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Donald Trump proclaims we are going to. invade Carg Island in any minute. Then. Donald Trump proclaims we have a deal. with Iran. Then Donald Trump proclaims. the stock market that he's manipulating. loves his deal. Then Donald Trump. proclaims he loves inflation. He loves. every aspect of inflation. It's all part. of the plan. And we learned that Donald. Trump needed 22 specialists and doctors. for his physical. I think we all. intuitively knew that when we saw his.

behavior and his cognitive and physical. decline before us. Inflation, despite. Donald Trump loving it, is not beloved. by the American people. The producer. price index is surging. The consumer. price index is surging. The American. people are suffering as inflation. continues to rise. And then the Trump. regime has handled the World Cup just. about how we thought they would, banning. Somalian referees, preventing fans from. African countries from showing up and.

just behaving so horribly in front of. the world. I mean, even Russia and Qar. didn't do anything like the United. States is doing. And it's such contrast. to what we see in Mexico, in Canada. It. just it's really pathetic to watch. But. we're going to break down all this and. more on the Mightest Touch podcast. I'm. Ben Meal is joined by Brett and Jordy. And so quite the swing from Donald Trump. saying an invasion of Car Island is. imminent to now we have a deal and then.

Iran said we don't really know about. this. We haven't really approved it yet. Although then as the day progressed they. said well we're actually contemplating. it now. Israel says we're not a. signatory to this deal. We're going to. keep on attacking Lebanon. And then. Israel tried to mischaracterize the. terms of the kind of purported deal. that's taking place. More of more of that going on, brothers. and might as Mighty. >> A whole lot of that a whole lot of. whiplash uh today as we've been. accustomed to though. I mean, if you if. you've been following this, it's it's.

been whiplash the entire time. Trump. says something, then he it takes it. back. Uh Iran denies it, Israel denies. it. It's been this tit fortat weird back. and forth the entire time which is what. which is what makes it so hard to cover. but you know that's why we try to break. through the noise and figure out what is. actually happening brothers great to be. here as always great to be here with you. mightest mighty and I want to give a. shout out to the mightest mighty up top. and thank everybody for the incredible. birthday wishes my my birthday was. yesterday so many of you reached out in.

DMs and in tweets and blue sky posts and. thread all the above and so I just want. to say thank you thank you so much I had. an absolute great day capped off by that. incredible New York Knicks win a a it's. it's having something like apolitical, you know, to focus on a little bit that. brings everybody together. Um there. aren't a lot of moments like that in. 2026. And so I think that's uh pretty. cool. It's actually fascinating looking. through kind of the Twitter feed. yesterday and seeing people of all kind. of political backgrounds, you know,

excited about the game. Like I saw, you. know, everyone from people we all know. to like Erica Kirk and people being. like, "Holy crap, that's, you know," and. and when you see that, you're like, "Oh, yes, there was a world before all this. where people actually watched cultural. events together and weren't in this. disastrous world created by Donald Trump. of this gaslighting and this endless war. and chaos that we're experiencing every. single day." But hey, that's what we're. here to combat. That's what we're here. to dig ourselves out of. Jordy, it's.

great to see you. What's the latest? >> Great to see you, brothers. Great to see. you, Midas. Mighty Bread, I think that. world you're referring to is 2015. Great. world. Great world indeed. Benji world, man. Where are we starting off today, big bro? >> Although, Brett, I think one group of. people that it didn't bring together. were San Antonio Spurs fans. So, I just. want to just want to empathize and just. say, hey, being a Nick fan for all your. life when uh they haven't won since. 1973, you could just let let Nick fans. just have a moment. I guess just just let us have this.

>> let's let us have this one little. moment. I mean and and has a moment. Um. but as as you said Brett, there was a. time I think when people could come. together more as Americans or sports. fans and just enjoy things in a. non-political way and Donald Trump. ruined all of that. I mean he quite. literally ruined it by going to game. three and his whole behavior there is. symbolic of his behavior generally. Right. the way he shows up, they have to. shut down the joyous watch parties that. are taking place outside, the.

non-political joyous watch parties. He. makes it inconvenient for everybody. They have to set up basically as I think. Brett, as you said, I guess they did. build a wall. They had to like build. like a fortress around Madison Square. Garden. They shut down five blocks and. two avenues and then the Trump oligarchy. shows up and they get preferential. treatment, right? They cut the line and. you see Jared Kushner and the whole. crew. They just walk right in while Nick.

fans have to wait. Then he goes to the. game and then what does he do? He stuffs. his face with like burgers and fries and. hot dogs. Dude probably ate like like. three burgers, two pieces of pizza, hot. dogs, fries. He throws the trash on the. floor. >> The very hungry caterpillar, >> right? He throws he throws he throws on. the floor and then he the symbolic of. everything. Then he falls asleep, doesn't even like enjoy the game after. destroying the experience for so many. people. He just then he leaves seven.

minutes early and then the Knicks lose. If that's not a metaphor or a symbolism. of kind of what this guy does, and you. could branch this out as we talk about. this episode, you know, he wants to. inject himself into sporting events and. cultural moments because those things. are not about him. That's why on. national holidays and that's why on big. sporting events he wants it to be about. him even when and often does make. everybody's life miserable about things.

I mean even basic things like. commemorating D-Day they turn into a. we're going to attack our European. allies and blame them for invasion of. immigrants. It's like come on what are. you doing? Whenever there's a memorial. day or you name the holiday, he always. starts off with some just nasty post. about his political enemies and this and. that and he always wants to make it. about himself and even when there are. protests about him, right? He wants to. have his military parades, you know,

around the same time or what whatever it. is, you know, and we see that time and. time again. And that's why he also wants. to turn Washington DC, the White House, the symbols of our democracy into like. some Trumpian dystopian junkyard. And as. we head into this weekend where he wants. to do this UFC fight and this and that. and the claw and it's like sponsored by. crypto and by all these corporations and. then he does deals with right-wing.

oligarchs and if you want to watch the. fight you have to pay like subscription. fees to streaming services and then you. know uh the UFC is responsible for the. press list and they're the ones they're. selling milliondoll tickets for. right-wing oligarchs if they want access. to him. It It's just very Trumpian. He. wants to suck the lifeblood out of it. And when we talk in this episode a. little bit later about the World Cup, for example, as well, you know, just you.

will want the government to have a very. light touch to no touch on things like. this. Support it, but stay stay out. government. You know, just like this. isn't this isn't your role. Let sports. be sports. But I could tell you from. firsthand experience, you know, when I. used to be a lawyer and I represented. Colin Kaepernick, one of the first. things Donald Trump did in his first. term, Huntsville, Alabama, get that son. of a off the field and made Colin. Kaepernick kneeling, which was.

universally supported at that originally. um for showing uh showing the protest to. police brutality. Trump turned it into a. culture war issue. And I think about. that moment as really one of the kind of. forays in the beginning into Trump. saying, "I'm gonna go after private. people. I'm going to go after sports and. I'm going to inject my MAGA politics of. hatred into things that should be. bringing people together." Because to.

me, MAGA, the more people are divided, the less people can coalesce around. common American values, which would very. frequently be to vote out the MAGA. fearmongers and to push these people. out. And so as I think about the way the. US is behaving in the World Cup and. banning the Somali referee Omar Anton, you know, uh, treating fans of African. nations, banning them, denying visas to. support staff of teams and then calling.

them terrorists, right? Then you had the. Trump regime go out and say, "Yeah, you. know, these people have bad backgrounds. and they're terrorists and they, you. know, our investigation shows that. they're, you know, up to no good and. that's why we're banning them." And then. you have Giani Infantino, the head of. FIFA, who was pretending to basically be. like a world leader. He gave Trump a. fake peace prize and he was rubbing. shoulders with kings, princes, prime. ministers, presidents. He'd be on the. stage for the fake World Peace Board and.

giving the fake World Peace Prize. And. now he's like, "Everybody, we just need. to chill. Chill, everybody. Let's just. relax. Just relax, everybody. There's. nothing I can do. I'm not a king. I'm. not a world leader. There's nothing I. can do about any of this. I'm a soccer. This is just soccer really." Because you. sure as hell politicized all of this. And now when you're being called out for. what's going on in America, you're just. like, "Nah, nothing I can do. Nothing I.

Yeah, there is something you can do. You. could show leadership and character and. say, "Okay, then no refs get to ref if. we don't get this ref. We don't get to. be racist against Somalians in FIFA if. FIFA truly cares." Or you say, "You know. what? You do this, America will never be. chosen again to host." It's in such. contrast to what we're seeing in Mexico, what we're seeing in Canada. You know, in Mexico, they've got the mariachis. They've got the pe greeting the teams, hugging them, you know, going out, and. you see the the Mexican people partying.

with the teams. And, you know, I see the. South Korean fans doing keg stands with. the Mexican fans. Like, there's a real. pride in being the host and using sports. as a tool of love and camaraderie and. bringing people together. And I contrast. that with like the US treating the. Usuzbekiststan team like they're like. absolute criminals doing like cavity. searches of the Seneagalles team. And. it's just uh you know look people love.

soccer and FIFA and and and not the. organization. They love watching the. game and the love of the game that will. always exist. But it certainly leaves a. very bad taste in your mouth to see all. of this blatant kind of racism and. hatred you know over there. And then. also to see a wararm mongering regime as. a host nation in this situation and it's. like there's responsibilities that come. with the host nation in order to bring. people together. And so I I want to say. that at the top and and then I want to. just talk about what's transpired over.

the past you know what six seven hours. I mean, you wake up in the morning and. Donald Trump posts, "The United States. will be hitting Iran, whose Navy, Air. Force, radar, anti-aircraft, and all the. forms of defense are gone very hard. tonight. At some point, we'll take Car. Island just like Venezuela. It's working brilliantly in Venezuela. Donald J. Trump. So, you have that going. on." And then quite literally four and a. half hours later, he then posts. Well, he says that the the attack is imminent. He calls up state regime media fox tells.

them the attack is imminent and then he. says based on the fact that the. discussions with the Islamic Republic of. Iran have been brought to the highest. level of Iranian leadership and and. approved I have as president of the. United States canceled the schedule. strikes and bombings against Iran this. evening discussions and final points. have been in both concept and great. detail approved by all parties involved. including the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt and others. The. naval blockade will remain in full force. in effect until this transaction is.

finalized. Time and place of the signing. to be announced. Then Israel went to. their media. Netanyahu and others said, "We never heard about this. We're not a. part of this deal." Which is, you know, obviously contradictory to what Trump. says. A senior Israeli official told. Channel 12, "They're not aware. They. don't know what Trump is talking about.". Iran at first said, "We're not really. sure what he's talking about." But there. was a draft agreement going around that. Qatar was trying to help facilitate. But then what seemed to have taken place.

is Trump did this unilaterally as he saw. the markets crashing, as he saw the bond. yields surging, as he got the inflation. reports. It seems that Trump then kind. of unilaterally adopted the draft that. the Qataris presented as an approved. Iranian draft two weeks ago. And when. Trump tried to change the terms two. weeks ago, Iran said, "We're not even. going to talk to you. You just accept. this or not." So then it seems that what. happened is as the American economy.

markets were tanking, right as we have. this Elon Musk Space X IPO, as the CPI. inflation numbers came out 4.2%, 2% as. the PPI inflation came out month-. over-month increase of 1.1%. to six what was it 6.5%. year-over-year. 4.2% 2% CPI yearover-year. You saw the. markets tanking, bond yields soaring. All of the major banks started saying, "We're heading into a bare market. We're.

heading into a recession." It seems that. Donald Trump went back to the Qatari. draft from two weeks ago. Like, I want. that one. I want that one. That's what. I'm doing. That caught Netanyahu off. guard. Israel said, "We're not a part of. this." Afterwards, once Israel was read. into what the deal was, Netanyahu then. tried to be like, "I'm not a part of. this, and we're confident that Donald. Trump is not going to allow Iran to do. certain things with its enriched. uranium, and that Donald Trump will. ensure that the proxy groups in Lebanon.

like Hezbollah and the Houthis and. Yemen, that they will not be allowed to. have support from Iran, which we know. Iran has made it very clear from the. outset that security guarantees apply to. Lebanon And it applies to Yemen and it. applies um to the Iraqi militia groups. that are supportive of of the Iranian. regime that Iran's not agreeing to turn. over its nuclear arsenal or not rather. its nuclear enrichment capabilities, not. its arsenal. Iran has always made clear. it's not going to build like a nuclear. weapon arsenal. That's that's they're.

fine with a JCPOA style deal. In fact, the previous Ayatollah had a fatwa that. said we're not doing nuclear weapons. uh. there was no imminent nuclear weapon. issue when US followed Netanyahu into. this invasion in the first place. But I. guess this now feels a little different. in the sense at least that Iran. acknowledges that there is something out. there. They still say it had to be uh uh. approved by its version of the National. Security Council. And so they're having.

the US kind of sweat it out a little bit. which always creates conditions and. circumstances for things to happen. during these times. And clearly. Netanyahu doesn't want this deal uh to. happen. Um but you have this massive. shift and sure enough what happens? The. oil prices plummet, stock market. soarses. Um and then it's, you know, and then. there's a reward structure, I suppose, for Trump's rich oligarch friends from. the market manipulation that's taking.

place. while the American people I think. are feeling psychologically tortured. throughout all of this because sure. while CPI consumer price index which. measures consumer inflation is at this. 4.2% 2% and PPI is at 6.5% and you see. these dramatic month- over-month gains. in a bad way rising month over month. Like we said, you didn't need the the. report to explain to the American people. that costs are through the roof and they.

can't afford things. And so while Donald. Trump is out there engaged in his market. manipulation quarter one doing a stock. trade every nine minutes, the American. people are living minute to minute. wondering if they're even able to. survive any of this, if they're going to. be able to pay their rent, if they're. going to be able to afford groceries. And that's the tragedy of this all. And. things are moving quick, right? In an. hour, what I just said, there could be. an invasion happening right away, right?

And then, you know, we've seen this play. out, but the true victims of all of. this, it's the American people. >> Yeah. And there's so much just deception. going on and frankly on on all sides in. this case, right? And one of the issues. too in trying to read the tea leaves of. of what's going on in any of these. situations is that Trump has specific. things that he wants an audience in the. United States to hear and people who. work for financial stations and United. States media to hear. he has his.

propaganda that he wants to push and the. IRGC and the Iranian regime, they have. things that they want to push to their. people. And so you get these maximalist. statements on both sides. Um oftentimes. neither of which line up with the truth. But I do have to say more times than not. the Iranian story has been far closer to. the truth than what we're hearing with. our own government here in the United. States. That is something that is deeply. troubling to me. That's something that. I, you know, takes a lot of getting used.

to. And it's just so shocking to me. It. shouldn't be shocking, but it's it's. still so surprising to me that Donald. Trump could make these blanket. announcements without any sort of proof. or corroboration and the markets react. the way they do and these hosts on cable. news react the way they do. Oh, a huge. breakthrough. This is massive. And like. Ben said, there could be there could be. a deal on the horizon. There there could. not be a deal on the horizon. As of us. recording this right now, Iran says that. nothing has been agreed to despite the.

comments from Donald Trump where he said. that this was agreed to by a variety of. countries. Uh Trump also said Israel. agreed to this deal and then they said. that they didn't even know anything. about it like. luster as we come to expect with Donald. Trump here regarding this deal. a lot of. lies. And Trump took it a step further, too, and he said, "Yeah, in fact, uh, I'm planning on sending JD Vance and. Steve Whit to Europe this weekend to. sign this deal." Remember, as of now, there's no there's no deal. And then so.

he's I I I think part of what Trump. does, too, is he tries to apply pressure. to move things forward. And you see when. he's especially trapped in these. situations, he takes these big swings. So when he's frustrated that Iran's not. backing down, when he realizes that uh. he's incapable of opening the straight. of hormuz that the stock market is. crashing, he needs to basically it's. like a break glass, you know, and pull. moment for Donald Trump where he goes, "All right, I got to go on Truth Social.

I'm going to bomb you all now. I'm going. to b the big one's coming tonight. The. big this is it. This is it. This is it.". and he makes these big threats which get. everybody on edge because the guy is the. president of the United States and. controls the military unfortunately. So. on some level you can't just completely. write off what he says even though he's. a maniac and a liar. But I feel like a. lot of the situations when he does this. and we've seen this so often with Donald. Trump he does it to try to apply. pressure onto the Iranian regime to try. to agree to his terms. The thing that we.

have seen though, and I think anybody. who's studied the Iranian regime knows, is that they don't really react nicely. to this sort of tactic. They don't fold. They don't bend. You know, they they. they've been at the table to negotiate. throughout this whole thing. And from. what all these kind of neutral mediators. have said, it's that Donald Trump keeps. shifting his positions throughout the. negotiation process. So even at points. where they've come close to a deal, uh, and by the way, this isn't even a deal. deal. this is a memorandum of.

understanding. So don't let's not even. like act like this is like the final. deal that's going to happen whenever. this initial phase happens. Um but we. keep hearing that Donald Trump is the. one constantly moving the goalpost. making a deal harder and harder to reach. and then he goes and he blames Iran and. he does the same gaslighting tactics. that he does on Americans over there. Um, and I think when I look at all of. his tactics lately, when I look at. what's going on on his social media, when I look at the markets, when I look. at what his allies like an Elon Musk is.

is doing by go uh having his SpaceX IPO. launch on Friday and he's going to be. the first trillionaire and they don't. want to screw that up. When I look at. all this stuff, I actually see a guy. who's feeling increasingly desperate and. he's trying to masquerade uh his kind of. faux uh machismo threats, his this. wararmongering behavior. All of this, I. think, is is masking the actual. desperation that's underneath that he is. pissed that he's been unable to actually. get this done. He knows that he is kind.

of trapped in this space and he knows. also whatever he does here he's going to. get criticism from people because the. situation has just gotten so much worse. and in order for him to make a deal. there will have to be concessions. The. devil will be in the details and the. people who he doesn't want to piss off. with an eventual deal will be the ones. who get pissed off. Whether that's. Benjamin Netanyahu, whether that's. right-wing people on Twitter, whether. that's Mike Levane, whether that's. Lindsey Graham, you name it. You got a. whole lot of people who are ready to. pounce the second he gives a single.

concession to Iran, which is going to be. necessary if you actually want to make a. deal, especially when you're in a, let's. face it, a losing posture like the. United States is like the hole that. Donald Trump has dug for himself and for. us by entering this war in the first. place. >> Which has become exponentially clear as. this thing continues to drag on another. month, another month, another month, is. that Donald Trump doesn't have the. cards. He just absolutely doesn't have. the cards. he doesn't have the patience. to actually negotiate and he knows that.

he got us in a war that we didn't need. to be in to start and now he's very just. reactive from what I'm seeing and. witnessing to the market and so what do. we always say brothers about Donald. Trump right he lies so big that I think. corporate media tends to be like okay. well maybe it's not fully that but the. the truth is somewhere probably between. you know the exaggeration and where it's. landing so let's all write our pieces. around sort of the this middle account. when there's just no evidence or facts. to point to it. Like the Vance thing.

that these, you know, being sent to sign. this deal or or whatever this weekend, you know, today the the market, this. Ponzi scheme market just shot back up. But and and then you look at CNBC's. headline, I like to call him Fox. Business Light. I'm reading it right. now. It says, "Dow surges 900 points. after Trump says US will soon sign deal. with Iran." Yeah, he he's been saying. this though. Like he he has been. constantly saying this. So why today of. all days? Because yesterday the market. started to crash and started to reflect. actually the positions where we are in. society at this point. So Donald Trump.

now has to come up with what that bigger. lie. Hell JD Vance is going. What do you. mean? This deal is imminent. We're we're. making progress. We're really close. Time for everyone to buy back in. And so. for me it's just incredibly frustrating. because you have a president of the. United States that is leading or if you. want to call it that to dictate and move. up the the stock market and not for the. betterment of the people of the United. States. not he doesn't care about our. soldiers, what's happening over there. The way he talks about our dead. servicemen is actually like the most.

horrific thing possible. And if a. Democrat ever just scoffed off the death. of of 13 dead service members the way. Donald Trump scoffs it off, it it would. be poster to poster news everywhere. And. rightfully so, by the way, because it is. pathetic and absolutely disgusting the. way he just laugh like honestly like. laughs it off. it. We are in a war of. his choosing again for no reason. whatsoever. And he has no idea how to. get us out. So, he has to keep lying. Now, time will tell if Vance is sent. somewhere to I don't know, sign. Who.

knows? But as of right now, there's just. no evidence to point to that. Ben, >> let's take our first quick break of the. show. When we come back, I want to bring. out some receipts right there. I also. want to bring out the receipts of Donald. Trump's declining physical and cognitive. health. I also want to share when Donald. Trump says he loves inflation. I want to. explain how the American people. certainly don't love the inflation and. what's happening in their houses if. they're able to even afford rent at this.

point or their apartments if they're. able to afford rent or shelter at this. point. And then we should talk more. about what's happening generally across. this country right now. Um we'll take a. look in Congress. We'll take a look at. what's happening um as Midas Touch. Network has a presence not just on. Capitol Hill, but shout out to Luke. Redell who's the new Midas Touch Network. White House correspondent. So, we have. someone in the White House now who's. going to be pressing Caroline Levit and. asking the questions that you want. answered there. I thought it was.

important that we actually have somebody. there because I think sometimes there. are some reporters who ask good. questions, but sometimes more frequently. not. And so we need to have we need to. press Caroline and say and ask the. questions that you want answered. So. we're there. Anyway, let's take our. first quick break of the show. A. reminder, subscribe to the Midas Touch. podcast on audio. You may think you're. subscribed on audio. Double check. Or. you may say, "I don't listen on audio.". But it helps a lot for you to subscribe. on audio. So whatever you use to listen.

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was sleeping for most of the press. conference. This is just a known thing. now. He falls asleep all the time. Uh he. when he is speaking, it's barely. coherent or he'll contradict himself. And I mean, as I said, I mean, we truly. have someone who's kind of physically. and cognitively not there anymore. I'm. not saying that to be hyperbolic. It's. just the reality of it. Uh, I'll show. you in a little bit Democratic. Congresswoman Kliger Dove, what she said. on the House floor about Donald Trump. You know, sleeping is a national.

security threat. She said that you can't. have the president of the United States. just falling asleep like that always in. the Oval Office. But I'll get to that in. a moment. Let me show you first Donald. Trump in the Oval Office saying that we. should have a deal done over the next. few days and we'll probably have the. signing take place in Europe. Let's play. this clip. >> Great settlement of. the war with Iran. and we're going to be uh subject to. finalization of documents. We should get. done over the next few days. We probably.

have a signing maybe in Europe and uh. it's a great thing. Stock market's up a. thousand points. That means they like. the deal. See, that means they like the. market goes down. That means they don't. like the deal. But it's been up. Oil's. dropped. Oil will start coming down to I. think even lower than it was before. Yeah. >> We'll get to I'll tie this all together. A reporter then asks him, "You said. yesterday that Iran may be tapping along. the US. [clears throat]. What makes you believe they are sincere.

this time since yesterday you said. they're tapping you along and you want. to do a ground invasion and bomb them. even more and now you've just said the. exact opposite and that's it's been one. day. So what's going on here? Let's play. that clip. >> Suggested yesterday that Iran may be. tapping along the US. Those those were. the words that you used. What makes you. uh believe that they are sincere this. time in wanting to pursue the. >> level of enthusiasm for getting it done? And uh we were hitting them very hard. for the last 3 days. We're going to hit.

them even harder tonight. They knew. that. We told them exactly what we were. going to do. We explained it exactly. because they had no navy. They had. >> Okay, they have a navy. They have their. army. They have their ballistic. missiles. And you know, look, if you're. Iran and you hear that, you you you know. that he's not telling the truth. And so. you know it's from a deep position of. weakness right there. Remember the day. before where he was asked, "Are you. concerned about the surging inflation?".

Remember inflation CPI 4.2%. Then we saw the markets again tank and. you know we saw markets crashing each. day just and then we saw the bond yields. up and then he goes I love inflation. I. love it. Here let's play that clip. >> We've been uh taking out ships, big. ships quietly at night. You guys didn't. know that. Pretty cool, right? As a. captain. He knows about more more about. ships than I do. But that's pretty cool. They turned off the lights. We bombed.

their radar and everything so they. couldn't see what was going on. And we. took out uh some nights 25 ships, some. nights 15. Last four or five nights we. did 25, 22, 21, 26, 18, and 14. Who else would remember. those numbers? Nobody. >> He's making up numbers like like a. deranged individual. Who else would. remember those numbers? You're saying. numbers. But it's like when he does the.

cognitive exam thing that he does where. he says, "I ask me to multiply 1,343. * 6532. / 85732. + 7 / 2 - 3 - 3 - 55 * 2." And I in the. context of him just being so cognitively. adult, I feel like when he's saying who. else would remember those numbers, he's. not like referring to the amount of. ships that were destroyed allegedly, but.

he's saying just like in general that he. remembers those numbers. >> It's it's always something that he's. just discovered when he says it like. when he the reason why he keeps saying. in every speech now like you know no one. really knew that dumb had a B in it. No. one no one ever knew this before, but. everyone it's because he thought of his. stupid nickname Democrats that he puts. in every post now. And he probably wrote. it out the first time, dumm the way he's. been writing it. And somebody got in his. ear and said, "Well, you know, dumb has. a B in it." He goes, "Oh, I didn't know.

that. Didn't know that." And it made its. way into his speeches now as nobody knew. this. He does it with everything. I. mean, it's that's code word. You know, Ron on our Substack at one point and we. got to see if we can dig it up. Uh go by. the way, check out our Substack. uh he. did a whole like translation of Donald. Trump. What does Donald Trump actually. mean? When he says this, it actually. means that and that was uh that was on. the list and it's uh it stayed true. I I. wonder how much of this also in the. negotiations beyond Trump's pathological.

lying, which he does. I I wonder how. much of it is because a lot of this is. being conducted via mediators and not. direct communication between Donald. Trump and the Iranians. And so like. Pakistan is is one of the mediators. I. wonder how much of it is when Donald. Trump makes these threats. Do they go to. him? No, no, no, no, no. They're close. They're close. They're close. They're. really close. They're about to about to. get a deal. We're about to get a deal. And then he starts spouting off, "Oh, I. hear they're close. I hear the regime. likes it because the mediator is trying. to calm him down." I'm just trying to. think of all the various scenario. >> Well, I don't think it's the mediator. I.

think it's his Witito and Kushner. speaking to the mediator and then. they're going back to Trump and they're. saying. >> we're making progress. We're making. >> revelatory things that I've seen in the. past kind of month of of these kind of. conversations back and forth was the. last time that there that you know there. was this sort of moment where they're. like a deal's very close. They're. they're 99% there. Just 1% not there. Oh, what's the 1%?

The 1% is nuclear. It's uranium. enrichment. It's Oh. Oh, so it's like. everything like the it's everything. It's the straight of Hormuz. And so like. that's the thing like yes, you could. agree on 99% of things, but you're not. waiting the things equally. Like you. can't weight everything equally. Those. are the sticking points. We all know the. sticking points. We've known the. sticking points from the beginning. And. we know what Donald Trump agreed to in. the beginning. I mean, he shared the. what was it a 10-point plan or 12? He he.

shared the Iranian plan that they had. agreed to together and then he tried to. backtrack on it. So, you can't say. you're 99% towards the deal except for. uranium enrichment, except for the. nuclear issue, except for what to do. about who controls the straight of. Hermuz. That's not very close at all. Those that's the whole sticking point of. the whole thing. Can we also just talk. about again how out of touch he is when. he just continues to talk about the. stock market in these meetings when he's. like the stock market's up again to the. stock market going you the stats. something like the wealthiest 10% of.

American households hold roughly like. 93% of the US stock market so that like. that's like he's just spitting in the. face of the average American like. >> revealing that he talks about close to a. deal and in the next breath his comment. is always and the stock market's going. up oil's coming down. He always ties the. two together, which I think shows you. the real kind of reasoning behind these. comments. And you got Joe Cernin saying, "WE'RE CLOSE TO A DEAL on CNBC.". >> You think about it though, the guy is a.

prolific, and I don't mean this in a. positive way, stock trader. I mean, this. is an exaggeration, right? we went. through was 3,800 trades in Q1 of this. year where yes, he traded stocks his. first year of this term, but not this. way. As soon as the war started, I mean, this guy was, you know, the Charlie. Sheen character in the movie Wall. Street. It's like this what I was like.

what the guy was doing, you know, he's. bye bye bye, sell sell, you know, and he. would have the CEOs of these companies. whose companies he was buying and. selling. I mean, for a fraud, conn. artist, felon, bankruptor like Trump, this is like rubbing it like a like a. genie, you know, like a what do you call. magic lamp? I mean, like you you think. you're so I mean, here's a guy who's. been a business loser his entire life. with daddy's money, you know, would. screw everything up and now, you know, he brings the companies in or he does a. tweet and the market rises. I mean, for. someone like that, and I mean this in.

the worst possible way, like this is. what he lives for. Like, this is. exhilarating market manipulation. It's. like quite literally what he does. And. so 3,800 trades means 9 minutes a trade. So that means he's thinking about this. all the damn time. Like he's looking at. these shifts. And so he knows when he's. down. He knows when he's up. He knows. how to make it back up. He knows how to. buy the dip. He knows when to sell at. the peak. And and he reveals it right. there that he's like, you know, in the. market. Like it's like, why are you even.

I mean, here's the thing. If indeed. you truly believe that Iran is an. existential threat to the lives of the. American people and yourself and the. world if you truly believe that. what does the market have to do with. anything? And if you truly believe that. Iran poses an imminent nuclear threat,

then why gify any of this? Like if. because they're not an imminent threat. and we know they're not. We know what. the security apparatus in the United. States said. They're not an imminent. nuclear threat. This was all a Trump. Netanyahu lie. Trump thought this would. be easy. Keep saying Venezuela. He. thought he'd go in there and he'd get to. spray cologne on the Ayatollah and. they'd be joint venture partners. together like Deli. Maybe he can invite.

the I I'm kid you not in Trump's mind. Maybe I can invite the Ayatollah over to. the Oval. I could spray my Trump. perfume. I'll smell him a little bit. Maybe he's handsome. Maybe he's a. handsome guy. I mean, that's how Trump. treats the leader of Syria, right? I. mean, I think Trump figured that that's. what it was going to be. You know, Trump. would beam himself into the Iranian TVs. with with BB. Hey, hey, we're here. You. know us. We're great. People are like, "Yeah, the people who were doing. genocide in Palestine and Lebanon.".

Yeah. No. No. We don't want that. Stay. away. And oh, the people who promised us. that they were going to be here in. January, who screwed everybody up. Yeah. No, stay stay away. And so he operates. from he operates from that. It's deeply. dangerous. It's deeply disconnected. And. here we are. I think by the way, if you. look at and I it's horrible to even to. make these connections, but I'll say two.

things. Number one, if you look at JP. Morgan's assessment of the market, they. literally said that right around June. 10th, June 11th, the war would resolve. Go back and read their report. I. remember reading it what it last month. and month they said you know right. around then it'll become unsustainable. financially and then Trump will stop the. war. They like, you know, and and Trump. Trump reads that stuff. And by the way, what they were saying was happening in. terms of the oil markets.

um reaching a point where the reserves. were going to be fully kind of tapped. and tank bottom and the bond markets and. the stock markets and all like we were. we're right on teetering on the edge of. like calamity. And they they they said. that. Another point though, just so you. know, I think that the Elon Musk IPO was. kind of a part of this and how Iran used. that as leverage. Did you note that on. Iranian state TV today, one of the. things they mentioned was that they were. going to be targeting Elon Musk's.

facilities. And it was within an hour. after that that Trump announced this. And I can envision, and again, I'm. giving you my opinion. Um, and I don't. think this is the the only factor, but I. think it's part of a totality of. factors. I can imagine a circumstance. where Iran says this because this they. said, "We're going to go after all Elon. Musk businesses in the Middle East, and. we're going to make sure we destroy them. right away if anything escalates." It's. a strange comment, right, to target. I. mean, don't get me wrong, Elon Musk is,

you know, a prominent American figure. who's very much involved in in in in a. lot of the bad stuff that's happening in. our country. So, but them mentioning it. right before the IPO tells me that they. knew that was a leverage point for. Donald also. And so, you put these. factors and these are factors that. you're like, wow. Oh, and also the. United Arab Emirates foreign minister. spoke with foreign minister Arachi today. in Iran. European Union's foreign. minister Ka Kalas spoke with foreign.

minister Arachi and I think Trump saw. like oh my god everybody's everyone's. doing it without me so I gotta go do it. and I'm going to say I'm going to take. credit for it and I'm going to be the. one to do it. We'll still see to be. clear we've done this 38 times. The only. difference is at least is that Iran is. now at least acknowledging a final. draft, but they are controlling it on. their terms and saying it's going to the. >> By the way, one, you know what's totally. been taken out of the conversation this. entire time is things that we said were.

the objectives. [laughter]. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, but let's go back to. one of the initial objectives before he. even shifted the objectives, which is. the fact that uh you know, theoretically. uh at some point this was about. liberating the Iranian people. There is. zero zero zero discussion in any of. these negotiations about reforms to make. life better for the Iranian people or. some sort of way to monitor the way the. Iranian regime treats its people. That's. been completely put on the side.

>> Take to the streets, Brett. take to the. streets. They put him on a suicide mission. It's. really screwed up. And people try to. say, "Oh, you don't care about the. Iran?" No, I I care. That's why I don't. like what what they what they did here. They screwed him over. And if you need. any more evidence, exhibit a Venezuela. Because once Donald Trump got what he. wanted out of Venezuela, which was the. ability to have a partner in crime. essentially in Venezuela to extract the. country's resources for his financial.

gain, then he did not give a damn about. the Venezuelan people who are still. living under the Maduro regime, just. under another leader of that regime. But. everything else still stands. You never. once hear Donald Trump complaining about. uh the freedoms of the Venezuelans, but. he went in there, we're liberating them, we're freeing them. That never happened. That never happened. All those images. right away when those people were. celebrating in the streets in Venezuela. after Maduro was toppled and he was. taken to the United States in that.

operation. That's why I said I'm like. I'm I'm glad they're happy right now, but like that's way to be, you know, because I don't want people to get false. hope because we know what Donald Trump. does. And sure enough, Donald Trump did. what Donald Trump does. He didn't care. about the people. He brushed them aside. He made his corrupt deals. Screw them. And we see where we are now. And he's. perfectly happy with it. Never spoken. about again. >> You know, one of the things we see also. is, and he's going to do it here, right? What was he bragging about over the past.

24 hours? I got a 100 million barrels of. oil through the straight of in the past. 105 days. the Iranians didn't know about. it. Okay, so that's like what, two. million barrels of oil a day if you kind. of do the math versus like the 25 to 30. that was going on before the before the. war started. And and by the way, what. he's saying probably isn't true at all. either. I'm sure some got through, turned their tracking systems off and.

did get through, but okay, like let's. say he exaggerates usually by 50%. So. let's even say it was 50. Let's just. even take him at his word. 100 million. That's not it. It sounds like a lot. because 100 million billion trillion. But Trump contorts millions billions. trillions. So words don't matter like at. all. It was like what he did with China. He's like 14 million metric tonses or 12. million metric tonses of soybeans. I'm. like, look, when Biden was in office, we. never even talked about soybeans like as. a thing, like as like a thing. And he.

got 28 million metric tonses bought from. the Chinese. And we never worried about. Chinese not buying soybeans. like that. just wasn't a thing. Biden solidified. his relationships with Southeast Asian. countries. He showed strength against Xi. Jinping. There was a level of respect. that was there. And China bought. soybeans. America protected its. semiconductor industry. America. protected Taiwan while recognizing the. right diplomatic speak to deal with it. America showed that it had a security. umbrella in Southeast Asia as well as.

the Middle East. And we never talked. about like 14 million metric tons. It's. like, yeah, that's half a 100 million. barrels. Yeah, that's like 10%. Like, like these aren't these aren't wins. But. in Trump's world, you know, that's what. he characterizes as a win. Doing a worse. deal and then attacking the deals of. others. You know, it's really easy to. attack other people's deals, to second. guessess, to Monday night quarterback or. what? Tuesday night, whatever the. expression is. It's very easy to do.

that. Actually doing the thing is hard. It's hard. And Trump's. enjoys the chaos and the attacking. versus the actual doing and the. leadership and all this like. performative stuff, you know, as as as. well. I'll just show you right here. This is Hegsith at Guantanamo Bay in. Cuba yesterday. Like doing some script. for a straight to DVD movie. Yeah. Straight to DVD movie in 2026. That's. how cornball this is. Here he is like,

"Yeah." Oh yeah, dudes. The Iranians, [clears throat] they'll be unwise to ch. He's doing PT. That's why I'm huffing. the puffing. Yeah, dudes. The Iranians. are going to be so they would be unwise. to challenge us, dudes. Bros. Here, I. play this clip. >> Out in out in um the Persian Gulf in the. Gulf of Oman and ensuring Iran doesn't. target shipping. And again, we're. prepared there to do what needs to be. done. Right now, they're defensive. strikes to ensure we protect our people. Again, Iran would be unwise to challenge.

us further. President Trump is seeking a. deal, but not just a deal, a great deal. on behalf of the American people. So, Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. >> All right, bros. Okay, exit. I know, >> by the way, audio audio issues there. That's what one half trillion dollar uh. US government. >> There wasn't audio issues on our side. That was. >> No, that was them. And by the way, but. Ben, at least at least he brought the. brought the good press, you know, to ask. him the tough questions to Guantanamo.

Uh Miss Laura Loomer herself along. alongside him on the uh what's been. doing, bro. >> Not just any deal, man. A good deal, bros. Dudes, we got us. Look at. [laughter]. I'm watching that. I'm like, what the. hell is All right, Jordy, I know you've. got a reaction, but let's take our last. quick break of the show. A reminder, subscribe to the Midas Touch on audio. Seriously, it's really important that we. keep on building our audio. So, if you. watch on video and you're like, I really.

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asleep in the Oval Office. It just like. reminds me like. I don't even view what we do here as. political. Like I think there's one side. of the political spectrum that is simply. just being weirdos and freaks and losers. and that's like this MAGA like ilk and. this cult over here that we see cuz time. and time again like I I I don't love. like the Democrats cuz like I love. donkeys. Um I I love the color blue.

Like they're the only adults in the room. right now. Literally like the only. people who are trying to get things. done. And don't even get me started once. we get into like Congress and the. Republicans in Congress right now. I'd. long for a day where where these people. just frankly like didn't exist like in. this like clownish matter of which they. do. I just don't see that changing. anytime soon unfortunately, you know, at. the cost and the expense of the American. people. And it's so frustrating when I I. just know that the country, this country. could be so good and operate on all.

cylinders if our elected leaders here. would actually want to roll up their. sleeves and do their jobs and not just, you know, continue to fill their stock. portfolios or or or or line their. pockets with money, but actually like, hey, how can we actually solve health. care for people in this country? How can. we make this world more affordable for. people in this country? Like, how can we. do these things that actually make this. country the greatest country in the. world in the sense of how it's spoken. about or had been spoken about at times.

And it's just frustrating. Like it's. it's absolute lunacy to see HGsith out. there just acting like he's a '9s FBI. movie star or whatever you want to call. Like it is just truly upsetting and. frustrating to me. And that's just the. tip of the iceberg. I know we got some. other clips here, Ben, that we're going. to show in a second. It's just it's. crazy to me. >> Absolutely. Well, we'll show you some of. this MAGA madness. Like MAGA, Republican. Congress member Troy Nells. You saw when. uh Midas Touch Network, DC bureau, Scott.

McFarland, and others were questioning. him. You saw what went down. Let's play. what went down with Troy Nells. Let's. play it. >> You know, I know we got this. weaponization fund, but I think maybe we. need to establish a fund for those that. have Trump derangement syndrome and get. counseling. Maybe we ought to provide. some counseling for all the nut jobs out. there that think Donald Trump is the. worst thing. Donald Trump is the best. thing to happen in this country in 100. years. He was born He was born a very.

special baby. I bet you the doctor said, "I can tell this is a very special. baby.". >> All right, we'll get to that one. >> Hold on. Just total clown. Like a comic. book villain. Okay, so here's the thing. here. That Donald Trump was born a very. special baby. It's it's crazy like that. person that's an elected official for. the Republican party. That's why I call. that weird, right? That doesn't mean. super lib. No, that guy is weird, man. What are we doing? >> Okay, then you got Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.

>> I was there late last night. They were. testing the pyrochnics. I'm not going to. give away anything other than to say. they work. It was good. Um, Secret. Service wasn't as excited by the. explosions, but everybody else and what. they built out there was phenomenal. We'll never see it again. Um although. the president president's threatening to. leave it permanently. You heard that, right? Uh he's threatening to leave the. just don't know. Maybe, you know, we'll. just host weekly fights between people. in politics, you know, and uh and settle. our scores that way. But all kidding. aside, it's Sunday is an unbelievable.

historic I think never to be repeated. until next year experience uh uh for the. American people to be able to see a. sport that this is where I want to. close. And I made this point earlier. We. were doing a little interview about it. Um, the White House is the people's. house. It belongs to the people of the. United States. The American 250. celebration belongs to the people of the. United States. And there are mill for. those who are watching, perhaps you are. mesmerized by this stupidity. For those.

on audio, you didn't see it, but the. Chiron said Secretary of State Marco. Rubio signs a diplomacy deal with Dana. White of UFC. I kid you not. the guy. run. They did a diplomacy deal and it's. like what do you a diplomacy deal with. the UFC? Donald Trump has an investment. in the parent company. What are we doing. here? I mean and this is going to be. historical. This is going to be a great. deal. This is going No, what would be. historical is if you bring down the.

costs of everything, housing and food. and gas and inflation and you made. people's lives better. That would be. historical if you gave everybody health. care for free and if you gave everybody. the opportunity to have a great. education and people were paid with. dignity. That would be historical rather. than being at a UFC fight which is where. Rubio was last time. It would have been. helpful perhaps. Maybe not. But if you. were in Pakistan negotiating back in. April and we wouldn't have to wait 60 70.

days of more harm to our economy and. there could have been a deal done then. or if you were a secretary of state who. actually cared about diplomacy, you. wouldn't have allowed the State. Department to be gutted and not have. any, you know, tools to be helpful, you. know, in terms of what your role is. But. you're doing a diplomacy deal with the. UFC. Great. Great job doing a diplomacy. deal with the UFC. I mean, it's so. utterly stupid. It's a historical night. It's not historical. It's stupid. You're. turning the B by the way. I'm not like. hating on UFC. Personally, I'm not a UFC.

fan. I like basketball. I like soccer or. if you're out of the country football. For those on audio, I'm wearing my. Mexican jersey to celebrate uh you know, the the the win today. And my my. family's half my family's from Mexico, my wife's side. And so, but I like but I. like sports. I I played sports in high. school. I mean, I I don't think that the. UFC needs to be in the backyard of the. White House and turn the White House. into a junkyard and make it some weird.

right-wing oligarch. >> You don't think you need Bud Light ads. on the White House lawn and poly market. ads on the White House lawn and all the. other ads? >> What people aren't talking about enough. about this UFC fight? It's literally a. birthday present for Donald Trump. Like. UFC fights are notorious. Like they they. are routinely on Saturday nights. This. one Sunday night just so happens to be. who? Donald Trump's birthday. >> He's going to fall asleep. like we know. what's going to like you know what's. going to happen, right? By the way, it's. like 80% chance of rain, too. We'll see. if it rains. But he he's going to fall. asleep, you know? He does he falls. asleep. He doesn't even it doesn't even. look like he's enjoying these things,

too. Like, he just wants everybody to be. miserable. And again, this is not what. you know, look, you want to watch UFC, you like it, good. Just don't put it at. the White House. We don't need it on the. president's birthday. It's weird. We. don't need We don't need to be doing. that. So, you have that going on. And. then you have Mark Wayne Mullen who's. now the Homeland Security Secretary and. he's being asked about, you know, the. the fact that um the United States is is. banned a Somali referee. Like why? Because Trump hates people from Somalia. Omar Arton who's a hero now in Somalia.

and in Africa and regularly in the rest. of the world. the way the US is treating. so many fans and groups of people and. team members that are from other. countries that Donald Trump doesn't like. based on his racist views. And so Mark. Wayne Mullen was asked like, "So what do. you what do you think about this?" And. Mullen basically implied that Omar Arton. is a criminal or a terrorist because. he's Somalian. Listen to what he says.

Play it. >> That are already shaping the World Cup. At least one referee from Somalia and. one Iraqi team staff member were denied. entry at US airports in recent days and. dozens of fans have been denied. >> Call it you call it politics. >> No. >> What' you say? I forget what how you. started that question. >> Policies. >> Yeah. Policies are we're not going to. allow people that have criminal or maybe. perceived to be have criminal ties to. come into this country. I don't care. what your situation is. Um we I'm not. going to get into why we denied this. individual, but there's a reason why.

this person was denied it. how the left. media wants to go out there and report. and say this guy's a victim of because. we're. >> Yeah. Well, then tell the reason other. than the fact that he's a black guy from. Somalia. Like, we all know that's why. he's a Somalian guy. He's Somalian and. Trump goes after the Somalian community. And then when you make a comment like. that, by the way, like what you're doing. is horrible and racist and despicable, you can answer that question and say,

"We're not commenting." Next, you've now defamed the guy, implied that. he's a criminal or that he looks like a. criminal, and then you say, "And we're. not going to allow the left to spin it.". The left to spin what? It's obvious what. you did, not a left spinning something. And if you have evidence now that Omar. Arton, the top African referee, one of FIFA's,

forget Africa, one of FIFA's top. referees. who got a visa, who travel to the United. States and then was kicked out. You have. evidence that he's a criminal after. saying that he's a criminal. Then give. the evidence. Explain what the what the. issue is. Of course, there isn't. And. then you get mad when people get mad at. you and despise you and hate you for. doing things like that. So let's ask Mr. World Peace Prize, FIFA Peace Prize. Giani and Fontino,

we've seen you shoulder-to-shoulder with. kings, princes, prime ministers, presidents, giving fake peace prizes to. Donald Trump. That was your event. You. made other world leaders show up. You. were there as part of the peace board, a. world peace board that is a total fraud. and a sham that was never even funded. And then Trump proceeded to invade Iran. with Netanyahu right after that and. invade Venezuela. But you were there,

[laughter]. Donald. Okay. Well, because FIFA is apparently a. nation state. and you're giving out peace prizes, are. you going to do anything about the. blatant racism by the United States. government? It's a uniquely US. Mexico. is doing a great job. Canada's doing a. great job. The fans are I don't blame. like fans like football or soccer. Like. they we we like the sport. We we don't.

want it to be political. So Giani and. Fontino, Mr. buying or renting office space that are. vacant to funnel money to Donald Trump. for FIFA. What say you about this? Let's play the. clip. We don't control. everything. We try. We will discuss. We will speak. We will see. Maybe sometimes it's good as well to. just, you know, chill, relax.

We work on everything. We try to solve. everything. Sometimes to immediately start screaming. and shouting has the opposite effect of. finding a solution. Believe me when I tell you or don't. believe me if you don't want but we try. always to find solutions. always. But then we need to respect that. we are not the kings of uh the world who. can rule over governments and police.

forces and I don't know what we are a. sports organization. We try to do our. best with the means that we have to make. as much. as possible and in this and and I. conclude. uh we want to unite the world and if I. can ask you one thing. again if you want to criticize me. criticize me it's fine. it's okay but promote the unity of the.

world cup promote. >> chill Relax. What are you so upset about there? What. are you so upset about? Why give good. coverage? Unify. It's like we're just. calling you out for working with Trump. and doing some racist things. We could. unify. We could tell great stories about. some great games. Like, we could do. both. We can actually enjoy the sport. That's good. We We want to be joyous. We. want to see the games be played and.

people have incredible athletic. accomplishments and fans be. enthusiastic. We want to see that. Just. don't be a racist piece of. [laughter]. Like like it's very. >> That's how they always mask it though, right? That's always just like uh you. you do something that's so overtly. political. What is more political than. giving Donald Trump a fake peace prize? Then the second you get called out for. something and have the ability to. actually do something about because you. run the organization, you go, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not get.

political. Let's not inject ourselves. into things like this." It's like, dude, that's been your whole thing. You can't. just you can't just back out now. It's. like they they try to have it both ways. We see this all the time. And uh you. know, there's also like this other story. going on with the World Cup that I don't. think is getting enough attention. And. uh I feel like it's worth highlighting. given that we try to highlight climate. uh related issues on this show. Did you. guys know that this World Cup is. expected to be the most climate. polluting tournament in history as well.

as one of the most impacted by climate. change itself? So it really is hitting. both ends of this. They're saying that. the World Cup this year is going to. generate roughly 9 million tons of. carbon emissions, which is double the. historical average. This is because they. expanded the tournaments from 32 to 48. teams. They're spreading it across 16. cities in the United States, Canada, and. Mexico. So, there are people just flying. everywhere and it's creating this these. massive massive massive carbon. emissions. But not only that, the.

tournament itself has already been. affected by climate change and it will. likely be affected by climate change. again. like it could it's threatening. games of the tournament because they. these scientists are are looking at just. the raw data and they're seeing that 14. of the 16 host cities could experience. temperatures high enough that could. create dangerous conditions for the. players, for the workers, for the fans. And like I I feel like people don't. realize that heat is already currently. the biggest uh mo one of the most.

dangerous conditions out there. It's the. single deadliest weather related hazard. in the entire country. So people are. constantly thinking of, oh, like. hurricanes are dangerous, floods are. dangerous, wildfires are dangerous. Just. heat alone, the the heating of the. country, the heating of the planet is. the single deadliest thing that that. happens. It kills more people each year. than all of those things combined. And. last year even when they had FIFA events. in the United States, those events were. disrupted by heat and severe weather. And so experts are looking ahead. They're seeing El Nino. They're seeing.

uh the rising temperatures and they're. going this tournament is going to be. incredibly affected as well. And at the. same time, any sort of ways that uh the. administration, the Trump administration. could have combed these issues and. actually helped with climate issues, helped to have uh you know, any sort of. resilience initiatives for heat. resilience for communities to to just. make it so they could prepare for these. extreme temperatures. Donald Trump is of. course doing the opposite. He's p he's. he's actually proposing eliminating the.

assistance programs that help people. deal with these sorts of issues, removing the programs that help. low-income families afford air. conditioning during the summer. And. obviously, this all ties into the. affordability crisis. And you could go. on and on and on, but there's just. there's even like a larger story at play. than the games themselves. And I think. it'll be uh it's worth monitoring as we. see this what those disruptions look. like and what other chaos is called is. caused as a result of the way this. entire tournament is is being handled.

>> Yeah. And I'll leave you with this. As I. said I would show you before Democratic. Congresswoman Kliger Dove talking about. a national security crisis we all face. right now. This is what she said on the. House floor. Let's play it. >> Mr. Speaker, I rise today to sound the. alarm about a grave national security. threat, Donald Trump's sleeping habits. I know we have rules about decorum, so I. will stick to the facts because this is.

in fact a serious matter of oversight, transparency, and national security. In. meeting after meeting, Donald Trump has. fallen asleep in public, on camera, in. broad daylight, when people lavish. praise on him. We cannot trust the White. House on matters concerning the. president's health because they are. denying what Americans are seeing with. our own two eyes. Just last week, Margot. Rubio seemingly lied to Congress about. this when he told my colleague that he. had never been at a meeting where Trump. fell asleep despite being shown a video. where the president dozed off right next.

to him. We cannot have a president. asleep on the job. Is he sleeping in. classified briefings, on calls with. foreign leaders? How can we trust a. president who is literally asleep at the. wheel to make informed decisions about. national security? An April Yuggov poll. found that 48% of Americans believe that. Trump is also suffering modest to. significant cognitive decline. He is. increasingly making erratic decisions. and raised questions about his mental. fitness for office. He is posting AI on.

Truth Social at ungodly hours of the. night. He is hyperfixated on his billion. dollar ballroom and a $ 1.8 $8 billion. slush fund for political allies instead. of ending his war of choice on Iran and. lowering costs for Americans. Sadly, the. White House has repeatedly failed to be. transparent with the American people. about the president's help. Health. health. Trump consistently has bruises. on his hands that the White House claims. are from handshakes. He received an MRI. without knowing what body part was. scanned or disclosing why he received. it. The White House failed to put a.

mysterious dentist appointment on the. presidential calendar as is normal for. medical appointments. Dr. Oz said the. president is taking cognitive tests. every day because he likes the results. And the White House removed a hair loss. prevention drug from the public list of. drugs he is taking, saying they are not. obligated to disclose what medications. the president is on. Is Trump suddenly. naturally growing his hair, or is the. White House hiding something? We need. real transparency. It is time for. Republicans to wake up and join.

Democrats in demanding transparency from. this White House about the president's. health. It is a matter of national. security. And with that, Mr. Speaker, I. yield back. >> Demand transparency. That's all we want here at the Midas. Touch Network. Thanks everybody. We'll. be giving you breaking news throughout. the day, throughout the week. Keep. checking in every 90 minutes. A. reminder, subscribe to the Midas Touch. on audio. Search Midas Touch wherever.

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