The Great America Show - May 02, 2025


Friday Update： May 2, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

159.31178

Word count

1,071

Sentence count

87

Harmful content

Hate speech

3

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Summary

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The economy continues to defy the doomsayers and all the people rooting against America. President Trump strips Harvard of their tax-exempt status. Fake news has no boundaries, and they ve even gone so far as to make up their own fake news segments. Elon Musk has been accused of stealing data from the U.S. government.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, May 2nd.
00:00:04.400 Happy Friday, folks.
00:00:06.040 U.S. has added 177,000 jobs for the month of April.
00:00:10.280 Better than expected as the economy continues to defy the doomsayers and all the people rooting against America.
00:00:18.280 The 177 jobs workers added to the payrolls in April from new Department of Labor statistics out today.
00:00:25.680 Unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2%.
00:00:28.320 Defying predictions of labor market sluggishness following President Trump's announcements of tariffs.
00:00:34.840 Economists predicted just 130,000 jobs would be added.
00:00:38.140 President Trump beating that expectation.
00:00:40.840 Tom Homan, he's had enough of the Marxist Dems.
00:00:43.680 He's had enough of the RINOs. 1.00
00:00:45.420 He's had enough of the people who are trying to get in the way of him doing his job.
00:00:50.720 Tom Homan was asked the other day what he's going to do about these Marxists in sanctuary cities
00:00:55.800 who are protecting these illegal aliens in this country who are here illegally.
00:01:00.200 Tom Homan did not mince words.
00:01:02.480 Take a listen to this reporter asking the question.
00:01:05.560 And more importantly, take a listen to Tom Homan's response.
00:01:09.160 So, the president signed an executive order just this week threatening to defund sanctuary cities for their policies.
00:01:17.860 Why not just arrest the leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens, actually terrorists, from deportation?
00:01:25.980 Wait till you see what's coming.
00:01:27.120 For those of you who weren't able to make out what Homan said there at the end, I'll repeat it.
00:01:32.580 Wait till you see what's coming.
00:01:35.200 Homan not ruling out, arresting mayors and more judges who want to come and disrupt America, 0.77
00:01:43.480 who want to protect illegal aliens.
00:01:45.520 So be it.
00:01:46.640 President Trump, another one who's tired of everyone standing in his way of following truth, justice, and the American way.
00:01:53.560 President Trump announcing this afternoon he's stripping Harvard of their tax-exempt status
00:01:58.760 after the woke college has defied five key demands from Trump and has decided to sue instead.
00:02:05.500 Now, the demands from the Trump administration were nothing crazy.
00:02:09.040 It wasn't like fork over a trillion dollars or do this or do that.
00:02:13.500 I'm going to tell you what they were.
00:02:15.640 Number one, shutter all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
00:02:19.400 Number two, a university-wide, quote, viewpoint audit to eliminate leftist ideologies that are taking over the classroom.
00:02:28.060 Number three, forced hiring to ensure that conservatives are getting representation on campuses
00:02:34.700 and are getting equal practices as the Marxist Dems are getting.
00:02:38.680 Number four, defunding and disbanding of radical pro-Hamas student groups.
00:02:44.300 And lastly, a complete transparency on foreign funding sources.
00:02:48.380 Is that too much to ask for?
00:02:51.960 They don't pay taxes.
00:02:53.200 They're tax-exempt.
00:02:54.960 And they only had to follow five simple rules and they couldn't do it.
00:02:57.820 They decided to sue instead.
00:02:59.500 Now, after Harvard refused, President Trump's administration on April 15th
00:03:02.900 froze $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard due to its coddling of anti-Semitism and bigotry on campus.
00:03:10.360 That's fine.
00:03:11.220 What do they say?
00:03:11.920 F around and find out and find out they will.
00:03:14.520 And folks, it seems that fake news has no shame, bears no boundaries.
00:03:19.060 60 Minutes has picked up 13 Emmy nominations, including segments where they selectively edited and spliced
00:03:25.020 their Kamala Harris interview before the election.
00:03:28.720 In the run-up to the 2024 election, fake news 60 Minutes was caught editing Kamala's answers
00:03:33.320 to make her sound coherent and normal and not completely off the wagon drunk.
00:03:38.560 Now, this is the interview that Donald Trump sued for $10 billion for deceptively editing.
00:03:44.940 CBS is now considering settling that $10 billion lawsuit bought by Trump over that deceptive 60-minute interview with Kamala Harris.
00:03:53.340 The FCC has also opened an investigation into CBS and their questionable news tactics and news reporting.
00:04:00.940 We'll leave it at that.
00:04:01.760 Democratic, Marxist, Chinese spy, whatever you want to call him, Eric Swalwell is vowing to use subpoena power to investigate.
00:04:12.760 You ready for this, folks?
00:04:14.480 Election fraud.
00:04:16.440 That's right.
00:04:17.860 Eric Swalwell is wondering, or maybe saying, that Elon Musk used Starlink to rig the election for Donald Trump in 2024.
00:04:28.900 These are the same people who, for years, said Republicans were election deniers.
00:04:36.780 They were this.
00:04:37.620 They were that.
00:04:38.420 The January 6thers are criminals. 1.00
00:04:40.500 All for questioning an election?
00:04:43.080 Take a listen to Fang Fang Eric Swalwell's interview on a recent podcast.
00:04:48.360 Foreign enemies allegedly stole U.S. data.
00:04:50.940 The leak came through Elon Musk's Starlink.
00:04:52.840 I mean, I'm sure you've heard people, based on all of this information that's happened since then, wonder if 2024 was secure.
00:05:00.800 But more importantly, Representative, about 2026 and 2028.
00:05:04.920 Can you talk about that a little bit?
00:05:06.600 Do you have concerns?
00:05:08.420 Yeah.
00:05:09.540 Elon Musk has done nothing in the last five months to make me think that we shouldn't ask questions about what the hell he was doing in 2024.
00:05:17.820 And maybe we gave him too much of the benefit of the doubt after the election, but the way that he's conducted himself with Doge and the way that he's exposed us to so many hackers outside
00:05:31.940 and the way that he's taken data, you know, from Americans, from our records, whether it's Social Security or health care records,
00:05:41.400 the only way that we can understand, you know, what the hell Elon Musk has been doing is to be in the majority.
00:05:48.620 We're just a couple of seats away from doing that.
00:05:51.140 But with the subpoena power.
00:05:52.660 That's the vicious circle that people are worried about.
00:05:55.080 You know, what can what can we do to make sure 2026 and 2028?
00:05:58.940 You cannot simply make this stuff up.
00:06:02.300 I know you hear me say that saying a lot, folks, but you really can't make this stuff up.
00:06:07.820 Eric Swalwell is saying the election may have been stolen.
00:06:12.340 He's an election denier.
00:06:13.820 Add him to the list, folks.
00:06:15.020 And you be careful in 2026 and 2028, the Republicans may steal another one, just like they did in 2020 with the mail-in ballots and the election machines.
00:06:25.000 Oh, wait, that wasn't the Republicans.
00:06:27.100 That was the Democrats.
00:06:29.000 That's what gave us Joe Biden for four years.
00:06:31.000 Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and every day for The Great America Show and The Great America Show Midday Updates.
00:06:36.600 We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.
00:06:40.660 I'm John Fossil with this Midday Update.
00:06:42.460 Have a great day, everybody.
00:06:43.300 Have a great day, everybody.