In short
The host argues Trump’s plans are backfiring, pointing to protests in Washington, D.C., rising inflation (especially producer prices), and political claims about Russia/Ukraine and media coverage.
Guest backgrounds
No guests are clearly identified by name as interview subjects. Mentions include Fox’s Maria Bartiromo (TV appearance) and CNBC’s interview with Peter Navarro.
Key claims
Crime is down in D.C.; Trump is using federal force and “dictatorial” rhetoric against cities with Black mayors. Producer price inflation and electricity/consumer price pressures show inflation is surging despite Trump claims. Tariffs are framed as consumer price hikes, not tax cuts. Trump is criticized for meeting Putin in Alaska without Zelensky and for “Russia, Russia, Russia” hypocrisy.
Notable examples
D.C. checkpoint at 14th Street NW; PPI figures cited (3.7% YoY vs 2.9% expected); coffee, clothing, electricity price increases; Navarro saying tariffs are “tax cuts”; Trump/WhiteHouse.gov propaganda headlines; Comer quote about National Guard in other cities; Trump backtracking on immediate ceasefire expectations.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Military Presence in D.C.
0:43 to 1:50
Discussion on the military presence in D.C. and Trump's impact on local sentiments.
“while Donald Trump is projecting his dictatorial fantasies and calling D.C.”
Economic Impact and Inflation Surge
1:50 to 3:56
Analyzing the recent spike in producer prices and its implications for the economy.
“And won't that be good for the billionaires?”
Trump's Economic Claims and Reality
3:56 to 5:14
Debunking Trump's claims regarding the economy and inflation amidst rising prices.
“And do we trust the Trump regime's guesses?”
Russia and Trump's Criticism
5:14 to 7:22
Critiquing Trump's remarks about Russia and his past actions regarding the 2016 election.
“Donald Trump is citing WhiteHouse.gov for his headlines.”
The Role of Tariffs and Media
7:22 to 9:02
Discussion on tariffs, their impact on consumers, and media coverage of economic issues.
“So keep whining about 2016 while you're meeting with Putin tomorrow.”
James Comer's Statements and Military Deployment
10:50 to 14:00
Analyzing James Comer's remarks on military deployment in cities and Trump's response.
“And then you had Maria Bartiroma from state regime media known as Fox, who basically broke down on TV when she had to report those new inflation numbers that just came out today.”
Trump's Peace Promises to Ukraine
14:00 to 15:10
Examine Trump's claims about quickly resolving the Ukraine conflict.
“Dude, you're the person who said that you could bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, but oh, now you were just sarcastic.”
Revisiting Trump's Past Statements
15:10 to 15:51
A deep dive into Trump's past statements regarding Ukraine and peace.
“And if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled, 100 % sure.”
Criticism from Thomas Massey
15:51 to 16:13
Discussion on Thomas Massey's criticism of Trump's actions and leadership.
“And even now I could solve that in 24 hours.”
Promoting Truth Over Lies Collection
16:13 to 16:39
Introduce the new merchandise collection emphasizing truth.
“or to Mar-a-Lago or to Bedminster or when Donald Trump went to Aberdeen or when J.D.”
Transcript
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0:36Ben Meiselas:look dc residents are revolting against donald trump as is the nation they're pissed they don't like to see the national guard and the marshals and other federal forces patrolling the streets of washington dc you saw those people in that clip right there the military set up a checkpoint yesterday at 14th Street Northwest, where there's like lots of bars and clubs and people are out there just enjoying themselves in Washington, D.C. while Donald Trump is projecting his dictatorial fantasies and calling D.C. a beautiful city, a hellhole. By the way, crime is down 30 % in Washington, D.C. I went to law school.
1:16Ben Meiselas:I went to undergrad in D.C. I visited D.C. recently. It is a beautiful city, but for Donald Trump to play out his fascist fantasies, he's taking it out on the people of D.C. and Los Angeles, and they say they're rolling this into other cities. And the cities that they mention are, of course, cities where there are black mayors like Chicago and Baltimore and Oakland. What Donald Trump really wants people to forget about and we're not are his broken promises, his lies and how he's destroying the economy each and every day. And then he's like, but now if I destroy the economy, they're going to have to lower interest rates.
1:54Ben Meiselas:And won't that be good for the billionaires? I just want you to look at the news that we woke up to this morning. producer price inflation ppi which is essentially wholesale prices just spiked to 3.7 percent year over year verse 2.9 percent expected it's the biggest monthly jump since march 2022 when we were still dealing with the aftermath of broken supply chains because of covid when donald trump was in office during Donald Trump's first term and former President Biden had to fix it. And then the arsonists wanted to blame the people who were trying to fix it. So PPI measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.
2:43Ben Meiselas:So it essentially measures wholesale prices and we're seeing a massive surge in inflation there. And And sure, you can say some of them are trying to eat as much of it as they can. But that's why we also see some of the largest bankrupt numbers over the past 15 years. Large, medium-sized, small companies going bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. Or they have to pass on the prices to consumers, which is why you're seeing 15 % increases in like coffee prices. And back-to-school supplies substantially higher. Clothing prices substantially higher. electricity prices significantly higher. You think about, I mean, you've seen these electricity prices and data center electricity demand contributing to a jump in your electric bill, a 5.8 % increase in electricity prices year on year.
3:36Ben Meiselas:You go through all these other metrics while Donald Trump claims he's destroyed inflation. Inflation is surging. And by the way, the CPI consumer price index is now using mostly estimates on data on the on ingesting the data in terms of inflation on products because Donald Trump fired most of the data people. So now they're just basically guessing. And do we trust the Trump regime's guesses? I think the high frequency economics put it perfectly. This is a kick in the teeth for anyone who thought that tariffs would not impact domestic prices in the United States economy. And I don't know who the people were who really thought that other than people who were so propagandized and have MAGA mush brains from all the lies that Trump and Fox are spewing because we know how many times do we have to say tariffs are taxes on consumers.
4:30Ben Meiselas:Tariffs are taxes on consumers. What is Donald Trump posting this morning, though? Well, he's posting his own White House propaganda as news articles. That's what he does right now. It's very Kim Jong-un. Made in America agenda delivers manufacturing boom. Who wrote that headline? Because manufacturing plants across the country are actually shutting down right now. They're laying off workers. There is a manufacturing bust. We went from a Biden manufacturing boom to plants closing down wherever you live. You know, the plants are closing down. Believe your eyes. Believe your ears. Believe what you're seeing.
5:12Ben Meiselas:Not the Trump regime led by Donald Trump, a convicted felon, a fraud and a sexual abuser. Donald Trump is citing WhiteHouse.gov for his headlines. Oh, a very credible source. He's citing Donald Trump. Donald Trump this morning is also on a tear attacking former President Obama and Obama's intel chief James Clapper from 2017 because Donald Trump says that they came up with a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. And Donald Trump never said, Russia, if you're listening, hack my opponent's emails. And then Russia actually hacked it. And we should all ignore that a bipartisan Senate committee led by who other than Donald Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who was a senator at the time, found that Russia did try to interfere with the 2016 election.
6:05Ben Meiselas:But Donald, we're in 2025. Why are you whining about 2016 with all of these lies? And by the way, Russia, Russia, Russia, you're meeting with Putin on American soil. You've given Putin one of the biggest symbolic victories that he's coming into the United States to meet with you in Alaska. Russia considers Alaska to be part of Russia. Russia's already said that he will only meet with Donald Trump if Donald Trump will give Putin Ukraine's natural resources, rare earths, and massive, massive chunks of Ukrainian land. Ukraine hasn't agreed to this. Europe hasn't agree to this, but Donald Trump is meeting with Putin on Putin's terms, on Putin's conditions.
6:52Ben Meiselas:So yes, Donald, Russia, Russia, Russia is happening tomorrow when you meet with Putin in Alaska. And from all of the reports, you and Putin have already discussed an Israeli style occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. That's your model for how you want Russia. That's your model for Russia taking over Ukraine and you didn't invite Zelensky. I'll tell you what you're doing tomorrow is a million times worse than people's worst fears about 2016. So keep whining about 2016 while you're meeting with Putin tomorrow. Oh, Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro just went on CNBC and he goes on and he go and the host asks him, are tariffs price hikes or tax cuts?
7:43Ben Meiselas:I say, oh no, she asks him, what are tariffs? And then he goes, tariffs are actually tax cuts. People are getting tax cuts because of the tariffs. And just watch how soft the CNBC interviewer is on him as well. Like she almost treats it like a game. You're a financial network. push back on this freaking idiot this criminal this moron oh i don't know let's have jokes about it people are suffering right now and are paying massively more amounts of money we know inflation is taking place stop this crap and cnbc is so complicit in this as well here play this clip there's no tax cuts no tariffs no tax cuts it was our tariffs price hikes or tax cuts i say their tax cuts.
8:34I mean, many, many economists would say that they're their tax hikes because ultimately a consumer will pay for some of those increased prices. Look, that debate has been going on since the first term. And most economists just don't agree with us. The problem with most economists is they got it wrong the first time around, just spectacularly wrong. So who has credibility here, the Trump administration or the economists? I mean, I mean, come on. Every day here. Every day I say that the inflation... Do you struggle with bloating and discomfort after your morning coffee? Well, after drinking Everyday Dose consistently, my bloating has reduced and my face, it feels less puffy.
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10:50Ben Meiselas:And then you had Maria Bartiroma from state regime media known as Fox, who basically broke down on TV when she had to report those new inflation numbers that just came out today. Here, play this clip. Breaking news right now and a spike in the producer price level of inflation take a look markets are selling off here because the july ppi came in up nine tenths of a percent worse than the estimated up two tenths of a percent this is the uh headline number uh it was expected up two chance came up up nine tenths of a percent year over year it is up 3.3 percent versus an estimate of up 2.5 percent now when you look at core it's also troubling because in the core PPI, it was up nine-tenths of a percent versus an estimate of two-tenths of a percent.
11:42Year over year, the core up 3.7 percent, also higher than the estimated expectation, which was up 2.9 percent. These numbers have caused markets to drop. The Dow Industrial is down 105, the Nasdaq down 71, and the S &P 500 lower by 19. We want to take a look at producer prices with the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy will be here to talk about other things like the modernization of the FAA, as well as the investment in space. But we're going to start off with getting his expectation and reaction to a spike in producer prices. We'll be right back.
12:24Ben Meiselas:But then good old James Comer, the MAGA Republican who heads the House Oversight Committee, a fascist let's call out these people who they are a criminal enabler james comer a cover-up artist really a despicable vile human being james comer is um witness tampering you know i mean what he's did under the under the auspices of i'm just doing my job i'm just asking questions over here in congress that's all i'm doing i'm james comer so we'll manipulate documents and go after the body of the body crime family okay this guy is the freaking worst so he says we're gonna roll out the army and the military across the country.
13:04Ben Meiselas:We're putting the United States military in cities. DC is the test case. We're coming to your city with the United States military. They hear it from their own mouth. Here's James Comer. Let's play it. Carjacking. We have people mugging people at all hours of the day and it's out of control. So the president had to send in the National Guard. And I think that you've seen just in the last 24 hours, a huge decline in crime. And we're going We're going to support this. We're going to support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington, D.C. And again, it's unfortunate, but we spend a lot on our military.
13:39Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades, walking the streets, trying to reduce crime in other countries.
13:48Ben Meiselas:We need to focus on the big cities in America now. And that's what the president's doing. Oh, now Donald Trump is backtracking and saying, I don't really expect much to come of this meeting with Putin. I don't know if we're going to get an immediate ceasefire. I'm not really sure. Dude, you're the person who said that you could bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, but oh, now you were just sarcastic. You were joking. You never really meant you would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. So let me ask you this, Donald, if you're meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska and you don't believe that there will be an immediate ceasefire, why the hell are you meeting with him in Alaska?
14:26Ben Meiselas:Why would you hand Russia such a victory, humiliate the United States? Oh, because maybe Donald Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia is true. Maybe you are Putin's puppet. Maybe whether you are knowingly or unwittingly being used as a stooge by Putin, you're being played and it is so utterly embarrassing to watch. But I remember all the times that you said it would be so easy to bring peace. Remember all of the promises you made to the public? I'll bring down inflation on day one. I'll end the war in Gaza on day one. I will bring peace to Ukraine, not even in 24 hours. I'll do it the moment I'm elected, even before I take office.
15:09Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. I would fix that within 24 hours. And if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled, 100 % sure. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and we'll do it quickly. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and I will settle with Ukraine and Russia, I will get them to settle that war very quickly, even before I become president, as a president elect. Ukraine and Russia, the stupidity with, I will get that negotiated and ended before I ever take office.
15:46I'll do it. after the election as president-elect. We'd get a settlement in 24 hours. And even now I could solve that in 24 hours.
15:53Ben Meiselas:And I think that Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentucky who's been fighting back against the Trump regime, who Donald Trump detests, this Republican Thomas Massey, I think he says it best from the top rope. Why is Trump sending troops to D.C. to fight crime during the recess? All the criminals went home to their district. or to Mar-a-Lago or to Bedminster or when Donald Trump went to Aberdeen or when J.D. Vance is going to the UK. More vacations for J.D. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.midastouch.com.
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