The MeidasTouch Podcast - Wow! Fox News Gives Up on Trump in Shocking Twist

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News surprisingly turning against Trump on some of their programming during the day.   Trade: Get 50% off your one-month trial at https://drinktrade.com/MEIDAS 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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free of charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario wow fox which i call state regime media almost seemed to be giving up on donald trump yesterday at least on some of their shows. They were calling the guy out. They were showing their new Fox poll, which shows that in the first 100 days, Donald Trump has the worst approval of any modern president by far. For example, in the first 100 days, former president Biden's approval was 54%. Former President Obama's was 62%. Even Donald Trump in his first administration was 45%. Now, Trump 2, the new Trump regime, Trump's approval at 44% right now. Fox ran that graphic over and over again throughout the day on most of their shows. More on that in a moment. They also ran the following graphic as well from

its poll that 56% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's job performance on the economy. Only 38% approve. Fox was running that graphic. Then you had Brett Baer, one of the Fox hosts, talk about how Donald Trump's approval in 100 days is awful based on the new Fox polling. Watch this. President talking tariffs in the economy. If you look at our new Fox News poll at 100 days job approval compared to other presidents, there you see the president at 44 percent and you see his first term at 45 percent at this mark, the 100 day mark. We have other new polls that are revealing some concerns about the economy. Let's talk about that. And Fox didn't stop there with talking about Trump's horrible, horrific handling of the economy. They also talked about how Donald Trump continues to attack President Zelensky of

Ukraine and Donald Trump goes out of his way to try to compliment and suck up to Vladimir Putin. Here you've got Brett Baier again talking about it over here. Let's play this clip. It was the president, not the White House press secretary, but saying that they're disappointed in Zelensky, but they're moving forward. Well, you know, he keeps pounding Zelensky and saying it's harder to deal with him than it is with Putin. Putin, so far as I can tell, hasn't agreed to much of anything, except, yes, he'd love

to annex Crimea, which is part of the proposal that's before him now, that's no concession. That's just, all that is, is taking a gain. Zelensky resists that because Crimea, up until the Russian invaded it 10 years or so ago, was part of Ukraine. So I'm not exactly sure what the president is talking about when he says that Zelensky has been more difficult to deal with than Putin. There have been a series of ceasefire proposals. Putin either hasn't agreed to them or has immediately broken them. I'm not sure what concessions Putin will ever be willing to make, but he certainly hadn't made very many so far.

Yeah, we will see. The president is meeting with another. And look, even throughout the day yesterday, Donald Trump continuing to attack Ukraine. This as Kiev was targeted again by ballistic missiles from Vladimir Putin after Donald Trump continued to harass and threaten Ukraine and thank Vladimir Putin for commissioning a ugly painting of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, said this is such an honorable gift that Putin gave to Donald Trump. So then Trump makes posts like this.

Ukrainian President Zelensky is boasting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There's nothing to talk about here. This statement is very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia and that Crimea was lost years. Let me just stop reading it right there because you know where the rest of this is going. And let me call Donald Trump out as a terrorist himself, as a felon, as a sexual abuser, as someone who aids and abets Vladimir Putin's genocide. And Donald Trump is a sick and disgusting person. And by the way, they were calling him out on Fox yesterday a little bit

too. So here was Robert Wolf on Fox talking about being in finance for 40 years and never seeing the economy be mishandled in this way in his entire career. Play this clip. I don't know, Robert, some of the people we talked to say incompetence, probably the wrong word. Unclear might be a better word. What do you say? I mean, this I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of Liberation Day was pathetic. I mean, you have Kevin Hassett in 2019. Be very clear. Trade wars are bad.

Tariffs are tax. Steve Moore, another Trump advisor. Trade wars are bad. Tariffs are tax. The GOP. Tariffs are tax. Trade wars are bad. Where for free trade?

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hunger games like the host in the hunger games and jesse waters starts uh this is what they they talk about departing doge how elon musk calls it quits after left-wing terror campaign watch what jesse waters says here play this clip so it. The contribution that he made is not how much he saved the taxpayers. It's exposing how much Democrats stole from the taxpayers. It's so easy. It's only three steps, Greg. You are a Democrat, you know a Democrat in D.C., and you get them to send you money. That's how it works. And someone got a million dollars to clean up a beach. Now, if you get a DEI or DUI or DWI, they will make you clean up the beach. What are they even talking about? Left-wing terror campaign?

Dude, Elon Musk was the wealthiest person in the world. Doge promised that it was going to save $2 trillion. Okay, now they're saying maybe $150 billion, but it seems more like nothing at all. What they were all about was not making the government more efficient or cutting federal costs because federal spending, Jesse, is actually up significantly right now, significantly higher. What they did was focusing on stealing the people's data. That's what it was really about, just taking your social security, your medical records, and all that stuff. Then Jesse Waters talks about how these snobs don't get it. We're watching their IQ test every, do you even know

what he's talking about here? Play this clip. It's comfortable to be a critic when you have no skin in the game. What many of these snobs don't get is that we're watching them take an IQ test every day. And every day we see the score. So then they bring on MAGA Mike Johnson, of course, Will Kane, who's trying to be jesse waters and tucker carlson this guy's the worst so will cain brings on maga mike johnson what do they spend their time talking about but with donald trump we're gonna we're gonna give money for to women who have babies we're gonna have a baby boom and we're focusing on on on fostering babies and

having women get pregnant more here play this clip not just the u.s but actually many countries across western civilization to reverse declining birthing rates but actually what you're out there doing is trying to bring in new white babies absolutely absurd the view is an absurd program yours on the other hand will is fantastic you're doing a great show and I'm so honored to be with you. Look, that's no surprise what The View is doing there. Every creative idea that the president and this White House come up with, they pan immediately, no matter what merit it may have.

We are the Republican Party. We're the pro-family party. We always have been. We take great pride in that. We're working every day to rebuild a culture of life in America. We want to advance policies that help families and make it easier to raise a child in America. We support all children. We love all life. That's what we've always been about. It's actually in our platform. And the Democratic Party stands for the opposite. You know, those views illustrate that.

Yeah. And by the way, they're not going to pay five thousand dollars for baby boom, just like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. All this is BS. Remember the Doge rebate checks? Doge rebate checks. We're going to give you $5,000 if you respond to our poll. They're not giving Doge rebate checks. They're con artists.

They're Ponzi schemers. Okay, they're scamming. Trump's a fraud. He's a criminal. He's a felon. The guy lies about everything. Remember the other day, Trump was like, the price of eggs is down 94%. I got it down 94%. Oh, BS. The price of eggs is up. It's higher than ever right now. They lie and lie and lie. By the way, it should be noted when Trump talks about the baby boom, where'd they get this idea from? Oh, that's right.

Hitler establishes the Mother Cross to encourage German women to procreate. On December 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother Cross to encourage women of pure German origin to increase the size of their families and grow the population of the Third Reich. They would get these medals and money. And where do you think some of these ideas come from? So then you had on Fox also Caroline Leavitt. She was on in the morning and she was asked a very simple question about Donald Trump going to remove these tariffs on China? And she's like, let me be very clear, there's going to be no unilateral reduction in the tariffs. And this was after Trump the day before that said that there would be. To me, if you look at the sequence of clips that I just

showed you, Caroline Levitt said that this morning. And I think Fox was like, all right, release the poll. And Murdoch was like, release the poll. We got to shut this guy down right now on some of our shows. We can't stop Jesse Waters and Hannity and all of them here playing this clip. Caroline, let's see if we can break a little news here. What's the timetable for the reduction in the tariffs against China? The president was ambiguous about it. Scott Besson seemed to suggest it wouldn't happen until negotiations are at least underway. Let me be clear. There will be no

unilateral reduction in tariffs against China. The president has made it clear China needs to make a deal with the United States of America. And we are optimistic that will happen. And when that continues, it'll be up to the president what the tariff rate on China will be. But we certainly need to see a reduction in tariffs and non-monetary tariff barriers from China as well. And we also need to continue seeing these companies abroad return their manufacturing to the United States of America so we can shore up these critical supply chains. OK, well, markets seem to be watching every bit of it well off their highs of the session, but still up about 500 points today. Oh, and by the way, on the morning show here, you just see how just like, just mean and vile they are. Just watch what they were saying here about Whoopi Goldberg. Thank God she didn't do IVF because just let's listen to it. I didn't

want to repeat what they're saying here. Play this clip. Aren't you excited about it? I mean, Julie, she's such a lovely person. Isn't she lovely? She really is. It's such a shame she's not a mother. I feel like she would have been the best role model. Thank God she did not do IVF because I don't think she'd actually find somebody to actually physically impregnate her is what I'm trying to get out there. But anyway, no, as far. Yeah, so vile and disgusting. And then finally, I'm not going to show clips of Hannity because it's just the most ridiculous episode.

No mention of the poll, no mention of the tariffs. This is what they were showing on Hannity. These were the topics. Dems in disarray, ring camera robbery, Shaq's new porta potty Florida man offers booze to cops during car chase those were the big issues that they were tackling on Hannity you see why I call them state regime media but still throughout the day some of their hosts calling them out showing showing the polls, the Fox polls. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Oh, by the way, this poll too, in general, do you think imposing tariffs or fees on products imported from other countries makes the products you buy more expensive, less expensive, or does it make a difference? From the Fox poll, 72% say more expensive, 7% say less expensive. There you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs,

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