Today in Politics, Bulletin 411. 7/3/26

Jul 03, 2026

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… The DC Trump Fair was forced to close for the entire afternoon today after multiple people had to go to the medical tent for heat exhaustion. Drop Site News’ Julian Andreone: “Great American State Fair POSTPONED because multiple attendees passed out due to heat stroke. I was there filming and I personally witnessed 3 people pass out. The number is likely higher than 7 total.”

… Andreone to event staffer:

Q - “What’s going on? Staffer: Right now there’s a heat wave going on. People were passing out.”
Q - “How many people did you see pass out? Staffer: 7 people passed out in the last hour. “
Q - “Do you think they were well prepared for this? Staffer: I don’t know.”
Q - “Did anyone go to the emergency room or hospital. Staffer: A lot of people went. A lot.
Q - “Did your bosses prepare you for this? Staffer: I mean, not really.”

… Fox reporter Bill Melugin out at the Trump Fair at 1:00 PM: “The National Mall is closing and The Great American State Fair is postponed until 5pm for what we believe are heat related reasons. Everyone is being asked to go to the exits. It is miserably hot and humid today, genuinely feels like a sauna when you step outside.”

… Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez: “Email from Freedom 250 informing July 4 guests attending the afternoon celebrations on the Mall that security screening reopens at 5pm, and that everyone must be inside by 6pm… so one hour.”

… MS NOW host Jen Psaki: “In order to put on this celebration, Trump is using $68 million of taxpayer money to a company called Event Strategies Inc. It’s run by a group of Trump allies. So far, that money has paid for a janky ferris wheel plagued by power outages, a couple of tents with chairs in them, a temu version of Trump’s arch, which appears to be falling apart and seems like it’s being held together with a slapdash sealant job, and some bizarre entertainment - half of which seems to just be Trump officials sitting on stage, basically filling the time.”

… “So how much of that $68 million actually went to the state fair, and how much to Event Strategies Inc. did they get to keep for themselves?”

… WaPo: “What does DC have in common with desolate stretches of Africa’s Sahara, deserts in the Middle East and China’s Gobi Desert? It has lots of hot air, of course. So much hot air, in fact, that DC will find itself in the top 1% of the planet’s hottest places on Friday, when high temperatures will soar toward 105 degrees. Only a few, far-flung places will be hotter.”

… Fox’s Pete Doocy: “Trump is teasing a marathon speech for July 4th as crews finalized preparations around the National Mall for America’s 250th birthday, with fireworks barges moving into position and road closures already underway.”

… My friend, a historian who runs the anonymous X account Spiro Agnew’s Ghost: “President Zachary Taylor fell ill after attending a July 4th ceremony in scorching heat at the Washington Monument in 1850. He consumed large quantities of iced water and cherries on a very hot day. He developed a severe gastrointestinal illness and died 5 days later. Historical records and the WH cite the intense heat exposure as a primary factor in his death.”

… Probably just a random thought from Spiro today.

… July 3rd DC Trump Fair military flyover schedule:

… 4th of July DC Trump Fair military flyover schedule:

1:14 PM - NASA F-5 Flyover
1:24 PM - NASA Fleet Review
1:44 PM - USCG Helo Flyover
1:54 PM - USCG Fixed Wing Flyover
2:09 PM - Golden Knights, Leap Frogs
2:29 PM - Army Helo Flyover
2:44 PM - USAF Fleet Review - Wave 1 - Heavies
2:54 PM - USAF Fleet Review - Wave 2 - AFSOC
3:04 PM - USAF Fleet Review - Wave 3 - Fighters
3:29 PM - Executive Rotary Wing Airlift
3:39 PM - USMC Fleet Review - Wave 1 - Rotary
3:49 PM - USMC Fleet Review - Wave 2 - Fixed Wing
3:59 PM - USN Fleet Review - Wave 1 - Rotary
4:09 PM - USN Fleet Review - Wave 2 - Fixed Wing
4:19 PM - USN Fleet Review - Wave 3 - Fighters
4:21 PM - USN F-18F Demonstration
4:59 PM - USN Blue Angels
5:26 PM - USMC MV-22 Osprey Demonstration
5:44 PM - USAF Fleet Review – Fighters
6:02 PM - USAF Tri-Bomber Formation
6:05 PM - USN F-35C Demonstration
6:25 PM - USAF Thunderbirds Demonstration
7:03 PM - Air Force One Flyover
7:07 PM - USAF Thunderbirds Delta Break
7:17 PM - HUGE 1 Flyover Led by the Newly Renovated Air Force One
7:38 PM - U.S. Stealth Airpower Flyover
7:39 PM - F-22 Raptor Demo
7:53 PM - F-22 Raptor in Afterburner
7:59 PM - B-1 Flyover
8:07 PM - B-1’s in Afterburner
8:11 PM - HUGE ONE Fly Over Review
8:22 PM - Golden Knights Twilight Jump
10:36 PM - B-1 Afterburner Night Pass

… NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani did something today that many Democrats have been calling on party leaders to do for the past 18 months - counter-program Trump. He did it by giving his own Independence Day speech which subsequently dominated Fox programming for the remainder of the day as they melted down over it.

… Excerpts from Mamdani’s speech:

“There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.”
“For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.”
“We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence - that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.”
“It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.”
“There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain: Love it or leave it. But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation, that we will not leave it.”
“At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.”

… Fox host Emily Compagno: “This morning, many New Yorkers were outraged after Democratic Socialist Mayor Mamdani said this about America. What horrifying commentary to make ahead of our nation’s 250th Independence day celebration.”

… Fox host Shannon Faulkner: “He is not my mayor! I wouldn’t have had him. I don’t know what the impetus is for dividing us for Mamdani, I would imagine the list is long, it is about power and money and whole host of things.”

… Fox host Kayleigh McEnany: “We need more Fettermans and fewer Mamdanis. It makes me angry. It makes me angry to see someone who took advantage of the American dream—Mamdani and his family came to this country and he is mayor of the greatest city in this country. We have the Statue of Liberty right behind us. They are failing to understand liberty.”

… Former speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox: “Socialism takes power from you. They take care of the powerful. They take care of the guys with connections. And they rip off the rest of us.”

… Good thing this isn’t happening now under our current system.

… NBC: “Investment accounts owned by Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day ahead of his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs.”

… “Despite a 45-day deadline to report financial transactions, none of the 327 stock purchases on April 8 had been disclosed before Tues. Instead, the trades are scattered throughout a spreadsheet-style document that runs more than 900 pages, dwarfing the disclosure reports of Trump’s predecessors.”

… “Those purchases represented just a fraction of the stock trading that the president’s accounts have engaged in since he returned to office. But their disclosure - more than 14 months after they occurred - is the latest in a cascade of revelations about the president’s personal assets that, taken together, are fueling calls from both Republicans and Democrats for greater scrutiny of his financial interests.”

… Turns out Trump’s market manipulation with a series of tariff announcements and pauses that tormented American businesses was done to enrich himself, then he refused to comply with the law and disclose it while it was all happening. Who could’ve predicted it?

It was good timing that the Mamdani and Fox duel just happened because Anthony and I had previously planned to film a special addition of Uncovered on Sunday afternoon to talk about the Mamdani and Dem Socialist phenomenon, their ideas, the pushback from the Dem establishment, and the meltdowns from Republicans about the commies taking over.

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… Axios: “Trump’s $2.2 billion financial disclosure is a 927-page roadmap for the coming investigations, itemizing every known venture that made 2025 the richest year of his life. A crypto business that barely existed when Trump took office minted him roughly $1.2 billion - eclipsing, in a single year, the real estate empire he spent decades building.”

… “His biggest single payday was $635 million in royalties from the $TRUMP meme coin, which has crashed roughly 95% from its inauguration-week launch - destroying billions for the small investors who bought in. Trump also reported tens of millions from legal settlements with major media and tech companies, plus new income from

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