Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 18, 2025

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

Giving up land, taking away seats, adding capacity, and hurricane downgraded. Plus, Bill’s Message of the Day, on gotcha journalism. 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 Monday, August 18th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Giving up land, taking away seats, adding capacity, and hurricane downgraded. That's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. According to multiple media reports during the Alaska meeting with President Donald Trump and Putin, Putin said that Moscow would be, willing to end the war if Ukraine relinquishes some eastern territory. In exchange, according to New York Times, Putin offered to write a written pledge never to attack Ukraine or any other country in Europe. This would be the Domebas region. Now, Russia currently controls a vast majority of it, but Ukrainian forces have managed to maintain a pretty fortified

area of control. So if this deal is accepted, then Ukraine's forces would have to retreat from these territories. Now, Zelensky has said that Ukraine will not give up any land. Zelensky is joining Trump at the White House, along with other leaders of Europe, the head of the EU, Ursula. Hopefully it goes better for Zelensky than when he came to the White House a couple months ago. As Texas moves forward with redistricting and eliminating five Democrat seats,

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, has taken the lead of Democratic opposition and has released a map of California that would eliminate five Republican seats. There's 52 congressional seats in California, only nine of. Republican as it is, eliminating five would make a bunch of those seats actually a lot closer to the point where if there's another shift to the right in 2028 like California had in 2024, that could backfire on the Democrats. But either way, the people of California would have to vote on a new map in a referendum. The first poll on this topic has come out. Sixty-four percent of voters want the current maps. Only 36 percent want the Newsom plan. The Republicans nationwide have

the upper hand in any redistricting war that may take place. There's 15. Republican states where the legislatures control redistricting, only three blue states. And they've already redistricted Republicans totally out of control, Oregon, Illinois, and Maryland. Speaking of Texas, a migrant detention facility opened in El Paso. It's located at Fort Bliss. It can house 1,000 migrants, but maybe expanded to hold 5,000. This is the largest detention center in history.

It's from the one big beautiful bill, gave enough money to increase detention capacity nationwide of 100,000 illegal aliens and 80,000 ice beds. They're calling it the Lone Star Lockup. It's a good name, but nothing's going to beat the name Alligator, Alcatraz. But we'll keep trying. Hurricane Aaron, first hurricane of 2025. It reached Category 5 status on Saturday, 160 mile per hour winds, but it fell down to a category three over the weekend.

The storm got weaker, but it got bigger. So if it doubles or triples in size, it could bring some pretty big storms to the East Coast by midweek. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. The Great Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day.

On this Monday, the American media loves the gotcha game, where a reporter embarrasses a public official with a line of questioning. That pursuit has been in place since then-CBS White House correspondent, Dan Rather, tortured Richard. Nixon in the late 1960s. Throughout my career, I've asked very tough questions to the powerful in both parties, but gotcha wasn't my goal. Simply put, I wanted to see how much the interview subject actually knew

and how accurately they could articulate their position. Today, much of the press is on a mission to expose President Trump and his administrators as incompetent, even dangerous. In that pursuit, they are trying to weave a storyline that undocumented foreign nationals are being treated unfairly or even persecuted by the Trump administration. Well, in order to sell that narrative, you have to cite examples of cruel behavior. But in any massive deportation, tough things aren't going to occur. However, the press is openly seeking negative stuff to blunt actions about foreign criminals.

That is literally unbelievable. That's how much they hate Trump. It is not difficult to find sob stories anywhere, but trying to undermine a policy that is beneficial is wrong. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. reach me bill at bill o'reilly.com bill at bill o'reilly dot com name in town if you wish to opine now let's go to the mail connie cummings uh tampa florida can you do a segment on state redistricting

no why would i do that i mean the states handle it uh i can't run down redistricting nobody would watch connie it's the most it's the driest thing in the world this stuff will sort itself out it always has, there will be federal intervention in some states that are corrupt. Like Illinois, my district was corrupt in a order to put it back on Long Island. But I can't be doing it. Brandy Moore, Murphreysboro, Tennessee, big Civil War battle there. My 18-year-old son kept hearing me talk about the no-spin news and your YouTube clip. So he bought me a premium membership.

Whoa, Brandy, great for my 50th birthday. Now we all sit down and watch the NOSBIN News, and the conversation I've had with my 18-year-old and 9-year-old son are very educational to the family. That's what has to happen. That's for sure. Get the kids involved. Let them know what's happening in a world, even if they don't want.

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And pre-order, please. Confronting Evil out September 9th coming up fast. You're going to love the book. You'll learn more on this book. I think that any of the other books, boy, there's a lot in there. And word of the day, not prevaricate, prevaricate, P-R-E-V-A-R-I-C-A-R-I-C-A-T-E-P-E-E-P-E-E-P-E-E-P-E-E-R-A-T-E-E-E-R-E-L-A-L-LogO-LU-LORDA. When he's not running the country, Donald Trump likes to play DJ at his home base in Mar-A-Lago, Florida.

While the Commander-in-Chief is a well-known fan of the song, YMCA, there are other tunes on the president's playlist that may surprise you. Here are Trump's top songs ranked by Spotify. Metallica, enter Sandman. The heavy metal riff was once the entrance music for the New York Yankees closing pitcher Mariano Rivera. Elton John funeral for a friend. Rocket Man performed at Donald Trump's 2005 wedding with Melania. The two remain friends. John and Trump.

Melania is still his wife. Next, a duet from James Brown and the opera singer Luciano Bavarote. It's a man's world. The Motown ballad is often played at Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Then the Rolling Stones, you can't always get what you want. The song was performed during Trump's 2016 campaign, featuring the lyrics, you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might find you get what you need. Next, the theme from Phantom of the Opera. The musical from Andrew Lloyd Weber was the biggest Broadway hit in the 1980s and 90s.

Then Johnny Cash Ring of Fire, the 1963 song chronicles the burning pain of love, marriage, divorce, and death. And finally, number one, on President Trump's playlist, Frank Sinatra, and My Way. Much more than this, I did it my way. And here's something else you might not know. Donald Trump is not just a fan of music. He's often named in some songs. Notable musicians who have referenced Trump, The Beastie Boys, Lou Reed, Ice Cube, Kanye West, Beyonce, Snoop Dog, Kid Rock.

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