The Great America Show - August 04, 2025


Mid-Day Update： August 4, 2025

Topics
tariffs
Hosted by
John Fawcett Lou Dobbs
Mentioned
Donald Trump Kimberly Cheadle Joe Biden Alcatraz Franklin Roosevelt John Ratcliffe Sam Harris Harry Enten James Comey Ron Johnson Kash Patel Clinton Steele
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

176.54

Word count

1,107

Sentence count

91

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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Trump is the most influential president of this century and perhaps the last century too. CNN's own chief analyst, Harry Enten, couldn't hide the facts any longer during a jaw dropping segment this week. The fake news network that spent years spewing anti-Trump propaganda has finally been forced to admit the undeniable truth. And that is that President Donald J. Trump is the Most Influential President of this Century.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, August 4th.
00:00:04.960 Happy Monday, folks. It's great to be back, fully back to work and back in America.
00:00:09.680 Donald Trump is the most consequential and most influential president of this century and perhaps last century, too.
00:00:17.500 Don't take my word for it or anybody else's. Well, take CNN's word for it.
00:00:21.840 The fake news network that spent years spewing anti-Trump propaganda has been forced to admit the undeniable truth.
00:00:29.300 And that is that President Donald J. Trump is the most influential president of this century.
00:00:35.440 The very same CNN that pushed the Russia collusion hoax, the impeachment sham, and every other witch hunt against our great leader and now singing his praises.
00:00:45.240 The admission comes straight from CNN's own chief analyst, Harry Enten, who couldn't hide the facts any longer during a jaw-dropping segment this week.
00:00:55.840 Take a listen.
00:00:56.440 The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century and probably as well dating back a good portion of the last century as well.
00:01:05.700 Love it, like it, lump it. Trump is remaking in the United States of America.
00:01:09.260 Let's talk about tariffs first, right?
00:01:11.020 There's all this talk that Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tariffs.
00:01:15.460 Uh-uh. No tacos for Trump. The effective tariff rate. Get this.
00:01:18.720 It's 18 percent. The highest. The highest since the FDR administration in the 1930s, up from, get this, just 2 percent last year.
00:01:27.260 From just 2 percent last year, we're talking about a level, an effective tariff rate level.
00:01:32.320 Get this. Nine times as high this year than last year.
00:01:36.020 But it's not just on tariffs, which, of course, Donald Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
00:01:41.580 What about immigration? Of course, Trump ran and has always run on a very hawkish immigration platform.
00:01:48.340 Get this. 2025 net migration in the United States down at least 60 percent from last year.
00:01:54.000 In fact, we may be heading for the first time in at least 50 years in which we have net negative, net negative migration into the United States.
00:02:03.020 And last year, of course, in 2024, the net migration in the U.S. was 2.8 million.
00:02:08.440 This year, we might be talking about negative net migration. My goodness gracious.
00:02:12.720 Now, of course, this is part of the larger story, as I was mentioning.
00:02:16.840 We're talking about immigration, net migration. We're talking about the effective tariff rate.
00:02:21.760 But get this. How is Donald Trump doing it?
00:02:23.780 Well, he is signing a ton of executive orders.
00:02:26.760 Get this. 180, the most in a year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
00:02:33.100 Oh, my goodness. You have to go back to the first half of the 20th century, the last century.
00:02:37.700 And to make a comparison, Joe Biden signed, get this, just 77 during his entire first year.
00:02:43.460 And we're only a little bit in August so far.
00:02:45.920 And Donald Trump making history with 180, 180 executive orders signed so far this year.
00:02:52.160 So that's why I said that, in my mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president of this century and probably dating back a good portion of the last century.
00:03:00.520 That is because he is remaking the country in terms of tariffs.
00:03:04.340 He is remaking the country in terms of net migration.
00:03:07.120 And he is remaking the country in terms of how much policy changes he's putting through in executive orders.
00:03:12.620 As I said, it truly is history making.
00:03:15.500 Love it, like it, or lump it.
00:03:17.200 The funny part about it all is that the great Lou Dobbs, many years ago, almost five years ago, wrote a book titled The Trump Century.
00:03:27.320 It was a book the great Lou Dobbs came up with the title himself.
00:03:30.820 This was five years ago.
00:03:31.960 You often hear me talking about how Lou Dobbs is always ahead of the curve and always right, just about everything, which I always had a hard time letting him know.
00:03:39.800 But I know he's in heaven right now, smiling down, seeing all the great work that President Trump is doing, and knowing that he was right once again.
00:03:48.240 That's right, Lou.
00:03:49.300 I admit it.
00:03:49.980 You were right once again.
00:03:51.920 And down south in Florida, the illegal aliens at President Trump's Alligator Alcatraz, they're not having a fun time.
00:03:59.940 A group of detained illegals at that South Florida facility, which is dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, have entered their 10th day of a so-called hunger strike.
00:04:08.820 These detainees, many of them with criminal backgrounds, are whining about, quote, inhumane conditions while refusing food, all in a bid to game the system, to avoid rightful deportation.
00:04:20.300 But here's the real outrage.
00:04:22.160 Radical and Marxist Dems are using this manufactured crisis to bash President Trump's tough-on-crime policies, but they had nothing to say when this crisis was being manufactured by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the rest of the Marxist Dems.
00:04:34.620 These illegal criminals are demanding VIP treatment, and they're just not going to get it.
00:04:40.440 CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Cash Patel are set to release more damning documents proving the FBI covered up Clinton's collusion hoax while amplifying the Steele dossier.
00:04:52.980 We can expect those documents to come out either late this week or early next week.
00:04:56.720 More exposure on how our FBI under James Comey sought to undermine democracy.
00:05:04.260 You often hear the Democrats say that.
00:05:05.800 Well, they're the ones who constantly seek to undermine democracy.
00:05:09.920 Speaking of the agency, Secret Service has abruptly halted security clearance renewal for the former director of Secret Service, Kimberly Cheadle.
00:05:17.720 The Secret Service was moving forward with renewing former director Cheadle's top-level security clearance, but the reversal came after RealClearPolitics inquired about a key senator's opposition, according to multiple sources, inside the Secret Service community.
00:05:32.400 That's Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and previously chaired the full Homeland Security panel, argued that Cheadle should not have her security clearance renewed after her leadership decisions contributed to the agency's numerous failures
00:05:46.540 surrounding the assassination attempts on President Donald J. Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:05:52.420 It begs the question, why would she have a renewed security clearance anyway?
00:05:56.700 She doesn't work for the Secret Service anymore.
00:05:59.600 This has got to stop here in America. 0.94
00:06:01.560 It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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00:06:13.340 I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.
00:06:15.300 Have a great Monday, everybody.