The Great America Show - March 19, 2025


Wednesday Headlines： March 19, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

169.08366

Word count

1,061

Sentence count

59

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

3

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Summary

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Trump and Putin speak for the first time since falling out in the Oval Office. Russia wants to make a manned mission to Mars with Elon Musk in the 2030s, and the Trump administration halts federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over a potential Title IX violation.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, March 19th.
00:00:05.040 Happy Wednesday, folks.
00:00:06.940 President Trump speaking to Vladimir Zelensky for the first time since that little Oval Office, we'll call it a blow-up.
00:00:15.580 The two spoke this afternoon. President Trump says it was a very good phone call.
00:00:20.520 The two men spoke for about an hour to discuss Trump's call with President Vladimir Putin and the conditions for the partial ceasefire.
00:00:27.960 Quote, much of the discussion was based on the call yesterday with President Putin.
00:00:31.940 In order to align both Russia and Ukraine in terms of their requests and needs, we are very much on track, says President Trump in a truth social post.
00:00:41.620 Trump also added that he was asking Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to give a few more details.
00:00:48.540 Both men are heading to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to resume these peace talks.
00:00:52.320 Wednesday's phone call was the first time Zelensky and Trump spoke, as I had said, since they're falling out in the Oval Office in February.
00:00:59.740 In Trump's phone call yesterday with Vladimir Putin, the two agreed to a partial ceasefire agreement for 30 days.
00:01:07.260 Talks for permanent peace talks will begin immediately in the Middle East, as I said on Sunday with Marco Rubio.
00:01:11.940 The leaders agreed that the movement to the peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on the implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace.
00:01:25.260 These negotiations will begin this week.
00:01:28.280 Russia also looks to be getting back in America's good graces, Russia with a proposal to proposing a joint Mars mission with Elon Musk in 2029.
00:01:38.460 With just a few minutes to go before President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke on Tuesday, a prominent American-friendly figure in the Kremlin spoke up on his high hopes on making Elon Musk a proposal.
00:01:50.040 A manned mission to Mars, a joint venture with Moscow, the head of the Russian direct investment fund, Kirill Dmitriev, said he thought there would be certainly a discussion with Musk in the near future about making that mission to Mars with Musk a reality.
00:02:05.980 The Trump administration has paused $175 million in federal funds to the University of Pennsylvania, more often known as UPenn, over the institution's inclusion of transgender athletes.
00:02:18.240 The freeze in funding is pending an investigation into UPenn's alleged Title IX violation, which could threaten the school's entire federal funding package.
00:02:27.220 As of 2024, UPenn's total federal funding package is roughly a billion dollars.
00:02:33.140 UPenn is one of the three institutions selected for the Title IX investigation following President Trump signing the, quote,
00:02:39.240 Keep Men Out of Women's Sports executive order on February 5th.
00:02:43.020 The Department of Education is directly investigating UPenn, San Jose State, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association for its suspected Title IX violations.
00:02:54.340 UPenn emerged at the forefront of the transgender athlete debate in 2022 when male swimmer William Thomas decided to identify as a woman and join the women's swim team.
00:03:04.960 Once on the women's swim team, Will, who now goes by the name of Leah, began defeating all his female opponents and smashing women's NCAA records.
00:03:15.820 Thomas would go on to win the national championship in the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAAs and would tie Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines for 5th place in the 200-yard freestyle.
00:03:26.600 However, only Thomas would receive the trophy for winning.
00:03:29.680 Of course, because we have to cater to the transgenders because women aren't women anymore, right? 1.00
00:03:36.200 Well, at least that's what the Marxist Dems tell us.
00:03:38.520 And folks, there's lawfare still going on in America.
00:03:42.040 Some would call it a judicial coup.
00:03:44.040 Radical leftist judges wage an all-out war on President Trump and the nation.
00:03:48.880 129 legal challenges have been filed in two months, more than all U.S. presidents combined.
00:03:55.180 Folks, just yesterday alone, four federal judges ordered that Elon Musk must reinstate USAID workers.
00:04:05.020 Trump must state and disclose when and where the flights left with the terrorists, those Trende Agua terrorists.
00:04:12.060 Number three, he must reinstate all transgenders to the military. 1.00
00:04:16.700 And lastly, reinstate Department of Education grants.
00:04:21.840 Folks, you can't make this stuff up.
00:04:24.160 But it's an all-out war.
00:04:26.400 Now, in President Trump's first administration from 2017 to 2021, they only faced 65 nationwide injunctions.
00:04:34.060 President Trump, as I said in the last two months, facing 129 legal challenges by activist judges.
00:04:40.840 Only two cases have been closed so far.
00:04:44.120 Folks, it's an all-out war on this country, an all-out war on America by these unelected bureaucrats,
00:04:49.320 these Marxist Dems, who just hate America. 0.92
00:04:53.680 They hate America first. 0.65
00:04:54.620 They hate Donald Trump.
00:04:55.860 But this time around, folks, the Trump administration is far more calculated, far more reserved than they were in the first term.
00:05:04.360 I have a very good feeling I don't think they're going to be losing many of these court challenges.
00:05:08.140 Now, it does pose as a speed bump in the road, a little hump in the road, but it doesn't matter because everything Trump has done so far has been very constitutional and well inside his powers as President of the United States.
00:05:22.300 These Marxist Dems judges, if they hate America so much, should just pack up their stuffs, retire, and leave the country for the next four years, or if they want to stay longer, longer.
00:05:33.100 This is Donald Trump's administration.
00:05:34.660 It's Donald Trump's country to run.
00:05:36.520 They have no business being in it.
00:05:38.860 They should worry about the crime that's going on in this country, the fraud that's happening in this country, whether it be USAID,
00:05:45.180 or the millions and millions of other dollars that are wasted through fraud and abuse.
00:05:51.520 That's the job that they should be worried about, not President Trump and his making of America great.
00:05:56.140 Again, folks, please be sure to join us today and each and every day for The Great America Show, twice a day for The Great America Show interviews,
00:06:03.300 and The Great America Show midday updates where we bring you all the headlines that you need to know and everything that's going on in this country and around the world, folks.
00:06:11.520 We'll see you later for The Great America Show.
00:06:13.520 I'm John Fossett with this midday update.
00:06:15.700 Have a great day, folks.