The Tom Sullivan Show

The Air Force One mystery is officially solved and the answer is chilling. Israel warned the US of a specific Iranian plot to assassinate the President and the Secret Service put him on the older, better-protected plane out of Turkey because the new Qatari 747 does not yet have the defensive countermeasures needed to protect against that kind of threat. Trump told reporters he is on every single o...

Graham Platner said he was stepping down but the withdrawal paperwork has not been filed and Axios says he is holding it until the last minute before Monday's five o'clock deadline. The betting markets are now pricing in a real chance he pulls a fast one and stays in the Maine Senate race. We watch the clock and examine both scenarios. And the Air Force One mystery from the Turkey trip is finally...

The sixty day Iran ceasefire did not come close to sixty days. The President called Iran's leaders liars, scum, cheaters, and sick. He said the ceasefire is over. Then he said he doesn't think the war will begin again. Both of those things cannot be true at the same time and today we try to figure out what American Iran policy actually is right now. Then a genuine Air Force One mystery — Trump fle...

A woman has accused Graham Platner of sexual assault and a long list of prominent Democrats have said they believe her and want him out of the Maine Senate race. Platner denies it and says he is reflecting. In political crisis speak reflecting is rarely the end of the story. We ask the honest question — do you believe her? And we start the betting pool on the date he steps down. Trump is in Turkey...

Only in this presidency does a single day include personally lobbying FIFA to reinstate a banned soccer player before a major international match, launching a nationwide baby investment account program, departing for a NATO summit in Turkey, and somehow recycling the same contractor to fix a pool they already failed to fix. Today we cover all of it. The FIFA intervention has Belgium and much of th...

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Democratic Socialists keep winning primaries and traditional Democrats keep getting angrier about their party being taken over by a movement they did not invite in. Here is the detail nobody talks about — the DSA is overwhelmingly wealthy and white, which makes their working-class messaging a little hard to take seriously. Then the biggest overhyped story in America right now — Taylor Swift and Tr...

Democratic Socialists have now beaten established Democrats in New York and Colorado and the movement keeps spreading. Kamala Harris apparently noticed and Axios is reporting she has reached out to Mayor Mamdani to figure out how to align with what is winning — because she does not have a winning vision of her own. That tells you everything about where mainstream Democratic politics stands right n...

The Supreme Court ended its term today with three landmark rulings — birthright citizenship, transgender athletes in sports, and campaign finance — and the ideological coalitions behind each decision defied the standard liberal versus conservative script. Justices crossed lines in every direction and today we break down what each ruling actually means. In Colorado another Democratic Socialist is o...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that states can count mail-in ballots received days after Election Day as long as they were postmarked on time — a real defeat for the Trump administration's push for faster nationwide counting. States make the rules, and that is not changing anytime soon. We break down what it means for how fast we know election results going forward. And Gavin Newsom is facing r...

Democratic Socialists are young, passionate, and growing fast — and the Democratic Party establishment is genuinely worried about losing control of its own coalition. Bernie Sanders seemed harmless for years. Not anymore. The reason the movement is growing is simple — people don't trust either party and want something that actually addresses their needs. But we also ask the harder question today —...

The Supreme Court delivered two big rulings today. Gun owners can now carry into any business open to the public unless that business says no — a major reversal of the old default rule. And Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, granted back in 2010, is finally ending after sixteen years. Sixteen years is not temporary by any definition. We break both rulings down. Iran struck a comm...

Democratic Socialists won more races yesterday and the trend keeps growing. It will keep growing until enough Americans learn what every person who has actually lived under socialism already knows — don't go there. But the reason this is gaining traction is real. People can't afford homes, groceries are crushing budgets, student loans feel inescapable, and capitalism doesn't feel like it's working...

The actual Iran negotiators are still in Switzerland hammering out the real details that matter — and the media is talking about a reflecting pool instead. We ask what that says about what passes for news coverage right now. Four states vote today — New York, Maryland, Utah, and South Carolina — and while most races are ordinary the one to watch is in New York where socialist candidates riding May...

Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman who shaped American monetary policy for nearly twenty years, has died at 100. Before the Fed he was a jazz musician at Juilliard. Clive Davis, the music mogul who discovered Whitney Houston and signed Bruce Springsteen, has died at 94. Before the music business he was a bored corporate lawyer. Two unlikely paths, two enormous legacies, gone the same day...

Israel never signed the Iran agreement and is not bound by it but Trump and Vance are openly hostile toward Israel anyway — for the crime of defending itself against Hezbollah's missiles. That dispute just stalled the 60-day negotiating period before it even started. Meanwhile Bill Pulte is on the job at intelligence and reportedly asking for a complete employee list — step one in what looks like...

JD Vance is out there alone trying to sell the Iran MOU and the President is calling the distinguished list of conservative critics stupid. The list is long, the credentials are serious, and calling them stupid is not an argument. The stock market going up has nothing to do with the Iran deal — it is about corporate earnings and the AI boom and today we explain why. The White House drone terror pl...

Did Iran win this war? Go back to the stated goals when this started — nuclear threat neutralized, terror sponsorship curtailed, Hormuz secured. None of it actually happened and more Republicans are saying so out loud as the President tries to sell this deal as a win. Meanwhile some genuine political hardball — Trump asked his own DNI nominee Jay Clayton to skip his Senate confirmation hearing tod...

Skeptical. That is the word Trump's own supporters are using about the Iran deal and today we explain why they are right to use it. A one and a half page memorandum of understanding that nobody is allowed to read. A president who is not going to Geneva to sign his own historic agreement even though he is just up the road. Washington and Tehran describing the same deal in completely opposite terms....

A historic agreement that nobody is allowed to read until after it is signed on Friday. The United States saying Iran made major concessions. Iran saying its nuclear rights are fully intact. Both describing the same document in completely contradictory terms. Oil and gas experts saying it will take weeks or months before ships transit Hormuz in normal numbers even if everything goes perfectly. And...

The Iran deal leaves the world's number one terrorism sponsoring regime completely in place. The skeptics are not being cynical — they are being honest. We hope to be proven wrong but history says otherwise and today we make the full case for why this looks like another can kicked down the road for the next president to deal with. Meanwhile FISA — America's legal authority to surveil foreign bad a...

This morning the President said bigger bombing of Iran was happening tonight. This afternoon he cancelled it and announced a deal has been reached. The Strait of Hormuz could be open by the weekend if a formal agreement is signed as promised. We have heard similar things before so today we ask the honest question — is this actually the real deal or are we about to watch another announcement evapor...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting the President called our downed Apache no big deal and had to be talked into a kinetic military response. He still thinks ceasefire talks are somehow continuing at the same time. Today we ask what that says about American resolve and what our adversaries are hearing. Inflation just hit 4.2 percent — the highest in three years — driven by oil and gas from the Ir...

An American Apache helicopter was shot down and both crew members were rescued alive — thank God. But the President said we must respond and those three words may have just opened the military door he has been holding shut for months. Is this the moment the Iran conflict escalates decisively? Meanwhile oil and gas reserves are being drawn down fast and a significant price spike may be closer than...

Iran and Israel are firing rockets and drones at each other right now and the Strait of Hormuz is still blocked. The President's advisors are telling him directly — use the military and finish the regime because no deal with these people will ever stick. The President is not listening. California's vote counting is so slow that the President and millions of voters think something is wrong — and wh...