Mid-Day Update: December 18, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including significant announcements from President Trump, from the $1,776 checks to over a million service members to the reclassification of marijuana, and the ongoing search for a suspect in the Brown University shooting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawc with this Great America Show, Midday Update for Thursday, December 18th, President Trump with an address to the nation last night, |
| 0:07.9 | announcing just before Christmas, that over a million of our troops, the folks that need to be taken care of the most in this country, |
| 0:15.1 | and President Trump has promised to take care of before he ran, while he ran, and now that he's in office, issuing a check to, |
| 0:23.1 | like I said, over a million of our service members for $1,776 non-taxable lumps on payment |
| 0:31.4 | before Christmas time, also known as 1776. Take a listen to President Trump just last night. |
| 0:38.9 | Because of tariffs, along with the just passed one big beautiful bill, tonight I am also proud |
| 0:45.8 | to announce that more than 1,450,000, think of this, 1,450,000 military service members will receive a special, we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend. |
| 1:03.5 | In honor of our nation's founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776. |
| 1:13.6 | Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. |
| 1:23.6 | We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs and the bill helped us along. |
| 1:29.2 | Nobody deserves it more than our military. And I say congratulations to everybody. |
| 1:34.1 | As I said, President Trump taking care of our good folks who keep this country safe each and every single day. |
| 1:42.0 | President Trump this afternoon signing an executive order over reclassifying |
| 1:45.7 | marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug. Marijuana can be legitimate in terms of medical |
| 1:52.4 | applications when carefully administrated, President Trump saying from the Oval Office, prescription |
| 1:57.8 | painkillers have legitimate uses but can also do damage, as President Trump said. |
| 2:02.6 | He promised to be president of common sense, and that's exactly what he is doing. |
| 2:06.6 | President Trump emphasized that he's not legalizing marijuana for recreational use, |
| 2:10.6 | but for people who need it medically wise. |
| 2:14.6 | And from the beginning, I've been an advent supporter of this too. |
| 2:19.5 | Anyway, we can get people off of pain drugs that are administered and get people addicted |
| 2:24.3 | like these opioids, I think is a great day for America. The person of interest in the Brown |
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