Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's Halloween appearance at Mar-a-Lago, where the episode says Trump bragged about wealthy guests and money while discussing a possible renewed war with Iran just days before the midterm elections. The host reviews clips covering Trump's plans for a triumphal arch in Washington, his claims about trillions in economic gains, immigration policy and Flavio Bolsonaro, Iran's warnings and Israeli politics, and a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal.
He also covers Senate races in Kansas, Maine and Texas and a candidate's response to attacks on his faith. Listeners will hear the host's critical commentary, and should weigh it alongside the claims made by the politicians and commentators in the clips.
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As Donald Trump's reckoning is here, 48 hours away from the midterms he feared, he was throwing himself a Gatsby Epstein-style party at Mar-a-Lago where he was bragging about how rich all of his friends were at the party. He's like, you see these bankers here at Mar-a-Lago? These are the best people in Wall Street making so much damn money, he says. So while you're suffering and while you can't afford diesel or gas or groceries, groceries or pay your rent or mortgage. Donald Trump says he's hanging out with all the rich folks. Everybody, here's what he said. Play this clip.
All my rich members, they spent all day getting ready. And look at these guys. These are the big— quiet for a second. These are the biggest guys on Wall Street and they spent all day long getting ready. I only had 10 minutes. I just put on a red tie.
Do you expect to go back to war against Iran as soon as this week? You said— go back to war with Iran. You said not until after.
Why would you ask such a stupid question? Okay. Let's say I did. Would I tell you? I mean, your answer. Do you expect to go? He did ask me, do I expect to go back to war next week? Let's say I did. Would I tell you? Let's say I didn't. Would I tell you? I would. I can't tell you.
Sir, Ukraine has to be—
Not a question for the New York Times. Now there's a good photographer for the New York Times.
And meanwhile, you had JD Vance dressing up like a weird wizard. This was certainly a choice. And then he made this weird selfie video of himself as a wizard. This is the guy who is out there saying all of these things about Talarico. This is the guy who is the MAGA alpha. Here, play this clip of JD Vance. Let's play it.
Hey guys, Vice President Dumbledore here with little Dobby the Elf, wishing you a happy Halloween. Have fun, be safe, eat a lot of candy.
More from Donald Trump talking about all of his rich friends at the Mar-a-Lago party and, uh, calling reporters stupid for asking about whether we're about to go back to this catastrophic war in Iran that is Continuing to just destroy the lives of the American people. Donald Trump wanted to deliver a message from this Gatsby Epstein party that he was holding at Mar-a-Lago. And he said the arch, the triumphal arch is going to be bigger and more beautiful, but it's really a military facility. He says, you know, he says it's going to be the most incredible military facility, an arch, a military facility. What the hell are you even doing here? Play this clip.
They've lost every lawsuit.
The Ark is very important militarily for Washington, D.C. and our country. It's also going to be the most beautiful Ark ever built. So you have 59 cities that have Arks. We're the only one that doesn't have it. We're the capital of America, capital of the United States. The Ark is going to be more beautiful than the Arc de Triomphe. In my opinion, the most beautiful of them all is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Will be far more beautiful and it'll be slightly larger, not a lot larger, but slightly larger. It will be one of Washington's most beautiful things. It's also very important militarily, maybe more importantly, but I don't think so. But it is very important militarily and I think we're doing very well. They take a vote next week to vote on it and it's something the region Whether it's Virginia, Maryland, or Washington, it doesn't matter. It's something the region needs militarily. And I think aesthetically also, it was supposed to be built in the circle years ago, hundreds. I mean, it was like 150 years ago. They expected to build it, got interfered with by a little thing called the Civil War.
It got interfered with by a Great Depression.
More at this bizarre Gatsby Epstein party while the American people are suffering and Donald Trump's closing message to the American people is that he loves men's asses. He says, uh, you know, if I have to strike Iran, it'll just be, it'll be a quick one. Maybe I'll have to hit Pickaxe Mountain and a few other sites. I mean, you do realize if you do that, Iran ain't gonna make it a quick one, you freaking lunatic. They are ready to go. They have a massive arsenal of ballistics, of cruise missiles, of drones that they are ready to launch. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini said that there will be no geographical limitations or quantity limitations. If Trump and Netanyahu do decide to escalate, Iran is saying it has its target bank locked and it will unleash a type of hell and fury that the world has never seen before. They're not just going to sit back and take it, but Donald Trump's like, yeah, I might just do 1 or 2 sites here. Play this clip.
I would say 1 or 2 sites, but we can do that in In 10 minutes. So we have that, we have that plan. You probably can look at Pickaxe Mountain and you have to take care of that. We can do that all very quickly.
Then Donald Trump says that he is going to protect Flávio Bolsonaro, who fled Brazil, for as long as Bolsonaro wants to be under the US protection. The Trump regime quite literally harboring an illegal criminal immigrant in the United States, and Flávio Bolsonaro giving him all of these visas And asylum proceedings that nobody else gets. By the way, you saw my reporting yesterday where the Trump regime has been sending a number of immigrants to Cameroon, to a unit that was sanctioned for war crimes and torture. And the Trump regime gave this Cameroonian unit $36 million in order to take 36, uh, immigrants here in the United States. The Trump regime has also been working with the Taliban as well, uh, to deport Afghan immigrants who are family members of Afghan immigrants who are here who worked with the United States in order to fight against the Taliban. So the Trump regime is sending hundreds, if not thousands, of people to their death in the next 24 to 48 hours, sending these immigrants to Cameroon and back to the Taliban. Donald Trump is an absolute disgrace. He is a lunatic. He is a sex predator. He is a disgusting piece of trash.
He is someone who deserves to be tried for war crimes. But here he is saying Flavio can stay however we want. Can I just go? And he's like, I just wanna celebrate my Halloween. Can we, can we get now back to my Halloween? He says here, play this clip.
Do you have any plans to meet with Flavio Bolsonaro while you're in Florida?
No plans to meet, but I think he got treated very shabbily. Very shabbily. So he can stay here as long as he wants. Have you spoken with him? Oh, no, he can stay here as long as he wants. He got treated very— in my opinion, uh, the election was a disgrace. He got treated very shabbily and he can stay here as long as he wants. Are you going to— are we getting out Halloween?
Then finally he says our nation has never been richer. And then he lies and says that He brought in $22 trillion, which he didn't bring in $1 trillion. The whole thing is a freaking lie. If you brought in $22 trillion, then why is the debt over $40 trillion? Why has our deficit increased? If you brought in $22 trillion, wouldn't it follow naturally that all of a sudden that we would have, I don't know, far less debt? Our deficit would shrink if you brought in $22 trillion. You know what? You should actually be applauded for that, but you're not. You didn't. You're a fraud. You're a liar. Just like when you say healthcare is the lowest cost it's ever been because we have most favored nation. So no one in the world gets their drugs cheaper. You're just a liar. You're just a liar. Every sound, syllable, anything out of this guy's mouth, anything he spews is a freaking lie. Here's what he says here. Play this clip.
I feel very good. I mean, I feel like we're doing well. The country has never done better. We've made $25 trillion in wealth over the last— since I'm president, for the last 19 months, I guess. $25 trillion. We've never done anything. And $22.2 trillion is being invested in our country. So I feel really good about things. And I think people are starting to find out.
Now we know behind the scenes, the Trump and Netanyahu regime are planning these massive strikes against Iran. At the same time, Donald Trump had JD Vance send the letters to Mohsen Razai, who's the top advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, basically begging for a deal. Mojtaba Khamenei's top advisor, Mohsen Razai, responded and said, we have our 7 conditions that we've made clear. If you don't agree to our 7 conditions that we put in the MOU, there are no negotiations. We're not talking about the nuclear file at all. To which the Trump regime said, well, if Donald Trump loses the elections and the MAGA Republicans lose the House and the Senate, Donald Trump's going to get extra mad and he's more likely to strike you in Iran. To which the Iranian leadership said, we know that he's just a fraud. Okay. It makes no sense that he would be more likely to strike if he loses, if his power is constrained, if he loses the House and Senate, and finally there could be checks and balances, that would probably be a better thing for the entire freaking world. And this is what Donald Trump does. This is what a cornered rat does.
And Donald Trump is a cornered rat right now. And cornered rats are dangerous, but you need to stand up to the cornered rat. And when they bite and when they show you their disgusting rabies and disgusting— Donald Trump, just stand up to him and be strong together. I'm not sure I was going with the rabies reference right there. In any event, said, we've repeatedly stated the 7 conditions announced by Iran must be fulfilled. If the conditions are met, there's a path of diplomacy that will be open. In response, if any action is taken against this country in accordance with the Supreme Leader's directive today to the armed forces, we will deliver devastating blows to the aggressor. We will take the horns off the cow. We will make you a cowless, a hornless cow is what the Iranians have been saying today. It's also important to note what's going on in Israeli politics behind the scenes as well, because this is relevant. So Gadi Eisenkot, who's the opposition leader, Netanyahu. He runs the Yashar Party. He is saying that he's forming a government with the Arab bloc, which has about 18 to 19 seats right now in Israel's parliament.
So that would make Gadi Eisenkot the new prime minister of Israel and take away that position from Netanyahu. Netanyahu wouldn't even be a caretaker for the government until another election. And so this could make Netanyahu even more desperate, try to provoke this catastrophic war against Iran while Donald Trump's out there in his Epstein Gatsby-style fricking party in Mar-a-Lago, where he's posting pictures with the Epstein class. By the way, speaking of Epstein and Epstein class, I did a report on this yesterday, but a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida granted the Wall Street Journal's motion to dismiss Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit where Trump sued the Wall Street Journal saying they defamed him by publishing an article talking about the letter he sent to Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein's 50th birthday, where Donald Trump said enigmas— what did he say about enigmas? A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday. May every day be another wonderful secret. We have certain things in common. Enigmas never age. Have you noticed that? And people have pointed out that if you look at enigmas and you see the word, is it gamines? And, you know, but enigmas never age, our secrets.
I mean, disgusting stuff. Anyway, Donald Trump sued Wall Street Journal for defamation. The federal judge basically said, what the hell is this lawsuit even about? And the judge said, I'm dismissing it with prejudice, meaning you can't refile. And the judge also commented, I'm not sure what you were thinking when you were trying to use a later article that Wall Street Journal wrote as evidence. that your signature wasn't on the 50th birthday card to Epstein? Because your signature on the Epstein birthday card sure as hell looks like the signatures on a September 8th story that the Wall Street Journal wrote. So you're saying that that story shows that the signatures look different? They look like the exact same signature. What the hell are you talking about? Is what essentially the judge said. Now let me just show you some of the differences right here. between the kind of level of candidates and what's going on in MAGA versus what's going on with the Democrats. So you have MAGA Mike Johnson and all these MAGA candidates basically saying Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. MAGA Mike's statement right now is, I told Donald Trump you could be like John Quincy Adams.
Why don't you run for the House of Representatives? This is the message. I mean, you're just a weirdo cult here. Play this clip.
About John Quincy Adams, as you know, he was our 6th president. There's a brass plate for anybody who served in the original House who then became president. We, it shows you where their debts were. Okay. Well, I take it to John Quincy Adams' place and I tell my friends, guess what? Um, he's the only person in the history of the country that ran for the House of Representatives after serving as president of the United States.
I mean, no, why would you do that?
I mean, I told this story to the president, the current president.
He's like, Mike, I love that idea. Wait, wait.
Now contrast that to the Democratic candidate for that Senate seat in Kansas. Uh, Adam Hamilton, here's what he had to say here. Play this clip.
The fact that he's come twice in 2 weeks is a— I take it as a big compliment because what that says is that they are really terrified they're going to lose this race. And I think they should be afraid because our sitting senator's an enabler. He's doing a terrible job, uh, representing our state and fighting for our people.
Right. Donald Trump is heading to Kansas because the MAGAs are terrified they're going to lose that Senate seat there. They're also terrified they're going to lose the Senate seat in Maine. Let me show you what Troy Jackson told Fox here. Play this clip. Never seen this type of enthusiasm.
It looks like there's a lot of Jackson signs around. Do you think that Susan Collins is worried? Well, with her record, I'd be worried too.
Here's what James Tallarico had to say. Play this clip.
This, this election shouldn't be about the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It's bigger than that. This election should be about chasing a vision of what this state can be. Texas, Texas public schools that are the envy of the nation. A Texas economy that is second to none, and Texas families that are stronger and healthier than they've ever been before. This, this won't happen overnight, but a giant state deserves Giant dreams.
And finally, as you have the, uh, you know, the Trump MAGA corporate news outrage machine, you know, just freaking defaming Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, just sheer Islamophobia, racism, just, just the, the most disgusting stuff is being spewed by MAGA and corporate news and a whole bunch of people. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed though is standing strong and he goes, my name and my faith That's not what's raising your gas prices. A powerful line here. Play this clip.
But here's the thing. There's a reason they keep pointing to my name and my faith. You know why? It's because they're trying to distract us. They're trying to point to anything that is not the price of gas or the price of groceries or the ability to see a doctor. They don't want to talk about those things. But here's the thing. My name and my faith are not raising your gas prices. They're not the reason you can't afford your groceries, not the reason you can't see a doctor. I mean, if you think about it, if you see a doctor, they might actually have my name in my face. Their policies are doing that. It is their big ugly bill that is keeping you from being able to see a doctor. It is their illegal, unjustifiable, unethical, unnecessary war in Iran that is raising the price of our gas and our groceries. Yeah.
So while Donald Trump is doing his Gatsby Epstein party at Mar-a-Lago, talking about how rich he and his friends are, Oh, and by the way, posting images like this, an AI image of Greenland, which is, which is superimposed with a US airbase, which is, which is the country of Greenland in this AI image. It says, welcome to Greenland. It's a photo of a US airbase. Sure. The people of Greenland and Denmark love that. You freaking sicko, sex predator, disgusting piece of trash. You. So while Trump's doing that, And Republicans are talking about what a cult they are. Donald, Donald, go Donald! You want to take more of our money and give it to Netanyahu? You want to take more of our money and give it to MBS in Saudi Arabia? You want to take our money and cover up the Epstein files and the child sex trafficking ring? You want to take more of our money and have ICE and Border Patrol radar streets? You want to take more of our money to drop bombs in elementary schools versus building schools and building hospitals and actually fighting for the people here in America and helping Americans afford gas and diesel and homes and things here.
No, Donald Trump's sick mafia regime is all about enriching these oligarchs while they do their weird-ass stuff at friggin Gatsby, Epstein. They want to buy islands in Albania with the oligarchs to be all friggin weird and do demented demonic things. Uh-uh. The American people are saying WTF. WTF America's the— WTF America. That's the book. I got riled up there. I wasn't sure where I was going with that rabies line before either. You help me with that one in the comments. The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, number 2. I always wanted to be number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Let's make it number 1. Uh, get the hardcover, get the ebook. I heard also these are all sold out in Canada right now, uh, thanks to the Maple Midas We're grateful for you. Thanks, Ed. Thanks, everyone. We're good. Democracy is going to win on Tuesday. Hang in there. Stay in there together. We got this. I promise you, we got this.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s delusional Halloween appearance at Mar-a-Lago, where he bragged about his wealthy friends, money, and arches while discussing potential war with Iran to mask his fears as the midterm elections are 48 hours away.
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