The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Panics on Air Over Trump’s Health Issues
Episode Date: May 1, 2025MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News freaking out over questions about Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities being raised by Democrats. True Classic: Upgrade your wardrobe and save on @tr...ueclassic at https://trueclassic.com/MEIDAS! #trueclassicpod 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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If you want to see Fox just absolutely lose it, bring up Donald Trump's accelerating cognitive decline.
If you even raise the question, they have a utter freak out.
So when I had Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on the Midas Touch Network earlier this week, I asked him, do you think it's a fair
question that we raise Donald Trump's cognitive decline as a significant issue right now? And he
goes, when he travels the country, he gets the question frequently. And he said, looking at
Donald Trump's conduct, he understands why people are raising that issue with him. And he says he
thinks it's a fair question. So throughout the entire day yesterday, Fox was focused on why would Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries ever bring this up?
And he should be talking about former President Biden.
Just take a look over here at this chyron.
It says Jeffries fair to question Trump's mental acuity.
And like on the Will Cain show, they brought on Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman and they asked Congress member Goldman, come on, come on, Congressman.
How could you ever possibly raise an issue about Donald Trump's mental issues?
How could you ever do that?
Watch what Democratic Congress member Goldman said in response.
Play this clip.
I can debate you on each and every one of those things you just laid out, but I don't think you can call it whatever you want.
I think that's an incorrect statement, Congressman.
I think words have meaning and they matter.
And I think you know that.
I think we have to be careful with our words, especially if we're not trying to inflame the public and most certainly if we're trying to arrive at the truth.
And after four years of having us gaslighted over the competency, the mental acuity of the previous president, it's absurd to question, even if you disagree,
Congressman, and clearly you do with much of the president, the competency of the sitting
president today. I think the accuracy and truth of those words do matter.
Well, I don't think he's competent, Will. I don't know what to tell you. Whether his
cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th Amendment. You know, we don't know that right now. But I think
what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy. He has undermining the
fundamental rule of law and democracy. He is taking away benefits in order to cut taxes for
the rich. I think even you, Will, would have to agree with me that this first 100 days is not at all what
he promised the American people. No, I'm sorry to notify you. I do not agree with you. I think
this first 100 days is exactly what he promised the American people. And more importantly, exactly
what I loved how Congress member Goldman said that, look, it seems pretty obvious that Donald
Trump is having cognitive issues. Now, you can go back to 2019 when Donald Trump took
this secret trip to Walter Reed. There were many people at the time that were suspecting that
Donald Trump may have been experiencing mini strokes because right around the time and
thereafter, he really started slurring his words. And there are lots of people who opined on that.
And I'll talk about that in a moment. And I to be very clear i'm not a medical doctor i've taken a look at what medical doctors have said and opinions that they've given
i'm just expressing my opinion right now but it seems this is a very sensitive topic for fox
and also for like donald trump's communications director in the white house steve chung
so just take a look at what steve chung posted past week. He goes, CNN had this blithering idiot on Inside Politics from the Daily Beast named Joanna
Coles making unsubstantiated claims about President Trump's health. Joanna is a piece of shit,
clearly suffering from a debilitating case of Trump derangement syndrome, rotting her pea-sized
brain. So I went to see like, what did Joanna
Coles from the Daily Beast even say when she was interviewed? And I'll play the clip for you.
She basically said like, not a lot. Here, watch this clip.
Donald Trump in a blue suit when we know he has a black suit because he was wearing a black suit
the last time he met the Pope. So why wasn't he wearing it this time? Lots of suspicion because he's lost a lot of weight. Who knows how he's lost weight? We know that Robert Kennedy Jr.,
his health minister, doesn't approve of people taking a Zempik because he thinks it shows a
lack of moral power. So who knows how Trump has lost weight? But I found the suit color very
interesting. So if you see what's happening here, you've got Fox and Donald Trump's communications director, Stephen Chung, they're kind of telling on
themselves here, right, that this is a very sensitive issue for them. So go back now to
2019 for a second when Donald Trump took that visit to Walter Reed. And I want to share this
with you. This was a doctor that CNN had, a guy by the name
of Dr. David Shiner. He was President Obama's former doctor. And they had him on CNN to talk
about, and this was in Donald Trump's first administration, to talk about whether or not
Donald Trump was having mini strokes or whether there were some cognitive issues there. Play this clip. His inability to say words sometimes worries me tremendously. He is having
trouble word finding when he said United Shish instead of United States. These aren't words,
these aren't slips of the tongue. These are words he can't find them. And this is happening
over and over again. Comedians joke about it, but it's not a joking matter. I think there is a neurological issue that is not being addressed. And if he had an MRI of his head over there, I would be very pleased because I think he needs it.
Is that something that could have happened that maybe he's having small strokes.
And we had that once before in the White House when Woodrow Wilson was president.
His inability to find words is peculiar and has not been explained.
And I think one has to think of it as a possible neurological issue. Now, I think it's important to note when we talk about Donald Trump's accelerating cognitive decline, I want to be very careful because I also don't want Donald Trump to use that as an out
to avoid accountability one day and say, oh, it was because I had physical issues.
This is why I behave the way I did. As Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told me,
it also is just the truth that Donald Trump is a total liar in every single thing that Donald Trump does.
So whether it's because Donald Trump is experiencing severe cognitive decline or he's just a total liar or both, you know, that all can be the case.
Here's what Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told me this week when I interviewed him.
Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump spent the last year and a half questioning the cognitive ability of President Joe Biden, notwithstanding many of the legislative accomplishments that Donald Trump could only wish he got over the finish line. fair that a lot of Americans across the country that I run into are questioning whether Donald
Trump is actually fit at this point to be able to carry out the duties of the United States
of America in terms of being the president and the commander in chief.
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Shop now and elevate your wardrobe today. Now going back to the incident at Walter Reed, when you had Ronnie Jackson, now Congress member Jackson from Texas, when he was Trump's doctor, here's what he said when he was asked about Donald Trump potentially having mini strokes at that time.
Here, play this clip.
Yes.
There was an incident recently where the president appeared to slur his words while giving an address.
Did you look into what the cause of that might have been at all?
I did. Yeah, we talked about that. And actually, one of my ENT consultants was involved in that.
We evaluated him. We checked we checked everything out and everything was normal.
We even went so far as to do an ultrasound of his parotid glands and a few other things.
And there was absolutely no clinical findings that would suggest. I think the reason for that was quite.
I'm not sure if you remember, Donald Trump had to put out statements back then denying that he had a series of mini strokes.
And here's the statement that was that was made by another doctor, Dr. Sean P. Conley. Donald Trump has asked that I, Dr. Sean Conley,
physician to the president, address the recent public comments regarding his health.
I can confirm that President Trump has not experienced nor been evaluated for strokes,
mini strokes, or any acute cardiovascular emergencies, as have been incorrectly reported
in the media. The president remains healthy and I have no
concerns about his ability to maintain the rigorous schedule ahead of him. As stated in my
last report, I expect him to remain fit to execute the duties of the president. But do you notice
that nobody really talks about that anymore today except here on the Midas Touch Network?
One of the red flags that I think exists as well is
if you take a look at Donald Trump's recent physical that was released a few weeks back,
the way it described that he was in good health is it said, he's in good health as evidenced by
his frequent victories in golf events, it said. It also claimed he was like 6'3", 220, which he obviously isn't. But again,
you go back because the past really kind of informs, I think, how we need to look at it today.
And Donald Trump's doctor back in 2015, 2016, who's no longer alive, Dr. Harold Bornstein,
who was a gastroenterologist, he did Trump's doctor note back in 2015.
And this was Trump's doctor note or medical report back when Trump was running for office
the first time. It says, to whom my concern, not to whom my concern, to whom my concern.
And then as you read through it, it talks about how Donald Trump's
physical was astonishingly excellent. He was extraordinary. And then it says he will be the
healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. And it's signed over here by Dr.
Harold Bornstein, a gastroenterologist. I mean, obviously, to whom my concern is red flag number one.
Two, why is a gastroenterologist writing this report? Three, using language over and over again
like the most astonishingly excellent person and saying he will be the healthiest individual ever.
One of the things we know as well is that Donald Trump sent people back in 2018 to raid Dr. Harold Bornstein's
office. Let me just show you what Dr. Harold Bornstein said on May 1st, 2018 about Trump
sending goons to raid his office. Here, play this clip. pictures, anything I could find. We must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. We created a lot of
chaos. I couldn't believe anybody was making a big deal about a drug that's to grow his hair,
which seemed to be so important. And it certainly is not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody
they take Ropecia to grow their hair. What's the matter with that? And then another thing that Dr. Harold Bornstein told CNN was that Donald Trump was actually the
person who wrote his own physical. That medical note that I just read was actually written by
Donald Trump and not Dr. Harold Bornstein. Let me just play a clip of CNN reporting what Dr.
Harold Bornstein told them in May of 2018. Let's play
this clip right here. We ran into Dr. Harold Bornstein right out right here, right outside
his office on Park Avenue. And he told us in no uncertain terms. And this is the quote, Aaron,
he dictated he being Trump, he dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter,
meaning that Trump dictated what he wanted to go into it. And essentially, Bornstein wrote it up. He did say he compared it to the movie Fargo. And he said it takes the truth
and moves it in a different direction. Think about that. Now, Bornstein tells us that he was in a car
with his wife when he was on the phone with then candidate Trump in December of 2015.
And she was going through with Trump what he could say and what he couldn't say.
Trump was dictating what he wanted in that letter.
And Bornstein was saying, OK, you can say that.
You can't say that.
He then came here to the office.
He wrote it up.
Trump's office later picked it up.
He said around 4 p.m., Aaron, we have reached out to the White House,
but we have not gotten a response.
And so let me just show you a portion of that interview one more time that has since gone very viral of Terry Moran from ABC and Donald
Trump in the Oval Office, where Donald Trump believes that what was clearly photoshopped
on Abrego Garcia's hands, the letters MS-13 are like clearly like computer typed font and it's not the tattoos. But Donald Trump is arguing and I want you to watch Donald Trump's just physical behavior. I want you to view it from a kind of psychological perspective as you're watching him. And just the weird stuff he's doing with his body and his face and the way he's
looking at Terry Moran and saying, no, Terry, no, Terry, that's real. It says MS-13. I see it.
Terry, you're wrong, Terry. The way he's looking and trying to intimidate Terry Moran,
the fact that he thinks that it actually says MS-13 with the letters MS and the numbers 13. It doesn't. And it's not just that. It's also him
making up fake conversations that never happened with China and saying that he's speaking to Xi
Jinping. It's Donald Trump lying about saying he's done 200 deals. There's only 193 countries.
Donald Trump tariffing penguins. The way Donald Trump looked and behaved at Pope Francis's funeral.
I mean, we can see this thing with our own eyes. Right.
I mean, here Donald Trump is at in the Oval Office interview with Terry Moran from ABC.
Here, play this clip.
He wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked and on his knuckles he had ms-13 there's a dispute wait a
minute wait a minute he had ms-13 on his not his tattoo he had some tattoos that are interpreted
that way but let's move on wait a minute i will tear it down terry you did not have the letter ms-13
it says ms-13 that was photoshopped uh so let me that was photoshopped terry you can't do that
hey they're giving you the big break of a lifetime.
You know, you're doing the interview.
I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay.
I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice.
He had MS-13 tattoos.
We'll agree to disagree.
I want to move on to something else.
Do you want me to show you the picture?
I saw the picture.
And you think it was Photoshopped.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Don't photoshop it.
Don't look at his hand.
He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way.
I'm not an expert on them.
I want to turn to Ukraine.
No, no.
Terry, Terry.
I want to get to Ukraine.
No, no.
No, no.
He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted.
This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news.
In El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go. They aren't because when he was photographed in el sa in in el salvador
they aren't there but let's just go they aren't there when he's in there oh oh they want to look
at the photo they're there now right no they're in your picture terry ukraine sir he's got ms-13
on his knuckles all right okay we'll take a look it's you just such a disservice we'll take a look
at that why don't you just say yes he does, he does. And, you know, go on to something else.
He's contested.
Right.
And then what does Donald Trump consistently keep on talking about when he's on Air Force One and usually coming back from golf after a weekend of golfing?
He keeps talking about taking physical exams and acing cognitive tests.
He keeps doing that against him.
I pass cognitive tests. Here, play that again. So I pass cognitive tests.
Here, play this clip.
Time to go.
Long time, the yearly physical.
I think I did well.
I think they're releasing the report on Sunday.
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Did they give you any suggestions or advice?
Anything you need to change up?
A little bit, but overall I think I felt I was in very good shape.
Good heart, a good soul, very good soul.
And I wanted to be a little different.
I took a cognitive test that I don't know what to tell you whether that I got every answer right.
And then, of course, you remember during the campaign, he would say over and over again that people keep saying he's cognitively impaired.
He's cognitively impaired.
Here, play this clip.
They're saying he's cognitively impaired and physically impaired.
There's something wrong with them all
because I have guys that are stupid back there. All right. What are you going to do? What are
you going to do? Right. What a shame. But we're going to come back. I'm going to give you a free
performance back in that corner. You got a bad area back there. But I think this is better. I
think it's probably better. You know, I think about what Senator Bernie Sanders told me.
And he said, you know, Ben, sometimes the things that are kind of most obvious and are most glaring are the things that are discussed the least.
And I think if you put all the puzzle pieces together and go, okay, corporate news isn't reporting on this.
That's kind of strange because it seems pretty obvious.
Fox gets very worried the moment it's mentioned and devote a ton of coverage to trying to swat it down.
You had Donald Trump's communications director, Stephen Chung, like freak out when Joanna Coles basically said like nothing even that significant about Donald Trump's health.
And we just observe his behavior right now.
As I said before, I don't want this to be used as an out for Donald Trump to one day avoid accountability.
And I don't want to just try to blame his disgusting behavior on a physical issue because
there could be complex explanations because he's still vile and he's still disgusting. But
I think it's something that needs to be talked about more. I'm going to use the platform
to talk about Donald Trump's declining cognitive issues more.
But you see that it certainly is very worrisome to Fox. Anyway, let me know what you think.
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