Host Ben Meiselas examines how Donald Trump's rambling campaign speeches and visible physical struggles could hurt the Republican candidates who appear alongside him ahead of the midterms. The episode plays clips from Trump's Michigan appearance involving Mike Rogers and features psychiatrist Bandy Lee, who argues the president needs urgent hospitalization and describes a battered nation syndrome.
It also presents Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's response to Trump's remarks about cognitive exams and men's bodies, including his account of administering the MoCA test.
Listeners will hear each claim attributed to the person making it, along with the host's commentary on the midterm season.
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Donald Trump's health continues to rapidly collapse and it is becoming a major campaign liability for all of the candidates he is standing on stage with as he holds these rallies or whatever the hell you call it. And he's doing whatever the hell you want to call it because it ain't really giving campaign speeches. And the American people are saying, WTF is happening? A top clinical psychiatrist and social psychiatrist is saying that Donald Trump needs urgent hospitalization based on his behavior. She's referring to what's taking place as a battered nation syndrome and how we need to collectively get rid of this nationwide trauma that is Donald Trump. I'll show you that in just a moment. But you can see here Donald Trump just struggling to walk. He's wearing this exoskeleton-like girdle device you see there as he's getting aboard Air Force One. He continues to just make odd noises during his speeches, like he'll just be saying something, then he'll go, oh, and then he'll be surprised that he says it. There are times where he'll just open up his mouth and just kind of freeze. He obviously struggles to say sentences. And he keeps on talking about asses, men's asses in particular.
In the latest speech he gave, he talked about Nicki Minaj's ass and started to look at it. It was very sick to actually watch what was taking place. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, so this was like his 3rd glitch during the speech where he just randomly stops mid-sentence. makes a weird noise, or in this case just opens his mouth and freezes for 3 seconds while saying nothing, then continues. Pretty sad that TV networks refuse to cover this situation, but damn those TV networks because the Midas Touch Network is bigger than them now and our platform is getting the word out. So let me just share with you just a few examples, then I'm gonna show you the top clinical psychiatrist and social psychiatrist. You know her very well, Dr. Bandy Lee. She was teaching at Yale. She was teaching at Harvard. I mean, she's the top, top person in her field. Let me just give you some data points right over here. This is Donald Trump starting to glitch badly over here, making a weird frozen face while then uttering the words Iran president. Here, play this clip.
You're the president of Iran.
You've seen this one. The Midas Touch Network clipped it. It went mega viral, tens of millions of views on this clip where he starts making involuntary noises, a sign of, in my opinion, rapidly deteriorating dementia. Here, play this clip.
And I'd say 90% of the reason I took the governor— I took the governor, I put her over at the United Nations.
Then Donald Trump will just say something like, they want to raise middle toss, toss, toss. Here, play this clip.
Don't mind if I plagiarize. I'm gonna— the bottom line is the They want to raise middle tax. Your middle class is just going to be decimated by the taxes that go.
I want to bring in Dr. Bandy Lee right now, a top clinical and social psychiatrist. She was on The Weekend Show with my good friend Anthony Davis, and she refers to what she's observing as being necessitating urgent hospitalization right now. Listen to what she says. This is powerful stuff, and the way she articulates it is typical perfect style Bandy Lee. I mean, she is a hero in my view. Here, play this clip.
Well, I think you pointed out well that hospitalization is a collaborative process. In other words, the family member, the coworker, or the potential victim of the dangerous person would petition for hospitalization to the courts, and the courts can compel a psychiatric evaluation so that, or actually they could be taken to a hospital directly to be evaluated. Many people wonder why mental health experts have not acted given the severity of his state, and many times people have observed perhaps that someone they know or they've heard of has been hospitalized by a psychiatrist who has been treating them. But in this situation, our patient is actually the public. We don't have— independent psychiatrists do not have a provider-patient relationship with the president. And so we have to be called upon. And, well, there's a certain amount of concern that the public brings, as well as the provider acts upon based on their training, their ethics, their clinical abilities. And, for example, you know, even euthanasia is performed where it's permitted according to the patient's wishes, that they initiate it, and the physician either performs it or not depending on their ethics and their abilities. And in this case, I believe we've made it clear and have tried to make it clear that from our end, we do see the president as being a danger to the public and hospitalizable.
And in fact, that's why not just hundreds, but Thousands of mental health experts came out in public at the very beginning of the first presidency because mental health experts, unlike law enforcement, can predict behavior, that is, assess dangerousness that would inevitably get worse and therefore can prevent a lot of what might happen by our current assessment of dangerousness. So that's something that we can provide. What we cannot provide, especially in a political setting, is the, well, essentially the request by the public. And that is why I have felt that the public's not being educated on mental health issues. The American Psychiatric Association coming out so strongly in the beginning against psychiatric principles and ethics to silence mental health experts when education is one of the greatest interventions in essentially allowing the public to understand not only their rights, but what mental health concerns are happening and what are the interventions that are available. So, uh, because of an institution's interests in, in financial interests and political interests, the public has been poorly served.
Now I'll show you the MAGA Republican candidate in Michigan, Mike Rogers. I mean, he wrapped his arm around Donald Trump and we're seeing him continue now to struggle. I mean, this was not a helpful appearance by Donald Trump in Michigan. Look at Mike Mike Rogers, after Donald Trump talked about this one's ass or that one's ass, Rogers is like, I'm, uh, I'm all about this. I'm going to show you in a moment what Dr. Abdul El-Sayed said about Donald Trump's rapidly deteriorating cognitive and physical state. Remember, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a doctor. He's actually administered the MoCA test, that cognitive exam that Donald Trump keeps on bragging about taking for dementia patients. and people who suffer from cognitive injury. Yeah. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed administered that test as a doctor. As weird as Donald Trump and MAGA wants to be like, the guy's not a doctor. He is a doctor. It's a weird thing to say. Take a look at Donald Trump here. He appears to be looking at Nicki Minaj, uh, backside. Donald Trump then says, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before. Nicki Minaj. This is part of his speech to the people of Michigan.
Donald Trump's tariffs against the world have really harmed the people. of Michigan. Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran has led to record diesel and gas prices in Michigan and throughout the country. And this is what he's talking about. Nicki Minaj ass here. Play this clip.
By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before. Nicki Minaj.
Donald Trump, then of course, this is part of his speech. He goes around state to state talking about John. I'm just thinking to myself, like, what does John Houston— like, what does John Houston think about This is the MAGA Republican senator from Ohio, Trump in Michigan, talking about Eustace's ass here. Play this clip.
I said, I looked at his ass and I've never done that with a man before. It's true. Off the record, women, yes, men, no. Okay.
So now let me share with you what Dr. Abdul El-Sayed had to say. He's like, did you just see it? Does he— this guy just goes around talking about like ass all day. Do you see that? Here, play this clip right here.
Now, I don't know if you saw, but Mike Rogers was campaigning with, with Donald Trump today in Port Huron. And for whatever reason, this is like the 3rd campaign stop in a row where Donald Trump can't mention Can't help but mention somebody's ass. Do you see that? When I get to D.C., man, I'm just going to make sure that I never let him see mine. Keep it here, Donald. Right here. I'm just—
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Yeah, and then Donald Trump at the speech used his hands to, to show the shape of S. Here, play this clip. Then Dr. Abdul El-Sayed talks about his experience administering the MoCA exam, that Montreal Cognitive Exam that Donald Trump brags about taking. And Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has a medical perspective on this. Here, play this clip.
And the thing about it is, is one thing for Donald Trump, the dude's a fool. I mean, you can't control the kind of endowment that you get of any sort. And it's not his fault he's stupid. He's the only person I've ever met— look, I went to medical school, okay? Whole medical school, whatever Mike Rogers wants you to think. And I remember in my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam. You know, the cognitive test he's so proud of? And the only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. Like, by definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong. And you know the doctor who gave it to him was like, I just want to see how smart you are, sir. And he's like, me too. But really he's like, do I have to like call for the 25th? And, and he brags about having taken it. He's like, I remembered, I remembered the rhinoceros. You're like, habibi, everybody remember the rhinoceros. And the funny thing about it is, you know he's taken it multiple times. So he's not even bragging about the first time he took it.
He's like, I took it the first time, and then I took it the second time. So with Donald Trump, like, you can't blame him for this. He's just dumb. You can blame him for the narcissism. You can blame him. But for Mike Rogers, can you imagine how small of a human being you have to be to know that the man in front of you has real deficits and to just nod your head approvingly at the most ridiculous shit that the man You just— all for what? All for what? Money. It's because he's made so much money off of his time in Congress. He's watched the president make so much more money. As president, he said, you know, I got to get in while the getting's good. The whole goal is to go take one more lap through the revolving door. Because the game for people like Mike Rogers is to take corporate money, to lie to people, to get elected to office, to do the corporate bidding, to then turn around after you leave office and go work for the exact corporations that you were regulating. That's the whole shtick. That's the whole bit. And the last time he did it, he made $14 million.
Booo! Now he's watching Trump, who's clearly a fool. He's like, that fool made $2.2 billion. And so he's willing to go along to get along. But here's the thing about it. We all pay for that. When DTE buys—
Now I want to show you Dr. Bandy Lee, and she describes what the nation is experiencing in a term that we should use more frequently, in my opinion: battered nation syndrome. She explains, and that the trauma of trying to normalize the fact that a president has this severe trauma and illness is something that we need to get rid of. We need to— it's a baggage of trauma on the country that needs to be purged. Here, listen.
The more traumatized the people are, the more they will identify with the aggressor. Yes. That is what Sandor Ferenczi showed in terms of human dynamics. So we need to bring ourselves out of that state. Out of that immobilization and being in a Stockholm syndrome we've talked about, but also a battered nation syndrome, and appeal to the healthy part of ourselves that— to learn to empower ourselves and educate ourselves to know that the more we know, the more solutions will become available, and the more we believe that we can achieve the results we desire, the more they will become within our grasp.
Now, Dr. Bandy Lee then says that she diagnoses Donald Trump with the mental capacity of a 2-year-old. And she says basically he has arrested development or stunted development at around 2 and a half is what she says. So when Trump's like, I like you, do you like me? We good, we friends. She's like, that's a 2-year-old. And she traces it to being abandoned by his mother, Mary, at a, at the age of 2, and then having an abusive father, she says, um, who, and you know, and, and that he lives this trauma that he never really, um, developed beyond the age of 2. Here, play this clip.
Well, we know from Donald Trump's history that his, that he experienced abandonment. by his mother when she was hospitalized when he was about 2 and a half years old. And if you were to ask me to assess his mental age, that is where I would place him, that he experienced developmental arrest at the age of 2 and a half. And of course, we know his father was extremely abusive and had a quote-unquote killer mindset that he encouraged his son also to take up if he's to survive. Well, these are all signs of trauma, actually, and our nation is in fact behaving as a very traumatized nation, an abused nation, and Donald Trump is is elevating that state of mind that somehow you have to become an abuser or deny abuse in order to disown your past of having been abused. And that is why not all abused individuals become abusers, but a fair percentage do, about a third. do. And that is why we have to look at the history of trauma, not just of individuals who are— not just be informed about the trauma that is prevalent in this country. I mean, we have staggering rates of 1 in 2.5 women being exposed to Intimate partner violence, uh, about 1 in 4 men, uh, 1 in 4 children being exposed to, uh, physical violence to the point where it would make a mark.
Now, I told you that was deeply powerful to watch. I wanted to tie it all together for you. Um, but we see that Donald Trump's cognitive and physical health deteriorating, all that, that's a defining moment of the remainder of this midterm season. And I think the American people are like, whoa, it's bad. In a Midas Touch Network, we've been talking about it for a long time. We've been accused, oh, you're being hyperbolic. Oh, you're trying to— man, stop saying that. No, no, no, no, no. If anything, we were not using language that was strong enough. I apologize for that, although I strained to find the language in English to come up with how do you describe it other than by just saying, play the clip. Thanks for watching. Did you get your copy of WTF America: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, the book that Elon Musk is suppressing on X? He labels it with adult content warning so that people can't see it when they post it on that. Screw that. Anyway, let me know if you got it. WTF America. Thanks, everybody.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's rambling campaign speeches and how his appearances could hurt the candidates he's supporting ahead of the midterms. Meiselas highlights Dr. Bandy Lee's assessment of Trump's recent behavior and shares Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's response to Trump's remarks about cognitive exams and men's bodies.
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