Wednesday Update： June 25, 2025
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Summary
Trump hails his historic trip to the Netherlands, NATO agrees to a 5% GDP floor for defense spending for all of its members. President Trump calls out fake news outlets for their coverage of the Iran nuclear strike on the U.S. nuclear sites.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, June 25th.
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President Trump wrapping up a historic and monumental win as he departs the Hague and the Netherlands.
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President Trump is now en route to the United States.
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President Trump hailed his historic trip for the United States, for Europe and Western civilization
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as the NATO alliance has agreed to his demand to equalize the burden of common defense
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with a 5% GDP floor on military spending for all of its members.
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Some countries contributing 1%, a half percent.
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Nobody meeting what the United States does and what the United States contributes.
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President Trump, before wrapping up, sort of an interesting trip.
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NATO Chief Mark Root referring to President Trump as the daddy of NATO.
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Take a listen to President Trump when he was asked about the NATO chief referring to him as daddy.
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Mark Root, the NATO chief, who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier.
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Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?
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If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard, OK?
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He did it very affectionately. Daddy, you're my daddy.
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Do you regard your NATO allies, though, as kind of like children?
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And they're obviously listening to you and they're spending more.
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But do you hope that actually they're going to be able to defend themselves, defend Europe on their own?
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I think they need help a little bit at the beginning.
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And I think they're going to remember this day.
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And one of the gentlemen said, you know what, we've been trying to raise money for raise the rate for 30 years, he said, 20 years from almost the beginning.
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He said, until you came along, it never happened.
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It's been sort of an amazing day for a lot of reasons, but also for that.
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You think they can do it without you, though, in the future?
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As you can tell, people are a little nervous if the United States does decide to leave NATO.
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A lot of nations in Europe and around the world are going to be kind of left high and dry.
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So President Trump making it incumbent upon these people to pay their fair share, as Bernie Sanders likes to say.
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President Trump, before leaving, fielding some questions, even the ones from the fake news.
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If anybody at all, President Trump humiliating CNN's Caitlin Collins on live TV for her fake news reporting about the destruction that the U.S. bunker busters did on the nuclear facilities in Iran.
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It's almost like she's rooting for Iran just to root against America because Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
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You should really say how great our soldiers and our warriors are.
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I think everyone appreciates our soldiers and our warriors.
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I do have two questions for you, Mr. President.
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You just cited Israeli intelligence on these attacks.
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Earlier, you said U.S. intelligence was inconclusive.
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Are you relying on Israeli intelligence for your assessment of the impact of the strikes?
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And it's also if you read the document that was given that Pete can talk about if you'd like.
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The document said it could be very severe damage, but they didn't take that.
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They said it could be limited or it could be very severe.
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They really didn't know other than to say it could be limited or it could be very, very severe.
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And you didn't choose to put that because it was very early after.
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Since then, we've collected additional intelligence.
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We've also spoken to people who have seen the site and the site is obliterated.
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It would be nice if Caitlin Collins and CNN rooted for America every now and then,
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fielded some questions after President Trump made those remarks
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to fake news Caitlin Collins and addressed the reports.
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There's a reason the president calls out fake news for what it is.
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These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders,
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the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory flying 36 hours
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on behalf of the American people in the world to take out a nuclear program
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is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.
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And then the instinct, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times
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is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons
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They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak.
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Do they share the whole information or just the part that they want to introduce?
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And when they introduce that preliminary report that's deemed to be a low assessment,
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Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by 12, 30,000 pound bombs
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is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated.
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So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel
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and go really deep because Iran's nuclear program is obliterated.
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And somebody somewhere is trying to leak something to say, oh, with low confidence,
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Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded.
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That's why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been
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set back beyond what they thought were possible because of the courage of a commander in chief
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who led our troops, despite what the fake news wants to say.
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Boy, do I have to say it's a nice feeling of relief to have an administration that cares
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about this country that has the best interest of America in their mind and not other countries.
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It's great on Trump, great on this administration, and great on Pete Hegseth for doing a hell
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Have a great day, everybody, and stay cool out there.