The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Collapses on Air as Trump Kills His Term

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News losing it on air as Donald Trump destroys his presidency and the country and Fox struggled badly to cover up for him. Head to https://DrinkOlipop.com/MEIDAS and Get $2 off a 4-pack of OLIPOP 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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on this MAGA Republican RNC chair. And he tries to say that the elections that took place on Tuesday were not as bad as they seem. He says, I'm glad our Republican candidates kept things close. And we made the Democrats spend a lot of money. That's what you're bragging about. Here, play this clip. But they're not convinced that it's working, that things are becoming more affordable. What would you tell voters about when the things that you just mentioned are going to be felt by people across the country, that things will feel better, prices will feel lower. Well, listen, I have empathy, and I feel for everybody across the board who's hurting and is certainly hurting as a result of the Schumer shutdown. But some of these solutions are not

going to be fixed overnight. We have to continue to continuously work on them in the president's doing everything that he can. Yes, in these elections, as bad as they were, for Republicans, at the end of the day, these are deep blue states, not blue states, deep blue states. And listen, we made the Democrats spend a lot of money to keep these woke candidates elected. I mean, I'm glad we were able to keep it close. And they were spinning their wheels and spending lots of money. But listen, we've had a plan for the midterms from the beginning. We're sticking with that plan.

And I think that at the end of the day, our plan is to make sure we keep the midterms on the Republican side. And we're continuing to move forward with that plan. Okay. Next, you had Fox hosts. They got in touch with MAGA Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. And they asked him, so what do you think about this democratic offer to come up with a compromise and the government shutdown, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for Americans by one year, then agree to renegotiate and make sure Americans will have their health care for at least one more year, but then have a date certain so we could continue to extend these ACA subsidies even longer, but at least we can make sure for this year we preserve them. And Lindsey Graham says, oh, I think that's a horrible idea. Here, play this clip.

Mr. Graham, can we ask you about this new Democrat offer? What do you make up the one-year ACA? Terrible, horrible. I'm not going to keep giving taxpayer dollars to the five largest health care insurance companies under Obamacare to get the government open. I'm going to do a whole other video about the Democratic senators and Congress members who called Maga's bluff right here. because, you know, I think it's a good faith offer. Frankly, I would want to make sure the Affordable Care Act subsidies are extended permanently, the same way Trump and MAGA extended the tax cuts for the billionaires permanently.

But let's try to deal with the solution and come up with stuff. And MAGA's, there's nothing you can do for MAGA other than literally deprive 42 million Americans of their SNAP benefits and ripaway health care. Cruelty's the point with these MAGAs. So then on Fox, they bring on Kevin Hassett. He's Donald Trump's top economic advisor. And he just straight up says, he goes, I know I think the Treasury Secretary was right

when he said that there are major pockets in the economy that look like they may be in a recession. So yeah, there's lots of places in the economy that's bad. This is what Trump's own people are saying. Listen up. They're saying it on Fox here, play this clip. Yeah, there's holiday travel, but there's business travel.

Business travel is a really big, important part of air travel, and if 10% of business travel isn't happening, then those are deals that aren't being cut and hotel rooms that aren't being filled. And so the ripple effects and then the multiplier effects of all that are really, really large. And so I think that Secretary Besson wisely said we're starting to see pockets of the economy that look like they might be in a recession, that we're not in a recession because of this, but there are pockets that are really hurting. And if we go another month or so, then who knows how bad the economy can. could be this quarter. And we know whose fault that will be. And here he is again. Hasid says, you know, look, to be sure, the labor market is soft right now. Again, they're saying it out loud. Soft, by the way, is an understatement. In the first three quarters, America lost 950,000 jobs. In October alone, America lost 153,000 jobs. This is the most job loss since the great recession.

Also, the consumer confidence data that came out shows consumer confidence. confidence, economic expectations, like the lowest since the 1970s. People are suffering right now, and this is what the Trump regime saying. Here, play this clip. But if we are talking about a weakened fourth quarter, which obviously we are, doesn't that put the fire under the Federal Reserve to move in December? I mean, federal reserve officials are split on the path ahead. After last month's rate cut, Chairman Jay Powell signaled that the Fed may pause in December.

Even as some is warning, some people are worried. warning about a weakening labor report and overall market. I mean, Challenger, Gray and Christmas yesterday said that U.S. companies have announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October, and that is the highest for the month in 22 years, Kevin. So how would you assess the jobs picture? And what about the Fed? Well, the Challenger report was one of the worst. You know, we have got like a whole bunch of different reports. And the Challenger report was one of the worst ones we've seen. But to be sure, the labor market is a little bit softer right now, in part, I think, because of the uncertainty over the government shutdown. Then they bring on their labor secretary, who you know I call

the anti-labor secretary, Lori Chavez-Dareemer, MAGA through and through. And she says, you know, what we all need to remember was Trump was doing great, she says. She says, the economy was roaring, jobs were being created. She said, but then this government shutdown happened. And so we, the MAGAs, we're just going to blame. everything on Trump's government shutdown and say, it was going to be so good, but then this happened. By the way, doesn't that sound familiar? That's what he was saying right before COVID, right? It was all going to be so great, but then Donald Trump mishandled COVID and said like a miracle,

it was all going to go away. And then it was terrible. So could we just analyze the first few months? By the way, the months before the government shut down were not good, right? I mean, the first quarter, we saw a major contraction, negative growth. But go ahead. Chavez-Dreamer. Here, play this clip. The president has done a wonderful job because the consumer confidence was up.

The momentum this administration was on with, you know, energy prices down, grocery prices down. The stock market has been up, economic growth 3.8 percent, expected to go up even further. This is really, this Democratic shutdown has hurt the American men and women of this country who are working so hard every single day to just get ahead. And now, I don't think, I don't think Democrats even have taken that into consideration while they play these political games. And it's just to hurt this president and this administration and stop the momentum that we were on. You hear that? That's the sound of nostalgia meeting something brand new. I've always loved soda. It's one of those small joys from childhood I can never quite quit.

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he was involved in the largest Medicare and Medicaid criminal fraud scam in American history, nearly $2 billion. That's how this guy got rich before going into politics. And he's like the main person that MAGA wants to, like, be involved in cutting fraud, waste, and abuse in these programs. literally Mr. Waste, Fraud and Abuse, a guy who invoked his Fifth Amendment multiple times and whose company settled criminal charges.

That's who Mag is putting in charge of all of this. You know, he just gets up there and he's like, we really just have to admire Donald Trump's stamina. I mean, this man is so fit. I mean, these people are so utterly pathetic here, play this clip. He hates war. He hates war. He's trying to bring peace to the Middle East. Think about how many people's lives will improve

if we could get peace in the Middle East. And so, you know, I'm very appreciative of his hard work. I was with, I was over there at breakfast on Tuesday. And this guy, Trump is just busting his butt every day working hard. Get our economy going to bring peace. I mean, you really have to admire. He's got a lot of stamina. And also he's doing the rare earth deals that are going to free us from the extortion that

China has put us through. Then you bring on MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer. And he says, you know, the real issue here is these, these Democrats are, They're scared to death to reopen government. It's insane. Then he goes and somehow tries to link this with assassination attempts of Donald Trump. By the way, what are you even talking about? The person in Butler who attempted the assassination or whatever happened in Butler

was, came from a MAGA family. I mean, it was like a Republican MAGA-Trumpie family. Anyway, here, play this clip. Most of these senators are scared to death that if they vote to reopen the government, the insane, I would argue, the people that frankly fantasize about the assassination of our great president, they will turn on them. So they're doing this for the smallest group of people, the most violent and virulent, as opposed to the American people. We just need five of them to grow a spine today and get this thing to the president's desk.

Then Fox had to embarrass itself more. They gave Melania Trump their Patriot of the Year Award. Take a look right here at Sean Hannity. He's dyeing his face orange as well, just like Donald Trump, be clowning himself. There he is, zoom in on his face. Then you had Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, previous Fox weekend host who now unlawfully refers to himself as the Secretary of War. And he gives a speech at this Fox Patriot Award event that Melania Trump won their person

of the year. I mean, just think this is like worse than North Korea, folks. This is some weird state regime media stuff. And Pete Hegseth thinks this is. It's funny to joke about how Mike Waltz, who used to be the national security advisor, who's now the United States ambassador to the United Nations, would use signal chats to talk about war plans. And this is like a joke.

Like, they find it so funny that they gave away classified and highly classified information on signal chats where they invited a reporter accidentally. I mean, that's how pathetic these scumbags are. Anyway, here play this clip. So many dear friends, so many people I love, so many incredible. colleagues. I see Mike Wals. Mike, I'll hit you up on Signal later. Too soon? Come on. Then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Scott Bessent was like, I think next year's

our year. We're on the cusp of liftoff. Just do you wait until 2026, 27? The best is yet to come. Here play this clip. Well, I want to talk about jobs. The 300 permanent jobs in this one, but we're not getting a jobs report today. So going forward, you know, when can we see some of these investments turn into real jobs that the president's been talking about? Well, I think this is the perfect example, because when I was talking to the folks here, there are 800 construction jobs building this facility. They think that they can make it six to ten times bigger over, they bought all the land around this, where we're sitting, used to be a soybean field in rural south carolina and the uh you know so i i think we are at the

cusp of the lift off in 2026 27 that the president trump was committed to bringing the manufacturing jobs back to america and this is the start and the good part about this is not only this high paying jobs this is part of national and economic security again just completely utterly pathetic. Then you had Byron Donald's, Magu-Republican Congress member who says, oh, anything bad in the economy, inflation, that's all the Democrats' fault. He's like, you just got to blame the Democrats for literally everything. So what are you going to do? Like four years in, everything's going to be the Democrats' fault. I mean, these people are such babies. They just whine about everything. They blame, blame. Here, play this clip. The halation that is still hurting in some respects our economy,

that was unleashed by the Democrats with no Republican votes. Healthcare policy in our country, where premiums have skyrocketed, deductibles have skyrocketed. That was passed through by Democrats with no Republican input. And now they're back saying they need even more subsidies to cover up their irresponsible health care policies that was pushed through by them. Look, at some point, in my view, the next time the Democrats have the trifecta, they are going to get rid of the filibuster.

And when they do that, they're going to start moving towards universal healthcare, which was the original design from Obamacare 15 years ago. That's really where they wanna go. They are gonna pack the courts. They're gonna, they're gonna make DC estates. So my view is, let's actually get real policy solutions on healthcare, on energy, on regulatory reform,

on real immigration visa reforms. I saw Senator Schmidt the other day, called for an end to H-1B visas. And it is a scam, it does need to end. It needs to be completely ended. and there needs to be a bunch of visa overhauls. Do you think Senate Democrats are interested in visa overhauls that actually makes sense for the American people and American workers?

No, they don't. They're not going to do these things, Maria. We've seen enough, and that's why my position is the way it is. This is kind of weird and creepy. Jesse Waters is talking about Sidney-Sweeney breaking the silence on the good genes ad. This says, Rose Benson says, people are standing in breadlines, and Fox wants to cover Sydney-Sweeney breaking. breaking her silence on good jeans ads,

then Vivek Ramaswamy on Fox. This is literally the Chiron. It says, by winning, Democrats are losing. By winning Democrats are losing. And then you had Erica Kirk on the Fox Patriot Awards, and I guess here's what went down here, play this clip. I will make sure that I don't stay silent. I'll keep speaking the truth, no matter the cost.

No matter the cost. Yeah, that's state regime media for you folks. Very bizarre. We have to call it out. It's just lie after lie and just utterly weird behavior. So let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $6 million.

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