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And he was very clear yesterday at a big ceremony with a lot of people saying the war on women's sports is over and bans males in female athletics, including the upcoming Olympics, where people, men that want to play in women's sports will not be allowed to participate in the Olympics.
There is an effort now, Leah Thomas, you might remember, with Riley Gaines and her former teammates have sued UPenn and Harvard and the NCAA in a lawsuit to scrub her records.
And most Americans, even Democrats, according to a poll, agree with this.
It's amazing that, you know, again, if the Democrats want to double down on keeping known terrorists, murderers, rapists, you know, cartel members, gang members in the country, I'm fine with it.
If they want to double down on spending, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars on woke and Green New Deal and DEI and transgender issues abroad and take hard-earned tax dollars and spend it that way, I'm fine with this.
If they want to double down on this issue, I'm fine with that too, because they're losing their minds.
Here's the president from yesterday signing that executive order keeping men out of women's sports.
With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over.
With my action this afternoon, we're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and riskier federal funding.
There will be no federal funding.
In Los Angeles in 2028, my administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes, and we're just not going to let it happen.
And it's going to end, and it's ending right now.
And nobody's going to be able to do a damn thing about it because when I speak, we speak with authority.
I mean, very powerful.
There's a really cool, viral ad out there that my understanding is they're trying to get into the Super Bowl.
Over 10 million views so far.
Real girls rock.
Listen to this ad.
Riley Gaines and CLE Healy are in hot water over their transphobic comments.
And I just got to say, who cares if biological males play in sports?
Just be inclusive.
Could not agree more.
This is just a bunch of fear-mongering from right-wing bigots.
And males and dating homes sports isn't even a problem as far as I'm concerned.
These female athletes just need to work harder.
Cannot blame others for their lack of success.
As Captain, C is very much responsible for these boycotts.
There's the cost of their team a playoff hit.
Guess we'll see how Sia handles all that pressure till you.
I mean, pretty powerful.
I'd love to see that I'd make it to the Super Bowl.
Anyway, joining us now are our friend Jillian Michaels, host of Keeping It Real, her podcast, which is doing phenomenally well.
Sadly for her, she has become my unofficial advisor on health, wellness, and fitness.
And man, she is tough, tough as nails.
Also joining us, Jennifer Say, founder and CEO of XXXY, an athletic sports brand dedicated to protecting women in sports.
And anyway, welcome both of you back to the program.
How did you get the unofficial title of beating me down and forcing me to change my diet and all sorts of things in my life?
How did that happen?
Julian?
No, that was just good luck, Sean.
That was good.
You mean like it's good luck if I was on the biggest loser and you're pounding me to do another 40 push-ups?
Well, it's just, it's just, it's kismet.
It was our instantaneous connection that facilitated my ability to infiltrate your life.
And you antagonized me on national TV about 20 times.
I did.
It was really, you know what?
I got to apologize.
That was kind of mean on my part trying to get you to have a McDonald's, you know, quarter-founder with cheese with me.
And you reciprocate by sending me, you know, all this organic, grass-fed meat and salmon and healthy food.
And I'm like, I feel like a jerk after all of that.
You were very kind to do it.
And by the way, I must hit my hat to you.
I didn't think I would like it as much as what I was eating.
And I like it as much, if not more.
You have changed my life for the better.
I appreciate you caring enough to tell me.
Well, the reality is that I did not send it because of the quarter pounder comments.
I sent it because you have been so gracious and so lovely and so kind with your time and your platforms.
And it was just a tiny thing I could do to reciprocate and show my appreciation.
So I hope your listeners really understand what an incredible person you are on and off the camera.
Well, you'd be shocked what some of your old friends on the left think.
You know, we had Riley Gaines on TV with you last night, and it was pretty amazing.
And like you, I sat back and watched in admiration because she took on this fight and she took a lot of heat when she'd go to college campuses.
And she played a very big role in this, and it was a courageous role.
And it shouldn't have had to this should not have taken such courage and she shouldn't have had to face that much hostility.
You know, that's the great irony about the left is that they love to profess their enduring empathy that knows no limits.
And they have become the bullies.
They're the ones that attack people.
They're the ones that are not tolerant of differences in opinion.
And the way they went after her was flat out disturbing and disgusting.
And it was when I started to hear the attacks on athletes like Riley.
And there was a Canadian weightlifter whose last name I forget.
It's like Holly Something, Canadian powerlifter who got kicked out of her own sport for complaining that a biological male had taken all the titles in a personal, a power lift for squat.
I think it was squat, press, and I can't remember the third lift, forgive me, because this was a little while ago.
But those two things together really woke me up to how crazy and aggressive and vicious the extreme factions on the left were becoming.
Because, Sean, you actually said it yourself.
Most Democrats don't agree with biological males in women's sports.
So how it got there, I just don't know.
Well, you know, I have a daughter who's an athlete.
I mean, I can't imagine, you know, her, it just is unimaginable to me.
I said this to you on TV last night, and we're going to bring Jennifer in here.
You know, when you left California, you said to Sage Steele, California got too crazy for me.
And then I can't believe how genius your line was.
I grew up here, meaning California.
I'm a woman.
I'm a gay woman.
My mom's a Jew.
My dad's an Arab.
I have a black kid.
And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn't look like it.
And I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker.
And when I leave California, maybe you're the one that lost your effing mind.
Just maybe.
And I'm like, wow, I wish I had as articulate as you.
You're kind to say that.
It is absolutely issues like this, though, that don't even require somebody being articulate.
People keep saying common sense, common sense, common sense.
But you know what's interesting is I've given the other side the benefit of the doubt and taken all emotion out of the equation.
I've given them the empathy card.
I understand inclusion is important.
That makes perfect sense.
However, where does fairness come into play?
Isn't that one of the key pillars of sports is an equal playing field?
How about safety?
When you have sports where there's contact, what about that?
Where is your empathy for the biological females that worked their entire life to get that scholarship, to get that endorsement deal, to get on the podium?
What about them?
And well, yes, transgender people absolutely deserve to live a life of dignity, free of prejudice.
Their personal choices don't supersede the rights and the freedoms of biological females.
And you have to literally go at the left in this fashion in order to bring them around because they just don't see common sense, Sean, and I don't know why.
Quick break more on President Trump's executive order yesterday as it relates to, well, banning on women's sports.
He said the war on women's sports is over, and he bans males and female athletics, including the Olympics.
More with Jillia Michaels, Jennifer Say.
We continue now.
President Trump is big announcement yesterday.
The war on women's sports is over, banning males and female athletics.
Jennifer, you're doing phenomenal work.
And your athletic sports brand is doing phenomenally well.
Congratulations.
And how do you view President Trump's actions yesterday?
Well, it was really exciting.
I mean, we just launched our brand 10 months ago, last March, and we are the only athletic brand that's standing up for female athletes and the protection of women's sports.
But even beyond that, I have been standing up for female athletes to train free from abuse for two decades.
I was the first gymnast, elite gymnast, to speak out on the matter back in 2008.
But the executive order yesterday, and I was lucky enough to be in the room for it, right, standing right next to Riley, we couldn't be more thrilled.
I mean, there were hundreds of women who have fought so hard for so long, who have endured threats and bullying.
And I mean, you know, for me in particular, the threats that I get, not just to myself, my children, my employees, credible threats that law enforcement takes seriously.
And I will tell you this, Sean, they've escalated in the last two weeks.
So, you know, the fight isn't over.
I couldn't be more thrilled.
Trump has knocked the door down in terms of this issue.
Federally funded institutions will not be able, they will no longer be able to allow males to compete in women's sports.
But he even said it himself.
There is still work to be done.
The U.S. Olympic Committee, the International Olympic Committee privately funded races like the Boston Marathon, which just qualified a man to compete in the women's division in April.
They can still do what they want.
He will apply as much pressure as is humanly possible on organizations like the USOC.
But we need them to change their actual rules.
And we actually also need legislation.
Otherwise, you know and I know another president could come in and write an executive order that reverses this.
I believe we need to change the culture.
We need 70 to 80 percent of Americans who are common sense people that know men can't be women to stand up and say it.
And I will tell you, it's pretty lonely out here still.
There aren't a ton of people saying it, and there are no high-level, Olympic-level, professional-level female currently competing athletes who have spoken out, not one.
That tells you something.
That's incredible.
Now, you also play a part in this XXXY video that has gotten over 10 million hits.
And tell us about the effort to get that into the Super Bowl.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
I mean, J.K. Rowling tweeted it on Monday morning, and it went insane after we launched it Sunday.
I think we're probably up to 15 million at this point.
I think the Super Bowl inventory is all out of stock at this point.
I've run many Super Bowl ads in past lives when I ran marketing at Levi's for many years.
And, you know, the truth is, John, we don't need it.
I'm getting millions and millions and millions of views, and I haven't paid anything for media.
So I'm very happy to take the virality on this one and go with that.
And then just yesterday, an ad that we launched last October called Dear Nike, which was really calling this brand to task for pretending to profiting off of women and female athletes and forsaking them for wokeness for the last 10 years.
And Bill Ackman shared that ad yesterday, and that one's getting new life as well.
So we're really happy with viral, you know, viral views at this point because $8 million for a startup, that's what it costs to run in the Super Bowl.
We want the brand to take off, and it is taking off.
I mean, the last week has been absolutely incredible.
We're out of stock on so much.
And, you know, Michael, this is not a gimmick.
I want this to be a world-class brand.
The product is outstanding.
Jillian, we'd love to send you some.
The product is really remarkable, and you no longer have to sacrifice your values to buy a brand that holds up to the toughest workouts.
It's really an outstanding brand, and we will always.
Did you ever watch Jillian on The Biggest Loser?
Did you ever watch how mean she could be to some of those people?
I can't take her workouts.
I'll tell you that right now.
By the way, I'm only teasing, but, I mean, in every good way, if you're that heavy, you're not healthy, and you're going to die if you don't lose that weight.
I mean, she's not wrong.
She's completely right.
That's more insanity from the left, and I share a lot in common with Jillian in that I was a longtime Californian, 35 years.
I left during COVID.
That's what really sort of opened my eyes, and I was very outspoken about closed schools and lockdowns and was just vilified by everyone in San Francisco, posted my address, chased me down the street.
I left.
I'm sorry about all these security issues.
I've lived it myself for many, many years.
It sucks.
By the way, you are telling us it's okay to be 400 pounds.
It's not okay to be 400 pounds.
No, it's not.
By the way, if I gained 15 pounds, I think I'd get a call from Jillian saying, you're too heavy.
You better start losing weight.
Okay, I don't want to say that.
Without question.
Anyway, I appreciate both of you.
Thanks for what you're doing.
Jillian Michaels, Jennifer Say, great work on both your behalves.
We appreciate it.
And thanks for your time today.
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The freak out over Doge and the rage.
And again, Democrats after the election were in a state of denial and shock.
Then the denial just went away.
Then, you know, they were incapacitated and depressed for a while.
And now they're on full-on rage.
And if their fight is that they want to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars for other countries while Americans go hungry and we have homelessness problems and Social Security is headed to bankruptcy and we've got 14 million illegals that we have to deport in this country and efforts that we need to make America energy dominant so we can make more money.
And they want to flip out over not spending money on Green New Deal, you know, extravaganzas around the world and woke around the world and DEI around the world and transgender agendas around the world and everything in between.
If that's what they want to do and that's the hill they want to die on, then I'm okay with that because the American people are disgusted since hearing how this money was spent.
Elon Musk did the country a favor.
Donald Trump did the country a favor.
And this is only the beginning.
And this freak out over Elon Musk is just, it's so out of control now.
Here's a congressman from Texas, Greg Cesar, who's saying that Musk wants to take your hard-earned money and keep it for himself.
No, he doesn't need your money.
He's nearly a trillionaire.
He's got half a trillion dollars.
He does not need your money.
Listen.
And today we're here to say with one voice, fire Elon Musk.
An unelected, unaccountable billionaire now has seemingly unlimited powers over Americans' private data and over Americans' taxpayer dollars.
It seems every hour brings more news about a new threat Elon Musk poses to working people, a new way that Elon Musk wants to take your hard-earned money and keep it for himself.
No, the people that stole the money were people in Congress that think like him.
They're the people that stole your hard-earned tax dollars.
They're the people that didn't respect that you work hard for your money.
Congressman Garcia, Illinois, says Elon Musk's moves are illegal.
No, they're not.
Yeah, no, he wasn't elected.
He was appointed by the president, which is a perfectly legal, acceptable, and frankly prudent and responsible thing to do if you don't want to keep adding to the debt that is going to kill and crush our children and grandchildren.
We are here to tell working families that we will not allow Musk to have access to your social security numbers to push out civil service workers or to launch an all-out assault against government agencies.
These moves are illegal, and we're working with civil rights groups who are suing Doge for these actions.
Elon Musk is not fooling us.
Elon Musk is going to win.
Let's get to our busy phones.
I am perfectly fine if they want to double down on hundreds of billions in foreign aid spent on the most radical policies ever.
And they got exposed.
They hate Elon.
They hate Trump because they exposed them for doing all this without informing the American people.
Kelly in Colorado, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Sean, thank you very much for taking my call.
I have been listening to you and watching you for a long time, and I'm so thankful for the voice you bring to us.
Thank you, Kelly.
I'm glad you're out there.
Thank you for giving it to me.
Thank you.
It only took Democrats one week to impeach Trump over a phone call.
We have 16 days that we're going to be official.
Okay.
On the other hand, McCarthy wanted to start impeachment proceedings against Biden over a year ago, and nothing ever happened.
Now, Al Green wants to start impeachment of Trump all over again.
The legislative branch of government has freedom for such actions, but do not.
But do you have any thoughts how Pam Bondi could quickly make Al Green accountable for this waste of time and money when government has much better things to do helping Americans?
Well, first of all, I don't think she has to do a thing because Al Green, Democrats don't have the power.
They don't have the votes to impeach anybody.
And I will say this very early into President Trump's term, his third week, is that this midterm election in 2026 is going to be critical.
It's going to be very important.
But what Pam Bondi, and she's come under fire today, but she did everything she said she was going to do.
She'll be on Hannity tonight on TV.
You know, she's going to fight the weaponization of justice.
She's going to work with the Department of Homeland Security to eliminate drug cartels in our country.
That would include terrorists and murderers and rapists.
You're going to find them, and they're going to pay the ultimate penalty.
She's going to lift the death penalty ban that Biden put in place.
And she's also cracked down on sanctuary cities and ordering the DOJ to pause all their federal funding.
If you're going to aid Nibet in lawbreaking, which Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland allowed to have happen under their watch, then there needs to be a price to be paid.
I've known Pam for decades.
I'm telling you, she's the real deal.
Pam Bondi is going to go in and she's going to clean this place up and we're going to be better off for it.
Now, weaponization is a term.
They went after Donald Trump for things that were insane.
You know, we didn't have equal justice or application of our laws.
As an example, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, top secret, classified information.
There was no raids on any of their locations, and they treated Donald Trump differently.
That's weaponization.
Weaponization is when you take a legal non-disclosure agreement whose statute of limitations have run out and you turn it into a federal crime and come up with some novel legal theory that had never been used, you know, and try and convict Donald Trump on that.
That's weaponization.
But it wouldn't be weaponization in my mind to get Joe Biden to explain how he leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars to stop an investigation into his own son, who, by his own admission, was being paid millions and had no experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or Ukraine, and got that prosecutor, son of a bee, fired in six hours.
They must now, when called before Congress, they will have to testify.
That's not weaponization.
What that is, is justice.
And I would imagine that's going to happen.
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Ryan in Wyoming, Ryan, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm good, sir.
How are you today?
I'm good.
What's going on?
So let me start with thanking your staff for being so amazing and making sure that you put on a phenomenal radio and TV show every day.
We know all the work they do behind the scenes is really what makes it successful.
Thank you.
I have a great team on both sides.
The reason I'm calling is, so I'm a current federal employee.
I became a federal employee shortly after I got active duty from the Army.
My wife's a federal employee.
The federal government, when it comes to civilian employees, is less than 1% of the entire U.S. population, right?
So like 2.4 million based off current OPM information.
And we have no idea what's going on.
And it's frustrating all of us because how do you make life decisions?
Try to figure out what to do.
How do you know to send your kids to college?
If you can afford to buy a house when there's no information coming from the administration, which I support strongly, like I'm a strong supporter of this administration and what their efforts are, but they're not communicating to us to any way of what their overall goal and plan is other than, you know, you see some politicians like, oh, we're going to cut 60 to 70% of the federal government.
Well, okay, that's everybody.
Well, I haven't heard that number, 60 or 70%.
Can you be more specific?
What do you do for the federal government?
So I don't want to be too specific because some people I work with listen and I don't want to have.
So I work under the Bureau of Land Management.
Well, if they listen, they're probably going to recognize your voice, but that's okay.
Go ahead.
You don't have to tell us.
So I work for the Bureau of Land Management doing so for them.
Me personally, I think my position will probably be okay, but I don't think people realize what everything, you know, when they're like, oh, we want to cut all this stuff.
You know, Mr. Musk talks about cutting $2 trillion.
Well, that's beyond what the entire discretionary budget every year is, roughly 1.7, 1.8 for discretionary.
You would have to eliminate everything, the entire federal government, to hit that.
He's not going to eliminate the entire government.
What they're trying to do in this buyout, I think it ends today at 5 o'clock, opportunity, and there's been 20 or 30,000 people that have accepted it.
If they don't get enough people to leave, now let me ask you, are you showing up to work every day?
Do you go to the office every day?
So my position is an in-office position, but like my wife works remotely for the government.
But I mean, honestly, I think she's supposed to more hours being remote, but she also makes less money because her pay is actually set for where it's supposed to be.
So she makes $14,000 less than her counterparts who work in the office.
It may be advisable for her to show up in the office because I know that's a big sticking point with the administration.
They want people to show up.
You may want to revisit that.
That would be my advice to you.
Number two.
To return.
Yeah, I mean, number two, they're not going to fire every federal employee.
There's too much work that the federal government needs to be done, assuming that your work and her work are essential.
I don't think you're going to have anything to worry about.
You're certainly not involved in weaponization or politicizing in any way.
So that's not going to be anything to worry about.
But I think working from home is going to be an issue.
And maybe your wife should be a little proactive, check in with her supervisor, her boss, and see if that's going to be acceptable.
Or if they want her to go into the office, she may have to go into the office.
If we can get people like you and, you know, to talk about the everyday federal employee, right?
We're not all bureaucrats, right?
There's a lot of people out there doing a lot of it.
Listen, there are a ton of great people in the federal government that do amazing work every day.
You're not going to get an argument from me on that.
And I'm sure you and your wife are two of them.
One of the few people who support us.
There's not a lot of people out there, and I hopefully— No, I wouldn't.
No, I think people, for example, you know, if people are having, you know, trouble with Social Security or Medicare, we need federal employees to be there to help them.
They have to serve those people.
So I don't think people, but however, the waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption has to go away.
And I think that's where the main focus is going to be on.
And, you know, limiting the bureaucracy.
How many of these jobs are redundant?
How many of these jobs, you know, it's going to be things like that.
But one of the things the government also said is they want they want to get away from Washington and detach from Washington and have people more spread out like in your state of Wyoming.
So I think that actually may work in your favor, especially if you're providing essential services for people.
So I would be, you know, I would be very proactive.
You know, check in with your boss, have your wife do the same, you know, see what is needed.
You want to keep your job.
You want to keep your career going.
I don't blame you.
I totally understand it.
And there's definitely room for probably millions of employees that are not going to be losing their jobs, that are just going to be doing great work every day without the waste, fraud, and abuse and actually doing work for the American people.
So I would say, you know, just make yourself as essential as possible.
But that's advice I'd give to anybody on any job.
Anyway, I do hope that helps you.
If I hear anything more, we'll talk about it and just stay tuned.
And I wish you and your wife the best.
Okay, my friend?
Thank you, sir.
Have a blessed day.
You too, ma'am.
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Jim Jordan has been working very closely with Elon Musk, along with Mark Meadows tonight.
Also, Sean Duffy fighting Hillary Clinton.
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