The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Collapses as Trump Gets Taste of Own Medicine

Episode Date: August 23, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News losing it on live tv as Donald Trump is given a taste of his own medicine as California Governor Gavin Newsom goes on the offense. Keep American farming going by signing up at https://MoinkBox.com/meidastouch and get FREE BACON for a year! Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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weeks bashing President Trump over the Texas redistricting fight while threatening to gerrymander his own state even more. Not that there's much left to gerrymander. Of course, this very public political battle. Doesn't help the people of California at all. Doesn't even help the Democratic Party. Helps nobody. It hurts Gavin Newsom. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for him. Yeah, and again, somehow this is real. Watch this as Sean had it. He says, you know, he's got this social media team and they're being so mean. Why are they being so mean to Donald? Here, play this clip. Now, currently, he and a social media team, they are busy trying to mock President Trump on X by posting messages in all caps. He's trying to pretend to be Donald Trump. Gavin is also attacking Fox News

host. He's trying to be conservatives into social media fights. He's actually referred to our own Tommy Laren's account as Yelp for toilets. Gee, very clever and funny. She'll join us in a moment to respond. And by the way, this was like the entire day yesterday on Fox. That's how you know you're hitting the mark, California Governor Gavin Newsom, when Fox is just a rolling this out because they realize, holy crap, we got to brainwash our audience and they're going new some bad, news some bad, because he's destroying us. Then you had Tommy or Tommy or Tommy Laren. She's on Fox. Watch what she says. Here, play this clip. Well, first of all, Sean, I would like to give a little wave to Gavin because you know he's watching. He is obsessed with Fox News. I don't blame

him. We have a great network. But you know, he watches everything that we do when he's, of course, not on X, but he has turned his hand gestures into Twitter fingers to distract from the dismal failure of his state of California. And Sean, he often likes to tout that California is the fourth largest economy in the world. We don't want to take anything away from California and all its resources. It's great academic institutions. Of course, it's got Hollywood. It's got Silicon Valley. It's got farming, agriculture. It's a great, wonderful state. It is the fourth largest economy in the world, despite Governor Gavin Newsom, not because of him. He's done everything to strangle that state. But now he wants to run for president. He wanted to run before.

Joe Biden passed over him for Kamala Harris. So now he's gearing up. He is landing into new personas on a weekly basis. Oh, you got to bring in mis-alternative facts. Kelly Ann Conway, here's what she had to say here, play this clip. And look at Gavin Newsom. He tried to do this, was it a radio show, a podcast, whatever he tried to do. Now he's busy trolling on social media, and it's cringe, it's falling flat. I'm sure they'll come after me now. Who cares? Because Donald Trump is one of one.

Only he can do what he's done with social media, with podcasts, in the way he's done at 900 rallies and counting. The thing that he does that we all miss and don't talk enough about is he just works harder than everyone else. Folks, this was all yesterday. Every segment on Fox was basically this, other than when they have. had Just Dance Vance, J.D. Vance. By the way, that's California Governor Newsom's nickname for Just Dance Vance. And here is Laren saying, look, it's just like,

Newsom like wants to be a Trump Jr. so badly. What? Here, play this clip. He had a podcast with Marshawn Lynch trying to do culture and sports. Now he's trying to be Trump Jr. We don't know what we're gonna get from this man, but it's not gonna be authentic. He plays a role, he plays a part.

Hollywood's in his backyard, go, there, be an influencer, do an only fans, whatever you want to do, Gavin, but stop leading your state into the ground. That is what the people of your state are asking from you, not another podcast. And I think what California Governor Gavin Newsom is doing so perfectly is he's just shining a light on these magas and what, and he's mocking Trump's style, and the magas can't handle it. They can't handle it at all. And then, by the way, Jesse Waters brings on Ron DeSantis, is the fascist governor of Florida who makes jokes about, I just want to let everybody know,

we're not going to be deporting you just because you're a Georgia fan. We don't put you in concentration camps just because you're a Georgia fan. That's only for the illegals. I mean, you sound like a literal freaking Nazi. Well, because you are here playing this clip. We have Alligator Alcatraz in southern Florida. This will be in northeastern Florida. And I just want to dispel any rumors.

we are not putting any unruly Georgia fans at the Florida Georgia game in our deportation. That's not true. People are saying it online. Totally not true. It's for the processing and deportation of illegal aliens. And speaking of which, Russian TV literally using the J.D. Vance interview verbatim, like Russian state, Jersey media, all they need to do is take Fox and just play it. That's what they did.

Take a look at, this is what Russian TV posts. J.D. Vance describes the real. Vladimir Putin. Again, as someone who loves the United States of America, someone who's like, Putin's the bad guy, Russia's the bad guy, like when I watch what's going on in Fox and what's happened to the Republican Party and that there's millions of Americans who are like, maybe Putin's the good guy. I'm like, what the hell is actually wrong with you people? Here, watch J.D. Vance go, look, I've never actually met Putin before, but when I've spoken to him, He's a great man. Very, very calm, very, very nice person. What the hell is going on here?

Here, play this clip. What was he like just one-on-one? So I've actually never met Putin. The president did that meeting. I've talked to him on the phone a number of times. You know, it's interesting. He's more soft-spoken than you would necessarily expect. You know, the American media has a particular image of him. He's soft-spoken in a certain way. He's very deliberate. He's very careful. And I think fundamentally, he's a particular. person who looks out for the interest as he sees it of Russia. And I think one of the reasons he respects the President of the United States is because he knows the President looks out for the interests of the American people. And while they often disagree about issues, and obviously

the President has been very critical of Vladimir Putin, the President's also willing to work with anybody if he thinks it's going to accomplish an important goal for America. And we all agree an important goal is to stop the killing. As this one account says, just Dan's Vance speaks more kindly about a man who launched a war of terror that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including thousands of civilians, and he would speak of any elected Democrat in the United States. It's so true. I think if you were to ask these MAGA Republicans, would you rather have Putin be in charge or Gavin Newsom? I think they would, these MAGA Republicans would be, yeah, I don't know, I think Newsom's winning him over right now. But certainly if you asked him, Adam Schaerner,

or Putin. They would 100% say Putin. The Putin who literally wants to kill them versus Adam Schiff, who's a constitutional law scholar and former federal prosecutor. Anyway, J.D. Vansden lies and says, you know, we've noticed that home costs are going down right now because we've kicked the illegal aliens off the street. Okay, before I play this clip, I just got to fact check it. Home prices are going up. Housing is not affordable, just dance vans. And you sending migrants to concentration camps isn't lowering the cost of homes. This is making this up.

Here, play this clip. They were actually defending the rights of illegal immigrants to come into our country, to vote in our elections, to collect social security and Medicaid that ought by right go to American citizens to say nothing of housing. This is actually the biggest driver of housing costs in some of these big blue cities

is that they've flooded the zone with illegal immigrants. As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off. So fundamentally the difference between Republicans and Democrats is we care about American citizens. They actually don't like American citizens and want to replace them with low-wage foreigners. It's a very stark difference.

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haven't is that russia wants all of donbos and they want zuprecia these are areas that are still controlled by Ukraine, heavily fortified areas. It would take Russia years and years and years and probably a million to two million more casualties to take this land at the current pace, even if America abdicates and capitulates as it already has. So Putin just wants it to be delivered to him by Donald Trump. That's what's taking place here. Here, play this clip.

It's a good question. I think that if you go through the bureaucratic process, then the answer is yes. But I think the president's preference and my preference would be, let's have them meet regardless. You don't have to figure out every issue. And sometimes leaders sitting down face to face can break the logjam that their teams don't necessarily have the ability to do. There really are two big questions lingering out there. And in some ways, it's very simple, but in some ways it's very complicated. Number one is Ukraine wants to know that it's not going to get invaded again by Russia.

It wants to know that it's got territorial integrity long into the future. the Russians want certain pieces of territory, most of which they've occupied, but some of which they haven't. So that is really where the meat of the negotiation is. The Ukrainians want security guarantees. The Russians want a certain amount of territory. Again, we finally got the details. We're working on them, but we haven't figured everything out. And I don't think that we should force, you know, we shouldn't say that they can't sit down until you've figured out every little detail. Sometimes them sitting down is what facilitates figuring out those details. I just want to be very clear everybody as well.

Think about what was being discussed as part of the deal, why there was this meeting with Putin and the European leaders separately, right? Seasfire. No, there was no ceasefire ever obtained. Security guarantees within Ukraine. Putin's never agreed to any security guarantees. A trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelensky. Putin's never agreed to that.

So it's all false. It's all bullshit. It's all messed up. It's all lies. Then you saw how just dance vans talked about Putin. Here's how he talks about Zelensky walking into the Oval Office. Play this clip. Take us into the room because we're all dying to know that.

Well, I think when, so President Zelensky walked into the Oval Office. I was chatting with him with the president with some of the senior Ukrainian delegation. I said, Mr. President, so long as you behave, I won't say anything. And he just chuckled a little bit. It was a good little icebreaker. Yeah. And then in the. the next Nazi-like segment on Fox. You have the Department of Homeland Security Secretary and

spokesperson assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin and Jesse Waters. They start joking about how they're painting some of the border wall black so that it could get extra hot in the summer and burn to death the migrants who touch it. Here play this clip. Well, absolutely. Secretary Nome was just down in El Paso visiting the border, which we've had zero crossings. The last months and she's painting that border wall black, especially in these high traffic areas, which under President Trump, really there are no high traffic places, but it not only prevents rust that black paint, but it also is, which increases durability and longevity of that wall, but also it makes it incredibly hot to the touch. So no illegal alien, no drug meal, no criminal

or no cartel member is going to try and climb that border wall. So how hot is it? Is it like when I boil water to make my kids mac and cheese hot? I think that's pretty comparable, especially in those very hot summer months. But like I said, it's going to be that longevity and that durability as well. So we're making sure we're using U.S. taxpayer dollars well, and they're going far. Then the next segment, Jesse Waters, talks about how Democrats need their own daddy, that they have daddy Trump and Democrats need their own daddy. Here, play this clip right here.

Well, Dana, they ran two moms and a grandpa, and they need to run a daddy. The problem is there's no dads in the party. And what, Jessica, in order to have masculine policies, you need to live your life as a man. You need to live a life of action, and you have to live it outdoors. And the first step is having your own compounds. Every presidential candidate or president needs their home base, right? Trump had Trump Tower. He's got his golf courses.

He's got the White House now. You call people in. You hold court. You control everything. That's what they need. need. Now, I don't know why they don't have that. Maybe they're ashamed of it. Gavin Newsom has a vineyard. Why doesn't he bring in the press to his vineyard and look beautiful outside with all the grapes? That's how you do it. Americans love to drink wine. Newsflash Newsom, go to the vineyard,

hold a press conference, and act like you're a man of the people. Don't be ashamed of it. Trump does press conferences in front of billion-dollar buildings with his name on it. Kenny Bunkport, that ring a bell? How about the Bush ranch? How about the Reagan ranch? You do that. You show the American people, you know how to work. And then you show them you're a man of leisure. More whining by J.D. Vance, Just Dance Vance over Gavin Newsom's social media post. Let's play this clip. Stop sounding like crazy people. That really is all it is. I mean, this idea that Gavin Newsom is somehow going to mimic Donald Trump's style, I think that ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump's political success, which is that he's authentic. He just is who he is.

You've got to be yourself. You've actually got to talk to people honestly about the issues. I don't think it's that complicated. Don't be a crazy person. Be authentic. If the Democrats did that, they'd do a hell of a lot better. Just weird kind of erotic fan fiction about Donald Trump from these magas. Kelly Ann Conway is like, ooh, Donald, he has the swagger.

Look at him. Look how muscular and his swagger. It's like, y'all are really weird. Y'all are a bunch of freaking weird humans. I mean, this was, this MAGA cult has perverted our politics, literally, figuratively, you're covering up the Epstein files, you're literally helping convicted sex traffickers like Elaine Maxwell. Y'all are a bunch of sick humans.

And Donald Trump's been found liable for sexual assault. Sick human beings here are playing this clip. For every other issue set going back and forth between the two parties in terms of who has an advantage, the one the Democrats owned for a very long time, a sort of the culture and technology and the cool the this is the guy with swagger he's right there he's having a blast he's now doing in the rose garden what he does in marilago any of us who have dinner with him witness that he plays the music he plays it loudly people love it and who's going to complain his neighbors are stopped best in a treasury right um the neighbors aren't going to complain about

the music coming out of the house uh what he's done in the rose garden is the ultimate get off my lawn to the left then they bring in one of donald trump's uh lawyers lindsay halligan who now is apparently a special assistant to Donald Trump. She was one of Trump's former lawyers. She talks about how Donald Trump's going to get rid of all of the Smithsonian museums because the museums say that slavery is bad and we need to talk about the good side of it, apparent. What?

Here, play this clip. So here's what the internal review of the Smithsonian exhibitions will entail. Public-facing content will be examined as well as the curatorial process, exhibition planning, collection use and narrative standards. So what is the practical application of all of that? Well, so what we're going to do in the letter we requested basically an audit for the first time ever of the Smithsonian. We want to see how these placards in these museums have become written in such a ideological

fashion. And we also want to see how the exhibits are voted on. and how they become really what the public sees. The Smithsonian has 17 to 20 million visitors a year. We need it to represent our country in a positive way. We're approaching America's 250th wonderful birthday, and we want the Smithsonian to represent really what our country was founded upon, grit, resilience, perseverance.

And, you know, our goal is, for ideology to go, but knowledge and trust to remain. And at least just to kind of have a cleanse here, you have Jessica Tarlov, our friend here. She just spits the facts about our economy right now. Let's play it. The American public today, or what they're feeling about the economy.

Is this another poll? No, it's not actually, it's headlines. Headlines. In wake of Trump tariffs, John Deere announces mass layoffs. PepsiCo will increase carbonated soft drink, concentrate prices by 10%. Sony is raising PS5 prices in the U.S. by $50 across all models, and electric bills are up 10% so far this year. The election, you can say it was about whatever you want,

it was about cost of living. That's what it came down to. People said inflation hadn't come down enough. Joe Biden doesn't feel my pain. I don't want to hear about Bidenomics. What's the inflation? Conlo was the nominee, by the way. But it was.

No, I'm well aware of how the election. But it was about the Biden administration. I was worried you're going to say that Diet Coke was going up on price and then... No, just... When that happens, you better call me. Well, Coke actually did say that they were going to be raising prices. Oh, my gosh, I have to drink water.

Well, it's that Coke, Dana, so don't worry. Oh, good, okay. Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. New Midas merch. Head to store.midustitch.com today

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