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Dec. 3, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Assessing Progress: The Final Cabinet Meeting of 2025
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I will tell you, there is a discernible difference, 70% decline in homicides.
I can tell you what used to be streets filled with homeless people all year round, even in the freezing cold like it is today, at least for me, because my blood has been thinned by the free state of Florida.
It is a discernible difference.
It is a safer city.
And what a sad thing that we lost a National Guards person.
I was one block away from where they were shot when I entered the city.
One block away.
We have one National Guardsman, 24 years old, that is now Andy, fighting for his life today.
I've been in touch with his mother.
I'm going to try while I'm here the next two days to go see him in the hospital.
And, you know, a family, 20-year-old, you know, West Virginian National Guardswoman lost her life keeping the people in this city safe and secure.
It's unbelievable.
Now, a lot of stuff came up in today's cabinet meeting.
This will be the final cabinet meeting of the year.
I just thought it was spectacular.
And I don't think I can cover it as well as I can just playing it for you and letting you hear it for yourself.
This is the president at the White House with his cabinet team.
And I really, there's so much news that is here.
And if you just watch the fake news media, they don't want to ever, ever give credit to Donald J. Trump.
You know, a funny thing the president said today, and I think it's worth highlighting because it's so good.
He actually said to reporters, you always find something new like, oh, is he in good health?
Where's your MRI?
Well, he released the MRI.
And then he's like, Biden was great, but is Trump in good health?
He goes, I sit here.
I do four news conferences a day.
I get asked questions from very intelligent lunatics, you people.
I love that line.
If I go one day, I had one day where I didn't do a news conference.
Oh, there must be something wrong with the president.
You people are crazy, he said.
And they are.
They're insane.
I think I'm sharper than I was 25 years ago, but who the hell knows?
And that's what makes Trump Trump.
And it's like they forgot we had a president, you know, less than a year ago that couldn't walk, talk, speak, didn't know where he was.
And they were in complete denial.
Anyway, let's go to the cabinet meeting.
This is final one of the year from earlier.
Are you all set?
Everybody ready?
It's nice to be with you.
Welcome to the final cabinet meeting of 2025, a year that will go down as the most consequential and successful first year of any administration.
They're saying that, not me, well, I say it too, actually.
A lot of people are saying that one year ago, our country was dead.
Then said to me by many leaders, we had a dead country.
Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
It's true.
The hottest country anywhere in the world.
Think of that.
In four long years of the Biden administration, there were just $1 trillion of new investments in the United States in 10 months.
We've secured commitments of over $18 trillion.
So they had, in one year, they had less than $1 trillion.
That's in a period of four years.
Think of it.
Four years at less than a trillion.
In 10 months, we have more than 18 trillion.
Is that right, Scott?
It's even going to be higher than that.
It'll be harder.
We've been going up.
And we're waiting for the Supreme Court case, and it's so important and so vital for this country, because we're not only respected again, we're putting out wars by our trade policies, and we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars, and our country is wealthy again and secure again, and it's part of national security, and I hope that goes well.
I think it's very important, but think of the number.
We're going to be over $18 trillion in 10 months, which is a record times probably eight or ten times, I think more than that for any country.
There's never been a country that's had that kind of an investment ever in history.
And there's never been a country that's had half of that.
It's a tremendous thing that's taking place.
We have companies moving in from all over the world, from Mexico, from Canada, from Europe, from China, from Japan a lot.
We just had Toyota is going to spend $10 billion they just announced on building new plants in this country.
Our workers, they're going to be our workers.
But they're spending a tremendous amount.
So the stock market is at 46 all-time highs.
And this last Friday, which is called Black Friday, was the biggest ever online sales that there's ever been by a lot.
More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.
I mean, these are the facts we have to get out.
And, you know, there's this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about, affordability.
They just say the word.
It doesn't mean anything to anybody.
They just say it.
Affordability.
I inherited the worst inflation in history.
There was no affordability.
Nobody could afford any of that.
The prices were massively high.
Do you remember when we took over eggs?
You did a great job on that, Madam Secretary.
Agriculture, Brook.
Eggs were four or five times higher than they had ever been.
They said, don't order eggs for Easter at the White House.
And we ended up doing it, and we got the egg prices way down lower than what they were before.
But the word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.
They say affordability.
I watched the other day where some very low IQ congresswoman talked about.
Affordability, affordability, affordability.
She had no idea.
Their prices were much higher.
As an example, energy, gasoline, we're now at about $2.50 a gallon.
We're going to be, I think, at $2 a gallon.
We could even crack that at some point.
I'd love to do it.
And we could do it more easily if we weren't building up the strategic national reserves, which Biden emptied out before the election so that he could try and get elected.
Meaning, she, he started it, then he got thrown out of the race.
Then she took over and she kept it going.
And they emptied out these strategic national reserves, which are really meant for something else.
They're not meant to keep people happy with their gasoline price.
They're meant for war.
They're meant for problems, big problems.
He emptied it out, and then she continued it during the process of trying to get elected.
Didn't work out too well for him.
And they virtually brought it down to the lowest level, I believe, in history.
And it didn't have much of an impact because the prices were very high.
But our prices now for energy, but for gasoline, are really low.
Electricity is coming down.
And when that comes down, everything comes down.
But the word affordability is a Democrat scam.
They say it, and then they go on to the next subject.
And everyone thinks, oh, they had lower prices.
No.
They had the worst inflation in the history of our country.
Now, some people will correct me because they always love to correct me, even though I'm right about everything.
But some people like to correct me and they say 48 years.
I say it's not 48 years, it's much more.
But they say it's the worst inflation that we've had in 48 years.
I say ever.
But whether it's 48 years or ever, it's pretty bad.
We had the worst inflation that we've ever had.
Since last January, we've stopped inflation in its tracks.
And there's still more to do.
There's always more to do, but we have it down.
to a very good level.
It's going to go down a little bit further.
You want to have a little tiny bit of inflation, otherwise that's not good either.
Then you have a thing called deflation.
And deflation can be worse than inflation.
But we have it almost, we'll soon be at a perfect level, but we inherited the worst inflation.
But we have 20 states that are now selling gasoline at less than the $2.75, think of that, $2.75.
And it was at $5 under Sleepy Joe.
Grocery prices are down with the cost of Thanksgiving turkey this year down 33%.
It was lower than, 33% lower than under the Biden administration.
Egg prices are way down 86%, thank you.
And mortgage rates, despite the fact that we have an incompetent chairman of the Fed, a real dope, who should reduce rates, I saw even Jamie Dimon said he should be reducing rates.
I never saw Jamie Dimon say that.
I wonder why he said that.
But he really said it because he's right.
Well, Congressional Democrats want the largest tax hike in history.
I proudly signed the largest tax cuts in American history with the Great Big Beautiful Bill.
The Great Big Beautiful bill, the biggest piece of legislation ever signed, and that includes the extension of the original Trump tax cuts.
But it's the biggest tax cut ever signed, and it includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
So think of that.
And in addition, you get, if you buy a car, this is great for our car industry because we have a lot of car plants.
We're bringing back the automobile business.
60% of it was stolen because we had incompetent presidents or incompetent trade people.
But 60% of it was stolen over the years.
And now we're bringing, I think we're bringing it all back.
I think we'll be bigger than ever that we've ever been in the auto business.
That's not even to mention AI where we're leading China.
You know, we're leading China by a lot.
They're not going to catch us.
We have to be smart.
But if we're smart, they're not going to be able to catch us.
They know that.
They told me that.
Next year is projected to be the largest tax refund season ever.
And we're going to be giving back refunds out of the tariffs because we've taken in literally trillions of dollars.
And we're going to be giving a nice dividend to the people.
In addition to reducing debt, as you know, I inherited a lot of debt, but it's peanuts compared to the kind of numbers we're talking about.
So we're going to be making a dividend to the people.
And additionally, we're going to be able to reduce debt.
And as time goes by over the next two, three, four years, those numbers are going to go up.
And I believe that at some point in the not too distant future, you won't even have income tax to pay.
Because the money we're taking in is so great, it's so enormous, that you're not going to have income tax to pay.
Whether you get rid of it or just keep it around for fun or have it really low, much lower than it is now, but you won't be paying income tax.
We've slashed $1 trillion in costly job-killing regulations, saving Americans an estimated $2,100 for a family of four.
The Biden administration was the exact opposite, but times four.
They went up $6,000.
We went down $2,100.
Think of that.
To bring down energy, electricity, and utility prices, I ended the Green News scam.
They call it the Green News scam one of the greatest scams in the history of our country.
They talked about global warming and all the crap and what they've done to this country.
What they've done by laying 25 million people into our country, many of whom are criminals, many of whom 11,888 are murderers.
And we have to get them out, and we're doing it.
We're doing it.
I think what the job that our law enforcement groups are doing, Christy, you, and Tom, and everybody, amazing.
What you're doing is amazing.
I terminated the insane electric vehicle mandate.
And look, some people that make electric cars weren't happy with that.
But we have to do that because you have to have a choice, whether it's a gasoline-powered car, and we have so much gasoline.
You know, China doesn't have gasoline.
We do.
And whether it's a hybrid, which really are working really well, the combination of electric and gasoline-driven.
But we, and everybody was supposed to, by 2030, everybody had to own an electric car under the Biden stupidity.
And not everybody wants to do that.
I like electric cars.
I like all cars.
They're all good.
They all have reasons.
But you want to be able to go and buy what you want.
I oppose historic tariffs that are now bringing in so much money that we've never, nobody's ever seen anything like it.
And countries that were ripping us off, including allies, but they were ripping us off for years.
I won't use the names.
I won't mention Japan.
I will refuse to mention South Korea.
I will not mention names.
But they were ripping us off like nobody's ever been ripped off before and taking horrible advantage of your country.
And now we're making a lot of money and making a lot of money because of the tariffs that are pouring in.
We're going to continue on the other side.
We'll have more of the president, his final cabinet meeting of the year.
Today's was blockbuster.
I mean, I was riveted by it.
And I'm sure most of you working and going about your busy day didn't have time to watch it during the day.
We are in D.C. We're in the swamp.
We have Secretary of State Marco Rubio tonight.
Also, the Attorney General Pam Bondi will be with us.
And we'll check in with Senators Cruz and Lindsey Graham together.
There are, there's a lot of issues that Congress can do, be involved in to help the president advance his agenda even further and much, much more.
So we'll get to all of that coming up.
All right, we continue from the Washington swamp.
Remember, Hannity tonight set you DVR, 9 Eastern on Fox.
Secretary of State Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham.
It's going to be like a Washington extravaganza.
9 Eastern.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back.
The President talking about every topic and his cabinet members all speaking at this meeting.
More of that coverage on the other side as we continue from the Washington swamp.
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Listen, there are people, sadly, and the President addressed affordability in great, great detail today, gave a lot of economic updates.
Scott Bessing gave a lot of economic updates today and talked about declining prices, inflation coming down.
The problem is things got so bad under Biden, you know, a 15% improvement in the economies, we're still at a deficit.
So there are many Americans that are not feeling the full impact of the Trump economic policies.
It does take time.
Okay, he's got $18 trillion in committed investments for manufacturing, but it takes a while for that.
You got to put the shovels in the ground.
You got to build the facilities for that to get into the bloodstream of the economy.
Scott Besson believes by second quarter, next year, early third quarter, the latest, that that's going to happen.
It does make life easier for people that live in paycheck to paycheck, or if you're putting even bare necessities on your credit card.
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The president had an amazing end-of-year cabinet summary.
It was spectacular.
And I think it was pretty amazing.
So let's go back to the president and his cabinet.
It touched on everything from the economy and Venezuela, national security, the strikes on these narco-terrorists, immigration, domestic priorities.
I mean, they went through the whole gamut, education, you name it.
They talked about it, making America healthy again.
It was across the board.
Back to that cabinet meeting.
So we set out to stop the ripoff of the United States of America.
This is about global change of trade.
We've been ripped off since 1945 when we set this policy.
So we set out and together with my partners, Jameson Greer and Scott Bessett, we set out to change that.
So we started, the first one was the UK deal, right?
We asymmetric.
They pay us 10% and we get charged nothing.
That allows us to export and that began the process.
Then we did the biggest, the European Union, 450 million people, $20 trillion economy.
They completely opened their borders to us and we charge them 15%.
That makes America $100 billion a year and turns it back to where our economy is the best.
And so it proved that President Trump's trade agenda was the right trade agenda.
Then we go to Japan and Korea.
They offer us $750 billion in cash to build in America at the president's direction.
And we're going to start as an example.
Nuclear, right?
We need to have a nuclear arsenal in America of power, the generation of power.
So we're going to build hundreds of billions of dollars financed by the Japanese and the Koreans, meaning they give us the money we build it here and we split the cash flow 50-50.
Just quickly on aviation, Many of you have heard that we have an infrastructure made of copper.
We have to transition to fiber.
The last administration said it was going to take more than 10 years to complete the transition from copper to fiber.
They had no plan to actually do it.
We have already completed a third of this transition from copper to fiber.
Now it's going to take longer for us to go from analog to digital.
By the way, the rest of the world transitioned 20 years ago from analog to digital.
We are just going to do that at the FAA right now.
But we're buying new radios.
We're going to buy new radar.
By the way, those radar are going to be made in America, Mr. President.
This will all be, this phase of the operation will be completed by the time you leave office.
It's three years.
I do need another $20 billion, Congress, to start the second phase, which is really important, and we'll try to get that done also in that three-year time period, but we need the money, critically important.
With regard to commercial driver's license, I think we've covered a lot the crashes that have taken place around the country.
And what we found is there have been states that have issued commercial driver's license to foreigners, and they've gone through sham schools, and they're not safe on American roadways.
And so in partnership with Secretary Noam, we have driven those numbers down.
We've got California, Gavin Newsom, to revoke 17,000 unlawfully issued licenses.
Gratitude to you for, as Howard said, bringing this team together.
I say a lot, but I'll say it again, that this is like family at this point, and I don't know that there's ever been an organization like this, at least a government like this, in the history of our country.
These jobs are hard, but the joy every day in getting to fight for America and save the country is the privilege of all of our lifetimes, I believe.
So thank you for that.
At U.S. Department of Agriculture, the People's Department, Abraham Lincoln, launched this department in 1862.
But under your leadership, we have finally, again, put farmers and ranchers in rural America first.
In the last year, it's no longer DEI, climate change, sending out money based on the color of a farmer's skin.
It's now about literally putting farmers back at the center of it.
And under the last administration, we talked a lot about affordability.
We'll continue to talk about that.
But under the Biden administration and the destruction of our economy and the cost of inflation, interest rates for farmers and ranchers went up 73%, labor went up 47%, fertilizer went up 36%, fuel went up 28%.
So when you think about the extreme economic strain that a lot of our farmers are under in our farm economy, these are massive, massive numbers that will take some time to get out from under.
Mr. President, it's been a great year on the economy, but the best is yet to come.
The tens of trillions of dollars that have come in in investment, both the portfolio investment, investment by companies, investment by countries, that is turning into a CapEx boom for the U.S. Capital expenditures up 15% in history.
When CapEx is up, jobs will follow.
The one big beautiful bill is an incredible, as you said, thanks to your leadership, along with Speaker Johnson, Senator Leader Thune, we had that done on July 4th, which everyone said was impossible.
And the great thing about that bill, sir, for the American people, it's for industry, 100% expensing.
Build your factory here.
You can write it up immediately.
But you also insisted on the four benefits for working people.
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, auto-deductibility for American cars.
And that is retroactive.
So as a result, in 2026, we are going to see very substantial tax refunds in the first quarter.
So the best way to address the affordability crisis is to give Americans more money in their pockets, which is what this bill has done.
We're going to see real wage increases.
I think next year is going to be a fantastic year.
Taxes, deregulation, energy certainty.
That's why everyone with your leadership is coming to America.
Bond market had its best year since 2020.
Everyone said couldn't be done.
So we're going to have growth.
We've had two 4% quarters before the Schumer shutdown.
We're going to go back to that.
We are fixing the problem that Joe Biden and the Democrats created in the last administration.
If you look at every affordability crisis that's confronting the American people today, it is traceable directly to a problem caused by Joe Biden and congressional Democrats.
Why did homes get so unaffordable?
Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country taking homes that ought by right to go to American citizens.
Why did tax bills get so unaffordable?
Because Democrats were raising taxes while congressional Republicans under the president's leadership were now cutting taxes.
Why did food get so expensive?
Because we printed trillions of dollars and threw it into green scams that made our agricultural economy suffer while Americans were paying higher prices for food.
On every single one of those issues, Mr. President, I think we've made incredible progress.
Hash Patel has led the FBI.
We have a 100% increase in the arrest of violent criminals thanks to your leadership.
DEA, led by Terry Cole, over 45 million fentanyl pills, 4,200 kilos fentanyl powder.
That is the equivalent of 30,347 million potential lethal doses.
That's unbelievable that you've taken off the streets of our country.
And the weight of all the drugs combined taken off by DEA is the weight of 17 full semi-trucks of the drugs just since you've been in office.
The drugs that had flowed into this country under the previous administration.
ATF, led by Rob Sicata, has seized more than 31,000 illegal guns.
31,000.
Unbelievable at your leadership.
19,000 of those were from trafficking cases.
We told you it would take a while to get to the Supreme Court.
We're doing it at record speed.
Led by John Sauer, of course, Sarah and Hosh, all working together.
Immigration, we're winning.
Nationwide injunctions, ending DEI funding, working to secure that our federal workforce is aligned with your America First agenda, representing pretty much everyone in this room.
We met with your general counsel yesterday, Doug.
Working with everyone.
It's non-stop.
ICE, of course, we're winning there with Christy.
Brooks, NAP Benefits, won there.
Marco, USAID.
Pete, National Guard, of course, going non-stop.
Our U.S. attorneys are fighting violent crime, working around the clock to make America safe again.
Two weeks ago, we ended, under your leadership, a 20-year war on women by removing the black box warnings from hormone replacement therapy.
The medical cartel was telling women that hormone replacement therapy during was dangerous for them.
In fact, here's what the science said.
It ends, it diminishes the risk of fatal heart attacks by 25%.
Cardiac disease by 50%.
Alzheimer's by 35%.
Bone fractures by 50 to 60 percent.
It improves appetite, improves sleep, it improves energy, it improves happiness.
There are tens of millions of women in this country who have been deprived of that therapy because of scientific malpractice by the medical cartel.
We are now remedying that, and this remedy will now be available to all women who want it during one of the most difficult transitions of their lives.
MFN is one of our greatest accomplishments.
It would not have happened without you.
You were the only person who believed in it.
You drove us to get it done.
We've now made agreements with the five biggest pharmaceutical companies.
We have 12 more in the lineup to make agreements.
By the time this administration leaves office, 95% of the drugs in this country will be, we will have the lowest prices of any nation in the developed world.
We've all witnessed in our own respective spaces how, in every interaction the president has with the world, the goal he has in mind is very simple.
Does what you want us to do, or is it what we're going to, or is it going to make us stronger?
Is it going to make us richer?
Is it going to make us safer?
If it is, he's for it.
If it's not, he's against it.
If something's going to make America weaker or poorer or less safe, the president's going to be against it.
And every single thing he has done in our foreign policy has been driven by the American people in mind.
And I can go down the list.
Why has he focused on mass migration?
It's very simple, because no country is safe if you can just walk in without us knowing who you are into your country.
We've seen the destruction that that's wreaking, not just in our own country, but the impact that it's having in Europe and in many other parts of the world.
You talk about trade deals and the trade situation it's been involved in.
People, you know, all this reporting on it.
It's very simple.
The president views the last 40 years as an era of which American and American workers and American farmers have been ripped off.
They've been ripped off.
And what he's saying is we want to have trade with the world, but it has to be a trade in which American businesses and American workers and the products they make and what American farmers grow and produce has a fair shot to be sold around the world.
On issue after issue, that's been the case.
You talk about foreign aid reforms.
This is not our money.
This is taxpayer money.
When the president has said, we're going to do foreign aid, but we're going to do foreign aid for countries that are aligned with the United States and in a way that doesn't waste the taxpayers' money.
Mr. President, you deserve tremendous credit for that.
All right, that's the president holding his last cabinet meeting of the year.
We'll have coverage of this tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern on Fox.
Please set your DVR, 9 Eastern.
That's all the time we have left.
We will have Hannity tonight and tomorrow from the Washington Swamp.
Tonight, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Yes, I want to know if there's aliens hovering over our nuclear facilities.
I'm going to ask that question.
But we also have serious questions around the globe.
We'll get to all of that.
We also will check in with the Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
We'll check in with Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.
They agreed to come on together, which is rare for senators to do.
That'll be pretty cool.
Nine Eastern, set DVR.
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See you then back here in the swamp tomorrow.
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