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

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

US pauses all military aid to Ukraine, tariffs go into effect, Democrats vote to continue to allow men to compete in women’s sports, & Dolly Parton’s husband passes away. Plus, the Message of the Day, some perspective on all the Trump hate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Enjoy responsibly. Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It's Tuesday, March 4th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Aid paused. Tariffs started. Bill fails and a husband passes. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. First, the fallout continues from Zelensky's meeting in the Oval Office. Immediately after Zelensky was kicked out of the Oval. oval office, the State Department terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development, a USAID initiative to rebuild Ukraine's energy grid. Well, now Trump has paused all military aid to Ukraine. One official said the president has been clear that he's focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution. Zelensky said, a deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia

is, quote, still very, very far away. Trump wrote on Truth Social, this is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelensky and America will not put up with it for much longer. President Trump also said yesterday he decided to move forward with 25% tariffs on nearly all goods imported from Mexico and Canada.

The tariffs went into effect at 1201 this morning. A reporter yesterday asked if there's any room left for Canada or Mexico to arrive at some other deal before the deadline. Trump said no room. The tariffs are all set. They go into effect tomorrow, which was this morning.

morning. He said it's a very powerful weapon that politicians haven't used because they were either dishonest, stupid, or paid off in some other form. And now we're using them. This is at a White House event announcing a $100 billion investment by a Taiwanese semiconductor company. The protection of women and girls in sports act would have banned boys and men from competing in girls and women's sports. It said that if any school allows this to go on, they will lose all their federal funding. It also says that a person's sex shall be recognized based on their reproductive biology and genetics at birth. It needed 60 votes in the Senate to pass. It already passed the House.

It needed 60 votes to pass the Senate. So seven Democrats needed to join the 53 Republicans. Every single Democrat voted against it. A united front from the Democrats. Continuing men to compete in women's sports. Insane. Dali Parton's husband, Carl Dean, has passed away. He was 82.

Dolly said, Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy. They're key to a successful marriage. She says, we both have a warped sense of humor. And I think humor, honestly, is one of the best things when you're married like that. Even if you have a problem, if you have a great sense of humor, if you say something you can't take back, you usually have some crazy way of getting out of it.

They're married for almost 59 years. Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. I just mailchimp my marketing. You mailchimped your what? I maelchimped my marketing with AI to create an effective marketing campaign in minutes. No, MailChimp and way. Yes, Mailchimp in way.

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power to do that himself, and two news networks consistently cheer him on. Obviously, the anti-Trump media outnumbers of pro-Trumpers, but there's nothing I can do about that. What I can do is provide perspective. So here's some. What if Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris were president today? Let's run down a checklist. Do you think the Gaza hostages would have been released? How about appointing a special group to investigate wasteful government spending? Do you think Joe Cam would have done that? The Mexican president has sent 10,000 troops to protect the border with the USA. Would that have happened? Thousands of migrant criminals have been deported. Joe Cam down with that? Donald Trump will most

likely engineer a ceasefire in Ukraine. I know. I know the chaos, but you wait and see. He'll get something. Would Jocam have done any better? I mean, they had two years, no movement at all. The NCAA now says biological men cannot compete in sports with women, not woke. Any comment, Joe Cam? Interesting series of questions, right? President Trump may not succeed in solving all vexing problems, but at least there is an effort on his behalf. Under Joe Biden, we didn't get much of that. 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. We got Lanny. Not a good look for the White House. We have given just enough

support to Ukraine over the past three years to keep them in the fight but not win. Ukraine will fall is my call. Ukraine can't win. No matter how much we gave them, unless you send U.S. troops in there. It can't be Russia. Look at the map. So we've kept them, you're right, Lanny, we've kept them afloat. Donna, watching the Ukrainian president's meeting with the U.K. Prime Minister, and the kudos from some of the European leaders, leads me to believe they can handle the matter without the United States. No way, Donna.

No way. Believe me, it's all, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yep, yep, yep. They cannot support Ukraine. The EU cannot do it. We'll not do it. So, Putin knows that. Steve, Putin is an evil tyrant, should not be appeased, a bad look for our president and a country. Sometimes you've got to appease the evil people to get the greater good going on,

as I explained. It'd be very hard for me to do it, but I'm not a politician. Charles Castrell, West Lafayette, Indiana, I thought President Trump was rude and overbearing by talking over his Lewinsky and not listening. It's also debated Vice President Vance in his assertion that Zelensky did not say thank you for the aid. Okay, that's how you see it, Charles. I mean, I see it with a little more nuance than you, but, you know, we respect your opinion. Robert, are politicians who are against Trump's plans to decrease the national debt proposing an alternative plan? Of course not. I mean, if you press them, they go cut the military or something like that, you know. Look, if Biden had any kind of plan to cut,

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was first ruled by Madrid, then Paris, London. Eventually, the Americans got it. On March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th state. Since then, it has become one of the most important areas in America. It is a nation's top tourist destination, houses vital parts of the nation's space program, generates $1.6 trillion in revenue. If Florida were its own country, it would be the 16th largest economy in the world. And here's something else you might not know.

It's really, really hot in Florida from May 15th to October 15th. And if you don't have air conditioning, I don't know how you survive. And it wasn't until the mid-1930s that air conditioning really came upon the scene. and then Florida blew up. But it was Disney World in the 1970s that really catapulted the state into an economic juggernaut. And right now, you can earn a lot of money in Florida, and there is no state income tax. Back in a moment. This episode is brought to you by Sampley.

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