Furious world leaders are putting the screws into Donald Trump and twisting it before his trip to Beijing at the end of this week, where he will be meeting with Xi Jinping on May 14th and May 15th. World leaders want to show just how weak Donald Trump has made the United States in advance of this meeting with Xi Jinping. We've heard from a prince in Saudi Arabia. We've heard, we've heard from President Zelensky. We've heard from members of NATO who no longer want to even hold meetings with Donald Trump anymore and push future NATO meetings until the end of Donald Trump's term. We've heard from other world leaders as well, and we've heard from Netanyahu right now, who's trying to pressure Donald Trump to invade Iran yet again and reopen hostilities before Donald Trump takes this trip to China. I want to share with you what's going on right now in this dynamic to show how weak Donald Trump is before he arrives in China. And then of course there is the perspective of Beijing neutering Donald Trump before he arrives there at the end of this week. Of course, we saw Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, meet with the foreign minister of Iran, Araghchi, last week.
And not only did the Chinese greet the Iranian foreign minister, uh, with a warm welcome, frankly, they treated Iran like a conquering hero. And China put out statements strongly condemning the United States and Israel for invading Iran. And China made it clear that it was supporting Iran and Iran was a close friend. The statements from Iran were, we appreciate China's support of all of our endeavors, politically, socially, economically, and in matters of war and peace. Yet Donald Trump's going to be showing up in China looking so utterly weak and pathetic as Xi Jinping has been helping Iran. So why don't We start with Saudi Arabia. We know previously Saudi Arabia would not let the United States use its airspace and airbase after Trump launched Project Freedom. And then apparently Donald Trump's like, all right, I'll try to hit Karg Island once and then can we maybe use the airspace and the airbase again? And at least the public narrative is that Iran will let Donald Trump use the airbase there in Riyadh. But what was just published this past weekend was an op-ed from, uh, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, who's the son of King Faisal, who ran the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency for over 2 decades.
Other than MBS, you don't get any more senior person than Prince Turki Al-Faisal. And he wrote for Arab News an op-ed called This Is How Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman succeeded. And what it frames this, uh, issue as is that the United States and Israel have really been the enemy of Saudi Arabia, not Iran. Sure, Iran retaliated against Saudi Arabia, but what Prince Turki Al-Faisal says is that what Israel was trying to provoke was for Saudi Arabia to retaliate against Iran and then unleash hell in the entire Middle East, have the war spread so that there there was now a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran where they would attack each other's desalination facilities and, uh, other, uh, uh, petroleum facilities and crude facilities and liquefied natural gas facilities, then draw in UAE against Saudi Arabia, and then basically have this massive world war in the Middle East where Israel would try to stand back and let the Arab nations destroy themselves. And so what Prince Turki Al-Faisal says is, you know, yes, We know that Trump and Netanyahu invaded Iran, and sure, Iran then retaliated against its neighbors, which was expected, Saudi Arabia being one.
But we didn't respond to Iran because we knew if we did, then it would be mutually assured destruction in the region if we escalated. And that's when Netanyahu and Trump were trying to trigger the whole time, a destruction of all of the Arab nations. And so the fact that you have Prince Turkey Al Faisal saying this publicly, that the real enemy is the United States and Israel, I mean, it cuts against all of these narratives that actually with the Abraham Accords and this and that, you know, Israel and Saudi Arabia will be working strongly together, and that there's one big kumbaya moment in the Middle East. No, you have Saudi Arabia through their top official of an MBS calling out the United States and Israel for trying to destroy the Middle East. And as Donald Trump tries to go to China and claim energy dominance and claim that he has all of these connections and all of these friends in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is very clear. I mean, again, you have Prince Turki Al-Faisal publicly identifying the United States and Israel essentially as the enemy right here. South Korea, in advance of Donald Trump's trip to China, they have announced that they will continue increasing its defense ties with European countries.
For example, South Korea and Estonia just signed signed a deal to export 3 of these, uh, very cutting-edge multiple-launch rocket systems. And the deal is part of an ongoing framework between South Korea's Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency and Estonia's Estonian Center for Defense Investment. And other Europe countries as well are involved in this, where we see South Korea moving away from purchasing military equipment from the United States. And, you know, it's reciprocal as well. For example, South Korea working with Canada on submarines that Canada might otherwise buy from the United States or elsewhere. Uh, the US military-industrial complex, uh, being shunned by the rest of the world. Then again, one of the levers that Donald Trump would try to pull when he meets Xi Jinping is the strength of the United States military. Well, then you have the story Uh, that, uh, you know, that, that just broke today after Senator Mark Kelly further made it clear on the morning shows that the US has basically run out of all of its munitions. Like for a $1 trillion military budget we had last year, the munition situation in the US is far worse than anybody has even discussed so far.
And that's one of the things that Senator Mark Kelly, you know, a decorated veteran says. And also as China prepares to meet with the, uh, with Donald Trump, One of the things they know is that they control the rare earths. They control the rare earth metals. So Donald Trump, remember, tried to tariff the world. He tried to impose 140% tariffs on China and he tried to impose his will. Then China said, okay, we're going to not give you the rare earths. The stock market crashed. Donald Trump tapped out. China won the trade war against the US. But these rare earths, they are component parts in the munitions that Donald Trump expended in his catastrophic war in Iran with Netanyahu. So if we want to rebuild our our munitions, we're 100% entirely dependent on the rare earths from China. So Xi Jinping knows that, and Xi Jinping is also going to use that as leverage right now, um, in order to extract concessions on Taiwan. And Xi Jinping knows that Donald Trump is indifferent to Taiwan. Trump and MAGA, who claim to be China hawks and care about Taiwan, it was just all BS. It was just saying that in, in order to try to gin up attacks on former President Biden and Democrats.
But the Trump regime has demonstrated they don't care about Taiwan. They don't care about any Asian security umbrella. Heck, the Trump regime wouldn't allow the president of Taiwan to travel over United States airspace on his way to another trip. And Trump didn't comment at all when one of the Taiwanese opposition parties who wants to have unification with China took a 6-day or 7-day trip to China. And so Xi Jinping is going to talk about how the real sentiment in Taiwan is this kind of separatist— well, Taiwanese separatist movement, unification, depending on if you're looking at it from the perspective of China or Taiwan. And so Xi Jinping is going to press on that. So we talked about Saudi Arabia, we talked about South Korea, um, we'll talk about NATO very quickly as well. Um, NATO is mocking Donald Trump and saying that he's putting countries on their naughty list. And so Germany was on the naughty list. They go, all right, now Giorgia Meloni of Italy is on the naughty list. Donald Trump thought that Meloni would be one of his right-wing MAGA puppets. She is right-wing, but she hasn't behaved always like a Donald Trump sycophant or puppet.
Rubio was there recently with Giorgia Meloni when he went to make a fool of himself in front of the Pope. Remember, the Pope gave Rubio a peace plant and Rubio gave the Pope a crystal football. And for from all that we've heard on the Midas Touch Network, this meeting between Rubio and Meloni was just an absolute disaster where they screamed at each other and Rubio tried to threaten Meloni that we're going to withdraw troops. And Meloni, Meloni stood her ground. And again, as Europe has asserted itself, and so Italy's on the naughty list now. And so Italy expects that this week or next week, the Trump regime is going to pull troops out of Italy as well, the same way they did with Germany and NATO at this point, as I mentioned at the outset, is planning for a really a post-US NATO. Maybe they'll call it NATO Europe, NATO Plus, whatever. But they, they don't consider really the US as having really any major role. They'll make public statements. But until Trump's out, they know that NATO really exists in name only, which then brings us to Zelensky. I'm hitting all of these points of Trump having the screws put in him and looking so utterly weak before his trip to China at the end of this week.
Again, you're not seeing any corporate news in the United States talk about any of them. Have you heard corporate news talk about any of these things? That's why, by the way, hit subscribe, help us get to 7 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually subscribe on this video. So that brings us to Zelensky, right? So Donald Trump made that social media post on Friday saying that he brokered a 2 or 3-day ceasefire between Ukraine and, uh, and Russia, between Zelensky and Putin. Putin was demanding the ceasefire and unilaterally declaring one the same way Trump unilaterally declared ceasefire. So that Putin Putin can have his military parade, what they call Victory Day in Russia, on Saturday, on May 9th. By the way, the Russians didn't have any tanks or any of their other kind of weapons that they usually have because they were afraid of Ukrainian drones. Ukraine has now taken, you know, with the Study of War and all of these groups that analyze the, uh, Russia invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's counteroffensive has allowed Ukraine to take the initiative right now. And Ukraine's going on the offense right now. And Russia is being pushed back right now.
And so Ukraine's actually winning. I mean, you— they were winning before in the sense that Russia said they were going to take over Ukraine in 3 days. And then Russia was basically making very incremental gains and losing 35,000 to 40,000 soldiers every single month. But now Ukraine's affirmatively actually on a 1-to-1 basis winning the war and now conquering territory and taking over land. I mean, its own territory. Let me be very clear, that was stolen from it. But Ukraine is making major gains now going on offense because it has all this incredible technology, these drone interceptors, the drone technology itself, the unmanned vessels, which by the way, Trump, uh, rejected and go, I don't want help from Zelensky. We don't want help from him. Why would we want that? We're, we're working on our relationship with Russia. We're removing all of the sanctions from Russia. So anyway, Putin wanted this ceasefire. Trump tried to help Putin and get this ceasefire on so-called Victory Day. Putin pressed for it, had Donald Trump basically call Zelensky. Zelensky agreed under the condition, and Trump said what would take place is that there would be a prisoner swap, 1,000 Russian prisoners for 1,000 Ukrainian prisoners, and that the ceasefire would relate only to Red Square.
So Zelensky posted, uh, that he was agreeing with the ceasefire provided there was a prisoner exchange, 1,000 Ukrainians for 1,000 Russians. And Zelensky said, okay, we won't attack Red Square with our drones, which is what Putin was absolutely terrified of. But the thing is, now Russia is refusing to return the prisoners and actually do the deal that Trump claims he got. So Zelensky is calling Donald Trump out as a terrible dealmaker. Here's what Zelensky posted: Our contacts with the American side regarding guarantees for the implementation of the arrangements reached recently and announced by the President of the United States are ongoing. The prisoner exchange, 1,000 for 1,000, is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assumed responsibility for these guarantees. Ukraine's coordination headquarters has handed over the lists for 1,000 prisoners of war to the Russian side. There was an American mediation in reaching this arrangement on the exchange, and accordingly, we expect the American side to to play an active role in ensuring it's fulfilled. As our editor-in-chief Ron Philipkowski writes, I'm reading between the lines here that there may be some issues with Trump's big announcement on this. In other words, Donald Trump again showing how weak he is.
He said he did this deal and Russia was gonna give 1,000 prisoners for 1,000 prisoners. Now Putin's not following it, and you see how weak Donald Trump is looking heading to this trip to Iran. So how is Donald Trump trying to project— Donald Trump's trip to China, sorry, Donald Trump's trip to China. So how is Donald Trump trying to project strength right now? Well, he has his senior officials leaking to the press about, oh, Donald Trump's gonna press Xi Jinping on this. No, he's not. Donald Trump's pathetic. He ain't pressing Xi Jinping. Donald Trump's gonna go into the room and go, Xi, it looks so beautiful.
Xi, 'Can we do the photo with, with the Chinese soldiers standing at attention? They say you're the king. Xi, so beautiful, so beautiful.
You're so powerful.' What do you think the guy's gonna say? The guy can barely put forward sentences. He's gonna have the makeup all over his hands and his neck. I mean, what do we think the guy's gonna do? The guy can't speak in sentences. But this is what Bloomberg reported: Trump is expected to confront Xi Jinping this week over China's support for Iran, including oil purchases and possible weapons exports, according to senior US officials. The two leaders will meet Thursday and Friday in Beijing amid tensions over trade, Taiwan artificial intelligence, and the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. I would expect the president to apply pressure on China over Iran when he goes to Beijing, a US official told reporters in a briefing. That will not be easy. Trump will in effect have to ask Xi for help, which, A, is a sign of weakness will come at a cost. What will US have to give for that help? And see, what if China says no? Then the Trump summit, will it be another casualty of war? Yeah, he's gonna look absolutely, uh, pathetic right now is what is what's going to happen. So that brings me, by the way, to Netanyahu's propaganda interview with state regime media in the US, which calls itself CBS, which used to be a very, you know, strong and powerful news network, which is now state regime under Barry Weiss and the whole new regime they have there.
So they brought Netanyahu on to do a propaganda piece, but it just looked utterly horrible. So as Donald Trump is heading to China, right, what does Netanyahu want? War. He wants more war. And Saudi Arabia knew exactly what Netanyahu was trying to do by bringing the whole region into a war. And then for Netanyahu, more war, he believes, cements his power, means that he can keep asking for extensions on his criminal case. He's like, he's a Trump, you know, he's a, he's a Trump, and allows him to continue the genocide there in Gaza and Lebanon. So here's what Netanyahu is saying before Donald Trump's trip to China. I mean, just think about how he's also weakening Donald Trump before the China trip. Netanyahu Nahou claims China supported parts of Iran's missile manufacturing program and says Beijing should reconsider. He says that social media is responsible for declining support for Israel among young Americans, claiming foreign countries use bot farms to undermine American sympathy for Israel. He says, people tell me, Bibi, you're king. And I say, I'm not a king. Kings don't have to be elected.
I have to be elected.
Can I have your vote? I mean, he says the same stuff that Trump says, right? I mean, these two genocidal maniacs, are they like the same person? How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran?
Netanyahu: You go and you take it out. President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there. I mean, he said that publicly. He said, I think he's right. I think he's right. Then Netanyahu says, Hitler didn't even say death to America, death to Britain. I think he might have planned it, but he didn't say— he didn't say it.
Were you like showing sympathy for Hitler? What are you— what are you talking about? And by the way, if you go back in the past and look at past Netanyahu speeches like I've seen, uh, it's— if that's not enough, Netanyahu has also absolved Hitler of his crimes to say Palestinians were the real orchestrators of the Holocaust.
And he goes, Hitler said— he didn't say kill him, he said expel him. He said, expel him. But it was the Palestinians who said come.
What, what are we talking about here?
Then he goes, in Iran, they named streets after me. Do you know that? Well, after President Trump too, obviously, because he's leading the fight. But they have this— I don't speak Farsi, but they call me Bibi Jun, beloved Bibi. That's what they say in Iran. We love Bibi. We love you, Bibi.
Yeah, they're not saying that. What are you talking about? They're not saying that in Iran. I mean, these are some, like, demented individuals.
While we were fighting the physical military battle on 7 battlefields, 7-front war, we were completely exposed on the 8th front, the media war. Really, social media war. We have to find ways to fight the battle for the hearts and minds of young Americans on social media. We have a problem, I recognize it. We have to get our act together.
Could we just have peace, please? Could we just have peace, please? So that's all going on before Donald Trump's trip to China. And again, you see how absolutely weak every world leader's treating him like, right? On all different sides of it, whether you, whether you're Saudi Arabia, whether you're Netanyahu, whether you're Italy, or whether you are, you know, or whether you're Iran or whether you're Beijing. I mean, they're treating the guy like the clown that he is. The whole world knows this guy's a clown. It's sad for America, man. It's sad to have such a freaking loser. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching, everybody. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our Substack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s China trip getting ruined as world leaders gang up on him and expose his weakness.
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