Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview

Summary

The MeidasTouch Podcast: "Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview" – Detailed Summary

Introduction

In the March 19, 2025 episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas delve into former President Donald Trump's contentious interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News. The brothers critically analyze Trump's aggressive rhetoric, his stance on international relations, particularly regarding Canada, Russia, and China, and his controversial comments on domestic policies and legal matters. This episode provides listeners with an in-depth examination of Trump's statements and the broader implications for American democracy.

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Trump's Attack on Canada

The episode opens with the hosts addressing Trump's vehement attacks on Canada during his Fox interview. Trump disparages Canada's role and value to the United States, suggesting a disturbing inclination toward annexation.

• Host's Overview (01:11 - 02:58):
  • Trump criticizes Canadian leadership, particularly Justin Trudeau, labeling him derogatorily as "Governor Trudeau."
  • Quote – Donald Trump [01:20]: "He was. His people were nasty and they weren't telling the truth. They never told the truth."
  • Trump expresses a desire to reduce reliance on Canadian resources, stating, [04:41]: "Canada was meant to be the 51st state because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion a year. We don't need their cars, we don't need their lumber."

The hosts condemn these remarks, highlighting Trump's unfounded assertions about Canada and his unrealistic geopolitical ambitions.

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Praise for Russia and China

Contrary to his aggressive stance on Canada, Trump paradoxically lauds U.S. adversaries, showcasing a contradictory foreign policy narrative.

• Trump's Comments on Russia and China (02:04 - 03:53):
  • Quote – Donald Trump [02:04]: "We don’t have that much trade. And they'd like to. And we'd like to also. They have some very valuable things for us, including very big forms of rare earth."
  • Trump emphasizes his positive relationships with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, suggesting strategic trade benefits.
  • Quote – Donald Trump [03:53]: "Putin actually said to me, if you're my friend, I'd hate to see you as my enemy. He said that very strongly."

The hosts critique Trump's favorable remarks towards authoritarian leaders, questioning his commitment to democratic values.

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Ukraine Ceasefire and Russian Encirclement

Trump discusses the complexities of negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine, propagating misinformation about Russian military movements.

• Host's Analysis of Ukraine Statements (05:23 - 07:28):
  • Quote – Donald Trump [06:16]: "Russia has encircled about 2,500 soldiers. They are nicely encircled and that's not good."
  • The hosts fact-check Trump's claims, asserting they are baseless and echoing Russian propaganda.
  • They highlight Trump's attempt to position himself as a peacemaker, despite lacking credible evidence.

This segment underscores the dangers of spreading false information during international conflicts.

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Defiance of the Judicial System

Trump addresses the topic of court orders, portraying himself as an authority on the judiciary while undermining the rule of law.

• Judicial Defiance Discussion (09:40 - 10:40):
  • Quote – Donald Trump [09:43]: "Nobody's been through more courts than I have. I think nobody knows the courts any better than I do."
  • Trump dismisses Chief Justice John Roberts' statements, insinuating bias within the judiciary.
  • The hosts emphasize the importance of judicial independence and criticize Trump's contemptuous attitude towards federal courts.

This portion highlights the precarious relationship between the executive branch and the judiciary under Trump's rhetoric.

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Attacks on Federal Employees and Agencies

Trump critiques federal employees and agencies, accusing them of inefficiency and corruption without substantial evidence.

• Federal Employees Critique (12:38 - 13:00):
  • Quote – Donald Trump [12:38]: "Employees, many of whom didn't even report to work, many of whom were scamming this country."
  • He alleges widespread fraud within federal agencies, specifically targeting USAID, without providing factual support.
  • The hosts refute these claims, pointing out the lack of evidence and the potential harm such accusations cause to public trust.

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The Trump Gold Card and Corruption Allegations

Trump introduces the concept of the "Trump Gold Card," suggesting financial gains linked to his policies and hinting at unethical practices.

• Trump Gold Card and Financial Promises (13:00 - 13:41):
  • Quote – Donald Trump [13:19]: "We have time. We're going to be making a lot of money because of tariffs."
  • He implies a financial scheme benefiting from tariffs and international trade, raising concerns about potential corruption.
  • The hosts express skepticism about the legitimacy and ethical implications of such endeavors, questioning Trump's commitment to genuine economic improvement.

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Fraud Claims on USAID

In a controversial move, Trump accuses USAID of fraud, further fueling mistrust in federal agencies.

• USAID Fraud Allegations (13:50 - 14:06):
  • Quote – Donald Trump [13:50]: "So much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to work."
  • The hosts challenge Trump's assertions, demanding evidence for these serious accusations.
  • They connect Trump's rhetoric to broader attempts to delegitimize government agencies without substantiated claims.

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Host's Commentary and Conclusion

Throughout the episode, the Meiselas brothers vehemently oppose Trump's statements, highlighting the dangers they pose to democracy and international relations. They emphasize the responsibility of public figures to uphold truth and integrity, criticizing Trump's manipulation of facts and his divisive rhetoric.

• Final Remarks by Host (14:06 - 15:16):
  • The host underscores the solidarity of Canadian supporters against Trump's aggressive stance.
  • Quote – Host [15:16]: "It's a stain on the United States of America. It's horrific."

The episode concludes with a call to action, urging listeners to subscribe and support their mission to defend democracy against authoritarian influences.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Donald Trump:

  • [01:20] "He was. His people were nasty and they weren't telling the truth. They never told the truth."
  • [02:04] "We don’t have that much trade. And they'd like to. And we'd like to also. They have some very valuable things for us, including very big forms of rare earth."
  • [06:16] "Russia has encircled about 2,500 soldiers. They are nicely encircled and that's not good."
  • [09:43] "Nobody's been through more courts than I have. I think nobody knows the courts any better than I do."
  • [12:38] "Employees, many of whom didn't even report to work, many of whom were scamming this country."
  • [13:19] "We have time. We're going to be making a lot of money because of tariffs."
  • [13:50] "So much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to work."

• Laura Ingraham:

  • [03:00] "You finally got them around the edge on that though."
  • [07:07] "Negotiables mentioned by Putin. It was reported that, I think the Kremlin media actually stated that he demanded an immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine in order to get to this multi step deal."
  • [10:18] "They didn't make a statement when Joe Biden decided to forgive all those student loans."
  • [11:07] "But do you consider this an act of domestic terrorist?"
  • [12:23] "But for federal judges, district court judges to order a sitting president to reinstate fired employees. You're the chief executive officer of the United States. You, you order that these agencies fire."

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Conclusion

This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast serves as a critical examination of Donald Trump's inflammatory statements during his Fox News interview. By dissecting his attacks on Canada, questionable praise for authoritarian leaders, and unfounded claims against federal agencies, the Meiselas brothers provide listeners with a comprehensive analysis of the threats posed to democratic institutions and international alliances. The hosts advocate for vigilance and active participation in safeguarding democracy against divisive and false narratives propagated by influential figures.

Transcript

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[Host]

After failing in his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump ran straight to American state regime media known as Fox to attack Canada. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it.

[Laura Ingraham]

Any one of our tougher with Canada than you are with something, our biggest adversaries.

[Donald Trump]

Only because it's meant to be our 51st street. Okay, no, but listen to this for a second.

[Laura Ingraham]

We need their territory. They have territorial advantage. We're not going to be close to China.

[Donald Trump]

Look, I deal with every country indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada. The people that. Now this was Trudeau. The people that. That good old Justin, I call him Governor Trudeau. He was. His people were nasty and they weren't telling the truth. They never told the truth.

[Host]

You know that Donald Trump spent most of this interview with Laura Ingraham attacking Canada and then praising Russia and China. He here Donald Trump is saying that he'd like to do more trade with Russia while he attacks our closest ally, Canada. Play this clip with Russia.

[Donald Trump]

We don't have that much trade. And they'd like to. And we'd like to also. They have some very valuable things for us, including very big forms of rare earth. They have a lot of earth. You know, they have a big chunk of real estate. The biggest, actually, the biggest in the world for a country by far. And on that they have things that we could use, frankly. And they. That other.

[Host]

And as I said, most of this interview was devoted to Donald Trump attacking Canada, saying he wants to conquer it, saying he wants to annex it, saying that they don't have any resources that are really needed and they need the United States. Here Donald Trump is talking about how Canadians are the worst people to negotiate with he says, here, play this clip.

[Donald Trump]

Things we rebuilt our military. Canada doesn't pay for military. They don't give any. They give us nothing. And they are the worst people to negotiate with of everybody they have with usmca.

[Laura Ingraham]

You finally got them around the edge on that though.

[Donald Trump]

You got no, I got them there. And USMCA is good, but they cheat. You know, an agreement's good, but they cheat. And Mexico cheats also.

[Laura Ingraham]

China cheated on your 2019.

[Donald Trump]

Can I tell you what?

[Laura Ingraham]

Phase one, they totally cheated and dropped it with Biden. You had a great deal when Biden.

[Donald Trump]

Took over, he didn't push them. I would call up once every two weeks, so saying you're not living up to the agreement and they'd buy more corn, more this.

[Host]

You see, even Laura Ingraham is trying to like lead him to not attack Canada. But he can't help himself because he's a despicable human being who actually wants to annex and take over Canada the way Putin wants to take over Ukraine. Here Donald Trump is again, after attacking Canada. Here he is praising Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin. I could go on and on. You get the point though, that this is what is going on in most of this interview. Play this clip.

[Donald Trump]

Putin actually said to me, if you're my friend, I'd hate to see you as my enemy. He said that very strongly. But with all of that, I had a very good relationship with Putin. I had a very good relationship with President Xi, a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Lots of good relationships. And that's a positive thing, that's not a negative thing. But at the same time, I'm about our country. So that's why we're talking about tariffs. We'll be taking in trillions of dollars.

[Laura Ingraham]

I'm gonna get to the tariffs in America because we're gonna, we're gonna first hit the other.

[Host]

So absolutely despicable. I'll just show it to you one more time. Then Donald Trump says, look, Canada wasn't meant to be anything other than the 51st state of America. We don't need their lumber. We don't need anything from them. He says, here, play this clip.

[Donald Trump]

Canada. And here's my problem with Canada. Canada was meant to be the 51st state because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion a year. We don't need their cars, we don't need their lumber. We have a lot of lumber. We got, we freed it up, as you know, last week. We're freeing it up so that you can actually cut down a tree without being, you know, given the death penalty. Because what these, what these radical environmentalists have done to our country, but we freed it up. But we don't need their lumber, we don't need their energy, we don't need anything. We certainly don't want their automobiles. They make a lot of millions of automobiles are sent in. I'd rather have a made in Michigan.

[Host]

Let me just say to our Canadian supporters and the maple Midas out there, we here at the Midas Touch Network stand in solidarity with you. We understand why you are boycotting all things American and American tourism because of the despicable Trump regime. And we are fighting for from within to take back our democracy from an authoritarian regime that has taken over our country. Right now here in this interview with Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump says that he wasn't able to do the ceasefire deal with Putin because cease fires are hard. And then he spreads the lie that Russian troops have encircled the Ukrainian troops and that that's one of the reasons why they can't do a ceasefire and that he and Putin are trying to save the Ukrainian troops from Russia, killing everybod Everybody here play this clip and.

[Donald Trump]

Right now you have a lot of guns pointing at each other. And a ceasefire without going a little bit further would have been tough. Russia has the advantage. As you know, they have encircled about 2,500 soldiers. They are nicely encircled and that's not good. And we want to get it over with. Look, we're doing this.

[Host]

Let me be clear. What Donald Trump said there is 100% false. Russia has not encircled the Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region. That is just straight up Russian propaganda from Vladimir Putin. It is out absolutely despicable that Donald Trump is parroting that. But everything he's saying here is despicable. Laura Ingraham here talks about how the Kremlin media actually stated that he demanded immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine and Donald Trump then lies and says, oh, he didn't say that. Here, play this clip.

[Laura Ingraham]

Negotiables mentioned by Putin. It was reported that, I think the Kremlin media actually stated that he demanded an immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine in order to get to this multi step deal.

[Donald Trump]

No, he didn't. We didn't talk about aid. Actually we didn't talk about aid at all. We talked about a lot of things but aid was never discussed.

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[Host]

I thought Donald Trump was such a good negotiator that you were gonna figure this out, Donald. I thought you had the best negotiating plan, that you were gonna have peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. You don't even know what was said on the call. I mean it's like not the art of the deal. It's like the art of the stupid and dangerous right now. The art of Donald Trump's obsequiousness. The art of Donald Trump surrendering what a pathetic individual he is. Laura Ingraham then goes, are there circumstances you would ever defy a court order like the court order? You cannot send Americans to concentration camps or you cannot send migrants to concentration camps or people who just you divine and deem to be trained day or agua gang members. You have to like give them a process or let's just see where we are in 14 days. And Donald Trump's like, nah, I think that the number one, I think I've been in court more than anybody. Here. Play this clip.

[Laura Ingraham]

Are there circumstances where you would defy a court order?

[Donald Trump]

Well, I think that, number one, nobody's been through more courts than I have. I think nobody knows the courts any better than I have. I would say the chief judge does, but nobody knows them better than I.

[Host]

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement today in public saying he didn't mention Trump by name, but he said that people should not be attacking federal judges who issue Injunctions go through the regular appeals process. But Trump, like a little is like, oh, he didn't say my name. He didn't say my name, so therefore he didn't mean me. Here, play this clip.

[Laura Ingraham]

What's your reaction to the courts stepping in to make a statement here? They didn't make a statement when Joe Biden decided to forgive all those student loans.

[Donald Trump]

Well, he didn't mention my name in the statement. I just saw it quickly. He didn't mention my name. But many people have called for his impeachment, the impeachment of this judge. I don't know who the judge is, but he's radical left. He was Obama appointed, as our editor.

[Host]

In chief, Ron Philipkowski explains. This is the game that every Republican has figured out. You can criticize something Trump has done on virtually anything as long as you don't actually mention his name. I've documented hundreds of examples of this. It's why he's our editor in chief. He's the best in the business. Laura Ingraham then asks Donald Trump if he believes that when people vandalize Teslas, if that's terrorism. And Donald Trump says, yes, it's terrorism. Play this clip.

[Donald Trump]

And he backed me and he, and he got very much involved. He thought he actually would go around saying, if Trump doesn't win, our country is over.

[Laura Ingraham]

But do you consider this an act of domestic terrorist?

[Donald Trump]

I think, I think so.

[Laura Ingraham]

Why?

[Donald Trump]

I think that if and when they catch the people, and I hope they do, the good thing is they have a lot of cameras in those places and they've caught some already having to do with that. I think that you will find out that they're paid by people that are very highly political on the left.

[Host]

Meanwhile, it's because very weirdly, Donald Trump then brags that Elon Musk loves him and loves him more than Kamala. Play this clip.

[Laura Ingraham]

Allies.

[Donald Trump]

So Elon is a patriot. And again, I hardly knew Elon until the election and he turned out that he liked me better than he liked these radical lunatics that were better than Kamala, better than Joe, you know, cuz he's an intelligent person. He liked and he backed me and he went and he got very much involved. He thought he actually would go around saying, if Trump doesn't win, our country is over.

[Host]

But do you, again, like I, if you took a transcript of this and you said like a little baby is saying these things, like just his cadence, you like me, you look, you like me, like I would believe you that this was like a 3 year old, no offense to 3 year olds here. Donald Trump attacks federal employees. Play this clip.

[Laura Ingraham]

But for federal judges, district court judges to order a sitting president to reinstate fired employees. You're the chief executive officer of the United States. You, you order that these agencies fire.

[Donald Trump]

Employees, many of whom didn't even report to work, many of whom were scamming this country. And you see the same thing. I could read them off, and I did during various speeches, I read off deal after deal after deal, all big scams. And we have a guy that wants to make a name for himself. You know, in many cases they're just grandstanders. They want to make a name for themselves.

[Host]

So here Donald Trump says that he would have liked to get a piece of the action of the money that's going to come in from the Trump Gold card, which is how he says we're all going to get rich from the Trump Gold Card. You see, he's going to sell citizenship to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. Play this clip.

[Laura Ingraham]

Judge, that's the point.

[Donald Trump]

We have time. We're going to be making a lot of money because of tariffs. The good news is we've got it on. We're going to very soon be on an even keel. We're going to be taking in a lot of money. The Trump card, the Gold card, whatever they want to call, it's okay with me. Whatever's going to sell better is fine with me. It'd be nice to get a piece, but I don't get a piece, okay? I get nothing out of it. All I do is want to make this country successful again.

[Host]

And then finally Donald Trump lies and says that they found so much fraud in usaid, all this fraud they found. Play this clip.

[Donald Trump]

So much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to work. And we have a judge from a very liberal state who ruled like that. So bad for our country.

[Laura Ingraham]

So I guess they closed the door.

[Host]

You didn't find fraud. And also, you know how I know you didn't too?

[Donald Trump]

Where?

[Host]

Show me. You're sending people to El Salvador concentration camps, right? So where are all your people who are been arrested for fraud for USAID fraud? Where are the criminals? Oh, wait a minute. Are you telling me that the Republicans passed continuing resolutions where they adopted these priorities and until you, Elon Musk, decided that you were going to just lie about everything USAID aid was doing, you're telling me that Republicans were actually in favor of USAID and now they're not? Oh, you're telling me they're inconsistent and they're liars. Oh, big shocker when it comes to maga. How pathetic is this though? He spent an entire interview attacking Canada, saying how he wants to conquer it, which is not a trade war. Those are the words of actual war. And it me off. And that's why Canada has united in solidarity against this crap. It's pathetic. It's shameful. It's a stain on the United States of America. It's horrific. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thank you for watching.

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