Loading summary
T-Mobile Advertiser
Introducing Family Freedom from T Mobile. We'll pay off four phones up to $3200 and give you four free phones all on America's largest 5G network. Visit t mobile.com familyfreedom up to $800 per line via virtual prepaid card typically takes 15 days. Free phone via 24 monthly bill credits with finance agreement. Example Apple iPhone 16128 gigs $829.99 Eligible trade in example iPhone 11 Pro for well qualified credits end and balance due if you pay off early or cancel contact us.
VRBO Advertiser
Did you know you can opt out of winter with VRBO? Save up to 1500 dollars for booking a month long stay when thousands of sunny homes are waiting for you. Why subject yourself to the cold? Put the snow shovel down, put the parka back in the closet and don't you dare scrape another windshield. Slip into some flip flops, consider a sunless tan and use the monthly stays filter to save up to fifteen hundred dollars. Book your warm getaway at verbo.com Donald.
Podcast Host
Trump is spinning out of control on.
Political Commentator
Monday morning as he has returned to Washington, D.C. hiding from the American people over the weekend on the taxpayer dime. It's been post after post weird memes. He's posting like this one right here of Chris Farley, late comedian, yelling into the ear of Pam Bondi, his attorney General, saying, for the love of God, just arrest somebody. And then Trump says Christopher Wray lied. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, referring to his former FBI director. So I guess this is how Donald Trump is communicating to his Attorney General to arrest his former FBI director Christopher Wray, after currently prosecuting another former FBI director, James Comey. Through Chris Farley memes. Donald Trump is also posting like a bingo card with an X over James Comey's face and the faces of other individuals that Donald Trump wants his Department of Justice to indict. And it's Donald Trump's political enemies and that's what he's posting as well. He goes, Obama's Russia hoax, treason club this with Donald Trump is reposting this morning. He also says we must keep the majority in Congress at all costs. Republican must, Republicans must fight back. And he blames a rigged census in 2020 on something. I mean, he was in office in 2020, so he's blaming his own 2020 census, which he also prematurely cut off during COVID He goes, I will be strongly endorsing against any state senator or House member from the great state of Indiana that votes against the Republican Party and our nation by not allowing for redistricting for congressional seats in the United States House of Representative, as every other state in our nation is doing. And he goes, at all costs, we, we must keep the majority. And again, Donald Trump, I said it over and over again, doesn't want there to be elections anymore. I mean, he wants to send his Gestapo, his ICE agents, his Border Patrol, National Guard, I think to block elections in the future. And I think Donald Trump right now is scared. And that Democrats have stood up to his unlawful gerrymandering scheme, as we saw with Prop 50 in California and Indiana. Saw the results of the midterm elections, they saw the result, they know the results that could be coming of the midterm elections. They saw the results of the elections earlier this week where you had a number of candidates underperform in ways that they didn't expect. And Democrats over performing, they don't want to touch this gerrymandering at all right now. Um, and they're just like, no, we're just, we're not doing it. Donald Trump's posting, it was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed against all rules, regulations, protocols and standards, 274 FBI agents into the crowd just prior to enduring the January 6th hoax. So not only is he referring to Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring again as a hoax, he's now referring to January 6th again as a hoax. And he is spreading more demented lies about the FBI being behind the January 6th insurrection that Donald Trump led to try to overthrow free and fair elections. I mean, how despicable can you be? This is what Donald Trump is posting this morning again. He's pardoned all the insurrectionists. Not only that, but Donald Trump is also pardoning the insurrectionist for crimes not relating to the insurrection. So, like gun related crimes and threats to the FBI. Also, let me just be very clear. Just like with the census, Donald Trump was in office during January6. So he blames his own FBI director and his own people, his own. I mean, it's just so utterly ridiculous. But Donald Trump was hit with an order that he and his handpicked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan, his former personal attorney should be very nervous of. A federal magistrate judge in Virginia found that it seems Lindsey Halligan in the James Comey indictment provided the grand jury with false instructions with misstatements of law that could have led to the indictment of James Comey. Also, the magistrate judge, in reviewing the grand jury transcript, also doesn't believe Lindsey Halligan that she provided the full grand jury transcript and the magistrate judge says it's impossible that you provided the full grand jury transcript because originally you had problems with the first indictment that you presented. So you had to go back and print a second copy of of the indictment. So what did you hand this grand jury because the grand jury did not agree to the first document you gave him, you came back with a second document. So how are you saying that there is no further transcript when you came back to the grand jury? The judge says that simply makes no sense. The judge describes a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps in order that the grand jury material be turned over to James Comey and James Comey's lawyer as a result of what the judge has reviewed. This is terrible news from the Trump regime. Lindsey Halligan's bar license is deeply, deeply in jeopardy right now. This is exactly what we predicted was going to happen many, many, many when many weeks ago when the indictment was first handed down. So Donald Trump is also sending his stooges like his national economic adviser, Kevin Hassett to make the rounds on the various network shows today. Kevin Hassett says, yeah, the job market's bad. We're experiencing lots of job losses. The economy's doing bad. I kid you not. This is a direct quote from Kevin Hassett. We're in a little bit of almost quiet time in the labor market. They're referring to this as quiet time in the labor market. Here, listen to it for yourself. Play this clip.
Economist Guest
Last CPI report, we got surprised 48 Bloomberg economists on the and even had some sort of temporary bad news because there was a refinery that was shut down. If you're looking at the top line number, I think that there have been mixed signals in the job market and really, really positive signals in the output markets. As you know, we've got GDP now running close to 4%. We've got productivity running up around 3%. And so I think that there could be a little bit of almost quiet time in the labor market because firms are finding the AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on. But because there's so much output growth and income growth, that's the kind of thing that, you know, a free market will work out relatively quickly as, you know, new ways to spend money emerge.
Political Commentator
Donald Trump surrogates like MAGA Republican Congress member Keith Self saying the economy's booming, everyone's doing great. He claims that Fox says that the economy is doing incredible and that prices are much lower and we all know that this is entirely false and that this propaganda is just so ridiculous as to shock the conscience here. Play this clip.
MAGA Supporter
Because if you saw Fox News just recently, groceries, gas inflation in general is down under President Trump. Now, the mainstream media won't tell you that, but those are the actual numbers. We just have to get the American people understanding that things are better off and are going to continue to get better because of the one big beautiful bill that kicks in in one January. Going forward, things are going to be better, people are going to feel better, and we're going to get this country back on track.
Omaha Steaks CEO
Yeah, I mean, you just, you go like you said, you go to the grocery store, you go to the pump. Prices are definitely lower.
Political Commentator
More from Kevin Hessett, Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's national economic advisor. He's on CNBC with Joe Kiernan and even Joe Kernan's like, so I'm just trying to understand Karen's full MAGA on cnbc and he's speaking to Hassett and he's like, so I'm just trying to understand this. So you're reversing the tariffs on certain goods and products. So isn't that an acknowledgment that the tariffs made things more expensive? Watch this. Play this clip.
Joe Kernan (CNBC Host)
The the whole issue of tariffs, if we're reversing some tariffs to try to help affordability, isn't that acknowledging that that tariffs were responsible or responsible for some of the the higher prices and for some of the inflation that is still a problem?
Economist Guest
Well, first, this is nothing new. If you go through all of the trade deals that we've been doing all the way through, then there have been things that we decided it was prudent, based on the economics of supply, demand, to exempt. And one of those things that we've been exempting all along is something that we don't make in the US Will never make in the US or almost never. I know that in Hawaii they make some coffee and so on. Shoring that production really doesn't make sense. It's not part of our strategy. And what the president just did with food is decide to make like a blanket movement so that we weren't going through each deal and picking this and that.
Political Commentator
More from Kevin Hassett here. Kernan, again, the MAGA CNBC host, goes, you know, don't you think it's not helpful when Trump keeps saying that prices are falling and people know that they're going up? Like, we know inflation is rising right now. It's 3% more now than it was under former President Biden. So why do you keep saying that it's going down? Like people don't believe you? Here, play this clip.
Joe Kernan (CNBC Host)
But when you keep saying prices are falling, that's not true because inflation is still, it's. The 3% is on top of all the inflation we had during the Biden years. So we got all that inflation plus an additional 3%. And we should, I think you should.
Economist Guest
Admit that a more, a more precise way to say it, though, Joe, is that purchasing power has gone up. So real wages, that's W divided by P for our technical people in the audience, have gone up by about $1,200 this year. So the way to think about it is that we've dug a $3,000 hole because of Biden policies and we've gained $1,200 on the way out already, which should give you a great deal of hope for the future, that the wage increases that we're seeing will continue. And even if inflation stays positive, make it so that people, when they go to the grocery store and to buy a car, you know, we've reduced the cost of buying a car with the deductibility of interest. I mean, there's a million things that we're doing to fix this problem. But it's just kind of astonishing to me that the cost problem is somehow being blamed on us now.
Podcast Host
Now I think this is really important.
Political Commentator
For me to bring this up.
Podcast Host
The Medicare annual enrollment period is here. This is the time to compare your options. If you don't, your costs could go.
Political Commentator
Up, your coverage could change, or your.
Podcast Host
Plan could disappear entirely.
Political Commentator
So listen up. That's why I recommend you reach out to our partners chapter. They're the only advisors who look at.
Podcast Host
Every single plan in the country and provide honest advice to Americans on Medicare.
Political Commentator
It's why we work with them at.
Podcast Host
The Midas Touch network. In under 20 minutes, they can see if you're already on the best plan for your needs. If you are, they'll tell you. If not, they'll help you switch for free.
Political Commentator
They've already helped many members of the.
Podcast Host
Midas Touch community and they can help you, too.
Political Commentator
Don't get duped by brokers who are.
Podcast Host
Pushing the plans that pay them the biggest kickbacks. And don't wait until December to figure.
Political Commentator
Out your plan for next year.
Podcast Host
Call chapter today at 82 Medicare. That's 82 Medicare. And get honest advice today. Give them a call and let me know how it goes in the comments below. I know the Midas mighty and have been very Happy with the results.
Political Commentator
Then Trump sends out Brooke Rollins, his agriculture secretary, who says the reason that we're likely to have $10 a pound beef coming soon is because of former President Biden. Want to blame Biden? Play this clip.
Omaha Steaks CEO
And from the CEO of Omaha Steaks, what is, what is meat? Four $5 a pound. He's talking about $. Well, that's right and I sure look forward to talking to him. I saw him on your show. We had it on in the office on Friday. I thought he was very well spoken. I do believe though that his forecast is not going to be correct. Of course, no one knows really. But the idea that we won't get prices down until 2027. I think there are a couple of important factors here, Maria. The first is this, that we are suffering from the last administration's literal, literal war on cattle. If you remember, they wanted to reduce the herd sizes because they believe that cattle caused climate change. I mean that wasn't that long ago that that was sort of a common narrative. So lots and lots of issues there as we rebuild the herd based on the devastation of the last administration's policy.
Political Commentator
In other news as well, CNBC is reporting that China, by the way, didn't we predict this two or three weeks ago specifically as it relates to soybeans. I've always been talking about these trade deals that Donald Trump metazole being fake. But China is slow walking US Soybean purchases as stockpiles hit multi year highs, undermining Trump's trade deal claims. Trump said, China's told me they're going to start buying our soybeans from the soybean farmers in America after buying zero. Under Biden, China was buying 27 million metric tons of soybeans this year. They bought zero. And Trump said but they promised me they were going to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans. Isn't that great? Well, it's 15 million metric tons less than under former President Biden. And China's not even buying the 12 million metric tons. It's all another Donald Trump fraud, another Donald Trump Ponzi scheme, another Donald Trump lie. I like this meme right here by Ivan the K. Don't call it a recession. Call it quiet time. And it's Donald Trump yelling at a like little child mowing the White House lawn. Speaking of the White House lawn, when Donald Trump arrived last night at the White House, the White House flag was on the ground. You know those like those flag poles that Donald Trump built like those ridiculously high and eyesore flag Poles, they couldn't even hold the flag. And it wasn't caused by Marine One. It just. The flag poles were defective and the flag was. Were on the floor when Donald Trump arrived. Just think about that image, right? Doesn't that sum up everything? Donald Trump's broken flag poles. He's walking back after hiding in Mar a Lago with the release of those Epstein emails. And the flag is right there on the floor. The report is that Donald Trump blinks on Epstein files. Tomorrow. There's going to be a vote in the House of Representatives to release the Epstein files. Now, um, Donald Trump says, I've actually support the release of the Epstein files. Now he doesn't support the release of the Epstein files. He knows he's going to lose the vote and there's going to be massive defections. And so he wants to now claim that he supports the release of the Epstein files, even though he's been working not to support it. But what he says in his message is that, yes, the House oversight should get everything they're legally entitled to. And because Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Democrats relating to Epstein, Trump's now going to claim, well, there's an ongoing investigation. So now we can turn over the Epstein file. So the House is going to take its vote. And then what's going to happen after the House votes is the Senate may or may not even bring it to the floor. And then Trump's going to say, we can't turn over the documents because it is under investigation. So we'll wait for that thing to happen. But I'm just warning you that that's where this is headed. Oh, and then here's Dr. Donald Trump saying that the problem with the Democrats, they lie, they talk about affordability, but I'm the one that's getting prices down. I did it. I'm. The prices are way down right now. That's what Donald Trump said as he was heading back to Mar a Lago last night. Here, let's play this clip.
Donald Trump
The prices are coming down. The Democrats like to use the word affordability, but their affordability was terrible. The problem with the Democrats, they lie. They do it so well. They talk about affordability, but I'm the one that's getting the prices down. As an example, they had the highest inflation in the history of our country. I have it down now to a normal level, and it's going down further. Thank you very much, everybody.
Political Commentator
All right, but folks, Donald Trump's doing well. According to the latest Reuters report, Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in bonds since last August personally, for him, for himself. His disclosure. So Trump's doing great, everybody. I mean, American people are suffering psychologically torture, living paycheck to paycheck. But Trump's doing great, everybody. Personally enriching himself at our expense. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching.
Podcast Host
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.
Podcast: The MeidasTouch Podcast
Episode: Trump Spins Out of Control on Monday after Disaster Landing
Date: November 17, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas (The MeidasTouch Network)
This episode focuses on former President Donald Trump's increasingly erratic online and public behavior following his return to Washington, D.C., after a disastrous landing event. The Meiselas brothers dissect Trump's latest social media posts, his continued efforts to undermine democracy, GOP messaging on the economy, and his surrogates' attempts to spin economic realities. The episode blends comedic brotherly banter with sharp political analysis, highlighting Trump's ongoing legal jeopardy and the Republican Party's reliance on misinformation.
On Trump's social media blitz:
“Trump is spinning out of control on Monday morning as he has returned to Washington, D.C., hiding from the American people… weird memes… Christopher Wray lied!” – Political Commentator ([01:03])
On government manipulation:
“Donald Trump… doesn’t want there to be elections anymore. He wants to send his Gestapo… to block elections in the future.” – Political Commentator ([02:36])
On Trump-appointed prosecutor’s legal jeopardy:
“Lindsey Halligan’s bar license is deeply, deeply in jeopardy right now.” – Political Commentator ([06:25])
On economic messaging:
“There could be a little bit of almost quiet time in the labor market…” – Kevin Hassett ([07:23])
On tariff policy contradiction:
“Isn’t that acknowledging that tariffs were responsible… for some of the higher prices…?” – Joe Kernan ([09:22])
On price claims:
“I’m the one that’s getting the prices down… I have it down now to a normal level, and it’s going down further.” – Donald Trump ([17:14])
For MeidasMighty and new listeners alike, this episode delivers a mix of laughter, biting criticism, sharp economic rebuttal, and a warning about the consequences of unchecked MAGA disinformation and Trump’s ongoing impact on American democracy.