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May 2, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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100 Days - May 1st, Hour 2
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Alright, Leonard Skinner's simple man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program.
That's all things self-proclaimed simple man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly here at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I'm exhausted.
Why are you so tired?
Can I get you some coffee?
Um, I'm old number one, so that's uh always a factor in exhaustion.
You're a crotchety cranky old guy, or are you just a regular old guy?
When I'm asleep, I'm regular.
When I'm awake, I'm uh you're crotchety and cranky?
But see, when you get old.
What makes well what makes you grouchy?
Maybe I can help you.
Uh I'm not grouchy.
Uh, but I'm uh I'm a perfectionist, and I'm usually mad at myself.
Um, for not doing something as well as I should do it.
Uh that's the truth, by the way.
Anyway, let me get to a topic that I want to talk to.
Everyone's talking about Trump is under days, Trump is under days.
Most people have a pretty good feel in terms of where he is.
But I think there's a bigger story that is underreported, and that is the Democrats had their first hundred days.
And I have seen nothing but petulance and anger and radicalism and singing and chanting and extremism on display and the emergence of the new leadership in the Democratic Party, which is AOC, the squad, Jasmine Crockett, and and Grandpa Bernie.
Uh I've watched a party that won't stand for mothers who lost their children at a joint session of Congress, or a young man that that beat cancer who's 12 years old, or the wife of a slain officer hero, or a young man that lost his father that got a commission of West Point, and they're holding a bing uh bingo paddles.
We saw them this weekend, and all they know is hate and rage.
Now, we can we can go through where Donald Trump has been most successful, where his job is incomplete and it's too early to tell.
Uh, and I think I think that's fair for any president after a hundred days.
But overall, the Democrats have been broken.
This man has broken them.
They are soulless, they are bitter, they are angry, and they can't wait to impeach him if they ever get back in power.
Well, it's true.
I don't I can't quibble with any of that.
Um, but I don't think it's that important.
So it's important.
It is important because that's you know, half the the country now is, you know, half the people, uh nearly half the people voted for this crazy party.
But is it but they're they're on the sidelines for now.
It's not important.
What's important is that Donald Trump, the president of the United States, executes his vision in a way that helps working Americans.
That's what's important.
Now, it is true that the party opposing him doesn't care whether he helps working people or not.
That's the headline for the Democratic Party.
They don't care whether the tariffs might eventually help the American public.
All they want to do is get back into power.
Now that's pretty disturbing to me because I think all politicians, no matter what party you are in, should want to help the folks.
And if Trump succeeds in his vision, the folks will be helped.
But the problem that Donald Trump is having is he believes what he wants to believe, and that's true to every human being.
Uh they believe what they want to believe.
But you've got to step back a little bit, particularly when you're the most powerful man in the world, and say, you know, there might be a better way to accomplish what I want to accomplish.
So I support, I would say, eighty percent of what Donald Trump wants to accomplish.
But I think he could do better and accomplish it quicker if he would knock off some of the hyperbola.
Let me give you a really vivid example, Hannah.
You ready for a vivid example?
You got a pen and paper?
Vivid, our word of the day.
Go ahead.
So this guy Garcia in in El Salvador has become the poster boy for the Democratic Party.
He is a bad hombre, all right.
It's provable.
Is he MS-13?
Probably, but it's not defined.
For Donald Trump to spend time with ABC News last night on a tattoo situation that the Justice Department is not going to use in its adjudication of Garcia.
He's not going to use the tattoo.
That tells any fair-minded person the tattoo is photoshopped.
If it was there, the J Department would use it.
Now the strategy is, and Trump we do need a little context here.
Not one but two separate judges determined that he was an MS 13 gang member.
But I I get your point on the tattoo part.
Uh and his own and his own wife in her own handwriting accused him of serious domestic abuse and claiming he's a wife beater.
But to spend all that time on an ABC News primetime interview on a stupid tattoo doesn't help the president's cause.
Now, here's something that most people don't know.
He's not defying the Supreme Court, President Trump, but he's not articulating what he's doing.
He's getting his White House lawyers, getting them time to accumulate information about this guy Garcia, So it can bring that information to the Supreme Court and say, look, the overwhelming evidence is that he is affiliated with MS 13.
I signed an executive order that designates that group as a terror group.
You don't have any right legally, Supreme Court, to order him back if he is indeed affiliated with MS-13.
And here is the evidence.
That's what Trump is doing.
They're accumulating evidence.
But he doesn't say that.
Why why do you so i on that issue in particular?
If we're going to look at all right, I'll take everything you're saying as constructive criticism and and maybe a better argument that the president can make.
However, the fact that the Democrats that they look, they had an opportunity in the Senate to stand up for women and women in sports, and and they decided to be the champions of men's right to play women's sports.
Here they are.
They stood by silently and they outright lied to the country about the 12, 14 million, whatever the number is of Biden Harris illegals that entered our country illegally, including known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals.
And now Donald Trump has a monumental task ahead of him, and that is to get these people out of the country.
But the Democrats, they have this determined they will champion the rights of people that in this case, admittedly, in the country illegally, over the safety of the American people.
That speaks volumes of then.
Thirdly, they'll claim a constitutional crisis over the issue of finding waste fraud and abuse.
So you can make the case and and make a nuanced criticism of Donald Trump and and and maybe you're right on every level.
But compared to what Democrats are doing here, that is insanity.
And the American people know they let them in, know they lied about it, and they don't want Trend Aragua or MS-13 people in this country or known terrorists in this country.
All of that is true, but I'll go back to it's not important.
The Democratic Party has destroyed itself temporarily.
What's important is that it's important when they bring it to court and they try to usurp the president's Article II powers.
Yeah, and that'll be taken care of by the Supreme Court, which is another reason you don't want to torque off the Supreme Court because Trump's going to need them to reverse all this insanity, this judge cherry picking.
But what really is important for the American people is they do I think fundamentally that most do support Donald Trump, but they are scared now.
They are nervous.
And he needs to reassure them in a very specific way about the economy.
I understand everything that you're saying.
And you know, look, you got to look also at big picture.
A hundred days is really nothing.
And what I think the president has done is he's laid the foundation for great success.
The border is his most obvious achievement in a hundred days.
Uh, I think on the tariff issue, that's gotta play itself out.
And and the fact that he's willing to challenge what has been America being ripped off and taken advantage of uh where we've gone 50, 60 years uh and just allowed this system to get out of control, I think is admirable too.
How it lands is is gonna be a matter of time.
My my prediction is eventually deals will be done and things will settle down and we'll pay less for goods coming into this country and we'll make more money abroad.
That's my prediction.
What happens in Donald Trump's approval ratings, we go right back up in conjunction with the stock market.
The only other president in history who has done what Trump is trying to do that is uh change the economic culture was Teddy Roosevelt.
When he went after Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller, he went after the so-called robber barons.
I write about this in my book in Fronting Evil, which will be out in September.
Teddy Roosevelt came in and he won.
But it took him a lot, it was bloody.
Oh, is it nasty?
Trump is the only other president trying to change the capitalistic culture.
The second thing is, and Trump likes this, he actually quoted me at CPAC.
Trump has done more in A hundred days than any other president by far.
George Washington is second.
Today is the anniversary of Washington being sworn in as the first president in 1789.
Today, I'm gonna bring that up tonight to Trump.
And Washington was second because Washington didn't have a government.
He actually had to build it from nothing.
Trump actually outdid Washington.
Because Washington was a bit cautious.
Trump is not.
And so that's where we are historically.
You're gonna try to change the culture.
You're gonna run into a big, big back wind in your face.
And that's what we're seeing.
I think that there's a lot of if he can achieve somehow some peace deal in Europe.
I think it's a heavy lift.
The fact that he's willing to tackle it, I think, you know, speaks volumes.
He he's willing to roll the dice and try things that other people would never try.
Absolutely right.
Um and it's a courageous move on his part.
Uh he's been very clear with the Iranians as well.
He's trying to bring peace in that part of the world.
He's moving, he set set up the pieces for energy dominance.
He's bringing more law and order and safety into the country.
He's deporting these illegals.
Everything that he's doing is hard.
His tax plan, I think, is gonna ultimately be superb.
I think we will get the one big beautiful bill, permanent tax cuts, no tax on tips, social security, uh, or overtime.
I think these are all things that help the folks.
I'll summarize it this way, Bill.
The Democratic Party is now the party of coastal elites that are out of touch and radical.
And Republicans now this is a president that is looking out, I'll use your words for the folks, for the hardworking men and women in this country that really do make the country great.
Last word.
All the other stuff, even the border and the deportations will not matter in the midterms if the country is not moving forward and people are feeling confident in the economy.
That is the last peace and prosperity, drive elections, Mr. O'Reilly.
Um anyway, always appreciate you.
Uh, thanks for being one of us, all things simple man Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
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It's kind of amazing, and I know there was some criticism of this.
I'm like, why would you be critical of the president of the United States for two hours or thereabouts yesterday, opening up his cabinet meeting for the entire country to see and to get updates on everything that they're working on, especially this being, you know, the hundredth plus day of his presidency.
A lot has taken place.
I want to hear from them.
I want to hear more.
I want I don't want to hear less.
And anyway, this is uh a small sample of the cabinet giving updates after the first hundred days in office that I think you'll find interesting.
I view this hundred days as setting the table for peace deals, trade deals, tax deals.
So the next hundred days will be harvesting.
Uh, you've created negotiating leverage and leadership.
They're gonna yield remarkable results.
Uh, energy costs are plummeted, uh, mortgage rates are down, food costs are moving lower, and American families are finding their financial footing again.
We've been uh working uh very closely with uh your great attorney general's team at the DEA to get these known cartels into our systems to be able to stop them at the border and turning over names to Department of Homeland Security uh and the FBI to be able to find those who are already here in our country.
Over the past hundred days, we are already making America healthy again.
We announced last week the man uh the nine petroleum based synthetic dies, food ties within two years, uh within two months we're gonna be in worse too of them.
This president inherited 30 years of foreign policy that was built around what was good for the world.
In essence, the decisions we made as a government in trade and foreign policy was basically is it good for the world, is it good for the global community?
And under President Trump, we're making a foreign policy now that's wasn't good for America.
All right, when we come back, uh I mean, that was the cabinet meeting that's called transparency.
I thought people wanted transparency.
When we come back, we'll hit the phones 800-941 Sean as we continue.
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And John.
John, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean.
Thank you for having me on.
Thank you for being on.
Glad you called.
Absolutely.
I just wanted to say, um, I heard that they're retiring the A-10s.
I th I think that's kind of a waste of some good aircraft.
Um I did well, they they're retiring them, retiring them in that one military base, and they have the next generation.
Um that they're that is far more advanced technologically, but doesn't mean it often retiring can be a little misleading.
It doesn't mean that they're gonna put mothball it.
Um I'm not sure if that's what the plan is.
I hope they don't as well.
I know years gone by, they would mothball these battleships that have been in the waters for decades, and then they end up bringing them back to service.
So I would think that there are situations where we could use all of them, but however, we've got to keep advancing the next generation of weaponry, and that's what this is in the case of that Air Force base in Michigan that you're referring to.
Right.
I think the A-10s would serve a great purpose.
Just down at the border, just as a show of force, and maybe some live fire training, where in an open area, clear of any people, just to kind of really send that message across about sales.
Listen, I think the more weapons and advancing our technology is critical for the cause of freedom, and the next generation of weaponry, we've got to get ahead of it.
That's what the Iron Dome is.
When I talk about the next generation of weaponry, I say this through the prism.
When you factor in artificial intelligence, all this technology is going to...
to advance at the speed of light and future wars I am more than convinced are going to be fought in air conditioned offices and people pushing buttons and not on the battlefield and and the day and age of of people going door to door in Baghdad thankfully will be over uh we we can never get in those forever wars again.
And I know there's there's risk uh associated if the Iranians don't agree and I would bet that they won't for example they're not going to agree to dismantle their nuclear program and they're not and allow Americans to do it because I don't trust international anybody.
I don't think they're going to agree to American inspectors anywhere, any place anytime then America's going to have a very clear choice to make I would argue that even though it would be Joe Biden's fault because he allowed them to get rich again and that allowed them to expand out you know the nuclear capability that according to some uh estimates they're you know sixty days away they're gonna have nuclear weapons that we we're just gonna we uh the world can't risk radical
Islamic mullahs that believe in convert and or die with nuclear weapons or else we'll face a modern day holocaust and that's just not an option.
Anyway but I I think that all of the old technology should stay uh in place as we develop the new technology for sure.
Anyway John good call my friend thank you Carolyn is in upstate New York Carolyn hi how are you glad you called hey Mr Hannity thanks for taking my call big fan and longtime listener.
How are you so I wanted to comment on the Capitol Steps briefing the other day with everybody sitting out there singing their song I think they had the tune right but I don't think they had the words right the word should have been let it die DEI let it die I I like your song better.
I mean, live and let die.
DEI die.
I mean, kind of catchy.
I like it.
I will build this world from love.
I will build this world from love.
I can't take it.
DEI die.
Oh, my gosh.
It's like fingernails on the ground.
on a chalkboard uh well maybe you should be a a songwriter what do you think not in my uh future I don't think thank you all right Carolyn God bless you glad you called uh let's say hi to Martin in my free state of Florida Martin how are you I Sean this is a this is a pleasure to speak with you I am so honored that you brought me on to the show and I'm speaking to my second favorite radio personality.
Who's your first Linda's for you, Linda You know what?
Uh but Sean just so you know just so you know you fake vote You're my you're my favorite host, Sean.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Do you know what Monday is?
No, they just uh no call.
No, do you know what Monday is, Sean?
Do you know what Monday is?
No, what's Monday?
It's my 20-year anniversary on the show.
How would you remember that?
Because I'm psychotic with dates.
You know that.
You don't remember anything.
That's why you hired me.
You were like, listen, I'm gonna need a person.
You're gonna do all the things.
I remember I can I could tell you Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, every president that's ever lived record down to every the last detail.
So uh I do remember a lot, but uh I've never made anniversaries that important to me.
It's not really an anniversary, it's a commemorative moment.
I'm gonna be giving out medals and pins.
It's gonna be my own little meme coin, get ready.
Like a little a little survival method.
I blame I blame you for this, Martin.
Uh I I I apologize, kinda.
But I I I I wanted to get to the point because apparently the topic of the week is making English the primary language for truck drivers.
And I seem to be Oh, you're a trucker?
CDL.
No.
Um within the last couple of weeks, my place of employment has decided that they want to expand our services, and so I'm spearheading this to go get a CDL.
I'm going through the front door.
I've got no resources to go to.
So I took a DOT physical.
I'll pass that.
It's it's a process to get the learner's permit.
But got that.
And I I just took that learner's permit test two days ago, and I can tell you that if you're knocking on the door, going through it the front door, there's no way that anybody's gonna be able to pass that learner's permit test.
Ninety-nine percent of the people that take that fail that.
How did you how why is it so hard?
That's and I I'm talking as a guy that's taking a lot of tests.
I'm a former bomb disposal technician.
I've taken a lot of tests.
It's I I don't I don't agree with the way that it's currently set up because I think that the uh test material is something to where you should be in a classroom to learn.
I mean, you shouldn't have such a hard it shouldn't be such a hard time to get a license to learn, but it is.
Well then how are all these people that don't speak English driving trucks?
Exactly.
I'm thinking you mean you think that you think the system's rigged pun intended.
I think that the schools and these companies slash schools, they put these people through their own in-house testing and training.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually giving the test away as these folks are all going through the test.
And I I've been on in a lot of academic training environments, but it's like that there's no way that a layman off the street or basically not even Well, why would they make a driver's test that hard?
That makes no sense to me at all.
It doesn't make sense to me with the learns.
I expect to see this kind of stuff on the actual.
You know what you need to know?
You need to know the rules of the road.
You need to know what uh what you need to be able to read the the assigns, you know, curve coming up, yield, uh stop.
I mean, it's not that hard.
And I I don't think you should make it harder than you know, then there might be other issues involving uh way stations and things like that, but I I can't think of anything that would make it that complicated that 99% of people fail.
Yeah, it and it I can understand that test being that difficult for the actual driver's portion of the test because you should be able to demonstrate that you've been paying attention into the class.
These are big heavy vehicles.
I expect these people to actually gain that level of enhanced confidence before taking to the road, these things.
Although I don't think of these driver schools.
I know years ago we had a regular caller and he wanted to go to driving school and he was a nice guy, and I sent him to driving school.
And he wanted to improve his life.
He had a new baby.
He had a girlfriend.
I tried to convince him to marry the girlfriend, but I don't did he ever marry the girlfriend?
What was his name?
I'd have to look it up on the other.
Oh, I thought you were missed Memory.
No, I'm here for organizational processes only.
Uh-huh.
Miss Memory.
Uh, you know I have a memory like an elephant.
Oh, okay.
You can't remember the guy's name.
But the guy I did send him to driving school.
You do remember that.
Oh, are you talking about Tavaras?
Tavaris.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry.
I thought you were talking about somebody that you that you hooked up on Hannah Date and then went to driving school.
No, Tavaras was a regular caller.
He was a liberal.
And then he was a good one.
We need to bring back Hannah Date.
What do you think?
Absolutely not.
Why not?
Bro.
I'm not about that anymore.
It's it's a lot of work.
Well, I mean, we have enough people.
I think we should bring it back, but you know, have anybody that wants to sign in, they have to sign a massive disclaimer run by the attorneys, and you know, uh we got how many.
That sounds like fun.
Let's find love but first sign this disclaimer.
Well, no, I mean because uh we can't be responsible if if somebody is not somebody that they say they are, and that happens on those dating sites all the time.
That happens in real life all the time.
It just happens all the time.
We had how many people we had dozens and dozens of people get married from that site.
We had hundreds of people get married from that site.
Yeah, it was great.
What do you think, Martin?
Should I bring by a candidate?
I I think I think you should remember Mondays for anniversary.
She might be more agreeable.
Oh my gosh.
Martin, I really like you, man.
I'm gonna do a little Mark Levin K. Get off my phone, you big phony.
Oh, it's so meaningful.
Get off the phone, you big dope.
I haven't done that in a while.
Martin's my buddy.
Uh of course he's your buddy sucking up to you.
Of course you like being sucked up to.
It's unbelievable.
Who doesn't?
I I'm not looking to be sucked up to.
You you and Katie do this on purpose.
Oh, Katie's so nice.
Blah blah blah.
This way then they call back the next time if they get through, they the odds are higher that they're gonna get on the air.
That's why they do it.
Everyone's got a everyone's got a an angle.
Just so you know, Katie is from Texas, it her disposition is just nice.
She that's her decent.
I agree.
Katie's very nice.
Katie doesn't like to talk on the air, but she's very nice.
I try, I try.
I and it just so is terrifying training on this microphone, but I try to be a talk to people all day.
Strangers call in.
You are the call screener, and you're very good at it.
The other day she was singing in the studio.
She was let she was singing.
She was letting it belt, bro.
What's the difference talking to people on the phone that you don't know or talking to people you do know on the air?
What's the difference?
I think because it's on an individual basis, and it's different when you're talking to 20 million people at once as opposed to one person.
Oh.
Well, that's it just in your head.
Just pretend that it's not true.
If they cuss me out or you know, whatever, I can just hang up on them, but uh, but here I cannot.
Oh, I'll never forget Bo Snerdly.
He would call scream for Rush Lumbaugh.
And it when you were in the studio and in the control room, it was a there was a show going on behind the show.
And that was uh Bo Snerdly, James Golden, dear friend of our ours.
We I haven't talked to him in a while.
I gotta catch up with him.
And love him, and he would cuss them out and argue with them and tell them to go, you know, F off, and he didn't care.
He just let it rip.
He it was it was a show within the show.
It was amazing.
Yeah, I would I won't cuss them out or anything, but I will argue with them.
I definitely will argue back.
Linda used to cuss him out.
Word got back to me.
Yeah, well, I mean, people made YouTube videos, so it was hard to deny.
You know, it was really difficult.
I was like they recorded the conversation with you.
Oh my god, they recorded it, they put it up online and all these things.
But the problem was is that they sounded so bad in the interview that it was one of those things where it's like, you know, you can't even like you know, they sounded like idiots.
You know, they were like, well, of course she cursed you out.
You're a moron.
We agree with her.
So it was totally fine.
Anyways.
Now we're moving on to the trade deals.
And President Trump has created the maximum optionality, maximum pressure uh for our trading partners.
And you know, by showing the high level of tariffs from April 2nd that are possible.
They They've all come to the table to negotiate.
When we come back, we'll check in with Senator Rampall.
He has been uh critical of President Trump and his tariff idea.
Um we'll go over that in great specificity and detail.
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