Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Wednesday that he thinks Democrats are on the brink of “collapse” due to their hostility toward President Donald Trump.
During Trump’s Tuesday congressional address, Democrats protested and hardly applauded the president — even when he honored Americans who have lost family members or were sick or took popular stances on issues. O’Reilly, on “CUOMO,” argued that Democrats are so blinded by their loathing of Trump that they’re setting themselves up for major electoral losses.
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“Donald Trump last night did what he wanted to do. Number one, he got on the record that his accomplishments in the first six week[s] were fairly extraordinary, which is true — both good and bad,” O’Reilly told Cuomo. “And number two, he taunted the Democratic Party into making a myriad of mistakes. I think the Democratic Party is on the verge of collapse.”
“And I liken it to 1931, when [former President] Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party basically said to the very suffering American people in the Depression, ‘We’re not helping you. You got to do it on your own. It’s all about self-reliance. We’re not going to give you any safety nets.’ That led to five consecutive Democratic wins — five,” he continued. “Not until [former President] Dwight Eisenhower — 20 years later, did the Republicans recover.”
O’Reilly also argued that “far left” Democrats’ feelings toward Trump caused them to go from anti-war to pro-war when it comes to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. When Trump discussed the U.S. funding Ukraine in the war, he received applause from Democrats and particularly called out Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by alleging she did not want the conflict to end.
“Now, all of the sudden, they want to go in Ukraine and go and go and go and go. What happened? What happened was Trump hatred. And that’s what the headline is of the speech last night. When you are hating someone, you lose all perspective,” O’Reilly said. “You lose all feeling. You’re consumed. And I wrote a book that’s going to be out in September called Confronting Evil. And these people who did all these terrible things, they all had one thing in common: they hated. They were just haters across the board. That’s what you saw in the chamber last night.”
O’Reilly pointed to Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green, who disrupted Trump just minutes into his address, as an example of the party’s loathing.
“This guy from Texas looked like he should be starring in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He’s up there flailing around, and I’m going, ‘You think you’re helping your party? Do you think anybody at home watching this likes this in the House of Representatives?’ But he couldn’t help it, because he hates Trump so much,” he said. “And that’s across the board in the Democratic Party.”
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS on Tuesday found that 80% of the viewing audience of the speech believed Green’s disruption was “inappropriate.” Moreover, it found that 69% thought Trump’s speech was either “very positive” or “somewhat positive.”
Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza similarly warned in February that Democrats’ intense hatred for Trump is hurting their chances of regaining government control after Republicans secured unified control of the federal government in November.
“They just have a blind spot with Trump. No idea he proposes can even be a good idea,” Cillizza said. “Again, if it was proposed by James P. Public, Republican president, they’d be like, ‘Okay, well, maybe.’ But because it is him, and because the loathing is so — I use that word advisedly — but they hate him, every idea is a bad idea.”
“And I just think it leads to some poor strategic conclusions if your goal is — as Democrats’ goal should be — getting some power back, because they’re out of power at every single level at the state and federal government,” he continued.
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