Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 23, 2025

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passes, terrorist attack in DC, CIA gatecrash, and Trump blocks foreigners from Harvard. Plus, the Message of the Day, on celebrating the memory of America’s heroes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you, Bill. It is Friday, May 23rd, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. One Big Beautiful Bill passes terrorist attack in D.C., CIA gate crash, and Trump blocks foreigners from Harvard. It's all coming up, that Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill with some last-minute additions, including an ending of all Medicaid funding for all transgender surgeries, not just for minors, but even adults. A transgender comedian said

hundreds of thousands, if not millions of trans people will lose coverage. This is an attempt of genocide. It passed 215 to 214 to 1. This was the day after Democrat Congressman Gary Connolly died. If the voting stayed as it was, then it would have been a 215 to 215 tie

and it wouldn't have passed. The one abstention was A Republican, though, probably would have changed his vote if he needed to. A male shot and killed two staff members of the Israeli embassy in D.C. outside of a Jewish museum. He told police after the murders. He said, I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza. The 31-year-old murderer shouted, free Palestine, as he was being led away by police. An American woman and an Israeli man just left the event at this museum. Yoran Lashinsky and Israeli citizen and Sarah Milgram, an American from Overland Park, Kansas.

They were a young couple about to be engaged. His college professor said he was a Christian, a true lover of Israel, served in the IDF, and chose to dedicate his life to the state of Israel and the Zionist cause. He embodied the Judeo-Christian values and set an example for young people worldwide. A woman was shot and wounded at the CIA headquarters after crashing into a gate early yesterday morning. only a couple hours after the shooting that we just talked about. Officials are investigating if the woman was intoxicated during the incident. She was found guilty of driving while intoxicated in 2021, but her sentence of 180 days in jail was suspended. She's being treated right now for gunshot wounds.

We've talked quite a bit about ways that the Trump administration can use leverage over Harvard University to stop them from violating the Supreme Court decision against them about their racist admissions process, among other issues that the Trump administration has with them. But this use of leverage came as a bit of a surprise. They have blocked Harvard University from enrolling future international students and even retaining the currently enrolled foreign students. The Department of Homeland Security has revoked Harvard's student and exchange visitor program certification. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. This MailChimp-Firific jingle is brought to you by MailChimp.

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This Friday, it is Memorial Day weekend in America. I've always had the utmost respect for the military. My grandfather, a war hero, Mews Argonne, World War I. My father, a naval officer in World War II, who was approaching Japan when the atom bombs were dropped. Now, the history of warfare in the USA is very interesting, and I've written a number of books on it. The Revolutionary War lost eight years, about 70,000 patriots died during that war, most from disease, about 25,000 British regulars were killed, and we got our independence. Civil war was the worst. Four years, 620,000 men estimated killed on the battlefield, and about 500,000 were wounded. Many of those died. I estimate the civil war cost the American people more than a million lives.

Now, on the Revolutionary Front, I wrote killing England, on the Civil War Front, killing Lincoln. The Indian Wars, we have no estimated body count, but it was halacious, 1609 to 1890 for the Indian Wars. World War I, as I mentioned, 20 million casualties, 117,000 U.S. dead. World War II, staggering. Fifteen million battle deaths, 45 million civilians killed, 25 million wounded. Okay, the USA won that war, defeated Japan, and without us, Hitler would not have been defeated the way he was. Korean War three years, U.S. wounded more than 100,000, killed about 37,000.

So on and on and on and on, and that gets me to Vietnam. I really respect my peers who went over to fight in Vietnam. It was a poorly waged war, as everybody knows. But those people, those men and women, did their duty. They are patriots, and they should be celebrated this Memorial Day weekend. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me.

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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. The 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 whirl. 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. 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. Full, I traveled each and every highway. And more, 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. songs. Notable musicians who have referenced Trump, The Beastie Boys, Lou Reed, Ice Cube,

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