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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 eight hundred, nine four-one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh it's always a privilege, pleasure to have uh back on the program.
Uh author, columnist, now a podcast host, uh Miranda Devine is with us.
Uh 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.
Uh 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 uh it's asking for Curtis Lewa to drop out.
So you're you guys are making a lot of news today.
It it is indeed.
And uh, I mean, I'm with you.
I think that the fewer are 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 um uh 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 it's the president's home.
It is the showcase for the nation, for the world of you know, the number one superpower in the world.
How can you have guests in a tent?
So the ballroom's well overdue, and honestly, um uh you know, haven't they got anything better to complain about?
Obviously not.
Yeah, uh they don't have anything.
What what was your reaction?
I mean, we 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, uh a woman mocking uh 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 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.
Um they looked like retired teachers, retired public servants on nice fat pensions, with really uh no skin in the game, and just selfish anti-Trump people.
Um and then the other thing that occurred to me was that uh I think that the unmasking of Antifa, the fact that Donald Trump has designated them a terrorist uh group, has really put the wind up them.
Uh and so they're now sort of changing costumes and they're getting you notice outside the ice facilities um in Chicago in Portland.
They're dressing up as animals, which I have unpleasant connotations with the whole furry business with the assassin of Charlie Kirk.
But putting 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 I'm having a hard time explaining it.
Uh 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 uh that somehow you're sexualizing cartoon animals.
Um it's weird.
It's beyond weird, it's very online.
Uh it's a subset of a subset of sort of sexual perversion.
Who knows?
Um, but I don't really want to know too much about it.
All I know is that 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.
Um I know it's you and I both it's not savory.
Yeah.
But um 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 would they're trying to rehash uh 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, uh if you look at the latest poll, even head to head, Mamdanny versus Cuomo, he loses by four or five points.
I don't think Cuomo can beat him.
And I I think it's a lot to ask Curtis to step out of the race, you know, when it seems like you know, the wins are at Mamdanny'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 uh 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.
And 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 I probably would because I 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 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 so fraudulent, so uh in bed with the left.
He's responsible for the uh law and order crisis that we had in New York uh still have but ameliorated somewhat by Eric Adams.
Um you know he and De Blasio both just dismantled uh the criminal justice system together and he, you know, whether Cuomo believed it or or not, he was a progressive Democrat.
He wanted to run for president so he was going on the left.
And he 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 it 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 with m 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 or one percent 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 defund, dismantle, 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, it's going to, 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, the first responders who gave their lives to save people in the World Trade Center after the second attack.
He is palling 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 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 who became injured, who lost friends, who 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 um and this guy is now acting as if he's going to decide what New York is it's so arrogant.
You know I I'm I was born in this city but I haven didn't live here for you know 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 nine eleven.
By the way Andy McCarthy who prosecuted the blind shake in the 93 Trade Center bombing incident said he's 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 and one of his many hate-filled rants, and there were many of them.
Uh Miranda, I understand you have to go.
Uh I'm not going to keep you over time.
We do appreciate you joining us as always.
Uh 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 gotta tell you that I went to uh as a the diehard Trump patriot.
I went to one of the No Kings Rally here in uh Buffalo outside of Buffalo had three going on in one day.
And uh I was uh holding my Trump flag.
And I'll tell you the people are are really I I just don't understand them.
But uh my story is that I was holding the Trump flag and some car stopped, didn't see him, ripped my 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's 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 it was just chaotic.
I had first time I was ever at I hope you got the license plate and t called the police.
We did, we did, sir.
We got the license plate, the police showed off, we made a report.
Um we got to make and model the car, the plate and everything.
So they they uh their time is coming.
Good.
Uh as it should.
I I look I I warned everybody to stay away because I uh because this is the predictable result.
Um Nick Sorter, who's who just is fearless in Portland, he went there.
I mean, they've attacked him in the past, he doesn't care.
Um I give him a lot of credit for for bravery, you know, for the average person, you know, you gotta know what you what situation you're putting yourself in.
You know, we're 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.
Uh there are events I have scheduled, uh, and I'm gonna do them.
Uh, but I wouldn't do an outdoor event, number one, because nobody can afford the the you know the the reconnaissance beforehand uh to do a a good job.
You can control an interior environment.
You could do a sweep of of the venue before anybody even steps into it.
Uh, you can secure it afterwards.
Uh you make sure everyone gets magged.
You they can't bring guns or weapons into the event.
Uh, I recommend you stay on an elevated stage and and you not be a ground level with the crowd.
That that at that point they can rush you.
I mean, I've I've studied and practiced situational self-defense now for all these years.
Never want to use it.
Never and but on the other hand, you gotta you gotta know what you're getting into.
And I understand the curiosity factor.
You want to go find out what that 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 the benefit of this is you know, it 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.
Uh 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the prog uh program.
Uh, let us say uh Guy in Maryland will check in with you.
Guy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, hi, Sean.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I just wanted to make three quick points about the uh No Kings rally.
We happened to be up in Hanover just shopping, and uh 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 uh boarded up buildings or whether it's like homeless people.
No, they go to these really nice neighborhoods.
Then they get in their nice cars and drive to their five hundred thousand dollar homes that they can because uh Trump keeps them safe.
And they're 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.
So actually, I think it's uh I 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 astro turfing.
Um, it in the end, you know, when Momdani wins, it's probably uh 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 uh and Charlie Kirk, uh, 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 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
News Roundup Information Overload Hour coming up straight ahead.
Look, uh, I touched on this earlier.
I'm gonna touch on it again, and because it's so amazing.
Now we we went through in great specificity and detail the the lunacy of the left over the weekend.
I mean, I I mean calling Charlie Kirk garbage and and one woman making a you know, basically saying to a Charlie Kirk supporter, pointing a gun with you know, with her finger at her neck to shoot it.
I mean, this is sick.
This is 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 uh that exists in this country.
I 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 gonna be over 200 million dollars.
He's adding a ballroom to beautify the White House.
It is not the first time it's happened.
You know, Theodore Roosevelt, uh, the mansion's second floor rooms converted from presidential offices to family living quarters.
Oh, wonder if he faced this kind of meltdown.
You know, but if you you know go through other renovations, uh 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 by to the main building uh by terraces in 1948, Truman, the main building discovered to be structurally unsound.
They they they had to shore that thing up, and they while they left the original exterior walls standing, but the second floor balcony was added.
Uh alterations with Jacqueline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, and anyway, that were were made in the 1960s.
I mean, just keep going on.
The situation room added by Kennedy, the sit room.
Uh, then you look at other additions that presidents, you know, pursuing, you know, uh 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 uh Ford added an uh outdoor uh pool constructed, a putting green was put in by Dwight Eisenhower.
President Truman was uh 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 and basketball court lines were added to the tennis court.
Nobody reacts like this.
Let me let me just Play some of the looniness that's out there.
So the people's house is basically being sold to the higher spidder.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
It's too obvious.
It's like you couldn't hit that up.
Yeah.
Donald Trump who promised that he was not going to take a wrecking ball to the existing structure as taking a taking a wrecking ball to existing structure.
I gotta say, Mick, it really is it's it is it is hard to watch that.
And it's hard to believe that any president could destroy the White House uh and and take a wrecking ball to an existing structure so historic.
That is what's happening.
It'd be one thing if 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 uh this after the Rose Garden.
Um and the uh I guess the patio that they have put in.
Well, um, which you could argue.
Um, yeah.
I mean, this is horrifying 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.
Yeah, we're destroying like 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?
He no no taxpayer money is being spent on it.
Anyway, Daryl 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.
Um shake uh President Trump's hand for me and tell him I said thank you.
We uh my my brother and I, since uh, you know, the events of September 10th here being in Utah, we we didn't want to be silent anymore.
And uh and we marched up State Street on Saturday to the No Kings protests.
And uh we we got up there and and we we stood there quietly and uh we didn't approach anybody and we were approached, and the videos that we've seen online, we you know, we talk about them all the time, but that hatred and vile conduct and attitude is so real, it blew our minds.
Um first time for everything, we did have a great conversation with the unicorn for a few minutes, believe it or not.
Um and we shook hands, we shook hands with a few people.
I I at first I didn't believe this furry thing was real.
After watching this weekend, I I guess it's real.
People identifying as animals.
I you know, I I I just I can't I can't go there.
It it it blew our minds.
The dinosaurs and everybody that was there.
Uh when when it broke and they started marching down State Street, we we kind of stood there, uh, you know, the one finger wave, you know, almost touching my face.
The the rhetoric and the hate and the misery that that they're living in their lives is anything that we could have comprehended.
And we were thinking about going down to the to down to Provo afterwards, and we're we were just so exhausted from just the hate that went, I had to go to the gym and work it off.
Um we went up there and we just wanted either the gym and then go to Crown Burger, and you're good.
The Crown Burger will solve any problem you have in Utah.
Something, something like that.
Uh it it's real.
The videos are real.
The it it it blew our minds, but but we we didn't want to be silent.
We stood there peacefully.
People try and try and you know trick me into saying something that they were just trying to, you know, dox me into saying that would prove their point, and then I wouldn't do it.
And and I I asked people to come up politely, and 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 the hate that they just spewed into my face without even saying hello or asking any questions, blew our minds.
And uh You're 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.
Right.
And I I 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 that became a stretch that that was a bridge too far for me.
Uh well, Darrell, listen, uh, you handled it perfectly.
Good for you.
Uh, hope the workout helped.
Uh, just hang in there.
But you know, I t 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.
Uh, Rick is in Rhode Island, uh by old state.
Uh, 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?
How uh what's up, uh 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.
That's I don't know and stuff.
Um, because I have a personal connection to that particular problem.
I think the share.
Um, I met the woman in my dreams 24 years ago.
We just had our anniversary this past weekend.
And um, she had two sons, and the youngest um my youngest stepson, he was 31 years old, he was living in Illinois, and uh he had a a problem with um opioids on and off on and off.
And he was doing real good.
And um then he broke his ankle playing beach volleyball.
And uh, because of his past, they wouldn't give him anything stronger than like Tylenol to take care of the pain.
Well, obviously that wasn't working.
So he broke down and called a friend of his and said, Yeah, I've got some coding, and I can actually have a couple of coding pills for living.
Well, don't you know it they released with that?
Oh no.
Long story short, um, 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 her son.
She was like, she couldn't eat sleep, drink anything work for like four days.
And um, so I have a personal connection to this.
Congratulate President Trump, but finally doing something about this, whatever it takes.
I I open upload 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 for almost certain death.
And these drug dealers that that lace these drugs with fentanyl uh for ten dollars, they'll kill somebody, and they they're not gonna bat an eyelash.
They don't care.
Um, 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 I've met families that have lost their loved ones to drug overdoses.
And uh in every case I can tell you, and and I'm not trying to scare you here, but I'm gonna tell you the tr my experience with 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 from are basically, you know, before the overdose, you know, before OD and after OD.
Kind of like B C A D, right?
It's you 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, it's I 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 injured or something, which will immediately start crying.
She never did that before, but it brings up all of the old pain again.
It rips the scab off the window.
Well, this is why, you know, this is a president that is saying you're not gonna traffic and profit off the death of our citizens and taking these boats out of the water and warning Colombia and and Venezuela uh that if they think they're gonna pro continue to profit from the death of American citizens by flooding this country with this crap and this garbage.
Uh it's not gonna fly anymore.
We have a new sheriff in town, and I like the message the president's sending.
And the last thing I'm gonna say to people is, you know, don't start.
Uh I know people, many people, even professional people, doctors, lawyers, you know, they they have an operation.
They have some type of medical condition.
They get they get hooked on these pain meds.
They can't get off them.
And it's insidious.
And then, you know, they, if you end up going on the black market, it's a crapshoot with your life.
It's scary.
Uh, my prayers to you and your wife.
Uh, happy anniversary to you both.
And uh our prayers are with 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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Quick break, we'll continue more on the other side, straight ahead.
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