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Interesting yesterday, watching the president tease a positive, big announcement before the trip to the Middle East next week.
And there's a lot of speculation.
I don't know the answer.
I have my suspicions.
But here's what he said.
And we'll have maybe before we want to, as you know, the Middle East and Saudi Arabia, we're going to UAE and Qatar.
And that'll be, I guess, Monday night.
Some of you are coming with us.
I think before then, we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make.
Like, as big as it gets, and I won't tell you on what, but it's going to be, and it's very positive.
I'd also, I'd tell you if it was negative or positive.
I can't keep that up.
It is really, really positive.
And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave.
But it'll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, very important subject.
So you'll all be here.
That's a pretty good tease.
Now, we will have an announcement tonight on Hannity on a scale of 1 to 100.
How big do you think that announcement is, Linda?
You know what the announcement is.
I do know what the announcement is, and I don't think that it fits between 1 and 100 for what it's worth.
You mean it's bigger than that?
I do.
It is pretty big.
Greater than?
Indeed.
It is.
And it's a good announcement.
Fair enough to say that, too?
Yeah, sure.
You could call it good.
I don't know that you and I agree on that, but sure.
When we talk about it tomorrow, we can talk about it then.
I begin to understand.
But we will have a big announcement on TV, probably the biggest I've made in a long time.
Anyway, that's 9 Eastern on Fox tonight.
We have a lot of developments on the economy.
U.S. Chinese officials are having a meeting in Geneva on Saturday.
The U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and the chief trade negotiator, James Jamison Greer will meet China's top economic official in Switzerland on Saturday.
Obviously, the first indication of this came on Friday when China said, well, if America's serious, we might be willing to sit down and make some agreements together.
Where they had been very, very adamant against it.
And in many ways, I've said this from the beginning.
I always had a pretty high degree of confidence at some point, it's longer than I wish, that China and the United States will come to some sort of agreement, just like the United States and the rest of the world will come to some sort of agreement.
In the lead up to this, because the economy in China has gone down the sewer, and more importantly, the reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that there is unrest in the country because people are being fired and not getting paid and they want back pay.
They're now cutting their key rates by 10 points, 10 basis points, and the bank reserve requirement by 50 points and a bid to boost the economy.
Besson said the U.S. doesn't want to decouple from China ahead of the scheduled meeting.
And in the meantime, America is making moves that are making this country and will make this country less dependent.
And I think this is a national security issue on things that we do import from China, not just dolls, but things like our pharmaceuticals and rare earths.
I think America is now going to become independent of any need from any country because I think it's the way things are, it's just necessary for national security.
The Trump energy budget to save Americans $15 billion on green new deal scams that the Biden administration have put in place.
And Scott Besson says, no, the president's policies are important.
What is the president trying to do here?
Now, nobody can dispute for the last 50 or 60 years, the establishment and institutionalists have just gone along with the idea that friend and foe alike can rip us off and abuse us with their tariffs that we are not putting on them.
And Donald Trump has decided that he's going to give countries options, free and fair trade or reciprocal tariffs.
There are other things that will be factored in, currency manipulation, the amount of aid we give certain countries, whether or not they're cooperative, pay their fair share of NATO.
There are other factors that will go in.
But here's what the president has laid out so far, not only on the issue of tariffs, but we're now approaching $200 billion in identified savings of waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption with Doesh.
The very threat of tariffs resulted in countries and companies pledging to spend on manufacturing in all sectors, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, auto industry, over $8 trillion.
That's going to create high-paying career jobs for Americans.
The one big, beautiful bill that we hope will be passed by July 4th, that would guarantee that the tax cuts that President Trump put in place in his first term will remain permanent and will include no tax on tips, social security, or overtime.
That's good for working men and women.
Add to that, the president's energy emergency plan, which is opening up energy, which would make America the most energy-dominant country on the face of the earth.
And also, we would be an energy-rich country.
All of that combined will result in, I believe, unprecedented economic growth.
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Like you, I'm a free and fair trader, but I also don't like getting ripped off and abused.
And the president, I think, is showing that the world's gotten the message that those days are coming to an end.
Well, Sean, I completely agree with that.
You know, when you talk about a major announcement that's coming, it may be an announcement that there is going to be a trade deal with maybe China or with maybe India.
And once you get one or two of these big countries to agree to lower their tariffs on the United States, it's going to cause a cascade of other countries doing the same.
And I'm here to tell you, as soon as that happens, you're going to see another explosion in economic activity and also in the stock market.
Sean, I think you and I talked about two, maybe three weeks ago on this show.
And at that time, things looked kind of bleak.
The stock market was way down.
There were fears of inflation.
And just in the last three weeks, it is amazing to me the turnaround that nobody in the media seems to want to report.
The fact is the stock market has made an incredible comeback.
That's great news.
The inflation report that came out about 10 days ago was a really good report.
No signs of any runaway inflation like we had in Irbiden.
And then we got a great jobs report on Friday that the media just kind of yawned about.
We have a record number of people working today in America today, Sean.
So all of these are positive signs suggesting that even though I look, I have some disagreements with Trump on the tariff policies, but if he's able to pull this off and I'd never bet against him, I think you could see one of the great booms in American history.
I think you can too.
I think all the pieces are being put in place to do it.
And I think I do believe somehow Congress is going to manage to get this one big, beautiful bill, even with the prism of the arcane rules and regulations surrounding reconciliation.
That's my hope.
And I think it's such a big part of the Republican Party's ultimate success.
And especially if the economy will play a big role in the 2026 elections, it's in everyone's best interest to do it.
Well, that's exactly right.
And incidentally, I'm hearing that they may even go bigger than what Trump was originally talking about, not just extending the Trump tax cuts of 2017, but then also maybe going down to a 15% tax rate on our businesses, which would be fantastic.
Maybe we could get all the stuff that he talked about in his campaign.
No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, these kinds of things.
So it's a very exciting agenda.
I've waited a long time for this since the Reagan years for this kind of agenda that is so pro-growth, pro-America.
I love the fact that he's putting our coal miners back to work, that they've announced that they're going to start mining again in America.
We're going to start drilling again in America.
We're going to build pipelines again in America.
I mean, I could talk to you for half an hour about the positive things Trump is doing.
Some of it gets overlooked because he's doing so much so quickly.
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What do you think the impact long-term on the economy is going to be and on jobs in America with the AI revolution that is happening now?
It's not, that's something that's the future.
The future is now.
And I think it's going to be so transformational.
Elon Musk thinks that literally robotic surgeons will be outperforming even the best surgeons in five years from now.
That means there's going to be some disruption in terms of the workforce in the country.
What impact have you, have you given a lot of thought to that?
I have.
And I think it's so exciting to think what's happening over the next 10, 20 years in terms of robotics, artificial intelligence.
I'm on the board of a company, Sean, that builds houses, but it builds houses with robots.
And it's almost like a scene out of the Terminator movie with these robots, you know, fascinating.
Do they build nice houses?
Pardon?
Do they build nice houses?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's not just the prefabricated houses.
What happens, Sean, you put the architectural plan into the computer and through artificial intelligence, these robots can build, you know, 60 to 70% of the house.
Now, of course, you still need construction workers to put the final touches on this.
And that's happening all over the economy.
And that will mean it's very much like the transformation, Sean, that happened 100 years ago when we invented tractors.
And we went from 35% out of every 100 Americans working on the farm down to three Americans working on the farm because tractors and irrigation systems and all these other things really changed the way we were able to produce more and more food.
Dude, you got to send me a link to this company.
That's not something I'd even heard about.
I'm going to send you this because it is, and I'll send you the video.
You should post it.
It's really pretty incredible what these robots can do.
And it's just the beginning stages of this.
You know, my wife was saying, well, what about maids?
Are they going to have maids that can wash the dishes?
Well, actually, the answer to that question has been answered by Elon Musk.
And I think the average family, a lot of menial tasks will be taken over by robots that it'll be kind of like the Model T that or maybe big television sets.
They start out expensive, then they become affordable for middle-class Americans.
Next thing you know, everyone's going to have it.
I don't clean a dish as it is, so it doesn't matter.
It's perfect for me.
Well, have you watched this show, Sean, by any chance?
It's called 1923, which is the pre-I haven't watched it.
That was the kickoff to Yellowstone, right?
Yes.
Well, you should watch it.
By the way, it's a fantastic miniseries.
But one of the things that you see firsthand in watching that is the 1920s, life changed so dramatically.
I mean, at the start of the show, everybody's riding around in stagecoaches, and at the end of the show, everybody's got Metal T's and cars.
And that's the kind of transformation I think we're going to see over the.
And the most important thing, Sean, is we in the United States of America have to be the drivers of that, like we were the internet age, like we were the industrial age.
And I think we're all teed up to do it.
You do the Trump tax cut to encourage more investment here.
We get the best and smartest people in the country.
I think we're going to blow away China.
You mentioned China earlier for a few minutes.
I want to make sure your listeners understand this because the media really isn't reporting it.
China's economy is a mess right now.
It is.
They've been hammered by these tariffs.
Everybody talks about, oh, it's hurting us more than it's hurting China.
No, it is not.
China's stock market has cratered.
The factories are running at 50%.
You've seen the picture, Sean, of they can't get their ships out of port.
I mean, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these ships that they usually ship these goods to the United States, but because of the tariffs, they can't do it.
I don't think they can hold on much longer.
I think they're going to have to come on their hands and knees to Trump and say, let's make a deal here.
Yeah.
Well, and I kind of predicted it would happen.
Look, in a lot of ways, I know it's got a lot of people shaken up.
And, you know, the stock market's skittish by nature.
I've never used that as my indicator.
It was funny before they went through their nine days in a row of positive growth in the stock market, you were saying, I'm about to, I'm buying right now.
So you had a good nine days buying and making money.
I don't know if you sold it, but or if you're holding it.
Yeah, well, I always like the idea of buying the dip, especially when Trump is president, because the media does hyper-focus on the tariffs.
But I mean, when you look at, even if you're not a big fan of tariffs, and I'm not a big fan of them, but I think he's going to win here, every other thing that he is doing for the economy is so positive.
Pro-American energy policy, the tax cuts.
Oh, incidentally, I want to mention one other quick thing.
There's these headlines now.
Oh, the Medicaid cuts that the Republicans are talking about are going to cost a million people to lose their health care coverage.
That's preposterous.
You know who those million people are?
They're a million people who are not eligible for the program, Sean.
They're fraudsters.
Of course, we're going to cut those people off.
Yeah, unbelievable.
Steve Moore, your national treasurer, and let's see where we are in just a short period of time.
It's going to get very, very interesting.
And I think we're going to be watching a lot of people eat their words and their dire predictions of doom and gloom.
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Victor is in Maryland next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Victor, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
The other day you were talking about the ups and downs in life.
I weighed a pound and a half when I was born and survived.
And I've been blind all my life, but my father learned to, you know, made me learn to live in the sided world.
I graduated from the Maryland School for the Blind in 1968, June 2nd.
And then on June 3rd, I called the broadcasting school because I wanted to be a disc jockey, and they told me I wouldn't amount to anything and don't bother.
So then I talked to my rehab counselor, and the first thing he tried to do was to put me in a sheltered workshop making brooms and mops for 50 cents an hour.
I said, I'm not having none of that.
You're going to help me find a really good job.
So I wrote him almost all summer long, and then he said, okay, the only agency that's hiring the blind, this is 1968, the only agency that would hire the blind was the federal government.
And to make a long story short, I ended up working for the Library of Congress Division for the Blind, started off as a technical aide and worked my way up the ladder to quality assurance specialist.
And I had a 44-year career with them, and I retired back at the end of 2012.
So my mother would say, well, you couldn't entertain people by being a disc jockey, but you entertain them by letting them read the books that we produced.
Well, let me tell you a little story that you might find interesting.
When I started in radio at a college radio station in Santa Barbara, California, there was a blind DJ, and I remember his name.
It was Greg Drust, and that was his name.
And he's one of the nicest guys in the world, to be very honest.
But anyway, he was on the station for a long time, and he broadcast his weekly show.
And at the time, you know, he was spinning records.
He had all of his albums organized completely.
And he'd be able, you know, I guess through Braille at the time, would be able to pull out the record and became so familiar with the studio, he'd rack up whatever song he wanted to play next.
He did it all by himself.
He had an amazing voice, great set of pipes.
And, you know, I got to tell you, he just was an inspiration to me back in the day.
And at the time, there were very few people that were nice to me at that station.
And not that I deserved it.
I was kind of a jerk at that point in my life.
But honestly, I just thought it was such a cool story.
And I remember it.
So I would watch him work, and I was amazed at how he would be able to pull it off.
Okay, I'm going to tell you something that happened at work one time.
This is 1982.
And I had just rejected three or four books from this one producer.
And I told the guy, I said, I'm rejecting the books because you had static in the background in one.
And sides three and four of this one cassette, the sound levels were muffled.
And you got to do it over again.
So he wrote a letter to the director at the time.
He really complained about me.
So the director called me into his office and told me, I know you're doing your work.
When the producers start complaining about you, then I know you're doing your work.
It sounds to me, as I listen to you, is you started life with a lot of difficulties and a lot of challenges.
And you have found a way, and through the help of loving parents, it sounds like, to navigate through life without one of the most important senses that we all take for granted, and that's the eyesight.
By the way, and I'm very hopeful that Neuralink may one day be able to help you see for the first time.
And they're using artificial intelligence and science to hopefully make that happen and help people with spinal cord injuries walk.
You know, a lot of us think in life we have challenges.
Not seeing your entire life is a pretty big challenge.
And you obviously have kept a great attitude about you.
And I think we can learn from you.
Because, you know, I think I whine and complain too much, and I need to knock it off.
When I was being interviewed for a job, it was a private job.
The woman had the nerve to ask me if I knew how to use the bathroom.
And I said, well, you show me first.
What'd you say?
Nothing.
I didn't get the job, of course.
I'm not shocked.
You've got to use a sense of humor or sarcasm with some of these people.
Now, I rode the bus from my house down Georgia Avenue to work.
I did it every day.
And I came into work one day.
It was a blizzard.
And my supervisor called me up and she says, I know you're here.
What about the rest of the staff?
And I said, well, the blind people are here.
There's no sighted people around.
And then she says, well, I'm not coming in today.
Wow.
Wow.
Let me ask you this.
Are your other senses I would imagine that your other senses are much keener than the average person?
Have you discovered that?
That your other senses somehow compensate for the fact that you can't see?
Well, I have to learn to listen carefully or I'll miss something.
So my sense of hearing has been incensed by listening carefully.
And like I said, I had a good career.
I worked for 44 years.
And my mother said, you grew up to be a useful citizen.
It sounds like it.
And it sounds like, you know, I guess I think it might be more difficult if you had sight and lost sight.
Let me ask you maybe another bizarre question.
I hope you don't mind.
And maybe it's a dumb question.
In your mind's eye, do you have images of what you think things look like?
Well, I had pretty good vision when I was younger.
I was considered a high partial.
So I could see well enough that I could.
Oh, so you were legally blind, but you did have some sight for a period.
I thought you were blind from birth.
No, I had some sight, and then I lost it when I took the COVID shot.
Wow.
I could really, I mean, I could see colors and everything.
I would bug my parents.
Get a color T V.
I can see better in color.
Right.
Right.
And my father.
Did they ever explain why'cause look, there's been a lot of incidents of myocarditis and and other health associated issues related to that shot.
Did it t were you blind instantly at that moment after you took it?
How long after you got the shot, the jab?
Almost immediately.
That's the one thing I really regret because my late fiancé took me to the center and I should have never gotten the jab in the first place.
Yeah.
Well, you were told an awful lot of lies by your government, so I understand it.
But Victor, you're a national treasure.
God bless you.
And I'm hoping that maybe science can one day restore your sight.
And I think that would be awesome.
I really do.
God bless you, my friend.
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Brad in Utah.
What's up, Brad?
How are you?
Hello, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, Brad.
How are you?
I'd be doing a little bit better if I was in Utah at a Crown Burger right now, but I can't have everything I want.
Well, I'll tell you what, there's another burger place that would probably rival that one, if not better.
It's in Provo, and it's called Apollo Burger.
No, sorry, Burger Supreme.
I'm sorry.
You're never going to convince me that anyone can outdo Crown Burger in Utah.
Oh, buddy, next.
In-N-Out Burger is right up is my favorite, too.
But if I'm in Utah, I'm going straight to Krownburger.
I won't pass go and collect 200.
What's on your mind?
Well, I guess a lot of frustration, you know, thanks to the Democratic Party.
Because I hate to admit that I grew up as a Democrat.
And in my family home, my dad worked for U.S. Steel.
And he just drummed it into our heads, you know, hey, the Democrats for the working man.
And I grew up believing that and voting that way.
And then several years later, I get married.
And my wife one day turns on your show and is listening to it.
And I get home from work.
She goes, you need to listen to this guy.
And so I started listening.
And for a little while, I was arguing with you.
Next thing you know, I started agreeing with you.
And the majority of the time, everything you said, I was agreeing with.
And so I proudly switched parties.
Well, I'm glad.
Listen, that means you have an open mind.
I had this lady come up to me this weekend.
I was in a restaurant with some friends.
And a woman came up to me and she goes, I just want you to know something.
I used to hate you.
I hated you with a passion.
That's what she said.
I said, really?
What changed your mind?
And she said, when I started telling the truth about COVID, and then she started, her mind opened up, and then she saw me in a whole different light.
And, you know, that happens sometimes.
Some people aren't exposed to other thoughts.
Like, one of the things I argue people don't understand about President Trump is he's a disruptor.
He's an iconoclast.
And he's going to challenge old ways of doing things.
And that is a shock to a lot of people.
If you've been indoctrinated into a belief system, and then somebody shows you another way that is much better, for some people, it's a bit of a shock.
And then, you know, that's what I think the president is trying to do on this trade issue.
It's a shock to the system.
It's like you shock your pool if you open it up every year.
And the shock is, is that for 50 to 60 years, we've thought one way, acted one way, accepted things as they are, and nobody ever dared challenge it.
And here he comes along and says, no, we're not going to get ripped off any longer.
We're going to challenge the old way of doing things.
And I think he looks at pretty much everything that way, which makes him very, very unique.
He's a true original in every sense of the word.
But it takes, sometimes it takes time for people to see the light.
Now, there are going to be people that never want to see the light.
Again, I've used the analogy before.
If Donald Trump cured cancer, they'd still hate him.
But they definitely don't want to understand him.
Like, for example, I wanted to understand Obama.
I studied Obama.
I wanted to understand Farrakhan at one point.
And I listened to this guy, phenomenal orator.
I mean, he could fire up a crowd.
Just an amazing speaker.
Captivating.
However, his message, I felt, was full of nothing but a lot of hate and poison.
But it was just interesting to hear it.
You know, why is it that the masses become hypnotized by the likes of Adolf Hitler or, you know, in front of the Ayatollah back in the day would be beating themselves till they were bloody to show their level of commitment to the cause or strap bombs on themselves and kill because that's what they're told to do.
There is mass hypnotic indoctrination that goes on.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
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