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State regime media, known as Fox, was collapsing live on air as Donald Trump delivered one of the most embarrassing speeches ever at the United Nations. You had Sean Hannity, one of Fox' top propagandist, try to attack former President Biden. And then you'll see that Hannity hit with karma right here, couldn't get the words out of his mouth. Let's play this clip.
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After blindly supporting, yes, cognitive, cognitively deficient.
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Joe Biden, then throughout the day, state regime media Fox was calling Donald Trump daddy and saying Daddy was not very happy today because daddy was not able to get up the escalator at the United nations building. And daddy's teleprompter was. I mean, they keep call calling him daddy and then they are putting forward this like conspiracy theory that the UN sabotaged the escalator and the teleprompter to hurt Donald Trump and they want an investigation. Folks, here, play this clip.
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Daddy's not happy. He came to the UN today and it was a total mess. Everything was broken. The escalators weren't even working. Trump and Melania were riding it up and it just stopped. The first lady lost her balance a bit, but steadied herself, thankfully and then marched to the top. The she could have been hurt. And the President looked over at the press and knew something was up. At first we thought the escalator just malfunctioned, but then so did the teleprompter.
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Yeah. So then Jesse Waters, one of the top propagandists who calls Donald Trump his daddy, brings on Caroline Levitt, the chief propagandist press secretary at the White House. And then she says that there was a sabotage of the escalator and the teleprompter at the UN Building. There shall be an investigation. And then right wing media started whining about the escalator all throughout the day, that the UN Sabotage them and that perhaps the United States military needs to strike the United nations building. I'll show you a clip in a bit where Jesse Waters says that. But first, here is Caroline Levitt. Here, play it.
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All right, Caroline, it does appear to be sabotage with the escalator and the teleprompter. What is the White House going to do about that?
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Well, Jesse, that's definitely what it appears to be to me. And that's why I put out a statement earlier. There was some concerning reporting over the weekend from the London Times, as you pointed out, that UN Globalist staffers were basically plotting to set up the President of the United States. And first it was the escalator, then it was the teleprompter. And then Katie Pavlich from Town hall, who we offered a seat in the press pool to cover the President's historic speech today, noticed that the audio inside of the room was much lower and different for the President of the United States than the previous speaker. So when you put all of this together, it doesn't look like a coincidence to me. And I know that we have people, including the United States Secret Service, who are looking into this to try to get to the bottom of it. And if we find that these were UN Staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up, literally trip up, the President and the first lady of the United States, well, there better be accountability for those people. And I will personally speak. See to it, Jesse.
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Good.
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And this is where Jesse Waters, one of the chief propagandists on Fox, suggests a military strike on the United nations because the escalator and teleprompter weren't working for Donald Trump. Play this clip.
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What's going on with the escalator? What do you think? Yeah, they sabotaged him. Yeah. And they could have hurt the First Lady. Yeah. Trump would have fallen and would have gotten back up, but you know, they would have blamed it on his rhetoric and then they sabotaged the teleprompter. Yeah, I mean this is, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb is in New York though, right? Yeah, there's some fallout there. All right.
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And folks, this is really what Fox was programming throughout the entire day into the evening hours. You had Laura Ingraham, another propagandist on Fox speaking with former Secret Service head and they were saying, yeah, this must be sabotage. This is clearly the United nations and the globalists attacking Donald Trump. Let's play this clip.
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Now the UN's brushing it off, of.
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Course, as telling Fox that someone from the President's party ran ahead of the President, inadvertently triggering the stop mechanism of that escalator. But you know, maybe that is what happened there. But it seems to be a lot of things happening. All three in less than an hour, Tim. Yeah, it sure does, Laura. And I tell you, you'd stand more of a chance to get hit by lightning than to have all these things happen at one, especially the very second that the President was getting ready to step up. And let's be clear, Laura, you've been part of these events. The Secret Service is meticulous in planning every item that the President's going to be near or touch. They're going to thoroughly investigate all systems. They're going to make sure they're working. And so I find it bizarre that just coincidentally all these things just don't happen to work for the President when they work for everybody else.
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By the way, the United nations had statement that they put out that it was actually somebody in Donald Trump's advanced team who was walking ahead, who triggered the stop of the escalator. And also Donald Trump's team was in charge of the teleprompter. So Trump's team were the one who screwed up both. But you let MAGA snowflake tears continue to rain down. You have Jesse Waters again saying that Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize and that everybody needs to to call him daddy. Here, play this clip.
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Leaders around the world are calling Trump daddy, nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize and flying to Mar a Lago for rounds of golf. Trump even got Zelensky to put on a suit at the White House. And at the un, a big shift is happening.
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Can you all believe that this is actually a network that masquerades as news? I mean, how embarrassing are these clips? That I'm showing with you. Then Sean Hannity brings on Ron DeSantis and they say that the United nations should be eliminated and basically move to China. How stupid can these people be? Already top medical jobs and education and factories are moving to China right now. So you want the UN to move to China as well? It's in New York because America was supposed to be the leader of the free world. It's a statement that it's in New York. It was hard fought that it was in New York, in the United States.
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But these Trump propagandists are so idiotic that they, you know, attack the UN attack science, attack Tylenol, just attack, attack medicine, attack, you know, attack NATO. Anyway, you're play this clip.
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Let's get your analysis of the president at the U.N. today. I'm not a big fan of the U.N. i wouldn't care if they sent it off to China myself. Oh, yeah. I mean, I've been in favor of defunding the UN For a long time. I think Congress should do that. I think it's a totally corrupt and feckless body. And I think it was refreshing that the president went there in front of a generally hostile body and told the truth and told them why they were wrong, told them why their open borders globalism has failed.
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This guy's a cross between PT Barnum and Ronald Reagan. He's got in, he's in everybody's head. God bless you, President Trump, for standing up in the UN and telling the world the way it is. We don't have to live this way. We don't have to live with the Europe that's buying Russian oil at the time. We're all trying to stop the war with Russia and Ukraine. So I hope he runs again.
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I want to give a shout out also to our friends at Snapstream. They're the service that we use here that helps us get all of these clips across the networks. A link is in the description below if you want to reach out to the Snapstream people. It's really more business to business stuff. It's a business software. But, you know, maybe there's a use for it too, as an individual. Reach out to them. Anyway, Lindsey Graham then says, I want Trump 2028 dictator Trump is what he says. Here, play this clip.
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Trump 2028. I hope this never ends. When he asks what should you do if a Russian jet flies into your country? Shoot it down.
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Then they bring on Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, rather, and she talks about how incredible it is to be married to him and that he's this great and powerful man. Come on, what are you talking about? What are we, what are we doing here, Fox? What are we doing here? Here, play this clip.
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You are married to Stephen Miller, so you are the envy of all women.
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What is that like the sexual matador, right?
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What is it like being married to such a sexual matador?
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He is an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like, let's start the day. I am going to defeat the left and we are going to win. He wakes up the day ready to carry out the mission that President Trump was elected to do.
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Then you have Jesse Waters just going Full racist and says that all these cities are turning into Jalalabads. Play this clip.
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My producer's mom talked to the customs official who was livid and said, yeah, there are planeloads of these people who are coming in all day, every day, and we just have to let him in. You see them on boats racing onto the shore in France. If we don't protect the birthplace of Western civilization, we're finished. How long can we go before Europe ceases to exist? Cities across the world are turning into little Jalalabads.
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You have on Jesse Waters, Caroline Levitt, she's on. And she attacks former President Biden. And she goes, you know, the General assembly room was packed and we talked about how much we hate Bide and the globalists and we hate the UN and we did a great speech where we told the UN we hate them. Here, play this clip.
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The President was blunt, very blunt today. It was definitely useful because these people have to get their act together. Do you think the UN heard the President loud and clear?
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Absolutely. In fact, the room was absolutely packed to the walls. Every single leader showed up for President Trump's speech today, and they heard him loud and clear. And I am proud work for President Trump every day, Jesse. But I was especially proud watching the President of the United States of America bring common sense to an organization that has made no sense for far too long. And the President gave some tough love. He said, you are all destroying your own countries and the United States of America was just being destroyed by one of your own. He took us one of your own. A globalist in Joe Biden, who had no idea what he was doing.
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Then they bring on the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, and she warns that beef prices are going to get even higher due to a parasite. They say, by the way, they're removing all of these regulations. Right. That may help you identify these types of things. But beef prices will get even higher. Grocery prices are going to get even higher. Let's play this clip.
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And. And we're deploying almost 200 people down into Mexico. We shut the ports down in May and again in July. So the President is taking this extremely seriously.
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What could this do to our beef supply?
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Well, at a time when our beef supply is at its lowest already in 70.
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Terrifying.
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It is really terrifying. Prices are very high. For that reason. It could take us into even another phase of real compromise, of getting good beef at a good price for Americans. But we've got it. We've got a plan.
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We're on it. Then on the Will Kane show on Fox, they say that now because Trump attacked Tylenol, that now pregnant women on the left are taking Tylenol in order to protest Donald Trump. Dude, what are you. What are they talking about?
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What are they.
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They manufacture a fake crisis, they get mad at the fake crisis, they blame it on the left, and they whine, they run, and they play the victim. So naturally, it's one of the things that really pisses me off most about MAGA and this right wing media is that, you know, they give, they give, they give. And then when you push back, they.
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Go, oh, my God, why are you.
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Doing this to me? You're so mean. It just. Come on here, play this clip.
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Better part of a decade has been simply opposition and hatred of Donald Trump. I mean, I do believe we're even seeing videos uploaded today of, of women pregnant on the left taking Tylenol simply because yesterday he warned against Tylenol. It makes you think no matter what he said, their response would simply to do the opposite.
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Then they kept on having technical glitches while they had the Senate Majority Leader Thune on here, play this clip.
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But I'm pretty good at this stuff. He did use that moment to tout to the world what he has been able to do with our border and immigration. Okay, we appear to still be having.
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Those audio issues, more technical glitches. And you can see how absolutely pissed he got here.
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Senator, jump on in here. We just played sound of President Trump. I moved from immigration to President Trump calling out those who recognize the Palestinian state. Your reaction to his remarks on that this morning?
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Okay. All right, we tried again.
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And then you had all the Fox hosts pretending that Donald Trump's unhinged, deranged, like the worst speech I've ever seen. You go back to the video I did yesterday if you want to watch my recap of Trump's United nations speech. But then all of the hosts are like, this was wonderful. This was the greatest speech we've ever seen. Donald Trump wasted no time unfurling raw truth. Come on, come on here, play this clip.
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President Trump has been speaking at the United Nations General assembly in New York City. He unfurled raw truth to countries in attendance there and to the rest of the world. And moments from now, the President is set to hold a meeting with the UN Secretary General. And that meeting will follow that, that long speech that put quite the spotlight on the different world order we are living in now. He even called the former President Joe Biden by name, comparing where the world was under Biden. And while Biden was leading the United States and where we are now, the president talked in detail about his own foreign policy victories, the successful containment of illegal immigration into the United States. And he had a warning warning too, for other countries with all those open borders. And of course, he talked about the ongoing wars with Israel versus Hamas and Ukraine versus Russia.
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And so just so you can see the way they I can play you every host doing that, but I'm not. That's the way their brainwashing works on Fox, and it's just incumbent on us to keep on calling it out. And that's what we'll do each and every time here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit some subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad free episodes of our podcast and more.
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Podcast: The MeidasTouch Podcast
Date: September 24, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
In this episode, the MeidasTouch brothers dissect the chaotic fallout after Donald Trump’s widely panned speech at the United Nations, focusing on how Fox News and right-wing media frenziedly scrambled to defend Trump, pushing conspiracy theories and dramatic narratives. The brothers use their trademark banter and incisive critique to highlight the absurdity and propaganda tactics on display, especially the recurring use of the term "daddy" to describe Trump, unsubstantiated sabotage claims, and the escalating language used by Fox hosts and guests.
“After blindly supporting, yes, cognitive, cognitively deficient…”
— Sean Hannity (01:38)
Fox repeatedly refers to Trump as “daddy” and dramatizes minor technical issues—an escalator and teleprompter malfunction—suggesting sabotage by the United Nations (01:43–02:42).
Jesse Waters and White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt amplify the theory, demanding investigations and accountability (03:20–04:33).
“Daddy’s not happy. He came to the UN today and it was a total mess. Everything was broken. The escalators weren’t even working… At first we thought the escalator just malfunctioned, but then so did the teleprompter.”
— Fox News host (02:14)
"That’s definitely what it appears to be to me… I will personally see to it, Jesse."
— Caroline Levitt (03:31)
“What we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb… it’s in New York though, right?”
— Jesse Waters (04:46)
Laura Ingraham and a former Secret Service head stoke further suspicion, dismissing the UN’s explanation and insisting the issues had to be intentional sabotage (05:37–06:34).
“You’d stand more of a chance to get hit by lightning than to have all these things happen at one…”
— Former Secret Service head (05:39)
The Meidas brothers clarify the actual explanation: Trump's own team triggered the escalator stop and mismanaged the teleprompter; both were not caused by the UN (06:34).
Jesse Waters claims Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize and repeats the "daddy" meme, painting world leaders as adoring fans (07:03).
“Leaders around the world are calling Trump daddy, nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize…”
— Jesse Waters (07:03)
Fox hosts encourage moving the UN out of the US, even to China, displaying a disregard for historical context and US diplomatic leadership (07:56–08:43).
Lindsey Graham lavishes exaggerated praise, likening Trump to PT Barnum and Reagan, wishes for him to be “dictator,” and champions “Trump 2028” (10:23, 11:13).
"This guy's a cross between PT Barnum and Ronald Reagan... God bless you, President Trump... I hope he runs again."
— Lindsey Graham (10:23) "Trump 2028. I hope this never ends."
— Lindsey Graham (11:13)
Stephen Miller’s wife is bizarrely fawned over, labeled a “sexual matador.” She describes Miller as an “incredibly inspiring man” (11:41).
“What is it like being married to such a sexual matador?”
— Fox host (11:44) “He wakes up the day ready to carry out the mission that President Trump was elected to do.”
— Stephen Miller’s wife (11:47)
Waters lapses into open racism, claiming Western cities are becoming “little Jalalabads” (12:10).
“…Cities across the world are turning into little Jalalabads.”
— Jesse Waters (12:10)
Caroline Levitt, on again, insists on the radical success of Trump’s “blunt” speech and continues attacking Biden and “globalists” (13:11).
“Every single leader showed up for President Trump’s speech today, and they heard him loud and clear…”
— Caroline Levitt (13:11)
Secretary of Agriculture warns on beef prices due to a parasite, oddly ignoring that regulations are being rolled back (14:12–14:39).
“It could take us into even another phase of real compromise, of getting good beef at a good price...”
— Brooke Rollins (14:28)
Will Kane concocts a narrative about pregnant women on the left taking Tylenol to protest Trump, exemplifying right-wing media’s manufactured outrage model (15:23).
“…Women pregnant on the left taking Tylenol simply because yesterday he warned against Tylenol. It makes you think no matter what he said, their response would simply be to do the opposite.”
— Will Kane (15:23)
Fox hosts uniformly declare Trump’s UN address to be an earth-shattering “raw truth” speech, completely detached from the widely panned reality (16:53).
“He unfurled raw truth to countries in attendance there and to the rest of the world.”
— Fox News host (16:53)
The Meidas brothers reflect on how this hyperbolic reality-shaping is central to Fox’s programming, vowing to keep exposing it (17:48).
“That’s the way their brainwashing works on Fox, and it’s just incumbent on us to keep on calling it out.”
— Ben Meiselas (17:48)
The episode is rich in sarcasm, incredulity, and pointed political critique, with the brothers blending humor and alarm at the increasingly unhinged, propagandistic, and demagogic tone of right-wing media. Their commentary is fast-paced, accessible, and always circles back to defending democracy and honest media coverage.
This episode is a comprehensive takedown of media manipulation, right-wing hysteria, and the alternate reality spun by Trump loyalists on national television, with the MeidasTouch brothers using wit and clear evidence to expose absurdity and defend sanity in American politics.