In short
The hosts argue Donald Trump is panicking and failing, while U.S. policy is portrayed as capitulating to Russia and undermining allies. They also discuss Gaza ceasefire collapse, U.S. absence from G20, economic and market claims, and Trump’s alleged foreign-policy giveaways (Saudi arms/AI chips).
Guests
None mentioned in the transcript; it appears to be a solo/hosted commentary episode.
Key claims
Trump adopted a Russian-origin Ukraine surrender plan (via “Google Translate” allegations); Gaza “peace deal” wasn’t a ceasefire; Hamas and Israel never signed a real agreement; U.S. boycotted G20 and Europe/Africa proceeded without it; Rubio/Whitcoff are linked to the surrender plan.
Notable examples
G20 “G19” declaration in South Africa; Geneva meeting with Zelensky/coalition; Gaza deaths including children; Trump posts about tariffs, inflation, jobs, Bitcoin crash; Saudi visit with F-35 and “35,000 NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips”; Bolsonaro arrest conversation.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Paranoia and Foreign Policy Failures
0:05 to 4:30
Discussion on Trump's mental state and foreign policy blunders, including Ukraine and Gaza.
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Analyzing Trump's Economic Claims
4:30 to 10:20
Critique of Trump’s statements on tariffs, inflation, and the economy.
“Let's take a look at what he's been posting.”
Trump's Disconnected Reality
10:20 to 14:00
Exploration of Trump's comments about various political figures and his actions amidst national issues.
“I think he said, I'm going to go out and play golf with Jack Nicholson.”
Criticism of Massey and Trump's Priorities
14:00 to 14:22
Discussion about Massey's resignation and Trump's golf outings during crises.
“And once I left her, she resigned because she would never have survived the primary.”
Democrats' Success in School Board Races
14:22 to 15:27
Overview of Democrats winning school board races and the implications of right-wing extremism.
“And also here's Donald Trump right here talking about, he's got to go golf, everybody.”
Alarming Allegations Against RFK Jr.
15:27 to 16:30
Discussion of RFK Jr.'s controversial text messages and health advice amidst a scandal.
“school boards across the country because you know what?”
Usha Vance's Wedding Ring and Hypocrisy
16:30 to 17:16
Comments on Usha Vance's missing wedding ring and hypocrisy in public figures.
“We'll keep you posted every step of the way.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:01Ben Meiselas:This episode is brought to you by Fox One. Watch all 104 matches of the FIFA World Cup live in 4K for just$19.99 a month with three days free. Build your own multi-view, choose up to three streams, and follow player spotlights. Stay on top of every moment with live stats, highlights, and instant replays. The FIFA World Cup, streaming live on Fox One. Offers a subject to change. See fox.com for complete terms and conditions. Donald Trump is suffering physically. Donald Trump is suffering mentally. Donald Trump has been suffering from massive paranoia, lashing out like a lunatic all last night into the early hours of the morning.
0:44Ben Meiselas:And Trump has been exposed for adopting a plan for Ukraine to surrender that came directly from Russia. It seems that Donald Trump and his regime literally used Google Translate to turn the Russian plan and then say, this is the American plan, Zelensky, you better accept this or else. Then you have Donald Trump having to recognize that the so-called peace deal that he did in Gaza was never a peace deal at all. It was never even a ceasefire because Israel continued to kill Palestinians. Hamas stated that it was never going to disarm and reasserted control. Netanyahu was never agreeable to a two-state solution, and neither Netanyahu nor Hamas ever even signed the peace deal to begin with.
1:35Ben Meiselas:There were 25, 26 Palestinians, including three children who were killed yesterday. Hamas puts out a statement saying there is no longer any ceasefire at all. And then you have the United States refusing to show up and affirmatively boycotting the G20 meeting that was held in South Africa. And guess what? President Ramaphosa of South Africa and all the other attendees of the G20, they did not give a crap that the United States was there. In fact, they made a powerful statement. Normally, the G20 declaration comes at the end of the two-day conference. At the very beginning, the G20 minus the United States, so the G19, if you will, they put out a declaration immediately once the G19 started committing themselves to multilateralism, inclusivity, and a world of togetherness.
2:31Ben Meiselas:And they did that as a direct shot across the bow to Donald Trump and his regime. The statement was essentially, we don't need the United States here. In fact, we're better off with the United States gone because we could actually get things done when we don't have to focus on the drama and the golfing and the being a Putin bootlicker by Donald Trump. So that's what went down in South Africa while the United States was nowhere to be found. And now we were hearing rumblings. Well, maybe the U.S. wants to send at least someone to attend some of the sideline conferences at the G20. How utterly pathetic that the United States did not even show up.
3:12Ben Meiselas:Also, today in Geneva, there's going to be an important meeting amongst, I guess, America's former allies, the coalition of the willing. Europe's going to be there with Zelensky, with Canada, with Australia. The support for Ukraine against the United States, Russian plan of surrender has never been stronger and more powerful. And then Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, and Steve Whitcoff say they're going to be there, I suppose, in Geneva. And they're going to have a lot of explaining to do as what they basically adopted the Russian plan for Ukrainian surrender. And then Rubio told senators who were at this Halifax convention in Canada that, oh, actually, Rubio gave the senators a call and said that this was all a big misunderstanding and that this was the Russian plan, but America rejected the plan.
4:05Ben Meiselas:But then Rubio responded right away, nope, this is the America plan. So Rubio quite literally adopted the Russian plan and you took the Russian plan and you translated it into English and it's just basically full capitulation for Ukraine. Just so utterly despicable. As I mentioned at the outset, Trump is ranting and raving like a lunatic, stewing in his own freaking paranoia. Let's take a look at what he's been posting. He goes, we're taking in trillions of dollars in tariffs and investment dollars from foreign lands because of tariffs. Pause. Where is it, Donald? Where's all of this money? Is it arriving in the treasury?
4:43Ben Meiselas:Where's all these trillions of dollars? Because right now the deficit year over year is higher than it was under former President Biden. Right now, America's debt spiraling out of control, increasing at a rate far greater than under former President Biden. And so tell us, where's this money coming in? Because you would think if there's all this investment, wouldn't that be reducing our deficit? Wouldn't that be leading to jobs? Why are there so much job losses taking place if there's all this investment? Wouldn't we see construction, manufacturing, tourism? Wouldn't we see all these sectors up?
5:18Ben Meiselas:Oh, but wait, that's not happening. Why? Because you're a fraud, a liar, a scammer, a criminal, a sexual abuser. Then Donald Trump goes, I have stopped five of the eight wars directly because of the threat of tariffs. If they don't stop fighting or better yet, if they start, which wars are those, Donald? What are the wars that you're talking about? Because let's be clear, right now, the situation in Gaza is even more dire than it was before. And that is saying something. And certainly you promised you would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and that didn't happen. So what the hell are you actually doing?
5:53Ben Meiselas:You're just taking credit for what? Wars that started and had ceasefires having nothing to do with you. in other areas of the world that aren't even ceasefires. You take credit for bringing peace to Congo when there are dozens of people dying there all the time as well. You're just a liar in every respect. Donald Trump goes on to say, there is almost no inflation and the worst in USA history under sleepy Joe Biden. The stock market all time high for the 48th time in nine months. We also talk about the fact that Bitcoin has absolutely crashed. What was it at? $84 ,000 recently. lost what 25 % of its value in like the last six months alone what most states are in recession recessionary territory 80 % of the United States is in a recession and what are you bragging about right now you that you think inflation is down anyone any normal person who goes out and buys things knows things are significantly more expensive right now than last year year over year inflation is 3 % higher.
6:56Ben Meiselas:So 3 % more than former president Biden. I think it's actually far more than that. Then he goes, Donald Trump posts this promises made promises, kept paychecks, rising inflation, falling jobs being created. You can't just say the thing and make us be like, Oh, he's saying it. So it must be true. We know how bad the things are. Oh, by the way, in that previous post, Donald Trump was attacking right wingers like Leonard Leo, the Koch brothers, and he goes, and all these other slime balls that rip off America. You know, one of the interesting things, it's because of the Koch brothers and Leonard Leo and people that Donald Trump are attacking that we have this right-wing extremist Supreme Court that is allowing Donald Trump to basically try to demolish our country and install his authoritarianism over our democracy, over our constitution.
7:47Ben Meiselas:And then he goes and attacks those very people. The same way Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she feels like a battered wife. I also find it interesting too, right? That both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Liz Cheney leave the Republican party for like the exact opposite reasons. On the one hand, he pushes Liz Cheney out for leading an insurrection against the country. Then Marjorie Taylor Greene, who supports Donald Trump's insurrection, leaves the party because Donald Trump attacks her because she says that things aren't less, aren't affordable anymore. And she says that Donald Trump should release the Epstein files.
8:24Ben Meiselas:And that was too much for Donald Trump. Donald Trump posted this as well. Golden age. It's a golden age, everybody. He posts this as well. Good news. The cost of Thanksgiving has gone down. It hasn't gone down. Just stop saying that. The level of gaslighting just makes you look and you are just a freaking psychopath. We know that the price of things is up. So stop saying it's down. If you want to seriously address these issues instead of affirmatively harm them, just act like a grownup. Act like a serious adult. Behave like that, please. Even despite the fact that I despise the individual, I just want to see someone behave like a freaking grownup in that White House so that the American people don't have to suffer, don't have to worry about their health care being ripped away.
9:09Ben Meiselas:20 to 30 million Americans head into Thanksgiving worried, and rightfully so, that their healthcare is going to be ripped away. Worried that they may not have enough money to pay their rent in this disastrous Trump economy. That they can't afford anything on the Thanksgiving table, so it's going to be empty this year. And while all of that's taking place, Donald Trump is bringing in the crown prince of Saudi Arabia to the White House, basically giving a state visit to the crown prince who technically isn't even the head of state yet of Saudi Arabia because there's still a king there. And then Donald Trump gives them our F-35 fighter jets.
9:47Ben Meiselas:He gives Saudi Arabia 35 ,000 NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips. That's the most advanced AI chip out there. Some of our most significant national secrets, Trump just gives them to Saudi Arabia. And meanwhile, the Trump organization. Donald Trump's family business is involved in billion dollar deals with Saudi Arabia, with the Saudi Arabian PIF, their private investment fund and DAR, one of the subsidiaries that deals with real estate. This was Donald Trump yesterday as he was leaving the White House to go play more golf. I think he said, I'm going to go out and play golf with Jack Nicholson. I mean, he's going to play golf over there.
10:29Ben Meiselas:And when Trump was leaving, first off, what the hell is he even wearing? Is this the post-Mamdani Donald Trump fashionista look right there? Is this when Donald Trump now puts perfume on world leaders in the Oval Office too, like the leader of Syria who used to be the leader of Al Qaeda? Is that his move right now? Anyway, bizarre outfit by him, but let's not get distracted by that. Donald Trump says that he had a great conversation yesterday with the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who Donald Trump didn't realize was arrested yesterday by the Brazilian authorities. Remember, he was convicted by their Supreme Court of leading the insurrection against Brazil, another insurrectionist criminal sentenced to what, 24, 27 years in prison in Brazil.
11:18Ben Meiselas:And he was arrested yesterday because he was trying to escape from prison. He was trying to escape from house arrest before he had to show up for prison. And basically Donald Trump admits what? That he was talking to the president of Brazil when the president of Brazil was trying to escape. That's not suspicious. Of course, it's suspicious. Here, listen to Donald Trump play this clip right here. Do you have any comment about Bolsonaro's arrest? A former Brazilian president. So I spoke last night to the gentleman you just referred to, and we're going to be meeting, I believe, in the very near future.
11:55Sir, are you willing about the president being arrested today? What? Any comment about the former Brazilian president being arrested today? No, I don't know anything about it. Sir, are you willing to hurt the government? I haven't heard. Mr. President, are you willing? I didn't hear. Is that what happened? Yes. Mr. President. Yes. Mr. President. That's too bad. That's too bad. No, I just think it's too bad.
12:17Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump admits that the Russian plan that America adopted, it was guy Kirill Dimitriou, Russia's, Russia, the head of Russia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, the special envoy to the US. This guy who's should be banned from even being in the US was here chilling, hanging out with Republican lawmakers. And he was working on this deal with Steve Whitcoff to force a surrender of Ukraine, where Ukraine would basically give all of its Eastern territory and Ukraine would have to drop its military essentially and could never join NATO. Like it was literally every one of Russia's demands. And Trump's acting like at the same time, you have Rubio saying that this was not the America plan to United States senators.
13:05Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's like, yeah, this is our plan. Of course, it's our plan. Here, play this clip right here.
13:14to Ukraine? No, not my mind. No, we'd like to get the peace. It should have happened a long time ago. The Ukraine war with Russia should have never happened. If I were president, it never would have happened. We're trying to get it ended. One way or the other, we have to get it ended. So we're working.
13:38Then he can continue to fight his little heart out.
13:44Ben Meiselas:And this is what Donald Trump said about Marjorie Taylor Greene and that bizarre outfit of his. Here play this clip. Are you willing to forgive Congresswoman Taylor Greene? Forgive for what? No, I just disagreed with her philosophy. She started backing perhaps the worst Republican congressman in our history. This stupid person named Massey. And I said, go your own way. And once I left her, she resigned because she would never have survived the primary. But I think she's a nice person. Okay, thank you very much. And also here's Donald Trump right here talking about, he's got to go golf, everybody.
14:27Ben Meiselas:He's got an important golf outing. While the American people are suffering, he's got an important golf outing. Here, play this clip right here. We're going to Andrews Air Force Base to produce the work, especially for our great airport. We're going to do some pick-ups of the base with the team. We're going to try and reinstitute the golf course. We've got meeting with the great Jack Nicklaus. A few other things I want to mention right now that I think are important. Politico is reporting how Democrats had a clean sweep of all of the school board races across the country. You know how the MAGA Republicans and the Moms of Liberty put in those radical right-wing extremists who did the book burning, the book banning, the anti-climate change, the like anti-equality stuff.
15:13Ben Meiselas:Democrats finally are focusing on local races, finally, and they won big from Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio. Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns and basically had a clean sweep of school boards across the country because you know what? American families don't want these right-wing maniacs interfering in their homes, burning their books, imposing their bizarre views of anti-vax and imposing their hateful ideology and their just despicable behavior. So you have that taking place. And while I guess we're on the topic right here of anti-vax, I do want to mention as well this alarming story that we're learning about.
16:04Ben Meiselas:So maybe they heard this reporter, Olivia Nuzi, who seemed to be having an affair with RFK Jr. while she was engaged. But RFK Jr. in these text messages with Olivia Nuzi talked about something called, I've never heard this term before, but felching. He said that they're going to do felching together. And that, I don't even want to say what the hell it means. You could Google it. It's gross. And RFK Jr. is the guy who's giving health advice. And I can't even say what it means. In any event, Usha Vance, J.D. Vance's wife, says that the reason why she doesn't wear her wedding ring after she's been seen numerous times not wearing a wedding ring, well, the White House put out a statement and said, she's a mother of three young children and she does a lot of dishes and she gives a lot of baths.
16:58Ben Meiselas:And so she forgets her ring. And so that's what was going on there. Wow. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Don't Google felt. Don't Google it. Don't do not. Do not Google it. I don't even know why I brought that up on this one. I think it's the hypocrisy that someone like RFK is out there saying, here's what you need to do while doing that with, or talking about that with an engagement. I'm not even going to go there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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