Ben Meiselas (host)

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1,511 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 2 Jun

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · GOP Leaders Implode on Sunday Shows as Trump Tanks Party · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

and he's asked about Donald Trump calling the entire Somalian community garbage, saying they're garbage people.

Again, clearly racist and xenophobic and hateful, but Trump's a racist, xenophobic, hateful person.

So what do you have to say about that, Senator Curtis, MAGA Republican Senator Curtis?

And he's like, well, I don't love that language, but this is what the American people voted for.

We wanted to experience pain, so we're getting the pain that we deserve.

Here, play this clip.

Right.

And the best thing I can do is set my example.

And I think all of us need to wake up every morning, look in the mirror and say, what are we doing?

What am I doing specifically today to make this country a better country, to make all of our immigrants feel more welcome?

That's what we've always had.

And I think if more of us would do that, it would matter less what individuals said.

So, you know, it wasn't very long ago, just a little year ago, that we elected him.

And we knew very well what we were electing at the time.

The country wanted a disruptor.

And he's put disruptors into place, Tom Homo and things like that.

And that disruption is very, very painful.

But you have to remember, the reason I think the country went that direction is they were very uncomfortable with a number of things we were doing in this country, and we wanted a disruptor.

And for good or bad, that's what disruption brings.

And they bring on Tom Cotton.

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