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Feb. 20, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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Peace Through Strength: Iran on Notice
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If you want to join us, well, I see that the Democrats chose somebody really, really spunky and upbeat and positive, and it's going to bomb the anti-ICE Democratic governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the new radical that has been elected.
Notice that she hid her real beliefs during the entire campaign with the largest tax increase and defunding ICE and every other bizarre position.
Anyway, so she will deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union address next week.
Oh, and 12 members of the Democratic Party are pledging not to attend.
What a shock.
I am stunned.
I am amazed.
Governor Spanberger has always put service over politics.
She's not done a thing.
It is a joke.
Her first day, she vetoed Executive Order 47 ending Virginia's participation in the federal program that allowed local law enforcement to act as ICE agents.
Then, of course, she raised taxes in the Commonwealth of Virginia and just went down the typical Marxist-Mamdani model.
We start today's program.
One other big story that I had here somewhere.
Where did I put it?
I'll get to that in a second.
So we are now on the precipice of military action, probably jointly with the Israelis against the Iranian regime, which just steadfastly refuses to give up their nuclear ambitions, because that's what this really comes down to.
And Donald Trump has said that they cannot, will not ever have nuclear weapons.
Now, the Iranians' history is that they make all sorts of promises and deals.
You can go back to the ridiculous, insane deal that Obama made with the Iranians that he sends in cargo planes full of cash and other currency, billions of dollars to the Iranian moss.
Oh, yeah, no, no, we won't enrich uranium during this time period.
And then, by the way, it doesn't even guarantee it in perpetuity.
And then Joe Biden gets in office, does the same exact stupid thing.
And it is an existential threat to the entire world.
Now, there are those people out there, oh, this is not within the Trump Doctrine.
You don't understand the Trump doctrine.
For those people, and I want to explain this because there are people that interpret the Trump doctrine as isolationism.
America cannot somehow think that in this world that is getting smaller in many ways by the day, considering technology and advanced weapon systems, that we can risk a nuclear-armed war.
Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror.
This is an opportunity, and you can see freedom is on the march now around the world.
You see now hope and opportunity all throughout the Western Hemisphere.
You see it in Venezuela, discussions that we were reported yesterday, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State with Cuba, that are ongoing.
There is an embargo on fuel.
Russia won't even land their planes there anymore because they don't have enough jet fuel to fill them up.
And freedom is on the march.
That is what happens when you have a president that is dedicated to the concept of liberty and freedom and will stand up to tyranny wherever it is.
Now, what is the Trump doctrine?
It's not complicated.
You don't need a graduate degree from Havid or an Ivy League institution to figure out, okay, he's sticking by his principle of no forever war, peace through strength, no boots on the ground.
And that does not in any way, shape, matter, or form mean that the president is against using military force when it is in the best national, long-term security interests of the United States.
Now, I support this doctrine completely.
I've been saying for years that we can never go back to what ended up evolving in Iraq and Afghanistan, these forever wars.
We can't.
We can't have our national treasure going door to door, stepping over IEDs without up armored Humbees and getting their legs and arms blown off and their faces disfigured anymore.
And military technology is now advanced.
We don't have to.
Future wars are not going to be fought on battlefields.
You see this now playing out in real time in Europe.
It was a recent video released of the Ukrainians now shooting down missiles with lasers.
I know this technology is not only real, but it's applicable now.
And it's only going to get better and it's only going to get more sophisticated.
So now the president has said that he will decide in the next 10 days whether to handle the Iranian situation.
The deal that he's offering is they must totally, completely, forever give up any hope of any nuclear enrichment or nuclear ambitions at all.
They don't need it.
You know, the idea that they'd have low-grade enrichment and not weapons-grade enrichment, you can never trust them.
They've never agreed to anywhere, any place, anytime, American inspectors on the ground, they never will.
And if they do agree to it, they'll build up a certain period of time where they're building up their arsenal, their ballistic missile arsenal, their air defenses once again, and their nuclear programs again.
And then we're just back at square one with them.
And now Trump has been meeting with top Iranian advisors as the war threat has grown.
Trump spoke at the first Board of Peace meeting in Washington with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
And he said, you can't have peace in the Middle East if they have a nuclear weapon.
He said, we can do some work.
We have some work to do with Iran.
They can't have nuclear weapons.
It's that simple.
They can't have it, period.
You can't have peace in the Middle East.
And if they have a nuclear weapon, they can't have one.
You know, the untold story has always been that Israel, you know, yes, Israel was and has been and remains the Iranian mullah's main target, chanting death to Israel, death to America, wiping Israel off the map, wiping America off the map.
And that has been their main target.
But if you think for one second, there was a reason in Donald Trump's first term that the Israelis, the U.S., the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates, that they all aligned in an intelligence-sharing agreement and a peace agreement that very few people really seem to know about because they don't know history that was extraordinarily effective.
Why were they aligned?
Was it just the Israelis that were happy after they took out their air defense systems, missile defense systems, their scientists, their nuclear scientists?
No, it was the entire region was scared to death of Iranian hegemony and a nuclear-armed Iran.
Now, what the Iranian people ultimately do with this, that's going to be up to them.
We'll see over time.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, traveling to Israel next week, and he will update Prime Minister Netanyahu on U.S.-Iranian talks in Israel.
I don't expect that to happen.
Now, the U.S. military is pushing more weaponry into the Middle East, and that means that they are sending the USS Gerald Ford.
This is the biggest military buildup since the Iraqi war.
Let's put it this way.
And you can see the people in Iran, the level of slaughter that has gone on in recent weeks has gotten worse.
But yet the people of Iran desperately want freedom and are taking on.
The number of people arrested in the dark of night reports of 50 to 100,000 people now are being slaughtered by this regime that hates its own people and has created poverty and misery for its own people as they enforce very strict Sharia law.
I don't think it means much that the Taliban is saying that they will support, they're ready to cooperate with Iran if Washington launches a potential attack.
Good luck to them because they're going to be hit next too.
Abel would cooperate with the Islamic Republic.
I tend to doubt that they will because they know the capability and the resolve of Donald J. Trump.
Now, there is a CBS news report that top national security officials have told the president that the U.S. military will be ready for this potential strike as soon as Saturday.
There is some timing issues as it relates to all of it.
The president said within the next 10 days, my understanding is that the USS Gerald Ford is now very close to the location where they want it, and that would happen as the earliest I think it would be ready and in position would be on Saturday.
But just over eight hours on Wednesday, they identified more than 50 U.S. Air Force Navy aircraft flying east from military airfields in both the U.S. coast and the United Kingdom, continental Europe on the Middle East, and some just disappeared from radar around the Jordan-Saudi Arabian border.
Well, magically.
Aircraft seen in transit, mostly refueling, transport, surveillance planes, F-22s, F-35s.
This is the real deal.
Could be a sustained conflict for a number of weeks, but if it is, this is going to be the end.
If I had a message to the mullahs in Iran, I'd say, get out now.
Iran is rushing to fortify, according to the New York Post and satellite imagery.
It's showing the Iranians have been reinforcing key military nuclear facilities, including sites struck by the U.S. and Israel last year, as they've been desperately trying and spending every penny they have to try and rebuild all of this.
The Iranians have been saber-rattling as much as possible, holding more drills.
As, again, as I point out, you know, American military might now is all over the entire region.
USS Gerald R. Ford, aircraft carrier, now near the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea.
Well, it doesn't guarantee a strike on a U.S. strike on Iran, but it bolsters the ability of the president to carry out any mission he so desires and chooses.
Now, I will say this, Godspeed to any of our brave men and women in the military, because every military mission does come with risk.
Now the question is, is this worth the risk?
Midnight Hammer was a tremendous success.
In June of 25, the Israelis called their attacks on Iran and Iran's missile fuselades against the Jewish state, the 12-day war.
America rolled out 14, you know, rolled out their B-2s and obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program.
That was Operation Midnight Hammer.
These are sophisticated, challenging.
Ratings Drop Dramatically 00:06:08
This is not routine.
This is what these guys prepare to do.
This is what makes them the best.
And our prayers and love and support are with them, which is why we need to keep rebuilding our military, because this is a dangerous, ugly world that is governed by the use of military force.
That's just a fact.
And, you know, for those, I mean, I don't know, if you're one of these people out there and you don't like the idea of doing this, I'd be glad to talk to you about it.
But I'm just telling you right now, this now seems on a path that makes it, to me, in my mind, inevitable.
Not sure if you saw this report, Linda, but the Prince Andrew has been arrested.
Did you see that report?
I did.
On suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his relationship with Epstein and King Charles reacting to his brother's arrest in a statement issued from Buckingham Palace.
I have learned with the deepest concern news about Andrew and suspicion of misconduct in public office.
The king said, What now follows is the full, fair, proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner by the appropriate authorities.
In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation.
Let me state clearly: the law must take its course as this process continues.
It would not be right for me to comment further on the matter.
Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all.
I think the pictures speak a thousand words.
You know, this is the most fascinating thing.
What did I report yesterday?
For four years, Joe Biden and his Justice Department did nothing.
They knew all about this.
They had these files available to them, all the files.
And I listened because, oh, the Trump administration is not releasing this.
I'm like, okay, well, what did Biden do?
How come, how is it possible Merritt Garland never got asked a single question about this?
You know, and the audacity of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries post-conviction of Epstein, asking him for money.
And then Bill Clinton, there are images of him in what looks like a hot tub, a swimming pool, pictures on the plane, girl after girl after girl, and Hillary saying, we have no connection to him at all whatsoever.
Seems to be, you know, a lot of this is coming back onto Democrats in a bigger way.
Donald Trump, he threw this guy out of his club 25 years ago, which I can tell you in Palm Beach, Florida, and high society, if you will, if you're part of that group, which I am not.
It is a big deal to be thrown out of a club.
Big deal.
It is, if you had incriminating information after you're so publicly humiliated, it would have come out.
And now we're seeing conversations that this guy's had.
The whole thing is so disgusting to me.
I think child molesters are the next level of, you know, that's like the lowest circle of Dante's Inferno, lowest level in hell.
Jesus even said, if you harm one of these children, basically, God help you.
Because there's nothing more evil than harming an innocent child.
All right, Daily Wire, as President Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, Abigail Spanberger will give the response that nobody will care about.
Anyway, at least a dozen congressional Democrats now planning to protest or skip the speech altogether.
Might as touch network, move on.
Two high-profile liberal organizations are hosting the People's State of the Union on the National Mall.
Counter-programming.
I'm sure that's going to be very popular.
Let's see.
Senator Ed Markey, Chris Van Hollen, that idiot Chris Murphy, Congresswoman Jaya Pal, and the list goes on and on and on.
Okay.
The Trump haters galore.
Now, if you've been listening to the legacy media, they've been saying, oh, Donald Trump has the lowest approval ratings in history.
Not true.
If you look at the people that polled President Trump and have been able to poll him consistently and accurately, they have a very different story to tell.
Today's story, Insider Advantage.
That's our friend Matt Towery.
What is your opinion of the performance of President Donald Trump?
50% approval, 46% disapproval.
Not bad.
And he did rightly point out after a period of some weakness in his approval ratings, President Trump has come back, and he gives a really good explanation for it.
You know, he's now at the 50% level near to or exceeding his margin of victory against Kamala Harris.
And he said other pollsters who have correctly polled President Trump in the past and past election cycles are showing the same upward trend.
He cites Rasmussen as one.
It shows Trump's approval numbers on the rise.
And his analysis is he attributes this to a combination of ICE raids becoming orderly, strategic and obvious evidence that the economy is actually turning to the positive.
We have more good news on that as well.
And while the last government shutdown appeared to hurt President Trump's ratings, this one appears to actually be helping his numbers.
So, you know, there's always an ebb and flow to this, but it doesn't matter.
Did you see Linda yesterday as the president had his Black History Month event and a grandmother who lost her grandson to gun violence in our nation's capital in 2017?
Her name is Borlicia Cook.
Did you see that video?
Training Your New Pet 00:04:25
Do we have that?
We actually have that cut, cut three.
If you do a hush crime, you do hush time.
Just that simple.
And then we need National Guard and which we did years ago.
He brought it on.
I love him.
I don't want to hear nothing you got to say about that racist stuff.
And don't be looking at me on the news, hating on me because I'm standing up for somebody that deserves to be stand up for.
Get off the man's back.
Let him do his job.
He's doing the right thing.
Back up off of it.
And grandma said it.
She's on TV tonight.
How cool is that?
I can't wait to meet her.
She's fantastic.
She adopts me.
And you know what's funny about her?
She has a real loss that nobody ever protested for.
Nobody wore a button for her family.
You know, her grandson was lost.
You never saw anybody come in.
We never heard about his name.
No, we never heard his name prior to.
I follow the news closely.
Nobody heard this name, the name of this person before yesterday, do you think?
I don't think so.
It's just pathetic.
I remember, do you remember when this young girl was shot in Chicago?
And I sent Lawrence Jones at the time.
He's now a star.
He doesn't go out for us anymore.
I'm proud of him.
He's my friend.
He's my buddy.
You know, Lawrence Jones is helping me get the dog of my dreams.
You know I'm getting a dog, right?
Yeah.
What's your problem?
You know how I feel about this.
You're doing two things I don't believe in.
What do you mean you don't believe?
I am giving you a bad thing.
You're buying a dog and you're training it and you're formally training it.
You're not training it with love and time and tenderness.
No, You don't, you see, you're a horrible animal owner.
Oh, am I?
Okay.
You're absolutely terrible, as evidenced by you have a cat.
I want you to show the picture of the cat that you had to get.
She's an old, fat, happy cat.
That's lovely.
You had to send away to the cat.
I don't know if I guess Trump can call it the fat shot.
You had to send it to like a fat farm.
Guess what?
She's still fat.
She's still fat.
Happy and fat.
Okay, but that means you're a bad animal owner because you mistreat your animals and overfeed them.
I do not mistreat my animals.
I love my animals.
I love my animals love me.
And that's why they live so dang long.
Now, I did have a shelter animal once that was Snowball.
I've had two Bernese mountain dogs, and I had a white golden.
And this time I am getting a border collie, which is the smartest dog in the world.
They're wonderful.
There's a bunch of them.
Wonderful dogs.
Not dogs.
And they're in the shelter because people don't know how to keep them busy and active, and they need to be entertained.
All right.
I am a great dog owner.
If I was a dog and I had to pick who to adopt me, I'd pick me.
Okay, so how are you going to constantly stimulate your border collie?
Oh, you have no idea.
My dogs love me.
My dogs will be by my side all the time.
He'll be doing jumping japs and going through hula hoops and all sorts of things.
Go watch some videos of border colleagues.
They love to train.
They love to please their love to learn new tricks.
They love exercise.
Yeah.
Well, what do you think I do all day?
Anything at every moment I have, what do you think I think you're doing?
I think you need a very small old dog that likes to sleep.
No, I actually want a dog that, you know, we work hard and play hard.
That's how it's going to work.
This dog's going to learn to work hard and play hard.
That's how I live my life.
Okay.
I don't really play hard.
I sleep hard.
I don't really sleep that much either.
But the reality is, you know, my dog, I take great care of my dog.
I love my dogs.
My dog, like everybody in the family, when I had dogs, my kids growing up, they always knew it was dad's dog.
And because if the kids would want to play with it, and I stepped in the room and the dog would come to me and sit by me.
Yeah, I mean, dogs love like usually a couple main people in the house.
It's typically the way it works.
They loved one, me.
No, they loved the whole family.
Stop it.
They just knew where their food came from.
No, I let the kids feed him.
It didn't matter who fed them.
The dog still wanted to be with me.
Anyway, so you're getting a dog, you're training it.
What's the point?
Well, that's what you're supposed to do.
Stop It 00:06:53
What do you want?
The dog, you know, taking an Adam shift all over the house?
You want the dog peeing all over the house and stinking up your house and ruining them?
I've never had that problem.
Carpets?
Not once.
No, you just overfeed them and kill them.
They're still alive.
They're driving from obesity.
Your cat is the size of four cats.
Put it up on the website and let America see that cat when it was its heaviest.
It was obese.
I've never seen it.
I put a picture up of all my animals and their stunning beauty.
If there's cat Ozempic or Cat Manjaro, we ought to give it to that cat.
Because you couldn't say no.
You had to feed the cat and feed the cat and feed the cat.
She's just big boned, bro.
She's fine.
Oh, okay.
Oh, stop it.
Just stop.
You're burying yourself here.
ICE arrested an Iranian national with rape and sodomy convictions.
And despite Democratic efforts to save this guy, maybe Abigail Spamberger can use her State of the Union address to explain why she tried to prevent ICE from arresting an illegal serial rapist from Iran.
And I can't believe we're letting Iranian nationals in the country, but that's what Joe and Kamala and Majorkis did.
ICE announced the arrest of in Virginia of an illegal Iranian national who had a criminal history, including multiple rapes.
This is what Democrats want to defund.
Cuba, thanks to Marco Rubio, is now accepting deported Cuban criminal illegals from the U.S. Good.
Send them back.
Democrats turn their backs on the DHS and ICE when America needs the most.
You know, Detroit officers facing termination for allegedly contacting immigration authorities during traffic stops.
Hey, if you're in Detroit listening to this program, contact law enforcement down in the free state of Florida because they're giving bonuses to well-trained officers, law enforcement, and you are respected in the free state of Florida.
And I would argue if you prefer Texas, go to Texas.
You know, third arrested in violent overnight home invasion.
Multiple illegal aliens accused of sexual assault and kidnapping.
This is every day I read these articles.
Buddy Carter says Democrats have blood on their hands.
Georgia Republican Senate candidate linking Linda Davis' death to Democratic opposition to ICE enforcement.
Anyway, Buddy Carter running against John Ossoff and fellow Democrats are having Georgians' blood on their hands.
I don't know who's going to get the nomination for the Republicans in Georgia.
I can't really follow it.
But this is an everyday occurrence.
Every day I bring in these stories.
Every day I tell you.
Now, I do have some good economic news.
Housing starts.
What have I been saying?
You get interest rates down, you get inflation down, and they're only going to go down further.
It's going to start a housing boom in this country.
Sale of pre-existing homes will skyrocket and new home construction will follow.
Home housing starts, which is a gauge of new residential construction.
That rose 6.2% in December.
That is a huge jump.
And for November, housing starts were up 3.9%.
Why?
Because they're anticipating lower interest rates because of President Trump's ability to manage inflation.
Jobless claims also plunge dramatically.
Unemployment applications fell by the most since November.
U.S. industrial production surged more than expected.
They always say more than expected when it's Donald Trump in January.
New information.
U.S. manufacturing output posed its biggest gain in 11 months.
And that's only going to get bigger every month next year because of the trillions in committed investment dollars for manufacturing of automobiles and pharmaceuticals and rare earths and semiconductor chips.
That's all coming online.
Bringing it back home.
This is good for the American people.
And then Democrats, they risk a FEMA disaster because of their insanity of shutting down the Department of Homeland Security.
This is insane.
Now, we're not at the point where it's going to matter yet, but that also includes FEMA.
That also includes the Secret Service.
That also includes the Coast Guard.
I mean, they're so reckless and irresponsible.
It's really unbelievable.
One ex-Democratic mega donor warning AOC reflects the party's growing split from the Clinton-era Democrats.
No, that split is over.
It's done.
Florida executives are sentenced to a $233 million Obamacare fraud.
Can you believe this?
The amount of fraud Dr. Oz is estimating is going to be in the hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Mamdani now made his first move to defund the police, and he's looking to tighten his budget so he can spend money on all his socialist policies.
Mamdani now moved to cancel all orders signed by Eric Adams as it relates to the New York Police Department.
Mamdani's plan, by the way, he wants to cap the number of police officers by 35,000.
That's about $7,000 to $10,000 short of what New York City needs.
Then his tax hike threat.
Now, even the Washington Post is mocking it, you know, for proving socialist utopia is expensive.
And Mamdani clashing with Hochold.
Now, he might withhold his endorsement of her.
You watch what's going to happen.
There's going to be a big fight.
He's going to demand that money.
And I think he's going to have more power than I think Hokul is governor and name only in that state.
Republican National Committee now trying to sue Virginias to stop their redistricting push.
You know, a state Donald Trump got 46% of the votes.
They want to give Republicans 9% of congressional representation.
That's how sick they are on the left.
By the way, Brendan Carr said it straight.
You know, this whole issue of the FCC and this big show made by Stephen Colbert, it's all a bunch of crap.
Tell Rico.
Well, all the FCC chairs said that if CBS wanted to follow equal time standards, then they just put on Jasmine Crockett.
First time I ever agreed with Jasmine Crockett, Linda.
Can you believe that?
It's a shocking thing.
I don't know.
Why doesn't he want Jasmine Crockett on?
I wonder if it's a race issue.
Never know.
That's what Democrats would say, isn't it?
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