Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - How Old is Too Old to be President? Plus: an Interview With Bernie Goldberg

Episode Date: May 13, 2019

-Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates explains why he feels older presidential candidates don't service the public as well- does he have a valid point? -An interview with Bernie Goldberg on why some of the Boston Red Sox boycotted visiting President Trump. Plus, the reasons to Tiger Woods being heavily ridiculed for accepting the Medal of Freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the No Spin News. Monday, May 13th already, 2019. Take your country back. All right, so Robert Gates, a former Secretary of Defense. Remember Robert Gates? He's a really smart guy. Right now, he's the president, the chancellor of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, a very fine institution. So he's on a CBS morning show yesterday, and they're talking about how old the presidential contenders are. roll it. I think having a president who is somebody our age or older in the case of Senator Sanders is I think it's problematic. I think that you don't have the kind of energy that I think is required to be president. Okay, that's a pretty interesting provocative statement. Bernie Sanders is 77, Biden is 76, Trump is 72.

Ronald Reagan was 72 when he was elected for his second term. If you read Killing Reagan, there were problems with the president's concentration at times. Remember, he was shot. That's what the book Killing Reagan is all about, and that really sucked his energy out. So how do I see this? Number one, there isn't a guy on earth that has more energy than Donald Trump. maybe Barack Obama it's kind of tied

I mean but boy Trump is just never sleeps never stops the guy's you know he's more enjy than me he's older than I am but he's more injuring me

I'll take a nap once in a while no naps for Trump okay I mean I'll rest up once in a while no not Trump

so I You know, and there's such a thing, age over not much experience. So if I'm going to debate Camela Harris, for example, all right, so she's younger than I am, do you think Camilla Harris going to beat me in a debate? No, she's not. And either is Beto, Mayor Pete, or any of them. They're smart enough not to come up against me. but if they did they wouldn't win because I know more than they know

and I understand who they are and what they want and I would ask questions frame questions and I'd have enough facts on hand to when they said something that I didn't think was correct I could use the facts so I'm not bragging here but I'm in the baby boom generation I should have retired a long time ago but nobody wants me around So I have to keep working. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be back with sports.

Bernie Goldberg, you may know the name. It does real sports on HBO with Brian Gumble. Right back. If you are over the age of 50, I have an important message for you. There's a true alternative to AARP, the liberal retirement group, that lobbies in favor of progressive policies. For less than $20 a year, an AMAC membership gives you members-only-only pricing. on car insurance, roadside assistance, discounts on hotels and travel, cell phone plans,

discount dental plans, and on and on and on and on. So please join more than one million fellow Americans right now at amac.us. That's amac.com.us. And yes, I am a member. Visit amac.us.amac.us.amac.us. Look, I think there's too much politics in our lives. I think it would be nice if a championship team, when they were invited to the White House, went to the White House. I think that would be good for all of us as a nation. It would be a little something to bring us even for a few hours closer together.

But let's not pretend we don't know why black athletes don't want to go to the White House. In 2017, when Donald Trump was campaigning in Alabama for a Senate candidate, out of the blue. I mean, Bill, totally out of the blue, he says about the athletes who were taking a knee in the NFL. You know, the owners ought to say, fire that son of a bitch. And those were his words, not mine. Fire that son of a bitch. Fire him. well maybe since most of the athletes who were taking a knee were black

maybe that's why black athletes maybe but I think he would have said the same thing about a white athlete who was disrespecting the anthem and the flag in his opinion I would be very surprised if he didn't say the same thing about a white athlete who did that wouldn't you I mean he picks on a lot of white people he doesn't like he does that's absolutely true but when you make a blanket statement like that, fire the son of and you know that almost

all of the athletes who were doing it were black, come on. He doesn't think that way. You're going to love my book. There's another reason, Bill. Let me just say this briefly. And this is about you, about you, Bill O'Reilly. In your last column, you dismissively

refer to your words, the birther thing. Right. Well, you know, when Donald Trump leads an effort to delegitimize the first black president of the United States of America? Well, maybe that's why black athletes don't want to go to the wild. Listen, I wish all athletes, white, black, Latino, all of them would go to the White House for the reasons I mentioned. It would be good for the nation. It might

bring us together, and we would be spared a few hours of politics. But Donald Trump injects politics into sports just as the athletes do. All right. Tiger Woods. So here he goes, and he gets the Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian honor, and the Baltimore son rips him up personally. He says he's a coward, a traitor to his race. I mean, that's just as vitriolic and as hateful as anything I've ever seen.

I'm totally with you on that. All right. 100% with you on that. Good. because I don't know him I don't know who wrote the editorial but I wouldn't be surprised

if it were a white liberal I love it when white liberals are telling black guys what to do. Right, right. Look, I don't get into the color game at all so I didn't, all I know is the Baltimore Sun is crazy left. So we'll see you soon, okay, Goldberg? Quick break, right back with my

final thought on wrapping up the Trump book I am writing in a moment. If you are over the of 50, I have an important message for you. There's a true alternative to AARP, the liberal retirement group, that lobbies in favor of progressive policies. For less than $20 a year, an AMAC membership gives you members-only pricing on car insurance, roadside assistance, discounts on hotels and travel, cell phone plans, discount dental plans, and on and on and on. So please join more than one million fellow Americans right now at amac.us.

That's amac.com.us. And yes, I am a member. Visit amac.com.us.amac.com.us. Amat.us. All right, final thought. I'm wrapping up writing the United States of Trump, how the president really sees America. I'll finish it this week. A complicated process To get a book out

You have to obviously write the book And then it goes into production And editing and making sure That all the typos and all that And we put pictures in We lay it out We get the cover All of that

Hardest book I've ever had to write I wrote this alone All right Because I know him And I had to write it alone But not only did I write it I had to report it Because the research that came to me

Most of it was bogus Not true So I had to go on inauguration night. I had to go on election night. I had to speak to the people who were there. I had to do all that. And I couldn't talk primarily to people who had, you know, a reason or an agenda. I had to go for bystanders. No anonymous sources. I got a lot of stuff I can't use because people that won't put their name on it. And I'm not going to put it in. So United States Trump right now, September 24th is a release date. I can change. Again, we've got to send tons, hundreds of thousands of books out, and

we'll keep you posted on that. But it's a big relief. It's a really good book. And you'll learn something on every page. If you care about who Donald Trump really is, and how we got there, this is a book for you. Not a pro-Trump book, not an anti-Trump book. History book. Hallelujah. I'm finished with it. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you.