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Trump Has Disaster Monday as He Melts Down in Public

2025/6/30
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Ben Meiselas: 特朗普总统在社交媒体上像疯子一样咆哮,原因在于一项灾难性的预算案支持率极低,而他个人的支持率也跌至历史新低。我对特朗普抨击《福布斯》杂志及其作者丹·亚历山大的行为感到震惊,尽管他声称没人会阅读这家杂志,而且亚历山大是个糟糕的作家。特朗普对媒体的敌意和对《福布斯》倒闭的期盼,都反映出他作为国家领导人的心态极不正常。此外,特朗普政府声称已大幅降低消费者成本,并谎报汽油价格,但实际上通货膨胀正在加剧,而前总统拜登的政策原本正在控制通货膨胀。特朗普对预算案的虚假陈述,例如关于社会保障税和消费税的说法,进一步揭示了他的欺骗行为。总而言之,特朗普的言行与现实脱节,对国家和社会造成了损害。 Ben Meiselas: 我认为特朗普政府的政策,特别是关于伊朗和国际体育赛事的处理方式,都存在严重问题。特朗普声称没有与伊朗进行任何接触,并暗示摧毁了他们的核设施,但这种策略实际上可能适得其反。有证据表明,伊朗正在重建其核设施,并可能在短时间内再次拥有核武器。此外,特朗普政府对外国游客的恐吓行为,可能会对世界杯和奥运会等国际赛事造成不利影响。加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省省长David Eby表示,如果美国无法保证赛事的安全和稳定,他们已准备好主办更多的比赛,这无疑是对美国的尴尬。我认为特朗普政府需要采取更加明智和负责任的政策,以维护国家利益和国际形象。

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The episode begins by highlighting Donald Trump's erratic social media behavior and the unpopularity of the proposed budget. His attacks on Forbes magazine and denial of the budget's negative impacts are discussed. The low approval ratings of both Trump and the budget are emphasized.
  • Trump's social media rants
  • Disastrous budget bill with low approval ratings
  • Trump's historically low approval ratings
  • Misleading statements about gas prices and economic conditions

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he's ever had as well, which is the lowest in presidential history. Here's what Donald Trump is posting this morning. Not that it really matters, but a terribly untalented writer for badly failing Forbes magazine, Dan Alexander, who probably can't get a meaningful job in the business, has written so inaccurately about me that it is ridiculous. Just pause there.

So if you believe that nobody reads Forbes anymore and that this guy is a bad writer who nobody cares about, why are you as the President of the United States making social media posts about him?

Donald Trump goes on to say, many others also. The media is mostly fake news, but Forbes doesn't even try to get things right. I haven't spoken to these sleazebags in years. They don't want the facts, and they're so inaccurate, purposely, about everything. I would have thought Forbes would be dead, and he puts dead in caps, by now. Always a normal thing for the President of the United States to wish people and things to be dead.

but it continues to hang around like a bad disease. Isn't it owned by a hostile nation?

Anyway, that's what happens when you have bad reporters with evil intentions. Eventually, the publication dies. I've happily seen it over and over again! That is what the President of the United States is posting. And I'll show you in a little bit as well that in Canada right now, David Eby, the Premier of British Columbia, is basically telling the World Cup, hey, if you want...

We think that things are probably going to be very unstable in the United States of how they're going to treat the fans of foreign countries. We're ready in the British Columbia to hold more games.

It's a storyline I want you to focus a lot on because I think that the World Cup and the Olympics are going to come under a lot of difficulty if Trump keeps this up. And we want to see it thrive here. But it's a big, big problem right now that he's having ICE and Customs and Border like be at these events and trying to scare people.

Trump posts the following as well. The Trump administration has gotten costs down very substantially for the American consumer. There has never been anything like this, exclamation point. You know, then he goes on and lies and says that gas is a dollar and 98 cents and that all the prices have dramatically dropped. Inflation is on the rise, right? The

The inflation core inflation for May was more than people expected it was going to be. It came in at 2.7%. Prices are rising. Things are actually less affordable right now than they were under former President Biden. Biden was getting inflation under control with things like the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump has made it significantly worse. And then he lies and says, we're good.

We did it. Mission accomplished. Everybody's buying cheap things. Everybody can afford homes now. Everything is great.

But here's the thing. Americans go outside of their home if they have one. They go outside their apartment or wherever they're living, barely able to survive. And they go, wait a minute, that's not what's happening here. Oh, when you talk about the disastrous budget bill, guess what? There's nothing on no tax on Social Security in there. It's not in the disastrous budget bill at all. And where they talk about no tax on tips,

It's for a short period of time. It's a narrow deduction and it's basically not meaningful at all with all of the other hardships that are going to be imposed. Just another Trump scam. He then goes, one great big beautiful bill is moving along nicely. Make America great again. It's actually not moving along all that nicely. Um,

It barely got through to this step that we're on today. They vote to proceed. We now have the voterama taking place in the Senate. One of the things that we're learning, per Jake Sherman at Punchbowl, who covers all things Congress, there's a lot of conversation taking place right now about the House GOP

wanting the Senate to make significant changes to their reconciliation bill in the wraparound amendment at the end of the vote-a-rama. The vote-a-rama, just to remind you, is when the Democrats have an unlimited amount of time

to add amendments to the budget bill to try to just cause a delay basically. And the Senate bill and the House bill have to look identical. So if the Senate passes this, if the House doesn't just completely adopt the Senate's version verbatim, it then has to keep going back until you have identical language between the House and the Senate. Sherman goes on to say, "We've heard requests to both bring the bill further to the right

snap changes, take more people off of food assistance, cut more people off of Medicaid. And then there's also an effort by House Republicans to try to make this more palatable to their constituents, the so-called moderate Republicans, which I don't think exist. And then Jake Sherman goes on to say, this could be very tricky right now, given that the Senate does not want to make any significant changes. You have Donald Trump. So

It's not a foregone conclusion that this thing is going to pass this week. So we're following to see what's happening there. We'll be there every step of the way at the MidasTouchNetwork.com.

Donald Trump then posts, tell phony Democratic Senator Chris Coons that I'm not offering Iran anything, unlike Obama, who paid them billions under the stupid road to nuclear JCPOA, which would now be expired. Nor am I even talking to them since we totally obliterated their nuclear facilities. This sounds like a smart move. I'm being sarcastic here. Let me preface it with that. It seems like a smart move to

not do anything with them anymore. Just let them just let them go on now and pretend that everything is okay. Do not put pressure on them. Makes a lot of sense, Donald.

I'm being sarcastic, especially as we learn that they were able to move their 900 pounds of uranium out. We now see satellite images that show a lot of activity back at Fordow and the other nuclear sites that are basically being reconstructed. We've learned that they'll be able to have a nuclear weapon likely in a few months again, if that's the direction that they want to go in. Donald Trump's encouraging China and Iran

To do lots of business together so Iran can make a lot of money and then it could send its Shahid drones to Russia That's what's going on White House is posting cartoons right now We're so close the one big beautiful bill delivers tax cuts border security and relief for Americans But Dems are taking their damn time. I

And then Donald Trump, it's a cartoon of himself dumping fries on the floor, an AI cartoon of himself dumping fries on the floor. And it's just so, I'll play it for you in a second, it's just so wild to me that you have, you know, these Republican senators who know that this is a murder bill that will take 15 million Americans alive.

off of Medicaid that will take away food assistance and rental assistance and housing assistance. It will just deliver tax cuts for the billionaires. It's going to screw over their constituents, take away a lot of funding

from FEMA, from Department of Education, National Weather Services, agriculture, you name it. But it's cartoons like this that they're like, oh, we must vote for big, beautiful Bill. B-B-B. Okay, Donald. Here, play this clip of this stupid cartoon. Let's play it. By the way, here's the premier of British Columbia, David Eby.

Here's what he had to say about the FIFA situation and the World Cup, that he'd be ready to host more games if the United States is not capable. I mean, how embarrassing to the United States. Here, play this clip. Additional games in British Columbia would not only be possible,

but they would be incredibly welcome. We have seven games, which is a significant number of games. We'd like to have a lot more. We've actually written to FIFA to say if for whatever reason they need to move games from any other locations, that British Columbia stands ready to host. We can move quickly. We have an amazing team and we are ready to host additional games here in this beautiful province. So I hope that it becomes necessary that they take us up on that.

In terms of the budget, a lot of the costs for FIFA are fixed costs. They're related to upgrades to BC Place and getting that venue ready for this calibre of soccer, which means that additional games bring in additional ticket revenue, additional revenue for the province from visitors coming to those games. And so actually help offset some of the costs moving forward. So it would be positive news on a number of fronts if we were able to access that.

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CNN asks them a good question. You talk about Americans living paycheck to paycheck.

You're going to take a lot of people off of Medicaid here and harm people to support the rich. What do you say to that, Congressmember Zink? Watch what Congressmember Zink has to say. Here, play this clip. Congressman, you just were talking about how the economy is not doing well, that people are living paycheck to paycheck. They're going through a rough time. Democrats argue that this bill is basically taking from the poor to give tax breaks to the rich. How do Republicans explain this to their constituents?

Well, living paycheck to paycheck is on the premise that you're working. But look, if you're an able-bodied male,

and you choose to sit on the couch and not work, and you're getting Medicaid, that's taking benefits from someone else who needs it. And there's 36 trillion reasons why we've got to look at fraud, waste, and abuse. And if you're abusing the system where you can work but choose not to, that's fraud. That's abuse. So, yeah, if a lot of people in North Carolina choose not to work, I would say, look, get a job.

You know, I want to address one of the things that he says there, because we hear this a lot from MAGA Republicans and Republicans in general, that there are all these individuals, millions of individuals out there who are

who are getting their health care from Medicaid and that they're somehow defrauding Medicaid, that there are these able-bodied men, the way they describe them, who are just sitting on their couches getting all of this health care and stealing health care from other people. First off, health care should not be a zero-sum game. It's not taking health care from people. The fraud in Medicaid is not coming from human beings.

I'm trying to rip off the system. God forbid what to, oh my God, I'm trying to scam the system. What? So, so I can get a surgery that I, you know, to live. I mean, just think about it. I'm scamming the system. I want Medicaid so I can get what medication to, to, to, you know, to, to, to live without excruciating pain. The fraud from the system is coming from the providers and the corporations that are lying about,

who's accessing the medical services. That's what's taking place. I mean, that's where the fraud is. And there's prosecutions for that. MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott from Florida, he ran one of these big healthcare companies. That's how he got rich. He got a golden parachute. But he invoked the Fifth Amendment 100%.

hundreds of times in a criminal prosecution that was ultimately resulted in a settlement by his company, by Rick Scott's company, where the company would basically lie about providing services to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries who were not getting the services at all. And they would make all this money. That's where the fraud is not individuals.

Why would individuals lie in order to get medication? It's possible it happens, but you have to fill out forms. What person who's so lazy, based on what the MAGA Republicans are saying, they're so lazy, but they're filling out all of this Medicaid paperwork. It makes no sense at all.

And here's what Senator Mark Wayne Mullen has to say about that. Here, play this clip. There's only over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid. Now, you're going to tell me there's not room to make cuts to actually have it in place, Medicaid in place, for those that it was actually designed for? There's plenty of room there. And as I said, no one likes to lose federal income dollars either, but there's...

different states are taking advantage of it. And we're giving the states till 2032, so we've given them seven years to wean themselves off the federal dollar that they're taking advantage of. Now, it doesn't mean that our Medicaid matches still aren't going to be there. That just means that they took advantage of Obamacare and

inflated their numbers in Medicaid that people that are signed up currently in their state should never be there. Like able-bodied working individuals that have no dependency, no medical condition, and no reason to work other than they're lazy. And what we're saying is, hey, how about you work 20 hours a week? Now, you and I probably work 20 hours a week.

over the weekend. - Exactly. - But let's say you work 20 hours over the, I mean, and by the way, you don't even have to work. You can volunteer if you want to, or you can go to college, but you have to do something to better yourself. - Yep, absolutely. - Again, you can see how disastrous this budget bill is one more time. It's negative 19 approval from Washington Post, negative 21 from Fox.

box negative 29 from the KFF poll. It doesn't get better the more polling data you look at. Look, we'll keep you posted every step of the way here at the Midas Touch Network. That's where we're at now. We'll see if the House is going to push back to what the MAGA Republicans in the Senate are doing, and we'll see where we're at right now. But Democrats are, at this point, Democrats are

standing up right now and they're doing this Votorama. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.mitastouch.com. All 100% USA union made.