Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, July 2, 2026

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

USMCA over, TDA members arrested, President takes the win, and team USA grit. Plus, the Message of the Day, on July 4th and the divided states of America. 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, July 2, 2026. Here's what happening today in America. USMCA over. TDA members arrested. President takes the win and Team USA grit. It's all coming up. And Bill's going to be here with your message of the day before the president announced

that America will not renew the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement USMCA. This is a trade deal that President Trump negotiated in his first term. An official said the United States did not agree to renew this trade agreement in its current form. The United States will continue to engage with Mexico and Canada as appropriate. The original deal goes until 2036, but the official said just because it has a 10-year timeline, it doesn't mean you have to wait those 10 years to conclude the agreement. The Justice Department yesterday charged eight alleged gang members of the Venezuelan gang Trende Aragua with violent crimes in two separate states.

First in Dallas, a man and his two children were kidnapped by Trenda Aragua members who demanded that they pay money. And after they realized they wouldn't get any money, they brought him to a bridge to throw him off the bridge. He was able to run away where they shot and killed him in front of his children. Five Trenda Aragua gang members were arrested in that case. Then in Chicago, three men captured a victim, shot him multiple times in the head, and taunted his mother.

Our acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said, these violent murders should have never occurred in the first place because these men should never have been allowed in our country. Keep in mind, according to the Supreme Court, if any of these gang member illegal aliens had kids here, their kids would be automatically American citizens. On that case, the president said that while he's disappointed, the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship.

The court's decision in the Trump v. Slaughter case, which grants a precedent of the power to fire independent agency employees at will, the president said, quote, more than made up for it. The Slaughter case is when the president fired former Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause. Slaughter sued the president, arguing that this was unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court agreed with the president and said he has the power to fire members of the FTC or any other independent agency without any reason. In World Cup News, Team USA beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 to nothing. About half the game, we played a man down on the lamest red card ever.

Our next game is against Belgium. This game will surely be the most watched American men's soccer game ever. It is Monday, 8 o'clock Eastern in Seattle. 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 Thursday, I'm thinking about July 4th and the divided states of America, the great American state fair.

is currently underway in Washington. It's 16 days, doesn't cost anything. If you're in the capital city, you just wander around, enjoy the expositions. Unfortunately, some states are not going to participate because they despise President Trump. That's the only reason if Barack Obama were president today, all of them would be there. The boycott list includes the usual suspects. Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington State, Vermont, states that are anti-Trump across the board.

The question is simple. Why would the great American state fair have anything to do with politics? Its sole purpose is to honor the USA. Sadly, many Americans despise living in their own country. About 23, 24% of the population fit into that category. Well, here's the truth about the dissenters. If you don't show up on the 4th of July, you are unpatriotic. It's that simple.

You're celebrating your nation, not your president, not your home state. What's happening in America is political poison. 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, Gerald Brooks, Boynton Beach, Florida. Mr. O' disgrace that Governor Hilliam, Massachusetts, would not showcase the role the Bay Colony played in our independence.

Healy and Massachusetts' congressional delegation would be Tories today. Paul Revere, Sam Adams, John Adams, would be at the state. and John Hancock would have paid for it. You're probably right, Gerald. I mean, the fact that the base state doesn't show up, pretty disturbing. Jim, concierge, remember, Jim is under my protection. Supreme Court blew it with birthright citizenship.

The intent of the amendment was to protect children of slaves, no one else. Not historically true. The intent of the 14th Amendment was people, was people who are powerless or were, because this was way back in the 1860s, cannot be denied essential rights that are in the Constitution. Okay?

So if you're here and you're born here, you can't be tossed out to Portugal. That was the intent. Most of it driven by slavery, not all. Glenn Stobb, Kissimmee, Florida, And now the Supreme Court has ruled against Trump's executive order denying birthright citizenship. Is there another way to address the issue? Yeah, but it's not going to happen.

I mean, neither party wants to get involved with this. And if Congress did pass a law, some kind of restriction against pregnant women coming here, I don't know what they could do. It would be immediately challenged. And the Supreme Court does not like that. In a moment, something you might not know. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. On this day in 1921, President Warren Harding formally ended America's involvement in World War I.

After years of brutal combat, 9 million people dead, 21 million wounded, a continent obliterated. Here's the story behind the Great War. In the early 20th century, peace in Europe was achieved through a series of diplomatic alliances. In June 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated. Chaos ensued in Europe. Austria declared war on Serbia. Russia and France declared war on Austria. Germany declared war on France.

England declared war on Germany. In April 1917, the USA entered the conflict after a German torpedo sank a passenger ship to Lusitania. Twelve hundred civilians were killed, mostly Americans and Brits. For the next year, Europeans slaughtered each other. Soldiers were massacred from the air, land, and sea. Chemical weapons rained down on trenches. At least 100,000 troops were gas to death. By the fall of 1918, the central powers led by Germany and Austria were unraveling.

Finally, the warring party signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1990 and in combat among the nations. And here's something else you might not know. The United States never signed the Treaty of Versailles, though negotiated by President Woodrow Wilson, the Senate rejected the deal in 1990. President Harding officially ended the war with congressional approval on July 2, 1921. It was a rare victory for old Warren, who had a terrible reputation for corruption and epitism. during his brief tenure, Harding was accused of mishandling funds for the Navy Justice Department

and Office of Veterans Affairs. Evidence of wrongdoing was only made public after Warren died from a sudden heart attack in 1923, two years into his first term. Back in a moment. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly Update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin. Just and always looking out for you.