Transcript of MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 8/28/26

It's getting real, Donald. We are approaching the midterms. All of your fraud, all of your lies, all of your BS has now been exposed. The American people are livid. Trump's overall approval right now, according to the latest YouGov poll, is only 13% of Americans strongly approve of Donald Trump. The overall approval is in the low 30s. But the strongly approve, that's about 13%. When you look at Texas, when you look at Iowa, when you look at Florida, when you look at certain areas, heck, I did an interview recently in Arkansas. If you look at what's happening across the country, you're seeing Democratic candidates surge 'cause the American people want checks and balances restored. They want accountability. They want ferocious, ruthless opposition. They want Donald Trump removed. They see gas prices record high, diesel prices record high. The never-ending catastrophic war that Donald Trump got us into with Netanyahu continues. Trump continues to lie, claims we control the Strait of Hormuz. The price of oil and common sense dictates otherwise, as does the fact that we continue to see Iran strike tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. So Donald Trump can say, I've demined the Strait of Hormuz.

That's what the new lies are about. Not about the fake deal anymore with Iran. He's kind of moved on to, we've never had so many ships leave. A Navy destroyer demined the Strait of Hormuz. And like our former allies, because the US doesn't have allies anymore, like there are still mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Like this guy's lying about everything. Oh, and what about economic D-Day? Remember that? You probably don't anymore because Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is just a complete and utter clown. We will be issuing the most severe sanctions against any country, any country that does business with Iran. Well, China's foreign ministry spokesperson said, uh, okay, we don't acknowledge what you're saying. We're going to continue to do business with Iran. Thank you very much. And we're going to give Iran a very prominent role at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting that's going to be taking place next week. To which Russia said, yeah, we're going to be at the SCO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Shanghai. And we're going to talk about, I don't know, investing more money in Iran's nuclear program. We already announced a new $25 billion investment in Iran's nuclear capabilities.

And so we're going to lean in, maybe do more. We already see more Russian workers going into Iran right now to do more work on the Bushehr nuclear plant, as well as the new investment, which is going to be new nuclear plants in Iran. So well done, Donald. Donald, the world is very scared of you. So with all of this going on, with America's economy absolutely tanking, with the American people suffering, with no nation taking the United States seriously anymore, with the US having depleted its weapons. We had a $1 trillion military budget last year and they want $1.5 trillion more. We've run out of weapons under the idiotic and disgusting non-leadership of Hegseth and all of these idiots who pushed out our top generals. So just like the movie South Park that I grew up with, where it was such a farce and a parody that the US would blame Canada for all of its problems. Donald Trump does that. Let's blame Canada and say it's all Canada's fault. They literally did blame Canada. And then today Donald Trump said, we are changing the name of Lake Ontario and we're going to name it Lake America.

That's going to show them. And then Prime Minister Carney's like, you do realize that Ontario comes from the indigenous people here. And Ontario means basically Great Lake or Big Lake, and it predates Canada. It predates the US. You realize, like, in the United States there are places called Ontario also because it is— it's not a Canadian word, you idiot. And so this is the performative, disgusting stuff that Donald Trump was doing all day. And then he went off with Natalie, and we've got footage of him leaving with Natalie, and they're heading to fundraisers or whatever the hell they're doing. I want to bring in Brett and Jordy, and we have a lot to discuss on this episode. And brothers, I wanted to mention all of those things before getting into the clips and what's happening, because I think that it's problematic if the press just reports Donald Trump does crazy thing, whatever it is. You know, the same way Donald Trump says that he loves Kim Jong-un, right? That was earlier this week or last week. That's part of Trump's weapon of mass distraction technique, and he wants us to just focus on that. It's important that we recognize the— why is he doing this?

Because he wants someone to blame, because he's destroyed the United States, because he's run out of the Ponzi scheme rope, and the American people don't want to be roped and doped anymore in this Trump regime chaos. Brett and Jordy, great to see you.

Great to see you too, Ben. Great to see you, Jordy. Great to see you, Midas Mighty. And it's also important that we flag all of that at the top because it's only going to become more and more of this BS as we approach the midterm elections. The name of the game with Donald Trump is distract, it's divide, and you're going to see a whole lot of that. You're going to see a whole lot of name-calling, a whole lot of attacking marginalized communities, a whole lot more kind of Lake Ontario things. And they want to do everything to keep the— to keep Donald Trump's actual record and the record of these Republicans out of the headlines. I mean, we're literally seeing that now in reporting, like recent reporting from The Atlantic, which says an inside source in the administration says that they do not want Iran in the headlines at all as we approach the midterms. Well, maybe don't get us into this ridiculous, illegal, dangerous war of choice if you don't want people to actually speak about it. But when you go down the list of just about everything, when you look at the economy, when you look at how people are doing with affordability, when you're looking at gas, prices, when you're looking at quite literally everything, our weapons stockpiles, I go through all the stuff Ben named.

It's a disaster. It's a disaster. So Donald Trump needs to say, look over there, look over there, focus on this, get angry at this. That's basically the plan in a nutshell. And that's what he's going to continue to do and continue to ratchet up. We're going to speak about this and more on this episode. And I want to say, Jordy, congrats, man, as well. Jordy, an incredible feature in the Pittsburgh City Paper. Hope you all get a chance to check it out.

Just look up Pittsburgh I thought, I thought you were about to say that Jordy's baby was just born.

I thought that's where he was going with it too.

And I was, I was thinking to myself, I'm like, oh, have I been so busy that I just missed the birth?

No, no, no, I just—

That would have been pretty bold though for Jordy. Like, I, I get it now looking back on it.

I could see why you would think that, and I could see why the audience—

The thing is, in the comments, uh, and our audience here is always so nice and wonderful, they're, they're constantly asking me for updates too about, did the baby come? Did the baby come? So bold move, big bro, leading with kung fu. Okay.

Now that I— now that I think about it, I could completely see why everybody would think that. However, however, in my defense, in my defense, in my defense, why would Jordy be here if that was the news? That'd be pretty bad husband.

You know, I'm just saying.

Anyway, Jordy, what's the latest on your end? How close are we? What's happening here?

Let me bring this— let me, let me bring us back here. A couple of things to unpack there. One, I just want to say very grateful to the Pittsburgh City Paper. They do some incredible local journalism for that feature here.

Definitely check that out.

It's on their website. Uh, it was awesome. It was some behind the scenes of how we got started here at Midas, uh, where we look to go next, and just really what we're building here, uh, together collectively. So definitely check that out. Big shout out to the Pittsburgh, uh, City Paper. And then for, for everyone asking in the comments, I know, Brett, very confusing way to start this show. No, it, uh, not yet. Uh, I— it could happen any moment, like literally any moment. Could happen live right now. Again, this is the only hour of the day when I do this show that I am not right next to my wife.

I didn't think you were going to make it to the show. I'm not going to lie. I told— I told Mom and Dad.

We are getting very close. All that to say, very excited for tonight's show. Benji, where are we starting off tonight, big bro?

I guess let's start off in that room that looks like a bunch of piss. It's the Oval Office. Piss yellow at this point. It just looks absolutely gross. But the manifestation of the walking piss that's in the Oval Office, Donald Trump had a big announcement that he wanted to make today. A big announcement. What, you're gonna make gas prices lower? No.

You mean—

the guy just looks ridiculous though, too. Like, I mean, for those on audio, I mean, the guy like literally looks like cartoonishly red and orange at this point. Decrepit—

Rotting.

Like, it's very— like, it is a very bizarre thing to like even like look at this guy and be like, What am I even looking at? But was he going to talk about, I don't know, helping Americans afford a home?

No.

Is he going to talk about getting the price of diesel under control? No. Any updates with Iran?

No.

What you going to talk about?

I don't know.

I mean, our farmers are struggling right now. Anything you're going to be helpful? No. What about the lobstermen in Maine? No.

Okay.

So what do you— what's this about? You're going to rename Lake Ontario. You do realize that the word Ontario is not a Canadian word, you know, that it came from the indigenous people that were there, that Lake Ontario predates the United States and Canada. And there are lots of places called Ontario in the United States because it literally means big lake or large lake. Like, you do know you don't realize that because, no, the Trump regime has spent the last 24 hours posting weird memes of eagles attacking Canada goose, a Canada goose. But then it turns out in the video that the Canada goose actually beat the eagle in the video. You may want to actually get some context when you post things. But like everything the Trump regime does, there's no— they do it. It's mean, it's cruel, and then it's also incompetent. Well, what did they post yesterday as well? They posted, uh, the church—

the Churchill movie.

The Churchill movie. Where Churchill references calling out the tiger.

Yeah.

And the tiger was Hitler. And the way the Trump regime edited it, Trump was Hitler. And so they made a video that Trump was Hitler. And then people—

By the way, of all the departments to make this post, it was the Department of Education. It's like we truly are living in an idiocracy right now. It's everything. I never imagined that when authoritarian came to America, America, authoritarianism came to America, it'd just be so stupid.

You had the musician— what's the guy's name— Jelly Roll. He hosted Jimmy Kimmel as a guest host, and he did a joke because he had lost a lot of weight recently. And so he said about Donald, he's like, hey, you know, you got, you got to drop, you know, at least £100 or whatever. Um, you know, that his own 300-pound weight loss meant that he lost an entire Donald Trump because he lost £300. And then he went on to say that if Donald Trump lost some more weight, maybe like if Donald Trump lost £100 or £200, you may be able to see your penis was the joke. And then all of MAGA was like, jellyfish, you're no longer MAGA.

Jellyfish.

Jellyfish. Jellyfish. Jellyfish.

That was not intentional. For those that know Ben, he That was jellyfish.

You are banned, jellyfish.

Mr.

Fish.

That's what MAGA would say to Mr. Fish.

You are banned from MAGA, Mr.

Fish.

But no, you had all these MAGA Congress members are like, you're no longer invited. You're no longer MAGA. You sold out. You have TDS. It's like, okay, these people are the most deranged people ever. Seriously, you have MAGA Republican Congress member Patronus more angry about that joke than the fact that Americans have had their health care ripped away in a state and that American people are suffering. But any event, so we got all of that happening. Donald Trump in the Oval Office, his big thing that he's talking about is we're renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. And he rolls this out like in an official executive order meeting. I'll show it to you.

Let's play.

And finally, I guess the purpose of this more than anything else is we're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario. Effective immediately to Lake America. That's going to take place right now as I sign the order. Do you have anything to say about it, Ben? Uh, yes, sir.

So this is a straightforward but important executive order. It directs Secretary Burgum at the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information Service to reflect that the lake once known as Lake Ontario will from this day forward be known as Lake America.

Like, if you told me this was an SNL skit, I would be like, like the guy even speaking there, sir, this is a relatively straightforward and good order. What we're going to be doing— this clown, you have Stephen Miller. These are all a bunch of loser frickin weirdos in the Oval Office, you know, but it's unfortunately, it's profoundly dangerous. These are profoundly I say weapons of mass distraction, but these are profound manifestations of weapons of mass destruction causing a huge amount of damage to the United States generationally and most likely irreparably. And, you know, you have Donald Trump—

By the way, Ben, did you see what a lot of people were pointing out that, you know, the acronym for the Great Lakes used to be HOMES, H-O-M-E-S. And with Donald Trump's executive order, another reason why you want a Department of Education that there are people that are smart in government, is it now spells shame if you change Lake Ontario to Lake America. So another genius move by the Trump regime here.

I mean, and it certainly is shame for the United States. And so a reporter said to Donald, are you concerned that Putin has announced publicly with Iran, Iran's president, right, you just announced economic D-Day against Iran, acted all tough. that they will be holding a meeting next week in China as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting to talk about the $25 billion investment by Russia into Iranian nuclear plants. Like, did you all hear every word I just said? Russia, Iran, China, $25 billion nuclear in Iran. So all of those things, Donald, right? You— does that cause you any concern over here about anything?

There is reports that Vladimir Putin is meeting with the president of Iran to talk about a nuclear agreement next week. Is there concern in the administration, in the White House, that these countries are taking economic D-Day seriously, that they're going to continue doing business?

Oh, they're doing fine. Despite the Iranians right now, they're not paying their troops. They're in deep trouble. They have very little capacity. Last night we took 24 boats through the strait. We're taking them through all the time. We say it very openly. It doesn't mean we're finished with the military, but we are— the strait is open. As you know, the Strait of Hormuz is open. We have control and we have the blockade. Iran's not getting anything. Nothing is going through. Not one ship has got—

Punish Putin or Russia if they continue?

Well, it depends. It depends. So far, I think Russia's behaved quite well having to do with the Strait of Hormuz. And you have to understand, for everything they do, we do also. You know, somebody was saying about China, what about China? We hear they're spying. We spy on them too.

Do it too. We do it too. By the way, Did you see that even before the question was asked and the person was like, you know, are you concerned? Nope. Nope. You didn't even hear what the question was. Are you concerned that Russia is building nuclear plants in Iran and they're doing meetings in China with Xi Jinping?

Nope.

We do it too. Not, not concerned at all. Okay, then what does concern you if that does? Oh, oh, I know what does. Canada concerns you. You're spending your time attacking Canada today while these other— Russia's been very good to us in Hormuz. They've been good. They've been giving the weapons to Iran. Iran gives the weapons to Russia. In what world have they been good? They've helped Iran target and kill American service members. Like, it's pretty obvious, you know, that that's what's helping Iran find some of these targets. But, but, but no, in this narrative, Russia good. China good. Kim Jong-un great. Canada, the nastiest people, Brett. The nastiest people to Donald Trump. I mean, like, but he's a demented— like, you can't have a— like, this is like when you watch these shows and you'll have like a Scott Jennings and then someone debates Scott Jennings on CNN. You can't debate— like, these are garbage humans. Like, these people are absolute trash and they hate America. They're traitors, in my opinion, because they engage in behavior that, in my opinion, it's like, what are you doing? You're something. If you support this, that means you're supporting people attacking America, in my opinion.

Well, the thing is, like, those shows give credence to their point of views, which are just blatant lies. And then it leaves the audience to kind of think that the truth must be somewhere in the middle. I mean, it was something that Jordy said in the Pittsburgh paper, which is, you know, someone looks outside and you see a blue sky and someone says the sky is blue, someone says the sky's orange, you shouldn't be led to believe that the color of the sky is somewhere in between blue and orange. It's blue, and you don't need to have somebody screaming at you insisting that it's orange in the case of like a Scott Jennings or whatever. By the way, I know I've been awfully like busy lately, and then we've all been busy. Did I miss Economic D-Day? I thought it was not supposed to happen on Monday. They forget it. Like, what happened to Economic D-Day?

You know, they did— they, they had Treasury Secretary Bessent. He did an announcement.

You don't remember?

He did the announcement.

He did a letter, an announcement.

Yeah, you know, he did a letter, then he did an announcement, and then he was asked, why are you not actually going to implement D-Day? Because actual D-Day, there was an invasion, uh, the day of, and there was—

You don't write a few letters in advance warning about it.

And then he said— and then Bessin said, why would I destroy the global economy? I need to work with— and then China responded.

Good question, Scott.

Yeah, good, good question, Scott.

Good question.

But he did write a very strongly worded op-ed in the Financial Times where he talked about Blaise Pascal's wager. And he goes like, Blaise Pascal's wager, what we need to— okay, dude, you are—

They didn't see Pascal's wager being brought up. Pascal's wager. Iran was like, shit, was that the 17th century French mathematician?

Oh, shit. He went 17th century. Blaze? You went Blaze Pascal on me?

We don't know what to do. Mr. Goluboff. Mr. Ali Atoll.

Mr. Ali Atoll. They are bringing out their secret weapon. Please do not say it's Blaze Pascal quotes.

I have some bad news for you, sir.

I have some bad news. It is a 17th century mathematician named Blaze Pascal. Jordy, pop it.

I'm just saying, if Jellyfish could comment on this, I'd be curious to get his thoughts too. It is.

It is.

It's brutal, man. It's absolutely brutal. Like, Trump's big 3 is, I guess, renaming a gulf, a lake, and what he's going to do, an ocean next. It is so pathetic where, you know, other presidents in the past— I won't even name them— probably focused maybe more so on the economy, healthcare, getting people jobs, affordable housing. Maybe that was their big 3, big 4.

Trump, laser-focused.

Renaming things. He can't stop renaming things. It is so absurd and just absolutely pathetic that we sit here, we watch that clip and like, how serious, brothers, can you just describe for the audio listeners, like, just how serious Trump's delivery is? You know, when he's sitting behind that desk talking about renaming Lake America, it hurts me. It hurts me as someone who deeply loves this country, as there is an ongoing war of choice happening, as our troops die because of this ongoing war of choice by Donald Trump, that his laser focus— what is he focused on? Lake America. So pathetic.

Well, here's the thing, too. It is his safe space because he's a loser and he's pathetic, which is blame, right? He blames everybody else. Blame Canada. Quite literally the parody from South Park. Blame Canada for your own problems. And then what does he do? He's a fraud and he just names things. If you think about what he does, this is what he— I mean, the guy looks like Ridiculously. It's the Strait of Hormuz. No, I mean, this is someone, you know, Operation Midnight Hammer, Total Obliteration, Operation Epic Fury, Operation— or something like Project America. I don't know what it was. Operation America, Project Freedom. Now Operation Economic Outcast, Operation Economic Fury. Okay, they just, you know, but, but But you have to understand again, why are they— because they're losers and they're losing and they're failing and they want to come up with a construct and a name and a thing that makes you go, ah, got it. And that's what they do. That's, that's how they behave. He can't do deals and he can't do the war. We should never have been in the war in the first place. But yeah, the guy who bankrupted casinos bankrupted our military very quickly and we ran out of weapons.

And so we hear now from our former allies across the world, be it in Europe and Asia and elsewhere, saying the US is done. They can't protect us. The whole structure is destroyed. And these countries contributed to the US economy. It wasn't as Donald Trump's projection. Oh, everyone's taking advantage of us. He's just a loser. This is what he's thought his whole life and he just comes up with fraudulent names for things. And then he blames others. And I'll tell you what, though, the American people know that Canada isn't the bad guy. And it just shows you how demented Donald Trump is. And in all states across the country, and it just so happens, particularly critical states to Donald Trump heading into the midterms as well, these states rely on trade with Canada. They know the importance of Canada trade and whether it is lumber or whether it is aluminum or nickel or electricity. Whether it is uranium, whether it's other critical minerals, whether it is hospitality, whether it is— I think I said electricity— whether it's crude, you name it. Canada is a vital, vital, essential, the most important trading partner. And as we've heard from Canadian leaders and they've explained this, they said Canada has trade deals with all G7 nations.

We're the only G7 country that actually had free trade deals. And, you know, until the United States, you know, went on a rampage, we're the easiest country to do business with.

We're—

and all Americans know Canada's friendly. They're our best friend. So Trump doing this right now just shows even more how demented he is.

All right.

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Talk about what else was going down in the Oval Office right there. Reporter asked Donald Trump, like, Why are you attacking America's allies? Like, what's the point of this? Like, why are you continuing to praise America's adversaries, or who were thought of as America adversaries? And why do you just spend every day going after, you know, like NATO and Canada and all these countries? It's, it's, it's, it's very bizarre behavior. And you'll see Donald Trump in this clip attacks Canada. and praises Xi Jinping. It's like, when I speak with Xi, we talk about how pathetic Canada is. That's what I always tell him. By the way, Xi Jinping has increased his trading capabilities with, uh, Canada as a result of Trump's weakness, and they've been moving in more of their electric vehicles. And now more people in Canada view China more favorably than they view the United States at this point. And it's like, like, Donald, like, you think Xi Jinping, like, respects you, like, thinks that you're strong? Like, you think Putin looks at you and says strong? No, they think you're clowns. I mean, you have the Iranian leadership mocking you on a daily basis about how weak and pathetic you are.

You have all of their Iranian embassy accounts, like, doing memes of you hiding in catering containers in Turkey with Natalie While you're too afraid to board the old Air Force One. Like, you know, the laughingstock where you're like, oh, we were the laughingstock of the world. Amongst America's perceived adversaries or the traditional people we viewed as adversaries, they're actually laughing in your face. Like, they've never thought this could ever so quickly happen to the United States like this. And our former allies are terrified. They're horrified. Now they are moving on. Like this year and even in these past few months, we've seen far more significant and tangible steps where other countries are like, all right, the America— America's out. US is out. Like they're done. Like we have to really make sure we don't have anything to do with them anymore or just where we need to. But we've got to phase it out and phase it out quickly. But anyway, here he is being asked, why are you doing this to your allies and not our adversaries? And he answers the question by attacking Canada and praising Xi.

Here, play this clip.

Things like this towards America's allies instead of doing things that—

Well, they haven't treated us well. The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They're nasty people. They charge our farmers 400% tariffs. They've been doing it for a long time. And I had them figured out in my first term, and I did some pretty strong things and had it getting pretty good. And then the election was rigged, and now I'm coming back and doing it the way it— and finishing the job. But they treat us very badly. Canada treats us very badly. I would say that of all countries, as you know, we have President Xi coming in a couple of weeks. We have a lot of— we deal with a lot of people, and people oftentimes they'll ask me, who's the worst to deal with on trade?

China.

And I said, that's easy, Canada. They are the worst, and they, they feel entitled, and just, we can't have that.

They feel entitled for what? What do they feel entitled to? I mean, again, Trump describes himself. He feels entitled. He feels entitled to take the sovereignty of countries and to take their resources, by the way, for himself. to enrich himself. That's what it is. Operation Economic Outcast. I mean, it's just the utmost projection. He's talking about the outcasting, the United States. That's what the United States has become. You couldn't get more projection than that. I don't know, did you see the post of, uh, MB Gala Bafaran's parliament leader mocking, uh, Treasury Secretary Bessent? I think we have a photo of of it as well. And you had Bessin say— this is what Bessin posted in the morning— as the Iranian people struggle to afford basic necessities, the corrupt regime continues to squander enormous sums abroad. Instead of funneling billions of dollars to its terrorist proxies, the regime should spend that money for its people. Brett, if you're wondering what happened on economic D-Day, it's just social media posts like that. It's the ultimate projection. Just substitute in the United States for Iran. What do you mean as the Iranian people?

I don't know how Iran is going to recover from another recent Trump post because this one is— I just don't know what they're going to do. Trump tweeted, everybody, Iran is a failing nation.

Oof. Oof.

I thought that Blaise Pascal, 17th century mathematician, from France quote was really bad.

No, it's all over for him now.

This post right here with American flag-faced Donald Trump saying Iran is a failing nation, exclamation point, DJT. That's really going to hit him where it hurts.

By the way, I think we just won the war.

I think we won.

I think after that post— can you bring that back up? Because I also just want to comment on, you know, we just kind of let this slide, but also just the president doesn't know basic punctuation these days. Iran is capital I, a failed—

By the way, Jordy, if you remember when Natalie Harp's letters were revealed at the Daily Beast, Natalie Harp's letters were— had punctuation and grammar exactly the way Donald Trump's, uh, posts appear on social media. Random letters capitalized. And I think it's actually probably, you know, a bit of a sign that, uh, you know, she's doing all these posts. Like, we know that she, right, you know, writes his posts. And so I think that's— I think it's a— I think it's a Natalie Harp signature. She just, you know, they down—

Then Iran's parliament leader, MB Ghalibaf, responds to Besant, instead of funneling billions to its terrorist proxy Israel and 750 bases, this failing empire could spend that cash on its own people. But nah, that'd make too much sense for this regime. Scotty, man, question mark. Your credibility is on the line. Do something. And in Iran, they just mock the United States like that. But you also notice too, the US approach is, if we torture you enough, if we make you suffer, that's what will make you want to do a deal with me.

Right.

That's their approach to everything. And if you listen to what the heinous rhetoric coming out is about Canada, we need to inflict more pain on Canada because if we hurt them more, is what the Trump regime says. That's what all the Trump cabinet people are saying. Then they'll be forced to do a deal with us. And you have to understand, Trump is a sexual predator.

Right.

I mean, he is a predator. And the Epstein class that forms his cabinet and the people he surrounds himself with also have a mindset of being predators, in my opinion. And their view is that if you say no, but they keep on forcing themselves upon you, eventually you'll say yes and that you'll want to do a deal because they're sickos. Because they are truly sick, vile trash humans. And that's what we have to understand about them. It's not political talk. These aren't Republicans. No, these are awful predators. These are demonic things that want to cause harm. And their perspective on everything is if they hurt you enough, then you will eventually say yes to them and you will let them have their way with you. They're sick. They're sick. They're sick. And you have to understand that about them. So I want to talk about what the response is in Canada. Premier Wab Kinew of Manitoba, he responded. Here's what he had to say moments ago. Let's play it. You know, when like a rock band is really over the hill and you see them like in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago.

I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now. Like, he thought he had a real hit, a real golden oldie with the Gulf of Mexico, and he's trying to bring back that.

He's trying to play the hits for his base.

But I think everybody here thinks it's a little sad and it's not his best work. Charlie Angus, leader of Midas Canada. Make sure you all subscribe to the Midas Canada YouTube channel. Charlie Angus, former member of Parliament, NDP Party, same party as Canoe, same party as David Eby, another of my favorite premiers from British Columbia. Here is what Angus had to say.

Let's play it.

But I would like to make an offer to the MAGA regime and those behind it. I think you've got to move Donald out. I think it's— I think he's decrepit. I think he's creepy. I think nobody believes him. I think you need to bring Lego Man. from Iran. Uh, we don't know that Legoman has had anything to do with Epstein sex cases, but we know Donald Trump, his name's all over the file. So I would rather, as a Canadian, negotiate with Legoman at this point. Uh, and as for the word of what comes out of the White House, it means nothing. This is— this, this guy was a criminal grifter from the get-go, and it's all coming home now.

That is what Canada thinks about the United States. And the world just sees that this Trump United States, which hopefully won't be a Trump United States for that much longer, is like the Trump Casino and the Trump Steak and the Trump board game and the Trump vodka and the Trump University and the Trump shuttles and the Trump this and the Trump that, which all fail because the guy is pathologically A failure and a loser. And so now what they resort to, they give it all away. The game plan, the blame, the fraudulent names and the blame.

Canada.

Blame Canada. Blame Canada. It's literally right out of the parody. It's out of the movie. But then MAGA Mike was in Texas, and this is where they give it all away, where MAGA Mike says, If Republicans lose the midterms, then the nightmare scenario will unfold. The markets will crash and America's power in the world will be destroyed and everything we built will all fall apart. We've had it. We promised you it was all right. Riches were right around the corner. 2025, That was the appetizer. 2026 was the banquet. 2027, we were about to give you the show. Farmers, ranchers, manufacturing industry workers, Americans. We had it. It was right here. We set it all up perfectly for you. And then the Democrats took over and then it got ruined. So now we got to blame them. And then you got to elect us back. Because they broke it. You need to bring us back in and we'll fix it. This is their playbook. It's always been their playbook. The arsonist claiming that they're the firefighter. They are the arsonist. But listen, MAGA Mike just lays it out.

The reason that we are doing that is because people like you understand the stakes are so high, right? This is for all the marbles. We cannot lose this midterm I want you to imagine a nightmare scenario with these insurgent Marxist Democrats taking over the Congress. They would impeach the president on the first day. They've already said what they're going to do. They'll convert every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'll spend every waking hour investigating the president and his family and the cabinet and going on this lawfare exercise. It would, it would roil the markets. It would undermine people's confidence in the U.S. and the economy. It would empower our enemies across the globe at the worst possible time. We cannot allow them to do that, okay? The problem that we have right now is the people coming behind us don't understand how dangerous these ideas are. They don't understand that socialism is a road to ruin. They don't understand that socialism is a step to get to communism. It's Marxist philosophy. They thought the communists— communism would be the utopia, the perfect society. They're dead wrong.

The communists and socialists They're coming for you. They're going to destroy it all. We had it, guys.

We did it.

And then they took it all away.

By the way, I think that could maybe hit a little harder if everything that you warned that these scary, spooky Democrats are going to do if they take over after the midterms in the House is what's already happening under Donald Trump. He's like, they're going to roil the markets. They're going to undermine confidence in the United States. They're going to empower our enemies. Like, could you even imagine somebody who would do that? People who would do that? Yeah, the guy who's running things into the ground right now, who's literally doing all of those things. I think that's a pretty obvious— also, by the way, he makes the Democrats sound pretty badass. I'm like, I'm not gonna lie, it's like they should— the Democrats could just run that ad as like, uh, you know, brought to you by the Democrats, paid for by the Democrats.

Let Johnson do their branding. Geez.

Right?

Good messaging. They're gonna impeach on day one, investigations into Trump Trump and his family. I mean, I think a lot of people hear that and they go, okay, yeah, bring it on. We've been looking for a check on this regime, and okay, that's how we do it.

Okay, let's, let's try it out.

Absolutely. No, and by the way, when Johnson's up there, it just always strikes me like, wow, this is the best that they could do. Like, that, that's, that's their guy who they put in charge of all this to be their communicator, to be their, to be their leader? Like, he's so pathetic on so many levels, and he's just like— watching him makes my skin crawl.

I can't describe it.

It's just—

he's just creepy. Like, that is my very astute analysis of why continuing to watch Mike Johnson here spiral as we get closer and closer to the midterms. He is creepy, man. And he is definitely not the best person to put in front and start doing PR here for the Democrats.

This is who they are, though, Jordan. I mean, if you look at Pierre Poilievre in Canada, Maple MAGA, who likely would have been the prime minister the way things were trending, until Donald Trump demonstrated the dangerousness of MAGA and the Canadian people woke up. And there's a lot of Canadian people who knew what was going on. But if you looked at the polls of what was happening before Carney, you had Maple MAGA on the rise. And most of the polls before Carney showed that you were going to have a MAGA in Canada. And Pierre Poilievre is a weird dude, just like, you know, I mean, he does these weird workout things. He's a very strange human. And, you know, He also lost his riding, like his congressional seat. They call it ridings in the last major election. But then he like, he respawned and he took somebody else's riding that basically doesn't belong to him, you know, but he took somebody else's and he's out there doing the same Maple MAGA playbook right there. And the people of Canada are like, dude, we're under attack right now. And let's be clear, in Canada, they don't view this as like a trade war.

They view it correctly as Donald Trump has declared war on the country, that this is part of a broader strategy by Donald Trump to take over the Western Hemisphere. And I'm going to drop a video in the morning that I did with an incredible reporter who's in Ecuador. So I hope you'll all watch it in the morning. But we talk about how Trump has installed these dictators who are people from Miami. They're like Americans with family in certain Central American, South American countries. But the MAGA has been interfering with these elections throughout the Western Hemisphere, installing Miami guys who basically do Trump's bidding and drain all of the resources away. And we put the U.S. military in these countries and we're actually full-fledged like invading. Like, we have US ground forces in places like Ecuador doing actual missions. We have boots on the ground. And they go, we're going after the narco terrorists. And there's no evidence that that's actually what's taking place. If anything, you actually seem to be having more drug issues and drug trafficking and other trafficking happening. But they're going after their political opponents and they are in a war posture.

And the U.S. military is involved in these war crimes in these countries as they drain the resources and they give them to Trump and Trump's oligarchs. And so we see that in Ecuador and we see that— why do you think they pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez? You know, someone like that. Like, why do you think they— what do you think is going on now in Colombia, you know, over there and in Argentina? And, you know, there's so much that we, that we get into in this interview tomorrow. So I hope you'll watch it all.

All right.

Let's take our last quick break of the show. We'll be right back. And Jordy, you said, you know, MAGA Mike is creepy. When we get back, I just want to show you what else is going on in that orbit right now, because it even gets worse than that. But let's take our last quick break. A reminder, preorder WTF America if you can. It's the book I wrote with my brothers. It comes out officially October 20th. The preorders are available now. If you're gonna buy it in October, preorder it now. It helps with all of the preparation for the release. All right, let's take our last quick break of the show.

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Shout out to our sponsors, y'all. Links in the description of both YouTube and the audio. Use those links, use those codes, please. We work hard on those discounts for y'all. If there's that exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, I think calling Mike Johnson weird honestly is like the nicest thing anyone could— like, I think that's a very PG, mild take. Mike Johnson weird. What do you say to that?

Yeah, well, he's dangerous. He— but, you know, he is inherently this bootlicking sycophant of the worst kind. And you wonder how people like Hitler came into being. And wonder no longer. I mean, as long as there are MAGA Mikes in this world, in my opinion, that have a mindset of, uh, bending the knee to anyone they view as a strongman and just going along with whatever— the human psychology aspect of it, and that's what I'm referring to— it's obvious that there are just enablers. And MAGA Mike is just a horrible, trash, vile, pathetic thing. And again, I don't, I don't view this in a political way. You know, it's not like, well, the Democrats are here and the Republicans— like, these are loser people, and we've been too nice. We've been too accepting of while they've exploited this entire country. Like, these people, as I've said, are there to kill you. MAGA Mike, the Republicans right now under this MAGA, they hate you. They hate our troops. They hate the United States. They hate our government. They hate democracy. They hate their voters. I truly believe that Trump and MAGA Mike actually— and I'd pass a lie detector on this.

I wholeheartedly feel this way. And by the way, I I feel wholeheartedly I'm right. They hate their own voters more than they even hate people who vote for the other— they vote for the other side. Like, they view their own voters as the dumbest people imaginable. They look— look at their actions toward him. Look how he treats the farmers. Look how he treats the ranchers. Look how he treats— look how he treats all of his most loyal supporters are the people who he loves just giving them breadcrumbs and seeing them suffer and seeing them beg for the breadcrumbs. That's who they are. While they're out there saying, like, you know what, if we don't get to put Donald Trump's name in an engraving in the Kennedy Center and if we don't get to call the area around the Kennedy Center the Trump Pavilion, we're going to destroy it. We're going to blow it up. Literally, I mean, in the past 48 hours, that was a filing. That's how Donald Trump and the regime is spending their time. Golden ballrooms, reflecting pool, hiding in catering containers with Natalie, attacking Canada. And after losing a federal injunction which said you can't rename the Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center unless it's Congress approves, Donald Trump's like, okay, so you're not going to let me do that?

Well, then I am going to put a giant tarp over it and then I'm going to engrave my name into the Kennedy Center. And I'm going to say it's not renaming it the Trump Kennedy Center, but instead I'm saying this is in honor of Donald Trump Kennedy Center. This is an honor to me. And then I want to do the park and the surrounding area, the honorific to Donald Trump, so that everybody will now call this thing the Trump Kennedy Center, even though it's been banned, because you'll have to now say it's in honor of Donald. It's the Kennedy Center in honor of Donald Trump. And they're sick. And they said to the court, they said, we will have to tear down the Kennedy Center. Now, this comes at the same time that we learn the truth, which is board minutes leaked out. And since the name change that Donald Trump did, which was deemed illegal, The Kennedy Center lost $100 million in revenue. It lost 25 to 30% immediately of its donor base as well, in addition to the revenue. And it became decrepit because Trump broke it. And this goes back to what I said before.

They break it.

They're the arsonists. They, they destroy it. And then Donald Trump in his filing, like how he acts, In this fascist capacity, he's like, it's destroyed. It needs Donald J. Trump to fix it.

Why?

Because he is a predator. That's why. He's a sick, evil, disgusting thing. And all of these people are who support this stuff. They're gross. They're gross people. I mean, look, you have Howard Lutnick over here. Here's Howard Lutnick. He is holding a press conference today. What do you think Lutnick's press conference is on? It's on the Kennedy Center. That's what they're talking about and why we need Donald J. Trump's name must be on it. We have to engrave it because it's not possible without his greatness. Jordy, you thought MAGA Mike was creepy?

Watch this.

Center, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts should be the greatest cultural institution in the United States of America and possibly the world. And the president wants to do that.

Right.

But it's not there now. It's had decades of financial neglect. And the reason that happened is because Congress is good at a lot of things. But what they're not good at is putting out a little bit of money every year to renovate and restore a building. They're just not good at that. $10 million, $20 million necessary to fix this or fix that. They're just not good at that. And so what happened is decade after decade, what happened was this building was neglected. It wasn't neglected. It was great. People liked the Kennedy Center. They showed up. It was sold out. Hamilton was there. You had great shows. You had a great symphony there.

It was great.

People liked it. What are you talking about? The same way people like Canada. It's a great country. They're nice. People like it the same way we had allies. We liked it. Those were allies.

Those were— The strategy they use also, um, all the time is to act like, oh, everybody knew this, right? It's like everybody knew that the Kennedy Center needed renovations and was, was going to shit. It's like, no, it's what Donald Trump says about Canada. Everybody knew that Canada was taking advantage of us and they were very bad people. I don't think anyone has ever said that in the history. In fact, the stereotype of Canada that people have is literally about how nice Canadians are.

It's the opposite of reality. Yeah, I mean, look, you have MAGA Republican Congressmember John James this morning going on the Benny Johnson Show. And as Aaron Ruper says, these people are so effing weird and they talk about circumcision and they talk about how it's a blessing from God. Let's listen to what they're talking about.

Let's play it.

Well, the first thought that comes to mind is that circumcision has a sacred history. It's a covenant between man and God. It is setting yourself apart as chosen from Abraham. And this has been passed along in our Judeo-Christian values. That guy is a congressman, a MAGA congressman from Michigan, and Michigan is going to face even more economic harm as a result of the escalating trade war that Trump launched against Canada and Canada's very precise and targeted and powerful counter-tariffs. The retaliation by Canada, to which the Trump regime then complains about, and they go, why are they retaliating? Why are you— why would you fight back? If you're going to keep on retaliating, we're going to have to respond. If you keep your retaliation, Then we're going after your auto industry. Then they're going to retaliate against that, too. They're going to cut off electricity because we depend on Canada for electricity in a lot of states and we depend on Canada for crude and we depend on Canada for critical minerals. You want to see the United States economy crash? Just wait and see if Prime Minister Carney starts unloading some of the bonds. that they hold, some of the treasuries.

Canada does that. If you try to destroy their auto industry, as that's now Donald Trump, because you are retaliating and you're not taking it, we're going to on January 1st try to bankrupt your auto. Okay, then they're going to bankrupt the US. Why is this something— why is this with everything going on?

Some—

no, no American wants— we don't want this. We don't want any of this. Even Trump's base doesn't want to be like, what are you doing? What is this? What in the world? And then, you know, I'm showing you different people. I'm showing you this is the stuff that they want out there, by the way. It's not like I'm cherry-picking. Like, these are their press conferences. You know, I didn't throw a camera on them and go, all right, you know, and start asking them the questions for these ones. These are preplanned press conferences. that they held. So this is Hegseth. He was asked yesterday, or it may have been earlier in the morning, what do you feel? What's your view on the US running out of munitions? It seems that we're out of munitions and our allies are concerned. Here's what he says.

Let's play it.

Why would I answer? I mean, this is kind of a stupid question I would never answer.

Like, why would I answer a question about whether we do or do not have certain types of munitions? I would tell you we have 110%, or I'll tell you we have one. I would never answer that question. And the press is foolish to want to press— an American press is foolish to want to press an American War Department about where we may or may not be, uh, on, on classified—

And if you saw the way he even visually looked, like flailing at his arms and then this and that, why would I tell you about our exquisite systems? You know, because we want to know why the hell We gave you $1 trillion of our money and you went into a catastrophic war with Netanyahu against Iran and you ran out of weapons. We know you ran out of weapons right now. And now the plan is to just call it economic outcast or economic fury and give it stupid names. And then you had Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, He's the number 2 to Hegseth. He was at the NATO headquarters today and he spent his time attacking Germany and saying, how is it reasonable for the American people to be spending 3.5 to 4% GDP on defense and project power all for everyone's benefit? And the German people only spend 1%. They're just attacking every country. They just go out and start attacking everybody. Here, watch this.

I think President Trump deserves tremendous credit.

Uh, no question. But it's also something that the Germans themselves are seeing is in their interest and seeing as something that's, that's reasonable. How is it reasonable for the American people to be spending 3.54% of GDP on defense and being able to project power for all our benefit, and the German people to be spending 1%?

At some point, that just doesn't make sense anymore.

We're beyond that.

That's one of the key things.

We're beyond that. Okay, we're done with that. Okay, the American people don't want to be spending 4% of our GDP on the military.

We don't—

we want to spend it on health care. We want to spend it to help Americans get homes. We don't want to spend it giving weapons to Netanyahu to engage in genocide. We don't want to spend it to slaughter little girls in Manab or to have people slaughter people in Lebanon. We want the money for Americans to build things here. That's what we want. We would be so much better if we didn't spend 3.4 or 4% of our GDP. Look what you've done with the 4% GDP. You idiots ran out of our weapons. You ran out of our weapons. You couldn't feed our service members. Our sailors and our Marines weren't getting food aboard the aircraft carriers. And now the ship's going into Thailand because not only could you not project power, you couldn't project food for our troops to eat. And that's systemic. That's— and then when people report on it like Stars and Stripes, the independent news organization that reported on the military. The Trump regime fired all of their writers because they were telling stories about the horrible conditions that despite a $1 trillion military budget, the only people who seemed to be getting that money were Trump's oligarch friends and people in Trump's inner circle and Trump's orbit while our service members weren't getting food.

And the publisher and the editor-in-chief and a writer all got fired. They filed a lawsuit earlier today against the Trump regime because they got unlawfully terminated from their job in retaliation for telling the truth about our service members and their family as Trump and Hegseth defame our service members and their families and call them liars. And I've been reporting on this every morning. So I hope you appreciate some of the morning research that we do where we go deep into the weeds about Army Chief of Staff Randy George getting fired by the Trump regime, getting pushed out. One of the main reasons he got pushed out was because he was investigating the Apache helicopter flyover at Kid Rock's mansion, and that was too much for the Trump regime. Also, he wanted to modernize our military and focus more on drone and anti-drone technology. And that conflicted with Hegseth wanting the warrior ethos. Also, Randy George and Dan Driscoll— Driscoll was the Army secretary— Christopher Donahue, a well-renowned, a well-beloved general also. They were focused on promoting the best within our military. But Hegseth didn't want to promote and doesn't want to promote women and Black people.

He's refused to promote women and Black people to even the rank of one-star general. and forced out a lot of other top military leaders, even the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, because he's Black. CQ Brown Jr., who's got the most experience. And we moved in a guy because he's a white guy named Dan Raisin Cain, who had to get waivers. He had to get waivers. And then our CIA chief is over in Moscow and the Moscow intelligence chief says this was just a normal meeting that we have now with the United States. There was some reporting, oh, that we sent John Ratcliffe, our CIA head, because he was going to warn— he's warning Russia, don't you attack NATO. Come on. Why do you think you believe that that's what's happening? Of course not. He was there because the US works with Russia now, because they're who Donald Trump wants to be allied with. Why do you think he's there? You think he's there to stand up to Russia? Come on, stop it. Stop it.

Nonsense.

So that's where we are right now. And Jordy, if you thought the MAGA Mike clip before the break— I've showed you that this is— I could keep on going. I could show you Navarro, this, that. You get the point.

This is who they are.

And just so much incompetence that then there's like a cover-up of the incompetence that happens, like with the Stars and Stripes writers and editor-in-chief, like them icing reporters out of the Pentagon. You see a pattern here, and it's a pattern that you see in authoritarian countries. throughout the world. You know, that's what Donald Trump is doing. That's what Pete Hegseth is doing. They're trying to shut down any dissent, and they're trying to cover up for just a really incapable regime. I mean, there was even a report earlier today from the New York Times that— remember, there was that close call recently where Marine One came dangerously close to a commercial jet over Washington, D.C.? Very dangerous situation, could have resulted in a lot of deaths. They're saying And the reason for that and the preliminary reports that are coming out that people are telling the press is because of Donald Trump's construction of the stupid ballroom, because it caused things to be moved around and made things more difficult for air traffic controllers. And it made for a dangerous situation where it almost killed people. I mean, we saw that during the UFC fight also, where they had those super bright lights shining and pilots were blowing the whistle and saying, this is dangerous.

We can't fly because they're beaming lights in our face. Everything is for show. Everything is just so absurd and ridiculous. And everything that they do, and quite frankly, a lot of folks in the media and a lot of these consultants who go on TV, all they want to do at all times is distract you from the issues that really matter, the things that really affect your lives, the things that really affect your day-to-day, the way that you take care of your family, the way that we take care of our allies, all these actual issues that have a real impact on your lives. A lot of people don't want you to think about. But I do want to give a shout out to all those brave reporters who stand up to this regime, whether they're. Reporter is at papers even under a lot of stress like The Washington Post, or if they're at The New York Times, or if they're under a paper like The Stars and Stripes, which is technically under the Pentagon but is supposed to be an independent paper that is supposed to be allowed to report honestly. It's brave in 2026 when you're able to actually report honestly and not what the regime wants to tell you.

So I do want to give a shout out to them and everybody who continues to stand up and continues to make sure that all these issues are grounded in the stakes of this moment and what Americans actually care about. Not just Americans, what people of this world really care about. I think we're better than our leaders, and I hope Canada knows that. We're in, you know, elbows up with Canada. We're in great support with the people of Canada. A shout out to them, the way they've handled themselves through all these attacks, I think have absolutely brilliant. I think Prime Minister Carney has been brilliant. I think all these premiers have been absolutely, uh, brilliant. Uh, keep up the fight, keep those elbows up, keep going over the boards. And thank you for listening to our show as well and for spreading the word. We're going to do our best to keep getting this administration out there, uh, keep getting the news about this administration out there. Thank you to everybody again who has pre-ordered the book WTF America. Uh, really, really appreciate it. Like we said, the pre-orders are Super, super, super important. Our publishers tell us it's like the number one most important thing.

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All right.

Y'all the best. I can't wait for the next episode. Uh, hopefully I'm here.

That—

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