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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Saturday morning rants, including promises of checks, attacks on Tom Cotton, and sharing his cell phone number, following disastrous trips to Texas, Oklahoma, and Mobile, Alabama, as he prepares to head to Dayton, Ohio. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com 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 Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Scott MacFarlane Reports: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scott-macfarlane-reports/id6807138300 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats 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 Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nicky Glazer, this stunning tour. The thoughts of death I don't like to dwell on them for longer than like 10 or 15 hours a day, so... November 19th, Yamavath Theater. No wonder women rushed to have kids were being trained for it since we were kids. They're like, here's a baby doll. Here's an easy-bait coffin. I got one of those. I stuck my head in it. I was like, I want out of this narrowness. Tickets on sale now at Yamavath Theater.com. Don't miss Nicky Glazer. Yamavath Theater. Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this, but anyone can get the same premium wireless for $15 a month plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities, so do like I did, and have one of your assistance assistants switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do at MintMobile.com slash switch. Up front payment of $45 for three month plan, equivalent to $15 per month required. Intro rate for three months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra, default terms at MintMobile.com.

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As Maga Republicans expect that this will be a historic wipe out in the midterms. This is what Donald Trump is posting Saturday morning. One of the first thing he posts. Talk about desperate. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, I'm going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And I look forward to signing those checks really, Donald. You're still doing this. Just like the Doge dividend fraud and the tariff rebate fraud. This is your pitch to voters as you've destroyed their lives. Vote Republicans and I'm going to give you money. I'm going to steal your loaves of bread. I'm going to dangle breadcrumbs. And then I'm not even going to give it to you. And I'm going to defraud you over and over again. Rinse and repeat then, Donald Trump said Republicans must win the 2026 midterm elections.

It was post after post like this on his social media. And we must use every appropriate tool, whether you vote early, absentee, by mail or in person, we must swamp the radical left, dumbocrats with massive turnout. Ah, Donald Trump, who's trying to destroy mail in voting is now saying everybody needs to vote by mail. And we must swamp the dumbocrats, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. Then Donald Trump attacks, Maga Republican Tom Cotton from Arkansas. And he gives out Tom Cotton cell phone. Take a look right there. Donald Trump writes, call Tom on his cell phone at 479 and let him know what's Donald Trump so angry about this morning? Is he angry how he's getting played by Xi Jinping or Putin or Kim Jong-un who did more ballistic missile testing yesterday?

Is he angry at the fact that his approval is collapsing? Is he angry at the fact that the Treasury yields and the mortgage rates are surging to record highs? And he, no, what's he angry about? Everybody in Arkansas, Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important bill. What is it to make housing more affordable? Is it to make people lives better? Is it a healthcare plan? No, no, no, no. It's called the Sunshine Protection Act or we don't want to change our clocks twice a year act. For some reason, Tom is stopping the bill. And in the Senate, it's very easy to do. It only takes one. It should pass overwhelmingly. I mean, look, whatever y'all think about daylight savings and adjusting the clocks, the American people are suffering. It's existential right now. And so you're spending your Saturday morning attacking a Maga Republican senator from Arkansas and giving out his actual cell phone number.

By the way, I called the number and left a message for Senator Cotton. We'll see if he gets back to us at the Midas Touch Network. Now, while Donald Trump is ranting and raving like a lunatic, here's what's happening in the world. I want you to watch this insane close-up footage of a Russian drone strike on one of the main bridges in Kiev earlier. Now, we've been reporting on other strikes on some other bridges in Kiev. This one just happened recently and this was Putin's plan. Basically, destroy all of the bridges, destroy the electric grid, destroy all of the power, and try to push everybody out of Kiev, Donald Trump, did not provide the interceptors that Zelinsky needed heading into the autumn and the winter offensive that Putin is planning. And Putin has developed these Garen-4, Garen-5, upgraded drones and cruise missiles. And this was the plan we've been warning about. Watch what took place. Look at this insane close-up footage.

Let's play it. In addition, we're seeing war throughout the world right now. If we take a look in the Strait of Hormuz, there are reports this morning of explosions on Kesham Island in southern Iran. Reportedly coming from the direction of the sea, is this the IRGC Navy targeting additional commercial vessels that are traveling? We know that about seven to eight tankers in the past few days have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz and may actually be more than that. The reporting by UKMTO is delayed or in some cases very delayed where we're not really getting a good picture. Also, the Saudi Civil Defense Force, which used to end a lot of these Arab nations defense forces, which used to provide if there were attacks underway, they would provide notices.

They're not providing notices anymore. And so there's almost a complete blackout of what's happening. But we're digging deep looking at satellite footage, looking at heat sensor footage, we're looking at what local open source intelligence is gathering. And so we also found this footage showing the launch of an Iranian surface to air missile at an unknown aerial launch. An unknown aerial target over Kesham Island near the Strait of Hormuz, according to unconfirmed reports US fighter jets are conducting low altitude flights over the area over there. Pay close attention again, seven to eight tanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz as we reported earlier. There was an emergency meeting in camp David led by Vice President JD Vance yesterday. And they said, we've made a decision, the Trump regime, we can't tell you what the decision is. But we've made a we made a decision everybody by the way. And by the way, we know there's escalation in the sense that the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading right now towards the Middle East.

Notably as well though, as we're looking at the aircraft carriers in the by the Strait of Hormuz, the USS George HW Bush appears to have retreated towards the Indian Ocean. We believe that may be heading to Thailand and leaving. You have the USS George Washington remaining, but it's pretty far out in the Arabian Sea. I mean, it's not all that close to the Gulf of Oman, which then leads to kind of the Strait of Hormuz area. And so now you have the USS Theodore Roosevelt heading there. We're paying close attention. There's some amphibious assault groups heading there as well. Thousands of Marines heading there as well. We're paying close attention to what the escalation looks like. Remember, the Trump regime announced a tanker for tanker policy. They said if Iran strikes a tanker, we immediately will strike a tanker or something in Iran. Iran's hit eight tankers, okay, seven to eight tankers that we know of in the past three days. There's been no response from the Trump regime. But we are seeing this and this is a major development.

A massive fire at the Saudi Arabian Aramco refinery. Their main refinery in Riyadh. Take a look right here after a strike by Ansarallah, the Houthis, struck this major Aramco refinery in Riyadh. And again, we're not really getting any messages out of Riyadh that this is happening. But we can see video footage that's leaking out. Look at these storage tanks that were hit. Aramco in Riyadh is burning. That's their main refinery. And what this means as well is expect those prices of oil to continue to go up. Expect the price that you're paying of diesel to go up. Expect the price of gas to go up as well. But Donald Trump's out there posting, reposting this. I am in tears. President Trump just walked out to a huge crowd of New York police officers chanting USA USA USA with massive standing ovation. Make America safe again.

You weren't in New York, bud. You were in Oklahoma last night. You were in Alabama the day before you were in Texas and Oklahoma. What do you mean? New York a month ago. You were in front of Nassau County police officers are a little longer than that. Where the Maggar Republican Nassau County executive had the police officers go on duty and stand. Is that what you're referring to? What do you mean the New York police officers were chanting? What are you talking about? Meanwhile, as we see what else is going on. Let's talk about what Pete Hegsiff was saying earlier. And all he does now, I guess, is he just does these Trump impressions. He's watching what Hegsiff had to say. You're playing this clip. You said to me when he offered me this job, he said to me, he said, bring him back to being warriors, Pete. I want warriors, not worksters. It was actually quite simple. And then I was mentioning JD Vance before. So in JD Vance's loser tour where he's traveling the country, he's been getting heckled everywhere he goes.

He speaks in front of very small rooms. I want to show you the camera angle that we had earlier in the week when he got heckled. You really couldn't see what the heckler was saying to JD Vance. So let me show you what it actually looked like here. Play this clip. Thank you so much. Thanks, friends. Thank you for having us. Thank you so much, JD. You are such a good fight, friends. You fight a fine for just two. I'm excited for the $5,000 check. I'm excited for the $5,000 check from President Trump when he releases the F.D. Files. Thank you so much, President. Thank you so much. We don't need to pretend like we need to broke out into the emotional protest.

We make sure to bring a cell phone at the end of the phone. Ladies and gentlemen, that guy was nothing more. And then you have Treasury Secretary Bessent out there still doing the same propaganda. Iran's going to fall. You'll see this week is the first week they're not going to have any oil at all. Watch what Treasury Secretary Bessent has to say. You're going to play this clip. The isolating them economically like this never happened before. Right now the score turns a barrels out of the street. US about 1.1 billion around zero. For the first time in history, since they started pumping oil, they will have no oil on the water this week. They will have no revenues. They will have no Treasury Secretary Bessent. This is the guy who said in April that Iran was going to blow up because the blockade was so effective that the oil pipes would explode. And Iran was going to give up.

Let me show you what else Treasury Secretary Bessent had to say here. Play this clip. But we'll get to the other side of this Iran conflict. I think oil is going to be more well supplied. I think we're going to be much lower. Wage gains will keep coming because we are having a manufacturing renaissance. And then more from Treasury Secretary Bessent over here. Let's play this clip. The Financial Times probably your favorite paper said Bessent fails to break fever in US bond market. What did you learn from that? Well, I learned that the Financial Times is anti-American and anti-business. And they have a fever that are constantly trying to create a problem for the US. But let's leave that disgrace publication on one side. I'm going to do a video a little later on this this morning. Jared Kushner has been taking to social media to wine that people are criticizing his business dealings.

And while that's going on, this is what the New York Times was reporting this morning. US Russia talks on Ukraine now involved an oil deal tied to Trump allies. Vladimir Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with Trump's envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkopf. And so what was being proposed by Putin is a multi-billion dollar deal for Luke Oil, the Russian oil companies, international assets, where one of Trump's preferred oligarchs would be involved in this deal with also people in the Middle East, who Jared Kushner has business dealings with as well. And that this is how Putin is approaching these discussions, dangling business deals in front of Trump and dangling business deals in front of Jared Kushner. And I want to leave this video though by showing you this because I think it's important that we never forget what's taking place in Gaza still.

On a day to day basis as Jared Kushner tries to act like things are fine and everything's amazing. The genocide still continues. Let's take a look at what happened over here overnight and Israeli air strike on a Gaza city apartment killed at least five Palestinians and severely wounded six other medical staff said the building was struck without warning. While residents were asleep causing damage across multiple floors as rescue crews searched for people under the rubble. Let me show you what took place. Let's play.

There you have it everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. We appreciate you for watching. 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. We're going to be in the next episode. We're going to be in the next episode. We're going to be in the next episode. We're going to be in the next episode. We're going to be in the next episode. We're going to be in the next episode. Nikki Glaser, this stunning tour. The thoughts of death I don't like to dwell on them for longer than like ten or fifteen hours a day. So... November 19th, Yama Vaugh Theater. No wonder women rushed to have kids were being trained for it since we were kids. They're like, here's a baby doll. Here's an easy-bake oven.

I got one of those. I stuck my head in it. I was like, I want out of this narrative. Tickets on sale now at YamaVaugh Theater.com. Don't miss Nikki Glaser. Yama Vaugh Theater. Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this, but anyone can get the same premium wireless for fifteen dollars a month plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities. So do like I did and have one of your assistance assistants switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do at MintMobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of $45 for three month plan, equivalent to $15 per month required. Intro rate first three months only, then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra, feeful terms at MintMobile.com. LinkedIn is pretty amazing at helping you grow your small business. We cannot stop your new clients from emailing you at 3AM. We can help you sell, market, and hire in one place. We cannot help you be in three places at once. And while we can't help you organize your calendar,

LinkedIn can help you land more clients so you have a calendar to organize. Grow your small business on LinkedIn. Learn more at LinkedIn.com slash small business. We're some C-Heroes and other C-Egos. Bloomberg sees the era of billionaire athletes. While others follow the noise, we follow the money. Learn more at Bloomberg.com. Starting a business can seem like a daunting task. Unless you have a partner like Shopify. They have the tools you need to start and grow your business. From designing a website to marketing to selling and beyond, Shopify can help with everything you need. There's a reason millions of companies like Mattel, Hines, and Allbirds continue to trust and use them. With Shopify on your side, turn your big business idea into... Sign up for your $1 per month trial at Shopify.com slash special offer.

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