The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News in Full Collapse on Live TV After Trump Disaster

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News losing all control as Trump’s meeting with Putin blows up in his face. Check out The Popok Firm at: https://thepopokfirm.com 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

Yikes. State regime media known as Fox was in a full-fledged collapse live on air following Donald Trump's disastrous meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin. There was no ceasefire, no deal. Vladimir Putin and Putin's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, were brutally mocking Donald Trump in the United States the entire time. Donald Trump made United States soldiers get on their knees and literally roll out a red carpet. for Vladimir Putin. Putin was laughing the entire time in Donald Trump's face. Putin spoke first at the press conference before Donald Trump and threatened Ukraine and Europe while Donald Trump was saying things like, well, I'm such good friends with Vladimir Putin. We're such good friends now, aren't we? The lunch between the two was canceled. Let me show you what Fox was saying. So in the evening hours, Fox brought on their just ridiculous propagandists who tried to act like everything was great. And they tried to correct and fix the fact that some of the Fox National Security correspondents were there were saying how awful it was. So you have this Fox guest.

And again, as this one account says, these are deeply sick people on Fox right now. Deeply, deeply sick people who are paid to spew ridiculous lies to sort. support a deranged imbecile. Here's a Fox guest who's like, I am so glad on days like today that we have Donald Trump as the president. I feel safe as can be. I mean, they are just brainwashing the magamush brain audience at Fox. Watch this ridiculous human being spew the most ridiculous lies here play this clip. And he went on to say that he thinks that Putin wants to see this thing get done, which is a good sign, right? Yeah, I think this meeting successfully set the finalization of this brutal war between Russia

and Ukraine. And on days like this, I'm so thankful that we have President Trump in the White House and not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris because Joe Biden refused to meet with Putin. He didn't meet with him one time when he was president. Meanwhile, the contrast couldn't be clear of President Trump, who's not afraid to use the power of the U.S. presidency as a force for good. And President Trump knows that peace comes through strength. So that's exactly what he's going to do. And I think, you know, the B2 bombers were an amazing sight today. It was incredible imagery with all the jets lined up as well. Because Vladimir Putin knows that he needs to come to the table. He's not dealing with Joe Biden anymore.

President Trump knows to use the carrot or the stick. And he's going to have incentives for peace, but he's also going to make it clear that there will be major consequences for Russia if he defies President Trump. Then you had Kellyanne Conway miss alternative facts say, do you realize what a great day this was for Donald Trump and America? Wow, Donald Trump really beat Putin today. What are you talking about? Here, play this clip. Look, everything came up Trump in the U.S. today. This was his meeting on U.S. soil with U.S. bombers ahead. Look at the step and repeat behind them. It says pursuing peace. Do you think Vladimir Putin wanted to stand in front of a banner on U.S. soil a foot shorter than the U.S. president in front of words that say

pursuing peace, that's the goal here. But that's President Trump's goal. And the last thing I'll say is Putin, I don't think I disagree completely with who said he's got cards to play. He got the first word, the first statement. I think today the most important word to get was the last word. And President Trump was crisp and concise. You know why? Putin treated him like their friends. Oh, the religious artifacts. Oh, you're looking so helpful. and vibrant. Donald Trump was not being his jovial, jaunty self in this press conference. It was, it was not emotional. It was transactional. And I think it's because Putin knows Trump can crush Russia's economy with primary sanctions like he's done before and these secondary

sanctions for countries like India and China who are buying Russian oil. I think it's a huge win for peace today and a huge win for our president. Yeah, and when we get details, I'll know. I can't weigh in until I find out what exactly they agreed on, but they both agreed to to something. Then they brought on Congress member Mast, who was like, President Klump, I mean Trump, he was crystal clear. This was perfect. Things were great. Here, play this clip. And these things are being realized across the board. And President Trump, I think, is just crystal clear that that Putin's back is against the wall. And I think he demonstrated that clearness with his very first action before saying a word with the fact that he flew B2 bombers,

over his head. Why was that important? I think it was a, that was not an accident, obviously, for him to fly a B-2 bomber over Vladimir Putin's head, it was a signal to him that when President Trump says, hey, there could be very serious consequences. He's saying that these serious consequences can be very far-reaching. Maybe it's fires that we sell to European countries or other NATO countries that can reach Moscow or St. Petersburg or oil refiners or other things. or maybe it's other weapons systems that we make sure get into the hands of the Ukrainians. I think that's what I read between the lines

of that number one action of them stepping on stage and having those, having those, that bomber go overhead. Then former Maga Republican Congress member Sheffitz, who's now a Fox pundant, he gets on there and he's like, this was a huge win for America. This was a huge win for Trump. This is what strength looks like. Here, play this clip.

Look, I think it's a huge win for President Trump for the United States. there is but one superpower in this world. It's the United States of America, both militarily and economically. You had the visuals on the military side, but both President Putin and President Trump talked about the economic strength.

I also don't think this is all about Ukraine. I think they probably had a discussion that was much broader than that. I think this has to do with China. I think it has to do with Israel. I think it has to do with where Vladimir Putin. You think they talked about all that? I think they do mention that.

I don't think they go three hours. with maps. Well, because I think they actually go through and they want to talk about all of these places on where Russia is in the world. And we can push Russia around because if Donald Trump decides to turn that knob and say, you're no longer going to be a participant in the world economy, then you're going to fall apart. That's why President Trump holds all the cards. And that's why John Radcliffe going. Don't you think, Jason? John Radcliffe going is important because because he's also, he knows what's going on in Russia. He has the intelligence.

So he says, listen, I know what he's telling you, Charlie Hurd, Bradcliffe could say, but I'm going to tell you the reality, which really happening in Russia. And the CIA knows. Hey, everybody, Ben Mysellis here from the Midas Touch Network. I wanted to let you know about my podcast partner, Michael Popock's new law firm. It's called the Popak firm. Michael Popock's pursuing his dream of starting his own law firm. really based on the popular demand by all the Midas, Mighty, and Legal A. Fers who were approaching

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are spewing, it's just lie after, objectively, this was one of the most humiliating days in the history of the United States of America. By the way, let me show you other Fox reporters saying that earlier in the day. So Jackie Heinrich, who's like a national security and more serious reporter, I guess, at Fox, if you want to even call that, she has a lot of awful reporting, but more serious than these other clowns. Here's what she said. She observed. She was there in Alaska and she was just stunned by how defeated Trump looked, how Putin spoke

first. The whole thing she said was utterly, utterly strange to watch. Here, play this clip. I think you and me both, Brian, and everyone else in this room was also surprised. You know, we were told that we were going to have an opportunity to put questions to both leaders after a joint press conference in the event that the meeting went well enough that they could set the stage for a second meeting. And if, and the president Trump said if that didn't happen, he was likely to call off the joint presser and just address the media solo and then

send Putin home. Neither of those things happened. And what was really stunning to me as someone who's been in a lot of these press conferences is there were a few things that were very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. soil here, and that left the media scrambling to get their headsets in. Usually it is the leader of the country, the host country, of a summit that speaks first and addresses the room in their language. But Putin started right off in Russian, and we all had to get our headsets on and listen to him, rattle off this diatribe about the history of the U.S.-Russia relationship, making some allusions to something that we didn't get many details on, but also, without knowing the full background of

it, there was something that he said that was a little bit alarming, I thought, that seems like some of the things that he has done in the past, setting up false flags and that kind of thing, saying that we hope that Ukraine doesn't do anything to sabotage the progress that we made today, knowing full well that Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire unconditionally for the last several months. And it has been Russia that has not agreed to a ceasefire. That was President Trump's main objective today. And when we did hear from the president, he said, we didn't get there, but we think that we can. So a lot of questions remaining for the president, Trump, not just about what was discussed in that room and what might be happening now, but also how

that all happened back there. talked about what she observed in the room, how the feeling was just not good and Trump looked defeated. Here, watch this. It was just very unusual, atypical, and I think we're all awaiting, you know, the readout because the way that it felt in the room was not, not good. It did not seem like things went well, and it seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, and got his photo next to the president, and then left. Of course, that is only the piece of the picture that we have right now. And certainly President Trump, who is the host and who is the president, would not want to, I think, enable something that

would make him look weak. But we are eagerly awaiting to hear the background on that. And I will also note that we didn't see any sort of scowls on the faces of the likes of Steve Whitkoff or Secretary Rubio or any of the other members of the U.S. delegation. And I think had it been concerning we might have seen something there but just just to paint a picture for you of in the room how it felt what we're wondering about what we need to know to put the pieces together and fully understand what we all just witnessed but then she had to report that sean hannity spoke to donald trump and trump gave himself a 10 out of 10 not a 10 out of 100 a 10 out of 10 And Trump said this was the perfect meeting.

We've never had more perfect meetings before. I never wanted a ceasefire in the first place. I wanted it to go this way. I wanted to be humiliated with Putin. Here, watch Heinrich over here play this clip. I just was texting back and forth with Sean Hattery, who just sat down with the president. And he said the president noted that he came out and said there wouldn't have been a war if he was president. And that's what's part of Vladimir Putin said at the end of his written remarks.

And he also said in a scale of one to ten, I give today a tent. So that's the president grading what he thought of the meeting. And here you have one of their guests right here, General Philip Breedlove, former Allied Commander Europe. Here's how he describes what happened. And he said Putin, and he said Putin right here was offensive. Putin did not cooperate.

I mean, he still tries to put lipstick on the pig here for Donald Trump, but he at least admits that Putin was not cooperating here at play this. Well, let me agree with you in that latter matter for sure. The president has a lot of cards he can play now. Mr. Putin did not cooperate in this meeting. That is very, very clear. I think that there were a lot of pleasantry said in the remarks and things, but the fact of the matter is the reason the raison d'et of this meeting did not occur.

And now we have to figure out how to move on from that. And I think that the president has tools that he should and could bring immediately into play to signal to Mr. Putin that this was not the appropriate end to this meeting. And here's how Brett Baer described what he observed. Let's play this clip. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian president saying he and President Trump have reached a, quote, understanding on Ukraine and had a warning for European leaders not to torpedo the nascent progress.

President Trump said, called meeting excellent, said there would be more things to come. However, this joint news conference was anything but it was not a news conference. There were no questions taken by either leader. There were many yelled by reporters there, but we don't have a sense of what exactly is in this agreement or this deal. It seems like it's in the early stages, and we didn't get details about that. The reporting about President Trump making those calls to President Zelensky and other European leaders apparently was premature. The president's saying that he will make those calls momentarily and brief them about the inner workings. But we didn't hear the definite second meeting with President Zelensky, at least not yet.

But you heard at the end, Vladimir Putin saying the next meeting is in Moscow. President Trump didn't agree to that specifically, but said maybe. Because earlier Brett Baer was interviewing Donald Trump, and Donald Trump said to Brett Bear that, you know, he's going to stand up to Donald Trump, and I think it's going to work out well. If there's no ceasefire, I'm not just going to walk out on Putin. No, in fact, quite the opposite. Donald Trump's now saying that despite there being no ceasefire, Donald Trump's been saying,

no, I'm not going to do sanctions on Putin now. We got what we wanted. No sanctions against Putin. But first, watch Donald Trump with Brett Baer here. Here play this clip. Okay, in the office with President Trump on Air Force One, heading in, what's your initial feeling? How are you feeling about what you're going to get out of this? I think we're going to do very well. Our country is doing very well. We're setting records economically like we never have before. It's certainly the stock markets are all at a record high. We're taking in trillions and trillions of dollars with tariffs. we're going for a meeting with President Putin in Alaska. And I think it's going to work out very well. And if it doesn't, I'm going to head back home real fast.

I mean, if it doesn't, you walk. I would walk there. So then Donald Trump, as I mentioned, he then goes on Hannity. And then Donald Trump tells Hannity on Fox in the evening when Hannity's like, so what are the severe consequences? You've been talking about severe consequences on Russia. What are they? And then Donald Trump's like, why would I do severe consequences?

This went great. We'll see what happens. in a few weeks, but this was perfect. Here, play this clip. I didn't like looking. I was very sad to watch. When you talk before coming here about the consequences for Vladimir Putin being severe, I found that interesting. Severe would be defined by me. India doesn't buy your oil. The European Union won't buy it. And why in the back of my head was I thinking, wait a minute, Donald Trump just delayed possible increase in tariffs on China. Why do I think that probably President Trump was thinking ahead that maybe if you had to,

that would have been part of the consequence? Well, because of what happened today, I think I don't have to think about that. Now, I may have to think about it into weeks or three weeks or something, but we don't have to think about that right now. I think the, you know, the meeting went very well. This went perfect? What are you talking about? By the way, while the meeting was taking place, Putin was attacking Ukraine, killing a lot of

innocent Ukrainians with Shah had drones, with ballistic missiles during the meeting in Alaska where Putin had no intention of a ceasefire. Putin was giving propaganda during his speech where he spoke first and Jackie Heinrich alluded to it where Putin was blaming Ukraine for starting the war, Ukraine harming the security conditions, that Russia needed to pursue its primary objectives of getting all of the Ukrainian land back, which Russia claims falsely. his. But Donald Trump says he gives himself a 10 of 10. Here, play this clip. If you had to grade it on a scale of 1 to 10. So I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense that we got along great. And it's good when two big powers get along, especially when

their nuclear powers. You know, we're number one. They're number two in the world. And it's a big deal. That's a big deal. You never want to even mention that word, the word nuclear, but we have a tremendous nuclear. You know, I rebuilt it when I was president, first term, and I hated to rebuild it. It was the one thing I hated to rebuild, but we had to, and we have the greatest nuclear force. We have the greatest military in the world, actually. And they have a big nuclear presence also. I just want to remind you all that Donald Trump said earlier in the week when he was at the Kennedy Center that if Russia didn't agree to stop the war, that there would be sanctions immediately.

I mean, just such a liar here, play this clip. Do Russia face any consequences if Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war after your meeting on Friday? Yes, they will. There will be consequences. There will be, I don't have to say, there will be very severe consequences, yes. By the way, can you spot the difference here in this photo? Putin with Trump, Trump versus Zelensky.

I mean, Donald Trump is just such a complete and utter traitor. Here's how they're talking about it on Russian media, the weakness of the United States, R.T. Russian TV posting a photo of Zelensky and Trump. Trump to meet with Zelensky and EU leaders virtually on Wednesday. Think they're satisfied? Mocking Zelensky, mocking Europe. Trump won't even meet with them in person. Trump will meet with Putin in Alaska, but will meet virtually with Zelensky and Europe a real, just horrific day. And even Lindsey Graham, is out there, you know, basically saying, look, I trust Trump with all of this. Here's Lindsey Graham. Let's play it. A couple of things really stand out to me. Vladimir Putin saying to the world, this war never would have happened had Donald Trump and president. Donald Trump, scale a 1 to 10, gives it a 10. I took a lot away from this interview. Your thoughts?

Number one, you know, I don't really care what I blame Putin more than anybody else for starting the war. I want to be clear about that. But let me tell you, I've never been more hopeful this working in honorably and justly than I am right now. Yeah, I just think it's so utterly, utterly pathetic. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers.

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