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5 min readDonald Trump stood in front of a crowd in Nebraska and said that if Iran struck Los Angeles and San Diego with nuclear weapons, it would be “a very small price to pay.” He made the remark while jerking his hand in the air in a gesture that looked like pressing a button. The crowd laughed. Governor Gavin Newsom responded by directing California’s threat assessment center to monitor whether foreign actors might interpret the president’s words as an invitation to target the state. Ben Meiselas, host of the MeidasTouch Podcast, spent much of this episode arguing that the media’s instinct to explain away Trump’s words as “rally speak” is dangerous and that the country is now living through a cascade of crises — war, plague, economic pain — that the administration is both causing and lying about.
The war in Ukraine is escalating, not ending
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- 1 (00:20) **World in Flames: Escalation in Ukraine and the Middle East** - Ben opens with a rapid-fire overview of multiple global crises unfolding simultaneously.
- 2 (02:28) **Trump's "Small Price to Pay" Nuclear Comments Spark Backlash** - Ben details Trump's remarks at a Nebraska expo where he suggested nuclear strikes on San Diego and Los Angeles would be a "small price to pay."
- 3 (05:40) **The Economic Reality of the Strait of Hormuz** - Ben dismantles the Trump administration's narrative that oil flow is normal, citing skyrocketing shipping costs and satellite data.
- 4 (08:49) **Zelensky Warns of Massive Russian Strike; Ukraine's Defense Gaps** - Ben reads Zelensky's urgent plea for interceptors and discusses Ukraine's asymmetric capabilities.
- 5 (11:23) **Visual Evidence of the War: Drone Strikes and Infrastructure Damage** - Ben walks through footage of attacks on both sides of the conflict.
- 6 (14:00) **The Saudi Blackout: Information Control and Ansarallah Strikes** - Ben explains the difficulty of getting information out of Saudi Arabia due to severe legal consequences.
- 7 (16:42) **Three Billion Barrels Lost: The Long-Term Energy Crisis** - Ben reveals a staggering statistic from the CEO of Saudi Aramco about the war's impact on global oil supply.
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