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Political Commentator / Analyst
I have a point. Results matter. A new performative, confrontational style. Maybe it wins your points with the loony radical base in your party, but America is not going to vote for that record.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And then you have Hannity continue to talk about how Newsom bullies Donald Trump. Watch this.
Political Commentator / Analyst
He just spends, you know, the last several weeks bashing President Trump over the te redistricting fight while threatening to gerrymander his own state even more. Not that there's much left to gerrymander. And of course, this very public political battle doesn't help the people of California at all. Doesn't even help the Democratic Party. Helps nobody. That hurts Gavin Newsom. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for him.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Yeah. And again, somehow this is real. Watch this. As Sean Hannity says, you know, he's got this social media team and they're being so mean. Why are they being so mean to Donald? Here, play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Now, he and his social media team, they are busy trying to mock President Trump on X by posting messages in all caps. He's trying to pretend to be Donald Trump. Gavin is also attacking Fox News hosts. He's trying to bait conservatives into social media fights. He's actually referred to our own Tommy Lahren's account as Yelp for toilets. Gee, very clever and funny. She'll join us in a moment to respond.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And by the way, this was like the entire day yesterday on Fox. That's how you know you're hitting the mark. California Governor Gavin Newsom when Fox is just rolling this out because they realize, holy crap, we got a brainwash our audience into going newsome bad news and bad because he's destroying us. Then you had Tommy or Tomi or Tommy Lahren. She's on Fox. Watch what she says here. Play this clip.
Fox News Host
Well, first of all, Sean, I would like to give a little wave to Gavin because, you know, he's watching. He is obsessed with Fox News. I don't blame him. We have a great network. But you know, he watches everything that we do do when he's of course, not on X, but he has turned his hand gestures into Twitter fingers to distract from the dismal failure of his state of California. And Sean, he often likes to tout that California is the fourth largest economy in the world. We don't want to take anything away from California and all of its resources, its great academic institutions. Of course, it's got Hollywood, it's got Silicon Valley. It's got farming, agriculture. It's a great, wonderful state. It is the fourth largest economy in the world, despite Governor Gavin Newsom. Not because of him. He's done everything to strangle that state. But now he wants to run for president. He wanted to run before Joe Biden passed over him for Kamala Harris. So now he's gearing up. He is landing into new Personas on a weekly basis.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Oh, you got to bring in Ms. Alternative Facts Kellyanne Conway. Here's what she had to say.
Fox News Host
Here, play this clip and look at Gavin Newsom. He tried to do this. Was it a radio show or podcast? Whatever he tried to do, now he's busy trolling on social media and it's cringe, it's falling flat. I'm sure they'll come after me now, who cares? Because there's Donald Trump is one of one only he can do what he's done with social media, with podcasts in the way he's done it, 900 rallies and counting. The thing that he does that we all miss and don't talk enough about is he just works harder than everyone else.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Folks, this was all yesterday. Every segment on FOX was basically this. Other than when they had Just Dance Vance, JD Vance, by the way, that's California governor News nickname for him. Just Dance Vance. And here is Larry saying, look, it's just like Newsom, like wants to be a Trump Jr. So badly. What? Here, play this clip.
Fox News Host
He had a podcast with Marshawn lynch trying to do culture and sports. Now he's trying to be Trump Jr. We don't know what we're going to get from this man, but it's not going to be authentic. He plays a role, he plays a part. Hollywood's in his backyard. Go there, be an influencer, do an only fans, whatever you want to Do, Gavin, but stop leading your state into the ground. That is what the people of your state are asking from you, not another podcast.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And I think what California Governor Gavin Newsom is doing so perfectly is he's just shining a light on these magazines and what. And he's mocking Trump's style. And the magus can't handle it. They can't handle it at all. And then, by the way, Jesse Watters brings on Ron DeSantis, the fascist governor of Florida, who makes jokes about. I just want to let everybody know, uh, we're not going to be deporting you just because you're a Georgia fan. We don't put you in concentration camps just because you're a Georgia fan. That's only for the illegals. I mean, you sound like a literal freaking Nazi. Well, because you are. Here, play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Yeah. Valigator. Alcatraz in Southern Florida. This will be in northeastern Florida.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And I just want to dispel any rumors.
Political Commentator / Analyst
We are not putting any unruly Georgia fans at the Florida Georgia game in our deportation deal.
Podcast Host / Narrator
That's not true.
Political Commentator / Analyst
People are saying it online. Totally not true. It's for the processing and deportation of illegal aliens.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And speaking of which, Russian TV literally using the JD Vance interview verbatim. Like, Russian state regime media, all they need to do is take Fox and just play it. That's what they did. Take a look at. This is what Russian TV post. JD Vance describes the real Vladimir Putin, again, as someone who loves the United States of America. Someone who's like, putin's the bad guy. Russia's the bad guy. Like, when I watch what's going on in Fox and what's happened to the Republican Party and that there's millions of Americans who are like, maybe Putin's the good guy. I'm like, what the hell is actually wrong with you people? Here, watch J.D. vance go look. I've never actually met Putin before, but when I've spoken to him, he's a great man, very, very calm, very, very nice person. What the hell is going on here? You play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
What was he like? Just one on one. So I've actually never met Putin, did that meeting. I've talked to him on the phone a number of times. You know, it's interesting. He's more soft spoken than you would necessarily expect. You know, the American media has a particular image of him. He's soft spoken in a certain way. He's very deliberate. He's very careful. And I think fundamentally, he's a person who looks out for the Interest, as he sees it, of Russia. And I think one of the reasons he respects the President United States is because he knows the President looks out at for the interests of the American people. And while they often disagree about issues, and obviously the President has been very critical of Vladimir Putin, the President's also willing to work with anybody if he thinks it's going to accomplish an important goal for America. And we all agree an important goal is to stop the killing.
Podcast Host / Narrator
As this one account says, Just, just dance. Vance speaks more kindly about a man who launched a war of terror that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including thousands of civilians, than he would speak of any elected democr in the United States. It's so true. I think if you were to ask these MAGA Republicans, would you rather have Putin be in charge or Gavin Newsom? I think they would. These MAGA Republicans would be, yeah, I don't know. I think Newsom's winning them over right now. But certainly if you asked them Adam Schiff or Putin, they would 100% say Putin. The Putin who literally wants to kill them versus Adam Schiff, who's constitutional law scholar and former federal prosecutor. Anyway, J.D. vance then lies and says, you know, we've noticed that home costs are going down right now because we've kicked the illegal aliens off the street. Okay, before I play this clip, I just got to fact check it. Home prices are going up. Housing is not affordable. Just dance Vance. And you sending migrants to concentration camps isn't lowering the cost of homes. This making this up. Here, play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
They were actually defending the rights of illegal immigrants to come into our country to vote in our elections, to collect Social Security and Medicaid. That ought by right go to American citizens. To say nothing of housing. This is actually the biggest driver of housing costs in some of these big blue cities is that they flooded the zone with illegal immigrants. As we kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off. So fundamentally the difference between Republicans and Democrats is we care about American citizens. They actually don't like American citizens and want to replace them with low wage foreigners. It's a very stark difference and I think the American people are going to continue to reward us because of it.
Podcast Host / Narrator
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Political Commentator / Analyst
It's a good question. I think that if you go through the bureaucratic process, then the answer is yes. But I think the president's preference and my preference would be let's have them meet regardless. You don't have to figure out every issue. And sometimes leaders sitting down, face to face can break the logjam that their teams don't necessarily have the ability to. There really are two big questions lingering out there. And in some ways it's very simple, but in some ways it's very complicated. Number one is Ukraine wants to know that it's not going to get invaded again by Russia. It wants to know that it's got territorial integrity long into the future. The Russians want certain pieces of territory, most of which they've occupied, but some of which they haven't. So that is really where the meat of the negotiation is. The Ukrainians want security guarantees. The Russians want a certain amount of territory. Again, we finally got the details, we're working on them, but we haven't figured everything out. And I don't think that we should force, you know, we shouldn't say that they can't sit down until you figured out every little detail. Sometimes them sitting down is what facilitates figuring out those details.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And I just want to be very clear, everybody as well, think about what was being discussed as part of the deal, why there was this meeting with Putin and the European leaders separately. Right. Cease fire. No, there was no ceasefire ever obtained. Security guarantees within Ukraine. Putin's never agreed to any security guarantees. A tri lat. A trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelinsky. Putin's never agreed to that. So it's all false. It's all bullshit. It's all messed up. It's all lies. Then you saw how Just Dance Vance talked about Putin. Here's how he talks about Zelensky walking into the Oval Office. Play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Take us into the room because we're all dying to know that. Well, I think when so. So President Zelensky walked into the Oval Office. I was chatting with him, with the president, with some of the senior Ukrainian delegation. I said, Mr. President, so long as you behave, I won't say anything. And he just chuckled a little bit. It was a good little icebreaker.
Podcast Host / Narrator
And then in the next Nazi like segment on Fox, you have the Department of Homeland Security secretary and spokesperson, assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin and Jesse Waters. They start joking about how they're painting some of the border wall black so that it could get extra hot in the summer and burn to death the migrants who touch it here. Play this clip.
Fox News Host
Well, absolutely. Secretary Noem was just down in El Paso visiting the border, which we've had zero crossings the last two months, and she's painting that border wall black, especially in these high traffic areas, which under President Trump, really there are no high traffic places. But it not only prevents rust, that black paint, but it also is which increases D and longevity of that wall. But also it makes it incredibly hot to the touch. So no illegal alien, no drug mule, no criminal, or no cartel members going to try and climb that border wall.
Political Commentator / Analyst
So how hot is it? Is it like when I boil water to make my Kids, Mac and cheese hot.
Fox News Host
I think that's pretty comparable, especially in those very hot summer months. But like I said, it's going to be that longevity and that durability as well. So we're making sure we're using US Taxpayer dollars well, and they're going far.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Then the next segment, Jesse Watters talks about how Democrats need their own daddy, that they have daddy Trump and Democrats need their own daddy. Here, play this clip right here.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Ladana. They ran two moms and a grandpa and they need to run a daddy. The problem is there's no dads in the party. And what? Jessica, in order to have masculine policies, you need to live your life as a man.
Podcast Host / Narrator
You need to live a life of.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Action, and you have to live it outdoors. And the first step is having your own compound. Every presidential candidate or president needs their home base, right? Trump had Trump Tower.
Podcast Host / Narrator
He's got his golf courses, he's got the White House.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Now you call people in, you hold court, you control everything. That's what they need.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Now, I don't know why they don't have that.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Maybe they're ashamed of it. Gavin Newsom has a vineyard. Why doesn't he bring in the press.
Podcast Host / Narrator
To his vineyard and look beautiful outside.
Political Commentator / Analyst
With all the grapes? That's how you do it. Americans love to drink wine. News flash, Newsom, go to the vineyard, hold a press conference and act like you're a man of the people. Don't be ashamed of it. Trump does press conferences in front of billion dollar buildings with his name on it. Kenny Bunkport, does that ring a bell? How about the Bush ranch? How about the Reagan Ranch? You do that, you show the American people you know how to work and then you show them you're a man of leisure.
Podcast Host / Narrator
More whining by JD Vance. Just dance, Vance. Over Gavin Newsom, social media post. Let's play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
Stop sounding like crazy people. That really is all it is. I mean, this idea that Gavin Newsom is somehow going to mimic Donald Trump's style, I think that ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump's political success, which is that he's authentic. He just is who he is. You've got to be yourself. You've actually got to talk to people honestly about the issues. I don't think it's that complicated. Don't be a crazy person. Be authentic. If the Democrats did that, they'd do a hell of a lot better.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Just weird kind of erotic fan fiction about Donald Trump from these magas. Kellyanne Conway's like, ooh, Donald, he has the swagger. Look at him. Look how muscular. And his swagger. It's like, y' all are really weird. Y' all are a bunch of freaking weird humans. I mean, this was. This MAGA cult has perverted our politics, literally, figuratively. You're covering up the Epstein files. You're literally helping convicted sex traffickers like Elaine Maxwell. Y' all are a bunch of sick humans. And Donald Trump's been found liable for sexual assault. Sick human beings. Here, play this clip for every other.
Fox News Host
Issue set going back and forth between the two parties in terms of who has an advantage. The one the Democrats owned for a very long time. A sort of the culture cool and technology and the cool. The. This is the guy with swagger. He's right there. He's having a blast. He's now doing in the Rose Garden what he does in Mar A Lago. Any of us who have dinner with him witness that he plays the music. He plays it loudly. People love it. And who's going to complete. His neighbors are Scott Best in a Treasury. The neighbors aren't going to complain about the music coming out of the house. What he's done in the Rose Garden is the ultimate get off my lawn to the left.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Then they bring in one of Donald Trump's lawyers, Lindsey Halligan, who now is apparently a special assistant to Donald Trump. She was one of Trump's former lawyers. She talks about how Donald Trump's gonna get rid of all of the Smithsonian museums because the museums say that slavery is bad. And we need to talk about the good side of it, apparently.
Fox News Host
What?
Podcast Host / Narrator
Here, play this clip.
Political Commentator / Analyst
So here's what the internal review of the Smithsonian exhibitions will entail. Public facing content will be examined as well as the curatorial process, exhibition planning, collection use and narrative standards. So what is the practical application of all of that?
Fox News Host
Well, so what we're going to do in the letter we requested, basically an audit for the first time ever of the Smithsonian. We want to see how these placards in these museums have become written in such a ideological fashion. And we also want to see how the exhibits are voted on and how they become really what the public sees. The Smithsonian has 17 to 20 million visitors a year. We need it to represent our country in a positive way. We're approaching America's 250th wonderful birthday, and we want the Smithsonian to represent really what our country was founded grit, resilience, perseverance. And, you know, our goal is for ideology to go, but knowledge and trust.
Podcast Host / Narrator
To remain and at least just to kind of have a cleanse. Here you have Jessica Tarlov, our friend here. She just spits the facts about our economy right now.
Fox News Host
Let's play it the American public today or what they're feeling about the economy. No, it's not actually. It's headlines.
Podcast Host / Narrator
Oh, my God. Headlines.
Fox News Host
In the wake of Trump tariffs, John Deere announces mass layoffs. PepsiCo will increase carbonated soft drink concentrate prices by 10%. Sony is raising PS5 prices in the US by $50 across all all models and electric bills are up 10% so far this year. The election, you can say it was about whatever you want. Is about cost of living. That's what it came down to. People said inflation hadn't come down enough. Joe Biden doesn't feel my pain. I don't want to hear about Bidenomics.
Political Commentator / Analyst
What's the integrity?
Fox News Host
Donald Trump has the nominee, by the way. But Kamala, I'm well aware of the alleged. But it was about the Biden administration. I was worried you're gonna say that Diet Coke was going up in price and then. No, just better call me. Well, Coke actually did say that they were gonna be raising prices. Oh, my gosh. I'll have to drink water.
Political Commentator / Analyst
It's that Coke, Dana, so don't worry.
Fox News Host
Oh, good. Okay.
Podcast Host / Narrator
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Date: August 23, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect a noticeable meltdown at Fox News as the network and prominent MAGA conservatives take aim at California Governor Gavin Newsom. The episode spotlights a role reversal: while Trump has long used mockery and aggression in media, Newsom employs similar tactics against him – and Fox News can't handle it. The brothers break down Fox’s outrage, Republican sycophancy toward Putin, and the right’s cultural obsessions, all with their trademark irreverent analysis and comedic asides.
The episode dives headfirst into Fox’s sustained coverage of Newsom, with hosts and commentators painting him as a new, bullying antagonist who’s beating Trump at his own game.
“California Governor Gavin Newsom…he’s destroying us. Then you had Tommy or Tomi or Tommy Lahren…she’s on Fox. Watch what she says here.”
– Podcast Host (05:20)
The brothers highlight how Fox News hooks into cultural grievances and personal jabs in their effort to diminish Newsom while propping up Trump.
The segment turns to Fox’s favorable coverage of rightwing strongmen and the disturbing overlap with Russian state media.
“When I watch what’s going on in Fox and what’s happened to the Republican Party...millions of Americans…‘maybe Putin’s the good guy’. I’m like, what the hell is actually wrong with you people?”
– Podcast Host (09:31)
The Meiselas brothers fact-check right-wing talking points, including:
Fox hosts lament Democrats’ lack of “dad energy” and idealize Trump’s masculine persona, revealing a fixation on patriarchal leadership.
“He plays a role, he plays a part. Hollywood’s in his backyard. Go there, be an influencer, do an OnlyFans, whatever you want to do Gavin, but stop leading your state into the ground.”
– Tomi Lahren (07:12)
“Stop sounding like crazy people. That really is all it is…If the Democrats did that (be authentic), they’d do a hell of a lot better.”
– JD Vance (19:28)
“This MAGA cult has perverted our politics, literally, figuratively. You’re covering up the Epstein files. You’re literally helping convicted sex traffickers like Elaine Maxwell. Y'all are a bunch of sick humans. And Donald Trump’s been found liable for sexual assault.”
– Podcast Host (19:53)
The brothers blend biting sarcasm with serious political critique, using Fox’s own words and attitudes to highlight the right’s hypocrisy, obsession with authoritarian imagery, and inability to handle pushback in their own style. Their signature comedic banter and emphatic support for democracy underpin the episode throughout.
If you missed the episode, the Meiselas brothers delivered a breakdown of the latest Fox News meltdown as Gavin Newsom trolling Trump and conservatives led to hours of Fox hand-wringing. The show dissected Republican media’s bizarre fixation on strongmen, their use of disinformation (especially about immigration and housing), embarrassing culture war moments, and the party’s odd obsession with masculinity and authoritarianism. Expect sharp quotes, plenty of clips, and the MeidasTouch signature of truth-to-power with a humorous edge.