Mid-Day Update： August 18, 2025
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Summary
Trump meets with the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, and talks about a possible trilateral peace deal with himself, Putin, and Zelenskysky. President Trump also talks about his desire to get rid of mail-in ballots and election machines.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fosu. This Great America Show midday update for Monday, August 18th. Happy
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Monday, folks. President Trump meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine,
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this morning, along with many other European leaders. President Trump told reporters in the
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Oval Office that he's planning to call President Vladimir Putin following his meeting with Zelensky
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and he hopes to schedule a trilateral peace summit with himself, Putin, and Zelensky.
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President Trump says if that trilateral meeting happens, it's a pretty sure deal that there'll
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be able to end this thing once and for all. If it doesn't, he's not so optimistic. So we'll have
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to see how this meeting plays out and if they do wind up convening. Trump says it's very simple.
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He just wants the killings to stop. Take a listen. We want to get this war ended. That's all I can do.
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I love the Ukrainian people, but I love all people. I love the Russian people. I love them all.
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Mr. President, was there any aspect of your discussion with Vladimir Putin that left you
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Look, we just spoke to, I was just telling the president, I just spoke to President Putin
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indirectly and we're going to have a phone call right after these meetings today. And we may or
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may not have a trilateral. If we don't have a trilateral, then the fighting continues. And if we do,
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we have a good chance. I think if we have a trilateral, there's a good chance of maybe ending
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it. But he's expecting my call when we're finished with this meeting.
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Simple equation for President Trump. As I said, he just wants the killings to stop.
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During that press conference, President Trump took some questions from the media and he was asked about
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a tweet that he put out earlier in the morning that he's going to get rid of mail-in ballots and
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election machines. Perhaps before the 2026 midterm elections, President Trump says we can't have
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democracy if we have these machines. Take a listen.
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I pushed out on social media about doing away with mail-in ballots and potentially electronic
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voting machines. Can you explain on that and how important that is?
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Well, that's a very off topic, just really quickly. Mail-in ballots are corrupt. Mail-in ballots,
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you can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots. And we, as a Republican Party,
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are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots. We're going to start
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with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country
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to end mail-in ballots because they're corrupt. And do you know that we're the only country
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in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, but just about the only country in the world that
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uses it because of what's happened? Massive fraud all over the place. The other thing we
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want change are the machines. For all of the money they spend, it's approximately 10 times more
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expensive than paper ballots. And paper ballots are very sophisticated with the watermark paper
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and everything else. We would get secure elections. We'd get much faster results. The machines,
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I mean, they say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results
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that night. Most people almost, but most people, many countries use paper ballots. It's the most secure
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form. So between paper ballots, very, very important, paper ballots, and I think maybe even more
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important, the mail-in voting, we're going to end mail-in voting. It's a fraud. If you have mail-in
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vote, even Jimmy Carter with this commission, they set it up. He said the one thing about mail-in voting,
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you will never have an honest election if you have mail-in. And it's time that the Republicans get
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tough and stop it because the Democrats want it. It's the only way they can get elected because with
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men and women's sports and with transgender for everybody and open borders and all of the horrible
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things. And now the new thing is they love crime. They're fighting me on the fact that I've made
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Washington, D.C. safe. We're not going to get mugged, beaten up, or killed like all the people
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you've been watching get so badly hurt. I'm glad, I hate to take your time on this, but I'm glad you
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asked me that question. We're going to stop mail-in ballots because it's corrupt. You know, when you go to
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a voting booth and you do it the right way and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in,
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they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate for identity. I said, I don't know if I have
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it. They said, sir, you have to have it. I was very impressed actually. But it's very hard to cheat
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with mail-in voting. As you know what happens in California, it's so corrupt where some people get
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five, six, seven ballots delivered to them. Now we got to stop mail-in voting and the Republicans
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have to lead the charge. The Democrats want it because they have horrible policy. If you have
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mail-in voting, you're not going to have many Democrats get elected. And there you have it,
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President Trump doing, I think, just about what every American, at least the Americans who are in
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favor of truth, justice in the American way, wanted. Get rid of the machines and get rid of the mail-in
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ballots so that elections can be fair for both Republicans and Democrats. It's not just for Republicans,
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it's for all candidates. Speaking of the Marxist Dems, the Texas Democrats who fled the state,
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remember that dramatic little walkout to block the Republicans' redistricting plans, have announced
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their return, ending a two-week standoff and paving the way for the GOP to pass a new congressional map
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that strengthens conservative representation and does it honestly, a way that the Marxist Dems
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can't do it. So we can expect another special session to be called in the coming days.
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And the House Oversight Committee has withdrawn a subpoena for Robert Mueller, former special
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counsel, the Russian collusion man. They withdrew that subpoena for him for what they call health
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reasons. Now, we reported last week that Mueller is living in an assisted living home to treat his
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mental decline. So it could have something to do with that. Folks, please be sure to join us tonight
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for The Great America Show, 6 p.m. Eastern time. Rumble YouTube, Twitter, wherever you join us,
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we'll be there. Our guest will be Mike Lindell, a man who has been fighting from day one to get rid
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of the mail-in ballots and the election machines. We're going to get his reaction to President Trump
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and the big, big news of the day. We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.
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I'm Jon Fossett with this Midday Update. Happy Monday once again, folks. We'll see you later.