The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Suffers Birthday Disaster with Total Crash Out

18 min
Jun 13, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

The episode discusses Trump's failed attempt to cover up the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center by building scaffolding and draping it, which violated a court order. It also covers symbolic failures of the Trump administration, including weather concerns for a UFC event at the White House and controversial dealings with Iran involving billions in funding.

Insights
  • Trump's administration prioritizes optics and cover-ups over compliance, as evidenced by the Kennedy Center incident where scaffolding was erected to hide name removal rather than simply taking it down
  • The Trump-Iran negotiations represent a significant shift in foreign policy, with the administration providing substantially more financial concessions than the Obama-era JCPOA deal
  • Iranian officials view Trump as mentally unfit, requiring psychological consultation to manage diplomatic communications effectively
  • The UFC event at the White House presents multiple safety and logistical risks including severe weather warnings, tornado potential, and aviation safety concerns from lighting systems
  • The administration's focus on symbolic gestures like statue regilding contrasts sharply with economic hardship facing average Americans
Trends
Escalating use of psychological profiling in international diplomacy as a negotiation strategyMassive financial transfers to Iran through multiple Middle Eastern intermediaries (UAE, Qatar) totaling tens of billionsSafety and regulatory concerns surrounding novel large-scale construction projects on federal propertyIncreased transparency demands around classified government documents (Epstein files, JFK assassination records)Weather-related disruptions to high-profile political events becoming more frequent and severeSymbolic political messaging through architectural and aesthetic changes as governance strategyAviation safety incidents related to high-intensity lighting systems near major airports
Topics
Kennedy Center name removal and court order complianceTrump administration cover-up tactics and symbolismUFC event at White House and weather safety concernsIran-US nuclear negotiations and funding frameworkJCPOA comparison to current Iran deal structureUAE and Qatar financial involvement in Iran negotiationsJared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's Albania island development projectAlbanian protests and environmental law changesIranian government psychological assessment of TrumpFAA aviation safety incidents from UFC lightingTornado warnings and severe weather forecasts for Washington DC areaEpstein files and classified document transparencyJFK assassination record disclosure demandsWhite House South Lawn construction and regulatory challengesStatue regilding project and federal spending priorities
Companies
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Trump's name was ordered removed from the building; administration built scaffolding to hide removal process
UFC
Major event scheduled at White House with safety concerns from severe weather and lighting systems affecting aircraft
People
Donald Trump
Central figure; violated court order regarding Kennedy Center name removal; negotiating Iran deal
Jared Kushner
Attempting to develop Trump and Steen Island project in Albania with Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
Co-developing Albania island project with Jared Kushner; facing public protests
Charles Matthew Flaca
Signed declaration explaining delay in removing Trump's name due to thunderstorms
Eddie Rama
Colluded with Kushner and Ivanka on island project; blamed Iran for protests
Joe Rogan
Quoted expressing frustration about unreleased Epstein files and JFK assassination records
Scott McFarland
Broke exclusive reporting on UFC lighting safety incidents affecting commercial aircraft
Aaron Pardas
Reported on UFC construction site lighting causing aviation safety concerns near Reagan National Airport
JD Vance
Mentioned in context of Iran refusing in-person meeting with Trump administration officials
Benjamin Netanyahu
Criticized for entering war with Iran and committing genocide in Palestine and Lebanon
Barack Obama
Negotiated JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran; contrasted with Trump's current Iran negotiations
Quotes
"It's a literal coverup, just like the Epstein files. It's a literal coverup in plain view. I mean, the entire world is laughing at him."
HostMid-episode
"In Iran, they quite literally view Donald Trump as being psychologically ill. Like they've diagnosed him as actually being mentally ill and mentally unfit."
HostMid-episode
"Where the fuck are these Epstein files? Who the fuck is this? Why is this redacted? Who the fuck killed JFK?"
Joe RoganMid-episode
"The reason that this took so long was because of the thunderstorms. That's why it took us so long, really, because it only took you a few hours or less to actually put your name on the thing in the first place."
HostEarly-episode
"Folks, I know this was top of your mind. We're getting the statues regilded right now. We did it, mission accomplished, mission accomplished."
HostLate-episode
Full Transcript
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Donald Trump is facing sudden disaster, utter humiliation before the entire world, a day before his birthday, his plan to build the scaffolding in front of the Kennedy Center so he could put drapes over the removal of his name, utterly backfired. All it has demonstrated is the symbolism that all this regime knows how to do is cover up everything. A cover up in plain sight in the dark of the night, building a scaffolding to try to hide the removal of his name, vandalizing the Kennedy Center in the dark of the night, violating court orders. Is there any more symbolic thing than that? Actually, there is because there are massive storms projected for tomorrow during the UFC fight at the White House. There's even a tornado warning in the area. Lightning is expected with thunderstorms, of course. There are steel cages. It's going to be over 90 degrees. This is a recipe for disaster right there. And speaking of just the symbolism of it all, Donald Trump had to violate a court order because the court said by 1159, take your name off that damn Kennedy Center and Trump had to build the scaffolding. Then he lied to the court and said, look, the reason that this took so long was because of the thunderstorms. That's why it took us so long, really, because it only took you a few hours or less to actually put your name on the thing in the first place. No, it took long because you were building the scaffolding in order to hide the removal because you are such a pathetic human being. I kid you not, in a court filing, Team Trump said thunderstorms caused the Kennedy Center to violate the court order and fail to remove Trump's name by the 1159 PM deadline. The filing doesn't explain why they waited till the last minute to do the job. Isn't that just, again, perfectly symbolic of the failure of this falling and collapsing regime? Here, this was the declaration. Declaration of Charles Matthew Matt, Matt in quotes of Flaca. In accordance with the provisions of 28 USC, I, Charles Matthew Flaca, state as follows. I currently serve as the executive director and chief operating officer of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In this capacity, I exercise operational authority over all institutional departments, managing complex integration of both trust and federal functions, including all elements of the center's physical footprint. The matters set forth in this declaration are true and correct for my own personal knowledge and from information made available to me in the course of my official duties. I make this declaration to explain why defendants, meaning Trump and the regime, need additional time to submit compliance declaration required by the court's order. Work to remove physical signage from the Kennedy Center front portico, signage purporting to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump is ongoing. That work was delayed earlier today, June 12th, due to thunderstorms, which presented safety concerns to workers completing the compliance task. I expect the work to conclude in the early hours of the morning on June 13th, 2026. Look, there were thunderstorms, but we saw the workers up there on the scaffolding. You waited until the last minute and you built this scaffolding so you can put the drapes over it versus just going using the crane to take it down in the first place. That's what really went down, but all again, this highlighted is how pathetic Donald Trump is on his 80th birthday. Then they confirmed that they've now removed Trump's name from the building, but you see what it looks like right now? It's a literal coverup, just like the Epstein files. It's a literal coverup in plain view. I mean, the entire world is laughing at him. Oh, and then you have Jared Kushner and Ivanka's plan to create that Trump and Steen Island blowing up as the Albanian people are like, don't take over our island Kushner and Ivanka. We don't want you to do some weird right wing oligarch. We don't know what you're gonna do in there. Stay the hell out. We don't want you there. There were massive protests. They had to change the environmental laws, as you know, to allow Ivanka and Jared to take over this island. By the way, it's now putting Albania's ascension to the European Union in jeopardy and their Prime Minister, Eddie Rama, who colluded with Kushner and Ivanka. He's now putting out statements accusing Iran. Accusing Iran of doing this. That's where they're going with this. You must be an idiot to deny the active involvement of a hostile country. The only hostile country the Republic of Albania has. It is the Communist Republic of Iran. You must be an idiot to say that Iran has no involvement. When the spokesperson for the Iranian government himself writes clearly, Rama out in Albanian. You're saying that Iran is responsible for the Albanian protests because Jared Kushner and Ivanka took over an environmentally protected island and they wanted to turn it into the Trump and Steen Island and the people of Albania like don't do it. That was Iran's fault. Oh yeah, it was definitely, definitely Iran's fault. I mean, all of Trump's allies like this are people that these are the most pathetic human beings. As I noted at the outset, the most likely place in the USA to see a tornado tomorrow, as Ryan Hall explains, is around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington DC and Baltimore. It's a level one risk for tornadoes, but a significant chance that there will be thunderstorms and lightning and rain during this UFC match. I wanna talk briefly though as well because Donald Trump is so thirsty now and so desperate to do this deal with Iran. And I mean, he's basically given Iran everything that they want to. Let me be very clear where I stand. We should never have been in this catastrophic war in the first place. It was unlawful. You had Trump and Netanyahu going into this. They've caused absolute disaster. Netanyahu's committing a genocide in Palestine and in Lebanon and that needs to be stopped immediately. So I just wanna be very clear about my position. Donald Trump though and Netanyahu went in, braggadocious and bravah, we're gonna make them submit. And Donald Trump's basically given Iran everything. And but here's some news right out of Iran though. So the Iranian negotiators had to enlist a psychologist in order to tailor diplomatic communications in discussions with Trump because in Iran, they quite literally view Donald Trump as being psychologically ill. Like they've diagnosed him as actually being mentally ill and mentally unfit. So they enlisted a team of psychologists and psychiatrists in order just to be able to kind of communicate with his perceived mental state. They view him as a declining and deteriorating mentally ill patient. And that's how they have to treat it very clinically because of his perceived mental illness basically. Okay, so where do we stand right now? Pakistani officials say that Iran-US agreement will be signed electronically on Sunday. Iraqi implied the foreign minister of Iran that this was the case in a lengthy interview for Iran State TV yesterday. There's not gonna be an in-person component. Iran, they don't wanna send their people to stand next to JD Vance and Donald Trump. Now, to be clear, I shouldn't really call this a deal. It is a framework to negotiate a deal at a later time. And then to have discussions about the nuclear file, Iran's nuclear program, maybe in 60 days or maybe later. But in the meantime, Iran gets all of these funds. And so remember, you had Donald Trump attacking former president Obama, oh my God, bags of cash when there wasn't any bags of cash, right? I mean, former president Obama in getting the JCPOA, the non-nuclear deal with Iran done during Obama's second year in office, second term in office, unfroze $1.8 billion of Iranian money from decades back. That was part of it. But it was this comprehensive multilateral deal that was absolutely working. It was a tough negotiated deal. Donald Trump now has basically worked with the United Arab Emirates who have already given Iran $3 billion. $10 billion, $12 billion more is expected. Also, we're now learning Qatar is coming in and Qatar has proposed a $12 billion package for Iran as well. 6 billion would come from releasing Iran's frozen funds in Qatar, while another 6 billion would be provided as a loan or credit line short. Probably gonna be a loan that will be forgiven right away, but they're gonna call it a loan. So you have another 12 billion there. You have, what, 30 billion from the United Arab Emirates. You can see how this will add up very quickly, hundreds of billions of dollars being given to Iran at the end of this. We talked yesterday about the United Arab Emirates giving this money. Now we know Qatar is as well. Iran's foreign ministry said that we're not going to Geneva, we're not doing this signing thing. And I'll just say this right now, you have all of MAGA just like, what in the world is going on with this regime? You had Joe Rogan saying, going back to the cover-up theme of this video, he's like, where's the Epstein files? What the hell is even going on here? Play this clip right here. Well, sometimes it's like you just get fed up. You're like, where the fuck are these Epstein files? Who the fuck is this? Why is this redacted? Who the fuck killed JFK? Like come out with it. Who fucking killed Charlie Kirk for real? What is that? Why is that fucking story so clouded in mystery? Why do they pave over the fucking ground right after the shooting? What the fuck is going on there? See, now you're making me an abad man. It's easy to do. Then you have Scott McFarland from the Midas Touch Network with an exclusive scoop that Aaron Pardas from the Midas Touch Network broke about this UFC. And this is again, talking about symbolism. The UFC ring, which has all of these like neon lights and lights going everywhere, it's making it very difficult for pilots to see. Scott McFarland broke down the exclusive reporting at the Midas Touch Network. Here's what McFarland said with the plate. A commercial airline pilot near Reagan National Airport earlier this week reported a safety concern or safety incident from a lighting incident, potentially from the UFC construction site and display on the White House South Lawn. That's the reporting according to Aaron Pardas and Midas Touch Network. The pilot under the condition of anonymity described the incident as being much brighter by orders of magnitude than the type of light safety incidents that are caused by those laser pointers, which have been a menace to commercial airline pilots nationwide, multiple times more powerful than the light distraction, the disorientation that can be caused by a laser pointer. The commercial airline pilot has submitted a report, a complaint about the incident with the FAA and with NASA, according to Aaron Pardas's reporting. Request for comment from the FAA was not immediately returned, though the FAA's press office tends to be a business hour weekday operation according to an outgoing message from the FAA. But this does raise questions about just how safe this very novel construction site is. We never seen anything like the UFC claw that's been constructed on the White House South Lawn. There've been questions about whether it could do damage to the White House grounds and whether it was lawful. There was a lawsuit that challenged it, but failed earlier in the week. This is the latest question or concern about the White House UFC event, which weather permitting, a big asterisk, weather permitting goes off Sunday night here in Washington. And then again, going back to the symbolism of this all, I'll leave you with this. This is a real post from Donald Trump. This is what he's focused on right now. Well, the American people are suffering, living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck being psychologically tortured by this regime, can't afford a home, can't afford rent. Here's what Donald Trump posts. Regilding of the massive arts of war sculptures located between the Lincoln Memorial and the site of the triumphal arch rapidly continues. The sculptures will be fully regilded by July 3rd. The photos below were taken from our country. The Gilders studio has flown Gilders from around the country to perform this work. Folks, I know this was top of your mind. We're getting the statues regilded right now. We did it, mission accomplished, mission accomplished. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe, let's get to seven million subscribers. Keep the pressure up. Keep the pressure up, we got this. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts and more all at store.mitastouch.com. Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand. Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time from startups to scale ups online, in person and on the go. Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.