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The Great America Show

The Great America Saturday Show: August 16, 2025

The Great America Show

Fawcett Strategies

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

President Trump announced that he is invoking Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act to place Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department under “direct federal control” and authorizing the Secretary of Defense to deploy National Guard troops in Washington, DC. Crime in D.C. is out of control and everyone, including President Trump, is tired of it!

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

0:05.2

It's great to have you with us on this live show we're doing here tonight.

0:09.1

A very, very big day for President Trump, a very big day for America.

0:13.2

It's Liberation Day.

0:14.2

The last time we heard Liberation Day was the day where President Trump declared we were getting all of our money back via tariffs from everybody else for robbing us.

0:21.6

This is a little bit different kind of a liberation day, and it's a liberation day, particularly for anyone who lives in Washington, D.C. or works in Washington, D.C.

0:33.7

President Trump announcing this afternoon, he's taking back the Capitol, announcing he is invoking Section 740 of the Federal D.C. Home Act, which federalizes D.C. police and allows President Trump to send in the National Guard. For far too long, D.C. has gone down the tubes, whether it be, and we're going to have the stats for you,

0:56.2

because if you've tuned into, those of you who will tune into the show know I watch the left

1:01.6

leaning media to get a pulse on what they're talking about. And just all day, I've heard from

1:07.6

the left leaning media that crime in DC is down from the 2023 and that everything

1:12.9

is good and it's on its way. Well, it's just not good enough. And we're going to have those

1:17.1

stats for you to combat what the left-leaning mainstream media wants you to believe in and what

1:23.1

they're lying and what they're telling you. So President Trump announcing today, he is taking

1:27.4

back this country, particularly Washington,

1:30.0

D.C. Take a listen.

1:31.0

I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed,

1:37.6

bedlam and squalor and worse.

1:41.7

This is Liberation Day in D.C.

1:44.1

And we're going to take our capital back.

1:47.1

We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States.

1:53.0

I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.

1:58.6

You know what that is?

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