Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - President Trump’s Approval Rating, the Correspondents' Dinner Flatlines, Illegal Migrants Arrested For Stealing Kristi Noem's Purse & Dr. Peter Grinspoon on the Media's Promotion of Marijuana

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

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Shop now at Amazon.com slash blink for just $69.99. Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the no-spin news from Monday, April 28, 2025, stand up for your country. Big week for President Trump, and it's not off to a good start, some bad polling numbers, but There is an asterisk next to these polls, and nobody's reporting it. So I think you're going to be interested to hear my interpretation of the numbers. So it's a 100 days week, right? Tomorrow, Tuesday is the anniversary of President Trump's inauguration in his second term.

It's going to do an interview with ABC News. I'm fine. I'll get a transcript on Wednesday. I'll go over it. But on Wednesday night, the big event of the week, the two-hour town, Hall starring Donald Trump on News Nation beginning at 8 p.m. 8 to 10. We're going to have a big cast there, a lot of people. And I'm the co-anchor of it. I'm really the bouncer, because it's going to be about 100 people in the studio audience. But we're going to lead off with President Trump,

who's nice enough to call in, and Chris Cuomo and I are going to interview him. Stephen A. Smith will be there. So it's going to be an event. And so much so. that when I made the announcement last week that we were going to do this, more than 100 radio stations called News Nation wanting to carry it live. So not only are going to be on television, on News Nation and the CW network, but it's going to be on radio too because this is huge. It's a big thing. And then on Friday, two days after the town hall, I'll have an hour special of me analyzing the first 100 days in a historical contest on News Nation with Leland Vitter. That'll be Friday.

That's an hour, Wednesday's two hours. So, crazy week, but we'll get through it, and I think the information that we have for you, I did tape the special already, the hour special, the two-hour town hall will be live. So we're going to begin tonight with the polling, and that is the subject of this evening, points memo, ABC News poll, so-so poll. And the key to this is 2,454 adults, not registered voters, not likely voters, adults. When you have just adults, the awareness of the issues goes down because you don't have a lot of people who are actively invested in our system. It could be anybody. Now, I don't mean to diminish these people, but pollsters usually go for registered

voters. That's what they usually go for. All right. The first question is job approval. 39% approved, 55% disapproved. That's the lowest number in ABC News poll, first 100 days since 1945. That would be Harry Truman. Okay. Not a good showing there. Second question, the economy since Trump took office, better 21, worse 53, same 25. This is the key to the poll. Okay. So 53% of Americans feel they're worse off economically, their money than they were under Joe Biden. Okay. Why do they feel that way?

Stock market. That's why. And that is what is missing in the analysis. If the stock market in the next month or so rockets, then Trump's job approval rating will go along with it simultaneously. This is a one-issue poll. And I noted that Carl Rowe, who does not lie, like Donald Trump at all because Trump diminished the Bush family.

His analysis on Fox was that all Trump's in dire trouble. No, he's not. He could be. If the tariff doesn't work out, he'll be in dire trouble. But now he's not because in the next hundred days, everything could turn around fast. So in the middle of where we're talking about June, late June, early July, Trump could be at 50% job approval if the market comes up.

But that's not how it's being portrayed. Okay. Two more questions. Trump approval on immigration, approved 46, disapprove 53. That goes against every other poll, just so you know. And Trump approval on tariffs, approved 34, disapprove 64, disapproved 64. There you go. That's it, that ties right in.

So why is this happening? Well, Donald Trump is a change agent, okay? He's bold. I wrote a memoir called a bold fresh piece of humanity, which the nuns used to call me. Well, you can assign that to the president of the United States. And we have a $37 trillion national debt. There's no way to get that down unless you get more money in here. which is what the terrorists would do.

And you cut, doge. But the Democrats are not interested in that at all. They don't feel it's important. They don't care about it. Biden did nothing about it, nothing. Biden was the biggest spending president in history. The Trump comes in this is, look, I'm going to change this whole economic system. When you do that, there's going to be pain.

If it were easy, it would have been done a long time ago. The only other president that did this is Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt. So when he took office after William McKinley was shot dead in 1901, Roosevelt went after almost immediately the so-called robber barons. I write about this in confronting evil. So we're talking about John Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan, the big monopoly guys. They were exploiting the American worker, not only paying them nothing, but dangerous, dangerous working conditions. Roosevelt beat them, but it took a long time, and it was bloody.

Roosevelt took a lot of heat for it. But he changed the economy, busted the trusts, busted the monopolies. Okay, that is a very valid comparison what Trump's doing now. Teddy was like this, I'm going to do this. Trump is convinced the tariffs of the future to get America a stronger economy. He's convinced of it. Now there have been a few other presidents that have been disruptors, and Trump is absolutely a disruptor.

He wants a smaller federal government, and again, his opposition does not. I don't want any of this, including the media. So the presidents who disrupted the system were Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman. That's it. Those are the only presidents that disrupted the American system. And all of them paid a price for it. Lincoln paid his life. They're disrupting the slavery industry.

That's why Booth killed him. And the others, Jackson was with the National Bank and he didn't want the federal government controlling the economy. Teddy, as we just mentioned, Franklin Roosevelt brought in the safety nets after the Depression, changed the whole structure that the government had an obligation to save you if you were drowning. And Harry Truman basically said, look, I'm running the show. I'm firing Douglas MacArthur over in Korea. I'm dropping the animal. bombs disruptor. So it's important that you know the context of what Donald Trump is doing. The other thing in this poll is that I don't believe, that I'm not being super-siliest word

of the day here, the American understand tariffs, even after all of this, they do not know what they are. They don't know. They don't know where the money goes. They don't know who pays the money, they don't know why they're necessary, they don't know how much America gets screwed every year to the tune of a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars more leaves our country that comes in in trade. I mean, that's big. Okay? And again, there's no way to reverse that without pain. And that's what we're experiencing now. And that's why Trump poll numbers are down. In the end, I don't know whether Donald Trump will succeed in this. Nobody can possibly predict that.

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Biden, roll the tape. No matter how many times he or people around him say it, he didn't even win a majority of the vote, and that is just a fact. And yet Donald Trump thought he had a mandate to start a trade war. Thought I had a mandate to pick people like Pete Heggseth for his cabinet to oversee the Defense Department. He thought he had a mandate to effectively kidnap legal residents and shipped them off to foreign prisons. But he never did. And now in poll after poll after poll, the American people are basically telling the president,

that they are not okay with any of this. None of us all bold. And you're not surprised because that's what Saki did for two years and the Biden just mis-lid everybody. So Saki first says that he didn't even win a majority of the vote. Trump got 49.8% of the vote. So she's saying, well, he didn't get over 50, 498. Okay, so that's BS, number one.

All right, then she says that mandate to kidnap legal residents. residence. Who? Who is that? Zach Garcia? She's not a legal resident. He's not a legal resident. Okay? What legal resident got kidnapped? Who? And this drives me nuts, all right? And ship them off to foreign prisons. And then she says that he thinks he has a mandate to pick people that he wants to be in charge of the departments. Well, yeah, he does. He got elected president. He can pick who he wants. That means they're all great, but he has authority to do it. So this, and the reason it gets me is because I had to do this for more than 20 years. I couldn't just say crap like this. My boss is at Fox at the time. It's a whole different place now.

You can't just say this. It's not true. So they didn't have to say to me because I never said stuff that I couldn't back up. Okay, so that's the hysterical analysis on this poll. Another poll is a Fox News poll, not a good polling outfit, about God intervening and saving Donald Trump's life. Question number one, do you believe divine intervention saved Trump's life from two assassination attempts because God wanted him become president again? Yes, 32, no, 56, don't know 11. So don't know is the smartest play here. Nobody knows what God does.

Okay? I don't know. How would I know? Second question, these are just for Trump voters. Do you believe divine intervention saved Trump's life fruit? Yes, 62, no, 24, don't know 14. And, you know, speaking for God is not good. We just don't know.

All right, White House Correspondents Association Dinner. It's dead. Now, I went to, a happy 10 of them, maybe more. I met the biggest people about politicians and entertainers. It was incredible. Incredible. I remember one of them, I was at a party afterward, the French embassy, Katie Perry and I were talking, and then I had Elizabeth Banks, the director, actress,

and it was just Hayden Pantieri, I think her name. Just a wave of people, and every politician in town, it was huge. The only name that showed up on Saturday night for this White House correspondence dinner in Washington, D.C., that I recognize, really, is Linda. Carter Wonder Woman was there. Now, I would have liked to talk to her. All right. She's very liberal, by the way, but I would have liked Michael Chickles is a good guy. I went to Boston New. He was there. But that's it. I mean, nobody showed up. And it was no, nothing. It's dead. Could come back, I guess, but along with the press being dead, the dinner is dead.

Now, here's something pretty interesting. So there's a guy named David. Brooks he writes a new york times columnist for years they went oh david brooks a conservative he's not he never has been okay um maybe compared to the other new york times columnist but he's not a conservative so he goes on pbss news hour which is as far left as you can go and he's grousing about trump's immigration policies go but especially on the issue of immigration there are a lot of people who are appalled by what the administration is doing uh and there will be time for civil disobedience. And that's one of the ways you can shift public opinion

because one of the ways authoritarian lose control is when their opponents protest in a non-violent way and the authoritarian's crack down violently. So what are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about. So there's going to be civil disobedience for what? For what?

The majority of people support the deportation of the deportation of undocumented migrants, especially criminals, which is what ICE is going after. Now, some non-criminals get caught up in it, but, you know, when you're deporting hundreds of thousands of people, that's what happened. But what is the, I don't know what the civil disobedience is. What are you calling for? Blocking streets and stuff, I guess. This is so moronic. It really is. You know, I see this stuff. I go, maybe. civil disobedience when there's something blatantly wrong that the American people object to,

they don't object to, crack it down on the border and holding undocumented migrants accountable. Most want that. That's why Trump got elected, you moron. It's just, it really is stunning. All right. Two illegal migrants have been arrested. for stealing Christy Gnome stuff, and they didn't get the stuff back. You remember that she, at Easter Sunday, was in a restaurant, and somebody stole her very expensive handbag, and they arrested two guys. Mario Bostamante Leva from Chile and Christian Rodrigo, Montecino, San Sanat.

Okay? Now, apparently these guys roam around stealing stuff. They're part of a gang. They just steals stuff. And they got them. But the interesting part about this is the Secret Service got them. They couldn't do the Washington local authorities because it's Washington, D.C., but the Secret Service is running this show.

So I expect these guys see some heavy prison time. I hope so. All right, in Florida, 800 undocumented migrant, were taken to custody by ICE with the help of the state of Florida. So big raids, and they got a murderer, they got all kinds of guys, 800. Now the reason it got so many is because Florida law enforcement helped them. So Florida cooperates. But in Colorado there was a big raid, and they got 114 illegal aliens.

Again, a lot of criminals, Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, but Colorado does not cooperate with ICE. But the feds went in and they got, according to Pam Bondi, some terrorists from Venezuela, from El Salvador, all kinds of places. So ICE is very active, as they should be, David Brooks. You object to that, Dave? You object to those raids? Oh, yes, civil disobedience.

Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, pot. Now, for years, I have been suggesting to you that marijuana is not good. And I base this on personal information. I've never smoked pot in my life. But I know people who got addicted to it, mentally addicted to it, and their lives crashed hard.

And I also know that the THC level of pot is like 25 times what it was when I was in college in the Vietnam era. It's a serious drug you're ingesting into your brain. And if you're doing it every day, there's going to be unintended bad consequences for you. So there's a study presented at the European Psychiatric Association's Congress, comes out of Australia that is stunning. This is prenatal effects of cannabis use disorder. 98% if the mom uses, okay, increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on the baby,

when the baby is born, 94% at risk of autism, 46% at risk of intellectual disability. Okay, and in Europe, about 4 million people smoke pot daily. It's much more in the United States, much more, about 1% of the population of the EU. Now, here are the countries that have legalized recreational marijuana. Not many of them. Canada, Georgia, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uruguay. Get your mother-loving ears on because your big-time radio DJs got news. PayPal lets you choose how you want to pay for all the stuff.

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And if the moms are pregnant and they're smoking pot or taking the candy or whatever, kids are going to suffer. Have you heard that in the media? Have you heard the media about it? I can't understand why pot is glorified. in the media. I could never understand it. In the Vietnam War, I got the hippies and I got the Crosby's National Young and all. Okay. Willie Nelson. Yeah, I spoke fun every day. Snoop Dog. All right, fine. You guys want to do that? You do it. But to incur, where is the counterweight?

There's no counterweight. So now you get the pot shops all over New York City where I live. Thank God they're not in Nassau County, not many of them anyway, but the kids see this. And a lot of parents use pot in front of their kids. Oh, I think that's child abuse. Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Under President Biden, we saw the American Dream slip away for many because of record spending, open borders, policies that ignited inflation. But that's all changing. President Trump has laid out a vision to restore American private. prosperity, and I want you to consider what we have in this vision. So please join me an investment expert, Alexander Green, for a special event called

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So in my analysis, my setup, am I making any mistakes? Well, what you're saying is true, but it's only part of the story. I mean, cannabis or marijuana does have a lot of side effects and can certainly harm people like any other drug. It also helps a lot of people medically. And according to recent polls, about 93% of Americans support legal access to medical marijuana. So I think like any drug, you could use it in a healthier way or less healthy. But isn't that a isn't, aren't you deflect?

the real problem because with morphine, which is heroin, okay, that helps people. Nobody objects to opiates when you're having an operation or you have severe pain. But why do we always deflect into the medical marijuana area where I don't know too many people who object to that at all if it's done under the auspice of a doctor in a hospital? I'm talking about promoting recreational drug use. And you saw the stats. I mean, they are really frightening to me. Am I wrong? Well, no, the stats, the study you, the hard part is we don't really know how dangerous it is with pregnant women. A lot of pregnant women use cannabis because they think it's safe and natural and they think it's harmless. And it works really well for a morning

sickness. I never recommend a pregnant woman that use cannabis because we don't know how safe or dangerous it is. Most likely the smoking of cannabis is what makes it dangerous because when you smoke cannabis, just like when you smoke tobacco, you get dangerous combustion products. But I do, for the sake of fairness, need to mention that there are just as many studies that don't show any problems with fetuses or children if the parents use marijuana. Again, I don't recommend it because we just don't know, but the data is all over the place. And the other point I wanted to mention is it's a very fine line between medical and recreational use. You take poles of people that buy marijuana recreationally, you know, three-quarters of them are using it for pain

and two-thirds of them are using it for sleep. So I don't think there's like that clear a distinction between medical and recreational cannabis. Certainly some people misuse it. There's no question, but I think we had a lot more trouble when it was illegal and the supply was dangerous and people were getting arrested. And you might agree with this. Why criminalize something that people were going to do anyways? It was a disaster when we criminalized alcohol. And it was a disaster when we criminalized cannabis, we had 20 million arrests for nonviolent cannabis possession. And if it's legal, at least it's regulated, it's labeled. But it isn't regulated.

It's not regulated at all. I mean, look, where you live in Boston and you're associated with Mass General, if you're to Roxbury tomorrow, okay, and you stand outside a marijuana clinic that's selling recreational pot. The hardcore heroin fentanyl addicts go in, they buy a bunch of pot and they come out and they sell it to kids because you have to be 18 to buy the pot. And they're selling it to 14, 15 year old kids. That's a big, big industry in every urban city in this country. So I think you're being a little naive here. This kind of, I wouldn't be people in jail unless you were a big weight mover of marijuana.

But if you're, you know, smoking marijuana, you know, small beef, I'm not putting you in jail. But I think that the media should be discouraging the use of it, not only because physically, the unintended consequences, as you point out, could be terrible. But you've got automobiles in every legalized state. Every one car accidents have gone up. and it's because directly the law enforcement people will tell you there are more stone people on the highways so i don't i don't understand this benign well maybe it's not that bad you know self-medication i think it's bad across the board last word well you know it's hard to say how no drugs should be drug you should be encouraged i think they should ban advertising for cannabis alcohol tobacco

and pharmaceuticals. I agree that no drugs should be encouraged. But at the same time, we don't want to magnify the harms or criminalize it, because that harms people as well. And I think with education, we could really teach people, for example, pregnant women, do not use cannabis if you're pregnant, teenagers. I'd be great for that at Bobby Kennedy Jr. who put those ads out and say, hey, you know, put, there'll be public service announcements, you can get autism if you smoke pot during the praying. I'm scared of all of these people. I'm before that. I know the media doesn't want that. They like pot.

I don't know why. I mean, I kind of do know why, but I just think it's wrong. And I'd say the same thing about alcohol. If you're boozing it up and you've got, you know, you're pregnant. You're not going to help your kid. You're going to hurt your kid. If you're drinking every day and you're pregnant, you're going to hurt your kid. So stop it.

Anyway, doctor, we really appreciate your point of view. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. Okay, smart life. So since 2019, six years ago, restaurant prices are up in America, 34%. 34%. That's across-the-board restaurants, the she-she restaurants, and it's the chains. As a result, a lot of the casual restaurants are having money problems.

Some are going out of business. Here's a list. Hooters, Red Lobster, Fridays, Bucca da Bepp. Denny's, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill, Red Robin Cracker Barrow. All of them, all of those companies are having a problem. Why are they having a problem? You're not going to break the bank going into Cracker Barrel, okay, or these other places. They're having a problem because when you go into most of these restaurants, you drink.

That's where you're getting killed. All right. So you get a cocktail or a beer or wine or something like that, you're paying five times what that beverage costs a restaurant. And it's jacking your bill up. And most people don't even delineate it. They just look at the bill. They get sticker shock.

Oh, my God, I just went to Red Lobster and it's 120 bucks for four. Easy. Okay. So people are getting scared. They're pulling in. They don't want to spend a lot of money going out to eat anymore. So these places are right. But here is the Smart Life Tith.

So Saturday night I went to Mass because I have to atone. I can't get behind in atoning or it's all over for me. And then I went out to dinner to a pub, which has good food. Okay? And I've cut back a little bit on my food consumption, because I got to stay nimble here. I can't be chowing down the way I did when I was 40. Can't do that.

So what I do now when I go in is I order two appetizers instead of the entree. And the pub entrees are all high 20s, low 30s, unless you want a steak, then that's 40. Okay? So I got dumplings and they were good, right? and a flat bread, and it was good. Hawaii starts with the music we play on our islands,

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And then my companion and I split a salad. Okay, I was full. And the food was good. And it checked for two was 70 bucks at a pretty tony place. Okay, if I had entreated, it would have been double that. Now, it's not that I'm cheap or I can't afford it or it's, not that. It's being smart. I don't need that much food. I don't. Now, if I do get an entree, which sometimes I do, and then I can't eat it, then you take it home and you have it for lunch

the next day or you heat it up or whatever. That's a smart life tip too. But check that out. And there are some restaurants that give you a humongous appetizers. You bring this stuff Whoa. So, because I think, you know, we all need a break. We need to go out and have a nice meal someplace and a nice atmosphere that I want you to deny yourself. The stay in history, April 28, 2012, this is an amazing story I'm about to tell you. So the Correspondents Center, the White House Correspondents Center, headlined by President Barack Obama, who was on his game. Go.

My fellow Americans, we gather during a historic anniversary last year at this time, in fact, on this very weekend, we finally delivered justice to one of the world's most notorious individuals. Now this year, we gather in the midst of a heated election season, and Axelrod tells me I should never miss a chance to reintroduce myself to the American people. So tonight, this is how I'd like to begin. My name is Barack Obama. My mother was my mother was born in Kansas. My father was born in Kenya. And I was born, of course, in Hawaii. Okay. So he would, Obama was very good at that. Now, here's the story. At the time, I was helping the independence fund.org raise money to get high-tech wheelchairs for severely wounded American vets and police officers. You may remember that campaign.

We raised more than $30 million, and every vet and every cop who needed a high-tech wheelchair got one. In order to make that happen, I had a plan to have all five living presidents sign a picture. Let's see the picture. Throw it on up there. Okay. This was taken at the Bush library opening and all five presidents signed it. I auctioned off 10 of those. Each president signed 10 of them for an enormous amount of money and then we made replicas and sold them for I think 50 bucks. Incredible success. In order to make that happen, I had to get Barack Obama to sign the picture first.

Once he did, the others fell into line. So before the correspondence dinner, there was a reception for President Obama and the First Lady in the hotel. I think it was the Hilton Hotel. I snuck into the reception. It was an invited. It was for Democratic big donors.

And I'm on receiving line. And there's Obama coming down right at me. He looks at me, he goes, and I can tell. He goes, what the deuce of you doing here? I go, Mr. President, can I have a word? And he goes, all right. So he and I walk over to the corner of the room, and I pitched him. I said, look, I got to raise this money and get these wheelchairs to these vets.

I need to sign 10 pictures. Can you sign 10 pictures for me? And he said, okay. And he did it. Now, the president, and I'm going to write about this someday, who was least, who was most reluctant to sign a picture, is Jimmy Carter. And I'll tell you the story someday. But that anniversary, 13 years ago, I can't believe it was 13 years ago today, I put the arm on President Obama. And, is that a great story?

We will have an anniversary that we want to tell you about in the final thought. All right, here is the final thought of the day. Today is our sixth anniversary for the Radio Factor. And Dennis Green, who runs the operation, wrote a very nice note to everybody. It said, quote, hard to believe six years ago today, the last Monday in April, 2019, began a partnership to bring the O'Reilly update to the Radio Marketplace. We brought back a format with the 15-minute news and commentary, which has made a success by the legendary Paul Harvey.

At a time, today's world of syndication said it would never work. When you have great content and great talent, success is within your reach and it worked. Six years later, the edition of the morning edition and the one-hour no-spin news along with over 300 stations, still bringing the O'Reilly update to audiences across the country. And not only that, listen to this, when we announced the Town Hall on News, News, station would be on Wednesday, 100 radio stations contacted Next Star to run it live. So in addition to News Nation, CW network, we got it radio all over the place, power, and good power. So anyway, it's our sex anniversary, our flagship is WABC, radio in New York.

York and we are very pleased with our radio operation. All right. Josh Hammer, who is the new writer on the confronting books, is my radio researcher. There's a great job. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. See you again tomorrow.