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5 min readFox News Hosts Celebrate at Trump-Xi Dinner While Their Audience Struggles
The MeidasTouch Podcast zeroes in on a single, damning contradiction: Fox News hosts who built their careers on anti-communist red-scare rhetoric spent a lavish state dinner partying with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House—and then bragged about it on air. The episode argues that this exposes Fox as a propaganda operation whose hosts openly mock their own audience's struggles while cozying up to the very authoritarian regime they claim to oppose.
The Dinner and the Double Standard
The episode centers on Donald Trump's state dinner for Xi Jinping, an event the host describes as a "golden age" celebration thrown while American families face 7.5% mortgage rates, record-high diesel and gas prices, and impossible choices between chemotherapy and groceries. The host is incredulous that Fox personalities—Laura Ingram, Jesse Watters, Bret Baier, and others—attended and then used their shows to relive the experience rather than explain why a president who campaigned on China hawkishness was rolling out the red carpet.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:45) **Opening: The Trump-Xi Spectacle and Fox News Hypocrisy** - The host frames the episode around the lavish state dinner for Xi Jinping and the immediate shift in Fox News hosts' rhetoric from anti-communism to giddy fanboying.
- 2 (05:09) **Laura Ingram's "Epic" Admission** - The host plays a clip of Laura Ingram describing the state dinner as "historic, dramatic, epic," despite her usual criticism of the CCP.
- 3 (06:15) **Jesse Watters' Oligarch Hangout** - The host plays a clip of Jesse Watters bragging about attending the dinner, name-dropping Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Bezos.
- 4 (08:10) **Ingram Defends Trump's "Vibrancy" and the "Golden Age"** - The host plays another clip where Laura Ingram praises Trump as "in charge" and "vibrant" next to Xi.
- 5 (09:12) **Jesse Watters' Embarrassing Drink Story** - The host plays Watters' anecdote about asking Pete Hegseth to hold his drink for a photo, which Hegseth refuses.
- 6 (11:10) **Fox Hosts' Social Media Gloating** - The host shifts to showing how Fox hosts like Rachel Campos-Duffy are posting celebratory photos from the dinner on social media.
- 7 (13:37) **The Hegseth-Watters Photo Op (Continued)** - The host replays and re-emphasizes the Watters/Hegseth drink-holding story, labeling Hegseth a "war criminal."
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Show Notes
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News hosts reacting on live television to Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as Trump's handling of the visit comes under scrutiny and the network struggles to defend what unfolded.
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