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Nov. 26, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Thanksgiving Strategies and Family Drama
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So Thursday is Thanksgiving, and we've kind of been messing around the last number of days.
What are you going to do with your crazy, insane liberal relatives short of firing turkey legs across the table and splashing them with mashed potatoes and yams and sweet potatoes and everything else you can throw?
You could have a food fight.
I mean, that's definitely one option.
Linda's option is she refuses to bring in any liberal relative is not allowed in her house, but she has graciously consented to leave a doggy bag on the steps of her house for any liberal relative that wants free food, but they can't come in and participate, which I think is kind of funny.
A lot of this dovetails into Bill Maher over last weekend, and he made the point about Jimmy Kimmel's wife writing all of their relatives, you know, the top 10 reasons not to vote for Donald J. Trump, and now apparently doesn't talk to most, if not all of them.
There is a poll out about this, Fox News poll.
Only one in five intend to steer clear of folks with opposing political views.
75% of them are comfortable hanging out with the opposing team this season, the same proportion as 2022 when the question was last asked.
And while there is a partisan consensus, now this is interesting because I think the more open party is the Republican Party, and this poll kind of proves that.
And that is Republicans are 86% of them more likely than Independents, 71%.
Democrats, 68%, you know, the tolerant party, to say that they won't avoid anyone.
Anyway, Michael Knowles is here to weigh in on this a little bit.
He's the host of the Michael Knowles Show at the Daily Wire.
First of all, what do you think of the poll?
I think it's a little cold that Linda's plan is to just leave a doggy bag on the doorstep for any liberal relative that she doesn't want to allow in her house.
That's pretty cold to me.
I don't really care.
You know, I've had people loaded to bear many times in my life and career, and you could just tell they're just chomping at the bit to get at me and get me going.
And there's nothing that they can ever say that's going to bother me in any way anyway.
It's like water off a duck's back to me.
You know, Sean, I'm sure that Linda's food will be cold sitting outside, but you can't say she's not generous.
You know, she's not going to let the liberal family go hungry.
I myself have a different strategy.
I've just come back from the liquor store, which, you know, that's a double-edged sword because a few drinks start to make the politics go down easier.
However, after two or three, actually, it makes the political disagreements worse.
I am exclusively hosting Liberal Family this Thanksgiving.
So you can all pray for me, obviously.
I'm not surprised at all by the poll.
You know, obviously, you got these recent numbers out of Fox News.
There was a poll a little while ago from Deseret News said that 40% of Kamala Harris voters think it's acceptable to cut off family over politics.
Only 11% of Trump voters say the same thing.
AEI had a poll out a little while ago.
23% of very liberal respondents said they actually had disowned a family member over politics.
Only 9% of very conservatives said that.
So I'm totally with you.
It doesn't bother me at all.
I kind of get a kick out of it.
I never bring politics up at the dinner table.
It's always the liberal family that does it.
So when people say, how are you going to handle it?
It's really more of a question, I think, for the left.
I mean, they seem to be the ones that have the problem with it.
And the best that we can do, I think, is eat our turkey and drink our wine and keep a smile on our face and hope for the best.
But the problem is, is all my years as a bartender, which I really love doing, is the problem is everybody has a number and their number, like their fingerprint, is unique to them.
And there are some people, they can't have one drink without their personality dramatically shifting.
And for some people, you know, they can have 12 drinks and they can drink for eight hours straight and you won't notice a discernible difference in their behavior or their attitude or anything.
And, you know, knowing what your number is is kind of critical.
And oftentimes people have no clue or they, you know, they go over their number.
And, you know, in the case of men, it will manifest itself one or two day, two ways.
I love you, bro, or anger and, you know, pounding their chest like they're bam-bam.
For women, it's usually more of a flirtatious thing.
Again, these are my observations many years behind a bar.
And you learn a lot about drinking and a lot about people's attitudes and a lot about their shifting attitudes the more they drink.
I'm not sure if drinking's the answer.
I think your observations are about as scientific as it gets and probably even more scientific than all of these polls.
I think you're right.
So then, of course, there's the backup strategy.
And the backup strategy is to put football on, and you have football all day.
So then, you know, if people, they're getting a little hot about politics, they don't even have to talk.
You can sit, watch the game.
This, too, though, is a little bit difficult these days because on the one hand, liberals don't like watching football.
Liberals, I think, are probably more into soccer or, I don't know, curling or something like that.
But then on the flip side, the NFL has gone so woke in recent years that they seem completely determined to turn off all of their conservative viewers.
And now they're hosting this radical leftist who refuses to speak English to host the halftime show.
So I think you're right.
The booze is not a good answer.
Leaving food on the stoop is not a good answer.
Now we don't even have football as the answer to ameliorate the political dissent.
Although the worst thing is, is if you're watching a really good football game and people don't shut up during the game, then that drives me nuts too.
That drives me up a wall.
Yes, yes.
I think we're really in for it this year.
And, you know, the other reason that we're in for it is because obviously we're in the second Trump term, non-consecutive second term.
Tensions are very high.
And there are going to be all of these flare-ups over what comes next.
You're already starting to see the shift happen because we were told for the last 10 years, basically, that Trump is a fascist.
He's the second coming of Hitler.
He's not like all those good former Republicans.
You know, the strange new respect for Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
Now you're starting to see that shift.
And the Democrats are already running these pieces in the media.
They say, you know, Trump actually, he wasn't so bad.
The real fear is what come next.
The real fear is JD Vance.
So it seems like we're just on a cycle that's never going to end.
I don't think it's going to end either.
I did have one occasion where I had a nephew of mine and he had a very liberal girlfriend.
And he asked if he could invite their family and the whole family's radical left and they all came over to the house.
They weren't in my house 60 seconds before they were chomping at the bit to just get at me.
And, you know, when I see that, I mean, I can spot it a mile away.
I've been doing this for too long a period of time.
And first of all, I do this professionally.
I argue professionally.
This is what I do.
And I immerse myself in news 24-7.
That's all I do.
I'm a complete, total loser.
So, you know, whatever argument they made, I would counter it with truth and facts.
And it's like then they were just befuddled.
And at that point, I'm like, why did I invite these people over?
It can get aggravating.
It can.
It certainly is.
Anyway, how do you cook your turkey?
You should deep fry your turkey in a butterball turkey fryer.
I wish I would love to do the deep-fried turkey.
I moved from not only New York, I was in L.A.
I was one of the refugees that left during COVID to make it to Tennessee.
I'm not yet sufficiently southern to deep-fry it, so it'll be made.
However, my wife works some magic in the kitchen.
But I'm hoping.
One hour, 16-pound turkey.
Go to your local Walmart, butterball turkey fryer by Master Belt.
I'm telling you, you will not regret it.
Well, that way, if my liberal family really kicks it up, then at the very least, I'll have one thing to look forward to on Thanksgiving.
I can at least look forward to the fried turkey.
All right.
Michael knows we appreciate you, man.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Very thankful for your good work every day.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Oh, look at this.
The lines are lighting up.
People need our help, Linda.
They need our advice.
I wonder if people are.
But you don't like my advice.
Not that I don't like it.
I think it's just, you know, you talk about turkey served cold.
Man, that's a good one.
That's why you have a microwave.
It's a new invention.
It's all the rage.
Let's get to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Frankie in Arkansas.
Frankie, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
What's going on?
Program for everything that you're doing in the country.
But I got to question you on why are you giving Linda such a hard time when she's given Democrats exactly what they want, which is a free handout?
All right.
We're talking about a relative here.
So you're going to exclude them only because of their political views.
Now, there may be extenuating circumstances.
If you know that person's going to be obnoxious and disruptive and not be fun to be around, that's a whole different story.
If you can predict that with a high degree of certainty, that's a whole different set of circumstances.
But the idea is just because they're liberal, they're not welcome.
I can't do that.
Well, that's why she's giving them some food because they are family.
If they weren't family, let me tell you, it's a whole other thing.
Okay.
It's the sides and everything.
It's not just like one piece of white breast.
Yeah, freezing cold turkey in a bag.
Pick up your bag for free and go have Thanksgiving by yourself.
Frankie, do you have a sight of you?
I can't stand the sight of you because you're a liberal.
That sounds a little bit hard-edged and intolerant to me.
I'm not saying I can't stand the sight of you.
I just can't stand the sight of you in my house talking about nonsense.
I like you on the mudroom porch.
All right, so the bottom line is you either agree with you or, you know, you're not welcome.
Listen, it's like they say, no kings.
Well, I'm the queen of my house then.
Bye.
Wow.
Hardcore, man.
All right, Frankie.
Appreciate it.
Peggy, North Carolina, next Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Yes.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
How are you doing?
What's going on?
Good.
Happy Thanksgiving almost.
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
What's going on?
Yes.
I just was listening yesterday.
We were, my husband, my daughter, and I, we were all in the car, and we were listening to you about olives.
And I said, I've got, I just have to share this with you because my first child was born.
I was eating jars of olives.
And I went back to the OBGYN and he goes, oh, you're having some swelling.
What is going on with you?
And I said, cravings.
And he goes, what are you craving?
I said, olives.
And bottom line, it was like, okay, you can have this number of olives, you know, per day and no more than a jar per week.
And I just had to share because you were saying, oh, the olives.
No, well, I don't care that you lie.
First of all, I bought these olives.
And I mean, they're really special.
I mean, top of the line, Italian olives with the pits in them.
I really like them.
I don't need a lot.
I'll have three or four, and then I'm good to go.
I don't need anymore.
And so, but that's not the point.
So I ordered them, and they're hard to get.
And I had them delivered.
I had two jars.
And within, I go back to my refrigerator two days later, and there's only two olives left.
And I asked Sweet Baby James, and this is the bigger point.
I said, Did you eat the whole jar of olives today?
And he goes, No, I didn't have, I didn't have any olives today.
Well, did you eat it yesterday?
No, I didn't.
It turns out he ate them all Monday and Tuesday.
I got you.
So it took me six weeks to get to the truth about, and then I'll ask him, for example, because I've been cooking for him.
And when he's been following my diet, which is eggs and meat, basically, he went from like 190-something all the way down to 177.
He did.
Which is great, yeah.
Okay, but I'm cooking every meal.
I'm cooking breakfast.
I only do two meals a day, breakfast and dinner.
I mean, top of the line, quality meat.
You know, I grill onions.
I do the whole, I do the whole nine yards.
I really do make an taking good care of them.
A big effort.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then he can't control himself.
And then I say, I'll ask him, well, what do you weigh?
He comes in one day and he goes, I weigh 184, 185.
I'm like, no, it's either 184 or 185.
What is it?
Now, I knew it was 185.
He goes, 184, 185.
I said, did you weigh yourself today?
Yes, I did.
And I said, so it was 185.
And he goes, yeah, but it was a very low 185.
Oh, yeah.
I'm like, so you don't weigh 184?
I mean, why does he lie about little crap like that?
I'm like, stop.
People are just like that.
And you're talking about Thanksgiving and how to, you know, you were on the show talking about how to get along, you know, during this time.
And I have learned, I have learned through the years, the best policy is to talk about the pleasantries of life.
Try not to get into politics because you're always going.
The turkey's going to be somewhere it shouldn't be.
And it's the best thing is just to try to keep peace, enjoy the moment, have a little glass of wine, have your olives and your cranberry sauce, and just be cordial.
It works.
This year I'm doing Tomahawk rib ice.
That's what I'm doing this year.
I'm not doing turkey this year.
What time do we eat?
What time do we eat?
Exactly.
I gave my family the option, though.
I said, which would you prefer?
It was like unanimous.
It wasn't even close.
And I do make the best butterball turkey fried in a butterball turkey fryer.
Peggy, we appreciate you.
I got a roll.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
We have so much to be grateful for.
And we don't give God enough credit for all he gives us every day.
Thank you.
Quick break, right back.
More of your calls coming up.
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I don't know if you, you know, I mentioned this earlier in the program, Linda, but, you know, what do you do if you got a relative like Maxime Waters here?
Here is her latest attack against Donald Trump.
This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing resisting this low down, dirty, no-good, filthy president of the United States of America.
Let me just say this.
They are targeting our leadership, both in the Latino community and in the black community.
And while they're targeting them and following them, I'm on the street and I'm following ICE and I'm targeting ICE.
Yeah, well, guess what?
All this rhetoric about Gestapo and Nazi and fascist and all the attacks against ICE agents as a result, the latest numbers we got on Monday, threats, assaults, attacks against ICE agents, law enforcement officials, have surged a whopping 1,150% compared to the same period last year under Joe Biden.
You think there's a correlation?
I would argue there is.
But then back to our other question of, okay, well, you have your version of Maxine Waters and your family that uses this kind of dirty, no good, filthy president of the United States of America, and I'm targeting ICE.
How do you deal with that kind of rhetoric?
You know, she's had other rhetoric like this, though, over the years.
Listen.
You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth.
You see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome.
The people are going to turn on them.
They're going to protest.
They're going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they're going to tell the president, no, I can't hang with you.
I did not threaten his constituents, his supporters.
I do that all the time, but I didn't do it that time.
This is a bunch of scumbags.
That's what they are.
And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
Maybe that might be a category unto itself if you have a relative that uses Maxine Waters style rhetoric that you might want to follow the Linda strategy, leave the doggy bag, or don't bother doing anything.
You know, and the irony here is you have these senators and these congresspeople, you know, telling our military, our intelligence community, that they have a duty not to follow their commander in chief, which is, you know, extraordinarily dangerous.
And then not one of them can name a single issue where it would be applicable.
Not one.
And they're the same people saying, this is outrageous.
This is terrible.
This is wrong.
Donald Trump said punishable, meaning that would infer that if taken to court, if charged, and we've gone through the various legal codes that would be applicable, I won't go through that again now, that if they went through a court hearing, punishable by, oh, Donald Trump is calling for my death.
Well, what is Maxine Waters doing here?
What do Democrats do all the time with their rhetoric?
I'm so sick of the double standard.
All right, let's get to our busy phones, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Brandon in Texas, God bless Texas.
Brandon, what's going on?
Hey, Sean, been watching you since 96.
Late out.
Thank you.
So first time talking to you.
Linda's right.
Okay.
Oh, boy.
Here we go.
Just some wisdom here.
I saw a poll, and I know you probably saw the same poll on Newsmax.
Rob Schmidt showed that 55% of Democrats would justify the assassination of President Trump and Republicans.
So when you're dealing with clinically insane people, more than half of the Democratic Party want Republicans and the president dead, there's really nowhere to go from there.
You just have to ride them off.
And Peggy that called earlier said that you should avoid politics, talking politics, that's how we got in this mess.
We have to unindoctrinate people.
Mark Twain said it's much easier to fool somebody than to convince them they've been fooled.
But this country's going down.
I mean, if something doesn't change, you know, the Democrat Party is just, they're clinically insane.
Half of them one is dead.
So how do you reconcile with that?
Well, I mean, there's varying degrees, right?
I mean, if you're just going to say, just because you politically disagree with me, that's one level.
If you're talking about somebody that is crazy that wants to get into a physical altercation, or you're talking about somebody that, you know, uses rhetoric as violent as that, then that's a whole different situation.
At that point, you know, you really shouldn't be around such a person.
I mean, if that triggered, I am just saying for myself, you know, it does not impact me at all that they don't like my point of view.
They don't have to come to my house.
They don't have to hang out with me.
And I tend to usually have Thanksgiving at my house.
Or if they want to come and they come ready to bear and want to fight, I'll win the debate.
But if they come with other intentions beyond that and you know they're capable of that, then you can't have that person in your home.
That's going to end in, forget about throwing turkey legs and mashed potatoes.
That's going to end in a disaster.
More than half of the Democratic Party wants the other side gone, Sean.
So I don't know.
And that's a poll, and you can look at the poll.
I'm sure you've seen it, but there's no way to talk to people like that.
They don't, you know, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
So Linda's right.
I'll tell you what, man, it must be Christmas for me today.
Everybody is agreeing with Linda.
You just like it because you know you're taking this to the extreme and you're just like loving every second of it.
I sure am.
Yeah, yeah, give my liberal relatives the doggy bag.
Give them the doggy bag.
That's right.
Just like that.
Give them the doggy bag.
They're not coming in my house.
No way.
Not happening.
That's right.
What if they're very delightful and nice and pleasant in my doorway?
I'm going to play the song, Baby, It's Cold Outside.
Because it's going to be about 30 degrees.
I'm telling you, it's going to be the perfect.
It's going to be, they're going to want to.
What if there's a relative that just may happen to have a different point of view than yours, is not looking to get into a political disagreement, but just wants to have a pleasant dinner and break bread with their family.
And we just have to agree to do it.
Nope, they don't do it.
Well, you're speaking.
You're painting with such a broad brush, it's ridiculous.
But I'll let you enjoy your moment.
I am.
Oh, man.
Thank you.
All right.
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Darren in Utah.
What's up, Darren?
Son, it's fun to talk with you.
Two quick things.
One, we're going to have 24 people over.
And because of one person, we don't get to express our thanks for what's happening in the country right now, which is a sad irony, but oh well, we'll live with it.
We'll talk amongst ourselves later when the person's gone because there's a lot to be thankful for.
And if I can take 15 seconds, the history books won't thank you for what I'm about to say, but you'll know what I'm talking about.
The first go-around with Trump, it was a crapshoot.
We thought for sure we were going to lose.
We thought Hillary was going to win.
And you stuck to it every day.
Every day you were pounding the issues.
And then you did a really smart thing.
I just thought, is Trump real?
Is he really going to do the things he says?
You had Eric and Don Jr. on your show for an hour, an entire hour, and they pounded all the conservative talking points that you've been talking about.
And I thought, you know what?
There's no way a guy raises kids like this and doesn't mean it.
And then I talked with my mom.
My 80-year-old mom jumps on the Trump train too.
And it just spread.
And we were shocked at the win.
We really were.
Well, there's a whole story behind that.
You probably have heard me talk about it before.
And that is that I started having conversations with Donald Trump in 2015.
And we would talk late into the night.
We do have one thing in common.
Neither one of us really sleeps a lot.
So we have that in common.
And I did my own vetting of him.
And I, you know, from early on, there were a couple of things that would unfold.
I began, I said, I will never support you if you're not conservative and you don't convince me you have superior ideas and that you can win.
I mean, I was that blunt with him.
And then there were different times.
You need to use my golf course.
You need to use it.
I'm like, I don't need to use any of your crap.
I don't need your crap.
And then that's kind of how our relationship began.
And then he started talking about, well, why do we have forever wars?
Why are we fighting?
Why isn't Iraq paying us back with oil for their liberation?
You know, I'm like, okay, this guy's thinking out of the box.
He's not a typical conventional politician.
You know, I hear some of the criticism on the right against him.
And I'm not saying he's perfect.
I'm just saying, you know, there are people that are working overtime in our coalition that are so self-destructive.
If you're not 100% pure with them, now, meanwhile, MAGA was designed and built by Trump.
You know, for example, there's a lot of misinterpretation of the Trump doctrine.
You've heard me say this.
And some people interpret it to mean isolationism, but his actions prove otherwise, don't they?
Taking out the ISIS Caliphate, Solemani, Baghdadi, dropping the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, taking out Iran's nuclear sites.
Now, none of them resulted in a forever war, but it's not isolationism.
But also, he has the wisdom to understand, you know, and see in the future future threats to our country.
A nuclear-armed Iran is a threat to our country and to the world.
That's not America first.
Actually, if you have the ability to see beyond the nose on your face, you know it's in your long-term best interest, especially with their missile defense systems down and their aircraft detection systems down.
That's the time to do it.
The world's a safer place because he took out the caliphate, all those people I mentioned, and Iran's nuclear sites.
So it frustrates me that people don't understand him or they do it purposely and they'd almost be willing to destroy the coalition in the process.
Right, right.
Half the country may not understand it, but other countries do.
Half the country does.
And millions know the role that first go-around played in what's happening today.
You were a big part of that.
Now we know Laura.
Now we know Ivanka.
We know so much more now.
And it is a time to be thankful.
It is a time to rejoice.
So I thank you.
Well, let me tell you something.
You might as well get your rest in now because starting January 1, you're going to be in the fight of our lives.
It's either the final two years of his presidency are either going to be magnificent or it's going to be wrapped up in nothing but anger and impeachment and investigations and witch hunts and it's never going to end.
There's my prediction.
So, you know, rest up through the holidays and then come back ready for a big political fight because our entire country is hanging in the balance.
Not that I'm overstating the case.
Yeah, we'll just keep listing the facts like you've always done.
And we're going to win because there are so many more facts to list now.
His success list in the first 10, 11 months are off the chart.
And we're just going to pound it home to our friends who have news sources who don't tell them those things.
So we'll just, you'll spell it out for us by bullet points and we'll repeat them to our friends and we're going to win.
And when I get criticized by April of next year or May of next year, Hannity, you say those points every single day.
Let me tell you, it's by design.
So by the time the summer comes next year, you'll be able to regurgitate it to your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your family members, and that they will understand what is at stake in these midterms.
But I got to run.
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