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Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous cabinet meeting. It lasted four hours. I watched it all. I'm going to bring you the lowlights in a very abbreviated form. Here, Donald Trump talks about there's an army of black women who say they love him so much and they want him to invade their cities with the National Guard. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
You have a force of black women. Black women, they, they're like only Trump. They want Trump to come in and you see him, they're all over the place in Chicago.
Podcast Commentator
Then Donald Trump talks about California governor Gavin Newsom and says he's really good looking, very handsome, but he has something going on with the hand, some hand action going on there. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Can't handle it. You have an incompetent governor there. You have an incompetent governor in California, Gavin. He said, I know him very well. He's incompetent. He's a nice guy, looks good. Hi, everybody. How you doing? He's got some strange hand action going. I don't know what the hell is. Probably weird, to be honest. A little something shaky going on there.
Podcast Commentator
But, you know, this was Donald Trump's hand during this disastrous cabinet meeting. Okay. Then Donald Trump says that he actually likes being called a dictator. He says that most people say if you stop crime and become our dictator. Donald, no one is saying that but Trump talking about becoming a dictator and being a dictator at this cabinet meeting. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
Terms and will be the big subject of the next election. Think of it. They are instead of saying Trump's right about crime, it's really bad in Chicago. You have a guy in Illinois, the governor of Illinois saying that crime has been much better in Chicago recently. And, and Trump is a dictator. And most people say if you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants. I'm not a dictator, by the way, but he can be whatever he wants.
Podcast Commentator
Then on the topic of being a dictator, Donald Trump says, I have the right to do anything that I want. I don't have to follow laws. I am the president and that gives me the right to do anything. Here he is saying it. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
So I would have much more respect for Pritzker if he'd call me up and say, I have a problem. Can you help me fix it? I would be so happy to do it. I don't love. Not that I don't have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it. No problem going in and solving, you know, his difficulties. But it would be nice if they'd call and they say, would you do it?
Podcast Commentator
And then Donald Trump attacks President Zelensky of Ukraine saying he's not innocent. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
But it would be an economic war. And an economic, economic war is going to be bad and it's going to be bad for Russia. And I don't want that. Now I have to also see, because not everybody, you know, Zelensky is not exactly innocent either. Okay. You know, it takes two people to tango. And I say it all the time. You got to get them together. I get along with Zelensky now, but we have a much different relationship because now we're not paying any money to Ukraine.
Podcast Commentator
You know, then when Donald Trump is confronted with the fact that Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, says that Putin will never meet with Zelensky, will never sign a deal with Zelensky, and won't even entertain anything related to Zelensky because Russia says Zelensky is not legitimate. What's your response, Donald? Because you've been talking about cease fire deals, trilateral meetings, security guarantees, Russia saying the opposite. What's your response here? Play this clip.
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I have a question for Steve Wyckoff, if I may.
Donald Trump
Yeah.
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This just this past weekend, Sergey Lavrov.
Donald Trump
Was saying that Putin will not sign.
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A peace deal with Zelensky because Russia.
Donald Trump
Views him as illegitimate.
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Just wondering if the Russians have been relaying this to your team, if they view Zelensky as a leader worth signing a peace deal with if they will.
Donald Trump
Doesn't matter what they say. Steve can answer, but I can answer, too. Doesn't matter what they say. Everybody's posturing. It's all bullshit. Okay. Everybody's posturing. Steve, do you have a different answer? I agree with you, sir.
Podcast Commentator
Oh, so Donald Trump Just starts cursing. Very adult, like, it doesn't matter what they say. It's all bullshit. Come on, act like an adult. Act like a grown up. Just try to pretend that you have a position of power rather than behaving in this way. Oh, so you can't. Oh, then Donald Trump says that all prices are down. Groceries, way down, energy's way down. Gas, it's $2. All a lie. Every aspect. None of this is true. None of anything that he says is true. But play this clip.
Donald Trump
The wages for blue collar workers are now rising. Fastest rate in 60 years, which is so important to all of us around this table. The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year. And there's no inflation because there's been decreases, tremendous decreases. With thanks to Doug and Chris, some of the people, the great job they've done with energy. Thank you very much. And Chris, thank you very much. I see you're down close to $60 a barrel and you'll be, you'll be breaking that pretty soon. And that has a huge impact. So we have. Groceries are down, energy is way down. Energy is way down. It was four and five dollars for a gallon of gas. Think of that for gasoline. And now it's probably $2.25. There are some places it's $2. It's even. It broke $2 in a couple of locations in the South.
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Then Donald Trump says, I don't understand why Democratic governors are not calling me up, begging to be invaded. Please, Donald, invade my state. He said, if I was a Democratic governor, I'd call me up and say, invade me here. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
And if I were a governor, a Democrat governor or mayor or anybody having to do, I'd call up President Trump. I'd say, president Trump, we need your help. We saw what you've done in D.C. in a period of 12 days. This is 12 days we haven't even started. This is going to be so safe. It'll be the safest place on earth.
Podcast Commentator
Then Donald Trump attacks Ukraine further and says that, I'm sure Ukraine thought they were going to win this thing, but Russia's 15 times your size. So you're going to lose, Right?
Donald Trump
Wars, very tricky, very horrible. But with war, you never know. Things change. People go into war, think they're going to win the war, and then they get their asses kicked and they lose their country. They lose millions of lives. Nobody goes into a war thinking they're going to lose. They go in. I'm sure that Ukraine thought They were going to win, is going to be, you know, we're going to win. You're going to beat somebody that's 15 times your size. Biden shouldn't have let that happen. Biden shouldn't have. I mean, the man was grossly incompetent. He should have never been there. That would have never happened. But you don't go into a war that's 15 times your size.
Podcast Commentator
Then Donald Trump says, actually Democrats love crime, which is not true, but this is how infantile these cabinet meetings are. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
We're against crime. The Democrats like crime. I don't know why.
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I mean, we then Donald Trump terms to Pam Bondi and says she's beautiful, but it'll end my political career if I say she's beautiful. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
And then I saw this poor stupid Chuck Schumer. The guy, he looks like he's aged, aged a hundred years. And I don't like getting into looks. You know, looks don't mean anything, right? When you're in politics, looks, no matter. I look at Pam, I would never say she's beautiful because it's, that'd be the end of my political career. Secretary and, but, but I will tell.
Podcast Commentator
You, can you just release the Epstein files, please? Rather than creepily saying that your attorney general you think is beautiful would be nice if you're attorney general and you stop covering up the Epstein files. Oh, and then Donald Trump says that North Carolina, which you should look forward to, is your grandkids building furniture and factories because we're going to take those jobs back from China, start training your grandkids now how to build things with wood. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
It's so sad, but we're going to rebuild North Carolina furniture and other places, South Carolina, too, to a lesser extent, they make furniture, but furniture we're going to put a very substantial tariff on. We've already announced it. It'll be done pretty quickly. And when that happens, everyone's going to start, I just tell you, North Carolina go out and start getting the grandchildren and the children, start teaching them. Because some of those incredible artists that I knew as young people, they're older people now, but they still have the talent and they have time left. But they're going to be teaching their sons and their daughters and their grandchildren and it's going to be a beautiful thing to see. It's going to happen like magic. It's going to happen without question. It's not like, gee, I hope it happens. It's going to happen.
Podcast Commentator
Really, Donald, Really? That's where you're going? I mean you realize that China looked at American jobs and said that's what we want to be high, more high paying, service related jobs. And America looked at China and said no, no, we want those sweatshops and factories here in the United States. No labor laws make your grandkids put widgets together. That's what making America great again. And they're not even doing it. Factories are closing and shutting down right now. So even if you say that, that's not actually what's taking place in this country, which of course Donald Trump lies about everything here. Donald Trump says that we restaurants are opening again in D.C. they were all shut down and now D.C. is coming back to life when the exact opposite is true. I spoke with the shadow Senator of Washington D.C. senator Jane I spoke with the council member, one council member and both told me restaurants are shutting down and things have actually never been worse. Here, play this clip badly.
Donald Trump
But and I bet you see a big difference on the streets right now. And this is only 12 days. But people are telling me they're going out to dinner now they haven't I told to serve my friend. But I have a lot of friends that are going out to dinner all the time now in D.C. and they weren't, they weren't doing it 12 days ago. They would never even think. One of my friends went out five times. It was four times. The last time I told now it's five times. He said, I love going out to dinner. And restaurants are starting to open again. A lot of them closed because you know, they weren't. Nobody wanted to go into a restaurant. Nobody wanted to get to a restaurant or even sit in the restaurant.
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And Donald Trump says that MSNBC is worse than Trend Day Aragua because Trump just starting to say words like he goes Mississippi, 13, Mississippi, Mississippi, DNC here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Hey, they showed one scene where a bunch of Trend Narago guys are whatever. Maybe Ms. 13. Maybe, maybe mscnc. Okay. Because to me they're worse. I think they're worse. MSNBC maybe is worse than trend. Real scum, real scum. Real dishonest people. But anyway, but they, they went into this gang.
Podcast Commentator
I think then Donald Trump says that he's reducing prescription drug prices by 1500% again, 100%. You can't lower things more than 100%, Donald. But play this clip.
Donald Trump
That can be done. Is favored nations, Bobby. And we're not talking about a 25% cut or 50. We're talking about a 1500% cut because people go to Europe to buy drugs and they come back with drugs. Prescription drugs. Normal. Not, I don't mean the bad, bad drugs. I mean prescription drugs.
Podcast Commentator
And then Donald Trump says that foreign nations are paying America trillions of dollars right now. Literally trillions of dollars. Here, let's play this clip.
Donald Trump
Thank you, bro. And we have negotiated historic trade deals with the United Kingdom, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, who was here yesterday, and the European Union. Foreign nations are now paying hundreds of billions of dollars straight into our treasury and numbers that nobody has ever seen before. As you know, we made trade deals with a lot of countries and many of those countries just to be able to sit at the table are paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. We made a trade deal with the European Union. They were rough on us for a long time. And now we have a very good deal. We made that with them. Trillions of dollars is coming into our country. Trillions far beyond billions. Trillions of dollars. When you say Scott, sir. And in a short period of time, they have to buy $750 billion worth of our energy product. Energy is great. We have more than anybody else and we're using it.
Podcast Commentator
Oh, and finally, Donald Trump says that he brought in hundreds of millions of gallons in water to put out the fires in Southern California back in January, which again is a total lie. Donald Trump released billions of gallons from reservoirs in central to Northern California which are in no way connected at all to Southern California. And after the fires were 100% contained. So you got rid of water that was needed by the farmers in a completely different area of California. But Trump brags, I did it by force. Look how strong I am. I'm invading American states and I'm using force to drain water into areas where it shouldn't go. Play this clip.
Donald Trump
But I think that's actually just an excuse. I actually think these people are sick. There's something wrong. So we send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day into the Pacific Ocean. They turn a valve and the valve heads out and we turn the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. We turned the valve back and now they have water, but not as much as they should have because they should. And I'm telling Gavin Newscomb by, by this conversation right now. Turn the rest of the water on. Turn it on.
Podcast Commentator
Then you had this like suck up fest. This, this part got really weird in the cabinet meeting where then you had all the cabinet members start praising Donald Trump in the, in the weirdest anti American, Kim Jong unist way. Here's Kristi Noem. Let's play it, Kristi.
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Well, Mr. President, first of all, thank you for the opportunity to work for you and you committed when you ran for president to make America safe again. And today the average family and individual that lives in this country is safer than they've been in years because of what you've done.
Podcast Commentator
Here's Tulsi Gabbard. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
And they could never make America great again, but we are doing that. Congratulations. You found some interesting things. Tulsi, she's becoming a bigger and bigger star every day. She found a lot of good things. Go ahead.
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Thank you, sir. As we approach Labor Day weekend here, this is just such a great opportunity really to recognize your leadership as a true champion for working people. And I know we'll hear as we go around the table here how your focus singularly on putting the well being and interests of the American people first is that common thread that we're seeing in your policies being implemented across your administration.
Podcast Commentator
Here's Kelly Loeffler. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
Administrator.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Well, everyone knows there's no stronger advocate for hard working American families than you.
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Here's Laurie Chavez, Durimer. Let's play it one.
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If you all haven't stopped by the Department of Labor, Mr. President, I invite you to see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt because we're bringing business and labor together. And I was so honored to unveil that yesterday. And everybody is taking note of that.
Podcast Commentator
Here's Steve Witkoff. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
Mr. President, working for this government for you is the greatest honor of my life. I tell it to everybody and I really do feel that way. And I thank you because it's a privilege to, to go out there and represent you in your humanitarian effort, in your, in your goals of solving conflicts all over the world. I think there were actually more than seven conflicts that you put to bed in the, in the last eight months. And I hear these. I travel all over the world in Hostage Square. They talk about you reverentially. It's really quite amazing. I sometimes wish.
Podcast Commentator
Oh, and by the way, here, Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, just wanted everybody to know that when we control the modes of production, that that's not socialism at all, that's capitalism. When the government takes over private business, that's capitalism. Here, play this clip.
Donald Trump
Right. The Biden administration had given $11 billion to intel, given it to them, done corporate, just gift. And you turn that into really, you know, it was like less than five minutes of conversation. And intel agreed to give us 10% of their company, which of course was worth $11 billion. So it's not socialism.
Podcast Commentator
This is Doug Burgum sucking up to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
Donald Trump
You have breathed life back into the.
Podcast Commentator
Profession of law enforcement.
Donald Trump
Your respect for law enforcement is so incredible, it's making a difference.
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Here's Marco Rubio sucking up to Donald Trump. Let's play.
Donald Trump
You've been great. Thank you very much. So, Marco, go ahead. Well, Mr. President, first of all, everyone's made this comment already and needs to be echoed again. You were elected as the president of working Americans. And that's why this Labor Day is.
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So meaningful for me personally.
Donald Trump
This is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life as someone with four jobs. And so that's true.
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Episode: Trump Holds Disaster Cabinet Meeting on Live TV
Date: August 26, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode dissects a recent, widely broadcast “cabinet meeting” held by Donald Trump, which the MeidasTouch brothers describe as “disastrous.” The brothers break down Trump’s on-air statements, highlight his falsehoods and strange tangents, and comment on the sycophantic behavior of his assembled cabinet and allies. The show blends sharp political critique with the hosts’ signature humorous banter and genuine concern for democracy.
On Black Women and the National Guard
“You have a force of black women. Black women, they, they're like only Trump. They want Trump to come in and you see him, they're all over the place in Chicago.” — Donald Trump
Personal Attacks & Bizarre Observations
“He's got some strange hand action going. I don't know what the hell is. Probably weird, to be honest. A little something shaky going on there.” — Donald Trump
Admission of “Dictator Talk”
“Most people say if you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants. I'm not a dictator, by the way, but he can be whatever he wants.” — Donald Trump
Above the Law Assertion
“Not that I don't have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger ... I can do it.” — Donald Trump
Distorted Data on Prices & Wages
“Groceries are down, energy is way down. It was four and five dollars for a gallon of gas ... now it's probably $2.25.”
Wild Claims about Drug Prices and Foreign Payments
“We're talking about a 1,500% cut...” — Donald Trump
“Trillions of dollars is coming into our country. Trillions far beyond billions.” — Donald Trump
Fabricated Emergency Response
“We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day into the Pacific Ocean. ... I actually had to do it using force.” — Donald Trump
Undermining Zelensky & Supporting Russia’s Narrative
“Not everybody, you know, Zelensky is not exactly innocent either. Okay. ... We have a much different relationship because now we're not paying any money to Ukraine.” — Donald Trump
Dismisses Russian Objections as “Bullshit”
“Doesn't matter what they say. ... It's all bullshit. Okay. Everybody's posturing.” — Donald Trump
Democrats “Love Crime”
“We’re against crime. The Democrats like crime. I don’t know why.” — Donald Trump
Objectification and Outdated Gender Norms
“I would never say she's beautiful because it’d be the end of my political career.” — Donald Trump
“Start getting the grandchildren and the children, start teaching them. ... That’s what’s going to happen.” — Donald Trump
Cabinet members, including Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, Kelly Loeffler, Laurie Chavez-DeRemer, Steve Witkoff, Howard Lutnick, Doug Burgum, and Marco Rubio, offer excessive praise, reminiscent of authoritarian regimes.
Selected Quotes:
“Today the average family ... is safer than they've been in years because of what you've done.”
“This is just such a great opportunity really to recognize your leadership as a true champion for working people.”
“Intel agreed to give us 10% of their company, which of course was worth $11 billion. So it's not socialism.”
“Your respect for law enforcement is so incredible, it's making a difference.”
“You were elected as the president of working Americans. And that's why this Labor Day is ... so meaningful for me personally.”
Hosts mock the performative nature of this praise, likening it to North Korean “suck-up” sessions.
Throughout, the MeidasTouch hosts employ a tone of incredulity, sarcasm, and concern, frequently interjecting factual corrections and sharp asides:
This episode offers a rapid-fire, fact-checked rundown of Trump’s live “cabinet meeting,” showing in vivid detail how misinformation, authoritarian posturing, and cult-like loyalty dominate Trump’s circle. The hosts’ blend of humor and substance ensures listeners come away both informed and entertained — and with plenty to talk about.
For more, subscribe to The MeidasTouch Podcast for biweekly in-depth political commentary with a comedic twist.