Meidas RESPONDS to Trump Approval CRASHING

By Ben Meiselas

At the start of this week, I told you in my Monday message that I thought the tide was turning strongly against Trump. I felt confident that if we held strong, Trump’s approval would plummet. As I write this on Friday, that’s exactly what happened. Thanks to our subscribers here on Substack as well (please subscribe now if you can).

This week, polls were released by Pew Research, Fox, and Reuters/Ipsos. In all of the polls, Trump has by far the lowest approval in the history of any modern president.

Donald Trump spent yesterday morning attacking Rupert Murdoch for what Trump claimed was a “fake poll.”

When you look at the cross-tabs of each poll, Trump has lost major support and now has very low approvals among Latino Americans and 18-29-year-old Americans—groups that were somehow very helpful to Trump in the 2024 election. Trump’s approval is now lower than in his disastrous first term.

The polls have Trump severely underwater on his handling of the economy. The polls have Trump underwater on immigration. Even the Fox News poll shows more people disapprove of Trump’s handling of immigration than those who approve.

All of the polls show that, by margins of over 90 percent, Americans demand Trump follow Supreme Court rulings and not refuse to comply.

Trump can lie as much as he wants about how “egg prices are down 87 percent” or that America has “never been richer” than we are now because of his tariffs against the world—but people are feeling and experiencing the harm he is causing.

Trump’s lies are not working. Trump’s threats are fangless.

The bubble has burst on the MAGA reality.

People see that Trump’s term is a massive “rug pull.” I’ve called it the “rug pull presidency” or the “Ponzi scheme presidency.” Eventually, the Ponzi schemer is uncovered, and people are pissed.

This is a pivotal moment in the resistance. The collective consciousness of Americans is waking up.

Perhaps you can say Americans are now “woke.”

More people are seeing Trump’s incompetence, fraud, and weakness with clear eyes than ever before.

Authoritarians like Trump feast on the perception of their power and grow under the ruse of the inevitability of their reign. When the people unite and say “not today,” there is nothing that sucks the power out of the authoritarian more—and shrivels them up quicker—than a united populace.

“We the people,” coming together is how we defeat and beat authoritarians.

Trump looks fatigued and flustered, doesn’t he?

He is a teeny tiny man with teeny tiny faculties in the biggest job in the world. He can’t BS this job anymore.

Trump and Musk envisioned that they would be ruling as co-imperial dictators right now and we’d all be their vassals. Remember how they made the business community, old media, and all different so-called leaders show up at Mar-a-Lago and grovel and beg and kiss the ring? Remember how confident Trump and Musk seemed as Americans and the world seemed defeated and resigned to MAGA misery?

No more!

The fighting spirit is back.

I’d argue the resistance right now is far stronger and far more sophisticated than what we saw in the first Trump term.

The stakes are higher. We are all playing for keeps. Will we rebuild a democracy from the rubble caused by the Trump and DOGE wrecking ball, or will we remain in this bizarre fascist Trump kleptocracy?

I am confident democracy will win.

I am confident the Meidas Mighty and the Maple Meidas and democracy-loving Meidas Mighty across the world will win.

I am confident that if we all keep putting in the effort and work and stay united, we will get stronger, and Trump and Musk will get weaker.

I am confident we can grow this movement not just for the short term, but for generations and beyond to support equality, truth, empathy, love, democracy, the climate, and our freedoms.

We’ve turned a corner, Meidas Mighty, but we must keep on pushing and we can’t take anything for granted.

I’ve seen so many incredible stories this week that people have written about the growth of the MeidasTouch Network, and how we now get more monthly downloads than every single major right-wing podcast combined. We won the top podcast of the year award, the highest honor of The Webby’s.

We continue to beat Fox News in digital views.

Yes, all this is great, and we all feel so fortunate here at the MeidasTouch Network to have earned your trust. But we know that we have to be relentless every day and keep growing.

We have to be scrappy and make sure we keep beating Joe Rogan and Fox. They have unlimited resources. We don’t. We have a fraction of a fraction of their resources, but we still beat them.

We have become the fastest-growing Substack by subscribers in the entire world, and that has helped fuel our growth that I hope you’ve noticed lately.

We have no option but to keep growing to keep tackling the challenges we all face and to fearlessly fight the Trump regime and expose their threats as lies and fraud. We would love for you to subscribe now to the MeidasTouch Substack and help us finish this week strong.

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