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Ben Meiselas strings together crowds from Caracas to Paris under the title "FURIOUS World ERUPTS over Trump SURRENDER," and the roundup passed 900,000 views within ten hours.
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🚨FURIOUS World ERUPTS over Trump SURRENDER….
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- 0:00Meiselas sets out his theme: unrest from Venezuela and Albania to Israel, Brazil, Italy, France, Iraq and Pakistan.
- 7:23Opposition crowds gather at Plaza Venezuela in Caracas; clashes with police in Tirana follow.
- 9:52A paid segment for Original Grain watches interrupts the coverage.
- 11:42Matt Gutman reports from Tel Aviv protests aimed at Netanyahu's government; Brazil, Italy and Paris follow.
- 17:30Mark Carney rejects becoming "the 51st state" and warns against relying on one satellite provider.
- 21:42Mélanie Joly denies election interference and criticizes US tariffs before the book promotion closes the show.
Plaza Venezuela filling with opposition crowds chanting for liberty, fireworks flying at police lines in Tirana, water cannons in Rome and Florence: Ben Meiselas packs a lot of the world's streets into one 23-minute broadcast. The MeidasTouch host's argument is that Donald Trump is tearing apart global stability, and he treats these scenes as evidence for it.
The footage itself shows movements with their own causes. In Tel Aviv, ABC's Matt Gutman reports from thousands of protesters whose goal, he says, "more than anything right now is to break apart the current government" of Benjamin Netanyahu. São Paulo's streets fill with supporters of President Lula da Silva. In Paris, the marches are about the cost of living, followed by Emmanuel Macron condemning disinformation. The title's "surrender" is Meiselas's framing; the clips do not spell it out.
The last stretch belongs to Canada. Speaking in Turkey, Prime Minister Mark Carney says: "We will never be the 51st state. We are going our own way." He argues against relying on a single provider "that may change their view," and on reports of a Starlink slowdown in Ukraine he says there were "real consequences, human consequences, direct casualties."
Mélanie Joly then answers the election-interference accusation that MeidasTouch covered days earlier, as we reported here. She says she met Republicans as well as Democrats, "which the embassy, the American embassy failed to present," and calls tariffs a harm to people on both sides of the border.
The broadcast also carries a paid segment for a watch company and closes with a promotion for the Meiselas brothers' own book. Its comment section filled about twice as fast as a usual MeidasTouch first day, much of it about billionaires and whether Americans themselves should be protesting.
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- Video published
- October 25, 2026
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In which city is Plaza Venezuela, where opposition crowds gather in the broadcast?
Plaza Venezuela is a central square in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, and the broadcast shows crowds gathering there.