The Ticketmaster scam Trump vows to crush



If you’ve ever tried to buy tickets to a major concert or sporting event, you know the scam. You spend hours in a “virtual queue,” only to watch tickets vanish in seconds. Scalpers and bots scoop up thousands, then flip them for double or triple the price. Fans refresh their browsers over and over, while Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, pocket the profits.

It’s a racket, and for decades the people who keep live entertainment alive — ordinary fans — have paid the price.

Fans don’t want excuses. They want a system that works for them, not one designed to funnel cash into a corporate machine while leaving families priced out.

That’s why President Trump plans to unveil a ticket reform package this month. His proposal promises to take on the corporate monopoly that dominates the industry and restore fairness to fans.

The problem is straightforward: Live Nation and Ticketmaster control roughly 70% of the ticketing and live events business — and about 80% of the primary ticketing market. According to the Justice Department, that dominance has allowed the conglomerate to dictate what fans can buy, what they must pay, and who gets access at all.

As Trump FTC Commissioner Mark Meador explained last year, “Live Nation Ticketmaster created a dominant conglomerate with an unprecedented amount of control over the live ticketing market, resulting in monopoly power it has used to entrench its position in the marketplace.”

Fans lose twice under this scheme. They pay outrageous fees when Ticketmaster sells the tickets the first time. Then they pay again when scalpers resell them — because Ticketmaster takes another cut.

Trump’s plan should target the obvious abuses by cracking down on bots that grab tickets before real people even have a chance, establishing distribution systems that treat fans fairly, and encouraging competition in a market currently controlled by one corporate behemoth.

Those reforms would finally level the playing field. But Live Nation-Ticketmaster has other ideas. The company now wants government-imposed price caps on resale tickets — a move that sounds like “reform” but would entrench its monopoly even further.

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Former Trump Justice Department official Brian Pandya warned that such price controls would bankrupt Ticketmaster’s smaller rivals, eliminating competition altogether. Meanwhile, the $38 billion conglomerate could take the hit, since it also profits from artist management, promotion, and the 400-plus venues it controls nationwide. Price caps would squeeze everyone else out while leaving the monopoly stronger than ever.

The better path is obvious: Open up the marketplace. Strengthen enforcement against ticket bots. Redirect regulations to protect fans, not corporations. And if necessary, break up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly entirely.

Fans don’t want excuses. They want a system that works for them, not one designed to funnel cash into a corporate machine while leaving families priced out of concerts, plays, and ball games.

Trump’s plan could finally deliver that. For once, fans might win — and the monopoly might lose.

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Kamala Harris undeniably put on a great show during her DNC presidential nomination acceptance, and even Glenn Beck can admit it.

“She did a very good job. It was a nice performance. None of it was real; none of it was really accurate,” Glenn says before reviewing all of the self-proclaimed radical’s blatant lies.

“Opportunity is not available to everyone. That’s why we will create what I call an opportunity economy. An opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete and a chance to succeed, whether you live in a rural area, small town, or big city,” Kamala said.

“As president, I will bring together labor and workers and small business owners and entrepreneurs and American companies to create jobs, to grow our economy, and to lower the cost of everyday needs like health care and housing and groceries,” she continued.

While the crowd erupted in cheers, Glenn knows the difference between what they think she's saying and what Kamala actually means.

“That was the exact language that is in the Soviet constitution,” Glenn explains. “When she talks about providing housing, that is not a right. That is an American dream, not a right. But they’re changing that.”

Another concerning bit of her speech is “lowering the cost of everyday needs,” because she’s not talking about increasing growth.

“She’s talking about price controls, something else that comes from communist nations. It is extraordinarily dangerous,” Glenn says.

But these weren’t her only lies.

Kamala went on to claim that she would always “fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families,” despite being a member of the administration that forced members of the military out of the military for refusing to get an experimental vaccine.

“I just can’t put into words how stupid you have to be to buy any of this. This was an absolute show last night. They are hoping that in the next 12 weeks, nobody gets a chance to ask her a question, that she is on teleprompter the entire time,” Glenn says.

Kamala also championed a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, explaining that she “helped mobilize a global response, over 50 countries, to defend against Putin’s aggression” regarding letting Ukraine into NATO.

“What was different about this coalition that we had never, ever seen before?” Glenn asks, before answering himself. “It was a coalition of countries, and when she put that coalition together, that’s when gas prices went through the roof.”

“Between them shutting off all of our pipelines and then saying we can’t buy any Russian oil, which never worked. ‘Oh, cause we’re going to collapse their economy,’” he mocks, adding, “They’re doing it themselves with our economy.”

The coalition also involved the largest corporations in the world, which were threatened by the World Economic Forum to comply.

“That was the first time we saw what a global government could possibly do.”


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