December 18, 2025 • 17 mins
Mark breaks down President Trump’s speech to the nation from last night. Ronald Hicks is announced as the new archbishop, replacing Cardinal Dolan in New York after Dolan’s retirement announcement.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the Voice of New York has the Mark
Simone Show on seven tenor well, hey, there's a lot happening.
We'll get to Cardinal Dolan is leaving. That's very bad news.
We'll get to Brown University that president should be leaving.
Just horrible job she's done. We'll get to President Trump.
(00:25):
We'll get to the speech last night, a bit of
a dud, but we'll get to something else he did
yesterday that is going to upset everybody. It's not the
right thing to do, you shouldn't do it, but it's
good that it just drives these democrats in the media
absolutely crazy. We'll get to that, We'll get to Nick Reiner,
and we'll get to Jack Smith and a whole lot more. Hey,
(00:49):
this just breaking this morning. The Oscars scene on ABC
TV for decades decades. Oscars Sunday Night, ABC, Oscars Channel seven,
ABC TV for decades and decades. And I think before that,
in its first few years, was NBC. I think I
think that's why Bob Hope was the host in Johnny Carson.
(01:10):
But it moved to ABC where it's been for decades. Well,
they lost the Oscars, They've got it for the next
two years, but then it moves to YouTube. YouTube got
the oscars. Now, YouTube is really taken over television. You know,
as a network, TV completely dies and has fewer and
(01:34):
fewer viewers every second. You think that Netflix and the
streaming services are taken over, but it's really YouTube that's
capturing the biggest share of the television audience. YouTube is
going to be the biggest thing. Now, this is a
big step getting the oscars. We always assumed Amazon or
Netflix would get the NFL or Major League base Keep
(01:56):
an eye on YouTube. Now, the Oscars on YouTube? Is
it a good idea? Well, one thing it's gonna do.
It's gonna bring families together because when the Oscars are
on YouTube, you're gonna get those frantic calls. You're gonna
have to go to your mother's house. You're gonna have
to go to your grandmother's house and show them how
the hell to find YouTube. You know what, you might
(02:17):
as well plan on watching the oscars with them, because
no matter how much you show them, you're going to
get that call right before the oscars, I can't find it.
I lost it? How do you find it? So you're
gonna have to show them what the hell YouTube?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Is.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But it's a big, big development. So the Trump's speech
last night was not great. It was let me give
you the inside story here. This was not his idea.
He didn't want to do this. This was the staff
pushing it, mostly Susie Wiles pushing this. You know a
(02:53):
couple of reasons. One when fake news and the Democrats
start coming up with a with a hoax, with a
my and they start pounding it into people's heads. Twenty
four to seven. Everywhere you turn, it's all you hear
affordability crisis. Affordability crisis, affordability crisis. When you hear it
day and night, you actually, this is how propaganda works.
You actually start to think, oh my god, this is
(03:14):
an affordability crisis. There isn't We had one two years ago,
three years ago under Biden, you had a terrible crisis.
Prices were crazy, gas prices, everything was going nuts. Now
Trump has brought it down. He still got a ways
to go, but in his first year he brought it
down dramatically. Biden had inflation at nine percent one point
(03:34):
the highest in fifty years. When he left, his average
inflation was five percent. Trump has it down right now
to two point seven percent and falling. So that was
one reason for the speech, to try to fight back
on this myth that has been created. And then you
got a lot of great stuff that's going to happen
(03:55):
in the economy. The big beautiful bill has big tax
cuts for everybody, so your paycheck will be bigger every
week because you'll be paying less tax. Now it hasn't
kicked in yet, it starts in January, so everybody's going
to get a huge race starting in January. So he's
talking about how much you got done this year and
what's going to happen next year. But it wasn't a
great speech. It was a teleprompter speech. Trump is great
(04:18):
with an audience, you know, he knows how to perform
for an audience, but reading a teleprompter is not what
he should be doing. And in an empty room, he's
just in a big empty room. And it's that room
where you know. They've been doing Christmas parties every night
at the White House, sometimes two a night, sometimes three,
(04:41):
and they have so many people. They invite like twenty
five thousand people to these White House Christmas parties, so
you have to do them every night for three weeks.
In fact, there's another one tonight. They just keep doing
these Christmas parties, and it's the same procedure every night.
The guests all come whatever amount they can do a night,
five hundred, and they all walk around the Red room,
(05:01):
the Blue room, the Green room, the Yellow room, to
this room, to that room, the map room, the treating room,
and then they wander around and at some point they
come and assemble in this one spot where there's a podium.
The President comes down and makes a Christmas party speech.
And he's made this speech every night for three weeks,
the same speech, so you know, if you do it
(05:21):
too much, it gets stale. And it had that kind
of look last night. So basically the same situation, but
without an audience, just alone reading a teleprompter. So he
read it too loud, and he read it too fast,
and he kept talking like this, and it was too
fast and it was too loud. He was rushing through
it like this. I think that's because he didn't want
to do it. He was complaining off camera just before
(05:42):
he went on that Susie Wilds and everybody else pushed
him into doing this, so it's not what he wanted. Now,
the good news is because it was a well written speech.
A lot of people will just see it in print.
They'll read about it, and they'll see it in print.
In print, it looks great. But his delivery was like this,
and it was rushed and he was yelling, I'm just
trying to get through it, so it was a bit
of a dud. Here's someone.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Taris my favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have
been used successfully by other countries against US, but not anymore.
Companies know that if they build in America, there are
no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the
USA in record numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
That it's a little too loud. You know, when you're
alone in a room, you don't talk like this. Hear
how I'm talking. I'm yelling a little. If I'm on TV,
I can talk like this because on TV people are
usually about twelve feet away from the TV set. They're
over there on the couch. You can talk to them
like this. But when you're on the radio, you're usually
(06:42):
talking out of the speaker, which is like a foot away,
so you can't yell at them. You got to talk
like this. So if there's an audience, you can talk
like this to them. But if you're in an empty
room and you're just alone, you can you can talk
more intimately to people. So and he knows this kind
of stuff. I don't know why he didn't do that.
I guess because his heart wasn't in this speech. He
(07:04):
didn't want to do it. You know, when they do,
there reporters in the room and start asking the questions.
He doesn't talk like this to them. You know, he
talks in a real voice. So it was too much yelling.
Now he's going to get criticism for blaming everything on Biden.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to
our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again.
We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody,
crime at record levels.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Now everybody can So why does he keep playing Biden?
Why does he have to keep enough with Biden? Biden's
not president anymore. Why does he have to keep it?
Because again, Democrats, media, fake news, you're creating this whole
fake scenario that he's got an affordability crisis. It was
an enormous affordability crisis under Biden, and under him it's
(07:54):
been dropping steadily and quickly. You know, it got a
ways to go, but it's been dropped like crazy. So
that's why he keeps having a remind everybody because he's
trying to contradict a lie that's been out there day
and night for months. But somehow he's created an affordability cress.
It has nothing to do with it. In fact, he's
been lessening it every month. So now here's the other.
(08:19):
This is going to be another Trump problem, but maybe
it won't be. I don't know. This is so outrageous
that it might be too much even for fake news.
You know, when Rob Reiner died, he put out that
tweet which I went back and read it. It's not
as bad as they're making it out to be. The
(08:40):
tweet starts off very nice, talking about Rob Reiner and
Michelle Reiner and what a terrible tragedy this is and
how awful, and he talks about that, and then if
you'll go to the very end, he said, may they
both rest in peace. So that's very nice. It's in
the middle where he says, you know, Rob Reiner was
a guy filled with rage and hate speech, which is true.
True he was. He was, go check my twitter. We
(09:02):
have documented all of this, the stuff Rob Briiner was saying,
putting up online. It was just the ugliest, vile, crude
hate speech against Donald Trump, raging. You know, And again
I knew Rob Briner when you were with him. He
was the warmest, sweetest, nicest guy. So when you read
his tweeting and his things he was saying about Trump,
(09:26):
you can't believe this same guy could get so ugly
and vile and crude and cursing. And it's just very
jeckyl in heights. It makes you wonder. So that upset
a lot of people. Of course, you know, people said, well,
you shouldn't do that. You're the president. You have to
stay you know, graceful and dignified. And yeah, of course, okay,
(09:47):
so now they have When you walk to the Oval Office,
you walk along the colonnade there along that wall where
he's put up all the portraits of the presidents, used
to be just an empty white wall. And when you
think about it, but he's right, that's where you greet
the world leaders in one part of the White House.
Then you go outside and you walk down this a
long colonnade to get to the Oval Office, and it's
(10:09):
just empty wall. You see. He just said, let's line
this with pictures of all our presidents in beautiful gold frames.
It was very very nice, great idea. And now when
it came to Biden, he put instead of Biden's face,
he put an auto pen in there. All right, it's
a little joke. You shouldn't do that, but you can
(10:29):
get away with it. All right, it's not you know,
it's not that bad. But now he unveiled this yesterday,
and again they're all gonna go nuts over this. They're
all gonna go crazy. Although it hasn't exploded like I
think it would. He now put it, unveiled it yesterday.
Under many of these presidents he put plaques underneath saying things,
(10:51):
and they're very very insulting. So under Biden, and it's
a beautiful, you know, gold, very very ornate plaque like
you'd see on a building with the inscription on it.
But the oneher Biden says, sleepy Joe. Biden was by
far the worst president in America. And it goes on
and on to talk about what a crook he is,
how he opened the borders let twenty one million people
(11:13):
in his Afghanistan disaster. I mean, it's the worst stuff
about Biden. It's a long, but I'm skipping through the
nickname both sleepy and crooked Joe Joe Biden was dominated
by his radical left handler. It goes on and on,
and you could write this, and you're not supposed to
put it on the wall of the White House in
a gold plaque. So now, of course any other president
(11:36):
when they come in will take this down. Under Bill Clinton,
it's not as bad yet. No, it's mostly good about
he approved NAFTA. It's mostly good about Clinton. But at
the end it said President Clinton's wife Hillary lost the
presidency to Donald Trump. Now the one for Obama, the
(11:59):
Reagan one is just high praise for Reagan, wonderful praise
for Reagan. The one under Obama was the first black president,
a community organizer, a one term senator from Illinois. Okay,
you can get away with that. He created the ineffective
Unaffordable Care Act. Well, that's true, but you're not supposed
to put that on the wall. His party losing both
(12:21):
Houses of Congress. Under Obama, it gets worse and worse.
He crippled small business with crushing regulations and an environmental
red tape. Well, this is actually true. You could make
this case. He spied on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign
of Donald Trump. It's all. You could go into court
(12:41):
and prove this stuff true if you had to, but
you're not supposed to put it on the wall of
the White House. So but again, it hasn't exploded yet
all over the news. But we'll see, we'll see if
they demand he'd take it down. Maybe it's so over
the top outrageous that they're afraid to go after for it.
They know it's some kind of trap. I mean, it's
(13:02):
I mean, Howard Stern wouldn't have the nerve to put
this stuff on the wall. So hey, the very bad news.
Cardinal Dolan is leaving Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who everybody loved
sixteen years here as the cardinal. It's nothing personal. The
rule of the church is at seventy five you have
to resign. You have to resign at seventy five. It's mandatory,
(13:26):
and you put in your resignation. Now. For Cardinal Dolan,
that was last year. But sometimes they'll delay accepting the resignation.
And remember last year the pope died, so that, you know,
put a holt on everything. Nothing happened, and then a
new pope took over and he obviously needs many months
to get settled and organized, so he's done that. Now
(13:48):
he's decided to accept the resignation and pick a new
cardinal for New York. And it's Ronald Hicks, who's from Chicago,
has a lot of connection to the pope who's also
from Chicago. Their careers overlapped a few times. Hicks, He's not,
you know, Dolan is a big, larger than life, big
(14:08):
life of the party personality. Hicks is more of a quiet,
gentle sort of a guy. But he's a warm guy.
He's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Here he is accepting I want to do the will
of God. I asked him to tell the Holy Father
that I say yes with great humility and that I
accept this appointment with an open heart.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So he's here in New York today with the cardinal
being shown around.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And my name is Ron Hicks, and I have now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
First of all, he's got to call himself Ronald, this
Ron Hicks. It doesn't sound like a cardinal when your
name is Ron Hicks. Sounds like you work at William
Morris Agency. Sounds like you're a car salesman. Here's my
card Ron Hicks doesn't sound like a Cardinalnald Hicks will
sound better, make more sense.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Did New York about ten times in my life, and
every time I have visited, I have said to myself,
I love it. I love the culture, the food, the energy,
the plays, the neighborhoods, but especially I love the people.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Okay, okay, sounding like a bit of a tourist, but listen,
that's all the cardinals. Do you remember Dolan you think
of him as such a New Yorker. I remember when
he came here sixteen years ago from I think it
was Saint Louis. Saint Louis. He was the same thing.
He was new to New York, he didn't know his
way around, and of course he became a big, big,
big part of New York. So Ronald Hicks, Wilton.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The people from all over the world who call this
place home. And every time that I visited, I've always said,
I look forward to returning. And this time I'm returning
not only as a visitor, but I'm going to be
returning to stay.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So all right, now, he'll be good. He'll be good.
One of the reasons Dolan stayed a little longer than
he is supposed to. Catholic church with the you know,
the sexual abuse and scandal and all that, they had
to clean that up. There was nothing to do with Dolan,
wasn't his fault, but you had to clean it up.
He's the one that worked out at like a billion
(16:23):
dollar settlement, and they had to settle all these lawsuits
and raise the money to settle it. And that's what
he's been doing for the last year. It's mostly done now,
he'll notice very quietly, the Catholic Church here in New
York has been selling a lot of it's very valuable
real estate. Just this week they finally sold over there
at the Palace Hotel. They hon the whole ground lease.
(16:46):
They just sold that for about four hundred and ninety
million dollars. So they've raised all the money that's been settled.
And Ronald Hicks, he made that joke. Every new cardinal
makes the same joke. I already made that joke this morning,
and he's going to speech and he says, but I
do have something very controversial to say. I'm still a
(17:07):
Cubs fan. So Dolan did that when he came here too.
I'm still a Cardinals fan. But now the only if
there's a bad side to the Hicks can be a
little left wing, a little woke, but all right, that
can be cured. But we wish him very well and
we got a lot to get to today. We'll take
some calls next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten
Now on the Voice of New York has the Mark
Simone Show on seven tenor well, hey, there's a lot happening.
We'll get to Cardinal Dolan is leaving. That's very bad news.
We'll get to Brown University that president should be leaving.
Just horrible job she's done. We'll get to President Trump.
(00:25):
We'll get to the speech last night, a bit of
a dud, but we'll get to something else he did
yesterday that is going to upset everybody. It's not the
right thing to do, you shouldn't do it, but it's
good that it just drives these democrats in the media
absolutely crazy. We'll get to that, We'll get to Nick Reiner,
and we'll get to Jack Smith and a whole lot more. Hey,
(00:49):
this just breaking this morning. The Oscars scene on ABC
TV for decades decades. Oscars Sunday Night, ABC, Oscars Channel seven,
ABC TV for decades and decades. And I think before that,
in its first few years, was NBC. I think I
think that's why Bob Hope was the host in Johnny Carson.
(01:10):
But it moved to ABC where it's been for decades. Well,
they lost the Oscars, They've got it for the next
two years, but then it moves to YouTube. YouTube got
the oscars. Now, YouTube is really taken over television. You know,
as a network, TV completely dies and has fewer and
(01:34):
fewer viewers every second. You think that Netflix and the
streaming services are taken over, but it's really YouTube that's
capturing the biggest share of the television audience. YouTube is
going to be the biggest thing. Now, this is a
big step getting the oscars. We always assumed Amazon or
Netflix would get the NFL or Major League base Keep
(01:56):
an eye on YouTube. Now, the Oscars on YouTube? Is
it a good idea? Well, one thing it's gonna do.
It's gonna bring families together because when the Oscars are
on YouTube, you're gonna get those frantic calls. You're gonna
have to go to your mother's house. You're gonna have
to go to your grandmother's house and show them how
the hell to find YouTube. You know what, you might
(02:17):
as well plan on watching the oscars with them, because
no matter how much you show them, you're going to
get that call right before the oscars, I can't find it.
I lost it? How do you find it? So you're
gonna have to show them what the hell YouTube?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Is.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But it's a big, big development. So the Trump's speech
last night was not great. It was let me give
you the inside story here. This was not his idea.
He didn't want to do this. This was the staff
pushing it, mostly Susie Wiles pushing this. You know a
(02:53):
couple of reasons. One when fake news and the Democrats
start coming up with a with a hoax, with a
my and they start pounding it into people's heads. Twenty
four to seven. Everywhere you turn, it's all you hear
affordability crisis. Affordability crisis, affordability crisis. When you hear it
day and night, you actually, this is how propaganda works.
You actually start to think, oh my god, this is
(03:14):
an affordability crisis. There isn't We had one two years ago,
three years ago under Biden, you had a terrible crisis.
Prices were crazy, gas prices, everything was going nuts. Now
Trump has brought it down. He still got a ways
to go, but in his first year he brought it
down dramatically. Biden had inflation at nine percent one point
(03:34):
the highest in fifty years. When he left, his average
inflation was five percent. Trump has it down right now
to two point seven percent and falling. So that was
one reason for the speech, to try to fight back
on this myth that has been created. And then you
got a lot of great stuff that's going to happen
(03:55):
in the economy. The big beautiful bill has big tax
cuts for everybody, so your paycheck will be bigger every
week because you'll be paying less tax. Now it hasn't
kicked in yet, it starts in January, so everybody's going
to get a huge race starting in January. So he's
talking about how much you got done this year and
what's going to happen next year. But it wasn't a
great speech. It was a teleprompter speech. Trump is great
(04:18):
with an audience, you know, he knows how to perform
for an audience, but reading a teleprompter is not what
he should be doing. And in an empty room, he's
just in a big empty room. And it's that room
where you know. They've been doing Christmas parties every night
at the White House, sometimes two a night, sometimes three,
(04:41):
and they have so many people. They invite like twenty
five thousand people to these White House Christmas parties, so
you have to do them every night for three weeks.
In fact, there's another one tonight. They just keep doing
these Christmas parties, and it's the same procedure every night.
The guests all come whatever amount they can do a night,
five hundred, and they all walk around the Red room,
(05:01):
the Blue room, the Green room, the Yellow room, to
this room, to that room, the map room, the treating room,
and then they wander around and at some point they
come and assemble in this one spot where there's a podium.
The President comes down and makes a Christmas party speech.
And he's made this speech every night for three weeks,
the same speech, so you know, if you do it
(05:21):
too much, it gets stale. And it had that kind
of look last night. So basically the same situation, but
without an audience, just alone reading a teleprompter. So he
read it too loud, and he read it too fast,
and he kept talking like this, and it was too
fast and it was too loud. He was rushing through
it like this. I think that's because he didn't want
to do it. He was complaining off camera just before
(05:42):
he went on that Susie Wilds and everybody else pushed
him into doing this, so it's not what he wanted. Now,
the good news is because it was a well written speech.
A lot of people will just see it in print.
They'll read about it, and they'll see it in print.
In print, it looks great. But his delivery was like this,
and it was rushed and he was yelling, I'm just
trying to get through it, so it was a bit
of a dud. Here's someone.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Taris my favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have
been used successfully by other countries against US, but not anymore.
Companies know that if they build in America, there are
no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the
USA in record numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
That it's a little too loud. You know, when you're
alone in a room, you don't talk like this. Hear
how I'm talking. I'm yelling a little. If I'm on TV,
I can talk like this because on TV people are
usually about twelve feet away from the TV set. They're
over there on the couch. You can talk to them
like this. But when you're on the radio, you're usually
(06:42):
talking out of the speaker, which is like a foot away,
so you can't yell at them. You got to talk
like this. So if there's an audience, you can talk
like this to them. But if you're in an empty
room and you're just alone, you can you can talk
more intimately to people. So and he knows this kind
of stuff. I don't know why he didn't do that.
I guess because his heart wasn't in this speech. He
(07:04):
didn't want to do it. You know, when they do,
there reporters in the room and start asking the questions.
He doesn't talk like this to them. You know, he
talks in a real voice. So it was too much yelling.
Now he's going to get criticism for blaming everything on Biden.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to
our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again.
We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody,
crime at record levels.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Now everybody can So why does he keep playing Biden?
Why does he have to keep enough with Biden? Biden's
not president anymore. Why does he have to keep it?
Because again, Democrats, media, fake news, you're creating this whole
fake scenario that he's got an affordability crisis. It was
an enormous affordability crisis under Biden, and under him it's
(07:54):
been dropping steadily and quickly. You know, it got a
ways to go, but it's been dropped like crazy. So
that's why he keeps having a remind everybody because he's
trying to contradict a lie that's been out there day
and night for months. But somehow he's created an affordability cress.
It has nothing to do with it. In fact, he's
been lessening it every month. So now here's the other.
(08:19):
This is going to be another Trump problem, but maybe
it won't be. I don't know. This is so outrageous
that it might be too much even for fake news.
You know, when Rob Reiner died, he put out that
tweet which I went back and read it. It's not
as bad as they're making it out to be. The
(08:40):
tweet starts off very nice, talking about Rob Reiner and
Michelle Reiner and what a terrible tragedy this is and
how awful, and he talks about that, and then if
you'll go to the very end, he said, may they
both rest in peace. So that's very nice. It's in
the middle where he says, you know, Rob Reiner was
a guy filled with rage and hate speech, which is true.
True he was. He was, go check my twitter. We
(09:02):
have documented all of this, the stuff Rob Briiner was saying,
putting up online. It was just the ugliest, vile, crude
hate speech against Donald Trump, raging. You know, And again
I knew Rob Briner when you were with him. He
was the warmest, sweetest, nicest guy. So when you read
his tweeting and his things he was saying about Trump,
(09:26):
you can't believe this same guy could get so ugly
and vile and crude and cursing. And it's just very
jeckyl in heights. It makes you wonder. So that upset
a lot of people. Of course, you know, people said, well,
you shouldn't do that. You're the president. You have to
stay you know, graceful and dignified. And yeah, of course, okay,
(09:47):
so now they have When you walk to the Oval Office,
you walk along the colonnade there along that wall where
he's put up all the portraits of the presidents, used
to be just an empty white wall. And when you
think about it, but he's right, that's where you greet
the world leaders in one part of the White House.
Then you go outside and you walk down this a
long colonnade to get to the Oval Office, and it's
(10:09):
just empty wall. You see. He just said, let's line
this with pictures of all our presidents in beautiful gold frames.
It was very very nice, great idea. And now when
it came to Biden, he put instead of Biden's face,
he put an auto pen in there. All right, it's
a little joke. You shouldn't do that, but you can
(10:29):
get away with it. All right, it's not you know,
it's not that bad. But now he unveiled this yesterday,
and again they're all gonna go nuts over this. They're
all gonna go crazy. Although it hasn't exploded like I
think it would. He now put it, unveiled it yesterday.
Under many of these presidents he put plaques underneath saying things,
(10:51):
and they're very very insulting. So under Biden, and it's
a beautiful, you know, gold, very very ornate plaque like
you'd see on a building with the inscription on it.
But the oneher Biden says, sleepy Joe. Biden was by
far the worst president in America. And it goes on
and on to talk about what a crook he is,
how he opened the borders let twenty one million people
(11:13):
in his Afghanistan disaster. I mean, it's the worst stuff
about Biden. It's a long, but I'm skipping through the
nickname both sleepy and crooked Joe Joe Biden was dominated
by his radical left handler. It goes on and on,
and you could write this, and you're not supposed to
put it on the wall of the White House in
a gold plaque. So now, of course any other president
(11:36):
when they come in will take this down. Under Bill Clinton,
it's not as bad yet. No, it's mostly good about
he approved NAFTA. It's mostly good about Clinton. But at
the end it said President Clinton's wife Hillary lost the
presidency to Donald Trump. Now the one for Obama, the
(11:59):
Reagan one is just high praise for Reagan, wonderful praise
for Reagan. The one under Obama was the first black president,
a community organizer, a one term senator from Illinois. Okay,
you can get away with that. He created the ineffective
Unaffordable Care Act. Well, that's true, but you're not supposed
to put that on the wall. His party losing both
(12:21):
Houses of Congress. Under Obama, it gets worse and worse.
He crippled small business with crushing regulations and an environmental
red tape. Well, this is actually true. You could make
this case. He spied on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign
of Donald Trump. It's all. You could go into court
(12:41):
and prove this stuff true if you had to, but
you're not supposed to put it on the wall of
the White House. So but again, it hasn't exploded yet
all over the news. But we'll see, we'll see if
they demand he'd take it down. Maybe it's so over
the top outrageous that they're afraid to go after for it.
They know it's some kind of trap. I mean, it's
(13:02):
I mean, Howard Stern wouldn't have the nerve to put
this stuff on the wall. So hey, the very bad news.
Cardinal Dolan is leaving Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who everybody loved
sixteen years here as the cardinal. It's nothing personal. The
rule of the church is at seventy five you have
to resign. You have to resign at seventy five. It's mandatory,
(13:26):
and you put in your resignation. Now. For Cardinal Dolan,
that was last year. But sometimes they'll delay accepting the resignation.
And remember last year the pope died, so that, you know,
put a holt on everything. Nothing happened, and then a
new pope took over and he obviously needs many months
to get settled and organized, so he's done that. Now
(13:48):
he's decided to accept the resignation and pick a new
cardinal for New York. And it's Ronald Hicks, who's from Chicago,
has a lot of connection to the pope who's also
from Chicago. Their careers overlapped a few times. Hicks, He's not,
you know, Dolan is a big, larger than life, big
(14:08):
life of the party personality. Hicks is more of a quiet,
gentle sort of a guy. But he's a warm guy.
He's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Here he is accepting I want to do the will
of God. I asked him to tell the Holy Father
that I say yes with great humility and that I
accept this appointment with an open heart.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So he's here in New York today with the cardinal
being shown around.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And my name is Ron Hicks, and I have now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
First of all, he's got to call himself Ronald, this
Ron Hicks. It doesn't sound like a cardinal when your
name is Ron Hicks. Sounds like you work at William
Morris Agency. Sounds like you're a car salesman. Here's my
card Ron Hicks doesn't sound like a Cardinalnald Hicks will
sound better, make more sense.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Did New York about ten times in my life, and
every time I have visited, I have said to myself,
I love it. I love the culture, the food, the energy,
the plays, the neighborhoods, but especially I love the people.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Okay, okay, sounding like a bit of a tourist, but listen,
that's all the cardinals. Do you remember Dolan you think
of him as such a New Yorker. I remember when
he came here sixteen years ago from I think it
was Saint Louis. Saint Louis. He was the same thing.
He was new to New York, he didn't know his
way around, and of course he became a big, big,
big part of New York. So Ronald Hicks, Wilton.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The people from all over the world who call this
place home. And every time that I visited, I've always said,
I look forward to returning. And this time I'm returning
not only as a visitor, but I'm going to be
returning to stay.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So all right, now, he'll be good. He'll be good.
One of the reasons Dolan stayed a little longer than
he is supposed to. Catholic church with the you know,
the sexual abuse and scandal and all that, they had
to clean that up. There was nothing to do with Dolan,
wasn't his fault, but you had to clean it up.
He's the one that worked out at like a billion
(16:23):
dollar settlement, and they had to settle all these lawsuits
and raise the money to settle it. And that's what
he's been doing for the last year. It's mostly done now,
he'll notice very quietly, the Catholic Church here in New
York has been selling a lot of it's very valuable
real estate. Just this week they finally sold over there
at the Palace Hotel. They hon the whole ground lease.
(16:46):
They just sold that for about four hundred and ninety
million dollars. So they've raised all the money that's been settled.
And Ronald Hicks, he made that joke. Every new cardinal
makes the same joke. I already made that joke this morning,
and he's going to speech and he says, but I
do have something very controversial to say. I'm still a
(17:07):
Cubs fan. So Dolan did that when he came here too.
I'm still a Cardinals fan. But now the only if
there's a bad side to the Hicks can be a
little left wing, a little woke, but all right, that
can be cured. But we wish him very well and
we got a lot to get to today. We'll take
some calls next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
(17:30):
ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero
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