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Dec. 11, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Power of A Good Christmas Song
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If you want to be a part of the program, the president just started talking with economic leaders.
The Fed has now again cut interest rates another quarter basis point.
That's nearly a full point in the last three months.
Remember, Jerome Powell's tenure at the Fed comes to an end.
We have moved into the quantitative easing part of a recovery, which is extremely imperative, I think, for the economy.
Let's just dip in, listen to Howard Luttnick as he speaks.
Nice to see you.
Well, thank you very much.
It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news.
As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large.
Largest one ever seized, actually.
And other things are happening.
So you'll be seeing that later, and you'll be talking about that later with some other people.
Very excitingly for me and for the country, we've just launched the Trump gold card.
It was about 30 minutes from now.
The site goes up, and all funds go to the United States government.
Could be a tremendous amount of money.
It'll also be able to have people like this keep, as an example, just one example.
There are a lot of examples, people just buying them.
It's somewhat like a green card, but with big advantages over a green card.
And companies are going to be able to go to the Wharton School of Finance, the Stern Business School, Harvard, MIT, wherever you may get your students, any school, and you're able to buy a card and keep that person in the United States, actually.
So this certainty, because a lot of I've heard from Tim Cook of Apple, and I've heard from a lot of people, some of the people at this table, that essentially in the United States, you can't keep the student.
You can't hire people from the best colleges because you don't know whether or not you can keep the person.
They come and have the people get out.
They throw the person out of the country.
You graduate number one from your college, and there's no way of guaranteeing, I guess you could say, there's no way of guaranteeing that they're able to stay in the country.
Howard, maybe you'll give a little description of the Trump gold card, please.
Sure.
So for individuals.
We'll get back to this after we, you know, the president gets to the issue.
We'll monitor it for when he talks about.
I mean, this is these rate cuts have been long overdue, really necessary.
And, you know, the president outlined very articulately last night a lot of the progress that he has made.
Now, the main crux of what has happened with the economy is what the president inherited.
I mean, the president touting the strong economy.
Yeah, we have the lowest gas prices we've had in five years nationwide.
If you want to pay $450, $500 a gallon, just go to Gavin Newsome's Socialist Utopia because they have the highest gas taxes in the country, as well as the highest sales taxes in the country, oh, as well as the highest income taxes in the country.
Go there.
Even fake news CNN reporting low gas prices under Trump.
I mean, they're record lows.
He did this in his first term.
So this is not new.
And the president touting, you know, the fact that inflation is down, interest rates are coming down dramatically, and the price of energy, which is the lifeblood of the world's economy, is coming down.
And now we have a major, you know, now we're down nearly a full basis point, even with Jerome Powell at the helm, although, frankly, I can't wait to see him go.
But add to that the trillions in committed manufacturing investments in this country.
Add to that the fact, you know, President Riley pointed out over $100 billion in new monies that Pennsylvania alone already has in the economic bloodstream in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
And, you know, the 60-plus thousand jobs, high-paying career jobs created in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
But with unemployment, you know, usually the Fed looks for that sweet spot where we're almost at full employment, but unemployment still exists, and it's just room for the economy to go.
And they start buying up treasury bonds and quantitative easing policies now have been adopted.
It's now official.
And, you know, the net result of this is going to be, okay, when the president's tax cuts get infused into the economy, which you will feel next year, and with your paycheck, and when you pay taxes on April 15th, now that we have interest rates coming down, sale of pre-existing homes will start rising around the country, especially with a new Fed share.
It's only going to go lower.
You're going to see 30-year fixed-rate mortgages back in the fours and below, hopefully, sooner than later.
And that means new home construction will begin.
Again, that is an entire industry that basically was shut down under Biden because of inflation, high interest rates, and the bad economic policies that they have.
For those that still are suffering the hangover from the Biden-Harris economy, it sucks.
I don't know what else to tell you.
I can't give you the it's not a quick fix.
It took Reagan about 14, 18 months for his tax cuts to make it into the bloodstream of the economy.
It'll probably take less because we've never combined the largest tax cuts in history.
Democrats voted for the largest tax increase in history, coupled with no tax on tips over time Social Security with energy dominance policies that the president has put in place, which we're already seeing the benefits of with lower energy prices across the board, dramatically lower.
That's like a major tax cut for people, coupled with trillions in committed investments, manufacturing.
We brought back automobile manufacturing, also components and parts and batteries, that kind of manufacturing.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing, we've been dependent on foreign countries for that.
We've been dependent on foreign countries for semiconductor production.
Rare earths, we've been far too dependent on.
All of these have now been addressed.
And the president also has gotten freer and fairer trade deals by countries that have been ripping us off.
It just, you know, it was either you take it all on quickly and take the short-term pain that would be associated with transitioning away from a disastrous economy to one that's prosperous.
By the way, the president just mentioned there, the U.S. military seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, the largest ever.
And what is the message the president is sending Maduro and Venezuela?
And that is that the lifeblood of their economy will come to a crashing halt.
And the people, unfortunately, living under the authoritarian government, I frankly think illegitimate government of Maduro, you know, it's time for him to go.
And by the way, they don't have the cleanest oil on the face of the earth anyway, but the seizure is going to make it harder for Venezuela to export their oil.
And the message is absolutely clear.
Stop sending your drugs that are killing American citizens into our country.
Now, most Venezuelan oil goes to China.
President recently made a deal with President Xi, and in part, not only will they buy our soybeans and help our farmers, and they have been disproportionately impacted by the president having to get tough on unfair trade practices in America getting ripped off.
The textile industry is another one.
And the president is trying to offer short-term help using tariff monies to help farmers and other industries are going to follow as well.
But usually through intermediaries, most Venezuelan goes to China at discounted prices, you know, because of the sanctions.
In other words, they're violating the sanctions.
And they do need to remain in place.
I want to deal with something else here today that is really, really frustrating to me.
For years, I have been predicting, you know, any idiot can have their own talk show.
And a lot of people, the way they're making their living is they're saying the most incendiary, outrageous, bizarre, conspiratorial, in some cases, outright racist, white nationalist, virulent anti-Semitism.
And they make money off the, quote, clicks that they can then monetize because, you know, people like the shock value of it.
And that's why I'm urging all of you in this audience.
Just be selective.
If you hear people that you know are racist, do you really want to associate with those people?
I don't.
Or people that are, you know, hateful anti-Semitic people.
I don't want to associate with them either.
Or people that push and peddle conspiracy theories.
I don't want to hear any of that either.
But there's plenty of that toxicity out there.
Erica Kirk has had to deal with these wild, bizarre conspiracy theories about the death of her husband.
And their kids are one day going to probably see this.
And this is how she very firmly addressed it earlier today on Outnumbered on Fox.
Talk to me about this part of the conspiracies that are out there, this disturbing part that people are trying to guess where Charlie is.
Can I have one thing?
Can I have one thing?
Can my children have one thing?
Everything was public.
We will be building the most beautiful memorial for my husband at Turning Point USA, and it will be for the world to see, and it will be spectacular.
And it will have basically museum style for our Charlie, for my Charlie.
But can I have one thing?
Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred, where my husband is laid to rest, where I don't have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and destroying my husband's grave while my daughter is sitting there praying?
One thing.
This is my husband.
Yes, he was Charlie Kirk to the world, and I know so many people love my husband, and I am grateful for that.
But this is my husband.
And I want to be able to have one thing left that is sacred to our family, to my in-laws, to my babies, and to my parents.
One thing.
What are they taking from you right now?
Nothing.
But I will tell you what they are doing.
It reminds me so much of chapter six in the book of Nehemiah.
He is building a wall, and the townspeople are at the base of that hill saying, Nehemiah, calling him all these names, saying all these things, come on down.
Every single time he had the same message four times in a row.
I cannot come down.
I am busy building.
That is how I feel.
I do not have time to address the noise.
My silence does not mean that I am complacent.
My silence does not mean that somehow Turning Point USA and all of the hand-picked staff that loved my husband and my husband loved them is somehow in on it.
We are busy building.
And you know what I thought?
I thought these people are human.
We are all grieving in our own way.
And they are trying to find the answer to something that happened that was so evil.
They are trying so hard.
And I get that.
We're doing the same.
Anytime we can relieve.
Let me jump in here because that's so powerful what you're saying.
There are people with no evidence spreading the most vile, hateful conspiracy theories about Charlie's assassination.
There are people that are actively looking to kind of dox where Charlie's buried.
Does it get any sicker than this?
I don't think so.
If the most vile, mean-spirited, hateful, evil things are being said, leave this family, leave this widow, leave these children, leave this organization alone.
It's unbelievable.
And then people, you know, do it and they do it for money.
And Eric even pointed that out.
Got to give props to John Fetterman.
John Fetterman saw this idiot posting on X and he spoke up about it.
And what they're saying is disgusting.
Attacking a widow, you know, because Charlie finished this book, which is amazing, by the way.
It's called Stop in the Name of God, Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life.
His last words.
And Fetterman said, it is gross.
It is dehumanizing to attack a widow with young children after witnessing his public assassination.
It shouldn't be controversial to put our political views aside and extend the grace for a deeply traumatized family to grieve.
And meanwhile, a liberal podcast.
And by the way, there's people on the left and the radical, you know, right even.
They're not MAGA.
They claim to be MAGA.
You know, go look at the things they've said about Trump over the years, and they're full of crap.
They're grifters themselves.
These people repulse me.
Linda, you see all this?
It's so disgusting.
It's pretty bad.
It's pretty revolting.
Pretty evil, really.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
By the way, for the record, that was a, that's Christmas music that Linda chooses.
Why don't we play one that I like just to let people have the comparison so they can know the difference between really good Christmas music and stuff that grandma used to play, which I think gets a little bit of a bad thing.
Why do you hate grandma so much?
What is wrong with you?
Do you have grandma issues?
What is wrong with you?
To be very honest, I only grew up knowing one grandparent.
So that's what it is.
You have grandma issues.
Nobody ever has to do with the girls.
I don't have grandma issues.
I don't have a TikTok and played nice burlize.
No, I don't.
TikTok is disgusting.
My father used to drink eggnog.
It's a wonderful thing.
It is disgusting.
It's not disgusting.
It is.
No, it is repulsive.
No, it's lovely.
Are you going to drink eggnog seriously?
I already had some.
I had a nice eggnog with a little rum, a little cinnamon twist.
Rum in your eggnog.
Now, why don't you put a little rum in your eggnog now or that disgusting, you know, fucking.
Why are you allowing me to drink on the job?
Because listen, it's going to be a whole kind of different show.
As if I could stop you anyway, because, well, you have enough moonshine in that studio.
You can't mess with the moonshine.
I love that they sent it to us, but it'll knock you on your booty.
That's not a thing.
Have you tried?
Has that happened?
Well, yeah, you can't have someone send you a beautiful gift and not try it.
That's rude.
Okay, so you are admitting to being intoxicated during a show.
I didn't say intoxicated.
Trying it is not devouring the bottle.
It's having it tasty.
Okay.
And you got enough vodka in there to last 400 lifetimes.
I don't know whether it's a critical part of the day, without question.
6 o'clock.
Okay, I can't do a show and drink before I do a show.
6 o'clock.
6 o'clock.
That's when the show is over for me.
You could have a little something at 6 o'clock.
Enjoy your eggnog.
Wait, I have to give a shout out.
I didn't do my shout out.
Can I do it?
I want to give a shout out to Connor Stewart.
He's 14 years old.
He lives in Utah.
He's my friend's son.
He loves the show.
He listens every single day on his way home from school.
So shout out to Connor Stewart if you're out there.
I hope you had a great day at school, buddy, and we're so grateful that you listen.
Connor, God bless you.
And I just urge you to be more discerning in people that you come to meet and know in life.
And don't take on the lexicon of Linda as you get older because if you do, you'll be saying a lot of cuss words.
Are you done?
Ho-ho-ho-ing into the spirit here.
I'm done.
Can we play my Christmas music now just to give people the difference between good music and grandma music?
Listen.
Hit it.
Here we go.
Here we go.
This is good Christmas.
Rank it up.
A little louder.
There we go.
In the spirit of the season.
I find that music fascinating.
I love it.
Love it.
This is a great time of year.
It really is.
And it's not just because, I don't know, I like it for a lot of reasons.
And I get my long vacation of the year, which is really good, which is great for you because you don't have to see or hear from me for a while.
Although I will be writing probably every day.
I'm like, I literally just stayed quiet.
I was like, I'm sorry.
Are you not taking your phone with you?
I'm like, okay.
Listen, I really have a lot to learn.
I mean, it was such a powerful book.
I read the whole book cover to cover, Stop in the Name of God by Honoring the Sabbath will transform your life.
And, you know, and Charlie, I felt like he was speaking directly to me because he gives every single possible excuse you could ever come up with, including you might get a call from the president for not doing it, putting your phone aside.
But I do work in the news industry.
And, you know, I'll give you an example.
Remember the day that the incident at Trump International happened?
I had breakfast that morning with Steve Witcoff, who would later become the special envoy for President Trump.
And he's been negotiating peace deals on two continents.
I mean, shuttle diplomacy.
You know what a lot of people don't know when people attack this man?
He pays for his own plane to do all these trips.
He doesn't take a penny from the government.
He's doing it gratis.
He's doing it for free.
He's doing it out of love of country.
Well, he once did business with this country.
I'm like, yeah, okay, he doesn't need this nightmare of trying to bring peace on two continents.
He doesn't.
He's a multi-billionaire.
And of course, he could get reimbursed.
Of course, he could get paid.
But he did forego all of it.
He's paying every penny.
You know what it should cost an hour on a private jet the size that he has?
It's not cheap because he has to carry a big staff with him.
People are so ignorant.
It's unbelievable.
Listen, we'll get into more detail, and I'm going to hit this tonight.
We're also going to get into this Somali fraud.
I mean, with Newt Gingrich later in the program today, I mean, we're learning more and more every day.
What's that?
What are you saying in my ear?
Because you're.
What do you mean I'm off mic?
I'm on my.
Oh, my God.
What happened to TalkBack?
Some things were supposed to keep between us.
I was telling you on the show, and you talk probably one American.
I can't talk to America.
Use your microphone.
So maybe pick your moments.
Good grief.
Anyway, the House Oversight Committee Chairman, our friend James Comer, warning yesterday that the alleged fraud found in Minnesota is likely more widespread.
We're looking at a billion dollars in fraud.
And yes, a lot of it went to this, this is not a broad indictment against a group of people, but people within a community are largely responsible for what is now looking like over a billion dollars in fraud.
And the governor, Tim Walz, Tampon Tim, knew all about it, was warned by whistleblowers, and didn't do a single thing to stop it.
And as Minnesota's Somali welfare fraud scandals widens, Tim Walz is inviting more Somalis into his state.
That's a great idea.
Now, if you go back in time, I'm going to take you back to the Minneapolis Star Tribune because another elected official, Congresswoman Omar, is up to her eyeballs in this.
And I had forgotten completely about this.
It came up during President Trump's town hall in Pennsylvania last night.
But questions swirl about Congresswoman Omar and whether or not there might be or might have been immigration fraud.
This is not from Sean Hannity.
This is not from a conservative think tank.
This is not the vast right-wing conspiracy.
This is the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Not exactly known for conservatism, but they're very liberal.
And back in 2019, the very liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune published an in-depth investigative report into Omar's immigration status and a marital history.
And people were attacking President Trump last night for bringing some of this up.
And I'll read from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
It's from June of 2019, June 23rd, to be exact.
Linda, did I make it clear it's from the Minneapolis Star Tribune?
But I'm doing that on purpose.
Yes, sir.
So new investigative documents, I'm reading from this, released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Congresswoman Omar and whether she once married a man, possibly her own brother, to skirt immigration laws.
The piece goes on.
Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as baseless rumors, but she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmai, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.
Now, the question surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed, again, this is 2019, filed federal taxes in 2014 and 15 with her current husband at Hersai while she was still legally married to but separated from the first husband.
The new documents also detail the Omar campaign effort to keep the story of her marriage out of the press, arguing detailed coverage would legitimize the accusations, invade her privacy.
By the way, I'm not in favor of invading anybody's privacy, but if it's possible corruption and the liberal media deems it worthy, I guess it's worth getting answers to the questions.
I don't know if we've ever gotten the questions answered.
Anyway, sent a list of questions and requests to talk to her siblings and father.
Omar declined to do so.
Her side did not respond to multiple calls, text, emails.
Social media posts indicate Elmai is in Africa at the time.
Again, 2019, he did not respond to multiple emails.
It's just bizarre.
I have no idea.
I don't know any of it.
Omar has insisted on silence on key details, and it's really strange, right, to prove a negative.
And maybe it's all legit.
I don't know.
Some of the original social media accounts, you know, Lincoln Elmai to Omar after their split appear to have been removed.
Omar declined to make her tax and immigration records available for this report that they put out, but they have remained silent about her marriage, and she declined to make her family available for the story.
What's clear from the recently released documents of the campaign finance board is that the young upstarts campaign was unprepared for any potential blowback from the questions surrounding this marriage to Elmai, which was first reported in 2016 on Somaliaspot.com, an online public forum.
It goes on to say, I mean, did we ever get closure on this issue?
I don't recall.
Linda, you remember?
Ask Rock.
There has been no closure.
I assure you, I follow it closely.
Why would you follow this issue closely?
I have interest in it.
So we have Jon Thune on TV tonight.
Now, remember, we have discussed at length and asked the question, why does Obamacare, or as Democrats and leftists prefer to call it, the Affordable Care Act?
You see, if you put a nice little branding name on a bill and make it into something that it's not, they think the American people will fall for it.
Now we're at the point where the Affordable Care Act, we now, the verdict is in.
And the promise that millions, you know, that Americans will keep their doctors, keep their plans, and the average family would save $2,500 a year, none of those promises came true.
None of them.
And it's not the Affordable Care Act.
It can't be affordable if you need subsidies in perpetuity.
Remember, this is what Democrats were fighting for.
Health care, $1.5 trillion.
They wanted health care for illegals.
They wanted their own bill that they designed to be temporary subsidies to expire.
Their own bill.
They wanted to make them permanent.
Okay.
So what have we discovered?
Millions lost their doctors.
Millions lost their plans.
Not only are you not saving as a family on average $2,500 per family per year, but the average Americans paying anywhere from 225% to over 300% more for being in an Obamacare exchange.
Okay, and those prices are about to go up yet again.
And what the Senate Republicans are saying is, why don't we cut people a check and divvy the money out and make sure people are legitimately eligible for the subsidy and let them decide how to best spend their health care dollars, which would be innovative.
Find a health care cooperative, start healthcare savings account.
Anyway, the new analysis, the GAO found, 58,000 dead people now get Obamacare subsidies on top of everything that Dr. Oz has been pointing out.
By the way, back to Omar for a second House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has called her one of the most duplicitous con artists I've ever seen.
This debate's getting huge.
I'm telling you, something is coming out of this.
I'm not sure what yet, but this may be one of the biggest financial scandals in American history.
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