The Great America Show - September 05, 2025


Mid-Day Update： September 5, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

165.11066

Word count

955

Sentence count

63

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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Trump sends more F-35s to Puerto Rico, former White House physician Ronnie Jackson is restored to his full rank, and Elon Musk has a new compensation agreement that could be worth a TRILLION DOLLARS!

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, September 5th.
00:00:04.940 Happy Friday, folks. The weekend is here.
00:00:07.440 Donald Trump's showing he's not playing any games when it comes to Venezuela or the drug lords or anybody, for that matter.
00:00:14.620 President Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
00:00:18.520 This is part of President Trump's war on the cartels, war on the drug lords, and war on anyone who needs to destroy America.
00:00:24.800 Now it all comes as tensions are mounting with Venezuela over Washington's military buildup in the Caribbean.
00:00:30.960 The planes will join the U.S. warships already deployed to the Southern Caribbean,
00:00:35.160 as President Trump steps up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the United States accuses of leading the drug cartel.
00:00:42.840 The standoff has grown in the recent days as the Pentagon says two Venezuelan military planes flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters on Thursday night,
00:00:51.980 which they say is highly provocative.
00:00:54.800 U.S. forces on Tuesday, of course, blew up that drug boat in the Caribbean that President Trump said belonged to Trende Agua,
00:01:01.280 the Venezuelan criminal organization he tied to Maduro.
00:01:04.600 It killed 11 people on board.
00:01:07.200 I don't even know if you can consider them human beings, being what they were meant to do,
00:01:12.040 and the drugs they were bringing to America. 0.95
00:01:14.960 Maduro, who's obviously a leftist firebrand, who last election in 2024 was seen by Washington as illegitimate.
00:01:20.860 But imagine that.
00:01:22.560 America's not the only place, apparently, that has illegitimate elections.
00:01:26.220 He's denouncing this move as the U.S. buildup as, quote,
00:01:28.780 the greatest threat to our continent that it's seen in the last hundred years,
00:01:33.100 declaring his country prepared for armed struggle.
00:01:36.220 This is a, quote, armed struggle in defense of its national territory.
00:01:40.180 He has mobilized the Venezuelan military, which has numbers around 340,000 reservists,
00:01:45.480 which claims exceeds 8 million.
00:01:48.660 Who knows if that's true?
00:01:50.580 But Maduro's barking up the wrong bush, all to just pour drugs into America?
00:01:56.360 And speaking of war, French's president, Emmanuel Macron,
00:02:00.140 has been stoking the World War III beat for quite some time with his Iran rhetoric,
00:02:04.420 said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine's allies have pledged to deploy troops as a reassurance force
00:02:11.460 for the war-torn country as its fighting continues with Russia.
00:02:16.380 Well, that's good for him and the 26 nations who want to send troops on the ground.
00:02:21.640 Not going to be here in America, not going to be American troops on the ground,
00:02:25.680 at least under Donald Trump's watch.
00:02:27.660 I think it's safe to say.
00:02:28.880 There was a massive ICE raid, if you haven't heard about it,
00:02:31.660 at a Hyundai battery construction site in Georgia Thursday afternoon,
00:02:35.640 resulting in 475 arrests of workers in the United States illegally
00:02:40.060 or who have violated terms of their immigrant visas,
00:02:43.340 with the majority of the illegal workers that were arrested being from South Korea.
00:02:49.600 Now, the raid was apparently tipped off by a man named Kevin Souza,
00:02:52.440 who worked construction at the plant.
00:02:54.360 He blew the whistle on the safety of the Hyundai megacite,
00:02:56.860 saying undocumented workers were working in unsafe conditions.
00:03:01.440 Well, I think that ends today as President Trump's ICE raids continue.
00:03:06.320 Former White House physician Ronnie Jackson was yet another victim
00:03:09.580 of a politically motivated punishment by the Biden regime,
00:03:13.040 all for saying that Donald Trump was healthy during his time in office and still is,
00:03:17.840 and Joe Biden wasn't.
00:03:19.360 In April of 2018, Jackson resigned as the White House doctor
00:03:22.200 after fake news media smeared him with lies.
00:03:24.280 Jackson raised the alarm about Joe Biden early in 2020 in the presidential campaign,
00:03:29.400 calling for Biden to get cognitive tests as there was clear signs that he was not mentally all there.
00:03:34.600 Now, throughout Biden's presidency and into the 2024 campaign,
00:03:37.940 Jackson continued to raise the alarm about Biden's deficiencies.
00:03:41.280 The Biden administration, of course, fired back,
00:03:43.460 and in 2022, the Navy reduced Jackson's rank from rear admiral to captain,
00:03:48.540 effectively reducing the retirement and benefits he had earned over a lifetime of service.
00:03:53.400 Jackson, of course, is now a congressman, represents Texas 13th Congressional District,
00:03:57.860 sharing a letter today on social media from the Secretary of the Navy,
00:04:02.540 letting him know that he has now been restored to his full rank.
00:04:07.180 Jackson sharing on Twitter, quote,
00:04:08.720 I was and still am a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral,
00:04:13.280 and Joe Biden is a retired old fool.
00:04:16.540 Good for Ronnie Jackson and good on the Secretary of the Navy for making right on Joe Biden's attack on America.
00:04:24.880 Elon Musk kind of been quiet in the news lately.
00:04:27.080 Tesla has offered CEO Elon Musk a new compensation agreement,
00:04:31.500 potentially up to worth a trillion dollars.
00:04:35.520 A massive package without precedent in corporate America.
00:04:39.000 Bloomberg reports that EV giant Tesla has proposed this new compensation agreement for Elon Musk,
00:04:43.840 saying it could be worth a trillion dollars, a long-awaited proposal designed to incentivize Musk
00:04:48.740 to lead Tesla for years to come.
00:04:51.260 He said a series of ambitious benchmarks he must meet in order to earn the full payout.
00:04:56.580 You remember back a few months ago,
00:04:59.140 the Delaware judge had voided Musk's prior $56 billion pay package.
00:05:03.900 Of course, lawfare against anybody who supported Donald Trump.
00:05:07.640 Now it's looking like he may get a trillion dollars.
00:05:09.980 I can't wait to see what the marks is left and the judges have to say about that.
00:05:14.120 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
00:05:18.620 Rumble YouTube, Twitter, wherever you join us.
00:05:20.600 We'll see you there tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern time.
00:05:22.620 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:05:24.620 Happy Friday, folks.
00:05:25.400 Happy Friday, folks.