May 18th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. Welcome. Still not clear after several hours here what happened at the San Diego Islamic Center. What is known is that three adult men were killed there, including a security guard who they’re saying was heroic and two teenagers, 117 119 They were the perpetrators and they left the location in a car and not too far away. They apparently committed suicide. And we don’t know their names. Everybody’s curious to know who they are, what their background is. I’m sure the police and the FBI know it at this point, and we will be monitoring this throughout the next 3 hours of the program to let you know. So that terrible, terrible incident took place there. The president has decided. That we might have a deal coming up at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Military action that he said was to take place tomorrow. Will not be taking place. And he’s informed the Israelis of this. So you can see that the Israelis are a partner to some extent, and Qatar and Saudi Arabia and the UAE urged the president not to unleash. So what does this tell you? Couple tells you a couple of things. First thing is all these. Disgusting Jew haters who are out there telling you that Israel, Netanyahu and I. Control our foreign policy. They’re just such scumbags. Obviously, I don’t control it or we’ve been done already. And obviously Israel’s chomping at the bit to finish off the regime there. And I’m just feeling bad for the people who live there. They’ve got to be wondering what’s going on. I can’t give them too much direction because I’m not sure. And despite all the constant talk about so forth and so on, I have not had a discussion with the president about this. I’d say for several months. But my views are well known. If you listen to this program or you watch my program on FOX. President said and he issued this, I been asked by the emir of Qatar. Tamim bin Hamad bin Al Thani, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. I’m not going to read their names. It’s ridiculous. And the president of the UAE to hold off on our planned military attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was scheduled for tomorrow, and that serious negotiations are now taking place, and that, in their opinion, as great leaders and allies, a deal will be made which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all countries in the Middle East and beyond. Now, how do we know that this deal will include, importantly, no nuclear weapons for Iran and caps with exclamation based? My respect for the above mentioned leaders have instructed Secretary of War Pete Haig, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Craig McCain and the United States military, that we will not be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but if further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault on Iran on a moment’s notice in the event that an acceptable deal is not reached, Thank you for your attention to this matter now. So I if I say to you this is another delay and cease fire of two weeks has gone on for, what, almost two months? And yes, I praise the economic choke hold on the Strait of Hormuz and the damage that was done in the early weeks of this war. But if I were to say to you, I really wish we would continue with this and keep the economic pressure on and arm the people there so they could take over the government or at least knock out the government. And if we bomb in three or four days, Mark, look, you were just impatient and so forth. And it’s not about being impatient. We have midterm elections coming up with gasoline prices that are very high. We have the Democrats who control the media, who are very good at their propaganda. And I’m just concerned that that these delays may eventually get us what we want, but that I feel we can get what we want. Regardless. Regardless. And there’s really no way to manage this regime, their ideology. For decades to come. It’s not going to happen. I don’t care how many people celebrate and cheer. That’s just not going to happen. Not because of us. Because of them. Well, let me put a footnote on that. And us, too, because after Trump, no president will have the will or the desire unless it’s a certain type of president. Maybe like a. Rubio or DeSantis or Cruz or somebody like that. But otherwise, I don’t see it happening. Certainly with the Democrats, we don’t see it happening at all. So I’m very concerned about it. And here’s the president. Cut to go. Can you speak a little bit about your perspective on Iran and what was the decision and why you did it? Well, other countries have come to me and they’ve said we were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. They’ve put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while, because we’ve had very big discussions with Iran and we’ll see what they amount to. I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and some others if we could put it up for two or three days a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal. And if we can do that where there’s no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they’re satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also. We’ve informed Israel, we’ve informed other people in the Middle East that have been involved with us. And, you know, it’s a very positive development, but we’ll see whether or not it amounts to anything. We’ve had periods of time where we had, we thought pretty much getting close to making a deal and it didn’t work out. But this is a little bit different. We’re ready to go in tomorrow. A very big and not something I wanted to do, but we have no choice because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon yet we can’t allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Is that for 20 years, ten years, five years, 30 years? And how do we stop them? Well, we’ll hit him again, will we? Once President Trump has left, will we actually hit him again? I’m worried about it. I’m worried about it a lot. But but this is the situation. And so it is what it is. But the idea now that I or Israel or Netanyahu controls our foreign policy in these decisions is so preposterous. You folks who live in Thomas Massie’s district in Kentucky. I know you can hear me. Please make sure you vote tomorrow and vote against him. And for Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is a proven American hero. And not only that, he’s not one of these sort of weird Don Quixote types. And just so you understand, Nixon went to the racist, the bigot, the Jew hater, the Christian attacker. He has now endorsed Thomas Massie. Marjorie Traitor. Gangrene. She has endorsed Thomas Massie. Talib has endorsed Thomas Massie. I believe the ACLU political wing has endorsed Thomas Massie. The Democrats were told to stop endorsing Thomas Massie, that this is a Republican primary and that will hurt Massie and help his opponent. Just so you know what’s going on out in Washington, D.C.. So, you know what’s going on out there in Kentucky. In his district. The Democrat Party establishment. The Marxists and the Islamists. And the woke right? Neo fascists have all come together behind Thomas Massie. Why? Because it’s a sure vote for the Democrats, not just on Israel and Iran and foreign policy. But on the tax cuts. On immigration, on a host of other things. The one hand he’s a braggart about his. Anarchical viewpoints. Radical Libertarianism. On the other hand, when you point them out, morons like Ann Coulter and others come to his defense. She’s reappeared. Of course she has. Perfect time for her to reappear and join her friends. But you need to know who is backing him. Alex Jones is backing him. He’s not around much anymore. Tucker Carlson is backing him. Why? Because now they’re fully pro-Democrat party. Fully anti-Trump. If it means embracing a marxist style embrace of Marxists, if it means embracing a neo-Nazi, though embrace of neo-Nazi. If it means embracing whatever they have, then they don’t care. This is their mindset. They don’t care about our country. They don’t care about you, Mr. and Mrs. America. And it is they who will elect Democrats in November should the Democrats win. Make no mistake about it, their best efforts are projecting on on all of us. It is they. Who dis unite us. And it is they. Who keep pushing their propaganda and lies about us. They hate our country. They’re not America. First they claim to be MAGA. Remember? I said, No, they’re not. They’re fake MAGA. They’re not MAGA. And now, of course, they claim not to be MAGA. And they claim Maggie has changed on them, all of you and the president. Which of course, is absurd. Absurd. And they are telling people to vote Democrat. Little eight up for winter says he’s voting Democrat. And he’s not the only one. He’s not the only one. But the lie about Israel over and over and the Jews over and over again controlling our foreign policy. Notice the president said he informed Israel. He didn’t ask her opinion, but he did get the opinion of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I heard it. Which is fine. He can do what he wishes. He’s the president. He’s the president. I don’t happen to agree. That Qatar’s a great ally and a great friend. Fact, I strongly disagree. They’ve been destroying our country along with the communist Chinese. I don’t happen to agree that Saudi Arabia’s a good friend. When it was behind 911, the 25th anniversary, which is almost upon us. The UAE may be a different story. We’ll see. They seem to be better, but we’ll see. Plus one of their nuclear production sites. Real energy nuclear energy site was hit. Buy a drone. From Iran. And yet apparently they if we’re to believe reports. And the other two Arab countries have said, no way, we’re going to have peace soon, and so forth and so on. I can assure you anything short of removing this regime. It’s not going to last a long time, but alas, through the Trump presidency. But I think that’s about it. I’m just telling you. I know how these people think. And by these people I mean the regime and their scholars and their imams and their professors and their authors. Because I’ve read it. And if you can get your hands on everything Bernard Lewis has ever written. A tremendous mind and scholar, one of the greatest who studied Islam for more than half a century, died in his nineties, probably for 67 years. And for a good chunk of that time, he was a professor at Princeton. Bernard Lewis was his name. You can get a hold of something written by him. By all means, read it. I am very pleased that conservatives, conservatives, some platforms platform, some online, some on radio and so forth are finally, finally talking about the Marxist Islamist fusion or even using that phrase. You heard it here first, of course. We know that, as a matter of fact, and others are now finally talking about, they say red, green, whatever they want, it doesn’t matter. It’s the same thing. And those of you who read on power, you saw it in there. Those of you read American Marxism, you saw it in there, too, in other words, years ago. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
I want to jump into the Constitution a little bit today as well. I want to keep trying to touch on some of our history and our greatest documents to a 50th anniversary. But of course, we’ve been doing that for 20 some years. Explain this one to me from Reuters. Pakistan has sent thousands of troops, jet squadrons to Saudi Arabia during the Iran war. Now, remember, this country’s supposed to be the mediator between us and Iran. The deployment is described as a substantial combat capable force intended to support Saudi Arabia’s military. If the kingdom comes under further attack, Pakistan is deployed 8000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets and an air defense system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defense pact, ramping up military cooperation with Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war. So it’s the mediator with Iran and us, which is absurd to begin with. And now it’s providing 8000 troops, fighter jets and one defense system to the Saudis to protect them from Iran. It’s never good for these things to keep going on and on and on. And we have a deal. We don’t have a deal. We have a deal. We may get a deal. I’m just saying it’s much better just to just to end this regime.

Segment 3
There’s a lot going on today. You know, folks, people are saying Donald Trump is really. Exercising this kind of power in the Republican Party. And the idea that he went after Cassidy in Louisiana because Cassidy actually voted to remove him from office in that second impeachment. Now, of course, the problem was he was already out of office. But that didn’t that didn’t bother Cassidy, who I never liked, ever. And because he represented his people, because he didn’t. But in any event. Now, Massey and others. He’s. Ladies and gentlemen, these are called primaries. Republican primaries. That’s the purpose. And yes, presidents want people who are going to vote for their agendas, particularly. When you have such a tight majority, two or three seats, and Massie was a reliable Democrat vote. That’s why he’s endorsed by so many Democrats now. And that’s why they said cut it out, because we don’t want too many people are now. I didn’t know Mark Furman passed away. I didn’t know Mark Furman. He was 74. Wow. Okay. Nonetheless. Presidents. Have always been involved in primaries as long as there have been political parties with primaries. Franklin Roosevelt was involved in the primaries of his party, going after the so-called moderates or middle roaders to try and replace them with liberals. And people loyal to him. Fact, FDR used the IRS and the FBI against publishing companies like the Philadelphia Inquirer. When? After Annenberg try and put him in prison. When after other publications he took the the licensing period for these fairly new television stations that were two years and he reduced them to six years. And he put his campaign manager in charge of determining who got what licenses. You get the drift. John Kennedy would share IRS filings of conservative groups he didn’t like. And the Getty family. With with Newsweek. In others. LBJ even wiretapped as running as vice president at that point. Wasn’t his running mate, Hubert Humphrey, because he wanted to know where he stood on Vietnam. And of course, John Kennedy tapped Martin Luther King’s phone, as well as other civil rights leaders. And Johnson tapped their phones at the Democratic convention at the Atlanta Atlantic City Convention Center. All kinds of stuff. Trump didn’t do any of that. But he does challenge individuals in their primaries and so forth, which is perfectly legitimate, perfectly legitimate. He wants people who will support his major agenda items. Like the SAVE Act. Like the big, beautiful bill with the tax cuts. And things like that. And if people are going to go off on their own and they’re from relatively conservative Republican districts, of course he’s going to deal with it. I see Ron Paul, Rand Paul are out there campaigning for Massey and of course, they’re there that it’s them versus the Jewish lobby. It is so sick. These people are spreading such hate. They’re all out of the closet. They’re all out of the closet now and they are full throated. And I warned you about these people before. I told you what they were before. These are not red blooded, America loving patriots. These are sick bastards. So you’re seeing it. You’re seeing on the the woke right neofascist what do I call them. Walk right neo fascist because if you know anything about the late teens, the twenties the thirties going into the forties, 50, 60, so forth about fascist movements in Europe and communist movements in Europe, they were constantly fighting with each other, but they all had an area of agreement. They hated the Jews. And they also hated righteous Gentiles, as we say, Christians who stood up. For Christianity and said that these ideologies. Are not Christian or they would stand up. For Jews, they would stand up for themselves. Priests were executed and so forth. It’s the same mentality. Just different people. Same morons, same thugs. The call by these groups, Islamists and Marxists for these. These attacks in the streets and so forth. They’re just they’re miniature a Kristallnacht. What they are. That’s what they are. Mandate me. He’s really into these grocery stores, you know. You’re going to starve to death in New York if these private grocers leave. I can tell you that right now you’re going to have to go to other states to get your food like New Jersey and Connecticut and so forth and so on. Because if you rely on the government for your food, you’re going to starve to death. Folks, they can’t even run the city. They can’t even run the subway. The Long Island Railroad is shut down. Has been Mr. Administrative. They’re on strike. It’s a disaster. Holcomb was negotiating with them, but they want to take over more and more and more. Can you imagine? The selection you’ll have in their grocery store. Eamon Donnelly talks about eggs and bread. Eggs and bread. Okay. You go into a grocery store today, there’s like ten different types of eggs there. What the organic you want the brown, you want the extra large, the jumbo, the triple-A. There’s that idea, right? You go to milk, it’s like, oh, almond milk and oatmeal milk and lactose free milk and no fat milk and 1% milk and 2% milk and whole milk and. Oh, yeah. Buttermilk. And half and half and cream. It goes on and on and on. You don’t see that government run grocery store. Show me one. How about apples? How many types of apples are there, Mr. Producer? Well. And I guess my. I mean, they have so many like they invented a new one or found a new one. In my ear at them think tastes great. Really good, really sweet. But they’ve got all kinds of in all kinds of pairs. I mean. It’s just endless. We just don’t, I think, appreciate. What’s really available to us, which is unlike any human beings in human history. That’s the truth. Any human beings in human history, the kind of food we have access to food, food grown in our country, grown in other countries, Wines of beers. How many beers are them? You’ve been to the booze aisle at the grocery store. I don’t hang out there myself. Light beer. Dark beer in the middle. Beer? You know, it’s. Malted beer. I don’t even know what the difference is. Well, what does it matter? It’s just everywhere. The wines. Don’t get me started with the wines. All different colors, all different tastes, all different parts of America, all different parts of the world. You don’t get that anywhere. You imagine a government run store. Kind of one you’re going to get there. The patrons whining about what’s going on. That’s the kind of whine you’ll get. How about bread? My favorite. There’s bread. That bread sliced this way. 17 grain, six grains, 12 and a half grains. Wheat, oatmeal, bread now. Oh, yeah. Butter bread, Hawaiian bread, potato bread, potato head. That’s a whole ‘nother story. Rolls for sliders, for real hamburgers, hot dogs. Long hot dogs at Kaiser of Allah. Rye bread. Rye bread with seeds. No seeds. It’s like, how about sour dough? Organic sour dough. Sour dough with rosemary. Think about all this. So, you know, I need somebody better. Oh, come over here. I got this of that butter, Irish butter. We got all kinds of butter. Land O’Lakes. Butter. Butter. With oil. We got butter that’s fat free. We got better that yellow and green and purple. And what? Unbelievable. I write, Mr. Peterson. Go to the candy aisle. One of my favorite oh never ends. And most of these places are bakeries, too. Most of these places have bakeries, too. Kind of food. You and they have fish. You want little shrimp? You want jumbo shrimp. You want the shrimp peeled, you want it raw, you want it cooked. Say what? Oh, yeah. Then you get this fish, that fish and other fish again. You had frozen fish, you had fish steak. She got fish bite. You get whatever you want. How about the deli counter? Oh, they have like, 17 types of baloney. You notice that, Rich? Pork, beef, pork and beef. 400 types of cheese. I’m just trying to remind us when this moron goes on about government grocery store, it’s like this. Cut three go. Government can drive change that improves people’s lives. And standing here this morning, I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are I’m from the government and I’m here to help. It’s a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually. I worked all day and can’t feed my family. Really? And the government stores are going to feed your family. Where does the food come from? The government? No. Where’s the packaging come from? The government? No. How about the freezers in the refrigerators? They come from the government? No. How about the trucks that bring the food to the store? Do they come from the government? No. Did the drivers work for the government? No. Now. So what exactly is a government store? What’s a government store? It does absolutely nothing. The city of New York and this Marxist bastard, they do absolutely nothing to create the food, the harvest, the food, the package, the food to handle it properly so it doesn’t rot. And they bring it to a place where he admits it’s going to be privately owned store with the privately owned people helping. But it’s a government store. What, because they slash the prices? That’s it. So they take it out of one pocket and they put it in the other pocket. That’s all. We’ve seen starvation under communism. They saw it in Russia. They saw it in Ukraine. They see it now in Cuba. Starvation, can’t get oil out of the ground in Venezuela. We saw what happened with the communists. It’s ridiculous. Enormous amounts. I can’t get it out of the ground. Do you know why Obama used to saying all the commies say? You know, 3% of the world’s popular, whatever it is, 5% of the world’s population will use 20, 25% of its resources. And we’re supposed to say, That’s horrible. Look how we’re stealing it from the poor. That’s not it. We’re an advanced economic system. We actually can do things with resources that other countries, the vast majority of the world can’t do. And we produce most of the resources that those parts of the world can’t produce and either give it to them or sell it to them. That is an acknowledgement. At the great success of the commerce system, a.k.a. capitalism. Don’t you think if government owned, quote unquote, grocery stores worked? That they would have been in place by now, all over the place. Of course, you got a guy who’s now 35. Who’s never worked a day in his life. Was raised by millionaire Marxist Islamist parents in Uganda and then in the United States. And he knows how everything is supposed to work. This guy can Griffin is worth about $50 billion. They they say, and I read. He’s going to pick up and move everything to Florida. And you know what my he said, too bad I’m going to tax the rich. You want to know why? Because he is the rich and they’re going to get a lot of food and they’re not going to get it from government run grocery stores. They’re going to get it from supermarkets. Supermarkets. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
When I say the phrase Electoral College, don’t your eyes kind of roll over. Electoral College. Good Lord, Mark. And many people can discuss with you the Electoral College. This is how we elect our presidents. Do you know why we have an Electoral College? If you watch TV, you won’t have any idea. If you went to public school, you don’t have any idea if you went to college or university, you don’t have any idea. What is that all about? Why did they make it so complicated? Would you like to be the first person on your block to know about this? Mr. Producer? He says, Sure, where’s my steak sandwich? Anyway, I’m going to delve into that idea on the podcast too, but I want to delve in it on radio a little bit more deeply as well, which is one of the subjects we hit on the podcast. I’ll be right back.