The Great America Show - July 08, 2026


Mid-Day Update： July 8, 2026


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5 minutes

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991

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75

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7

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, July 8th.
00:00:04.060 Happy Wednesday, folks. President Trump at some more bilateral meetings this afternoon.
00:00:08.900 This afternoon sat down with the head of NATO, President Trump, immediately calling for a halt to all U.S. trade and official visits with Spain,
00:00:20.620 calling the country a hopeless and terrible NATO partner.
00:00:23.840 President Trump says they don't participate, they don't pay, and he wants nothing to do with the country,
00:00:27.860 telling Scott Besson to cut off all trade with Spain immediately.
00:00:33.020 He predicts they will eventually come running back to America.
00:00:36.200 Take a listen.
00:00:37.160 And I want to thank Mark.
00:00:39.240 He's been a great Secretary General of NATO.
00:00:41.960 I'm not happy with NATO because of what they did with Greenland.
00:00:45.340 And I'm not happy with NATO because of the fact that
00:00:47.880 they didn't want to help us with the number one state sponsor of terror. 0.95
00:00:52.500 That's Iran. 0.57
00:00:53.600 They were unwilling to help us. 0.99
00:00:54.920 Now, in all fairness, I didn't speak to Mark about it.
00:00:56.760 I think if I did, it might have been different, but we didn't need help.
00:01:00.420 But I was really testing.
00:01:01.680 I wanted to see whether or not they'd be there.
00:01:03.220 And the answer is they were.
00:01:04.400 I spoke to Germany.
00:01:05.260 I spoke to France.
00:01:06.500 I spoke to the U.K.
00:01:10.120 I spoke to Italy.
00:01:11.300 I spoke to, I didn't speak to Spain.
00:01:12.980 Spain is a wasted cause.
00:01:15.160 We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way.
00:01:17.740 I'd like you to cut it off.
00:01:19.440 Spain is a terrible partner in NATO.
00:01:24.040 They don't participate.
00:01:25.320 They don't pay. 0.96
00:01:26.760 I don't want anything to do with Spain.
00:01:29.280 Cut off all trade with Spain, please, including visits.
00:01:34.260 Okay, we don't want anything to do. 0.88
00:01:35.660 Watch them come running back.
00:01:38.020 They'll come running back.
00:01:39.360 They treat this man terribly, and this man's a good man too, a great man.
00:01:44.900 They're lucky they have him.
00:01:46.480 But Spain doesn't agree to anything, and you shouldn't carry him.
00:01:50.800 I mean, you sort of automatically carry him because you're protecting an area, so they're there.
00:01:54.880 so they probably figured they have to protect us right but we don't have to we don't have to trade
00:02:00.220 with them i don't want to do any more trade with them all right take it immediately don't even
00:02:04.440 talk to them they're hopeless bad people because you know they they have everybody else going and
00:02:10.620 paying and working in spain in particular spain there are a couple of others but in particular
00:02:15.440 spain they're open about it they're hostile about it and uh let's see a hustle they remain when they
00:02:22.600 call up and they please please we want to trade with you sir we want to trade with you sir
00:02:27.500 they make so much money with us and we're going to see that they make a lot less
00:02:31.860 i want no business with them and so that's all she wrote uh for spain as you heard president
00:02:37.640 trump say they're uh not happy with the way they treated the uh ongoing dispute with iran and
00:02:43.980 not allowing us to use any of their facilities so good riddance to spain at that sit down with
00:02:49.880 the head of NATO, President Trump, was also asked about what's happening with Iran as
00:02:53.940 they've continued to trade fire over the last two days between the two nations. President Trump
00:03:00.060 says he's officially done with Iran and sounds all but like he's going to finish the job, 1.00
00:03:04.940 not stopping short of calling them scum. Take a listen. 1.00
00:03:08.860 Is the ceasefire over? Is the ceasefire done? Is the MOU dead?
00:03:12.040 it's a very interesting question to me i think it's over i don't want to deal with them anymore 1.00
00:03:20.920 they're scum you know what scum is they're scum they're sick people they're led by sick people 1.00
00:03:26.220 and they're vicious violent people and if they had a nuclear weapon they'd use it as far as i'm 1.00
00:03:33.400 concerned it's over i'll speak to our negotiators they want to negotiate they're good people
00:03:37.960 Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner, but they have to come back to me. As far as I'm concerned,
00:03:43.900 it's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're liars. We make a deal. And if I make 1.00
00:03:50.220 a deal with him, we have a deal. And he goes out, he talks. We make a deal. Everyone's agreed. No
00:03:54.820 nuclear weapon. We make a deal. They go outside, talk to the press. They say, we never even talked
00:03:59.860 about it. There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo. As far as I'm concerned, it's over.
00:04:06.140 So there you have it. Now, I guess we await the next steps on what is to be done with Iran and if President Trump finishes the job sooner than originally expected.
00:04:19.380 Well, Mitch McConnell's been missing for quite some time. We get word finally that he indeed did suffer a heart attack in his house in Washington, D.C. and was found unconscious, been in the hospital.
00:04:30.640 Now, some have been reporting that he's on life support.
00:04:33.420 Others yesterday reporting that they've allegedly spoke to him.
00:04:36.940 Well, the Kentucky governor, Governor Beshear, sent a letter to Mitch McConnell requesting an update on his health as the weeks long hospitalization continues.
00:04:46.540 He was first hospitalized on June 14th after that cardiac arrest incident.
00:04:50.180 And if McConnell indeed will not return back to work, there's a cutoff date for a special election, which is September 8th.
00:04:56.520 So I guess they're trying to figure it out there.
00:04:58.160 please be sure to join us folks tonight and each and every night 6 p.m eastern time for the great
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