RADIOJune 11, 2025

Caught in the crosshairs: Will YOUR city survive June 14th?

People like AFT president Randi Weingarten and Walmart heiress Christy Walton are promoting a “nationwide day of defiance” protest event called “No Kings Day.” But amid the chaos in Los Angeles, Glenn Beck warns that the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests are designed for only one thing: to sow more chaos on our streets.

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GLENN: The Coming Insurrection. I think we are -- I think we're here.

We're getting awfully darn close.

Look at the things that are happening right now. And the things that we said would happen.

And would all start be playing into each other.

You know, this -- this no kings event, next week.

I'm looking into it here. Jason, I know and you the staff have really been looking into it.

But June 14th, this is -- this is it.

In America, we don't do kings.

And on June 14th, we rise up.

And this is -- this is headed by Randi Weingarten. Who is strange. The head of the teacher union. Why is she so passionate about all of this, I wonder.

Anyway, she -- on Monday, they are going to tell their governments and the communities, no kings! Because what is happening according to Randi Weingarten and this group, is that Donald Trump has defiled our courts.

Really? The ones who -- wait. Weren't you guys just trying to pack the courts.

Defiled our courts. Deported Americans.

We haven't deported a single American. Have we deported a single American?

Disappeared people off our streets! What the hell does that even mean?

I mean, I know what it means. We're not doing that.

Attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services!

I wish they would have slashed our services.

Corruption has gone too far. No thrones. No crowns. No king. On June 14th, we rise up!

What do you suppose that is going to look like, in the midst of everything else, that is going on?

If you weren't for revolution, you would say, you know, guys, we've been working on the no kings thing, let's just hold off a little bit. Because we have California. LA.

Going on. This looks like it's starting to spread now. It's going to be in Boston. In New York.

Dallas. Last night.

And let's just -- let's just hold off on this.

Because we don't want to have, you know, another event, where we've got, you know, 150 cities, and these events going on.

And we're not at every event.

So we don't know who is actually organizing it.

Let's be very, very careful.

Let's take a breath.

They're not responsible people.

That is not their goal! To do reasonable things.
Their goal is to create as much chaos as possible.

I told you in 2000 -- beginning in 2008.

Look, the operative word for the future. The one word that you're going need to. Because it will describe almost everything, is chaos!

And anything that brings more chaos on the street, is not a good thing.

Stay away from people who are preaching chaos.

Law, order, constitutional principles. And principles that we find in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Those things run to.

Everything else, is going to be a real problem!

And isn't it amazing how all of these things are just suddenly spontaneously, all erupting.

We did a show, how many weeks ago?

Five weeks ago, where we said, what is your -- what's your goal, as a Democrat?

Because you don't get elected on these things.

You don't get elected by causing more chaos.

By saying, hey. We're for the murderers, and rapists.

You don't get elected. The people are not for these things.

And you are seeing it in poll after poll.

And in that special, I said, unless that's not your goal. Unless your goal is chaos.

Now is the time to strike!

And look where we are, right now.

You know, I have to say something about Dave Ramsey for a second.

I know this seems like a non sequitur, but it's not.

You know, the pro-Israel event, that I was just telling you, was being cancelled in Dallas.

There was one in Nashville.

And Dave is in Nashville.

And it was cancelled for the same reason.

Dave, apparently has a large compound, and could have a thousand people. Or 1500 people, at his -- at his place.

And so he hosted it.

And took great risk. And hats off to you. I've been sitting here, thinking, after I read that.

Can we put that many people into our studios. I just don't think we can.

But my gosh, there's a guy who is standing up for what he believes, and putting his money where his mouth is.

Putting his safety where his mouth is.

And thank you, Dave Ramsey, for doing that.

You're a great man. Truly a great man.

STU: Greater than you, apparently.

He could pull it off.

GLENN: Apparently.

Well, I've worked with too many wusses. People that are like, Glenn!

STU: No. I'm in Dallas, right now. Where are you? Hmm. Interesting.

GLENN: I'm in an undisclosed location.
(laughter)

STU: Probably the smartest place to be, these days.

GLENN: I was going to say. I'm smart. I'm up in the mountains, where really, if you haven't thought about it, maybe you should consider it!

I'm just saying.

Let's see. What else haven't we -- what else haven't we hit yet, Stu. That is important to get in. Before we lose our national broadcast time?

STU: That's a good question.

We hit the -- the -- how about Brian Stelter, this is a fun one.

Brian Stelter.

GLENN: What!

STU: Now, Brian Stelter. He's out there, making sure you understand these protests.

First of all, he wants to make sure you know, well, not you, Glenn.

His friends that are texting him.

He wants them to know, that he has come on TV, and said, it's just a very small slice of Los Angeles.

Most people in Los Angeles are going about their business absolutely.

Normally.

Their lives are normal. They're unaffected.

GLENN: Wow. That's insight I couldn't have gotten from anybody else.

Wait. So you're not saying every person in Los Angeles is on the streets?

GLENN: No!

GLENN: Wow.

STU: I find that to be a fascinating thing.

There's like a nice little -- I don't know.

Let them eat cake element to it. I like.

Oh. Let those poor people, hit with rubber bullets. While we cheer them on.

From our wonderful Hollywood mansion.

I love you that element, of don't worry!

It's just --

GLENN: It's just the plebes of society.

STU: Yes. So he wants you to know about that.

Look, there's some relevance to that critique generally, in these moments. Right?

At times, we do get -- news cuts out the perspective that entire cities aren't on fire.

I do remember being on tour with you one time, Glenn.

And we were -- we were doing theaters across the country.

And I flip on the news.

It was MSNBC at the time.

And I see a former, you know, cable news personality, Rita Cosby. Do you remember Rita Cosby.

She was on MSNBC a few years back in the day.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: I see her on a boat. She's on a canoe. And she's on a boat.

She's floating around, and I'm looking at it like, where is she?

It's not on a river! She's on a street!

There's so much flooding. She's on a boat on a street. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. Where is she?

And I realized, she's legitimately like a block and a half from my house.

GLENN: I remember. You came in. And you were like, I can't do the show.

My kids might be dead.

Help!

STU: I'm texting my wife, calling my wife. What is happening?

She's on a boat, right by the house. And she was like a block and a half from my house. I finally got my wife on the phone, panicked.

My house will be flooding. What will go on? What will we need to do?

And she's like, oh, well.

There's kind of like a big puddle at the end of our street.

Is that what she's talking about? And not only was there only flooding right there, in this one period.

Which floods all the time.

Every restaurant in our town was opened.

Everyone was going about their business normally. There was like, one or two houses that were affected, that are right on the water. Right on the river, where we lived. But that was it. But like, from my perspective, watching it on MSNBC, it appeared, my house and all of its belongings were going to be floating down the Delaware river at any moment.

So there is some level of context and perspective that is important in those moments.

But it seemingly only happens when you're trying to downplay the violence of a riot on the left.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: And then today, Stelter is back on TV, saying one of the big problems with all of this is Twitter!

And X. Because what they're doing is echoing videos that could be, Glenn. You're not going to believe this. Could be up to hours old. So, I mean, you can't understand --

GLENN: Unlike television. Unlike television. Unlike television that is running -- that is running things from Friday and Saturday, you know.

STU: Right.

GLENN: It's up to hours old.

STU: Could be hours old. Maybe even a couple days old. And you shouldn't care, I suppose.

GLENN: Wow. That is amazing. Hey, can I ask you one of the shocking things that came out of what you were just talking about. Is that Brian Stelter was on TV.

Who knew that was still happening some place.

I want to ask your question on this. Get your thoughts on this.

Multiple people shot during DC pride parade. After gay activists rejected security measures.

Okay.

Have you heard about the shooting at the gay pride parade?

STU: I have not, no.

GLENN: Okay. That is odd to me.

Isn't that odd?

There's a big gay pride parade.

Shooting took place at DuPont Circle, a cite traditionally used by the LGBTQ+ community, leaving one male injured, according to the Washington, D.C. police department.

Shooting has occurred. Police also learned citizens of a stabbing that took place in the same area, which left two male victims suffering from stab wounds.

Okay.

So why haven't we heard about this?

Because you would think that that would immediately be turned into, see. Look, the gay pride parade.

They were told, they needed security, and they said, no!

We don't need security.

We're proud. And then, you know, nothing happened, except some right-wing extremists came out. And were stabbing gay people. And shooting gay people.

STU: Did the wrong shooter commit this crime?

Is that what occurred?

GLENN: When has that ever stopped.

STU: That's true.

That's the only thing I can think of.

Certainly, if a right-wing group decided to target a gay pride parade, it would be literally the lead story for months.

GLENN: For months.

STU: Yeah. So it has to be --

GLENN: For months.

STU: -- either just some general street crime, which wants to be ignored. Or it was -- you know, somebody else.

GLENN: It's got to be street. Just regular street crime.

Because that's crazy. By the way, the global gay pride parade that was apparently happening some place here in America.

And it happens every year. Some place globally.

And this year, it was America's turn. And they're saying, that the turnout, was about a third of what they expected.

Apparently, not so much pride, in the gay pride parade, this year, I guess.

I don't really know.

I don't really care, quite honestly.

But I would like to blame it on Donald Trump.

Because I -- I -- we haven't received any kind of, you know, official proclamation. Or -- or any kind of presidential dictate on what we were supposed to do with gay month.

With gay Pride Month.

And so I'm a little lost. Insular even have my tree up. Do you have your tree up?

I don't know which flags to fly. I don't know when to fly them.

I just don't know what parade to even attend right now.

And it's -- it's a little disturbing.

There's one other story that we haven't gotten to, and that is RFK Jr has -- has fired all 17 members of the CBC vaccine panel. I couldn't decide which one was worse, so he was like, eh. You know what, all of them. And I would just like to say, thank you very much.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.

SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?

SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.