The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Abruptly Shuts Down Presser at White House

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump running away from the press in the White House after a press conference went off the rails quickly when he was asked about the release of the war crimes video that he and Hegseth are hiding. Go to https://WildAlaskan.com/meidas for $35 OFF your first box of premium, wild-caught seafood. 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

What in the world just happened? Donald Trump just threw a tantrum in the White House when he was holding a press conference with, like, business leaders, and he was asked a question about, so why is Pete Hegesith not releasing the video footage of that strike on the survivors of the September 2nd boat strike? Why isn't that being released when you said it would be released? Donald Trump, watch what happens.

He just, like, runs out of the room. He's like, enough questions. Here, let's play this clip. You know, you work for the Democrats, Sojay, you're basically an arm of the Democrat Party. Thank you very much, everybody. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Now, I'll get to more of that in a moment, but you can see Donald Trump cognitively declining during this press conference, and when he referred to the chairman of the Federal Reserve, he called him a fed head, bedhead, chairbed. He doesn't even know what words are coming out of his freaking mouth at this point.

Here, play this clip. Three and four. We're scheduled to be at 4%, which is pretty amazing because we have a deadhead fed, fed hair. I mean, this guy, the head of the Federal Reserve is a stiff. Right, now let me show you the full clip right here of when Donald Trump was asked about why Hegsith is not releasing the video footage of what happened with that boat strike on September 2nd when these survivors were killed in a war crime. Hegseth and Trump have released all these death videos of all of these.

these strikes, about 100 people have been killed. So why aren't you releasing this? You're saying you're studying something? Just show the people. Stop covering that up. Stop covering up the Epstein files. Stop covering up your medical records. Everything's a damn cover up. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, has Secretary Hex has told you why he hasn't released the video of the second strike? No, he hasn't. I thought that issue is dead. You're surprised you're bringing up. You must be, you must be CNN. You must be CNN. Are you seeing that? Are you seeing it? I am a Don't you? I'm shocked to find me. The lawmaker doesn't talk me about it on the hill.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know about lawmakers. Which lawmakers are you talking about that? I mean, the people that you work for, the Democrats? You know you work for the Democrats, don't you? You're basically an arm of the Democrat Party. Thank you very much, everybody. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. Next, Donald Trump says that 6G makes cameras look at your skin closer. Dude, what is this guy saying? Here, play this clip. So we're into 6G now. I just, I was a leader on 5G getting that down.

And now they're up to 6. What is that to give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin? I like the cameras the old days. So they just had a nice feature. Now they cover every little and see, Michael, you're a good shape. You're not going to, but I tell you, it's, uh, so you're, the six is coming, huh? Does it ever end? And what happens? You'll be at the seven, right? Before six kids are old, you'll be into seven.

Anybody have anything else to say? Anybody? Then Donald Trump threatens the president of Columbia and says, you're next because the president of Columbia is saying stop killing innocent Colombians and stop putting tariffs on South America. What are you even talking about? I mean, this is where the United States is just under Donald Trump has become absolutely horrific. Here, play this clip. No, I haven't really thought too much about him.

He's been fairly hostile to the United States and I haven't given a lot of thought. He's going to have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up. Colombia is producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell it right into the United States. So he better wise up or he'll be next. He'll be next to. I hope he's listening.

He's going to be next. Then the con artist, the fraudster, the sexual abuser. Yes, Donald Trump, he says that our GDP is going to be increased to about 25% here, play this clip. And we're going to go back to the old days. When we announce great results, it doesn't mean we're going to raise interest rates and try and kill it. It means that instead of 4% GDP or 3%, which I said, it's so wonderful 3%. It should be able to be 20 or 25%.

I don't know why it can't be. You shouldn't kill it. Folks, I want to let remind you we're under attack by this Trump regime. They want to shut this YouTube channel down. Double check that you're subscribed right now. Just check, make sure you are. If you're not subscribed, hit subscribe. You may think you're subscribed, but double check and subscribe.

Donald Trump next says that we've inherited high prices, but we're bringing them down rapidly and everything's affordable right now. Actually, inflation was heading down. We had an economy that was the envy of the world. We had 16 million jobs that were created. Now we have a 54% increase in job losses. We have inflation surging, and this Trump regime has destroyed the American economy. Here, play this clip.

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that there needs to be an election and 82% of Ukraine wants to give up their land. 82% want to give up Eastern Ukraine to Russia. Just shut up, you traitorous piece of crap. When he says things like this, it just makes me so livid. Yeah, Russia, Russia, Russia. You're beholden to Russia. You're Putin's bootlicker. It's despicable what you've turned the United States into.

What a pathetic. Anyway, you'll play this clip. Are you talking about with Zelensky or with them? With Zelensky and us. And you said in an interview yesterday that you think it's time for Zelensky to start accepting things. What things are you talking about? I think he has to be realistic. And I do wonder about.

you know how long is it going to be till they have an election you know it's democracy it's a long time they haven't had an election in a long time it's losing a lot of people and it's possible that the people you know if you look at the polls i will say 82 percent there was a polls came out 82 percent of the people are demanding a settlement be made ukrainian people they want to see a settlement you mean i understand that they're losing thousands and thousands of people a week. They want to see it ended. And I do say, you know, at what point, when do they have an election in Ukraine? That's not casting dispersions on anybody, but they do have a massive corruption situation going on there. And they do say, you know, when are they,

people are asking this question? When do they have an election? Are they going to have an election? Or are they going to just keep it going like this? So I think it's time to get that war settled. And I think it's a war that can be settled. But it takes two to tango. Next, Donald Trump says that the event last night in Pennsylvania at that banquet hall at the Mount Airy Casino and Resort where there was 200 people, he was like,

oh, it was such a great event. Thousands of people lined up outside the casino. Here, play this clip. Good to see him, Mr. President. I can follow up on the event last night, Pennsylvania, huge crowd turned out there. I think it seemed like Rally Trump was in prime condition last night. You enjoyed it.

Just give me your thoughts on that. Then I do you have a question on the gold card? Last night it was amazing in Pennsylvania. We had a tremendous crowd. It was like freezing. And the people, the thousands of people in the sidewalk trying to get in on the streets. It was an amazing evening, actually. And I think people really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it. You could tell that. I can tell that you enjoy it. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. Well, you know, it's easy to enjoy it. do a good job and you know when you can talk about things in a very positive way it's hard not to say we have images so you can see it was like a few hundred people maybe it was 200 people a

very small venue at a wedding banquet hall but sure donald people were lined up to see okay donald then donald trump has asked about the Venezuelan oil tanker that the united states just seized so the u.s just seized a Venezuelan oil tanker uh the military along with the Department of Justice sees this. So Trump's asked, well, what are you going to do with the oil on it? Trump's like, we're just going to take it because that's what America does now, apparently. We just steal oil and we, you know, are under Trump really no different than Putin and North Korea. Here, play this clip.

It's unfortunate what happened. I mean, I know exactly what happened. It got to start it a little bit, but we'll see if we can put it out. We're interested in the seizure of this tanker. What happens to the oil on this show? Well, we keep it, I guess. Where does it go? What is it going to?

Well, you have to follow the tanker. You know, you're a good newsman. Just follow the tank. Do you know where we go? Follow it. Get a helicopter. Follow the tank. Is it sure he's going to do that?

We're going to keep the oil. Next, Donald Trump says that he thinks that the elections about the border, not about affordability. Here play this clip. They never discussed it. They just say the elections about affordability. Well, it may very well be. I think it's also about still the board.

You have to remember the job. You know, the same. The sad thing is, for seven months, we had no people come through our border. Nobody can even believe it. And then Donald Trump has asked, well, what would you like to see happen to CNN if there is a sale of Warner Brothers?

So you know the story, right? Netflix made a bid to acquire Warner Brothers. CNN is owned by Warner Brothers. And you have Paramount, which is owned by a very Trump's supporting family, and they've made a hostile bid to acquire Warner Brothers. And so Trump's basically saying that he's going to steer the sale

to whoever is going to destroy CNN because that's what Putin would do. Here, play this clip. I think CNN should be sold because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent. And that would be a factor in decision-making

because you know we've got some... Well, in my mind, but I can be talked out of that by some very talented people that we have, antitrust people. I just think that the people that have run CNN into the ground, by the way, nobody watches, very few people watch. I don't think they should be entrusted with running CNN any longer. So I think any deal should, it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately.

But I don't think the people that are running that company right now and running CNN, which is a very dishonest group of people, I don't think that should be allowed to continue. I think CNN should be sold along with everything else. Then Howard Lutnik brags about the gold card that they've got their gold card because everything's for sale now in the United States of America here, play this clip. Howard, maybe you'll give a little description

of the Trump gold card, please. Sure. So for an individual, it's $1 million, and for a corporation, it's $2 million. And as the president said, a corporation. They spent $2 million. They can then have an employee. Full betting. The best vetting the government has ever done. $15,000 vetting. Utterly despicable. Tell me what you think. A reminder, hit subscribe and help us get to $6 million. Thanks for watching.

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