Trump Quickly Crumbles When His Own Tricks Haunt His Days

14 Aug 2025 · 21 min · 6 chapters

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In short

The episode argues that Democrats are “punching back” against Donald Trump and his allies, especially over California and Texas redistricting, and portrays Newsom as mirroring Trump’s social-media style while attacking Trump’s credibility and governance.

Guest backgrounds

No guests are identified in the provided transcript; it centers on commentary and clips attributed to Gavin Newsom and Texas representatives.

Key claims

Trump “missed deadlines” on California map-related issues; Trump’s data and statistics are “gaslighting”/false; Trump uses authoritarian tactics (including National Guard deployment) and will lose in court; California will not “bend the knee” to Trump; Harvard’s alleged $500M settlement would be a betrayal.

Notable examples

Newsom’s posts mocking Caroline Levitt; threats of a California ballot measure; UCLA federal science grant restoration after a judge; Puerto Rico storm-response coordination; references to Trump-ordered water releases in Northern California; Texas AG Ken Paxton and vacant seats; CNBC inflation figure (3.1%).

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Gavin Newsom's Mockery of Trump

0:00 to 7:22

Discussion on Governor Newsom's social media posts mocking Trump.

“They are stunned as Democrats are punching back as the opposition is growing and bullying Donald Trump and giving him a taste of his own medicine.”

Gavin Newsom's Mockery of Trump

7:24 to 9:00

Discussion on Governor Newsom's social media posts mocking Trump.

“Preseason football is underway and college football season is here.”

Newsom's Response to Trump's Policies

9:00 to 14:00

Analysis of Gavin Newsom's criticism of Trump's policies and actions.

“Then Stephen Miller goes, crime stats in big blue cities are fake.”

Discussion on Crime and Governance

14:00 to 14:15

The hosts discuss perceptions of crime rates and governance in California compared to Trump’s actions in D.C.

“And just on my own experience, going shopping and seeing what things cost, I think it's a lot more than 3.1%.”

Gavin Newsom's Podcast Strategy

14:16 to 15:10

The hosts analyze Gavin Newsom's shift in focus on his podcast to counter Trump’s regime.

“Governor Newsom goes, while Donald Trump needlessly deploys the national guard in DC, where crime is at a 30-year low, California continues to bring down crime in nearly every major category.”

Response to MAGA Trolls and Political Corruption

15:11 to 17:00

The conversation turns to Newsom’s responses to MAGA trolls and the ongoing corruption issues in Texas.

“We're going to neutralize whatever Abbott does next week or whenever they move forward the next special session.”
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0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump and his regime are frozen. They are stunned as Democrats are punching back as the opposition is growing and bullying Donald Trump and giving him a taste of his own medicine. You love to see it. I mean, California Governor Gavin Newsom, I think, is doing it the best right now, mocking Donald Trump with the exact same way that Donald Trump posts messages on social media. Like here's what California Governor Gavin Newsom posted last night. Wow. Tomorrow history will be made. Caroline Levitt. That's what he calls Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's lying chief propagandist. Caroline Levitt will have no answers for the supposed fake media about California's beautiful maps.

0:46Ben Meiselas:People are saying they are even the greatest maps ever created, even better than the Christopher Columbuses. Donald, the failure Trump, be warned. Tomorrow may be the worst day of your life, all because you missed the deadline. Liberation Day for America, GCN, the initials for California Governor Gavin Newsom. And Gavin Newsom, yes, or two days ago, was posting final warning, Donald, Donald, second to final warning, Donald, you are being warned, Donald, back off, stand down with trying to rig the maps for the midterm or else California will strike back and ruin your presidency and ruin your life, Donald.

1:27Ben Meiselas:The choice is yours. And then Donald Trump missed the deadline in California. Governor Gavin Newsom was like, you missed the deadline, Donald, just like in all of your failed businesses where you missed the deadlines that went bankrupt. Now I have no choice but to roll out the most beautiful maps and destroy your regime and crush you, Donald. Then California Governor Gavin Newsom posted this yesterday. Huge historic event. Thursday, 1130 a.m. Pacific in Los Angeles. A beautiful rally. Press conference with Gavin Christopher Newsom and strong Dems. Democrats will destroy Greg Abbott's totally rigged maps.

2:04Ben Meiselas:Tremendous work is being done. Donald Trump, the criminal president. I love that he calls him the criminal because he is a felon. He's a sexual abuser. He's a fraud. He's a bankruptor. Donald Trump, the criminal president, get ready for the most beautiful payback you've ever seen. Could be the worst day of your life, Donald, as your presidency ends. Dems retake Congress. America will be liberated. Liberation Day. Many are calling it. Thank you for your attention to this matter, GCN. These posts are absolutely chef's kiss. Brilliant. California Governor Newsom then posts, when Speaker Little Man Johnson, that's what he calls a bag of Mike Johnson.

2:46Ben Meiselas:When Speaker Little Man Johnson is standing in the unemployment line, he can thank Donald Taco J. Trump. Trump missed a simple deadline, something he has often done with his many failed businesses. Now California will fire him with new, more beautiful maps. Highly anticipated historic press conference with your favorite governor, Gavin Christopher Newsom. Thank you for your attention to this matter, GCN. Then this website goes, scoop. We're told California Governor Newsom, the California congressional delegation, and the California legislature will gather in Los Angeles tomorrow. So that's today at 1130 a.m.

3:29Ben Meiselas:for a high profile press conference to which Gavin Newsom posts Donald Trump is about to have a very bad day. Governor Newsom continues the onslaught against Donald Trump posting the following Drudge Report, California maps to end Trump presidency. And then Governor Newsom posts the following from Drudge Newsom, California to draw congressional maps to end Trump presidency poll. Only 31 % of Americans call Donald Trump honest. Who are those 31 % people? Like the guy's the biggest fraud and liar ever. How could your brains be so fried and such mush that you think Donald Trump tells the truth? Literally everything he says is a lie.

4:11Ben Meiselas:Speaker, there will be third impeachment if Dems take the house. Maga Mike Johnson's terrified. There will be a by the way, there should probably be 100 impeachments based on every single day. I think Donald Trump commits 100 impeachable offenses. I mean, by the way, you want to look at just the smallest things that get no attention at all. Like, OK, obviously, you know, Donald Trump violating law, declaring a trade war against the world, destroying the government infrastructure, everything that Doge did unlawfully sending the military against the American people, extorting foreign country. I mean, look, you could go on and on and on with giving Ghislaine Maxwell immunity and moving her to the facility in Texas.

4:57Ben Meiselas:I could go through all of those things right there. But I mean, just even think about J.D. Vance going and kayaking and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to raise a river in Ohio so he could have a better kayaking experience. I'll stay on that thread. Army Corps of Engineers. There's Donald Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water in California, northern California, just into farmland, nowhere connected to southern California after the fires were 100 percent contained. So Donald Trump could say he turned on a faucet in Canada and literally just dumped billions of gallons into random areas and harmed the farmers.

5:36Ben Meiselas:Anyway, I digress. Governor Newsom then posts. Anyone want to guess why Voldemort Stephen Miller does this? Will RT top replies. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, reveals that her husband Stephen Miller eats only mayonnaise. Governor Newsom then posts, this is an important and serious one we need to talk about. Governor Newsom posts, I just approved the deployment of California resources to Puerto Rico ahead of Tropical Storm. Aaron, we're glad to help coordinate life-saving responses to Americans in harm's way. Just think about that post. That's an important post, right? With all of Donald Trump talking about building 90 ,000 square foot ballrooms in the White House and Donald Trump destroying the Rose Garden and replacing it with some concrete patio area, with Donald Trump attacking our allies and meeting with Putin in Alaska.

6:31Ben Meiselas:I mean, have you heard Donald Trump talk about what steps he's doing, how he's marshalling resources to help Puerto Rico? I mean, Donald Trump before said the most heinous and despicable things about Puerto Rico. He called the island trash at a press conference, at a campaign event, and then doubled down on it. When there was the previous hurricane in Puerto Rico, literally thousands died. Thousands, thousands of people. How do we not remember this? Thousands of people died during the first Trump administration in the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico. and then Donald Trump chucked like paper towels at them.

7:05Ben Meiselas:Horrific, horrific stuff. But I like to see California Governor Gavin Newsom saying, in California, we're ready with our resources. We've approved our deployment of National Guard and people. We're going to help Puerto Rico because that's what we do in the United States of America. This episode is brought to you by PrizePix. Preseason football is underway and college football season is here. So don't miss any of the action this season on prize picks. As someone born on Long Island, y 'all know I can't wait to see what Justin Fields has in store this year. Prize picks is simple to play. Just pick more or less on two to six player stat projections.

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9:09Ben Meiselas:So once again, the only person who has the real data, according to Trump and Stephen Miller, it's Trump and Stephen Miller, right? The 2020 election was rigged, they say. The economic data is all false, all inaccurate. The job data is false. Inflation data is all just all false. The crime data showing crime is decreasing. That's all false. Everything's made up. Even if Trump talks about that data favorably from one press conference to the next, it's false when he doesn't like it. It's true when he likes it. Just constant gaslighting over and over again. And Governor Newsom goes gaslighting at its finest.

9:47Ben Meiselas:Governor Newsom continues to promote the big press conference taking place today. Governor Newsom writes how original proponents of California's independent redistricting commission know what's at stake. Donald Trump is trying to light our democracy on fire. We won't let them. Governor Newsom says good or we repost an article that says good government group backtracks amid redistricting fight won't oppose efforts counterbalancing Texas. The group common cause softened its stance on redistricting after previously equating Gavin Newsom with Texas Republicans. Now these groups that support independent commissions are saying, look, the way you're doing it openly, transparently, you putting it to the voters to decide and then only using it as a trigger in the event Texas does it.

10:35Ben Meiselas:We're okay with that now. California Governor Gavin Newsom says, TikTok Donald and posts a Fox news article, news in quotes. California governor demands Trump abandon Texas redistricting push, threatens ballot measure in response. And then in response to the news that Harvard might capitulate and give the White House, give Trump$500 million in a settlement that will literally sell the soul of Harvard. Governor Newsom's basically saying anyone who does that deal from the president down needs to resign. You need to be fired. Get the hell out of Harvard. If you're this week, if you're this much of a traitor and frankly, people who go to Harvard should be at this point livid at what the administration would be doing.

11:25Ben Meiselas:If they go down this route, Newsom writes, you don't work with Donald Trump only for Donald Trump. Looks like Harvard has chosen to surrender. Alan Garber must resign an absolute failure of leadership that will have demonstrable impacts to higher education across our country. He should be ashamed. California will never bend the knee. And then he makes it very clear that when it comes to UCLA, because Donald Trump went after UCLA, Newsom says, never under my watch, never under my watch. California's public institutions will never bend the knee. We're never going to pay you a penny, Donald. California already pays the federal government $80 billion more than it takes in.

12:07Ben Meiselas:Whereas Texas is a taker state, which takes$20 billion more than it gives the federal government. The blue states literally fund the red states and subsidize it. So while all of these red MAGA politicians want to attack blue states, your states are bankrupt failed states without blue states. And in fact, without blue counties, Los Angeles County is like the fourth largest donor, if it was a state, to the federal government, just the county alone. Governor Newsom goes, California's public institutions will never bend the knee to the criminal president, Donald Trump. We are not weak. We will not bow down to this extortion.

12:48Ben Meiselas:Governor Newsom then posts, Donald Trump, the criminal president, will lose in court on his pathetic assault on California. We will not bend the knee in response to a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA last month, delivering a major setback in efforts to try to extort UCLA. Governor Newsom then posts this statistics when CNBC announced that Donald Trump's tariffs and the handling of the economy have caused inflation to rise by 3.1 percent, much higher than expected. This is terrible. Newsom goes Donald Trump's economy, higher inflation, higher prices and tax cuts for billionaires.

13:32Ben Meiselas:It should be noted as well, too, that inflation right now, it's imputed at that much. But actually, because Trump fired all of the data people, the consumer price index, which keeps track of the price of things, it's not ingesting the data anymore or most of the data. So it's making estimates, not actual getting the data. So I think that when the Trump regime is estimating, call me conspiratorial here, but when they get rid of the data and they say, here's what we think it is. And just on my own experience, going shopping and seeing what things cost, I think it's a lot more than 3.1%. That's just my view, my opinion.

14:15Ben Meiselas:That's what I'm going to share. Governor Newsom goes, while Donald Trump needlessly deploys the national guard in DC, where crime is at a 30-year low, California continues to bring down crime in nearly every major category. No one should look for advice from a felon who pardoned 1 ,500 insurrectionists on day one. What Trump is doing in D.C. is the same playbook he used in Los Angeles. His authoritarian orders are a hit to the foundation of our nation and a slap in the face to democracy as we know it. And Gavin Newsom, if you've noticed, has switched gears on the way he's doing his podcast right now.

14:52Ben Meiselas:And his podcast are focused now purely on fighting back against the Trump regime. Here he posts this clip from this week. Let's play it. Later this week, we're going to announce the campaign. Next week, the legislature is going to move this forward with two thirds. We're going to get it in a special election on November 4th, and we're going to fight fire with fire. We're going to neutralize whatever Abbott does next week or whenever they move forward the next special session. We'll talk about that in a second, the likelihood that they ultimately will be successful in Texas and California will move forward.

15:26Ben Meiselas:Governor Newsom then responds to one of these Trump troll accounts called Wall Street Apes, who now attacks Governor Newsom in the replies to which Governor Newsom goes, we've turned a MAGA troll account, Wall Street Apes, into a reply guy. You're pathetic and weak, Wall Street apes. He goes, love that. And then here he is posting the most recent podcast as well, where he brought on the heroic Texas state representatives fighting back against the Trump regime. Let's play it. Paxson's just declared 13 seats vacant just seconds ago. The United State of Ken Paxson, dictator in chief, just with this kind of declaration.

16:11I mean, guys, We're at a point where nothing surprises you. No. I love it. I say that and you're all just non-plus. You know, and it is frightening because you bring up Ken Paxton. I was also on the impeachment team where he was put before the Senate. The Senate had an opportunity to try to do the right thing. It was their Republican colleagues that were saying, hey, this guy is corrupt. Yeah, it was two years ago. But, you know, it's a challenge because we have two split courts, the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals. when the Court of Criminal Appeals, all Republicans, when three of them took a stand and gave a ruling opposed to Paxton on constitutional grounds, he went after them politically.

16:51And unfortunately, he won. And that's what we talk about right now. The guardrails are missing. The guardrails within the Republican Party are missing.

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From the publisher

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on bullying the bully and how Democrats are now using Trump’s own playbook against him to expose his weakness and Meiselas shows how this tactic has been perfected by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

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