Friday Update: May 2, 2025
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Summary
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.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, May 2nd.
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U.S. has added 177,000 jobs for the month of April.
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Better than expected as the economy continues to defy the doomsayers and all the people rooting against America.
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The 177 jobs workers added to the payrolls in April from new Department of Labor statistics out today.
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Defying predictions of labor market sluggishness following President Trump's announcements of tariffs.
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Economists predicted just 130,000 jobs would be added.
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Tom Homan, he's had enough of the Marxist Dems.
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He's had enough of the people who are trying to get in the way of him doing his job.
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Tom Homan was asked the other day what he's going to do about these Marxists in sanctuary cities
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who are protecting these illegal aliens in this country who are here illegally.
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Take a listen to this reporter asking the question.
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And more importantly, take a listen to Tom Homan's response.
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So, the president signed an executive order just this week threatening to defund sanctuary cities for their policies.
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Why not just arrest the leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens, actually terrorists, from deportation?
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For those of you who weren't able to make out what Homan said there at the end, I'll repeat it.
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Homan not ruling out, arresting mayors and more judges who want to come and disrupt America,
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President Trump, another one who's tired of everyone standing in his way of following truth, justice, and the American way.
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President Trump announcing this afternoon he's stripping Harvard of their tax-exempt status
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after the woke college has defied five key demands from Trump and has decided to sue instead.
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Now, the demands from the Trump administration were nothing crazy.
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It wasn't like fork over a trillion dollars or do this or do that.
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Number one, shutter all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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Number two, a university-wide, quote, viewpoint audit to eliminate leftist ideologies that are taking over the classroom.
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Number three, forced hiring to ensure that conservatives are getting representation on campuses
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and are getting equal practices as the Marxist Dems are getting.
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Number four, defunding and disbanding of radical pro-Hamas student groups.
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And lastly, a complete transparency on foreign funding sources.
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And they only had to follow five simple rules and they couldn't do it.
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Now, after Harvard refused, President Trump's administration on April 15th
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froze $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard due to its coddling of anti-Semitism and bigotry on campus.
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And folks, it seems that fake news has no shame, bears no boundaries.
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60 Minutes has picked up 13 Emmy nominations, including segments where they selectively edited and spliced
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their Kamala Harris interview before the election.
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In the run-up to the 2024 election, fake news 60 Minutes was caught editing Kamala's answers
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to make her sound coherent and normal and not completely off the wagon drunk.
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Now, this is the interview that Donald Trump sued for $10 billion for deceptively editing.
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CBS is now considering settling that $10 billion lawsuit bought by Trump over that deceptive 60-minute interview with Kamala Harris.
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The FCC has also opened an investigation into CBS and their questionable news tactics and news reporting.
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Democratic, Marxist, Chinese spy, whatever you want to call him, Eric Swalwell is vowing to use subpoena power to investigate.
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Eric Swalwell is wondering, or maybe saying, that Elon Musk used Starlink to rig the election for Donald Trump in 2024.
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These are the same people who, for years, said Republicans were election deniers.
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Take a listen to Fang Fang Eric Swalwell's interview on a recent podcast.
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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.
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But more importantly, Representative, about 2026 and 2028.
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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.
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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
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and the way that he's taken data, you know, from Americans, from our records, whether it's Social Security or health care records,
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the only way that we can understand, you know, what the hell Elon Musk has been doing is to be in the majority.
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We're just a couple of seats away from doing that.
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That's the vicious circle that people are worried about.
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You know, what can what can we do to make sure 2026 and 2028?
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I know you hear me say that saying a lot, folks, but you really can't make this stuff up.
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Eric Swalwell is saying the election may have been stolen.
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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.
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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.
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We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.