All Episodes
Previous Next
Oct. 28, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
26:39
Trump 's Whirlwind Asian Tour
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
This is an iHeart podcast.
All right, news roundup and information overload hour 800-941 Sean is on number.
If you want to be a part of the program, if you haven't been following, so the president left the U.S. at 11 p.m.
Friday night, 24 hours, one stop to refuel and headed over to Malaysia.
While there, he announced a historic agreement to end the military conflict between Malaysia and Cambodia on top of a massive trade deal that he made.
And let's play a little bit of that announcement.
Well, this is so exciting because we did something that a lot of people said couldn't be done.
And we saved maybe millions of lives on this one-piece deal itself.
And I'll tell you what makes me so happy is the two countries we're dealing with and the third that helped so much.
I appreciate so much.
Maybe it couldn't have been done without you, but they really like each other.
I'm not used to that when I do these deals.
Usually there's a lot of hatred.
They liked each other, so it made it a little bit easier.
But millions of people are alive today because of this peace treaty.
So before I begin, I want to extend our deepest condolences to the Prime Minister Newton, as well as His Majesty, the King of Thailand, and the entire nation on the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Siriquet, the Queen Mother, and a beautiful, incredible woman who is so respected all over, all over, all over the world, actually respected.
I know the people of Thailand remember her forever as the embodiment of dignity, kindness, and grace that's just happened.
But this is a woman who is so loved and respected.
Today, we honor the memory by bringing the blessing of peace to the nation she dearly loved.
She loved this nation like few people love their nations.
This is a momentous day for all of the people of Southeast Asia as we sign a historic agreement to end the military conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.
Anyway, the president now has made his stop in Japan.
Again, I mean, he's flying day and night.
I've heard from people that are around him.
He doesn't sleep on these trips.
I know when I went to the Gulf states with him, he just doesn't sleep.
And I guess probably the most consequential meeting will be with President Xi of China.
Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, said that the president and China's leader, President Xi, could consummate the deal as it relates to TikTok to operate in the U.S. Mr. Besson said that the U.S. and China had reached a final deal on TikTok.
And as of today, all details are going to be ironed out.
We'll be for the two leaders to consummate that transaction when they meet on Thursday in South Korea.
We also know that the issue of tariffs and rare earths will be discussed in detail.
Certainly the president last week making what, $8.5 billion or trillion dollar deal with Australia on rare earths, showing China that, well, we're going to survive without you and accelerating the production of rare earths and using our own natural resources to do it.
Also, I'm sure the issue of purchase of Russian oil will come up because, you know, between India, which President Trump put a 50% tariff on, European Union now has pulled back their purchases of Russian energy.
And it was announced last week that President Xi plans to do the same thing.
That would be a big deal because the entire economy of Russia is literally, pun intended, fueled by energy.
That is their entire economy.
That's the lifeblood that is funding Putin's war machine.
So there's a lot, obviously, to discuss.
And maybe there might be other transactions as well and perhaps a thawing of relationships between Xi and the United States and President Trump.
We'll see.
Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, The Great U.S.-China Tech War and former U.S. trade representative here to unpack this trip.
You know, there's a story in the New York Post.
It was either yesterday or today or Saturday, I forget which day, how the Chinese and Russians have infiltrated big tech companies in this country, and They're playing long ball in a major way,
and they're using attractive women to use sophisticated means to get close to big tech representatives in our country, even marry them and have children with them for the purpose of long-term spying and stealing intellectual property as it relates to big tech in this country.
Did you read that?
I skimmed the story.
Yes, very interesting.
You skimmed the story.
I've read the whole thing because it was so deep and sophisticated, I couldn't believe it.
And apparently these big tech people are falling for it.
You know, I guess, you know, a pretty girl winks her eyelashes at you and you think, oh, she must really love me.
Maybe not.
Maybe she's what they called it in the story was a honeypot.
Yes, well, the Chinese and the Russians have been doing this for decades.
And it's not just for national security secrets and technology.
They've been doing this against our businessmen.
So this has been comprehensive.
It's been going on for a very long time.
And the Chinese have been very successful at it.
The most important example in our country would be Christina Fong of the Ministry of State Security.
She had a relationship with Eric Swalwell, the congressman from California.
And we got to remember, you know, Sean, the Ministry of State Security first contacted Eric Swalwell, not when he was serving on the House Intelligence Committee, where obviously he had great benefit for China, but when he was on the city council of Dublin City, California.
And that shows you how extensive China's efforts have been, because I'm sure that Eric Swalwell was not the only person who was groomed.
And there have been many swallows, dozens, maybe hundreds.
So we've got to understand.
Dougal, you're talking about Fang Fang.
Yeah.
Yes, Fang Fang.
And you don't think that was an accident.
You think that was a sophisticated effort at infiltrating a, quote, member of Congress.
Well, it was an effort to promote somebody who one day might become a member of Congress or one day might be a Supreme Court justice or, God forbid, the president of the United States.
Now, this is not to say that Swalwell did anything wrong.
It is to say, though, that China was working on him from a very early stage.
And it shows you how large China's program is to infiltrate the U.S. Every institution or virtually every institution in the U.S. has been infiltrated from top to bottom.
And that means we got to get the Chinese regime out of our country because we're being overwhelmed, Sean.
The FBI is overwhelmed.
Local law enforcement's overwhelmed.
Every level of government is overwhelmed.
Well, I mean, all right, so let's talk about what the president is doing on this trip here, what he hopes to accomplish.
Scott Besant has said that maybe they're going to come to a deal on TikTok.
The president, I think, gained leverage by doing this rare earth deal with Australia.
I think that sent a message.
President Xi indicating in the lead up to this that he was cutting back on the purchase of Russian oil.
I think that was a concession on his part prior to this meeting.
Am I wrong?
Well, that is a concession.
What the Chinese said was essentially their large state oil companies are not going to buy Russian energy.
But traditionally, and this is over the last year or so, it's not the large state oil companies that have been buying Russian oil.
It's the teapots, the independent refiners, most of them in the northeastern part of the country.
So we've got to see just exactly what the Chinese will do going forward.
But in general, on Thursday, we're going to see a ceasefire between the United States and China for about a year, which, by the way, expires just for our midterms, which is going to be fascinating to see how that works out.
And the issue, Sean, will be to see which country uses the year better than the others.
And I think we're going to be using the year better because of the things you just talked about, like the Australia rare earth deal.
Plus also the Chinese are going to double down on industrial policies that is going to make them more vulnerable and more dependent on the U.S. So this should be a very good year for America.
Well, I'm hoping it is.
Where do you think President Xi is in all of this?
Because he's been back and forth and bobbing and weaving and in and out of different deals with the president and then changing his mind.
What's actually going on in his mind at this point?
I think the most important thing is not his relations with the U.S. and the meeting with President Trump, but his standing in the Communist Party at home.
There have been a lot of rumors and even indications that Xi Jinping has lost substantial influence.
So for instance, that announcement from the Ministry of National Defense a week ago indicated that his loyalists in the military, his most senior Lylists have been removed, and none of his adversaries have been removed, which means that he's lost influence and maybe even total control over the Chinese military, which is the most important faction in the Communist Party.
So I think he's worrying about what's going on at home, not what's going to happen in Busan in South Korea.
Well, that's pretty interesting.
Do you think an alliance with Trump helps solidify his position within China, or is the military just do they want to remain isolated from the world and strategically still planning out 100 years to be the most dominant force on earth?
Yeah, that's a great question.
And I think that a meeting with Trump helps Xi Jinping, and I'm sure that's the reason why Xi Jinping agreed to the meeting.
But I'm not so sure that the rest of the Chinese political establishment is going to be swayed too much because the antagonism among senior leaders right now is at a very high point.
And that's because Xi Jinping has jailed a lot of people, stripped them of their assets, gone hard after their families.
And so the fighting right now is intense, as intense as it's been for, let's say, 35 years or so.
Yeah, pretty amazing.
What about their plans militarily?
The Chinese have invested very, very heavily in their military and new military technology over the years.
Well, simultaneously, all indications that we can gather and reports that I've heard, and my sources have told me that their economy is struggling mightily.
Where are we with that?
Where are they now?
Well, on the economy, they're not growing at the 4.8% pace that they claimed for the third quarter.
They're closer to zero.
But the thing that's really important is that the country is in deflation.
And we've seen this in the price data.
So an economy in deflation is one that doesn't recover for a very long time, especially because Xi Jinping's industrial policies, which the Communist Party endorsed about a week ago, make China much more dependent on industrial production, which means much more dependent on selling to countries like the United States.
So Xi Jinping's policies are making things worse, which is one of the reasons why he's having problems right now.
He's being blamed for a whole range of ills, including the economy.
Yeah.
Do you think ultimately that China is waging a quiet war against the U.S.?
Do you think that, you know, where does he stand with Donald Trump?
He understands and has to understand that Donald Trump is not your average politician.
Yes.
Well, it is sometimes more than just a quiet war because China's been behind the Fenton gangs, for instance.
So that's 48,000 Americans last year died from fentanyl.
And this was a Communist Party project.
So these are not overdoses, Sean.
These are murders.
And clearly, the Communist Party has made it very clear in its propaganda and through other ways that they believe that the United States is the enemy.
They believe we're an existential threat.
So the party has not been shy about telling the American people where we stand with China.
Well, we'll find out what happens, but this is going to be a very interesting trip, a very interesting meeting.
I hope for the sake of everybody that, you know what, they find a way to thread needles and get along.
I think it's in the world's best interest if they did.
And I'd like to see Chi pull away from Putin.
So I'm hoping that happens as well.
Gordon Cheng, thank you.
Appreciate your time.
800-941 Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program.
Get to our busy, busy phones.
Well, we do have a whole bunch of other news I haven't hit yet.
By the way, did you see the hard-hitting news show, The View, today?
They went nuts.
They sounded a five-alarm fire over Donald Trump, you know, possibly running for a third term.
Whoopi Goldberg.
Well, you know who told us he was going to be a dictator on day one.
And damn, is a if he is a dictator?
By the way, he made the comment in an interview with me.
And the full context of it is, I said, well, they're saying that you're going to be a dictator.
He said, well, I am for one day.
And I'm going to secure the borders.
And he said, he's going to do one other thing and cut taxes.
Okay.
That was the extent of his full remarks in context.
And then, you know, Goldberg referring to Steve Bannon's claim that he's going to get a third term.
Anyway, so Trump gave this nebulous answer.
Am I ruling it out?
I mean, you have to tell me, he says, you know, he's trolling people constantly.
They don't even know it.
Alyssa Farrer Griffin.
There's certain people in Trump's orbit who, when you tell, when you tell what they're going to do, I listen, I put Steve Bannon on the top of that list.
Been the most senior advisor to Trump in his first term.
And he predicted the events around January 6th and on and on and on.
Sonny Houston.
Trump's ballroom project indicates he doesn't plan to leave the White House.
He's hooking up the White House because he doesn't plan on ever leaving.
I mean, he's got these piece people like lives in their head.
Oh, it's not so bad of a weekend in Chicago.
I mean, for them, I know it's the five times the homicide rate of New York City, which says a lot.
Five dead, 24 wounded this weekend.
How's J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson's hate Trump plan working out for the safety and security people there?
Interesting faith issues have come up.
Charlie Kirk inspiring his assassination, inspiring Gen Z to trade parties, you know, and frat parties for prayer and faith revivals.
And it's pretty amazing, you know, that this is very real around the country.
I saw Joe Rogan.
Joe, I noticed Gavin is begging Joe Rogan to go on.
He's woke up.
I've offered him three hours on this radio show, an hour on TV.
We're on 750 stations.
We're on SiriusXM.
We're on, you know, we podcast the show.
Every station has their own website that streams the show.
I mean, you can get it pretty much everywhere.
And an hour on Fox News.
And podcaster Joe Rogan praised the merits of religion, noting that he enjoys going to church, hearing about the Bible and its teachings.
I have started going to church every now and again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you enjoy it?
I love it.
Yeah.
I do too.
It's a bunch of people that are going to try to make their lives better.
They're trying to be a better person.
And they're trying to, I mean, for me at least, the place that I go to, they, you know, they read and analyze passages in the Bible.
I'm really interested in what these people were trying to say because I don't think it's nothing.
And good for him.
There is a, you know, a bunch of, there's just so many signs that the mayor of Kingston, for example, you know, pushed to the limit after a near-fatal snowplow accident, does an interview with Fox News Digital.
And anyway, he recalled the day that he nearly got crushed in Lake Tahoe.
And then he doubled down during the interview saying an accident like this showed him, you know, that you're being tested to your limits and it changes everything.
And he talked about the blessings that come out of something that crazy.
Sir Anthony Hopkins said that described a mysterious epiphany in 1975 after being addicted to alcohol, apparently.
And he was driving while intoxicated.
He said he didn't care whether he died.
And then he described coming to his senses about potentially hurting another person.
And he called his agent for help.
He called it an epiphany and started his spiritual journey in life.
These are real life stories, real people.
By the way, these liberal cities are facing billions in economic losses as retail crime surges 93% since 2019.
New York City tourism down $4 billion.
San Francisco sees a 34.8% commercial vacancy rate in downtown because you can steal with impunity there.
It's insane.
Anyway, let's get to our phones.
800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Julius in New Joisy, what's up, Julius?
Julius, you know, your state has a good chance of electing a Republican.
I would say that Jack Chitterelli is absolutely electable in the state of New Jersey if enough people wake up and vote.
It's now apparently turnout is high.
That's good.
Independent turnout is high.
That's good.
In a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by over a million, that would be the win of all wins.
What's going on?
Yeah, I've got Chitterelli.
He is, you know, a bastard, and I really don't care about the Democratic nominee either.
So, you know, either way, it's about who's going to screw me over more.
All right.
Tourism is down in places like New York because, well, people aren't traveling to the U.S., you know, like this whole thing with the tariff.
No, it's people have been scared away from big cities.
We're talking about people domestically in the U.S., they're staying away from these dangerous cities.
So you might as well get that through your head because anything to the contrary is baloney.
Oh, please drop it.
Okay.
Oklahoma is more dangerous than the city of New York.
People come to New York City.
How about Chicago?
Chicago's safe.
You want to go to Chicago tomorrow and stay in Chicago and downtown Chicago?
Yeah, let's play that numbers.
What area is the one where the murders are happening the most?
Yeah, gee, I wonder why.
Oh, so is that the area where the cops also beat the crap out of the locals for decades and have created this?
Did you wake up on a crazy angry liberal day today?
Today you're crazy.
Why are you so angry?
Here's the reality.
The cities and towns that have bought in to defund, dismantle no bail laws, reimagine the police, send in the social workers and those that have been aiding and abetting and protecting illegal immigrants or the cities with the most crime.
That's all there is to it.
It's a fact.
You know, we put the numbers up on TV regularly.
Why are you so angry?
Why can't you just admit that defund, dismantle, no bail laws and reimagine the police is a dumb idea?
Can you acknowledge that?
Okay.
Why do you make a can you?
I asked a question.
Can you acknowledge that?
That's yes or no.
Stop putting words in my mouth.
Stop putting words in my mouth.
No, I'm not putting what I'm asking for an answer.
I'm not telling you what answer to give me is defund, dismantle the police, no bail laws, reimagine the police and send in the social workers.
Do you think that's a good idea?
You know what?
Social workers should be.
That's a yes or no question.
Is it a good idea?
You stupid yes or no questions because that's stupid.
It's not a stupid yes or no question.
It's a reality check.
Are those good ideas that you support?
Yes or no?
I don't support them.
Do you support them?
I'm lying right now.
Stop making up arguments.
Do you support defund the police, dismantle the police, no bail laws, and reimagine the police and send in social workers?
It's a yes or no question.
And it's the last time I'm asking you before I hang up on you.
Either answer it or this conversation's ending.
For me.
I didn't hear your answer.
I said I make my own arguments.
You don't speak for me.
Those policies are in place in all of these liberal cities and states.
Do you support them?
Last chance, yes or no?
I'm not a Democrat, so I'm not speaking for the Democrats.
I asked if I didn't ask if you're a Democrat.
Do you support those policies, yes or no?
I don't know what the policies are because you have, you lie about.
Okay, I'm not lying.
You need to read a newspaper and watch the news.
You're just, you're not smart enough to call the show.
You're just not.
800.
Is that rude, Linda?
That wasn't.
It could have been Mark.
Get off my phone, you big dope.
I could have done that.
I thought it was, I think there's nothing more interesting than saying to someone, what are your thoughts on this?
And then them saying, you're putting words in my mouth.
I'm like, what?
I'm asking you a question and asking for your opinion.
Hey, get off my phone, you scumbag.
Remember, you used to say that.
Oh, my God.
I mean, these guys were legends.
You know, now you can't say anything.
I mean, well, I mean, if you're on the left, you can say everything.
If you're on the right, you say anything.
And, you know, the little flower.
I was trying to be nice and have a conversation.
He didn't want to go there because he knows he loses the minute he's not.
That's what Democrats are doing.
It's just a nice to the guy.
I tried to do it.
I really did try.
He couldn't answer it.
It was very strange.
My free state of Florida, Greg, on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean.
How you doing?
Good to talk with you.
I'm good.
What's going on with you?
Sean, you know, I've been watching.
You know, I'm not having, I'm originally from New York.
I left a long time ago.
You know, I watched the races and this and that a little bit.
You know, I've listened to Curtis Flewaw a little bit.
And I say to myself, man, he's a good candidate.
I don't understand this mom Donnie and all this socialism coming up.
But then I start to think about it.
And I think I start to understand, not saying agree, but understand with why it's more attractive.
And long story short, it's kind of the easy button.
You know, that's why somebody like AOC latches onto it.
What's she going to come up with?
But along those lines, if you want to keep it pushed back, I really want to see ideas from Republicans.
And I'll give you an example.
Right here in our free state of Florida, just last week, what did Governor DeSantis announce?
Car insurance, price reductions.
Big insurance companies are going to start sending checks back.
Why?
They solved the root cause of the problem.
They put in litigation reform.
This is the type of thing that we need to hear from on some of the big issues that the Democrats who love socialism own.
We need real solutions, real root causes, not just socialism bad, socialism bad.
This is what?
I get it.
We all get it.
But when people are hurting, people are going to latch onto it.
You know, the Democrats are very much, you know, more from the emotional point of view.
So they have that, you know, that sense of, you know, poor people, we need to help them and this and that.
We really need, I really would like a lot of our Republicans to give more root cause.
We need to really lift the hood on some of these bigger social issues that have been around for 40, 50, 60 years and are not getting solved.
Why do we have a big divide?
Because the problems aren't really getting solved.
And so in the end, sooner or later, I'm afraid Democrats are going to have the majority and they're going to get more and more socialism through.
Listen, now that they've gone so radical left and they're so outward about it, and this is now the future, this is the new radicalized Democratic Party.
I think they're losing more and more of the country.
And you're going to see that elections for them on a national basis are going to be harder to win.
You know, had they been smart, they would have been introspective.
They would have been self-reflection.
They would have been meetings.
And unfortunately, they all live in a state of constant fear of this rise in radicalism.
I mean, Chuck Schumer is exhibit A. Hakeem Jeffries endorsing Mamdani exhibit B. They're not leaders.
They're leaders in name only.
The real leaders, thought leaders in the Democratic Party are AOC, Jasmine Crockett, the squad, Grandpa Bernie Pocahontas, and now Mamdani.
And, you know, there was a poll.
Oh, Andrew Cuomo's closing the gap.
He's only losing by 10 points in the latest poll.
I'm like, oh, okay, that really gives me confidence.
He's doing great.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight on the Fox News channel, loaded up.
Okay, we're going to, you know, all these millions of Americans, 40 million Americans won't have food stamps in a few days.
A Democrat's going to open the government.
We'll check in with the Senate Majority Leader, Jon Thune, Ted Cruz tonight, Steve Hilton.
He wants to be the next governor of California.
Katie Pavlich and Emily Campano and much more.
News you'll never get from the state-run legacy media mob.
Set your DVR tonight.
Hannity, 9 Eastern.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
▲
Export Selection