The Great America Show - May 15, 2025


Thursday Update： May 15, 2025


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

199.1728

Word count

1,236

Sentence count

104

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Trump may be the first president in a quarter century to be able to get Iran to maybe give up their nuclear weapons. House Speaker Mike Johnson cancels all votes for Friday, May 16th. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is finding herself in the crosshairs of the media.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, May 15th.
00:00:04.840 Happy Thursday, folks. The weekend's almost here.
00:00:07.340 President Trump, the Nobel Peace President on the horizon, at least that's what it looks like.
00:00:12.200 President Trump may be the first president in a quarter century to be able to...
00:00:17.160 Now, I say a quarter century because that's when things started to really ramp up with Iran. 1.00
00:00:20.680 But the first president in a quarter century to be able to get Iran to maybe give up their nuclear weapons.
00:00:26.620 Now, you're not really hearing the mainstream media talk about it because why would they?
00:00:30.140 It gives President Trump some clout.
00:00:32.140 It makes President Trump the commander in peace.
00:00:34.320 Everything that they told us he wasn't, he turned out to be.
00:00:36.960 They promised us he was getting into World War III.
00:00:39.540 They promised us America would be in all new wars.
00:00:42.440 But President Trump's the only president in my lifetime who hasn't put us in a new war.
00:00:46.040 In fact, he's brought us out of wars.
00:00:48.040 So President Trump, against all odds, may finally have a peace deal with Iran.
00:00:52.920 Take a listen to President Trump over in the Middle East talking about it today.
00:00:57.280 You probably read today the story about Iran has sort of agreed to the terms.
00:01:03.980 They're not going to make out, I call it in a friendly way, nuclear dust.
00:01:07.800 We're not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran.
00:01:11.560 And we've been strong.
00:01:13.400 I want them to succeed.
00:01:14.400 I want them to end up being a great country, frankly.
00:01:17.880 But they can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:01:19.260 That's the only thing.
00:01:20.000 It's very simple.
00:01:20.660 It's not like I have to give you 30 pages worth of details.
00:01:23.880 There's only one sentence.
00:01:25.400 They can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:01:27.760 And I think we're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this.
00:01:33.680 There's two steps.
00:01:34.720 There's a very, very nice step.
00:01:36.200 And there's a violent step.
00:01:37.920 The violence like people haven't seen before.
00:01:41.260 And I don't, I hope we're not going to have to do this.
00:01:44.580 I don't want to do the second step.
00:01:46.160 Some people do.
00:01:46.980 Many people do.
00:01:48.220 I don't want to do that step.
00:01:49.500 So we'll see what happens.
00:01:51.340 But we're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace.
00:01:57.140 And if we do that, it'll be fantastic.
00:02:00.060 As I said, it seems a Nobel Peace Prize may be on the horizon for President Trump if he
00:02:05.500 can get this deal done with Iran.
00:02:07.960 First president in my lifetime to maybe bring us to some sort of peace with the troubled,
00:02:13.280 troubled nation.
00:02:13.880 Here on the home front, House Speaker Mike Johnson canceling all votes for tomorrow, Friday,
00:02:20.560 May 16th.
00:02:21.200 You may ask, why?
00:02:22.060 Why, Mr. Speaker?
00:02:22.760 Why are you canceling votes?
00:02:23.940 Well, it's unclear.
00:02:24.760 He sent everyone home once again for the weekend.
00:02:26.800 This is now the second time the Speaker has done this with no explanation whatsoever.
00:02:31.660 The only thing that we can come up with here on the Great America Show is that the votes
00:02:35.740 that he was bringing to the floor, he didn't have the votes for.
00:02:38.340 So that relies on him and it relies on House Whip, Tom Emmer.
00:02:43.020 Nobody seems to be on the same page.
00:02:44.760 We're now months into the Trump administration.
00:02:47.500 The least bills signed by a president that Congress gave him in over 70 years.
00:02:54.220 Now, that's not on President Trump.
00:02:55.480 He's done his job with executive orders.
00:02:57.860 The Congress has done absolutely nothing.
00:03:00.500 Mike Johnson is nowhere to be found.
00:03:02.480 The least amount of bills given to a president, as I said, in over 70 years, folks, 70 years.
00:03:10.280 What is Mike Johnson doing?
00:03:11.800 How much time are we supposed to give Mike Johnson before we say enough is enough?
00:03:15.640 We need an America First speaker who's going to get the job done, who can get the job done.
00:03:20.760 And just as Mike Johnson canceled those votes, 17 members of the House, all Republicans, of
00:03:25.400 course, are pushing Mike Johnson to codify President Trump's executive orders, saying that
00:03:30.700 when President Trump is no longer in office, the Democrats are just going to simply undo
00:03:34.960 what he did with the sign of a pen, as he did with Joe Biden's executive orders.
00:03:39.220 Over here on the home front, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or as Tucker Carlson likes to call her, Sandy 1.00
00:03:44.740 Cortez, finding herself in the crosshairs once again with border czar Tom Homan.
00:03:50.800 Tom Homan assuring us he doesn't care what she says, and he's not scared of her in the slightest.
00:03:56.940 Take a listen.
00:03:58.340 First of all, you can't intimidate me.
00:04:00.140 Hey, come on, give me a break. 0.97
00:04:01.580 You know, I was enforcing him.
00:04:02.520 I was wearing a green uniform, border patrol agent for five years before she was even born.
00:04:07.500 I had more than three decades enforcing immigration law before she became a member of Congress. 0.98
00:04:12.000 I worked for six presidents.
00:04:13.600 I've seen policies.
00:04:14.420 I've seen hundreds of policies.
00:04:15.540 Some worked, some didn't.
00:04:16.860 What you can't deny, the success of the Trump administration when it comes to border security,
00:04:20.780 again, the most secure border in history of this nation.
00:04:22.880 And I said from day one, and she knows this, you can not support ICE.
00:04:27.440 Shame on you.
00:04:27.980 You can support sanctuary cities.
00:04:30.140 Shame on you.
00:04:30.900 But you can't cross the line.
00:04:32.980 You can't knowingly impede ICE law enforcement officers.
00:04:36.720 That is a felony.
00:04:37.800 You can't harbor and conceal.
00:04:39.280 Knowingly harbor and conceal it will go alien from ICE.
00:04:42.020 That is a felony.
00:04:42.640 And you certainly can't commit criminal trespass.
00:04:46.200 You know, and as far as New York, her district, this administration has done more to protect her district than she has. 0.78
00:04:52.900 The number of criminal ambulance we took off the streets of New York made her community much safer.
00:04:57.300 She ought to be thanking the members of this administration, the men and women of ICE, who protect this country and make her community safer.
00:05:03.040 So, you know, politics over public safety is just ridiculous.
00:05:08.660 She ought to love her community more than she hates Trump, because we're doing a lot to protect her community.
00:05:13.860 Tom Holman, clearly not intimidated by Sandy Cortez.
00:05:16.960 I don't think any of us are.
00:05:18.480 She's not in the triple digit IQ range, as they would say.
00:05:21.960 And the Supreme Court today is discussing birthright citizenship.
00:05:25.240 And folks, I got to be honest with you, it doesn't look good for truth justice in the American way.
00:05:29.300 Amy Coney Barrett doesn't seem like she's on the side of the American people and ending birthright citizenship. 0.99
00:05:36.200 It may be too early to tell, but her line of questioning to Solicitor General of the United States, John Sauer, doesn't sound very promising.
00:05:45.680 The Republicans need, or American needs, I should say, either John Roberts or Amy Coney Barrett to chip off one of those votes in order to end it. 0.67
00:05:54.860 So we'll keep you updated as it progresses, but it doesn't seem very promising as of right now.
00:06:00.660 Folks, please be sure to join us today for The Great America Show and each and every day for The Great America Show and The Great America Show midday updates.
00:06:06.980 We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.
00:06:09.820 I'm John Fossett with this midday update.
00:06:11.520 Have a great day, everybody.