Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - President Trump's Approval Rating, Rep. Ro Khanna on Major Issues Impacting America, Trump Administration In Harvard’s Federal Funding, & Elon Musk Faces Billions in Losses

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill reviews the latest polls surrounding President Trump's approval rating. Congressman Ro Khanna joins the No Spin News to discuss the two biggest challenges the American people are facing. The Trump administration is reviewing $9 billion in funding for Harvard over concerns related to antisemitism. A further look into the FCC chair's investigation into Disney and ABC over DEI practices. Tesla's sales in Europe have plummeted amid controversy over Elon Musk's ties to Trump.  Final Thought: Some familiar faces made their way to the Three Americans Live show. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, He Said, She Said 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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momentum. I hold a bunch of lines for that, but I'm not going to bother. The most amusing April Fool's Day in the world is in Scotland. Gauke Day, that's what they call it. In Scottish, gauke means fool. And, you know, Scotland, the weather is pretty bad, and the winter's long, and they're looking for any kind of diversion. People run around and play tricks on each other. America has kind of dying down a little bit, the April Fool's thing, because you can get sued. You've got to be careful about all that. But we have no shortage of fools in this country. Everybody would agree with that.

So I hope if you fit into that category, you enjoy your day. Talking point's memo is a brand new poll on President Trump. Harris, surveyed this is Mark Penn. He's a smart guy. He's not putting out propaganda. So when I see a poll run by Mark Penn, I pay attention. Fair sample. 2,746 registered voters.

That's the way to go. First question. Do you disapprove or approve of the job? Donald Trump is doing his president. Approve 49, disapprove 46. Now, that is down three points from February for Mr. Trump, and that is because of the stock. market. So does tariff things get everybody jumping? And, you know, the president is

holding firm, needs a little time. That is a fair assessment. It means a little time. See if this is going to work or not. Second question, is Donald Trump doing better than you expected as president? Or worse? Better 30, worse 42, as expected 50. at 27, which has at the 57. So the 42 number, those are people that voted against Trump. And they're never going to say, I was wrong, he's doing better, ever. Americans do have a tendency not to admit mistakes. Narcism, and if you are a narcissist, you never admit it a mistake. But if you ever want to know what that definition is, you know in your life

People who refuse to admit mistakes no matter what, no matter what kind of evidence to present it. They're narcissistic. It's growing in America. Third question. Do you think Donald Trump's doing a better or worse job than Joe Biden did? Better 54, worse 46? Okay.

That's a pretty big margin. Biden was a disaster. But Biden had four years to be a disaster. Trump's got two and a half months. You know, it's not a real. real fair question mark um next question do you think president trump's terror policies wind up getting USA better terms from its trading partners or worsen the economy get better terms 51 worse than the economy 49 all right 50 50 50 split I understand it and I cannot predict it

usually I can not this way too complicated way too many countries involved and Trump is outnumbered, what? 500 countries to one? I think they're, what are they? I've been to 86 countries. I think there are 190 countries or something. But nobody likes terrorists because they make money from the USA, and Trump wants to cut that down.

That's a very simple equation. Final question in Nepal, do you think Donald Trump and his administration are abandoning Ukraine? Yes, abandoning 47, no, 53. I don't think. administration to abandon Ukraine. That would be like abandoning Afghanistan, right? So Biden got killed doing that. Trump going to do that? No, self-interest. Okay. Now, we are an impatient people as long as well as growing narcissism. We're all impatient. I am. I'm the king of the impatient.

And we want, you know, boom, well, Trump said day one is going to do it. Okay, well, if you didn't know that was hyperbola, then you're not qualified to vote. Of course he's going to exaggerate. That's who he is. All politicians exaggerate. But he is the king of exaggeration, just like I'm the king of impatience. So, you know, we want it now. Let's go out. We should have those deals now. We should have Ukraine. You got a little play out. However, there is a time limit. This is the most important thing I am going to tell you this evening. Donald Trump has a year. If, on April Fool's Day, 2006, the economy is wobbly, the market is down, people are scared, Democrats are going to win the midterms.

Here's what I said on News Nation last night. This has been in his mind for decades, that why should the most powerful nation on Earth and the most generous nation on Earth get screwed by Liechtenstein and by Austria and by Cambodia. All right, why? Let's level the economics

so that we have a fair chance to sell our products abroad. It's as simple as that. No, that's a very good point. That's right. But he's running an enormous risk far more than people know. Because this time next year, April Fool's Day, 2006, if the economy is wobbly and prices have not come down substantially, Democrats will win the midterms.

And that's it for Donald Trump's presidency, right there. So he's got 12 months. Now, I read a letter yesterday from a mager person who said, oh, no, no, no, that'll never happen. no matter what Trump does, so Democrats will never win the midterms. Do a headcount. See how close it is now. Economy goes south. It's a lame duck for two years.

Donald Trump does not want that. He knows there is a time limit on his daring, and it is daring, tariff strategy. In my lifetime, no other president has done this because it is so risky. He comes a gambler, and he takes chances, and that's the memo. Okay, Harvard University gets $9 billion from federal government tax dollars, $9 billion. This MailChimp-Ferific jingle is brought to you by MailChimp. MailChimp your marketing with AI and more, advanced automations to connect to your store. MailChimp, your marketing and booster clicks.

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But Harvard does a lot of research in a lot of different areas, primarily medical research, and it is attached to giant hospitals like Dana-Farber Cancer Center, Boston Children's, Mass General Brighton, it does a lot of health work out of its med school. Also does business research, law research, it is a think tank. So the government pumps billions of dollars into this university. Doesn't have to because Harvard's got a $53 billion endowment. They got $53 billion either in the bank or invested. They don't need the tax money.

Enter the charges of anti-Semitism. Now, this was all about former Harvard President Claudine Gay, who was fired last year when she appeared in front of a House Committee on Education and she wouldn't repudiate anti-Semitism. It was the same thing at Harvard that it was at Columbia and all these other pro-Palestinian people get out there to demonstrate the students and faculty and they're demeaning Jews. River to the sea means, hey, we want you out and we'll do anything to get you out, you Jewish people in Israel. So now the Trump administration is going, you know what? we don't like this $9 billion going to Harvard anyway, and we may suspend it because of the anti-Semitism. So, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, that's Bobby

Kennedy, General Services Administration, three different departments are going to combine to investigate Harvard. Now, if I had a bet, Harvey's going to lose a lot of money under the Trump administration, a lot. Same things happen. California, but this is the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bonney, and this is different. It's not anti-Semitism. Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, University of California, Irvine. This is DEI admissions. All right, so I wrote a message of the day about a week ago, maybe, where I said my son was a victim of DEI, Boston College. DeI had them. Best thing that ever happened to the lad.

Because he went to Salvei Regina in Newport, Rhode Island. She didn't have DEI, didn't have woke. Loves it. I had him and four of his lacrosse playing friends staying overnight on Monday. Good kids. Hardworking. You know, no woke stuff. In fact, they were all after me for not woke hats.

Anyway, when I saw the DEI punish my kids. kid at Boston College, I can't tell you how angry I was. And this is me and you, okay? My son was absolutely qualified to get into that school. But God was watching out for him, okay, and sent him to a better place for him. So I'm really against all of this DEI admission stuff at colleges and universities, and I don't use DEI in hiring. I got three corporations.

I got lots of people working for me. I never, ever do that. That's just wrong. It's morally wrong. I take into account achievements from people who have a rough background. Absolutely, that's part of the equation. But there's no quota, but the federal government believes there is quotas in the university system in California. So these people are under investigation.

This is all good. Can't have anti-Semitism in major colleges, and you can't have DEI admissions. The Supreme Court ruled very clearly on this. All right? In 2003, the case was Students for Fair Admissions versus President Fellows of Harvard College. Here is a ruling by the Supreme Court.

Universities may not use affirmative action standards when accepting students. It doesn't get more clear than that. But these colleges, they go, blank you, Supreme Court. Well, okay, you pay a price. And the price is, you're going to get federal funding cut under the Trump administration. Biden would never do that in a million, and no liberal president would. No Democrat president would.

Disney. Now, this is a major story. We first reported it last night. I'm going to do a bigger segment tomorrow. Disney is the most powerful, wealthiest corporation in the world. It's going to be surpassed by YouTube soon, but it is an enormous, enormous profit machine. But it's DEI all over the place and it's hate Trump. I warned Disney A.B.C.

Disney owns ABC. I warned them 18 months ago. that you've got to stop the hate coming out of the view. And if you don't, you're going to pay a price. They didn't. Okay. So the federal communications chairman is named Brendan Carr. We introduced him to you last night.

And he was interviewed and said this, go. And the evidence we have so far indicates potentially that Disney and ABC were making employment decisions based on race and gender, including having effectively race-defined affinity groups within the company, we have evidence that they put quotas in place based on specific demographics. If the evidence does, in fact, play out and shows that they were engaged in race and gender-based discrimination, that's a very serious issue at the FCC that could fundamentally go to their character qualifications to even hold a license. So Bernie Goldberg and I debated that last night, and Bernie Goldberg said the government should not intrude, all right, into the practices of private companies,

and I said, hold it. Trump signed an executive order that DEI is not to be used in hiring practices, and that's federal law. So if you have a corporation violating federal law, the government has to move. Anyway, this is based upon a report out of Axios and the New York Post that said, The Disney executives refused to green light any entertainment project that didn't have at least 50% of the cast and crew minority. That's the EI. That was the report. So now the FCC, I assume, is going to see if that's valid, if that actually happened.

And again, Disney's in major trouble. But the reason is in major trouble is this, yes, but it's the hatred that came out against Trump. And Trump said, okay, I won, you try to destroy me and my family. Now it's payback time. That's what's happening. Snow White. Oh, this was a huge bomb. It's still in the theaters, I guess.

This is a $270 million production. That's hard to believe. $270 million to make a stupid movie, and now nobody's going to see it. Roll the tape. Wait, wait. It's a human. What did you think I was?

Nothing. Ghost. You'll be safe from the queen here. The queen stole everything from all of us. You're going to need your help. It's time to restore our kingdom. The queen is an oligarch. I didn't see the Dopey movie.

And Dope used to be one of the seven dwarves, but I don't think Dope is around because they changed all the dwarves. But I don't know what they changed them to. I cannot comment on the woke aspect of this movie because I didn't see it. And I don't think I'm going to see. I can't imagine sitting there through that. But anyway, it's a bomb. So far, the $2.70 million movie has grossed $42 million, and that's not good.

Anyway, Disney, I wouldn't be buying stock in Disney. Let's just put it that way. Tesla, oh, talk about stock. So Elon Musk is getting punished. episode is brought to you by Amazon's Blink Video Doorbell. Get more at your door with the easy to install Blink Video Doorbell. Get more connections. Hey, I'm here for our first date.

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If you can imagine this, since he took overdue. since Trump appointed him to cut out wasteful spending and expose it. 460 billion he's lost in the market cap. Big time in Europe, Tesla sales down 41% France, 55 Sweden, 55 Denmark, 50 the Netherlands. They don't like Musk. Okay, why don't they like them? I don't know. I don't know.

But, you know, those are all socialist countries, except for, France a little bit, not quite as bad as Scandinavia, but why would you object to Musk exposing wasteful spending in the USA? The European interest demonizing him, obviously, that's what's happening there. He's taking it on. U.S. bishops, now I've been critical of them, because they don't really stand up as much as they should, in my humble opinion, but now they're after Planned Parenthood. So there are two bishops that are leading the charge. Robert Barron is a friend of mine out of Minnesota, and Daniel Thomas, I don't know, out of Ohio. And they are asking the Trump administration to stop using tax dollars to fund Planned Parenthood.

Here's the release, quote, Plan Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the U.S., at more than 390,000 preborn children killed per year. still receives nearly $700 million annually, about a third of its revenue from taxpayers. The off-label use of hormones and puberty blockers has proved to be a lucrative billion-dollar business in an ever-growing market. Planned Parenthood offers gender transition services at nearly 450 clinics across the nation surpassing the number of its locations that perform abortions. And rightfully so, the bishops say, why are you? Are you forcing Catholic taxpayers to fund this? And not just Catholics, but many, many evangelical Christians object,

and other Christians. Well, why are you doing that? It's against the Hyde Amendment, which it is. So this is fairly big. Planned Parenthood shouldn't be getting any money from us. You wanna donate to Planned Parenthood? Just like NPR and PBS, go ahead. Go ahead. Free country. I don't want my money going there. You know what? If Planned Parenthood

would have an equal presentation about abortion referrals and adoption referrals, maybe I wouldn't have an objection. But adoption? No. I don't want to hear about it. This is an amazing thing. This has happened yesterday. What a country we live in, right? Okay. So you know about the deportations of migrants, but the ones that are not going to be deported, and I told you before Trump was elected, that he's not going to deport all 13, 15 million illegal aliens. The government wants them to register it.

It isn't a law yet, but it may come to that. So the government knows who's in the country and where they are, what they're doing. Well, no, oh no, no, no, no. Lawsuit, hello. Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, United Farm Workers of America, CASA, all of these pro-migrant organizations, open border organizations, suing the federal government, can't have it. You can't know what foreign national is in this country or what they're doing. This is so much BS, I can't even believe it.

Again, Supreme Court's going to have to do it. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. The open border crew, let everybody in, let them do what they want to do. The same poll we refer to at the top about President Trump also asked questions about Democratic Party. Harris Poll, here they are. Do you approve or disapprove the way the Democratic Party is handling its job? its job. Approve 37, disapprove 63. Ooh, tough number. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Republican Party handling its job? Approve 50, disapprove 50? Okay. Do you think Democrats should

oppose the effort to reduce government expenditures or join the mission of cutting government waste? Opposed 39. That's a big number. They don't want the waste exposed. And 61 join the cutting. Okay. Now, when we try to book a Democratic senator or congressperson, it isn't easy, not just for us, but now both parties don't want to go out of their comfort zone. So if you are a Republican, you run to Fox and Newsmax. And we get our share of Republican politicians here. Marjorie Taylor Green blew us off, Massey in Kentucky. They won't because they know they're going to be challenged. But I challenge everybody. But Democrat very hard to get them to sit for an interview because they don't want that. They can go to CNN and MSNBC and just blather on and they're not going to be challenged.

But there's an exception. All right. Congressman Roe K-H-A-N-N-A represents 17 District of California, Silicon Valley. He likes to talk to everybody. So we accommodated him. Roll it. So, Congressman, what are the two biggest problems right now facing the American people? Economic stagnation in factory towns.

We took a bet on technology and finance. It did great, but we hollowed out manufacturing in this country. country and left a lot of people without economic security. And the second is the deep division we have in this country, the deep anger between people who represent bluer areas like mine and people who represent red areas. Okay. Let's stay on the economy first. There are plenty of jobs.

Anybody who wants to work can get a job in this country. Unemployment is about 3%. So why are you concerned about the workplace? People are in jobs, but they're not in high-paying jobs. They're not in stable jobs. And a lot of communities don't have wealth generation. They're doing a lot of service jobs, but they don't have an industry that's bringing in wealth into their towns.

The extreme people in the Democratic Party get all the attention. If you go out on a street congressman, you say, who are the moderate Democrats? Nobody knows. I mean, it's all the Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren. These are the faces of your party. I think that hurts you. Well, look, I identify as a progressive, I'll tell you where they tap into something, which is the massive income inequality in the country.

We've gone from 53rd in the world in income inequality to 128. Now, the difference is, I think, to deal with that income inequality. you know, you and I will probably disagree. I think, yes, you need to have higher taxes on the billionaires in my district, but you also need to have economic growth. You also need to build things. And my view is, let's argue with Donald Trump on who is going to be better at actually getting factories, who's going to be better at getting businesses there. And let's give him credit for one thing. He was right about two fundamental things. He was right that we were getting too much of our business going to China and that we had had too soft a policy on China. And it was

right, the people in the Midwest, the heartline should be, were angry that their jobs had left. And I think the Democratic Party can say, you know, he was right about certain things, and we have a better vision of how we're going to build the future in these communities. I don't believe the most Americans are jealous of billionaires, and they don't think they're oligarchs, and they don't think that they've made their money illegally, and they don't think Elon Musk is a terrorist who's trying to come and take their home. But the Democratic Party constantly overstates and sells this division between the rich and the poor. You say you're progressive. That's a progressive tenant. You are on board with that? Well, look, I represent

probably the place that is the most billionaires in the world. I mean, it's the hardest Silicon Valley. I've got $13 trillion of a market cap. I was the one I said, look, don't vandalize Tesla. Don't share for any American company's stock to go down. question for you though you're an honest man we're happy to have you here the open border was really why the democrats lost the election yes the economy but under biden the last two years the stock market was good uh he could never get the prices under control because he could he wasn't running the government anyway as you may know Biden was not running it but the open border was embraced by your party nobody came up and said this is insane and the american people said no and that

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It gave the son of Indian immigrants like me, someone born of Hindu faith in a 99% white community in Bucks County, every chance possible. Today represents Silicon Valley. It's an amazing country. We need to celebrate it and have more people at the opportunities I do. And if people believe you're a true patriot, and they can tell that. They can tell that, you know, it's not rhetoric. If they believe you, believe in this country, they'll give you a lot of latitude on whether they agree on this policy or that policy. I agree with that.

You should run for President, Congressman. Thank you very much for taking the time. Thank you, Bill. Okay. We want to thank the Congressman again, very nice of him. Smart Life. I love this. Okay.

University of Nottingham in England. That's Robin Hood, Nottingham Forest, Sherwood Forest, outside of Nottingham. So the Journal of Health Psychology in Marsh printed an article that says, If you sleep poorly, you're trouble sleeping, you're more likely to be a conspiracy thinker. The article says that when you don't sleep well, you get irritable, and you're thinking becomes fuzzy. All right, the link between sleep and conspiracy thinking works through depression. Sleep suffers, so does our emotional balance, and we get bad feelings, and then we go into the land of conspiracy. Now, I don't know whether this is true or not, because I sleep okay.

And I'm not a conspiracy guy, so maybe there's linkage. But if you're a conspiracy person and you can't go to sleep, now you know why. This day in a history, April 1st, 19, 84. Very sad story. So you remember a singer Marvin Gay, big Motown guy. He was beginning of 80s, and he sold more than 12 million albums. And he had millions and millions of dollars, but was nine million in debt. Marvin Gay was nine million dollar in debt despite selling 12 million albums because he was a drug addict. Cocaine and substance abuse and lost control of his life. All right. First, if you don't know who Marvin Gay is, he was a fantastic performer. Go. What's going on?

What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? Yeah, what's going on, baby. Woo! Okay, so Gay is broke, and he moves back in with his parents, and his father is an abuser,

and he's beaten up his mother, and Gay intervenes, and his father goes, gets a gun, and shoots Marvin Gay dead. One day before his 45th, 45th birthday, all right? Then the story, you know, gets even crazy. Well, I can't say even crazier, but boy, this is some story. So the father shoots his son dead. Father's 70 years old.

Father admits it. Okay? Please don't contest in Los Angeles. The judge doesn't send the father to jail. He's in probation. It was stunning to me. And the father goes, oh, I was afraid of him, but what else? No.

And then the father died at age 84 in 1998. And this day in history, 41 years ago, Marvin Gay was shot to death by his father. Okay, Jesse Waters is involved in the final thought. All right, final thought on his APM program on Fox News. Jesse Waters said this, go. Bill O'Reilly's on the road, and look who he ran into. That's my mom. That's not AI.

I got my parents' tickets to the O'Reilly show. He's on tour. He was in Long Island, and yep, the world is changing. Yeah, I hope so. Anyway, your mother told me a lot of stuff about you, Waters. I have documented it now. Lots of stuff. Anyway, we're happy that Josie Waters is successful, and we're very happy that you watch and listen to the No Spin News. We'll see you again tomorrow.