Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - More Media Dishonesty on Trump's Russia-Ukraine Negotiations, the Associated Press’ White House Ban, the Trump Administration's Battle With CNN & Alexander Green's Insights on the Economy and Investing During the Trump Era

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, February 19, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill examines President Trump's latest comments on the War in Ukraine while speaking to the press and how the corporate media reported his statements. Why is the Associated Press banned from the White House? A look at how the Trump Administration is going out of its way to embarrass CNN. After pressure from Donald Trump to address drug trafficking, Mexico seized nearly $40 million worth of methamphetamine. Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist at The Oxford Club (a BillOReilly.com sponsor), joins No Spin News to discuss the future of Trump’s economy and its impact on the investment community. Final Thought: Bill's BIG announcement! In Case You Missed It: Stand out from the crowd with our NEW Not Woke baseball cap for just $28.95! For a limited time, get Bill O'Reilly's bestselling The United States of Trump and a No Spin Mug for only $39.95. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, February 19th, 2025, stand up for your country. Incredible amount of news today. It has just been from the moment the Tara Dog woke me up until now. I have not stopped for 10 minutes. I had an English muffin, and that pour it in here every second. And I'm going to clarify it for you because what you are getting from corporate media is not the truth.

Okay? And it's driving me crazy, but I can only do so much. We're happy that you are here watching and listening on our radio stations across the country. I'm going to be very methodical tonight and how I go through all this. We're also going to have a fun announcement, big, in the final thought, you're going to be surprised, so I hope you hang tough for that. And we're watching the Pope, who 88 years old, and he's a fighter, but he could go in any time. All right, we're going to lead off tonight with the new strategy from the corporate media against Donald Trump. Everything that Donald Trump does is evil.

That's the new strategy. It used to be he's a clown, he was incompetent, he's a hypocrite, he's a hypocrite, now he's evil. And that's what you're going to get from here on out. And when I was on Hannity's radio program today, I tried to get across to Hannity that the Trump people, including Elon Musk, have got to understand the war that is taking place. And I don't believe they do. I don't think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk understand what is happening as far as the presentation of information. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.

So we will begin with yesterday 412 p.m. time, Ma'A Lago, Palm Beach, Florida. President Trump is answering questions from the press, which Joe Biden never did. I think in the first four weeks, Trump has answered more questions than Biden did in four years. And the subject of the war in Ukraine comes up. Here's what Trump said. Go. You know, they're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years.

and a long time before that, this could have been settled very easily. Just a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago. I think without the loss of much land, very little land, without the loss of any lives, and without the loss of cities that are just laying on their side. All right. So President Trump believes that the Ukrainians, Zelensky, blew it before the war.

Now, I don't subscribe to that. I'm not versed enough into what exactly the back and forth was with Putin and Russia. I know Putin is evil. He's on the cover of my next book confronting the evil. There's Vlad next to the Ayatollah, Homania, Hitler, and Mao. Now, that's the cover of the book. So I'm not endorsing what Donald Trump said. I am listening to his point of view.

And I do believe 100% that if Trump had been elected again in the year 2000, that war in Ukraine would not have happened. there was no leadership on the part of NATO and the United States to ward off the war. Okay? Now, that's what I believe. I can't prove it. So, you heard what Trump said. A half-baked negotiator could have, all right, prevented this horror.

That's his belief. Six minutes later, same press presser, six minutes later, Trump says this, go. But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years. You should have never started it. So in the context of him believing that the Ukrainians blew it in the run-up to the war, he says, you should have never started it.

It's in context to what he was talking about. Okay? It wasn't that Zelensky attacked Russia. That's absurd. Okay. So clearly, if you are fair and have an IQ over 50, you know that Trump is criticizing Ukraine and Zelensky for poor negotiating before the war started. Again, I'm not endorsing that.

I don't know enough, but that's Trump's point of view. Enter the media, who then take what Trump said and characterize it this way. Roll it. Tonight, President Trump parroting Russian propaganda as he falsely accuses Ukraine of starting the war which began almost three years ago when Vladimir Putin's troops invaded Ukraine. Will's come tonight after extraordinary sacrifice and bloodshed to save their country. Ukraine today, President Trump blamed them for starting the war. Coming up on Cina this morning, placing the blame on Ukraine, Ukraine, invaded by Russia.

President Trump falsely claiming, though, that Ukraine started the war. Disgraceful. And Wolf Blitzer has been around long enough to know what he said wasn't true, out of context, but he just does what he's told. So does Cooper and so does the other guy. That's it. And it's destroy Trump. Trump is evil. When I'm watching, my anger level goes through the roof. Because I know how dishonest.

I don't like dishonest people. I don't like them. I don't care where they are. It was so, no context whatsoever. Falsely accused. That's damn, what's that blaming Ukraine. Now, there was a report. out of Reuters, then the BBC, and then a business insider. Three sources. This was what Putin

told Zelensky before the war started in 2022. I'm going to put it up on a screen. I'll read it for you on the radio. Russia told Ukraine it would immediately cease its military operations of Kiev met their conditions, including changing its constitution to ensure neutrality. acknowledging Crimea as belonging to Russia, and acknowledging Donasek and Luhansk as independent states. Okay, that's what Putin wanted. And it's unreasonable. Absolutely unreasonable. But it's a negotiation.

Okay? So now Trump wants to stop the war. He doesn't trust Zelensky. Trump does not trust the man. Again, I'm not endorsing that because I don't know. Trump believes that the United States has spent 350 million

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While the rest of Europe collectively has sent 200 million, and Trump says we're getting screwed again. That's his mindset. Okay? And he doesn't believe that Zelensky is going to make any concessions. So, therefore, Trump is negotiating directly with Putin. Now, Putin's already made a major concession that has not been reported by anyone. Putin has agreed that Ukraine can join the European Union. That's huge for Ukraine.

Huge. But no NATO. But everybody knew that NATO was never going to happen. But Putin is starting to give. And Trump is trying to get the best deal he can get for this ceasefire. Are you with me now? Is everybody still with me? Okay. So the U.S. envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, don't know him. He's in Kyiv today, talking to Zelensky and explaining why Trump and Putin are talking and what's going on. That's a good thing. Yesterday, Secretary of State Rubio met with Soviet, Soviet. He is a Soviet, Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in Saudi Arabia, four hours. They are trying to get the framework of a deal.

That's what these meetings are all about. Trump doesn't want Zelensky going, I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to do it. That's why Zelensky is not there. And Trump doesn't care what the European countries want. I'm sorry, but he doesn't. Again, I'd be a little bit more benign if I were president, but Trump doesn't care what they think. He wants it to stop.

And he'll get it, as I said before the election. the election. He'll get his deal. Putin will deal. Why will Putin deal? Because Putin's getting murdered. 150,000 at least Russians have been killed. A half million wounded. Now, these stats are tough, but they come from Brit intelligence, the UN, all over the place. But Russia is getting pounded. They need North Korean troops to fight their battle. That's how bad it is for them. And the deficit in Russia has risen 74% since the start of this year, not even two months into the year. They're spending, and they can't make it up.

They can't tax their people who have how many money in Russia. And the ruble, their currency, has declined a dramatic way. I mean, you can get 100 rubles for the dollar now. I mean, if you want to buy a little shack on the Black Sea, now's the time to do it. I wouldn't suggest it. The DACA is down there, but there's no good news for Putin. He has to make a deal. And that's what Trump is doing.

But he's also flattering Putin. So that's what Trump does. So the Wall Street Journal excoriates Trump today on the editorial page saying, Look, he's trying to mainstream this villain. It's true, he is. But Trump doesn't believe that this guy is noble, Putin. He just wants the deal. And that's part of the process.

He doesn't want to make Putin his personal enemy, Trump. It's what, how he negotiates. Anyway, the media will never tell you the truth, ever about anything involving Donald Trump. That's dangerous, because it's not just us, it's the whole world. CNN goes worldwide. And that's a memo. Associated press still banned from the White House because they won't call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. But that's not the real reason.

So Trump despises the Associated Press because it's woke and it's far left. Three examples. The AP will not use the word illegal when describing undocumented migrants. All right. Quote, the AP Style Book no longer sanctions the term illegal immigrant or the use of illegal to describe a person. How precious, right? How precious? How about mankind?

The Associated Press Stylebook does not use the word mankind. Instead AP Style recommends using gender neutral language. like humanity or people. Oh, how woke is that? Oh, finally, transgender. AP style allows a use of trans on second reference in its headlines. Do not use transgender as a noun. Okay, when interviewing people ask them how they want to be referenced. Well, I would like to be referenced as a werewolf from Dublin. That's the AP. So that's why. They're just getting pounded because Trump has no respect for them. All right. Some federal judges ruled in Trump's favor. This drives the press crazy, of course. So you'll remember Judge Tanya Chetkin. She was the one that Special Counsel,

Jack Smith was appealing to in the allegation that Donald Trump inspired or engineered the January 6th riot at the Capitol. And Chattuck is a liberal judge. Well, she has said that Doge can continue to monitor what happens in the government. offices. So the Department of Managed, Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Energy, transportation, commerce, all have to cooperate with Elon Musk and Doge. Put a federal judge. And she said, look, he's the president. And if he wants to monitor these agencies, Trump, he's the right to do it. And that the lawsuits by 26 liberal states against Trump had not proven any kind of irreparable harm or damage.

So big win. So Musk can go in and try to get information from all of those agencies, federal agencies, to present to President Trump. Is there anything wrong with that? I don't think so. We're trying to root out fraud and waste in taxpayer spending. Big win for Trump. big loss for Biden.

Biden forgave $475 billion in student loans. And I have to pay them, and so do you. It's not like those loans disappear. They go back to the private sector, the taxpayer. And a judge said, appeals court, not just a judge, said, no, can't do it. You've already ruled you can't do it. So if you are a student and you were thinking that you were going to get your debt wiped out by Biden, not happening all right cnn i use the three sound bites because i don't even consider msnbc anymore

i don't even pay attention to that nbc parent company comcasts cut them loose they're not even part of nbc news anymore and they're so out there would be like me quoting the national inquirer to you come all right so The strategy, the media strategy on a part of the Trump administration is to damage CNN. I don't know why they're bothering. CNN is about as damage as you can get. I don't think they could ever come back. Anyway, Stephen Miller was a deputy chief of staff of policy and probably the most powerful person in the White House beside Trump.

He goes on CNN. Here's what happened. Go. The American people are exhausted and tired. of watching their tax dollars be corruptly spent, abused, wasted, and in every sense robbed and stolen from them. This president, for the first time in history, is committed to restoring accountability at every level of the federal government. You may assert there's no waste in the Pentagon. You may assert there's no waste in Treasury.

You may assert there's no waste in HHS. Stephen, I don't think anyone I don't think anyone. Then why are you not celebrating these cuts if you agree there is waste? If you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted? That's a pretty good question. And she couldn't answer it. She just kept going, calm down.

That was a brilliant question, and Miller asked. Why are you on board with this? CNN or CBS or ABC or any of them. Why? because they hate Trump. That's the answer. All right, Mexico. Mexico, huh?

I love that James Taylor song. Never really been, but I'd sure like to go. No, James, you don't want to go. I've been. Everywhere in Mexico. Beautiful country. Folks are good. Government is as corrupt.

A government is there is corrupt as any other government on the face of the earth. So magically, last weekend, just magic, the government seizes $40 million worth of methamphetamine. They just grabbed it in Cinelloa, which is the centerpiece for all the narcotics in Mexico. Okay? Now, why did they do that, do you think? because of Trump. You think Biden's still president or of Kamlover president? That the Mexican government would have seized $40 million with the meth.

And I don't even believe the number, by the way. The Mexican government is putting the number out. Nobody verifies it. But they're going, hey, no, no, no, no, we're going to stop it. Yeah, sure. Gas prices. So in some places in the country, they're going up. And the excuse that the refiners give us is that, oh, we're transitioning from winter to spring gas.

And it always happens to, you know, all right, maybe that's true. I don't know. The average price of gas is $3.16. That's the average. But in California, you guys are paying $4.79 because of all taxes. And Washington, Nevada, Oregon, they're all above it. But people go, hey, if it's drill, baby drill. Shouldn't the gas prices be coming down?

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So part of my duties here, my primary mandate is to tell you the truth no matter what. So if Trump screws up, I'm going to tell you that he screws up, okay, even though I want him to succeed. But if he does something that I feel is not right, I will tell you that. Same thing on every story. We're watching the Pope. Pope may die. I don't think the Pope has the right formula for immigration. worldwide. I wrote a column on it Sunday entitled the Pope versus the Founding Fathers.

But I love the Pope. I think he's a fine human being. And when he dies, if he doesn't go right to heaven, nobody is. He is a good man. But I criticize him because of his lack of vision on immigration. I hope you read the column. So that's my mandate. I have to. I'm compelled to tell you the truth as I see it and back it up, as I did at the beginning of this broadcast in a complicated manner. Now, the most important thing in your life besides family, friends, and your physical health, taking care of yourself, is your money. Why? Because we live in a capitalistic society where the competition for money is intense. There are ways to make money outside of corporations, outside of entrepreneurship. You've got to be very, very careful.

The stock market is very, very risky. Gold and silver, very risky. But it can pay off. We take American Hartford Gold, then our sponsor for, I don't know, eight, nine years, eight years. And I do business with the Oxford Club, which is an investment company. It puts out a newsletter. And that's the only newsletter I get because the others, I don't trust them. Oxford Club has made me money overall. It's lost me money, too, when they recommend a stock that goes down, which is going happen if you go into the market. Now, why am I telling you all this in a smart life segment? Because now there's a transition between a heavily regulated government, Joe Biden, and a robust, let's say, capitalist Donald Trump, who doesn't want government regulation.

He wants all of this stuff to be in the marketplace. However, Trump's a big tariff guard, all right? And that's scaring people. And then there's AI, which is coming in big time. And then there's crypto. So the average American, and I work hard for my money, I bet you do too. We don't know what to do under the Trump economy. Joining us now is a man who I do business with, and I recently did a major interview with him

to the Oxford Club, Alexander Green. He's living large in the Bahamas, celebrating his anniversary, and, you know, when you're a capitalist and you do well, you can go to the Bahamas and, right, and pay all that hotel tariff out there. But anyway, I think I've set you up in a way that's fair. And I want people to be very, very cautious. I'm a conservative investor. As you know, I've known Alex now.

I'm early 90s, so 30 years almost. So look, first question, the stock market was pretty good under Biden. Why? Well, let's be clear. The last two years of the stock market, 2003, 2004, were good under Biden. Let's go a little further back. When Bidenomics had a chance to kick in, remember, he's elected in 2020, he starts implementing his plans for 2022, 2021. By 2022, we have the highest inflation in more than 40 years. We have interest rates that have soared. And the stock market, the S&P 500 declined 19% in 2022. The NASDAQ lost a third of its value. The bond market with interest rate soaring had its worst year in over a hundred years. And even a conservative, diversified

portfolio, 60% stocks, 40% bonds had its worst year since 1940, pre-World War II. So Biden caused a lot of damage with his regulations, which shackled the oil and gas industry and businesses everywhere, his massive multi-trillion dollar deficit spending, which he was warned by even by liberal economists like Larry Summers, you're going to stoke the highest inflation we've seen since the 1980s. And that's exactly what we saw. But business is resilient. Business is adaptable. And by the 2003 and 2004, sales were up, profits were up, and the stock market was up again. But it wasn't due to Joe Biden. It was a recovery from Bidenomics, which even the Biden administration had to stop using because it had such a negative connotation. Right. And one of the big things

was it started to drill oil again, and the oil harvesting got ramped up. And this is from Mr. Global Warming. Now, Trump has been in office 31. days. The Dow is up 1.2%, 531 points. NASDAQ up 285, 1.4%. But every day when I check, it's up, it's down, it's in, it's out. I mean, anything could happen. And that worries me as an investor. How do I get over that worry? Well, you begin to get over it by recognizing that volatility is the norm. I mean, stock markets, if you could get the kind of superior returns that equities deliver with the smooth upward climb of a passbook saving account everybody would have all their monies in equity volatility is really just

the price of admission when you own stocks but let me also say bill remember the market started take off before trump took office when the election results came in and they saw that that the Kamala harris was not going to be the victor and donald trump was going to be the new president stocks took off immediately. Why did they take off? Because not only was it not the end of democracy, as we were told in some quarters, but people know that Trump is a businessman. And he knows that wealth is created in the private sector, not in the public sector. The private sector is where innovation happened. It's where productivity happens. And an administration has policies that can either provide a headwind, which makes it tougher for businesses to grow and investors to get ahead,

or a tailwind, which makes it easier for businesses to prosper and for investors as well. And what Trump wants to do by cutting both the corporate individual tax rates, putting money in consumers' pockets and giving companies more money to spend on research and development and new factories and new distribution channels and hire more employees and pay higher wages and better benefits, those are all positive for the economy. His policy of killing 10 regulations for every new one created, hugely positive. I remember a bank president saying one time that he was hiring more compliance officers than he was loan officers. Why? Because the government set so many regulations. The bank was scared to death. It wasn't going to comply with all these regulations.

And what does it do? It raises interest rates. It cuts into profits. It hurts stock market returns. So cutting interest rates or excuse me, cutting tax rates, deregulating, unshackling the domestic oil and gas industry, cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse. These are all positive things for the economy, and that means it's positive for the stock market because if consumers are spending, if they're confident they're spending, and if they're spending, it's adding to corporate sales and ultimately corporate earnings. So I think that we're going to see a wonderful economy and stock market over the next four years. Okay, but remember now that most Americans don't have a lot of reserve. So if they want to get into the market, some of them are borrowing money to get into it, which is what we saw in 1929. So I understand that on paper, it looks like the Trump years might be very good for investors, but it's not a lock. Now, one of the things that you do is look ahead in your newsletter, Alex.

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recommend any stocks if you're interested in what alec screen is doing then you go to oxford club was it oxford club dot com right electric club dot com yeah okay you go there and then you can get what they have but generally speaking ai and the forward-looking stocks is what you're analyzing now correct Yes. Yeah, AI is a very big deal because it's going to increase productivity. I'm on AI every day. Before long, every student is going to have an AI tutor. Every businessman is going to have a business person is going to have an AI consultant. Every physician is going to have an AI researcher and assistant. Everybody's going to have an infinitely smart, infinitely available. infinitely cheap source of not just news and information, but strategy and questions asked and problem solved. And this is going to be huge for the economy. That's why you're seeing all

these big tech companies ramp up their AI spending because they know the demand is huge. And in my view, five years from now, there'll be companies that have making full use of artificial intelligence and companies that don't exist anymore because it's just that imperative. As big as the Internet was, In 1999 and 2000, AI is even bigger right now, and we're in the early stages. We're still top of the first inning. And you're trying to ferry out the companies with the most potential, but again, it's not that easy to do. I don't do crypto stuff, and I'm not even going to talk about it.

I just way too risky for me. That's a whole different thing. Yeah, I don't, you don't do a lot of crypto stuff. When I read your stuff, not a crypto in there, right? It's for gambler, not investors. Yeah, yeah, okay. All right, so bottom on this is, that you believe there's opportunity in a Trump administration

because it's a concentration of free market rather than government regulation. And when you recommend a stock that doesn't perform well, you tell everybody, but it's too late because we've lost the money. How do you feel about that? Well, first of all, you're absolutely right, Bill. If you're going to invest in stocks, you're going to have winners and you're going to have losers. They have losers, right. Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all times.

60% of the time, he didn't get a hit. Still, he still was the greatest. Every investor, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, John Templeton, all the greats, they had losing positions. And so you go into it with the idea that you're buying a business. And if that business grows in profitability, the share price is going to rise, and you're going to share in that profitability. And if the business stumbles or runs into competition, then if it can't meet effectively,

it's going to work out poorly. We use, as you know, Bill, trailing stops, as long as something's, stops on the stock. So if it goes a certain level, it automatically sells. All right, Alexander Green, Oxford Club, Oxford Club.com. Appreciate it. Alex, have fun in Bahamas. Always happy to be here. Thanks, Bill. Okay. U.S. hockey team plays Canada tomorrow night, Thursday. Bill Garrian, the GM of the U.S. team, has invited Trump because it's in Boston. And in Montreal in the first round, the Canadians booed the national anthems. You can imagine what they're going to do in Boston when old Canada comes on. I'm going to watch the game.

It should be very interesting. There is a rumor that Trump's going to go to the game, but that is in play. We have a poll question on Bill O'Reilly.com. We'd like you to answer. Are you upset with Canadians for booing the U.S. national anthem? Yes or no? Easy? We'd like to know what you think.

Stay in history, February 19, 1945, the invasion of Iwo Jima begins. So this was a huge battle for freedom. and Marines, 70,000 of them stormed this tiny island in the South Pacific because they wanted to take it from there, U.S. bombers could hit the mainland of Japan, and it was fierce. The Japanese would not give up. 21,000 Japanese defended, only 200 were taken prisoner. The rest either were killed in battle or committed suicide. Brutal, brutal.

Let's see, how many U.S. casualties, 26,000 American casualties, including almost 7,000 killed. So what a brutal situation. And that happened 80 years ago today, we were successful. And once Iwo Jima was taken, the war was pretty much over. If you want more on that, we can read my book, Killing the Rising Sun. All right, back with the big announcement. All right, final thought of the day.

So here we go. We are going to launch a tour. We might come to your town. Who's we? O'Reilly, who's we? Put it up there. Stephen A. Smith. Chris Cuomo.

O'Reilly, your humble correspondent. The Three Americans Tour, open it in Westbury, Long Island, March 30th, Sunday. This is going to be big. As President Trump might say, it's going to be huge. all right i'm going to announce it tonight on news nation with quomo uh and if you don't know what this is about i got a couple of clips roll it for uh yeah for stephen a i don't want to be surrounded by smarter people that's why i do the quamo show all right if i wanted to be surrounded by smarter people i wouldn't be sitting here tonight uh present company stephen a

excluded of course smart that's insulting to the audience You see, if you ask somebody a question in your personal life, hey, Mabel, what kind of car is that? And they go, I like pancakes. What? No, I ask you, what kind of car that was? That's fair. All right, so we're going to kick it around. It's going to be a two-hour show.

Tickets are going to sell out. So if you want them, 8 o'clock, Ticketmaster, but the easiest way to go is to Bill O'Reilly.com. We have a little thing. You just push it, and you go right over to the box office. It's going to be two-hour show. We're going to do four topics of the day. I don't know what they're going to be because it's whatever everybody's talking about. Then we're going to take Q&A from the audience.

So it's like the Miller show in that way. But never before have you had these three diverse audiences. So Stephen A. Smith, Chris Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly. Never been done. You can imagine how this might play out. It's going to be a blast. So we hope that you check out the Three Americans Tour. Again, 8 o'clock on Wednesday today, go on sale. Get them because it's not going to go. You're going to go. And then we're going to have other dates. Maybe we'll invade your town, but this is worth flying into New York to see this. If you're around and you're going to come on in, you will not be disappointed. All right? So how about that for an announcement? Is that, that's good, right?

I think that's a pretty strong announcement. Let me know what you think. Thank you for watching. The No Spin News tonight. We'll see tomorrow.