Chapter 1: What was President Trump's performance during the State of the Union address?
holy cow we've got a lot going on today with the state of the union address uh also pushing back on some pathetic attempts to fact check donald trump's address there's not enough information to know if that's true yet okay and the bride of charlie america we need to talk that and so much more on today's podcast We have built a world where almost everything is on demand. You need groceries?
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Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program. There's something else that I'm not blind to. And everybody is forcing everybody to get into this fight. And I'm not getting into the fight. I'm just not going to do it. And here's why. I have a policy on school shooters.
And I don't always hold to it, but I try. I don't want to mention the name of school shooters because that's what they want. That's what they thrive on is attention to whatever it is they're wanting to talk about. I'm not going to give it to them because I know that's what they want. What I do from time to time feel I should say something, um,
And not about the personalities, but about principles. If you've listened to this show, when we started, you know, the Tea Party started, and that was all about politics. And I said, the 9-12 Project is not about politics. It's about principles, values and principles. That's what this show is.
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Chapter 2: How does Glenn Beck evaluate Trump's speech compared to previous ones?
You have to be... How many times have I offended this audience? How many times have you probably listened to the show and went, what the hell is wrong with you? Why would you say that? Do you not know who the audience is? Yeah, I do. I do. And there have been times when I've almost driven you away because I felt...
Well, a couple of times because I was arrogant and I thought I knew better than you. That was a huge mistake. That's my fault. That's stupidity. But other times, like for instance, when I printed Addicted to Outrage, thank you. I can barely remember it because it sold like four books. When I published Addicted to Outrage, I knew it wouldn't do well. I knew it wouldn't do well.
But it was important for me to talk about what outrage can do to you. It was important for me to say, you know what, I've made mistakes and I've learned from it. For me. But when you are... When you're addicted to that high... you addict others to that high as well. You've got to keep the audience high, which means you have to push harder. You have to dig deeper.
You have to reveal something darker, something more shocking than what I told you yesterday, something even more forbidden, because yesterday's outrage isn't a big enough drug. That's what got me high yesterday. It won't get me high today. And sometimes that pursuit uncovers real corruption. Sometimes it does serve justice.
But sometimes, if we're honest, it becomes escalation for the sake of escalation. Not because truth demands it, but because the machine demands it. And once you walk down that road, stopping walking down that road is almost impossible. You have no idea. When I left Fox... It screwed with me for four years. Hard. It is so hard to walk away. So hard. Roger Ailes told me, you're not walking away.
Nobody ever does. When he said that, I realized, oh my gosh, I really now have to walk away because he's right. Nobody does. But when you walk away from just the outrage part, not the fame, just the outrage part, I guarantee you, you're going to be accused of selling out. If you show restraint, you've been compromised. If you choose mercy, you're protecting evil.
And it's the very crowd that lifted you up that will turn on you the moment you refuse to go further. One of the saddest things for me is is you've listened to me for 25 or 30 years, and I can say one thing, and all of a sudden you'll say, you're a traitor. It's like, what? Really? Is that how shallow our relationship is? This is principle. And here's the principle that I think we have to defend.
And it goes right to the bride of Charlie Kirk. Can we leave the grieving to their grief? You may not like somebody. You may not trust somebody. You might disagree with them. You might believe they're wrong about everything. But grief is sacred ground, and it's not battleground for speculation. If someone dies and you believe a crime occurred, there's a process to that. There are investigators.
There are courts. If you have evidence, give it to the authorities. If you have resources, quietly fund the pursuit of facts. You don't conduct a trial through thumbnails and trailers. Let me explain it this way. Because I'm a former alcoholic DJ. Let's say a small town family loses their father in an accident. Suspicious, however. The town is divided. Rumors are starting to swirl.
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Chapter 3: What concerns does Glenn express about the Democrats' reactions?
Between truth-seeking and audience-feeding. And fame, if you're not careful, convinces you that every instinct must be broadcast. I suffer with this so badly. I don't know, I have this feeling I should say that. No. Not everything you think, not every suspicion needs to be shared. Not every silence is weakness. Sometimes it's strength. Sometimes restraint is the highest form of strength.
We should be rallying around principles that make us more human. not more viral, decency, process, presumption of innocence, respect for grief. It's been five months. If this society can no longer put itself in another man's shoes and see what those five months must be like and you were dogpiling in the first three weeks, we're a lost society.
Once we normalize turning mourning into content, none of us are safe from being content ourselves. The culture that rewards behavior like this isn't just influencers. It's us. Because we click, we share, we debate, we fuel the machine, we demand people get involved. And that demand creates supply. So instead of saying, what the hell happened to fill in the blank of the influencer?
What the hell has happened to the right or to the left? Maybe the question is, what is happening to us? If we don't anchor ourselves in who we are, and my opinion shouldn't matter more than your opinion. Glenn's got to speak out on this because his opinion, my opinion is no more important than your opinion. If you are waiting for me to endorse your opinion, you're lost. Don't.
There's power in you. But you've got to know these things before the likes, before the numbers, before the praise, or all of us are going to be swept away by whatever gets the most reaction. Truth requires patience. Justice requires evidence. Grief requires space. These are not partisan values. These are civilization values.
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Chapter 4: What are the key claims Trump made that might be disputed?
Is the job of the American government, Congress, to protect the American citizen or illegals or foreign citizens? What happened? hesitation, folding of arms, looking down, no one clapping, no one standing up on that side of the aisle. Just play this out with me. That's something that even if you don't believe in, you stand up for.
It's something that you go, like, I don't believe in this, but this is going to look really, really bad. We all got to stand up. You don't damage your opponent when you do that. You damage your brand. This was the worst night for any brand and maybe twice as bad for the night that Coca-Cola came out and said, we're getting rid of the original recipe and we're going right for new Coke.
I mean, that did brand damage like I've never seen before. This, I'm not sure the Democrats survived the brand damage that they're doing right now. You know what I mean? When you can't stand for that? The American people last night were not watching like operatives. They were watching like parents watching.
And parents understand instinctively if you can't stand for protecting citizens, something is very broken. Something is very wrong. The border section was devastating to the Democrats. Angel moms. Elizabeth stabbed 24 times. Delilah crushed by an 18-wheeler. Now a little girl in first grade kissing her father. You don't stand for that?
Calling for a commercial license to be denied to illegal immigrants because of her and calling it Delilah's law and you can't stand for that? You can't clap for removing dangerous rapists and criminals from the country. Think about this. We can disagree on immigration policy all you want. We can debate visa quotas. You can argue about asylum reform.
But when you can't stand for deporting violent criminals, that's not a strategy. That's the end of your brand. That's moral confusion. I was stunned by that. Because America looked at that and went, do these people hate our country? Do they hate America? The average person, you had to walk away with that. The contrast on all of it, I mean, the economic contrast, very sharp.
He talked about, you know, inflation. And how they drove up inflation by spending too much energy. They drove up inflation because they stopped drilling. And he said, you caused this. Your policies caused this. I'm fixing it. Crushing health care costs. Everybody in the country knows health care is being crushed. It's crushing people. You did, you promised Obamacare.
You said it would fix it, and it hasn't. It's made it worse. And I'm going in and fixing it. When he comes out and he says, look, you're going to pay, what was it, the IVF thing. I've got to get into that. When he talks about any of the drug costs going from $4,000 to $500, you can't stand an applause for that? You can't? What? Then taxes.
Did you notice that when they introduced Michael Dell, who gave, what was it? Six billion dollars, some crazy amount of money to these, you know, to the, you know, these America accounts. So your kids can be when they're born, they can get an account worth. I don't know how much. Well, Michael Dell gives, he and his wife give, I don't remember what it was.
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Chapter 5: How does Glenn Beck define the importance of principles in public discourse?
You can argue whether any of these mechanisms will work long term. That's fair. But he was offering mechanisms. The Democrats last night offered facial expressions, pins that use the full word F ice. You see Rashida Tlaib wearing a pin that said F ice. That's appropriate. They offered angry insults, screaming on the floor. I mean, do I need to go into Joe Wilson?
Do you remember what that was all about? Under Obama, during the debate on Obamacare, He said, look, you got to pass Obamacare. It's got to be done because it doesn't have anything that these people say it will. It will never be used to support health care for illegal aliens. That's an absolute blatant lie. It was a blatant lie then. It's a blatant lie now. Look at it. But he said that.
And Joe Wilson could not take it. And so he said, you lie. What happened? What happened? It was like the whole world caved in. You can't do that. How dare you say that? He had to apologize the next day. The president then accepted his apology, but that wasn't good enough for the Democrats. They didn't accept it. John McCain, everybody was on fire because he said two words, you lie. Last night,
They were screaming, you kill Americans from the floor. Representatives were screaming, you kill Americans, and nobody says anything. It was incredible. When he said Republicans voted for tax cuts and every Democrat voted against them, they sat down. When he said, stop insider trading in Congress, Elizabeth Warren stood. Democrats did not.
When he said, we're putting the American worker first, arms folded. Do you know what the American voters saw last night? Resentment. Resentment. Hatred for America. It was the most patriotic speech I have seen given by a president in a very long time. And they looked like they hated America. I'm going to start with the audio, which I have never, ever seen anything like it. He is calling out.
Where is that audio here? Okay, this. Cut 13. Listen to this where he is just asking people, just stand. Just stand if you believe this. Listen. So tonight, I'm inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. They're not clapping the Democrats. None of them are standing. None of them. And Donald Trump just motions towards them, like, look at that. Look at... This is the biggest political mistake I've ever seen a party make. You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities. Do you notice here? I've never heard the president speak so forcefully as I mean, he was almost talking like this a couple of times where you're like, what what is happening? It's because he was trying to drown out.
The shouts from the high schoolers that call themselves congressmen who were shouting, you kill American citizens. I mean, insane stuff. That's why he was shouting so loud. That's why I'm introducing! Because he wanted to drown them out. I've never seen anything like it. From a country that went from Joe Wilson saying, you lie, and the whole nation stopped.
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Chapter 6: What is Glenn's perspective on handling grief in the media?
The average is up 23,000. So we're not sure. 23,000, 30,000, what difference does that make, honestly? Because there's no verified number. So you can pick either and say either one of those is true and probably won't be wrong or that wrong. The point is, is that America's 401ks, I didn't even think of that. I didn't think that 401k, the average American 401k, let's just use 23,000.
Did you know that? Nobody's checking their 401ks. Everybody checked their 401ks in 2008. I heard every day, do you know how much I've lost in the stock market? Do you know how much my 401k, how am I going to retire? In the last year, if your 401k is up $23,000 or $30,000, that's a big deal in one year. True. Mostly true. True. Okay. All right.
Members of the Somalia community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion. Minnesota, California, Massachusetts, Maine, even worse. They say that's exaggerated. Real fraud cases existed in feeding programs, etc. But the totals were in the hundreds of millions, not 19 billion nationwide. I think we have that to play out yet.
And I don't think I take the press on their number more than I take what the president is saying on the number. I'm telling you right now, a third of our debt, a third of our debt is is going to, in the end, be because of fraud. That's how big I think the fraud is in the United States government. I think a third of our debt, not our deficit, our yearly deficit, what did he say yesterday?
I think he said, didn't he say half or a third of our debt? He said we would wipe out our national deficit. If we just eliminate the fraud, we will wipe out our national deficit and we will balance the books. I think that is absolutely true. Absolutely true. Crime in D.C. is now at the lowest level ever recorded and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100%.
Fact-checked, exaggerated, homicides are down sharply, 67% year-to-date, early 2026 versus prior, January 2026, very low. Only one to two cases, not almost no crime, or exactly 100%. That's how they... Not almost no crime or exactly 100%. Okay, all right, well, we get it.
The point is, is that when he said that, and he said crime is down dramatically, we're at the lowest crime in over 100 years, the murder rate is down, the Democrats didn't applaud.
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