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No Spin News - April 3, 2025
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Bill O'Reilly
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Every other president since World War II would not take that risk. Every other president knew that the USA was getting hosed in foreign trade from Truman to Biden. Every one of those men knew it. No one would do anything about it. Now Donald Trump says he will. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So the president is correct. The data is there. Foreign nations make far more money from trade with America than we make from them. It's in the trillions of dollars. When you add it up, how do they do it? Well, I'm going to walk through that. I'm going to tell you exactly how the countries abroad are screwing us. Why aren't Americans aware of this? Two reasons. The press ignores it. It's too boring. It's too complicated. And we live pretty well here, despite the bad trade deals. We live pretty well. In fact, we live better than anybody else on the planet. So there isn't an urgency like there is with criminal migrants, for example. Okay. Now, Donald Trump has now become the biggest president disrupter in the history of this republic. He passes Theodore Roosevelt. The turn of the 20th century, Roosevelt went after the robber barons, the monopolies. He tried to crush them. It was a brawl. I write about it in Confronting Evil. These robber barons were as bad as you could possibly get, exploiting American workers. But they employed millions of people. Even though most of those people were being exploited, they got a paycheck. So Roosevelt going after these big shots was not popular. Teddy won. He knocked out a lot of the monopolies in this country. Again, people don't know it. History isn't taught anymore. But when you read Confronting Evil, you'll see that is an interesting chapter. So Donald Trump has now wiped Teddy off the face of the map by saying to the world, I'm going to fight you all at once to get better trade agreements. He might win like Teddy did. It was painful for Teddy and nobody knew the outcome for a while. Same thing could happen. Donald Trump could get better trade deals here. That could absolutely happen. But in the short term, today, if you were in a stock market, you lost money. I lost money. I bought a little stock today. Not much. I bought a company that I feel a year from now is going to be very prosperous. And I didn't buy many shares, but that company got whacked. I'm not going to tell you what it is because that I don't. It can't do that. But I bought a little bit today. I still believe in the American economy and that we are going to do well going forward, but in the next few weeks. Oh, boy. So the president is making a decision to try to catapult himself up to greatness. Because if it all comes true and manufacturing comes back to the United States and investment comes back to the United States, the American worker will prosper big time. But if it doesn't come true, it's going to be hard economic times. All right, do we have it? Okay, now enter the press. They want Trump to fail. Except for Fox News and newsmax, everybody else in the press wants Trump to fail. So as soon as the stock market go down, you get hysteria. Go. And so they have taken an economy that was actually in pretty decent shape and moving in the right direction, and they are going to turn it upside down And I think 5050 into a recession. Wow, 5050. And you have, as you said, companies like Goldman Sachs using the word stagflation, that combination of inflation and slowing growth. So that's NBC, Comcast. It's going to be a recession. It's going to be horrible. You're going to lose your home, your kids will be out in the street. You know that. And then people who are not informed, who aren't watching the no spin news or listening to, they don't know, they just don't. Fear is a great political motivator. Okay, so presses a raid. This is bad. What Trump is doing is bad. Bad. All right, now there is a segment, a sliver of information that comes out that is fair. That's why this broadcast prosperous. Excuse me. Last night on News Nation, I was on with Cuomo, as I am every Wednesday and Geraldo was on, too. Geraldo just took his family to Japan. Here's what he said. Go. I can tell you we went the length and breadth of the island archipelago and the big cities like Tokyo and the others. We did not see a single American car on the road in Tokyo. Not a Caddy, not a Buick, not a Ford, not a Chevy, not a nothing. We have plenty of Toyotas here in my neighborhood and, you know, around the country. And you won't see American cars in China, in South Korea, in Southeast Asia, in Germany and most of the rest of Europe. You will not see them. Which is why members of the United Auto Workers union went to the press conference to bolster President Trump yesterday. So American cars are shut out, whereas many of us drive foreign cars. Not me. I never do that. I have a Cadillac, it's nine years old. It's a good car and I'm keeping it. All right? I would never buy a foreign car under any circumstances because I buy American anyway. Rivera told the truth. That countries like Japan, which is our big ally, set up a system whereby American cars are so expensive once they get on the ground in Japan that no Japanese are going to pay that money. And they do that by tariffs. They do that by taxes. Vat, Value added tax regulations, oh, we don't like this tire. And you got to do this and you got to do that. So they shut up. Is that fair? No, it's not fair. That's the best example I can give you. And then you multiply that by a thousand. American products. Our products go all over the world, but many of them cannot get into the individual countries like India. India makes it almost impossible. Canada, you can't get dairy in there. American dairy can't get American crops in there. Okay. Mexico is the same way. They don't want certain product. They slap on all onerous regulations. So you can't get it down there. That's what it's all about. Do we all understand? Raise your hand if you don't. Now, most Americans not watching this broadcast because they're not really seeking information. I rely on physical precious metals like gold and silver to protect my savings. And the only company I trust is American Hartford Gold. A tax advantaged gold IRA can protect your savings from inflation, recessions and more. You can even roll over your 401k or IRA tax and penalty free with thousands of 5 star ratings and an A plus from the better Business Bureau. American Hartford Gold has delivered billions in precious metals. Trust American Hartford Gold to help you call or text American Hartford Gold. Tell them. Bill O'Reilly sent you for up to $15,000 of free silver on qualifying orders 8663-265576-86326-5576. Or you can text BILL to 998-899 again, 866-326-5576 or text BILL to 998-899.
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Cuomo
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Bill O'Reilly
They don't understand tariffs. I don't want to be arrogant, but they don't. Go out today and just ask anybody, what's this tariff deal all about? Well, we don't like it. Okay, what don't you like? They don't know. So people like that are easily manipulated by, by the far left hate Trump press. Now, I had a set News Nation straight last night about what the core issue is here as far as Donald Trump's mind. What is in his mind? Roll the tape. It did affect American markets, but not in the way that people think. So let's go to Bernie Sanders. Let's go to the income inequality crew. Well, why do you think there's so much income inequality? Because the high paying union manufacturing jobs went overseas and they were replaced by service jobs that don't pay as much or public service or whatever. So what Trump clearly said is I'm going to bring back those manufacturing jobs. People are going to invest in plants in America. That's going to heighten. Right. But that's the potential to earn money. But that's highly speculative. But that's highly speculative. Okay, it might. I don't think it's highly speculative, but it is speculative. But that's what Trump wants to do. He wants to bring back the jobs that have fled overseas. Apple already said it's going to relocate billions back to the USA from China. The Gulf nations are now pledging a trillion dollar infrastructure investment in American manufacturing. So if you are a regular American, all right, and you're trying to earn a living and you have a choice between getting into a manufacturing plant and earning $75 an hour or driving an Uber, what are you going to take? But the manufacturing jobs have gone to Mexico and China and Southeast Asia because the workers there work for cheap. Some of them are slave workers. In China, they are actually slave workers. So the American companies go, oh, we don't care about American workers. We want to make as much money as possible. We're going over there. Trump wants to stop that. Okay, again, raise your hand if you don't understand it. It's important that you understand what the intent is. Now. Cuomo goes speculative. All right, so Trump has one of two choices. He can ignore it like every other president has, or he can try to fix it. And he chose to try to fix it. That's where we are. Okay. I think that is about as fair an explanation as you will ever get from any person in the media. Here are the other reactions from the media last night. It is hard to overstate the potential impact of tonight's breaking news. And it's no exaggeration to say it has the potential to affect more lives and livelihoods in this country and around the world than virtually anything short of wars and pandemics.
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Cuomo
Donald Trump has been on a quest to turn the United States relationship with our friend Canada, one of our closest allies, on its head. Between his manufactured trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st state, his actions are so ludicrous and so deeply unpopular that they are prompting the booing of our national anthem at NHL and NBA games held in Canada over the last couple weeks.
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Bill O'Reilly
President Trump calling it a declaration of economic independence. He calls it Liberation Day. It is almost certainly to liberate more money from your wallet. It's utter nonsense. The European Union charges the U.S. a 39% tariff. That's obviously preposterous. It's totally invented. We don't even know where that number comes from. That's just stupid. He's stupid, all right. Everybody knows that the VAT tax in Europe, which is between 20 and 25% in most places, jacks up the price of all imported goods, not just from the usa. You know, this kind of dishonesty. If I'm the head of Comcast, NBC, he doesn't work for me. He's just not smart enough to work for me. And he's Misleading everybody. And then Wallace, you know, his actions are so ludicrous and deeply unpopular. Of course they're going to be deeply unpopular with Canada and every other country because they're not going to make as much money. If Trump's successful in what he's doing, those countries aren't going to make as much cash. So they're not going to be happy about it. But again, Nicole Wallace, does he know anything? And I hate to get personal because I know these people, I got to tell you, they don't know anything and they don't care to know. They don't care. All they want to do is bash and hate Donald Trump, and that's what they do. But this stuff gets out to casual Americans who don't follow the news, who don't understand what this is all about. All right, let's wrap it up here. So short term pain is going to happen, and Donald Trump is responsible for the short term pain. That's a fact. Longer term, nobody knows. I don't know. I can't even guess. I'm hoping not for ideological or party reasons. I'm hoping that Trump makes good deals and the American economy surges, which absolutely could happen as well. And that's what I'm hoping for. Why? Because I want every American to live better, to have more security. Had nothing to do with Donald Trump. I thought his presentation yesterday was pretty good. All right, I know what I'm talking about here. I've been to 86 countries. Rivera told the truth. He's all over there. You're not going to see any cars made in America in these countries. So Trump is a disruptor. Will he win? Place your bets. That's the memo. Doge, Elon Musk. More anonymous reporting. You know how much I love anonymous reporting. I can't, you know, it's 50 years in the business for me. I'm an analyst now. But, you know, it's based on reporting. I very rarely have ever used an anonymous source. I always can get somebody on the record. A name now doesn't matter anymore. So Politico, it's a website, left leaning, says that, hey, Doge is going to leave soon. All right? Doge is going to leave soon. Musk. Elon Musk going to leave the government soon. Politico says they've been told by Trump's inner circle. Who's that? Who's that? Can you narrow it down a little bit? Who's Trump's inner circle? So, Melania tell you that it's absurd, but immediately, NBC News picks it up as fact. Go. A senior White House official tells NBC News President Trump told cabinet members last week Musk would be leaving his government role in the coming months. Maybe. But who? Why can't you name the person that said that? Here's what I said on News Nation last night. Go. What do you think the reality is about why Musk may be getting pushed or whether he's walking away? Well, as I said very early on, Musk is a short timer. It's just too hot. You just can't have a guy that hot. And he did a good job exposing the government waste, bringing it back onto page one. But now the technicians should take over. You don't need Elon to go out and sell it. It's sold. And so it's likely that Elon Musk will go back into the private sector. Now, I said that on November 19th of last year. I knew that Elon Musk wasn't a long timer in the administration, but he accomplished something very important. He got everybody talking about government waste. Okay, more anonymous sources this time about President Biden. Remember him? Where are you, Joe? I think I saw him on Hollywood Squares, but I'm not maybe that I, I don't know. So there's a book out, Anonymous sources all over the place. The book written by Jonathan Allen, NBC News, and Amy Parnes, Parnes from the Hill, says that they interviewed 150 insiders. What does that mean? Okay, maybe you can name a few of them. I guess maybe a few are named in this book, but I don't know. But it's all about how Joe Biden got knifed by his own party. Go. So President Obama absolutely did not think that Joe Biden should continue, according to our sources close to President Obama. And he also didn't want Kamala Harris to be the replacement for Biden. He didn't think that she was the best choice for Democrats. And he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini primary or an open convention or mini primary leading to an open convention. Did not have faith in her ability to win the election. Sources close to President Obama who give me anything. Is that Malika, one of her daughters, Malia, like a bull in a china shop. Donald Trump came in to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. but with his bold reform and rejuvenation agenda comes so many legal questions nationwide. Injunctions, are they constitutional? What's the deal with birthright citizenship? What about the administrative state? Can he actually clean the deep state and end the politicization of the federal bureaucracy? I'm Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial with Josh Hammer. Subscribe to America on Trial with Josh Hammer for your daily updates on all of these questions and more. Who are you talking about now? Do I believe based on my knowledge of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, that Mr. Biden thought Joe, Mr. Obama thought Joe Biden would lose to Donald Trump? Yeah. I believe that Barack Obama is an astute politician. I believe that he thought that Biden was going to lose that election. But the open primary, Kamala Harris can't do it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't particularly believe that possible, but you got to back it up. They don't back up anything. It's like writing fiction. You can just make up stuff. It bothers me. I know you probably don't care. Fox News poll. Not a good poll. Never been you. Even when I was at Fox, I used to go to the executives. This poll's terrible. Why? Why do we have these polling people when they're always wrong? And I get. Shut up, O'Reilly. You know those things. All right. Fox News poll, 994 registered voters. They couldn't go to a thousand, I guess. I don't know. Fair sample about federal income taxes. Question number one. Thinking about paying taxes, which of the following bothers you the most? The amount you pay. 12% complexity of the tax system. 7% rich people are not paying enough in taxes. 45%. Whoa. Too many people don't have to pay taxes. That's very poor. 7% where the government spends with taxes. 26 so 45% according to Fox poll. Think the rich should pay more in taxes. I'd like to know why I pay more than 50%. Okay. That's what they take away from me now because I have corporations and all of that. It gets back and forth. They take, then they have to refund and all of that. I'm for a flat tax myself and a VAT. Maybe 1 or 2% of what you buy. And that's a much better fairer system. I'm for that. But it's never going to happen. I understand Congress never going to do it, but I don't, you know, if rich people aren't paying their. Close the loopholes. Close them. You have to raise the tax rates. 50% is about it. Okay. Second question. In general, do you think taxes you pay are too high? About right. Too low. Too high. 59. Of course. About right. 38. Too low too. Next question. Do you think the national debt is a crisis? Major problem. Not a crisis Minor problem. No problem at all. Crisis 31. Major problem. 48, that 79% of Americans are worried about the national debt, as they should be. Next question. How would you rate the Trump administration in identifying cutting wasteful spending? Excellent. 24. Good. 20. That's 44%. Fair. 13. Poor. 43%. How could you possibly rate the Trump administration as poor in cutting wasteful spending? How they set up Doge to do that? What kind of a moron are you to answer that question that way? That's the hate Trump people. Okay, Yesterday we told you there was an undocumented alien named Kilmar Garcia who was deported to Salvadoran prison by ice. All right? Tomorrow there will be a hearing in Maryland because that's where the man was picked up by ICE agents about what's going to happen here. Because the Trump administration has conceded in a court filing that it was a mistake to deport Kilmar Garcia, a father of a young girl and husband of an American citizen. Reason it was a mistake is that Mr. Garcia had a court order from a judge that he was entitled to an asylum hearing. So the government says it made a mistake. Now I'm getting letters like, oh, all the aliens got, you know, okay, look, if that's where you are, that's where you are. But we deal with facts here. So this guy got hosed. So I said yesterday, we'll get him back. Now, we've been in touch with Tom Holman's office, the head of ice. Very cooperative office. Very refreshing, I gotta say. Tom doing a good job, and let's bring him back now, put him on a plane, bring him back, that's it. Then he gets his asylum hearing and what happens, happens. Fair? Okay. Smart life. I told you this, but I'm going to re emphasize. I get lots of letters from concierge members who have a direct line to me, and they're in trouble for one reason or another in life, and we try to help them with whatever trouble they have. I have a crew that does that, which is why it's worth your while. It's become a concierge member. To billorinh.com Anyway, about 80% of the letters of the people who are in trouble say, I don't have any money. I can't hire a lawyer, I can't go to get my teeth fixed. I have no money. Which is obviously a major problem in this country. How many money. If you have precious metals, this is an excellent time to sell them. If you need the money short term, I'm telling you, prices are rocketing. You need the money. You gather up all, all the stuff that you have, gold and silver and other precious metals, and you take it down to the stores that deal with this stuff. You get three estimates on each piece and you sell it. Now. Now some of those stores will try to cheat you. That's why you need to get three estimates if you need money and you have that stuff. Move it. Urban wellness Wallet hub. I love WalletHub. It's a good website. WalletHub.com so they have the healthiest and unhealthiest cities in America. I'm not even going to do the unhealthiest because it's all poverty based. Usually poor cities are unhealthy. Okay, I got it. But here are the top five healthiest cities. Number one, San Francisco. Number two, Honolulu. Three, Seattle. Four, Salt Lake City. Five, San Diego. Now what was the criteria? Right? So the criteria was health care, food, fitness, green space. Now, San Francisco is one of the most unhealthy cities in the country. So WalletHub is fully. You know what? Now, I don't know why Wallapa made this mistake, but if you go to San Francisco, the apprehension level of the people that live in the city is through the roof. They cannot go out of their homes, multimillion dollar homes, because San Francisco's one of the most expensive cities in the world. Without seeing barbaric displays of human behavior. Law enforcement has broken down, civility has broken down, services have broken down. This is a terrible place. And it used to be my favorite city in the country, next to Boston. It's a terrible place. It's unhealthy for children when they go out to the playground, the green space they have to walk by drug addicts putting needles in their neck. That healthy. No. And no one does anything about it. Filth all over the place. That healthy environmental, that healthy San Francisco. Filthy, dirty all over the place. This is a disgrace. This. Now, I said I like WalletHub, but I. I do. But not this. This is dishonest. Now, I don't know why. I don't. I do know that San Francisco was one of the most lucrative convention cities in the world at one time. Nobody wants to go there. Now they don't want to go just to walk from your hotel room to the Moscone center, the convention center. You want to be grossed out every day, every way. I could clean San Francisco up in a month. But civil liberties have to be suspended, not clean it up. And then after a month, we'll do the hearings and we'll get things under order. That place is so far out of control. I don't know another city in this country that out of control. San Francisco. Because if you know it, it's boxed, okay? It's small. It's not a major city like New York. New York's got buku problems. Although the new police commissioner, Tisch, is doing a good job, okay? But San Francisco is boxed by water. And these drug addicts come there because the city pays them, gives them money to buy drugs. That's why they come there. And they don't spend the money on rent or anything else or hygiene. They just sitting there getting high every day. That's what you want your kids to see. I say it's really, you know. So I had a vent on it, and I have this day in history. April 3, 1922. Doris Day is born. True story. So at 10 o'clock East coast time every morning, I have a conference call with my staff who live all over the country. And most of my staff are younger people. Okay? And they're good. I mean, obviously, if you watch the no Spin news four times a week, you know how much better we are than any other news program you can see on television. I'm sorry, there's no comparison about information flow. We don't make mistakes here. Very rarely, do we. So anyway, I say to my staff, hey, how many of you have heard the name Doris Day? No one, not one person on my staff has ever heard of Doris Day, whose birthday is today. All right, she was born in 1922, Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff. In Cincinnati, Ohio. Doris Day, in the late 50s, 1960s, was the biggest movie star in America. Roll the tape. Ms. Morrow, my name is Brad Allen. Yes. I've been advised by the phone company that there's a code number for our party line. It 7, 9, 3. Now, if you have any future complaints to make, I suggest you dial it and complain to me personally. Why, Mr. Allen, if I hadn't complained, the inspector would never have found out how cooperative you are. Ms. Morrow, why are you so fascinated with my personal affairs? Not fascinated, Mr. Allen. Revolted. You don't see me going down to the phone company complaining about your affairs. I. I have none to complain about. It figures. What do you mean, it figures? Well, obviously you're a woman who lives alone, doesn't like it. I happen to like living alone. Look, I don't know what's bothering you, but don't take your bedroom problems out on me. I have no bedroom problems. There's nothing in my Bedroom. That bothers me. Oh, that's too bad. Pillow talk. That was the name of the movie. 1959. Anyway, Doris Day struck up a correspondence with me after 9 11. And I have, I don't know, a dozen letters from her. She lived in Carmel, California. She died. Let's see, what was the 20? 19? May 13th. She was 97 years old. Very nice woman. Boy, was she a nice woman. And she devoted her life after she left the entertainment industry to helping animals. She had a big animal center out in Carmel. And you know, when I heard my staff, nobody even knew who she was. Fame is so fleeting. You know, these movies. I can't tell you how big Doris Day was if you were around back then, you know, and. And now it's like she never existed. Interesting. So happy birthday, Doris. I hope you're in heaven. And you would be 103 today. All right, final thought. I'm going to show you a little bit more of the three Americans tour. We'll be back in a moment. So here's the final thought of the day. If you are a premium or Concierge member, to BillORilly.com we are going to show you much of the three American show that took place last Sunday. Stephen A. Smith, Chris Cuomo and O'Reilly. That's me. Only premium and concierge members get to see that block. No one else. Which is why I hope you sign up because we have lots of good stuff for you. Here's a taste. You guys both missed the big thing, why the Democrats have collapsed. And you know why? Tell us, Bill, why? Your wallet. Your wallet. Americans. Most Americans are not politically ideological. They're not. They're just decent people trying to make a living and raise their family in an honest way. And then when you come out of COVID and your prices triple. In my town, the A tuna sandwich is $15 at the deli. Are you kidding me? He will not stop talking about this. I don't know if the guy who owns this deli is here, but you better bring the price down or rename it after him. That's otherwise you're going to have a problem. Okay, so our retention rate, because it's renewal time now for Billorilly.com subscribers. Concierge and premium is 90%. Nobody does that. But the 10% that drop out, unless you're dead or in a coma, you're working against yourself. You're going to need the information that we provide. You're going to have to have that in the next few years because if you're going to depend on the network and cable news. You're going to get right between the eyes. They're not going to tell you the truth. We will. So if you aren't signed up for Concierge Premium membership, we hope you do a renewal. Got to do it. And you get free books. Anybody who signs up or renews gets free books. Your choice. Anyway, this was a good show. I hope you. And if you're a premium concierge member, you can get a transcript. I would do that because we went over the tariff and every way you could go over the tariff. Okay. So I would do that. And once. You have a good weekend. New column on Sunday. I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching and listening to us. We'll see you on Monday.