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March 5, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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State of the Union - March 4th, Hour 1

Sean previews President Trump's State of the Union address and highlights the key accomplishments of President Trump's second term.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That is Washington, D.C. And we are here tonight for the State of the Union address.
We have a bunch of temper tantrums that we expect are going to be thrown by radical leftist Democrats.
By the way, breaking today, I see that a bill to ban biological males from women's sports has been blocked by Democrats.
Um so they are now the party of endless war.
They are now the party of defending men's right to play women's sports, the party of putting the rights of unvetted Biden Harris illegals, including known terrorists, rapists, murderers, violent criminals, cartel members, gang members over the safety and security of you.
They are the party that is defending what will be hundreds.
We already identified tens and tens and tens and tens and tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, and they are the party defending that.
And they defend it with glee.
And now we see that the temper tantrum will be taken to a new level tonight.
As Democrats will show up at the State of the Union.
And they're going to do very powerful things.
And we're hearing that they're going they might have that some members are planning to walk out of the chamber if they find anything objectionable.
If Donald Trump said I've just cured have a cure for cancer, that would be objectionable, because it's Donald Trump that did it.
So just you know, I frankly, I think it will make for an entertaining night.
It just means they lost.
It's like Nancy Pelosi doing her little rip routine and ripping every page and getting ready for the big tear at the end of the speech.
Um I I'm of the opinion Trump's gonna deal with that head on and probably just go scorched earth big time on them.
Should be a lot of fun.
And anyway, we're also hearing that there will be and maybe um signs with anti-Trump, anti-Musk, anti-doge messages.
Remember, Congresswoman Taleb held up a sign when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did a speech before the joint session of of Congress.
Uh, and she called him a war criminal.
Now, I find this part the most interesting is they might bring eggs.
Wonder if they're gonna throw eggs at the president.
If they do, they will be arrested.
That would be entertaining.
Not gonna lie.
I hope he can duck.
Remember when Bush ducked for when the guy threw two shoes at him?
Whoops, duck, duck.
You know who got hit?
Poor Dana Perina.
She's got a black eye.
Ugh, I felt so bad for her.
Um, anyway, eggs or empty egg cartons to highlight how inflation is driving up the price of eggs.
There's something that's going around called avian flu.
Avian flu that is not linked towards inflation.
And I know because I eat eggs and meat.
That is basically the sum total of my diet with an occasional deviation.
Not much, occasional.
I am keto friendly.
I am I I just try to avoid carbs.
Um, but it is a good thing that finally, after four years of record high inflation and the average American paying twelve, thirteen gram more a year for the same items they were paying for under Donald Trump, that maybe they finally have realized.
Oh, and then they're gonna bring this is a good thing too.
It looks like they're going to bring pocket constitutions to make the case that Trump has been violating the Constitution.
Maybe if they don't like the speech for the first time in their lives, maybe some of them will read that constitution and learn from it.
Then we hear they may have hand clappers, red cards, and various other props are being discussed.
I mean, it is so ridiculous.
Um, and you know, we'll watch all of this unfold in in real time, but the Democrats now plan to disrupt Donald Trump's speech to Congress.
I'm like, all right, you want to disrupt the speech to Congress?
I believe a freedom of speech, and Democrats are gonna walk out of the chamber, make a big deal.
Uh, how much you want to bet there's gonna be a lot of Democrats on the aisle on their side of the aisle that have been sitting there 12 hours to secure their seat so they get a chance to take a selfie or shake Donald Trump's hand.
There's gonna be that group of people too.
And I would because that's history.
That's pretty cool.
Um, you know, one House Democrat blasted for an unhinged rant about Elon Musk ranting, tell him to go back to South Africa.
He's been a U.S. citizen for 22 years, and unlike the people the Democratic Party supports, he did it legally, and he didn't even get the five million dollar gold card visa that Donald Trump is now gonna use, which is something that over a hundred countries do, like New Zealand and Australia and others.
Bernie Sanders is saying a Democrats and how they should resist Trump.
Democrats have been playing dead for too many years.
You've been crisscrossing the country warning of what you say is an oligarchy in the United States.
And anyway, Walker said this.
And then we're seeing some video right here.
And some Democrats argue the best action right now for the Democratic Party is to do nothing at all.
Bernie Sanders doesn't like what James Carvel is advising.
He said, Oh no, I don't.
In fact, the problem with the Democrats is they have been playing dead for too many years.
60% of our people have paycheck to paycheck.
Well, we're living under your economy.
And if you had your way, it would even be worse.
This was pretty funny.
Failed 2024, vice presidential nominee, Minnesota governor Tim Walls recently floated a potential 2028 presidential run.
I'm Mike, run Timmy Run.
Run the biggest weirdo on the face of the earth.
Run Timmy Run.
Um, one other thing Democrats are planning.
So Democrats, and um I'll play the long version later.
It's so unlistenable, but let me play.
They all we're up to 20 some odd Democrats now.
I don't know what the grand total is.
Uh we have a montage of 22 of them speaking at once, but you it's not anything you can discern.
But you can kind of discern five of them.
And we broke down five of them, and what they did is they have uploaded videos of themselves reading the exact same cringy script of Trump bashing and Elon basking and uh bashing and doge bashing and you know what what we're supposed to believe this was an independent thought on their part.
It's not.
Anyway, here's the uh five senator version, not the 20 some odd senator version.
When I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting the day once we just heard Donald Trump's president.
They're up.
Inflation is getting worse.
Inflation is getting worse.
The prices of gross gas.
It costs gross.
Eggs of ascension.
It's not getting better.
It's getting worse.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's instead of horror.
I can't take it.
I'll try and get through the whole thing later.
I will, but it's a uh thing.
Now, what did I say on this program yesterday?
I played a montage of Democrats and media people, and they were flipping out of their minds about what happened on Friday with President Zelensky, Who got very arrogant in the Oval Office.
Remember, we gave you the information yesterday and three opportunities to sign this rare earth mineral deal.
And he has wasted all three opportunities.
And what did I say?
I say, hold this tape.
Remember this.
Etch this into your memory because I'm going to play it because I predict that President Zelensky will be back.
Do you have the montage or you have me making the prediction?
Ethan is Yeah, I don't need it right now.
Thank you, though.
Uh anyway, so looky here.
Let me read to you what is on X today posted by Ukrainian President Zelensky.
I would like to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace.
Yesterday he said that this war is going to go on for a long, long time.
That's what he said yesterday.
He said, none of us wants an endless war.
Where did we hear that terminology before?
Donald Trump.
Ukraine, he says, is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible.
You were there Friday.
You had a chance Friday.
As soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.
Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians.
My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.
Now, this is a total capitulation.
There's more.
We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce truce in the sky, a ban on missiles.
That would be the ceasefire.
That was phase two after the mineral deal.
Long range drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure, and a truce in the sea immediately if Russia will do the same.
Oh, he doesn't want to pressure Trump to call him Hitler anymore.
They and take their side.
No, he's trying to broker and negotiate a peace.
Then we want to move very fast through all the next stages and to work with the U.S. to agree to a strong final deal.
Oh, Donald Trump's plan.
He goes on.
We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.
You know, have you ever one said thank you?
Have you ever won, you know, they want to thank the American people?
And we remember the moment when things changed when Donald Trump, President Trump provided Ukraine with javelins.
We are grateful for this.
Wow, what a change in tone.
Wonder who predicted this.
Our meeting in Washington at the White House on Friday did not go the way it was supposed to be.
It is regrettable that it happened this way.
It is time to make things right.
We would like uh we would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive regarding the agreement on minerals and security.
Ukraine is ready to sign up at any time and in any convenient format.
We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.
You know, Zelensky.
President Zelensky.
Now, I don't know if there's any truth to this.
And I don't want to get your expectations or hopes raised to a high level.
Reuters is now reporting the President Trump and Ukraine plan to sign the much debated rare earth mineral deal after what happened Friday.
It goes on.
Trump has told his advisors he would like to announce the agreement in his address to Congress uh this evening, according to three sources, cautioning the deal had yet to be signed, and the situation could change.
U.S. officials in recent days have spoken to officials in Kiev about signing the minerals deal, despite what happened on Friday, and urged Zelensky's advisors to convince the Ukrainian president to apologize openly to Trump, according to one of the people familiar.
On Tuesday, today, the post I just read you on X that Ukraine was ready to sign the deal and calling it regrettable.
That would be the apology part.
Our meeting in Washington did not go the way it was supposed to be.
Now, what did I say would happen?
I said he'd be back.
I said that he would do the deal.
I said that this is gonna end in the end, this is gonna work out.
What did the rest of the state run legacy media rush to judgment mob do?
They do what they always do.
Hyperventilate and use it as an opportunity for Trump bashing.
That's what they did.
And it is it is rather ironic when you really look at it.
You know who's helped make Vladimir Putin rich and help fund his ability to conduct this war?
Europe.
Twenty two billion dollars in energy purchases alone last year.
That gives him money to continue to build out his war machine against Ukraine, which then creates an existential threat to all of Europe.
Europe is not stepped up.
We have ultimately paid, you know, more than the entire European Union combined under Joe Biden's idiotic, imbistilic policies, and when troops are amassing on the border with the Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin's troops.
He was the one asked, Well, what happens if he invades?
I don't think he's gonna invade, but if he does, it depends.
If it's a minor incursion.
Okay.
Donald Trump is always negotiating.
They don't want to understand Trump.
Do you understand that?
And they're gonna act like children tonight, and I'm all for it.
And they can be the party of championing men and women's sports, the party of endless wars, the party that puts the rights of illegals over your safety, and they can be the party that is is is wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on Green New Deal, DEI, wokeism, transgenderism, and uh LGBTQ isms abroad, not even in this country.
And at a time when we cannot afford any of it.
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And all the people in the media, Democrats ringing their hands, oh Zelensky, look what he did.
He's gonna cause World War III.
And I kept saying no, he's gonna be back.
Listen.
At some point, reality's gonna kick in.
It clearly didn't kick in by the time he went on Brett Bear's show on Friday night.
We have Brett Bear on Friday night.
It it didn't kick in any point over the weekend.
Although I do have sources.
I have very good sources.
Better sources than the state-run legacy media mom, which is dead.
Zelensky has been reaching out repeatedly to President Trump directly and his team directly asking to come back and make this right.
So, hence my knowledgeable prediction, uh, putting two and two together, A squared, B squared equals C squared.
I believe that Zelensky will be back.
Oh, and then the post I just read you of Zelensky on X agreeing to everything that Donald Trump wants, as we said yesterday, and all these idiots wringing their hands are the fools that they always are working every day to remember the forgotten man.
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So, as I predicted, we have President Zelensky, you know, begging now to come back and to get this deal done, as my sources have been telling me.
And I and I asked J.D. Vance, and we'll play this later in the program.
My interview with him yesterday, and if he comes back, and if he's sincere, President Trump said if he wants peace, he can come back.
Come back, is my my advice to Zelensky.
Now, this this post, I think is that first step.
His willingness to sign the mineral deal any place, any time is very, very important.
Uh, this, of course, after President Trump had to pause aid to Ukraine after this meeting.
Donald Trump means business.
He means what he says.
And so they halted Ukraine military aid.
And what did he say to you, Zelensky?
Without us, you don't have any cards.
You have no leverage without American might and money.
The problem is Americans and Ukrainians and Europeans.
Nobody wants this to continue.
There's not going to be a country to save.
Hannity, you should want to destroy Putin.
Putin's a murdering dictator thug, and Joe Biden, frankly, is at fault because he never stepped up.
Once he started amassing troops on the border, why didn't he step up?
Why didn't he get involved?
Why didn't he use his leverage and the leverage of the United States and try for a negotiated peace before all these people died?
Hundreds of thousands of dead people.
We didn't need this to happen.
Now we do have Joe Biden's green energy restrictions.
Let me tell you what that resulted in.
And Fox News.com had a great article on this.
The European Union spent a whopping $23 billion on Russian oil and gas in 2024, last year alone.
More than $19.6 billion in financial aid it offered to Ukraine during the same period.
According to for the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, Europe's Russian fuel dependence in large part is because the Biden administration and their restrictions on liquefied natural gas exports.
You're the same people that helped the Iranians get rich because they didn't enforce the sanctions that Donald Trump had in place that was bringing the regime to near bankruptcy, and he turned a blind eye to the sanctions.
He gave special waivers for tens of billions of dollars to be handed over to the mullahs in Iran.
What did they do with that money?
They built up their nuclear program and they built up their weaponry.
And now the world is going to be faced with a very quick decision.
The IAEA says they might be capable of six nuclear weapons in a short period of time, if not imminent.
Well, that means there's only one option.
You can't let them have nuclear weapons.
And if they have them, they will use them, and we will live through a modern day Holocaust.
And thanks to Joe allowing Russia and Iran to get rich because of their radical Green New Deal ism and Biden's ban on liquefied natural gas.
By the way, 23 billion, that's money for us.
Those are jobs for us.
We can give it to them, give it to them at a better price, and they don't have the security concerns of being totally their their economies being totally dependent on Putin and Russia.
Latest Ugov poll shows support for Zelensky's Ukrainian uh Ukrainian war, plummeted in all seven of Europe's NATO countries.
It is it's time.
It is time.
The Europeans have got to stop funding both sides here.
And that's what they're doing.
And that the best way to the best out in this is if they if they work with the U.S. And that thank goodness Zelensky came around.
I predicted sooner than later.
I was right, and it looks like we're making progress.
Now, whether something happens before tonight in the State of the Union is irrelevant to me.
It would be nice, but it's not that relevant.
Now back to the State of the Union.
The IRS whistleblowers that exposed Hunter Biden's tax crimes, they are going to be in the House chamber tonight.
That's Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.
We interviewed them, didn't we?
Uh great guys.
They're going to attend President Trump's address before the joint session.
Uh anyway, James Comer, Jim Jordan said that these two embody the highest standards of the federal workforce.
I think they should get the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Just saying.
My own personal view.
They are honorable public servants.
They risk their careers, their livelihoods to expose the misconduct and how these the IRS was weaponized and politicized in their investigation of Hunter Biden.
Anyway, they investigated potential financial crimes by zero experience hunter when his father was vice president and president, and they were removed from the probe after telling Congress that the DOJ weaponized under Joe Biden and Merrick Garland interfered with their investigation.
And God bless them.
I'm glad they're going to be there.
Also at the State of the Union in Melania Trump, the first lady's box, uh, is going to be Helen Allison and Kaylee uh uh Comfortory.
Uh and you know, did I say that wrong?
What is it?
Say it.
I can say corrected.
It's close enough.
It's how an Irish person would say an Italian person's name.
It's fine.
I was asleep.
They they know you care.
Okay.
You're fighting the same allergies I am.
I am terrible allergies.
You know why?
Daunting.
No, the cherry blossoms are due to come out pretty soon.
I bet you it's related to the.
I think this is more like ragweed, but sure.
Oh, you're an expert on I mean, I think so.
Anyway, multiple guests.
Trump's uh border security Alexis Nungarry, friend of this program, she lost a little girl Jocelyn Nungarry, 12 years old.
That little girl fought for her life.
She was brutalized, raped, and murdered uh in Houston.
Uh Alison and Lauren Phillips, the mother and sister of Lake and Riley will be there.
I've talked I've I've spoken to all these families.
Joe and Kamala never picked up the phone.
And it was so nice, you know, to be you know, I don't know why it is.
I mean, because you're in the public eye, I don't know.
When you call people, it means something.
It just means so that's what Donald Trump calls everybody.
He does.
And when and then people will tell me when I meet them, Donald Trump call me.
And he and he gave so much comfort to our family.
Means something.
And I have learned in a little way, I'm not comparing myself to the president, but I've learned in a little way being a public figure.
If I call somebody that is going through a tough time, it means a lot to them.
So I try to do that.
And I remember when I called Lake and Riley's family, I said, listen, let me tell you, I'm not calling for an interview.
I just wanted to call and offer my condolences and how sad I am for you and your family.
And you know, I I I it's just how do you ever recover from that?
I don't think you can.
I mean, we another guest is gonna be Roberto Roberto Ortiz, an agent with ice, who was shot at repeatedly by cartel members while in the line of duty.
Uh this by the Rio Grande.
Remember, I was down at the Rio Grande with Governor Abbott and with with President Trump, or then candidate Trump.
Alyssa and Lauren Phillips, the mother and sister I said of Lake and Riley will be there.
Uh Stephanie Diller, the widow of Jonathan Diller.
We've talked about this case, a New York City PD officer shot and killed during a traffic stop in Queens in March of 24.
Um, the first lady will also host Peyton McNabb, a former high school athlete who had her dreams of competing in college sports, crushed in mid uh in September of 22 in a volleyball match, you know, playing a biological man on the opposing women's team, spiking the football at her face, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury.
We're gonna talk about this uh later in the program today, because now the bill to ban biological men from women's sports was blocked by the Democrats and the U.S. Senate.
Pretty unbelievable.
And that's like the news from Lake Wobagod.
But anyway, so it should be pretty interesting.
I don't care about the democratic plot and the little games and walking out and ripping up papers and bringing signs and bringing egg cartons.
Nice that they finally, after four years, recognize that the Biden Harris inflation, we're still living under the Biden Harris economy.
And, you know, if they want to say that Elon Musk needs to go back to South Africa, no, I want lead on, I want people that are gonna maybe potentially cure blindness and rescue astronauts and cure spinal cord injuries.
I'd like them to stay in our country and help eliminate waste fraud and abuse.
Um I'm equally supportive of them staying also.
Um let me go to the economy front for just a second here.
And I love American workers.
I do.
I love and you know, I remember I had this conversation.
What's the name of the guy, the union guy, Sean, whatever his name is.
He got in that fight with the Oklahoma Senator, and then they became friends after.
And he wouldn't endorse in the election, but he didn't endorse Trump either.
But he historically they always endorsed whatever.
Sean, I forget his name.
Sean O'Brien.
That's it.
Yeah, Sean.
Wow, my memory serves me well.
I'm no Joe Biden.
Um anyway, Sean O'Brien.
The United Auto Workers are praising Donald Trump because Donald Trump has now been able to bring back a lot of business into this country.
Two plants, one by Nissan, one by Honda, that were going to be built in Mexico, are now going to be built here in the U.S. And the UAW, which is long advocated by American movement and regularly is blasting companies for outsourcing jobs, praised the president's new round of tariffs.
Now, remember, these are reciprocal tariffs.
We're asking our neighbors to step up and do their part.
Mexico's beginning to show signs that they they get it, even though these tariffs went in into play today.
Now, the stock market took a hit.
It's the stock market's always skittish.
And then it seemed to start rebounding.
It was down about 800.
I think last I checked, it was down around 200.
It doesn't matter.
Stock market has never been my big indicator, although it's nice when it goes up.
If you have any money in the stock market, it's great.
But that you know, it is a tool to negotiate.
Again, like they didn't understand Donald Trump and Zelensky, and he was willing to walk away because Zelensky was being a jerk, and Zelensky doesn't understand how that we gotta the the dying and the murder and the killing has to stop and the destruction of the country has to stop, and the best thing you can do is have a U.S. presence in the form of a mineral deal that will also provide the funding to rebuild this country that has been nearly leveled, and not all areas, but a lot of areas.
And one report, by the way, came out today.
The media keeps telling us President Trump has yet to make any progress on bringing down inflation.
He is moving quickly.
Well, he said he'd move quickly to bring prices down immediately.
He's moving as quickly as he can.
It's called the reconciliation bill, which hopefully will be done sooner than later, and we'll get that done.
And inflation, just on the prospects of Trump being there, I would argue, uh, went down in January, according to the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation, and that is the Fed's personal consumption expenditures gauge.
It showed inflation rose 2.5% over the uh year over year in January.
By the way, it's been four months.
You know, the the it's it's the first time in four months that the inflation measure decreased.
I know, has nothing to do with Donald Trump being in office.
Uh yeah, I think that the markets are more optimistic.
Consumers have showed in in survey after survey that they are more optimistic.
Um and I think the president does need to focus, you know, like a laser beam on the economy.
I really do.
Honda, as I said, is gonna produce the next Civic in Indiana, not in Mexico.
Why?
Because of Donald Trump's policies.
Taiwan, a chip company, I told you yesterday announced a hundred billion dollar U.S. investments for chips made in America.
That's very important for our country.
This is on the heels of Nissan, announcing that they're not gonna build the plant they were planning to build in Mexico, they're gonna build it in in the U.S. Just like a $500 billion four-year investment from Apple.
These, you know, and little Justin hitting back, announcing that he's gonna, you know, put more tariffs.
He already had tariffs on America.
That he's gonna put fine.
Good luck to little Justin.
They have a net population of 42 million.
We've got 340 million.
Who do you think's gonna get hit harder in the end?
And China, I don't care what China does.
Their economy is is tanking too.
And over time, you will see, just like in the case of Zelensky, these countries are gonna realize that there will be reciprocity.
That what they do to us, we will do to them.
We believe in free and fair trade.
That means it's a two-way street.
And America, the days have taken advantage of America coming to an end.
On the illegal immigration front, what do we see?
An illegal Jordanian immigrant accused of trying to breach Quantico and the base there busted by ICE again.
This guy was let go by Biden.
And then skyrocketing health care costs for illegal immigrants.
They're now going to start keeping track of this.
What do we find out in California?
$95 billion on health care for illegals.
This is insane.
The feds busted a massive uh alleged Guatemalan human smuggling ring out in California.
You know, two men picked up near downtown Los Angeles, accused of moving 20,000 illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Guatemala under the Biden Harris administration.
And they're gonna be ru and the Trump campaign.
Tom Holman will be there tonight.
The Supreme Court's gonna hear arguments over the Mexican government's lawsuit against U.S. gun gunmakers, as if we're responsible for their cartels, as if they can control them.
Best thing Mexico did is they're starting to cooperate, control their border, stop the flow of fentanyl.
Give us the names and give us pizza give us the cartel members and we'll try them.
We'll take care of the job.
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