Nightly News Roundup for Aug. 23, 2026

Donald Trump hired his hotel pool contractor to renovate the Lincoln Memorial while insisting he outdrew Martin Luther King Jr.; the Iran ceasefire held just long enough for Trump to issue shoot-to-kill orders and triple mine-sweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz; House Republicans weighed springing Ghislaine Maxwell if the client list was worth it; the Justice Department responded to its own Epstein failures by auditing itself; Meta and Microsoft fed roughly 17,000 workers into the AI they built; Green Beret Gannon Ken Van Dyke bet $33,000 on a classified op and cleared $400,000; and a 22-year-old medical student in India farmed MAGA followers with a fake blonde named Emily Hart and called them super dumb. He wasn't wrong. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.