August 25th, 2025

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, critics of President Trump’s executive order on American flag burning have not read it and are misrepresenting it, as the order creates no new laws or offenses. It does not run counter to the 1989 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson. Unsurprisingly, most of the media jumped the gun, and their favorite NeverTrumpers (among others) joined in the chorus, accusing the president of lawlessness, etc. Also, France’s Emmanuel Macron is a disgusting quisling. He thinks it’s still Vichy France, where he’d be more comfortable. Kudos to our Ambassador to France, Charles Kushner for calling out antisemitism in France. Later, CNN and similar media are biased against Supreme Court conservatives like Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Alito, who are accused of being “out of control” while upholding the Constitution in rulings favoring the Trump administration on issues like immigration, spending, and DEI. Afterward, On Power explains that negative power, particularly its soft form, exists in both open and closed societies and is increasingly prevalent in democracies like America. It emphasizes that a universal order—encompassing nature, morality, values, and beliefs—precedes, transcends, and outlasts all governments, which are temporary human constructs imposing limits on individuals. Humans are not inherently subjects of rulers or governments but are governed by an unamendable supreme law. Valid governments must align with this universal order, while soft negative power persists in civil society (via laws, customs, or social contracts like Locke’s) to maintain order, prevent anarchy, and protect individual liberty—even in the best governments. People vote for tyranny, then when it takes hold, it’s too late – that’s what will happen if Zohran Mamdani becomes Mayor of NYC. Finally, Yael Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians (IFCJ) and Jews calls in. In Syria, partnering with the Israeli army, IFCJ has provided thousands of food packages and established medical clinics for targeted Christians and Druze. More recently in Suweida, they airlifted life-saving medical supplies and food to a hospital lacking essentials, saving lives from infections and hunger.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. You know, America, we spend an awful lot of time in this country responding to an unreality created by the people who hate America, created by people who get sucked in to the narratives. They were pushed out there each and every day. Including this issue of flag burning in the First Amendment. And I will return to that. You’re in the right place at the right time. I also want to talk about our ambassador to France. Charles Kushner. Who did something fabulous, and the quisling Macron who would be more comfortable in Vichy France. Got upset about it. We want to cover that, too. And of course, we have a black girl, Garcia. Well, we’ve probably spent millions of dollars trying to remove this. March 13, wife beating human trafficking reprobate who’s been here illegally since 2012. Because the lower courts are filled. With a rogue left wing Democrat lawyers dressed up as judges. It took nothing for him to come to the United States. And you see what it takes to actually remove somebody like this. It’s a problem. But before we do that, my wife Julie and I did something we rarely do. We went to the Kennedy Center. Now that it’s in the good hands of President Trump and Rick Grenell, among others. And we saw play there. That was absolutely fantastic. And I wanted to bring your attention to it. It’s called Parade Parade. And it only runs till, I think, the first week in September. And, you know, I’m not big on plays and that sort of thing, but this was really fantastic. Fantastic. And if you live in or around the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, I want to encourage you to go see this play. I don’t get anything out of this. I’m just telling you how great it was. A fantastic play. I’m not going to tell you about it. You can Google it yourself. But the cast is great. The singing was beautiful. And by the way. The restaurant there at the Kennedy Center was fantastic. I’m telling you all this because all you’re hearing are attacks on the Kennedy Center and how they’re trying to control it and this, that and the other this play parade. I don’t think this play would ever, ever have seen the light of day out of the previous management. I don’t. I don’t. So again, the play is called Parade. The crew is magnificent. The singing is magnificent. If you want to go dine there before before you see the play, I strongly recommend it at some of the best food we’ve had. I’m telling you the truth. Just terrific. Well, I’ll give you a little taste of this. It’s about a man named Leo Frank. From Brooklyn. Who marries a woman. From a small town in Georgia. And he moves to Georgia. And he is. Sort of a manager. For a small company there. That makes, among other things, pencils. And a young girl. He did a little bit of work there. Get a little bit of work there. She’s murdered. Leo Frank. His set up. By the day. By the DEA. Leo Frank is Jewish. His wife is Jewish. A very heroic and gutsy governor. I’m not going to get into the details. Who takes steps that destroy his political career. The day. Gets elected eventually governor. But this is a really, really good play. And it’s and it’s executed beautifully. I think you’re going to like it. So, again, the movie is called Parade. It’s at the Kennedy Center. Again, the restaurant there is fantastic, fantastic. You might want to check it out, a date night, a day matinee and so forth. As I said, we haven’t been to the Kennedy Center in years and years and years. It just too much schlock there. This was an outstanding outstanding play parade. Okay. Donald Trump. Let’s do cut one. We’ll set this up at the in the Oval Office today. The president about burning the American flag. Cut one go. What the penalty is going to be if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail If you burn a flag, you get. And what it does is inside to right out. They use that language. By the way, did that inside incite to riot? And you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don’t get ten years, you don’t get one month, you get one year in jail. And it goes on your record and you will see flag burning, stopping immediately. Just like when I signed the Statute and Monument Act, ten years in jail, if you hurt any of our beautiful monuments, everybody left town. They were gone. Never had a problem after that. Mm hmm. By the way, the play runs through September 7th. Okay, so what happened? President signs the executive order and immediately the media jumped into action. Immediately the Never Trumpers jump into action immediately. Those who claim to be civil libertarians and constitutionalist jump in action. They did. They could not possibly have read the executive order when they were coming. They could not possibly have read it, but it didn’t matter. They wanted to be the first. And they wanted to attack. And they did. Let’s go over to one of the worst of the worst, one of the media and trailers started by Dan Abrams. It’s really. Really a radical left wing and very sophomoric site. Called mediocre I aka media i. And so they go online and they have different folks. Who are attacking what the president did. They’re shocked. Shocked at what he’s doing. I find it unbelievably, incredibly outrageous. And they’re posting and they’re posting and they’re posting and again, I’m reading the executive order. And it’s clear to me they didn’t read it. Even some so-called conservative radio hosts. Because that’s what that’s what the enemy does. It’s what the media enemy do. And they’re like fools, and they’ll move on to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. And that’s why I spent my opening statement Sunday night on Life, Liberty and Levin on Fox. Reading to you from Judge Federal District Court Judge Royce Lambert’s decision about what John Bolton did in his revelation of classified information in his book without getting complete approval by the government. He was damning of Bolton. Damning, Which is why even today, 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time today. Nobody’s quoting that opinion, friend or foe, Friend or foe. Cable TV or radio. Nobody’s quoting that opinion. I quoted it to you Friday here behind this microphone and on my Sunday show. Because there was a finding by a federal judge. There were Bolton did, and the information he released did, in fact, endanger our national security. Then I read to you Friday right here, as well as on my Fox Sunday show, what the Biden administration did a year later, which was outrageous and one sentence without explanation, dismissing it all, you all would be doing prison time for 20 years. That’s not been quoted on TV anywhere or up to the best of my knowledge, on radio, anywhere but by me. Here we have a decision by a federal judge. Here we have a document executed filed by the Biden administration with the federal court, and nobody has read either of them out loud, not even cited them. So I did. And even today they haven’t. And most of these people haven’t read the president’s executive order that he signed today. While they’re trashing the hell out of. The president’s executive order doesn’t create a new law, doesn’t create a new offense. Let me read from it. To, You’ll be the best informed. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s rulings on First Amendment protections. The court has never held that American flag desecration conducted any matter that is likely to incite imminent, lawless action, or that is an action amounting to fighting words or is constitutionally protected. Now the case they’re talking about is Texas versus chance. And that was. Issued in 1989. That’s just 36 years ago, and the vote was 5 to 4. 5 to 4, it split the court. Rehnquist wrote the dissenting opinion. Brennan, a radical left wing justice, wrote the majority opinion, but Scalia joined him. And yet Sandra Day O’Connor joined Rehnquist. As did John Paul Stevens, a liberal. He said, My administration will act to restore respect and sanctity of the American flag and prosecute those who incite violence or otherwise violate our laws while desecrating this symbol of our country. If you violate existing laws by burning the flag, if you incite violence, by burning the flag, just as if you incite violence by words. You will be punished under existing law. It goes on. The attorney general prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American flag desecration. Existing laws that violate applicable content neutral laws. So if it’s content neutral, nothing happens. Nothing while causing harm unrelated to expression consistent with the First Amendment. This may include, but is not limited to violent crimes. Hate crimes. So if you burn a flag. Let’s say, on the grounds of a church or synagogue or. The ECP or something like that. That could be a hate crime. Illegal discrimination against American citizens or other violations of American civil rights and crime. Crimes against property. You grab my flag and burn it. That’s a crime against my property. As well as conspiracies and attempts to violate aiding and abetting others to violate such laws. In cases where the Department of Justice or another executive department or agency determines that an instance of American flag desecration may violate an applicable state or local law and applicable state or local law, such as open burning restrictions like environmental laws, disorderly conduct laws like jumping in the middle of a bridge or street, and you protect and you like the flag on fire and you’re waving it. Or destruction of property laws. Again, you take a flag off a public building and you burn it. The agency says refer the matter to the appropriate state or local authority for potential action. And if you’re here. If you hear. On a student visa if you’re here with a residence permit. Something of that sort and you’re burning the American flag. Well, you may face deportation. But the First Amendment Excuse me. You’re here on a privilege. And as a guest, only in recent months have somehow the media and judges conferred rights on non-citizens that they’ve never had before. So this is not new ground. What the president is saying, however, is and what is new is that we will prosecute where we can under existing law. He’s not violating any Supreme Court ruling. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Rich, how much time do I have? Sorry. All right, Only a minute. When we come back, folks. More to the court. More to the law. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh warn lower court judges in Trump cases. That’s right. This is today. Constipated News Network. Have you heard about this? Of course not. As mediocre write one of the worst of the entrails of the radical left media. Have they gone around checking the Internet for comments on this? Of course not. Since we only have about 30 seconds left. I’m not going to get into this, but as soon as we get back and then Justice Jackson. She’s been busy trashing her colleagues. What a disaster. She’s violated all the traditions and decorum of that court, and she’s more than happy about it. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
By the way, the prime minister of Israel says terrible, terrible accident. It is war, after all, in an urban area. A location was hit that housed. A number of journalists who were killed in that location. And he’s publicly stated it was a terrible thing, that they’re very sorry. They’re investigating it. At least five so-called journalists or what I called journo terrorists who work with Hamas. Who worked with the terrorists over the course of the last few months have been killed. But the media do not discuss at length their connections to Hamas. So you see, if you’re a so-called journalist and you work with Hamas or the terrorists, if you do that. I guess you get special immunity, but that’s not how it works. Now, the same so-called. Media types. If I were to ask them without them researching how many journalists, real journalists have actually been assassinated by Putin, they couldn’t give you the number. How many real journalists have actually been killed by Hamas? They couldn’t give you the number. How many journalists have actually been killed who were in Hong Kong and so forth that were killed by communist China. They can’t give you their number. You get my point. And still we have Jew haters and anti-Semites screaming at the top of their lungs with ice cubes and the negatives. Accusing Israel of genocide. Why? Because the U.N. did. Why? Because they changed the entire definition of famine. And despite the fact that these reports are reviewed and unraveled and demonstrated to be false, they’re still waved around by not just Democrats, two or three Republicans. And they’re used in the media and not just in left wing media on some conservative media platforms. So I want to put a salute out there. Two, Charles Kushner. And I will get back to the Supreme Court in a moment to Charles Kushner. Who’s our ambassador to France. France has a huge. Problem. With Islamists. There are open borders. Have had real consequences, the chief rabbi there said last year. Now Jews need to leave. And in ten years there may be no Jews left in France. The Islamists. However, take in many parts of Europe. I hope you’re watching the posts that I put up. Finland. Britain. Austria. Australia. Canada. Might as well be Europe. But I want to salute Charles Kushner. He published a letter and he sent this letter to Emmanuel Macron, who’s a quisling who would be more comfortable in Vichy France. Dear Mr. Macron on the 81st anniversary of the Allied Liberation of Paris, which ended the deportation of Jews from French soil, I write out of deep concern over the dramatic rise of anti-Semitism in France and the lack of sufficient action by your government to confront it. anti-Semitism has long scarred French life, but it has exploded since Hamas’s barbaric assault on October seven, 2023. Since then, pro-Hamas extremists and radical activists have waged a campaign of intimidation and violence across Europe. In France, not a day passes without Jews assaulted in the street. Synagogues are schools defaced or Jewish owned businesses vandalized. Your own Interior Ministry has reported anti-Semitic incidents, even at preschools. Public statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state emboldened extremists, fuel violence and endangered Jewish life in France. In today’s world, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, plain and simple. President Trump and I have Jewish children and share Jewish grandchildren. I know how he feels about anti-Semitism, as do all Americans. He directed the Education Department to enforce civil rights protections for Jewish students on university campuses, making clear that harassment and discrimination won’t be tolerated. He expanded resources for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security to safeguard synagogues and Jewish schools. He ordered strict vetting to bar entry for foreigners espousing anti-Semitic hatred and revoked visas for foreign agitators. He oversaw the deportation of Hamas sympathizers, and he cut funding to organizations promoting anti Semitic incitement and by crippling Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He struck directly at the world’s leading state sponsor of anti-Semitism and terror and saved millions of lives. These measures prove that anti-Semitism can be fought effectively when leaders have the will to act. Today, many French Jews fear that history will repeat itself in Europe. Parents encourage their children to emigrate. Surveys show most French citizens believe another Holocaust could happen in Europe. That’s French citizens, not just Jews. Nearly half of French youths report never having heard of the Holocaust at all. What are children being taught in French schools? If such ignorance persists? Mr. President, I urge you to act decisively. Enforce hate crime laws without exception. Ensure the safety of Jewish schools, synagogues and businesses. Prosecute offenders to the fullest extent and abandon steps that give legitimacy to Hamas and its allies. As U.S. Ambassador to France, I stand ready to work with you and with leaders across French society to forge a serious plan that addresses the roots of anti-Semitism and defeats it. Mr. Kushner’s U.S. ambassador to France. What a powerful. Important. What will be historic letter. And guts. What a gutsy letter. And what’s the response? From Reuters, France summoned the American ambassador, Charles Kushner, after he wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, alleging France had failed to do enough to stem anti-Semitic violence. A French foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday. Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter, published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal amid deep divides between France, the U.S. and Israel in the letter. I don’t need to comment on what’s in the letter. I just read the whole thing to you. Kushner’s letter follows another sent to Macron by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week, in which he accused Macron of contributing to anti-Semitism by calling for international recognition of a Palestinian state. Macron has emerged as one of the more forceful critics of Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, particularly with regard to Palestinian civilian casualties. While Trump has steadfastly supported the Israeli leader. Macron has publicly criticized anti-Semitism. It’s antithetical to French values and outgoing Goa luck. The fact is, Macron is a quisling. The fact that in Europe these left of center parties, in these left parties are now relying more and more, just as they are on the Democrat Party, on Islamists. I don’t mean Muslims, I mean Islamists, Islamists who support Hamas, who support Iran. Who support Hezbollah. Like the fake mag in our own country. Like a big chunk of the Democrat Party. Tourists. Flat out terrorists. The same kind of terrorist who blew up our twin Towers. You took out a plane in the middle of Pennsylvania. Who hit our Pentagon. Those terrorists. Those terrorists. We have a weak underbelly within our own country, the enemy within. The enemy within. Cowards. Now one of these bastards. Come on this show, by the way. Yes. Takes guts to speak out today, ladies and gentlemen. I love you in this audience because you do. You’re not intimidated. You know, right from wrong. You’re no good from evil. You know who these people are? The fakes, the frauds, the phonies. It’s incredible. And they will tell you they will mimic the United Nations. They will mimic France. They will mimic Hamas. And they will tell you that there’s genocide in Gaza and it’s being committed by the Jews. There is not genocide in Gaza. It is a war torn area. There’s no question that there are. A certain percentage of people who suffer. There’s no question about that. But there is not genocide. If there’s genocide, why the hell are the Israelis sending 18 wheelers in there by the thousands? Why are we. Supporting. That transport of food. Into Gaza and working with the Israelis shoulder to shoulder to do it. Whereas France. Where’s Britain? Where are they? They’re nowhere. Nowhere. That’s why President Trump backs Israel. Now that you haters are out of the closet. We know who they are. And the Jew haters hate people who aren’t Jewish too. Faithful Christians. They hate you, too. And they hate this country while they pretend to be purists in support of it. Oh, they hate it. We’re responsible forever. Wars, they say. We’re responsible for the evil that has turned on us in other countries. They hate us. While they claim to be pure than you and me. They’re not. They’re in bed with the Islamists. They sound like the Islamists. They’re in bed with a Marxist. They admire him and army. They admire Bernie Sanders. They admire Hamas. I challenge. Our broadcast networks. All of them. To run the photographs, the video of October seven, the video, all 45 minutes of it, put it on TV, show the world. Show the world. But they won’t because they’re too gruesome. I challenge all broadcast networks to go into Gaza. With your video cameras. And show us the mass famine, starvation that’s taking place. Show it. Show it. No more phony photos on the front page of The New York Times or The Daily Mirror. Show us. But they want. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Geez, I don’t know if I’ll get to the Supreme Court justices this year. I’m not trying to tag along here. Might be next hour. We’ll see. I’m not going to have time to get into this, but you’re going to want to hear it, I think, which is Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh concerned about how much time do I, Rich? Well, let me get started here. The constipated news network, CNN. They write in Donald Trump’s long running feud with federal judges. You see, that’s how that’s how low IQ reporters write about stuff. President has found some support in an unlikely place, the nation’s highest court. Excuse me, cholera. A growing sense of frustration with some lower courts articulated in terms that at times sounds similar to Trump’s own rhetoric, has crept into a series of opinions this summer from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices as they juggle a flood of emergency cases dealing with Trump’s second term. That’s not how a real reporter covering the court should write things, but they sound like Trump and so forth and so on. KAVANAUGH Sounds like KAVANAUGH. Course, it sounds like Gorsuch. They’re giving their honest opinions, quote, lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them. Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished in an opinion last week tied to the court’s decision to allow Trump to cancel nearly 800 million in research grants. The rebuke, which was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and others, obviously flipped the narrative that it is Trump who has pushed legal boundaries with his flurry of executive orders. You see what I mean? Who wrote this damn thing? John Fritzy or Fritz Fritzie. It’s got the IQ of a lobster. This is now the third time in a matter of weeks this court intercede in a case squarely controlled by one of its presidents, wrote Gorsuch, who was Trump’s first nominee to the high court. Kavanaugh was his second there, admonishing the lower courts. You have to follow our decisions now. If a party didn’t follow a court’s decision, then all hell would break loose. Right. I’ll be right back.