The Tom Sullivan Show

Tariffs are back and let's be honest about what they are — a tax that raises your prices, slows the economy, and invites other countries to retaliate against our exporters. Trump Media is now selling Wall Street firms early access to the President's market-moving Truth Social posts for up to one hundred thousand dollars a month. Schumer says if a staffer did this it'd be a scandal — now it's a subscription plan. We agree it's wrong, regardless of party. And Thune and the White House are publicly feuding over the SAVE America Act because Republicans have 51 votes and need 60. Thune's telling the...

Message to every politician in Washington — people don't like you. But the new Fox News poll shows it's specifically bad for Republicans right now — Democrats lead on the economy, healthcare, inflation, income inequality, foreign policy, and even immigration. Democrats now lead the generic congressional ballot by 7 points, the best showing for the party in a Fox poll since 1996. We break down every number. Then let's clear something up about the Saudi nuclear story — this isn't about weapons. It's the same low enriched uranium model we already use with the UAE for civilian power plants. And it still needs Congress to approv...

An OpenAI model broke out of its sealed test lab on its own, got onto the internet, and hacked a real company called Hugging Face to cheat on a test. No human told it to. Hugging Face actually caught it themselves before OpenAI even called. Silicon Valley is buzzing because this is the exact nightmare scenario AI safety people have been warning about for years. Mayor Mamdani has finally admitted he never actually had the power to arrest Netanyahu — you'd think checking with his own legal team would have come before the threat, not after. He also couldn't clearly define th...

Trump, Sheinbaum, and Carney looked like best friends at the World Cup. Now there are new tariffs on Canada, our second biggest trading partner. What happened between then and now? Iran keeps taking hits and still won't budge — are we headed toward boots on the ground? Democrats are increasingly worried the Democratic Socialist surge could split their own vote just enough to hand Republicans the midterms despite favorable forecasts. And Mayor Mamdani is still threatening to arrest Netanyahu even though lawyers keep confirming he has zero legal authority to do it. Another socialist dream that just isn't real. All of it...

More generals and admirals are saying it out loud now — you cannot negotiate a war the way you negotiate a real estate deal, and bombing alone was never going to be enough. Three more soldiers are dead and Trump finally appears to be shifting away from talk of talks toward real military commitment. We ask what took so long. The Democratic Socialists keep winning primaries and it is splitting the Democratic Party at exactly the moment forecasters predicted a strong Democratic fall. Fascinating timing. New York City's mayor wants to arrest Netanyahu — except he has zero legal authority to do that...

The President gave a speech questioning our election systems right before the midterms and we ask directly — did it make you trust elections more or less, and was that the actual goal? Here's the structural fact that matters — America has over ten thousand separate election jurisdictions. That alone makes coordinated national fraud incredibly hard to pull off undetected. We break down why. And the Iran war keeps growing. So which is it — are we trying to get the lying, cheating IRGC leadership back to the table, or are we actually trying to eliminate them? The country deserves a straight answer. All of...

President Trump is expected to deliver a major speech tonight, with reports suggesting a significant announcement may be coming. Will the focus once again be on the 2020 presidential election, and why does that issue continue to dominate political debate years later? We examine whether Americans are entitled to hold differing views about the election and why the controversy remains a central topic in national politics. We also discuss the latest developments involving Iran and growing concerns about U.S. policy in the Middle East. Plus, the White House is reportedly searching for the source of a leak to The New...

America is bombing Iran and the President wants to get them back to the negotiating table. Why? Iran lies. Iran cheats. Iran has never honored an agreement in its history. The goal should be defeat and surrender — not another round of talks that produce another piece of paper that means nothing. Todd Blanche testified today for Attorney General and one Republican vote kills the nomination — we identify where the danger is. Jay Clayton testified for DNI and Democrats spent most of the hearing asking him to say Trump lost in 2020. And ICE wants to resume traffic stops after two deadly shoo...

Last night the plan was blockade the Strait of Hormuz and charge twenty percent of cargo value as a fee. This morning the fee was gone after Middle Eastern leaders called Trump with an investment alternative he liked better. The blockade is still on and the President is now calling the whole thing a skirmish. Rubio has been saying the fee was illegal for weeks — he was right but the fee died by phone call not legal argument. ICE shot and killed two men during traffic stops in Houston and Maine and DHS immediately ended traffic stops as an immigration en...

Senator Lindsey Graham died from an aortic dissection at 71 and the bipartisan grief pouring in today is a reminder of what old-school Senate relationships used to look like — when members of both parties actually knew each other as human beings. We pay tribute to a complicated but genuinely warm man whose personal conduct in the Senate was better than the era he served in. Mitch McConnell says it was a fall and mild pneumonia but the medical care he is receiving tells a different story. We flag the disconnect. And Trump wants to charge fees for passage through the Strait of...

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 one of Iran's lists and admitted he has been lucky — for now. Meanwhile oil is moving through Hormuz better than expected but airlines have already hiked fares and Delta says do not expect re...

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 solved — the brand new Qatari 747 does not yet meet the security requirements for presidential travel through sensitive airspace. The old blue and white plane does. So Trump fl...

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 flew the new Qatari 747 to Turkey and came home on the old blue and white Jackie Kennedy plane. The new one went to Europe to show soldiers. No...

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 at NATO furious that alliance members sat out the Iran conflict and left America holding the military weight alone. We preview what those conversations look li...

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 the European soccer establishment furious ahead of tonight's USA versus Belgium match — and we explain why the President's call might have been more justified than his critics want to admit. The Trump Accounts are no...

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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 Travis Kelce are getting married at Madison Square Garden. Rehearsal dinner tonight, wedding tomorrow, wall-to-wall coverage everywhere. We acknowledge it and move on. And we close with something genuinely wonderful — a couple climbed the Empire State Building, unfurled a love...

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 now. Trump flew the new Air Force One — the repainted Qatari 747 with the gold fixtures — to South Dakota today. The President loves it. We get it. But we still prefer what Jackie Kennedy and Raymond Loewy create...

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 on the primary ballot today. But after last week's New York socialist win on just seven percent voter turnout we need to talk about what these victories actually represent — because ninety-three percent of voters did not show up. And the housing affordability bill is headin...

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 real pay-to-play questions over behested payments tied to his wife's charities. He calls it political payback. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't — but if authorities don't get to the bottom of it now...