00:00The president kicked off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall last night.
00:04The night was full of Americana, like performances by the president's own United States Marine Band
00:08and Armed Forces choirs, as well as Lee Greenwood singing, you guessed it, God Bless the USA.
00:14There were flyovers by fighter jets and a B-2 bomber, and the night was capped with a
00:18presidential address that focused on the accomplishments of Trump's second term so far.
00:23Today, we have the largest economy on Earth. We have the strongest military on Earth.
00:30We have the most powerful technology on Earth. We have the greatest culture on Earth.
00:37And above all, we have the greatest people on Earth. Greatest.
00:44Tonight, as we stand on the edge of our 250th year of independence, I am thrilled to declare that
00:52America is back.
00:54The fair runs every day through July 10th. The president ticked through some of the other
00:59events that patriots can expect during the fair and throughout the rest of the year-long
01:03birthday celebration. It's the Big 250.
01:05This event will showcase all 56 states and territories, but we're going to have special
01:11performances, patriotic music, high-tech demonstrations, unique exhibitions, a FIFA fan zone,
01:19which is great, and it really has been big stuff. And even an old-fashioned rodeo. I love rodeo.
01:26Then in August, we're going to have what's called the Patriot Games, a first-of-its-kind
01:31competition featuring the greatest high school athletes from all across the United States.
01:36And soon thereafter, we'll have a Freedom 250 Grand Prix right here in Washington around the
01:43Capitol.
01:44New York appears to be ground zero for a socialist takeover of the Democratic Party.
01:48Democratic socialist candidates endorsed by New York City's mayor will face Republican
01:52rivals in November. In the bluest of blue states, they'll likely win. But will this hard-left
01:58shift also play out nationally? And what does that mean for Democratic leadership like Chuck
02:02Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries? Jeffries, in particular, endorsed the string of
02:08losers in these contests. Here's The Post's editorial page editor, Mark Cunningham.
02:11The Democratic establishment just got its lunch eaten in New York City, and it's its own fault. And yes,
02:20it's big trouble for Democrats nationally. It's nothing else. It's going to destroy their power
02:25in Washington in the long run. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, and Hakeem Jeffries,
02:33the House Minority Leader, both from Brooklyn, had all their candidates, their favorite candidates,
02:38lose to Zoran Mamdani's Democratic Socialists of America. Yes, it was a Democratic primary. Yes,
02:47turnout was low. But the fact is that they couldn't get their voters out. The establishment
02:53has nothing. It attracts no one except the hacks that are literally on its payroll. And the DSA can pay
03:01people too. I despise the DSA's ideas. I think Schumer and Jeffries do too. But they've never been
03:09willing to say so, never willing to denounce the enemy to their left. And that's burning them. It's
03:14burning Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, who actually endorsed Mondami and embraced him, gave him
03:21billions of dollars in spending his help in his last budget, in order to fend off his challenge,
03:29to get the DSA not to challenge her in her re-election primary this year. Again and again,
03:35Democrats have focused on winning the primaries, figuring in a blue state they can smash the
03:40Republicans in the general election. And that may remain true. But the problem is they can be smashed
03:46by the farther left now in the system that they've created, which discourages turnout, discourages
03:52people being interested. Just all they do is buy off special interests that gets them what they need.
03:58Buy them off with taxpayer money, sure. Harm their own economies with their high taxes and crazy
04:04spending. But it doesn't matter as long as they get re-elected, except it does. Because their
04:11methods, their policies wind up harming the state itself. And if the DSA really takes over,
04:18really takes power, it'll go double and triple on the socialism, on the crazy spending,
04:23and on the high taxes that drives productive people away. That means big trouble for the
04:30Democrats because California, New York, Illinois, they're all losing house seats. They're all losing
04:37population. Soon it will be the Democrats that depend on the Senate to save them from the Republican
04:42majority. Yes, the Republicans have their problems nationwide, but they have at least a potential
04:48national majority as people are repulsed by Democrats' policies. Joe Biden won as a moderate
04:54in 2020, was handed the nomination by the party establishment because they needed to beat off the
05:01Bernie Sanders challenge. But then in office, Biden embraced the far-left agenda, felt he had no choice
05:07if he was going to stay on top of the party. Bad stuff on the border, particularly on the economy,
05:14on everything. Feeding what the party and its left wanted, but alienating the general public,
05:21the general public, the center, so much that they opened the door for Donald Trump's return.
05:272028, will they be just as bad? Trump won't be on the ballot. All but Democrats have recently is
05:33orange man bad, orange man bad. That's not going to work when orange man isn't on the ballot.
05:41I don't know where they go from here, but they're in trouble.
05:44NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the Oval Office on Wednesday with a gift our president is
05:49sure to love. During his meeting, Rutte praised Trump's handling of Iran and presented him with
05:55a gold-colored chart dubbed the Trump Trillion, crediting him with pushing NATO allies to spend
06:00more on defense. But it wasn't all sunshine and gold leaf. Rutte pushed back on Trump's complaints
06:06that European allies let the United States down during the Iran conflict.
06:10I know there have been isolated cases about which you are really disappointed. But generally
06:17speaking, your European allies have been there. Trump wasn't convinced. The president said several
06:22European countries refused to allow U.S. warplanes to land during the conflict and singled out Italy,
06:27the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain for criticism. Meanwhile, optimism about the ongoing
06:32negotiations to end the war once and for all sent oil down to nearly 70 bucks a barrel, the lowest
06:39priced since the day before the war began on February 28th. But don't get too excited yet
06:44about that. Patrick DeHaan, the head petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com says, quote, oil prices
06:50and gas prices are not a one-to-one relationship. We'll likely have to wait until late fall, early
06:55winter to see prices fall to pre-war levels. Woof. President Trump's reaction to that news? Well,
07:02he posted, quote, I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this.
07:06Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I'm seeing.
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