December 18, 2025 • 5 mins
Chris in Manhattan thinks that all of Presidnet Trump's good policies will be changed in the midterm elections by the Democrats if he isn't careful. Mike in Ulster County, NY, believes President Trump looked uncomfortable addressing the nation last night during his speech.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Mark on demand by setting up presead for his
podcast on the iHeart Radio Act.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now back to Mark Simon on w o R.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to
Chris and Manhattan. Chris, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm good? Thanks Mark. First, let me just say I
wish you a very happy holiday season and I hope
you have a great vacation. Second, the about Trump. So
I think what he's doing, wait, wait, oh wait, can
I talk to I think he's handy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Think you're gonna you're gonna start whining. Why does he
have to do?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But I am winning. I think he's Everything he's doing
that's good is going to be turned turned be undone
by the Democrats. I think he's handing the election to them.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, I mean he's not running for election. He's not what,
he's not running for anything.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No, I know he's not. But they're going to vote
against his policies.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The we don't know that because that's a year away.
It's a year from now, so the landscape will change
many many times.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, do I know things are more expensive. I know
it's not his.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Fault, but you live in Manhattan, gases now two dollars
a gallon, but if you're in New York it's still
four or five dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I know, it's under three in some parts of a
long round, I know, but but food is expensive.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And again that's New York City.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Mark, give have a great vacation.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I love the guy, but he's always why does he
have to do? Let's go to Mike in Ulster County. Mike,
how you doing, Hey, Mark, Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
First ball. I did watch the speech last night. He did.
The President did look uncomfortable because it's not his venue.
But it's the speech that had to be made because
the media and the Democrats are playing on the fact that,
for the most part, the American people are very impatient.
They want instant gratification.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And well, don't blame them now. It's as I said earlier,
they've been had this fake narrative drilled into their head
that we are suddenly in an affordability crisis when the
economy has actually greatly improved unless year. So he needed
to make the speech. It was a bad setting. This
was all designed by Susie Wiles and the staff, and
she's great, but she you know. As far as media skill,
(02:18):
she's still in nineteen eighty three with Ronald Reagan, where
you get a podium and you read the teleprompter. It
doesn't work anymore. And Trump, I think he'll see it
was a dud the speech last night. It looks good
on paper, it was well written, but the delivery wasn't great.
So he'll never allow that to happen again. Next time,
he'll get some modern day communications people to come up
(02:39):
with a better setting and a better way to do that.
Let's go to Don in New York City. Don, how
you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yes? Mark, listen, Mark, are you familiar with the song?
Till after the Holidays?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Tell?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Till after the holiday?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Till after the Holidays? Am I familiar with it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Not?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Really? Was this like Al Jolson in the twenties? Huh?
Who said Garlands sang it? Judy Garland? Oh, I know,
I don't remember it? What? Why? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Because I heard it recently on the radio?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Uh? And who was playing at al Jasbo Collins? I'm kidding,
I was on was on WABC. Oh, okay, well it
must be good names. Well, you know she recorded some beautiful,
beautiful New Year's Christmas ballads. That's probably one of them
from the late fifties, very sad.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's to like whatever happened to Christmas?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, all right, I'll check it out. You know, that's
one thing she was good. She would do these touching,
sad ballads. She was brilliant at it, being a great actress.
She was one of the great singers of the late
fifties and early sixties. In fact, to listen to her
live album at Carnegie Hall, one of the greatest albums ever.
Let's go to Joe in the Bronx. Joe, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'm doing better than I deserve and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I hope you i'd agree with that. You don't deserve
to do this?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, knowing you no, because it's good this way, I'm
not bitter.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So anyway, I was thinking about a way to help
for the mid terms. Yes, and I came up with
something good. In one of my plays, character says, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, it sounds good. That's good.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
They don't need the Wooden Horse because they have the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's great. How did you come up with That's pretty amazing? Really, oh, phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I don't know if you're kidding me.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, no, no, it's excellent. Yeah, no, anyway, thanks for
coming up with that. Anyway, Hey, I forgot to mention
one great thing in that speech last You know, the tariffs.
Some people love them, some people don't. But the tariffs
have brought in zillions of dollars. Money is just flowing
in from the tariffs. One thing he announced was every
(05:01):
he called them warriors, every military man and woman will
get a thousand dollars bonus this year. And he said
they'll deliver it before Christmas. So all of our great
military soldiers one thousand dollars bonus from the tariffs. Hey,
when we come back, we're going to talk to one
of the greatest economists in the world. We get a
real expert to talk about the economy, affordability, inflation, the
(05:23):
speech last night. We'll get to all of that next
on seven to ten WR with Steve Moore. We hope
In Mark on demand by setting up presead for his
podcast on the iHeart Radio Act.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now back to Mark Simon on w o R.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to
Chris and Manhattan. Chris, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm good? Thanks Mark. First, let me just say I
wish you a very happy holiday season and I hope
you have a great vacation. Second, the about Trump. So
I think what he's doing, wait, wait, oh wait, can
I talk to I think he's handy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Think you're gonna you're gonna start whining. Why does he
have to do?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But I am winning. I think he's Everything he's doing
that's good is going to be turned turned be undone
by the Democrats. I think he's handing the election to them.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, I mean he's not running for election. He's not what,
he's not running for anything.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No, I know he's not. But they're going to vote
against his policies.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The we don't know that because that's a year away.
It's a year from now, so the landscape will change
many many times.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, do I know things are more expensive. I know
it's not his.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Fault, but you live in Manhattan, gases now two dollars
a gallon, but if you're in New York it's still
four or five dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I know, it's under three in some parts of a
long round, I know, but but food is expensive.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And again that's New York City.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Mark, give have a great vacation.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I love the guy, but he's always why does he
have to do? Let's go to Mike in Ulster County. Mike,
how you doing, Hey, Mark, Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
First ball. I did watch the speech last night. He did.
The President did look uncomfortable because it's not his venue.
But it's the speech that had to be made because
the media and the Democrats are playing on the fact that,
for the most part, the American people are very impatient.
They want instant gratification.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And well, don't blame them now. It's as I said earlier,
they've been had this fake narrative drilled into their head
that we are suddenly in an affordability crisis when the
economy has actually greatly improved unless year. So he needed
to make the speech. It was a bad setting. This
was all designed by Susie Wiles and the staff, and
she's great, but she you know. As far as media skill,
(02:18):
she's still in nineteen eighty three with Ronald Reagan, where
you get a podium and you read the teleprompter. It
doesn't work anymore. And Trump, I think he'll see it
was a dud the speech last night. It looks good
on paper, it was well written, but the delivery wasn't great.
So he'll never allow that to happen again. Next time,
he'll get some modern day communications people to come up
(02:39):
with a better setting and a better way to do that.
Let's go to Don in New York City. Don, how
you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yes? Mark, listen, Mark, are you familiar with the song?
Till after the Holidays?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Tell?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Till after the holiday?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Till after the Holidays? Am I familiar with it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Not?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Really? Was this like Al Jolson in the twenties? Huh?
Who said Garlands sang it? Judy Garland? Oh, I know,
I don't remember it? What? Why? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Because I heard it recently on the radio?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Uh? And who was playing at al Jasbo Collins? I'm kidding,
I was on was on WABC. Oh, okay, well it
must be good names. Well, you know she recorded some beautiful,
beautiful New Year's Christmas ballads. That's probably one of them
from the late fifties, very sad.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's to like whatever happened to Christmas?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, all right, I'll check it out. You know, that's
one thing she was good. She would do these touching,
sad ballads. She was brilliant at it, being a great actress.
She was one of the great singers of the late
fifties and early sixties. In fact, to listen to her
live album at Carnegie Hall, one of the greatest albums ever.
Let's go to Joe in the Bronx. Joe, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'm doing better than I deserve and.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I hope you i'd agree with that. You don't deserve
to do this?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, knowing you no, because it's good this way, I'm
not bitter.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So anyway, I was thinking about a way to help
for the mid terms. Yes, and I came up with
something good. In one of my plays, character says, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, it sounds good. That's good.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
They don't need the Wooden Horse because they have the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's great. How did you come up with That's pretty amazing? Really, oh, phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I don't know if you're kidding me.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, no, no, it's excellent. Yeah, no, anyway, thanks for
coming up with that. Anyway, Hey, I forgot to mention
one great thing in that speech last You know, the tariffs.
Some people love them, some people don't. But the tariffs
have brought in zillions of dollars. Money is just flowing
in from the tariffs. One thing he announced was every
(05:01):
he called them warriors, every military man and woman will
get a thousand dollars bonus this year. And he said
they'll deliver it before Christmas. So all of our great
military soldiers one thousand dollars bonus from the tariffs. Hey,
when we come back, we're going to talk to one
of the greatest economists in the world. We get a
real expert to talk about the economy, affordability, inflation, the
(05:23):
speech last night. We'll get to all of that next
on seven to ten WR with Steve Moore. We hope
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