Monday Update： May 5, 2025
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Summary
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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Hello everybody, I'm John Foss with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, May 5th.
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President Trump never seems to take a weekend off, let alone a day off.
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Not even a holiday. The man works 365 days a year, many hours a day.
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President Trump working over the weekend, and he's out with a new idea.
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Take a listen to this Truth Social post from President Trump.
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Quote, rebuild and open Alcatraz for far too long.
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Americans have been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders,
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the dreads of society, who will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering.
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The post goes on and continues, President Trump announcing that he's ordered his DOJ
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to look into reopening Alcatraz to house some of our worst criminals here in America.
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He says because of the rogue judges here in America,
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who are having an issue with President Trump sending illegals and criminals to El Salvador,
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he'll just send them right off the coast of California.
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Take a listen to President Trump when he landed on Marine One yesterday back at the White House.
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Where did you get the idea for reopening Alcatraz?
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Just an idea I've had, and I guess because the judges, so many of these radicalized judges,
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they want to have trials for every single thing of it.
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Every single person that's in our country illegally, that came in illegally,
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that would mean millions of trials, and it's just so ridiculous what's happening.
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And it's long been a symbol, Alcatraz, of whatever it is.
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I mean, you know, it's a sad symbol, but it's a symbol of law and order.
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And, you know, it's got quite a history, frankly.
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So I think we're going to do that, and we're looking at it right now.
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President Trump, brilliant and masterful in all that he does.
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The man comes up with things that none of us have ever thought of,
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never even imagined of thinking of, but it's not a bad idea.
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These rogue Marxist judges have a problem with deporting them and sending them to El Salvador.
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President Trump's Department of Homeland Security this week coming out with a new brilliant idea.
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Once again, another idea that I don't think many of us have thought of.
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The Department of Homeland Security has announced its creative way to ensure
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that illegal aliens leave the country while saving taxpayers money.
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The new program announced by the DHS announcing it will start paying for commercial flights of illegals
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In addition, the government will also pay these illegals $1,000 extra once they are confirmed to have left the country.
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To qualify, now if you folks know anybody who maybe want to pass along the word,
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to qualify, illegal immigrants must register on the CBP Border app, file their notice to leave America.
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Moreover, illegal immigrants who self-deport will be able to come back to America in the future,
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Folks, this is giving millions and millions of illegals a pathway to leave the country honestly,
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and to maybe one day come back to the country and have a legal remedy.
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Now, you may remember, President Trump announced if you are here and you're caught and you're deported,
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you will never be allowed to come back to America legally.
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why are we paying illegals who shouldn't be here in the first place?
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It'd be a tremendous saving for the American taxpayer.
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Right now, it costs over $17,000 to detain, arrest, and deport someone from America.
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If the illegals accept these offers of self-deportations,
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the self-removal flights and the stipend will only cost $4,500 per illegal.
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Now, I'm not good at math, but that's a savings of at least $12,000 for one evader,
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Now, think about what that doesn't take into account,
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and that's the long-term cost of free welfare and public support for these illegal alien families.
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Once that data is considered, the savings will be upwards of $1 million per illegal immigrant family.
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I think if you're an illegal immigrant or illegal alien,
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it's not a bad idea to deport and maybe try to come back one day as a legal citizen.
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Not that you should have been here in the first place,
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but anytime the taxpayer, the American citizen, you and I are saving money, it makes me happy.
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President Trump is out with some new tariffs, and it's not what you expected.
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President Trump has announced that he's slapping a 100% tariff on all foreign films to save America's movie industry.
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The movie industry is dying, and it's dying very fast.
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Other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.
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Hollywood and many other areas in the United States are being devastated.
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This is a concerted effort by the other nations, therefore, as national security threat.
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It is in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda.
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Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Rep
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to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any movies or films coming into the country
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As I said, sort of unexpected, but not a bad idea.
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Stephen Miller, President Trump, one of President Trump's top advisors,
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now reportedly being considered at the top of the totem pole for that national security advisor role
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It's being said that Stephen Miller loves the job he's in right now.
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Taking that new job would maybe stifle him from continuing to do what he likes to do,
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if President Trump decided to take Greenland, it would provoke an impeachment crisis.
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Bolton saying out loud what we all expect is going to happen if the Democrats take over the House
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and the Republicans don't get their act together in a short, short period of time.
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And folks, those of you who have been following the Diddy trial and the Diddy process all playing out,
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jury selection has started this morning for Diddy's trial.
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We'll keep you up to date once that jury's selected and how they decide to proceed with that.
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Diddy's expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars if convicted on all the crimes he's been charged with.
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Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and every day for The Great America Show.
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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.
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He's a man who gave up millions and tens of millions of dollars playing in the NBA to speak out against the CCP
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and the Communist Party and all that they're doing to destroy the world.
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He ended his NBA career to try to save America and try to save the American people.
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That's tonight, only on The Great America Show, folks.
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6 p.m. Eastern, Rumble, Twitter, wherever you guys get your podcasts.
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We'll see you there for The Great America Show, folks.