The Great America Show - August 13, 2026


Mid-Day Update： August 13, 2026

Topics
ICE arrests and deportations
Hosted by
John Fawcett
Mentioned
Trump Caroline Levitt Gavin Newsom Tom Holman Tom Homan Biden
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Length

5 minutes

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173.42

Word count

932

Sentence count

54

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1

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00:00:00 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, August 13th.
00:00:05 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:06 Two fierce Trump loyalists have emerged as frontrunners to potentially replace outgoing press secretary Caroline Levitt.
00:00:14 Trump on Wednesday announced that Levitt would be departing her role as White House press secretary to spend more time with her young children.
00:00:20 She will now serve as one of President Trump's top outside advisors.
00:00:24 She, of course, was the youngest person to hold the position of White House press secretary,
00:00:27 just 27 years old when she took over that role she also has two young children gave birth to 0.83
00:00:33 the second child in may now just less than a day after the reports that she'd be leaving
00:00:38 two front runners have come forward at least in the eyes of the new york post president trump
00:00:44 is reportedly looking at alina haba who served as his defense lawyer and former acting attorney
00:00:49 for new jersey also looking at breitbart's washington bureau chief matthew boyle those
00:00:56 the two names that have arisen as frontrunners for that job. President Trump's State Department
00:01:03 acts as Biden-era initiative that sought to spread DEI around the world. Biden-era guidelines
00:01:09 order diplomats to push diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for policies
00:01:14 agenda on foreign governments have been scrapped. This policy under the Biden regime spoke about
00:01:19 rules, having State Department leaders, quote, race, social inclusion, racial, gender equality,
00:01:26 disability, and LGBTQI plus issues with high-level host countries, especially in countries where
00:01:34 these issues are problematic. Borders are Tom Homan issuing a blunt message to these woke
00:01:40 Democrat-run cities. Many of these Democrat-run cities in states nationwide have been limiting
00:01:45 in cooperation with ICE, including denying detainers for criminal illegal aliens.
00:01:50 Tom Holman says this is not going to stop them.
00:01:53 As a matter of fact, they're only going to ramp it up even more.
00:01:56 Take a listen.
00:01:57 Shake to your stomach that your government lets you down.
00:02:00 The state government lets you down.
00:02:01 Look, they put a lot of roadblocks up.
00:02:03 They try to make our job more difficult.
00:02:05 But the bottom line is, of June of this year, ICE made more arrests than any time in the history of ICE.
00:02:11 A historic month in June.
00:02:12 What did we do the next month in July?
00:02:14 we blew June out of the water. We got another historic record. We're going to keep doing our
00:02:18 job. You can make it more difficult. You can impede. You can interfere. But you're not going
00:02:23 to stop President Trump from keeping his promise to American people. Most secure border in history.
00:02:29 There hasn't been a single illegal alien released into this country in 13 months. And that's going 0.92
00:02:34 to continue. We have record numbers of arrests and deportations making this country safer again.
00:02:39 You're not going to stop us. I just don't understand why this is a partisan issue.
00:02:44 Why doesn't law enforcement work with law enforcement to make the public and your community safer?
00:02:49 That's your number one responsibility as governor and mayor and city council to make your community safer.
00:02:55 Work with ICE. You don't have to be an immigration officer when it comes to public safety threats that are in the country illegally.
00:03:01 Work with us.
00:03:02 As we all know, the Marxist Dems, the last thing they want to do is work with any government agency that's going to promote truth, justice, and the American way.
00:03:11 ICE has averaged over 1,400 arrests per day in June, higher in early July, with hundreds of thousands of deportations already recorded for this fiscal year.
00:03:21 A major airport here in America installing dedicated Islamic foot washing basins in the bathrooms?
00:03:27 That's right, if you're from the great state of Texas, or more closely, Dallas, Texas,
00:03:35 the bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will be getting a makeover.
00:03:40 According to public documents, voodoo foot washing stations will be installed in the facility's bathroom
00:03:45 to cost about $300,000.
00:03:48 That's right, coming to an airport near you, because we must be inclusive, right?
00:03:53 after billions upon billions in spending, California's high-speed rail program may run
00:03:59 out of money by the end of 2027. You remember that high-speed rail project, Gavin Newsom and
00:04:06 his bullet train? Well, they could end up broke at the end of the day, or I should say at the end
00:04:11 of the year. The Office of the Inspector General warned that the California High-Speed Rail
00:04:16 Authority funds could dry up as soon as December of 2027 unless it secures financing. The authority
00:04:21 we need to borrow as much as almost $10 billion over five years to keep the construction on
00:04:28 schedule, although it's unclear what the schedule is because it was supposed to be completed already
00:04:33 and is billions of dollars now over budget. A federal appeals court just delivered a massive
00:04:40 setback to Planned Parenthood and the Federation of America, dismissing the abortion's giant
00:04:47 attempt to escape liability in a long-running medicare fraud case that could ultimately force
00:04:53 it to repay nearly two billion dollars in taxpayer funds this afternoon u.s appeals court for the 0.95
00:04:59 fifth circuit dismissed plan parenthood's appeal for lack of jurisdiction which means the scum run
00:05:05 organization as i said may be on the line for nearly two billion dollars in repaying taxpayer
00:05:12 funds folks please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for the great america show
00:05:15 Rumble YouTube, Twitter, wherever you guys join us.
00:05:17 We will see you there.
00:05:18 I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update.
00:05:21 Have a great day, everybody.