The MeidasTouch Podcast - White House Panics in Disaster Presser as Admin Collapses

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the disastrous press conference in the Oval Office as Trump and his press secretary Karoline Leavitt are panicking on Thursday. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 piece towel set and save over 40% OFF! 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

Donald Trump's White House is panicking. They just held a disastrous press conference. Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist just started lying about what Democrats said about Donald Trump, and the press called her out for it. And then she literally ran off of the stage while she was giving this press conference. Watch what took place here, let's play it.

And you will hear more about that later. Thank you. You miss voted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said. And then Caroline Levitt, before that, was asked by the the press. What did Donald Trump mean when he called one of the members of the press, a female reporter from Bloomberg, Piggy? When he called her Piggy, what did he mean by that? And

Caroline Levitt was like, that's how he should treat you because he's being transparent. So he's calling you what you are. That's basically what she said, that she deserved to be called piggy. That's disgusting. This is what you're teaching our children, the next generation? How horrible. Here, play this It was tomorrow and I'll let the president speak for himself. Natalie. Thank you, Caroline. What did the president mean when he called reporter Piggy? Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room. You've all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons that the American people reelected this president because of his frankness. And he calls out fake news when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you

lie about him when you spread fake news about him and his administration, but he also is the most transparent president in history. And he gives all of you in this room, as you all know, unprecedented access. You are in the Oval Office almost every day asking the president questions. And so I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is frankly a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who lied to your face and then didn't speak to you for weeks and hit up. upstairs and didn't take your question. So I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near daily basis. Then she goes and

attacks the president of South Africa, Ramaphosa, and she's like, he needs to stop running his mouth right now. Tell the president of South Africa to stop running his mouth. You know, there's a G20 meeting taking place in South Africa, which Donald Trump is not sending the United States because Trump has made up fake claims that there is a white genocide taking place in South Africa and that only white people deserve refugee status in the United States. These are despicable people. Here, play this clip. It's for you. The New York Times is reporting that the administration is now sending a U.S. official to the G20. They are sending Mark Dillard. Can you just, can you confirm if that is true and also explain the shift and i'd be happy to explain because there is not a shift the united

states is not participating in official talks at the g20 in south africa i saw the south african president running his mouth a little bit against the united states and the president of the united states earlier today and that language is not appreciated by the president or his team the ambassador or the representative of the embassy in south africa is simply there to recognize that the United States will be the host of the G20. They are receiving that send-off at the end of the event. They are not there to participate in official talks, despite what the South African president is falsely claiming.

On Ukraine, there have been reports. And then Caroline Levitt says, you know, the great thing about the government shutdown is, we all learn that we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Here, play this clip. The Democrats' reckless 43-day government shutdown did manage to do one valuable thing. It proved that America,

does not need a federal Department of Education. During the longest shutdown in history, the Department of Education furloughed 90% of its staff, and America's education system was not impacted whatsoever. Schools stayed fully open across the country. Students attended class and received normal in-person instruction, and our wonderful teachers received their paychecks uninterrupted. The Democrats' government shutdown made it painfully obvious

that American families do not need the Department of Education. How disgusting you're saying that you use the shutdown to rip away people's health care, to take away people's snap benefits, and the thing you learned is not how people were suffering, but to take away the Department of Education to harm our kids? Doesn't it seem that everything this regime does,

whether it's cover up a child sex trafficking ring with the Epstein files, ripping away people's health care, attacking Medicaid, going after the Department of Education. They want to attack and kill the kids. That's what they wanted. It's so disgusting. Then right here, you have Caroline Levitt talk about the meeting taking place in the Oval

Office tomorrow between Donald Trump and the New York City Mayor-elect, Mom Donnie, and she's like, we're having a little communist here. We're having a little communist over. And again, just who behaves like this? Like, these are freaking evil, weird, demented human beings. Here play this clip. I think you'll all hear from him directly. I also think I will just add, it speaks volumes that tomorrow we have a communist coming to the

White House because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country. I think it's very telling, but I also think it speaks to the fact that President Trump is willing to meet with anyone and talk to anyone and to try to do what's right on behalf of the American people, whether they live in blue states or red states or blue cities in a, in a, in a a city that's becoming much more left than I think this president ever anticipated in his many years of living in New York. Ever wake up sweaty, freezing, or just uncomfortable, the temperature in your bedroom can make or break your sleep. That's why I switch to Miracle Maid Sheets. They're

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Thanks to Miracle Made for sponsoring this episode. Then a reporter asks Caroline Levitt. So you're accusing the Democrats of engaging in political violence, but Donald Trump's been making social media posts all day saying that Democrats who said that the military should not follow unlawful orders, and they were very clear, do not follow unlawful orders because you'll end up in a military tribunal. You're in the chain of command.

Don't follow him. And she go and Donald Trump saying that those Democrats should be killed, that George Washington would have hung him and that they should be hung for sedition. And Caroline Levitt then lies. And the reporter says they were saying illegal orders. Like you're not even addressing the question. Then she runs off. But here play this clip.

I just follow up. The president and the vice president, for that matter, have accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that exactly what the president is doing when he says that members, of Congress should be killed? Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing to encourage it incite violence? They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members not to defy the chain

of command, not to follow lawful orders. Every single... But they're suggesting... They're suggesting Nancy that the president has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single order that is given to this United States military by this commanding, and chief and through this chain of command, through the Secretary of War, is lawful. And the courts have proven that. This administration has an unparalleled record at the Supreme Court because we are following the laws. We don't defy court orders. We do things by the books.

And to suggest and encourage that active duty service members defy the chain of command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do. And they should be held accountable. And that's what the president wants to see. Phil. And a reporter then asks her, so you're saying that it was a good plan that Donald Trump proposed to Ukraine to allow Russia to essentially take over all of Eastern Ukraine for Ukraine to basically completely drop its military to give into Putin's maximalist demands to basically give Putin everything he wanted. You agree with that Caroline Levin? And she goes, did you read the plan? Did you read the plan? We'll put the plan out there.

But we know what it is. It's everything that Putin said. Here, play this clip. Carol? Sure. Go ahead. Hello up on Ukraine. You said this is a good plan.

So according to our sources, this proposal demands major concessions from Ukraine and doesn't demand much from Russia. So was Russia involved in drafting? Your understanding is wrong. Have you read the full plan? You haven't. Yes. So if you can give details, maybe too.

You've read reporting from one side of the war. And so I want you to understand that the administration has talked equally with both sides. You have seen President Trump engaged directly with both President Putin and President Zelensky. Likewise, his national security team has as well. In fact, Special Envoy Whitkoff and Secretary Rubio met with some of the Ukrainians just in the past week to discuss this very plan. And so just like you saw with respect to Israel and Gaza, we are hearing out both sides of this war to understand what can you commit to to end the war. And that's ultimately how we are going to get to an agreeable solution.

That's what the president has directed of his team. I know there's a lot of criticism out there and a lot of doubters, but I would just remind you of the historic success that this president and his team accomplished in the Middle East. We believe that is possible with Russia and Ukraine, and we're hoping and working very hard to achieve that. And so a reporter says, but are you saying no matter what the order is, anything that Donald Trump says is right and the military must follow any of his orders, even if they're war crimes, like killing 82 people off the coast? of Venezuela, Colombia, and in the Pacific.

And she's like, yeah, if he makes it, that makes it right. Here, play this clip. Brian. Thank you, Carolyn. Two questions. We were talking about four, earlier in this briefing, about the President's orders. You were going back forth about what the ad said and what could say. My first question is, the advertisement with the Senate Democrats were featured in.

So the first question is, no matter what the order is, it could be to any administration official, military otherwise, no matter if legal experts might think it's illegal, does the president expect those cabinet members, administrative officials, to go ahead with those orders, regardless of any outside thinking or expert? The president expects his cabinet officials in the administration to follow the law

and to demand accountability and hold people accountable for their dangerous rhetoric. And I would just add that if this were Republican members of Congress who were encouraging members of the military and members of our United States government to defy orders from the president, president and from the chain of command this entire room would be up in arms but instead it is the other way around and i think that's quite telling i'm going to let you all go

because the president excuse me the i appreciate the uh the encouragement this morning but this afternoon but president trump is about to meet is about to meet in minutes with uh israeli hostages who this administration freed and so i'm going to go up to that meeting and you will hear more about that later thank you That was so utterly disgusting. I don't even know what to say. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe.

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