Good evening. It's Monday, August 4th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, the U.S. government and multiple state governments are devoutly loyal to Israel as hardly a secret. Anyone who pays even minimal attention to American politics knows that.

But the Trump administration has severely escalated this framework.

The administration does not just send billions of dollars and massive amounts to arms to Israel.

They, of course, do that.

But they go much further.

They have been routinely punishing American citizens and jeopardizing American interest in order to serve and protect Israeli interests.

Over the past 72 hours, the Trump administration took two steps that shows how brazen and extreme this prioritization of Israel over Americans has become.

First, the Trump administration announced that it is

dismantling and defunding, arguably the world's leading mathematician, and the most productive and

essential research programs into applied mathematics, a field absolutely vital to the U.S.

ability to compete with China, Russia, and the U. U.

Because the Trump administration claims the institution that hosts this crucial program,

UCLA, allowed too many protests against Israel and therefore is anti-Semitic.

Doesn't allege the program is unhelpful or that it's unproductive or wasteful?

No, they acknowledge that it's a good program, just that it's associated with an institution

that allowed too many Israel protests,

and therefore we have to get rid of it,

even however vital it is to American interests.

Then, even more incredibly, the Trump administration

announced today that it will deny disaster preparedness funds

for any American state or American city that boycotts

Israel. In other words, the U.S. government will deliberately jeopardize the security and safety of

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