O'REILLY Okay, we continue now with We'll Do It Live. People around the country who don't know the culture of New York City, come up to me, because they know I'm a New Yorker, like you, and they go, how could you elect a communist to be the mayor of the largest city in the country? How could that happen? How do you answer that question? 

 

ROSENBERG Well, you're being kind, calling him a communist. I mean, again, I wanna rattle off all the names I've called him, but communist, socialist, anti-Semite, anti-American. There's a lot of bad stuff about this guy. How does it happen? Well, how it happened was, some people would tell you that, oh, they flew in people from different countries. They rigged it. There was a Muslim bloc. That's not the way it went. How it happened was, the youngsters, all those hipsters that live in fancy parts of Brooklyn like Williamsburg, some of the Upper East Side young people, they saw a guy who promised them the world. He was going to pay for everything. Everything was going be free from their education. That he was going to freeze their rent? Everything was going to be free. And I hate to say this, because it sounds crazy in a city where there's the second most Jews next to Israel in the world. But these days in these blue sanctuary cities, hating on Jews works. It's chic. So he had two platforms. It's all free for you, and you know what? And up with the Jews that worked here. So after 12 years of real lousy leadership between Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, here comes this young guy. And the other big reason why he won was social media. And you're great at this too. He was able to take TikTok and make that work so well for him. How do you reach a young audience these days, Bill? How do you do it? 

 

O'REILLY You gotta go on social media. 

 

ROSENBERG He absolutely perfected it. So he's a terrible guy. He is already the worst mayor in the city's history and he's at 120 days in. But in terms of his campaign platforms, his social media, the young base, the, people call it a charming smile. I don't see it that way, but people say that he was the right guy at the right time. And unfortunately, he has now become the base of the whole party. There is not one politician in New York and across the country that at this point is not afraid of Zohran Mamdani. 

 

O'REILLY How do you back up your statement that he's already the worst mayor in the city's history? What do you point to to back that? 

 

ROSENBERG I have 10 different things. Let's start with Ken Griffin. Ken Griffin, I know you know him, very successful guy, wanted to do a six billion dollar project to renovate a building on 350 Park Avenue in New York City. Six billion dollars, Bill. Also, come with that, 15,000 jobs. People have to live somewhere, they have to eat somewhere. The amount of revenue coming to New York city was gonna blow the doors off. And what does he do? He does a commercial because he's trying to get the billionaires to pay all of our taxes or leave. He does a commercial outside of Ken Griffin's house. He humiliates the guy, he mentioned the guy. Now Ken Griffin is seriously considering not doing the deal. He'll take that $6 billion, he'll go to Florida, he'll to Texas, here's the problem. We've got a $5.4 billion deficit. Doesn't this moron mayor realize that Ken Griffin, $6 billion can help? So that's just, that's economics. Forget about the Jewish stuff, the fact that he doesn't want bumper zones in front of houses of worship. Now he has actually vetoed it. In front of education homes where Jewish kids go to school, he's done that, he vetoed that, okay? He actually blamed a synagogue for all the chaos outside rather than the pro-Hamas followers. He has put together a transition team of people that have A, some of them are felons, legitimate felons. Others had to completely erase their whole social media profile because they're a bunch of anti-Semites. So the economy is a big issue because he's trying to tax all the rich. He's driving the people who pay the majority of the taxes out of our city. That's a nightmare. He's done nothing to help the Jews. Anti-Semitism is at an all time high, and maybe the worst of all, he's anti-cop. This is what I tell Trump all the time when Trump says he's a nice guy. You cannot be anti-cops and be a nice guy. Not once, but twice, Bill, he has visited a perp in the hospital who tried to hurt a cop. One guy who tried kill a cop, he's gone to visit the perp twice. And now even Julie Menon, the city council speaker, has had just about enough of him. So, you look at what he's done, economy, the police, different ethnic groups in this city. In 120 days, this guy is already doing a ton of damage. 

 

O'REILLY What is your take on the Trump-Mamdani relationship? Because Mamdani uses that. He uses it. And the president, I'm not going to say allows him to use it, but it gives him some sort of access. 

 

ROSENBERG This is the one issue that I have with President Trump. And I've texted him about this, and I've said it on the air. And I'm always afraid I'm gonna make him angry, so I was very happy that he texted me back on Sunday morning. Hey, Sid, thanks, I'm okay thanks to the Secret Service. That made me feel good. Because I always think he's angry at me. I don't like what I saw in that Oval Office. I don't think that the President has to be that nice, telling everybody, well, he's a nice guy. No, he is not. He's not a nice guys. Okay, when you live with a woman, his wife, who actually liked, enjoyed graphic images of young girls being raped, babies put in ovens, teens being killed on October the 7th, that's not nice guy, anti-cop, that's a not nice guy, so I send messages to Trump. I go, be careful, okay? I understand you want New York to thrive. Folks, President Trump loves New York. He may live between Mar-a-Lago and Washington, D.C. He loves New York. His name is still on tons of buildings here. He wants New York to thrive. He believes that if he has a decent relationship or a good relationship with the mayor, that'll only help New York's chances of getting back to where it was. That's fine, but to smile and tell us he's a good guy, I know he doesn't feel that way in his heart of hearts. I know what he doesn't. 

 

O'REILLY Does he ever answer your questions? 

 

ROSENBERG He says, I understand. I understand. 

 

O'REILLY You understand. 

 

ROSENBERG And again, I think he wants us to thrive so badly he's willing to do it, but it's a bad look. It's a bad look. Even last week he finally came out and he took a shot at Mamdani on Tooth Social. He said, I hate to say this, but he's destroying our city based on the taxes, based on the economy, but still found a way to compliment him. My advice to President Trump from his biggest fan, a New York Jew who wants us to thrive in every possible aspect, you can be civil to the mayor, stop bending over to be so nice, because for some of us, we don't like it. 

 

O'REILLY Well, it's going to get worse under Mamdani. That's for sure. No doubt in my mind as a historian. And the final question is the highlight of your week is talking to me on Thursday morning. Is that correct? 

 

ROSENBERG Listen, not just to highlight, but you talked about how well I do on the ratings, and I'm gonna say this not to embarrass you, because I do do very, very well. I kill the competition. I'm destroying the guys across the street. When I say destroying, I mean 20 and a half times the ratings. Of all the segments we do, we've gotten to the point now in radio you could actually get ratings on every single segment. So let's say I do 20 segments a day. Every single segment all week long, the highest ratings I get for any segment any day of the week. The highest ratings on the whole radio station are Bill O'Reilly and Sid Rosenberg sometime around 9 a.m. give or take every Thursday morning. 

 

O'REILLY And they can't even see me on the radio. 

 

ROSENBERG No. 

 

O'REILLY They can't see you. 

 

ROSENBERG You're handsome guy. Look at that beautiful tie. 

 

O'REILLY The... Just like Trump. Just like. You can see the Robert Wagner look. He's 98 years old now. Well, I appreciate you being on. We have a lot of fun. That's the key to it. We make good points. 

 

ROSENBERG Yeah, well you do. But it's fun, it's fun. 

 

O'REILLY And in any entertainment venue, you can give information and opinion, but you have to have some kind of rapport with the audience. The audience likes what they're seeing. 

 

ROSENBERG Of course. And the thing that you do so well, and I'm going to talk about you on your own show, but one of the reasons why our segment and your whole career has been so great, is you can sit down with President Trump, I've said this before, I really fell in love with you. I've always liked and respected you. I think you're the best that ever did this job, but I fell in loved with you in 2015-16. You were the only person on television that criticized President Trump and I love President Trump, but you weren't nasty about it. You weren't looking to humiliate the president, and he respected you. And I would say to my brother-in-law, but I go, look at O'Reilly. He can say that to Trump. If anybody else said that, Trump would never talk to them again. He would Chuck Todd him. But with you, it was completely different. And you can talk about the Mets, and you can talk about the Islanders, and you could talk about your Joe Namath golf tournament, and your son and your daughter. The conversations with you and I don't revolve necessarily around Trump and China. And that's why it's entertaining, because it's unpredictable. And the only way you have great success in this business, no matter what, is a level of unpredictability. That's what we've got. 

 

O'REILLY And you know, we're going to see the Mets in the middle of the month and... 

 

ROSENBERG I'm excited. 

 

O'REILLY I have called Mr. Met a communist. I didn't call him a cockroach though, I'm warming up for that. 

 

ROSENBERG I did, but that was a whole other controversy I started here. I actually had to become a Yankee band and now I got Steve Cohen, the owner of the Mets, begging me to come to Shea Stadium. 

 

O'REILLY And there's a reason for that. 

 

ROSENBERG There is. 

 

O'REILLY But anyway, Mr. Met embraced, what, Mamdani's wife or something? 

 

ROSENBERG No. It was Mr. And Mrs. Met that embraced Mamdani. His wife wasn't there. So, I went to City Field last year and I have the video to prove it. And I'm trying to get a picture of Mr. Met. Bill, he's running down the hall, running down hall. I'm like, Mr. Met, it's Sid. He ran down the hall, no picture, no video, nothing. I've got a picture me like this and Mr. Met about 15 feet in front of me. Mamdani shows up, Mr. And Mrs. Met, it was like a threesome. It was almost porn, it was gross. They weren't just shaking his hand, they were hugging, they were kissing. 

 

O'REILLY I know. 

 

ROSENBERG So I go on Twitter that night and I go, oh my God, look at this video. Mr. Met is an anti-Semite. This went nuts. This was as bad as me calling the mayor a cockroach. Millions and millions of people. And then I called Randy Levine of the Yankees, the president of the Yankees. And I said, Randy, next Sunday, I'm gonna be 59 years old. I've been a diehard Met man since the day I was born. I'm coming to you. He said, guess what. You got four legend seats to my next game. I'm gonna send you a whole box of stuff. You can wear all the Yankee stuff you want. We're happy to have you. Sure enough, the next day at my house in Queens, big box, Thurman Munson, Wedgie Jackson, Derek Jeter, I got an Aaron Judge jersey. I show up that Wednesday night, Yankees Angels, wearing a judge jersey on WFAN right before, sitting with the president of the Yankees, and ever since then, about two and a half weeks ago, I am now a Yankee fan. 

 

O'REILLY We'll get you back. I mean, I root for both teams. I'm one of the few people who can do that, but I have legacy on on both teams. 

 

ROSENBERG Well, you got involved in this because... 

 

O'REILLY I got involved. 

 

ROSENBERG Right, because you are the guy that introduced me to Steve Cohen a couple of times. 

 

O'REILLY I mean, I want a detente on this one. But I am standing by my statement that Mr. Met is a communist. I don't know about Mrs. Met, I don't really care about her and that you know, if I run into him, it might be trouble. 

 

ROSENBERG Oh good! Between the two of us that night, it could be a lot of... 

 

O'REILLY Sid Rosenberg, everyone. Okay. Thanks for coming on. This was a lot of fun. And thanks for being so honest. It's gonna help a lot people who need help.

 

ROSENBERG Well, I will say this. I'm glad you said that because it goes back a bit in this episode, but I really I tried to kill myself twice. I thought for sure my life was never going to amount to anything. So at the very least, as to what Bill just said, if you do watch this and you are struggling right now, take it from a guy that knows. You can do this. Step one, just admit you're powerless. Turn your life over to something bigger than you, go for help, and you could end up just like this. I promise. 

 

O'REILLY All right, and Ava is the linchpin for you. 

 

ROSENBERG I have a beautiful little boy, too, who's about to go to college, but my 22-year-old daughter has saved my life. 

 

O'REILLY Where's Gabe going? 

 

ROSENBERG We're hoping University of Florida. Yeah, Gator, you know that state very well. 

 

O'REILLY I do indeed. You got to watch out for the... Not just the Gators, there's a lot of critters. 

 

ROSENBERG Yeah, a lot of critters. 

 

O'REILLY There are critters in Gainesville. 

 

ROSENBERG Big bugs? 

 

O'REILLY Yep, giant bugs. They'll move in, by the way. Bugs will move in and won't pay any rent. I'm not going to use the word cockroach. All right. Sid Rosenberg, everyone. There he is. 

 

ROSENBERG Thank you. 

 

O'REILLY We'll see you on the radio. 

 

ROSENBERG I can't wait.