The Great America Show - May 04, 2026


Mid-Day Update： May 4, 2026

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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

183.87

Word count

925

Sentence count

37

People

Hosts:
John Fawcett
Also mentioned:
Donald Trump Marco Rubio Georgia Maloney Friedrich Merz Rudy Giuliani Lou Dobbs

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Hate speech

3

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A message to NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, President Trump sends a warning to Germany, Iran strikes back at the U.S. in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pope meets with the Italian Prime Minister in Rome.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, May 4th.
00:00:04.460 May the 4th be with you. Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend.
00:00:08.480 Let's start out today's midday update with sending a prayer to America's mayor,
00:00:12.680 a friend of the Great America Show and was a great friend of the great Lou Dobbs.
00:00:16.420 Mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida with a horrible case of pneumonia.
00:00:21.680 The mayor was placed on a respirator over the weekend.
00:00:24.540 Some really great positive news to report.
00:00:26.840 the 81 year old former mayor of new york breathing on his own right now still in the hospital but
00:00:34.280 off the ventilator and breathing on his own so we're sending prayers to america's mayor rudy
00:00:38.820 and his family that he pulls through and uh we need him in this fight folks the more of us the
00:00:44.320 better but rudy has been a vocal voice uh dating back to the 2020 stolen election he hasn't let
00:00:50.900 us fall off the pedal so prayers to rudy and his family president trump over the weekend sending a
00:00:56.300 warning message to the folks over in Germany. It will be nice. Warning the U.S. will cut much
00:01:02.880 further than the 5,000 troops that he's already ordered to be withdrawn as Chancellor Mertz tries
00:01:07.700 to walk back his criticism of Iran's military operations. That's right, folks, not looking good
00:01:13.800 for Germany. German Chancellor Frederick Mars said that he must accept that President Donald
00:01:18.280 Trump does not share his opinions in order to work with the United States within NATO,
00:01:22.440 but stressed that there was no link between their rift and planned troop withdrawal.
00:01:26.580 Of course not, right?
00:01:27.620 Because he wants to minimize it as much as possible.
00:01:30.940 Merch dismissing suggestions that his criticism of the U.S. war planning in Iran
00:01:34.360 had sparked Washington's Friday announcement that the U.S. would reduce its military presence in Germany,
00:01:40.300 its largest European base by 5,000 soldiers,
00:01:43.420 and repeated his commitment to the transatlantic alliance.
00:01:47.240 Merch had questioned whether President Trump had an exit plan for the Middle East
00:01:50.280 and said that the u.s was being embarrassed in their talks with iran trump later called mertz
00:01:55.840 an ineffectual leader he says he's accepted that the american president has a different view on
00:02:01.440 these issues other than the german issues but that doesn't change the fact that he remains
00:02:06.400 convinced that americans are important partners to us yeah of course he's trying to mince words
00:02:11.900 as president trump is calling him out on his bs trump says this is only the beginning of the
00:02:18.240 withdrawals and there will be much much more now earlier today u.s forces sank six iranian small
00:02:24.280 boats near the strait of harmuz this is part of president trump's project freedom u.s central
00:02:30.380 command announced the engagement with these bomber boats that the iranians use iran usually
00:02:38.000 deploys 20 to 40 small boats when harassing vessels on the strait this operation they were
00:02:44.020 able to take out six of them very quickly. The head of USENTCOM, the commander, says we have an
00:02:50.120 enormous amount of capability and firepower concentrated in and around the strait, including
00:02:54.540 864 Apache and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters that were used just this morning to eliminate those
00:03:00.360 six Iranian small boats that have been threatening successfully commercial ships. So Iran is going 1.00
00:03:08.440 to continue, I think, to meet their fate as they show no signs of slowing down with their 1.00
00:03:15.460 acts of terrorism. 0.94
00:03:16.780 Now, speaking of the conflict with Iran, it's definitely strained the relationship between
00:03:22.200 the United States and President Trump and the Vatican and the rest of the Italian government,
00:03:26.620 led by Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney, who's become a grave disappointment in this war.
00:03:32.920 President Trump feuding, of course, with the Pope, pretty much telling him to mind his
00:03:36.440 own business because of course this is none of his business um this war he should really worry
00:03:42.160 about his uh catholic church and he should worry about the vatican of course he's protected behind
00:03:46.440 walls now in an attempt to rebuild ties with the italian allies we're sending over secretary of
00:03:52.460 state marco rubio to uh visit rome and some officials this week and to meet with the uh pope
00:03:59.180 to try to salvage some of that president trump sent rubio may 7th and may 8th uh where he'll
00:04:05.660 meet with as i said various leaders in italy as well as the pope um not clear if they'll be able
00:04:12.340 to reconcile as the pope has hardly been able to contain uh minding everyone else's business
00:04:18.640 but his own but if anybody can do it it's certainly marco rubio who's been delegated to do just about
00:04:24.620 every single job you could possibly think of in this country secretary of state marco rubio
00:04:31.180 and national treasure to this country.
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00:04:55.060 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:04:57.500 Have a great day, everybody, and once again, happy Monday.
00:04:59.920 I hope your weeks roll off to a great start.