In short
The episode argues Fox News and related right-wing commentators are “panicking” as Donald Trump faces political repudiation, and they respond by defending him, attacking Democrats (especially Gavin Newsom), and promoting Trump-aligned immigration, foreign policy, and climate/energy claims.
Guests (named in transcript) and backgrounds: Sean Hannity (Fox host/propagandist); Tom Homan (ICE leadership figure, immigration enforcement); Jesse Waters (Fox host); Ron DeSantis (Florida governor, referenced via clip); Greg Gutfeld (Fox host); Tricia McLaughlin (DHS assistant secretary); Scott Besant (Treasury secretary); Chris Wright (Trump cabinet energy secretary).
Key claims/examples
Hannity says Trump isn’t an authoritarian; Fox blames Newsom/leftist rhetoric for violence; Homan claims lawmakers should thank ICE; DeSantis/Gutfeld mock Newsom and argue “evil” rhetoric drives violence; McLaughlin compares Newsom’s “No Secret Police Act” mask ban rhetoric to Nazis/Gestapo; Besant argues for bailing out Argentina and downplays defending Europe (“Putin isn’t marching into Boston”); Wright predicts Trump will win a “Climate Hero Award” and calls climate change a hoax.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOFox News Panic Over Trump's Decline
0:00 to 0:45
Discussion on Fox News reactions to Trump's declining status.
“State regime media known as Fox was panicking live on air.”
Hannity's Defense of Trump
0:45 to 2:00
Analysis of Sean Hannity defending Trump amidst criticism.
“The legacy media mob is just as bad and they have been complicit and they use the same rhetoric, the same language.”
California Governor Newsom's Critique
2:00 to 3:00
Exploring Hannity's statements about Governor Gavin Newsom.
“Like as California governor Gavin Newsom is effectively calling Donald Trump out.”
ICE and Border Control Debate
3:00 to 4:30
Discussion on comments made about ICE by Tom Homan.
“Every congressman and governor out there bad mouthing ICE ought to be thanking President Trump for making their community safer.”
Critique of Fox Hosts
4:30 to 6:00
A look at the commentary by Fox hosts on various political figures.
“They have called me a hate monger because I ridicule the left.”
Shopify Sponsor Segment
6:00 to 7:00
Promotional segment for Shopify and its benefits.
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Hillary Clinton's Political Instincts
7:00 to 8:30
Discussion on criticisms of Hillary Clinton's political strategies.
“Then they bring on one of their hosts over here, Kennedy.”
Rhetoric and Nazism Comparison
8:30 to 10:00
Analysis of comments linking politicians to Nazism.
“And she's not doing herself any favors right now.”
U.S. and Argentina Relations
10:00 to 12:00
Discussion on U.S. support for Argentina's government and economic policies.
“This guy lived in the real one in Charleston, South Carolina.”
Climate Change Controversy
12:00 to 13:30
Comments by Trump's energy secretary on climate change and policies.
“This is what the energy secretary is saying here.”
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NATO and European Defense
13:30 to 14:00
Discussion on NATO's role in European defense and U.S. involvement.
“Everything in weather is climate change.”
The European Response to Russian Aggression
14:00 to 15:24
Discussion on NATO and Europe's response to Russian threats.
“And by the way, Russia was coming awfully close to Alaska.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Ben Meiselas:State regime media known as Fox was panicking live on air. They see Donald Trump crashing in the pulse right now, and they're trying to do whatever they can to protect him, like they have one of their chief propagandists, Sean Hannity. He went on his show last night, and he goes, let's be clear, Trump is not an authoritarian. This is not an authoritarian country. There is no dictator in charge right now. Actually, Hannity, there is right now. His name is Trump. Here, play this clip. and there are enablers like you. Let's play it. It's not the 1930s. We don't live in Nazi Germany. This is not fascism.
0:36This is not Stalin. This is not an authoritarian country with a dictator in charge. This is the United States of America. Our country can be and should be and hopefully will be better than this. Our elected officials should be better. The legacy media mob is just as bad and they have been complicit and they use the same rhetoric, the same language.
1:00Ben Meiselas:I mean, just look at what Trump's propaganda PR team is posting, the Trump war room official account. Then you have Hannity say the following about California Governor Gavin Newsom. He's like, maybe you need to just bring the people of California together rather than making fun of Donald Trump. Here, play this clip. You know, your time as governor is running short. You know, you got a little over a year left in office. Maybe focus on actually bringing the people of California and the country together More from Hannity right here where he goes, listen, Gavin, you're not Donald Trump. Stop pretending to be Donald Trump.
1:34Ben Meiselas:OK, OK, Hannity, just losing your mind here. Play this clip. No, it's just it's not real. It's not authentic. You're not Trump. So tonight, here is my message to the part time governor, full time Tweety Burke, full time podcaster who pretends to run the state of California. Gavin, we were old friends. Maybe it's time to stop tweeting, stop podcasting, start governing your state. You can attack me all you want and I will gladly respond. And then they always play victim right away. Like as California governor Gavin Newsom is effectively calling Donald Trump out. Notice what Hannity and the Fox state regime media does.
2:10Ben Meiselas:They're like, all right, stop it now. This needs to stop. This is because of you, Newsom, everything. We're just going to blame everything on leftist and Newsom and whatever. So pathetic. Here play this clip. It's to stop now. Look at where we are at this moment as a country. And they bring on Tom Homan. The borders are with apparently fifty thousand dollars of cash in his kava bag, which he still has not denied that he's got the cash in his bag. But I think he's saying what he did was perfectly legal. We all get paid with money in kava grocery bags, right? Everybody. But then Tom Homan goes, let's be very clear.
2:50Ben Meiselas:Every congressman and governor out there bad mouthing ICE ought to be thanking us. Say thank you to us right now. OK, what are you talking about, Homan? What a weird dude, by the way. Also here play this clip. Every congressman and governor out there bad mouthing ICE ought to be thanking President Trump for making their community safer. Then, you know, state regime is getting a state regime media is getting extra desperate when you have Jesse Waters bring out Ron DeSantis. This is how Ron DeSantis refers to Gavin Newsom. He's wielding executive power to muzzle people. And so I think he thinks that he just has the ultimate power to do this.
3:30Ben Meiselas:That's how they're referring to Governor Newsom. You know they're scared. You know they're scared. Here play this clip. But this is the same governor who forced two-year-olds to wear masks during COVID. And he wielded executive power to muzzle people. And so I think he thinks that he just has ultimate power to do this. Then they bring on Greg Gutfeld. This guy is just a total fool. And he actually thinks that people really care about him. He thinks that because Donald Trump posts about him that he's funny. No, like Gutfeld, no one thinks you're funny. You're a loser. And then Greg Gutfeld says like, look, on the right, we call people stupid, but we never call them evil.
4:10Ben Meiselas:You see on the left, they call us evil. And that's what's leading to violence, everybody. What do you mean you don't call people evil? That's Donald Trump has made his entire political career of demonizing people with the most sadistic terminology, like literally calling people like vermin, basically. Here, play this clip. Just tell me why it's okay. No, I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I'm enjoying this. Okay. You won't be for long. The left calls Trump a hate monger. They have called me a hate monger because I ridicule the left. I ridicule protesters. I ridicule academia, Hollywood, the news media.
4:50I make fun of The View every day. I make fun of the UN. Guess what? No one acts on the things that I say because my side doesn't do that. We say people are stupid. We say people are wrong, but we don't say they're evil. That is your game. OK, and then you come and you say, OK, man, this is a mentally ill loner. Well, who do you think does this stuff? It's not Ben Affleck. It's not Tom Brady. It's not even Carrot Top. People who do this stuff are always that way. The question is, who points them in that direction?
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7:26I mean, this woman just has stunning political instincts. You know, the way she is able to make these base and blanket statements targeted to people that she used to seek votes from. And she wonders why she no longer has influence in the party. I mean, I'm amazed when people still pull the string and she's like, with, you know, this rhetoric that is so offensive and contrary to her initial statement. You know, her political career is based on attacking other people, not really putting forth ideas, because if she had great ideas, she would have finished her second term as president. She didn't.
8:08And, you know, Donald Trump, she thought, was the greatest gift the political gods had ever bestowed upon her because she just attacked him the entire time during the presidential campaign in 2016. And it didn't work for her. People saw right through it. So the people that she's attacking now, she wrote them a handwritten note to go vote for literally anybody else. And she's not doing herself any favors right now. She's just having this like insane contest with Kamala Harris. Like which former female leader of the Democrat Party can say the most offensive things to voters who patently dislike them?
8:47Oh, my God.
8:49Ben Meiselas:Then they bring on their Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary, one of the top officials, Tricia McLaughlin. And Tricia McLaughlin's like, what did we do in World War Two? What did we do to the Nazis then? So if they're calling us Nazis, what do you think that they mean? Can you even believe these people are real? Here play this clip. It is incumbent upon Gavin Newsom, AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, any of these politicians to tone down the rhetoric. You mentioned Gavin Newsom, his unconstitutional mask banning in California. That legislation was called the No Secret Police Act. Of course, he's likening our law enforcement in that piece of legislation to the Gestapo, to the Nazis.
9:35And what did we do in World War II against the Nazis? We fought them and we killed them. And this is the rhetoric that is directly contributing to threats and violence against our law enforcement.
9:45Ben Meiselas:Oh, then they bring out Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. I'm Scott Besant, everybody. I'm very arguing. Scott Besant's like got the most shit-eating grin. This guy is one of the strangest people ever. By the way, before getting in this position, you know, Barbie Malibu mansion, like the pink one. This guy lived in the real one in Charleston, South Carolina. I think like a$25 million actual pink Barbie mansion. But he's going to tell us what America First means. And he now goes on Fox. America First means we've got to bail out Argentina's president, Javier Malay. Argentina is about to go bankrupt.
10:26Ben Meiselas:Argentina is led by a MAGA puppet in Malay. So we, the American taxpayers, we have to apparently bail them out now and that's America first? Okay, sure, here play this clip. I wanna get your take on Argentina because Mr. Secretary, Argentina's peso sliding, politics and capital outflows rattling investors there. Javier Malay, I guess, has lost the confidence of investors. They're pulling their money out of Argentina. They're fearful that he will scrap his defense of the peso. So you say all options are on the table from swap lines to direct currency support. What's the plan in terms of supporting Argentina?
11:02Is there one? The plan is as long as President Malay continues with his strong economic policies to help him, to bridge him to the election. You know, I call this the screens moving to the streets. We are not going to let a disequilibrium in the market cause a backup in his substantial economic reforms. I don't think the market has lost confidence in him. I think the market is looking in the rearview mirror and is looking at decades, if not a century, of terrible Argentinian mismanagement. And people are concerned. People are skittish. It's very hard to believe that it is different this time. But I believe with President Malay, it is.
11:48It is.
11:48Ben Meiselas:And they bring on their energy secretary in the Trump cabinet, Chris Wright, who says, here's my prediction. In a few years, not only are they going to give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they are going to give him something called the Climate Hero Award because he called out the climate hoax. It's all one big hoax. This is what the energy secretary is saying here. Play this clip. The funny thing is, I predict in a few years, President Trump will win the Climate Hero Award because his policies, which is pro-natural gas and pro-nuclear, those are the only two needle movers we have today to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
12:25He's not doing it for that reason. You're right. That's not that's nowhere near our biggest issue. Let's get the plastic out of the ocean. And let's get the CO2. It's a longer conversation. And, you know, I don't know.
12:37Ben Meiselas:In many ways, this is just as bad as Donald Trump saying, do not take Tylenol or Donald Trump giving you his feelings about the MMRV vaccine and hepatitis B vaccines. This guy goes deaths. This is the secretary of energy. He's like deaths from extreme weather are in a 100 year plunge. We've never been. Weather is perfect right now. What? You're playing this clip. Well, the EPA is working on a rule, and they've got a decision will come out, and if they decide to remove the endangerment finding, which I personally believe the data overwhelmingly supports, get rid of the endangerment finding. Talking about extreme weather, deaths from extreme weather on a 100-year plunge.
13:18It's never been a safer time to be alive from extreme weather. So then it'll be challenging the courts. The cold's a lot worse than hot, too, for what kills people. Five times more people die from the cold than die from the heat. Well, it's causing that, too. The global warming causes the coldness. Everything in weather is climate change. Hot, dry, warm, wet year. But yeah, it'll be litigated, of course. But that's exactly what we want is discussing these energy climate tradeoffs in a public setting. But yes, it enabled the Clean Power Plan, which started the rise in electricity prices that has everyone angry today.
13:49Ben Meiselas:And then Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says that U.S. troops won't get involved in defending Europe. Don't we have something called NATO where we will defend Europe if Russia attacks? And by the way, Russia was coming awfully close to Alaska. You're going to eat your words, Besant. I mean, just think about how Besant's speaking about Europe right here. Putin isn't marching into Boston, so we don't care. Why would we defend Europe? There's something called NATO. And again, I don't care what political party y 'all are from watching this, but when you see this, this is very anti-American, huh? Here, play this clip.
14:25The Russians are testing the Europeans, and the European resolve needs to stiffen. They need to put everything on the table in terms of economic sanctions. As I told my European counterparts about two weeks ago, all I hear from you is that Putin wants to march into Warsaw. The one thing I'm sure of, Putin's not marching into Boston. He's not marching into Boston. But having said that, Poles are great allies. they before they had to be told to they were already spending five percent of gdp right polish economy is one of the great success stories that since the wall came down when the wall came down the polish economy ukraine economy were the same size polish economy is three times larger now if the ukraine economy were the size of the polish economy ukraine would be financing their own war effort right now and i doubt putin would have come in so that's what they were doing on regime media
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