The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Ruins WH Thanksgiving Pardon With Awful Speech

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump ruining the annual Thanksgiving Pardon Ceremony tradition by losing control during the speech and injecting his own bizarre and deranged behavior. Qualia: go to https://qualialife.com/meidas for up to 50% off your purchase and use code MEIDAS for an additional 15%. 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: ⁠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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're part of the damn turkeys. It should be pretty easy. Not for Donald Trump, who use the pardon ceremony, again, which is supposed to be fun and lighthearted, to attack Governor Pritzker of Illinois by calling him a very fat slob. Here, play this clip. Of every newspaper, it's out of control. The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is a big.

fat slob. He ought to invite us in, say, please make Chicago safe. We're going to lose a great city if we don't do it quickly. Make. And then Donald Trump goes on to talk about how instead of pardoning these turkeys, he was thinking about sending them to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador. So he's making jokes about sending Americans unlawfully to concentration camps. in foreign countries. That's what he's doing right now. Here, play this clip. But instead of pardon,

some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship gobble and waddle straight to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador. And even those birds don't want to be there. You know what I mean. It's a tough.

I'd like to thank the president of that country. They do a rather efficient job. It's got to be the largest prison in history. I've never seen anything like it. And a lot of people are behaving on our streets now. You know, Washington, D.C. is a safe, it's considered a safe zone. This was one of our most unsafe places anywhere in the United States. It is now considered a totally safe city.

I won't tell you about murders. We're having murders like a lot of murders on a weekly basis. We haven't had a murder in six months. And there was once upon a time where the president was a respected tradition, and you would show your kids these ceremonies. This is just awful, awful. Here he is further attacking Pritzker and saying that he's fat, he's a fatso, fat slob.

I shouldn't call him a fat slap, but he's a fat slob. Here, play this clip. You're not going to have these crimes that are making the newspapers and the front page of every newspaper and television story, news story, will make Chicago a safe place very quickly. I looked at the various cases, granting mercy, discovering that the terrible trauma that everyone's going through. And I had a little bit of a Pritzker joke.

I was going to talk about Pritzker in size. But when I talk about Pritzker, I get angry because he's not letting us do the job. So I'm not going to tell my Pritzker joke. They have a very cute little joke, you know. Some speechwriter wrote some joke about his weight. But I would never want to talk about it. his weight. I don't talk about people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a fat slob. I don't mention it. Then Donald Trump goes on and starts lying about the fact that there's

no murders in Washington, D.C. He said that we haven't had a murder in six months in Washington, D.C. There's actually been a lot of murders in D.C. 15 in June, 15 in July, 8 in August, 5 in September, 8 in October, 5 in November. Here, play this close. murders. We're having murders, like a lot of murders on a weekly basis. We haven't had a murder in six months. And it doesn't sound good even to say that. We haven't had a murder in six months. But when you were averaging one and even sometimes two a week and you haven't had one in six months, you can walk with your family down the middle of any street, go to a restaurant. You won't get in. They're opening new restaurants all over. Then Donald Trump says that he brought back praying and that because of him people pray again and that now religion is back and religion was gone before. It's stupid, just stupid stuff, right? I mean, it's just like, I don't care what political party you're from.

This is just dumb. Here, let me show it to you. Let's play this clip. Anything like it. But we have more people working. We have more people praying. The churches are coming back. I don't know if you've been reading that story, but religion.

is coming back to America. Some people say, oh, why would you mention that? To me, that's a big deal. He then lies and says that gasoline is going to be $2 a gallon. By the way, prices are surging on basically everything. To be fair, gas is basically the same this year as it was last year. It's not dramatically lower. It's the same. Even though there's more oil pumping, the price is the same. So that tells you something, too, about who's making some money off this. But anyway, this clip. In a long time, egg prices are down 86% since March, and gasoline will soon be hovering around $2 a gallon. Then again, Donald Trump can't just do anything normal without attacking Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. And he goes, you know, I was going to call the Turkey Pritzker

because it was fat. And now I'm going to call it Nancy and Chuck. But I would never pardon them. Ha, ha, ha, ha. They would never get a pardon. I wouldn't care what Melania told me. What are you talking about? Play this clip. That's going to be saved. The turkeys being pardoned today go by the names of Gobble and Waddle. When I first saw their pictures, I thought we should send them, well, I was going to, I shouldn't say this. I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't pardon them i wouldn't care what milania told me darling i think it would be a nice thing to do i won't do it darling ever have one of those moments where your body reminds you it's not 25 anymore maybe it's the slower

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And he goes on this weird rant about how this year's turkeys are the biggest turkeys ever, and they've never been bigger turkeys before. And he goes on and says that these turkeys are eating beef. He says that the turkeys, that these are beef-eating turkeys, by the way, okay? Okay, record size, never been bigger, never been bigger turkeys in the world. Here, play this clip. These are two of the largest turkeys.

largest turkeys ever presented to an American president over 50 pounds each. It's the largest we've ever had. Those are big turkeys. Are they as good as the normal size turkey? Better or as good? Do they tend to be a little fatty maybe? No, he said no, he knows the turkey business. Anyway, despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever maha turkeys. I don't know if I agree with that. These are maha. In other words, could be fat, but they're still maha. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all of the other things that they've been eating for this occasion. This was a really big occasion, but they've eaten every fattening food that you can eat.

We work like, we wanted to really make them special, and they really are. They're like record-setting. I've never seen a turkey that big before. Are they violent at all? Will they attack as I walk over? Because if they were, I'll say right up here. And he uses the speech to talk about how he wants the National Guard to invade Chicago after calling Pritzker Fat. Let's play it. It's fine. And I want to thank the National Guard. I want to thank Pete Higgsett.

The job you've done here is incredible. And I hear you having the same kind of success in Memphis, Tennessee, where you had an even worse situation. And Memphis crime is down 64% in three weeks. And by the time you have four or five weeks, you're going to have a down. almost where there won't be crime. And we could do that in Chicago, by the way, if they would let us. If the mayor was a low IQ person, but he should understand this, this is a very serious thing. You saw all the crime that took place last night, the night before, the woman with the burning, they burned the woman. To be talking about that now, they burned this beautiful

woman riding in a train. A man was arrested. 72 times, 72 times. Think of that. And they'll let them out again. The liberal judges will let them out again. But we're ready to go. You know, we've been moving toward Chicago. We have a governor that thinks it's wonderful that only like seven people were killed this week. But we are moving toward doing, and we're going to, if crime gets, it's horrible what's happening in Chicago. We could make Chicago a safe city in a period of four weeks, in a period of eight weeks, nine weeks, ten weeks, it would be totally safe. And the people of Chicago want us to go there. And if you look at Then Donald Trump says America is the leading in everything. Jobs are pouring back into our country. Play the clip. Leading in AI, we're leading in everything. Our auto plants are pouring back into our country. Where do you see the jobs coming with them? But there, many of them are under construction, but Lee's done a great job in getting those approvals. I appreciate it very much.

FBI director, Cash Patel, who's been very busy doing a great job. Also, thank you, so we've had the highest jobless claims since the Great Recession at this point. And jobs are heading in the wrong direction. There's basically a manufacturing and construction recession right now. About 80% of the country is experiencing recessionary conditions, consumer confidence has never been lower, but there he goes and just lies over and over again. Then Donald Trump goes and starts talking about Hunter Biden and autopens and just, dude, shut up. Here play this clip. Where's Hunter? No, Hunter's was good. That was the one pardon, Pam, that was good, right? The rest of them are all invalid. I don't know what the hell you're going to do about that, but that's,

now we're going to take a little of the joking. That is a mess. Then he says, he thinks this is funny that he goes, we're approving nuclear power plants in a week. Ha, ha, ha, great job, Lee Zeldon. Let's play this clip. Howard Lutnik, Linda McMahon, Scott Turner, administrator, Lee Zeldon, who's done a great job. A nuclear power plant gets approved in less than a week, okay? I'm only kidding, but pretty close to that.

And we have more, where is Lee? Stand up, Lee, one of my great superstars. Thank you. I'm not sure that's something to brag about, not going through the requisite approval processes. It's not really sure why it's funny. Then Donald Trump says the White House is the Department of Everything. And then he goes on to attack former President Biden and says, sleepy Joe Biden, that the turkey pardons are not valid because of Autopent. Dude, just be just, can you just pretend for like 30 seconds to be dignified?

I mean, do we need to, like, can we do a cardboard printout of Mom Donnie? Just put the cardboard printout next to Donald Trump and here, play this clip. You remember last year after a thorough and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all of the people at Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the White House Counsel's Office and the Department of Everything. We have a Department of Everything. You know what that is? I think that's called the White House. Into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden.

He used an auto pen last year for the Turkey's pardon. So I have the official duty to determine, and I have determined that last year's Turkey pardons are totally invalid. as are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned other than where's Hunter? Now, while Donald Trump is giving that speech, let's talk about what they were saying on Fox. Even Fox had to fact-check Donald Trump, and they said, really, gas hasn't gone down at all. It's pretty much the same this year as it was last year. But they're like, people have conflicting views about gas prices.

There's no conflicting views. Trump and the Republican lie about it. And then there's the truth. And the truth is, to be fair, the gas prices didn't go up. They're about the same. But all the other prices went up. That's the truth. Let me show you this clip.

Let's play it. Yeah, always better to me to drive than to fly, Sandra. But, you know, gas prices. Well, what about that one behind me? Yeah, that's the most expensive gas in the state of Pennsylvania. $4.9, the average gallon, right? You're about a dollar more than the national average. And, you know, people have conflicting views about gas prices.

The administration says it's lower than it was. Others say it's higher where the reality is, well, you see it right there. It's pretty much the same as it was last month, last year, $3.5. That despite the change in energy production and energy prices, 13.7 million barrels a day pumped the last month we've got data. And that not only is a record in the US, but an all-time record in the history of Earth. And then meanwhile on CNN, here's what they're talking about. how people are feeling right now.

Let me just show you. This is the sentiment out there. Let's play this clip. I mean, just your course are up versus a year ago. Groceries 85%. Utilities 78% health care, 67%. Housing 66%, gasoline 54%. The bottom line is this.

Americans feel like prices are rising in each and every single part of their lives rising Everclimer and they just don't feel like Cape Baldwin that they can catch a break. The Treasury Secretary and new comments kind of dismissed the impact tariffs is having on inflation, also saying that prices are going to be coming down in weeks, some other prices are going to be coming down in months. What do Americans think about that? Yeah, they think he's full of it.

That's exactly what they think. I mean, just take a look here. Tariffs raising prices are raising prices right now. I'm going to cover Kate's side of the screen, 71%. How dare I do that? 84% of Democrats, 74% of independence and even a majority of Republicans, when you can get a majority of Republicans to agree with majority of Democrats, You know that the pain is being felt by the American public right now.

The Treasury Secretary can try and tell the people something, but they can feel in their pocketbooks. They simply put, don't buy what he and this administration is selling them when it comes to tariffs. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Very bizarre. Indeed, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers.

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