Trump has Disaster Landing to DC as Admin Loses All Ccontrol

Summary

Summary of The MeidasTouch Podcast:

"Trump has Disaster Landing to DC as Admin Loses All Control"

Date: September 15, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas, MeidasTouch Network

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dissect former President Donald Trump's chaotic return to Washington, D.C., his inflammatory press interactions, and the ongoing fallout from the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The hosts explore how Trump and MAGA-aligned figures are stoking division, spreading misinformation, and weaponizing political events for their own agenda. The discussion centers on the administration's loss of control, the dangerous normalization of political violence, and attacks on free speech.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s Disastrous DC Return and Bizarre Press Interactions

• Trump returns to Washington after golfing in New Jersey, facing questions about a recent U.S. military strike that killed 11 Venezuelans ([01:59]-[03:23]).
  • Inflated Drug Death Claim: Trump bizarrely claims “300 million people died last year of drugs” ([03:02]-[03:23]), a number exceeding the entire US population.
    • Quote (Trump, 03:02):
      “What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people in America died last year from drugs.”
  • Press fails to challenge or follow up on Trump’s exaggerated claims.
• Trump is evasive regarding military escalation in Venezuela, hinting at further action but refusing details ([04:06]).

2. Targeting Dissent and Expanding Investigations

• Trump states that many left-leaning individuals are “already under investigation” ([04:35]-[04:46]).
  • Indication of an expanding crackdown on political opposition and free speech.
    • Quote (Trump, 04:35):
      “A lot of people... on the left already under investigation.”

3. Hypocrisy and Political Violence

• Trump condemns celebrations over Charlie Kirk’s assassination, calling those who mock Kirk “deranged people” ([05:51]-[06:07]).
  • Quote (Trump, 05:55):
    “We wouldn’t celebrate if something happened... These are really deranged people.”
• Host points out Trump’s long record of himself celebrating or trivializing violence against political enemies.
  • Trump mocked the attack on Nancy Pelosi and her husband:
    • Quote (Trump, 06:33):
      “The only terror we had was Nancy Pelosi... She’s a crazed lunatic. What the hell was going on with her husband?...By the way, she’s got a wall around her house. Obviously in that case it didn’t work very well, did it?”
  • Again on campaign trail:
    • Quote (Trump, 07:08):
      “How’s her husband doing, by the way? Anybody know?...She has a wall around her house which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”

4. Assassination of Charlie Kirk—Weaponizing Tragedy

• MAGA figures push false narratives about Kirk’s killer, blaming “left-wing indoctrination” and colleges for his radicalization ([09:59]-[10:54]).
  • Kari Lake’s rhetoric: Claims the left is responsible for brainwashing youth and frames national tensions as a fight of “good vs. evil.”
  • Quote (Kari Lake, 11:45):
    “This is a battle between good and evil. I wish we could compromise, but you can’t compromise with evil.”
  • Quote (Kari Lake, 12:08):
    “By all accounts, those parents did a good job raising him until he was sent off to be brainwashed. We have lived through the most horrific brainwashing campaign in the history of mankind.”
• The hosts underscore the pattern of right-wing leaders inciting division by characterizing Democrats and their supporters as “evil” and “the enemy within,” echoing Trump’s repeated claims that Americans are a bigger threat than foreign adversaries.

5. Free Speech and the MAGA Purge

• Reports of purges in the military and corporations targeting individuals who’ve criticized or failed to venerate Charlie Kirk ([13:00] onward).
  • Right-wing activists, aided by political leaders, are doxxing and pressuring institutions to punish dissent.
  • Texas Governor Greg Abbott publicly shares the arrest of a Black student at Texas Tech for mocking Kirk’s assassination:
    • Quote (Host, 13:00):
      “‘F— around and find out.’ That’s what Greg Abbott posts when a student is arrested for something as basic as words. This is chilling.”
• Hosts reaffirm the importance of the First Amendment and the right to criticize public figures, emphasizing that even hateful or deeply disagreeable speech should not be criminalized so long as it is not inciting violence.

6. Condemnation of Political Violence & Defense of Criticism

• Strong line drawn: celebrating or mocking assassinations is wrong; criticism of controversial figures is not only protected but necessary in a democracy.
  • Host highlights the dangerous confusion/weaponization of “thought crimes” and “word crimes” by the MAGA movement.
  • Cites Charlie Kirk’s own documented record of hateful and inflammatory statements, reminding listeners that rejecting violence does not mean lionizing problematic figures.
    • “Charlie Kirk said he hated empathy and that we shouldn’t have it—even in death.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Trump’s Drug Death Statistic:
  • “The fact that 300 million people in America died last year from drugs, that’s what’s illegal.” — Donald Trump ([03:02])
• Investigating the Left:
  • “A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left already under investigation.” — Donald Trump ([04:35])
• Kari Lake on Good vs. Evil:
  • “This is a battle between good and evil. I wish we could compromise, but you can’t compromise with evil.” — Kari Lake ([11:45])
• On Brainwashing:
  • “We have lived through the most horrific brainwashing campaign in the history of mankind.” — Kari Lake ([12:08])
• Host on Free Speech:
  • “As long as someone’s not committing an assault or creating a riot...people have the right to say things, even if I strongly disagree.” — MeidasTouch Host ([13:00])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:59] – Opening: Trump takes press questions on Venezuelan boat strike.
• [03:02] – Trump’s false claim: “300 million people died last year from drugs”
• [04:06] – Trump stonewalls on Venezuela strikes (“We’ll see what happens.”)
• [04:35] – Trump: “The left is already under major investigation.”
• [05:51] – Trump: “We wouldn’t celebrate...” (on Kirk's assassination)
• [06:33]-[07:08] – Trump mocks Pelosi and husband’s assault.
• [09:59] – Kari Lake: Killer “brainwashed” by college; call to mothers not to send kids to college.
• [11:45]-[12:08] – Kari Lake: “Good vs. evil” and “the most horrific brainwashing campaign”
• [13:00] – Discussion of purges, doxxing, and attacks on First Amendment rights.

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Episode Tone and Takeaways

The episode is sharp, outraged, and deeply critical of the MAGA coalition’s authoritarian direction. The MeidasTouch brothers—combining news analysis, pointed commentary, and their characteristic brotherly banter—urge listeners to resist the slide toward illiberalism. They denounce the normalization of hate speech, highlight the hypocrisy of right-wing leaders, and make a passionate defense of democracy and free, critical discourse.

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Transcript

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[Narrator/Reporter]

Donald Trump just had a disastrous return to Washington D.C. from New Jersey, where he was once again playing golf on the taxpayer dime. While at the airport in New Jersey, Donald Trump took some questions by the press. He was asked questions like can you give us some more information about the United States military strike on that fishing boat that killed 11 Venezuelans? You posted a video of it, ISIS style execution video. You claim that that boat was transporting cocaine to the United States. It contradicted the story of Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State who said that the boat was heading to Trinidad. In any event, how do we know there were not innocent people on the boat? Who was on the boat? Can you provide us more information? Was the strike on that Boat illegal. Donald Trump responds and says, well, what's illegal is the fact that 300 million people in America died last year from drugs. He says 300 million people died last year of drugs. He says. Here, play this clip.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

You going with us? Huh? Are you going with us, Maggie? Good. Just one more. Venezuela. The president of Venezuela will be strike on the boat illegal. Are you concerned that Maduro might escalate something? Illegal? Are the drugs that were on the boat and the drugs that are being sent into our country and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that's what's illegal.

[Kari Lake (clip)]

Do you think he's not telling the truth?

[Narrator/Reporter]

Of course. There was no follow up from the press there. Like so you're saying 90% of the country died of drugs and you're just making up numbers right now. And could you actually provide us with information about who was on that ship? If you say it was trend de Aragua, they engage in human trafficking. How do we know that there weren't innocent people on that fishing boat? Next, Donald Trump is asked, are you going to potentially start a war with Venezuela? Should we expect strikes on the mainland of Venezuela? Donald Trump's response is, well, we'll see what happens here. Play this clip.

[Kari Lake (clip)]

Do you think we will start doing.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

Strikes on the mainland? Venezuela, but we'll see what happens. Look, Venezuela is sending us their gang members, their drug dealers and drugs. It's not acceptable.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Then Donald Trump says that he's already investigating a lot of people on the left. There are lots of people under investigation, he says. Regarding what? Comments relating to Charlie Kirk. People who were critical of Charlie Kirk here. Play this clip.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

You know, they're already under major investigation. A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left already under investigation.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Then Donald Trump says that, look, right wing people never celebrate. If something happens on their side. We don't celebrate. Let me be very clear. No one should be celebrating, in my opinion, the death of Charlie Kirk. I think we need to condemn all forms of political violence. I also want to be very clear. Or all forms of violence at all. It's unclear if the motive was even political. Let me be very clear about that. But we should condemn all forms of violence, period, full stop. I don't think, though, we should be pretending that Charlie Kirk was a good guy. I think that it's perfectly acceptable to criticize Charlie Kirk to show the hateful and horrible things that he previously said. His anti black, anti gay, anti immigrant, anti civil rights, anti. Mostly everything other than white Protestant statements. I think we should be able to be able to call that out, I think. But here's Donald Trump saying that. Let me just show that clip to you first. Let's play it. Have you asked to start revoking the.

[Kari Lake (clip)]

Visas of the foreigners who have celebrated Charlie Kurt's death?

[Donald Trump (clip)]

No, we haven't. We haven't. But we are looking at names. We don't like that. That's not right. We wouldn't celebrate if something happened on this and we don't. These are sick people. These are really deranged people.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Now I want to remind you as well though that Donald Trump is somebody who has celebrated the attempted murder and harm to other people before. Like Donald Trump mocked Nancy Pelosi and her husband when her husband was almost assassinated by, by a radical extremist killer. Here, play this clip.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

We had no terror during my administration. The only terror we had was Nancy Pelosi, who's a crazed lunatic. She's a lunatic. She is a crazed lunatic. What the hell was going on with her husband? Let's not ask. Let's not ask. I'll withdraw that statement. By the way. She's got a wall around her house. Obviously in that case it didn't work very well, did it? It didn't work.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Here's Donald Trump doing it again on the campaign trail. Play this clip.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

And we'll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi who ruined San Francisco. How's her husband doing, by the way? Anybody know? And she's against building a Wal at our border even though she has a wall around her house which obviously didn't do a very good job.

[Narrator/Reporter]

And when there was a clear political assassination of Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the House in Minnesota, Donald Trump and MAGA and Republican leaders all spread lies and blamed the left for it and said that Governor Walz was responsible for this extremist right wing person killing the Democrats. Oh, Walls did it. And Donald Trump wouldn't even call Governor Walls on the phone or the family members of Melissa Hortman or anybody to even show any type of empathy at all. But I'll also note that one of Charlie Kirk's statements is we shouldn't show people who die empathy. We shouldn't show empathy to people. Empathy isn't something that we should ever feel. That's what Charlie Kirk said. He hated empathy. That was literally like direct quotes. He hates empathy. He said, here's Donald Trump saying that. Play this clip.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

Governor of Minnesota so whacked out. I'm not calling. Why would I call him? I could call him, say, hi, how you doing? The guy doesn't have a clue. He's a mess. So, you know, I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?

[Narrator/Reporter]

And then you see all of these, you know, right wing leaders, Trump regime officials all out there again, trying to push all of these narratives about the killer of Charlie Kirk. The killer was a 22 year old white guy from Utah from a religious family that was involved in the community. This was a guy who got deep into Internet, like deep underground Internet culture and got radicalized. Whether that's right or left, it's just kind of this Internet radicalization. But now you have Kari Lake and all these MAGA people are saying, look, the real problem right here is he went to college. And because he went to college, that radicalized him from this good Trump loving family. It was the college that did it to him. He went to one semester of Utah State during COVID virtually and then withdrew. And then he went to like a trade, like a trade school for the past three years, not a university at all, like. But here's what Kari Lake says. Play this clip.

[Kari Lake (clip)]

We've got to stop this, folks. We can't let this go on. This violence has got to stop. It's got to stop. And I'm not going to say our side is perfect, but damn it, this is coming from the other side. How does a 22 year old become so filled with hate? 5 years earlier I was told he was a Trump supporter and we sent our kids off to college and they brainwashed him. I am making a plea to mothers out there. Do not send your children into these indoctrination camps. Don't do it. Do not do it.

[Narrator/Reporter]

Then more hate spewed from Kari Lake. By the way, this event is, this is how they're using the Kennedy center now because, well, no one wants to show up at the Kennedy center for other events. I've done reporting how like Kennedy center attendance is down massively. But Kari Lake is like, this is a battle between good and evil. And I wish we could compromise, but you cannot compromise with evil. But what they've been pushing at this whole thing is that the left is evil, the Democrats are evil. This is coming from the evil people. And to literally make America within the enemy. I mean, that's why Trump referred to the enemy from within. He refers to that as, you know, as Americans are a bigger threat is what Trump says, than Russia or North Korea or China. But here, play this clip.

[Kari Lake (clip)]

I know we'd have a lot of time. There's so many good speakers tonight. This is a battle between good and evil. I wish we could compromise, but you can't compromise with evil. You can't compromise with evil.

[Narrator/Reporter]

This is more of Kari Lake talking about brainwashing. Let's play this clip at one moment.

[Kari Lake (clip)]

That 22 year old who shot Charlie was a baby in his mother's arms. And by all accounts, those parents did a good job raising him until he was sent off to be brainwashed. We have lived through the most horrific brainwashing campaign in the history of mankind. And the very fact that we're all here means we have somehow survived it. We've survived it, but too many youngsters are not surviving it. And we have to stand up because some things are non negotiable. Our children's minds and futures are non negotiable.

[Narrator/Reporter]

There's a purge currently underway in the military as well as in corporations for people who have said negative things about Charlie Kirk. You heard Donald Trump encourage that. I'm going after the left who said all these things. You know, a big purge there. You have all these like right wing accounts trying to like dox people for posting Charlie Kirk quotes. So if you've said a Charlie Kirk quote because Charlie Kirk said hateful things and you literally just post his words, they're like you're criticizing him. And there are people who were like, I condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk, but he's a bad guy. And they're like, she needs to leave the military. Don't. There's no way she could serve. There's no way this person can serve. Actually not going to show the photos of these people and their names because that would further what the right wing wants. So don't, don't show the photos and don't show the names. And then Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, post this, this is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination at Texas Tech. And it's a young black woman being arrested by the local police there. And Greg Abbott goes f around and find out. Now, let me be very clear. No one should be. I strongly condemn anybody who. No one should mock Charlie Kirk's assassination. Nobody should be celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. That sickens me. I don't agree with that. At the same time, I am very critical of Charlie Kirk's behavior. I'm very critical of who, of, of the things he said and who he was. But I also still recognize that there is something called the First Amendment in the United States. And as long as someone's not Committing an assault as someone is not creating like a riot. People have the right to say things even if the, even, even if the things that they're saying I strongly disagree with. You know, and I mean, Charlie Kirk said a lot of things that I strongly disagreed with that were. He didn't like the Civil Rights act, he didn't like Martin Luther King. He said that he doesn't trust black pilots. Um, he said that after school, that after these school shootings, he said that it's okay, you know, the second amendment, there's gonna be consequent. You know, that's part of life. You know, school shootings, you gotta live. I mean, he said so many hateful things when he was alive. And again. And you're posting photos of arresting people on school campus who may do things that I totally disagree with, but the governor of a state is posting that. I don't know more details about it, but like, you know, as long as someone's not actually committing a crime with thought crimes. Word crimes. Now, finally, just want to point out that Stephen Colbert won the Emmy for best talk series of the year. Great work, Stephen Colbert. There's always a spot for you on the Midas Touch Network. Colbert. Anyway, Hit subscribe. That was Trump's disastrous return Back to Washington D.C. thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.