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Commentator/Host
And now they're just throwing a fit like they are with the government shutdown and everything else. It's ridiculous. And Trump is doing the right thing. I can't wait to see the ballroom finish. Well, I think if he really wants to get, get them completely, you know, just losing their minds, he should have a whole statuary garden and bring back Robert E. Lee to the statuary garden, right?
Political Analyst/Critic
Then you have the propagandist Greg Gutfeld on Fox. So, you know, the big problem is when you have an allied Sl. Slobbering media that does you no favors. When the media just slobbers over you all day, it leave you as it leaves you as an incompetent, arrogant, entitled fool. And he goes, and that's the problem with the Democratic Party. That's the problem with you and Fox. Gutfeld, you're literally describing yourself, you idiot. Here, play this clip.
Commentator/Host
An allied slobbering media does you no favors. It leaves you as an incompetent, arrogant, entitled fool. It's like parents who spoil a child so much that that child has no ambition, doesn't have to do anything, sits on the couch. That's the Democrat Party right now sitting on the couch. They don't know how to get up. Meanwhile, Trump, he's like the kid that the parents said, no, you got to work your way through school when you're 18, you got to get out of the house. So he gets out, he does, and so he has no favors. He's not expecting them. And he goes, and he gets it on his own. And what happens? You have one of the greatest presidents you're ever going to see in your lifetime.
Political Analyst/Critic
Then propagandist Jesse Watters brings on Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt. And Levitt says, you know, we're the ones, Trump and the Republicans, who have fixed health care. The problem with health care is Obamacare and the fact that the Democrats created the Affordable Care act is what got us into this problem. No, Caroline, you need to extend the freaking ACA subsidies so people don't lose their health care. Before Obamacare, before the aca, which you all have worked every year to gut and rip away from Americans. Insurance companies could discriminate on the basis of preexisting conditions. Insurance companies would not cover things. People would die. And the Affordable Care act certainly has its problems. Personally, I prefer universal health care and taxing rich people more. That's my own view. But we need to make sure we continue the subsidies right now so that millions and millions of Americans aren't kicked off. And we all know that Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans want to kick people off their health care. It's obvious. We know that. We're not stupid. Caroline, Here, play this clip.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
And by the way, it's the Democrats who created the broken health care system in this country through Obamacare that has led to rising premium and costs. It's this president, President Trump, who is taking on Big Pharma, who is cutting deals with them, who is working with insurance companies across the board to bring down the cost of health care in this.
Political Analyst/Critic
Then Caroline Levitt says, you know, one of the other issues also is that there's so much fake outrage right now about the destruction of the White House. Every president has done this before. They all modernize the buildings. No, Caroline, this has never happened before. We've never had a president demolish the White House, take cranes and bulldozers and knock down an entire wing of the White House without congressional approval. That's never happened before. Here, play this clip.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
And I believe there's a lot of fake outrage right now now, because nearly every single president who has lived in this beautiful White House behind me has made modernizations and renovations of their own. And in fact, presidents for decades in the modern time have quipped about how they wish they had a larger event space here at the White House that can hold hundreds more people than the current East Room and state dining rooms can.
Political Analyst/Critic
Then you have Brooke Rollins, who's Donald Trump's agriculture secretary. She goes on Fox and she has to address the fact that Donald Trump said, not only should we bail out Argentina and give them $40 billion, by the way, 20 billion of which were already burning away. The Argentine peso is absolutely crashing right now. But Donald Trump says, you know what we need to do also? We need to buy our beef from Argentina. Just totally screwing over American cattle ranchers, just screwing over our own beef supply in the United States. And, and meanwhile, in Argentina, they have a massive outbreak of the foot and mouth disease, which is potentially could lead to Americans dying from eating their beef. So it would screw our economy even more, screw our ranchers and kill Americans. So, Brooke Rollins, how are you going to respond to that? Here, play this clip.
Commentator/Host
What about beef from Argentina? Is that a possibility?
Jeff Bridges
Well, the president has mentioned it a couple of times. I think you'll be hearing more about exactly what that looks like right now. In America, we consume about 12 million metric tons of beef. 10 million of that we produce here in America. But the 2 million I'm talking about, we've been offshoring. And there's different parts of that. You know, what McDonald's buys and ground beef versus the actual muscle cuts, which is what a lot of Americans. The healthy part of all of this. I mean, here's the other thing that's so exciting for our beef industry, is that Bobby Kennedy and my partnership with making America healthy again, a lot of that is going to be moving around the new dietary guidelines around a return to saturated fats and what that means for our protein industry. Beef, chicken, et cetera, poultry, pork is really, really, really encouraging. But having said that, we've got to make sure we've got the production to be able to align with that. So, yes, the President has said he's in discussions with Argentina. I think we'll be hearing more about that in the next day or two. But as part of that 12 million metric tons, it will not be very much. Argentina is also facing a foot and mouth disease issue, which we at USDA have to ensure livestock industry is secure. And I know you've heard a lot about the screw worm coming up from Mexico. Foot and mouth is a, is a challenge, too. So we're on it. We're on the front lines. We're going to ensure our livestock industry is protected. But this is a very nuanced, very complex market. But that we're moving in every potential possible direction to, to make sure we've got a good future for these, for these ranchers.
Political Analyst/Critic
So then Fox tries to normalize what's going on in the White House. The ripping to shreds of the road Garden, Rose Garden. The destruction of the east win. Brett Baer and Harrison Faulkner and all of these, these propagandists on Fox, they're all like, oh, and the Rose Garden Club. It's so much better when, when there was a Rose Garden. The Rose Garden Club is the best. You have music and Donald Trump DJs himself. And then Faulkner, one of the Fox hosts, she's like, Wiki Wiki Wiki. No, no Wiki Wiki, okay? I just want America to be normal. I want Americans to have healthcare. I want Americans to be able to afford their groceries. I want Americans to be able to afford their rental. No Wiki Wiki, okay? No clubs in the White House for rich Republican oligarchs. No destroying the White house. Stop giving $40 billion to Argentina. Just cut the crap and actually act like adults. Here, play this clip. Yeah.
Commentator/Host
And listen. This Rose Garden club is something that the president really wanted to do. And he has the music. He plays the music when he has dinner out there. He's the DJ with the iPad. He's got the whole thing. And it's an eclectic mix as you can, you can all over the board. Let me tell Little Elvis.
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Then Lara Trump's like, you know what my favorite thing that I love to see are the beautiful umbrellas that we brought. From Mar A Lago to the White House, everybody loves them. I mean, as Americans are suffering right now, you're talking about Mar a Lago umbrellas at the White House. You're talking about golden ballrooms, UFC fights at the White House. You're talking about. What would Donald Trump talk about? Triumphal arches. He wants to build a Trump Day arc for himself in Washington, D.C. like, what the hell are we doing here? As Donald Trump's approval has plummeted to, like, the lowest ever. This guy's not popular, he's detested, he's despised. He's a vile piece of trash. American people hate him and yet they act like, oh, we're going to build. We're going to build some more ballrooms. What the hell are you talking about? Here's Lara Trump. Let's play it.
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And I think it is an incredible thing to see. I also love seeing those beautiful umbrellas there that remind me of the Mar A Lago Club and Trump Edmonster. Those are always the best to see.
Political Analyst/Critic
He's really done a great job with.
Dana
That Rose Garden out there as well.
Political Analyst/Critic
And then Lara Trump's like. And you know what he really loves to do? What does he really love to do, Lara? He loves when he, his face looks like Elvis's face. The hell are you talking about? He loves when his face looks like. This is a. These Trumps are demented, okay? This is a demented sicko family that's destroying the United States of America. I mean, do you see these sickos? Who behaves like this? And why do we normalize this behavior from these human beings? Who the hell acts like this? Here, play this clip.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
He is a big Elvis fan and.
Dana
I, my favorite, we talked about it.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
On my show last weekend is whenever he, you see the superimposed picture of.
Political Analyst/Critic
Donald Trump over Elvis's face, he goes back and forth.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
I think he likens himself though.
Political Analyst/Critic
Yeah. Speaking of who the hell acts like this? Then you have Don Jr. Don Jr. With the stupid face. Don Jr. Then goes out there and says, the state of the Democratic Party is they're all terrorists. They're all terrorist and violent people. Y', all, y' all are pardoning all the January 6th. You pardon all the January 6th insurrectionists, the people who are convicted of like seditious conspiracy. A lot of these J6ers have gone out and committed more crimes. I mean, y' all are literally a crime cartel in plain frickin view. By the way, what's going on with the Congressmember Gonzalez and the Uvalde Police Department there? Then you've got that other MAGA Republican Congress member out in Florida, everyone, oh, George Santos, back in action. Anyway, Here, here's Don Jr. Let's play it.
Commentator/Host
You know, watching these people dress up like clowns and they expect to be taken seriously. It's truly laughable. But that is the state of the Democrat Party. They're radical terrorist violence, preaching lunatics. And you can see it right on the screen right now. Sean, listen, it doesn't, you know, no one can describe it any better than just watching them, you know, stupefy Themselves.
Political Analyst/Critic
Going back to Jesse Waters and Caroline Levitt, they say, you know, Caroline Levitt says, you know, Trump was reelected in large part because he's a builder. People wanted him to destroy the White House like this and rebuild it. No, no one wants you to do it. No one, no one wants a ballroom. It has to go through, by the way, if you wanted to do it. The, the National Capital Preservation Committee, which it did not go through here at all. You can't just, it's actually a function of Congress to appropriate funds. We have no transparency of who the hell is funding this thing at all. It's ridiculous. Here, play this clip.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
And he is the builder in chief in large part. He was reelected back to this people's house because he's good at building things. He has done it his entire life, entire career. And construction is a process. At the end, the East Wing, which is an entirely separate structure from the Executive Mansion you see behind me, will be more modern and beautiful than ever. And then on top of that, the White House is going to have a big beautiful ballroom for generations of Americans to come. And the best part of it all, it's not a dime of the taxpayers money. The President has worked hard to privately fund this entire project from start to finish.
Commentator/Host
Yeah, they'd be mad if it's donors. They'd be mad if it was taxpayer funding. They're always mad.
Political Analyst/Critic
Thankfully you have Jessica Tarlov, a voice of reason on Fox, the only voice of reason. She's great. Here, play this clip.
Dana
He was definitely excited by it, though. There was some reporting that White House aides did know that the optics of this was really bad, especially because he had said that what he was planning pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. That doesn't really look like total respect to the existing building. So I don't know if his construction crew got a little ahead of themselves.
Commentator/Host
That's what you do. Wait, Jessica, he's working with the White House Historical Preservation Society. He's not coming in and like bombing the place and putting up the Obama Presidential Library, which is ghastly.
Dana
Listen, have you seen that thing?
Commentator/Host
It's a monstrosity. At least Trump has taste.
Dana
Come on. Listen, I understand that Mar A Lago is allegedly the height of style and panache and glitz and glam, but he turned the Rose Garden into a patio that looks like you should have chicken tenders and fries on it.
Political Analyst/Critic
Have you been there?
Dana
Now, I can see you haven't been.
Commentator/Host
There, so you have no idea. Okay, When I'm president, I'll have my. What's wrong with chicken tenders?
Dana
I enjoy chicken tenders. I have a three year old. I'm just saying that the Rose Garden looked better before and should we have a bigger ballroom? Maybe. But he wasn't supposed to do this and he said that he wouldn't. But the big problem is, is that it's being funded by Donald Trump and also donors. Some the names we know, some which we don't. And Donald Trump has been profiting off of the presidency left, right and center. His kids do it too, with these deals all over the world.
Commentator/Host
How's he profiting from that?
Dana
Well, he's gotten money. He is. You don't know what kind of influence he's selling by having people come there. That's what happens at Mar a Lago too. It happened at Trump International.
Commentator/Host
So he should have taxpayers pay for it.
Dana
Yes. The crypto. No, he shouldn't do it or that.
Commentator/Host
He can't do it.
Dana
Just say he doesn't.
Commentator/Host
Say you don't want it. You don't like it no matter what he does.
Political Analyst/Critic
Jessica More from propagandist Jesse Waters, who said, you know, the Democrats are upset because Trump is so unconstrained right now and nothing they can do to check his power. Well, we had 7 million Americans peacefully protest, number one. Number two, you're right in the sense that Republicans control the House and Republicans control the Senate. Right now, Democrats are standing up against the Republicans in the House and the Senate. But you would expect that co equal branches of government would want to act like CO equals. Except when it comes to the MAGA Republican sycophants, they've given up what their actual job is as MAGA Republican. These Congress members and these senators just doing whatever the hell that Donald Trump wants. As our country's getting weaker every day, weaker on foreign policy, weaker here domestically, our economy is absolutely in a spiral. But we don't report the numbers because the Bureau of Labor Statistics no longer provides job numbers, numbers, inflation numbers or any data at all. Our stock markets. One gigantic Ponzi scheme, as Donald Trump claims that he's brought in $20 trillion, which is entirely false. Play this clip of Jesse Watters.
Commentator/Host
The Democrats are upset because Trump is so unconstrained and he's so ambitious and he's wielding executive power so confidently and none of their presidents ever did. And nothing they can do can check his power. They feel like they've squandered the opportunity in the executive office to do grand things, to make peace deals to redo the World trade order. And they're looking at a guy who they thought was just like a pockmark in history, come back and be a consequential president. And he's so consequential, he's leaving a symbolic and physical legacy right there on the footprint of the most hollow grounds in Washington, D.C. and they can't wrap their head around it.
Political Analyst/Critic
More from Don Jr. Right here. Play this clip.
Commentator/Host
When I watched the protest this weekend though, it was sort of funny because they're clearly not sending their best or their brightest. And maybe that's because they don't have anyone that's bright or good at anything that they do.
Political Analyst/Critic
Here we have Caroline Levitt saying we're actually the most transparent that there is. Here. Play this clip.
Narrator/Commercial Voice
And, and I will just add, when you talk to the real journalists, not the ones who are actually activists that pose as journalists, but the people who actually care about truth. And there are some of those left in the White House press corps, I work with them every day. They will tell you the Trump White House is the most accessible and transparent White House ever. Not only does the President take questions from the press on a near daily basis, multiple times per day, as he did today, but we also provide truthful and accurate information about what this administration is doing and accomplishing. And it's a stark contrast to what they had over the past four years where they were gaslit.
Political Analyst/Critic
And then Greg Gutfeld says, but the real thing we need to focus on is the following. Under Biden, the government invaded your bedroom. The government was in your bedroom. Play this clip.
Commentator/Host
When you have bureaucrats and it's funny to see the same people who are marching against no kings, fighting for a ever increasing government, especially one that tells you how to behave. I mean, under Biden, we actually had a government that told that invaded your bedroom, invaded your family's bedrooms, invaded your children's locker rooms. You can't get more unessential and intrusive than that.
Political Analyst/Critic
I mean, the government wasn't in my bedroom. I don't. What does that even mean? You don't like gay people? Are you trying to say you don't like gay people, you don't like trans people, people. What else don't you like? Greg, what is it that you're actually trying to say right there? Because right now the government is actually invading, not your made up mago weirdo conspiracies. Right now, the freaking government, the military is invading cities right now, actually invading bedrooms literally. Like in Chicago, Blackhawk helicopters, people going into apartments with children naked, making a march out naked, making people handcuffed, chained. That's actually happening. The government, literally, with weapons, missile launchers, web. I mean, serious weaponry all over hell is going on. Hit subscribe let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack@midasplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipowski, ad free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available@midasplus.com.
Date: October 22, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode dives into the latest wave of controversy facing Donald Trump, the MAGA movement, and Fox News as Trump's recent actions spark public outrage and political blowback. The Meiselas brothers break down the increasingly frantic and bizarre Fox News defense of Trump's controversial White House renovations, a massive aid package to Argentina, and policy moves that threaten Americans' healthcare. Using their signature mix of incisive commentary, pointed critique, and comedic banter, the brothers highlight Fox's hypocrisy, the disconnect between MAGA priorities and everyday Americans, and the broader implications for U.S. democracy.
| Topic | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------------------------|--------------| | Fox spin on Trump’s White House actions | 01:14–02:52 | | Greg Gutfeld's projection and media critique | 02:52–04:06 | | Trump’s record on healthcare, ACA & subsidies | 05:09–05:57 | | White House demolition and fake outrage | 05:57–06:24 | | Beef bailout for Argentina & foot and mouth disease | 07:16–08:51 | | Trump’s Rose Garden club & excess | 09:46–10:11 | | Lara Trump’s Mar a Lago umbrella praise | 12:28 | | Trump compared to Elvis | 13:13 | | Don Jr. & "Democrat terrorists" smear | 14:15 | | Privatized ballroom construction & lack of oversight| 15:17–15:55 | | Jessica Tarlov’s critique & funding transparency | 16:07–17:10 | | Jesse Watters on unchecked presidential power | 19:06 | | "Most transparent White House" claim | 20:11–20:55 | | Bedroom/locker room “invasion” culture war rhetoric | 21:09 |
In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect Fox News’ anxious attempts to spin intensifying public backlash against former President Trump’s controversial actions—from the demolition of historic White House wings to questionable international bailouts and tone-deaf displays of excess. Amid Fox’s alternate reality and MAGA sycophancy, the hosts reaffirm the urgent need for accountability, transparency, and a functioning democracy. With quotable moments, keen insight, and sharp humor, the episode serves as both a parody and a serious warning about the current state of American political discourse and governance.