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5 min readThe World Is Burning and Trump Is Posting About It
The US 10-year treasury yield broke 5 percent. Mortgage rates pushed through 7 percent. Brent crude approached $110 a barrel, with WTI at $105 and dated oil trading at $122. The East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia suffered massive damage after a second pumping station was hit by the Houthis, blocking five to seven million barrels of oil from getting out. And Donald Trump was in Ireland, standing next to the Irish prime minister, telling reporters that the Houthis had called him begging to do a deal — a claim the Houthi leadership immediately denied, calling him a clown. This is the split screen of September 2026, and the MeidasTouch hosts spend the episode walking through each piece of it.
The Houthi Advance and the Collapse of Saudi Strategy
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:06) **Trump's Catastrophic First Term Collapse** - The hosts open with a rapid-fire list of domestic and international crises, framing the episode as a survey of Trump's failures.
- 2 (02:17) **Trump's Ireland Trip: Houthi Lies and a BRICS Rebuke** - Trump fabricates a phone call with the Houthis while the BRICS summit in New Delhi elevates Iran as a global player.
- 3 (04:39) **Don Jr.'s Russian Oligarch Wedding** - ProPublica exposes that a Russian oligarch paid for Don Jr.'s wedding, revealing ongoing Kremlin ties.
- 4 (09:28) **Trump Blames Zelensky for Diesel Prices** - Trump posts that Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries, not his own Iran war, are causing global diesel surges.
- 5 (11:07) **Houthi Advances and Saudi Panic** - The Houthis capture US-made tanks from Saudi-backed forces, sending the Saudi monarchy into "strategic shock."
- 6 (15:36) **The Full Retreat of US Power** - The hosts argue Trump has destroyed US hard and soft power, creating a vacuum filled by rivals.
- 7 (19:23) **Trump's Nuclear Lesson: Iran Will Fast-Track a Bomb** - Trump admits he would negotiate with a nuclear-armed Iran, directly incentivizing Tehran to build a weapon.
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Show Notes
On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, Ben, Brett and Jordy discuss the bombshell report that a Russian oligarch close to Putin secretly bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding. They break down Trump’s disastrous trip to Ireland, his escalating lies about Iran and the Houthis, and the rapid collapse of American influence as BRICS gains strength. The brothers also examine surging oil prices, Treasury yields above 5%, mortgage rates topping 7%, and Trump’s desperate attempt to blame Ukraine for the economic fallout from his wars. Finally, they discuss the Supreme Court’s major decision rejecting Trump’s emergency request to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.
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