Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 14, 2025

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

Severe consequences, troops deployed, Kennedy Center honors announced, and a special grocery store shutting down. Plus, Bill’s Message of the Day, how’s your worldview doing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, August 14th, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Severe consequences. Troops deployed. Kennedy Center honors announced and a special grocery store shutting down. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, President Trump threatened severe consequences. If Putin does. not agreed to peace in Ukraine during their meeting tomorrow in Alaska. If the meeting goes well, then there could be a second meeting that would include the leader of Ukraine. Trump said if the first one goes, okay, we'll have a second one quick. I would like to do it

almost immediately. And we'll have a quick second meeting between Putin and Zelensky and myself if they'd like to have me there. The meeting's at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a U.S. military base in Anchorage. Speaking of military, the National Guard was deployed in D.C. yesterday, the D.C. Police Union has publicly backed the president's orders. 23 arrests, including suspects wanted for murder, gun offenses, among other crimes, were arrested during the first day of the crackdown. Yesterday, I spoke with the former head of the Capitol Hill Police Department, who emphasized that the D.C. homicide rate is five to six times that of any major

city in America, and much of the crime goes unreported. And speaking of takeovers, Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center a couple months ago, fired the entire board, and he is the new chairman of the board. He announced the new Kennedy Center honorees, which will be held in December. The honorees are George Strait, Michael Crawford from Family of the Opera, one of the president's favorite shows, Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive, Kiss, and Sylvester Stallone. Previous honorees were selected by committee, but Trump said he was 98% involved in this list. He said he turned down plenty, quote, they were too woke. I had a couple of wokesters. Trump told reporters, I've been asked to host. I said, I'm the president of the United

States. Are you fools asking me to do that? Sir, you'll get much higher ratings. I said, I don't care. I'm the president of the United States. I won't do it. They said, please. And then my chief of staff, Susie Weil, said, sir, I would like you to host. I said, okay, I'll do it. He went on to say, I shouldn't make this political because they made the Academy Awards political and they went down the tubes. And they're going to say, Trump made it political. But I think if we made it our kind of political, we'll go up. We'll see if I'm right about that. The frontrunner for the mayor of New York City, Zohran Memdani, of course, one of his policy points is to have government-run grocery stores in New York City. Well, there is a government-run grocery store in Kansas City.

Just shut down. The Washington Post recently reported on the troubles of this grocery store. They said it was plagued by constant theft, urination in the salad bar, defecation in the vestibule, fornication in the parking lot, overdoses all over the place, and the smell of sewage throughout the store. But what else would you expect at a government-run grocery store? Maybe all of this has something to do with why certain areas are food deserts. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message today. Next. Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy, and the biggest global stories going on of the day,

this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon. And on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB's Situation Report, with excellent guests, including National Security Insiders and Foreign Policy Experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts, also on our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Thursday, how's your worldview doing? Chances are you don't know, because we insulated Americans are generally locked into our own world.

Pakistan and Argentina, far away, not very important. My mail on the Putin-Trump meeting to stop the madness in Ukraine is instructed. Some folks think bad Vlad can actually be arrested in Anchorage or threatened or humiliated like Zelensky was in a press conference. One word. No. Russia has nukes and might very well use them if its leader is ambushed. Very simple analysis here. Dictators with unlimited power inside their countries can wreak havoc on the world. Hello, Adolf, Joe Stalin, Mao. Humiliating Putin would lead to more bloodshed and madness.

Hannibal Lecter didn't have thermonuclear submarines. Vlad does. Same violent disposition, different circumstances. So why doesn't everyone know this? Not hard to understand unless you live in a fantasy-filled bubble, which millions of people on this earth do. And that is very dangerous, especially in a free society. Once a people lose touch with reality,

crazy things flood the societal zone. A rational worldview is a bulwark against that. We all should have one. 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. Now let's go to the mail. John Abercrombie, Cape Girardo, Missouri. What is Trump's problem with Zelensky? I just read another comment by Trump that he's not happy with him, and he feels that the war should never happen. He's blaming Zelensky for the war. I don't know if he's blaming him, but he says he botched. the initial Russian incursion, I don't believe that's entirely fair. I think Putin would have done it anyway, no matter what Zelensky did. But Zelensky has a tendency to be insolent.

And when you're dependent upon other countries for your existence, that's what rankles Trump. Captain Ron Mello, Fernandina Beach, Florida, the negotiations with Putin, what other countries are backing Russia. North Korea, that's all. India, China, buy his oil, Putin's oil. Turkey plays games. I have a few smaller countries, but nothing of note. Doug, concierge member, Doug gets direct access to me.

Bombass and Trump are one thing, no way around it. The way I deal with it is I watch what the president does, but I don't listen to him unless it's actual news and that works for me. Okay? You know, Donald Trump likes to shake it up. Donna, a concierge member. I had a concierge member come to me today. Interesting story.

She really needs help. She has breast cancer. And she's getting slammed by the system that doesn't care about her. We're going to help her. I can do it. And I'm going to. Donna, too bad the National Guard. We're not called Washington, C. on January 6th, 2021.

We don't speak of that. have done so much analysis of that, I can't possibly do any more. And as a concierge member, you can get transcripts of all of it. In a moment, something you might not know. Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 80 years ago today, the Empire of Japan formally surrendered to Allied forces, especially ending World War II. catastrophic conflict in the Pacific will go down as one of the most destructive events in human history, as we all know. Here is the story. Tokyo began its brutal conquest of Asia in the 1930s. By the summer of 1942, the Imperial Army occupied China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore,

the Philippines. In less than a decade, more than 30 million Chinese civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese army. Beginning in 1943, the U.S. Navy slowly advanced toward the Japanese mainland, very bloody fighting on the islands. Finally, to save hundreds of thousands of American lives, including my fathers, the USA dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki. The emperor of Japan, who was considered a god, surrendered on August 15, 1945, World War II finally over. In total, 115,000 Americans died in the Pacific.

Another 250,000, quarter of a million, wounded. The atomic bombs destroyed seven square miles and seconds, killing 200,000 Japanese civilians. World War II is the most violent event in history. 4% of the world's population wiped out. 80 million people died. More than 60 million Europeans displaced. 27 million leaving their countries are driven out by force.

And here's something else you might not know. The global conflict also sparked one of the most shameful policies in American history. February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, creating so-called military bases to house Japanese Americans. FDR viewed anyone of Japanese descent as a threat to national security. Camps held 120,000 people against their will in facilities across the Southwest and California. Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that U.S. citizens could not be detained due to, quote, culture lineage. The final camp closed March 1946.

back in a moment. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly, no spin, just facts, and always looking out for you.