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Glenn Beck
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DATE: THURSDAY, 05.22.25
LAST UPDATE: 08:59 AM ET
PREPARED BY: CB, RR, JB, SK, BM

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We have the following scheduled for today's program:

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GUEST: Andrew McCarthy
TOPIC: How should habeas corpus be applied to illegal immigrants?

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GUEST: Kelsey Grammer
TOPIC: How do we heal after tragedy?

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May 22, 2003 - Terror alert level... SARS... Parents involved in high school hazing... High schooler LeBron James signing endorsement deals... Benefits of attending college later in life... Female golfer competing in PGA... Rally for America caravan...

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News...

Two Israeli diplomats shot, killed during event at Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC
Two diplomats were fatally shot "at close range" outside the D.C. Jewish museum by a man who allegedly yelled, "Free, free Palestine!"

Matt Palumbo: Soros and McCain — the unholy alliance hidden in plain sight
The Soros and McCain legacies live on — not through ideas or votes but through backroom deals, think tank cash, and quiet contempt for Republican voters.

SCOTUS Quietly Weighs Major Case On Candidates’ Standing To Challenge Election Rules
Justices are weighing whether to hear Bost v. Illinois, a case that could settle if federal candidates have standing to sue over state rules — a decision that could reshape election litigation ahead of 2026 and 2028.

Mexico's Navy points finger at US after ship hits Brooklyn Bridge
Mexico says harbor pilot under New York authority had full control when the Cuauhtémoc slammed into the bridge, killing two cadets and injuring 22 after an alleged engine failure.

Comey throws his wife under the bus for ‘86 47’ post
After posting a photo widely seen as a veiled threat to Trump, the ex-FBI director claims he just found the shells that way — and his wife told him to post it.

TikTok mob of 300 teens brawls at New Jersey mall, attacks cops
Chaos erupted at Menlo Park Mall after a viral meetup invite led to fighting, a false active shooter alert, and six arrests — prompting the mayor to slam absent parents and promise charges for the influencer.

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Trump...

Trump confronts South African president over murdered white farmers in Oval Office showdown
Trump showed video of Afrikaner crosses and EFF chants of “Kill the Boer,” slamming Ramaphosa’s land seizures and failure to stop attacks on white farmers.

Scott Jennings says Trump confronting South African president over white farmers ‘had to happen,’ was a 'boss move'
The CNN contributor praised Trump’s Oval Office showdown with Ramaphosa as a necessary move to expose the killings of white farmers and the global silence surrounding their plight.

PBS News: The acceptable amount of genocide is 1%
"White farmers have been murdered in South Africa. But those murders account for less than 1% of more than 27,000 annual murders nationwide. Experts said the deaths do not amount to genocide, and President Donald Trump misleads about land confiscation."

US accepts $400 million Qatari luxury jet gift for use as Trump’s new Air Force One
Pentagon confirms handover, says "will work to ensure proper security measures" with Air Force, amid opposition from Democrats, legal experts.

Here’s Everything You Missed From Trump’s Historic Trip To The Middle East
The world is catching its collective breath after Trump’s whirlwind tour of the Middle East. The sheer number of deals and substantive actions is unprecedented.

Trump teases taking mortgage giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, public
Trump praised the success of both companies, which operate as for-profit corporations with private shareholders, and said he would float the idea of taking them public with key advisers.

Biden...

Ed Martin floats names of 'gatekeepers' in Biden autopen controversy
Martin indicates one whistleblower has come forward, and persons of interest have lawyered up.

Congress Needs To Grill Joe Biden About Whether He Was Actually President
The American people have a right to know who was actually in charge of the executive branch, with all its awesome power, for four years.

Democrats told you ‘democracy is on the ballot’ and wanted you to vote for someone who wasn’t even in charge
Top Democrats and media allies pushed Joe Biden as the defender of democracy while hiding his cognitive decline from the public.

Doocy unloads receipts after media pretends Biden health questions were never asked
Fox’s Peter Doocy torched claims the press ignored Biden’s decline, sharing years of clips grilling the White House — then welcomed CNN’s Tapper to the party for finally catching up.

Jen Psaki Provided Political Cover For Biden’s Ghost Presidency
Somewhere high on the list of people who helped cover up former President Joe Biden’s debilitating health problems is Jen Psaki, queen of the empty promise to “circle back” with answers to reporters’ questions.

Politics...

House GOP adds Trump-friendly tweaks to win support for MAGA tax-and-debt bill
Republicans unveiled last-minute changes to Trump’s signature bill, including renaming savings plans as “Trump accounts,” easing SALT caps, boosting Medicaid work rules, and axing suppressor registration — setting up a possible House vote Thursday.

Bedford: Americans didn’t elect Trump to bust SALT caps or overhaul Medicaid
Republicans must now fund Trump’s agenda or blow it up over fights he never campaigned on.

Trump-backed budget bill defunds Planned Parenthood for 10 years
The House Budget Committee advanced Trump’s plan to strip taxpayer funding from abortion giants like Planned Parenthood, whose latest report shows record profits, more abortions, and fewer actual health services.

Elizabeth Warren: Here's Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' in a nutshell
"Many villages left without healers so one rich chief may ride big water in golden canoe. Ehh ... this not the way of the people."

Babylon Bee: No Tax On Tips Passes Senate Unanimously After Clarification That Bribes Can Count As Tips
"It's not often that a piece of legislation comes along that gets all 100 of us excited to vote ‘yes,' but this is one way to do it. No tax on bribes ... er, I mean, tips, baby!"

Donald Trump Jr. floats the possibility of running for president someday, not immediate future
The comments come as the Republican Party starts looking at who will lead it after Trump departs the Oval Office in four years. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are considered early contenders for the nomination.

Economy...

Trump adviser says stablecoin bill will pass, unlock trillions in Treasury demand
David Sacks claims the GENIUS Act will boost the dollar and stabilize crypto, despite Democrat concerns over Trump family ties to the industry and a last-minute Hawley rider.

Memorial Day Gas Prices Could Hit Lowest Level In More Than Two Decades
The price would be the lowest nominal level since 2021. Adjusted for inflation, the cost would be the lowest since 2003.

Target’s DEI Drama Costs Big As Boycotts Impact Sales
After walking back woke policies, Target finds itself squeezed by backlash from both sides — and billions in lost revenue.

Coinbase employees caught taking bribes for user data — hackers demand $20 million ransom
In a press release, Coinbase said "cyber criminals bribed and recruited" "rogue overseas support agents" to steal customer data in order to facilitate social engineering attacks.

Immigration...

Tom Homan to Glenn Beck: Tim Walz 'disgusting' for comparing ICE to 'Gestapo' — Eric Swalwell not 'above the law'
The ICE director torched Democrat rhetoric, slamming Walz and Swalwell for vilifying agents who risk their lives daily while defending Trump’s crackdown on lawbreaking officials.

Nancy Mace files motion to expel Democrat from Congress over alleged assault of ICE agent
"The evidence is clear. The charges are serious. And the public deserves to know that criminal conduct in the halls of Congress has consequences."

DHS: Illegal aliens deported to South Sudan were ‘barbaric’ killers and child rapists
The Trump administration defended its deportation flight amid leftist outrage, revealing that no country wanted the criminals due to their “uniquely monstrous” crimes, including murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault on children.

China-linked group accused of helping illegal aliens dodge ICE with US tax dollars
The Chinese-American Planning Council allegedly received nearly $700K from CCP-tied sources while training migrants to avoid ICE, prompting a House investigation into its federal funding and foreign influence.

COVID...

Biden admin covered up potentially deadly COVID vaccine side effects for months: Senate report
The report revealed that U.S. health officials "knew about the risks" the vaccines carried related to myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, but "downplayed the health concern" and "delayed informing the public about the risk."

Cuomo camp blasts DOJ's COVID cover-up investigation as election meddling
Team Cuomo claims he's the real victim here, and the federal probe into his alleged lies about nursing home deaths is “lawfare” driven by Trump’s DOJ to sabotage his NYC mayoral bid.

Don’t forget what Cuomo did to your grandparents
While families were forced to celebrate birthdays and holidays from the parking lot or on the other side of windows, state governments, like New York under Cuomo’s reign, were placing COVID-positive patients from the hospital into local nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other adult care homes.

WAR News...

NY Times: Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon
The event was held in the Pentagon’s auditorium during working hours and featured Mr. Hegseth’s pastor.

CNN's Pentagon 'reporter': Hegseth violated the Constitution with prayer
Pete Hegseth hosted a "Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer & Worship Service" at the Pentagon today with his pastor from Tennessee, in what lawyers told us was a "clear violation" of the First Amendment’s prohibition on the U.S. government endorsing a religion.

Flashback: FDR's D-Day Prayer — the Largest Mass Prayer in US and World History
On the night of June 6, 1944, shortly after the size and scope of D-Day was revealed, FDR went on the radio and led the nation in prayer, asking God to guide young soldiers in battle and strengthen a country staring down evil.
- Related: Audio of Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer, June 6, 1944

Middle East...

Highly Enriched Uranium Stand-Off May Scuttle New Iran Deal
Iranian negotiator Ali Shamkhani announced a proposal in which Tehran would export its highly enriched uranium. Nonproliferation experts and former Trump administration officials tell the Free Beacon the proposal is a farce.

Israel said readying to quickly strike Iranian nuclear sites if US-Iran talks fail
Military has assessed that attack window may soon close, Israeli sources tell Axios; U.S. source says Washington concerned Israel could go ahead without prior approval from Trump.

Entertainment...

Trump trolls ‘dried out prune’ Springsteen with golf clip after political rant abroad
After the aging leftist rocker bashed Trump on stage in the U.K., the president fired back with a mocking video and renewed calls to investigate illegal campaign payments to Democrat-friendly entertainers.

Stolen Jim Morrison bust recovered after 37 years in surprise police raid
The iconic sculpture vanished from the rock legend’s Paris gravesite in 1988 and was rediscovered by French police during an unrelated corruption probe.

Media...

‘The View’ Told to Tone Down Trump Bashing by ABC News Boss
Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Federal judge strikes down Biden EEOC rule forcing ‘trans-inclusive’ policies in Texas
A Texas court ruled the EEOC overstepped its authority by redefining “sex” under Title VII, siding with AG Ken Paxton and blocking mandates on pronouns, bathrooms, and dress codes.

Jackson and Sotomayor vote to keep silenced GOP lawmaker from speaking or voting
Ketanji Brown Jackson defended Maine Democrats stripping Rep. Laurel Libby’s rights over a post defending women’s sports, claiming no “significant” votes were scheduled — effectively excusing the punishment of dissent.

US Army Will Alter Troops’ Birth Records To Only Show Their Sex At Birth
“Commanders will take immediate measures to update personnel records and administrative systems to reflect biological sex for all individuals.”

Education...

Biden Education Dept. Ignored Hundreds of Anti-Semitism Complaints, Official Says
The Biden administration failed to act on nearly 200 anti-Semitism complaints, even as anti-Semitic sentiment surged across the United States following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War, according to a senior Trump Education Department official.

Health...

GOP Bill Tasks NIH With Finding ‘Patient Zero’ Of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
Proposal calls for study to “advance the understanding” of the phenomenon.

Washington broke health care, now it’s blaming the wrong guys
While D.C. politicians scapegoat middlemen who negotiate drug prices, it’s decades of government interference — not private players — that wrecked the system and sent costs skyrocketing.

AI...

Google Unveils AI Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
On Tuesday, Google said it was introducing a new feature in its search engine called AI Mode. The tool will function like a chatbot, allowing people to start a query, ask follow-up questions, and use the company’s AI system to deliver comprehensive answers.

Chicago Sun-Times admits summer book guide included fake AI-generated titles
While several titles don't exist, some of the authors mentioned do.

Sports...

The WNBA Season Just Started And There Was Already An Insane Race Hoax
The WNBA explicitly encourages narratives like this to develop.

PED use allowed in new Enhanced Games, set for May 2026
A new company hoping to infuse unprecedented levels of science, money, and performance-enhancing drugs into Olympic-style sports says it will hold its first formal competition in May 2026 in Las Vegas.

Ex-NFL linebacker allegedly leaves son, 6, in car to solicit prostitute — then gets arrested in ICE human trafficking sting
Homeland Security — along with ICE and local sheriffs — conducted an undercover mission called "Operation Fool Around and Find Out" from May 2 through May 10.

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