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The President's White House Address, Trump Signs Marijuana Executive Order, & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. JD Vance: Who Would Win the 2028 Election?
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Bill O'Reilly
Donate to power our fight foreignly here. Welcome to the no spin news. Thursday, December 18, 2025 Stand up for your country. One week before Christmas Day. So everybody's busy and we're very pleased that you are with us. A lot of stuff to tell you about. I hope you have a pen and paper there. A lot of very interesting stats you can talk about with your Christmas socializing if you'd like. But today we look ahead. So what's likely to change next year, 2026? The economy certainly going to change, but I don't know whether it's going to get better or worse. I think it will get better because I really want to think that not just because of the Trump administration, but because it benefits you and me. All right. But it seems that the structure of consumer spending which drives the American economy and the way that America has positioned itself in the world still got the best tech products and all that. I think it's going to be okay. But I could be desperately wrong. Political hatred is going to get worse. With the midterms next year vital for both parties, it's going to be savagery and we're going to be here to point out all the deception and there will be many. How about your job? Now this is something you need to think about. There are going to be millions of jobs affected by artificial intelligence. And it's over a rollout period of about five years. I don't know what your job is, obviously. I mean, if you are fixing stuff, you'll probably be able to do that without any intrusion. But if you're in a white collar world, it's going to be a lot of replacements. And so you need to look at your situation. Think ahead. Okay, plan B, because that marketplace in America is going to change. Recreation, no, still going to be sports, sports, sports, Winter Olympics should be fun. Super Bowl, a lot of sports betting, that's not a good thing, but it heightens interest. And so sports, we are a sports crazed country. Most countries are. Most countries, it's soccer here, it's NFL football, But basketball, baseball, hockey, they still have a big, big audience. So recreation is going to be built around Spectator viewing of events and your own personal recreation is up to you. I recommend you walk as much as you could possibly walk, all right, as you get older in particular. And then you got to stretch, all right, every other day. And if you're more motivated, go to the gym and get a trainer and all that. All that is good. Okay? Make sure you get eight, nine hours of sleep. It sounds like a lot. It's not got to regenerate, particularly if you work hard. And finally, we'll be here for the year, God willing, okay, we're signed up for another year. Gotta take it year by year. I mean, look, I'm the last man standing. There's nobody in my peer group. Britt Hume has been around longer than me, but he's got pretty soft job down there in Florida. You know, he appears on Fox a couple of times a week and he does what I do on News Nation. Britt's a smart, very competent guy. But I'm doing a full load here. I'm doing radio, I'm doing tv, I'm doing books. So how much longer can I do that? I'm going to do it because I think it's worthy, not just for me. So we're in for another year. And that is important because fewer and fewer media vehicles are telling you the truth. It's so hard for me as a professional to really find out what's going on. I got to check everything three ways because people did. There's no standards. Social media has no standards. And the ideological TV and newspapers, they're just going to throw on what advances their cause, not tell you the truth. We will. So keep that in mind when you're looking around for a last minute gift premium and concierge membership on billoriley.com that is, you know, our elite. That's what we need to keep going. So we want to build those numbers and it's very easy. Get a free book, of course, and all that. All right, Talking Points memo's on President Trump's speech last night. 18 minutes. He read too fast. I don't know why. He sounded like Joe Biden. Remember that time Biden was like on speed? Trouble wasn't that bad, but he was humming. I don't know whether he had something going on afterward or not, but I kind of would have did lessen the tempo a little bit. Speech itself is what I reported on Newsnation pep rally. And that sounds dismissive, but it isn't. It's smart. What he did was smart because the polling, latest polling, Reuters got his job approval at 39%. The liberal polls have him at 40, 39. The conservative polls have him at 45, 46. Job approval, there's a five point gap. And no matter how you look at it, he's below 50% in job approval. He's got to get it up to 50, at least among the conservative pollsters. And he knows it. And so it was a pep rally. Here's what I've done for you. I'm not going to play a lot of speech, but this encapsulates what the President was trying to get across. Go.
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Donald Trump
One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail, totally failed. Now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
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Bill O'Reilly
And.
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Donald Trump
And that's said by every single leader that I've spoken to over the last five months.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, so the President's opponents are not going to believe that. They don't want to believe it, they won't believe it. And there's nothing you can do to make them believe it. And the President's supporters, most of them will, unless they're in dire straits, unless their whole economic world is collapsing. Most of them, I think. Remember, 77 million people voted for Donald Trump. A record amount of people voted for Americans, voted for him. I would say 85, 80% are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt a little bit more time. That's my measure. And for him to get out there and say, look, it's going the right direction was a smart move. Now, there were many problem solving specifics in the speech, with one exception. President wants to give Americans $1,500 to put it to a health care savings account, tax free. So you build this up in the health care savings account and then when the bills come in, you can pay them. All right, that is the plan. Here's what the President said.
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Donald Trump
I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that should go directly to the people. The money should go to the people. That's you. So they can buy their own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much lower cost. It will be far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care act was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health care at much too high a cost.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, so 1500 doesn't sound like much, but when you compound it because you, if this passes, you'll be able to put money in it yourself, like an ira. It won't be taxed. So you build and build and build and build and build. And then there, there's a formula on how the money is invested safely so it grows. That is the plan. But not everybody would get it. All right, so if you are a family of four making more than 225,000, which not many families are doing, then you would not get the money. Okay? And it will cost federal government 10 billion, it says, I figure about 20 billion. They always underestimate. Now, it's got to pass the Senate and that means it's got to get 60 votes to advance to the floor for a vote. For some reason, Democrats oppose this. 1500. I don't know why. Why would you do that? You know, so the Care Freedom for Patients Act, 20, 25, 5148 to advance the bill to the floor, that's not going to cut it. You need 60 votes in the Senate. Now, it might come back. They might get it if they sweeten it up for the Democrats a little bit. My solution is this. Extend the Affordable Care subsidies for one year and it is a disaster. It is just hemorrhaging money and causing the whole health care industry to rise in cost. That's what Obamacare is doing. Okay? Because more and more and more people are trying to get it than was originally thought. And then the deals they're making with the insurance companies, as Mr. Trump said, benefit the insurance companies, not you, not the government. All right, but if you extend for a year, then you have 12 months for both parties to come up with a fair and equitable health care law that doesn't add trillions of dollars to the debt. So that's what I am recommending. Possible short. Have you heard of Gold Belly? It's this amazing site that celebrates the best of America by shipping our country's most iconic foods from legendary restaurants straight to your door anywhere in the usa. 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CNN was trying to punch it up, you know, like they always do. News Nation falling away the fairest if you're looking for fare in America. All right, executive order to lower marijuana to a classification of narcotics. That's pretty much, you can take it. So the President signed it. I don't know why marijuana is bad for you. It might help a few people who have medical maladies maybe, but studies show it doesn't really do it and you get addicted. 30% of all people who use marijuana for medical purposes become addicted to it and it is an addictive substance. Okay? So it's terrible for your health. Awful. I don't care. At this point in my life, I got by my kids not using it. I don't of course use it, but I, you know, a lot of people are making a lot of money off pot. And I'll say this to you one more time. So legalized pot. Legalized pot. Legalized pot. And that's not what this bill does, this executive order. It just makes it, you know, the federal government's not going to prosecute you. You walk down the street in New York City, any street. Eight in the morning, nine in the morning, pot, smoke. You stand outside of middle school, that's 11 to 14 year olds. This kid smokes his pot every day. I've seen it. I've done it. Okay? You pick the school out. Poorer the neighborhood, the more kids are smoking pot. Sorry, it's true. And they're going into class stoned. Where do they get the pot? You're not supposed to get pot if you're 11 years old. Okay? The drug addicts, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, they can buy all the pot they want. So. So they go in, they buy the pot, then they sell it to the kids. And what they make selling it to the kids, they use on heroin. That's what it is. All right? Now you're never going to hear that analysis any place. Oh, pot, pot, pot, pot, pot. I don't want pot in my neighborhood. I don't want to smell it. I don't want to see it. I don't want people using it in the open. Am I crazy? I think it's a public safety hazard. Anyway. I'm not going to criticize President Trump for the eo. He's got his own reasons. I don't think it's important. The next story is the National Defense Authorization Act. So the senate is approved. 900 billion, okay. Goes to the military. And it was 77 to 20. So finally there's a little bipartisanship and the house approved it. 312 to 112. What does it do? It stops diversity, equity and inclusion at the Defense Department. They can't do it. It's against the law. Okay. Authorizes active duty troops along the U.S. mexican border. Good. Those some of the troops going to go into Mexico because that country's not wise enough. Okay. It's going to have to be confronted. Deploys a golden dome missile defense shield. I don't know what that is. I do know it's going to be a lot of money. Okay. And it includes a 4% raise for all service members. That's fine with me. And you can't, if you're in a military academy, if you're a transgendered person, Mal, you can't play against women, which is. Nobody does that anyway. And it authorizes 800 million in military spending for Ukraine. Okay, so that's in, that's passed. That's important. Pots. Not so much. Republican health care bill passes in the House. And let's see, what was the vote here? Thought I Had it, but I don't have it in front of me. But it passed along party lines and goes to the Senate. But you need 60 votes. And they're not going to do it because it doesn't have anything about subsidizing Obamacare in it. Okay, so the Republicans in the House put forth a bill and says, no, we're not going to have any more subsidies for Obamacare. And it passes long party lines because Republicans control the House. But in the senate, you need 60. And there are only 53 senators on the Republican side. No, it's not going nowhere. This is just symbolic. No more spending, spending, spending, spending. And really, if you. I don't know whether you're involved with party politics or not. I'm not. I'm a registered independent. I don't care what they do. I just want the best for the country. But Democratic Party is just spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, taxing, taxing, spending. You gotta stop. You gotta stop. You reach it up to here. Stop. I mean, that is a big thing for me. All right, gender care, interesting bill that I support. So it would criminalize if a doctor changes the gender of a minor by surgery, it would also criminalize doctors, pharmacists, anybody who give minors hormones, puberty blockers past 216. And 211 in the house. Again, Senators going to block it because the progressives in the Democratic Party, which is most of them, they don't want it. I don't think it's morally right for a physician to take a minor, even with a minor and a parent's consent, into an operating room and do this kind of surgery. Okay, 18. All right. You're an adult under the law, but it won't get passed. Death with dignity, right? This is assisted suicide. So New York Governor Kathy Hochul, which is a wishy washy, weak leader. I didn't like this at first, but it suddenly changed her mind. Of course, why not? Catholic woman says she is so terminally ill. New Yorkers with less than six months to live, according to physicians, have to certify that can have the state kill them. Medical aid and dying. Thirteen other states have it already. California, Hawaii, New Jersey, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, D.C. montana, Vermont, all except Montana. Progressive states. Okay. Other countries that have it, Canada, Holland, Australia, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Switzerland.
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Bill O'Reilly
Russia really has it, but it's not codified. And all you have to do with Russia, if you're, if you want to commit suicide over there or have the state do it, is just stand outside a Kremlin and shot up sanities of Putin and I just shoot you and you're gone. It's a much easier process. I know I'm being kind of gallows humor, but I'm a Roman Catholic and I subscribe to that theology. And the theology says that the Creator is responsible for birth and death, and the state shouldn't be executing anybody, any time, anywhere for any reason. So I don't believe in a death penalty. But what separates me from the people, mostly progressives, who don't want it, is that if you are convicted of a capital crime, you go to a special prison where you engage in hard labor for the rest of your life, six days a week. That's worse than death. And if you don't cooperate, then you get a minimal amount of food. Now, you'd have to go into cruel and unusual punishment routine, but you get my drift. You don't go to some fed prison where you're playing ping pong or lifting weights. So I'm against capital punishment, I'm against assisted suicide, and of course I'm against abortion. But I can't impose those beliefs as a commentator and neither can any of the legislator. I got a letter from a priest, a good man, why don't you do more about abortion? I said, father, what do you want me to do? I'm on a record. Everybody knows what I believe, but I can't impose that belief. That's not my job. I can try to persuade, but not my job to tell somebody with a counter belief that going to hell or whatever, I mean, that would be wrong. So I just wanted you to know where I'm coming from on that. And you know the final thing on this assisted suicide, there is so much pain management, new technology and pain management, so much that you can live out your life if you're terminal in not much pain. But a lot of people don't have any money. They're destitute. They don't want to wreck family finances. I understand. I agree. All right, so a lot of us are getting packages delivered to our homes for Christmas and we're sending packages as well. According to SafeWise, which is a website that tracks package deliveries, this year, 24, 25, been more than a million packages stolen off people's property. That's actually down from 23. 19%. 13%. 13% down. The following companies are the ones most Amazon, UPS, USPS, FedEx, Grocery Delivery, HelloFresh, and Other. Okay, so what happens is that they call them Porsche pirates. So they cruise the neighborhoods and they follow the Amex truck or the other trucks, the food delivery trucks. They follow them and then they put the package on the porch or in front of the door, wherever, and then they go, they leave and the porch pirates are there and they look around and see if anybody's there. They're not. They tell they steal it. So theft, being a thief is no longer draconian in America. In California, they don't even prosecute you. You could steal up to $1,000. Nobody's going to do anything for you in California. Go ahead, steal. While they are so 15 billion in consumer losses because you're never going to get that back. Not Amazon's fault that they're stealing. Cops aren't going to solve it. What I do is I know my guys, my delivery guys and you know, we have a place where they put the stuff that's not visible. So I, you know, if you have that circumstance, you want to talk to them about it. Five worst cities for theft packages. Chicago, New York, Miami, Houston, Baltimore. All right. All drug involved. These are drug addicts doing it. Most of it. Some kids, but mostly drug addicts. It's an easy score for them. Americans plan to give fewer holiday tips this year. Remember, tips next year are not taxed. So that kick. A lot of the Trump Big Bill stuff kicks in next year. Okay. Bank rate survey. Tipping Childcare workers down 55%. Wow. Housekeepers down 57%. Teachers. I don't get this. I never teach tip to teacher, ever. My kids would give them a little gift, but not Jack, not money. You guys tip teachers. It's almost like a bribe, right? Teachers are down big 53. Mail carriers down 50. No, 27. And landscapers. I pay my landscaper enough not get any tips. Garbage collectors. I do. The guys are good, so I tip them down. So less generous is not good. If you can afford a tip, which you always tip if you're having trouble, I understand. So but you know, you might give them something else. If you can't give them money, give them something. Just acknowledge them. In the Christmas season heating. This is a brutal thing. Up 9% on average cross country as according to National Energy Assistant Directors Association. So electric is up the biggest 12% from last year. Now Trump addressed that last night. Said he's got AI stuff going on that's going to bring down electric stuff. I hope so. Natural gas is up 8%, heating oil flat. Propane actually decreased. So average heating bill in the USA has increased 28% since 2021. You know, as I get older I don't like to cold. Never used to bother me. I was a hockey player and our home ice was outside. Don't bother me now. I'm kind of a sissy. So I got the thermostat on 6970 here and I'm getting hammered but I can afford it. But it's annoying. But if you can live with 6768 and got a sweater on or something, but it is annoying. You don't want to be cold at a house. Back to politics. So I predicted that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez would wind up on the View.
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Donald Trump
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay. I didn't think she was gonna make politics a career. I thought she was using it and wanted to get into the showbiz world. Looks like I might be wrong there. So she was asked outside the Capitol by the editor of Migrant Insider. I don't get that publication. Do you guys get migraine Insider? It's a million of these things. So this is what they asked Ocasio Cortez. Roll it.
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Interviewer
Do you think that you'll be.
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Bill O'Reilly
That you could be J.D. vance in a head to head race for president as polling suggests in 2028? Listen, these polls like three years out.
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Wedding Officiant
Are, you know, they are what they are. But let the record show.
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Bill O'Reilly
I will stop him. I will stop him.
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Interviewer
Thank you, Congresswoman.
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Bill O'Reilly
So she would stop the vice President if the election were held today. So JD Vance has not replied. I would, I wouldn't suggest that he does. But you can see that, you know, this, this woman has her eye on the prize. This woman, she'll be Schumer to get into the Senate. That's almost a certainty. In New York. She. No. Three years. You can. It's going to be a totally different country. Can't predict, but that's what's going on. Oscars are finished. But that a long time ago. Here's a quiz. All right. What was the best picture last year? What won the Academy Award? If you know, write me billorilly.com bill@billoriley.com it was a movie called Anora. I didn't see it. I don't think anybody even knows what it is. Roll the tape. Today.
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Donald Trump
This could be the greatest day.
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Bill O'Reilly
I'll follow.
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Wedding Officiant
Do you promise to love, honor and cherish for all the days of your life?
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Donald Trump
I do.
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Wedding Officiant
And do you, Anora, take this handsome gentleman standing before you to be your best, your protector, your husband? Do you promise to love, honor and cherish him all the days of your life?
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Donald Trump
Say yes.
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Wedding Officiant
It is now my great honor to now pronounce you as husband and wife. You may kill your promise.
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Bill O'Reilly
Not exactly Casablanca or Gone with the Wind or the Godfather. Anora. Best picture. Anyway, 2029, ABC's giving it up. Giving up the Academy awards. Going to YouTube. Why? Because millions more people watch YouTube than ABC. This is a good move for the movie people. And it'll be all over the world. Most movies produced by Hollywood make their money overseas now. That's why you see so many explosions. Okay, they don't make money here. People don't go to the theaters anymore. But anyway, different Oscars but there's what, three more years of abc. Final thought in a moment. Okay, Here is the final thought. Christmas, a week from today, as you know. And that'll go fast to 20, 25, good and bad. And we'll get into that a little bit next week. Two broadcasts next week on Monday, we'll get a little into strengths and weaknesses of this year, which I think you'll find interesting. We'll back everything up as we always do. And then we are on Tuesday. It's your program. So you write to me with any questions you have or comments or anything and I'll read them for 44 minutes. Okay. So here's the address. We got a special address that you can get your question to me. All right. There it is. It's a decent picture, right? So we got Billo reilly.com live Billo reilly.com live and get those in over the weekend so I can go through them. And we got hundreds now, but we want to hear from you. Okay. And that'll be a fun show. That'll be our last show of the year next Tuesday. We got a lot of good things for you. That's it. Been a good year for us. I gave out my Christmas bonuses to my staff this week. Thank you very much for buying stuff on billoriley.com that really helps. Really helps. Because I don't want that. I mean, I give it to my staff and they're good and they deserve I told them today in our daily conference call. So you guys heard it. I'm not really giving you anything. You heard it. But you, the viewer and listener of the no Spin news made it possible. No thank you. Have a great weekend. I will have a new column on Sunday and we'll see you again on Monday.
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