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Oct. 22, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Protest Madness - October 21st, Hour 2
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll-free on numbers 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, it's always a privilege, pleasure to have back on the program author, columnist, now a podcast host, Miranda Devine is with us.
We have a lot of topics to discuss with you.
The No Kings rally madness and insanity that was on display around the country this weekend.
Issue one, the left's meltdown over Donald Trump doing what many, many presidents before him did, renovate the White House, and he's not using a penny of taxpayer dollars.
And then issue number three is, well, I have the front cover of your newspaper today, and it's asking for Curtis Lewa to drop out.
So you guys are making a lot of news today.
It is indeed.
And I mean, I'm with you.
I think that the Fuhrer over the ballroom just shows how little the left and the Democrats have to complain about with Donald Trump.
As you say, he's not paying taxpayers are not paying a cent for this fantastic new ballroom.
And it's been needed for a long time, as Donald Trump points out.
I mean, it's not good enough to put dignitaries from overseas for state dinners into a tent in the backyard.
I mean, it's the president's home.
It is the showcase for the nation, for the world, of the number one superpower in the world.
How can you have guests in a tent so the ballroom's well overdue?
And honestly, haven't they got anything better to complain about?
Obviously, not.
Yeah, they don't have anything.
What was your reaction?
I mean, we've been playing clips and cuts the last two days of these No Kings protesters, one even saying he wants to kill Trump, another calling for ICE agents to get shot, a woman mocking in front of a Charlie Kirk supporter, his assassination, others, you know, attacking him.
And I mean, everyone dressed up as animals and, you know, weird dancing and chanting and slogans.
And I mean, it was just bizarre to me.
Yeah, look, two things ran through my mind watching that.
One was really how old the crowd was.
Somebody described them as Q-tips, people with white hair.
They looked like retired teachers, retired public servants on nice fat pensions with really no skin in the game and just selfish anti-Trump people.
And the other thing that occurred to me was that I think that the unmasking of Antifa, the fact that Donald Trump has designated them a terrorist group, has really put the wind up them.
And so they're now sort of changing costumes and they're getting notice outside the ICE facilities in Chicago, in Portland.
They're dressing up as animals, which has unpleasant connotations with the whole furry business with the assassin of Charlie Kirk.
I'm still having a hard time understanding it.
Maybe if you want to explain it to this audience, you're very welcome because I'm having a hard time explaining it.
Sean, me too, but I think that's because we don't really want to know.
And I don't think your audience does either.
It's so perverse and so perverted that somehow you're sexualizing cartoon animals.
It's weird.
It's beyond weird.
It's very online.
It's a subset of a subset of sort of sexual perversion.
Who knows?
but I don't really want to know too much about it.
All I know is that those I'm with you.
I don't want to know.
I'm like, okay, I'm out of this.
I don't want to know.
I'm happy to be ignorant on some things.
I know it's you and I both.
It's not savory.
Yeah.
But look, the New York Post over the years has been very good to Curtis Lewa and the Guardian Angels.
You know, and he's had his hiccups here and there.
They've been well chronicled.
I mean, they're trying to rehash old news in a lot of ways.
I personally think he'd be Rudy 2.0.
I really do believe that.
I think that, you know, if you look at the latest poll, even head to head, Mamdani versus Cuomo, he loses by four or five points.
I don't think Cuomo can beat him.
And I think it's a lot to ask Curtis to step out of the race, you know, when it seems like, you know, the winds are at Mamdani's back and New York City is about to elect a Marxist.
Yeah, I mean, look, I'm with you in terms of, I think it's a big call to expect the only Republican in the race to quit and to disenfranchise all those Republican voters in New York.
I mean, we are here.
We are downtrodden, but we exist.
And it would make strategic sense if by his dropping out, Cuomo was assured of victory.
But the polls, none of the polls show that.
Cuomo still trails, even if every single one of Sliwa's voters went to Cuomo, Cuomo's still behind.
There's no way Sliwa voters are going to move to Cuomo.
I don't see it.
Well, that's right.
I mean, look.
I probably would because I would want to stop Mamdani.
I think there'll be certainly an element of that.
But a lot of people will just sit on the couch.
They will not be able to bring themselves to vote for Cuomo, who was a disaster in so many ways, so fraudulent, so in bed with the left.
He's responsible for the law and order crisis that we had in New York.
I still have, but ameliorated somewhat by Eric Adams.
You know, he and de Blasio both just dismantled the criminal justice system together.
And he, you know, whether Cuomo believed it or not, he was a progressive Democrat.
He wanted to run for president, so he was going on the left.
He just, in every way, the nursing home edicts that he gave, he still hasn't really repented for that or apologized for that.
It was a problem.
It was a big problem.
And the people who lost loved ones are never going to forgive him for that.
So the other problem I have with Cuomo is he's not even trying hard.
He just, there's no fight in him.
He's not giving us anything to fight.
He just seems almost comatose.
We had a story the other day.
He's had 10 days off the campaign trail since Labor Day.
You haven't seen that from Sliwa.
You haven't seen that from Mamdani.
The energy is with those two candidates.
And I know Sliwa has really no chance or, you know, Buckley's chance, so 1%.
Well, I mean, in fairness to him, it's a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 10 to 1.
So it's not really his fault, but I mean, at least he's given him an opportunity to say, okay, you want the fund dismantled and the guy that won't, you know, condemn, you know, global antifada and the guy that wants Bibi arrested and this lunatic, you know, Marxist socialist redistribution, free buses.
Socialists instead of police officers, social workers instead of police officers, it's nuts.
Well, it's nuts.
And he's just putting up the middle finger to the New Yorkers who, the first responders who gave their lives to save people in the World Trade Center after the second attack.
He is powing around with the Imam, the radical Imam, who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center attack.
He just did that on Friday.
He posted a photo of himself with his arms around this Imam.
I mean, that is such an affront and an insult to all those first responders, all those New Yorkers who lost their lives, all the great American patriots who went to war, who gave up their lives, who became injured, who lost friends, who answered the call to save this country after 9-11.
And this little pipsqueak who wasn't even born in New York, who didn't even bother getting naturalized as an American citizen until he was well into his late 20s, mid to late 20s, 26, 27.
And this guy is now acting as if he's going to decide what New York is.
It's so arrogant.
You know, I was born in this city, but I didn't live here for three quarters of my life.
So I'm not arrogant enough to tell people how to vote.
And I certainly don't think this guy who wasn't even born in this city should be arrogant enough to tell New Yorkers how they should feel about 9-11.
By the way, Andy McCarthy, who prosecuted the blind shake in the 93 Trade Center bombing incident, said he wasn't officially an unindicted co-conspirator.
But remember, he testified on behalf of the blind shake.
Oh, and he did once refer to the United States as filthy and sick in one of his many hate-filled rants, and there were many of them.
Miranda, I understand you have to go.
I'm not going to keep you over time.
We do appreciate you joining us, as always.
Miranda Devine, New York Post.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Thanks, Sean.
All right, to our busy phones we go.
Buffalo, New York.
Kevin next on the Sean Hannity show.
Kevin, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Thank you, Sean, for taking my car.
I'm doing fine.
Thank you.
What's going on?
Well, I got to tell you that I went to, I heard Trump Patriot.
I went to one of the No Kings rally here in Buffalo outside of Buffalo.
He had three going on in one day.
And I was holding my Trump flag.
And I'll tell you, the people are really, I just don't understand them.
But my story is that I was holding the Trump flag and some car stopped, didn't see them, ripped the flag out of my hand.
And he had a mask on, Free Palestine shirt on.
And there's another gentleman standing next to me tried to grab my flag.
So, you know, I seen the car stop.
There was a lady driving and I went to the car and they ended up dragging me about 10, 15 feet.
And then I rolled in the street.
And it was just chaotic.
First time I was ever at.
I hope you got the license plate and called the police.
We did.
We did, sir.
We got the license plate.
The police showed up.
We made a report.
We got the making model of the car, the plate, and everything.
So their time is coming.
Good.
As it should.
Look, I warned everybody to stay away because this is the predictable result.
Nick Sorter, who just is fearless in Portland, he went there.
I mean, they've attacked him in the past.
He doesn't care.
I give him a lot of credit for bravery.
You know, for the average person, you got to know what situation you're putting yourself in.
You know, we're at a point with assassination culture now that I'm telling every conservative, whether I like them or agree with them, it doesn't matter.
You're a target.
And, you know, I'm telling people, don't not do your events.
Do your events.
There are events I have scheduled and I'm going to do them.
But I wouldn't do an outdoor event, number one, because nobody can afford the reconnaissance beforehand to do a good job.
You can control an interior environment.
You could do a sweep of the venue before anybody even steps into it.
You can secure it afterwards.
You make sure everyone gets magged.
They can't bring guns or weapons into the event.
I recommend you stay on an elevated stage and you not be a ground level with the crowd.
At that point, they can rush you.
I mean, I've studied and practiced situational self-defense now for all these years.
Never want to use it.
But on the other hand, you got to know what you're getting into.
And I understand the curiosity factor.
You want to go find out what this is all about and hear what they have to say, but you're not dealing with rational, reasonable people.
Donald Trump is not a king.
They don't like the fact that they lost an election.
They're having a hard time dealing with it, and this is their way of just lashing out.
You know, the benefit of this is, you know, for people that are in the middle that often swing elections, they're seeing what we all saw.
They're hearing what we all heard, and they're turning it off.
Anyway, good luck.
Let us know how that works out.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let us say, Guy in Maryland will check in with you.
Guy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, hi, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I just wanted to make three quick points about the No Kings rally.
We happened to be up in Hanover just shopping, and then we went to Gettysburg, and they were there.
You know what, Sean, they don't go to any bad neighborhoods.
They don't go into the city where there's any boarded up buildings or where there's like homeless people.
No, they go to these really nice neighborhoods.
Then they get in their nice cars and drive to their $500,000 homes that they can because Trump keeps them safe.
And that's a guy that protested.
And my final point is, my wife pointed out, the stupidest guy that was at any rally, he had a sign that said, I'm an unpaid protester.
So in other words, he's a moron who's not getting paid where all the other ones are morons getting paid.
That had to be the most ridiculous sign ever.
Actually, I think it's, I love the fact is he's calling attention to the fact that a lot of these people are paid and there is a lot of financing and there is a lot of what we call astroturfing.
Look, in the end, you know, when Mamdani wins, it's probably a net plus, plus, plus for the Republicans nationwide.
When they protest like this and they dress up in their little animal uniforms and they, you know, say crazy stuff and they're vicious and mean to people like President Trump and Donald and Charlie Kirk, they are hurting their cause and they are being incited by Democrats in the House and Senate and local elected officials with their fascist, Nazi, racist rhetoric, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini comparisons.
In the end, those are not ideas that make lives of people better.
Anyway, I got a roll, 800-941-Shawn is on number.
If you want to be a part of the program, news roundup information overload hour coming up straight ahead.
Look, I touched on this earlier.
I'm going to touch on it again because it's so amazing.
Now, we went through in great specificity and detail the lunacy of the left over the weekend.
I mean, calling Charlie Kirk garbage and one woman making a, you know, basically saying to a Charlie Kirk supporter, pointing a gun with her finger at her neck to shoot it.
I mean, this is sick.
This is really, really sick stuff.
You know, calls for ICE agents to get shot.
You know, one protester saying he wants to kill Trump.
And, okay, it's every single second of every day.
I keep saying this.
Trump derangement syndrome is real.
There's nothing this man can do that will ever satisfy this radical left that exists in this country.
I mean, for example, the president is doing some renovations of the White House.
He's paying for it.
Him and donors are paying for it.
It's going to be over $200 million.
He's adding a ballroom to beautify the White House.
It is not the first time it's happened.
You know, Theodore Roosevelt, the mansion's second-floor rooms converted from presidential offices to family living quarters.
Oh, I wonder if he faced this kind of meltdown.
But if you go through other renovations, the West Wing constructed in 1902, more office space made available with the building of the East Wing in 1942.
The East and West Wings connected to the main building by terraces.
In 1948, Truman, the main building, discovered to be structurally unsound.
They had to shore that thing up.
And while they left the original exterior walls standing, but a second floor balcony was added.
Alterations with Jacqueline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy.
And anyway, that were made in the 1960s.
I mean, just keep going on.
The situation room added by Kennedy, the sit room.
Then you look at other additions that presidents, you know, pursuing, you know, their passions.
Theodore Roosevelt, you know, moved the west side of the South Lawn, relocated farther south still.
Franklin Roosevelt added a heated indoor swimming pool.
President Ford added an outdoor pool constructed.
A putting green was put in by Dwight Eisenhower.
President Truman was not an avid bowler, but friends from his home state were.
They financed the building of bowling lanes.
Richard Nixon, a dedicated bowler, loved that part.
Barack Obama, you know, added basketball courts, removable baskets, and basketball court lines were added to the tennis court.
Nobody reacts like this.
Let me just play some of the looniness that's out there.
So the people's house is basically being sold to the highest bidder.
It is corruption at its core.
And I heard someone say this when I was backstage.
It could not be.
There's no greater metaphor right now than what's happening right now in this country than watching Donald Trump take a wrecking ball to the White House.
It's kind of obvious.
It's too obvious.
It's like he couldn't make that up.
Donald Trump, who promised that he was not going to take a wrecking ball to the existing structure, has taking a wrecking ball to existing structure.
I got to say, Mick, it really is.
It is hard to watch that.
And it's hard to believe that any president could destroy the White House and take a wrecking ball to an existing structure so historic.
That is what's happening.
It'd be one thing if you were building on or you were doing things inside, but to take literally a wrecking ball to the White House.
It's grotesque.
It's just grotesque.
Yeah.
And this after the Rose Garden and the, I guess, the patio that they have put in, which you could argue.
But it's far different.
It's painful.
I mean, this is historic structure.
So if somebody wants to go into the White House, the next person wants to just knock down all the walls and turn it into a disco, Congress can't do anything.
I mean, seriously.
You're destroying one of the most historic structures on the planet.
Well, as I mentioned on this program a couple weeks ago, I think it's fairly grotesque to begin construction, just the optics of beginning construction on a grand ballroom at a time when the government is shut down, inflation is still high, costs are still high.
What do you care?
No taxpayer money is being spent on it.
Anyway, Darryl is in Utah.
Daryl, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
How are you, my friend?
Good afternoon, Sean.
Great honor to speak with you.
Shake President Trump's hand for me and tell him I said thank you.
My brother and I, since the events of September 10th here, being in Utah, we didn't want to be silent anymore.
And we marched up State Street on Saturday to the No Kings protest.
And we got up there and we stood there quietly and we didn't approach anybody.
And we were approached.
And the videos that we've seen online, we talk about them all the time.
But that hatred and vile conduct and attitude is so real, it blew our minds.
First time for everything, we did have a great conversation with the unicorn for a few minutes, believe it or not.
And we shook hands.
We shook hands with a few people.
At first, I didn't believe this furry thing was real after watching this weekend.
I guess it's real.
People identifying as animals.
I just, I can't go there.
It blew our minds.
The dinosaurs and everybody that was there.
When it broke and they started marching down State Street, we kind of stood there.
The one-finger waves, almost touching my face.
The rhetoric and the hate and the misery that they're living in their lives is anything that we could have comprehended.
And we were thinking about going down to Provo afterwards, and we were just so exhausted from just the hate.
I had to go to the gym and work it off.
We went up there and we just wanted Either the gym and then go to Crown Burger The Kraumberger will solve any problem you have in Utah.
Something, something like that.
It's real.
The videos are real.
It blew our minds, but we didn't want to be silent.
We stood there peacefully.
People try and trick me into saying something that they were just trying to dox me into saying that would prove their points.
And then I wouldn't do it.
And I asked people to come up politely.
I said, you should come up and just shake my hand and say good morning first, and then we'll have a conversation.
And the hate that they just spewed into my face without even saying hello or asking any questions blew our minds.
You are describing why I no longer live in New York.
You are describing one of the main reasons I don't live in New York.
And I can tell you the difference is night and day, how I'm treated in the free state of Florida.
And I didn't worry about my safety, but I felt like whenever I was with people, I was putting them in jeopardy, and I could not live with that.
That became a stretch.
That was a bridge too far for me.
Well, Daryl, listen, you handled it perfectly.
Good for you.
Hope the workout helped.
Just hang in there.
But, you know, I said this to Stephen A. Smith.
I said, all they're doing is showing Americans why we don't like them, why they can't be back in power.
Rick is in Rhode Island, my old state.
For five years, I lived there in Warren, Rhode Island, the Black Pearl, the best clam chowder on the face of this earth.
What's up, Rick?
What's up, Rick?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
What's on your mind today?
First thing I want to do is congratulate President Trump on combating the drugs coming out of South America, Least Isaac Vanilla and stuff, because I have a personal connection to that particular problem.
I can share.
I met the woman in my dreams 24 years ago.
We just had our anniversary this past weekend.
And she had two sons.
I have the youngest, my youngest stepson.
He was 31 years old.
He was living in Illinois.
And he had a problem with opioids on and offline and off.
And he was doing real good.
And then he broke his ankle playing beach volleyball.
And because of his past, they wouldn't give him anything stronger than that like Tyler to take care of the team.
Well, obviously that wasn't working.
So he broke down and called a friend of his and said, yeah, I've got some codeine.
I could let you have a couple of codeine pills.
Well, don't you know it?
They released with fentanyl.
Oh, no.
Long story short, his six-year-old daughter found him dead at 31 years old on the floor of his garage.
So my wife, I almost had to hospitalize this one.
It was like she couldn't eat, sleep, drink anything, work for like four days.
And so I have a personal connection to this.
I would like to congratulate President Trump on finally doing something about this for whatever it takes.
I open the floor of him, and I say, go, Trump, go.
Listen, there has been a 53% decrease in illegal immigration and drugs entering the country.
And this is, they are targeting American citizens for almost certain death.
And these drug dealers that lace these drugs with fentanyl, for $10, they'll kill somebody and they're not going to bat an eyelash.
They don't care.
I can't think of anything more painful than what you're describing.
I've met parents and I've been to conferences where I've met families that have lost their loved ones to drug overdoses.
And in every case, I can tell you, and I'm not trying to scare you here, but I'm going to tell you my experience, with maybe a couple of exceptions with people that have a very deep faith.
It's the only thing that pulls them through.
Most people, well, all people are never the same again.
Their lives are basically, you know, before the overdose, you know, before OD and after OD.
Kind of like BC, AD, right?
You just, you don't recover when you lose a loved one like that.
And I mean, I'm sure you probably are feeling it yourself.
And I'm sure your wife's definitely feeling it.
And, you know, I doubt there's a day that goes by or an hour that goes by where it doesn't come into your head.
Exactly.
We'll be watching something on TV and somebody's son will be hurt or injured or something, which the future will immediately start crying.
She never did that before, but it brings up all of the old pain again if it rips the scab off of the window.
Well, this is why, you know, this is a president that is saying you're not going to traffic and profit off the death of our citizens and taking these boats out of the water and warning Colombia and Venezuela that if they think they're going to continue to profit from the death of American citizens by flooding this country with this crap and this garbage, it's not going to fly anymore.
We have a new sheriff in town, and I like the message the president's sending.
And the last thing I'm going to say to people is, you know, don't start.
I know people, many people, even professional people, doctors, lawyers, you know, they have an operation.
They have some type of medical condition.
They get hooked on these pain meds.
They can't get off them.
And it's insidious.
And then, you know, if you end up going on the black market, it's a crap chute with your life.
It's scary.
My prayers to you and your wife.
Happy anniversary to you both.
And our prayers are with all of you.
I know that that's, I think, the hardest thing in life to ever have to go through.
I can't imagine it.
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