Fox News Has Mental Breakdown on Air as Trump Collapse Starts

10 Sep 2025 · 19 min · 10 chapters

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The episode claims Fox News hosts had an on-air “mental breakdown” after polling and special-election results suggested Democrats are overperforming. It cites a TPP YouGov poll showing Donald Trump approval in Texas at 43% (net negative seven) and says Virginia’s special election had a Democratic candidate (Walkinshaw) overperforming 2024 by 16 points, totaling +13 in special elections. Guests and figures discussed: Kayleigh McEnany (Trump press secretary) and Jesse Waters (Fox host) argue prices can be fixed via pressure on corporate executives; Van Orden (MAGA Republican) pushes a conspiracy that a Trump/Epstein birthday card is a forgery; Charlie Kirk argues young women should marry/have children to solve “loneliness”; J.D. Vance (interviewing Lara Trump) implies Trump’s Marine Corps service; Rand Paul questions Fox’s Venezuela boat-blowing-up stance; Katie Miller/Laura Ingraham discuss “repopulating” via more children. Notable examples include the “disappearing people” rhetoric, the Epstein birthday-card theory, and Fox’s coverage of Russian drones entering Poland.

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Fox News Mental Breakdown

0:54 to 1:30

Discussion on Fox News' reaction to Trump's declining approval ratings.

“At Whole Foods Market, they've already done the studying.”

Democratic Overperformance in Elections

1:30 to 2:28

Analysis of recent special elections showing Democratic successes.

“They got the news that Donald Trump's approval in Texas right now has fallen to 43%.”

Fox News Propaganda and Economic Claims

2:28 to 4:47

Critique of Fox News segments regarding price control and Trump's economic performance.

“And Waters is like, the problem is prices are still too high.”

Theories Surrounding Trump's Epstein Card

4:47 to 6:46

Debate about the implications of a birthday card from Trump found in Epstein's estate.

“makes a lot of sense mega they're so stupid here play this clip clearly the birthday note from President Trump is a fallacy.”

Jesse Waters and the Idea of Disappearing People

6:46 to 9:32

Examination of Jesse Waters' controversial statements on 'disappearing' individuals.

“I mean, we literally have like freaking like, in my opinion, this is like the type of stuff that you would see in like Nazi Germany.”

Charlie Kirk's Views on Women and Family

9:55 to 12:00

Discussion on Charlie Kirk's controversial views regarding women's roles.

“So then state regime media gets super, super creepy.”

Creepy Political Commentary

12:00 to 14:01

Critique of various political figures and their comments on women and family.

“Speaking of creepy, creepy stuff, you then have J.D.”

Discussion on Laura Ingraham's Interview

14:01 to 14:52

Analysis of Laura Ingraham's interview with Katie Miller and the commentary on family planning.

“Her problem is that she's shallow as a puddle.”

Coverage of Russian Drone Attacks

14:52 to 15:34

Discussion on how Fox News covered the Russian drone attacks on Poland.

“But then they had to cut into Donald Trump going to a restaurant down the block from the White House, Joe's Seafood in Washington, D.C., and he got booed mercilessly outside and inside the restaurant.”

Donald Trump's Restaurant Appearance

15:34 to 16:39

Analysis of Trump's appearance at a restaurant and the public reaction he faced.

“But here's what Laura Ingram has to say.”
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1:23Ben Meiselas:So state regime media known as Fox News had like a mental breakdown live on air yesterday. They got the news that Donald Trump's approval in Texas right now has fallen to 43%. He's net negative seven in Texas right now. This from the very reliable TPP YouGov poll. In addition, if you look at the overperformance numbers of Democrats, and now you add in the latest special election in Virginia, where the Democratic candidate Walkinshaw overperformed Democrats from 2024 by 16 points, you add all of that together. In total, Democrats are overperforming in special elections by plus 13 right now. And it's the first time in recent history where that's taking place.

2:15Ben Meiselas:And Fox realizes that its propaganda is not working. So you have Jesse Waters, who brings on Kayleigh McEnany, who's Donald Trump's former propagandist, press secretary. And Waters is like, the problem is prices are still too high. We can trick the Americans. Can we just get the corporate executives together and have them fix the prices and make them all super low so that people can like Donald Trump right now? Listen to what Jesse Waters describes central planning of private sector work in order to help their dear leader play this clip. And Bernie kind of alluded to it. He's like, he wears a nice suit.

2:57He's got a nice smile. And that can fool a lot of people. Trust me. I know, Kayleigh. But they're on to something with the prices and all that. I mean, prices are still high. Can't Trump just bring in some corporate executives and just say, hey, guys, there's going to be a socialist revolution in this country if you guys don't do something. Please do something. I mean, you can do this with the heads of these universities. I mean, these tuition rates are out of control. Why doesn't he just say, guys, We're going to investigate you guys for monopoly, price collusion. Get this tuition down. Get this stuff down.

3:35Yeah, he's working on it. Look, Scott Besson is the best of the best alongside Donald Trump. Scott Besson said, I'm predicting Q4. You're going to see an accelerant on this economy. And already, if you look at it, 3.3 % GDP growth, hundreds of billions of dollars of investment pouring into the United States. Donald Trump's cut taxes, deregulating. He has poured a fire on this economy. We're having to dig out from four years of Biden era fecklessness, but we're getting there. And I can tell you this by the midterms, I think you're going to have a very evident contrast between communist New York City and a thriving United States of America.

4:07Ben Meiselas:And then as this mental breakdown live on air took place throughout the day, they brought in MAGA Republican Congress member Van Orden, who says, like, clearly that Donald Trump birthday card with his signature on it, that looks just like his signature and all the other signatures we've seen in dozens of other things. clearly this is a forgery the epstein estate they uh they planned this 20 years ago that they were going to create a birthday book with all of epstein's other friends and they were going to sneak in the card from donald trump in 2003 so that 20 years later he'd get busted yeah that makes a lot of sense mega they're so stupid here play this clip clearly the birthday note from President Trump is a fallacy.

4:55Ben Meiselas:That's just, it's just not true. And that's a leftist talking point. It's horrible. I don't mean to be name calling. It's more insidious than stupid. I mean, these people are dangerous. They can literally see, as Donald Trump said, watch him shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. And they're like, yeah, but that's not him. That's his body double. Like That's what they're saying. That's not the birthday card that he wrote. That's a forgery. So how does that theory work that it's a forgery? The Epstein estate in the Wall Street Journal colluded to frame Donald Trump and the way they wanted to frame it was with a birthday card from Epstein's 50th birthday in 2003 and use cryptic language like secrets and enigma.

5:39Ben Meiselas:Like what I've said before, of all of the stuff that Donald Trump has said about Epstein, this birthday card, if you didn't imply sinister meaning to the words, it's probably one of the least bad things of Trump's Epstein connections. Heck, Mar-a-Lago was used as one of the grounds where the sex trafficking recruitment took place. Undisputed fact, right? Virginia Giuffre, underage girl, sex traffic from Mar-a-Lago. So, and Donald Trump's like, she was stolen. So in terms of the stuff that's out there, this letter isn't all that bad until maybe enigma actually means gamines. Absolutely, the secrets never age means girls.

6:20Ben Meiselas:That's kind of where you're leading us down, the way you're behaving with this. And just think about it this way. The Trump regime thinks that what they're doing now is better than what's in the files. That's how you know how damaging the files are. Then you have Jesse Waters saying that he likes the term disappearing people. He's like, why is that a bad thing? I want to see people disappear. I voted for disappearing. You voted for disappearing. I mean, we literally have like freaking like, in my opinion, this is like the type of stuff that you would see in like Nazi Germany. Here play this clip.

6:59Ben Meiselas:I don't care about disappearing. I'm not even offended. Tom Homan shouldn't have been offended. So what? Yeah, they're disappearing from the country. Exactly. That's what we were elected to do. Make these people, poof, disappear. But even Republican from Kentucky, Rand Paul, is kind of fed up as the Fox propagandist, Will Kane, is one of the hosts on Fox. He tries to say, look, of course, the United States military should just be blowing up fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, if in its sole discretion it believes they have drugs on it. And even Rand Paul's like, Like, first off, like, how do you know it was going to the United States?

7:40Ben Meiselas:First, Marco Rubio said it was going to Trinidad, number one. Number two, it's a small ship, so it doesn't even have the fuel, 24-foot or 16-footer, to get to the United States. Third, if it's Trende, Aragua, they engage in human trafficking. So how do we know there weren't innocent people on there? And also, drug dealing of cocaine is not punishable by the death penalty in the United States. So who gives the Trump regime the authority to be judge, jury and executioner to kill people? And then Donald Trump posts ISIS style videos. Here play this clip. The other question nobody seems to have asked.

8:17One more question is nobody seems to have asked. Nobody seems to have asked. This outboard boat was twenty seven hundred miles. How do we know it was coming to the U.S.? So they may be selling. We are the end destination point for whatever percentage of drugs coming out of Central. You don't think anybody in the Caribbean is using drugs? What if they're selling the drugs in Trinidad? Are we now the police for Trinidad? Are we going to blow up every boat? It's just insane. You can't blow up every ship that you think might have drugs on. Delete Me makes it easy, quick, and safe to remove your personal data online at a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable.

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9:55Ben Meiselas:So then state regime media gets super, super creepy. They bring on creepy dude, Charlie Kirk. And Charlie Kirk talks about how Trump voters, young men, they want families, children, legacy. Young women, they support Kamala. They want careerism and loneliness. I mean, how misogynistic can you get? Here, play this clip. And this all kind of ties together. Trump voters, young men, they want family, children and legacy. Young women who voted for Kamala Harris, they want careerism, consumerism and loneliness. That is a dramatic divide that is going to play out in our politics for the years to come.

10:34Ben Meiselas:Then you have Charlie Kirk saying, you know, maybe we need to solve the loneliness epidemic by encouraging young ladies to get married and have children. have those babies ladies i'm charlie kirk what this is just some creepy creepy stuff here play this clip charlie what advice would you give young women who've been taught um to put their careers first before even thinking about settling down or having kids i always get in trouble no matter how i answer this question laura so here it goes uh look i'll say this is that having children is more important than having a good career i have two kids i also have an amazingly blessed career.

11:15Our podcast is doing great, but my kids matter way more than how many social media followers that I have. And I would also tell young ladies, you can always go back to your career later, that there is a window where you primarily should pursue marriage and having children. And that is a beautiful thing. This is not about shaming. It's not about ridiculing. It's not about moralizing. It's about lifting up what is beautiful. And by the way, we look at the mental health data. Young women are not okay. Half, that is right. Half of liberal white women say that they have some form of mental health issue that has been diagnosed by a doctor.

11:46What is the number one thing that mental health professionals will tell you when it comes to mental health issues? Loneliness does not help. So maybe we should solve the loneliness epidemic by encouraging young ladies to get married and have children. It's good for them. It's good for America and it's good for our future.

12:00Ben Meiselas:Speaking of creepy, creepy stuff, you then have J.D. Vance having an interview with Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, who has a show on regime media. And obviously, Murdoch gives her the job on Fox in order to be able to do what he wants to do with Trump on the other sides by employing the family members. But anyway, J.D. Vance says to Lara, you know, it would not shock me, Lara, if I learned that Donald was actually a Marine. What does that even mean? It would not shock you? Are you helping him steal the valor? Okay. Donald Trump, cadet bone spurs avoided the Vietnam war by paying for a doctor to write false reports that he had bone spurs.

12:46Ben Meiselas:Five times he dodged the draft, but go on just dance Vance. Here, play this clip. That's right. Well, in ways big and small, actually, it would not have shocked me if I had learned after knowing him that your father-in-law had been in the Marine Corps because and of course he, you know, he didn't serve in the Marines, but he has a very Marine Corps style of leadership, or he's very willing to delegate and he trusts certain people. And when he trusts those people, he's willing to give them a task and say, go and do it. Come back to me and report in a week. Whether you're a Lance Corporal or you're the Commandant of the Marine Corps, everybody has a few people that report to them.

13:21Everybody has a critical task that they have to do. And everybody is a critical part of that chain that connects us from the lowest of the low to the highest of the high.

13:29Ben Meiselas:Speaking of creepy, you have MAGA Republican Senator from Louisiana, Senator Kennedy goes, I don't hate anyone, but Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she is attractive and young. Okay, this is super gross. Here, play this clip. Well, look, I don't hate anyone, Sean, but Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is a creature, a creation of the media. She checks all the boxes. She's young. She's liberal. she's attractive, she's ethnic. Her problem is that she's shallow as a puddle. Okay, but then to make things more super gross, you then have Laura Ingraham interviewing Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, who's identified as a podcast host.

14:24Ben Meiselas:That's her profession, podcast host. And she says the Millers are working hard to have more children repopulating the country. Okay. That's pretty gross. I told you, you got to have more kids. We got the declining fertility. You got to make it up for the rest of us. The Millers will continue to have more children single-handedly repopulating. Terrifying the left hearing that. That's why conservatives are having more children than liberals. Now, there are serious things that are happening in this world, right? Like yesterday you had russia sending drones to attack poland here's how they covered it on fox when that went down play this clip ukraine's air force just now reporting russian drones have entered poland's airspace reuters is reporting the ukrainian air force said on a messaging app drones were heading toward a polish city near the border with ukraine again waiting for confirmation from Poland.

15:16Ben Meiselas:But then they had to cut into Donald Trump going to a restaurant down the block from the White House, Joe's Seafood in Washington, D.C., and he got booed mercilessly outside and inside the restaurant. But here's what Laura Ingram has to say. Play this clip. Fox News alert. Donald Trump is out on the town dinner with members of his cabinet in D.C., showing it's safe to walk around the city after deploying the National Guard. Crime, as we know, has plummeted in the city, but President Trump talked to reporters just a few moments ago. And finally, you have Governor Newsom sending this message to Just Dance Vance.

15:57Ben Meiselas:Hey, couch boy, I'm not mimicking Dozy Don. I'm mocking him. Only someone with a law degree from Chuck E. Cheese could be as dumb as you. GCN. Here's what J.D. Vance said. Play the clip. And as we head towards 2028, some of the people that the Democrats have potentially floated. Yeah, we got to laugh at it, Mr. Vice President, as, you know, potential nominees for Democrats running for president. What do you think? Well, I just I don't think much of the modern Democratic Party. Obviously, I'm biased, but I just I look at these guys. I think some of them are trying to actually mimic President Trump.

16:32You can't mimic his style. He just is who he is.

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