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Trump’s 1 A.M. Meltdown as Global Crises Spiral

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's late-night posting spree as major geopolitical developments unfold around the world. Meiselas covers Trump's unusual posts about George Washington and AI imagery while the Iran war disrupts global energy routes, Houthi forces make major gains around the Bab el-Mandeb, Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline is shut following a drone attack, and BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi amid a rapidly changing global landscape. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump was having an absolute meltdown at 1 a.m. in the morning while the world is literally on fire and I'm talking about the east west pipeline in Saudi Arabia burning and now shut down and that carries five to 7 million barrels of oil a day as the hoothies were able to conquer all of Western Yemen and control the Bob El Mondeau Straight controlling all the surrounding islands by Western Yemen. Donald Trump was posting AI images of of columns in the White House. Donald Trump at 1 a.m. was posting videos of the United States invasion of Venezuela. Trump was posting I am calling on the Smithsonian Institution to honor the life and legacy of George Washington with a five year exhibition. I'm calling on the Smithsonian to erect a 30 foot colossus statue of the father of our country outside the museum to replace the so-called infinity

sculpture that stands there today. That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America. Then he went on to post I'm asking the Smithsonian install the 11 foot Washington statue that was featured at the recent Freedom 250 grand pre-race in the museum's flag hall. So he wants an 11 foot one. He wants a 30 foot statue and again you have gas and diesel prices surging on Friday the consumer price index inflation surged higher than even was expected and people expected to go high core CPE increase the day before that the producer price index inflation measure was higher than expected and this is what Donald Trump is doing while the United States is in full retreat on the world stage as the American people have had their health care ripped away that people are suffering this is what Donald Trump is doing. Oh yeah. And of course he's reposting his fraudulent promise that if you vote

Republican he's going to give you a $5,000 Trump dividend check just ignore the fact that every time he said this he's lied before and that every time he says anything he lies like the $5,000 doge dividend check or the $2,000 tariff rebates and he's promised he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours because he's got this relationship with Putin and Zelensky that it would just be so easy. He promised no more never ending wars. He promised electricity prices would be down 50% he promised gas prices would be $2 a gallon he lies about absolutely everything but he says a $5,000 Trump dividend check will be given to all adults remember he was like I like the adults I like the adults he says this is based on the pure success that we have experienced that we've brought in so much money we don't know what to do with it so we need to issue a dividend really is that why our debt is now over $40 trillion and you're responsible for over 30% of all of that

debt is that why our deficit continues to expand federal spending is up despite doge gutting all of our critical departments and agencies within the government and now every day it seems like there's five different food recalls taking place as our country is sicker than ever and again while Donald Trump is involved in this deranged and weak behavior you see what's going on throughout the world as I note before the Houthis have been able to take control of all of Western Yemen and the Bob El Mandab straight they've taken over the Hanish islands they've taken over paramilans they're now moving east the Saudi back PLC forces they are in retreat heading to Mareed the Houthis are now moving east towards Mareed as well and further south the question is will the Houthis on Surala move further southeast toward Aiden the remaining stronghold of the Saudi back government and the UAE back government that kind of clash there as well in any event

Iran controls the straight of Hormuz Persian Gulf Gulf of Oman basically out to the Arabian Sea shore you have the United States doing like blockade there with the aircraft carriers but Iran has pounded the logistics in Valrain so bad that again you're going to see these aircraft carriers that are there the George HW Bush and now the George Washington aircraft carriers are also going to struggle to get supplies and food and I'm sure we're going to start hearing more and more and more from the families of Marines and sailors on those ships that they're not getting the supplies because it has to come all the way from Diego Garcia at this point yeah Donald Trump rather than posting all of these deranged memes you may have wanted to focus on I don't know a little bit something called logistics when you got involved in a catastrophic war that you shouldn't been involved in at all and then you have the Houthis now essentially controlling the Red Sea with their firm control of the Bob El Mondeau straight notably the Bob El Mondeau straight

is closer in distance both sides of that straight than the straight of Hormuz and so when the Houthis are right there you know they could set up right to buy Dubab right by Mocha right by the Paramilans these tankers if they're going to go buy have to go right past the coast where the Houthis can set up and they don't even need that sophisticated radar in order to be able to strike these ships so you have the Houthis controlling the Red Sea you have Iran controlling the straight of Hormuz and then Saudi Arabia shut down its east west pipeline after they claimed that the Iraqi resistance was able to destroy the east west pipeline we're seeing the fires spread throughout the east west pipeline Saudi Arabia had to shut it down the Iraqi resistance is part of the access of resistance which is allied with Iran and the east west pipeline in Saudi Arabia transports five to seven million barrels of oil today so just

think about this let's just assume optimistically in the straight of Hormuz you now have 10 tankers a day let's be optimistic and let's say six to seven million barrels get out of day I think it's less than that but six to seven million that's like 30% of what existed before the catastrophic war now you have the east west pipeline being shut down and now you have the Houthis controlling the Red Sea and so if they want to shut down transport they're not just of Saudi tankers in general they'll be able to do that also and so I know we're probably you know we're talking about six dollars a gallon of diesel we're talking about we're approaching five dollars a gallon for gas that may be when we look ahead about what's happening right the same way Donald Trump with COVID-19 like a miracle it's all going away things are going to be amazing it's going to get better like just think about we're on that Trump fraud two week lie trajectory like we've seen

before it's going to go away like a miracle if this keeps heading in the direction we can be seeing eight dollars a gallon nine dollars a gallon gas shortages gas lines that's where Donald Trump is bringing us to right now and I'm trying to call it out and we're giving you the step-by-step of what's happening here and I'm not trying to be an alarmist I'm just trying to be a realist with you of what's happening while this lunatic is out there at 1 a.m. making these deranged posts and take a look at what else is happening in the international sphere as well you have the big bricks meeting taking place in New Delhi India right the bricks nations are meeting far from being alienated or isolated Iran has been greeted as a major member of bricks right now and they have a very prominent role at this bricks summit in New Delhi India you can see the president of Iran president Pzezschian getting a heroes greeting when he arrived in New Delhi you see him prominently

featured here in the so-called family photo standing next to Putin and Modi and Ramaphosa and some of the other bricks leaders Xi Jinping's expected to be there soon now one of the main topics is moving away from the dollar moving away from the pet your dollar not being reliant on the US financial system this as Trump has demonstrated that the US is unreliable unpredictable chaotic deranged like Donald Trump and weak like Donald Trump so the world is seeing it now bricks is asserting itself like never before you know these bricks meetings I mean we're not taken before as being in the same league as like a NATO meeting or a G7 meeting or a G20 meeting by any stretch of the imagination the bricks nations may try to deny that before but I think they would recognize that but right now you're seeing the rise the ascendancy bricks and they're talking about changing currency you've got Putin's envoy

Kareel Demetriyev remember who Whit cough said Kareel we are going to always talk about this day of this meeting when I met Putin again when I'm here with Putin when we retire Kareel it's Kareel Demetriye who's met with Whit cough and Kushner in Miami who helped draft the plan of surrender for Ukraine that was given to Whit cough and Kushner Demetriyev said today this is what he said yesterday of bricks we will announce an agreement on bricks pay in fact a payment system for bricks countries Iran's president Pzezaskin talking about how the new development bank must become the principle engine for financing infrastructure and energy in member countries Iran's foreign minister Erragji talks about how it's important to develop closer economic bonds and ties and move away from the dollar in a US sanctions regime so far from being isolated Iran has actually a more integrated role on the world stage I'm going to do another video on this today with might as touch chief economist

Justin Woolfers that I want you about and I'll do one with him tomorrow as well but remember treasury secretary best it's like we're going to alienate we're going to isolate economic outcast well that was one of the things he called D day economic D day economic outcast Iran is shunned no they're not they're not shunned objectively you said that you were going to do all these sanctions on China and this country and that country and all you did was sanction one branch of like an Egyptian bank and then you resanctioned Iranian Airlines after you wrote a deranged op ed besent in the financial times then two weeks later said the financial times is anti-American even though you chose that as the place to write your op ed announcing your economic D day but then you didn't do the economic D day and then you ran away from China you ran away from it you ran away from all these countries that you were threatening and they all viewed you as absolutely weak that's what and Iran and all these countries at bricks are talking about doing

more business with Iran that's what's happening right now and again while all of this is going on Donald Trump called into one of his deranged right wing radio shows and he started to attack Canada canola needs to be a state if they were a state I'd have no problem Donald Trump uses the same language towards Canada that Putin uses towards Ukraine okay the way Donald Trump talks about Canada is the language of war it's not even just trade war it's war war and I know that Donald Trump said deranged lunatic he's a sexual predator he's a deviant he's a felon he's a horrible scumbag he's a piece of trash so stiff and he's demented and he's psychot all true but nonetheless he's in the White House he may be having a meltdown but he's having a meltdown in the freaking oval office and in the White House and when he uses the language of war he uses language I've invading Canada that's why Canada goes elbow up that's why you heard the speech like you did for former prime minister

Cration right you've heard this because Trump's using war language right now here's what Trump said yesterday during his meltdown then he calls into a radio station play this clip I know you know you could I know so then with all this good stuff going on what the hell got up Canada's but some out of it these people well look Canada's ripped us off for many years they're the hardest people to do business with they think they're entitled they should be a state you know if they were state would have no problem I'd let their automobile companies stay there but we're taking their automobile companies a lot of the cup because they put tariffs on them when you put tariffs and now they played the tariff game he then says that New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is unattractive inside and out that she's a sick woman no first off the way he speaks about women is just so deranged he's a sick vial predator sexual predator scumbag don't normalize him call him out for what he is here play this clip the New York Times is saying maggot maggot

tagerman sick she's a sick woman he was sick she's unattractive both inside and out and I say it I couldn't care less for you she's an unattractive person but you know uh well then and then he goes on to say the reason that he's tariffing Canadian Bambardi a jets is because one of his rich friends told them to do it because his rich friend likes golf streams and is getting screwed over he says by Bambardi so that's why he tariff Bambardi a you're playing this clip let you sell it at golf streams yet golf stream makes it best private yet they wouldn't let a golf stream jet be sold because they have Bambardi a that's a competitor to golf stream good playing but they wouldn't let golf stream sell in Canada for like nine years and I heard about it by an accident I said what do you mean because a friend of mine couldn't buy a golf stream in Canada because of some rule that they had and I said well wait a minute we let them buy Bambardi a so I immediately put a huge staff and then finally I showed you this clip yesterday but I want to end with it

because it's so deranged then you have Pete Hegsiff our scumbag war criminal secretary of defense who says that from the scripture he goes the scripture says the world will always have war and rumors of war and when it matters most people need to fight wars and say send me I don't know what the hell scripture you're talking about but this is some really demented stuff and with Hegsiff behaving that way and Trump behaving that way no wonder the world is done with the United States and also no wonder you're seeing all of these developments rapidly now happen in the Middle East because the US lost the catastrophic war against Iran that we shouldn't have been involved in at but the US is weak the US is so weak and pathetic and so there will be this massive shift taking place of power structures that's rapidly happening that we need to pay attention to

here's what Hegsiff says here playing this clip we will finish this fight but we also know as the scripture says the world will always have war and rumors of war and so the fight goes on and so we raise up a new generation of strong brave warriors who will say when it matters most send me and then Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson says what happened in Yemen is a sign that the patience of the Yemeni people has run out it cannot be viewed unilaterally and the unjust blockade of several years must not be ignored the United States has been the biggest interfering party and the cause of disruption in any dialogue and peaceful resolution process the United States by accusing Iran is seeking to destabilize the situation and create chaos among Islamic countries and then the other message from Iran countries in the region must be held accountable

for the damage and harms they have inflicted upon us we will not forget the past and we have seriously raised our demands in every meeting and we will continue to do so raising their demands far from feeling like they're going to collapse or that they're on the ropes there's they know they won objectively they won and they are upping the ante i'm going to speak to professor maran you about that also about what's really going on right now in Iran but that's what you have it one a m unstable trump deranged meltdown while all of these developments are taking place thanks for watching hit subscribe let's get to 70 million everybody oh and did you get your copy of WTF America the book i wrote in my brothers pre-order it now if you can thanks everybody before you go our book wTF america is available for pre-order now it's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back to pre-order scan the QR code or click the link in the description let's do this

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