Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 1, 2025

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

Minerals deal signed, a 4th of July deadline, FBI officers demoted, and SCOTUS sides with religious schools. Plus, the Message of the Day, how Donald Trump is rocking the boat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the deal that gives America rights to Ukrainian rare earth minerals. Our Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, said this agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term. The Ukrainian minister of the economy said, together with the United States, we are creating the fund that will attract global investment into our country. Bessent also said this partnership allows the U.S. to invest alongside Ukraine to unlock Ukraine's growth assets, mobilize American talent, capital, and governance standards that will

improve Ukraine's investment climate and accelerate Ukraine's economic recovery. The Senate Majority Leader John Thune set a deadline for July 4th to get this big, beautiful reconciliation bill through the Senate. It only needs 50 votes in the Senate to pass. I was pretty annoyed when I heard this deadline. I was open for Memorial Day, but that is the goal for getting the bill through the House. Fourth of July is the new artificial deadline for the Senate. The Republicans still celebrating the fact that in this bill, they want to merely extend

Trump's 2017 tax cuts. Back in 2020, during the George Floyd Black Lives Matter, mostly peaceful protests, a group of FBI officers took a knee to demonstrators while in D.C. These agents have been reassigned, a demotion five years later. The president did promise to root out what he called woke and politicized elements inside the FBI. The Department of Justice is also reviewing the conduct of over 1,500 agents associated with cases like the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, for instance. The Supreme Court yesterday heard an argument about a case in Oklahoma where the state Supreme Court blocked a Catholic church

from receiving charter school money because it's a religious school. And that would, the state Supreme Court said, violate the state and federal constitutional bans on government-sponsored religious education. This case is now in front of the Supreme Court yesterday. Three liberal justices seemed united that a public institution cannot advance a specific religion with taxpayer funds. But the conservative justices seem to agree that charter schools are acting more as contractors for the government and are therefore not subject to the same laws. On Mike Slater, I have a podcast called Politics by Faith.

We're on today's episode we'll talk about Thomas Jefferson's true meaning of separation at Church and State. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Meet the most capable CRV Honda has ever dreamed up. The all-new CRV trail sport hybrid. With all-terrain tires and available enhanced traction control, it's built for wherever the day takes you. Heated front seats and a heated steering wheel, ideal for winter drives and crisp early starts.

And with generous cargo space, it's ready for big gear and even bigger getaways. The CRV Trail Sport hybrid. learn more at honda.com slash crv time now for the o'reilly update message of the day on this thursday president trump has not only rocked the boat but he's tipped the boat over as the hughes corporation once sang the question now becomes why most presidents are reactive responding to visible controversies mr trump is proactive sometimes even creating problems in order to change establishment thinking.

He did that with the tariffs, illegal immigration, and the woke culture. The pushback has been intense. The president is taking water in the polls, but the final accounting is months away. Donald Trump is likely to win on sealing the border and stopping the asylum madness. That is his signature achievement so far. The tariff thing, impossible to predict. and his legacy is tied to making the economy better. The woke business is leaning as a Trump positive.

Most Americans, I believe, do not want skin color preferences in hiring and academia. Also, they don't want biological men kicking soccer balls at women. I'm firmly convinced that if the Hollywood pinheads made a movie called Lolita, who used to be Jack, very few would buy a ticket. So it will take some time to assess whether Donald Trump's culture and economic upheaval will actually benefit the nation. That's a fair statement, correct? 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.

Okay, let's go to the mail. We got Dale, Malick, Akron, Ohio. Hey, Bill, I respectfully disagree with the comparison of President Trump's terror policy to Teddy Roosevelt's trust busting. Roosevelt's policy forced for competition, lower consumer prices. Well, Trump's terror policy is a tax that will likely raise the cost of goods. The comparison was both men. The only two presidents in our history disrupted capitalism. That was the comparison. It wasn't about success on the economic front or any of that. It was the two guys that went in, didn't have to, and disrupted what they believed was a corrupt part of capitalism. And that's absolutely true. Teddy busted the trust. Took them a while. It was bloody. I had to do it. I write about it in confronting evil.

and Trump is busting the $1 trillion trade deficit. Darren Lloyd, Calgary, Canada. Sir Riley, understand your explanation of tariffs and how they're meant to support U.S. manufacturing, but I haven't heard much about how those jobs have to be filled if they return. Very few people want to work in factories. That is true, Lloyd, but this is about, in America,

options, possibilities. So the union jobs, which are what the manufacturing jobs would be, pay a lot more than the service jobs. And you would assume that once somebody gets married, they have to buy a house, and they have kids, don't want to make as much money as possible, so the manufacturing job and the union wages will look pretty good. And if they can't fill the jobs, then they'd just give green cards out because there'd be plenty of people that want to come in and do those jobs. So I don't think that's a problem. In a moment, something you might not know. Hi, I'm Trisha, your friend and jeweler at Shane Company, where we're all about you,

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Six days later, the ship was attacked by a German submarine. The incident was a catalyst behind America's entry into World War I. Here is the story of the lucidic. The boat left New York Harbor on May 1st, 1915. On May 7th, the ship near the coast of Ireland. Without warning, a German U-boat launched a single torpedo from a depth of 2,000 feet. Seconds later, a massive explosion ripped through the Lusitania starboard side. Sinking the vessel in 18 minutes, 1,200 civilians were killed, including 800 Brits, 200 Americans.

Americans. The attack enraged the USA public, changing America's perception of the war in Europe. In April 1917, the United States finally entered the fight. For the next 15 months, Europeans slaughtered each other by the millions. Soldiers were massacred from the air, land, and sea, chemical weapons, gas, rained down on trenches. By the fall of 1918, the same Central powers, led by Germany and Austria, were unraveling on all fronts. Facing dwindling resources, Berlin finally agreed to an armistice. The warring parties then signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, officially ending World War I.

And here's something else you might not know. Just nine days before the Lusitania set sail for England, the German embassy in Washington, D.C. issued a warning to all passengers making a transatlantic voyage, wrote the ambassador, quote, Notice all travelers intending to embark on an Atlantic voyage. A state of war exists between Germany and Great Britain. Any vessel flying the flag of Great Britain or her allies is liable to destruction. Travelers sailing in the war zone do so at their own risk. Unquote. Nevertheless, In less, killing more than 1,000 innocent people was unacceptable to the world. Germany paid a heavy price for the Lusitania.

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