Aug. 21, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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| Thanks to all of you for being with us. | |
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| Um everybody needs to know a little bit of context here. | |
| In the hours leading up to the Alaska summit with President Trump and Vladimir Putin, Ukraine was, you know, bombing the night before, up to, you know, like twelve hours before the actual summit took place, and Vladimir Putin immediately thereafter. | |
| The war they never the ceasefire was never really one of the top priorities of the president. | |
| And he pointed that out in every other agreement he's been involved in from India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, Rwanda, Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, and Egypt. | |
| You know, they never had the ceasefire first. | |
| He said his goal was going in to have the second meeting. | |
| And it looks like it's going to happen, but I don't know that it's going to happen. | |
| I mean, at the end of the day, Donald Trump can only do so much. | |
| I don't think there's any other world leader that had the stature, the strength, the ability to pull off what he's pulled off so far, bringing Vladimir Putin to the table. | |
| I think he did it from a position of strength. | |
| I think by strengthening NATO nations' commitments to NATO played a big part in it, and and they more than doubled their percentage of GDP that they will contribute to their defense. | |
| I think getting the European Union to wake the hell up. | |
| I went into great specificity and detail in this on this last night. | |
| It's so frustrating on so many levels to watch the Europeans be so stupid when it comes to Vladimir Putin. | |
| It's it's actually mind-numbing because they're the ones that have been funding Putin's war machine the entire time. | |
| You know, the president is is showing by strengthening NATO, by doing a trade deal that takes a nearly a trillion dollars in in energy energy purchases out of Putin's pocket by pressuring India and with tariffs and saying you keep buying Russian oil, it's it's going to be a 50% tariff on you. | |
| And he is he's going right to the heart of the Russian economy. | |
| That's why when the president said the consequences will be dire, he's not talking about America going to war with Vladimir Putin. | |
| He's talking about America crushing, crushing Vladimir Putin's economy. | |
| And you know, I think that is the only way to get Putin's attention. | |
| I think those those those are the main reasons why that you know you finally got you finally got uh Putin to the table in the first place. | |
| Now, as far as I'm concerned, I'm I'm furious with Europe because as bad as Obama was, you gotta take this back to when Bill Clinton pressured I just want you guys, you know, you don't need after the breakup of the Soviet Union, you guys don't need these nuclear weapons. | |
| It's gonna be in the best interest. | |
| We'll have security guarantees, blah, blah, blah. | |
| Biggest mistake Ukraine ever made was giving up their nuclear weapons. | |
| They never should have listened to Bill Clinton. | |
| And when Crimea happened and it was annexed in 2014, and Obama's president, he didn't lift a finger, in spite of the fact that the U.S. was a party to an agreement that would guarantee security for Ukraine and prevent that from happening. | |
| Nothing. | |
| Joe Biden, we know the story about Joe Biden. | |
| Joe Biden, you know, Putin's building up troops, military equipment on the Ukrainian border. | |
| He does absolutely nothing. | |
| But the other factor in all of this is the rest of Europe and how they have grossly mismanaged this regional crisis, and frankly, are equally as responsible as past democratic American presidents in terms of showing weakness and stupidity and naivete when it comes to Vladimir Putin, because it's them that have been funding his war machines for decades. | |
| I pointed this out and went into great specificity and detail on TV last night. | |
| Prior to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, a lot of these European countries, they're buying a hundred percent of their gas, the natural gas, which is the lifeblood of the world's economy from Russia. | |
| This is why Trump, what he I I keep telling you, what he what he did with Angela Merkel was basically when he handed her the White flag of surrender because that's what Europe has been doing. | |
| They're surrendering their culture. | |
| They're surrendering so many different things. | |
| It's really spectacular to watch, you know, the decline of a continent. | |
| But major European powers like Germany sending tens of billions of dollars to Putin. | |
| That funded his military buildup. | |
| That's funding his war machine. | |
| And in Trump's first term, Europe defied his warnings, doubled down on dumb and dumber, and they kept building more pipelines into Russia. | |
| He was shutting down Nord Stream 2, if you recall, back in the day. | |
| And even several years ago, Europe was still sending Putin around 20, you know, 22 billion dollars a year for Russian energy. | |
| In other words, they're they're funding Putin's war machine. | |
| So I say this in light of the news that broke just earlier today that NATO had to scramble warplanes because Russia hit near the Romanian border in Ukraine, and two German warplanes were scrambled overnight from Romania after Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack in Ukraine, less than a mile from the NATO borderline. | |
| Now that's Vladimir Putin's saber rattling, but it doesn't really matter. | |
| At the end of the day, this decision of whether the war is going to stop is going to be made by Vladimir Putin and by President Zelensky of Ukraine. | |
| And if they let this opportunity pass, well, the results will be devastating. | |
| The results for Vladimir Putin are going to be severe economically. | |
| The life flood of Russia's economy is the sale of energy. | |
| And right now, Lindsey Graham in the U.S. Senate, you never get 85 senators to gr agree on anything, but they're all sitting tight on top of a sanctions bill that will go after Russia and their energy and and then the president will use the power of our economy to prevent other countries from buying Russian energy, period. | |
| And I think Plan B probably starts right about now for President Trump. | |
| And that is punishing Moscow. | |
| And by doing it, you're doing it economically. | |
| And then the fact that the president will sell sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine is is another motivation that what should motivate Putin to want to make a deal here. | |
| Do I think it's in the best interest of Ukraine to stop this? | |
| I do, because at the end of the day, I don't the fact that they have fought so valiantly and so successfully, I don't think anybody at the start of this conflict thought that we'd be three years into this and that Russia has not been more successful than they have been. | |
| I mean, yeah, they've they've hit a lot of areas within Ukraine, but in terms of territory that they gained, relatively small, considering what was supposed to be the overwhelming might of the Russian army, which has not been particularly impressive, especially in my view. | |
| You know, you kind of use the plan that I think the president used with Iran and with Hamas and funding of terror. | |
| I mean, we know that the Iranians are the number one state sponsor of terror. | |
| We know that they helped plot plan and scheme what happened October 7th, 2023. | |
| Uh, we know that revolutionary forces uh were responsible in part of the planning. | |
| Cud's force is part of the planning. | |
| We know that they provided the weaponry uh for Hamas uh in the south and for Lebanon in the north and for the Houthi rebels and and other terror groups uh throughout the region. | |
| And, you know, it's interesting after the 50th day that Donald Trump gave Iran to go to the table and make a nuclear deal, and they basically thumbed their middle finger at the U.S. on the 51st day, Israel went in there and decimated them. | |
| Absolutely decimated them, taking out their missile battery systems, taking out their air defense systems, taking out pretty much everything, which paved the way for a very difficult what ended up being an extraordinarily extraordinarily successful effort, and that was to take out their nuclear sites. | |
| Now, the result is they uh the Iranians were near bankruptcy during Trump's first term because of the sanctions that he had put on them. | |
| They were working. | |
| And you saw the people in Iran beginning to rise up because they were sick and tired of living under these, you know, rigid mullas in Iran and these rigid rules that were put in place. | |
| Anyway, to fast forward, we have a group of reformers now inside of Iran, and this was reported on today in the New York Post. | |
| They're calling for Iran to suspend their uranium enrichment program. | |
| In other words, give up their nuclear ambition. | |
| Why? | |
| Because they want to reach a deal with the U.S. to ease sanctions on the country as they face widespread power and water shortages, and they're struggling financially, and their people are beginning to struggle. | |
| And if they continue to struggle, you know, usually the outcome of such a struggle ends up with some type of new government taking over. | |
| And that's that's that's kind of similar to what happened in the Cold War. | |
| I mean, Ronald Reagan showed strength. | |
| Ronald Reagan came into office. | |
| He had militarily what he called a gap of vulnerability. | |
| He had planes that couldn't fly, he had ships that couldn't go out to sea. | |
| We had a depleted military, very similar to what President Trump just inherited. | |
| And he set about building a 600 ship Navy and modernizing all our military equipment, replenishing our military equipment, advancing our military technology. | |
| The big issue as President Reagan went into his summit with Gorbachev at Reykjavik was the issue of strategic defense, what the media in this country mocked as, you know, Star Wars. | |
| Well, real life Star Wars has been happening all over the Middle East thanks to Ronald Reagan's vision of strategic defense. | |
| And I I argue that might go down in history as his greatest legacy. | |
| I think if the president's capable of building out a golden dome to protect America from, you know, new modern weaponry that is being developed on a daily basis, including hypersonic technology, you know, we they there could be down the line in the future at some point at some date, untold millions of lives that can ultimately be saved because of the technology we're beginning to develop even today. | |
| And I know people that are working on it, and they're going, you know, hardcore deep in the paint to get this done as as quickly and as expeditiously as humanly possible. | |
| Um Rhode Island Democrat attorney general threatening police while resisting arrest after being told to leave a restaurant. | |
| Linda, did you see that video? | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Matter of fact, uh, I mean, it's insane. | |
| Body camera footage showing a Rhode Island prosecutor berating a police officer and attempting to avoid arrest after a drunken night out with a friend, the Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney, uh General Devin Flanagan Hogan, a Democrat arrested Thursday for allegedly trespassing at Clark Cook House, a swanky waterfront restaurant in Newport. | |
| I'm I'm an A G. I'm an A. G. You know, uh, what are your probable cause to detain me for? | |
| Hogan complaining as the cops were trying to handcuff her. | |
| And she's out there in under slinky little dress trying to, you know, tell them you better turn off your you're gonna regret this, you're gonna regret this. | |
| Why do people it's sort of like those people, famous people that walk into a restaurant? | |
| Do you know who I am? | |
| Do you not know who I am? | |
| I can't stand these people. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| A top Justice Department mortgage fraud prosecutor is urging New York Attorney General Letitia James resign. | |
| The Justice Department special attorney for mortgage fraud, Ed Martin has now urged the New York Attorney General Letitia James to resign as his office is investigating her for potential mortgage fraud. | |
| He sent a letter to James' attorney, Abby Lowell on August the twelfth, in which he said, James would best serve the good of the state and the nation by resigning from office to address the issues in the referral. | |
| Her resignation from office would give the people of New York and America more peace than proceeding. | |
| It's it's so interesting to watch those people that were most active in weaponizing justice and her and Adam Schiff and all these other people. | |
| Adam Schiff got the preemptive pardon. | |
| It's going to be difficult to go after him. | |
| I don't think Letitia James got one. | |
| I didn't see her name on the list. | |
| I didn't see Alvin Bragg's name on the list. | |
| Uh, but Adam Schiff, you know. | |
| Man, these Democrats, I guess they they're just so arrogant. | |
| They think they can get away with everything. | |
| I have to hire accountants and attorneys for every aspect of my life because I know if if I don't dot every I and cross every T, forget it. | |
| They'd come after me in a heartbeat. | |
| Uh good news today, New York Times voters are abandoning the Democratic Party in droves. | |
| I don't want to say the death cycle of the Democratic Party, but there seems to be no end to this. | |
| One voter uh one uh voter registration expert said. | |
| Anyway, according to the detailed analysis, the Times headline this morning, Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis. | |
| The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box. | |
| The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party. | |
| Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between 2020 and 2024, often by a lot. | |
| The four-year swing towards Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole. | |
| I don't even know if this current Democratic Party can pull their way out of that. | |
| So things are changing. | |
| And you saw in Matt Towery, Insider Advantage in his poll, you know, every demographic is moving towards Donald Trump. | |
| 54% approval, 44% disapproval, and every demographic he's on the positive side, not on the negative side. | |
| So there is a movement in this country that is very real. | |
| And as I have pointed out, there are most polling outfits, organizations, especially if they're related to the legacy media, they have never really polled Donald Trump well in the 10 years he's been on the political scene since 2015. | |
| They just haven't. | |
| And they don't understand him. | |
| They don't understand the people that support him. | |
| They use methodologies that are biased and designed to be biased. | |
| They will usually over-poll Democrats as a means of creating an impression that is false. | |
| You know, like recently, up until this week, I've been seeing poll after poll kind of showed that, oh, Donald Trump, he's at a low now. | |
| It's at 38% and it shows up on a liberal website somewhere. | |
| And then when a poll comes out by Matt Towery, who has consistently, along with Robert Cahaley and John McLaughlin and Rasmussen and Atlas polling, who really only shows up during election years, and I don't even know who they are. | |
| Um, but they have been the people that have been consistently correct and consistently right. | |
| And so when Matt Towery, after the Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin shows Trump with a 54% approval rating, 44% disapproval rating, uh, I believe his numbers, because he was right in 2016, he was right in 2020, he was right in 2024. | |
| Anyway, so for the New York Times to hit the panic button like they have with the headline, the Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis, and that the party's bleeding support beyond the ballot box. | |
| Um it's not hard to figure out why. | |
| I mean, it's every issue we talk about every day. | |
| I mean, to see the Democratic Party be the party of sanctuary cities and states, the party of defund, dismantle no bail laws, the party of wokism, DEIism championing the right of men to play women's sports, | |
| the party for higher energy prices, the party of now outright Marxism, forget about which is the Green New Deal is basically the same thing, just with a different name, but that's you know, cradle to grave, womb to the tomb. | |
| And so this party has been radicalized. | |
| Any moderate voices that might exist are fearful to take on those loud voices that now control the Democratic Party. | |
| And you know the names, Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie, and if you look to the younger generation, it's Mom Donnie, Marx's mom Donnie and AOC and squad members, and and so this is what people hear every day and see every day. | |
| And Jasmine Crockett, I mean, Stephen A. Smith gives me a hard time. | |
| He goes, I know what you're doing. | |
| I'm like, what do you mean you know what I'm doing? | |
| He goes, I see the I see the Democrats that you play on your show. | |
| You play you play the crazies of in the Democratic Party. | |
| I said, pretty much they're all crazy. | |
| And for those people that might not be crazy, well, where are their voices except for John Fetterman? | |
| And John Fetterman is excoriated by his own party. | |
| And it's very, very telling to see Josh Shapiro, who I thought would be a more moderate Democrat, definitely dipping his toe in the water, and to see if there's any appetite for him to run in 2028, you know, by coming out championing the right of men and women's sports and him coming out. | |
| What was the other woke issue that he came out with? | |
| There was one other one. | |
| I mean, for him to take on these radical social positions means to me that he knows that he, if he's thinking about running for president, he can't win if he's going to be a moderate. | |
| Here's their long-term problem is that on every 80, 20, 75, 25, 90, 10, 95, 5 issue, they're on the wrong side. | |
| They don't want to build a wall. | |
| They lied to us for four years. | |
| They don't even want to ever call or acknowledge people that have been victims of the 12 to 20 million unvetted Biden Harris illegals in this country. | |
| People that are victims of murder, rape, and their families, and they have in the aftermath of this, other violent crimes, they don't want to deal with it. | |
| They'd rather be the party that stands up for a Brago Garcia. | |
| They'd rather be the party of sanctuary cities. | |
| You know, now California, we find out this truck driver in Florida came into the country in 2018 illegally, and this guy goes to California, gets a commercial driver's license. | |
| The Trump administration denied him his right to a commercial license. | |
| Joe Biden's administration gave him a commercial license. | |
| One report today that the guy didn't even know how to read English, and he's out there driving a rig, and he makes a U-turn, and now we have three dead Americans. | |
| At what point do we not recognize the Democratic policies aren't keeping people safe and secure? | |
| You know, how has this defund, dismantled, no bail law idiocy worked out? | |
| It's not working out very well. | |
| You know, our nation's capital, just like New York and California and Illinois. | |
| Look at look at how many we don't even count dead people in Chicago anymore. | |
| We don't even it doesn't even make news anymore. | |
| The only reason it makes any news ever, it's on shows like this. | |
| I mean, we have we have tried to highlight this issue since Barack Obama was president. | |
| We could only find two, maybe three times in his entire presidency that he talked about the murder rate and the violence in his hometown of Chicago. | |
| You know, if it wasn't for Gianno Caldwell, who lost his little brother, who was murdered, innocently murdered, slaughtered on the streets of Chicago, just another name. | |
| And if he hasn't been out there, you know, screaming loudly and championing on this show and on Fox and other places, you know, nobody would know anything about Chicago violence, but it's still going on. | |
| It's still happening in cities like New York. | |
| It's still, you know, all these cities that have adopted all of these insane no bail laws and defund and dismantle and let's put in social workers' attitude and reimagine the police nonsense that it's not working out well. | |
| Democrats just voted for the largest tax increase in the history of the country instead of the low the largest tax decrease in American history. | |
| They claim to care about working men and women. | |
| They voted to raise their taxes. | |
| Donald Trump Republicans thankfully prevailed. | |
| And now we have no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and every American that makes money is getting a tax cut. | |
| Every one. | |
| And the president's protecting Social Security. | |
| Democrats like Obama told us forever that manufacturing was never coming back to America. | |
| All right, well, Donald Trump, he was getting excoriated by all the quote pundits, the punditry class over the issue of tariffs. | |
| Well, those tariffs resulted in a massive change in behavior. | |
| And America had been ripped off, taken advantage of for so many years, and it just nobody ever dared challenge the status quo. | |
| He challenges the status quo on everything. | |
| He's been able to control the borders. | |
| He's now deporting illegal immigrant criminals. | |
| He's opened up drilling and fracking and coal mining. | |
| That's going to be we can't even begin to calculate the impact that's going to have on the account economy. | |
| He's gotten over fifteen trillion dollars in committed monies and manufacturing over the next four years, high paying career jobs for Americans, and that's in auto manufacturing that wasn't going to come back to America, we were told. | |
| You know, we have outsourced pharmaceutical manufacturing, which is dangerous to our supply chain lines. | |
| You know, we've outsourced semiconductor chips. | |
| That's been dangerous. | |
| We've outsourced rare earth minerals, which are vital and critical to building, you know, our our our defense uh it's necessary for our defense department in ways that I can't even begin to describe, but I've talked to the experts about it, and that includes magnets. | |
| You can't build cars without magnets and rare earth minerals. | |
| You just can't. | |
| And yet we have outsourced a lot of these raw materials to other countries because of the strident environmental policies of the Democrats. | |
| So when you see this attrition among the Democratic Party, it should not be a surprise of the 30 states that they tracked voter registration by political party, Democrats have lost ground to Republicans and every one of them, and in most cases by an awful lot. | |
| a lot to make a difference and you know it's up to nearly five million voters and there's a stampede and and and again this is just post 2024 if donald trump is it is able to bring the economy back to anywhere near the boom that i expect | |
| Again, putting aside unforeseen circumstances, if he's able to bring back the economy with manufacturing and 15 trillion and also add to the coffers, because now we're putting tariffs on countries that have abused us and taken advantage of us all these years. | |
| And if lower taxes stimulate the economy as it always has historically, like when Reagan gave us at the time the largest tax cut in history, dropping the top marginal rate from 70 to 28% revenues doubled. | |
| If we can get you know 15, 20 million new jobs online, if you get Americans off of government assistance and back in the workforce, that's going to increase revenues. | |
| And if you you know deregulate if you eliminate regulation, how do you fail? | |
| And this is what now the Democrat what what on what issue is the Democratic Party on the right side on. | |
| You know, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide are choosing to be Republicans than Democrats. | |
| All told Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters between 20 and 2024 in 30 states, along with Washington, D.C. that allow people to register with a political party. | |
| And the remaining 20 state voters do not register with a political party. | |
| Republicans, you know, all told have gained nearly five million people. | |
| I mean, what adds up to a you know a net ad of just shy of five million people for the Republican Party. | |
| Democrats went from an nearly 11-point advantage over Republicans on election day in 2020 in those places with partisan registration to just over six percentage points in 2024, and it's going down precipitously because they they have not had any introspection, any course correction. | |
| I mean, it really is if you look at Gavin Newsom, I don't think there's any doubt about it that Gavin Newsom definitely imagines himself in the Oval Office being president. | |
| That's my take. | |
| I don't dislike the guy personally. | |
| Got along great with him. | |
| He doesn't like me anymore. | |
| I don't know why. | |
| That's up to him. | |
| But if you look at him, for example, he's tried being a podcaster. | |
| He's you know, first he's we're building up a fund to to fight Trump, and then it becomes well, let me talk to conservatives. | |
| Let me bring on Steve Bannon, let me bring on people like Charlie Kirk, and then he says, I've never been for men playing women's sports until the tape comes out and and contradicts exactly what he's saying. | |
| You know, Gavin's of the unfortunate situation for Gavin is he can try to evolve and create new images. | |
| Now he's trying to be, you know, Donald Trump like, you know, going after people on Twitter, and it's backfiring because it looks silly. | |
| Even Morning Joe is making fun of it today. | |
| If Liberal Joe's making fun of you and you're a Democrat, you got a problem. | |
| You got a big problem. | |
| But that's not what's gonna, you know, it doesn't matter how slick he is, doesn't matter that he can talk speak well, none of that matters when you have a 25, 30 year track record, and and every comment you've ever made and every position you've ever taken is going to be examined, and you're on the wrong side of every issue. | |
| And there's a reason that people have been leaving California in droves. | |
| It's the number one tax state in the country, it is the worst schools in the country. | |
| It's a sanctuary state. | |
| You have sanctuary cities all over the place. | |
| The quality of life issues are very, very real in California. | |
| I mean, stores are closing left and right. | |
| You know, I saw today, I don't know if you heard about Bed Bath and Beyond, but they they made an interesting observation. | |
| At least I thought it was pretty interesting, and I like Bed Bath and Beyond. | |
| Not that I ever go shopping, but they've been struggling financially. | |
| They actually put out a statement from the executive on the board of Bed Bath and Beyond, and they put it on Twitter, and he said, they're not going to open up any retail stores in California. | |
| This isn't about politics, it's about the reality of California system, it makes it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won't put our company, our employees, or our customers in that position. | |
| It's not about politics. | |
| Higher taxes, higher fees, higher wages, that many businesses simply cannot sustain and endless regulations that strangle growth. | |
| That sums up the Democratic Party today. | |
| None of this is surprising to me. | |
| No course correction, no introspection, nothing. | |
| And I wouldn't expect it either. | |
| I don't think all of a sudden the Democrats are going to wake up tomorrow and Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries will find an ounce of courage and stand up to the likes of Jasmine Crockett, AOC, the squad, Bernie, and Pocahontas that are the dominant voices in their party. | |
| I don't think that's going to happen. | |
| I don't think they're going to say let's secure the border. | |
| I don't think they're going to say let's refund the police. | |
| I don't think they're going to say they support tax cuts. | |
| I don't think they're going to want to deregulate. | |
| I don't think they're going to want energy dominance. | |
| They didn't even want to take out Iran's nuclear sites. | |
| They can't even praise Trump for trying to bring peace in the Middle East in Europe. | |
| They couldn't stand for the families that lost loved ones because of their open borders when they lied to us and said the borders were closed. |
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