Meidas Ruined Trump’s Week 15 MILLION TIMES

Written by Ben Meiselas

I’ll keep this short. This week tested us all. Trump wanted to break us. He wanted to grind us down. He wanted to rip away our spirits and strip away our hope.

Trump failed— and failed miserably.

Trump tried a blitzkrieg of executive orders, psychotic threats, and erratic behavior. He wanted us to chase his shiny objects and take our eye off the ball.

Prices aren’t lower. Housing is not more affordable. There is no peace in Ukraine.

Trump is a liar.

Corporate media followed their scripted plan with Donald.

They tried to convince people this was normal.

They tried to convince people to bend the knee with them.

They gave Trump the headlines and stories he craved, which bore no resemblance to reality.

Trump and the media thought they had this all wired.

They thought they were so clever and that Americans would drink the Kool-Aid with them.

They were wrong.

Very wrong.

Now they are stunned.

Their plan has been derailed.

Americans aren’t buying what Trump is selling or what the corporate media was laundering.

We know his hustle. We know his fraud. We know his games. We know his playbook.

I know that heading into the inauguration, some were skeptical if the MeidasTouch Network could replace corporate media.

I got a lot of messages calling us dumb for rejecting outside investors and staying 100 percent independent.

Yup, I got emails from people saying we were doing a disservice to the growth of the network by not raising money from rich people.

“Hey Ben, how the hell do you think you can possibly compete with billion-dollar news organizations if you are growing your network off Substack subscribers?” I was asked.

Well, here we are.

The Meidas Mighty has proven all the naysayers wrong.

I don’t regret for a second staying 100 percent independent and growing the media network by growing this Substack with more subscribers.

Our reach speaks for itself.

As the headline of this article says, the MeidasTouch Network ruined Trump’s week 15 million times.

That’s because we are averaging over 15 million views every 48 hours on YouTube.

For reference, CBS, ABC, and ESPN are averaging about 4 million views over the same time period.

The only network that our people-powered network is still trailing is Fox, which took a lead over us after the inauguration.

Nonetheless, with your help, we intend to take back the top spot.

The MeidasTouch Network has been greatly expanding our reach—thanks to you.

I’m sure you’ve seen the growth in our contributors, coverage, shows, and capabilities—all of which have been helped greatly by the subscriptions to this Substack.

Over the past week, the MeidasTouch Network has led all coverage exposing Trump’s broken promises.

We counter-programmed the inauguration and ensured that Trump’s inauguration had the worst ratings in modern history.

We haven’t just talked the talk— we’ve walked the walk and led all media in exposing Trump.

Thanks to you, we have filled the void left by the broken corporate media to speak truth to power.

We don’t mince words. We aren’t afraid of Donald. Since we are not funded by investors or billionaires, no one tells us what to do or dictates our programming.

We have no fear calling Trump a convicted felon, fraud, sexual assaulter, criminal, business failure, and a pathetic excuse for a human.

Thanks to you, we built the media network that was needed to meet this moment.

The Meidas Mighty built the network of the future, today, that is Trump’s biggest nightmare.

The MeidasTouch Network has been on the offense hard this week, as I’m sure you’ve seen with our coverage here, on our YouTube channel, and across social media.

We’ve broken a ton of stories that have hurt and severely undermined Trump, his cabinet picks, and his remaining nominees.

We have helped inspire a robust international pro-democracy coalition to form against Trump.

Knowing Donald, he is going to retaliate and attack us soon—once again.

He previously attacked us in court filings and blamed us for his criminal conviction.

Once his DOJ and FBI are fully in place, I fully expect him to try and attack us and our hosts to destroy us.

We are prepared for that.

We aren’t scared.

They will never get us to stop reporting the truth about their corruption, criminality, and failure.

The Meidas Mighty will never back down from a fight with Donald.

We will go on offense and we will punch back hard.

As we gear up for the fights ahead, I know we are in a pivotal moment right now.

We are in a moment where we must keep growing—fast.

It’s not enough to just beat corporate media— we need to lap them.

We have only a fraction of a fraction of the resources corporate media has.

But that’s fine.

Our strength is being leaner, meaner, and more nimble.

It is critical that we keep growing.

To do that, we need you.

We would love for you to become a paid subscriber now to this Substack if you can.

It helps us grow.

Between the daily reports from our Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski, the ad-free podcasts, and exclusive reporting here, I strongly believe this coverage is the best in media right now.

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But, in addition, by subscribing, you help keep the MeidasTouch Network 100 percent independent, 100 percent people-powered, and oligarch-free.

You power this network to new heights, and we are grateful for you.

We are trying to hit 200 new subscribers today to keep this growth going.

I know we can hit it.

Please consider subscribing to this Substack now or gifting a subscription to someone in your life.

Let’s keep the momentum up, Meidas Mighty.

We can’t let up now.

What you have achieved this week has been incredible, and we are just getting started.

Let’s do this.