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Furious Australia Kicks Out Trump After Mass Protest!!!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Trump’s latest real estate project in Australia being canceled by his partner in Australia because the partner says the Trump brand is so toxic in Australia....

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Donald Trump has been kicked out of Australia, let me repeat.

Donald Trump has been kicked out of Australia.

Donald Trump's hotel organization run by Eric Trump.

claimed they were going to be building a billion dollar skyscraper in Australia.

Over 91 stories, Eric Trump made an announcement about three months ago, and now the business partner, who was on the project, said we can't name this skyscraper after Donald Trump, it can't carry the Trump name. The Trump name is utterly toxic in Australia, and it's become more toxic as a result of Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran. Let's take a look at what went down folks. Australia's first Trump tower, it's been scrapped just three months after it was announced. AI image

was posted by Eric Trump. Look at this, look how big it is. The end of the day, the Trump family doesn't really develop these buildings. They slapped their name on it, and they take fees. We'll

talk about the person who was supposedly going to be the builders. Still claims he's going to be

building this thing, just not calling it Trump tower anymore. But the developer with the Trump organization worked with said the Trump brand in this country has just become so toxic to Australia. It's a 91 story project in the gold coast, and apparently it's still going to go ahead, but not use the Trump name. I'm not quite sure if it's really going to still go ahead. I have some red flags in my own opinion, but let's not forget what Eric Trump posted. A few months back,

posted a photo of what he claimed was going to be the tower. He said, take a look at this. It's

going to be huge. It's going to be incredible. But like all Trump entities, just complete another

BS. Here's the story from the New York Times. As Trump tower dealing Australia falls apart, a blame game begins. The property developer says the Warren Iran and Trump's unpopularity contributed to the collapse of a plan for a 91 story on the gold coast. So the developer's name is David Young. He's purportedly an Australian property developer. He announced this big venture on LinkedIn a few months back. Eric Trump announced it as well. Look what we're doing in Australia. It was

going to be this 91 92 story tower. It's going to be in Queensland. The gold coast area over there

would be the first Australian Trump international hotel in tower. And immediately after this was

announced back in February, people of Australia started circulating petitions, protest started

saying, get this Trump name out of Australia. Of course, we remember last year during the Australian

elections, where the right wing party, which in Australia is called the Liberal Party, which was previously surging ahead in the polls led by Timo Magga, that guy named Dutton. He lost the election. He lost his own writing, his own basically the equivalent of a congressional seat as well. Labour 1 Anthony Albany see one big real huge victory. And he was running on standing up to Donald Trump and the US while you had the Liberal Party behaving as Timo Magga, as it was being called. Here's how the

Trump organization is describing the fact that this Trump tower ain't going to be built. Quote, while we were very excited about the opportunity to bring a world-class development to the gold coast. The project was dependent on our licensing partner meeting certain obligations. And they go on to say, unfortunately, those obligations, which refer to financial commitments, were not fulfilled. And then you had the individual who they chose to be their developer,

this guy by the name of David Young. He blamed the Trump name as being toxic to which the Trump family responded. No, he just defaulted on his obligations. So he's blaming us. And it appears this is going to devolve into more and more litigation like everything with Donald Trump. It fails. This is how it's described in the New York Times article. Thousands rushed online to sign petitions, seeking to block this Trump tower project,

because of the Trump brand and what it represents was what one of the petitions said. But there are multiple petitions circulating. Donald Trump's popularity in Australia has plunged

To its lowest level of his second term because of the Iran war, a poll from t...

Harrell found last month. And indeed, more people in Australia at this point seem to feel better about China than the United States, which is a big turn of events there in Australia. And I'll remind you, back in October of 2025, there was a big protest for a

cutting ties with Donald Trump. You remember this. I'll show you clip of what that protest

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when he was picked by the Trump organization. I mean, you know, that shock you the Trump organization. Donald Trump, rather, has gone bankrupt all over and over and over and over again

with his various entities. And Casinos and Donald Trump has ruined so many businesses have been

destroyed by Donald Trump. And so he picked a guy, I guess, who had two bankruptcies, like very little diligent, very little diligence. And apparently this guy David Young, he reached out to Ivanka. And he said, hey, you know, let's do business in Ivanka. Like you want to meet Eric and then Eric's like, hey, let's do this thing. I'll slot my name on it and young's like, all right,

let's do it. And then, you know, before you knew it, Eric, you know, is, here's what Eric posted.

Just so you can see. I'm so proud to announce what will soon be the tallest building in Australia Trump International Hotel and Tower Gold Coast. This marks our first venture into Australia. An extraordinary country and every respect. And I couldn't be more excited to help shape its iconic skyline forever. More to come. Just think if this is the level of diligence they're doing on this project. I mean, these people are so careless, so reckless in every damn thing that they

do. And you just notice also, did you notice that Eric made a similar announcement into policey in the country of Georgia where he said, look what we're building into policey. It's good. I mean,

it basically looks like the identical kind of slop announcement. Here's what he just posted into

policey. This was like, what a few days back. I'm so excited to share the official rendering of Trump Tower to policey with a prime location in the heart of to policey. This tower will quickly become a landmark as the tallest building in Georgia. You see, just like Operation Epic Fury, Project Freedom, Project Freedom Plus, Operation Sledge Hammer, Operation Midnight Hammer. You know, all these Trumps do they come up with a name? It's like a branding thing. And there's never

follow through. So focus on to policey. We'll see. We'll see what's going on there if that's ever built. But I want to also focus on some additional developments in Australia, you know, as the Trump regime as the Trump name, very, very, very toxic there. I want to remind everybody back when the last Asian conference took place, the big kind of Asian conference took place. We saw Senator Penny Wong of Australia who runs their department of foreign affairs and trade, meeting with China's

foreign minister Wang Yi on the sidelines. And then that led to a visit by Prime Minister Anthony Al Benese to China as Australia has now begun its pivot away from the United States to China. Something we're similar. We're seeing in Europe. Something we're similar. We're seeing across the

World right here.

got a state welcome as well. Here's what Al Benese had to say play this clip. I'm here in Shanghai,

China. Supporting Australian businesses, supporting Australian jobs and supporting our economy.

We know that one in four of Australia's jobs depends upon free and fair trade. And our biggest export partner is China. So here I've brought a whole range of businesses with us from the resource sector, tourism, and education. All engaging with China in a constructive way in order to boost our economic benefit. Engaging with China is in our interests to build a stable and secure region. Here, over the next few days, what I'm doing is building on that relationship to the benefit

of Australian jobs and the Australian economy. Now I'll also remind you what Australians former foreign minister, Gareth Evans had to previously say about what the Australian people feel about Trump and how Trump's running the United States play this clip. There's a survey

done by a lawyer institute, I think, say Australian is trusting the US has fallen to its lowest

appointing 20 years, was only 36% of the respondents say in the trust of the US to act responsibly in the world. Was it taken that? Well, that's a dramatic fooling away of some 20 percentage points, I think, in just a year and obviously it's very directly attributable to President Trump. There is no affection, you know, Australia at all, for what people perceived to be Trump's approach to international relations, Trump's approach to democracy, Trump's approach

to internal respect and protection, the poor civilities, poor human rights. This is not a country

that we've always believed in under the current administration and it's no surprise that that

confidence has dropped away. I mean, nobody knows what to expect from the Trump administration when it comes to international relations. There's three different strains at work. There's the America first isolationist divisions of spheres of influence, you do your thing, we'll do ours and we don't, you know, want to get into any confrontational load. That's one street. Then there's the make America great again, the stream, which is restoring American preeminence, primacy,

all that stuff with all that follows from that in terms of willingness to use force aggressively and in breach of international loot. Then there's the Pewey transactional ego driven dimension where there's no obvious principles that are applicable at all except personal self-interest. So this is an environment which everybody is finding rather spooky. Trump's own advisors don't know

which way he's going to jump. So how can the rest of us know which way he's going to jump?

So obviously there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of unhappiness with the way the United States is going. Hopefully, um, passage of time and a number of these policy decisions that Trump has been making will come back to to bite him, including the economic ones and his own constituency. So hopefully over time we'll see some modification of behavior, but it's not surprising. And of course recently we saw a Prime Minister Carney talk about this belief in democracy among

countries like Canada, Europe, UK, Australia. That's really the new alliance right now as Donald Trump screws over, yeah, America first is America alone and Donald Trump screws over the rest of the world play this clip, which is a belief in democracy, the rule of law that we're all equal before that law. And imperfectly, uh, the international system had variants of that, but M.R. Boris, a part of her very distinguished career, uh, was to make sure that those

who transgressed in the most egregious ways, those rules, norms, standards were prosecuted and brought to justice. Um, that system, as I've observed in the past and I'm not alone in making this up for these observations, uh, has been greatly weakened, um, and needs to be rebuilt and rebuilt, uh, perhaps in a different way, but rebuilt based on the same principles. And Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, others, uh, countries share very firm convictions,

with those principles, and we will work together, uh, to rebuild. And obviously there's a

critical mass in Europe of countries, 27 members of the European Union, but then a broader

Grouping that you saw in that meeting in Armenia over 50 countries, uh, that ...

with Europe, and either fully support or moving towards, uh, those principles. So that's what I

meant by those comments, and I stand by them. And of course, before Donald Trump's trip to China,

Donald Trump was whining and complaining and attacking Japan and Australia and NATO in South Korea,

whining, whining, whining. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play this clip.

It's about an hour and a half in the voice of your disclosure of with NATO, in the past, is there a danger to the U.S. not being the impact of the leader of the Alliance? And then other powers within the Alliance, then getting the decision-making when it comes to wars and figure out how it's not a danger. NATO's, look, we went to NATO. I didn't ask a very strong one.

I just said, hey, if you want to help, right? No, no, no, we will let him. I said, that's all right,

you don't want to help, because I've always said, NATO's a paper tiger. See, NATO is a paper

tiger. Putin's not afraid of NATO. Putin's afraid of us, very afraid of us, and he's explained it to me a lot of times. I got to know him very well and know him very well. NATO is a paper tiger. NATO is us, and when we needed them, but we didn't need them, by the way, we didn't need them,

obviously, because they haven't helped at all, just the opposite. They've actually gone out of the

way, not to help. They didn't even want to give us landing strips. Think of it, and it's not just NATO. You know, well, it's in help us. South Korea didn't help us. You know, well, it's in help us, or Australia. So no Trump tower in Australia. See, later, it's not happening at all. That 91 story thing they talked about. The AI image, the AI slopp in the beach side, district of the Gold Coast in Queensland. That ain't happening. Nice Australian goodbye there for

Donald Trump and his despicable regime. And I'll say this. Shout out to all the mightest mates, the mightest down under in Australia. We see you. We hear you. And, you know, and we appreciate everything

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