The Pour Over Today - Trump-Mamdani Meeting, Nvidia Earnings, Representatives Under Scrutiny, & More | 11.21.2025

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Today, we’re talking about President Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani meeting; Nvidia beating expectations in its highly-anticipated Q3 earnings; two members of the House of Representatives in trouble; and other top news for Friday, November 21st. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over. Looking to support us? You can choose to pay ⁠here⁠ ⁠Check out The Pour Over's Gift Guide!⁠ Check out our sponsors! We actually use and enjoy every single one. ⁠Cru⁠ ⁠Safe House Project⁠ ⁠Upside⁠ ⁠Mosh⁠ ⁠Life Application Study Bible⁠ ⁠LMNT⁠ ⁠She Reads Truth⁠ ⁠Quince⁠ ⁠CCCU⁠ ⁠Surfshark⁠ ⁠Theology in the Raw⁠ ⁠Holy Post⁠ ⁠Not Just Sunday Podcast⁠ The Pour Over’s Newsletters: ⁠The Pour Over⁠ ⁠Decaf⁠ ⁠News Health⁠ ⁠Praying the News

Today's episode is brought to you by our lead sponsor, Safe House Project. Hey, this is Joe at the poorover. Today, we're talking about a meeting between President Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani, NVIDIA beating expectations in its highly anticipated quarter-three earnings, two members of the House of Representatives in trouble, and other top news for Friday, November 21st. informed while remaining focused on Christ with the pour-over. Here's your quote of the day.

The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not. C.S. Lewis. Let's get started with some espresso shots. President Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani are shaken hands in the Oval Office today. The pair will discuss key points of Mamdani's campaign platform, public safety and affordability. Mamdani, who requested the meeting, said he wants to speak plainly about New Yorkers who, quote, are struggling to afford this city. Trump said he wants, quote, to see everything work out well for the Empire City. TBD if today's sit-down will be cordial or contentious.

Trump and Mamdani have been trading jabs for months. Momdani criticized Trump's immigration policies and threats to cut New York's federal funding, while Trump called Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, a, quote, communist, and said he'll have the future mayor arrested if he inhibits immigration enforcement in NYC. Meanwhile, ICE announced its ramping up operations in the Big Apple as part of its larger crackdown on sanctuary cities. The good news of the gospel is that God loved us while we were his enemies. His love compels us to love our enemies, political or otherwise, so that the world may see his love through us.

John 13, verses 34 through 35, says, I give you a new command. Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. AI bubble fears have been popped for now.

Chipmaker NVIDIA dropped an expectation-crushing earnings report Wednesday. 57 billion in quarter three revenue, versus around $55 billion expected, $51 billion from data center sales alone, topping the $49 billion estimates, $65 billion projected for quarter-4 revenue above previous $62 billion forecasts. CEO Jensen Huang said sales of the company's next-gen blackwell chips are, quote, off the charts, and that some cloud GPUs are sold out. investors liked what they heard.

Nvidia shares jumped around 5% in after-hours trading. All this comes even as big names have started placing bets against AI. Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel's hedge fund recently dumped its entire Nvidia stake, intensifying bubble concerns, and Michael Burry, the big short guy, bought put options on Nvidia, betting the stock price will, drop. Meanwhile, September's shutdown delayed jobs report finally dropped, showing the U.S. added 119,000 jobs much higher than expected.

Massive wealth gains could be here today and gone tomorrow. Don't let economic news determine your mood, win your heart's affection, or steal your kingdom focus. Matthew 6, verse 24, says, No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Two U.S. representatives' seats are heating up over separate corruption allegations.

On Tuesday, the House passed a resolution rebuking Democratic Representative Jesus Chui Garcia for allegedly, quote, undermining the process of a fair and free election with his controversially timed retirement. Garcia filed for re-election last month, but exited the race less than two weeks later. His chief of staff, now the only Democrat on the primary ballot, filed to run hours before the deadline. Democrats were split over the issue. Representative Marie Glucencamp-Perez introduced the resolution, while dissenting Dems called Garcia a, quote, icon. On Wednesday, Florida Representative Sheila Scherfellis McCormick was indicted by the Justice Department for allegedly

laundering $5 million in FEMA funds to support her 2021 congressional campaign. Scherfellis McCormick, who faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted, called the indictment, quote, an unjust, baseless sham. Here are some verses to consider whether it's the shortcomings of others or our own that come to light. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God presented him as the mercy seed by his blood through faith

to demonstrate his righteousness because in his restraint, God passed over the sins previously committed. God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3. versus 23 through 26. Human trafficking isn't just an over-their problem.

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when a child is ready to escape, and your gift makes sure they don't. Give a child the way out. Go to safehouseproject.org slash TPO or check the link in the show notes to give now. In other brews, here's a rapid round of updates. A major procedural misstep is rattling James Cohn prosecution.

The Justice Department admitted the full grand jury never saw the final indictment, only two grand jurors did, adding to mounting challenges in the prosecution of the former FBI director for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing the Russia probe investigation. A judge called the errors profound, but hasn't said whether they're fatal to the case. A new Miss Universe was crowned last night, after my bedtime, but scandal remained center stage. Participants walked out of a meeting where Miss Mexico was yelled at. Miss Jamaica is recovering after falling off the stage during prelims, and three judges bowed out the week of the pageant amid allegations of a rigged final round, and a judge-contestant affair.

President Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act into law on Wednesday, night, giving the Department of Justice 30 days to release all unclassified Epstein-related records, including information about the investigation into his death in prison. When announcing his signature, Trump claimed the issue was something Democrats used, quote, to try and distract from our amazing victories. A wall somewhere just got a very expensive upgrade. Gustav Klim's Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer sold for a whopping $236.4 million after a 20-minute bidding sprint at Sotabee's Fine Art Auction, setting a modern art record and becoming one of the priciest paintings ever auctioned.

The 1914 through 1916 piece had survived Nazi looting and wartime fire before its blockbuster sale. mourners gathered at the National Cathedral for Dick Cheney's funeral yesterday. The invite-only service was attended by all five living former VPs, former President Biden and former President Bush, who, in his eulogy, said Cheney was, quote, a gentleman. Not on the guest list? President Trump and VP Vance. Cheney and his daughter, former representative Liz Cheney, Cheney, publicly criticized Trump after January 6, 2021.

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