Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, April 4, 2025

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

General Motors plans to expand production in the U.S., a tragic stabbing, massive storms across America, and the Final Four is set. Plus, the Message of the Day, Trump takes a huge risk on tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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thanks to President Trump's tariff on foreign-made cars, 25% tariff on all foreign-made cars and parts. General Motors executives said they will be increasing production of light-duty trucks at their Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana. Ford Motor announced yesterday that they would allow customers to buy, their 24-25 vehicles, gas electric hybrid at the employee discounted price. This promotion is called From America for America. Stalantis, which is Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler, among other brands, now headquartered in the

Netherlands, is pausing production at two manufacturing plants, one in Canada, the other in Mexico. The North American chief said we are continuing to assess the medium and long-term effects of these tariffs on our operations. Last May, Stalantis laid off 400 engineers in America, who had a salary between $150,000 and $200,000 a year for engineers in Brazil, India, Mexico, and Morocco, where they paid them $53,000 a year. On Wednesday, at a track meet in Texas, a student stabbed in an 11th grader in the heart. The victim died in his twin brother's arms.

17-year-old Carmelo Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder. It's believed the stabbing occurred after the victim asked Anthony to leave their team's tent at the meet. The two have never met each other before. Mom said it just doesn't make sense. Just because the kid was mad, my son's not here anymore. I don't understand it. There have been massive storms across the Midwest and the south. Four days of storms. At least seven people have died across three states. One was a local fire chief in Missouri, a 68-year-old man who's believed was helping a stranded motorist at the time. There have been at least 20 reported tornadoes from Arkansas to Indiana. And now 38 million people are not.

a flood watch until Sunday morning. Some areas got 15 inches of rain. Ken Pomeroy is a basketball statistician. He has ranked every college basketball team over the last 25 or so years. Among the top 10 teams ever, based on their regular season statistics. Among those top 10, four of them are playing in the final four tomorrow. We have an SEC battle, the regular season champions Auburn versus the conference tournament champions, Florida. Florida won their regular season matchup. Arbor and Florida, they're up first, tip off 509 Eastern on Saturday. And after that, Houston v. Duke, 749 Eastern tip-off. The championships on Monday night.

I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith. The Great Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Oh, tasty high note. Oh, hi, don't mind me. I'm practicing my new baritone sacks. I just heard PayPal's paying for people's stuff. Every day for 100 days and there's 10 minutes.

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rest of the world, Donald Trump risks losing a portion of that war, and that will come back to hurt Americans economically. That could happen. However, Mr. Trump is right on the issue. Since World War II, foreign countries have been taking advantage of the USA in trade. They get far more money from us than we get from them, and many of the countries refuse. to take American-made goods. They set up barriers, tariffs, taxes, regulations. They block cars, for example, from being sold, American cars, which is why you had the auto workers at Trump's press conference earlier this week. But anyway, all of that is not nearly as important as your job, or money flow into your house, or the stock market where you may have

investments and Americans are nervous. President Trump thinks he's going to win it. Not a lock. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill o'Reilly.com, Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town, if you wish to opine. Let's go to the mail, Dale Malick, Akron, Ohio. During his first term, Donald Trump passed tax cuts and implemented regulation reforms. True.

Policies helped to mitigate the impact of tariffs on the U.S. economy. Expect the Dow to drop more than a thousand points. Trump is taking risks with other people's money. Short term, as we discussed the topic of broadcast, he is. But the tariffs are not fair. I hate to say we'll see because that's what all the others say.

But no one can predict how this will turn out. That's better. John, it's all about saving face for Putin. He can't stay in power if he has nothing to show for the 100,000 loss of Russians. The idea that something Russia is poised to come after the Baltic countries is crazy. Russia has neither the men of material to invade NATO countries

that is true but Russia can do a lot of damage to Moldova to other smaller countries in the region that used to be dominated by the Soviet Union and that's what

America and NATO are trying to head off is so you know the big picture Jay Como I guess I have to ask what effect does this have on the USA one way or another

Ukraine, where Russia holds ethnic Russians, the area was given to the USSR for the sacrifices during World War II. It's Europe's responsibility. You know, if you're an isolationist, you're an isolationist. But believe me, if Putin runs wild, it's going to hurt the USA. No doubt about it. The more the bolder this man is, the more damage he's going to do to the world. In a moment, something you might not know.

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Amazon Pharmacy. Health care just got less painful. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 57 years ago today, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee. His murder started one of the most violent periods of unrest since the Civil War. Here is the story. During the late 1960s, America was torn apart on two fronts, the Vietnam War,

and racial tension in America. At 6.05 p.m. April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was gunned down outside his motel by an escaped convict and racist named James Earl Ray. Three hours later, riots broke out in 150 cities across the USA. For the next four days, anarchy consumed, Baltimore, Chicago, Harlem, New York, Boston, Detroit, L.A., Pittsburgh. In D.C., 12,000 federal troops were mobilized to protect the Capitol and the White House. President Linda Johnson convened an emergency cabinet meeting telling his advisors, quote, what did you expect? When you put your foot on a man's

neck and hold him down for 300 years and then you let him up, what's he going to do? It's going to knock your block off, unquote. To quell the violence, Johnson, and alongside dozens of governors, mobilized the army and national guard. In total, $500 million worth of property was destroyed. At least 50 Americans killed. 3,000 seriously injured. 30,000 rioters arrested.

And here's something else you might not know. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would not be the last of 1968. Just two months after King was murdered, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was killed at a campaign event in Los Angeles. America plunged into another period of bitter division. Polling at the time showed the public split 50-50 on the Vietnam War, segregation, civil rights, women's rights, religious tolerance, and interracial marriage. In November 1968, Republican Richard Nixon narrowly defeated Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election. Popular vote, 43% for Nixon, 42.7 for Humphrey. Back after this.

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