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Elon Is Working - February 12th, Hour 2
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It's Simple Man, and that can only mean one thing on this radio program, all things self-proclaimed, Simple Man.
That means all things O'Reilly.
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Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I'm chilly.
It's snowing again up here.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
I really am.
Considering you made the choice to stay in that Adam shiff hole, that's your problem.
I've tried to convince you repeatedly and to no avail.
And, you know, you want to pay the high taxes in New York.
And when you die in New York one day, you're going to pay a death tax.
They'll double tax you.
That's money you've paid taxes on already.
And, you know, but that's your choice.
You made that decision.
I made a decision that's very different.
I got one word for you down there in Florida.
Yeah, by the way, it's beautiful.
Nice ocean breeze today, about 80 degrees.
I may have to be a snowbird.
I might have to think about that.
Anyway, I'm okay.
What's going on with you?
Nothing.
I'm enjoying the flip out, the freak out of the left over, you know, all things Donald Trump and Doge.
I mean, they were reduced yesterday.
You know, congressmen and women saying F Donald Trump.
I mean, if, and the media is just as bad.
Over at Fake News CNN, Anderson Cooper, you know, said to Governor Sununu of New Hampshire, don't be a penis, a more street vernacular of the word.
And it just gets worse and worse.
But let me play a little bit of it for you.
And I'll tell you, I'm from Jersey, so I look it a little differently.
I say f Trump.
I don't swear in public very well, but we have to f*** Trump.
Hey, she said f Trump.
I said f-o-r-k.
Let me hear you say it.
L-O-R-K.
We are going to beat.
I was going to say, but no, we're not.
No, I'm not going to say that.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Some of the details that have come out, like the, you know, $59 million spent on luxury hotels, it's actually not the same.
That's about the FEMA money that was used for migrants.
That was.
Yeah.
FEMA money for migrants?
That's okay now?
No, I'm not saying it's okay.
I'm not saying it's okay.
Don't put words in the middle.
Would you stop that?
Would you stop that process?
Don't be a the portrayal.
What I'm saying is the portrayal by him is just not factually accurate.
You want to explain this unhinged rhetoric and behavior?
Sure.
It's like a spoiled kid who doesn't get what he wants.
Trump gets elected.
They're seething.
They believe that criticizing Musk and Doge is a good strategy.
But that's the insanity of it, Hannity.
That rhymes, Hannity Insanity.
I think on your TV program, you had a segment a long time ago, Hannity's Insanity, as I remember.
I did.
You should bring it back.
But here's the insanity of this.
Most Americans are not party people or ideologues.
They're just trying to get through life in an honest, hardworking way.
Everyone that I know, and I know thousands of people, doesn't want the government to waste tax money.
I don't know anybody who wants that.
And 90% of the people that I know want the government to shrink, to get smaller, which is going to mean you're going to have to lay off federal workers.
They want to bring the spending down because they're worried about a $37 trillion debt that at any time could go in and destroy this economy in America.
That is the rational, reasonable position.
And I don't think there's any argument about that.
So the Democratic Party now is staking out territory saying, no, we don't want that.
We don't want oversight on crazy spending.
We don't want to let anybody go in the federal government.
That is now eroding the party's credibility even more than Joe Biden did, I believe.
Do you see my point here?
So the Democratic Party, and we've gone through the tens of billions of dollars discovered so far, and I think it's only the tip of the iceberg.
When all's said and done, it's going to be hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
And there's another side of it, which is there were senators and House people whose job in part is government oversight, and they were requesting how the money was spent and details about it.
And they were given broadened, obscure, obtuse explanations when they knew damn well that it was being spent on transgenderism and DEI and woke-ism and new Green Deal-ism and climate alarmism around the globe, because that's where the vast majority of money has been spent.
And I won't bore you with my list, but my list is now up to 15 pages long that adds up to tens of billions of dollars, Bill.
And now they want to hyperventilate and hate Elon Musk.
And I think Elon Musk is doing the country a favor.
Let me put it into a historical perspective.
So one of the greatest Democratic icons of all time is President Franklin Roosevelt, four-term president, revered by the Democratic Party.
Roosevelt did exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
He brought in powerful people led by a man named Harry Hopkins, and they became the so-called kitchen cabinet.
You've heard that, right?
Kitchen cabinet.
Of course.
Selected people.
But they had more power, FDR's crew, than any senator or any representative because they had his ear.
He trusted them.
That went on for 14 years, and there wasn't any criticism at the time or in the history books of Franklin Roosevelt doing that.
Trump does exactly the same thing, brings in Musk and a few other advisors, and you get hysterics on the part of the Democratic Party.
So there you go, history-wise.
This isn't unprecedented.
It's not an attack on the Constitution.
It's perfectly legal.
And I don't even mind the lawsuits challenging Donald Trump's EOs because I want Americans to see how this system works.
From what I can see, all his executive orders are legal and he will win in the federal courts.
What do you make?
And I'll give you some examples.
Donald Trump should be impeached over at MSDNC.
Trump is a racist, you know, again, MSDNC.
And I'm going to go through some of the other media as well.
Trump is a scumbag, racist piece of garbage, MSDNC.
Trump is a disaster for humanity, MSDNC.
ABC, CBS, you know, Doge is causing a frightening constitutional crisis.
On the other hand, you have PBS caving to Trump, closing their DEI offices, and then the AP refuses to refer to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of America, and they were barred from the White House, which I think is the right thing to do.
And then you got Joyless Behar, your old friend over at The View, you know, lecturing Democrats to get off their butts and ambush the airwaves to counter Trump.
And all I see is Donald Trump just keeps moving at the speed of light, not caring one iota about what they think and what they say.
Well, I wrote a column on Sunday called Blitz Krieg, and it's on billorilly.com.
You don't have to join up.
You don't have to do anything.
You just read it.
And the strategy is to throw so much stuff at the opposition that they blow themselves up.
And that's exactly what's happening.
Here's a very interesting story.
I don't know whether you've touched upon it, but it's a fascinating story.
So the FCC has announced an investigation into NBC News, the parent company of MSNBC.
And the investigation centers around the failure of NBC to close its DEI office because President Trump wrote an executive order saying all federal employees, all federal agencies have to close the DEI.
Now, at first glance, you would say, well, NBC Comcast, a private company, Trump can't tell them what to do, which is true.
But they do defense department work.
Comcast does defense department work.
So the FCC's going in with a hammer to bludgeon them.
Isn't that interesting?
I think it's very interesting.
All right, quick break, right back.
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Here's where the Democratic Party is, and they've obviously learned nothing.
There's no course correction, as Joe Rogan said, by the Democrats or the state-run legacy media mob, as I affectionately refer to them.
So they're not adjusting.
And this is the position that they've staked out, that they're going to defend tens and hundreds of billions of dollars in expanding their radicalism worldwide while Americans are suffering here at home.
Our schools are suffering.
The economy still is not in better shape.
We have to deport all the Biden-Harris illegals.
We have to secure the border.
We've got to extract the energy that eventually will make this country the wealthiest energy country on earth.
They staked out that position.
They're fighting for men to stay in women's sports, and they're fighting against the deportation of, you know, we have known terrorists, rapists, murderers, cartel members, and gang members.
So that's their stated - that is the position they've staked out.
And led by Chucky Schumer, we will win.
We will win.
F. Donald Trump, blah, blah, blah.
Here's the option of this.
Okay, the Cook Report, which chronicles the races in the House and in the Senate, issued a report this morning.
And it said that already in the midterms, the Republicans are projected to pick up even more seats than they have now.
Very unusual because usually when you have a president of either party elected, the midterms are not good for that person.
But because the Democratic Party has no leader, isn't that amazing?
There is no leader in the party at all.
And because they have staked out these radical positions, a writer in the Wall Street Journal today called the U.S. aid operation a slush fund for radical left progressive causes, which is exactly what it is.
An enormous slush fund to promote progressive causes.
That's a government agency.
They're using my money and your money, Hannity, to do that.
That is so wrong on so many levels.
But I'm trying to understand the logic behind it.
It was sort of like during the Biden-Harris years.
Nobody could ever give me a good explanation except that they, I assume, one day planned to give amnesty to their unvetted illegals and that out of gratitude, these illegals would one day vote for Democrats in perpetuity as a means of thanking them.
But there was no reason to allow unvetted, you know, $14 million, whatever the number was, we don't know with all the gotaways.
And to stake out a position when the average American makes $66,000 a year, Bill, that's not a modest amount of money.
And that's what the average American's making.
And they're struggling with inflation and they're struggling with gas prices and they're struggling to make ends meet.
And then they're going to find out that hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent abroad for this radicalism.
I think it's a 90-10 issue to me.
Yeah, because the Democrats all operate on emotion and virtue signaling, and you have to be compassionate to the poor and let everybody in.
That's what they believe.
But you can't run a country like that, and everybody knows it.
So that's why the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging membership and has no leader at all and continues.
Look, Trump, and let me put this in a way that is going to be vivid.
I don't know whether Donald Trump realizes how much damage he himself is doing to that Democratic Party.
If he does, he's a genius.
Because this campaign of throwing out so many things so quickly that Trump has to know is driving his opposition crazy and is causing his opposition to self-destruct.
If that was a premeditated campaign, Donald Trump is a genius.
Well, I think the very sight of him, if the dog bites, if the beast things, if you're feeling sad, they've already blamed Donald Trump.
This was a very predictable reaction.
I think they went through phases of grief.
First, it was just complete denial.
Then it was, you know, sadness and depression.
And now they're in the rage stage.
But the rage stage was the most predictable stage.
And I think this is where they stay for four years.
And if they want to, if this is the hill they're going to die on, and they're not going to listen to David Axelrod, James Carville, and a few others, then they will die on that hill because they're out of sync with the American people.
But anyway, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly.
What's the next book, by the way?
Who are you going to kill this time?
Well, it's Confronting Evil, Annity.
It'll be out of September.
Great cover.
Go to billorilly.com.
You see the cover.
Our pal Bad Lad is on it.
He's one of the evildoers.
And it's going to be quite something.
You're not copying my book from 2004, Deliver Us from Evil, are you?
No, I didn't plagiarize your book.
I was tempted.
I know you did.
I'm just teasing.
Anyway, Bill O'Reilly, we always love having you.
Thank you, sir.
All right.
All things Bill O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com, 800-941.
Sean is a number.
We'll hit the phones when we get back.
Didn't spend a lot of time on it, but one of the things that Donald Trump is showing is a different way to view everything.
And this is, you know, thinking out of the box, coming up with creative solutions.
Nobody in the media really wanted to pay attention to what he actually said about America taking control of Gaza.
He said they're going to demilitarize it.
They're going to remove all of the bombs and all the dangerous materials that are there.
They're going to clean up the rubble.
And then they're going to work with Arab countries and they're going to begin the process of rebuilding Gaza into a resort that will provide untold numbers of thousands and thousands of jobs and opportunities and take what has been a terrorist stronghold, hell hole that has been pretty much decimated and blown to smithereens by Israel since October the 7th.
And they're going to turn it into something that would improve the quality of life of anybody that would live there.
But they've got to demilitarize it.
And now the president has drawn a line in the sand Saturday at noon that Hamas has to release the hostages or all hell's going to break loose.
And I would imagine that that would impact not only Hamas, but probably its proxy, Iran, which has been funding from the beginning.
They helped orchestrate what happened on October the 7th.
They helped plot it and plan it and scheme it.
They provided the weaponry for it.
And they have been providing weaponry ever since, as rocket after rocket after rocket is fired into Israel by Hamas in the north out of Lebanon, Hezbollah, as well as Islamic Jihad, the Houdi rebels out of Yemen, and Iran itself.
And anyway, you would think, you know, it's been a mystery over the years.
Why haven't people, countries like the Saudis and the Egyptians and the Jordanians, these countries have been very, very unwilling to absorb that population as a means of ending the conflict in the region.
Anyway, so King Abdullah is in the Oval Office yesterday of Jordan, and he showed a willingness to rethink the situation in this dynamic, new, creative way that Donald Trump brought up, which is kind of similar to what he ran on, which is success will be our best revenge.
And success here, you know, is going to be opportunity and financial gain for people In Gaza, as long as it is forever demilitarized and can't be a launching pad against Israel for the rockets that they continue to fire into the state of Israel.
Listen, Mr. President, I truly believe that with all the challenges that we have in the Middle East, that I finally see somebody that could take us across the finish line to bring stability, peace, and prosperity to all of us in the region.
And it is, I think, our collective responsibility in the Middle East to continue to work with you, to support you, to achieve those lofty goals.
You know, stability, prosperity, I mean, peace in the Middle East, unthinkable.
Is this really that far out of the box?
You know, people are given an opportunity between a chance for a life and happiness and success for themselves and their kids that they want to choose that over, you know, the alternative.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
Let us say hi to Mikey's in Long Island, New York.
What's up, Mikey?
How are you doing in New York?
What's going on?
Hey, good afternoon, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, Sean, as a retired New York City firefighter, I want to thank you for your support and respect you showed all first responders around the country.
I want to thank you guys.
I mean, you know, what you guys do on a daily basis and, you know, what you had to endure during 9-11 and after 9-11 is unthinkable.
Yeah, no, let's let the country never forget, Sean, right?
No, we hope.
Well, I hope not.
I mean, we have Joe Biden is allowing known terrorists in the country, so I'm not sure if he remembers.
Yeah, Sean, perhaps you could do the country a favor and invite the budget committee chair, Senator Graham, on your show, as well as the other senators that are on the fence.
Perhaps you can ask them why you're stonewalling Speaker Johnson on having one big bill that President Trump is on board with.
I just don't get it.
And this bill.
Well, it's interesting because Newt Kingrich wanted me to invite Lindsey Graham on to ask him that very question because he is the budget chair.
One big, beautiful bill.
A lot of senators, including conservative senators, think that the two-bill strategy is better.
Now, there are technicalities here that are very, very real when you're passing a reconciliation bill.
There are very strident, stringent requirements to pass reconciliation.
And the Senate has to navigate its way through that.
The House will send a bill.
And if it's one big, beautiful bill, the Senate will take it up.
I have no doubt about that.
And then they've got to create a bill that will pass the reconciliation process, which I don't think will be that heavy a lift.
They'll be able to do it.
And the question is: do they try to bifurcate it into two areas?
But I think Newt's argument is the most logical that I heard.
Is we've got a midterm.
Reagan waited until he got his tax cuts in place.
And as a result, he ended up losing 26 seats in his first midterm election.
You know, Donald Trump in his first midterm lost over 40 seats.
And the best way to prevent that from happening, we saw the CPI numbers, you know, go through the roof again.
Inflation is the last month of the Biden presidency, an inflation disaster.
And, you know, this is the starting point for Donald Trump.
And I know everybody's all freaked out about trade and trade wars.
Donald Trump doesn't want a trade war.
Nobody seems to have picked up on his truth post that he will practice reciprocal tariffs, meaning if you put a tariff on an American product, we're going to put the same tariff on your products.
That's it.
And I don't think any American can argue against that.
Well, it's going to raise taxes.
We're not looking to raise taxes.
Donald Trump does not want tariffs and a trade war.
What he wants are good neighbors and partners that are going to do their part.
He wants NATO members to pay their fair share.
He wants Mexico and Canada to control their borders and to stop allowing this influx of illegal immigrants and drugs into our country.
And the same thing goes for China, where they produce most of this fentanyl.
He wants it to end.
He wants their unfair trade practices to end.
He wants their intellectual property theft to end.
And I think he's going to probably accomplish all of these things.
Well, a lot of the intellectuals keep saying that these tariffs are going to raise taxes, this, that, and the other thing.
But I'll tell you what, Sean, quite frankly, I think they're underworking, don't you?
I think they work in the sense that I think these countries realize they've gotten away with murder and that the gravy train's over.
And they're not getting a free ride from America anymore.
And America is going to be a lot smarter country.
And we're not going to be stupid and give away our children's future.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Mike, New York, Long Island, we appreciate you.
I don't know if Long Island misses me, but I miss my friends, some of them, not all of them, but some of them.
But I don't miss being there, especially on days like today.
Linda, how much snow did you get up there?
Wow.
Pretty much.
Actually, we got close to 10 inches.
It's pretty crazy.
Did I mention that it's sunny and 80 here today?
Did I mention that?
You know what?
I'm a pale Irish gal.
I am enjoying the snow.
This is my weather.
I love it.
You're full of Adam Schiff.
I am not.
You don't love the snow.
You don't love the snow.
You hate the snow in the middle.
I had a dog in a snowsuit.
And I walked Liam with us because we had a delayed opening because of all the schools.
You walked the 500-pound cat that you owned?
That's right.
Actually, the cat does walk with us typically, but she did not today.
She opted out, which is fine.
Is the cat back of the fat cat?
No, there's a different cat.
She's in great shape.
You got a different cat.
Fat cat's still at the fat farm.
Back to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Joel in my free state of Florida.
What's up, Joel?
How are you?
Hi, too funny, Sean.
That's too funny.
My question is, Sean, and thank you for.
I want to know why it's funny because Linda, quote, loves her animal so much, she overfed the cat.
One cat was the size of five cats.
So they had to send the cat away to lose weight.
And the cat never came back.
I think that that's a little egregious in that exaggeration.
You know, she was the first one.
Okay, let's take a picture of the picture of the cat online.
Nobody's ever seen a cat that big.
She's very camera shy.
So I don't know.
It's going to be possible.
No, you have pictures on your phone because we used to have them.
Oh, man.
Cats.
Anyways, anyways, back to the caller.
What do you want to say, caller?
My question is, all these great executive orders that are coming through, we know that they don't last unless they become codified.
Do you think any of those are going to go to any of these single bill or a double bill that's going to be codified?
And which ones do you think will be?
I think they all need to be.
I don't know if it's going to be part of the reconciliation bill.
I think reconciliation is going to deal more with borders, energy, and the budget.
And again, you have very stringent protocols you got to follow in the Senate in terms of Senate rules to get reconciliation to pass.
And so they're not going to, I don't think that's going to be part of it, but you're correct in saying that it does need to be codified into law or with the stroke of a pen, you know, a future president would be able to undo it.
You know, but what we ought to be hoping for is we don't let them back in power now.
We're not going to go back to the mess that they've left us.
Right.
Now realistically, historically, are there ebbs and flows to political cycles?
There are.
And however, if Donald Trump does the job I think he's going to do, I think that Republicans will be in power for a long time.
And I think they'll do a lot of good.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
As long as they stay true to what they're doing.
Anyway, Joel, appreciate the call.
All right, quick break right back to our phones.
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Don Lake Ronconcomo.
What's up, Don?
Welcome aboard, sir.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks so much for taking my call.
Before I get to my question, I have to praise you for how well you manage all the news from the Trump White House every day.
I mean, any other host would need four or five hours a day on radio and two hours at night.
You do it well.
You're very kind, but I'm telling you, it is a heavier lift than I've ever had in terms of getting out the just sheer volume of information that we have.
I'm just a casual observer, and I can't keep up with it.
It's just amazing.
But, Sean, I tell you, I have to laugh out loud at the incredible hypocrisy once again when you see completely unhinged Democrats screaming and shouting out against Trump and Elon Musk's investigation into the voluminous government fraud and corruption.
Recently, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin and Anderson Cooper are claiming Musk has no evidence to his claims.
No evidence.
What's he have?
Okay, they're out of their friggin' minds.
They don't know what they're talking about.
And, you know, all we've done is show the evidence that they discovered and that they tried to hide from the American people for years.
So, you know, they can say whatever they want.
It's sort of like fake Jake was out there yesterday.
Well, Elon Musk is not elected.
I'm like, no, neither was any cabinet member that was appointed by the president.
The president's elected, and he hires these people to do the job to fulfill the promises and the agenda that he made to the American people.
And that's what we're living through.
And, you know, why they keep bringing that up is beyond me.
It's a dumb argument, but they're dumb people.
Yeah.
These are the same nitwits, Sean, that overlooked the evidence of Joe Biden's mental decline and dismissed the reality of the chaotic out-of-control border.
And they ignored the physical evidence of Hunter's laptop and so on and so on and so on.
And FISA and Russia and the double standard and a weaponized justice system.
They've been wrong on all of it.
And we've been right.
And you know what?
We're proud of the fact that we take pride in getting it right.
That's our job.
I mean, if I give you false information, I'm not doing my job.
Don, we love you.
Thanks, man.
Appreciate the call.
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