MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports how even Fox News is puzzled that Trump has broken key campaign promises and Meiselas interviews new DNC Chair Ken Martin about what Democrats can do fight back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: How has Trump failed to deliver on his promises?
Prices are not getting lower. Housing is not getting more affordable. There's not peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. It seems that every day Donald Trump breaks another 20 promises. And this is hurting Americans, hurting Americans in the pocketbook, hurting America's standing internationally. Folks, even Fox is turning against Trump on some of their more newsy segments I get here.
Watch what they said earlier in the day. Let's play it.
Chapter 2: What issues are Americans facing with rising prices?
A lot of people in the country are talking about eggs and the lack thereof right now. I have a sister who lives in Austin, Texas. They said they can't find eggs anywhere, Costco and beyond. Although I went and looked for, you can go about 30 minutes and you can find eggs on the shelf. Egg prices are, there's no doubt, they are way up.
I know anybody who does the grocery shopping that's listening to this is going, they're crazy.
I know.
In fact, I mean, the prices that we have here, that's an average. I feel like most people are going, the eggs I see on my shelf are way worse.
And I enjoy my eggs, too. So this is certainly. And it's not just egg prices. It's all prices in general. You're seeing MAGA people are sending us messages as well like this right here, you know, saying what's going on with these egg prices and they're complaining.
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Chapter 3: How is the political landscape affecting everyday Americans?
And then you even have MAGA Republican Congress members who are going on and they're talking about their priorities and they're saying Americans need to experience pain. paying for Elon Musk, for Donald Trump. The budget's going to be filled with pain. Here, play this clip.
See a menu of options that'll come out in March, and it will be littered with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are going to really not be for. But hey, if we don't sacrifice, if we don't understand that this is going to be a painful process, nothing's going to change.
I'm joined by the newly elected chair of the DNC, Ken Martin. You got your handful, Mr. Martin. What do you say in response to all of that?
Chapter 4: What are Ken Martin's views on Trump's administration?
Well, look, it's only been three weeks and Elon Musk has already shown that he's the worst president that the US has ever had. And so in all honesty, I mean, this is the guy that was put in charge to bring efficiency to our government. The last thing he cares about is actually helping improve people's lives. Him and Donald Trump,
Basically, you have this government now that's been bought by the billionaires. The billionaires have one thing in mind, which is to make the most amount of profit they can off the backs of hardworking men and women in this country. You know, I don't know how in the hell changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is going to help anyone in this country right now.
i don't know how you know eliminating the free tax filing system is going to help you know middle class americans and working class americans who file their taxes for free right now it's only going to help the billionaires who own turbo tax as an example right you know elon musk now controls all of our social security number has access to almost all of our private data what do you think he's going to do with that as a tech pirate he's going to
take that data and he's gonna sell it to the highest bidder. I mean, this is what our country has become. You know, this billionaire cabinet is worth $460 billion. Not the top 1%, by the way, it's the top 100th of 1% has now bought our federal government and they could give a damn about actually helping working people in this country. And clearly the last three weeks have proven that.
You know, you can tell that it's even permeating the Fox bubble, their echo chamber, where they had to discuss it. And then, you know, the pivot is we got to feel pain. Like if you're paid, this is what they're saying on the magazine. If you're a patriot, you got to you got to sacrifice for Donald Trump and and Elon Musk Americans.
I mean, didn't Donald Trump say he was going to lower prices on day one, that there was going to be more jobs sold? much jobs. You weren't even going to know what to do with all of these jobs. Didn't he say there was going to be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours? So what do you say to all of these Americans who are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what, what?
You're talking about, I think Trump was talking about on Friday, plastic straws, the big one. Everybody thinks about how much we need plastic straws. What do you say to the American public?
Well, again, I mean, look, he said he was going to bring down the cost of goods on day one. He hasn't done that. In fact, cost of eggs have increased dramatically. He's done nothing at all in the first three weeks, either him or his co-president, Elon Musk, to actually bring down the cost of goods in this country and to help everyday Americans who are working their asses off to get ahead in life.
You know, he made a lot of promises. At this point, he hasn't delivered on any one of them. He seems to be focused on anything but helping the American people at this point, only trying to help his billionaire friends make as much money as they can. And as you said, and you heard from those clips, inflict as much pain on the American people as possible.
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Chapter 5: What can Democrats do to fight back under Ken Martin's leadership?
government, make as much money as they can and do nothing, absolutely nothing to make a difference in my life or your life.
So, Ken, you're in the hot seat now, one of the most important jobs, DNC chair, also sometimes one of the most thankless jobs as the DNC chair, but incredibly important. And, you know, so the question I get asked, and I know the question I'm sure you're hearing right away and you were hearing as you were running for DNC chair is, where are the Democrats? What are the Democrats going to do?
When are we going to see them fighting? And people don't just want to hear what's Well, Republicans control the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court. Look, I think we need to educate people that that's the reality. But I think people want to see fighters. They want to see people out there. What do you say to people when they say, Ken, congratulations? What are you going to do for me now?
Well, as I said just a couple days ago, right after I was elected, they asked me, what's your message for Donald Trump? And my message is we're coming. We're taking the gloves off. We're going to throw a punch and we're going to land a punch. That's what I'm bringing to this. At the end of the day, we need everyone to stand up.
Right now, when the stakes are so high for the American people, if people around this country don't see us standing up and fighting back, fighting back and pushing back hard, how in the hell are they gonna believe that when they put us back in power that we're gonna fight for their lives then, right?
And so it's incumbent upon us right now at this moment to stand up to the excesses and extremes of this administration that are not only shattering lives of people throughout this country, but they're destroying communities. So look, we have to resist, But we can do both at the same time.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, which is we can also define ourselves while we're also resisting Donald Trump. And that was one of the lessons of the last election, frankly, in my opinion, is we didn't do a good enough job of giving people in this country a sense of who we are as Democrats, what we're fighting for and why. So we've got to do both.
But let me tell you right now, what we've seen these last few weeks should incense all Americans. And it's incumbent upon Democrats to get themselves off the mat, dust themselves off, and get themselves in the fight. This is the fight of our life right now. And people across the country are watching. They're watching us closely. They want to see us fight.
In 2016, someone said to me, the Republicans are shameless, but the Democrats are spineless. It's time that the Democratic Party grows a spine and starts throwing a punch.
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