The Great America Show - October 30, 2025


Mid-Day Update： October 30, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

179.98865

Word count

951

Sentence count

75

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Trump meets with China's communist dictator Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea. China agrees to lift restrictions on exports of soybeans and other foreign products to the United States. President Trump also announces that the Department of Defense will begin testing nuclear weapons.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday,
00:00:03.980 October 30th.
00:00:04.920 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:05.980 The weekend's almost here.
00:00:07.560 Earlier today, President Trump met with China's communist dictator Xi Jinping in Busan, South
00:00:12.760 Korea, for talks that were focused heavily on lifting recent restrictions and tariffs
00:00:17.260 on bilateral trade.
00:00:19.620 Following the meeting that President Trump described in a statement as truly great, the
00:00:23.700 two sides confirmed that China would lift restrictions on exporting rare earth and critical
00:00:28.020 minerals, which Beijing has imposed in response to tariffs on its goods.
00:00:32.460 The restrictions would be paused for a year, potentially returning if Beijing and Washington
00:00:36.520 do not agree on a blueprint for sales.
00:00:39.140 But President Trump appeared positive about restrictions not returning during his remarks
00:00:43.520 on Air Force One while en route back to America.
00:00:47.260 President Trump also speaking to the media on Air Force One saying tremendous amounts of
00:00:51.440 soybeans and other foreign products are going to be purchased immediately by China.
00:00:55.780 They discussed fentanyl.
00:00:56.960 Take a listen to President Trump on his meeting with Xi Jinping.
00:01:00.740 I thought it was an amazing meeting.
00:01:04.500 He's a great leader.
00:01:06.040 A leader of a very powerful, very strong country, China.
00:01:11.320 And we, what can I say?
00:01:14.760 We have, it was an outstanding group of decisions I think that was made.
00:01:22.120 A lot of decisions were made.
00:01:23.480 There wasn't too much left out there.
00:01:27.080 And we've come to conclusion on many, very important points.
00:01:30.820 And we'll be handing that to you in a little while.
00:01:33.220 You know, we're having, because there's a lot of, a lot of different things.
00:01:37.100 Many of them very important.
00:01:38.400 President Trump is set to meet again with Xi Jinping.
00:01:41.560 He says in April, either in Washington, D.C. or in Florida, I would assume at Mar-a-Lago,
00:01:47.260 President Trump also going to reciprocate with a trip to China somewhere around that time.
00:01:53.060 President Trump, when speaking to the media, also says that they discussed Ukraine and that
00:01:57.180 China is going to help the United States and Russia and Ukraine try to come together on an agreement,
00:02:02.780 something President Trump has longed for.
00:02:05.340 Take a listen.
00:02:06.360 Ukraine came up very strongly.
00:02:09.040 We talked about it for a long time.
00:02:10.500 And we're both going to work together to see if we can get something done.
00:02:14.120 We agree that the sides are, you know, locked in and fighting.
00:02:18.860 And sometimes you have to let them fight, I guess.
00:02:20.920 Crazy.
00:02:21.240 But he's going to help us, and we're going to work together on Ukraine.
00:02:25.440 He's got a lot more we can do.
00:02:28.200 You know, he's been buying oil from Russia for a long time.
00:02:31.440 It takes care of a big part of China.
00:02:35.020 And, you know, I can say India's been very good on that front.
00:02:42.340 But we didn't really discuss the oil.
00:02:45.160 We discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished. 0.67
00:02:48.520 You know, it doesn't affect China.
00:02:50.600 It doesn't affect us.
00:02:52.400 And I'd like to see it done on the basis.
00:02:55.040 I'd like to see 6,000, 7,000, 8,000 young people, mostly young people, for the most part soldiers, be killed.
00:03:03.340 Just hours before President Trump met with Xi Jinping,
00:03:05.980 President Trump announced Wednesday night from South Korea that he has ordered the Department of War
00:03:10.480 to, quote, immediately start testing nuclear weapons,
00:03:13.680 something the United States has not done since 1992, the end of the Cold War.
00:03:19.360 Trump's statement came just an hour before I said he was scheduled to meet with President Xi Jinping in South Korea,
00:03:25.840 also after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the successful test of two nuclear-powered,
00:03:30.760 nuclear-capable weapons systems, a cruise missile and an underwater drone.
00:03:35.620 President Trump, the president of peace,
00:03:37.880 But if push comes to shove, he's going to have to be the president of war and keep the rest of the world in check.
00:03:46.480 So we'll see what happens there.
00:03:48.480 And the rhinos in the Senate just can't get their acts together, folks. 0.99
00:03:53.700 I don't know what their deal is, what the problem is.
00:03:57.020 30 days, day 30 now, the government shut down, the Chuck Schumer shut down.
00:04:01.260 And you would think that the Republicans in the Senate and the House would let the Marxist Dems implode on themselves.
00:04:07.540 But no.
00:04:08.780 Last night, the Senate voted to nuke President Trump's, no pun intended, by the way,
00:04:13.000 President Trump's tariffs on Canada.
00:04:15.440 This is the second time this year that the Senate has voted to repeal President Trump's tariffs on Canada.
00:04:20.120 Now, the problem here, the Republicans, well, four rhinos, we'll call them, 0.91
00:04:25.380 Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins,
00:04:29.040 the four rhinos, House Speaker Mike Johnson will not hold a vote on the measure.
00:04:33.540 So the Senate's vote was just a waste of time.
00:04:35.900 And to show who the rhinos are, President Trump never would sign that measure into law anyway.
00:04:41.280 President Trump on Saturday increased tariffs on Canada by 10 percent of what they're now paying
00:04:45.780 after the government of Ontario played that deceptive Ronald Reagan ad during the World Series.
00:04:50.780 Canada then came out and said they were going to look to or the prime minister of Canada rather came out and said
00:04:55.020 they're going to look to Asia to replace America. 0.61
00:04:57.940 Well, good luck. There's a little bit of water in between the two countries.
00:05:02.140 So good luck with that, folks.
00:05:03.880 Please be sure to join us tonight.
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00:05:13.320 Six p.m.
00:05:13.900 I'm John Fossett with this midday update.
00:05:16.120 Have a great day, everybody.