Monday Update： August 11, 2025
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Summary
Trump invokes the D.C. Home Rule Act, federalizing the city s police department and sending in the National Guard. President Trump also orders the military to take on the drug cartels and the flow of illegal drugs and gangs.
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday,
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August 11th. Happy Monday, folks. It's Liberation Day in Washington, D.C. President Trump says it's
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time to take back our Capitol. President Trump announcing this morning in a press conference
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that he's invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Act, federalizing D.C. police and sending in the
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National Guard. Take a listen to President Trump earlier this morning. I'm announcing a historic
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action to rescue our nation's Capitol from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.
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This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our Capitol back. We're taking it back
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under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking
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Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? And placing the D.C.
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Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and you'll be meeting the people that
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will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's
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happening and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish
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law, order of public safety in Washington, D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job
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properly. Now, the D.C. police union, all in favor of President Trump, allowing these folks,
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these great men and women who represent that city in uniform, to finally do their jobs. The union,
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as I said, all for this move. President Trump says it's not just about the crime. It's also about
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getting the homeless and disgust off the streets. Take a listen. We're going to be removing homeless
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encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't
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walk on. They've been very, very dirty, very, got a lot of problems. But we've already started that.
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We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people. Some of those people,
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we don't know how they even got there. Some of those people are from different countries,
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different parts of the world. Nobody knows who they are. They have no idea, but they're there
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getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city. There are
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many places that they can go, and we're going to help them as much as you can help.
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But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see.
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Great on President Trump and his administration, who are all about making America great again. It
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doesn't matter if the city voted blue, if the city voted red. President Trump wants all of America
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to be great. And I think that's why President Trump is such a great president, because he's for all
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American people. If you voted for him or if you didn't vote for him, he's keeping his promise to
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make America great again. The Marxist lefts are going rogue, and they're losing their minds, and it's
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not just because of this latest move. President Trump over the weekend reportedly moving President
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Obama and Bush's portrait out of the view and in a hidden stairwell. President Trump reportedly
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directed his staff to move these portraits to the top of the grand staircase, according to two people
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familiar with the matter, telling CNN where it'll be now out of view for thousands of visitors who
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tour the White House each and every day. One of the sources added that the portraits of both Bushes
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are now also in that staircase area. Multiple sources have said the president is directly involved with
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nearly all and everything that is done to the aesthetic of the White House, big or small.
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That's President Trump and the architecture and the builder in him. And it's great. I don't think
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anybody cares to see the Bushes or the Obamas anywhere. I think the only place we want to see
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the Obamas is in orange jumpsuits. President Trump in a very busy day also ordering the military to take
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on the drug cartels and the flow of illegal drugs and gangs. It stops now. President Trump has
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officially signed a directive authorizing the Pentagon to deploy U.S. military force against
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certain Latin America drug cartels designated as terrorist organization. This marks the most
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aggressive step yet in his administration's campaign against fentanyl and other illicit drugs,
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framing the fight as the national security issue and aligning with his closed border policies
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that have already reduced illegal immigration to a fraction of previous levels. The directive builds
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on Trump's executive order that started in his second administration, instructing the State
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Department to designate cartels and transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. In February,
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the State Department announced the first eight designations, including MS-13 and Trendeagua,
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all part of making America great. Again, drugs off the street, crime off the street, and these gangsters
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need to go. Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night, 6 p.m. Eastern time,
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there. We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern, for the Great America Show. I'm John Fossil with this