Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 3, 2025

Episode Date: May 3, 2025

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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. Cabinet shake-up, big movement in Ukraine, Trump commencement address, and Kilmar protective order. It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day, but first. Mike Walts is the first member of the cabinet, although national security values is not technically in the cabinet. but first, top official in the Trump administration to be moved. He will be the new ambassador to the United Nations.

The Senate does have to confirm that, ultimately. Elise DeFonic was Trump's first pick to be ambassador to the UN, but there was a question if the Republicans would win that seat back in a special election. So she kept her house seat. Waltz will move over there, and Marco Rubio will serve as the national security advisor and also remain the Secretary of State. Big news out of Ukraine, the day after the United States and Ukraine, signed a mineral rights agreement, which gives a 50-50 deal between Ukraine and America on

their rare earth metals and other natural resources. According to Trump's special envoy in Ukraine, that's retired General Keith Kellogg, he said Ukraine has now agreed to concede land held by Russia for peace. Kiev has also agreed to 22 concrete terms. General Kellogg said people don't understand how violent this war has been. When you combine the Ukrainian and Russian soldiers killed and wounded? He said we're at 1.2 million people. That's an unheard of number. We only had in eight years of war in Vietnam, 68,000 killed. Trump spoke yesterday at the Alabama graduation commencement ceremony. He told the story how in the 1940s, the owner of Levittown. The company came in and made a huge offer to buy the company, and the owner took the deal,

and he went with his trophy wife and moved to the south of France and lived the life of luxury. He said about 10, 15 years went by, and they sold him back. company and he started building again and lost everything. Trump said it was a sad story and he saw him once at a party and said, how are you? And he said, not well, Donald. What happened? Trump said, son, I lost my momentum. It was one of the pieces of advice to the graduates. Keep your momentum. He also told people, you got to be an outsider if you want to fix a broken system. Kilmar Abrago Garcia. We have an update here. A second protective order. This of course is the Maryland man, who's now in the El Salvador prison.

This is a different protective order than the one from 2021. And this one, his wife accuses him of physical abuse threatening her. She said she has a recording where he says that even if he kills her, nobody can do anything to him. She said at this point, I'm afraid to be close to him. I have multiple videos and photos of how violent he can be and the bruises he has left me. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day.

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Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. 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. bill, I respectfully disagree with the comparison of President Trump's terror policy to Teddy Roosevelt's trust busting. Roosevelt's policy forced to 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.

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. So, 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 are actually 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 have kids, you 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 who 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.

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here's my no-spin assessment of where we stand right now. First, the facts. About the U.S.-Mexican border, that was completely chaotic under President Biden, as everybody knows. In fact, border crossings in April, 2004, last year, 400,000. April this year, 7,000, a decrease of 95% under President Trump. How about deportations of migrants here illegally? In Biden's first 100 days, 9,000 were deported. In Trump's first 100 days, 55% were deported. In Trump's first 100 days, $55,000. How about diversity, equity, and inclusion? Well, on his first day in office, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning DEI from government agencies. The president

said, quote, these illegal DEI policies threaten the safety of American men, women, and children by diminishing the importance of individual merit. The federal government is charged with enforcing our civil rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does. so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination. Now, that is a widely debated topic, but here is the key to it. The Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action that is hiring and accepting Americans into universities on the basis of skin, color, and gender is illegal, is unconstitutional. Well, the left immediately then pivoted and said, okay, we will call it, affirmative action. We'll call it DEI. So you can see the deceit here. Well, the stock market is a

problem for Donald Trump. It's down about 8% since he took office. And a lot of people are very angry about that. I understand. But government waste has been exposed. And we have a $37 trillion debt. So we've got to start some kind of accountability in our tariff, our trade, and how we spend our money. However, Donald Trump's got to explain it and the economy has to turn around or he will be in big trouble. Back after this.

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