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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly, here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Mike Slater
Thank you, bill. It's Tuesday, February 25, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. The people love Doge Apple investments, German chancellor and detentions down 95%. It's all coming up. Then. Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, a new Harvard poll. Do you believe current levels of US government debt is sustainable or unsustainable? 67% said unsustain. Sustainable. That's a good start. 69% supported a goal of cutting a trillion dollars of government expenditures. And 60% support the Department of Government Efficiency. Not everyone, however, is happy. A group of frustrated Park Service workers hung a giant American flag upside down off the side of El Capitan in Yosemite meant to draw attention to Trump's cuts to the National Park Service. Washington Post ran an article the other day with the opening line, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms. A ton of questions in that one sentence. But how does only one guy in all of Yosemite have the keys to the bathrooms? And who's getting locked in the bathrooms? Hopefully, Doge will get to the bottom of that. Apple announced plans to spend a half a trillion dollars in the United States over the next four years. $20,000, new employees, one reason why, to avoid tariffs. This is the biggest US Investment by Apple ever. The bulk of these new jobs is going to be in Houston, Texas and in Michigan, the likely next German chancellor after the German elections on Sunday. You'll hear people in our media call him a conservative. He's not and he's certainly no Trump fan, he said after the latest statements by Donald Trump last week. It is clear that the Americans, at any case, these Americans, this administration, mostly don't care about the fate of Europe one way or another, who went on to say that the interventions from Washington were no less drastic, dramatic and ultimately no less brazen than the intervention that we have seen from Moscow. The chancellor is of a party that is slightly to the right of the Democrats here in America, but they are going to form a coalition not with the other party that's further to the right, but with all the leftist parties of Germany. One issue for many German voters is mass migration. That's pretty much over here in America. Agents on Friday and the entire Texas Mexican border encountered only 199 illegal immigrants compared to the same date last year, 4293. And that's just what we encountered last year. That's a 95% decrease from the same time last year. But really, it's just been a couple days and we've seen this massive decrease. An illegal alien from Guatemala was charged in Massachusetts with armed home invasion. The local police just let him go without telling ice. He was caught by ICE and deported. The real question is how many illegal aliens have self deported? I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day next we finally beat Medicare. He's right.
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Bill O'Reilly
He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death.
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Bill O'Reilly
Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day on this Tuesday. I hope you read my latest column on Bill O'Reilly.com about why President Trump is so frenetic. There is a strategy to this. Not mentioned in the column is the incredible failure of the Biden administration which is now driving much of the Trump agenda. Partial list. President Biden had no plan to stop the war in Ukraine or the Hamas hostage situation. No strategy whatsoever. Under Biden, air traffic control in the USA cratered. The feds need about 2,000 more controllers in the towers right now. Thank you, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, for doing absolutely nothing. Under Biden, an estimated 10 million foreign nationals enter the USA without proper supervision. Thank you, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who championed the open border. On Joe's watch, food prices jumped 20% and it's not likely they will decline very much once a price point for necessities is established, it's almost impossible to rescind. Almost every single trade deal the USA had under Biden favored the other country. Joe Biden ran up more than $7 trillion in debt over four years. He allowed billions to go to Iran even as that dastardly country was sending murder, money and arms to Hamas and Hezbollah. The list goes on and on. So Trump is trying to reverse as much of that as quickly as he can. And that is what we are seeing. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. Here's a male. Karen Smolens, Woodside, NY One of the last Irish neighborhoods in Queens. Hey, Bill, unfortunately, my children are liberal. My daughter told me all the recent airline accidents are Trump's fault because Doge is getting rid of too many employees. How do I answer that? You don't answer it. You know it's not even close to being true. You just say if you do some research, you'll find out that under Biden, there were 2,000 air traffic controllers missing. Federal government didn't, didn't hire 2,000 under Biden that they needed. Trump didn't have anything to do with this. But she's not going to believe you no matter what you do. Okay. Jared G. The Philippines. I'm 41 years old. Been watching you since I was age 12. Whoa. Do you think Trump is ripping on Zelinsky as a negotiation tactic? Read my column. That's all I can tell you. You can get it on billowrelli.com it's all over the world. I know the Philippines does not block us. So you can read it, Jared, and I appreciate it. Then you'll feel exactly why Trump is doing what he's doing with Putin. Juan Undot, Maze Landing, New Jersey. President Trump's castrage make America great again has always interested me because it implies the country went wrong somewhere. When do you think America lost its way? It goes up and down. Goes up and down. Okay. And certainly the Biden administration is a disaster. No doubt about it. And before that, when Trump was elected the first time he thought that President Obama was a disaster. I don't have Obama in that category. If you read Confronting the Presidents, and I hope you do, we do a very disciplined assessment of Barack Obama. Rich Stevens, San Diego. Bill, you asked if the media ever credited Trump for what he is doing. I'm not sure. But how could they not credit him for the American hostages which were released in Venezuela, in Russia, and I think it was one or two in Gaza. They ignored the story. They ignored Trump's participation. That's what they do. If Trump does anything demonstrably good, media ignores it. That's a strategy. In a moment, something you might not know. Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. America is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Total worth in the USA topped $141 trillion last year and it's expected to pass 150 trillion by the end of the decade. Our median income stands at $67,000 a year. That means half earn more, half earn less. For the super rich, that type of money can be made in less than an hour. Here are the wealthiest folks in the USA, ranked by Forbes magazine. Number 10, Michael Bloomberg. Wall street tycoon, founded his company in 1981. Today his net worth tops $105 billion. Number nine, Bill Gates. Software developer. Founded Microsoft and turned his attention to philanthropy. Net worth 107 billion. 8. Steve Ballmer. He led Microsoft from 2000 2014. Total worth 123 billion. Number seven, Sergey Brin. Born 1973 in the Soviet Union. The boy moved to Maryland the age of five. Two decades later, he founded Alphabet, parent company of Google. Net worth 130 billion. Number six, another Google co founder, Larry Page. 136 billion. Top five starts with investor Warren Buffett, followed by software engineer Larry Ellison. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, then Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The wealthy American by far, Elon Musk. His total net worth tops $250 billion. Depending on the value of Tesla stock, Musk earns anywhere from 200 million to 500 million every day. And here's something else you might not know. Even for the poorest U.S. citizens, the quality of life is better than anywhere else in the world. For Americans living below the poverty line, that's about $29,000 in income, 97% of a cell phone, 99 have refrigerators, 98 cable TV, 80% air conditioning, 92% Internet. And 70% of those designated poor have at least one car. According to the U.N. the poorest 20% of Americans are wealthier than the average European. Back in a moment. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for.