jordy, you could take it away.

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