The Great America Show - July 06, 2026


Mid-Day Update: July 6, 2026


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

178.88

Word count

1,210

Sentence count

94

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, July 6th.
00:00:04.680 Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a terrific weekend celebrating the 250th birthday of America.
00:00:11.380 Let's get to some news of the day. On July 4th, it was official. The Trump accounts launched.
00:00:18.700 That's right. The tax advantage savings and investment program for American children went live on Independence Day
00:00:24.180 with the first $1,000 government contributions being distributed to eligible newborns and youth.
00:00:30.860 His official Trump account app manager in partnership with BNY Mellon and Robinhood
00:00:35.700 debuted a few weeks ago, but now it's officially out there.
00:00:39.740 President Trump says more than 6 million Americans have already signed up for it.
00:00:44.440 Take a listen to President Trump earlier today.
00:00:46.820 But already more than 6 million Americans have signed up for Trump accounts,
00:00:50.340 that we've just started, many of which are receiving a one-time
00:00:54.300 seed contribution of $1,000. So these are children, in many
00:00:58.200 cases, extremely poor children. And they're starting off with
00:01:02.000 $1,000 and then it goes up and it comes out of the
00:01:06.020 United States Treasury with contributions from parents, employees, churches
00:01:09.980 or generous Americans like these that we're gathered with. We have so many
00:01:14.180 people here that have contributed a lot of money and
00:01:17.700 I just thought it would be so appropriate to have our first meeting at the Oval Office.
00:01:22.740 It's a special, very special place.
00:01:25.400 No place, I've been in a lot of offices, there's no place like the Oval Office.
00:01:29.560 In terms of overall impact and everything that it represents, there's no place like it.
00:01:35.480 But the Trump accounts could grow to hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time they reach 18 or 21.
00:01:42.320 or they can leave the account and have it put into a different fund at a certain point in their life.
00:01:48.280 But hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time they turn 18.
00:01:52.860 Think of that. You have a young child with no money growing up in a rough area
00:01:56.720 and they turn 18 and they have hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:02:01.260 There you have it. All part of President Trump's initiative to make America rich again,
00:02:05.360 to make America great again. It starts with our youth.
00:02:09.460 It starts with our kids who are now going to be born, make a little bit of money by the time they turn 18.
00:02:16.940 Not a bad gig after all.
00:02:18.900 And across the country earlier today, over in Utah, Tyler Robinson appeared in court for a preliminary hearing in the Charlie Kirk murder case.
00:02:26.900 The preliminary hearing is set for July 6th to 10th, where Utah prosecutors will present evidence to the court.
00:02:32.740 Tyler Robinson has not yet entered a plea.
00:02:35.800 Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk, were in attendance in the Utah courtroom along with Charlie Kirk's family.
00:02:43.260 Robinson, of course, fatally shot Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, during an event at Utah University.
00:02:50.380 Robinson's being charged with seven counts aggravated murder, felony recklessness, a discharge firearm, felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm, felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore.
00:03:02.980 counts five and six witness tampering for asking his trans roommate to delete messages 0.96
00:03:09.600 and count seven commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child so we hope that truth
00:03:17.520 justice in the american way is administered there president trump working overtime over the weekend
00:03:24.400 as you know if you've been following the world cup america was uh handed something that was a
00:03:30.100 little bit unfair. A red card, so their best player couldn't play in tonight's match against
00:03:35.780 Belgium. So what did President Trump do? He reached out directly to the president of FIFA
00:03:40.840 because he didn't think it was fair. He asked for an expedited review. A review was done,
00:03:46.560 and it turns out America's best player will indeed be playing tonight in their match against Belgium.
00:03:52.860 President Trump, taking a little bit of credit, as he should, take a listen.
00:03:57.440 But I've never seen anything like it. So I saw the play. And I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete. And I understand sports really well, really well. And that wasn't a foul. That wasn't even an infraction. That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other.
00:04:18.320 You can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going.
00:04:24.020 No, these were two great athletes that got tangled up.
00:04:29.400 And this referee who is a little bit suspect if you check his if you check his past.
00:04:38.880 I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy, but but very suspect.
00:04:46.100 If you'd like, I'll provide you with the past.
00:04:48.320 And he made a call that nobody could believe.
00:04:52.300 You know, even people on the other side, they say, oh, we got lucky.
00:04:55.700 Wow.
00:04:56.920 And it's very interesting.
00:04:58.200 They say they don't show them in slow motion.
00:05:00.220 And I never realized that.
00:05:01.180 I'd never heard of that before, that they're not allowed to review in slow motion because it's so different.
00:05:05.940 Because you'll take one little quarter of a second and you'll see that a hand is touching a neck or you see something.
00:05:12.780 Whereas when you see it in fast motion, it will look like two guys collided, which is really what happened.
00:05:18.160 And they got sort of entangled.
00:05:21.480 He didn't do anything wrong.
00:05:22.480 And he's our best player or one of our best players, a very vital player.
00:05:27.040 And he gave him a red card.
00:05:27.860 I didn't know what that meant.
00:05:28.720 I didn't think it meant much.
00:05:30.240 Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game, at least in the next game.
00:05:37.180 I said, boy, that's a big, you know, if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair.
00:05:42.060 But when they take your best player or just about, they have some great players.
00:05:46.160 But and they say you can't play. That's very unfair. That's, you know, it's one thing to penalize somebody for the game.
00:05:55.440 But how do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet? It's very unfair. You can't do that.
00:06:00.180 So, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man who's highly respected.
00:06:07.580 And by the way, whose level of respect has gone up tenfold. And he was good before this started.
00:06:14.360 But, you know, he really pushed it in this country.
00:06:17.140 I'm the one that got them to do it.
00:06:19.080 It was not Biden.
00:06:20.720 Biden was asleep.
00:06:22.000 President Trump is truly one of a kind.
00:06:24.160 I don't think we're ever going to get another president like him.
00:06:27.080 But good on him for standing up for the American values and making sure America wasn't cheated, as we have been many, many times.
00:06:35.460 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night for The Great America Show.
00:06:37.980 Rumble, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you guys join us.
00:06:40.040 We'll see you there.
00:06:40.640 I'm John Foster with This Great America Show Midday Update.
00:06:43.340 Have a great rest of your Monday, folks.
00:06:44.600 We'll see you tonight for The Great America Show.