Trump PANICS as his BIGGEST EVENT Was TOTAL FAILURE!!

Well, this is arguably one of the. weirdest things I've ever reported on at. the Midas Touch Network about Donald. Trump, and that's saying a lot. Donald. Trump's final event for the so-called. America 250 took place this week, and it. was an utter disaster. Yeah, it's still. going on. America 250. Could you believe. it? It's been disaster after disaster. The final event is what Donald Trump. called the Patriot Games, which he said. would feature the greatest athletes. within the United States of America.

involving high school students ages 14. to 17 years old. And he said these would. be the best athletes in the United. States of America and they would be. competing at these games that would be. like the Olympics. Well, it was anything. but. So, the event took place in a small. city called Geneva, Ohio. The population. there was under 6,000 people. Look, I. don't want to mock these kids because.

I'm sure they're well-intentioned. I. don't I don't know. My goal isn't to. mock the kids themselves, but they were. not the best athletes. They [snorts]. weren't really good athletes at all. And. as we and others dug into the criteria. for being a participant in these. so-called patriot games, the Trump. regime mostly recruited from Christian. schools, from Catholic schools, from. evangelical schools, and they would uh. ask the students to submit a video essay.

and uh and also a regular essay. And. they would be selected on that basis. It. was mostly all white kids. There was one. or two I I saw a few people who weren't. white, but it was mostly white kids. People really weren't in great shape. And they were doing kind of games you. would see at the state fair or like in. gym class in fifth grade. They were. doing like dodgeball and they were doing. tugofwar and they were doing like weird.

obstacle courses that I I mean I hate to. say this but you know when you see those. dog competitions and the dogs go through. the obstacle courses that's like what a. lot of these obstacle courses looked. like. It was like um American Ninja. Warrior but like a bootleg version of a. bootleg version of a [snorts] bootleg. version. I think about um when I was a. kid growing up. I remember I attended I. was a big fan of the Teenage Mutant.

Ninja Turtles and these people showed up. pretending to be the Teenage Mutant. Ninja Turtles, but they were wearing. cardboard boxes. And I remember I was, you know, 5 years old and I cried cuz. they were wearing it was so horrible. looking. And so this is the cardboard. box Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of. Ninja Warrior. It it was so bad. And you. know, it's just getting ripped online. right now. I mean, I saw I think the. recount posted a video of one of the. kids who was involved in the competition.

who was going through the obstacle. courses and it was just so bad and it. was not good. I don't want again I. really don't want to mock the the kid. and so I'm not going to show the video. I was debating should I show you the. video of him doing the obstacle? It's. it's really really bad. and he was very. serious and earnest about going through. the obstacle course and and throwing the. tennis ball at the Velcro thing and and. and doing the tugofwar. It was really it. was really tough to it was tough to. watch. I'm not going to make you endure.

it. Okay. And so here were some of the. comments. Looks like looks looks like. they did a looks like they did a dog. Looks like they did a dog agility. course. The keep it together, Ben. The fact that. they picked midwife athletes at best. speaks volumes. How much of our taxpayer. dollars went into this farce? The. competition was silly and the first. video footage looked like boot camp, which maybe is what they were looking.

for. This wasn't a competition at all. It was like being at some state fair. games. Watching this kid go through. those agility sticks was an experience. So, MAGA fifth grade flag day games only. missing the egg on a spoon at a potato. sack race. Dog DEI Olympics is a. hilarious way to put this. LMAO is. mostly all like 98% white kids. DEI. Olympics. So, we are all supposed to uh. pick 95% white kids to participate in.

this. I'm g I'm gonna go out on a limb. and say that our best athletes were not. present at the event. And then there was. a part where the guy said triumph and he. pronounced it triumph. Anyway, I thought. I was watching a dog agility. competition. Mediocre games with teu. medals. I think you get the point right. there. And so, you know, you had the. Trump regime promoting this. The girls. took on the presidential qualifier this. afternoon and left nothing behind. Round. one of the 2026 Patriot Games is.

officially in the books. And then Donald. Trump went to the finals on Tuesday. And. by the way, it aired on Thursday on ABC, prime time ABC. And as of this. recording, they have not released the. Neielson ratings because, you know, it. was just so bad. They're like covering. up the ratings of the Patriot games. It. was prime time and you know if it was. good. You know, you get the day after. ratings, right? You know that, right?

So, like normally you have an event and. then the next day you get your initial. readout and then more data comes in and. they're covering up what the ratings are. cuz it's so bad. Also, was ABC paying. for this? Did ABC give the airtime for. free? Was this part of the settlement. agreement that they entered into with. Donald Trump before? So, this was ABC. ESPN. You had Pat McAfee, that ESPN. host, like the Patriot Games. Yeah, it's. not happening. We know that this is some.

ridiculous thing right here. This guy. Ben Coup, he posted, I showed you the. photo of Donald Trump looking very. creepy at these little girls. [gasps]. Ben Coup goes, "I'm watching the Patriot. Games as it was not shown locally due to. Bengals preseason football last night, the last event before the Freedom. finale. contestants are set is papa. shot. Papa shot. Like, do you remember, you know, the games when you go to like.

a Chuck-e-Cheese? You go to a Chuck-e-Cheese, bring my. daughter to the Chuck-E-Cheese and you. shoot in a little hoop. That was. [snorts] one of the It's really st This. is Oh my god, it's really sad. But isn't. this a microcosm of all things MAGA, right? They would mock the woke athletes. and this and that. These are the people. who were like, "Yeah, we don't want men. and women sports, whatever the stupid. stuff they're saying, all you care about. is participation trophies." Dude, this.

whole event is a participation trophy. I. don't know what we're even watching. right here. And then, you know, you had. again, it was Geneva, Ohio, small area. You look at you look at it. You had the, you know, it was pretty it was pretty. empty. Also, it was like in this like. weird warehouse building. It was not. well attended. I don't know, maybe there. was 700 people who showed up, including. Donald Trump. As our Washington DC. bureau chief Scott McFarland writes,

"Quite a paragraph in the Washington. Post report about the Trump touted youth. Patriot Games in Ohio. The event build. itself as bringing together America's. best youth athletes with all. participants between the ages of 14 and. 17, but the White Housebacked Freedom. 250 nonprofits scarcely promoted the. competition outside of its own channels. There appeared to be only a handful of. non-white participants. The Atlantic. described it as such. What if your high. school gym teacher walked head first.

into a poll and was then asked to throw. an Olympics with a budget of exactly $6. and 3 weeks notice? Welcome to the. Patriot Games. And here's how I give a. hat tip to the CNN segment. Here's how. they described what went down here. Play. this clip. So, after the break on this. morning, we're going to talk about one. more thing. Trump's Patriot Games. Have. you heard of this? Um, basically, we. want to know whether this is a. representation of America, this youth. sports event, or maybe a kind of MAGA.

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Now this from the Atlantic Hunger Games. MAGA style, a gym class style. competition might be the oddest 250th. celebration yet. The semiquincentennial. event that Donald Trump personally. directed have been a celebration of his. vision of America version of America. The bloody UFC fight on the White House. lawn was followed by the sparsely. attended Great American State Fair and a. worldrecord-breaking July 4th fireworks.

show held alongside a dangerous. lightning storm. Next weekend will bring. a high-speed car race through the museum. line streets of Washington. But all of. these festivities, the Patriot Games. might be the oddest. organizers convened. 120 teenagers from across the country. And they are telling the next generation. of leaders, competitors, and champions, but also whoever happened to respond to. an online request for personal essays. and video entries, at a high school in. Geneva, Ohio, population 5,924,

roughly 45 mi northeast of downtown. Cleveland. For three days, they competed. in gym class staples such as ball toss, long jumps, tugof-war, or dodgeball, and. an arcade style basketball game called. Victory Hoops. Victory Hoops. [laughter]. They called it Victory Hoops. They. called it Victory Hoops. The field was. narrowed to eight contestants who. competed before the president on Tuesday.

night, clambering through a ninja. warrior style obstacle course while. wearing red. We're so freaking cooked. We're so cooked. [snorts] Oh boy. One. boy and one girl were crowned champions. and each was given a 125,000. scholarship. ESPN has streamed more than. 26 hours of this content. And [laughter]. this guy goes, he goes, the reporter. goes, I could barely follow how the. various events were scored. It was like.

watching a nationally televised field. day. And then it said, uh, Trump came. the last day. He was front and center. watching the grand finale unfold and. eyeing the golden trophies that he could. present. But who are these contestants? How are they chosen? Why these random. events? What does this say about our. country? The biographies of these kids. suggested that the organizers might have. struggled with recruitment in some deep. blue jurisdictions. The boy representing.

Puerto Rico has a southern accent and. resides in Texas. Elsie Bukart was the. contestant for Vermont, but her hometown. was listed as Ohio. Her cousin Rebecca. Roberts competed for Maine, but her. hometown was Cornish, New Hampshire. Bobby Vickers was representing. Massachusetts, but she's from. California. I get a bunch of questions. like, "Why are you representing. Massachusetts and not your home state?". But I think it's really cool because a. lot of my family is from there. And my.

favorite basketball team is actually the. Boston Celtics. I'll show you some. B-roll right here as Donald Trump. creepily dances with these high school. white kids at the event right here. I'll. show you the this is the male and female. 14 and 17 year old athletes uh arriving. at the Patriot Games. I'll show you this. right here.

And uh this is apparently that we paid. million. This is what our taxpayer money. is going to here. I'll show you this. [music].

[music]. >> [music]. >> And then I'll give a hat tip to Myron.

Clifton who did a recap of it just so. you can see for yourself what this. looked like. This is Myron Clifton's. recap here. Play this clip. >> Yes. So, I watched these Patriot games. on ESPN so you didn't have to. Here's a. quick recap of the whole mess that was. at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio. Now, they had this little game. right here where they a little agility. deal, and this guy is named after Ronald.

Reagan and David Dukes. And there he is. doing this little agility. And they did. [laughter]. the cannonball. I don't know what this. is. The girls, they were there as well. Oh, this is. She ain't no Shakari Richardson, but. that's all right. You know, you're in. high school, you learning how to hurdle. that. That's it. I found Brother Man out. there. He was playing kickball. Man, you. should have kicked that ball back to. Cleveland. They had [clears throat]. dodgeball. [laughter]. This is like when you have rainy day at. school. You just do some indoor um.

activities. And after one day, this is. the leaderboard. You got Brendan. Rockwell. See these little names? You got Kylie. and Bridget. You got a Tegan. You know, all solid names. I found Brother Man. again. Like, go on, Mr. Man. I saw. something here. Get Life 360. So, everybody know where. you are, sister. They did this thing.

where you kick these little these little. balls and they stick up there, right? I. forget that little game we play when. we're kids. Then they had them throw the. ball through here and then these were. moving targets. And then they [laughter]. my man Rockwell Meyers is that that's a. real name. He he went tumbling over this. little pyramid scheme. And then they did. the monkey bars. But you know what? They. weren't even skipping bars. I used to be. able to skip three bars. But Mr. Rockwell Meyers, you know, they had uh.

what is this? Pull of war. Tug of war. And you know, okay. And they even did. this little Dave and Busters little. basketball. [laughter]. This is too [clears throat] much. And. then they had like American Ninja. Warrior course. It was the Patriot. course. I thought these were cast cuz I. thought that was Lindsey Graham and. Mitch McConnell, but those are just I. don't know course or something. See, that's just the course and they were. doing like a marriage ninja warrior but. about 100 times easier. They had this.

little deal right here, right? And then I was looking, you know, these. are like some of the the crowd. It. wasn't really a big crowd there. Mostly. like a repass. And then um yeah, he was. there cuz there were kids. That's a. better shot of the crowd. I see. something up there. Mr. Man, I see you. up there, sir. They'll either go to. college and get athletics or, you know, they they might do something else. I. don't know. Reminds me when I was in the. junior Olympics. That's me right there. I got the silver medal in the 50 and my.

cousin got the uh gold. She never let me. forget about it. It was a lot of fun. So, congratulations to all the winners. You know, you you basically rose up to. my level when I was 12 years old. Good. job. >> Well, there you have it, everybody. Oh, here's Donald Trump saying it was going. to be the the event with the greatest. athletes ever. This is Trump's I I'll. give you my grand reveal. This is what. Donald after you've seen all of that. Here's how Donald Trump described what. this event was going to be. Let's play. it. In the fall, we will host the first. ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented.

4-day athletic event featuring the. greatest high school athletes, one young. man and one young woman from each state. and territory. But I promise there will. And doesn't that just sum it all up, though. I'm sorry. I was like crying. This thing was so. bizarre. But but here's the Let's get serious. though for a moment as well. Donald. Trump said this is going to be the. greatest event, the best athletes, the. biggest and the best. But. this is what this is everything. This is.

painted blue on the reflecting pool. This is Pete Hegsith running the defense. department. This is Operation Epic Fury. They give it the name. This is, you. know, this this this is 90 deals in 90. days. This is tariffs make us rich. This. is we brought in $19.1 trillion. This is uh we've never been hotter. This. is this is this is this is who he is.

This is who he is. And authoritarian, check. Incompetent, check. A bad evil. person, check. A sexual predator, check. A felon, check. you know, a bad bad bad. person. Check. Someone who bankrupted. companies. Check. He he he's he's. bad at doing things. He's bad at doing.

things like like what the hell is that? You know, you could have done the best. athletes in the this and the that. You. could have brought in the best musical. talent, you know, with in the America. 250. You could have done it. You could. have done the fireworks great and not. screwed them all up by doing all the. fireworks at once. So all it was was a. bunch of smoke and and and this you. could extrapolate this to the broader. issues facing our country right now. For. real. I just don't get the guy's a loser.

The guy's an effing loser. He's a loser. Don't you see? He hangs out with losers. And by the way, him hanging out with. losers, that's a step up from the types. of people he loved hanging out with. during the 80s and the 90s and the early. 2000s. The Pedos who were his friends. So, I guess losers is a step up. But. some of those losers are pedos, too. And they cover up child sex trafficking. All right. Um, enough. Enough of me.

Enough of me. Anyway, thanks. Thanks for. watching everybody. We appreciate you. >> 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. [music]. [music].