The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Thu, 15 May 2025
Megyn Kelly is joined by Sean O'Brien, General President of the Teamsters, to discuss his experience meeting with President Biden and what he saw, Kamala Harris’ treatment of his members and all Americans, the arrogance of the Democratic party today, how the Democrats are increasingly out of touch with the working and middle class, their failed attempts at being more relatable, O’Brien’s historic RNC speech and what Trump told him before, why Trump is resonating with the working class, Robert De Niro’s lecture and why Trump is actually helping the American film industry, Trump's discussions with O'Brien now and how he's bringing jobs back to America, Jeff Bezos vs. his workers, and more. Then Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth of the RealClearPolitics Podcast join to discuss the arguments at the Supreme Court about birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions overall, the lawfare against Trump stopping his administration's actions, the backlash Jake Tapper’s already received ahead of his book release, his new messaging admitting "humility" over his past Biden coverage, the troubling questions Democrats and the media have to answer about their cover-up, the absurd and racist coverage of the Afrikaners refugees, and more. Then Megyn addresses Michelle Obama's new complaints and her wild marriage rule with Barack.O'Brien- https://teamster.org/Bevan, Walworth, & Cannon- https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Everglades Foundation: Learn more about President Trump’s Everglades support project at https://www.EvergladesFoundation.orgSelect Quote: Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS at https://www.SelectQuote.com/MEGYNLean: Visit https://TakeLean.com & use code MK20 for 20% offTax Network USA: Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN to speak with a strategist for FREE todayFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
Chapter 1: What are Sean O'Brien's views on Biden's presidency and Democratic party's attitude?
Well, I got to show you, this is how you criticize it. So Robert De Niro, who's got a severe case of the TDS, is in confluence right now, as all of the muckety-mucks are.
And he's very unhappy about what Trump is doing to try to keep filmmaking, American filmmaking, in America by slapping tariffs on foreign-made films so that he can basically try to force people to make them domestically again for the American audience that they're meant to serve. And here's what De Niro said on Tuesday.
America's Philistine president has had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions. He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities, and education. And now he has announced a 100% tariff on films produced outside the U.S. Let that sink in for a minute. You can't put a price on creativity, but apparently you can put a tariff on it. Of course, this is unacceptable.
All these attacks are unacceptable. And this isn't just an American problem, it's a global one.
What do you make of that?
Well, it's a global problem because it's the greediness of these studios and some of these actors that make a lot more money overseas than they would here. But I look at the film industry in the United States. And my father worked in the film industry in Boston. He was a transportation coordinator for the Teamsters Union. So I know a little bit about it.
I look at the film industry as we have some of the most creative people in in the world in the United States that have been making movies for hundreds of years. And I look at the film industry in America as like Major League Baseball is America's sport. You can't put the Boston Red Sox in Great Britain and call them the Boston Red Sox, right?
So, you know, people should look at filmmaking as the same as they would look at America's sport. We are at the forefront of We have a great opportunity to create hundreds upon thousands of jobs.
And the film industry not only creates hundreds of thousands of jobs, there's also a residual benefit or indirect benefit from all the goods and services, supplies, restaurants, hotels within the United States that employ millions of people. So that's the thought process. I mean, Robert De Niro, I mean, I've seen some of his antics. I was a big fan of his.
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Chapter 2: Why did Kamala Harris fail to connect with working-class voters according to Sean O'Brien?
All right. Last but not least, is Trump going to have his plane from Qatar or isn't he?
Anyone? Well, you know, how about this? This contract with Boeing was in 2018 when he was president the first time, Megan. I guess let's go back to first principles. How come this iconic American company can't produce one plane in seven years? I know.
And how are they going to deliver 160 over to the Middle East now under this new deal he just brokered? They can't even make the two we ordered.
Look, taking this plane as a gift is absurd, but I kind of get Trump's frustration. Where's the plane? Where's the new Air Force One? Trump's the only president in history that his plane that he was using before... Air Force One is a step down from that.
But it can't withstand a nuclear blast, which Air Force One is supposed to do. But, you know, I even heard the New York Times is the daily podcast yesterday, Andrew. No fans of President Trump talking about how the Air Force One ride is like kind of alarmingly shuddery. on takeoff and landing because the planes are 30 years old and they're, you know, they're huge.
They have, it's probably takes a lot to make the plane able to resist, you know, a rocket propelled grenade and a nuclear bomb. Uh, but she was saying, you know, that even she had questions about like, is this okay? You know, on takeoff and landing on the thing. And I'm sure Trump 10 times that.
And here's cutter with these magnificent multi like fleet of planes because they're used to flying around all these, you know, Arab dignitaries. saying, hey, you can have this one. And Trump's like, yes, I just saved us 400 million bucks.
Yeah, I think the question is what happens to the plane. Well, the way we've done this is the plane is being given to the Defense Department. It's not being given to Trump.
That's what he says too, yep.
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