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Oct. 16, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Eric Trump and the Evoloving GOP - October 15th, Hour 3
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In the history of this show, I've never held an author beyond an hour, but the story is so deep, so profound, and we have so many different aspects of what has happened to our country over the last 10 years.
And Eric Trump is chronicling all of it from a very personal uh vantage point because he lived it all, and his new book is out.
It's called Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation.
You can get it in bookstores around the country.
We have a link on Hannity.com.
You can go to Amazon.com right now.
Um, you broke another Trump re another Trump record.
What a shocker.
Never thought this would be my life, Sean.
I never thought I'd be a number one author.
Um this is uh this is an interesting one, but you know, I I I guess uh you know, I I guess miracles happen.
You know, uh you've been so invested in this, and I remember from the earliest days of your father's campaign in 2016.
Have you ever thought that maybe one day you might run?
You know, I get that question a lot, and I think we've developed great voices, and I think we've developed voices because we you know we we we've had to do a lot of this and we've had to defend ourselves, and we had to go out and fight, and and we decided one day not to back down and not to cower and not to quiver, right?
And and so I think my answer, Sean would be the same as my father said a long time ago.
If I ever got so bad um, you know, that that you know, you had no other choice.
I I really believe that's the answer.
I I think because of my father, I think he's changed modern politics forever.
I mean, finally we have fighters in there.
We no longer have the Jeb Bushes, we never no longer have, you know, I I the Mitt Romys, right?
These people are all they're extinct and gone.
We finally have a Republican conservative party of people who are willing to be loud, who are willing to be f you know, fight, who who have backbone, um, you know, who are not just these rhino class that that govern, you know, that don't inspire people.
We have inspirational people now, and and that's all my father's doing.
I think we have uh the greatest cast of people in the conservative movement, uh, better than any ever before.
Um, you see that with this whole new generation of of kind of kind of Charlie Kirk supporters, right?
Where you have these young kids who are inspired by politics and aspire to make a difference in this country for the first time ever.
And that all came from my father.
And so I'm not sure if I ever get to politics.
We'll we'll we'll see.
Uh if I was ever truly called to do it, or uh they ever got so incompetent.
Um, you know, I might very well jump in.
But um I do think that the whole Republican Party has changed and for the better, and uh and hopefully there's a lot more candidates out there who will do a phenomenal job and and taking his footsteps.
I think one of the best things that your dad was able to do is build a new coalition of the Republican Party, and we're now seeing this in dramatic numbers where more people are registering as Republicans in the in terms of millions of new Republican voters, and Democrats are losing millions as they have become more and more radicalized.
I mean, I think your dad takes up more space in people's minds than any one human being on the face of the earth.
Uh I find that part amusing.
On the other hand, it's violent, it's vicious and it's never ending.
I mean, Trump derangement syndrome is real, but to me, the the real the real secret sauce of your dad is he stands up for hardworking men and women.
I mean, the Republican Party is now the party of working class Americans.
17 trillion dollars in committed monies for manufacturing, automobiles, semiconductor chips, uh looking for rare earth minerals, pharmaceuticals now are going to be made in America, energy dominance, uh the largest tax cut in American history, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.
Uh he secured our border, he's restoring law and order.
These are fundamental.
This is impacting the lives of the people that really do make the country great.
It's the people that make the country great, the people that work hard, play by the rules, raise their kids, go to church.
That is the heart and soul of this country, and your dad has united them.
He has been able to break the myth that Republicans are racist and and and sexist and misogynist and homophobic and xenophobic and Islamophobic and and all this crap and transphobic.
And now you see the the largest numbers the Republican Party has ever had with every demographic book uh group, uh African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, uh African American youth, women voters are moving to Trump.
I mean, and the Republican Party, it's uh it's a transformed party.
It's uh yeah, it's it's traditional Reagan conservatism with a heavy dose of populism.
No question.
I uh Sean, I think you'll go down as almost the greatest educator in a certain way.
No one was focused on on politics, no one cared about politics.
Politics was boring as hell, and he opened up everybody's eyes to to you know the the drug issue, to the immigration issue, to the fact that we are being ripped off every day, you know, in in in NATO, that no one was paying their fair share in the you know, and the fact that every single day, you know, free trade wasn't free trade.
It wasn't free.
It was it was imbalanced trade.
They were they were destroying our country, they were ripping off our country, they were poisoning our country, they were using our country.
You know, we we were the police force of the entire world, and we got absolutely nothing out of it.
We were, you know, disrespected.
I mean, Obama would show up in in China on Air Force One, they wouldn't even bring a set of stairs out to the guy, right?
I mean, you know, they had to come off like the kid's stairs at the bottom of the plane.
You know, he he's opened everybody's eyes to to the you know these issues, and and he did so with a level of kind of unvarnished honesty that America really respected, and it's going to take them a hundred years to try and get back.
Meaning you're you're not taking these principles out of people's you know, uh eyes and ears.
The this has been so ingrained by Donald Trump in in the minds of so many that we can never go back to where we were before.
The party will never allow it to go back to where we were went before.
So I I think maybe the greatest service that my father did was was truly being on PC, being incredibly direct, uh, and really opening people's eyes to what was happening to this country under, you know, frankly, politicians on both sides who were totally inept and capable and um and cared not about this country but their own you know personal power.
There's a certain satisfaction I have um because uh uh we spent over three years, for example, on the Russian hoax and this and on this show and on TV, and the satisfaction is is that everything that we ended up reporting uh was more right than we even knew.
And there was uh we had a very small ensemble cast, Eric, Eric.
We had, you know, me and John Solomon and and Greg Jarrett and Sarah Carter and Catherine Herrich, and and there are people that I'm not mentioning, but there weren't very many of us, and there were maybe six or seven congressmen that worked with us that helped us get to the truth,
and and we got to the bottom line, and now it's been verified by the Mueller report, the Durham Report, and now with the declassifications that are are coming out and new information coming out every day, and my source is telling me there's a lot of bombshells that are gonna come out that will shock the the heart and soul of this country about how uh everything that they that you write about in this book that you live through and at the time you're gulping water and you're dealing with attorneys and
you're dealing with depositions and you're you know being subpoenaed left, right, and sideways.
You're living this the I don't think people understand the stress.
I don't think they understand the cost involved.
I don't think they understand the magnitude of an impact on people's lives.
Um and anybody associated with your dad, even on the periphery, you know, had to live through this.
Anyone that worked in the White House had to live through this.
People that had no money had to hire attorneys, they couldn't afford them.
Sean, where's your pullet, sir?
Where's your Yeah, okay.
Hell will freeze over.
Your dad's gonna get the Nobel Peace Prize.
I'll never get a Pulitzer, I promise you.
Where's your politics there?
They they gave it they gave it to people who are falsely reporting about the Russia hoax.
When they when the whole thing became debunked, those people wouldn't give it back.
The the story was a bogus story, and and and by the way, I'm really happy my father and and all of us are suing them for that.
It you're the one that deserves the Pulitzer Prize, not these people who got the entire story wrong.
I mean, Maggie Haverman doesn't deserve it.
You know, I I'll tell you one one of the early things that I said to your dad when we began these conversations late at night, and you're right, your dad never sleeps.
I think I've talked to him every hour on the hour during a 24-hour day at some point.
And uh at one point, you know, we were talking, and your dad is one of the most generous people.
He's one of the funniest people.
I wish people knew the funny side of him.
People can see it in his press conferences, they can see it, you know, when he does interviews.
He he he just has a wicked sense of humor, always funny, always fun to be around.
And uh that side of your dad, you know, I've I've just come to love and admire.
Um it's him being him.
And I I I can just tell you that one of the things he would always say to me, why don't you come?
And I'm like, sir, that's fine.
I just want you to save the country and save the world.
I'm not asking for much.
And I I just I feel like we're uh on the precipice of him actually accomplishing all that.
And I do believe there'll be peace in Russia.
I do believe the foundation has been set for the strongest, most robust economy and golden age as he talks about.
I do believe the Golden Dome will probably be his greatest legacy.
And and these are things that we talk about on a regular basis, but they're all becoming reality.
And it's like for me, who has been a movement conservative my whole life, it's a dream come true.
The siege was worth it.
The siege was worth it.
I mean, I truly believe he's gonna go down as one of the greatest presidents in the history of this nation.
I'm not saying that because I'm his son, but I mean that the guy's got the biggest heart in the world.
The guy's the hardest worker in the world.
The guy never backed down when Sean, the easiest real estate, the easiest deal I could have made in my career as a business guy would have been going to these people and stopping the siege.
You know what?
He's not gonna run again.
You guys drop all the indictments, you drop all the nonsense, you you drop all the criminal convictions, and he'll just step back gracefully and he'll disappear into, you know, kind of the sunset years of his life, and it'd be the easiest deal, and he never ever did it.
He fought relentlessly for this nation, and this nation loves him for it.
And as a son, I love him for it.
I've never been more inspired by a person in my life.
I've never loved a person more in my life.
I've never seen a person that has greater backbone and tenacity and fight and and vigor uh as he does, and and believe me, he's not doing it for his own well-being.
You know, in fact, the exact one.
He he didn't need this no.
And and he didn't need to come back after 2020 either.
And um I'm gonna end this interview with this, and that's where you start the book.
And your dedication.
And I want to read it.
You dedicated to two children, and you are the greatest blessings, my daily inspiration, and the future I fight for.
Watching you grow reminds me of the power of love, the importance of family, the responsibility we all have to leave the world better than we found it.
One day you will read about these times in your history textbooks.
When you do, I hope this book stands as a testament to the truth and a lesson.
I hope to pass on in life, hold fast to your integrity, stay resilient, always have the courage to stand for what is right, never stop dreaming, never stop fighting for what matters, and always remember how deeply you are loved.
Dad.
That was very touching.
Start to write that.
It's hard to write that because we're not Moshi people.
I think you know that at this point, but it's I I mean every word of it.
And I wrote every word of this story, and again, I think it's why the book is is number one.
I think people, you know, see our heart in this fight.
I I there we're not faking it, Sean.
We're not faking it.
If we were faking it, we would have been dead by now.
Um we want to save this nation.
It's the greatest country in the world.
We were losing everything.
We were losing God, we were losing society, we're losing family values, we're losing our kids, we were losing our standing on the world stage.
I mean, certainly our economy was going and and and just competency.
Everything was being lost.
Uh our our values as a nation were going down the tubes, and we won.
We won on every single front, and and honestly, that's why it's it's worth it.
We we won against unthinkable odds, and we did so as a as a group of people, you, us, all your listeners, we didn't have the media, we didn't have the establishment, we didn't have law enforcement, we didn't have the DOJ, we had nothing.
The only thing we had was our fight, uh, our our votes, um, and and frankly, our our voices, and and we won.
And and the world is a better place.
We have a country where people are churches are filled on on Sundays.
We we have a country where the energy costs are coming down, inflations are coming down, every, you know, every economic metric is being met.
We have a country that's respected around the world again.
You know, we we have a country where we're appreciating families for the first time again.
I I j I can't tell you I mean, this has been the fight of my life.
It's been a fight of my father's life, it's been the fight of of clearly your life, and we won it.
It was the ultimate David and Goliath story.
You know, there's never been a better David and Goliath story where we are just facing unprecedented odds.
Um, odds that if there wasn't somebody above looking down, uh we we probably would have never made it.
I I truly believe this was destined.
I truly believe he was he was guided um to do great things for this nation, and and I think right now our nation is being blessed, and we're gonna have the greatest three years of prosperity that this country has ever seen, and I truly do believe he's gonna go down the history books as the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.
I agree with you completely.
New King Rich even said it on TV last night.
You know, I've known you for a long time and I've been kind of dazzled by the real estate deals that you do and how big your family thinks and the magnitude and the impact that your family has had uh in terms of your business building and your golf courses and all these other amazing accomplishments, but you know, I say this as a friend that I don't think there's any greater work you have done than this book.
And I don't say that lightly.
I mean it from my heart.
And um I really think it's the best work you've ever done, and I think you've done the country a service by putting all of this down on paper and taking the time to write it yourself.
Uh the book is called Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation.
Uh Eric Trump.
You can get it in bookstores around the country, Amazon.com, Hannity.com.
Well, you set a record.
I've never had an author on for an hour and a half, but it's been fascinating.
Uh it's an honor to call you a friend.
And uh thank you for writing this book.
It's it's profound, it is deep, and it is consequential, like your father.
And I'm sure uh well, I you father brags about you and the kids all the time.
I mean, I'm like, okay, I've heard this a million times, but um he means it.
He loves you all.
That I know as an outsider, I can tell you, and um we really appreciate that you did this.
I think your greatest work, Eric.
I really do.
And thanks for being such a big part of the the fight, Sean.
We love you to death, you know that.
Same same here.
All right.
Under siege, my family's fight to save our nation, eight hundred nine four one Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh all right, so many of you have been so patient.
I know we have a lot of other issues today.
Oh, we've got the big debate.
Uh when is it?
It's tonight, isn't it?
With Zoran Kami Mam Dani.
Oh, it's tomorrow night.
Uh right after that debate, by the way, Curtis Slewitz, right across the street from Fox.
He's gonna walk over to Fox and he's gonna come on the air.
This is Curtis is gonna be on fire tomorrow night.
You watch.
He's gonna be great.
I promise you.
He's born to do this.
He spent all these years in radio.
He's a pro.
And they have no idea what's about to hit him.
And he's gonna go after Cuomo and he's gonna go after Tommy Mamdani.
Um, so it's gonna be interesting to watch.
Um all right, let's get to our busy phones.
Uh let's start in North Carolina with uh Nancy.
Nancy, hi.
You're on the Sean Hannity show.
Thanks for checking in.
Yeah, thanks for being on the air, Sean.
Um, I just have an idea for all the in Hamas uh protesters that have been out, and now's the time for them to head on over to Palestine and help rebuild.
I think we could give them first class tickets over there, and they'd have a chance to help the Palestinians rebuild that area.
Yeah, but I mean they seem to care so much about it, and they're setting up encampments on college campuses and you know, end the war in Gaza, stop the genocide, all this.
Well, guess what?
Donald Trump has stopped it, and now maybe they can go over and convince the really radical wing of Hamas to, you know, not break the peace and not assassinate the way they have been people that are perceived as having been supporters of of a peace deal so that people can live more productive lives.
I think we send them over.
Uh give them free airfare.
I like the idea.
I'll contribute.
Oh good.
Oh, great call, Nancy.
We appreciate we this is what I love about my audience.
You're so smart.
You have the smartest audience in the world.
So blessed.
Uh Zach in Missouri.
Hey Zach, how are you?
Glad you called when I was in the DC swamp.
I did get to see your great Senator Eric Schmidt yesterday.
What's going on?
Oh, not much, Sean.
Uh huge fan of the show, been been listening and watching to uh watching you for years.
Um called in to uh talk about the spam burger uh fiasco, I guess you would call it.
Well, it's beyond a fiasco.
Uh and she won't condemn she won't condemn this guy that made death threats uh against the speaker in uh Virginia, and uh it's pretty amazing that you know she's she's ducking and dodging and weaving and you know, standing by her man, if you will.
And uh, where's your sense of principle?
He's talking about killing, you know, I've I have two bullets.
You have Hitler, Pol Pot, and the Speaker of the House.
I think I'll use both of them on the speaker and then go after his family so that they learn a lesson.
Wow.
Yeah, how would she feel if somebody said that about her?
I think I think that's a great question.
I don't think anyone's asked that.
Yeah, I think if the tables were turned, I don't I don't think that she would like that very much.
I mean, I know I wouldn't um if someone said that about me and I I was listening to the debate questions and she can't even answer a yes or no question on if she would rescind uh current policies of transgender bathrooms um regarding especially the the latest case of the the young man that was in the shower stall and uh in the the girls locker room that saw him in there and and uh and all of that and and as a dad of two young girls I just think it's absolutely ludicrous um that these policies are even in place to
begin with.
Um but I come from a small town in in uh southwest Missouri of like two thousand people so um that hasn't made it here and I hope it never does.
Um, you know, uh I I think this whole transgender thing um is a parenting issue, a lot of it.
Uh the parents are not there, parents are absent, and these kids um they're not living in godly households, and they are they are being misled by social media and everything else, and and then this is the world we live in because of it.
Zach, how about this?
How about the schools and all these politicians?
How about they focus on their jobs?
How about they focus on keeping America safe and secure, uh, make America prosperous?
Uh how about standing up for hard working men and women?
How about restoring law and order in towns and cities, and how about they leave our children the hell alone and stop indoctrinating them and you know, stop this this DEI woke insanity.
Uh if you want to be, you know, pro transgender, fine, but it's a parent's decision, it's not the government's decision.
Stay out of our family business.
How's that?
Right.
I 100% completely agree, Sean.
All right, man.
Appreciate the call.
Uh thank you for being out there.
Uh George in my free state of Florida.
George, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, I got two things.
Uh first about the Middle East.
When you um when you interviewed Netanyahu about over ten years ago, he said the problem with American politics is that we we basically do things in four-year cycles.
And President Trump has broken that that model because he did things during his first four years laying the groundwork, and then they'll of course let the the four years thereafter.
There's still things that he done prior to that still work.
Now he's come back, and he's he is basically as a grand strategist, has saved millions of lives.
So uh he's just not a person.
He he Trump is a movement.
So he broke that four-year cycle because when one politician comes in and does something, then the next one couldn't come in and change it.
They, you know, that that can be a problem with our with our our uh our policies overseas.
And the second thing is Eric Trump's book, um, you know, Donald Trump is is is the he didn't have to come down the escalator, but he has given America the a wonderful life shop.
He is the George Bailey, ultimate George Bailey.
He has he he didn't have to do any of that, and and but he saved his great-grandchildren, my great-grandchildren.
He has we were very close to having a Pottersville shot.
Um if it wasn't for uh his his sacrifice and and his his uh just uh his fight fight fight, uh he has talked over the heads of the of the of the media directly to the people, and that's what um we're just we're now uh just uh we're just I'm just so glad we dodged that bullet.
And I'm just so thankful for Eric.
Um I'm looking forward to reading Eric Trump's book, because that's another thing is he that book would we I can pass that on to other people and we can talk over the heads of the media and continue to just uh uh show uh how important um those uh those policies are.
Listen, I think your comparison is so fascinating.
If if I watch It's a Wonderful Life and I'm tearing up every year, I watch it always around Christmas time.
I like the colorized version.
I can't help it.
Um, although the black and white version is still cool too.
And George Bailey, you know, wanted to, you know, see the world and circumstances were unfolding, and his father died, and his brother, you know, he allowed his brother to go to college before him.
His brother comes home a war hero, and it just keeps falling in his lap, his destiny, and that is, you know, this one savings alone that was able to save an entire town from this one mean old grumpy, you know, washed up, whatever, whatever words he used against, you know, Mr. Potter, um, and was able to help people buy homes and get out of, you know, his his slums, if you will, to use an old phrase.
And it's uh it it's it's a heartwarming story.
And then all of a sudden he finds himself in trouble, and he was able to see through circumstances and an angel that came into his life because he was at his breaking point and see what life would have been like for that town without him.
And you know, I think so many of us don't even realize, I mean, you know, maybe we don't realize the impact we sometimes have on people, and I'm talking about everyday people.
You know, maybe you spend a moment with grandma, maybe you spend a moment with a kid next door that's in trouble, maybe maybe you donate to somebody that can't afford a Thanksgiving dinner.
Maybe, you know, these little things that you do in life, you know, add up to and define who you are.
And um, I think that that whole story is a lesson all of us.
And the little things that we do in life and finding our purpose in life and finding God's purpose for us in life, I think is paramount to to living a happy life.
And um, I think it's a perfect example.
Can can I make also another because for my generation, uh Back to the Future also used um a wonderful life uh parts of it.
Uh Donald Trump is George McFly.
One punch of this uh to this face changed American politics.
So his um fighting has has made the media and the Democratic Party just just uh not as as uh powerful anymore.
And it changed it's it's changed people's legacies, life's trajectories, and so you know I mean uh I like the Christmas time too, but it is is his his also he's a he's the George McFly from my generation.
I listen, you make great movie analogies.
I think we're gonna make you the official movie critic of the Sean Hannity show.
Um I I think it's you know, apropos and right on the money.
Uh George, God bless you, man.
Appreciate your call.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh let's say hi to Greg.
He's in Westchester in New York.
Uh, Greg, how are you?
The number one property tax county in America.
I know because I lived in the number two property tax county in the in the country when I did live in New York.
Thank God I left.
Correct, Sean.
Uh long time viewer.
It's a it's a pleasure to talk to you and thank you for all your all your hard work and all you do to keep this country going straight.
Um we're all we're all spokes in the wheel, my friend.
Right.
My question, Sean is regarding uh what's going on with the National Guard uh in cities like uh Chicago and Portland uh versus cities like Memphis, who are uh you know, mayor there is asking for the National Guard's help.
Suppose the president were to change his strategy a little bit and just say, you know what, we're gonna pull the guard from Chicago, we're gonna pull them from Portland.
We're gonna leave that crime rate up to you, Mr. Mayors, and see what you can do with it.
We're gonna go focus on cities uh that are asking for our help.
Such as Methodist.
Basically showing, I think the country what was going to be happening if National Guard and local enforcement work together.
What the crime rate, how they could really lower the crime rate in that city versus what's going to continue to go on in Chicago and Portland without their help at all.
And let the country judge as to whether they view what's better for them, National Guard or no National Guard.
What do you what's your opinion on that?
You know, I look at J.B. Pritzker, you know, big fat loudmouth that he is, and I'm just like, you know, four over 4,000 people in your state died.
You have five times the the murder rate, the homicide rate than people in New York City.
That's saying something.
And you know, I I wish he showed the same passion for saving the lives of people in his state as he does for hating Donald Trump.
Uh, you know, how do you justify with all these crazy protesters and ice feeling for security reasons they have to put a fence around their facility?
How do you justify taking that fence down?
Do you want them to get hurt?
Do you want them to get killed?
Uh, on top of all the incendiary rhetoric that the left uses.
So, you know, I I I can't really it's inexplicable to me.
It's the height of irresponsibility, and it's why Republicans deserve to stay in power.
That's why these midterms, and we're gonna start talking.
We're a year away.
And I'm telling you, it's all hands on deck again.
We need all of you, all hands on deck.
Nobody can sit this out.
We everybody's gotta get involved, or else, you know, all progress will stop if these radicals get in power.
Anyway, I have to run.
I'm on a hard break here, but God bless you.
Great point, 800-941 Sean is our number.
You want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
We got a great show tonight, Hannity, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Uh we'll check in with Steven Miller.
He'll be pounding back against the likes of JB Pritzker and Associates.
Uh, why wouldn't Democrats want law and order and safety and security?
Senator Ted Cruz, Schumer Shutdown, and all the latest out of Washington, James Uttmeyer, who is the AG of Florida, has a big announcement.
I don't know what it is yet, but we'll find out tonight.
And Clay Travis to EDVR, Hannity, 9 Eastern on Fox.
See you then back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
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