Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025 - Trump is alive; Chicago braces for ICE; Dictators march; Epstein files; Google win; Denmark deepfakes & more

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

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Today’s Headlines: Trump finally reappeared yesterday—45 minutes late to his big Oval Office presser—where he confirmed Space Force HQ is moving from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama (something we already knew thanks to a DoD slip-up). Asked about his mysterious five-day absence and rumors he’d died, Trump brushed it off, then pivoted to announce he’s sending National Guard troops into Chicago, prompting Gov. JB Pritzker to accuse the feds of already staging units nearby. At the same time, Sec. of State Marco Rubio announced a U.S. strike on a Venezuela-linked drug boat in the Caribbean that killed 11, with Trump posting an explosion video on Truth Social as his version of “just say no.” Meanwhile, Trump’s two-week “deadline” for peace in Ukraine passed without progress—Putin was too busy in China attending Xi Jinping’s WWII anniversary parade with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and his daughter/successor Kim Ju Ae. Back in D.C., Congress returned from recess facing another looming shutdown and the Epstein files circus: six survivors testified on Capitol Hill as lawmakers released 30,000 pages of mostly redundant documents, while still pressing DOJ for the unredacted batch. Elsewhere, a federal judge ruled Google abused its search monopoly but stopped short of breaking up Chrome—news that sent its stock soaring. And Denmark just made history by becoming the first European country to grant citizens copyright control over their likeness, including AI-generated versions of themselves, with protections lasting 50 years after death. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: NBC News: Trump administration live updates: Congress faces shutdown fight, Epstein files vote ABC Chicago: Chicago braces for potential surge in ICE operations, which could begin Tuesday AP News: Trump says US strike on vessel in Caribbean targeted Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, killed 11 CNBC: Plane carrying EU leader hit with suspected Russian GPS interference Reuters: Xi hosts ‘old friend’ Putin, Kim ahead of military parade in challenge to West ABC News: Congress returns from recess as government shutdown deadline looms, Epstein files dominate the House NBC News: Jeffrey Epstein accusers urge Trump to release all the case files and rule out a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon NYT: Google Must Share Search Datda With Rivals, Judge Rules My Privacy: Denmark Makes History: Your Face and Voice Are Now Your Intellectual Property Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.8	Today is Wednesday, September 3rd, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented by Betches Media. I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the morning announcements is your daily five-minute
0:25.7	breakdown of the headlines that isn't a megaphone for the loudest voices, but a magnifying
0:30.6	glass for the most important news.
0:35.4	President Donald Trump showed up for yesterday's heavily teased 2 p.m. Oval Office announcement, 45 minutes late,
0:42.3	where he announced that the headquarters of Space Force, which is actually just the U.S. Space Command renamed,
0:48.6	is moving from Colorado Springs, where it's been since the Reagan presidency, to Huntsville, Alabama. This is something
0:55.6	that we already knew, largely because it had been previously discussed, and because the administration,
1:01.4	seemingly accidentally, posted it on a website. Regarding the elephant in the room, when asked
1:07.3	by a reporter about where he'd been for the past five days, and if he'd heard that he was dead.
1:12.5	Trump said that he didn't see it, but he had, quote, heard that and got reports, adding that no one said
1:18.2	anything when Biden didn't do press events for months. I mean, we all know that the former president
1:23.4	did have a certain fondness for holding forth. But the current president would invite an audience for the signing of a paper, and in fact
1:31.0	has on many occasions.
1:33.6	Trump also said that he's ordered National Guard troops to go into Chicago, specifically,
1:38.5	quote, we're going in, I didn't say when, claiming that there were 20 murders in the past
1:43.6	two and a half weeks.
1:45.1	Governor J.B. Pritzker responded by holding his own press conference, where he said that his
1:49.7	administration has reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging
1:54.2	the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois. By the way, just as the president was
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