Mid-Day Update: September 22, 2025
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Summary
Jimmy Kimmel returns to air on Tuesday after being suspended for six days. Woke wins AGAIN. President Trump attends a memorial for Charlie Kirk. Supreme Court rules in favor of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Venezuela sends a letter to President Trump asking to talk.
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, September 22nd.
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Woke wins again, apparently. ABC is caving after just a few days.
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Jimmy Kimmel was set to return after just a mere six-day suspension after his Charlie Kirk assassination comments.
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ABC announcing this afternoon the swift return of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel
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just six days after suspending him from making those false comments
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linking the assassination of Charlie Kirk to the MAGA movement.
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The person arrested for the assassination of Charlie Kirk, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson,
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has been described by family as a leftist who was living with his transgender boyfriend.
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In the wake of the tragedy, Kimmel wasted, of course, no time exploiting the national mourning for political points.
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On September 15th, during his monologue, Kimmel lied that the suspected killer was part of the MAGA movement.
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Just days after Charlie was assassinated, the body wasn't even in the ground yet,
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The backlash was swift and intense, with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr stepping in to pressure ABC
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And two days later, ABC announced an indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live,
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The move, of course, sparked massive protests by Hollywood elites and prominent Marxist Dems across the spectrum.
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And on Monday, today, ABC announced that he would be returning to air on Tuesday.
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The network also claimed that his statements were ill-timed, ignoring that they were entirely false,
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Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation
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It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.
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We spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,
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and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.
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Now I think it's time for Brendan Carr, FCC Commissioner, to take a look at ABC's broadcasting license
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and end the 10-year spewing of lies that ABC has done, as I said for the last 10 years,
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spewing lies about Donald Trump and spewing hate in people's bones to do things and commit acts
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And the Supreme Court this afternoon ruling in favor of truth, justice, and the American way.
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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court let Trump sideline President Biden's appointee for the FTC, Rebecca Slaughter.
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SCOTUS will hear arguments in December on overhauling Humphrey's executor,
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a case that upheld congressional limits on firing the FTC members.
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Truth, justice, and the American way, folks, at the forefront at the Supreme Court.
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And Venezuela has sent a letter to President Trump asking to talk.
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That's right, Nicolas Maduro, who's the socialist dictator there,
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sent a letter to President Trump claiming he wishes to engage in, quote,
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direct conversations within the United States amid rising tensions between both countries.
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According to the letter, Maduro says he's open for direct and frank conversations
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with Special Presidential Envoy and Special Missions Rick Grinnell
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Now, there's no media noise or fake news around anything.
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The truth of the matter is, is that Maduro has been sending drugs to America for far too long,
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and now President Trump is blowing them up out of the water,
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and Maduro probably wants to know how he can get his product across and back to America
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without it being blown up with the people on it along the way.
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Quite frankly, it's not going to happen, folks.
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Those days are long over, as Joe Biden is no longer the president,
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or I should say, acting president of the United States.
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And over the weekend, President Trump and most of his cabinet members
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flew out to Arizona to join the memorial for Charlie Kirk,
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President Trump's, J.D. Vance's, and Marco Rubio's were perhaps the most touching and the best.
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I want to bring you a little clip from Marco Rubio's.
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Like I said, all very touching, but Marco Rubio's was absolutely next level.
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Take a listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing a packed house for the memorial for Charlie Kirk
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and what we have to keep our eye on in the mission, the America First mission.
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One of the things he wants us to take away from this, from all of this, is the following.
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His deep belief that we were all created, every single one of us, before the beginning of time
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by the hands of the God of the universe, an all-powerful God,
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who loved us and created us for the purpose of living with him in eternity.
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But then sin entered the world and separated us from our creator.
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And so God took on the form of a man and came down and lived among us.
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But on the third day, he rose unlike any mortal man.
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he ate with his disciples so they could see and they touched his wounds.
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He didn't rise as a ghost or as a spirit, but as flesh.
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And then he rose to the heaven, but he promised he would return.
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we were freed from the sin that separated us from him.
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And we are going to have a great reunion there again with Charlie and all the people we love.
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A very touching message, as I said, from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern Time, for The Great America Show.
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We're going to be joined by Great American Roger Stone, a fan favorite.
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You know where to find us, at The Great America Show.
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See you 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show, folks.
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Hope you stay in the middle of one of all of theš.
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Hope you stay in the middle of one of your trip.
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Hope you stay in the middle of one of the other temps.