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

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Trump’s health diagnosis, Mexico suing, England lowers the voting age, and Colbert gets the boot. Plus, Bill’s Message of the Day, why the American people are turning away from TV news. 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 Friday, July 18th, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Trump health diagnosis, Mexico suing, England lowers the age, and Colbert is axed. It's all coming up, and Bill's going gonna be here with your message of the day, but first, the White House has announced that the president has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. This is from the White House. They showed a letter from Trump's doctor, which said Trump was examined

after he noticed mild swelling in his legs. Trump's doctor said that this is benign and common, particularly among adults over the age of 70. Chronic venous insufficiency is a circulatory condition where the veins in the leg have difficulty returning blood back to the heart due to damaged valves. This can cause the blood to pool in the legs and lead to swelling.

It's fairly common, affecting up to 40% of the US population, but that could even be a low estimate because CVI isn't easily detected on routine tests. Trump is 79 years old. The president of Mexico said they are considering legal action against ICE after a farmer fell to his death during an immigration raid at a marijuana farm north of LA. The man was Mexican. For some reason he climbed to the top of a 30-foot building and fell off it as he was trying to escape from federal agents But DHS said they were never chasing the guy They said this man was not and has not been in CBP or ice custody

He was not being pursued by law enforcement, but climbed to the top of a greenhouse and fell 30 feet Border Patrol immediately called the medevac in other border news Congresswoman the kind of Republican congressman from south of Miami In other border news, Congresswoman, the Republican Congresswoman from South of Miami, Congresswoman Salazar has proposed the Dignity Act, which she says is not amnesty, but it does indeed give illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship, to the point where if it were the law today, even Kilmar Abrego-Garcia could come back to America and one day become a U.S. citizen. England is going to lower the country's voting age to 16. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 back in 1968.

The lowering of the age was part of the Labor Party's platform. Their argument was this would bring greater fairness to 16 and 17 year olds who are eligible to work and serve in the military. It's also because kids are more likely to be little communists and vote

for far-left politicians obviously. CBS is getting rid of the late show which has been on CBS since 1993 with David Letterman. Colbert is the current host. It will end in May. The president of CBS said this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show's performance content or other matters happening at Paramount. That's a nice thing to say, I guess, but it certainly has to do with all of those other things as well. Colbert has been the hack, I'm sorry, host of the Late Show for the last 10 years.

I'm Mike Slater from politics by Faith Bill O'Reilly. He has your message of the day. Next. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show Podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before,

and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. On this Friday, for the first time ever, the four broadcast networks have fallen below the 20 percent viewing level. That means that 80 percent of Americans are no longer watching shows on the networks. The folks now look at streaming. Where have you gone, Mary Tyler Moore and Johnny Carson?

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you with apologies to Paul Simon. It's not hard to figure out why this is happening. The networks have turned away from quality programming because those shows are too expensive. Instead, they offer Survivor 86, Big Brother 45 and Retreads of the Price is Right. Even people in solitary confinement won't watch. Add to that the far left tilt of Stephen Colbert, the View, as well as NBC in general, and you have these companies giving a giant middle finger to traditional Americans on a daily

basis. The national news programs don't provide much either. I believe ABC anchorman David Muir wears the same outfit every night. Bland, dark jacket, white shirt, skinny tie that matches the jacket. Peter Jennings, who I work for, used to buy custom suits on Savile Row. Apparently old Dave gets his threads on Skid Row. The point here is that television has become, well, turgid. The Nets don't want to pay for big talent or produce big budget dramas. So it's over.

If the Mouseketeers ever come back, their new slogan might be, Why? Because we don't like you. I'm Bill O'Reilly, I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me, Bill at BillOReilly.com, Bill at BillOReilly.com, name in town if you wish to opine. Go to the mail Ken on the message board, he's a concierge member, thank you Ken, you guys should consider that. Problem I have with fanatical loons left or right is that they are the vocal minority that use social media to incite other loons into destructive actions.

wannabes looking for power. Exactly right. Social media has really given those people a much more cache than they used to have. Eric, there's not much thinking going on in either the extreme left or right. Most of these loons take positions for attention and self-promotion and other emotional problems. Jeffrey, I think the far left has a bigger megaphone through the media in trying to convince people to join them. Absolutely right.

Absolutely. There's no question about that. Gary, concierge member, thank you, Gary. Today was my 75th birthday. I had a very nice one. But at 3 o'clock, the no-spin news was where I was. Gary lives in Salem, Oregon, so he's on Pacific time. All right.

Happy birthday, Gary. Stan Convent, Wetters Field, Connecticut. My guess is VIPs in both parties are implicated in the Epstein case, and an agreement has been reached to keep it under wraps. Why would you bother guessing? I'm just asking Stan. Why? Just wait and see how it unfolds.

Guessing? Peggy Davis, Philadelphia, became a Republican, and then President Trump called me stupid and said he didn't want my support if I can't let go of wanting the Epstein situation clarified. So now I'm changing my voter registration back to being a Democrat. I might sit on that a little bit. Peggy, I'm not telling you what to do. I'm independent. But Trump gets a little emotional about stuff.

Certainly is on this case. In a moment, something you might not know. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show.

Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast, listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 89 years ago today, the most notorious mobster in America was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. Despite the harsh penalty, he was released after a decade. Here is the story of Lucky Luciano. Born Salvatore Luciana, the Sicilian immigrant to the USA, arrived in 1906 at the age of 10. He soon teamed up with fellow Italian Frank Costello and a Jewish gangster named Meyer Lansky. The crew made a fortune in prostitution, loan sharking, murder for hire, and they sold narcotics. The bodies piled up. In

October 1929, Luciano was abducted by four men, beaten, stabbed with an ice pick, and left for dead on a beach in Staten Island. Somehow he survived. He became known as Lucky. Eventually, the mobster seized control of New York's illegal alcohol trade. That was prohibition time. He was soon designated public enemy number one. In 1936 Luciano was indicted, tried and convicted of drug trafficking. He was sentenced to Clinton prison in upstate New York for 50 years. But all that changed during World War II. Fearing foreign sabotage by the Germans, the U.S.

military asked the Mafia to help secure the Navy yards in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Luciano gave the order to cooperate. For that, his sentence was commuted. After the war, Lucky was taken to New York Harbor, placed on an ocean liner, and deported to Rome. Here's something else you might not know. Lucky Luciano eventually returned to the USA in a coffin. The mobster suffered a fatal heart attack

at Naples Airport in 1962. He was 64 years old. His body was then brought back to America. The remains are buried at St. John's Cemetery in Queens, New York. For more fascinating stories about organized crime in America, please check out my bestselling book, Killing the Mob. You will like it. Back in a moment.

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