The Great America Show - December 19, 2025


Mid-Day Update： December 19, 2025


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5 minutes

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196.39966

Word count

1,051

Sentence count

57

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Trump announces record-breaking deal with 9 of the world s largest pharmaceutical companies to reduce drug prices and certain medications. Meanwhile, Rubio doubles down on his call for a ban on immigration from some of the most restrictive countries in the world.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, December 19th.
00:00:04.860 Happy Friday, folks.
00:00:06.500 President Trump just moments ago announcing deals with nine pharmaceutical companies
00:00:10.800 to reduce drug prices and certain medications.
00:00:14.980 This is President Trump's fight that he's taken on since day one
00:00:17.960 against the pharmaceutical companies and their overcharging of the American people.
00:00:23.140 Take a listen to President Trump just moments ago with the big announcement.
00:00:25.680 I'm thrilled to be joined by the leaders of nine of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers,
00:00:33.040 all very big names, celebrities in their own right, very, very powerful people.
00:00:40.040 And they head some of the most admired companies anywhere in the world.
00:00:44.640 It's a great group to announce that they've agreed to offer many of their flagship drugs,
00:00:51.240 really all of their flagship drugs, at heavily discounted most favored nations prices.
00:00:57.100 In other words, whatever the drug sales were over the world, in the world,
00:01:02.220 whatever the lowest number is, if it's Germany, if it's in the UK, anywhere,
00:01:09.380 we will match that price.
00:01:12.720 Right now, sometimes it's ten times higher.
00:01:16.060 We've been laughed at and scoffed at for years, for years.
00:01:19.400 In fact, I was going to do it in my first term, but unfortunately, with the advent of COVID,
00:01:26.520 as you would say, it was not, I don't think it was a very good time to be hitting up Spain, Italy, France.
00:01:33.940 But now we're doing it.
00:01:35.700 So the hardest thing to do was going to be to get a country to do it,
00:01:40.640 because we would have a pill in New York that was for sale for $130,
00:01:46.520 and you could buy it in Germany and France and Spain and someplace.
00:01:51.980 Anyways, they set their own prices for $10.
00:01:54.740 So we'd pay 10 or 13 times more, pay five times more, pay all different prices.
00:02:00.540 Now, whatever the lowest price is.
00:02:03.280 Now, the pharmaceutical companies were difficult, but they also love our country.
00:02:08.580 They knew it was unfair, and they were great.
00:02:12.920 I appreciate it.
00:02:13.820 Now, as you folks heard, TrumpRx, which is President Trump's website,
00:02:17.520 that will be launching in the new year,
00:02:18.900 well, you'll be able to go on and just buy your prescription
00:02:20.800 straight from the pharmaceutical companies, getting the middlemen out,
00:02:24.580 and saving you all some money.
00:02:25.940 And while President Trump was announcing that record-breaking deal
00:02:28.940 with the pharmaceutical companies,
00:02:30.680 Secretary of State Marco Rubio was doing his own thing.
00:02:34.460 Marco Rubio doubling down,
00:02:37.280 telling everybody that we're going to get America cleaned up
00:02:39.900 as it pertains to immigration.
00:02:41.600 We can't take any more people into this country, 1.00
00:02:43.880 and we need to get a lot of them out.
00:02:46.560 Take a listen.
00:02:47.960 And now we're facing a second challenge,
00:02:50.020 and that is we've admitted a lot of people into the United States,
00:02:52.580 and perhaps the overwhelming majority of them are not bad people and so forth.
00:02:55.940 This is all true.
00:02:56.840 But there are people, we know, okay, for a fact,
00:02:59.080 there are people in this country who got in through some form of vetting
00:03:03.640 that was wholly insufficient.
00:03:05.520 And we've seen tragic evidence of that very recently,
00:03:07.940 including people that we claim to have vetted.
00:03:09.900 So, because, why does that happen?
00:03:11.860 Because there are some places where you can't vet people.
00:03:14.120 You can only vet people on the basis of information you have about them.
00:03:17.300 But that information is oftentimes dependent on
00:03:19.800 whether there's some local authority that actually has any information about them.
00:03:23.660 Okay, so that is the challenge we're facing,
00:03:25.480 which is why the president has sort of put a stop to all of these things
00:03:28.280 until these systems for admitting people into our country can be improved.
00:03:31.940 But I think everyone would understand that after a flood of 15 to 20 million people
00:03:35.780 into our country, almost unrestrained in some extent,
00:03:39.040 over the last four years before taking over in January of this year,
00:03:42.820 there's a desire in our country to put a stop to that
00:03:45.380 until we can fix these processes
00:03:46.940 to ensure that not only do we know who's in the country now,
00:03:49.600 but in the future, we're not going to face some of these challenges
00:03:52.620 that we've faced in the past.
00:03:54.200 So, look, the United States remains the most generous country in the world
00:03:57.620 when it comes to legal immigration.
00:03:59.140 This year alone, close to a million people will enter this country legally
00:04:02.100 and have their green card and go to war.
00:04:03.820 But we do have a right, like every sovereign country does,
00:04:06.240 to know who you are, why you're coming,
00:04:07.780 what you've done in the past,
00:04:08.980 and what we think you might or might not do in the future.
00:04:11.160 We have a right.
00:04:11.740 We have a right to make sure that you're not going to come to this country 1.00
00:04:14.160 and pose a burden on our social safety network.
00:04:18.520 All of these things are rights of sovereign countries.
00:04:20.940 A bunch of sovereign countries in the world do it.
00:04:23.260 Most of the countries in the world have far more restrictive immigration policies
00:04:26.520 than the United States has ever had.
00:04:28.160 But we are in a special period right now.
00:04:29.720 This is not like business as usual.
00:04:31.560 This is, right now, we are less than a year removed
00:04:34.280 from the most reckless migratory incompetence in American history, 0.85
00:04:38.460 where a flood of people and mass migration events
00:04:41.120 entered the United States.
00:04:42.680 And they can claim all they want that they vetted people.
00:04:44.840 This is just not true.
00:04:46.200 Some of them were cursory vetting,
00:04:47.460 and in some cases you couldn't vet them
00:04:49.180 because the countries or places they came from
00:04:51.240 had no documents upon which they could be vetted on.
00:04:54.140 There you have it, folks.
00:04:55.220 The Trump administration continuing to make America great again.
00:04:58.800 Folks, please be sure to join us each and every night
00:05:00.640 for The Great America Show, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter.
00:05:03.320 This weekend we're going to be live from AmFest in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:05:07.020 So if you're over in Phoenix, if you're in Arizona
00:05:10.080 and you're going to be heading to AmFest, hit us up.
00:05:12.440 And have a great weekend if we don't see you.
00:05:15.720 We'll see you back Monday for The Great America Show.
00:05:17.960 I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.
00:05:19.640 Have a great weekend, everybody, once again.