In short
The episode is a critical breakdown of Donald Trump’s speech at a small “rally” at Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pennsylvania, with the host emphasizing the crowd size (about 100–200) and portraying the speech as incoherent and offensive.
Key claims
Trump says prices and rent are “coming down,” Thanksgiving turkey costs dropped (33%), gas is under $2, and tariffs are boosting farmers; he praises miners; he attacks Ilhan Omar as a “little turban wearing lady”; he claims he stopped men from playing in women’s sports; he calls Obamacare a “scam” and proposes eliminating insurance companies to give money directly to people.
Notable examples
“weave/weave” word-salad moments; “pause migration from shithole countries”; “invasion of 25 million” claim; “FIFA Peace Prize” brag.
Guest
Ryan McKenzie, a MAGA Republican congressman (described as likely to lose re-election), who praises Trump’s “FIFA Peace Prize.” No other guests are identified.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Speech in Pennsylvania
2:20 to 3:16
Analysis of Trump's speech and its implications on his campaign.
“Yikes, Donald Trump just gave a speech before a very tiny crowd at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pennsylvania.”
Trump's Disjointed Statements
3:16 to 4:50
Discussing the incoherence of Trump's speech and his bizarre comments.
“Just double check and make sure you're subscribed.”
Trump's Economic Claims
4:50 to 6:48
Evaluating Trump's assertions about the economy and prices.
“We need the one thing you need, you need steel.”
Racist Remarks and Policies
6:48 to 8:34
Examining Trump's racist comments during the speech.
“But here's, he goes, he weaves and he starts saying random words.”
Critique of Trump's Policies
8:34 to 13:43
A critical look at Trump's healthcare policies and their implications.
“You know, and he keeps on going on here.”
Analyzing Trump's Speech and Claims
15:10 to 21:54
A critical examination of Donald Trump's speech, addressing his inaccuracies and absurd claims.
“I hear we'll be able to replace all four of the commissioners on the Federal Reserve Board.”
Transcript
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2:41Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump was holding this event. They called it a rally. And it was Donald Trump. He was going to talk about how he's made America more affordable and that everybody is thriving and doing a great job. Watch what Donald Trump said right here. He couldn't even get a sentence out of his mouth. Oof. Here play this clip. Europe. On day one, I ended the war in Pennsylvania energy. I terminated. I just terminated something that was. Now, before I go on and show you more clips, just a quick reminder, make sure you hit subscribe to our YouTube channel. You know, the Midas Touch Network is under attack by the Trump regime.
3:16Ben Meiselas:You may think you're subscribed. Just double check and make sure you're subscribed. Then Donald Trump goes on and says, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. He just starts, he just starts making noises. Here, play this clip. Bum, bum, bum. Bum, bum, bum. And then Donald Trump talks about affordability. He goes, we're bringing it down. We're coming down more. We're coming down a lot more. What are you even talking about? Here, play this clip. That's a good start. We're bringing it down and we're coming down more. We're coming down a lot more. Takes a little time to come down. They were ruined. They're going to destroy our country.
3:53Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump gives a shout out to the miners. He says that he loves the miners. Here, play this clip. For miners. Do we love miners? I love miners. We know. Then Donald Trump goes on to talk about how Caroline Levitt has these great little lips, these little machine gun lips. That's what he was talking about here. Play this clip. Isn't she great? Is Caroline great?
4:22You know, when she goes on television, Fox, like, I mean, they dominate. They dominate when she gets up there with that beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun. She's got no fear. You know why she has no fear? Because we have the right policy.
4:38Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump's affordability speech is him talking about how children only need one or two pencils and how you don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. Here, play this clip. Got national security. We need the one thing you need, you need steel. You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.
5:02Because under the China policy, you know, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two. You know, they don't need that many. But you always need, you always need steel. You don't need$37 for your daughter. Two or three is nice, but you don't need$37.
5:19Ben Meiselas:And Donald Trump randomly starts doing a Scottish accent and he goes, I'm Scotty. It's like the most, I'm not going to do the accent. You watch him do it. It's like the most defensive thing to Scottish people. Here, play this clip. All over beautiful. We have some Scottish people here. Where the hell did you come from? We have Scottish people, but they're putting wind all over Scotland. The people are not thrilled with it. And it's costing them a fortune. OK, then Donald Trump says people are saying that I don't realize prices are high. He's like, they're not high. They're going down. I brought them all down.
5:58Ben Meiselas:Here, watch this. You know, and I said it the other day and a lot of people misinterpreted. They say, oh, he doesn't realize prices are high. Prices are coming down very substantially. but they have a new word you know they always have a hoax the new word is affordability so they look at the camera and they say this election is all about affordability now they never talk about it they never talk thank you very much they say i'm not allowed to run i don't know what the hell that's all about but that's okay he said four more years you see the new hat we have four more years and then he brings out the weave and he goes Weave, weave, weave.
6:36Ben Meiselas:What are we even watching here? I mean, we are watching a cognitively addled, mentally collapsing, weak, frail individual who probably belongs in like a psychiatric facility. But here's, he goes, he weaves and he starts saying random words. He's like, you know, Congo, Venezuela, wind. I did a weave. I did a weave. Here, play this clip. so it's november 5th and it's also again it's a thing called tariffs and i told you i was about to say that you know because i love the weave the weave you know what the weave is go here bing bing bing bing you always have to get back to the right location but otherwise they'll criticize you for straying from the speech if i by the way if i read what's on the teleprompter You'll be falling asleep right now.
7:29Ben Meiselas:But then Donald Trump lets the crowd know that his favorite word out there is tariff. He goes, that's my favorite word. Here, play this clip. You know, the word, remember when I said tariff? My favorite word is tariff. True. But then I got a lot of heat from the fake news. Look at all of them back there.
7:51I took a lot of heat. I got up early on. And I said, my favorite is turning out, you know, tariffs are bringing us hundreds of billions of dollars. I just helped our farmers out because they're starting to do really well.
8:04Ben Meiselas:And Trump says, though, all prices are going down. Rent prices are going down. And he says, your Thanksgiving was much cheaper. He said he brought turkeys down like 30 percent. Here play this clip. So rent prices are down. Dairy prices are coming down very strongly. The cost of Thanksgiving turkeys was down by 33 percent compared to the Biden era. Biden era. You know what you did during the Biden era for Thanksgiving? You said, oh, my God, this is terrible. It was a rotten Thanksgiving. And Walmart, I thank them. You know, and he keeps on going on here. Here he goes. Prices are way down. We had four states.
8:42Ben Meiselas:He said that gas is under two dollars a gallon. He's just making this up. Play this clip. You know, we'll do a friendly merger here. This is pretty good. And that's what we did. And we're right now drilling more oil than we've ever done ever before. Prices are way down. We just had four states. It was just reported that four states had$1.99 a gallon. We're still moving. Then he goes on this racist rant. And frankly, I don't even want to play that much of it because it's so vile and racist and it gets even worse than what I'm about to show you. But he refers to Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as the little turban wearing lady.
9:23Ben Meiselas:And then I'll just let you listen to what he says here. Play this clip. I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little shoe, the little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch. She's always complaining. And then he says that he just made the farmers rich by giving them a$12 billion bailout. So Trump's tariffs, which have caused the farmers to go bankrupt, might I add, in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump says that he made him rich by bailing him out. Here play this clip. Some countries played a little cute and we just gave them right out of a tariff money cost us nothing right out of the billion hundreds of billions that we've taken in we gave the farmers a little help 12 billion dollars and they are so happy and they all they want is a level playing field and now it's happening and the tariffs are making them rich it's going to be you're going to see you're going to see what happens over the next two years it's like a miracle is taking place but we've taken in can donald trump do this every day before the midterms, please.
10:32Ben Meiselas:Like just do this every day. Just keep, keep on doing this. Then Donald Trump says another big thing. I stopped men from playing in women's sports. All right, Donald, congrats. You stopped men playing in women's sports. You're obsessed with like penises and you're such a weird dude, man. You're a weirdo. Freaking weird party, weird human, weird crew and watching you rot on stage like this and behave like this and humiliate yourself and your whole damn MAGA party. It's a little bit fun. I'm not going to lie, but here, play this clip. But think, can you imagine that? Or I have stopped men from playing in women's sports.
11:12They say, this guy's crazy. Women, men don't play in women's sports. Stop men. Well, that's another thing. We stopped men from playing in women's sports.
11:20Ben Meiselas:Okay. A little schadenfreude right there. Then Donald Trump says, I've also announced, and this is more of the racist part of the speech, although the whole thing is ridiculous. I've announced that I am pausing migration from the shithole countries. Here play this clip. And they've been taken care of. I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.
11:55I didn't say shit all you did.
12:02Ben Meiselas:He goes, but I didn't say shit all you said shit all. Then Donald Trump says Obamacare is a giant scam. And then Donald Trump introduces the actual scam, which he goes, and here's what we're going to do. We're going to eliminate insurance companies and we're going to give you the money directly. Donald, do you know what health insurance costs? First off, you're not going to give people money. You're going to defraud them the same way you told people you were going to give them Doge dividend checks. Yeah, how did that go, by the way? And the reality is, if you just say hypothetically, you gave people a$2 ,000 check, how is that going to pay for chemo?
12:35Ben Meiselas:How is that going to pay for a surgery? How is that going to? Do you understand the purpose of insurance, you idiot? Here, play this clip where he goes, Obamacare is a scam. Here, play this clip. And I've always said it, Obamacare. But now you see the numbers because your premiums are going up on Obamacare and everything. It's forcing everything on. But we want the money to go directly to the people. We want you to go out and buy your own health insurance, and you'll get much better health insurance at a much lower point. Everybody knows this is the best way to go, but the Democrats, they're bought and owned by the insurance companies.
13:09So let's see how many of them have the guts to vote for this. You know, we're putting in bills where all of that money, hundreds of billions of dollars goes to the people to go out and buy your own health care. And everybody's different.
13:24Ben Meiselas:It's a scam, Donald. You you're a fraud. You're a Ponzi schemer. You're a felon. You're a sexual abuser. You're a loser. And your entire legacy, your reputation will be the worst president ever. A loser movement, a loser individual, a criminal, a felon, a disgusting family. That's who you are. That's what you'll be known for. And the American people are seeing. Keep doing these little rallies of yours and reception areas where weddings take place in casinos so I could keep doing these videos mocking you. The holidays are here. And if you're searching for a truly meaningful gift, something for a loved one, or honestly just a well-deserved reset for yourself heading into the new year, this is it.
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15:46You know, you know, too late is too late, pal. Jerome too late. He's too late with his interest rates for a reason. He's a bad guy. He's not a smart guy, but he's a bad guy. Too late. is he going to lower rates a little bit finally did you see where jamie diamond respected guy said you got to get the rates down you schmuck you know but but i hear that the auto pen may have signed those commissions if they signed those commission now maybe i'm wrong but we're going to check have you checked that are you hearing it who signed it did he sign it or did the auto pen sign it. I'm hearing the auto.
16:28You know, you can't use the auto pen unless it's very strongly authorized and unless you show you know what the hell you're doing, which is impossible of him to show.
16:36Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump goes on to say that there's been an invasion of 25 million pieces. Play this clip. There's the invasion of 25 million piece. Think of this. 25 million people came into our country totally unchecked Donald Trump goes, as everybody knows, I just ended the war in Congo. And he goes, and he goes, I ended the war in Congo. And he also talks about like taking the people's minerals from Congo. And he's like, and the entire population was dumped into our country. You know, the war's still taking place in Congo right now. You know, you didn't do anything. The same way there's war, Thailand and Cambodia, there's war between Congo and Rwanda.
17:14Ben Meiselas:You're just making up fake peace deals and behaving like an idiot, play this clip. Into our country, anybody. You know, the Congo, I just settled that war. The Congo, their entire prison population was sent into our country. Venezuela, their entire prison population was dumped into our country. Bring in MAGA Republican Congress member Ryan McKenzie, who's likely going to lose re-election coming up. He brags about Trump's FIFA prize. These are all, all these humans, These are all a group of losers. Okay, Mackenzie, brag about Trump's fake Peace Prize FIFA Award. Play this clip. The president and his administration also went to work fixing all the conflicts and forever wars that have been going on all over the globe.
18:04Ben Meiselas:And he has resolved so many conflicts in a peaceable fashion that they just gave him the FIFA Peace Prize. How about that?
18:16Ben Meiselas:And I feel bad for this lady. You have this waitress speaking at Trump's rally who says that she can't afford anything right now and that her bills are getting much higher and things are getting worse. Yeah. You may want to look around and see why. Maybe it's because of the guy right there. Maybe it's because of the orange deranged blob in front of you. Maybe that's why. Here, play this clip. My name is Donna, and you know, I can't believe I'm up here on this stage. I'm a single mom.
18:49I'm a single mom who has lived in Pennsylvania for the past 20 years, and I've been a waitress all my life. Started when I was 15 years old. I've always enjoyed it and used to and used to waitressing made good money. But lately my money doesn't mean to stretch that far. Pretty much everything I make goes towards paying the bills.
19:17Ben Meiselas:Okay. Maybe it's this guy. Maybe it's the con artist. Cause then Donald Trump just goes and he's like to her, he's like, look at the numbers. Look at all of these numbers. 21%, 30%, 40%, 25%, 35%. He's not even a good con artist. It's like, he's like a bad parody of a scammer. Here play this clip. Look, Biden price increases and Trump price increases. Look at Biden up 37, 24 percent, 22, 21, 30.7, 30.7 again, 10.4 percent, 49 percent. Trump, the price is down 5.1, 4.2, 0.5 down 4 percent two ports 2.9 look at that our prices are coming down their prices it's a hoax they're just remember they said the inflation reduction act remember that billions and billions hundreds of billions of dollars the inflation and after they got it approved because we had a few republicans that went along with that whole hoax and remember we're going to pass the inflation.
20:27And I said, there's nothing to do with inflation reduction there. There's nothing to do with that. It had nothing to do with inflation.
20:35Ben Meiselas:And of course, Donald Trump has to end with the goodies, the oldies, but the goodies, where he says that him being indicted, him being a felon, he says total hoax, just the same way he says affordability is a hoax. He says him being a felon is a hoax. Okay, Donald. I used to get up, it was very important. I'd get up and say, here we go again ladies and gentlemen i got indicted again and nobody believed the whole thing and then i'd explain it and it turned out to be a hoax i mean just it was a total hoax they're very very bad very very bad people but then and then donald trump brags that he says that he got 40 000 pennsylvanians off of food stamps no you actually are trying to remove two million Pennsylvanians off of food assistance.
21:21Ben Meiselas:You've kicked hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians off the food assistance that they rely on who needed to eat like the lady, by the way, and I'm not sure whether she is or isn't on assistance, but that's the type of person you're attacking. But I guess, you know, they're still showing up at your rallies, although maybe there's only like 200 of them, but okay, Donald, anyway, play this clip. You're doing better than you've ever done under our leadership more than 40 ,000 Pennsylvanians have been lifted off of food stamps, 40 ,000. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe.
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