The Great America Show - May 05, 2025


Monday Update： May 5, 2025

Topics
reopening Alcatraz Department of Homeland Security self-deportation program movie tariffs and Hollywood crisis
Hosted by
Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
Mentioned
Trump Stephen Miller John Bolton Mike Waltz Alcatraz
The Great America Sunday Show： May 4, 2025 Tuesday Update： May 6, 2025

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

178.72

Word count

1,306

Sentence count

82

Harmful content

Hate speech

10

sentences flagged


Summary

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Trump has an idea to reopen Alcatraz, a prison that has been locked up for decades, because of leftist judges here in America, and send our worst criminals to a prison on the coast of California, instead of sending them to El Paso, Texas.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Foss with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, May 5th.
00:00:04.760 Happy Monday, folks. Happy Cinco de Mayo.
00:00:07.440 Hope your weeks are off to a great start.
00:00:09.500 President Trump never seems to take a weekend off, let alone a day off.
00:00:14.020 Not even a holiday. The man works 365 days a year, many hours a day.
00:00:20.360 President Trump working over the weekend, and he's out with a new idea.
00:00:24.540 Take a listen to this Truth Social post from President Trump.
00:00:27.840 Quote, rebuild and open Alcatraz for far too long.
00:00:31.740 Americans have been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders, 0.98
00:00:35.660 the dreads of society, who will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering.
00:00:40.600 The post goes on and continues, President Trump announcing that he's ordered his DOJ
00:00:45.060 to look into reopening Alcatraz to house some of our worst criminals here in America.
00:00:52.180 He says because of the rogue judges here in America,
00:00:55.020 who are having an issue with President Trump sending illegals and criminals to El Salvador,
00:01:00.520 he'll just send them right off the coast of California.
00:01:02.820 Take a listen to President Trump when he landed on Marine One yesterday back at the White House.
00:01:07.620 Where did you get the idea for reopening Alcatraz?
00:01:11.480 Just an idea I've had, and I guess because the judges, so many of these radicalized judges,
00:01:17.380 they want to have trials for every single thing of it.
00:01:20.740 Every single person that's in our country illegally, that came in illegally, 1.00
00:01:25.040 that would mean millions of trials, and it's just so ridiculous what's happening.
00:01:29.140 And it's long been a symbol, Alcatraz, of whatever it is.
00:01:35.560 I mean, you know, it's a sad symbol, but it's a symbol of law and order.
00:01:40.880 And, you know, it's got quite a history, frankly.
00:01:43.880 So I think we're going to do that, and we're looking at it right now.
00:01:46.860 President Trump, brilliant and masterful in all that he does.
00:01:50.220 I think we could all agree.
00:01:51.900 The man comes up with things that none of us have ever thought of,
00:01:54.960 never even imagined of thinking of, but it's not a bad idea.
00:02:00.520 These rogue Marxist judges have a problem with deporting them and sending them to El Salvador.
00:02:05.220 It's fine, we'll send them to Alcatraz.
00:02:06.460 It's the same result.
00:02:08.100 President Trump's Department of Homeland Security this week coming out with a new brilliant idea.
00:02:12.620 Once again, another idea that I don't think many of us have thought of.
00:02:16.300 The Department of Homeland Security has announced its creative way to ensure
00:02:19.840 that illegal aliens leave the country while saving taxpayers money. 0.99
00:02:24.020 The new program announced by the DHS announcing it will start paying for commercial flights of illegals
00:02:29.800 who self-deport America.
00:02:31.960 In addition, the government will also pay these illegals $1,000 extra once they are confirmed to have left the country. 0.70
00:02:38.840 To qualify, now if you folks know anybody who maybe want to pass along the word,
00:02:43.480 to qualify, illegal immigrants must register on the CBP Border app, file their notice to leave America.
00:02:48.980 Moreover, illegal immigrants who self-deport will be able to come back to America in the future,
00:02:54.900 provided they use illegal channels.
00:02:57.520 Folks, this is giving millions and millions of illegals a pathway to leave the country honestly, 0.98
00:03:04.240 to leave with some sort of integrity,
00:03:06.600 and to maybe one day come back to the country and have a legal remedy.
00:03:09.980 Now, you may remember, President Trump announced if you are here and you're caught and you're deported,
00:03:14.760 you will never be allowed to come back to America legally. 0.55
00:03:18.600 So, it's sort of an incentive.
00:03:20.920 Now, some people may be saying,
00:03:22.200 why are we paying illegals who shouldn't be here in the first place? 1.00
00:03:25.340 Well, there's a reason.
00:03:26.860 It'd be a tremendous saving for the American taxpayer.
00:03:29.460 Right now, it costs over $17,000 to detain, arrest, and deport someone from America.
00:03:34.980 If the illegals accept these offers of self-deportations,
00:03:38.960 the self-removal flights and the stipend will only cost $4,500 per illegal.
00:03:43.740 Now, I'm not good at math, but that's a savings of at least $12,000 for one evader, 0.51
00:03:48.860 or 70% of savings for the taxpayer dollar.
00:03:51.760 Now, think about what that doesn't take into account,
00:03:53.820 and that's the long-term cost of free welfare and public support for these illegal alien families.
00:03:58.780 Once that data is considered, the savings will be upwards of $1 million per illegal immigrant family.
00:04:06.260 Not bad, folks.
00:04:07.380 I think if you're an illegal immigrant or illegal alien,
00:04:11.620 it's not a bad idea to deport and maybe try to come back one day as a legal citizen.
00:04:17.260 Not that you should have been here in the first place,
00:04:19.420 but anytime the taxpayer, the American citizen, you and I are saving money, it makes me happy.
00:04:24.840 President Trump is out with some new tariffs, and it's not what you expected.
00:04:29.560 President Trump has announced that he's slapping a 100% tariff on all foreign films to save America's movie industry.
00:04:37.380 President Trump announcing on Truth Social,
00:04:39.400 quote,
00:04:39.660 The movie industry is dying, and it's dying very fast.
00:04:43.260 Other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.
00:04:49.460 Hollywood and many other areas in the United States are being devastated.
00:04:52.700 This is a concerted effort by the other nations, therefore, as national security threat. 0.58
00:04:58.340 It is in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda.
00:05:02.120 Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Rep
00:05:05.720 to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any movies or films coming into the country
00:05:13.720 that are produced in foreign lands.
00:05:15.940 We want movies made in America again.
00:05:19.300 President Trump posting that on Truth Social.
00:05:21.380 As I said, sort of unexpected, but not a bad idea.
00:05:26.560 Stephen Miller, President Trump, one of President Trump's top advisors,
00:05:30.620 now reportedly being considered at the top of the totem pole for that national security advisor role
00:05:35.360 that's left behind by Mike Waltz last week.
00:05:37.900 It's being said that Stephen Miller loves the job he's in right now.
00:05:41.360 Taking that new job would maybe stifle him from continuing to do what he likes to do,
00:05:48.020 and that's advocate for border security.
00:05:49.820 John Bolton on MSNBC this weekend saying,
00:05:53.500 if President Trump decided to take Greenland, it would provoke an impeachment crisis.
00:05:59.000 Bolton saying out loud what we all expect is going to happen if the Democrats take over the House
00:06:04.200 and the Republicans don't get their act together in a short, short period of time.
00:06:08.900 And folks, those of you who have been following the Diddy trial and the Diddy process all playing out,
00:06:14.520 jury selection has started this morning for Diddy's trial.
00:06:18.360 We'll keep you up to date once that jury's selected and how they decide to proceed with that.
00:06:25.580 Diddy's expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars if convicted on all the crimes he's been charged with.
00:06:32.600 Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and every day for The Great America Show.
00:06:36.420 Tonight, we're going to be joined at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on The Great America Show by former NBA player Ennis Cantor Freedom.
00:06:44.160 He's a man who gave up millions and tens of millions of dollars playing in the NBA to speak out against the CCP
00:06:51.480 and the Communist Party and all that they're doing to destroy the world. 0.56
00:06:56.080 He ended his NBA career to try to save America and try to save the American people.
00:07:01.800 An absolutely fascinating story.
00:07:03.740 That's tonight, only on The Great America Show, folks.
00:07:05.860 We'll see you for that.
00:07:06.900 6 p.m. Eastern, Rumble, Twitter, wherever you guys get your podcasts.
00:07:10.720 We'll see you there for The Great America Show, folks.
00:07:12.760 I'm Jon Foss with this midday update.
00:07:14.860 Happy Monday.
00:07:15.540 Happy Cinco de Mayo.
00:07:17.000 Enjoy the margaritas tonight, folks.