Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Round the World - April 19, 2026

Episode Date: April 19, 2026

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I'm Bill O'Reilly. You're listening to Around the World. Here's my News Nation appearance with Leland Vitter. Being president is hard. Bill O'Reilly knows a lot about that. He has written about all of the presidents, author of Confronting Evil, also confronting the presidents. Host of the new weekly podcast, We Will Do It Live. Bill, welcome back. Good to see you. I read your message of the day.

You seem to be laying out that President Trump is caught between his last. legacy, which means he cannot back off of Iran and allow them to get a nuclear weapon or have nuclear material. And his political future in the midterms, which show him becoming increasingly unpopular because of the war in Iran. Yeah, I mean, there's a bunch of things in play today. Thanks for having me on, as usual. I was just stunned at the pagans in the media being so upset with the Jesus picture. I mean, these are people. The last time they saw the inside of a church

was when they were baptized. So, I mean, it's a little, a lot of hypocrisy in the air. And I understand, Leland, that the picture itself, Trump was getting a doctorate in theology. He wasn't a real doctor. Sometimes they dress up.

dress up. So you can see that I'm poking fun at this because the overreaction just demonstrates how the media just hates Donald Trump and everything he does. Now, the strategy in the Hormuz situation is pretty good. I think the U.S. Navy will be able to stop most of the oil coming out of Iran, and that will hurt them. Big time. People have to eat and their economic situation is dire. And as you said, there's no turning back now. So President Trump has got to win it.

Or he goes down as a loser president like Lyndon Johnson did. And Trump does not want that. So that's where we are. Okay. So few things there. We'll get to the AI-GIS. this picture in a little while. I think that most Americans who are sitting at home, figuring out whether or not they're going to be able to pay rent at the end of the month or buy

groceries or pay for their kids' summer T-ball League are less concerned about the media and the coverage and whether or not there's an AI image of Trump and who's losing their minds. I think they're concerned about the war and what that means and whether America succeeds. This is from the New York Times. Iran blockade sets up a test of which side can endure more pain. You, unlike many, truly understand what Iran is capable of. During the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian sent thousands upon tens of thousands of children, 10, 12, 14 years old, across the berm into no man's land to be slaughtered by the Iraqis in the hopes that the Iraqis would run out of bullets before Iran ran out of kids to sacrifice. The only thing the kids had was a

Key to Heaven. Plastic Key to Heaven. This is the question, Bill. You really think that we can outlast, the American people can outlast Iran's willingness to endure pain? Yeah, the American people have no choice. They elected Donald Trump. They don't have any choice. Trump wants to stay there for six months. He's going to stay there for six months. He may lose the midterms, but that's what he's going to do. But I think you're underestimating the emotion of the debt. But I think you're underestimating the emotion of the day, whereby a lot of people are going, well, is the president unstable? That's why I made fun of this whole thing at the top. Because these heathens in the media couldn't care less about Jesus or whatever picture

came out at four in a morning. They don't care. They just use anything to run him down. I don't think it was a wise move to have that picture put out there. I think the president is exhausted. He doesn't get enough sleep. He understands the strain he's under. As I said in the very beginning,

this is the biggest gamble he's ever taken. In his whole life, in his whole life, this Iranian thing is the biggest gamble the man has ever taken. And now, it's not going to go either way. I think America will prevail, but it's not going to be easy. And there's going to be a lot of angst.

and, you know, he's internalizing that. You say I'm underestimating the emotion of the day. What exact emotion am I underestimating the emotion of the media or the emotion of people who don't really care but should be upset at the media because they hate Trump so much? No, the emotion is the president stable. Is he able to now make decisions? decisions that are responsible.

You know, I could mediate a settlement between the Pope and Donald Trump. I could do it. But in such a mediation, I would have to ask His Holiness, very frankly, you had 30,000 people gun down in Iran just a few weeks ago. We heard nothing from the Vatican on that at all.

Nothing. You have a terror government close to a nuclear weapon. Is it acceptable for the Catholic Church to look away from that? As you know, I wrote Confronting Evil in the theme of the book is that these heinous individuals, they gain power by people looking away, by people not wanting to pay the price, as you put it, for gasoline or food. they get power. Now the Catholic Church has not defined, you know, how would you think that Pope Leo would answer that question? It's a very simple question. Is the Catholic church okay with the Mullahs having a nuclear weapon? Your Holiness? Yes or no? I'm a simple man.

It's a simple question. I'm a Catholic. I'd like to know the answer. The Pope will never address that. And that frustrates Donald Trump because the Pope is also an open border guy. And that drives Trump nuts. That's the genesis, pardon upon, of all of this between Washington and the Vatican. Understood. Are you perhaps overestimating how much America really cares about what the Pope says about this war and Donald Trump's ego and annoyance with the Pope versus a lot of Americans who just want this war won and then for gas prices to come down? Well, what are we all five years old now? I mean, is that what we are? Anything worthwhile is very, very difficult? I agree. And you have to pay a high price. And that's the reality. Now,

you may have a point that there are millions of Americans. who don't want to be bothered with even thinking about this. But that's why today was so important because the Pope controversy and the picture, the dopey picture, okay, got everybody's attention. I mean, I'm getting texts from people, you know, who have no interest in the news at all. But they saw this, they understood it immediately,

and the media heathens are stoking it to the degree that they can stoke it. Now, is it a one-day story? Probably. And the most important story is, can we outlast Iran? Can we the United States outlast Iran? And I think the answer to that is yes, because the people have to go along with the commander-in-chief.

There is no other mechanism here. He's elected. This is action he's said. taking and the regular folks really don't have, they can do public opinion polls, they can vote Republicans out in November, and they may well do that. But in the interim, the commander chief's going to do what he wants to do. Well, of course he's going to do what he wants to do. He's the commander in chief. Also, though, the American people are going to have their own feelings about what he does. They can approve, they can disapprove. I go back, I go back to. I go back to

to this, though, do you really, you're saying that the reason this AI picture of Jesus that Trump posted of himself where he now says, actually, we'll listen to it, he says that he was posting a picture of himself as a doctor. Yeah, a PhD candidate. I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support. and only the fake news could come up with that one. So I had just heard about it. And I said, how did they come up with that? It's supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better.

I make people a lot better. So what is the problem in your mind, Bill? The fact that it was posted, which I don't particularly care about as a journalist, or the coverage of it, which, again, I don't particularly. particularly care about. But you should care about the coverage of it because it is important for public perception. So I shouldn't care about it?

On whether the president... Oh, yeah, because, look, the corporate media is trying to sell that Trump is out of control. That's what they're trying to sell now. 25th Amendment, get him out of there. He has no control of what he does. And here's just another example, this dopey picture. that's what they're trying to sell. Now, a number of Americans are going to buy that based upon what happened today.

So it's not an insignificant story. I don't think everyone will, and I think it'll be quickly forgotten if there are battlefield gains, which I suspect there will be. Okay, real quick, and I'm going to get yelled up by producers for asking this. But I just want to sort of button this up. You think the more important story as it relates to the Jesus' stock? or whatever image that was posted at 4 o'clock this morning by the President of the United States, the commander-in-chief, and the leader of the free world.

The more important part of that is not that he posted it or what it was, but is the coverage of it. Yes, it's trying to shape a narrative that the man in the White House is incompetent. He's a liar. And the anti-Trump movement already believes that. And the corporate media is going after the mag of people, the people that are not. emotionally invested. And I know tomorrow I'm going to see the corporate media say, O'Reilly said in a serious way that this was a PhD picture. They'll take all of that out.

That's what they do. But there is a movement from the media, all right, to use everything and anything to diminish Trump. Okay. And the Pope plays right into that movement. And it's not exactly fair based upon the questions that I would like to ask the Pope. Got it. About the church's stance on mass murder. Yeah, Polks aren't really into giving interviews.

I said, popes aren't really into giving interviews. But we got to run, Bill. Thank you very much, as always. Good point. Okay. When Bill gets the interview with the Pope, we will air it in full. That would be a great podcast for We'll Do It Live. Here's my weekly appearance with W-O-R's Mark Simone.

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Most operations don't. Number two, the structure is that the Democratic Party now goes exclusively to CNN and MS. And the Republican Party goes exclusively to Fox News. and so independent contractors like me, we have to work very hard to get good guests on the program because it's an easy play for them to go over to the others and not going to be challenged there. A lot of times they'll tell them the questions in advance, which is, of course, against every journalistic ethic. But that doesn't matter anymore. and so they go, well, why do I want to do O'Reilly?

You might give me a hard time when I can walk into any Fox show and I'll skate. And that's what's going on. So it's made things a lot more difficult in that area. We are the top of the chart independently because we have so many viewers. But still, there are a lot of people like the Catholic Church that don't want to go up against me. They would much rather go on the sympathetic channels. Now, Bill O'Reilly, they say you can't fight with the Pope, why you got a suicide. But didn't Donald Trump do this with the last Pope a few years ago and everything was fine a couple

weeks later? Yeah, I mean, there can be a ton. I could mediate between Pope Leo and President Trump. I could do it because you have to understand where both are constantly. coming from, and it's not necessarily that they're clashing. They just have a different view of life, and they have different mandates. And once that's explained to people, then you take a lot of the political stuff out of it. For example, I mean, if you know your Bible, when Jesus was being convicted and crucified, he was taunted. Well, if you're the king of the Jews, bring down your army and stop all this.

And he just looked at his tormentors, he didn't say a word. And, you know, the philosophy of the Catholic Church is pacifism. They're passive. It's peace and negotiation, whatever. Trump, because he's in charge of solving problems, the Catholic Church does not solve problems. It doesn't. It's not in business to do that. It gives you guidance on how to live on a personal level.

But an acting president, or you would think a leader of any country, their job is to solve the problems. And once you get that out, you could work together to some extent, but that's not happening. Yeah, but this is a pope that's a little more political than he probably should be. He's a little too far to the left. And how does anybody defend the Iranian regime, this terrorist regime? He's not really defending the regime, but he doesn't have a realistic point of view on how to deal with the regime. I think that's a fair statement. We're talking about Leo now.

Yeah. So when 30,000 people were killed in Iran by the government, you didn't hear a word from the Vatican, right? Yeah. I didn't. No. And I'm a Catholic. The leader of the Catholic Church, and you've got 30,000 bodies. This whole thing falls apart.

But I think it could be put back together again if the parties would, you know, stop all a one-upsmanship, because it doesn't do Trump any good to criticize the Pope at all. None. He gets nothing out of that. And although he were baptized, okay, they're running around. You couldn't get less about the Pope. You mocked hypocrisy in this. Yeah, but listen, you wrote the book on Trump.

You shouldn't put the Jesus picture up. You shouldn't attack the Pope. But he always does this stuff. He loves to rile up his enemies. He loves to cost this case. But this one is working against him now. So he's losing popular opinion throughout the world, and that's pretty amazing when Iran is topping you in popular opinion.

So you've got to go to Plan B. It has to be an explanation of why we're doing what we're doing. And, you know, we respect people who disagree with us by getting a nuclear weapon. I mean, it's got to be done in that kind of a moment. manner. It can't be done, you know, four in the morning, pictures of Jesus go out with Trump's face on it. When good does that do him? It doesn't do him any good. He seems to it. I don't know. I mean, I'm not in there. I'm not seeing anything to the president. I'm going to see him next week. I might ask him about it. Hey, let me ask you something. Hillary Clinton, she's on morning show.

She's on this. She's on CBS. We're all over television yesterday. Is this woman thinking she's going to be a viable candidate in 2028? Is she looking to make a comment? I think that's a motivation you're making. What's in it for her to run out and do all this? She's in the field. There's nobody there. But she's, stranger things have happened.

Yeah, but every time she's run for president, ends in disaster. First time a rookie beat her, Barack Obama. Second time a total amateur, Donald Trump beat her. Doesn't she realize that maybe she wasn't cut out to be president? No. She doesn't realize that. She realizes that she's more.

credible in Kamala Harris and there's nobody else. Newsom and these people, she thinks she can handle them pretty easily. So that's how she's seeing it. There might be another opportunity for her. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, you read the New York Times. Even the Wall Street Journal, Gerard Baker, they write these things. Iran is a total failure where a total disaster. How do they say that?

Things are going pretty well in Iran, not the talks, but we've certainly done a lot of damage to them. Yeah, and you'll that Trump is more of a danger to the world than Iran. No, they do. They absolutely do. And that's why that's happening. So they're going to spend negative everything that happens that works out. Then they'll, this is bad or this is bad. They're never going to say Donald Trump did anything well, ever.

Hey, look at these talks with Iran. And it's leaking out now that we were asking no nuclear material of any kind for 20 years. That's kicking the can. It's further down the road, but it's still kicking the can down the road. And I'm a little surprised that Trump would agree to any time limit. Well, you've got to look at who's president. And from Carter on, hammered by the Iranian since 1980, Trump has ever taken in his entire life because it might not work out.

Now, I think we're very being by the United States, but if it doesn't, Trump's going to get pounded in November. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me, Mark. Appreciate it. Chris Cuomo and I do get out on News Nation. It is good to see you, Brother Bill. Do you really believe President Trump could do anything to have Christians slash the evangelical vote turn away from him and his, movement? Well, my mail says that there are many former Trump supporters angry at the president, and they don't like all this. So, sure. I don't know why President Trump, with all the things

he's got to deal with, bothers with it. You may be right. He just has to be in the arena. He's got to be in the gladiatorial arena every night. But it didn't do the country any good. I don't think this whole Christian battle. But I'm going to get a couple of points here. Please. You know, we live in a country, Cuomo, where it's your bad, he's bad, no, he's good, you're bad.

we always have to take size. He's always got to be a hero and a villain. Okay? That was the Beach Boys song. Always. Both of these men are right. All right. The Pope is right

that his pacifism, and that's what it is. All right, that's his philosophy, would lead to a much better world if embraced. Donald Trump is right by saying there is a danger to the world. and that with America's power, he's compelled to confront the danger.

Both men are right. So now we have their cross-currents. So I'm trying back channels to get—I can mediate this, Cuomo. I can have both of them in the room, and by a half an hour, they'd be best pals. because there isn't a there isn't a situation where no, this one is right and this one is wrong, it's not that.

They both have different jobs. They are doing their jobs, in my opinion, both of them, and so why are we fighting about this? Now, I don't believe that Pope Leo will ever see me, but that's the mess. I would carry to the Pope. Well, if he won't see you, how can you be the guy to mediate it?

I'm trying. It's all you can do in life. It's trying. I know I have the President's attention. Well, that I know. No, I wish I could. But, look, here's the problem.

The problem isn't that they're both right. The problem is that the President is speaking with disrespect about the Pope and that they're making him a political figure. He's not a political figure. And that's what this is about. But, you know, this is about who he is as a person, not necessarily the policy. The outcome of what happens in Iran is very much in doubt. And it does seem like there's only one person who wants this to end, which is America. The regime is loving this bill. Israel is loving this. Well, I know Israel is. I don't know

if Iran is. They lost four or five members of their Politburo, whatever you want to call it this week. I believe that the Hormuz situation is going to turn the tide in favor of America. I had to have nine vessels turned back without any violence, no boarding. And everybody's on, whoa, why didn't we do this in the first place? So I believe there's a very effective strategy. And that's why there'll probably be negotiations starting up again this weekend. But it's not a one-up for me. I mean, it's look.

Go ahead. I was going to just ask you. It's not a one-upsmanship. But why is it good now, and it was bad last week when it was closed the same way by the regime? Well, I said it was good last week, so maybe that's the better mind thing. I thought from the very beginning this was way to statured. Yeah, that America got involved with the strait of Hormuz. And I think that this is the way to strangle the Mullis and force them to the table.

That's the part I don't understand. They had it closed last week, and it was seen as them flexing. Now it's closed and it's going to drive them to the table? Why? What do they care if it's closed? It was closed last week, but not under the supervision of the United States. So there were tankers getting through, particularly to China, and currency was flowing to Iran. Now, what does Iran have?

It's not going to get any imports, and it's an import economy. So it's a slow strangulation. And the United States seems to have Hormuz under control. You know, there were all of these people who said, oh, no, Iran is powerful, and they can stop it anytime they want it. And now it's all bull because that's what people want to believe. I wanted to ask you a question. I know it's your show. Well, I mean, the problem is that the drones, God forbid, God forbid the drones, you know, they hit somebody.

Now we've got more people in the region. I mean, that's the concern. It's not that anyone would be foolish enough to believe that the Iranian regime can compete with the American military. That's not what it is. It's that these guys are a bunch of zealots who don't value death and we don't want to see our people die. That's the point, I think. But what's your question? No, but it's war.

Okay. So Thomas Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times. I agree. He apparently is an honest man. He comes out and he goes, I'm, I'm. I don't know who to root for. And I went, what? So he's actually considering it might be better for the world and the United States if the military, the U.S. military, loses the conflict.

Now, that is the ultimate hate Trump statement. And when you're at that level, you're not going to get any reputage that matters. Right. I don't get what the, there's no question in that for me. But I don't understand. Why is Tom Freeman arguing that the U.S. military losing would be good? Because he doesn't want to reward Trump or Netanyahu. Wow.

I mean, look, we both know Tom. He's a very, very smart guy. Look, I just, I can't see how unless you're playing a game with the definitions, why would anybody want the U.S. military to lose as an American when they're fighting a terrorist regime? I don't know. I mean, that is a very, very harsh commentary. He said it. He said it. Don't lay harsh on me. He said it. I know. But what I'm saying is, keep your eyes in your head. What I'm saying is, I'm saying is, well, if it's not, that's not journalism. It's better off if America loses

is an opinion piece that is driven by some kind of dark suggestion. or some kind of satire, because they're fighting a terror regime. Not satire. Nobody wants the terror regime to win. You know, Tom Friedman can't want the Iranian regime to win. Come on. Who would want that? And Friedman is not alone.

They're terrible people. You think that there are people in American positions of power. I get that they hate Trump, whatever that means, you know, hate in politics. And I get that there's that kind of animus driven towards Bibi Netanyahu. No question. I'm not questioning that. And I believe people can be irrational about what is happening because of how strong their feelings are personally for these people,

especially Trump. But, but no one wants the regime to win. Nobody. Nobody wants the regime to win. Not people who are holding power here in America. That is, that's what I'm going to make a harsh commentary. You get Mr. Friedman. Yeah, I'll ask him to come on right now.

tomorrow. Right. Because this is ridiculous. But it's symptomatic of how the American media is covering a story. Everything Trump does is. Everything he is. Okay. Everything. Everything. Two separate. Hold on. They're reading me, Friedman's quote. I think you may be being unfair to him. Go ahead. Read it to me. I find myself in a situation where I'm torn. I want Iran defeated militarily, but the problem is I don't want to see BB or Trump justify and celebrated for this war or politically strengthened by this. Yeah, I mean, that's, that is at least rational. But it's at least rational. He's saying I want the regime to lose.

Yeah, because he's not saying I want the U.S. military to lose. That's what you said, Bill. Yes, he is. That's what you said. No, he is. He said, I don't want to see that. Iran regime win. Torn.

Right, because he doesn't want the regime to win. I find myself torn. But he doesn't want to see Trump and BB win. It's different. I know. But not torn about whether the U.S. military should win. You got to throw in with one or the other. Why?

What are we picking sides? Then you're an agnostic and we're back to the Pope. Okay. I'm not in. First of all, the Pope is the other. You either want your country. Hold on, hold on. Bill.

Bill, do you realize? realize what you just said? How can you call the Pope an agnostic? How can you call the Pope of the Catholic Church an agnostic? What are you talking about? I'm saying the situation is agnostic because the pope, he has not defined who he'd like to win this conflict. Yes, he does. Nobody wants the Iranian Islamist regime to win. Nobody wants... that. If those are the sides, I'm on the side of everybody else other than the Iranian regime. Nobody wants them to win. That's a piece of sophistry that manufactures division. Look, I'm not here to defend Tom Freeman. You can defend himself.

But the idea that people want America to lose. Particularly when you have Americans, particularly when you have Americans who could be killed. And then you're going, well, you know, I don't. I don't really want to see the commander-in-chief, and there's a guy in Netanyahu prosper, so I'm in the middle, and I'm weighing it back and forth. That's agnostic. He's not taking his side, all right?

He's in the middle, and that's insane. But that is what the current flavor of American journalism is. He's not alone, Friedman. There are a lot of people in American media feel the way he does. There are a lot of people who have a lot of lousy ideas, okay? And I don't think there's either side that has the market cornered when it comes to bad ideas. I don't know that you're being fair to Tom, but I do know. You can criticize what's happening in Iran, and you can criticize this president and not hate America.

Okay, but you want America to win because Iran is a terrorist state. Yes. Right? You don't have to. Yeah. That's not a hard one, Cuomo. That's an easy one. No, I agree. It's a terror thing.

I agree. But Tom has a little problem here. I don't know. I don't know. I think you're exaggerating it. Yeah, of course you do, because you're sympathetic to him, but I'm not. Yeah, because I want the regime to win. I'm torn, Bill.

You know, I'm torn on it. These guys would chop my head off as soon as look at me. They would savage my daughter. You know, they would destroy everything I think is important to humanity. No, not if I were around. You get a five minute head start. You'd be asking them, how did you feel when you killed Cuomo? I would put my life out there to make sure that someone else did.

All right, I got to go. Bill O'Reilly, I appreciate you. Please join me in Sid Rosenberg on WabBC Radio. I played this earlier. I know you were listening. One of his best friends, one of Mamdani's best friends. one of Mamdani's best friends, Bill, is a guy named Hassan Piker. He's the guy that sat with Mamdani and said America deserved 9-11 and the mayor offered zero pushback.

He spoke at Yale University last night. I played the audio five times already today. He said the worst thing, basically, that happened to this world was the crumbling of the U.S.S.R. He said it. Then he said, America has done terrible things for a long time. This is one of Mamdani's best friends last night lamenting the end of the Soviet Union. Come on. Well, they've got a problem in the fact that we, the people of New York City, elected a communist.

I mean, that's where it comes down to. And whether we'll ever wise up, I'm not sure. It's free stuff. You know that. I want, I want, I want, give me, give me, give me. But he has nothing. The buses are not free. Nothing's been free so far.

But the promises of it. And, you know, I understand when you take the train out to the soccer games, it's not going to stop at the Meadowlands. You're going to go to Topeka, Kansas, see? That's the ticket. Oh, my God. Where are we? I know.

Really, where are we seriously? I mean, come on, Bill. Where the hell are we? We'll get to Iran. We'll get to what Trump is. doing outside of the United States, but as a proud New Yorker, you're still here. You don't got to be here. You don't have to be here.

Casmetidis. Even me, I'm not a millionaire. I can leave. We're here. And I ask myself often, why? I'll ask you again, why? Bill O'Reilly, why are you still here? Well, I've got family, friends, concerns as far as obligations are concerned.

I mean, I have a whole bunch of stuff. But, you know, I look at the map. Do I want to move to Florida? I'm Irish, and in Florida, the average temperature in the summer is 110. My skin will literally fall off. All right. Now, in the winter, it's great. Do I want to go to Tennessee and try to talk like Dolly Parton?

That's hard. That's going to be tough for me. There's a cultural gap here. And, you know, I don't believe in surrender. I'm trying to, in my whole life, I like to persuade people that, look, we're on a wrong road here, and now let's get back on track. And we're going to have to endure him and Donnie for four years, and he'll, you know, do what he does. And then people will go, that wasn't good. And that's what I'm hoping for.

What if they don't? I mean, you say four years, like you said, if they say that wasn't good, he's on track to do eight. And then I guess, on a serious note, because you're a Long Island guy, and you've got two times. National County Executive, Bruce Blakman. You know you live in Nassau County. He does an amazing job out there. Not good, amazing. He's got great people around him, no doubt.

The commissioner, Pat Ryder, and Ann Donnelly and Cairo, all that. But he's an amazing executive. People say to me all the time, I wonder if you agree, Bill O'Reilly. If there's any hope for New York, Blakeman must beat Hokel. Is that exaggerated in your opinion, or is that the truth? I think there will be other opportunities, but certainly that. is a milestone, and it's possible. You know, if you look at the Zeldon campaign,

and Blakeman's a better campaigner than Zeldon by a pretty wide margin, and he's got a better record. But, you know, they took his money, and now he's going to get the money back. He's going to matching funds, and I think he will. I think that'll happen because that's election interference. and then Blakeman has got to, you know, spend a lot of time in Oswego.

I don't even know how to get to Oswego. I know it's north. He does go there. He goes to Rochester and Albany and Syracuse. Utica. I know. Well, that begs this question. Because, again, two days ago, our mutual friend, President Trump, did it again.

Went on truth social and sent out this really big-time endorsement for Bruce Blakman. And look, Trump texts me, I can't sleep. That's how excited I get. I love the guy. I can't say enough great things about it. But the question is a decent one, and that is, after watching what happened to, for example, how a guy Jack in Jersey getting blown out by Cheryl, he got endorsed by Trump all the time. Do these Trump endorsements help or hurt Bruce Flakeman in New York State?

me at the time. And if he gets a win in Iran, then Trump will regain momentum politically in the midterms, because there is no democratic leadership, might go the Republicans way. When he texted you about Blateman, was that before or after he parted the Red Sea? Because I understand that that night, there was a lot of times. taken up by getting the tides out of there, you know. By the way, he's still that guy to me, Trump, the guy that part of the Red Sea, but Bill, even his most ardent supporters, you're not one of them, you're a good friend

to the president, but you're honest with them. And when you're critical, you're critical, this was not a good week when you have that picture where he was depicted as Jesus Christ. I know he says he was a doctor. I love your President Trump. Stop it, stop it. And then he's out there just bashing the Pope. and I don't like the Pope.

I don't like the Pope, and I don't agree with the Pope, and I don't think the Pope should get involved in politics, but he's the wrong guy to bash. I think you'd have to admit this week, but Trump, not about a week. No, but I explained to my audience on the NOSPIN News and the other outlets that we have that Trump was going for a master's degree in theology. That's why I call himself a doctor. and sometimes you wear robes in the graduation.

Might as well go with that. Yeah, I could have come up with a much better excuse for that. Yeah, yeah, I got a PhD. It's an honorary group from St. John's, they're giving me, you know. But I don't, look, I don't know why the president loses track of where he is at 4 and morning. Yeah. So that's when it all comes out. Yes. You know, it's a, it's a safe zone between, say, eight in the morning and eight at night, but then, you know, it's like Dracula, eight o'clock. He doesn't sleep, and you're right in the middle of the night when most of us are sleeping. That's

when he does some silly things. That's when he's talking to Jesus. And Jesus told him, I want this picture out. And that's that. Well, the other question is, is it over or not? You know, Maria Bata Romo had that exclusive a couple of days ago, Bill, where I watched her interview on Sunday morning future Sunday with the president. He said it's basically over. And she comes out on Tuesday or Wednesday and said, well, to be honest, he told me it's over, over, over.

So what is it, Bill? What's the real deal with Iran? Well, I think the military campaign in Hormuz will work. And I said that from the very beginning. beginning, that that chokes off all the import economy into Persia. And these people have got to eat every day. And you're going to have any money coming in there, no goods coming in there. And that, in the first two days, that blockade the Americans have put up seems to be very successful. So then the question becomes, how long can the Persians hold out? So from what I understand now,

petitioning to have another round of mediation. And if you want to be optimistic, and I do, you would say, okay, it's obvious that Trump is not going to surrender. So your options are very limited to Iran, and you're going to have to do something, or you're going to be eaten sand. And that's where we are. That's where we are. I think you're right about that.

I think so for the most part, it's over. That's it. I don't know if I'd say it's over in the sense that these guys are going to give us a hard time to matter what on a whole bunch of stuff, but you're going to start to see cracks. And anything like that helps the worldwide economy, which is what the mullers are really doing. They want to destroy the worldwide economy. that's where their power lies. But if you are regulating, shipping in and out of there,

as the United States is now, there's going to be much, much harder to do. Okay. This is a great appearance, Bill, as always, thank you so much. Okay, said, appreciate you. It was fun. Thank you, Bill. So much fun.

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