The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News in Panic Mode as Trump Plunges Markets

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News in panic over Trump’s erratic behavior that gets worse each day. Graza: Go to https://Graza.co and use code: MEIDAS to get 10% off your Graza Starter Kit and get to cookin’ your next chef quality meal! 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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state regime media known as Fox, you actually probably do get more pathetic. There really is no bottom. So what were they talking about all yesterday as Trump once again continues to crash the markets as Donald Trump says that he's now imposing this 104%, maybe more, 117% when you actually adjust a tariff on China, just cripple the entire global economy. Well, Fox was talking about, you guessed it, former President Biden. And they brought on MAGA Republican Congresswoman Annapolina Luna, who was like, we need to hold hearings about former President Biden's mental acuity because maybe all of his executive orders should be voided if he has dementia. Maybe, maybe that. Here, play this clip. I don't know if you remember when I forced a vote on inherent contempt on Garland for denying Congress's subpoena on those Her tapes.

But let me tell you, Jesse, now is the time. I can tell you firsthand that when you saw what happened with this auto pen gate, remember your signature, even though you sign it, it's going to be a little bit different, but they found the exact same signature time and time again on many documents to include executive orders that Joe Biden was issuing. So if that's the case, if he was not competent, which I believe, then that would make everything that he passed by EO invalid. I mean, have you seen or heard Donald Trump speak lately? By the way, when former President Biden was running things, America was expanding its alliances with NATO to additional countries joined NATO. Our economy was thriving. It was

a Goldilocks economy. 16.2 million new jobs were created. Record growth for our GDP. Record low unemployment. 40,000 infrastructure projects. I didn't have to keep checking the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P futures each night. Here is from state regime media, Janine Pirro, and she goes, Dear leadership, Donald Trump is not panicked and neither should we, because this is the golden age. Everybody here, watch this. These tariffs are literally a transition to the golden age. The man is negotiating, offering concessions to some countries. And you know what? If you want to

retaliate, good luck to you because Donald Trump is not panicked and neither should we be because he's bringing us to the golden age, Harold, and that's the end of it. Two more days of this and we'll be longing for the Biden day. Golden age, the golden age. Y'all are creating a great depression. You are actually not bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States, but you are manufacturing a great recession. I guess when you said manufacturing boom, you didn't mean it like former President Biden, who actually brought a manufacturing boom. You meant manufacturing a Great Depression. I suppose that's what you meant here. Jeanine Pirro says, you know what, we got to remember that actually

everything is Biden's fault. And millenniums didn't care about their credit cards because they figured we can never afford it. I don't know what these people are talking about. Here, play this clip. So, you know what? And let's not be so quick to forget where we were with the Biden administration with interest rates were at 7%,

cost outpaced wages. And the millenniums didn't care about their credit cards because they figured we could never afford a house. So these tariffs are literally- As I told you, state regime media known as Fox, it's off the rails. It is off the rails, this coverage. Then you have Jesse Waters.

I gotta show you, I'll show you this. I'll show you just like a minute of this. This goes on for like three minutes. I'll just cut this out a minute or so. He's like, this is a brilliant plan. Let me spell it out for you. This is all part of Donald Trump's grand, brilliant plan. Here, I'll just play it for a little bit, play the clip. And now you're seeing what Trump's trying to do. He's trying to destroy China. Because if you break the Chinese economy, you put America back on top. The other Chinese thought they were going to overtake us. It's not going to happen if this thing goes through.

If you can cut off their exports, they're toast. You can't export all these cheap products here. You're definitely not going to sell them into Europe because they don't have the consumer power. And so the Chinese economy, they can't consume their own stuff because they don't have enough wealth and they don't have enough families, to be honest with you. And so you're going to have to lay people off and then the whole country is going to disintegrate. So that's a good thing. And then you're breaking China off from Russia because this this Chinese economy is feeding the Russians. And right now you drop oil to sixty dollars a barrel. So it starves the Putin's war machine. And then you separate those two countries. So look what we're doing also at the same time in the Middle East. You have the

Syrians. Now they're on our side. Their proxies now ours. And then you have carriers surrounding the Iranians. And we're saying you better negotiate, not nuke up or we'll bomb, bomb, bomb. And if they can do a deal there, that's the second Russian proxy that falls. And we'll get that Iranian oil back on the world market. And it keeps the price of oil going lower. We need cheap energy. And then the Europeans, they don't have another game. They have to sell here. They can't sell it anywhere else. And what you're seeing is the EU trade blocs starting to break. Hungary is trying to do a bilateral deal that your English are going to start trying to just negotiate directly with us. And it splits Germany from France.

And and then you throw in the Greenland thing, of course, and then you throw in the NATO thing because right now, Pete Hague says, go on, we might bring some troops home. So they're really off kilter. You've now surrounded the Chinese. They thought the Chinese were going to cut deals with the Japanese and the South Koreans. Didn't happen. Thought it was going to cut deals. Their appearance didn't happen. And Trump sent Hegseth down to the Panama Canal. He's saying it's ours. And we're wrestling TikTok away from that country too. Everything is moving perfectly at the same time. Huh? What? I just, this is how they turn the minds of their viewers into magamush.

You know, the KGB, the Soviets, did studies on how you can create basically a climate of absolute kind of zombie, like how you can zombify a population with injecting fear and these lies and how you could basically try to convince them of everything. So in my opinion, state regime media known as Fox, you know, they would always say, you know, you know, the migrants are coming to kill you. Invasion, invasion. Everyone's going to die. You're going to, they would repeat that over and over and over again. And so they literally kind of freak their audience out into having magamush brains where this is, they're now susceptible to this crap. And I, cause I watch this, you watch this. You're like, what the hell?

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Guess what we're doing? We're pulling all non-essential funding from the main Department of Correction facilities because we found there to be, she goes, a giant six foot one, 240 pound guy in the women's prison. And we have to protect women prisoners. So no more of that. I don't know what they're, look, what are they talking about? What, why are you as the AG holding press conferences about, I mean, saying breaking news here, play this clip. Yeah. what's happening there is they're not abiding by what President Trump said. They're allowing men and women sports.

And in the case right now, what we did last night, some breaking news, we pulled all non-essential funding from the Department of Corrections in Maine because they were allowing a man in a woman's prison. A giant six foot one, 245 pound guy who committed a double murder with a knife, stabbed his parents to death and the family dog. And he identified as a woman. So they were letting him be housed in a female prison. No longer. We will pull your funding. We will protect women in

prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country. No more of that. It's unbelievable that we're still dealing with this issue. It seems like the American people have spoken on this issue, but the resistance campaign continues. You know, one of the interesting things that Fox then does is because they know that Donald Trump just obsessively watches Fox. So they then try to like

coach him and treat him like a little baby about what he should do. And they try to like coach him. So like Sean Hannity last night brought on these MAGA Republican senators to try to coach Donald Trump. So like MAGA Republican Senator John Kennedy, he's not really a Kennedy, and he has a fake, he does a fake voice. Like if you go back and watch MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy from Louisiana's voice, like before he was a senator, he never liked talking like that. I think he just makes up a voice because they're all a bunch of weirdos, these MAGA Republicans. But here he tries to give advice, play this clip.

All right, Senator Kennedy, last word, quick. If Vietnam, Mr. President, offers you zero tariff barriers, pounce on it like a ninja. pounce on it like a ninja pounce on it like then he describes donald trump like a pit bull catching the car here play this clip three of those things with 51 votes and that's really all it is um i want to say a word, though, about tariffs, because that's sort of the fourth leg of this stool. I think most fair-minded people would agree with this. Other countries have used trade barriers to take advantage of the American people and American businesses. Number two, President Trump has said enough. We would not be in this situation today had he not been a pit bull.

You know, and just as you hear these MAGA Republicans spend all day on Fox attacking former President Biden, I mean, this is what Trump was talking about. He's like, yesterday when Trump was at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, and Trump was like, I just want everybody to kiss my ass. Just kiss my ass, everybody. Here, play this clip. In the history of our country, and don't let some of these politicians go around saying, you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.

They are dying to make a deal. Please, please, sir, make a deal. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir. And then I'll see some rebel Republican, you know, some guy that wants to grandstand, say, I think that Congress should take over negotiations. Let me tell you, you don't negotiate like I negotiate. You know, and there is something to me also, you know, about the vulgarity of it all. I mean, we know Trump is a sexual predator, right? He's found liable for sexual assault. He's a felon. We know that about him. He's been found liable for fraud. We know that about him. He's a disgusting human being. Like, there's no other

way to say it. But, you know, a vulgarity, you know, it's like, yeah, it's just the worst, like the worst person for leadership positions anyway. Then you have Annapolina Luna who goes, they kind of tell on themselves. They're like, this is what they're, again, this is what they're spending all night talking about on Fox, right? The futures are crashing 104% tariffs on China. You've got Donald Trump attacking Europe. Donald Trump said yesterday he was going to put tariffs on all pharmaceuticals, just killing Americans by imposing tariffs on pharmaceuticals. So then they're talking about, let me tell you what's so much worse than January 6th, Biden's mental state. Play this clip. Did Kayleigh on last night and she said, remember how the Democrats made so much hay on January 6th?

They had special commissions for two years and tried to keep the Republican Party on defense and just took up all this airtime. And this is nothing compared to January 6th. This is basically a fraud perpetrated on the entire country, on the world. He might not have even really been the president in the sense of he didn't really know what was going on. And people could have been using and executing the powers of the presidency that were never even voted for office. You know, look, I'll give Brett Baer some credit for this interview right here. Brett Baer interviewed Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary. And Brett Baer asked a good question here.

So one of the things that the data is showing, we reported about it on some of our other shows, the way the Trump regime's been trying to reduce the price of eggs, they're buying eggs from foreign countries who they're tariffing at high prices, and then they're artificially suppressing the price of eggs so they can say, we brought down the price of eggs. But then because of the Trump tariffs, we now have to pay tariffs on the eggs that we're bringing in from other countries that we're paying more for than they're being sold for. And so all of these eggs are being sold at a massive loss and taxpayers are going to be footing the bill for all for all of this stuff. Let me just play this this clip of Rick Rollins and let's talk about it here. Play this clip. Take that damage. Seeing what you're seeing now.

Do you think prices will go up? I know we talk a lot about egg prices and you've seen them go down. The weekly average price just for white large shell eggs just went up 26 cents, but you are importing a number of eggs to meet the shortage. And there's like 328% for the month imported, almost 450% importing more than over a year ago. And obviously some of that from Turkey and Mexico is hit by a tariff now. Well, true. But what I will say is this,

we have been working on the egg issue, obviously, since we started a couple months ago. We released a big, bold plan on, A, how to combat the avian flu, B, how to deregulate under Biden's crazy over-regulations out of here, out of USDA, that caused the prices to go up, even aside from the

avian flu. We saw those prices significantly decline. But while that's happening, we also put forward massive repopulation. So as those egg layers were wiped out, repopulating more quickly. So we'll see the market react to that. Will those eggs be tariffed coming in from Turkey or South Korea, wherever they are? Yes, they will. But the market in America is already adjusting. So I believe that you won't see a significant increase or maybe even an increase in the price of eggs in the coming weeks that we feel pretty confident in where that is. I mean, but just so you saw before, I mean, at least Brett Baer asked that question. But, the markets are tanking. The futures are tanking. Situation here is not good. And then Fox is saying Trump has a plan.

This is a great thing. Here are some other facts I want to talk to you about. Number one, federal spending is not down at all. Federal spending is higher. Despite all of Elon Musk's doge wrecking ball to our economy, spending is higher right now than it was under former President Biden. So federal spending is off the charts. Donald Trump wants a $1 trillion military budget. $1 trillion, he said. Elon Musk

just got awarded another $5.9 billion contract from SpaceX. The FAA awarded him a contract. Bezos got awarded a contract. This is the oligarch crap that we see in Russia. Crash the economy, make people poor, make people beg, make people and foreign countries dependent on Trump, hoist up oligarchs, give them the kind of contracts. You get a 5.9 billion contract, you get a 2.3 billion contract, and don't care about the people suffering, and then have regime media fill in the gaps. That's what we're seeing. I've outlined the playbook for you. You can see it all come together right there.

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