The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Collapses on Live TV and Attacks Reagan

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News being forced to attack former President Ronald Reagan to defend Trump losing before a Reagan and a Trump appointed judge over his tariff disaster. For 25% off your order, head to https://PeakNatural.com/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS. 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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But the way Fox was spending the whole day attacking that was they would bring on Howard Lutnick and they spent the day with their guests attacking Reagan. Reagan bad on trade, Reagan not good. Watch this, play this clip. Was he surprised about this three judge panel because it was a Reagan judge, it was a Trump judge, and then it was an Obama judge. So it was a unanimous ruling on this court.

Is he surprised by that? Well, I think he was not happy with the panel because what you call the Trump judge is just one of these blue slip judges, meaning it was a Democrat judge, it was their seat, and he just approved their seat, which is the deal for those kind of things. And while we would love Ronald Reagan,

on trade, he just was not a strong trade guy. So I think the president saw the panel as weak. He's been through this kind of stuff before. I think he's confident on appeal. He's confident at the Supreme Court. And I think he knows he's gonna win because he's got to protect the American people. You're gonna go after Ronald Reagan, it's wild.

But it wasn't just unique to Howard Lutnick, the ShamWow salesman right there. For those who know ShamWow, you know what I'm talking about right there. Peter Navarro was on Fox, and Peter Navarro talked about the rogue judges, the rogue Reagan judge, the rogue Trump judge and the host was like

the rogue Reagan. Yeah, Reagan wasn't good on trade. Reagan was bad on. He was a free trader. Here play this clip. And with respect to the the legal arguments themselves, these are rogue judges this clip. And with respect to the legal arguments themselves, these are rogue judges that are basically operating at this thing. One was appointed by Donald Trump. That's a rogue judge. There was one appointed by Donald Trump. And one by Reagan.

He was a career bureaucrat over at USTR. But more importantly, the person who wrote the decision, Rastani, was appointed by Reagan, free trader. She's the one who took the lead trying to stop the Section 232 tariffs and got overruled in the appeals court. So there's a lot of stuff going on. Watching these Republicans go full MAGA and contort themselves into whatever the heck Donald Trump is doing, which is fascism melded with central planning combined with cacostocracy, idiocracy is just a sight to behold.

Bring on the scam artists, bring on the con artists, bring on Mr. ShamWow, Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary. And here Howard Lutnick says, it's all good. We're bringing in $10 trillion to build factories. $10 trillion. They just make up numbers. Trillion, $10 trillion. And then they do the thing with their hands to make it seem like extra persuasive.

$10 trillion, everybody. Here play this clip. I think he knows he's going to win because he's got to protect the American people. He's got to protect the American workers. He's got $10 trillion coming to build factories in America, and he's going to stand for the American people. And he's got lots of other authorities, but I think this one's going to work and it's going to hold.

You just have to get real judges. $10 trillion? What the hell are you talking about? Then Howard Lutton continues down this line of being a con artist and a scammer. And he goes, there's $ 10 trillion in factories being built and he goes Probably we're growing the economy 50% faster than otherwise. So 10 trillion the economy is growing by 50% None of this is true. They're just literally making up fake numbers that are large numbers here play this clip the Economic growth that Donald Trump is driving here, right?

He's got $10 trillion with the factories being built. That's huge economic growth. They'll probably grow the economy 50% faster than would have otherwise grown. And then you've got the ability for us to export, right? We're growing our ability to export each and every one of these countries allows us to have market access you know what that means it means our farmers our ranchers our fishermen our manufacturing can sell finally sell overseas our car manufacturers everybody can finally sell fairly overseas you could see the US economy double its growth rate under Donald Trump because

of these policies. So I think that's what you've got to look at. Yes, the economy is contracting. The first quarter GDP was negative. Jobless claims for the past month exceeded expectations. What was it? 241,000 jobless claims. We're seeing earnings down amongst companies. You could say all these big numbers you want. What did Donald Trump say? I brought back five trillion from the Middle East. How'd you bring back five trillion? The entire GDP of Qatar is 200 billion. The entire GDP of the UAE is 400 billion. So you're bringing back 20x, 50x what their GDP is and 20% of the entire American GDP. They're just lying. They're just making up numbers and now they have to go and attack Iran.

Their former hero was Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan. And now they don't. Reagan was bad on free trade. Then bring in Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. I don't even know what the hell this is that I'm about to show you, but Treasury Secretary Besant is asked, so how are the trade talks going with China? Because didn't you previously reduce the tariffs from 145% to 30%? And wasn't Xi Jinping and Trump supposed to?

How are they going? And here you have Besson go, well, they're stalled. They're stalled. Here, play this clip. And what about China, specifically China and that obviously started in a different place. How can you characterize those talks now? I would say that they are a bit stalled. I believe that we will be having more talks with them

in the next few weeks. And I believe we may, at some point, have a call between the president and party chair Xi. So stalled. There was a time when the president thought that that was moving forward pretty significantly. Again I think that given the magnitude of the talks given the complexity that it this is going to require both leaders to weigh in with each other. They have a very good relationship.

And I am confident that the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his promises known. Everything out of their mouth is either a lie or utterly pathetic. I just want you to think, what do you think they're thinking in Beijing when they watch what I just want you to think, what do you think they're thinking in Beijing when they watch what I just showed you? What do you think they're thinking in the European Union when they're watching what I just showed you? I could do in Canada, in Australia, pathetic,

weak liars about everything, about everything. Here, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson then he goes we need to make the United States look more like Florida we should be more like Florida and less like New York here playing this clip we're gonna deliver a better product to the American people good bread you know I lived in New York I lived in Florida and state of New York spends about $235 billion a year. Excuse me, the state of New York spends about $235 billion a year. State of Florida spends about $125 billion.

Both states have approximately the same number of people, but Florida doesn't have an income tax. And I can tell you, having lived in both, it's better not to have an income tax and Florida gives better services. So we wanted the US to be more like Florida, less like New York. It's always just interesting to me when I see them attacking these blue states. One of the states they attack very frequently is California, right? Which has the fourth largest GDP in the world in the if California Was a country it would have the fourth largest GDP in the world yet. They attack California relentlessly They attack New York relentlessly. Let me just look at the homicide rate in New York is much lower than Florida

The life expectancy in New York is significantly higher than Florida The uninsured rate in New York is significantly higher than Florida. The uninsured rate in New York is much lower than Florida. But go on, go on and tell me. And by the way, all of this stuff about, oh, people were leaving to go to Florida, BS, it's going in the reverse direction right now when people are seeing that DeSantis ran that state into the ground. All right, bring in Maga Mike Johnson for some lying. Don't worry, I'll fact check him to his face right now.

So Maga Mike Johnson goes on Fox and he's trying to defend this disastrous budget that would add four to five trillion immediately to the deficit that would take away Medicaid from tens of millions of people, cut Medicare for people, cut people's food stamps, their SNAP benefits, their rental assistance. It attacks women's reproductive rights, harms infrastructure projects, goes after climate. I can go on and on and on here.

But here, Maga Mike Johnson, the speaker, goes, no, no, no, everybody. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, which has given you these estimates They're a leftist Democrat organization. He goes they're liars. They're funded by the Democrats They're quite literally a nonpartisan group Phil Swaggle The current CBO director worked in George W Bush Treasury Department was chosen as the CBO director Yorkton George W. Bush Treasury Department was chosen as the CBO director by Senate Republicans. Swaggle officially chosen for CBO director by Senate Republicans. But go on, Magna Mike. Lie to the people for Donald Trump.

Play this clip. Yes. I sent my good friend, Elon, a long text message last night explaining that it can be both big and beautiful. Okay. So what I wanted to make sure that he understands is that the projection that he's referring to in others is from the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office.

They are historically totally unreliable. It's run by Democrats. 84% of the number of countries over there are donors to big Democrats. They don't have our best interests in mind and they've always been off. By way of example, they were off on their projections of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in the first Trump administration by $1 trillion.

The problem is they do not use what we call dynamic scoring. What that means in layman's terms is they don't give us any credit for the extraordinary economic growth that will be spurred along by this bill. This is a pro-growth package. Lower tax rates, less regulation. We'll do exactly what we did in the first Trump administration, but this time on steroids. And so we're going to have an extraordinary growth in the economy. You're going to have more jobs created, higher wages, more labor participation. And all those things need to be factored in because that's

reality. And by the way, the CBO is giving no credence whatsoever, no calculation at all to the new revenues that are being produced by the Trump tariff policies and all these other things that are happening. So we believe we're gonna get the economy going and this is going to be deficit reducing at the end of the day. And also as Philip Bump explains,

as it turns out, Mike Johnson is wrong. And when you look at CBO projections, they're generally fairly accurate. And if anything, they've understated, not overstated the amount that is actually added to the deficit. If anything, they've understated it, but they usually are pretty on point. All right. More Fox people attacking Reagan. And you had to have Jessica Tarlov, the lone pro-democracy voice on Fox, explaining to her panel,

guys, you realize that was a Reagan appointee and a Trump appointee who ruled against Trump? What are you talking about? These radical judges here play this clip. He's doing this because he knows that I'm right about it. You brought it up. Cause I'm just responding to your erroneous assertions. In just the last month, 96% of federal district court

rulings went against the Trump administration because they are not following those. You can find those judges anywhere. But we're still moving the baton. They're a bragging appointees. They're Trump appointees, they're Bush appointees. It's all appealable. It won't be appeal. Look, but they could win in the end, but they might lose in the end.

So all I was saying is they gotta have a backup plan. Yeah, what's the backup plan Jess? Assuming that they do. What, for terrorists? We don't need one. Okay, so you ever hit that mid-morning wall where your brain's foggy, your energy's dragging, and even your to-do list is giving you that side eye? Yeah, that was me until I found something that actually helps and is in Pack with Junk. This podcast is sponsored by Peak Pure and Natural, and their product, Peak Beats,

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So in terms of separation of powers, the Senate has chosen not to exercise their powers, and the president absolutely has the right to set the trade agenda for the US. This administration is committed to fair trade and we are striking the best deals for the American people and anything that the courts do to get in the way, they both harms the American people in terms of trade and in terms of tariff revenue. Now as Elon Musk quits his role at Doge, Jesse Waters has to like praise this guy in the weirdest terms and he's like, all the young men, they idolize Elon. They want to have Elon's trucks. They want big balls.

That's what he says. So he says on Fox, he goes, they want to be with big balls. Play this clip. You're saying how much you need men. Young men idolize Elon Musk. They want to be them. They want to be based. They want to ride around in his trucks and they want to hang with big balls. And now every time you attack Elon Musk, you're attacking all of the young men that you need. They want to be with big balls. What in the Kim Jong Un weirdo stuff are we even want to be with the big balls? Guys, this is not normal. I want to always bring this back. What I'm showing you right now is dangerous and it is not normal.

Speaking of which, here's Sean Duffy, Donald Trump's transportation secretary who got famous during being a reality show person on the Real World Road Rules Challenge. Here he is talking about how he's using our taxpayer dollars for some July 4th challenge, and he wants the Transportation Department to win Trump's challenge, so they're going to be doing like a tour of America. I don't know what the hell. They think this is The Apprentice. It's a dystopian reality show that we're all non-consenting participants in here play this clip.

Yeah. So listen, we're about to celebrate America's 250th birthday. There's going to be a year-long celebration starting this July 4th. The president has told all departments to come up with ways to celebrate this anniversary. So at DOT, by the way, we have the best idea of all departments. We're winning the challenge. We're going to do the great American road trip. And here he is, a deer with headlights right here or deer in headlights right here. Sean Duffy basically saying, the Biden bootages, the Biden bootages administration, they ruined the transportation. I have to fix it. I have to fix it. Dude, there were these problems didn't exist under Biden and Buttigieg Act like a leader for once and stop blaming them for all of your freaking problems. You idiots play this clip

If I increase the pipeline of new people coming in and I can keep those those controllers from retiring That's going to make up the difference as we get more controllers into the system But this this has been a problem for a long time. The Buttigieg's Biden administration didn't want to fix it, right? All of these problems were well known. They did nothing to make it better. And so they left it to us. We're going to fix it.

President Trump cares about the airspace, cares about the controllers, and we're going to work together with the Congress to make sure that we don't pass this problem off to the next administration. Then you got to bring on Peter Navarro. At least this Fox host asks him somewhat good questions like, okay, Navarro, what's the threat that's being posed by Lululemon yoga pants and Wayfair furniture that you're sticking tower of Southern? What's the national emergency?

Is there a Lululemon national emergency that we should be aware about? Just watch how with ease this guy starts BSing. He has to like find his footing and say, okay, got it. Let me go into con artist mode here, play this clip. Could you explain the administration's justification quickly if you could, and the legality of economic emergency in vocation here on bratz dolls and Wayfair furniture and Lulu lemon yoga pants That's gonna be a hard sell to a court that those are economic emergencies that deserve tariffs Okay, so let's take the fentanyl issue. I said Lulu lemon and way you want to do the reciprocal tariffs Yes, yeah. Yeah, well look, look, they're specks and grains of sand in a sea of a trade, $1.3 trillion trade deficit.

And they are retail outlets that go to China and benefit from their seven deadly sins of job destruction, whether it's the currency manipulation, the counterfeiting, the piracy, the subsidies, and everything in between. And the emergency is $1.3 trillion a year going abroad, $18 trillion of American wealth so far transferred into foreign hands, and millions of jobs lost, hundreds of thousands of factories gone. That's the emergency. And the American people understand this.

Main Street understands this. Wall Street is in denial about this. And this rogue court apparently doesn't think that having Main Street America dying from fentanyl and not having jobs is an emergency. We think it is and damn well is. Speaking of con artist mode, then you have Mag and Mike Johnson crediting the magic algorithms of Doge and said the magic algorithm of Doge fixed everything playing this clip. And the beauty of what Doge has been able to do, the reason it's so revolutionary is because Elon cracked the code. He had access,

all the stars aligned. We had a president who was bold enough to do it. We had somebody with Elon's talent and capability to come in and have his magic algorithms running through the data to find all these irregularities. And these are things that have been hidden from Congress. We've been trying to do our oversight responsibility, but the bureaucracy was hiding these things. And so this changes the way government works.

And Elon's exactly right. The Doge effort will go on long beyond his tenure as a temporary assistant in all this, because it's changing the way people look at this. And the oversight's a really important component, and that's gonna be a permanent part of government now, and it's an exciting thing. Let's come with the receipts,

as Carl Keatonia points out. US government spending since January 21st is up 8.7% over the equivalent period in 2024, up 7.2% over 2023. Musk not only accomplished nothing, but there's more federal spending right now. But here's what Elon Musk had to say, did my best, did my best. As Carl Kington Neal writes, it was a sheepish admission. Despite Musk's unbridled glee at unleashing months of anxiety and chaos among federal workers, the legacy of his tenure in the White House falls far short of his lofty promises to reinvent the federal government.

Did my best, did my best. Oh my God, dripping with privilege while you've gutted and destroyed our federal government have crushed the lives of millions of people and millions of more people will suffer in the future as a result of the landmines that you've laid in our federal government. We're always gonna call it out here on the Midas Nudge Network.

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