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Where do I even begin with this? So, let's start here. Nobody has done more to rebuild and save the Republican Party than Donald Trump since Abraham Lincoln himself. President Trump inherited a broken shell, a hollowed-out husk of a political party after the Bush years, after the Ryan years, after the sellout years, and he turned it into the working-class party, the middle-class party. And he took states that had been blue forever. He took the blue wall. He took states like Wisconsin, states like Ohio, states like Pennsylvania. He pulverized that blue wall. How many Senate races have we seen? Were President Trump won a state by eight points, nine points, 10 points, 11 points? And it was just enough to bring along the Republican senator by half a point or a point to build that Senate Republican majority. How many Senate candidates has he dragged along to victory? And how many rhinos has he forced out of the party to elect real, working-class, populist Republicans, people like, for example, Eric Schmidt, who represent the future of the Republican Party, where it is today? President Trump has raised more money for Republican candidates than any human in history. He has more enthusiasm and support from Republican voters than any candidate in history. I could keep going, Laura. The reality is, as he said, President Trump is dead on right here. What this comes down to is the Trump voter needs to show up in the midterm.

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Hello America, Mark Levin, and this is Life, Liberty and Levin Saturday. Welcome to the program. You know, I'm going to do something a little differently this evening. I want to talk about the state of the nation because we hear a lot of negativity. The President of the United States and this administration does not get the credit it deserves. In fact, as I went through the news this evening, I looked at everything. They try to humiliate and embarrass the administration. They're trying to look for, you know, negative issues. They're trying to look for scandals, but they're not reporting the news. I want to talk about something that matters to you. How are we doing in this country? You know, for matters that affect you directly. We hear about affordability, but then they drop it. Well, I don't want to drop it. I want to talk about it. Under this president, under this president, a year and a half in office in his second term, salary increases and take-home pay are rising faster than consumer price inflation, which is way down. The annual inflation rate stabilized and cooled slightly to 3.4 percent in July of this year, down from 3.5 percent. Now think about that, 3.4, 3.5. You know, those are rates that we haven't had since the first Trump term. And before that, since like never. While price acceleration has flattened and month over month, consumer prices rose by a modest 0.1 percent. In other words, they didn't rise. Inflation rose to a 40-year peak of 9.1 percent in June 2022 under President Biden, averaging nearly 5 percent during his presidency. He also spent like a wild Marxist with that massive inflation reduction act, which had nothing to do with inflation except caused inflation. That was trillions of dollars of needless spending. During President Trump's second term, inflation cooled significantly to an average of roughly 2.6 to 2.7 percent. That's incredible if you really think about it. Let's take a look at something else that matters to you, home prices. Home prices have declined on an annual basis in more than half the country, reversing years of rapid increases and improving affordability for families and first-time buyers. Rent growth slowed by its lowest pace since President Trump's first term, with single-family rent growth hitting a record low. Income growth is now outpacing rent growth nationwide, returning the typical share of income spent on rent close to pre-pandemic levels. Have you ever heard this? Of course not. We've got Maggie Haberman on CNN. She's into rumors and all. They all are, but they don't report the news. This is news. Orders for business equipment posted their largest surge in more than six years, while shipments of machinery and equipment also shattering expectations, strong signals of expanding industrial capacity. Initial jobless claims plunged to their lowest level since 1969, highlighting the exceptional strength of the labor market, strong labor market, strong business investment. Inflation is almost non-existent. These are very, very important indicators of what's going on. What about gas prices, electricity prices, the availability of energy? The president has ramped up domestic fossil fuel and nuclear production. He has slashed so-called climate change rules. Here's some of his actions, expanding production. He reopened federal lands and offshore areas to oil and gas leasing and drilling, while accelerating permitting timelines for new pipelines and refineries. Remember the prior administration, that regime, they couldn't block and sabotage and prevent enough energy production, could they? They hated it. We love it. For example, restrictions on drilling in parts of Alaska's 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve were revoked. And also, the EPA issued a waiver to end summer blend smog restrictions ahead of the schedule, allowing cheaper fuel blends to enter the market sooner and increasing daily supply. Jones Act waivers, what's that? Well, the administration issued temporary 60-day waivers to the Jones Acts to ease domestic shipping restrictions and streamline fuel distribution. You can see the effort is to help the consumer. It is a constant effort with regulations, with taxes, with businesses, to push an agenda, a pro-growth energy agenda. And it's crucial, because without energy, without energy of all kinds, in all places, our economy can expand and we can't create wealth and prosperity. Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry. Reconsideration of mandatory greenhouse gas reporting program that imposed significant costs on the American energy supply. Reconsideration of limitations, guidelines, and standards for the steam electric power generating industry to ensure low-cost electricity while protecting water resources. Man, oh man, I'll tell you, in these blue states, with these degrothers and no-grothers, they're doing the opposite. They're sabotaging you. Mr. and Mrs. America, if you live in these blue states and cities, they're driving up. They're driving up the cost of all levels of energy and they're reducing the availability. So if you wonder why you have really high costs in some of these dark blue states, you can thank your governor and you can thank your state legislatures. Reconsideration of waste water regulations for oil and gas development to help unleash American energy. What about taking steps to make home ownership more affordable under this president? Hire salt cap, what's that? The president and the Republicans raised the state and local tax cap, which includes property taxes, from $10,000 to $40,000. This is money directly in your pocket. And for tax years 2025 to 2029, for itemized filers. Permanent mortgage limit, locked in the $750,000 limit on deductible mortgage debt, $375,000 for single filers, stopping it from reverting to $1 million. In other words, they want to make sure that you can deduct as much as possible. Mortgage insurance, restructured and permanently reinstated private mortgage insurance, that's PMI premiums, as deductible, deductible mortgage interest starting in 2026. The president made it easier to buy American made new cars and trucks on July 4, 2025, creating a temporary federal tax deduction for up to $10,000 a year in auto loan interest on new American personal use cars and light trucks under 14,000 pounds with final assembly in the United States. Houses, salaries, income, cars, trucks, energy. The federal government is doing everything it can under this president. I've never seen anything like it, quite frankly. Any of you take prescription drugs? Well, most of you do. And you should be seeing lower prices. I know I am. I certainly am when I'm going to the pharmacy. And this is what he's done. The President Trump announced agreements with major pharmaceutical companies to lower prescription drug prices for Americans in line with the lowest prices paid by other developed nations, known as the most favorite nation's price. The nine manufacturers, I won't name them all, but they're big and most of the drugs you get are from them. The agreements reduce prices on drugs that treat numerous costly and chronic conditions, a whole list of them. Pulmonary heart disease, asthma, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, two types of diabetes, and it goes on and on. Now, the agreements will provide that every state Medicaid program in the country access the most favored nation drug prices on products made by those nine major drug companies, resulting in billions of dollars in savings to you, Mr. and Mrs. America. Now, has another president done that? No. Did the prior president do that? No. Did the Democrats do that? No. Trump did it. The agreements require the nine companies to offer medicines at a deeper discount off the list price when selling directly to American patients through TrumpRX. You ought to take advantage of TrumpRX. More. What about tax cuts for families? Federal tax cuts. Raised and locked in the higher standard deduction levels originally set in 2017 for the vast majority of individual followers. Lower income tax rates. Maintained lower marginal income tax brackets across the board, across the board, not just billionaires and millionaires as the as the chattering classes would have you believe for everybody. Child tax credit extended and boosted the double child tax credit benefiting tens of millions of American families. No tax on tips created a federal income tax deduction for qualified service and beauty industry tips. No tax on overtime implemented dedicated deductions for eligible overtime pay. Senior relief provided enhanced tax deductions and targeted relief for Social Security income retirees. What about businesses and corporations that create the private sector jobs? Corporate tax rate maintained the lowest 21% corporate income tax rate enacted by his first term policies. Immediate expensing extended provisions letting businesses immediately deduct the cost of factory construction and short term equipment investments. Now this is a lot of information because the President has done a lot and I want you to be aware of this. I do this monologue about 20 minutes and I'm going to get as much of this in as I can so you understand when people say he's not focused on affordability. He's all about affordability. That's what his whole domestic agenda is about. Affordability. Paid leave tax credit made permanent the employee tax credit for offering employee paid families medical leave savings and investment provisions. Trump accounts established tax deferred $1,000 government seed investments and saving pathways for children born between 2024 and 2028 to use for education or first. You realize if you take advantage of that that your children will have a significant amount of money saved up tax free for them as a result of these tax these Trump tax accounts. It's just incredible. Expanded 529 accounts broadened allowable uses of education savings accounts to include K through 12 materials and post-secondary trade credentials. It's pretty incredible and about what about the lifestyle you have? What about the ability to live in a free society without being mugged and raped and murdered? Well, that can't be perfect. Obviously there are evil people out there, but there are efforts that can be taken to reduce it and the President has grabbed every single one of them. Violet crime plunged 9.3% in 2025. These are FBI statistics. The largest annual decline on record. Murder dropped 18.1% tying the lowest rate in recorded history. This is for 2025. Robbery fell 18.5% resulting in nearly 38,500 fewer robberies. Rape declined 7.6% resulting in more than 10,000 fewer victims. Aggravated assault fell 7.2% resulting in over 62,700 fewer attacks. Property crime dropped 12.4%, the second largest decline in history, with nearly 750,000 fewer offenses. Meanwhile, preliminary data for the first half of this year shows the decline continuing and deepening with violent crime down an additional 10.6%, murder down another 23%, rape down 18.6%, and robberies down 19.6% compared to the same time period last year. Nearly 54,000 violent crime arrests, up 90%, including more than 31,000 violent crimes and gang members, up 30%. More than 5,000 child predators and human traffickers arrested, up 13%. More than 11,000 child victims located and identified, up 21%. Record disruptions across criminal, cyber, counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, international operations, taking down hundreds of cyber criminal enterprises, espionage rings, and terrorist networks. Again, this is from the FBI. Let's move quickly. There's a lot that this president's doing and has done. Immigration. The U.S. had negative net immigration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century. Compare that to Biden, when we had all those pictures of tens of thousands of people rushing the border. The president has deported more than 605,000 illegal aliens with an additional 1.9 million self-deporting. 1.9 million self-deporting, bringing the total number of illegals who have left the U.S. since the president returned to office to 2.5 million. He stopped more than 10,000 individuals with narco-terrorism ties from entering the United States. Daily detention numbers and arrests have reached record numbers. Border crossings and encounters with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have dropped significantly compared to prior years. ICE. I love ICE. I love ICE with my Diet Coke and I love ICE, period, with our government, and I want to thank each and every person in ICE. Thank you. ICE significantly ramped up hiring and personnel capacities backed by billions of new congressional appropriations. Trump administration terminated temporary protective status for a variety of dangerous third world countries, rescued more than 60,000 migrant children from sex trafficking and child labor. State Department paused immigrant visa processing for 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people and unacceptable rate. And since returning to office in 2025, President Trump has drastically reshaped U.S. immigration policy through hundreds of executive actions, massive funding bills like the one big beautiful bill, and a government-wide push for widespread interior enforcement and border restrictions. The U.S. Border Patrol has documented unprecedented changes in illegal border crossings throughout 2025, meaning they have cratered, cratered illegal immigration coming into this country. With southwest border apprehensions reaching historic lows not seen in decades, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's CBP reports that July 2025 marked another record-breaking month with the most secure border in history, achieving only 4,598 southwest border apprehensions, nearly 500 fewer than June's previous. And it goes on. Safer, illegal immigration almost ended. The president is using every tool he has as a president to address housing issues, energy issues, all these other issues. And yet here we have in our states, here we have in our states with the highest grocery prices, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington, and Vermont. Almost all Democrat states, in the case of Alaska, it transitions from Republican to Democrat back and forth. But it's far away. But some of these states, there's no excuse. Highest gasoline prices, Blue State, California, Blue State, Hawaii, Blue State, Washington State. And you have Alaska and Nevada, who are on the cusp. But nonetheless, states with the highest electricity bills, well, D.C., not a state, but there it is. Number one, New Jersey, number two, New Hampshire, number three, Maryland, number four, and then Ohio. Four out of five, Blue States. States with the highest annual cost for infant care, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, California, Minnesota, Colorado, Hawaii, all Democrat states. Top least affordable states by cost of living index. Number one, California, number two, New York, number three, Washington State. Number four, Connecticut, number five, Maryland, number six, New Jersey, number seven, Alaska, number eight, Massachusetts. All dark, blue, hardcore Democrat states. All of them. And then we have, according to the Cato Institute, the five least free states. New York, Hawaii, California, New Jersey, Oregon. All Democrat states. So, you know, I would say to my Republican friends who are running and with this midterm coming, you need to frame these discussions a little better. You need to get out there and confidently go on the offense and point out if you live in a dark blue state or a dark blue congressional district, you're paying more than anybody else in red states and dark red districts. Whether it's property taxes, whether it's income taxes, whether it's user fees, whether it's crossing bridges and they charge you a fee, whatever it is. The food prices, the child care prices, they're through the roof in dark blue states. And the interesting thing is when you put these numbers together with the red states, then you get these national numbers, right? So the blue states are dragging down the country. The blue cities are dragging down the country. When you look at the data, they're dragging down the data. And yet when you look at the Trump data and what Trump is doing, it's incredible. Even in the face of these obstacles from these blue governors, these blue mayors, these blue legislatures, look at what he's doing and look at the accomplishments.

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welcome back America this is a man who is like super patriotic for this country and so forth and so on and understands the American people better than most people do what do you make of that I agree with you and when he does these things that are controversial but needed you it begs the question why didn't other presidents both Democrat Republican do things and what do I mean by that he why didn't somebody addressed the deterioration of monuments in Washington or the world's capital so to speak was not safe to walk in or the reflecting pool was a miasma or presidents had you know torn parts of the White House to put a bowling alley or basketball court or a swimming pool but they all said there's nowhere to there's nowhere to speak there's nowhere to hold a world class meeting and world-class banquet any of that lectures and he comes along and he does it but he doesn't do it I mean he doesn't do it in the sense that I'm going to be the first person to ever do it he does it because he says why hasn't this been done because we need it and so I think that's what's unusual about him he's always bragging about the US military he calls soldiers up he goes to the funerals he he wants the United States and this is what drives the left crazy because their idea was managed decline a globalist idea were just one of many or to paraphrase Barack Obama were no more exceptional in Greece or Great Britain is but he resented that idea he said we were always exceptional we have the only type of Constitution in the world where the freest people were the most powerful country how did that come across China has one China has four times the population that we do the EU has a hundred more p hundred million more people than we do and yet we have 10 trillion more of a GDP how's that possible so what his whole idea was we're going to be the first in space and they were and people said oh you know NASA is done with they haven't done anything in years he said no no no no we're going to get private enterprise and empower them and then the NASA will have to rise to the challenge and he really almost single-handedly reinvigorated the space race Elon Musk himself launched more missile satellites than the whole world combined last year and when you look at what he did with Silicon Valley he went to all these people who were left you know that the Andreessen's that sacks and all of these people the Elon Musk they all voted against him and he said to them we're in bad trouble we've got to rearm the United States we're short weapon we got to get into the drone racing race we've got to get satellite technology and use it to protect our country we need an iron dome sort of global dome over the United States and just like the war production board of World War Two Trump said I'm appealing to your patriotism not your politics if you will if I can enlist your talent I will protect you from EU censorship from Canadian digital media taxes with you neighbor I'm on your side as long as you're on our side and I define that as America side and it's really amazing when you look at these left-wing companies that opposed him I mean they were censoring news accounts of the the laptop fiasco and almost and they contributed to his defeat Mark Zuckerberg gave over 450 million dollars in 2020 through various surrogates to change helped to change balloting and yet he went back to these people and said you're very talented I'm going to allow you I'm not going to pick winners and losers like Biden wanted to do I'm going to open up I'm going to deregulate I'm going to give you energy I'm going to promote data centers for good or evil but you have to do one thing you have to use those energies and talents for the promotion of the common good and the preeminence of the United States that was very we hadn't seen that in decades somebody take that that type of argument to the opposition and the results are they're undeniable all of a sudden the United States is the greatest producer of oil and gas in history its satellites are preeminent I just looked at the software digital media bioengineering AI companies in terms of market capitalization and things like downloads of the top 10 companies globally in each of those categories the United States has eight or nine corporations in the top ten almost dominates every this is a period when they said you know mark they were saying and just a decade ago that China would have a greater GDP by now than we did and we're ten trillion dollars greater so it's amazing the book is and it is a great book the counter-revolution the fall and rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement I encourage you to get it amazon.com come Tuesday when it's released any major bookstore look how he's leading in what I call the next Industrial Revolution data centers you have dime store politicians who are looking at polls for objecting to it and so forth and so on it's local governments that make a determination where they are and how these buildings look and so forth but the president knows this is the next Industrial Revolution every single thing we use is related to AI I just think that's another example of his of his foresight we'll be right back welcome back America we're here with America's wise man that's what I call him because that's what he is the counter-revolution is his brand new book and comes out Tuesday I would pre-order on amazon.com that's the way I roll the fall and rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement there is so much in here that is so compelling because the man himself is compelling and the author is compelling Victor Davis Hanson well let's get a little bit into national security and foreign policy let's dig right in to Iran and what the president's been doing in Iran we have people who said he campaigned against this kind of thing and we we call a lot of those isolationists and so forth and so on but did he not also say peace through strength again that is sort of a Reagan phrase peace through strength and hasn't he also demonstrated as you demonstrate in your book a hesitance to use military power but if he feels it's necessary he will use military power explain yeah he never ran as an isolationist he never ran as a nation builder he ran as a Jacksonian his idea was don't tread on the United States where you'll have no better friend but you'll have no worse enemy if you do that and to carry out that policy we had to be have a preeminent military so he really in the first term tried to rebuild it but when he looked at Iran there were two kind of contrast or antithetical positions he had to guide he had to navigate between them one was given the misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq we don't do well when we put thousands of troops on the ground we if we don't win very quickly and winnings very hard in those societies because you have to change the government and they have no experience with consensual rule and then on the other hand he said well seven prior prior presidents have said this is intolerable that this huge country that was once so pro-western and so powerful under the Shaw and earlier rulers now is using that 93 million population and all of its traditions and its resources with oil fourth largest reserve or third in the world for nefarious purposes and most of the problems in the Middle East come from Iran they bully the Arab Gulf exporters they have a ring of fire of terrorist appendages around Israel they subsidize terrorism all over Europe and the Western world but nobody has done anything so I'm gonna do something with one caveat I am NOT going to invade this country and try to overthrow the government and rack up a decade and casually then he hasn't done that I think people don't realize that he knew something had to be done because every year they were getting closer and closer to nuclear weapons and once they got them with that lunatic attitude whether genuine or contrived they had deterrence and with deterrence they could do almost anything and they would dominate the entire Middle East and prior administrations like the Obama administration said well maybe we can balance Iran and the Shia crescent Syria Lebanon's taken over there's Iran the Houthis Hamas and then we'll kind of play them against Israel in the Gulf States and we'll adjudicate that was a crazy idea but that was kind of US policy under Biden but especially under Obama so he said no no it's intolerable time has run out but I've got to find a way to squeeze them and disarm them without invading them and without trying to nation-build and he thought that the popular popular revolt might happen right after the Berlin Wall it took two years with Soviet Union to fall but it did fall it took many months for Eastern European governments so I think it's kind of a Civil War Union anaconda strategy now we're squeezing them economically financially they can't import goods they can't export oil the people are getting restive and I think his big worry right now is at what point will things get so terrible in Iran I think we're getting there how do you ensure that the people are not hurt by this awful regime that doesn't care about their own people and that's a concern I think he has and that that explains why some of us were surprised that we thought maybe at 38 days he should not have stopped or 40 days or 45 but I think he was thinking that if I destroy the entire infrastructure that regime it'll take a year or two for the people to rise up and you'll get mass starvation or something disease or so much chaos it'll be counterproductive so it's kind of a strategy right now to just say we can we can continue with American problems and issues and policies without being obsessed with Iran they are frozen they can't do anything we've got them in a stranglehold and all time is not on their side it's on our side and that I think is that the strategy right now and I think it will eventually work but boy he's taken a lot of criticism from people say the war is lost on no evidence I can't believe people on the conservative side even have said this was a fight fiasco it's destroyed his presence it hasn't at all if people give it time you will see radical changes in Iran for the first time in 50 years very very well put when we come back really I want to address two issues what comes post-Trump and also the president's really bold condemnation of antisemitism of antisemites some who used to be friends of his and so forth and so on let's see if we can address both of those because I think he's been quite the leader in trying to deal with with that and in the future of the Republican Party and so forth depending on who is capable of picking up the mantle and getting elected as a Republican do you think that they will share his principles and his belief systems and have the guts to say the kind of things that he says we'll be right back welcome back America tour de force the counter-revolution written by a great author of Victor Davis Hanson so Victor Davis Hanson what do you see in the future in terms of MAGA and what do you see in the future in terms of a Republican MAGA type candidate fighting antisemitism or gaslighting antisemitism yes well I we know that pumps been trolling and kidding around he's not gonna run for a third term I don't think he wants to we couldn't I think easily and he doesn't want to so the question is what's the MAGA movement I think it's irreversible the idea that we're gonna go back and allow China to dump product here below the cost of production or we're going to semi embrace the green agenda or we're gonna have open borders again as many Republicans did in the past I don't think that's gonna happen he's created a workers a working class middle class party and as I said earlier race is incidental not essential so he's trying to say that the black truck driver the Hispanic electrician the white sheetrock person and the suburban people like them they all have more in common and they're their enemies are not themselves but the East Coast liberal progressive establishment and that's not going to change and the question is who's going to succeed him I mean can you have sunlight without the Sun as one person put it and I think we have kind of an arbitrary divide between the Vance and Rubio even though Marco Rubio quite magnanimous Lee said he wouldn't run if JD Vance did JD Vance was selected contrary to all popular wisdom they said it well he's from Ohio and that's a red state they're gonna get it win it anyway in 24 and he's so he's a white male no diversity and yet Trump said well he's a masterful debater he's great on repartee and you better watch out media he's gonna destroy you and he did but I think his problem right now is that this mega movement that which I was talking about there are elements within it that want to be sort of a nationalist party in the sense of isolationism and they feel that Israel is a pernicious influence is dragging us into the two wars that are not in our interest etc etc and I'll go a little further I think a lot of the people in that movement want to deliberately be provocative to force JD Vance to say try to disown me and see what happens in 2028 so he's he feels he's in a dilemma but at some point I think that he'll do the right thing and I think he's gonna have anybody who's going to run for the office in 2028 is going to have to do two things as far as foreign policy they're gonna have to say whether you like it or not Israel has been the best friend that we've had in the Middle East in every sense of the way it's the only oasis of democracy of liberality of compassion and humanity and we're going to support it and number two people that are Jewish have a natural right to have an affinity with Israel's the historical home of the Jews there's no conspiracy they reflect the majority of our party and we're going to stop trying to demonize them we're not the left the left is completely anti-semitic it's completely anti-israeli they'll pay a price for that so we're not going to go there and for all of you who want to draw me in I think JD Vance will say and draw me in and try to make an artificial divide I'm gonna have to come out and say you don't represent the Republican Party values you don't represent the magma movement and you don't represent the legacy of Donald Trump and I think he can do it if he's the candidate but it's not just a D Vance any candidate who's nominated is gonna have to do that well I sit on the edge of my chair waiting for that I look forward to that very very much this is a fantastic book by Victor Davis Hanson the counter-revolution you get it at amazon.com any major bookstore starting on Tuesday Victor God bless you my friend you look good and healthy and you've written a real fantastic book thank you mark

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A news/rally photograph showing a large crowd of people, most wearing red clothing and many wearing red "MAGA"-style caps, gathered outdoors under a clear blue sky at what appears to be an outdoor political rally. A private jet with "TRUMP" written in large letters on the fuselage, painted in a dark blue/navy and red livery, is flying low overhead at a steep upward angle, seemingly having just taken off or performing a flyby. Many attendees are holding up smartphones to photograph or film the plane, waving, and some are holding American flags. One person in the upper right holds a red sign reading "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN."

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A meme comparing two black-and-white line-drawing caricatures side by side under the bold heading "Alfred E. Neuman." The left face has neat side-swept dark hair, a gap-toothed grin, freckles across the nose, and a slim jawline, resembling a stylized caricature of a young man's face. The right face is the classic Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman, with a tuft of shaggy hair parted unevenly, big ears, a gap-toothed smile, and freckles. The image is a simple vector-style illustration on a plain white background, implying a visual resemblance between the person depicted on the left and the Alfred E. Neuman character on the right.

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A black-and-white news photograph showing a man in a suit (resembling Donald Trump) standing at an event with a NASA backdrop featuring a large moon graphic and repeated "NASA" logos. A man wearing a dark flight-style jacket with patches, standing in front of him, is holding up a matching jacket, presenting it to him or helping him look at it. The jacket has a circular patch near the sleeve/shoulder area and two round patches on the front reading "45" and "47" with additional small text below each ("THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPACE..." partially visible). In the background, several people in NASA flight suits/jumpsuits (apparent astronauts) stand in a row, along with other onlookers.

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of this one. Okay. The president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan who traditionally has won that. Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18%. And then Abraham Lincoln who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this this is six seven times as many Donald John Trump at 53% easily crushing a blink in at 8% and the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well. Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk.

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A black-and-white news photograph of a man resembling Donald Trump in a dark suit, standing on a stage speaking or gesturing toward a group of people. To his right (foreground) are two full astronaut suits with helmets displayed on stands. To his left, a line of people in dark flight-suit-style jumpsuits with patches stand facing him, along with a couple more people in astronaut suits with helmets on. Behind them is a backdrop featuring a large photo of the Moon and repeated NASA logos. Dark stage curtains form the background.

Text in image: NASA (repeated logo text on backdrop)

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>> Under this president, more Americans are working than ever before. The private sector has added over a million jobs. US manufacturing is roaring back at its fastest pace in years. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Companies are investing trillions to build and expand across the United States. And just like in President Trump's first term, the bottom 25% of earners are seeing the biggest wage increases. >> [APPLAUSE] >> President Trump has turned this country around once before, and he's doing it again. >> [APPLAUSE] >> The president's plan was never just a tax cut, never just a tax cut. His economic program is bolstered by trade deals and deregulation. And tonight, a new industrial super cycle is moving from investment into production, blueprints to paychecks. Everything from GDP to factory payrolls is firing up. >> [APPLAUSE]

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A graphic titled "Service Academies" on a white background, displaying six military/service academy emblems arranged in a 3x2 grid, each with a caption below it. Top row: the West Point Academy crest (eagle atop a shield with a Trojan-style helmet and red, white, and blue stripes, with ribbons reading "Country," "Duty," and "Honor" and "West Point" and "M DCCCII U.S.M.A."), labeled "WEST POINT ACADEMY"; the U.S. Coast Guard Academy shield (eagle above an anchor and shield reading "1876"), labeled "COAST GUARD ACADEMY" with "USCGA" beneath the crest; and a black, white, and silver angular arrow/chevron emblem labeled "UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY / SPACE ACADEMY," flanked by two red rectangular "NEW" tags, one on each side. Bottom row: the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy seal (eagle, anchor, wreath, banner reading "ACTA NON VERBA," and "1943"), labeled "MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY"; a large navy blue "AF" monogram, labeled "AIR FORCE ACADEMY"; and the Naval Academy crest (trident-flanked shield with a ship, torches, and a banner reading "SCIENTIA / EX TRIDENS," topped with an anchor), labeled "NAVAL ACADEMY."

Text in image: Service Academies NEW NEW UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY WEST POINT ACADEMY COAST GUARD ACADEMY SPACE ACADEMY USCGA 1876 COUNTRY WEST POINT HONOR DUTY M DCCCII U.S.M.A. UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY ACTA NON VERBA 1943 KINGS POINT AF NAVAL ACADEMY SCIENTIA EX TRIDENS MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY AIR FORCE ACADEMY NAVAL ACADEMY

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(upbeat music)

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A map styled as a United States Geological Survey (USGS) reference map titled "SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES, 2024 EDITION," showing the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas, along with a latitude/longitude grid, a mileage/kilometer scale bar, and the USGS "Science for a Changing World" logo. The map contains numerous errors and garbled place names characteristic of AI-generated imagery: the state that should be labeled "New Mexico" is instead labeled "NEW AMERICA." Several city labels are duplicated, misspelled, or nonsensical, including "Lubbock" appearing twice in different locations, "Rosselt" (likely meant to be Roswell), "Amaillo" (likely meant to be Amarillo), "Sanocle," "Louse," "Liaskole," "Okhooan," and an illegible label near El Paso resembling "Insevilles." Correctly spelled cities also appear, including Salt Lake City, Denver, Colorado Springs, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, El Paso, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Houston, and San Antonio.

Text in image: UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 2024 EDITION 114°W 110°W 106°W 102°W 98°W 40°N ... 40°N 36°N ... 36°N 32°N ... 32°N Salt Lake City Denver Colorado Springs UTAH COLORADO Flagstaff Albuquerque Tulsa ARIZONA NEW AMERICA Lubbock Oklahoma City OKLAHOMA Phoenix Rosselt Lubbock Tucson Liaskole El Paso Insevilles TEXAS Louse Amaillo Houston Sanocle San Antonio Okhooan USGS SCIENCE FOR A CHANGING WORLD 0 50 100 150 200 MILES 0 50 100 150 200 250 KILOMETERS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY For sale by USGS Information Services, Denver, CO 80225 https://www.usgs.gov

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This is an illustrated cartoon/digital artwork depicting two men as ice hockey players. On the right, a man resembling Donald Trump stands upright in a white, red, and blue jersey reading "TRUMP" with the number 47 on the back, an American flag patch on the chest, and matching gloves and skates; he holds a hockey stick and looks down at the other man. On the left, a man resembling a Canadian political figure (styled to look like Justin Trudeau) is down on one knee/collapsed on the ice, wearing a white jersey with a red maple leaf and "CANADA" on the glove, also holding a hockey stick. A speech bubble above the Trump figure reads "GET UP, GOVERNOR." The background is plain white.

Text in image: GET UP, GOVERNOR

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Peace in the Korean Peninsula, which hasn't been achieved since the armistice in the 1950s. President Trump has single-handedly toppled Maduro, freed the people of Venezuela and secured the greatest boon for America's energy and supply chains probably in the history of our country. He's taken the fight to the drug cartels, declared them a foreign terrorist organization, used military power to fight these enemies of human civilization. And as you have mentioned, he stopped Iran, the Islamic theocracy of Iran, from obtaining a nuclear weapon that could destroy an entire city. And now you come at home. He's unleashed American energy. He's building pipelines. He's bringing the price of gas down from the heinous highs of the Biden administration. He's taken inflation from the highest level in American history down to 2 percent, the largest tax cut in American history, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. And he took the most unsecured, dangerous, violent, hellish border in the history of our republic, and 15 straight months, Sean, of zero releases, zero into the country.

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An infographic-style chart. On the left is a map showing the Strait of Hormuz, circled, located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula (labeled Iran, United Arab Emirates, Oman), with the strait highlighted in a blue banner. On the right is a bar comparison graphic: a gray bar labeled "Before / 20 Million barrels per day" next to a green bar labeled "Now / 18 Million barrels per day" with upward arrows above the green bar. The headline at top reads "Hormuz Oil Volumes are BACK!" despite the chart showing the "Now" figure (18 million) as lower than the "Before" figure (20 million).

Text in image: Hormuz Oil Volumes are BACK! Iran STRAIT OF HORMUZ United Arab Emirates Oman Before 20 Million barrels per day Now 18 Million barrels per day

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A bar chart graphic with a bold black headline reading "Trump Creates 3x More Jobs than Expected in August." It shows two unlabeled-axis bars: a red-outlined bar labeled "Expected" at bottom with "55,000 jobs" written inside it, and a taller green-outlined bar labeled "ACTUAL" with "162,000 jobs" written inside it. The chart asserts that actual job creation in August was roughly three times the expected figure.

Text in image: Trump Creates 3x More Jobs than Expected in August 55,000 jobs Expected 162,000 jobs ACTUAL

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A digitally edited satellite/topographic map showing the border region between Toronto, Canada and New York State, centered on Lake Ontario. A gold-bordered graphic (framed like a plaque) overlays the map. In large gold 3D text at the top is the title "Lake America" accompanied by a small American flag icon. Below that, the original label "Lake Ontario" is shown with a red "X" drawn over it in a marker/scribble style, indicating the name is being crossed out and replaced. City/region labels "Toronto" and "New York" are marked on the map, along with a purple/magenta international border line running through the lake and land. At the bottom center is a white rounded rectangle logo reading "TEAM TRUMP" in bold black text with a small star element.

Text in image: Lake America Toronto Lake Ontario New York TEAM TRUMP

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An infographic-style image titled "NON-TARIFF CHEATING: 8 Hidden Tricks by Foreign Countries." It lists eight numbered items, each with a small cartoon icon and a short caption describing an alleged unfair trade practice by other nations against the U.S.

Text in image: NON-TARIFF CHEATING 8 Hidden Tricks by Foreign Countries 1. They cheapen their money. 2. New sticker to dodge tax. 3. Sell below cost. 4. Their government pays the factory. 5. They ban out food. 6. Weird test to keep us out. 7. They copy our stuff. 8. Cash back on exports.

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A chart image with a bold red headline reading "IRAN HAS HYPERINFLATION" above a line graph plotting the Iranian rial-to-US-dollar exchange rate from Jan-25 through Sep-26. The blue line trends steadily upward with fluctuations, starting around 720,000-900,000 rial per dollar and climbing to roughly 1.95-2.27 million rial per dollar by late 2026. A thick red arrow overlays the chart pointing from a callout labeled "0.9 Million RIAL to $1 Dollar" (near Jun-25) up to a callout labeled "2.27 MILLION RIAL to $1 DOLLAR" near the end of the timeline (around Aug/Sep-26), emphasizing the currency's depreciation. The y-axis ranges from 500,000 to 2,300,000 in increments of 200,000.

Text in image: IRAN HAS HYPERINFLATION 0.9 Million RIAL to $1 Dollar 2.27 MILLION RIAL to $1 DOLLAR 2,300,000 2,100,000 1,900,000 1,700,000 1,500,000 1,300,000 1,100,000 900,000 700,000 500,000 JAN-25 FEB-25 MAR-25 APR-25 MAY-25 JUN-25 JUL-25 AUG-25 SEP-25 OCT-25 NOV-25 DEC-25 JAN-26 FEB-26 MAR-26 APR-26 MAY-26 JUN-26 JUL-26 AUG-26 SEP-26

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A political/promotional graphic with a dark navy header reading "IRAN'S OIL EXPORTS ARE CRASHING!" flanked by two circular presidential-style seals each labeled "45|47" (referencing Trump as the 45th and 47th US president). Below the header is a line chart titled by its legend "Iranian Exports Crude/Co (28 day MA, kbd RHS)," plotting a value on the y-axis (0 to 2,000+) against quarters from Q1 2025 through Q3 2026 on the x-axis. The line fluctuates between roughly 1,300 and 2,100 through late 2025/early 2026, then drops sharply toward zero by Q2-Q3 2026. A large dark blue downward-pointing arrow is overlaid on the chart emphasizing the decline. Red numeric labels "2,000" near the start of the line and "0" near its end highlight the starting and ending values.

Text in image: IRAN'S OIL EXPORTS ARE CRASHING! 45|47 45|47 2,000 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 Q1 2025 Q2 2025 Q3 2025 Q4 2025 Q1 2026 Q2 2026 Q3 2026 0 Iranian Exports Crude/Co (28 day MA, kbd RHS)

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A composite/collage graphic titled "Trump Endorsement Success 8.26.2026" at the top, assembling multiple news headline clippings and social media post screenshots about Trump-endorsed candidates winning 2026 Republican primaries/runoffs, particularly in South Carolina and Oklahoma. The left column shows headline boxes from The Wall Street Journal, Greenville News, The Downballot, Newser, NonDoc, and El País, covering Darline Graham's South Carolina Senate runoff win and Mike Mazzei's win over Gentner Drummond. The right column shows a NOTUS headline and screenshots of social media posts (X/Twitter-style) from users Preston Hill (@realPrestonHill), Gina Milan (@ginamilan_), and Ron Pyle (@rreactor), discussing the strength of Trump's endorsement, with one post including an embedded U.S. election results map graphic showing South Carolina county-level primary results colored red/yellow.

Text in image: Trump Endorsement Success 8.26.2026 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. World Business U.S. Politics Economy Tech Markets & Finance Opinion Free Expression Arts Lifestyle POLITICS • ELECTIONS Trump Senate Pick Darline Graham Wins GOP Runoff in South Carolina Sister of late Sen. Lindsey Graham defeats Rep. Ralph Norman By Maya Davis, Cameron McWhirter and Marianne LeVine Updated Aug. 26, 2026 12:14 am ET Greenville News News Sports Real Estate Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper POLITICS Trump, PACs, turnout: How Darline Graham won the SC GOP Senate runoff Bella Carpentier Greenville News Aug. 26, 2026, 5:06 a.m. ET THE DOWNBALLOT Morning Digest: Trump's picks come out on top in tight GOP runoffs Trump's endorsement and heavy outside spending proves to be just enough in South Carolina and Oklahoma. DAVID NIR AND JEFF SINGER Aug. 26, 2026 newser TOP STORIES POPULAR US WORLD SCIENCE POLITICS There's One Big Takeaway From Tuesday's Primaries Trump's endorsement still holds sway By Arden Dier with Newser AI Posted Aug 26, 2026 8:50 AM CDT NonDoc 'Edge of your seats': Trump support propels Mike Mazzei past Gentner Drummond Andrea Hancock, Tuesday, August 25, 2026 EL PAÍS US Trump records an electoral win with his candidate's victory in South Carolina primary NOTUS NEWSLETTERS Win for Graham, and Trump Too Preston Hill @realPrestonHill Tonight, Donald Trump's endorsement likely got Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei over the finish line. Regardless of how strong the endorsement still is as a whole, it's clear the endorsement still has the power to influence voter choices in these races—especially close ones. 11:44 PM · Aug 25, 2026 · 5,057 Views Gina Milan @ginamilan_ Subscribe This just proves how strong Trump's endorsement actually is. Everything else is worthless. Some people never learn. [Embedded map graphic: "VOTES" header, "2026 South Carolina US Senate", showing county results map with red/yellow shading, candidate vote totals list, dated Aug 25, 2026] 7:30 PM · Aug 25, 2026 · 3,906 Views Ron Pyle @rreactor Yes, the establishment R's are trying hard to scuttle Paxton's campaign, but as we saw in South Carolina, Trump's endorsement matters more than money. By the end of the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Paxton will highly likely be leading in the polls. Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX · 23h Republicans spent $92.5 million trying to save John Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary over Ken Paxton. So far in the general election against James Talarico? Barely $200k from Paxton's side... plus one late $1.7M Cruz-linked ad... 10:12 AM · Aug 26, 2026 · 37 Views

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You have been involved in numerous negotiations around the world. Why should people have any confidence in your capacity to succeed here? You were involved in the Gaza negotiations, but Gaza remains a wasteland. There's been real no progress there. Iran, you were involved in those negotiations. The war is still going on. You've been involved in several rounds of negotiations. In this conflict, it's only getting more intense. So you're relaunching negotiations now. What's the likelihood they will succeed when other negotiations you've been involved in have not? So, Richard, first of all, it's nice to actually see you in person. I've seen you on television for years, but I guess we're usually more domestic, so I don't see you in the flesh. First of all, I think these are some of the hardest problem sets in the world, and I think that you have to try and you have to bring to it. Obviously, Steve and I bring different approaches to these things, but we work very well together as partners. But we're not bringing our approaches. We're really representing President Trump, and we're doing it the way that he wants to see these things done. And working with President Trump in the first term, obviously, we achieved a lot of unthinkable things, whether it was achieving the Abraham Accords, which nobody thought was possible. We achieved the USMCA, the biggest trade deal in history. We made a great deal with China. And the list just goes on and on. We just celebrated the World Cup in America. That was a deal that I led on President Trump's behalf to win for America. The same thing with the Olympics that'll be coming up. So you have to take on hard things. You mentioned Gaza. Right now, a year ago, that war was going on. There were 20 live hostages there and 28 bodies of dead hostages there, and a war that nobody thought was going to be achieved as well. It took a long time. Steve and I worked very hard on that for a while, and then when we found the opening, we were able to use the work that we'd been able to do, both building the relationships and then creating different frameworks for how to achieve that. And then we were able to take advantage of that and drive it to a conclusion, which really ended it. The work that we've done since then, which again is Gaza has not worked for a very, very long time. It was basically built by NGOs and terrorists. And it's been a dystopian place for a long time. And so we've taken our time. We've built an incredible team, again, under President Trump's leadership on the Board of Peace. Now we have a plan to go forward. We've got a UN resolution that put forward progress for that. And there's a new government, a Palestinian technocratic government, that's neither the PA nor Hamas that's built a plan to go forward. You can't go in if there's guns, right? You can't send the government into a place. By the way, we're now starting to understand the scope of the militarization of Gaza. It is beyond your comprehension. And so demilitarizing it is not going to be easy. We worked with Hamas for over four months. You talk about interesting people to be working with. And they signed an agreement saying they were going to demilitarize. We're working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election. And that makes them a little irrational in certain regards. But we're very determined and we're working through these things. We've also, over the last year, surged more humanitarian aid into the former war zone. I mean, now, in Gaza, we changed the way the aid was done there. Before, I mean, they spent three times the amount per person in Gaza at the UN that they did in Syria for aid. Why? It's because it's become this whole industrial complex of aid. And a lot of it was being stolen to fund a terrorist organization. So we changed the way the aid was done. We flooded aid into Gaza. And now it has one of the lowest malnutrition rates in the world. And so we have a plan to rebuild it. These things take time. These are some of the hardest conflicts. And so the tone of your question was a little bit like, why haven't you done every single impossible thing possible? We are very honored to be able to have the opportunity to work on these under President Trump's leadership. And we're very committed to giving it everything we can. And I think President Trump has a track record of doing impossible things. I think the last administration, they didn't go to Russia. I mean, I think they had one visit with the CIA director. But there's a war. I mean, every day, there are soldiers on the front line from both sides and they want to go home to their families. And there are people in these cities who have bombs dropping and their lives are very disrupted. And they want to see that put to an end. And so if the answer was simple, then somebody would have solved it. But I think President Trump's general framework is that if something is worthy and important, it will have a big impact. He doesn't matter how much he'll get criticized by people in the press or different critics. He wants to go after it. And he's asked Steve and I to do that on his behalf. And obviously with Marco and with the whole team, which we work really very lockstep with. And we'll do our best to try to get an outcome. And so I know that if we don't try, we will not succeed and nothing will change. And it's just important to try. And that's what we're going to try to do. So I can't guarantee that there will be success. But what I can promise you and promise everyone here in Ukraine and even everyone in Russia is that on behalf of President Trump, Steve and I are going to be doing everything we can. We have been doing everything we can to try and find a way out of a mess that was created before President Trump's time, which has had a huge toll. And so we're going to do our best to try and make progress. Steve, do you want to answer that too? I couldn't say it better, Jared. Thank you.

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