Fox News Collapses on Air as Trump Kills His Term

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1:46Ben Meiselas:State regime media known as Fox News is collapsing on air. They don't know what to do, and they're freaking out that prices right now are surging. And they even had one segment, and here's what they said. Here, play this clip. Prices are up in the United States for coffee. It's up almost 20%. Utility up 11.7%. And then electricity is up 5.1%. And vehicle repair, if you need your car fixed, it's up 11.5%. Yeah, there's no way that even state regime media, Fox, can hide it. They then bring on this MAGA Republican RNC chair, and he tries to say that the elections that took place on Tuesday were not as bad as they seem.

2:30Ben Meiselas:He says, I'm glad our Republican candidates kept things close and we made the Democrats spend a lot of money. That's what you're bragging about here. Play this clip. But they're not convinced that that it's working, that things are becoming more affordable. What would you tell voters about when the things that you just mentioned are going to be felt by people across the country, that things will feel better, prices will feel lower? Well, listen, I have empathy and I feel for everybody across the board who's hurting and is certainly hurting as a result of the Schumer shutdown. But some of these solutions are not going to be fixed overnight.

3:08We have to continue to continuously work on them in the presence, doing everything that he can. Yes, in these elections, as bad as they were for Republicans, at the end of the day, these are deep blue states, not blue states, deep blue states. And listen, we made the Democrats spend a lot of money to keep these woke candidates elected. I mean, I'm glad we were able to keep it close. And they were spinning their wheels and spending lots of money. But listen, we've had a plan for the midterms from the beginning. We're sticking with that plan. And I think that at the end of the day, our plan is to make sure we keep the midterms on the Republican side.

3:41And we're continuing to move forward with that plan.

3:43Ben Meiselas:Okay, next, you had Fox hosts, they got in touch with MAGA Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. And they asked him, so what do you think about this Democratic offer to come up with a compromise and the government shutdown, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for Americans by one year, then agree to renegotiate and make sure Americans will have their health care for at least one more year, but then have a date certain so we could continue to extend the ACA subsidies even longer, but at least we can make sure for this year we preserve them. And Lindsey Graham says, oh, I think that's a horrible idea.

4:22Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. Senator Graham, can we ask you about this new Democrat offer? What do you make up the one-year ACA? Terrible, horrible. I'm not going to keep giving taxpayer dollars to the five largest healthcare insurance companies under Obamacare to get the government open. I'm going to do a whole other video about the Democratic senators and Congress members who called MAGA's bluff right here because, you know, I think it's a good faith offer. Frankly, I would want to make sure the Affordable Care Act subsidies are extended permanently the same way Trump and MAGA extended the tax cuts for the billionaires permanently.

5:00Ben Meiselas:But let's let's try to deal with the solution and come up with stuff. And MAGA, there's nothing you can do for MAGA other than literally deprive 42 million Americans of their SNAP benefits and rip away health care. Cruelty is the point with these MAGA's. So then on Fox, they bring on Kevin Hassett. He's Donald Trump's top economic advisor. And he just straight up says, he goes, I know, I think the Treasury secretary was right when he said that there are major pockets in the economy that look like they may be in a recession. So yeah, there's lots of places in the economy that's bad. This is what Trump's own people are saying.

5:38Ben Meiselas:Listen up, they're saying it on Fox. Here, play this clip. Yeah, there's holiday travel, but there's business travel. Business travel is a really big, important part of air travel. And if 10 % of business travel isn't happening, then those are deals that aren't being cut and hotel rooms that aren't being filled. And so the ripple effects and then the multiplier effects of all that are really, really large. And so I think that Secretary Bessett wisely said, we're starting to see pockets of the economy that look like they might be in a recession, that we're not in a recession because of this. But there are pockets that are really hurting.

6:09And if we go another month or so, then who knows how bad the economy could be this quarter. And we know whose fault that will be.

6:16Ben Meiselas:And here he is again. Hassett says, you know, look, to be sure, the labor market is soft right now. Again, they're saying it out loud. Soft, by the is an understatement. In the first three quarters, America lost 950 ,000 jobs. In October alone, America lost 153 ,000 jobs. This is the most job loss since the Great Recession. Also, the consumer confidence data that came out shows consumer confidence, economic expectations, like the lowest since the 1970s. People are suffering right now. And this is what the Trump regime is saying. Here, play this clip. But if we are talking about a weakened fourth quarter, which obviously we are, doesn't that put the fire under the Federal Reserve to move in December?

7:03I mean, Federal Reserve officials are split on the path ahead after last month's rate cut. Chairman Jay Powell signaled that the Fed may pause in December. Even as some is warning, some people are warning about a weakening labor report and overall market. I mean, Challenger Gray and Christmas yesterday said that U.S. companies have announced more than 153 ,000 job cuts in October. And that is the highest for the month in 22 years, Kevin. So how would you assess the jobs picture? And what about the Fed? Well, the Challenger report was one of the worst. You know, we have got like a whole bunch of different reports.

7:38And the Challenger report was one of the worst ones we've seen. But to be sure, the labor market is a little bit softer right now, in part, I think, because of the uncertainty over the government shutdown.

7:47Ben Meiselas:Then they bring on their labor secretary, who, you know, I call the anti-labor secretary, Lori Chavez-Daremer, MAGA through and through. And she says, you know, we all need to remember was Trump was doing great, she says. She says the economy was roaring. Jobs were being created. She said, but then this government shutdown happened. And so we, the MAGAs, we're just going to blame everything on Trump's government shutdown and say it was going to be so good. But then this happened. And by the way, doesn't that sound familiar? That's what he was saying right before COVID, right? It was all going to be so great.

8:22Ben Meiselas:But then Donald Trump mishandled COVID and said like a miracle, it was all going to go away. And then it was terrible. So could we just analyze the first few months? By the way, the months before the government shut down were not good, right? I mean, the first quarter, we saw a major contraction, negative growth. But go ahead, Lori Chavez-Doremer. Here, play this clip. The president has done a wonderful job because the consumer confidence was up. The momentum this administration was on with energy prices down, grocery prices down, the stock market has been up, economic growth 3.8 percent, expected to go up even further.

9:00This is really, this Democratic shutdown has hurt the American men and women of this country who are working so hard every single day to just get ahead. And now I don't think Democrats even have taken that into consideration while they play these political games. And it's just to hurt this president and this administration and stop the momentum that we were on. You hear that? That's the sound of nostalgia meeting something brand new. I've always loved soda. It's one of those small joys from childhood I can never quite quit. But let's be honest, the sugar crash and the guilt, not so great. That's why I'm obsessed with Olipop, the new kind of soda that actually supports your health.

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10:39Ben Meiselas:Next, Fox brings on MAGA Republican Senator Rick Scott, who before he was a senator, he was involved in the largest Medicare and Medicaid criminal fraud scam in American history, nearly$2 billion. That's how this guy got rich before going into politics. And he's like the main person that MAGA wants to like be involved in cutting fraud, waste and abuse in these programs. Literally, Mr. Waste, Fraud and Abuse, a guy who invoked his Fifth Amendment multiple times and whose company settled criminal charges. That's who MAGA is putting in charge of all of this. You know, he just gets up there and he's like, we really just have to admire Donald Trump's stamina.

11:19Ben Meiselas:I mean, this man is so fit. I mean, these people are so utterly pathetic here. Play this clip. He hates war. He hates war. He's trying to bring peace to the Middle East. Think about how many people's lives will improve if we can get peace in the Middle East. And so, you know, I'm very appreciative of his hard work. I was with I was over there at breakfast on Tuesday. And this guy, Trump, is just busting his butt every day working hard to get our economy going, to bring peace. I mean, you really have to admire. He's got a lot of stamina. And also he's doing the rare earth deals that are going to free us from the extortion that China has put us through.

11:54Ben Meiselas:Then you bring on MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer, and he says, you know, the real issue here is these these Democrats are they're scared to death to reopen government. It's insane. Then he goes and somehow tries to link this with assassination attempts of Donald Trump. By the way, what are you even talking about? The person in Butler who attempted the assassination or whatever happened in Butler was came from a MAGA family. I mean, it was like a Republican MAGA Trumpy family. Anyway, here play this clip. Most of these senators are scared to death that if they vote to reopen the government, the insane, I would argue, the people that frankly fantasize about the assassination of our great president, they will turn on them.

12:43So they're doing this for the smallest group of people, the most violent and virulent, as opposed to the American people. We just need five of them to grow a spine today and get this thing to the president's desk.

12:55Ben Meiselas:Then Fox had to embarrass itself more. They gave Melania Trump their Patriot of the Year award. Take a look right here at Sean Hannity. He's dyeing his face orange as well, just like Donald Trump. Be clowning himself. There he is. Zoom in on his face. Then you had Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, previous Fox Weekend host who now unlawfully refers to himself as the Secretary of War. and he gives a speech at this Fox Patriot Award event that Melania Trump won their person of the year. I mean, just think this is like worse than North Korea, folks. This is some weird state regime media stuff.

13:29Ben Meiselas:And Pete Hegsteth thinks this is funny to joke about how Mike Waltz, who used to be the national security advisor, who's now the United States ambassador to the United Nations, would use signal chats to talk about war plans. And this is like a joke, like They find it so funny that they gave away classified and highly classified information on Signal chats where they invited a reporter accidentally. I mean, that's how pathetic these scumbags are. Anyway, here, play this clip. So many dear friends, so many people I love, so many incredible colleagues. I see Mike Walz. Mike, I'll hit you up on Signal later.

14:08Too soon? Come on.

14:12Ben Meiselas:Then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. Scott Besson was like, I think next year's our year. We're on the cusp of liftoff. Just you wait until 2026, 2027. The best is yet to come. Here play this clip. Well, I want to talk about jobs, the 300 permanent jobs in this one, but we're not getting a jobs report today. So going forward, when can we see some of these investments turn into real jobs that the president's been talking about? Well, I think this is the perfect example, because when I was talking to the folks here, There are 800 construction jobs building this facility. They think that they can make it six to 10 times bigger.

14:51They bought all the land around this. Where we're sitting used to be a soybean field in rural South Carolina. And so I think we are at the cusp of the liftoff in 2026, 2027. President Trump was committed to bringing the manufacturing jobs back to America. and this is the start. And the good part about this is not only this high paying jobs, this is part of national and economic security.

15:22Ben Meiselas:Again, just completely utterly pathetic. Then you had Byron Donald's MAGA Republican Congress member who says, oh, anything bad in the economy, inflation, that's all the Democrats fault. He's like, you just got to blame the Democrats for literally everything. So what are you going to do? Like four years in, everything's going to be the Democrats' fault. I mean, these people are such babies. They just whine about everything. They blame, blame, blame. Here, play this clip. The hellation that is still hurting in some respects our economy, that was unleashed by the Democrats with no Republican votes.

15:57Healthcare policy in our country, where premiums have skyrocketed, deductibles have skyrocketed, that was passed through by Democrats with no Republican input. And now they're back saying They need even more subsidies to cover up their irresponsible health care policies. That was pushed through by them. Look, at some point, in my view, the next time the Democrats have the trifecta, they are going to get rid of the filibuster. And when they do that, they're going to start moving towards universal health care, which was the original design from Obamacare 15 years ago. That's really where they want to go.

16:29They are going to pack the courts. They're going to they're going to make D.C. estates. So my view is let's actually get real policy solutions on health care, on energy, on regulatory reform, on real immigration visa reforms. I saw Senator Schmidt the other day called for an end to H-1B visas. And it is a scam. It does need to end. It needs to be completely ended. And there needs to be a bunch of visa overhauls. Do you think Senate Democrats are interested in visa overhauls that actually make sense for the American people and American workers? No, they don't. They're not going to do these things, Maria.

17:05We've seen enough.

17:05Ben Meiselas:And that's why my position is the way it is. This is kind of weird and creepy. Jesse Waters is talking about Sidney Sweeney breaking the silence on the good genes ad. This says Rose Benson says people are standing in bread lines and Fox wants to cover Sidney Sweeney breaking her silence on good genes ads. then Vivek Ramaswamy on Fox. This was literally the chyron. It says, by winning, Democrats are losing. By winning, Democrats are losing. And then you had Erica Kirk on the Fox Patriot Awards. And I guess here's what went down here. Play this clip. I will make sure that I don't stay silent. I'll keep speaking the truth, no matter the cost.

17:55no matter the cost.

17:57Ben Meiselas:Yeah, that's state regime media for you folks. Very bizarre. We have to call it out. It's just lie after lie and just utterly weird behavior. So let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. We appreciate you. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.

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