The Mark Thompson Show

In what may be the kiss-up of all kiss-ups, a Republican lawmaker is trying to make Trump’s birthday a national holiday. It’s on June 14th, already designated as Flag Day in the U.S. so Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, of New York,  introduced “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act.”  It would “permanently codify” June 14th as a federal holiday called “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day....

Donald Trump wants NASCAR to be the “fuel of America’s Golden Age.” Speaking ahead of the Daytona 500, he hyped up the roar of the engines and the Star Spangled Banner. Meanwhile, fallout from the latest Trump/Musk blunder is serious. The DOGE cutters fired the newer federal workers managing America’s nuclear weapons and are now frantically trying to get them back.  Bill Martin, a beloved weatherm...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s judgement is already in question after he extended an invitation to the Pizzagate conspiracy theorist. Hegseth included far-right influencer Jack Posobiec - offering him a media invitaton on his first official trip to Europe this week. Posobiec might not be able to roll with Hegseth as his online posts indicate that he is already in Ukraine with Treasury Secretary...

Looks like Elon Musk is quickly recouping money he paid for the predidency via fat new government contracts. Over the last couple months, he’s been awarded SpaceX contracts and now Marco Rubio over at the State Department says he expects to spend $400 million on 'armored' Cybertrucks made by special government employee Elon Musk's Tesla. Can someone alert the waste, fraud and abuse team? A judge s...

He hasn’t been confirmed as the Director of the FBI yet, but it seems Kash Patel has taken it upon himself to kick certain FBI leaders out of their jobs. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has "highly credible information" that Patel orchestrated the firings at the FBI and lied during confirmation hearing testimony by denying any knowledge of...

With seeming disregard for the constitutional power of Congress and Trump administration leaders questioning of the validity of judges ruling on cases related to an unprecedented grab of presidential power, constitutional experts are warning of a crisis. On CNN, New York University law professor Ryan Goodman laid out a “doomsday scenario” when asked what would happen if Trump decides he doesn’t wa...

First, Elon Musk commandeered America’s money without the consent of Congress. Now, Musk and JD Vance are questioning the authority of the judicial branch of government to serve as a check on executive power. They are pushing back against a federal judge's decision blocking Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records. In doing so, top Trump administration...

Federal workers are getting bullied into resigning. According to Politico, Trump administration officials are sending multiple messages trying to convince staff to take a deferred resignation deal. Many federal workers aren’t sure that deal is legal or will even be honored. For now, threats of layoffs, cutting entire office locations and being replaced with AI are keeping the pressure on federal w...

Elon Musk now has his fingers in America’s finances. He’s brazenly forcing his way into secure and protected systems. He has offended just about every federal worker with illegal buyout letters and threats to job safety. Now, it seems he’s losing support. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that more Republicans who liked the idea of the SpaceX/Tesla billionaire having a significant influence in the...

Taking over land that has been fought over for decades might not sound like the smartest move, but here comes America inserting itself into the middle of a battleground. Donald Trump’s latest idea is to permanently relocate Palestinians in Gaza so that America can take ownership and redevelop the area. The question many are asking is whether Trump is serious or whether this is another one of his o...

There is grave concern that Elon Musk has snatched control of the US Treasury and USAID away from elected officials. His access to the private information of millions of Americans along with intelligence reports is troublesome to say the least. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is one of many sounding the alarm saying, “Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives,...

Over the weekend, President Trump slapped down his first tariffs against America’s two biggest trading partners, Canada and Mexico. He insists this is mainly about border safety, undocumented migrants, and the flow of drugs and contraband into America. Canada and Mexico stood strong both insisting retaliatory measures are coming. Under Trump’s tariffs, most products from Mexico and Canada will get...

Two of America’s top trading partners, Canada, and Mexico, will get a taste of what it’s like to be Donald Trump‘s neighbor this weekend. Saturday, Trump says 25% tariffs will be announced…tariffs that he says may increase over time. Why rile up the neighbors? Trump says he is fighting back against an increase of migrants at the southern border, fentanyl coming into the United States and the trade...

We are following the deadly collision of a plane and a helicopter last night in D.C. We will examine the message Trump sent shortly after the crash and why it’s importat. Aviation expert Patrick Weil joins. Did Elon Musk act without approval from President Trump when he sent all federal workers a “deferred resignation” buyout letter? It seems he went around key Trump officials, took over the Offic...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wasted no time. On his second day on the job, Hegseth set about exacting revenge. He revoked the security detail and the security clearance for General Mark Milley and started an investigation into Milley’s conduct.  All federal workers have been given a choice. Accept a buyout deal worth eight months pay or roll the dice and see if you still have a job after all the...

The Trump administration is moving to assume more control of the federal purse strings. Yesterday, Trump’s budget office froze all federal financial assistance. From food stamps to foreign aid, it’s all on pause. The only exceptions are Social Security and Medicare. The reason given in the official order? It appears to be a move to counter so called “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new d...

There is a federal law (enacted as a result of Trump’s first term) that Congress must be given 30 days notice before an inspector general can be fired.  Laws be damned. Trump and his team fired at least 12 inspectors general over the weekend. These jobs at federal agencies came about after Watergate and were meant to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in the government. Inspectors General hold agenc...

Trmp is pushing pause on the release of science and health information from the government. That includes the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. That report gave us the first indication that diseases like HIV, Ebola and Covid would be an issue. It helps health care professionals know what to watch for and what to do. As of now, such communicatons are paused pending approval by a Trump ap...

It was all buddy-buddy on a call between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Trump. The good vibes came as the Saudi prince said his kingdom wants to sink $600 billion in the United States over the next four years in trade and investments. No word where exactly those investments and trade would be placed. When it comes to birthright citizenship and other Constitutional issues, Trum...

Big changes are coming to the ability of immigration agents to track down and arrest undocumented immigrants. Long considered out of bounds, the Trump administration says ICE agents are able to make arrests at churches and schools. These sensitive areas are now fair game in the new era of immigration enforcement. While encouraged to use common sense, officials say, “criminals will no longer be abl...

The people who mounted an attack on American Democracy, tried to steal the voice of the people by interrupting certification of the vote, smashed our nation’s capitol building and left it smeared with bodily fluids, attacked Capitol police and left them mentally shaken to the point of self harm, and threatened the lives of our elected representatives…they all just got  big fat pardon from Trump. I...

A cold Inauguration Day brings Trump back to power in America. His return brings swift change.  Trump will sweep into office with the intent to sign upwards of 200 executive actions. It’s an attempt to try to start keeping some of his campaign promises on Day 1 while wiping away the accomplishments of the Biden administration. We will talk politics with iHeart TV and radio political analyst Gary D...

The Trump festivities are starting as the money rolls in from corporations and the elite. Meanwhile,  obut a new poll shows Americans are already skepical of one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises.  Presient Biden gave his last interview while still in office and warned of Amrica’s fragile democracy.. His final days in the oval included commuting thouands of sentences for drug offenders. Michael...

Tech Billionaires are assembling a new club…the American Oligarchy. An ultra rich and well connected group of powerful men like this moves into an influential position every so often, but this time it feels like a serious threat. President Biden warned of it in his goodbye speech and political commentator Thom Hartmann shares his thoughts about what Americans can do to support democracy.  Our lega...

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth says Pete Hegseth is not qualified to be America’s Secretary of Defense. After her questioning brought his lack of knowledge regarding defense issues to the surface, Senator Duckworth said the hearing “seems to be about whether or not women are qualified to serve in combat…and not about whether or not you are qualified to be Secretary of Defense. And let me just sa...