In this episode, we delve into the intricate layers of Middle Eastern politics and its connections with ancient conflicts, as noted in biblical records. The conversation pivots around Israel’s political landscape, unfolding events, and the controversial red hat incident that went viral. Mike Gallagher’s perspective brings an insightful critique of current headlines and public conversations, touching upon the nature of public protest and freedom of expression.
00:31:18 Peace in the Middle East and Trump’s Legacy
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Is war in the Middle East the revival of an ancient conflict recorded in the Bible?
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The nation of Israel is a resurrected nation. So what if there was going to be a resurrection of another people, an enemy people of Israel?
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Dinesh D’Souza’s new film, The Dragon’s Prophecy, offers new understanding of October 7th, Israel and radical Islam.
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We came back to a land that was largely barren and empty, and we brought it back to life, and we’re going to keep it.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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Okay, we come into the studios on a Friday with a ton of breaking news. The Jerusalem Post this morning post-accrediting President Trump entirely for the freeing of the hostages that are expected to occur either Monday or Tuesday. Gosh, this accomplishment has been epic. It is historic. We’re living through history. I know we have to address the Nobel Peace Prize controversy. I feel a little dumb about expecting him to get nominated this morning. And it turns out he couldn’t. Well, I mean, he could, but it would have been based on anything he did up to January 31st of 2025 of this year. In other words, the deadline had passed. Everything that he accomplished in this enormously successful peace achievement, everything, none of that is eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize. So the takeaway is he was snubbed. I saw Hugh Hewitt this morning talking about Trump being snubbed. I don’t know that that’s really accurate. So, you know, maybe, Tracy, we can find an expert. I mean, I Googled it and looked it up and grokked and did all of it, and it said the deadline is January 31, 2025. This is a man who stopped eight wars in nine months. But understand, all of that happened after the deadline of the Nobel Peace Prize. You see, I’m a little funny about facts. Facts kind of matter. I mean, I like to get nice and righteously indignant with the best of them, okay? You know me. But yes, he stopped eight wars in nine months, all which came after the Nobel Peace Prize deadline. And it’s as if nobody knows that. How about the Time magazine headline? Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for. Time.com. They wrote a column. Unlike other trinkets that Trump secured through bravado and bluster, the international panel did not bend. No amount of bullying could buy Trump a prize for peace. An irony lost only on the president. That’s the senior correspondent of Time acting like he doesn’t know that the deadline was January 31st of this year. So, you know, we’re going to get to all of that, I promise. We’ve got Tish James being indicted on pretty serious crimes. But I want you to know that I’ve had to ask the powers that be here at the Mike Gallagher Show if ass is an acceptable word to say on the air. My boss, my mentor, a man who has guided me through my career for many years… Phil Boyce just confirmed that not only am I allowed to say the word ass on this show, but it’s also in the Bible. So it’s biblical. So sure we can say a biblical word. You know why I’m asking you about the word, the offensiveness of the word ass. Are you offended by that word? If you saw that word on a baseball hat on a flight, Would you be offended? A guy with a red hat got removed from a Delta flight recently. The video went viral. And it’s a little bit like the Nobel Peace Prize controversy. Facts kind of matter. People were incorrectly assuming that the guy got removed because he had a red MAGA hat on. It did not say MAGA. And I thought the Delta Airlines pilot, who’s now being dragged on social media, I think the Delta Airlines flight attendant, who’s also being attacked on social media, acted pretty professionally and calmly and politely. Pilot even said to the guy, I’m hardcore MAGA. The pilot admitted to the guy on tape, because he pulled out his phone like people are wont to do, the guy said, I’m probably more ultra-MAGA than you are. So here’s the issue. If you’ve seen this on social media, did you know that the hat said, build back better my ass? And again, apologies if you’re offended by ass. Because I don’t know if that’s – I know it’s not a profanity as defined by our broadcast guidelines. I think there are people who are offended by the word, and I apologize, but I think I have to say it to you so you know what is really going on here. And for somebody – I just got a text from Dallas, somebody who saw the video clip. Mike, this is easy. Stop putting filth on shirts and hats. Grow up, folks. So I got to present this to the smartest audience in the world. Our number is 800-655-MIKE if you want to jump on board and join us. 800-655-6453. I want to see if you think Delta is in the wrong or if the guy with the red hat is with the, I don’t know, semi-profanity? I don’t know if it’s a profanity. Kinda? Sorta? I don’t normally say that word on the show. I’ve said jackass. I mean, there’s another derivation of the word you definitely cannot say, and that would be ass blank, and you know where I’m going with that. But just based on what you know, even before you see and hear the video that I’m about to play for you, do you think build back better my ass in big, bright, white letters on a red baseball cap is grounds for the flight crew asking the man to just take the hat off and put it on your lap during the short flight? And that was what they asked of him. They didn’t. kick him off the flight. They didn’t remove him from the flight. They talked to him about it outside the plane, and they asked him to simply keep it on your lap. And what set this whole thing off was the flight attendant asked him to take it off and put it on his lap. He did so, but then he says other passengers wanted to see it on his head again so they could take pictures. He put it back on his head, and that was when the flight attendant alerted the captain. That’s the controversy. Mike Gallagher. You know how much I care about family, tradition, and the kind of meals that bring people together. That’s why I love telling you about Tri-Tales Premium Beef. They’re a fifth-generation ranching family down in Texas, real ranchers, not corporations, and they put together something really special, the Autumn Butcher Box. Now, this box is about more than just dinner. It’s about gathering your loved ones, creating memories, and feeding your legacy with beef raised the right way. 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Mike Gallagher.
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I feel like I’m upset. I’m unnecessarily obsessed with whether or not the A word is profanity or not. Somebody just sent a text from the upstate of South Carolina. You bet you’re… I’m upset. I mean, I think maybe I have to bleep myself. The guy’s hat didn’t say MAGA. The hat said, build back better, my… I mean, here’s Pennsylvania text line, the MyPillow text message, profanity is a sign of one with a limited vocabulary. Time for people to grow up. Florida, whatever any of us thinks of the guy’s hat that said, build back better, my… Ultimately, the flight crew is the law in the sky. He didn’t listen to crew instructions, so they asked him to comply. Order has to be maintained. I just don’t know if the word is a bad word or not. But let’s check in here with Ty. We just showed you a live shot on the Salem News Channel live cam of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beautiful, beautiful day in Pittsburgh. Here’s Ty in Pittsburgh. What do you think, Ty? Is the word a profanity that we’re talking about?
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It all depends on if you love the Lord Jesus with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your soul. It could be that way, yes. Are you offended by the word? Yes, because I’m a born-again Christian, and I believe that those that love the Lord…
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We shouldn’t be using that word. Amen. Well, that’s the point, Ty. And I’m not entirely comfortable with using the word. Let’s play the video of the guy because when he was confronted by the crew and they asked him to step off the plane, they made him walk all the way down the jet bridge, which he didn’t really understand. And he had to talk to the captain. The captain was very respectful. But here’s what the exchange sounded like. Now, it’s long. I don’t want to play the whole thing. But here’s a minute or two of what the encounter sounded like when the guy was removed from the plane for the red hat that said, contrary to popular belief, MAGA. No, no, no, no. It said, build back better, my… Let me put you in my perspective.
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I have to comply with… The wishes of everybody, okay? Everybody. Everybody. What about my wishes? Okay, so here’s the deal. Safety is my number one concern.
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I ain’t never broke a law in my life. I understand. I’m a sky priority, and I fly Delta. I wouldn’t fly nothing else. I haven’t said nothing to nobody, haven’t touched nobody.
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Let me explain. Okay. I hope you write this up. I do. I hope you write this whole thing up, okay, and what happened. Oh, believe me, I’m videoing it.
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Oh, no, no, no. I can video, but I’m being quick here in front of people. You and I are going to stop this.
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Is Delta going to take me off the plane because of my hat? Not because of your hat. It’s because you’re not complying with the instructions. What’s there to comply with?
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My flight crew is in charge of safety. Okay. And I’m doing something wrong? I’ve just done nothing wrong.
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No, no, no.
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If you can’t comply with the simple instruction of removing the hat… The lady next to me asked to take a picture of you, so I put it back on. She was taking pictures for her daughter, and the next thing you know, they put them right back over there again.
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I don’t know all the specifics. I’m just saying, I’m giving you the option, okay? Either you keep the hat off and you follow the instructions of the flight attendants, because in the case of an emergency, how do I know, based on this simple little issue, that you would follow their instructions in an emergency?
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Oh, I’d be glad to help with everything if there’s an emergency.
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Okay, so help us all out.
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But what I’m saying is when I get back, it’s Delta policy. Just because of my hat, I can be removed.
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So here’s the deal. I guess you spoke to this gentleman before. My understanding after the flight attendants is as soon as you left, his hat went back on.
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because a lady was taking a picture of it, and another guy goes, man, I love that hat.
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He’s videotaping this. He’s going to put it on YouTube.
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Oh, I ain’t going to put nothing on the Internet. I’m just making sure I’m protecting my rights. I don’t fly nothing but Delta. I’m a sky priority. I fly all the time. I wore this hat to Vegas. I wore this hat to Salt Lake City. Ain’t nobody said nothing. So now if there’s somebody on that plane that’s got something on their head or I don’t like their shirt or their T-shirt, do you want to help them remove it for me? See what I’m saying? It just doesn’t make sense to me. Don’t let me hold the plane up. I mean, I’ll hold the hat, but I’m going to address this when I get back because I think my rights are being violated. This don’t say nothing bad. Do you think everything’s been built back better?
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I have denied passengers that says, for example, bitch one, bitch two, or 8% of the T-shirt, they have to cover it up. So the wording doesn’t. If this had an F word on it, ma’am, I wouldn’t even wear it in public. I understand. I asked you.
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So anyway, you get the gist of it. And I think the guy was great in presenting his case. I frankly think the pilot was professional. She was, too. She said, I had a number of passengers who complained about the profanity on your cap. He said, well, I didn’t have the F word on my cap. And as you just heard, the caller from Pittsburgh, there are people that consider… that word a profanity. And that, to me, is the crux of it. I am a little intrigued that the pilot characterized it as a safety issue. I guess what he’s saying is if the passengers are all disrupted, maybe it causes a safety issue. The plane isn’t going to crash because somebody’s offended by somebody else’s baseball cap. So there’s two things at play here. Mind your business, live your life, leave people alone. On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, the one texter is right. How about not putting a word that somebody like Ty in Pittsburgh would be offended by as a born-again Christian, a very faithful guy, and there are people who find the word offensive. You know, look, we’re not going to spend all day on it, but I was fascinated by it because, you know, I like these social media dramas. And I enjoy kind of bringing it up with you once in a while.
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If you were an aspiring writer and you wanted to put a plot together to try to get Hollywood’s attention, make a really cool movie with a twist, here’s what you might write. You might write about… a bitter, angry, vicious woman running for attorney general in, oh, I don’t know, the state of New York. And during her campaign for attorney general, she promised the voters of New York, if you elect me as attorney general, the top cop, chief law enforcement official of the state, I’ll get Trump. I’ll get him. I don’t know what I’m going to get him on, but we’re going to get him on something. We don’t know what. We’ll figure it out. We’re going to cast a wide net because Orange Man bad, New Yorkers hate Trump, even though he’s a New Yorker, and we’re going to get him. And then as you’re writing the movie, as you’re putting together the script, there’d be a twist. First of all, she’d get elected because the idiots of New York thought that was a rational reason to vote for an attorney general because, you know, orange man bad. Same kind of people that would sit on a jury and convict Trump of a bunch of bogus, goofy, ridiculous charges because orange man bad. These are New Yorkers. New Yorkers, many of them. certainly in Manhattan, hate Donald Trump. So here’s the twist. She loses every effort to stop him from being re-elected. She doesn’t think he’s going to get re-elected, so that’s why she’s so… bold and obnoxious in her contempt for Trump. In fact, that’s why she sat in the front row of his trials, sneering and preening for the cameras. That’s why she took to social media to insult him and attack him. I mean, she’s a good old-fashioned troll, this Letitia James, this character in the Hollywood movie. She’s obnoxious. She’s miserable. She’s angry. She’s unhinged. I mean, she should be neutral. She is, after all, the Attorney General. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not this one. Her whole life’s work is to destroy Donald Trump, to bankrupt him, certainly, and to most assuredly keep him from being elected President of the United States. Well, she has failed. And then here’s the twist. Here’s the twist. What goes around, I guess, has come around in this movie. After building her career on the promise to just target Donald Trump, and she did, now she’s been indicted for bank fraud. Now she has been charged after a jury in blue Virginia heard the evidence. Now she’s been charged with the same stuff again. she accused Donald Trump of doing. The media reactions are hysterical. To hear people over on MSNBC melting down and claiming that Trump has weaponized the Justice Department by getting a grand jury to indict a woman whose sworn promise was to weaponize the Justice Department. That was her whole premise. You vote for me, I’m going to get him. In fact, hey, let’s go back to 2018. Listen to NBC and the way they reported on Tish James and her campaign.
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NBC News has exclusively learned that the newly elected incoming New York Attorney General plans to launch some sweeping investigations into President Trump, into his family. Letitia James tells NBC News, quote, we will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well. She plans to look into the following. Donald Trump’s real estate holdings in New York. That June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian official. Any government subsidies that Donald Trump received, whether he’s in violation of the emoluments clause, the Trump Foundation.
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They were so excited. Did you hear the enthusiasm in her voice? The exuberance on their faces? She’s going to get Trump. Well, let’s stay with NBC for just a moment. MSNBC, to be exact. This is a great day to check out the nearly tearful announcement from MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace chatting with Andrew Weissman yesterday.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted. Andrew Weissman, your reaction?
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I think that I want to sort of address the people who might look at this and say this is sort of tit for tat, that you see that in the Democratic administration, you see them going after Republicans and this is Republicans going after Democrats. This is where, one, two wrongs don’t make a right, even if that were true. But this is where facts matter. In the Letitia James case that she brought in New York, there was a trial. Facts were adduced. We all could look at those facts. And Donald Trump had a chance and opportunity to have due process and to hear all of that. Here, the process by which this has been undertaken, like the process that was undertaken with respect to James Comey, tells you that career people and even Trump-appointed people did not think that there was evidence. There were not facts that justified this. And I think a perfect symbol of the fact that this is different, that what we’re seeing is different, it is not normal, it is not everyone does it, is to take a look at Abby Lowell. Abby Lowell is the defense lawyer for Letitia James. He was also the defense lawyer for Hunter Biden. In the Biden administration, the Department of Justice actually charged and convicted the sitting president’s son. And Abby Lowell represented him and defended him and lost that trial. And he is now defending Letitia James. And to me, when people say it’s tit for tat, it’s like, no, in prior administrations, and by the way, Republican and Democratic administrations at their normal times, which I agree with Mark, are gone. Under normal times in those administrations, there is no politics that is supposed to be considered. I’m not saying it’s never considered and there aren’t those aberrations. It’s that that’s not how you’re built.
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Right, right. Andrew, let me bring Carol in.
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Why? That’s too bad. So sad. Gosh, poor Nicole Wallace. She’s about to break out into tears. I mean, the two of them, they both were about to break down. You could see it and hear it. Banshee has great analysis of Letitia James’ indictment yesterday over at redstate.com. Banshee writes, I seriously worry about Nicole Wallace’s mental health at this point. She was so sure that Trump would end up in prison that she staked her entire personality on it. Weissman, the guy you just heard from? He’s even worse, because he took a taxpayer paycheck for decades while using his office to target his political enemies. Repeatedly, these people told us that no one is above the law, while they insisted that every norm broken was necessary to save democracy. Well, that kind of scorched earth strategy has consequences, doesn’t it? Banshee says, look, I don’t even care about the Democrat claim that this is payback or revenge and thus is deeply improper. Improper was feeding a bogus legal theory to a compliant left-wing judge to try to jail a presidential candidate for what amounted to a disagreement over a QuickBooks entry. Improper was bringing multiple federal indictments in a ridiculously dot-connecting episode whereby Trump was supposedly responsible for a riot he clearly had no prior knowledge of. Improper was pressing charges for retention of classified documents against the now president while essentially claiming that Biden was too old and senile to stand trial for the exact same thing. So yeah, Banshee says, call it whatever you like. This is what happens when a political party throws everything out the window to try to win an election without considering they might lose that election. I’m going to just quickly say this and then turn it over to you at 800-655-MIKE. I loathed Letitia James the way I loathed Nancy Pelosi, and here’s why. I’ll never forget or forgive the act of watching the then Speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union speech in front of President Trump as soon as he delivered his speech. It was disgusting. It was reprehensible. It was shameless. It was tacky. It was gross. And it was one of the most shameful things I’ve ever seen a public figure do. A close second is a woman who would take the responsibility and the power and the authority of her job as New York’s top law enforcement official and use it to try to destroy a Republican she just doesn’t happen to agree with. Tish James is getting everything she deserves. And look, I understand that there is apparently a woke left judge that’s going to hear the case. It’s going to be a jury trial. The judge can only do so much. I love what Whale Psychiatrist posted on X. And then let’s consider this great message on a social media post. Hey, dear hyperventilating Democrats, Trump 1.0 came into office like a golden retriever puppy trying to start over and play nice with you. You tried to kill him and imprison him for life over stuff that you made up. You created every bit of whatever comes to you. 1-800-655-MIKE. Welcome in. It’s Friday. Look, there’s a lot of great phrases that are coming to mind. Like somebody just texted, when you come for the king, you better not miss. You better not miss. And also, the hunter becomes the hunted. 800-655-MIKE. Join us.
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It is, in fact, a big breaking news Friday. We have a lot to cover this hour. Of course, Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, has been indicted on mortgage fraud. She’s livid. She’s enraged. She can’t believe that the Justice Department… has been weaponized, says the woman who weaponized the Justice Department in her campaign pledge to go get Trump. Even Anderson Cooper called out Tish James supporters last night on CNN. We have that clip. I think we do, don’t we? Anderson Cooper said, look, that’s not a very good look that the woman pledged to get Trump. Didn’t know how. You look for the, you know, what’s the old deal about finding the crime? And then you find the man. Then you attach the, connect the dots. But, wow, I am still just overwhelmed by Maria Carino-Maccato, who is the Venezuelan freedom fighter who got the Nobel Peace Prize, as it was announced at about 5 a.m. Eastern time this morning. A lot of people expected Trump to get it. I didn’t realize that Trump wasn’t eligible to get it for the actions of his second term. The deadline was January 31st. That’s a pesky little fact that gets in the way of some good old-fashioned outrage, right? But the woman who did get the award, as announced this morning… was Maria Karina Mercado. You know what she did? She dedicated the Nobel Peace Prize to her people and to President Trump. That’s astounding. You talk about grace. She said, I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause. Look, she did more than Barack Obama was capable of doing. You see Obama’s, you know, righteous statement about peace in the Middle East? He couldn’t even bring himself to say one word about President Trump’s role in this effort. The whole world is rejoicing over what Trump accomplished. But Barack Obama was so tacky and so classless that he couldn’t be bothered to even mention the man’s name. That’s what tackiness looks like. The Obama supporters like you to think he’s this real cool, elegant man. There’s nothing elegant or classy about him. Welcome in. We’ve got a lot to absorb today. How about Newt Gingrich? Last night with Sean Hannity. We’ve got to get Newt back on the show. It’s been too long. He’s a friend of ours, friend of the show. I always say he’s one of the smartest men I’ve ever met. And he had some wisdom about the territory that President Trump is entering with this remarkable peace agreement between Israel and Hamas.
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I think President Trump is now moving into being a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were. He is achieving an orchestration of all of the major Arab states. in order to support a peace agreement. And he is bringing enough pressure to bear on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along whether they wanted to or not. And as a result, he’s creating sort of a forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to create friendships. Friendships in Saudi Arabia, friendships in the UAE, friendships in Qatar, friendships in Egypt. I mean, this is an amazing orchestration by Donald Trump. If it works, and I suspect it will, you’re going to see a moment of history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
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Now, of course, the Trump haters are ready to pass out. They can’t believe that this has happened. You think President Kamala Harris would have achieved a peace deal? Biden? Biden didn’t know what time it was. Here was Scott Jennings last night, Salem Radio Network’s own Scott Jennings on CNN, reacting to this peace deal that will lead to the return, hopefully, of the 20 living hostages either Monday or Tuesday.
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It will probably go down as the most historic moment in either of his two presidencies. Peace in the Middle East, when those hostages do walk out, I mean, they think there’s 20 that are alive. All day long, I have been thinking about Edith O’Hell, who I met. In Israel this summer, I was traveling there, and she is the mother of Alon Ohel. You may have heard of Alon. He was taken hostage at the Nova Music Festival. He’s the jazz pianist. They have the pianos around, the yellow pianos. And I will never forget meeting with her and just the shattered life of a mother waiting for her son to come home. And now he’s going to come home. And Donald Trump is responsible for it. And I just don’t think you can take anything away from it. I don’t know what Hamas is going to do in the future. I don’t think we should trust these people any farther than we can throw them. But for the next few days, when those people come out, this is an unqualified diplomatic victory for the United States of America. It’s not just a personal victory for the president, although it is enormous. But this is the power of the United States of America when it has a president that is capable of showing bold and pragmatic leadership on the world stage. So I couldn’t be happier, but mostly because of my friend Edith, who I met in Israel. She’s going to get her boy back.
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Well put, Scott. Well put. I want to be positive today. Look, there’s a lot of negativity swirling around, uncertainty about the New York City mayoral race, the indictment of Tish James and all the drama and the teeth gnashing. Can we just sit back and bask in President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu achieving the unthinkable, the almost impossible? You know, we still have to see how it all plays out, but it’s looking very good. And we should be celebrating phase one of this peace deal. You know where we’re going to get to celebrate the peace deal, you and me together? In Israel. Because in a couple of weeks, I’m taking the show to the Holy Land. We’ll be broadcasting from Jerusalem. I’ll be there October 29th, 30th, and 31st. And I can’t wait to broadcast once again from the Holy Land. I’ve been wanting to go so badly. I’m so thankful to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for their support. And they’re going to sponsor our broadcast over there again. Thank you, IFCJ. Thank you, Yael Eckstein. I kept inviting myself. I’m a pest that way. I like to invite myself to the party. And I want to go back to Israel. I’ve never totaled up how many times I’ve been blessed to go to Israel. Eric and I were trying to figure it out one day. I think it’s maybe 13, 14 times. Eleven? I don’t know. Dennis Prager and I took a couple of groups over a few times, and I was there. Look, my first visit was when I was the morning host at WABC Radio in New York City, and Phil Boyce and I went over to the Holy Land. I’ve still got pictures of a very youthful-looking Phil Boyce and Mike Gallagher posing in front of some Israeli officers outside a bomb shelter. So I’m joyful today. and humbled that we get to bring the show back to Israel in a couple of weeks. And please, please honor Israel today by supporting the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. We’re in the middle of our October appeal. And look, admittedly, we are off to a little bit of a slow start. And I’m hoping today maybe you got paid. You’d like to pay it forward. You want to bless Israel with bomb shelters, with food boxes, with medicine, with supplies that are urgently still needed in Israel. If you stand with Israel, support the fellowship. Go to MikeOnline.com. Whatever you can afford, $25, $50, $100, just takes a couple of moments to donate online. MikeOnline.com. Click on the link. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews banner and give what you can. Thank you. MikeOnline.com or call 800-613-5511. This would be a good day to spread the joy and share some love with Israel. Go to MikeOnline.com or call 800-613-5511. You know, being in the positive mood that I’m in, and I am, I want to be joyful today. And I also want to see if I can find some common ground with people who disagree with me, with people who don’t like Donald Trump. If you’re not a Trump supporter, how are you feeling about this peace deal? I really try hard to do this every once in a while. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it goes off the rails. I promise you I’m not going to argue with you. I give you my word. We won’t have an argument. I truly just want to know what’s going through your mind if you’re not a supporter of of President Trump with this peace deal. Are you frustrated about it? Are you mad that he’s getting so much credit for it? Are you glad that he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he wasn’t eligible? Let’s open up our phone lines for just about five minutes to people who are decidedly not Trump supporters. If you don’t like MAGA, if you don’t like what’s happening in America, I’m really interested in what’s going through your heart and your mind today as you’re hearing all of this talk. confirmation of the role President Trump and his administration played with this peace deal in the Middle East. Peace in the Middle East. Are you willing to give Trump credit? Let me just dedicate the next few minutes of our phone line space to people who do not support President Trump. We’d really like to know what you’re thinking today. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us.
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In this episode, we delve into the intricate layers of Middle Eastern politics and its connections with ancient conflicts, as noted in biblical records. The conversation pivots around Israel’s political landscape, unfolding events, and the controversial red hat incident that went viral. Mike Gallagher’s perspective brings an insightful critique of current headlines and public conversations, touching upon the nature of public protest and freedom of expression.
