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Trump LOSES IT in DISASTER BRIEFING with GOP OVER INVASION

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Trump LOSES IT in DISASTER BRIEFING with GOP OVER INVASION", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 6, 2026 (17 min, about 2,907 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Nicolás Maduro, Cognitive test (cognitive exam), Republicans in Congress, The New York Times Magazine, Deli Rodriguez.

What this episode is about

Donald Trump faced backlash during a briefing with Republicans regarding his controversial justification for the invasion of Venezuela, which he attributed in part to Venezuelan leader Maduro's attempts to imitate his dance moves. He also proposed discussions with oil companies about drilling efforts, suggesting that American taxpayers could subsidize up to $100 billion to support these ventures, despite oil companies' hesitations about investing in the region.

Key takeaways

  • When the reason for invasion is a dance-off, geopolitics has officially entered farce mode.
  • Taxpayer-subsidized oil drilling in Venezuela: a new twist on the phrase 'dancing with the devil.'
  • Trump's cognitive test brags may miss the bigger picture: perception often trumps reality in politics.
  • Canceling elections isn't just dictatorial; it’s a baffling campaign strategy that leaves voters in a headspin.
  • In Trump’s world, if you can’t outdance your opponent, just invade their country. Talk about stepping to the beat!

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Republicans in Congress, The New York Times Magazine
  2. – 6:00: The New York Times Magazine, Aaron Rer, Republicans in Congress
  3. – 9:00: Willy's Social Tonics, Willy's THC Infused Social Tonic
  4. – 12:00: Deli Rodriguez
  5. – 15:00: Boeing, F-35, Tariff King, Tim Scott
  6. – 17:12: midasplus.com

Notable quotes from "Trump LOSES IT in DISASTER BRIEFING with GOP OVER INVASION"

  • Donald Trump just had a disastrous briefing with Republicans in Congress on the invasion of Venezuela. Donald Trump held this disastrous briefing at the Kennedy Center. Just take a look at what Donald Trump looked like during this.
    about Republicans in Congress · at
  • Cognitive exams, mental tests, like then as Aaron Rer says, checking in on the president here, play this clip.
    about Aaron Rer · at
  • Last night? Now you could have fun and relax without any of the regrets with Willy's THC infused social tonic. For anyone trying to be more intentional this year, Willies gives…
    about Willy's THC Infused Social Tonic · at
  • Venezuela right now. The latest reports that they're actually paramilitary groups loyal to Deli Rodriguez who is in the Maduro regime authoritarian who's now leading Venezuela.…
    about Deli Rodriguez · at
  • 900%, cuz that's what it really is. Then Donald Trump randomly says that Senator Tim Scott, he Trump asks, he's a straight guy, right? He's a straight guy. Play this clip.
    about Tim Scott · at
  • He talks about checking a tariff shelf.
    about Tariff King · at
  • Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our Substack at midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipowski, ad free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at midasplus.com.
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Companies & orgs

  • Republicans in Congress — Company · 3 mentions · first at
  • The New York Times Magazine — Company · 3 mentions · first at
    Now the New York Times, the Journal and others reported that one of the main reasons for this invasion was actually was this is what as all these good sources are saying that Donald Trump was.
  • Boeing — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Salesman of the year. I said, What about salesman of the in the history of Boeing? I've sold more Boeing planes than any man in history by far.
  • midasplus.com — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • The Wall Street Journal — Company · 1 mention

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  • Willy's Social Tonics — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Delivering a fast acting, euphoric social buzz without the regrets that come with alcohol. Willy's Social Tonics come in 5 milligram and 10 milligram doses with a best-in-class…
  • F-35 — Product · 1 mention · first at
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Full transcript with timestamps

Donald Trump just had a disastrous briefing with Republicans in Congress on the invasion of Venezuela. Donald Trump held this disastrous briefing at the Kennedy Center. Just take a look at what Donald Trump looked like during this briefing. I mean, these are real photos, not AI. This is how he was behaving. This is completely and utterly humiliating for the United States. Donald Trump was explaining why he invaded Venezuela and said, "You know, the thing about Maduro is that he tried to imitate my dance a little bit and I didn't like the way Maduro was dancing."

Now the New York Times, the Journal and others reported that one of the main reasons for this invasion was actually was this is what as all these good sources are saying that Donald Trump was upset at Maduro's dancing and that he thought that the dancing was trying to outshine Trump's dancing. Here, play this clip.

And uh you know, he's a violent guy. He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit,

but he's a violent guy. Then Donald Trump says to the Republicans in Congress who are there at the uh Kennedy Center that he will be meeting with all of the oil companies. And he says, "You know what? We're going to be discussing right drill baby drill in Venezuela." Here, play this clip.

With them all, 14 companies. I'm meeting with them all. I'm also meeting with oil companies. Let's go. You know, you know what that's about. We got a lot of oil to drill which is going to bring down oil prices even further. But now one of the important things to point out is that Donald Trump is also discussing that the American taxpayers will subsidize this. It could be as much as a hundred billion dollars of taxpayer dollars subsidizing oil companies to go into Venezuela because the oil companies don't want to spend their own capital expenditures there. They don't think it's a wise investment. And so the taxpayers, according to Donald Trump, may be footing the bill. Donald Trump then starts talking about cognitive exams and he goes, "I'm the only president to pass a cognitive exam."

Let's show you this clip right here. I believe in it. I'm the only one that took a cognitive test. I do med. It's the worst.

Then Donald Trump asks the Republicans sitting there, "Why don't the American people like what we're doing?" He says, "All of our policies are great. What the hell is going on in the mind of the public? Because we have all of the right policies. Trump says, first off, what the hell are your policies other than destroying the American economy, destroying the lives of 99.9% of Americans, getting into wars everywhere, and behaving like an utter maniac. Here, play this clip.

But they say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So, you're all brilliant people. Most of you are in this business longer than me. That makes me smarter than you because look where I am, right? No, it doesn't. But I wish you could uh explain to me what the hell's going on with the mind of the public because we have a we have the right policy. They don't. They have horrible policy. They do stick together. They're violent. They're vicious. You know, they're vicious people. Then Donald Trump says that he's upset at his staff more than the New York Times for reports about his deteriorating health and slowing down. He goes, "Why' my staff only say that I did one thing in this day when I've did lots of things in this day? So, I'm more mad at my staff than the New York Times." Here, play this clip.

My people gave out a report. He had lunch. They shall report lunch with somebody and uh they did a story. Donald Trump is slowing down. He only had lunch and then he went back up and he said that's malfecence to whoever did. Right. No, it's terrible. I was actually more angry with my people than I was with the New York Times. But but they wrote a story and it takes you a period of time to recover from these hits. And it's almost no matter what you do, but you have to keep a positive eye. But we have a fake press. We now as Donald Trump is briefing the Republicans in Congress, not the full Congress, by the way. He says he briefed the oil companies first.

Briefing the Republicans at the Kennedy Center, which he's vandalized, and calls the Trump Kennedy Center. Donald Trump then continues to talk about cognitive exams and that every president needs to take one. Here, play this clip. We should give everybody like these competency tests, right? The cognitive, they call it cognitive. You know, I'm the only president that went for cognitive. I think every president and vice president should be forced to take cognitive exams, mental tests, like uh

then as Aaron Rer says, checking in on the president here, play this clip. I want to really Yeah. when she gets it. And next, Donald Trump says uh that uh he he he phrases this as a joke. He goes, "Maybe we should just cancel the elections." He goes, "Why do we even have to run against Democrats? Why do we even have to run against these people? I won't say cancel the election because if I do, everyone will say he's a dictator. He's a dictator." Then Donald Trump randomly says, "Nobody is worse than Obama. just starts going after Obama.

Here, play this clip. We had the worst president. Did the worst job. They had the worst policy. We have to even run against these people. Now, I won't say cancel the election. They should cancel the election because the fake news will say he wants the elections canled. He's a dictator. They always call me a dictator. Who? Nobody's worse than Obama. And again, in this speech that was, I guess, supposed to be about invading Venezuela, Donald Trump starts again talking about Maduro's dancing verse his dancing. Then he goes, "You know, I'm a good dancer that people like to see me dance." And my wife tells me that I shouldn't dance. And she says, "Would FDR be dancing?" I mean, FDR had polio and was confined to a wheelchair, Donald, but uh what are you talking about here? Play this clip.

She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right? She said, it's so unpresidential. I said, but I did become president. You know, somebody, she hates when I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance, darling. It's not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me. And I said there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know because he was an elegant fellow even as a democrat right he was the attack by Japan you know he was quite elegant but he wouldn't be doing this but but nor would too many others but she says darling please the weightlifting is terrible and I have to say this the dancing they really like She said, "They don't like it. They're just being nice to you." I said, "That's not right." The place goes crazy.

They're screaming, "Dance, please." But the weightlifting, but no, the girl gets up. And you see, I want to be more, but I have somebody watching. I want to be more affusive. I want to really Yeah. But she gets and Huh? Dropped the thing. Walks off the stage crying. Her mother's crying. Her father's

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but here's in Donald Trump's world. Everybody right now in Venezuela is cheering when actually people are very scared in Venezuela. They don't know what's really happening. They don't know who's in control right now. And I think even the Venezuelan community in South Florida is like, "I thought you were going to put Maria Karina Machado, not someone else from the Maduro regime. How are we supposed to return to Venezuela if the Maduro regime through Deli Rodriguez is still basically running the show here? Play this clip." So we have We can't let them forget that we did such a great job on the border. By the way Venezuela everyone they're marching in the streets. They love it.

Except in New York. I mean, where they find these people? These people, and they're not like, these people are a mess. I know it's not nice to say that. These people are a mess. Where do they find these people? They are the worst looking people I've ever seen. They really They got hats that are all frayed and all they look like. They're all paid. They're all they don't even know what they're talk when the people the reporters don't interview them because they know that it's you know the reporters the press is so anti it's hard to believe the press could be so anti cuz it's all common sense you know it's not we're a conservative we're conser whatever

then Donald Trump attacks the press randomly play this clip it's not even conservative it's common sense but the press has no credibility whatsoever think of it I got 97% bad stories on one network, 93% on the other, and I won in a landslide. You know what that means? The press has no credibility. That's all it means. And we got to keep it that way. So, I don't talk too much.

Trump says he loves just seeing how good the soldiers look in DC. He says, "I just think they look really good." Here, play this clip.

And I don't know about you, but to me, those soldiers standing there look so good. I don't I'm not going to feel safe walking down the street without them. I don't think you would either. Even though, you know, we took out all so many criminals, I just feel better. To me, they they're beautiful. I look at these soldiers and uh you feel safe. You feel safe. I don't think if we took them out, even if the crime wasn't much, it would definitely be more. We did a great job in Chicago. Trump continues to go on and say that he's reducing drug prices by a,000%. And he goes, he goes, "The way you could do the math, it's two ways. You could either say they're down 90%. Or they're down a,000%. I don't know. It's not You can't have something down a,000% or down anything more than 100%. But actually, drug prices are going up and 350 drug prices went up this year versus 250 drug prices that went up last year. And drug prices are

going up about the rate of inflation, which continues to go up. Play this clip.

From 10 to 20 or 30. And ours would go from $13 down to meaning $130 down to 20 or 30. So it's a huge drop for us. Now depending depending on the way you calculated it could be thousands of percent down. It could also be 90% and 80%. You know there's two ways of calcul I don't know if you know they said Donald Trump exaggerate. Now, there are two ways of calculating it, but calculate it at 80 90%. But the other way is more accurate, like 900%, cuz that's what it really is. Then Donald Trump randomly says that Senator Tim Scott, he Trump asks, he's a straight guy, right? He's a straight guy. Play this clip.

Tim Scott, who's a great guy, great, wonderful guy, South Carolina, straight guy, right? He is a good guy, good person. Trump then says that he's the king because he sells Boeings. I'm the king. I sell Boeings. Play this clip.

A big problem with it. I'm the king. I I have sold more Boeings than any human being on earth. They gave me award salesman of the year. I said, "What about salesman of the in the history of Boeing? I've sold more Boeing planes than any man in history by by far. Probably over a thousand over a thousand planes." They said, "That's the good news. But why should they wait 3 four years to get a plane? They should build them get them immediately. the F-35.

He talks about checking a tariff shelf. Play this clip. What are you saying? We don't know where it came from. I said, "Check the tariff shelf." Sir, that tariff doesn't start until September. He said, "No, no, it started about a month and a half ago. Check it." Comes back 25 minutes later. Sir, you were right. It came from tariffs. This never happened to us before. where we find plus 39 billion, not million, plus 39 billion. They were missing. And then he says he likes religious people because they're honest, but some religious people aren't honest. Play this clip.

Religious. I like that. He's a religious person. I like that. I like religious people. It usually means they're more honest. Sometimes it doesn't happen that way. I've had the I've had some real religious ones that did numbers on me and I said I'm going to get them someday. They got me by surprise, but it's usually good. Okay. Right. And uh his name is Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson. And then finally, while Donald Trump was doing this, he then called uh he then called Joe Scarbor. And here's what he said about invading. the difference between invading Venezuela versus Iraq.

Here, play this clip. He asked him, I said, "Mr. President, when you say, quote, "We're going to run everything," it obviously causes deep concerns because of the disaster in Iraq. The president's response, Joe, the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn't keep the oil. We're going to keep the oil. And to underline his point, Trump said his comments were no longer on background. Instead, in 2016, I said we should have kept the oil. It caused a lot of controversy. Well, we should have kept the oil, the president said. And we're going to rebuild their broken down oil facilities, and this time we're going to keep the oil. Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. And thanks for watching.

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Questions about this episode

What is "Trump LOSES IT in DISASTER BRIEFING with GOP OVER INVASION" about?

Donald Trump faced backlash during a briefing with Republicans regarding his controversial justification for the invasion of Venezuela, which he attributed in part to Venezuelan leader Maduro's attempts to imitate his dance moves. He also proposed discussions with oil companies about drilling efforts, suggesting that American taxpayers could subsidize up to $100 billion to support these…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

16 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Nicolás Maduro, Cognitive test (cognitive exam), Republicans in Congress, The New York Times Magazine, Deli Rodriguez, Joe Scarborough. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump LOSES IT in DISASTER BRIEFING with GOP OVER INVASION"?

The episode runs 17 min; the transcript is about 2,907 words in 30 timestamped sections.

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