Today's Must-Watch MeidasTouch Videos - 4/13/26
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MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas reports: The entire world turns on Trump over his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. How long until TACO Trump caves on this one?
Trump attended a UFC fight while failing war talks were happening in the Middle East. Scott MacFarlane breaks down the American Nero playing a fiddle as it all burns down:
Trump may have just given his most deranged press conference yet as he inexplicably forced a Door Dash worker to stand with him as he fumbled through reporter’s questions. Ben Meiselas reports:
Sundowning Trump finally snaps at today’s disastrous press conference while trying to defend a post depicting himself as Jesus. Aaron Parnas breaks it down:
SCOTUS rejects Trump’s 10% retaliatory tariff scheme as he foot drags on repaying the $160 billion owed to American businesses over his first attempt at illegal tariffs. Legal AF host Michal Popok provides analysis:
Katie Phang discusses a disastrous ruling for Trump as SCOTUS tosses out his case against The Wall Street Journal for publishing his Epstein birthday card. Watch here:
War crimes do not hide sex crimes.
Thank you, Meidas team, this roundup is exactly why this network matters.
Every story in today's post is a data point in a pattern that is centuries old. A leader attending a UFC fight while war talks collapse. A press conference where dissent is punished and delusion is performed. Courts pushing back while the executive branch tests how far coercion can go.
We just published a piece for Digital Democracy Watch connecting Ibn Khaldun's 14th-century model of civilizational collapse to exactly what we're watching unfold. Rise → Decline → Collapse. The signature of the collapse phase? Leaders who silence critics, govern by coercion, and cannot absorb external shocks because they've eliminated honest feedback.