The Great America Show - March 19, 2026


Mid-Day Update： March 19, 2026

Mid-Day Update： March 18, 2026 Trump Weighs Next Move in Iran as Republicans Start to Oppose Spending!

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5 minutes

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177.2

Word count

901

Sentence count

64

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Hosts:
John Fawcett
Also mentioned:
Trump Letitia James Arthur En-Garon Arthur Engeron Funny

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Toxicity

1

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Trump's answer to a reporter's question about Iran and the Dow hitting 50,000 and why he didn't tell allies before attacking Iran. Mar-A-Lago's valuation soars to $560 million, and a new round of bad news for the Billionaires.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, March 19th.
00:00:04.720 Happy Thursday, folks. Weekend's almost here.
00:00:07.420 President Trump in the Oval Office today, talking to the media, as he does every single day,
00:00:12.980 holding a bilateral meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister.
00:00:15.900 And he was asked a slew of questions, as he usually is, and he answered truthfully, as he usually does.
00:00:21.320 President Trump was asked by a reporter if he intends to potentially put U.S. troops,
00:00:25.260 or more troops in the region, to go fight the Iran War.
00:00:30.000 troops on the ground. Take a listen to what President Trump had to say.
00:00:33.760 Do you intend to lift sanctions on Iranian oil? And do you intend to potentially put U.S. troops
00:00:39.300 or more troops in the region? No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn't
00:00:46.080 tell you. But I'm not putting troops. And we will do whatever is necessary to keep the price
00:00:53.500 I actually thought when I did this, look, the Dow just hit 50,000 a couple of weeks ago.
00:01:00.340 They said that couldn't happen for four years.
00:01:02.640 It wouldn't happen in my term.
00:01:04.000 It's such an outrageous thing because I said it would happen.
00:01:07.360 I didn't know it was going to happen that fast, but it just hit 50,000.
00:01:11.420 And we did that in one year, not four.
00:01:14.140 S&P had just hit 7,000.
00:01:17.000 They said that was even more impossible than the Dow hitting 50.
00:01:20.960 And we did that in one year.
00:01:22.380 And so it's all done. Everything was going great. The economy is great. Oil prices were very low.
00:01:27.980 Gasoline was dropping to I mean, we had a dollar ninety nine dollar eighty five.
00:01:33.540 We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran.
00:01:37.540 And I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it.
00:01:42.000 And I actually thought the numbers would be worse. I thought that it would go up more than it did.
00:01:47.260 but we're doing this excursion and when it's completed we're going to have a much safer world
00:01:52.960 and the prime minister agrees with me and then she considers it to be terrible what i think every
00:01:58.620 country does just about every country does iran is a serious threat to the world to the middle 1.00
00:02:03.440 east and to the world and everybody agrees with me i think virtually every country agrees with me
00:02:09.800 on that president trump then gave the opportunity to a japanese reporter who was there with the
00:02:14.460 Prime Minister to ask a question or two. And the question was brilliant. The reporter wanted to
00:02:20.720 know why President Trump didn't let U.S. allies know that they were bombing Iran. Take a listen
00:02:26.260 to President Trump's brilliant response. Why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia
00:02:33.840 like Japan about the war before attacking Iran? So we are very confused about the Japanese system.
00:02:40.340 Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much, you know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.
00:02:50.600 Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
00:02:53.980 Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
00:02:56.980 OK, right.
00:03:00.160 He's asking me, do you believe in surprise?
00:03:03.700 I think much more so than us.
00:03:06.180 And we had a surprise and we did.
00:03:09.060 And because of that surprise, we knocked out the first two days, we probably knocked out 50% of what we, and much more than we anticipated doing.
00:03:18.720 So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise.
00:03:22.800 Folks, sometimes the most obvious answers aren't so obvious, especially to the folks who work and live and breathe inside the mainstream media.
00:03:31.820 Not the wittiest people, not the smartest people by any stretch of the imagination or any stretch of the mind.
00:03:37.460 So a brilliant, brilliant response by President Trump.
00:03:41.640 You all remember during New York Attorney General Letitia James' 2023 civil fraud and political persecution of President Trump, one of her most ridiculous assertions, and the radical freak of a judge, Judge Arthur Engeron.
00:03:55.060 You remember they were positive.
00:03:57.560 They guaranteed us that Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18 million.
00:04:02.200 Yeah, they said that with a straight face.
00:04:03.800 That's what they told us.
00:04:04.860 Well, if we didn't already know Letitia James and En-Garon were frauds, we've got some bad news for them now.
00:04:11.500 The Forbes just put out their 2026 Billionaires List coverage, and the outlet updated their valuation of Mar-a-Lago to about $560 million, up from the previous $370 million.
00:04:23.820 A far cry from what Letitia James and Arthur En-Garon told us.
00:04:29.360 Those were the fraudsters, folks.
00:04:30.900 The judge in the case
00:04:33.320 The crooked attorney general
00:04:35.300 Who sought to frame President Trump 0.69
00:04:37.580 I mean a total joke
00:04:38.820 But you folks all remember it very well
00:04:40.820 Funny, funny, funny stuff
00:04:42.640 Now that we're looking at it in hindsight
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00:05:02.320 I'm John Fossett with this Midday Update.
00:05:04.280 Have a great day, everybody.